skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know German but never heard of "Bumsbude" before. It got a chuckle out of me.

The literal meaning (to use similar English words) would be "Shag shack", aka "brothel"...
There is a game to memorize the fretboard. As it turned out, memorizing the fretboard, while somewhat useful, was not what helped me see music on the fretboard. My guitar teacher is responsible for that insight by insisting I focus on the relationship between notes, and over many songs. Where C is on the guitar neck is nowhere near as important as the fact that the C I am playing is a minor third to the root note I will end the phrase on. His insistence was mysterious to me until it finally clicked. This is why a video game will never replace a teacher who understands the end place of wisdom they are trying to bring you to.

It's a useful point to consider just how little or how much video games can cover. If video games can only ever be the most effective route to learn 10% of what we need to learn, then that's less interesting to spend time and energy on compared to if the number is 50% or 80%.
HashiCorp Terraform 0.13 Beta
There's already a "COVID-19 Exposure Notification" in the Settings>Google menu on my Android. AFAIK the same exists on Apple. I'm at a loss as to why they don't just say in the daily briefing "turn it on please". Develop what you want in the meantime, but it'd go a long way towards something.

EDIT: missed it had to be turned on... Thanks for the replies. Fingers crossed we get something that uses it ASAP.
The World’s Highest Performing Quantum Computer Is Here
Sure is, the VP is VP of Marketing and he puts the expenses under media research or something, and they put the whole company CRM data into Mongo or Elastic on AWS with no auth, open to the whole internet to see. And sadly that's more daily news than fiction.
Hi, I want to reproduce it. Could you tell me how much scalefactor did you use and did you change the default weights?
I don't think it is just about mice though- it is also about "pure bred" anything. Imagine there was a single human that we could do all kinds of knockout experiments with, but we would always be starting with that base human (and on top of that it would be inbred and always live in the same kind of environment). Some of the conclusions we would draw would certainly not extend to all humans, probably not to most even. If the entire field became centered around this human, we would be missing huge amounts of information in space we are not exploring at all.

Controls are great, and it makes perfect sense to have studies that produce these extremely well controlled results. But controlling does have its own tradeoffs in practice, as results may very well not be robust/not generalize to things we care about. My problem is that the entire system operates under essentially the same paradigm, so we have very little work trying to address these downsides.
Seems easy to define such a fork: disable JavaScript, and load all resources immediately and unconditionally to disable tracking based on what is visible.

To prevent custom UI, also disable CSS and use a decent default stylesheet (e.g. the reader mode one or a Markdown one).
I have a pet idea that if star lifting or some stellar engineering is used and it were to alter emission spectra in some detectable way that we could look for clusters of stars with the same altered emission, or just clusters of stars with some non normal emissions. At least it would be possible to scan alot of the sky quickly with a method like this.
I suppose i dont know enough about stellar spectra to know if fingerprints like this could be out there
try this link
https://www.technologyreview.com./2020/06/19/1004190/uk-covi...
Rightfully so, there's a reason why the IOS and Android developers disallow user-installed apps (non rooted) from doing things like bluetooth proximity contact tracing, beaconing and similar features.

The exact same functionality could be highly misused by a popular flappy-bird type app that tricks people into installing it.
I would rather have an extra criminal on the streets than risk ruining someones live that is innocent because some cop planted evidence.

Just this week a bodycam from NYC officer shows him planting drugs over 2 years ago. The person who's involved took a plea deal because they didn't want to risk going to jail for many years. The cop still has his job and this wasn't the first time.

Try getting a job in the US with a criminal record.
Author here. I love and use both.
For static sites, Zola is super nice: it's fast, has a great community, no thrills, and it gets better all the time. The config options are sensible and the templating engine is easy to learn. Sites I'm maintaining with Zola: https://endler.dev/, https://hello-rust.show/

For dynamic content, I love Gatsby. It can read from whatever you throw at it: Files (Markdown, plaintext, YAML), APIs (e.g. Github),...
I'm not a frontend dev so my React knowledge is quite limited, but it's enough for simple components.
Sites I'm maintaining with Gatsby: https://analysis-tools.dev/
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> Stewart Baker, an attorney at the Washington, D.C. office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP and a former assistant secretary of policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said the BlueLeaks data is unlikely to shed much light on police misconduct, but could expose sensitive law enforcement investigations and even endanger lives.

But then there was this: https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1273329710576152581
I would surely read Einstein's Dreams and SuperIntelligence.
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Can you elaborate more? I followed telomere research a bit for years and I had never heard about what Bret Weinstein said.

Isn’t his claim that the lab mice adopted to some change in telomeres that significantly distorted the results of tests? I guess famous intellectuals with PhD aren’t credible sources but Eric Weinstein said that for over a decade they tried to get publicity for the story but ran into resistance.
Stuck at home, scientists discover new insect species
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When you're a native speaker at school you already speak the language, you just learn the rules to better understand some corner cases and to be able to pursue some careers that would otherwise be impossible for you.

But you first learn a language intuitively at home, by using it a lot and developing intuition for what sounds right and what doesn't.

I'm a native Polish speaker (which has a "typesystem" much more complicated than the German one nevermind the English one). I've learnt German for 4 years in secondary school. I remember the system to be pretty intuitive and simple (mostly you change the articles not the words, there's just 4 cases, no verb aspects, just 1 kind of plural, just 3 genders, etc.).

So it was definitely easy to remember the rules and I did at one point (not anymore ;) ). But still to speak German you can't pause every 3 seconds to do a table lookup for the correct conjugation and rules, that would be far too slow. You have to use the language and have that "ouch" feeling when you use the wrong case so eventually you know intuitively which word to use.

A game to teach a language should just be a game using that language and giving immediate feedback.
Accelerate is barely used on Mac for scientific stuff in my experience. People tend to use Intel MKL - see for e.g. the Anaconda Python distribution - all of the NumPy/SciPy libs are linked against MKL.

SciPy actually went as far as dropping Accelerate as a supported BLAS implementation in 2018.
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/wiki/Dropping-support-for-Acc...
I got the same reply, word for word, for a similar inquiry.
But that's not what I was talking about. Whether you're a freelancer, a novelist or a technical writer in a megacorporation, you need a good keyboard, not an itunes subscription.
Adolf Loos "Ornament is crime"
Even more valid today.

Only very few people hate modernism, and they can have all the warts they want. Even C++ or perl.
Hah. This article is not only golden, but got me deeply annoyed with all BS machine it exposes

Spoiler alert

> And I used to think that the alternative medicine people were overestimating how evil Big Pharma was. But now I know that’s not right.

> Now I know they’re underestimating it.

(though I understand a bit of the issues behind the BRCA gene testing thing and I'm not sure it continues to be banned or merely the results need to be more generic and not just "you have X% of having cancer")
That fixes only this one specific problem though, the breeding protocol has probably introduced a lot of biases.
Each time the civilisation collapsed it's demise was brought by much stronger technological means. We might get to a point in time in which a a full restoration is not possible.

One of such outcomes is of course an atomic war, but I'm more concerned with the receurring "underdog revolts".

Historically the elites are always getting more stagnant and the line between the capable and the mass is blurring. Most of the revolutions were started not by the workers, but by the "middle class". Basically at some point the "almost haves" convince themselves that they are more capable than the current structure and they pull the workers into the madness. Look at all the ancient military revolts, at countries that fell to fascism or communism.

So far it always begun with losers taking up the tools of their masters. Things that they were not capable enough to create in the first place. The winners create the tools of their own destruction. Communists took over the "means of production", christianity the fruits of enlightment.

At this point of time, if the mass surveilance system and the information brokers fall into the wrong hands it may be impossible to recover, even if there is no military conflict. One might argue that it already happened to large degree.
> And while Manfred Schmider went to jail for a couple of years he apparently still managed to move a lot of his assets overseas and comfortably lives on Mallorca today.

This stuff makes my blood boil. I continue to be astounded that this seems to be the default.
I agree about physical buttons. I add that sliding is an unfamiliar concept (unlock or answer by sliding is novel) vs tapping (an entire life of pushing buttons.) And flat interfaces are very bad, they don't have any previous experience of things actively trying to hide controls for the sake of... well, I never understood the goal myself but I use them. Anyway, I spent hours explaining to my parents which button does what, if it's press or slide, how to activate the speakers, the camera etc. Every single app has its kwn share of problems. Probably the right device is a pair of old 3G phones with video call and a keyboard. Unfortunately those video calls were quite expensive.
How Doordash got their first 1000 customers
I really don't see any "tactical" advantage. MS has similar toolchains. MS has also done a similar 32-bit to 64-bit transition. And to top it off MS has done it on a PC, and not an smartphone where people do not depend on running "random" binaries.

The fact that MS has also tried several times to switch from ARM but no advantage has ever materialized also casts a huge doubt on the tactical advantages of an ARM migration. The power savings are not apparent: neither the Surface RT nor the Surface Pro X have significantly better battery life, likely because they've (very much like Apple will do) decided to reduce thickness. The performance is not there as both devices were reviewed as slow. And the cost advantage is also not there seeing that the Surface Pro X was more expensive than most of the Intel Surface Pros, at least for launch price (and we can certainly expect Apple not to lower prices, either).

I am guessing MS had more margins on the ARM devices, and that's about it, but it makes for a hard sale for users. Also those margins will evaporate as they are forced to reduce the price of the SP X.

Apple's previous migrations depended on the _huge_ performance improvement of the newer platform. Up to the point where porting programs to the new platform was not even always required, as the emulator would be performant enough to still show a performance improvement overall.
In this case, the new platform has likely similar or slightly lower performance, and we care much more about power consumption, so emulation cost will be very noticeable and users will penalize non-native binaries heavily.

Apple has the advantage of the huge collection of iOS apps but I also hesitate whether this advantage will transfer to the MacBook or not. Most people do not buy MacBooks to run oversized iPhone apps. They already have the iPad for that.
MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation (1986) [video]
The Antagonism of Human and Nature in Factorio
This would be great for cooking shows, fine repair work or surgical training to see "behind objects".
Hedge funds and investment banks are comparable to cartels?
I’ve had many macs and all the keyboards have been best in class. I just skipped buying a model with the bad keyboard. That was made possible by the fact that their laptops have serious longevity so I could just hold onto machine until they fixed it.
You seem to be assuming that the CPU on iOS devices are running in big-endian mode. ARM CPUs support both big endian and little endian modes and ARMs on Apple i-devices have been running on little endian mode for as long as they've been around. There is no endian difference gap to bridge between ARMs on iPhones and x86 CPUs.

Given this, it's quite unlikely that Apple will go big endian in their Desktop/Laptop ARM CPUs.

Of course, Bitcode won't solve all portability problems, but it does solve many of them in this specific case.
No. This is whining about you using the South as an excuse to pretend to an undeservedly good one.
Sergey Brin's charity sends ex-military into disaster zones on a superyacht
far-right extremist terrorism greatly outranked radical wahabbi/salafists and similar in 2018/2019, domestically, in the USA:

https://www.csis.org/analysis/rise-far-right-extremism-unite...

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/reports/201...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/world/white-e...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/homegrown-...
Guess you have missed his point. The mice is bad as they are bias. They are too good to survive in a lab. It is not a trade off. The result is invalid.

Poor GP.
NotPetya authors penetrated the accounting software vendor and planted their attack code in a regular update.
You still need to recompile and relink. And it's not that simple, Apple's implementation of LAPACK is well out of date for e.g. - it dates back to 2009.
>“Netsential confirmed that this compromise was likely the result of a threat actor who leveraged a compromised Netsential customer user account and the web platform’s upload feature to introduce malicious content, allowing for the exfiltration of other Netsential customer data.”

So they are spinning it as a user's fault? Not the fault of Netsential for allowing malicious content to be a problem...
Because the NHS must write an app to consume this. It's not able to do anything on its own.
I think that's just the UI to enable the bare API, you still need an app that uses that API?

Kind of like enabling location won't give you a map, you still need a map app to use that location. (For example).

That said, the efforts of other countries shows had they gone with that API in the first place they would perhaps have something running by now, rather than insisting on going their own way because they wanted the data centralised.
Fast implementation of DeepMind's AlphaZero algorithm in Julia
I did not know this. As a matter of fact, I still do not know why Google isn't making this more known. I have not received any push notification or anything of the sort !
Unknown. The company now claims they got defrauded themselves, but like the OP says, that's weak sauce. It looks like the company was completely fradulent forever. Interesting and more clear cut is the role of the German financial authorities, as they protected that companies for all those years they either are either completely incompetent or completely corrupt.
So who is going to be accountable for all of this data that was collected and then allowed to be hacked and stolen?

The more law enforcement/spy agencies are allowed to collect more of our data, it stands to reason that they should at the very least be held accountable more for when that data is inevitably stolen.

We are supposed to trust them with this data collection, and they prove to be quite incompetent.
I read there is another issue with cell line as well sometimes ago.
Read the transcript around the quote. It’s not just the endian differences. He said that it basically only helps with things like minor optimizations and added instructions.
Well, it entirely depends on how they designed the chip. If they planned ahead they could design the chip for 4Ghz ahead of schedule and then take advantage of the higher frequency once they decide to actually release a desktop or laptop with an ARM chip. I don't believe that Apple did this so they will either create a new chip exclusively for desktop/laptop or they just keep the low frequency.
Disclaimer: I'm not the author. Just want to share this awesome project.
Same situation for me. I am single for a long time but recently many friends also break up contact more or less. They are founding families, building houses. I cannot really blame them.

I am alone at home very often, most of the times it is okay, i don't really need someone in these times for talking and such. I'm not the big talker anyways. But there are some moments, especially in the evening, where the loneliness is just crushing.
I always try to find a logical reason for this.
In these moments i do not really feel the need for talking or meeting someone. It's a kind of fear to miss something because of the lack of friends. I'm for sure it's highly irrational and to this day I didn't find a definitve answer.

Another observation i made is that these feelings are stronger when i'm hungry or thirsty. Sometimes, if i feel
lonely i eat (i'm a twig, no worries). It seems to produce forgetti stuff in the body and the worries often go away.

Browsing social media and stuff has the opposite effect. It raises the question "Why are the others having fun and friends and stuff?" Wouldn't recommend that (subjective)

I'm sure there is a chemical explanation for all this, or an evolutionary, but for all ppl that feel like this: get your pizza!

Of course this is all referring to the "negative" type of loneliness. There is another type which we may crave: "I want to go on top of that lonely mountain with nobody around me", "Let's go into the forest where no humans are going onto my nerves".
This selective loneliness is a good one and should be looked for from time to time.
Nope, just a fun little project that i contribute to here and there.
Some are. HSBC laundered billions of dollars for the cartels and no one went to jail over it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/outrageo...
I've had more than my share of pitches where people would want me to sign an NDA. Pitch a business that they haven't done any work on, and that requires all the risk upfront to be software development (i.e. my potential contribution), and then not want to go 50/50 in the business.

I've bothered to follow up on some of these businesses, and I've yet to miss anything substantial.

But in the absence of any other data, NDA becomes a very good indication of whether I should continue the conversation.

Can someone run off with an idea and make a billion dollars? Maybe. But I would suggest that an NDA gives very little protection. If the person is going to do that and actually manages to make a billion dollars from it, then all you have is a piece of paper saying the person won't discuss the idea without specifying the idea.

Unless you then have a paper trail of discussing the idea, how can you argue that that was your idea? Most subsequent discussions in my experience have been verbal.

Worse still they have a billion dollars to fight the matter in court.
this will lengthen the trip by alot
Who doesn't love a dirty joke. Apparently nanna is shocked and says cunt
I completely agree - I came into it against the centralised model on principle but after reading their whitepaper I actually think the benefits may slightly outweigh the negatives.

The app has to actually work for a high enough proportion fo cases, though.
Isn't that a selling point of ARM? Would you prefer a passively cooled but only slightly slower laptop or a faster laptop with a noisy fan?
I mean historically people would take medical folk wisdom from all sorts of sources that are probably even worse than Joe Rogan.

This reminds me of people complaining about others taking financial advice from reddit, ignoring that on average the financial advice you get from finance subs there is probably much better than the advice you get asking random friends and family -- which is a common practice.
This is just a way of knowing whether your phone has the new API's available, I believe. It still prompts you to install a local government app.
I have indeed heard of both. In fact, I worked on a 3rd party product that Microsoft highlighted at the introduction of PocketPC. Some products make very specific target architecture decisions. MS Surface tablets suffered due to code that was not .net or was not possible to port easily.
Apple sells 16-20+ million macs per year. Not Windows computer level, but I wouldn't call that extremely low volume.
That's a fun and useful definition, so thanks for that.

I think it's worth clarifying that I did not compare video games to cryptography. I compared programmers brainstorming about education to junior programmers brainstorming about cryptography.
Slice based vs. dynamic testing in Slice-based Testing
What is the difference between static and dynamic testing in slice based testing?
Simulate Delays in HTTP Requests
It's always the big liberal cities, with majority democratic councils, and a legacy of democratic mayors and govenors with the worse police departments: Chicago, Atlanta, D.C., NYC, Baltimore, LA, etc. But somehow the "redneck trumpers in flyover states" get blamed for everything. It's really hilarious at this point. In my city of Charlotte, with the Keith Scott shooting, it was: 9 democratic council members to 1 republican, democratic mayor, democratic governor, black police chief, and a black police officer that did the shooting, but somehow it was institutional racism.

There is a policing problem in this country. Period. Color of your skin be damned. If people started from there, things might have been a little different at this point.

I am sure this will get flagged, but it really needs to be said at this point. Hopefully some of you see the truth. I sure see it, and I am a middle eastern immigrant.
This. According to my experience and validated by Germans and expats alike, Berlin is not Germany :)
The context of the answer was:

John asked:

And the more prosaic version: it doesn’t mean it’s CPU-agnostic, all it means is that Apple has slightly more freedom to change instructions on the CPUs that they do target? [10:30] What advantages are there of compiling something to Bitcode and then uploading it somewhere versus sending someone a binary?
The NHS could take and rebrand the open-source German-developed app. Unfortunately solutions like this are presumably quite politically unpalatable to the present government.
If the operating margins in the article are realistic then there is a lot of room for undercutting Intel if you can convince the customer to take the plunge. That is, if you’re not in an IBM-vs-Amdahl situation where the lower price is not enough.
Probably not; if the LSD is already bound to a 5-HT2A receptor, then how is an antagonist going to bind with that receptor?