skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> would also require google to pay them for displaying the title/subtitle of their articles. In what world is that fair or balancing out the relationship?

This is not what the legislation is about. This is about Google's practice of excerpting the actual content of the articles and putting it at the top of the page. Google is algorithmically republishing copyrighted content from these news orgs and hoping that surrounding it in quotes is enough to protect them.
Centrally planned economies don’t really factor such things in. Extract one resource at a loss to “book” a gain elsewhere.

So they probably think net they are profiting from this. But then, centrally planned economies are not efficient at decision-making...
You've got it exactly backwards!

Lyrics are copyrighted. Google is the serf here, renting lyrics from musixmatch.
> It has literally re-programmed my mind

How so? What’s different? I’ve never been able to get a clear explanation of the benefit of meditation.
> A relevant headline is "40% of A-level results were downgraded from teachers' predictions." - however, that seems normal and expected to me; do we have the equivalent numbers from last year, comparing the teacher's prodictions with the actual exam results?

It's about 39%. The problem is that in a normal year, everyone comes out an exam with a rough sense of how they've done. If you come out feeling like you bombed it then seeing your B become a C is not going to be a surprise.

The issue is that "predicted grades" are not expectation values in a statistical sense, if they were then teachers would be pretty consistently doing a bad job of forecasting them.

A predicted grade is based on an assessment of ability: "What do I think little Johnny is capable of when he takes his exam in however months time". Now in theory, results can be both better and worse than that prediction. In practice, the fact that the scale is closed ended (and many more are near the top than the bottom) means that it is more common for the variability of exam performance to lead to slightly worse performance. In other words, more pupils underperform their ability based prediction on exam day than outperform it.

So there is nothing inherently wrong with reducing grades from the centre assessed grades, many newspaper headlines are treating this like the CAG is the "real" grade that is somehow being taken away.

If you look at this table: https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1293979033458417668/photo/1 you can see that the overall grade distribution produced by the model for this year is similar to that for previous years. Not surprising since that is by design.

The problem here is that Ofqual is treating grade inflation like it's the worth possible thing that could happen and has essentially sacrificed individual fairness on the altar of aggregate consistency.
Is there some kind of subsidy for squid maybe?
There is no mentioning of NFC, not here, not there? I like NFC for payments and things?
oi, I'm not extinct, it's just many embedded programmers, especially bare metal programmers, tend to hang out in very different places, if they hang out anywhere on the net at all.
My grandparents live in Groningen (The Netherlands) near the border with Germany and saying 'moi' to everyone you meet is one of the highlights when I visit the village they live in.

PS: I think I visited this wikipedia article earlier this week, but I cannot figure out why, very coincidental, what prompted you to post this?
Oh please. I'm gay, and this comment is ridiculous. You mean gay men enjoy being in bars where there are other people who they are sexually attracted to and who could be sexually attracted to them. Which is exactly the parent commenter's point. It's obvious the parent commenter is speaking about things from his own perspective, which doesn't make it some sort of "heteronormative" crime, it just means he's straight.
It still looks free:

https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-devel

That's licensed under GPLv2, available for download without any kind of key/password, and includes build instructions. The poster on mac could even use homebrew to install it with one command.

And they even include instructions for mirroring the signatures here:

https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-faq/blob/master/additi...

What part of it requires payment?
Maybe if the exploit is actually leveraged to cause damages. Outside of that, you think they should get fined because the possibility for exploit is there?

Edit: missing clarity - I think fines are appropriate when/if damage occurs, my reply was based on if notification happens without actively being exploited.
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I just want to add that for some people the 'freak out' is psychosis, or other serious mental condition that needs immediate treatment.

There are many people who come into meditation to fix something because they have a sense that something is going wrong with them. Meditation has become very popular and there is strong incentive to avoid mentioning possible negatives. Then you just ship out damaged people from the back door and make them think it was their fault.

Meditation if practised as designed brings also negative mental states as part of the process. It's not just feel good hum-hum. People should seek professional mental help if they need and not to try some intensive meditation retreats that drive them into the walls.

I go to long meditation retreats regularly, but I don't recommend them to anyone. It's not the same for everyone. It can seriously harm some people.
Looking at the map, reading the news, reading history books.
Basically summing up 2 and 2 together.
The journalists doing good work would be almost entirely excluded by this law.

This money would go to an organisation which largely peddles outrage and division.
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I still leverage templates and autocomplete from my IDE while using a steno machine.

My thoughts on going down to one-symbol-per-chord:

- Due to the small steno layout, you don't need to stretch your hands to far symbols on the keyboard.
- You're not limited to what's on the keyboard. Symbols like ÷ and © and any emoji are now first-class citizens.
- There are cases where you get multiple symbols per chord. For example, calling a function `()` is one chord. Writing an arrow like `=>` is also one chord.

Overall, I'd say that coding speed doesn't really change as typing fast is not what makes coding fast.

There are some real advantages that I find difficult to quantify, though. I switch between stenography and typing for both coding and writing depending on whether I'm at my desk and I find it hard to express clearly why coding in stenography feels natural and nice. I suppose: there's a certain fluidity when you break things down into semantic words rather than simply symbols.

Hope that helps!
Is the "omnibox" a big problem for news? I mostly see it for "facts" as opposed to recent events. But yes, it would be good to prevent that. However it seems like this isn't the primary focus of the legislation?

I think it would be very interesting to have a copyright infringement case on the information pulled into the answer boxes, but I think that is a separate problem.
The whole affair seem to thoroughly politicized. The results are presented as if "grievance studies" should be particularly prone to publishing hoax papers, but there is no control used as far as I can tell, so who knows if other studies or disciplines or better or worse? Medicine certainly also seems to be vulnerable. Maybe the whole of academia and research has a problem with peer review and bad-quality journals?

Science is different from satire. It is great satire to get a passage from Mein Kampf accepted by a feminist journal - but is it valid scientific research?
I don't know why this gets a
so downvoted, it's correct. There was/is a huge pressure made by French and German media owners.
Oh, I didn't answer the how - I had been to Japan a lot, so I already had friends here. When I made the move permanent, I had cofounded a company with a few friends, piloted doing remote work from here a couple times before actually moving to convince the team that it can work. Once we were all onboard with it, I crashed at my friend's apartment while going apartment hunting with my Japanese then-girlfriend (now-wife). When I first arrived permanently I was on a tourist visa waiver, but then switched to a student visa studying Japanese (since I was planning to anyway). It was 6 months of full time school + full time job which was exhausting, but after we got married then I switched to a spouse visa and life calmed down since.

I don't know what your profession or situation is, but if you can line up a job you can pretty easily get a work visa (it's much less binding than US work visas). Japanese corporations are known to have pretty brutal work culture so that's something you ought to be aware of when searching, if you seriously pursue it. Hope it's interesting food for thought :)
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You are ignoring that whether the snippets are shown is already entirely up to the news orgs. In fact I think they're the ones that decide what's in the snippets
Note: I'm not a psychologist/psychiatrist. Afaik this is not unique for meditation, initially therapy sometimes has to focus a lot on "opening up", getting a person to talk and break down internal barriers, or repressed feelings. This leaves the person worse off for a while until the therapy can leave them better in the long term by dealing with these issues and emotions instead of just pushing them away.

I can imagine mediation and reflection can help with the opening up part, but some people really need a medical therapist to help them properly, so the warning seems sane.

It's like limping along on a badly healed broken leg. A doctor might have to break it again which will make it worse, but allow it to heal properly with good medical attention.
Having an emotional breakdown is normal if you've been repressing and become overwhelmed.

It can be re-traumatizing if it happens in an unfavorable time/place, and I'm not saying it's even necessary for healing.

But, it's not a "side-effect" of meditation, and it suggests that meditation does exactly what it says on the tin. It's confronting thoughts and feelings that you find dangerous enough to suppress. These are the things causing neuroses and unhealthy behavior patterns in your daily life. Dealing with them isn't always going to be enjoyable or even safe.

So, similarly to taking psychedelics: manage your dosage, and if you want to go deep make sure you're somewhere that you feel safe and supported.
> but men like to hang out with a good mix of women -for the company, not just the sex

I mean, it is about the sex. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to themselves. The sexual tension and the real, if very slight, possibility of sex happening has to be there. Why do rock climbers insist on climbing actual walls? The very real possibility of death has to be there, otherwise it's just not worth it. You might as well have stayed at home and masturbated.
> I was under the impression that the Australian proposition does not allow Google to treat foreign sites differently. Hence, if they carry foreign news they must carry Australian sites

Why, if they want to carry news from other countries, should they also have to carry Australian news?

Maybe they should just string match all their news results to Australian news so nothing gets through, even if they appear on third party sites (duplicate detection, they had it for years on regular search).
> So the bottom of the linked article says 2016, which made me immediately think 'old!'

I yearn for the day when the industry reaches a state of reliability where we see "old" as a good thing, i.e. "this problem was solved ages ago!", rather than it seeming out-of-date.

Probably not in my lifetime!
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Can confirm from personal experience. Even a lot of vipassana meditation by itself can send you into psychotic states when you're not ready for all the insight yet. I came very close to psychosis once, experienced ego death, broke down mentally and had to spend 2 months in a depression ward. Cannot recommend.

On the other hand, I met my now-wife in the depression ward, which in the "active" phase right before my admission I visualized and wished for quite often.

I don't regret the 2-3 months of active ego dissolution phase, life has never been more beautiful and strangely peaceful and jarring at the same time.

However, I did lose my job, my apartment and almost permanently lost my sanity as well, but now in hindsight it looks like it was all for the better.

Nevertheless I don't think you should force something like this (like I very much did), the consequences to internal and external reality can be absolutely dramatic and I've preferred to live in peaceful ignorance since then... save for the short moments of.. remembering. Everything and nothing at once.
See also the author's GitHub page (linked from the Hackaday article): https://github.com/ttsiodras/3D-on-a-ZX-Spectrum-48K

Perhaps this will sink to the bottom of the submit queue, but I enjoyed reading about his project.
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I hadn't figured out why my Amazon notifications no longer include details; this theory makes a lot of sense.

Yet another step down the road of user-hostility. Or perhaps 'serf-hostility': in 2020 we are digital serfs.
I expect that would be too difficult to cut up
Commercial scale cell-cultured meat can't arrive soon enough.
> and the stick ...

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I actually purchased GoBe Productive 2 for BeOS R5, and version 3 for Windows a couple of years later. It was my default office app for most of the decade. It’s a pity that the source is lost, because it was a nicer app than StarOffice at the time (IMHO) and it might have survived in an open source format.
Sure you can. The so-called "virtual machines" have existed for a while now. :)
There are probably slightly more ethical ways of designing that study...
Looks like Google has now started showing a popup [0] in Australia which links to the open letter [1].

[0] https://i.imgur.com/A3IPkQy.png

[1] https://about.google/intl/ALL_au/google-in-australia/an-open...
Thanks for clarifying. Part of the reason why training a new model from scratch is so difficult is the amount of dataset-specific tweaking and fine-tuning that goes on and that is rarely discussed in publications. For example, papers willt describe the architecture of a system but will rarely go into much detail about how a particular component was selected over another (why this cost function over the other etc). This fine-tuning is essential to achieving state-of-the-art results and without it you can expect to produce a model that is simply not the same as the original. Certainly in terms of performance metrics.

Basically retraining the same system on a different dataset is a bit like entering the same river in two points in time. Yes, in theory it's "the same" system and only the dataset chnges. In practice, it takes so much architectural tweaking and fine-tuning that it's a different system and you've done almost all the work from scratch. This also is part and parcel of why so much fanfare surrounds the publication of a new model. Because it's really, really hard to train a new model on a new dataset (assuming one wants to get state of the art results).
They would have been better off politically just giving them all their predicted grades and letting the universities sort out the mess. I think that's a bit cowardly but it would have taken the heat off.

Concerns over long-term grade inflation are totally overblown anyway since the majority of these exam results get used that year or the next for university admission and only for that. What does it matter whether my grades from 20 years ago are comparable with grades now? It's not like we'd be competing for the same university places.

The only problem with accepting the CAGs is that some centres will have been laxer with them but that could easily have been sorted by using similar techniques to the ones they used here to look for way out-there schools that clearly aren't taking the process seriously.
I've found sleep hygiene is a big part of it for me. If I'm on a screen all day and night, right up until bed, I will need 8-9 hours to feel well rested. If I'm screen-free for 2-3 hours before bed, after a night or two I am as rested on 7 hours. And this maintains for as long as I'm good about being screen-free (Kindle included but that's just me perhaps, or psychosomatic maybe). Unfortunately it's not always possible to be away from all screens for that long at the right time, and it seems pretty easy to mess it up for several days with one or two slip ups.
> On the other hand... why not?

You must be unfamiliar with NewsCorp. This is the cesspool that spawned Fox News, Sky News, and The Sun. That hacked the phones of journalists, celebrities, and royalty just to get a scoop. That routinely and as a core function of business interferes in democratic process. That effectively pioneered fake news, and has singlehandedly destroyed the credibility of the entire media industry.

Why not? Hopefully because you give a single fuck about the rule of law.
An interesting counterpoint I came across recently :https://bshistorian.wordpress.com/2020/08/01/plague-doctors-...

Long story short: Most plague doctors did not dress like this. The beak masks may have existed, but the usual plague doctor headgear was something that wouldn't go over nearly so well at a cosplay meeting.
Yeah, I agree and I don’t understand the parent comment. As far as I know meditation is about NOT ruminating on thoughts, so a happy person surely shouldn’t become depressed by doing it. Sure, for most people, being told to sit in silence and reflect will make them unhappy. What the heck is the benefit of that? A lot of the work I do with CBT is to NOT reflect and ruminate and think about every aspect of my life and every decision I make. It works. I’m happier. Why would I want to get unhappy again because someone tells me it’s good for me? If that is the ‘benefit’ of meditation, I’ll pass!
What people don't realize is that modern, high-level languages and abstractions give you much more than just speed of development.

If you use a garbage collector, you don't have to do manual memory management, which is amazing for security. You also don't need to worry about buffer overflows and weird pointer exploits.

If you use web tech, you get a lot of important stuff, like sandboxing, handling of esoteric keyboards, RTL languages and screen reader accessibility almost for free. If you use some extremely fast, small and lightweight GUI framework, you will probably not implement those, as they seem boring, and who needs that anyways.

If you go the handcrafted, lightweight and fast route, you're sacrificing a lot of features, possibly without even being aware of what you lose until it's too late.

I will happily shelve a few more bucks for RAM and wait a few more seconds to get an accessible, secure Messenger, instead of one that is going to steal my bank details the moment some stranger sends me a malicious GIF.
IIRC things like accessing or assigning dict values were not atomic and could be interrupted. Sure you could code up the same kind of pattern in C but you could also code up a lot of patterns that don’t have this problem.
>Pareidolia (/pærɪˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer, such as seeing shapes in clouds, seeing faces in inanimate objects or abstract patterns, or hearing hidden messages in music.

Pareidolia can be considered a subcategory of apophenia.

Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the Man in the Moon, the Moon rabbit, and other lunar pareidolia.

The concept of pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing indistinct voices in random noise such as that produced by air conditioners or fans.

Pareidolia was at one time considered a symptom of human psychosis, but it is now seen as a normal human tendency.

Pareidolia is not confined to humans.

Scientists have for years taught computers to use visual clues to "see" faces and other images.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Curious, just last week I shot one of the last Kodak Aerochrome rolls available in Germany. This was particilarilly challenging because it was a 40 mm sheet glued onto the 120 roll film and I used a Twin Reflex Camera, which I had to use sideways to get a panorama format with that stripe. This means the image in the viewfinder was not only cropped and mirrored, but also upside down. This made the little adjustments to the camera position and angle one usually makes automatically a particular kind of brainfuck.

I actually quite like TLRs with their mirrored viewfinders, as it forces you to view the image a little bit more abstractly which gives better results (unless you have to react quickly etc).
I wonder about those "controlled conditions"... I know its anecdotical evidence, but this really contradicts everything I have ever seen after years ans years of interacting with immigrant families (and being a immigrant myself). Kids are usually perfectly fluent after a couple of years of school while parents are still struggling, even if they are also totally immersed. It really surprises me this is considered a "myth".
> Having money to hire lobbyists lets people influence legislation to their benefit.

Sure, but ultimately the legislators are accountable to the voters, not the lobbyists. Most voters elect the candidate they think is most likely to represent their interests. Sometimes lobbyists influence legislators in ways that align with the interests of the legislator’s constituents, which is a feature and not a bug. When lobbyists influence legislators in ways that contradict with the interests of the legislator’s constituents, the incumbent is unseated — this isn’t uncommon.

> Big businesses can demand larger tax breaks by playing cities off each other

1. Competition among cities is what allows us to get the lowest possible tax for the highest amount of benefit. This doesn’t just happen with businesses, this also happens with individual taxpayers. This is why cities and states hesitate to raise taxes lest their citizens flee to lower tax states. Switzerland operates in the same way, where Cantons compete with one another. The net result is that the Swiss enjoy some of the lowest tax rates in the developed world, while maintaining one of the highest standards of living. This downward pressure on tax increases is a feature, not a bug.

2. Your own example is a bit of a contradiction, because Amazon ultimately failed to receive the tax break it wanted, since Queens/NYC “prevailed”
Not everything negative about something you enjoy immediately has to have some kind of scheme or conspiracy behind it.
Mine can be off as much as 15 deg F. In the shade it is pretty good. Direct sunlight for a few hours? Oh I am sure my bumper is that temp...
Double blind so that neither the thrower of recipients of said cocktail doesn't know wether it is real or placebo? It's the only way to know if they are panicking because of a bottle or a fireball...
> What about criminal liability?

You are pointing at a huge elephant in the room. When it comes to software, companies have incredible leeway.

A company can develop some very popular software and earn billions while also inserting malware or simply leaving vulnerabilities unpatched without any repercussion.

It is even legal to discover vulnerabilities in your own software and sell them (anonymously) on the 0-day market.
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All of what you said might be true and it could still be the best book on why sleep is important.