skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You Don’t Need College Anymore, Says Google
Just as we start to receive vote by mail forms (at least here in California).
Good point. I guess you'd have to throw out the assumption they're not vulnerable during that time since they spend the bulk of their lifespan in the fungal domain: underground.
It seems to come and go with life, wakefulness, blows to the head, etc. It can be modulated through stimulating brain cells or destructive damage. Yes, there's a lot of evidence that the brain generates consciousness.
If you've reduced the number of syscalls, the mitigations almost don't matter. Turning off the mitigations is more important if you're using the kernel stack for something like a tuned HAProxy installation which is mostly syscalls.
No one is “storing value” in housing. They are speculating, hoping the value goes up enough to unload on the next sucker. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to look at your comment history, and see you’re a shill for fiat investments.
It can be absorbed through the skin.
Hitler was a fifteen yearold in Linz when Herzl died.
Right. Should have said that. Often, after a check on an inner loop subscript has been hoisted, it simplifies to a tautology, like "n <= n".
> Sorry, what does this have to do with UBI?

UBI gives government a lever to control people by threatening to reduce or stop payments as a form of punishment.
> In the US, I believe threats of violence or harm are covered by the First Amendment

That's not true. That's way too vague and broad of a claim. In general, specific threats of violence and harm are explicitly not free speech and not protected. And if they're not specific, they're not really "threats". Incitement, fighting words, and other speech often involved in fights where violent threats are made (such as slander and perjury) are all US exceptions to free speech that extend past the imminent lawless action clause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech#Limitations
Thanks for sharing! That’s the downside of mediocre success. Too little money to outsource tasks, too much to abandon and allocate your time resources elsewhere.

Glad you made the right call and I hope you find another passion project soon!
Thanks for your feedback. Having trouble with Firefox? Something specific?
Software either (outside of vanilla Android) - They can't make a consistent "ecosystem" to save their lives.
If Oxford’s Covid-19 Vaccine Succeeds, Layers of Private Investors Could Profit
rar files having a recovery record is also really helpful for archiving files. I add a 3% redundancy to any archive I create with it because I've had some byte errors in the past.
I would argue that esports can have a similar effect, unless it’s a moba, which sort of encourages a bad attitude towards losing and your teammates. Starcraft, quake, or even chess can be amazing
TownOS by Fujitsu 1989
Thanks. I'm new to electronic circuits. Could I replace the pot with something digitally controlled? My eventual plan is to replace the main board with an SBC.
every day:
6.30 wake up, breakfast, read news
7.10 (for workdays) go to office
10.00 eat an apple
11.30 lunch (while working)
12.00 (for workdays) cycle for one hour
15.00 eat an orange
17.00 (for workdays) go home
17.30 dinner
20.00 TV/Nintendo Switch
20.30 Listen to radio while doing random stuff (not work) in my private office
21.30 read a book
22.00 sleep
Are there some actual studies stating that privatized mail office would be cheaper/more efficient/better service? Or is this just attempt at money grab?
This is a bizarre article. North was unsuccessful in the market and basically ran out of money and time. Google picked up the people and IP and those efforts are now being directed elsewhere within Google. The idea that Google killed off a competitor is not accurate, as North had already failed to succeed. It was a good effort, and like most consumer hardware attempts, brutally hard.
For me, these are the two most interesting statistics:

1 accident every 1.56 million miles without Autopilot and without active safety features

1 accident every 479,000 miles — US average

Does this mean Tesla drivers are three times "better" than the US average?
I really question what the real purpose of this "boycott" was during a pandemic.

I've worked in advertising for 12+ years. I can easily imagine a company (say, Pepsi), deciding to pause a campaign they were planning to do because they figure the public are not in the mood to see advertising like that. And having nothing in the pipeline to replace it.

So a "boycott" to the public is really just "we don't have much to say right now" in private.

Also, "we need to save a few dollars because our quarterly profits have gone down."

I don't think it was ever any "moral" boycott. It was just an excuse to cut ad spending for a few weeks and avoid being tone deaf during a BLM protest movement.
Iirc, the developer of Ogre is now just using unity
I've had significant delays up here in the Pacific Northwest. A friend of mine mailed me a box of comic books over two weeks ago and it's still in limbo.

I just want to read Green Lantern Corps. :(
> More plausible first users would be things like CAD & 3D modelling applications, which need high performance but also don't have 80GB+ installs.

These sorts of applications are already inching their way onto the web. Photo editors, video editors, 3D modelling software, game dev tools (like Godot and Play Canvas). We're just starting to move past the "toy" stage and into the "native apps which don't have a web plan need start worrying" stage, I think.

If you think this trend isn't going to continue to progressively heavier applications, including games, well... you're just wrong. You haven't been watching closely enough.

> Why would an AAA game, which typically wants every ounce of performance and control it can get, ever jump onto a web platform and lose all of that?

"Why would an AAA game, which typically wants every ounce of performance and control it can get, ever jump onto smartphones and lose all of that?"

Because they don't care about performance - they care about revenue. Performance is just a means to that end.

Call of Duty Mobile was one of the largest mobile game launches in history - more than a hundred million downloads in the first month. I'm not sure if anything has beaten it yet. They had to trade off performance, resolution, latency, bandwidth, screen real estate, and basically everything else. But the benefits were obvious: Increased accessibility and on-the-go playing being perhaps the main two.

The web offers a similar set of benefits. Arguably a super-set of those, since it encompasses mobiles too.

> And since modern consoles are the same architecture & ISAs as gaming PCs are, why would they want to figure out a WASM backend with lagging hardware support & high overhead when 100% of their users are x86-64 with the entirely same set of SIMD features?

Compilers. Even a 50% perf hit (or even more) is fine for now. The trade-offs are worth it.

> but also don't have 80GB+ installs

Asset streaming. It's the web. We stream 4GB HD movies now while we're watching them. Networks speeds are still exponentially improving. This is an engineering problem. You don't actually need the 80GB all at once - game dev tooling will adapt, or be replaced by web-first tooling which has done lazy-loading of assets from day 1.

> This use case comes up a lot, but if (and that's a big if)

All I'll say is that I'd be willing to be a lot of money that you're wrong. Really-big-budget browser games are going to land well within the next decade. Everything is basically already in place. We're already seeing web-first garage-made games like krunker.io with player counts larger than some AAA first person shooters.

Basically all mass-market consumer applications will end up as web applications. You might not like that (there are certainly down-sides), but you'd need to do a lot of explaining to explain away the very clear trends that we're seeing across the industry.
The Forlorn Search for Moral Realism
For sure. Many NLP scientific benchmarks are multilingual today and you need to evaluate on X languages. You are of course not expected to be fluent in all of them. Most of the deep learning based approaches are quite language-universal, i.e. you have a pre-trained language model or word embeddings and you just slap a sequence modeling model on top of that and you let the neural network do the magic.

However, you can still incorporate language-specific knowledge if you want to get the best performance for that one particular language. This is mainly true for academic research. If you are developing a rule-based or keyword-based application (which is still often the case outside of academia), it can actually help to be fluent to get the rules right.
Would have appreciated some transparency on this before a shipped a $1K ecommerce package by Priority Mail last week. I read the official notice on the website and it just said PM was gonna be extended by one day. Then after it arrived in the destination ZIP they bumped it out another day, and now it is showing Alert status with no scans. Really unprofessional.
I was in Guatemala and learned to my surprise that its national post has been disbanded. There's no functioning postal service of any kind, only private couriers.
Right on, and its a mistake to listen to jamie dimon, it has no impact on your life if you try to be more like him
>If employees choose to relocate but their presence is required on a regular basis (1 week per month or several weeks throughout the year), depending on your budget, it is reasonable to expect them to cover their own travel costs.

Really? If my employer started doing this, I would be looking for a new employer long before I'd start paying for my own travel costs.
You can return your mail-in ballot to a drop slot / drop box at your local election office, which saves them postage fees and gives you more certainty it arrived. If you can’t spare the time then the mail still works, but for those that are worried, it’s allowed.
Money can be a large relationship stressor and source of concern leading up to a lifetime commitment
Right you are, it does support thresholds.
This is a gross overextension of the results of that study. From the article you linked, emphasis mine:

> ‘This exciting new result raises a lot of questions,’ says Dr Johansen-Berg, ‘MRI is an indirect way to measure brain structure and so we cannot be sure exactly what is changing when these people learn. Future work should test whether these results reflect changes in the shape or number of nerve fibres, or growth of the insulating myelin sheath surrounding the fibres.’

> ‘Of course, this doesn’t mean that everyone should go out and start juggling to improve their brains. We chose juggling purely as a complex new skill for people to learn.

If OP takes your advice, they'd end up being decent at juggling, but at the huge opportunity cost of not practicing actual critical-thinking skills directly, or reading articles and books relevant to their target domain of expertise, or some other approach to prepare for interviews and a career in data science that's more effective than juggling, of all things.

Besides, OP already said they've been juggling two kids!
I am aware that there are other countries that have English as their primary language. According to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... the US GDP is approximately 3.45 times the combined GDP of the other countries you named. I stand by my statement that the US has "enormous economic and political power".

edit: I personally think Esperanto would be a good choice as an International Language. I believe it's much easier to learn than English.
What's really interesting about O. unilateralis is that it doesn't take over the host's brain, and instead controls the muscles directly: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/04/cordyceps...

Using a type of fluorescent microscopy, researchers from Pennsylvania State University watched fungal colonization in ants from the gaster, the rear end of the abdomen, to the head—and found no trace of fungal cells in the brain. They coupled that information with computer algorithms to chart the movement of fungi as they formed a sort of tubular scaffolding within and around ants’ muscle bundles.

This suggests the fungus casts its mind control through bioactive compounds that interfere with the ant’s nervous system and control hosts directly at the muscles, de Bekker says.
Thanks. I’m going to get that light fixed and I think it is the best way of monitoring the water level.

The hard part with checking the water level is that the boiler is pressurised and very hot, which is going to be hard in any sensor.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned, but cardiovascular exercise is the number one know method to improve the health and function of your brain. Other suggestions are great as well if used in conjunction. I’ll come back and edit this with sources when I get the time.
I like that approach (probably because I decided to use a similar one for my potential future SW, hehe).

Just to confirm, the concept is basically...

"I'll create the software X to fit my own specific requirements/needs, then I'll see if anybody else wants to use it as well (which would mean that that niche of people have the same needs/requirements), and if that's the case then I can decide if to put more energe/effort/$ into it otherwise it will just be something useful for myself"

..., right?

I think that for that to work the important detail about the concept&implementation is that the SW must be complete (~no critical bugs, all needed functionality is available) + not reliant on any external dependencies (e.g. hosting, downloads of data like Tax rates from anywhere, etc) + must use proven and stable technologies.
A stupid example would be "Tiddlywiki" (https://tiddlywiki.com): I downloaded the html/js-file (proven & stable & compatible with all browsers) and it works with 0 external dependencies => I can be sure that I won't loose my notes whatever happens and that the full functionality will be always available, even if in the worst case I don't have an Internet-connection.

Btw., the GigoBooks app does not currently allow to save data, or did I overlook some menu-entry?
I have to disagree with the second part.

You shouldn't hang your career on any one language.
But languages themselves are almost trivial.

Knowledge of libraries, and community expectations around them, doesn't translate well between languages.

And personal libraries, laden with solutions for the domains you've tended to specialise in, don't translate at all. You basically have to start from scratch, which is a huge loss if they are genuinely useful and took years to develop and accumulate.

You can't just rewrite those quickly, and you're unlikely to find a third party library in any language that solves the same problems.

I can see how this may be meaningless to someone whose career consists of moving from company to company, never carrying anything forward other than what's in their head. But some people carry forward substantial personal libraries which they use.

The loss of those can easily be a 10x loss in productivity, so switching to a new language and its entire ecosystem can be a big and expensive step, compared with not doing so.

Yes, over a career you can become expert in several. I would even say quite a lot. And yes, you can always learn new things.

But there will be times when you lose a lot of your advantages due to starting from scratch with something new. That's a big cost, it shouldn't be ignored.

When it's necessary, such as learning an ML framework, say, it's a justified cost, and everyone pays it.

But when it's just due to changing fashions it's a bit galling, and difficult to justify when is the right time. So much is lost.
> Amid this increase, sudden policy changes instituted to cut costs by new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Trump donor who was appointed in May,

Interesting how that's possible. Corona delayed things in Netherlands, but seems they dealt with it smartly. Those delays didn't last that long as well.

It does align with the suggestion that voting by mail is problematic, though seems like a created problem.
Microsoft Edge is malware, says angry Windows 7 user
Nah, you'll have a harder time forcing change in the USA because liberty is more protected. In the USA, you actually have to convince people, which is much harder than dictation.

Given that the CCP claims to have full control of China, all we need to do is lobby the CCP to lower emissions.

Of course, what does that say about the CCP if they can't/won't lower their emissions...nothing good, that's for sure.
The function containing the unsafe block can be called from safe code. So unsafe functionality can be exported. Said unsafe functionality might not be safe for all possible inputs. That's a classic hole, as with APIs that can be exploited.
But we still need a catchy name.
This was debunked: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127145356...
I suspect that number 52% has a lot to do with how many miles are driven within a 5 mile radius the home. A 5 mile radius is ~78.54 square miles where Manhattan for example is only 33.58 sq mi.
Wim Hof Says He Holds the Key to a Healthy Life – But Will Anyone Listen?
The poster you responding to is correct to a large extent. Yes, you can record waves, and you can even classify them like N170. Responses can be 'localized'; however, one has to be a bit careful. Even many researchers say it is new phrenology: for instance, William R. Uttal wrote a book on it, called "The New Phrenology. The limits of localizing cognitive processes in the Brain". This book is not based on philosophical arguments, but based on the research done by cognitive neuroscientists. I am yet to come across a substantial criticism against Uttal's book.

Just because localization is at most one can do, it is not cure to solve all puzzles/problems.
The Pocket Telephone: When Will It Ring? (1919)
There is a major logical flaw in that rhetoric. What good would displaying ads to concentration camp prisoners do? Advertising is fundamentally about getting something that they want from the capabilities of the audience be it votes or money. Concentration camp victims are rather lacking in them - even if you include "ability to resist" which in itself is redudant given the extreme measures of control.

That is like saying "In the dark future of unrestrained capitalism will sell ads to sex slaves chained in the basement - where they have no money or freedom." It might tug at heart strings but it makes so little sense it sounds like an outright parody of such sentiments.
If it’s a side project, then work for hire would have been a side-side project, wouldn’t it? That’s quite a lot to juggle with a presumably full time job
Behavioral betrayal: Fungal parasites enlist living insects to do their bidding
I think once or twice, but I don’t remember what it is really.
Amazon is bigger than Google. And yet, its leadership is only Bezos ever since it started. Sure, it might have a CFO or CLO, but when it comes to calling ultimate shots, there is no doubt regarding who is in charge. That's not the case at Google where it seemed no one wanted to take charge and put his/her stamp on company's execution.
I'm a frequent road and (less frequent) mountain cyclist, and I've got a Peloton (just did my 500th ride on it on Friday AM, in fact).

I've attempted to answer this question before for others, but honestly, I've only ridden zwift once, on someone else's setup, so I can't compare how "good" the experience is.

That said, despite my involvement in the cycling world, I still have no idea how to Zwift. I know I need a bike, a trainer, some kind of device to play the 'game' part, a display, and sensors. Presumably the smart trainer has power built in, but I don't know if I would want BT, or if I'd want ANT and then an ant dongle for my computer/tablet. I know the words Zwift, Watopia, Sufferfest, TrainerRoad, and about 37 others, but don't know the relationship between them. I don't how how the whole ecosystem fits together, what I download, who I pay, and from watching others struggle with it, it's pretty clear there's a non-0 learning curve.

I know for a fact that I COULD figure it out, but that doesn't mean it's for everyone, or all cyclists, or all cardio enthusiasts, or all people into spinning. From the cycling groups I'm in, whenever Zwift comes up, it seems like people are always discussing what components to get to work best together. I'm sure once you get the 'right' components it just works, but it sounds fairly fiddly for newbies.

I also hate riding a real bike indoors. When we had a mag trainer, my wife and I NEVER swapped the bikes out; she wanted me to do it, and so the 'wrong' bike was always on the trainer, and it always felt so damn fragile to me. I'd definitely want to use a dedicated bike for a smart trainer, not one I try to ride outside.

Another (admittedly minor) factor is size. I actually realized that I physically cannot fit a bike+smart trainer in the space our Peloton bike goes in our workout area (with a Peloton treadmill and Precor elliptical).

I'm pretty active in a handful of Peloton FB groups, and it definitely feels like there's a tendency for folks who use Peloton and ride outside to head towards Zwift for their indoor training, but there's also a significant percentage of people who went the other direction, or tried Zwift and didn't like it/found it boring/etc. The video game competition aspect of it looks like a lot of fun to me, but not enough to bother investing in a setup.

So, that's my 2 cents. While I didn't personally make the purchasing decision, I've made a lot of similar ones -- pay a bit extra for something that just works, where someone already did the research and made the decisions for you, and you don't need a new hobby or project to make it work. The same reason I use Apple devices, the same reason I bought a Synology instead of building my own NAS.
The mind-controlling--probably a better phrase for them is "behavior altering"--class of parasites are fascinating from an academic sense... and nightmare fuel from a day-to-day sense. Two additional cases which I remember studying in school are:

(1) A parasitic worm which causes snails to climb to clearly visible positions so that birds can eat them. These snails are usually avoidant of those positions, and so this is clear behavior alteration. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkiL-v4X8w8)

(2) A parasitic fungus which takes over ants, causing them to climb up high and then bite (!!! this means it can affect specific muscle movements) into a plant, before bursting from the body and spreading spores (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vijGdWn5-h8, apologies for the mildly dramatic nat-geo video)

And for a good piece of sci-fi on the first-person experience of seeing others rapidly/inexplicably change behavior, check out [The Screwfly Solution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution). (It's a good read intended as commentary on patriarchy, and it also uses a behavior altering piece of biology as a key plot device.)

There is a part of me that wonders if there are things (viruses/bacteria/funguses) which effect human behavior. And if in 100/1000s of years into the future we'll look back and realize that some subset of maladaptive personality traits and/or mood disorders aren't something that simply "happen" to someone, but are instead explained by biology/chemistry we didn't have a good understanding of. The same way we now look at ancient Rome and say "yeah, their use of lead pipes definitely had some effect on their psychology".

Then again, there is something deeply human to say "nah, we are fully in control of our psychology. These things only happen in simpler animals, and our more-complicated biology means this could NEVER happen to us".
Incredibly frustrating to get mail by USPS over the past couple months and even more frustrating to know this is an intentional kneecapping of the USPS by the administration in order "prove" government services are inefficient to privatize the USPS