skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BestBuy too, at least in Canada. I think BestBuy has done OK financially, but I'm always surprised at how much the "brilliant" executives get paid when their plan is to copy the worst half of Amazon's business model.

IMO BestBuy would have been better off extolling the virtues of having a trustworthy supply chain that doesn't circumvent regulations like Amazon does. Their retail business also means they have a better distribution system then Amazon, at least for now.

I wonder how many people buy the marketplace stuff because I know that when I go to BestBuy it's because I want something immediately or I want something where I don't trust Amazon (chargers, memory cards, etc.).
There were, and they sadly did not. Privacy Badger doesn't strip tracking tokens out of the URL anymore for me either.
This is a clickbait. I was expecting him to get banned for having an opinion contrary to the popular ideological consensus or something but the reality is even more ordinary: his Reddit account was suspended because Reddit does not believe it is him. This happens to celebrities every now and then as social networks struggle to get rid of thousands of people impersonating them for fun or evil. Real Sharon Stone (or Julia Roberts, I can't remember already) had her OkCupid (or Tinder or something else, I can neither remember this) account terminated in minutes after signing-up. I just wonder how do ordinary people actually having the same names do.
Well, the sculpture is a fiction, and this AI generated image is a fiction - what's wrong with acknowledging that these fictions are all we have? Life is a collection of these facsimiles.
Do current NLP systems understand arithmetic, and can the do it with unfamiliar numbers they've never seen on? If not, I'd think that your theory is demonstratably false, as a child can extrapolate mathematical axioms from just a few example problems, whereas NLP models are not able to do so.
Thankfully we have technologies now that have moved beyond smoke signals and we can actually talk to people without being in visible range.
Fair Is Not the Default (2018)
With Arc's "deterministic" memory management interfacing Nim DLLs from other languages should be better, although never tried it.

One trick that works as a guarantee for me is writing Nim code in almost pseudo-language style, which in theory will be easier to port to other languages, it's very easy to do.
Emotional platitudes such as “helping people” are not useful. It is obvious that if I vote for my city to provide mental health and housing to anyone that needs it, my city will quickly go bankrupt. Same for my state. It’s the same situation with providing taxpayer funded healthcare.

I know that we need the full weight of the federal government to attack this problem, so I support and vote for candidates who I think can best help us get there federally.
> They're problems that are easily fixable, after all - it's very possible for us to create programs today that have similar positive effects on employment and the economy and just do them without the racism.

I disagree. The racism was a manifestation of the problems critics of the New Deal have with it: when you put government bureaucrats in charge of building things and running the economy, they inject their own biases and shortsightedness into the projects. We wouldn’t be building overtly racially segregated public housing today, but our bureaucrats still have plenty of biases to inject into their projects. (Listen to the podcast “Nice White Parents” for a good primer on how things like special language programs in schools become a way for wealthy, liberal, white parents to secure special resources in public schools for their kids specifically. Those are the same people that would be in charge of these New Deal 2.0 programs. E.g. you spend money for transit, and you have college educated white people spend billions building heavy rail through neighborhoods low income people can’t afford to live in, instead of shoring up the bus systems the overwhelming number of needy people actually use.)

The New Deal isn’t the only precedent we have. Look around at the world: everyone is doing basically the same thing we are. Bailing out airlines, providing increased unemployment benefits or payroll protection funds, etc. Instead of big, centrally planned projects, you inject money into the economy in a broad-based way with minimal bureaucratic discretion.
>> [the president can pardon] offences under Federal law, but not offenses under State law.

> but it is unclear if it holds any legal water.

The claim that POTUS cannot grant clemency for a state conviction definitely holds legal water.

The plain meaning of that clause is extremely clear and its meaning is thoroughly and universally understood in the legal field.

> The reality is that it is legally untested

Re: POTUS directly granting clemency for state convictions, only in a sort of vacuous way. Meaning, this is true for almost everything that is blatantly unconstitutional. E.g., the president having the military disband congress is also "legally untested". I have zero doubt that the current SCOTUS would unanimously reject an attempt by the president to directly grant clemency for a state conviction.

> there's a good chance that Double Jeopardy will protect someone who's pardoned Federally, and then brought up on State charges for the same offense.

Notice that the only reason this indirect argument is made is because POTUS clearly cannot grant clemency directly.

Although this particular theory about Double Jeopardy has not been tested, there's an entire legal doctrine that addresses this question (the Dual Sovereignty Doctrine). The Roberts Court affirmed this doctrine in Gamble.

The primary justification for the Dual Sovereignty Doctrine is that different sovereigns might have different interests. That justification speaks directly to whether the federal executive should be able to grant clemency for state convictions (no, because the state executive might have different interests in prosecution). See https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt5_2_1_2_2...

So,

1. the President very clearly cannot directly grant clemency for state convictions, and

2. the Roberts court affirmed the Dual Sovereignty Doctrine not one year ago in a 7-2 decision. Go read that decision -- the reasons for upholding the Dual Sovereignty Doctrine speak almost directly to the question at hand.

Given these two facts, it's highly improbable that the President could pardon a federal conviction and then convince the Roberts court to extend that clemency to state convictions via a significant narrowing of the Dual Sovereignty Doctrine. In fact, I'd say that a raw exercise of force is more likely to succeed.
I've done work for a couple of clients, converting a micropython implementation to C on and ESP32, that would disagree with that statement.
Create an app with react(context API) and ROR by using chakraUI and Formik
To be fair, there are BSPs for cheap chips like Espressif microcontrollers and a myriad of minimal development boards. You don't need to buy a pyboard, and part of the reason those are so expensive is because they help fund the project's continued development.

But it definitely does have issues with memory usage. Personally, I hope that it will become more viable as its development continues and RAM densities increase. I love the syntax and ease-of-use, but I don't love needing a $10 chip for a $1 task. Hopefully it'll be usable for non-trivial tasks on a $1 Cortex-M23 chip in a few years.

It also really shines in educational environments. I see a lot of promise in the progression from MakeCode (primary school) to MicroPython (middle/high school) to programming "real computers" (high school/college). It's a natural progression, and understanding simple microcontrollers takes a lot of the scary "magic" out of learning about complex application processors. See, for example, the BBC micro:bit (which also has a MicroPython BSP).
There also exists a Python-like language for when you only have a few kb of memory, and can’t even run MicroPython. It’s called “Snek”:

https://sneklang.org/
> No, you may have to do a major upgrade every six months.

I think the point is that it's not a major upgrade. There hasn't been a major upgrade since 9, and there won't be going forward. It's similar to Go in that sense, where it's very easy to upgrade to the latest version, and older versions are only supported for a year.
I always find it interesting how people can think completely differently about this topic depending on how they frame it in their mind. If you think about it from the perspective of personal risk, then young people bristle at being told what to do. If you think about it from the perspective of contagion and at risk people who want to be able to participate in society, you would have a different perspective.

Hopefully we can agree that years where we lose 100,000 people from influenza are tragic, even if we've become accustomed to it. The optimistic possible outcome from this pandemic is maybe that rapid, inexpensive in-home testing for common virus infections becomes widespread. That'd allow a responsible person to test themselves before they went to a sporting event.

It'd also be wonderful if we invested more in a universal influenza vaccination. That's been right around the corner for decades now.
Stories I'm hearing from people in the real estate industry in Vancouver is that the recreational property market is on fire right now, as tech workers realize that there is a very good chance that WFH options will be permanent and so accordingly they can buy some property on the Sunshine Coast, Tofino, or by some lake in the Interior and go work there for large parts of the year.

The additional upside is that Vancouver real estate is so expensive that even many relatively wealthy techies are locked out of buying, so this is an opportunity for people to buy something.
Firstly, I disagree, I think a lot of people structure their lives around the medium term - "I'm going to retire to X one day, but for the next few years I'm doing Y", "for now the city life is great, but I'm putting aside some cash for a house in the burbs in a few years" etc etc

But secondly, that's not really what I meant, I meant that for the next several years people's motivations and choices are likely to be impacted by the virus. This may result in a larger percentage of people moving away from cities or choosing not to move to them.

i.e. I'm not talking about an individual holding the thought in their head that "I don't want to be in a city, in the medium term, but may move back later", but a population which is less favourable to city life in the medium term, and holds a greater proportion of people who think "I don't want to live in the big smoke at all"

I may be wrong, of course, but I think we're already seeing it to a small extent.
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The second sentence on Wikipedia says: When the vPro brand was launched (circa 2007), it was identified primarily with AMT, thus some journalists still consider AMT to be the essence of vPro.

(They have also added a small asterisk to the Purism article to clarify - I'm also just reading it now so don't know if it was there before)
Amazon has yet to confirm or deny if all, or any, "Sold by Amazon" product is commingled with 3rd party FBA product. In that sense, they are not 100% safe. I really wish Amazon would take a stance here.

On the other hand, the vast majority of report of counterfeit anecdote I have seen indicated they bought from 3rd party but with FBA. So me personally I still place trust on Sold By Amazon product.

More recently I have seen product where that explicitly points out that Sold By Amazon is "authentic", which is kind of funny and sad. (energizer battery)
We have actual Maoists in the bay area - they're a tiny faction and utterly irrelevant, but they're very good at getting attention and they like to poison the atmosphere for everyone. There are no Maoist governing parties in Europe that I'm aware of, and hardly any Marxists either.
The VTAB extension is new. The documentation is a bit thin compared to the rest of SQLite. (To be clear: the documentation is good; just not fantastically awesome like the rest of SQLite.)

The main Achille's Heel of VTAB is wrapping your head around the indexing API: the basic idea is you need to tell the query planner which of a set of columns is best to work with. It is exceedingly unintuitive. This is compounded by the problem that the planner essentially refuses to do binary-search queries on more than one column of a VTAB. (Hell -- getting it to use any binary-search on any index is nearly impossible.) The result is that unless you're in a real bind, you should always translate your custom VTAB data into a reified table.

This is all compounded by the fact that the slightest misstep in the callback API will corrupt/confuse/lockup SQLite (the in-memory representation -- your data is still safe). I'm glad VTAB exists, and I know it's just a side-effect of the compression support, but goddamn it's frustrating for it to be almost be awesome...
>Social media and its consequences have been a disaster for nerds. Introverted nerds and intellectuals created the technology that enables social media to exist. That same technology is being used to exclude nerds from the internet.

WTF are you talking about? Social media has been an unqualified blessing for nerds. Practically every pastime that used to belong to nerds (video games, programming, D&D, anime, using a computer) has exploded in popularity since the dawn of the web and become far more mainstream. There is no conspiracy to exclude nerds from the internet, at all. And I see no indication of "cancel culture" having any involvement here.

Reading your past comments, you seem to be suffering from a persecution complex tied to identifying as an "introvert," and a belief that some conspiracy of "extroverts" is persecuting people like yourself. That's not happening anywhere but in your own mind. Seek help.
YMMV, but yes, with full supplies it usually takes about 3 days to deplete sugars and switch to fat.

If you're not used to keto, switching may be physiologically hard. Gradually transitioning from carbs to fat, and then or later to fasting may be easier on the body, though a prolonged hardship for the mind.

Once you get used to it, switching is a normal thing to do, though again YMMV.
The money quote:

“The arrival of a new professional sports team in a city, and the commencement of play by that team, increases flu mortality in the city. The largest effect comes from a new NHL team. A new NHL team moving into a city and starting play causes an increase in weekly influenza mortality of 0.382 per 100,000 residents per flu season compared to cities with no professional sports teams. Based on the sample means on Table 1, this result represents a 24.6% increase in weekly flu mortality per 100,000 residents or a total increase of about 20 flu deaths over a year in each treated city. A new NFL team moving into a city causes an increase in annual influenza mortality rates of 0.249 per flu season, a 17% increase, equivalent to about 13 additional flu deaths over 52 weeks. A city that becomes home to a new NBA team experiences an increase in flu mortality rates of 0.066 which is a 4.7% increase. The effect of a new team on flu mortality is smallest in MLB where the entry of a new team results in an increase in flu mortality rates of 0.059 or 5.3% increase.”
Actually hadn't heard of it. It has about half the downloads of sequelize but really nice to hear there's a popular alternative. Will check it out for the next project.
Did you read the OPs argument? It’s not that “helping people leads to helping more people” is a problem. It’s how many people can a single city (particularly one as housing constrained as SF) afford to help.

Suppose you want to help people and decide that donating 20% of your after tax salary helping people is reasonable.

Instead, offer anyone who comes to your door in need $1000. How long will you be able to keep it up?
And with serverless you get significant lock-in, are overpaying for resources, have less ability to debug when things go wrong, have basically zero flexibility and it's very difficult to have a local setup mirror your production one.

It's fine for certain use cases but you get the benefits of both worlds by just using a managed K8s service like AWS EKS.
This would be an argument for just using [:alpha:] everywhere; presumably it does the correct thing based on locale?
Vendor lock-in aside, I've found ECS to be a great alternative.
Some languages like Chinese have a large corpus of information that can be studied, and there has been a continuous effort to standardize the language. it wouldn't surprise me if it turns out to be easier than English. I would expect it would be more difficult when you're talking about languages that have regional differences in usage of words, perhaps northern Vietnamese vs. Southern Vietnamese, or the Spanish of Spain versus the Spanish of Mexico.
I doubt there's any property of human-level intelligence that's inherently unreachable by machines. The question is whether GPT-42 would actually be tremendously advanced, or whether we're close to the limit of what the architecture can produce.

The consensus among experts I've read is that known architectural limitations make the GPT-n series unlikely to scale beyond "sounds very human if you don't question it too closely". Algebra, to pick a concrete example, is something that there's reason to believe the GPT-series can't learn effectively - the output generation mechanism is fundamentally incapable of looping or recursion, which severely limits how well it can break things down into subproblems.
> Meanwhile people have difficulty filling out paper ballots, because it's terrible UX. If you want to have a nice voting system like STV or even ranked-choice, shading ovals on paper ballots is not ideal.

I am 100 for voting with machines that spit out the cannonical paper which can be hand-reviwed. The point is not the paper UX, but the paper trail.

> Sometimes it feels as though existing problems get a free pass because of tradition, but new issues (even if addressed) are scary and so the entire thing should be stopped.

As somebody who has spent weird years pushing Haskell where it wasn't requested I know the feeling exactly, OK? :). It's just an unfortunately truth that the messy unprincipled systems today happens to involve using paper, which is in fact good in principle.

I would love if we had a 3 way discourse on 1) good paper systems 2) bad current hodge-podge 3) bad purely-electronic, in order to speak truths while avoiding status quo bias.
The TH3 test harness for SQLite (https://www.sqlite.org/th3.html) supports a virtual filesystem in which we can create test database files that appear to be very large but that don't actually contain much data or use much space.

We also have a simple utility program in the SQLite source tree (https://www.sqlite.org/src/file/tool/enlargedb.c) that lets you create a massive database file using a sparse file (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file) on systems that support that kind of thing.
Whatever you make with this will be contained in a webpage. You can turn it into an app using a tool like Apache Cordova. Not the most efficient approach in terms of battery/memory/etc usage, but it works.
An Interview with an AI
I'm 100% sure NLP will do the same mistake with non-English language as face recognition did with faces of black people.

I'm taking bets.
Has it already? How can I change my logins?
It's not for everyone, but it's within the boundaries of normality.

My other response has already pointed out your apparent lack of getting the joke, but it should be noted that if your primary hangup is the fact that people were partying at a military installation, you should probably know that specific base is one important to UFO mythos and thus public imagination. There is precedence for that at multiple locations:

https://www.newmexico.org/events/summer-events/roswell-ufo-f...

https://www.travelportland.com/events/ufo-festival-mcminnvil...

Area 51, of course, is of higher security than these locations, but there's no crime to be outside of the restricted zone. Personally, I had no interest in the Storm Area 51 event but Groom Lake would make one hell of a hiking expedition. It'd be quite cool to take pictures at the gate, and try to spot black project aircraft along Route 375.

https://travelnevada.com/road-trip/extraterrestrial-highway
It might happen with a process shrink but that remains to be seen.
Supposedly it's already in the works: https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1286457590289858560
This paper specifically looks at before and after a sports team arrives, so it’s independent of the effect of cities.
That’s all and great, but as a user I simply don’t care. It’s like asking users to care about HTTP/2 or HTTP/3. Theoretically it matters, but in practice the only thing I care is that I can actually browse the web on my phone. And AMP for all it’s faults does a damn good job of making an ad infested web browsable on crappy internet connections.

Having it enforced by Google actually makes it easier to get funding by organizations since now administrators can’t simply just tell their devs to ignore standard.
No, we can't. That realization would interfere with important narratives and is not welcome.

We'll simply couple our newfound fears with our existing fears (US football brain injuries, etc.) and finally, at long last, do away with useless ableist pastimes like professional sports.

Just stay home. We'll let you know if and when your allowed leave going forward.
> I know for fargate there are some vertical scaling limitations that don't exist with kubernetes

To overcome those limitations, you can use EC2 Container Instances with ECS. And instance auto scaling can now be automated for you via ECS Capacity Providers.
If you ever happen to run into a seller that's motivated to fight your claim, you'll actually realize that Amazon is the new eBay. They now play the exact same game where they sit in the middle, giving each party time to respond, etc. and it just bounces back and forth forever. In my case I had ordered a print on white background and it arrived on a yellowish background and the seller kept fighting. It took 2 weeks and several escalations after which Amazon finally issued me a refund. Noteworthy as well that it was a "goodwill" refund, ie they didn't rule against the seller despite having ample proof in the form of screenshots of the listing and pictures.
It already does! (As long as the target supports LLVM)

https://rust-embedded.github.io/book/
>everyone knows we can prove this never happens

You're claiming extra votes are never added? That everyone knows this? Citation?

In the 2018 North Carolina 9th Congressional District election had votes added illegally, changing the outcome. The subsequent investigation threw out the fraudulent votes, the illegally elected Mark Harris stepped down, and so far about a dozen people have been charged with felonies.

"At the center of the scandal was the Republican operative Harris had employed in Bladen County, Leslie McCrae Dowless, whose operation, according to investigators, included filling out at least a thousand mail-in-ballot requests, many without voters’ knowledge, and deploying a team of friends, family members, and other associates to pose as election officials and collect them." [1]

There's even a case where in Brussels where a bit flip (often the result of a cosmic ray or soft neutron decay) flipped an election, and it was only caught since suddenly there were 4096 more votes than eligible voters.

So ignoring the possibility of fake votes added is short sighted.

Your claim "everyone knows we can prove this never happens" is demonstrably false.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-tearful-drama-of...
Most likely other services don't do this because of patents.
Where do you get the screenplays, out of curiosity?