skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bio-inspired bistable recurrent cell allows for long-lasting memory
I remember the Orange PC cards that let you run DOS/Windows inside a Mac. Slow as hell though...

https://www.macworld.com/article/1014858/orangepc.html
Windows 2000, with New NT Technology!

I always got a giggle out of that. It's the only Windows OS I've ever professionally developed for and I have to say I found it surprisingly pleasant when I could avoid the legacy APIs. Jeffrey Richter's book[1] was a great resource and helped me to appreciate the OS.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1572319968/
Spot on. I’ve worked for companies that have “fired” customers for being more trouble than they’re worth. Generally, it was because of unreasonable support or product demands (e.g. “we need this boutique feature added now,” filing countless tickets for outstanding issues we were working on and had communicated as much to them, etc).

If more companies were forced to pause and consider whether taking on certain customers would cause their workers to revolt, we’d all be better off.
I just learned that while in the US "grad school" means "after an undergrad/bachelor degree", in the UK, the term is "post-grad". Not to be confused with post-doc.

And in many countries, you can do bachelors, masters and PhD at 3 different institutions. But in the US, usually you have to do masters-PhD in one institution, even if you already have a masters (or is this only in my field?). In other countries, such as France, bachelor-masters is common to do together, in only 4-5 years (or is this only in my field?).
Don't worry, there will still be thousands of sites hosting flash player update exes just waiting for you to download
Benchmarks of programmable calculators and BASIC handhelds
This will fail on disparate impact. That concept roughly says you can't discriminate against things that are a proxy for protected classes. So you can't blanket fire everyone attracted to men because that will effectively discriminate against women since attraction to men is a rough proxy for women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

("The Cherenkov Effect, completely normal phenomenon" if you've seen Chernobyl - if you haven't, it's very good)
It's hard to disagree that "it depends", but it's also hard to disagree that "remote work", generally, "works", and that it does so in contradiction with the assumptions and skepticism towards it that were much more established before the pandemic.
Well, for the games and animations this exists:

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

Got mentioned on this site a few times too.
Hey, thanks for that.

Yeah the classless thing AND atomic css both struck a chord with me, so I wanted to try and make something that combines the best of both worlds.
The "American people" are not equally represented, and GOP voters are overrepresented by design in the parts of the federal government that the GOP controls.

This was a somewhat-naive experiment in vote distribution that has been hopelessly gamed by the GOP and needs to be put to rest.
He pointed a taser at the police behind him in pursuit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbf0x_K9i54
Open source music notation is a thankless job - notation is hard, and when you're composing, you run into corner cases pretty quickly.

I'm personally a big fan of lilypond because I'm also a programmer (and I also like LaTeX, which has a similar model), and I love that with lilypond I get both superior output, and source files that I can track with git, which is great when I have different versions of some of my works - I can actually compile them.

Here's a sample of a simple full-orchestra film cue I notated with lilypond which made me appreciate how easy it was to override default behavior: https://github.com/tunesmith/TheForgivingSea/blob/master/1M2...

Browsing the git repo above shows how scores and parts can be structured - from the same codebase, that repo can generate the parts for the individual orchestral instruments, similar to how many other notation packages can, except with lilypond I have total control. And it's the only notation solution I've tried that makes me comfortable that I'll have decades of compatibility - I can't even open most of my old Finale/Sibelius scores from college since I stopped paying for upgrades. Many composers also believe that Lilypond has the best engraving quality of all notation software.

But lilypond's been stuck on MusicXML support for years, and with pretty poor sound output options. On the other hand, sound output isn't a major priority for me, I usually use a sequencer or a piano to sketch out ideas, and I think there's something of an impedance mismatch between notation and sequencing anyway.

For MuseScore to go in this direction implies that they must be thinking they're already nailing the notation side. I'll try it out at some point to see if the UI ease-of-use makes up for the other things it loses - maybe I can use it for lead sheets - but I kind of doubt they're moving in a direction to be able to support serious composers.
No, two wrongs don't make a right. I was just arguing against the idea that using the service for something other than it's intended purposes, or violating a social contract as the parent said, is the particular reason they'd come after her. It's because she messed with their money.
'Isn't it ironic to post about police brutality from a city where the police beat protestors?'

Unless Snowden is proclaiming the virtues of being in Russia, then where he is has little bearing on the validity of what he's saying.

Either making it to Iceland or Switzerland is logistically challenging (see: Bolivia), or the downsides of being in Russia aren't particularly bad when you're not speaking out against Russian interests.
Nobody uses linux
This all comes down to how you interpret the 10,000-step rule/suggestion. Your interpretation, as “more than 10,000 steps is better than fewer than 10,000 steps” is not, I believe, how most people would understand it. Because for any “normal” number of steps, more would always be better than fewer, according to our current and common understanding of the benefits of physical activity. This would lack any explanation of why 10,000 is being suggested, when the same is just as true for 1,000, or 5,000, or 12,765.

There is the interpretation of the 10,000-step idea where it’s the necessary minimum for benefits. Or, weaker, some sort of prominent inflection point on the cost/benefit curve. I believe this is closer to how it is generally understood. The study obviously disproves the minimum idea, and arguably also shows that most of the benefits are achieved long before reaching 10,000.

As an aside: This study doesn’t support, or at least it doesn’t prove that more than 10,000 is better than less than 10,000.

We do know that, beyond some point, physical activity stops being beneficial and becomes harmful. Olympic medalists, for example, tend to die earlier than both non-medaling competitors, and the general population they are from.
But at some level our own brains are just very large databases and very good prediction engines, at least when running on auto-pilot and lacking any deep understanding. Hence the phenomenon of BS artists. Sad to say but I've heard speeches that were less coherent and interesting than what GPT-3 produces.
Again I agree, but the original formulation of qualified immunity seemed a little more reasonable, although it was still wrong in my opinion. The original decision:

> A policeman's lot is not so unhappy that he must choose between being charged with dereliction of duty if he does not arrest when he has probable cause, and being mulcted in damages if he does. Although the matter is not entirely free from doubt, the same consideration would seem to require excusing him from liability for acting under a statute that he reasonably believed to be valid but that was later held unconstitutional, on its face or as applied.

- https://www.leagle.com/decision/1967933386us5471842

I don't agree with this because ignorance of the law is not usually an excuse, but I imagine a majority of Congress might. However, the courts have gradually expanded "reasonably believed to be valid" to mean there must be "precisely factually on-point caselaw" determining the actions are unconstitutional. Sort of a frog in boiling water situation where a well-meaning member of Congress might not realize there was a problem until decades after the initial decision.
Well, then its mis-trial time for Julian, because the claim made against him is that he illegally accessed state secrets and published them. However, the Gunship Video is evidence that he legally published the materials obtained - boosting the defence case that Assange is a publisher and therefore protected.

I think the government is looking for an out, because it knows its case is hopeless, and it just gave Assange's team a clue. No doubt the defence is going to latch on the omission of this video, and it will prolong the proceedings - meaning they can keep Julian in limbo longer, and continue to subject him to the depravities of Belmarsh at their discretion.
Isn't this like high school bullying, just with more resources at their disposal?
Yeah, I'd expect maximalist to be heavyweight and complex. It seems to be an unsatisfied niche with so many minimalist systems out there. There's loads of applications out there for which there's a captive audience of enterprise users who don't mind waiting an extra 3-4s to load scripts if they'll provide better function.
An HP microServer has a fairly small case.
Do you have a source on uber and lyft? Genuinely curious to be more informed on the topic as I've heard the opposite more often.
How is this not front-page national news ?
Replace "the American people are" with "the Electoral College is" and you might have a stronger case there.
Windows 2000 was great and really reduced bluescreen frequency compared to Windows 95 and 98.
I think it used to mean 'underline', then got changed because that was considered undesirable.

From the link above:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/u

> You should not use <u> to simply underline text for presentation purposes, or to denote titles of books.

> To underline text without implying any semantic meaning, use a <span> element with the text-decoration property set to "underline"..."
> If you just wanted to download and run a binary (or jar) - you can still do that?

If it were that simple, why would we need package managers at all? Sadly, the Linux community as a whole have dedicated themselves to a structure that makes this seemingly simple task remarkably difficult.
Well, despite the "fisher-price" UI, XP did build upon 2000 in many good ways - much better 9x compatibility, newer DirectX, lots of small UI improvements, and then SP3's firewall which finally made Windows somewhat safe to use, despite the continual security war and dangerous IE 6.

XP stuck around because Vista simply wasn't compelling. A technical failure by MS, released too early, for no good reason; it never had the things we were promised like the database filesystem, and offered really no reason for a normal consumer to want to upgrade. So around it stuck, just like 7 did while 8 floundered.

Things are different with 10, the Eternal Windows, and so who knows what will happen next in regards to this tick-tock cadence of OS progress?
It’s one thing to avoid making arguments and another to intentionally omit certain “crimes” because drawing attention to them discredits the moral basis of your argument, while emphasizing “crimes” that are identical except for lacking that baggage. It speaks to a fundamental disinterest in the law and its uniform enforcement.
You're sort of moving the goalposts here: when/if you have knowledge that someone is going to do something immoral, there may be an expectation to avoid supporting it. If you can't reasonably have been assumed to have knowledge of the bad thing, then there can't be an expectation to have done anything different, because you couldn't have known.

So, much as after you kick someone out of your store they could order on the home depot website, they could also just go to Lowe's and say nothing. Neither company is really to blame in that case. On the other hand, I wouldn't say that you shouldn't escalate to law enforcement if someone is threatening to go lynch someone in your presence.
The US government has a lot of dimensionalities to it. HUD, the Post Office, the parks service, and the US military are all parts of the of even the purely federal government without one "controlling" another, and have fairly different polices between them. State and local orgs fit into the same scheme just fine.
The hard drive market has shrunk considerably in the past ~5 years. What other choices are there? I remember Seagate having a not-so-great reputation in the late 00s, but now they seem like the most obvious alternative. Are we going to be stuck oscillating between ~4 vendors?
The internet would be a lot duller without some of the creativity Flash animations allowed, imagine a world without Cirno's Perfect Math Class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_bQNPG2OyE&
There used to be a program called #1 Club Gold that nominally had an annual fee. A company I worked at in the 90s got free lifetime memberships for all employees as a perk for making Hertz their preferred agency so even after I left that company I remained a member. The main benefit was the shuttle buses dropped you off in that part of the lot first and you could just get in your car and drive off without waiting in line. At some point in the 2010s that got merged into the current Gold Plus program.
I think the main point is about risk distribution. In a normal insurance contract the main risk of an uncertain event (the damage) is assumed by the insurer, while the policy holder's risk is tied to losing the paid premium.

When such a contract is made in advance knowledge of likely occurrence of the event, the risk is fully shifted over to the insurer. Thus in absence of shared risk this subverts the contract into an unequivalent monetary transaction, which reasonably amounts to fraud.

Similarly, if there's an advanced knowledge from the insurer on almost certain unlikelyhood of the event, then it's defrauding the policy holder of their premium.

So the insurers must pay off time to time to maintain the perceived fairness of contracts. Meanwhile doing their best to balance their share of the risk... and most importantly price in the 'administrative overhead'.
Nice catch, should be fixed shortly
Keep a “brag document” to recognize your wins at work
I honestly can see middle schoolers snickering at the fact that their school's authority figure is seriously and officially referred to as "head" teacher.
Where in the human mind are these things? We judge that they exist based primarily on what people say and do. GPT-style models can't do anything, but they can say. And for better or worse a whole lot of ordinary, everyday speech doesn't have a whole lot of thinking, comprehension or imagination to it. It's just people saying what other people seem to be saying in order to try and stay with the herd. GPT-3 is scarily close to matching that.
You're right, we should all write software exclusively for Linux, and then only on RISC-V CPUs! :)
'Adolescent' seems a bit dismissive, although I'm sure you didn't mean it that way.

Flash opened up digital experience creation for a multitude of people of all ages - th emost interactively interesting web rode off the back of Flash for a good decade and more.

Personally I never much liked Flash, and only resorted to it for things that were out of reach of my meagre capabilities, adding to HTML etc.
WhatsApp launches digital payments in Brazil after beta testing in India
Yes, it is indeed a huge shift for me. I do prefer still working on Computer Vision / ML / AI projects but my current job is not offering much in terms of growth or learning. Since I dont have that much experience in the domain of Data Science, its currently hard to land such a profile in a good company in my country.

I see this new job as a chance to explore more opportunities while building my AI/ML profile on the side.

What would be some tools or processes that would help me keep track of all the client's concerns and effectively communicate with the clients and make sure there is progress when it comes to implementations?
With TweetDeck [1] you can select whether you want to include retweets or not [2], plus a lot of other useful options.

However, I think RTs enhance the experience a lot, as you get to discover other people with similar interest kind of organically. But the same rule applies to people who RT a lot of negativity heavy tweets, just unfollow of mute them.

If you're interested, I recently wrote a bit about how I've been using Twitter quite happily in the past few years [3].

[1] https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/
[2] https://i.imgur.com/0GOMZvg.png
[3] https://dev.my-gate.net/2020/05/30/eight-years-on-twitter/
Thought provoking, thanks.

I’m not asking you to accept anything: I don’t evangelize. In particular I have no theory that generalizes over nations. It seems very limiting. Like ignoring a mechanism I see work in my apartment because it doesn’t hold true for buildings writ large.

Edit: Probably shouldn’t have written “the superpower” posts ago because that makes it sound like a general claim.
Windows 2000 is easily the best Microsoft OS I've used. I miss it dearly. I wrote VB6 apps for fun on it and was just the happiest clam. What an incredibly simple and enjoyable development experience!
In the same vein, but with a more statistical oriented take on european football you can check https://www.alfadata.xyz/blog.

And here is an interview of the founder about his experience building the service and data infrastructure behind it http://datapeek.org/interview/alfadata
> US prosecutors have failed to include one of WikiLeaks’ most shocking video revelations in the indictment against Julian Assange, a move that has brought accusations the US doesn’t want its “war crimes” exposed in public.

There's a reason "war crimes" has to be in scare quotes there.
Yes, kudos to him for dissenting publically.

Is it true that he was the only dissenter, though? Sotomayor has previously expressed dissent to the doctrine. No one wrote a majority opinion for not taking the appeal; I suppose other justices could have signed on to the dissent, but I guess I don't know how often petition refusals get written opinions at all.

I get the impression these decision are mostly made behind closed doors.
Before 1996 the last democratic president to be reelected was Teddy Roosevelt. Things have changed a lot since then, and congress is demonstrably far more polarized and unproductive.
The prosecution case alleges Assange risked American lives by releasing hundreds of thousands of US intelligence documents.

I'm not passing judgement here on Assange or the US's case against him. Just noting that the prosecution case seems to focus on the fact that US intelligence docs being released puts American lives at risk.

The prosecution's case doesn't seem to imply that this video is not evidence of war crimes but that its release doesn't absolve him of the crime of releasing other documents.

The linked article seems pretty light on details so it's difficult to make much out of it directly.
The entire point of something like this is to be a gish gallop. If you want to refute it you have to look through 700 or so videos, and even if you do by the time you are done going through and checking everyone has moved on. Trying to refute some does not invalidate the entire list and you will be attacked for downplaying the problem.

And also people like lists.
Yes, I also think it's part of the reason that body cameras haven't been effective yet. Police officers already know they can do anything they want with legal immunity, so they don't care that they're being filmed. You need body cameras combined with legal changes that make it possible to punish officers, or just get rid of police and start from scratch with a better foundation.
I don't care how many bugs it's got. The fact you've done something that isn't 700MB Electron app gets my upvote. Great work!
Gmail won't implement most of these features, due to the classic innovator's dilemma. Too many people use and expect Gmail to work like a regular email app, chronological stack of emails with read and unread, so even though these features may help the more productive users, Gmail can't alienate most of its other users.

What they could do is create another email app, which they did called Inbox, but then they killed it and most of its features, which were similar to Hey's, haven't been incorporated, precisely due to the reasons above.
IANAL, but when you sue the bankrupt company for going bankrupt, the same judge that allowed the IPO will be the one to look at your lawsuit accusing fraud. Seems to me like he’d toss the claim and it would be discharged through bankruptcy.
Just because someone from a political ideology says something you agree with doesn't mean for an instant you agree with their ideology! Wanting effective representative legislators and legislation should be a quality of all citizens.

I think having non-effective legislators and having a powerful executive and judicial branch is an effective method to remove citizen control of government. It is on purpose.
There was already a strong decline underway, but there were plenty of people who were convinced it would stick around. Apple's decision was the nail in the coffin.
I did some of my best development work on Windows 2000. From a developer's perspective it was just so simple, stable, and fast. MSSQL + IIS + ASP/PHP was a breeze for those early web apps.
You could also revert to the classic widget theme, even in Windows Vista and 7. And people absolutely did that - the classic theme was a lot leaner on system resources and visually clearer in many ways.