skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From someone who used some SVMs in computer vision, before CNNs took over:

* If you don't know the "shape" of your data, you can at least try the "kitchen sink" approach; just try out a bunch of different tranformations and/or kernels, possibly in combination with each other, and see what works. This was a relatively popular approach in practice, but usually done with more rigor than I'm making it sound like. And there was even a popular method called "random kitchen sinks"! [1]

* You might not have a good idea of what a good transformation might be, but maybe you have some idea of how to measure similarity between data points? This could be a kernel, which is in some sense equivalent for SVMs.

* There is actually a fair amount of literature on learning transformations and kernels, or at least optimizing the parameters of kernels somehow. What you can do also depends on what kinds of labels (supervision) you have, if any.

* And finally, yeah, if you're at the point of trying to learn kernels or transformations, you're pretty close to what neural networks are already doing, and fairly successfully at the moment. At least in computer vision, one of the main reasons CNNs have largely replaced SVMs is that they can learn task-specific features given the right architecture/training method/hyperparameters and enough data. (What is the right architecture/training method/hyperparameters? Well... back to the "kitchen sink" method ;))

[1] (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/papers/08.rah.rec.n...)
Having worked with people who bring cases to FISA, they spend a ton of time ensuring they are ironclad before they bother bringing them to FISA.

Previously I had assumed it was a lot of rubber-stamping, however the folks I worked with frequently bemoaned about how incredibly difficult and time consuming it was to get a FISA warrant.
It's been a while since I've looked at it but, basically, the cost of the physical article is a smaller slice of the pie than many think. There was a lot of discussion about this when e-books first got big and weren't that much cheaper than mass market or trade paperbacks. As I recall, the number was around $2/copy.
You can talk to the Google Analytics API directly and control exactly what is sent to Google's servers. This also allows to create custom identifiers for users or sessions, or to track no personally identifiable information at all. A good starting point is Minimal Analytics which also removes lots of unnecessary bloat:

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The Double Standard of the American Riot
As I understand it QI is not a law, but something the Supreme Court invented in the 80s.

They are, by complete coincidence, about to possibly take on some QI cases this week.

https://reason.com/2020/05/29/the-supreme-court-has-a-chance...
So many believe remote work will cause rent to drop. But if we end up in a situation where you work from home only part of the week, that could actually spike demand for larger properties.
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New York times story on the same subject _Publishers Sue Internet Archive Over Free E-Books_ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/books/internet-archive-em...
Excuses for bad actors on American's police forces must end. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next year.

Today.

As Chris Rock put it in his widely shared comedy bit, we don't tolerate bad actors in industries such as airlines when it's a matter of life and death. We don't excuse pilots who just so happen to crash planes into mountains. Furthermore, we don't excuse surgeons who get upset during a procedure and sew the wrong body part back on out of spite.

Some professions just require zero tolerance for poor behavior. ZERO. Police officers fall under that category.
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Ubuntu + the latest Ubuntu kernel patch sets. I have a script that downloads the latest kernel source, applies the appropriate patches and builds it if you're interested.
In 2008 rents in the Bay Area just stayed flat for a few years except in the most expensive parts of SF. So in 2008 at least, those incentives were enough. This time may be different though, with a fundamental shift to work-from-anywhere for tech companies.
The idea behind qualified immunity is to protect government employees from nuisance suits over discretionary actions performed in their official capacity, excepting actions that violated local laws or civil rights. (Basically, it lets a human government employee make reasonable mistakes.)

The original laws of this country did not permit lawsuits against government employees acting in an official capacity. After the Civil War, the Civil Right Act of 1871 was passed allowing citizens and residents to sue government officials for civil rights violations suffered under color of law. The qualified immunity doctrine was created by the courts after that to shield public officials from nuisance suits for discretionary actions (generally meaning bureaucratic actions) by people angry over actions that went against them (i.e., for denials of licenses, judgments, etc.).

Unfortunately, due to the volume of nuisance suits, this doctrine got stronger and stronger over time. At some point, the courts began applying this strengthened doctrine intended for bureaucratic actions to police actions.
The actual law in this case is the 1871 Enforcement Act, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Enforcement_Act

Its text is quite straightforward, essentially saying that judicial officers are liable for the violation of a person's rights.

However the concept of "Qualified Immunity" is a Supreme Court invention which began to be applied in the late 1960s, and which today effectively shields police from any meaningful (civil) liability as originally defined by the law. It's hard to square the modern interpretation and its effects with the clear language in the statute, yet here we are needing to pass a law that effectively says "yes this law actually means what it says".

https://theappeal.org/qualified-immunity-explained/

IANAL.
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Personally, I don't have a problem if the battery isn't easily removable. I don't think I'll find myself in the situation of needing to hot-swap batteries on the move before I get home, today's battery technology has ensured sufficient energy density to make all-day long battery life a reality.

What I ask of manufacturers is that at least the battery isn't glued or soldered in, and that there are clear instructions on how to unscrew the back of my phone to replace the battery after it starts dying out. That, and make it easy to take off the back (no adhesives (looks at you apple), and no taking out the front screen to access the battery), and make it easy to buy a genuine battery from the manufacturer's website.

I think that's a good compromise of thinness, ease of manufacture and ease of replacability.
tl;dr Just another attempt at the $1 million webpage. Not interesting in terms of technology or marketing, and posted here to get our money.
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Some context (the law; its history) would be useful, too.
>Is that legal? Could Carl Ichan be civilly or criminally liable? Potentially go to jail?

Ichan is one the world's most famous financiers, rest assured he's got an army high paid lawyers poring over the fine print of these transactions. It's legal, but not ethical, or "right".
Or simply an email or a contact form.

The reality is that one usually does not have large discussion, only one to one exchanges (if any). Email is fine for that, you can always update the post if there aee interesting outcomes.
You have the right to speak. You do not have the right to either a forum (Facebook) or an audience.
Both google analytics and google tag manager are blocked in NoScript for me. If your site is using them they're useless for me and my actions on your site. Also every single one of my clients are blocking them too. Part of talk with my clients is to also make them install NoScript + uBlock Origins.
Do popular Node packages rely on C and Fortran?
My first ever electronics project was a radio that used an 1N34 diode in 1974. Worked beautifully and that's what launched my interest in electronics and then computers.
Feels like a modern take on the Marionette+Backbone stack.
Racket News – Issue 32
> React Helmet (https://github.com/nfl/react-helmet)

> I really found this library very helpfull. Really clean solution i would say.

> Sample Usage:

import Helmet from 'react-helmet';
<Helmet bodyAttributes={{style: 'background-color : #fff'}}/>

> answered Aug 9 '17 at 10:37

> Rahul
I think the real problem is that those two political parties represent factions of the population with incompatible values.

We don't need more political parties, we need solutions to manage the incompatibility.
I would agree with you except basically everyone was on the same side as soon as the video was released. Everyone, right, left, and center agreed there was a serious problem. So what are we raising awareness about?
> They also excluded all books published recently.

One of my books was published in 2014 and is on the list.

> There's an opt-out.

Because authors can opt out of having their books pirated, that makes it OK? How are authors notified about the existence of the opt-out? Oh, they're not? Hmm.
The problem with looking at the number of years of reserves is that if there is >60-100 years of reserves, that means nobody is actively looking for more. If there is 200 years of no recycling, then we should only worry about the other materials that go into the battery.

Whats more important than lithium is the cobalt they need, which is particularly hard to source. As others have mentioned, battery makers are trying hard to remove cobalt from their batteries.
I realize I'm responding to speculation with anecdotal evidence, but I've seen lots of mentions of people having issues acquiring PC parts and full laptops. A lot of workplaces suddenly needed to purchase a lot of laptops for remote workers. A lot of parents needed to purchase computers for their children who now need to do school remote. A lot of gamers seem to have decided that they might as well build a new PC if they're going to be stuck at home.
> you should not misrepresent yourself as a citizen of the host country, but that's just part of the general "lying is bad" moral prohibition

There is actually a specific question of this nature on the application for US citizenship. So, it's more than just moral prohibition, it could result in a rejection of citizenship.

They also asked me about this during my in-person citizenship interview.

Reddit has bugging me relentlessly to add an email address to my account for the past year. Sometimes, the banner can't even be dismissed. I'm not sure if it's related to this case or just general tracking and list building, or maybe even actual account security as they suggest.
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AMD's Lisa Su was the highest-paid CEO in the S&P 500 last year
That read like it was written by an undergraduate. For example, it references Merriam-Webster for the definition of Antifa.

It then gets it wrong. The article says "According to Merriam Webster, Antifa is vaguely defined as a militant political activist movement that identifies itself as far-left and anti-fascist."

While https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antifa says only "a person or group actively opposing fascism" and "an anti-fascist movement", without mentioning "far-left".

And then it doesn't answer the question it posed.

Nor does it touch on the legal (in)ability to ban a domestic movement, given First Amendment protections and the broadness of "Antifa".

I am anti-fascist. Therefore I am antifa? Therefore I should be arrested?
For caching mechanism, there's zapcc (https://github.com/yrnkrn/zapcc) which launches a background server at first compilation, and reuses instantiated template from the server in the following compilation. Sadly this project was discontinued.
Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (2013)
I was hoping to find a clue to why I can sleep indefinitely, at least 70 hours straight. It feels like what I imagined hibernating to be.

I still have my OEM bowel tho; I guess my super sleep isn't actual hibernation.
Isn't this also supposed to redirect lawsuits towards institutions, instead of agents of these institutions? I.e. a police officer did something that otherwise would be a crime, so the law investigates the whole PD as an institution, and not the officer that presumably was just following orders given by said institution?
Sure. But it's still one of many branches in this same exact conversation tree. ("What happened to free speech culture?" "Free speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you want without consequence, and these are private companies" "But Facebook and Twitter are really more like public squares" etc. etc. etc.)

If you accept that you'd never let some soapbox rando yell politics in your face just for the principle of the matter, the discussion will inevitably boil down to the role social media plays in society.
If you don't like a comment, please downvote it and move on. HN is not meta and you are not the comment police.
I had a derp-out moment yesterday, I totally misinterpreted “as root in the container”. The topic was about rootless containers, so I was completely mentally blacklisting the idea of starting a container from the root user account.
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> Physical books are already limited in the sense that libraries' limited budgets only buy limited copies of paper books.

And just to drive this completely home, it's not an arbitrary restriction—if a library has a larger budget or a book is more popular, they can buy more copies of the book, which also benefits publishers.
New Geometry Pipeline in Magnum
> It has nothing to do with the legal definition of free speech.

I am not talking about the Constitution. I’m talking about a cultural value. Not the same thing.
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It sounds to me that you are looking for Webscript: https://mudgen.github.io/webscript/docs/

Webscript does work with SolidJS nicely.
> You pretty much need to compromise some morals to work just about anywhere.

Then how come only people at FB are protesting and no one else?
There was nothing incompatible about our values regarding what we saw in that video. The idea that there was a political divide about this incident is a myth. Even the openly racist people I know were saying it was fucked up.
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Contrary to what Americans think, timezones are not exclusively an American thing, every country has them, and crazily, the entire continent (because the US is actually part of America, they are not all of it) shares them.
All by myself? Testing nudges to increase flood preparedness among homeowners [pdf]
It's so messed up that if I gave $20 that would have more of an impact on my finances than his donation would.
So the dataset would be a local dataset (that gets frequently updated from the network) and the query is a local query that runs over that dataset?

I still am a bit confused about the use-case.
orbital refueling makes a lot of sense, do you know if there are plans to manufacture the fuel in orbit? That would be somewhat good practice for producing fuel on Mars. At lease they would know not to forget anything, no making a quick trip to Home Depot while in orbit.
One night I was dispatched to a fare in an area known to not be especially prosperous. I was trying to read numbers on houses, then I saw flashing red and blue lights ahead and knew where my prospective passenger would be found.

A police officer was on watch outside; his colleague was inside wrapping things up. The police officer told me the family had called for an intervention. The fire department had already departed, as Grandpa had declined medical assistance.

I asked what the story was. The police officer said simply "probably meth", and pointed out the right to refuse medical care is fundamental. I was supposed to take Grandpa to a motel.

At one point in our interaction, the police officer pointed out that it takes different kinds of cops to work in Scottsdale (for example), where some drunk kid might have a prestigious lawyer as their parent, vs. his ghetto precinct, where it's a point of pride to have 'taken a swing at a cop'.

Eventually Grandpa came out and got in my cab, the two police officers departed... Then grandpa wanted his son's phone number. I started the meter and pulled forward a few feet to where his son was standing. He got the phone number, then a woman appeared... She said they just wanted him to get help, Grandpa said "I just want to get some rest..." "oh, you can rest here..." My passenger's son paid me $6 for the 20 feet, and that was the end of that.

There's a lot of collateral damage in policing... Many other passengers had stories of being pointlessly harmed through their interactions with the police. One white fellow let his medical marijuana card expire. One day he got mouthy with a cop, who searched him and found his non-medical "dangerous illegal drug". My passenger said the search was probably illegal, but his overworked public defender didn't get the charges dismissed. I remember him saying it cost him about $5000.

The modern police officer's job involves, in part, hurting people who don't actually need to be hurt. Qualified immunity allows them to do the full spectrum of their job responsibilities without being hurt themselves. Ending auto-immune drug war, and finding ways to help people who need help, are the actual reforms that policing needs to break it of its destructive tendencies.
These people have figured out how to have their cake and eat it too. Major cities in the US have grown large enough that the ghettos can be reasonably far from the wealthier parts of town. That, plus racial profiling from both police and citizens, serves as an effective divide.