skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forcing people to listen to free speech violates freedom of association, not free speech per se. Also, you cannot both claim to be a platform and an authority on what speech is acceptable.
Casual dress goes with casual culture which is inherently toxic at scale
This was my thinking as well. The power and wealth of the big-five tech companies is staggering, with their smaller siblings (Uber, Cloudflare, AirBnB, Dropbox, etc.) trailing not far behind. It is very tough for startups to compete with public companies who can offer liquid RSUs monthly along with whatever salary is necessary to close the deal.
I think it's more complicated than a pure 501c3. Their vehicles get US Gov licence plates from the GSA.
Then you failed to comprehend the subject. The point is that a wide array of problems and models are really the same thing.
There are literally compete turn-key solutions in AWS marketplace to most things any business needs to do that you don't need to be an engineer to use. A monkey who can read a walk-through with screenshots can build clusters of apps and CI/CD pipelines with AWS. And there are thousands of companies that you can pay to help manage your AWS resources.

Just because businesses hire dedicated backed people doesn't mean they actually need to, they just feel better about it when they do, because that's how it was always done before.
.. I should add: This is a great time to be an engineer. Enjoy it while it lasts. The time to be a founder will be after the next recession.
Looking at the source, it seems like their viewer is based on OpenSeadragon: https://openseadragon.github.io/
have you tried scoop ?
#1 is very likely. However if it is extremely common to do unit tests "wrong", then that would mean I would need to find a testing guru to learn from in order to do it "right", and do a great deal of study to learn myself. The possibility of that happening is very low.

Does this not give credence to the notion that there may in fact be something wrong with unit testing in general? Is it not just compounding the problem?

I'd rather spend my limited cognitive currency and time in the system itself, not in mastering the art of unit tests... Unit testing should be a tool not an art. If a tool doesn't simplify my life, it has limited utility.
Part of the challenge with linear algebra is that a lot of the basics are somewhat dry, since they serve mostly as a way to organize computation -- e.g., a system of linear equations can be expressed as Ax <= b, where A is a matrix, b is a vector, and x is a vector of variables.

Much of what makes linear algebra interesting and powerful comes from more advanced topics, especially eigenvalues. This power comes when we are not looking at a single matrix in isolation, but when we repeatedly apply a matrix. For instance, consider the equation x_t = A^t x_0. It turns out we can rewrite this an equation by diagonalizing A -- i.e., A = P^{-1} Sigma P, where Sigma is diagonal; most, but not all, matrices can be written in this form. We call s_i the "eigenvalues" of A.

Then, the equation simplifies to x_t = P^{-1} Sigma^t P x_0, or equivalently (P x_t) = Sigma^t (P x_0). This equation is dramatically simpler, since Sigma is diagonal, so if Sigma = diag(s_1, ..., s_n), then Sigma^t = diag(s_1^t, ..., s_n^t). In other words, this transformation "disentangles" the different components of A into ones that act independently. Here, the transformation x -> P x is what is called a "change of basis".

These repeated matrix applications are common in physics, where they represent how a dynamical system evolves over time. The main difference is that in physics, the system evolves continuously, but similar transformations can be applied to solve these problems.
Mimetic and Programmatic Architecture in America
It mentions in the PEP discussion that the {a, b} trick only works for string keys. So it isn't applicable in as many cases as the new operator.
I might be remembering from europe this past year, but I think in Japan they used a metal pole with a ring at the top which a bag was simply hung from. It had no “sides” which would become shrapnel.
brave also makes it trivially easy to donate to IA (or any site for that matter)
Ditto, the area is getting ripe for exploitation IMHO.
I will absolutely look at that. Thank you!
When I had a class on Homelessness and Public Policy, the professor said something like "I'd drink too if I were homeless. The sidewalk is cold and hard."

While I appreciate you bringing up that element, I actually think it's more complicated than that. In a nutshell, I think addiction generally arises out of other problems, a la the phrase "driven to drink." Blaming everything on "You drink" fails to address the underlying problems concerning why you drink.

But I don't think elaborating at length while being described as having an entitled attitude because I think I should be able to get compensation for work I can do that other people clearly do value to some degree is likely to be constructive.
I disagree. I used to use Safari with Firefox Focus as a content filter and it worked perfectly fine for me. Other content blockers offer a ton of customization and should fit just about anyone.
> I wonder if the person you’re replying to previously drive a much less refined car, and would see most of the same benefits even when driving the Tesla manually.

Yeah, I’ve driven shit boxes (see my comment about the Toyota Tercel stick shift).

But I still much prefer long drives in my Model 3 rather than my wife’s GL450. Before I got the Model 3 I drove an Infiniti G35 for 12 years, which was a perfectly “refined” car IMO.

> That’s probably why they find driving so tiring, because...

I guess you just have to try it. Again, I’m not saying driving is this exhausting thing that requires white-knuckled concentration. I’m saying that with AP it is just better in every way. You’re totally free to disagree if your personal experience with AP is different, but I think speculating on my driving ineptitude or poor choice of vehicle is kind of pointless / shooting the messenger.
> At the moment it isn't difficult to block at the network level, but presumably they'll start evading those blocks eventually or otherwise the claim that this is intended to prevent monitoring by ISPs will seem pretty hollow.

Have you considered using a different browser? One that aligns more with your values?
I was around when that encounter happened. I still recall my feelings when I read it.

I don't recall feeling Knuth was framed.

Although McIlroy's solution didn't really address the question Knuth was asked, it was cute and demonstrated the power of this newfangled thing called "Unix Philosophy", which at the time needed some oxygen. However the words McIlroy accompanied it with were simply unnecessary, almost childish. I recall cringing when I read them.

I do remember wondering if Bentley had done the right thing in publishing McIlroy's raw comments, but decided the main attraction of his column was a refreshing honesty. He presented his pearls without any the usual breathless hype or artificial conflict a journalist might add to spice up interest. Having set up this experiment, it would not have been "Programming Pearls" if he didn't report exactly what happened, as it happened.

Bentely's style wasn't to constrain or direct for a particular outcome he wanted. That meant McIlroy had lots of rope and McIlroy used it to hang himself, that was McIlroy's problem.
Could p2p-dma for zero-copy (e.g. shoveling data from nvme to the nic) avoid a large fraction of the iommu overhead?
I think his point is about the default behavior pointing to Cloudflare. Unless the user changes the DNS provider setting, everyone will be on Cloudflare. With that said, I think this is pretty over-the-top. Part of the reason Cloudflare is the default (and NextDNS is an option) is because they are abiding by Mozilla's Trusted Recursive Resolver policy: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy

The only way Cloudflare itself can cause users a privacy issue through the use of its DNS service is by lying to them. They have already agreed not to sell or grant the data to any third party or use it for advertising, etc.

The other concern nullc has is that hackers will infiltrate Cloudflare because it will now contain data on all US Firefox users' DNS queries unless those users change default settings. OK. I guess. However, I will say that I trust Cloudflare a whole heckuva lot more than I trust Comcast, Charter, AT&T, Verizon, etc. to be practicing good security. There are also probably more people on the mega ISPs than there are Firefox users, and many DNS queries these days originate from platforms that aren't even PCs (such as home theater streaming sticks) which will still be pinging default DHCP-received DNS providers. If anything, I see this decentralizing DNS request data.
70% of the World’s Macadamia Nuts Came from One Tree in Australia
Study says Uber and Lyft generate 70% more pollution than the trips they replace
None of this mirrors my experience. Sounds like a network problem to be honest, either on your side or server hiccup? Loading any images will have some inherent network load, sure. But I'm having no problems despite the decently shitty connection I have. Scrollbars are also working as expected...the 'show more' button has to be there in the end, you can't load all 3 million images at the same time (which would be the case using '' as search term otherwise). Sure you could do classic pagination as well, but again the real pain sounds like connection issues...
I've had to deal with GCP evangelists a bunch and they seem to have a use it or leave it attitude.

A bit of humbleness would have gone a long way to them securing a large enterprise contract.
> “SES" in this context is socio-economic status? I hadn't seen it used to classify hospitals before.

Yeah, we were a safety-net hospital across the street from a prison. We got a lot of inmates, had a locked wing on most floors for prisoner patients, many many uninsured illegal immigrants, etc. We had quite a few patients that should have gone home, but we couldn’t safely discharge them, so we were just their free hotel while they hung in social support limbo - we were owned by the county, so taxes paid for their stay, and they were in no rush to leave.

It was very much a case of seeing how most failed social policy ultimately ends up in the hospitals.

Working in wealthier hospitals is way more fun. Treating disease is much more satisfying than “treating” poverty.
And on the number of people who become homeless. Unless leftists are willing to take their heads out of the sand then the problem will never end or be solved. But I wouldn't be surprised if it's in their best interests not to solve it..
No, in the case of Metropolis-Hastings, you do need to understand detailed balance to understand the algorithm, because the conditions required of your proposal function literally come from it... not in a vague way about math convergence, but literally in the algorithm. For asymmetric proposal functions this is critical to understand.

Otherwise you are cargo cult copying some code and expecting it to work, without understanding the algorithm the code is executing.

Further you need to understand the convergence aspects too, because when you realize a real sample in a chain from your software application, whether or not you can safely use that chain of samples for the estimation or simulation you intended really depends on autocorrelation and convergence criteria. You cannot just believe the code was OK so the samples can be used... but “intuition” tutorials like this give a false sense of security that you can.
Since there are a lot of people with various experiences here, I thought I'd ask.

My problems falling asleep are not due to being tired so melatonin and various things I've tried (like drowsy allergy pills) don't work. My mind is too active, and it prevents sleep. Even to the point where the 'sleep' part proceeds, my mind is racing, and I start to dream (hallucinate) while half awake. Then I will see a spider or something that is not there and snap wide awake, full of adrenaline. Repeat until about 2 hours have passed and then maybe I can sleep.

So rather than pills or treatments to induce sleepiness, is there something that reduces mind chatter? I know some people talk about meditation which is something I'd like to look into. My mother also has sleep problems and has been diagnosed with ADD in her 60s (along with my sister in her 30s). So that's another potential avenue. I use a white noise machine which is required as a baseline (tiny noises distract and awake me out of all proportion), rather than a help.
Higher math involves a very different way of thinking from the typical, useful things people do for a living. Exactness is important. The abstractions can run very deep. It's easy to get lost in the pure side of things without really understanding how to apply it.
If there's a threshold, it doesn't make sense to make an exception for a person who is over the threshold, regardless of the amount. because if you did that, you just redefined the threshold (by induction, we can see this would permit people with infinite weight...)
>I also find the self-acclaimed "Brave" browser company an odd partner to work with for an organisation dedicated to the open web like IA. This browser has exactly one purpose: to make money. In terms of the people working on it, it's arguably more commercial than Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

The browser company (Brave) only makes money if the user opts in to ads, which is exactly that; opt-in. That choice is on the user.

Brave have been very open about their focus on privacy and an open web.
Yes, but the big box store likely has a fresh grad for the same reason that the local Jiffy Lube has the new tech and Swift has the new driver and Applebees has the new chef.

These high margin low volume chains hire the bare minimum of professional (in their industry) and it's where the bare minimum goes to gain experience and put a few years of work on their resume so they can become something better and get a better job. These entry level employers tend to be slave drivers so once people have the experience under their belt to get a better job they generally do.

If you have a routine thing that needs to be done then these places work great because you're not paying for unnecessarily skilled labor. If you have something odd a more skilled professional is usually advisable.
Finally put the lid on the jifvsgif debate
Counterpoint, had USAA auto for 20+ years, added 2 young drivers and premiums went up 4200 per year. Switched to Geico and recouped 2700 of that.

Always shop around.
Actually, their traditional medicine probably preserves those wild animals because the chinese need them.

Whereas in the US, we simply exterminated most of the animals because they were considered a nuisance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_skull_pile_edit.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon

There are no more wolverines in the wolverine state. There are no california bears in california. And of course we almost wiped out the american bald eagle.

If china wants to catch up to the US or Europe, they had to do a lot more exterminating.
> when other companies called, you could tell them you have USAA and they're acknowledge they can't match the rates

This is funny, I actually do say this. I co-founded Goodcover, we provide renters insurance and USAA is an inspiration. But we still have a really hard time beating them! I'm also a USAA Member (car insurance) and also can't say enough good things about them.
this looks nice but after going thru the first part, I just noticed that the book is not only unfinished but also seems like the author may not be paying attention to it anymore... last blog post is over a year ago. Too bad.
LaTeX: A Non-Technical Introduction
The problem here is you just re-invented the term "deserving poor".

And the "undeserving homeless", the violent drug addict with mental health problems - well (s)he deserved our help about ten or fifteen years previously, when under funded health services let him slip through the net, or neighbours and uncles and aunts did not want to believe her dad was actually doing that to her and ....

A lot of people have shitty lives and deserve our help - not just when the symptoms are impossible to ignore.

I kind of see what you are reaching for - that there must be some solution. Yeah there is - but it's about a decade or two before people hit the streets, so we need to fix all the problems in our society that let children doing well in Kindergarten, fall that far. And we also need help for those that have fallen right now - and the article had some pretty good ideas about that I thought.
I can't blame MS for trying to retrofit Metro on desktop. They were in a tight spot (apple and google were shining hard) and had to make a move. Market war.

I admit being sad that Metro was wasted though because it really was very nice on phones.
Funnily, China has stopped issuing hunting licenses some 20 years ago, but it was still legal to catch a wild animal without "hunting" it, and killing it on the spot.

A great example of literal to the letter selective enforcement of law here.
I meditate and go to the gym every day. Would go nuts if I didn't...
Did management consulting before jumped into the startup world. Strongly recommend it! :)
I think there's some merit to it until the industry (or government) determines some way of establishing whether the driver is actually paying attention. Think of it like a preemptive seatbelt - Brain Computer interface maybe? Sounds like an actual use for Machine Learning (I know nothing about ML beyond toy Neural Networks, so maybe not)

It's all well and good saying the driver should pay more attention - almost treating it like a normal tech product, I suppose, but most "tech" products don't control almost a Megajoule (mental maths might be wrong but you get the idea) of kinetic energy and the lives of the occupants of both the car and any others it hits.

I'm not saying that it's an impossibility to get it right, just that it needs to be held to even higher standards than the existing engineering present in the car (and planes if I'm being honest), not Sillicon Valley. Luckily this doesn't seem to be too much the case, but it could happen - the few people I know who own Tesla's are all non-car people ("What's suspension?"), i.e. The gadget-factor of the car is definitely attractive. Tesla do seem to be doing a pretty good job, so hat's off to them so far.
My favorite was a “nun” in NY Penn Station collecting alot of cash in a bucket at the bottom of an escalator.

I later saw “her” pull off the nun garb, pull out his Mets hat, buy a beer and get on the Amtrak to head upstate.
I don't really want to put more focus on this but...

I was using firefox on a new mac. Some extensions like ublock installed. I just tried again now with a different browser (latest vivaldi, no extensions) and it behaves the same (search bar, but only if you have "collection images" highlighted, enter key works as expected if you have "all" highlighted). I am still experiencing the slowness and image "popping" when using the show more link. I'm still getting 3 layers of scroll bars on the image viewer. The back button is a little bit better but of course since it's some psuedo-infinite-scroll when I click back I'm landed back at the top of the list with all my "show more" clicks undone (so lost where I was in the results list as is common with infinite-scroll and SPA).

I can't dispute possibility of network issues, could be the site is being slammed, but speedtest.net says my connection is >300Mbps.
> That is why for example the HVAC repairman charges $300 for changing a $5 capacitor in your AC

In my experience, the primary reason they do this, is because they can. Not because their existence requires it to survive.
Should we bring back telephone operators too? The price for phone service (especially long distance) has dropped since phones were invented, surely some of that is due to automation and tech advances.
I rarely use LXDE because it feels like win95 alpha1 and XFCE like Win2K Plus!

Mint + XFCE is really a fine combo.
We need to take CO2 out of the sky – an overview of climate tech
You may need someone else's permission" because the Smithsonian doesn't guarantee that noone else in the world has a (good or bad) IP claim to one of the donations.

That's not the intention of CC0:

In contrast to CC’s licenses that allow copyright holders to choose from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright, CC0 empowers yet another choice altogether – the choice to opt out of copyright and database protection, and the exclusive rights automatically granted to creators – the “no rights reserved” alternative to our licenses.
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Dedicating works to the public domain is difficult if not impossible for those wanting to contribute their works for public use before applicable copyright or database protection terms expire
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CC0 helps solve this problem by giving creators a way to waive all their copyright and related rights in their works to the fullest extent allowed by law.

In this case Smithsonian seems to have done the work to make sure they are out of copyright, and now they don't reserve any rights to the work.

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...
I have to say, I was impressed with my GEICO claims experience.

A GEICO customer hit my car, entirely her fault, so I just went through her insurance, didn't even notify mine. GEICO was extremely helpful, polite, and prompt and I wasn't even their customer. I opted to use their "full service claims center" which was located at [local reputable body shop/dealership]. I showed up with my car, they had a loaner ready for me up front ready to go with the keys in the ignition and the loaner car was very nice (just a family sedan but a nicer one). The whole process was just very straightforward and easy.

Several years later my car was hit by a State Farm customer, entirely their fault, I went through their insurance again. That whole experience was just shit. First they were disorganized and unhelpful. I decided to use their "full service claim center" since my GEICO experience was so good. The place they sent me to was out of the way and somewhere I wasn't familiar with. When I arrived it was some shady looking dumpy body shop. [I almost walked away then, wish I did]. Clerk didn't seem to be expecting me and wasn't prepared, even though I had an appointment to drop off the car and nobody else was there, so I had to fill out paperwork because State Farm didn't send over my information, I guess. After that I had to wait forever for Enterprise to pick me up (so "full service" means that the clerk will make a phone call). Then at Enterprise I had to stand in line and fill out more paperwork. They gave me a Fiat 500, which doesn't have a full back seat and at some point I had two passengers who couldn't fit into the back seat. After they finished the body work they literally didn't put the wheel back on right and it was a couple inches from falling off my car while I was driving. My usual mechanic was shocked.
> mike@blob:~$ host 208.80.153.224 224.153.80.208.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer text-lb.codfw.wikimedia.org. mike@blob:~$ openssl s_client -connect 208.80.153.224:443 2>&1 | openssl x509 -text|grep Subject: Subject: C = US, ST = California, L = San Francisco, O = "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.", CN = *.wikipedia.org Yeah, our ISPs are going to be totally in the dark thanks to DoH. /s

minjiexin.com resolves to the same IP. So, you see an HTTPS connection to 208.80.153.224, what's the user doing?
My wife creates prints for our fabric printer, and the PSD files are often larger than 2GB, containing for example a 55" wide image that is 6+ yards long, at 150-300 dpi with a bunch of layers. Somehow her low-specced 2015 Macbook Pro 13" has handled this type of work just fine, as long as there's enough free space for the scratch disk.