skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Idris2 they are quite practical already; it is not trivial (to say it lightly) to add them to mainstream languages. Even in a not much used research language, like Idris, it already breaks quite a lot of backward compatibility.
What is the difference between an objectively happy life and an objectively miserable life?
What men can do to help women enter the cybersecurity field
Database Testing with Great Expectations
I guess "less than one per cent" is a lot more than you implied in your original post, and many of the people most likely to be in that less than one percent are likely to be part of this audience here.

It's true that it's probably not significantly profitable to worry to much about that group, but saying "I can confidently assure you that you would not prefer" is not a valid use of a statistic of "less than one percent have a better experience".
Problem is, once you get to a certain size, it's almost impossible to just "stay out of the politics" - because other companies won't stay out of it. The whole reason this bill exists is because another American multinational company that pays no tax in Australia and owns 70% of the readership of Australian news media is very effective in its politics. And they didn't do it by telling the public to ask for it - they have close ties with politicians, they give favourable coverage, they take all the Government's leaks and publish anonymously, they will minimise stories the Government doesn't want published...
Maybe the three-letter agency has a guy inside to click "Ok" to the pop-up.
Location: New York

Remote: Yes (only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C#, VB, HTML, Javascript, Angular, CSS, PHP (but willing to learn anything, fast learner and love the challenge of learning a new tech or language)

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZsFsgLNjZxeLoQhzlzy_BYPWG9C...

Email: lindsey.tibbitts@gmail.com
Elastic Sheet-Defined Functions: Generalising to Variable-Size Input Arrays
Nice overview of Yjs. I went down a bit of a CRDT rabbit hole a few months ago before ultimately deciding against using it in a project. Very interesting and fun stuff though, I keep a close eye on these projects. I was surprised not to see automerge mentioned but it does show up in the benchmarks. They're (automerge team) working on a major rewrite of some internal data structures that will eventually improve performance quite a lot, it also has a Rust and a Swift port.
Named Tensors
They found that about 8 per cent
people who try meditation experience
an unwanted effect

What does that even mean?

That 8 percent of people who try meditation experience something "unwanted" within a certain time afterwards?

Is that different from a control group? Which control group? When you look at 100 random people people with the same situation and instead of letting them meditate let them go for a walk instead - what percentage will experience something unwanted?

We would need to look into the study to figure out if it has more info.

But the article seems to provide no link to the study. No DOI, no nothing.

Based on the name "Miguel Farias" mentioned in the article, it might be doi 10.1192/pb.bp.116.053686 from 2016:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353526/
These are quite some assumptions. Low chemical reactivity could limit consequences, but it is speculation to say there aren't any.

And those micro-petrochemicals probably weren't really a health benefit either. Why so dismissive of this?

Everyone a bit interested knew that using a pet bottle introduces plastic into your body, but don't think using glass bodies has protected you from absorbing plastics.
There are a lot of unconditional offers these days, which means that the university will not look at actual A levels' results at all.

Edit:

"38% of applicants (97,045 applicants) received at least one offer with an unconditional component in 2019, increasing from 34% (87,540 applicants) in 2018, and continuing the year-on-year growth in offers with an unconditional component since 2013." [1]

This year at least one Oxford College has already decided to honour all offers without looking at actual A-Level results , whereby effectively turning all offers into unconditional offers [1]. Granted, this is not a normal year.

Let's be honest, though, if you got an offer from Oxbridge you're very good so they're not exactly taking a risk and it gets them brownie points.

[1] (PDF) https://www.ucas.com/file/250931/download?token=R8Nn7uoI#:~:....

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/15/a-levels-r...
> The model does not reduce to an equation that lets us then throw away the model. You have to run the simulation to see what emerges.

This is true of simulation in general, not just data-drive models. E.g., a lot of applied mathematics uses PDE models that don't have closed-form solutions and so you just run a ton of simulations sweeping a parameter space.

> For example, a computer model of the movement of people within a confined space who are fleeing from a threat--they are in a panic--shows that putting a column about one meter in front of an exit door, slightly to either side, actually increases the flow of people out the door.

The crux of this type of science is that you don't know whether the computer simulations are telling you anything about reality. You just have to run real-world experiments and see what happens. And even if the experiment turns out to work, you still don't know for sure that your model was reasonable.
People have been using wet plate photography for years. Others have started using dry plates, and someone is selling them commercially.

Then there is a community working on the above and a few working on true roll film.

Probably the best site for making your own materials is http://thelightfarm.com, good discussions about all films commercial or homemade at http://apug.org
> I wonder if eg wordpress, or ghost, would be able to create a situation for their hosted blogs in which authors were paid for their content by virtue of the organisation itself having the minimum level of revenue.

That would open up a whole other can of worms in terms of liability.
Given how easily NZ politicians have caved to US corporations in the past (Hobbit Law, S92A etc) I'm not holding my breath.
There are still plenty of muds running, largely unscathed by the contemporary internet. The communities shrunk a bit when wow came out.
http://www.topmudsites.com/
Telework, as slow as it has been for adoption, has proven a 100% viable possibility for the majority of white collar careers, specifically tech careers, in this pandemic.
> In another section the draft legislation requires Facebook / Google to notify the news organisation of changes to their page rank / feed algorithm, and also provide advice on how to mitigate the effects of those changes.

Interesting.

On the one hand working in software the idea of having communicate changes to an algorithm like this to 3rd parties gives me nightmares, and opens the door to regulation of the algorithms design.

On the other hand, given Facebook and Google's monopoly positions, why not? They're able to make of break businesses overnight by changing the stream of traffic, and there's basically no real competitors. Perhaps a weak analogy but if your local government was building a motorway that would bypass your town high street, effectively wiping out 90%+ of customers to your local shop, they would inform you months or years ahead so you have at least a chance to change your business strategy or close shop.
Neither our media nor our tech giants are local, Australian-owned and regulated. There are some local media (Channel 9 and Channel 7) but most of it is Murdoch.
Mac Transition to Apple Silicon
If you are stressed out from your job and turn to some capitalism mindfullness sponsered by Google(TM) with the (of course) unstated goal to have you functioning again I'm not surprised.

Meditation can be a delicate thing that has positive great effects if applied correctly but it's also a tool for sects since forever.

I really like the vipassana medition approach but the whole ideology around it and the things they'll tell you on the retreat turned me off.

Even if you do it for yourself without any objective target it can get worse as you may realize it's actually like in your surpressed fears.

Be careful what you subscribe to.
Is this what Google is complaining about, changing laws?
The word "escape" might be written "ES KAIP". I brief it as
"SKPAIP".

For the keyboard shortcut, I use "FEFK" which is default in the Plover dictionary.
Haven't thought about AppleWorks in a long time. I followed a pretty common path for the time. AppleWorks in high school. Went to college, where everyone used WordPerfect combined with Lotus 1-2-3 or Quattro Pro. Then MS Office came bundled with Windows so that was what everyone used, in spite of Excel being a flaming pile of [...].
Every major city likes to think their bar and restaurant scene is special and uniquely great.

They ain't.
Let's defund them some more, that'll show 'em.
how many problems in computing are parsing problems ?
> Ostensibly it's human-readable, but because it's generated by Xcode and filled with inscrutable UUIDs, people treat it like a binary file

Inscrutable? It seems like a textual dump of in-memory project structure using UUIDs to represent pointers and links (graph). Yeah, it's a chore to follow manually, but even to me, who has seen this format for the first time ever, it looks rather straightforward. Hasn't anyone written a utility "explorer" of these files?
tl;dr
8 hours is a common standard, but you probably need a different amount.
OpenBSD is great. Except for Theo.

If you question Theo on anything, even something reasonable, you will incur his wrath, and that of his henchmen (the clique of project devs that surround him).

Case in point is the whole "Funding our Electricity" thing:
(a) Theo insists on keeping their test lab in his own house
(b) Theo insists on supporting obscure archaic architectures
(c) Theo claims on list to have incurred 20,000 dollars of electricity that year
(d) Theo refuses to answer reasonable questions, such as cost breakdown, why the equipment can't be moved elsewhere, why the insistent on obscure architectures. Or when he does answer its essentially "my way or the highway".

OpenBSD is great, no doubt about that. But the whole Theo & friends clique needs to change.
Raptor sells power9 servers. You can buy one to tinker with for ~$2k. Presumably, they will sell power 10 too.
I need this. Imagine the power of the appearance of a smoldering beak, and the stick - to prevent those people who ignore isolation from approaching! Bow to the Plague Doctors of 17th century.
I don't really see an issue for manufacturers there. We have the same regulatory issue with Wi-Fi power which will adjust transmission power differently based on the country it's sold in. The phone could easily enable to disable a feature depending on where it is. Remember Bolivia dBm limits ? :)

Regarding your German link. It's about tampering with evidence which I suppose means it's about changing the IMEI after a crime to hide yourself. I suppose that would be illegal everywhere?

Regarding your UK example, the law in question (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/31/section/1) mentions circumstances and gives exceptions:

" But a person does not commit an offence under this section if—

(a)he is the manufacturer of the device, or

(b)he does the act mentioned in subsection (1) with the written consent of the manufacturer of the device.
"

So I guess it's okay in the UK if the manufacturer allows it and is okay with it?

But of course I'm not trying to promote this feature for illegal use but mostly to hinder "inescapable" tracking from Advertisers , Mobile Operators, ISPs, Phone Manufacturers and ...
Demo Zoo: Code as Data
Projected growth of Tiger Mosquito range in northeastern US (2013)
Headline could be "Indian ruling party promote genocide"
> But the pretense is bizarre - that google has to pay Murdoch because it steals his content.

That's not exactly the pretext. The Australian regulation is being proposed under the office of competition; it's effectively a proposed anti-trust regulation.

It's not alleging that Google is engaging in some sort of copyright infringement or "theft" of proprietary News Corp property, but rather that it's abusing its market position.

From some of the terms of the proposed law (namely information regarding treatment of paywalls and coverage of news-adjacent content like sports), I think that one claim to unfairness is "Google makes it hard for News Corp to have a profitable paywall because it directs people to other sources." That's not particularly convincing to me, but I'm not an Australian regulator.
The good news is the shit hole flee crew will bring their voting habits with them and turn the next place into a shit hole too! w00t!
This response does not respond to the claims made in the open letter. The bill as drafted is pure corporate rent-seeking, and appears to serve no genuine public good.
All of them. The hard part is getting the grammar right.

;-)
Tiger Woods himself went through something similar - he got a new coach to up his game, and at first, his results got way worse, but then it really paid off for him.
What are they doing with all that squid? If the market price of the squid doesn't cover the cost of extraction, then that must mean there isn't much demand for the product.
For temperature you want IR protection.
You will not be on the main chain if the modified version changes some consensus rule. That's called hard-fork. Look at the segwit2x debate to see how this worked in real world.

If a modified version doesn't follow the same rules, it will never finish the initial sync.

And you can still sync with very old clients. Most of the work on the bitcoin client is optimizing validation. Consensus rules are rarely touched.
>usually has positive effects in the long run

Yeah, citation needed for that. Because "people often have meltdowns and need professional therapy" isn't really encouraging.
Plenty of people that absolutely love SF and also have zero interest in living there. The nature and beauty isn’t worth the other downsides to many (and some of us already get there regularly for work, at least pre-covid)
> they have been decent custodians of their users data.

I very strongly disagree. I will explain below, but first want to comment on:

> but they behave much better than the Australian government

Yes, sure, I agree. But this is a function of impact, to me. A government has much greater ability to negatively impact me than a corporation does, in that a government can outright decide to murder or imprison me, while it would take much greater effort for a corporation to do so.

So, yes, of course I trust Google more than I do any government.

But, with that said, as far as companies having my data go, Google is exactly the company I don't want to have my data. Here's why:

Why do we care if any company has our data? I think (at least for me, personally), two reasons immediately spring to mind: the data could leak to criminals who will use it to try and defraud or blackmail me, and the company might sell my data.

But why do I care if companies sell my data? If its just those two reasons, then it really just boils down to increasing the risk of hacks/leaks, but that doesn't sound like the complete picture to me. No, I also care about a company itself directly misusing my data, not just selling it to someone else (why would they want it?). So we need to define what we mean by "misusing".

For me, it means using the data against me, which, in the case of companies, typically means using it to psychologically trick me into giving them money. This is exactly the business Google is in. Their bread and butter is in figuring out ways of making me click on adverts in order to spend money on something I wouldn't otherwise have (or would have bought elsewhere). Google's entire business is built around the very reason I don't want companies to have or sell my data!

Of course Google tries to put a positive spin on it, like they are only trying to show me the most relevant things based on my interests, in order to tell me about things I didn't know about but want to know about. I don't buy it for a minute. As long as Google show me adverts for (or even have them on their platform) outright scams[1], malware or exploitative garbage like Raid Shadow Legends, I cannot believe their motives are anything but to do whatever makes consumers pay their clients money (so that they in turn keep spending money on Google). If that happens to match up with something that benefits the consumer, great, but if it also happens to be detrimental to consumers, Google doesn't care. The very fact that they willfully keep serving adverts (and don't have a way to report them, certainly don't act on reports) for actual blatant SCAMS and fraud, malware and exploitative content is proof of this.

So, no, Google have not been decent custodians of their users data, they are the very company we want to protect our data from in the first place. The fact that there are worse actors does not change that.

[1] Recent HN post about this very subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24175924
Absolutely not (yet).
This is no different than using alcohol, drugs, etc.

AKA Workaholic. Just another way to distract oneself from the existential dread.
It may be doomed to fail, but it might be useful until it’s failed by something better. And that may be a long time.
> We badly need some sort of industrial fish farming at a large scale.

Even if we invented it, PRC would most likely not use it.

> In a somewhat "positive" side effect of what they're doing, traditional Chinese medicine will probably go extinct together will all the fish and animal species they will wipe off the face of the Earth...

Unfortunately, this probably only happens when everything more exotic than common farm animals has been eaten to extinction.
Yes, especially in local elections, where participation is often ridiculously low, the electorate skews heavily toward long time, older residents, and more on the homeowner than the renter front. So the incentives are clear against new developments.

Edit: Thanks for supporting housing even against your financial interests. I’m on the same boat (across the bay). In my case I just want to live somewhere walkable without breaking the bank.
Meh. My grandma loved babies. Each and every one of them was an “it.” “What is it’s name?” “How old is it?”
I accuse YOU, jimmySixDOF!! That name gave you away - it's obviously autogenerated. And using “u” for “you” in an otherwise perfect post, just the kind of mistake a memory-free algorithm would make. UNMASK THE DEVIANT!
The reason for the change for more compact dicts. Thus the fact that it also preserved insertion order was a happy accident with no additional cost; what I called "free".
Samsung fabbed this chip
The "worse results" probably stem from the part of the law about changes in pagerank algorithms: If search engines are required to notify about changes in algorithm and provide mitigations for those changes, the easiest way to provide this would be: Keep the algorithm as it is, never change it again (for Australia) and accept the degradation that will result from that.
Yes a good point.

It's also worth remembering Foxtel demanded it get paid to retransmit ABC and SBS content, which was reduced to some lesser, unknown figure last year [1].

Apparently content is worthless unless it is privately funded.

[1] https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/foxtel-and...
This website appears to be infested with ads that take over Safari on iOS, requiring closing the tab.
>Why didn't Ofqual find some people who understood how stats work, and and ask them for advice?

A very substantial number of the people who work at Ofqual are statisticians of course, it just seems that they have made some serious mistakes.

I don't understand why they couldn't have published at least the algorithm for peer review and discussion months ago. These issues could have been resolved with plenty of time left before results had to be out.

Another problem with this algorithm is that every year, a certain number of exam takers just fuck it up on an epic scale. They didn't get any sleep, they get a question that completely flummoxes them, whatever. So the distribution of grades, even at a good school with a pretty good intake, will have some very low grades on them. A big school will have a U or so. Now come to this year - noone had the opportunity to mess up their actual exam so some poor probably-C, B-on-a-good-day kid has to be stuffed into the "U" to make the distribution fit. Purely on the basis that the big school they went to usually has at least one. The difference is, if you fuck the exam up, you come out knowing that! So when you get your U, you know how it happened. This year someone has had it assigned to them without actually screwing up the exam which seems rather harsh.
>Have you ruled out alcohol? I’ve heard drinking at night can cause that.

For the over whelming majority of homo-sapiens alcohol tends to increase, not decrease, the propensity to sleep for many hours. Sure there's edge cases but they're rare enough and hard enough to differentiate from other problems that nobody should be trying to diagnose those over the internet.
What month and year ?
> Sit them down and let them think on it, and they just might realize how empty their lives are and how little control they have over their situation.

As far as I'm aware, most meditation and mindful practices are descendent of Theravada buddhist discipline, which is not so much about rumination, but observing, and not reacting to one's thoughts and sensation, as well as the understanding that these thoughts and sensations will come to pass.

So say, if you found yourself in a cycle of self-pitying rumination, with enough practice you would hopefully become aware of the arising of thought, and learn to not let it affect you, and allow it to pass. Such practice is difficult, and often dispiriting. Proper guidance by an expert is definitely encouraged, and mitigates these adverse outcomes.
It no longer meets the specifications, that is correct, but expiry imparts its own unique qualities, which reflect the history of its storage and treatment - and that is often quite an attractive trait in film, which retains its mystery until developed :)
From my point of view there are 2 possible ways:

- we simply acknowledge we don't understand something enough and keep looking into it until we do. I mean everything we now understand (at an acceptable level by our standards) has gone through an intermediary phase - see alchemy for example.

- we declare some things (prematurely?) as forever escaping our grasp and accept we may never have a simple model of them.

What bothers me is the 3rd way:

- we don't know why but the computer model gave this result so let's go ahead with putting it into production. We make money, the user/consumer may have a nice experience or die, fingers crossed.
I don't quite understand what you mean. Are you saying that the Chinese situation, where the government is the entity that decides on access to the news, is a good one?

I think it's vitally important that press can exist and publish completely independently from the government. Yes, that does mean there need to be laws protecting the press from censorship and subtler forms of manipulation. But this particular piece of regulation looks like it's going to hurt access to the press by forcing Google News out of the country.

Furthermore, it sounds like only large news corporations can get money from this, which makes me wonder what that means for independent journalists and small news publications.

(Admittedly fake news is a big problem, but so is a government deciding what is true and what is false.)