skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's intended to be ideological. Recall that Luther was a theologian who initiated what became the Protestant Reformation.

Ideology isn't inherently bad. We all have one, and it guides our behavior.
How would you feel if someone set your car on fire? Probably like someone doesn't appreciate you very much, right? Well this is how they want the city to feel about their police force.

It also demonstrates that by and large, police don't prevent chaos and property damage. Most of the time, people simply decide not to do this, and when they decide they want to, police are largely powerless to stop them. This should lead others to more broadly question whether police are capable of stopping other bad actors, rather than merely reacting to them.
Although the ways that developers and users will find to abuse your systems are often extraordinary, they still pale in comparison to what a good fuzzer can do.
Why? Every candidate still gets some time-slots for stating their opinion. The point is that everybody gets the same amount of time.

And people who are not candidates and who want to express their opinion, they can: (1) vote, or (2) be a candidate. What they can't do is buy media time or advertisements, etc., which many wouldn't equate with "free speech" anyway.
Loved the animated GIF of "the model" literally falling!

The coronavirus has thrown a lot of curveballs and each has sent impacted groups looking for answers. As OP correctly concludes, there are no good answers. Only worse and bad ones.

Besides the original problem, the OP's analysis is well presented and brings out the worse in this not so well thought out solution. I hope IB is listening and is willing to adjust their model to address issues pointed out by the OP.
>If price competition brings commissions down to say, 15% on average, developers must support a combination of stores with a minimum combined market share of 85%, just to break even on where we currently stand.

I doubt that. I think if there were two or three major app stores, almost all consumers would use all of them.

And even if they didn't, I would still feel far more confident committing to a platform where one particular corporation cannot take away 100% of my customers over night for some frivolous reason and ruin my entire business.

Another upside is that I wouldn't depend as much on the ranking algorithm of one specific app store. My livelihood would simply be far more secure if it wasn't so completely dependent on the whim of one or two global corporations.

I don't have to comply with a superset of regulations. If I'm making something that is only allowed on specialist app stores (such as porn for instance) then my users will find me there. That's better than reaching 0% of users.
I meant that 'creating' is rather the wrong tense, and that this is probably a symptom that it's pretty well entrenched by now.
Hey Mr. thought police, looking at your posts, I see that all you do is going around bullying everyone and threatening to ban them. Why don't you put a sock in it? As far as I can see, you're the one that needs to be banned.
Not a full study, but when people were kneeling to draw attention, it poled at about 30% for 60% against 10% undecided. When people burned down the police precinct in Minneapolis and documented the unwarranted police violence, it polled at about 60% for and 30% against.

I don't know why, but as a general rule with people, if it bleeds, it leads. And that's what's worked here.
Well, when two HENRYs love each other very much, they do frequent move in together to become DINKs. ;)

More seriously, DINK seems to be approximately the plural of HENRY in this context.
Superfund has been a joke for a while.

Originally, the cost of covering cleanups where the offending party could not pay was covered via taxes on chemical/petroleum products. But since 1995 it's funded by normal taxpayers.

This has also had a huge impact on the ability to actually clean anything up.
That’s exactly the situation that has the potential for massive abuse. There is a central institution that’s tracking all movements of all people. What’s stopping them from going after inconvenient people or selling information?
IMHO, two monitors is an amazing upgrade. One screen for code, another for reference material or for the app being debugged. Better than one huge screen in many cases, as it’s two 16:10 spaces that you can maximize things to.

But with a 3rd monitor, you’re well into diminishing returns, it may even end up being a distraction if it becomes a Slack/Mail/web screen.
Vey interesting analysis of Starlink coverage and latency:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m05abdGSOxY
Well, Go already picks and chooses elements from different languages, e.g. Pascal-style declarations ("x int" instead of "int x") and C-style blocks ("{...}" instead of "begin...end"). So I'm not surprised that when deciding on the syntax for generics they look more at what fits best for Go than at what other languages are doing...
> No, a PLA [1] and a microcode ROM are two very different animals.

Technically a microcode ROM (or any ROM, really) is a (degenerate case of a) PLA. Hence the visual similarities, since that type of grid pattern will be observed with any PLA, whether ROM or general-logic.
The stories a muon could tell – symmetry magazine
There are a ton of browser extensions that do all this already
In my experience 1366x768 is tight, but 1440x900 is already quite good
I’m gonna be the controversial voice who says anyone who misconstrues that specific previous comment as being supportive or normalizing unethical law enforcement practices probably is probably misconstruing willfully and intentionally.
According to some prosecutors I know, it is quite common for criminals to post their exploits on Facebook.
I wonder if when they found someone who set a police car on fire, will he be charged to pay for it or whill they put him in prison and feed him with tax (or printer goes brrrrr) money?
Stepping further from Go, this same principle is at play in Clojure, which favors open maps for information.

Curious, know little Clojure but isn't "open objects" a Javascript thing too? What is special about Clojure here?
> Also sounds like you're saying that it's ok to avoid doing business with someone based on national origin, which I also find problematic.

Sure, it can be problematic. I've seen articles about how Russian people in the software industry are having a very hard time because of what Putin's regime does. It's not fair for the people who have nothing to do with Putin and no exposure to him.

But what is the alternative? Putin and Kim have assassinated dissidents in Western countries. Do we assume people can't be coerced just because they left the borders of the authoritarian country?

Should the US government also remove its nationality restrictions for security clearances?
I've never lived in NYC, or made enough to have the option, but my lasting impression from every time I've visited is how easily you can find food that's exponentially better than McDonald's for comparably low prices. Of course, anything tends to be better when there's more traffic/volume and more competition.
Wait until the pay cuts for remote workers hit.
Developer text editors won't benefit from 120Hz monitors. Their scrolling is not smooth pixel-by-pixel, but line-by-line. Also most developers will navigate code with search, and won't need scrolling anyways. I would rather put my cash on a display that renders still images better, and is comfortable on the eyes.
Those colorful upscaled images of ClearType text are not that helpful. I wrote a tool several years ago to illustrate the effect of subpixel font rendering: https://github.com/pvorb/subpixel-illustrator
I remember in the 90s when I was first exposed to Richard Stallman’s ideology of only using free software. At the time, It seemed crazy not to use free (as in beer) software, but of course he was right in so many ways.

We now live in a world where most people’s primary computing devices are made by only 2 companies. One of them has complete control over what the device owner can run, and the other has effective/de facto control over what the device owner can run.

Say what you will about zealots, but they are looking out for problems before they become problems...
I put this in another thread but it bares repeating here:

There are several SEC filings around the departure of the CEO in Sept 2019[1][2] that line up with with the timeline mentioned in this article. Here's the relevant snippet from the 8-K:
"On September 24, 2019, the Company and Mr. Wenig entered into a letter agreement regarding his departure (the “Wenig Letter”). Pursuant to the terms of the Wenig Letter, in exchange for his execution and non-revocation of a release of claims against the Company, the Company agreed to provide Mr. Wenig with (1) the payments required to be made to him under his letter agreement with the Company dated September 29, 2014 upon a termination without cause, which letter agreement was originally filed with..."

The key bit is that the CEO stepping down triggered a severance agreement for termination without cause. This lines up with the reporting that he engaged in unethical behavior and had to be forced out.

Here's the cash portion of his severance (there's a stock portion too):

"Non-Equity Related Payments. The Company will make the following payments to you in accordance with the terms of the Letter Agreement in the form of a lump sum payment within 30 days after the Effective Date (as such term is defined in section 17 of this Agreement):

(i) Two times your Annual Base Salary (as such term is defined in the Letter Agreement), which equals $2,000,000; and (ii) Two times your Bonus Amount (as such term is defined in the Letter Agreement), which equals S4,000,000."

[1] https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1065088/0001...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065088/000119312519...
Seems there may be some effect at least

https://sciencenordic.com/body-death-denmark/frequent-blood-...
Nearly $8000 for luxury one bedroom apartment. Money to burn. My house payment is about $1200 per month for 2800 sqft in one of the nations largest cities and that includes property tax. Plus I have equity on the house which has doubled in value over the last 10 years. Financially I really do not understand dumping cash into a lease without equity.
"Everyone else was doing it" is pretty close to "nobody else got in trouble for it".

Which is the logic behind Qualified Immunity.
The opposite side of the equation is how does the police slashing tires and breaking civilian property advance their goal beyond dramatically increasing the levels of anger towards them?

If she's going to jail for torching a car, then will the officers that committed similar property damage also be going to jail?
Mandatory cookie wall? No thanks.
We used a sat link for getting the latest weather information, though you can also get that frequently on V(HF), so .. not terribly useful. But, terribly slow and unreliable (Iridium).
> A reboot is even faster, only 0.26 seconds from issuing the reboot to entering user space.

Curious; it doesn't say how that works. Could be kexec, but if it's a real reboot then I'd be interested to know why it's faster. Can you still skip some hardware initialization somehow?
I'd bet the police did none of this but a hive mind somewhere which handed the info over.
It also makes chess way more approachable to see novice players play and see GMs discuss why a move is good or bad. I picked up chess about two weeks ago from watching the tourney, and the streams where GMs give lessons to tournament participants (or even random popular streamers) have been pretty helpful for someone who never really understood the strategy of the early game as a kid.
Ripple 20: Zero-day vulnerabilities in a widely used low-level TCP/IP library
For anyone who likes to travel, getting emails for when we launch
This company lets you find out where you can go based on your budget. (flight + hotel!!!!!)
What strikes me is that the e-ink screen could update during shipping. Seems like shippers would want to avoid that possibility.
I'm not at a desktop at the moment so I had to just Google for some examples. I was thinking of stuff like this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-uses-family-members-to...

Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting that China is unique in doing this. They are simply much more openly aggressive and nonchalant about it.

EDIT: I also think it was both reasonable and correct for you to ask for examples. Superpowers do enough sketchy things that we don't need to be muddying the waters with made up claims.
It's currently focused on the narrow domain of producing SVG output to feed to a CNC machine or laser cutter.

Having generated files for CNC mills, laser cutters, waterjets, and a plasma cutter, drawing by writing commands seems like the wrong way to do the job. Everybody uses graphical tools for that. There was once a programming language for machine tools called APT, where, amusingly, GOTO moved the tool. Nobody does that any more. Maybe for CNC punching or drill lists, but not for anything with non-trivial edges and surfaces.

The good graphical software for this is expensive, though. Vectrix has a whole line of software - Cut2D, Cut2D Pro, VCarve, VCarve Pro, and Aspire, starting from $150 and each more expensive than the last. They're really all the same program.

You can also do this stuff with Autodesk Inventor, Fusion 360, SolidWorks, or other high-end CAD programs, but those are overkill for a laser cutter. On the free side, there's TinkerCAD and FreeCAD, which can do the job and suffer from the usual problems of open source GUI programs.
They catch them with Etsy and LinkedIn. Or at least construct that evidence path post facto? Ok, sure. Seems normal.

But is there a Kickstarter legal defense fund?
He also co-invented an obscure encoding called "utf-8" that nobody uses.
Can you tell me the name of the trick to read about it on wikipedia? thanks
Similar in SF.

Rents for SFH seem about the same as per-COVID, while apartments are dropping.
I think that was sloppy writing at the article. I think what they meant was that the curve leveled off, not total infections. Fits with the next section narrative on assumptions on an easily infected population.

Such that, if you maintain close contact, you would still see it spread through more. Explaining the closed populations. But the burst up the curve is driven by the easily infected population more than just mere exposure.
From the article:

"The 19 vulnerabilities, given the name Ripple20, affect hundreds of millions of devices (or more) and include multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities. The risks inherent in this situation are high. Just a few examples: data could be stolen off of a printer, an infusion pump behavior changed, or industrial control devices could be made to malfunction. An attacker could hide malicious code within embedded devices for years. One of the vulnerabilities could enable entry from outside into the network boundaries; and this is only a small taste of the potential risks."
I just want to point out that at level 1 you can sell to open covered calls.
this was my immediate suspicion as well; feds surely have cell tower records at the very least
Not to mention, there are literally billions of dollars of grants and other funds available just waiting to be full-filled in search of problems. The surveillance industrial complex that was kicked off after 9/11 has more money available then can possibly be spent.

Any major software and infrastructure provider would be foolish not to develop armies of teams to go after that funding. Don't think for a second that IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and ANY other enterprise hardware and software organization hasn't put huge resources in place to address these "needs."

These feel good press releases do just that - but I guarantee you the Fed divisions of these companies are still plugging away selling billions to the government for software, hardware, and services around all kinds of surveillance technology.
> We take our cues from what the buildings around us ‘speak about’. If they speak of grace and charm, kindness and light, our mood will be buoyant, if however they seem to threaten and intimidate us, we will feel humiliated and cowed.

I don't think this totally captures the problem with modern architecture. It's not that the buildings are threatening or intimidating, but that they convey no emotion at all - they're utterly sterile.
Of course it's not going to scale much past this, it's quadratic and already hitting painful compute levels.

However, if you were starting this research today, you'd use any of half-a-dozen different self-attention variants which are roughly linear, including OA's own Sparse Transformers (which they did use to generate images, just on a far smaller scale which wouldn't be adequate to show competitive performance with SimCLR etc). With those, it's perfectly possible to do self-attention over whole images at 256px or higher.

(As a matter of fact, Aydao has been working on a StyleGAN which just uses self-attention every layer instead of convolutions, using one of the new attentions; you can see some generated image samples from Flowers here: https://github.com/tensorfork/tensorfork/issues/31 GAN loss, not autoregressive pixel likelihood, but it makes the point.)
Parallel construction, I'm glad you beat me to it. This isn't quite "we correlated historic cellular records and the RFID tags in her shoes, but gave credit to a psychic medium," but it's pretty close.
Markets happily developed cheap powerful computers, cheap powerful phones, cheap clothes and cheap food.

In the US there is also reasonably cheap housing in large cities like Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago and Indianapolis.

In some large cities on the coast there isn't affordable housing. All these places have market economies. It's just that in places that are really successful if you have restrictive zoning and stop people building housing that people want prices go up.

It's also not just a US thing. In Australia, New Zealand and the UK zoning is also restrictive and housing is much harder to afford.

Allow people to build up and out and markets will provide affordable housing. Restrict the supply of housing and housing prices will shoot up in successful areas.
Maybe "old blood" has a lot of immune signalling volume going on? Elevated cytokine/chemokine production, elevated counts of immune cells that recognize more of the environment than a naive, under-exposed body? Inflammation.

Maybe part of aging is an auto-immune dysfunction?

Granted, this is a very dynamical system. The immune system clears cancers that are constantly popping up and prevents infections from taking hold.

(This is all unscientific pontificating. I had an undergrad in biochem, but I don't follow the relevant research.)

Edit: I'm getting downvoted for stating that this is just a theory based on my undergrad understanding. Does that add too much noise to the conversation? I wanted to foster discussion. I'm also willing to longbets this one. We're starting to see the immune system implicated for roles in diseases such as Alzheimer's, for instance. It's complicated machinery.

Aging has many causes. Oxidative stress is one. Over-stimulation of the immune system could play a direct role and seems like it's worth exploring, and I'd bet real money on it.
Privacy and removal of insidious tracking would be a good start.

I feel the web is too centralised, with half a dozen or so platforms essentially being gatekeepers of content on the web.

People link out on their sites much less tha in the past, in the belief that it raises the chance of penalising them on Google and hurt their rankings. Last I looked search engine are typically responsible for delivering around 50% of visitors to a site, and Google has a near monopoly in many countries.

Wikipedia while great provides a less than obvious set of rules and regulations before adding data into it. It typically tends to rank first on all major search engines for any query.

Social media have become moral compasses in what is OK and what is not OK to talk about.

A more diversified web moving away from these 'decision makers' IMO would make it a healthier place.
I think parent commenter isn't just worried about the e-ink display, but the general fact that the entire device itself is going to be sitting in dirty shipping containers, warehouses, trucks, etc without any kind of covering. I know I've gotten some shipments before that have stains of who-knows-what-liquid soaked into the cardboard.

I'm not a germophobe, but even so, this probably isn't a device you want to be handling while also eating a sandwich. Lysoling it is probably wise.
Even if I grant 100% of your argument, nowhere near 29.6% of Twitter expressed support for Biden as their first choice.

Twitter is not representative of the general electorate.
Coverage-based fuzzing won't find cases where an extreme value of some variable causes a malfunction but there is no code that treats this value specially, because the coder missed it. The most common case of this is an integer variable with the smallest possible value: 0x80000000 for 32 bits. The problem with this value is that if you negate it, it is still negative. That might cause a computation to go badly wrong, but a coverage-based fuzzer might "think" that it has covered every state your code can reach without finding bugs.

Is anyone aware of fuzzers that take issues like this into account by explicitly trying problematic values, like INT_MIN for an integer variable?
Some journals they publish are associated with a "prestige" factor so academics don't want to stop publishing there. "What makes a journal prestigious" has the same answer to the question, what "makes a university prestigious " - history. "Prestige" is tied to visibility and chances to obtain more funding for research, so there is a lot of incentive for academics to continue down this path.

It's theoretically possible that academics collectively decide that closed-access journals are off limits and start over with a new set of open access journals - but I suppose they are rather doing what they can (or relying on university administrations) to push for publishers to change this "exploitative" economic model (where the public essentially pays twice - first to do the research and then second to have access to read it).

While academics define themselves by innovation, there is a very strong adherence to establishment and institutions (like the traditional peer-reviewed publishing model, though there are good arguments for this as evidenced by problems caused by unpeer-reviewed preprints that have hastily made their way into public discourse during coronavirus). The hope is that academics don't have to throw away a method for signaling publication quality (or rather, perceived potential for impact) that has pretty been a part of the entire history of modern science. Whether it's a true mark of quality or not is a different matter; the most prestigious journals also have the highest retraction rates.

In Europe, funding agencies have begun requiring publication in open access journals as a stipulation for receiving funding, and this has driven journal publishers to provide an option for authors to pay for the publication (which is paid out of grant funding). However, this is not still not pervasive because there are still many funding sources that don't require it. Publication fees for authors are quite steep (around $3k per article; a productive lab may publish something on the order of 10 per year), and if the grant doesn't specify that they would cover open access publication fees then researchers tend to squeeze everything toward covering costs to do the research (equipment, personnel, travel to meet up with collaborators or other researchers).
I'd just like to point out that dang is actually the moderator. It's natural that most of his posts are explaining the rules to people.
Target raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour
Learning same–different relations strains feedforward neural networks