skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
same here. Complete shit show. The videos I watch a lot of relate to retro-computing and programming retro machines. You'd think that's a pretty broad topic to base recommendations on. Nope. It's the same dozen videos over and over in my recommendation list from the same handful of youtubers. It's pathetic and seemingly getting worse.
Yeah I'm not sure what the discrepancy is. This afternoon I'm going to dig a bit more into my records.

In my data right now I see a few examples of an $80 purchase match to $56 in proceeds (70%) matched to $56 of a refund.

I can't say I think the 30% fee is appropriate anymore, but this particular case being made about refunds does not appear to be accurate for me at least.
Could you provide a source for this statement because I'm pretty sure it's actually closer to 45k/y for fairly experienced developers
I've been using typescript for a few years now and to be honest I almost never rely on the compilation errors. I just use the built in Jetbrains IDE completion, autosuggestion, and navigation to make it work.
The article mentions in the end that the opposite effect of rapid warming-up might be possible, tripped by a similar rapid spike in one of the global climate variables.
Didn't realize Square was interested in Ruby type checking, just like their competitors over at Stripe. Lots of money riding on Ruby, I guess :)

It does seem useful to have a _standard_ for type definitions - RBS as the equivalent to a .d.ts file - as that allows for different type checking implementations to use the same system under the hood. This was a big problem for Flow, and why it lost the fight as soon as TypeScript's definitely-typed repository started gaining momentum - users wanted to use the type-checker that they knew had definitions for the libraries they used.

On the other hand, RBS as hand-written seems rather dangerous, to me. Nothing wrong with using them to define previously-untyped external code, as long as you know the caveats, but I think you really want to have definitions generated from your code. Sorbet cleverly (and unsurprisingly, given it's Ruby) used a DSL for definitions in code, which had the (excellent) additional boost of runtime checking, so you actually could know whether your types were accurate - by far the biggest pain-point of erased-type systems like TypeScript.

Given that Ruby 3 was supposed to "support type checking," I'm surprised that it does not seem to have syntax for type definitions in code, and instead will focus on external type checking. I might be missing a piece of the full puzzle not covered in the blog post, however.
Jet Blue Deploys Ultraviolet Cleaning Robot
one thing that strikes me while reading this is that an AI is more likely to rebel if we have a lot of depictions of AIs rebelling in human culture

we can prevent AIs from rebelling if we all agree to pretend that it would be impossible for an AI to rebel
The Reality of Rewrites
It's like two heads of the same coin. Barely a metaphor because it's coin that holds them together.
I’ve heard of cases where they use the pots and soil in weighing marijuana. The paper seems like it would be included.
Little known fact: Motorola's Dragonball series of CPUs, used in the original Palm, was designed by Motorola's lab in Hong Kong.
Well, they would have broken compatibility for their existing users, which sucks, too.
How does it work in other stores? Like Google Play, Steam, Microsoft Store, Playstation / Xbox / Nintendo / Switch stores? Do they keep it?
The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore
Having used early Soviet computers - before they gave up on trying to design anything and just copied or used Western schemes - I can say the USSR internet would definitely be different but there's no way the design would be technically superior but for some improbable accident.
Just checked his comments - 99% of Chinese propaganda, don't feed the troll.
A great book I found helpful for understanding the McCarthy era was "Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies". I think history is finding that McCarthy was correct, but went about it in the worst way.
A bear would say those pundits have been wrong so far and will eventually be proven right.

Is there any real reason why Tesla should be worth more than the rest of the US auto industry combined? Can Uber ever actually turn enough profit to justify their valuation? At what point does Amazon stop growing and their PE ratio start mattering?

Right now investors seem to believe that these companies have a very bright future ahead of them. Some of these companies have had “a very bright future” for over 20 years now. Some of these companies have very bright futures even though they’re only supported by investors and have never made any money of their own. Uber, for example, lost $8.5b in 2019 and are surely going to lose a ton this year too.

In the long run, how many SV unicorns and traditional companies pretending they’re tech companies will actually prove their valuation was right? A bear would say very few.
Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks (2011)
> The only advantage I see in x64 is that the complex instructions are a form of 'compression' for the micro-instructions.

It's not a very good one. The x86_64 ISA encoding evolved out of the original 8086 instruction encoding, and has inherited a lot of inefficiencies from there -- a lot of one-byte opcodes are wasted on rarely used bytewise instructions (like XLAT), privileged instructions (like the IN/OUT family), or on opcodes that are simply invalid in 64-bit mode.

Most instructions in real x86_64 code are two to four bytes long, not even counting immediate values. A focused attempt could probably do much better.
A professor in my grad school told me once "In US if you try to create a business and you fail, people will think you're entrepreneurial. In Europe they'll think you're incompetent".
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Not for apps, at least in the UK - I've had four different apps (and one in-app purchase) refunded for a variety of reasons[1] without an issue.

[1] One listed features that were actually (expensive) in-app purchases, one didn't work, a new app had been released but they were still selling the old non-updated one as well (and I bought the wrong one), and one was just really clunky and borderline unusable; the in-app purchase was purchased by mistake (my thumb was resting on the home button and I hit something that triggered a purchase in the app by mistake, so it went straight through TouchID)
IMHO the project was doomed from the start. Top down design on a scale that massive and distributed is nightmarishly complex, and when the designer is well ahead of the state of the art like this it doesn’t stand a chance.

ARPANET by contrast started from the bottom and worked up. This is crucial because it makes it easy to iterate on the design until you get it right. With a top down design mistakes get baked in and become nearly impossible to correct.
I'm not suggesting that it's an excuse or that engineers don't know it's wrong, just that I'm guessing most of them don't know they can go to jail for pulling this shit.

It's kind of like what happened with Aaron Schwartz (where the ethics of what he did might be more debatable than Levandowski). I don't think either of these smart people realized what they were doing could put them in prison.
Meanwhile, Switzerland got a three-peat of Nobel Prizes in Medicine in 1948, 1949, and 1950.

Assuming Nobel prize work is likely a decade or more in the making, I'm thinking all their European competition was busy trying to stay alive?
New flaw neuters Secure Boot, but there’s no reason to panic. Here’s why
> I’m surprised they didn’t opt to do this inline with the rest of the ruby code,

As they mention in the post, they followed typescript's approach, here. The benefit is it allows you to layer in typing into an existing codebase in a non-disruptive way.
They do if your service is subscription based.
The sliders don't work on Google Chrome on Android 10.
Thanks for commenting and sharing your views too.
A rating system and some kind of system that would allow consumers to limit what kind of porn can be viewed from their devices would be something I would think would be made compulsory in the future hopefully.

Not so familiar with tantric traditions, but still that is something more coming closer to elevating your creativity and vital energy through sexual acts, than just releasing it that porn is encouraging people to do.

If you think about this from a deeper perspective, porn is taking a lot of power away from our young men, so maybe it is a good thing to some parties to keep porn available, so people would not have their strength to themselves to resist control structures. But this is just a thought.

We should not support, and yet, pornhub probably makes millions from their exploitative acts.
AI that spots similarities between programs could help computers code themselves
Not really. Fine-tuning fundamentally changes the model weights to be more amendable to a particular use case/domain; the few-shot prompts for GPT-3 is just a guide (and it's very easy for the model to ignore said guides and go on a tangent).

If you could finetune the 175B model, you'd likely get even better results for these Q&A prompts. (unclear how the OpenAI API is implementing its finetuning demo but I believe it's not on the 175B model).
Sure, because the trade off wasn't real. There is a whole market full of people who could've done that work, it didn't have to the exact person who did it who happened to be one of the ones who would have gone to the other project, and the market expands when there is more demand because supply comes to meet it.

So the trade off wasn't between physics and software. We could've had both of those at the "cost" of fewer divorce lawyers or lower unemployment, neither of which are actually costs.

There is a theoretical point where having people do physics is less productive than having them do anything else they might've done, but we're nowhere near it. We still have people working in advertising only to cancel out the work of other people working in advertising.
Thank you so much for actually naming the company.

Too many times we read someone's experience, which even if only half true, would be horrifying, yet no indication of who the company was.
According to the below linked case, 5.7 grams, including th e paper, was 1,000 doses. So 12 grams probably closer to 2,000 doses, depending on the weight of the paper. (https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/500/453/)
Its crazy to think that the iPhone only came out in the great recession in 2007. Seems like we had it forever.
Also from UK and can confirm that 30-day probation is pretty standard.

In 20 years, I think I've only seen employees terminated during their probation 2 times. They were non-dev roles, and both times it had transpired that they were totally incapable of the job (one had also lied on their CV).
Dual Xeon Ice Lake-SP CPUs Seemingly Tested: 10nm Chips Take on AMD EPYC 7742
If I work for a bank IT department and I siphon off a bit of money from tens of thousands of accounts. How long will I get in prison?
If he's representing his affiliations honestly, why wouldn't it be? Faking video is harder than lying about who you are on the internet.

To point back to that comment, Chinese living in China have just as much a right to have opinions on it, and so do Americans living in America, but neither of their opinions are worth half as much as people living in Hong Kong. As long as they're representing themselves honestly (as Chinese or Americans, living in their respective countries), they've still got honest opinions, even if their opinions don't matter as much as the ones of people living in Hong Kong.
Boycotting companies this big is just not practical.

As some tech journalists found a little while back (don't have the links, but it was pretty prominent), boycotting Amazon in all its myriad forms online is all but impossible—so much of the internet's infrastructure currently runs on AWS.

The idea that the correct action for cases such of these is individual action like boycotts, deleting your Facebook account, or ordering goods (at 15% higher prices, with an extra week of shipping delay) from 23 different online specialty retailers or manufacturers instead of Amazon, is bullshit. It's the same logic that says the way to beat global warming is for you to turn off the lights in your bedroom when you leave, rather than fighting to make oil companies cap burning gas flares or whatnot.

Demanding that people give up extra convenience or discounts in order to "send a message" to megacorporations that will never notice, let alone care, until significant double-digit percentages of all global users start doing this, during the most terrifying, emotionally draining, and financially unstable period in living memory is not merely ineffective, it's also deeply insensitive and morally bankrupt.
>get 27 months of home arrest

The only mention of home confinement in the OP is what the defense is asking for. The prosecution is asking for 27 months of imprisonment.
This feels like a John Connor pirate radio message.[0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7bSYG0qL3Y
Yup, Blender are based in Amsterdam.
That's an interesting point. To give a sense of scale, at least in the context of the US market:

"According to US News and Freddie Mac, homebuyers should actually budget up to 4% of the property’s value in annual maintenance costs." [0]

"house price rises have averaged more than 5 percent over the last few years." [1]

[0] https://www.upnest.com/1/post/what-is-the-annual-cost-of-mai...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/us-house-prices-are-going-to...
As most of the counterarguments make the same point I will make a blanket reply:

China among other nations have been playing a game for a while. I call it "can we get away with it" (all states play this game to some extent).

This listing of Chinese tech companies that are taking a hammering from Western policy as China becomes near peer (this is just the start) isn't subtle enough to be part of this game IMO. To me this listing was a statement - they are fully aware it's going to make the West double down on ending any outstanding preferential treatment. What they are saying is: "we don't care if we can get away with it. It's ours.".
"for less than they had raised" - that's actually not true and sloppy journalism from the journalists that wrote it.

If you look at North's funding - the difference between the suspected purchase price of $180M and what they raised ($200M) is a $24M loan they received from the government of Canada [1], which was called back shortly after (because of layoffs) [2].

The remaining $4M difference is probably interest on a standard debt financing loan of $40M they received [3] and some rounding error in the $180M suspected purchase price.

It seems Google bought them for the exact amount raised, in both debt and funding.

[1] https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/north-receives-24-mill...

[2] https://www.therecord.com/business/2019/02/22/federal-govern...

[3] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/north-8daa/company_f...
I don't think it's about whether or not it is worse than FB etc. I don't think it is..it's about who it reports to and what their motivations are. If FB was reporting to an openly authoritarian and hostile regime...we would probably having this conversation about them. (and currently we sort of are actually given our govt issues)
I do have a house there, and my street's WhatsApp group is currently discussing ideas to see if we can get some of that subsidy. Mostly focusing on removing the pavement on our square and replacing it with grass and trees so far.

Modifications are rather hard, actually. My house is from 1903. We have the lower part (two floors, the lowest is a sort of half-basement), and my upstairs neighbours have the upper part (also two floors). The walls are single (no insulation inside), but quite thick, brickwork. The bottom floor is just cement on top of the sand the house is built on. Inner floors are made of wood with thatch and plaster ceilings.

Our main problem is that once the house is hot inside, it's almost impossible to cool down again. So perhaps adding isolation to prevent that, but it means putting a thick layer of insulation on the inside of existing walls.

The other thing is that heating is done with natural gas (as in most Dutch houses), and we are supposed to switch to all-electric somewhere in the next decades. No idea how yet.

Rainfall from the roof is still led to the sewer system. I guess we could change that so it goes into the garden we have in the back, but it'd be quite a large operation.
I should have mentioned privacy on the internet.

Privacy has always been a concern, but it used to be something more physical that involved sealed packages, curtains and cash payment. Privacy-minded people simply didn't share sensitive information on the internet, they treated everything on the internet as public.

Privacy on the internet wasn't that much of a thing not because privacy has changed, but because the internet has changed. It is now everywhere and used for things that used to be unthinkable back then: banking, official documents,... An internet connected coffee pot (not a teapot) used to be a joke, they are now in every (online!) shop.
How would that even be possible on these scales?
Does anyone have insight into how secessionists think that a successful campaign will play out?

The state is small and a shares border with China, so it's not some situation where it will be easy to repeal invaders. And the people are at a severe military disadvantage. Even if every Hong Konger was armed, trained, and well lead, China could wage a war of attrition and win without a single shot fired.

I feel like their only hope would be if America deployed troops to HK and kept the city fed via air supply like with Berlin. And I can't imagine this having much, if any support within the US government or military.

Maybe these people just assume that protests and pressure from foreign governments will be enough to secure their freedom? I can't imagine China giving up on reintegrating HK and will do so by force, if required.
Sounds like something else the USSR attempted :D
The thing that really drove this home for me was the way the wall was built literally overnight with no warning to the public to prevent people from fleeing.
I don't think you should require GitHub, but if a candidate came to me with projects on GitHub I'd skip all technical aspects of the interview, since they have already demonstrated their technical ability.
I had access to all of this type of research when I was a public defender, but I haven't been a PD in years.

I would suggest going to your local university library and looking it up there as access to most of these studies will require expensive journal subscriptions.

For your second question: there is a fair amount of research into the effects of visual and audiovisual stimuli on pedophiles and other sex offenders. This research was and AFAIK still is the basis for indefinite confinement of sex offenders generally and pedophiles specifically.

For your third question: there is some research on textual material, specifically as it relates to pedophiles, showing that it does stimulate demand but to a far lesser extent than visual, audio, or audiovisual media. AFAIK, nobody has researched the effects of Harry Potter porn.

For your final point: there is research showing that non-realistic visual media (i.e., manga) can, like textual material, stimulate demand, but to a far lesser extent than action or simulated visual images.
England doesn’t have a constitution. English “norms” are what forced Meghan from royal duties. I mean it’s hard to come up with anything more inherently racist than hereditary monarchy. But one which maintains an armed overseas enclave to enforce anti-Roman Catholic policy is unfortunately a good start.

Saying “it’s our tradition” doesn’t make the monarch’s inaction any less a condoning of hate and discrimination. Tradition, however, is how they justify hate and discrimination in Alabama.
I wish the process of restoring a non-booting Debian-derived system were easier. After needing to do it on several dual-boot systems, I keep the procedure handy now. Here it is for posterity:

1) Boot Linux from your distro CD or DVD

2) Get a shell

3) Mount your normal Linux partitions. (Make sure you know where they are. The following example assumes / on /dev/sda1 and /boot on /dev/sda2.) E.g. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt Note: If you have a separate partition for /boot, then mount it too: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot

4) Mount the special nodes: mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev && mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts && mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc && mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys

5) Change your shell's root: chroot /mnt

6) Re-install grub: grub-install /dev/sda

7) Update the grub boot menu: update-grub

8) Undo chroot: exit

9) Unmount the special nodes: umount /mnt/dev && umount /mnt/dev/pts && umount /mnt/proc && umount /mnt/sys

10) Remove media and reboot
What about the waste in natural resources to nonchalantly brick a bunch of devices? Google is responsible for this.
How would I improve RSS? Three ideas
Using .env with Jest
Exactly, but all that has gone out the window when it comes to Chinese companies.

The US has waged an aggressive campaign to destroy Huawei - pressuring governments around the world to ban use of their equipment and threatening Huawei's suppliers with sanctions (even its non-US suppliers) - based on completely unsupported claims of surveillance. The message to China is: we want you to open your market to our high-tech products, but you're not allowed to develop your own high-tech products, much less sell them abroad. The US was fine with China being a platform for low-wage labor for Western companies, but the US not okay with the existence of a peer-level competitor on the world stage.

Trump's impulsive tendencies make this even more dangerous. The closing of the Houston consulate was a dramatic step. The possible cutting off of diplomatic relations between the world's two largest powers is extremely alarming. As the election gets closer, however, I fear we'll see more such abrupt actions, especially if Trump's poll numbers continue to slump.
It should be noted that all Dutch municipalities were asked to draw up a plan to deal with climate change, and there isn't really anything drastic in this one.

Also much of the Netherlands is below sea level, but Arnhem is not.
Much like the USA, lots of stuff about the USSR was bad. Lots was good. Including the political decisions the respective countries made.
You're correct in your assumption you'd need to generate methods, from my quick investigation into how Sorbet handles it - see https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/sorbet-rails for some details.
This is part of the prepper hole. Also it's like one upping the Jones. I'm more off grid than u!
Yeah, that basically destroys his argument. If I use the same password for a random internet forum with no 2FA and my bank account with SMS 2FA, then a person, who breaks into the forum DB still can not access my money.
I wholly support this answer.

I will add a caveat - I'm mostly OK if Audible is proactively paying the author (and the voice actor(s), director, sound engineer, et.al.) to create a work that would not normally exist.

There's no indication that this is the case with most of these exclusives.