skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another approach that we have been exploring with Terraform is to treat the machine configuration as resources[1]. It works pretty well when most of the system is vanilla with a few additions to it (like installing Docker).

[1]: https://github.com/numtide/terraform-provider-linuxbox
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk
In theory, yes. In legal practice, however, no...no it doesn't.
It's very frustrating that it's a blanket attitude that doesn't respond to context. There are vanishingly few people in the United States for whom a fixed frontier mindset makes sense, yet many people cling to frontier logic even when they live and spend the vast majority of their time in cities and towns that have modern amenities and professional police, fire, and EMS services. If people aren't flexible enough to adapt their thinking to whatever situation they're in, then we would be so much better off with a fixed, uniform urban mindset than a frontier one. But I think many people's idea of an alternative "urban mindset" is a caricature of effete helplessness, like the Eloi in the Time Machine (or worse and more racist images.)
the vast and dangerous interior of the continent

Sounds romantic but is it the truth? I understand that immigration was spearheaded by entrepreneurs who published guides to the new land and advertised in the homeland. You can see some of the spirit in foreign graduate students - they follow recommendations and usually have a very good idea what they are getting themselves into.
I think you need to be familiar with the songs' content in order to tell all these vocalists apart. If instead each of the top 5 male and female pop singers of today were to sing each others' songs, I challenge anyone to tell them apart.

And I don't think it's an artifact of being old. It's more about how much pop production homogenizes these voices into one "ISO Standard Voice." Back in the nineties, I couldn't tell all the various grunge singers apart without having pre-knowledge of the songs. If you had Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and Alice In Chains sing random songs, I wouldn't have been able to easily tell them apart either.
I don't think the problem with Belarus is the lack of these but rather of external forces. Russia thinks that Belarus belongs to its control; and a democratic system will most certainly be US-friendly.

This is hardly a citizen revolt against dictatorship and is one of the several proxy-war these two guys (US/Russia) are playing worldwide.
Sure, but this is not any more expensive than any other versioning scheme you might be thinking of. Consider also that they got 19+ years out of v1, and that there is no reason to believe SHA2 will be broken faster than SHA1.
International Justice Mission [1] and Thorn [2] are tackling child trafficking, sex trafficking, and modern-day slavery successfully (IJM internationally, Thorn in the US).

[1] https://www.ijm.org
[2] https://www.thorn.org
Who among Bytedance and a US social media company is more likely to handover user data to their respective government?
Are you logged in? "Coincidentally" Twitter links fail to load
for me in at least 50% of the time when I'm not logged in, at
least the first time.
It makes my job easier. I can get my job done in a few hours with a framework rather than toil away for a much longer amount of time writing efficient and fast code.

I feel like it's the early 2000s again. Instead of only having to know a little html, you just need to be able to mash together a couple of frameworks and you can make a good living.
The Yugoslav wars were mostly ethnic conflicts that happened after the collapse of communism, not exactly a democratic revolution.

I concede in Romania, but that is an atypical case. The overall case of collapse communism was peacefull: Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechozlovakia, Bulgaria, Albania, ...
Maybe we didn't know that then, but that's actually dangerous. As potatoes start to go 'off' it starts to turn green on the outside, and the green bits contain alkyloids that are hell on the liver. You have to peel at least past the green.
I do not understand people who think that trusting a company is all about geography or funding. The real trust should be built when you and everyone else can verify everything and speak up whenever something is wrong. Most companies do not even allow any reasonable verification (by closing their sources and schematics). Purism is the most transparent company I know.
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Oh brilliant thanks, I didn't understand what drifters were and their numbers were just steadily growing. Took me about 10 mins after reading your comment to get the next project unlocked and increase my max trust a few times. Fortunately the game had been streadily grinding in the background so I had more than enough creativity / yomi etc. Phew!
You're not out of touch, Terraform + Containers + People realizing that building immutable things is much better than managing state pretty much killed Chef and Puppet.
Another option is pre-recording your presentations. Shoot for a 15 minute presentation, followed by questions and conversation. Think a dev recording their screen, showing the work and talking over what they're doing, mixed with a few powerpoint slides.

This gets over the hump of public speaking, creates an artifact that can be sent out as a follow up, and gets to the goal of having shared knowledge of a topic and a sense of community outside of normal silos.
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Soviet Defector Yuri Bezmenov Explains Ideological Subversion
I'd assume most european countries have had that for at least a decade e.g. Estonia's e-tax started in 2002, Belgium's tax-on-web in 2003.
> That market is basically just Nvidia

I'm typing this on a machine with a fairly powerfull AMD GPU. The market for Nvidia is basically just Nvidia, everyone keeps using their special APIs. Their cards are not significantly more powerful than what AMD offers and their drivers suck because they're constantly using them for anti-competitive crap.
> not accessible and extractable by any sw, google or AMD.

Of course we have to just take AMDs word for that. It would always be possible for AMD to push an update to the PSP that gives them access. I'm not saying that should be in the threat model of an ordinary person, but these machines are still backdoored by AMD.
New things in Android 11
The core issue, from what I've seen, is one of incentives. Many leaders at many companies are compensated on growth and short term factors. It's hard to find a leader that is willing to take a 5 year look, or even find a leader that is planning on being around 5+ years.

The leadership at my publicly traded company is a revolving door of short term hacks for promos followed by a quick pivot to the competition or another company. It often feels like the C-Suite at most companies thinks at most, 2 years out.

I just can't see many leaders thinking 5 years out.
This is a thread about an article citing many studies of RCTs showing no such benefit.
For that reason, where is your recommendation coming from?
Listened to people.

The organization I worked at had no direction. Low morale. Lots of complaining. No leadership from people in management positions.

A colleague and myself tried some of the things mentioned by others below to build camaraderie, etc. Minimally effective.

Then, we started talking to colleagues.

"What's going well?"
"What challenges are you facing?"

Listening alone, letting these people know their voices were heard by anyone, went a long way in building relationships, alignment, and getting things done.

Then we took what we were hearing, developed an initiative, pitched it to leadership. They rubber stamped it without really paying attention or asking questions.

We executed.

People were shocked. Their voices had been heard, and something had been done to address common concerns they had. I don't know how to measure or describe this impact, but it's the most significant thing I have ever accomplished.
Your last point is a good one. I started in math and had to take a few CS courses (which I ended up switching into), but I had almost no exposure to subjects outside those two. At least here in Canada, it feels like electives are de-emphasized and there's little opportunity to explore other subjects. I'm happy with the way things turned out but wish I could have taken a broader course load.
Florida is almost entirely flat, so you aren't going to be able to correlate much against "elevation relative to the surrounding region". :)
The fact is that the government, like a thief, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.

--Lysander Spooner
My head gravitates towards how visualization makes the behavior modeling more palatable. The incredible technical feat on display is the video rendering, not so much the behavioral modelling, but it seems conceptually straightforward to add increasingly better "sabermetric" analysis to control the player's choices.

The data might be just as “productive” as a spreadsheet or formula to inform play, but it requires someone with a more specialized skill set to translate its meaning. The HCI design, for lack of a better word, in rendering the data visually makes it not only more entertaining but easier to "see"—for mainstream users, pro players, or almost anyone. Design makes things visible.
> The problem with RCTs is that they are very expensive, since it involves keeping people in a clinic

This may be a noob question, but why? For something like a vitamin supplement, can't you just give the study participants a box of their 50 possibly-placebo pills and require them to take one per day? If you're worried about compliance, can't you require them to write down the time each day when they take the pill—or even have the pills in a one-pill-per-box calendar arrangement and require them to take a photo with their phone each day? (Doesn't stop malicious noncompliance, but it should cover laziness/forgetting.)
really? And many thousands of protesters all across the country (many not wearing masks and certainly not social distancing) aren't a 'superspreading event'?

I don't think I've even seen one article mentioning it...because racism.
In legal practice this is not true at all. The recognition of natural rights and legal enforcement of them are two different things. The Constitution begins with the phrase "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." It clearly states that the Constitution is for the people of the U.S.

The Declaration of Independence went further, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

However, no legal guarantees of rights are made in the declaration.
Some in the opsec community seem to have had particularly poor takes on the question of extradition: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/821766035401572352
>* General self defense (fitness, martial arts, firearms training)

The first two are relatively non-controversial, but also won't do much against security forces with tear gas and rubber bullets. I suspect the last would be controversial in the US as gun control/ownership is a very polarized issue.
Netflix is famous for paying top salaries, but do they actually pay 10x the average salary? Is the rockstar getting a raw deal at Netflix?
It is important, it's just that most people do not seem to have dangerously low levels and derive no benefit from supplementation.

The article states several times that very low levels of vitamin D are not good.
Huh. My first job as a developer was working with Progress' 4GL language/database/platform thing (now called OpenEdge I think?). I ended up writing an basic Emacs major mode for it.
It's possible to be a rockstar developer without being a diva. Some devs are just genuinely skilled at the tech and also at being good coworkers.
>1) Rise of democracy in Latin America in the 70s and 80s (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Brazil)

i'm puzzled to say the least. Aren't the 70s and 80s were the bloody decades of dictatorships there? For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War

"The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for the period of United States-backed state terrorism[1][2][3] in Argentina[4][5] from 1976 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor, during which military and security forces and right-wing death squads in the form of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (AAA, or Triple A)[6] hunted down any political dissidents and anyone believed to be associated with socialism, left-wing Peronism or the Montoneros movement.[7][8][9][10]

Up to 30,000 people disappeared, of whom many were impossible to report formally due to the nature of state terrorism."
It's easy to list the benefits of free markets, I don't think it's easy to do the same for sub-second regulated markets vs 1 second regulated markets.
You've got to be kidding me. Why can't they have a genuine opinion of their own? You may not agree with them because you have different values, but that's very different from claiming that their opinions are illegitimate and merely a result of "brainwashing".

I find it very strange (understatement) that on the one hand people say they support the Chinese people, but on the other hand when Chinese people have a different opinion, then those Chinese people are dismissed as being brainwashed, a paid shill, spies, etc. Way to dehumanize them.
A script which builds a face of an animal based on the population of the species
Low-code, no-model recommendation system with GPT3
Totally off-topic question, but is this website name “arXiv” supposed to be pronounced like “archive”?
How does France build these systems? Does the government itself have IT development resources or do they contract out to private industry?
I use satoshis to measure the amount of value I burn every second.
It is very difficult to evaluate how much work the editor did, unless they publish the 8 versions, highlighting which part of each of them was used. (Did they use whole paragraphs, or cherry picked sentences or individual words?)

For a real unedited post, take a look at https://pay.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/i7wzqg/has_anyone_ask... (hat tip to mrfusion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24134364 )

It is nice because it almost make sense, it make sense locally https://xkcd.com/365/ but after some times you notices it is not going anywhere. And then it has some conceptual problems that are easier to spot in exact problem but can be hidden is a fuzzy essays like this.

And an editor can improve a lot of it and cut the tangents and remove some of the errors.
> RCTs are high quality, because they are done in a controlled setting

I have a personal interest in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, so I am reading patients' Internet forums since two years.

Several patients report participating in trials but they also tell that they take other drugs without telling doctors (they do not want to be expelled from the trial).
Those drugs could be whatever they fancy, and they change often: A week seems too long for them, if there is no improvement.

I expect the situation being the same in every life challenging condition, so I doubt that RCTs are of high quality.

Moreover even the pharmaceutical industry seems to be not sure: Sometimes they are repetitively testing the same drug (for example Memantine in ALS):

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=Memantine&cond=A...
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To share the details, here's a post demonstrating Tullio.jl, a Julia-based higher order tensor library, is faster than OpenBLAS for gemm kernels:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/realistically-how-close-is...

And PaddedMatrices.jl is another example:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-paddedmatrices-jl-juli...

So there isn't just one example but multiples at this point. RecursiveFactorization's `lu` tends to perform better than MKL for small matrices and this is what we use in the differential equation solvers when there are <100 ODEs.

That's all on CPUs though. KernelAbstractions.jl is the GPU version and that's still being constructed but moving strong.
The actual results of the study should be considered separable from the criticism of the linked article's geographic nomenclature, which is the target of the parent's critique, and which I extended with my snark. While I did miss the university behind the article, the article indicated an international team of researchers, including at least one American.
I wonder if the anchor tag should be altered to support this?

Alternatively, this is a good thing for a user agent to handles natively, or through a plugin.
Yeah, it was a wake-up call for me that b2b tech companies are first and foremost sales companies. Once place I worked the actual product was developed and maintained by a team of about 20 people that included dev, ops, and product managers but sales was about 200 people.

Just getting a meeting with a decision maker at a med-large company could take a whole team months. I don't envy their jobs.
Nice, I have been looking for an easier way to make mind maps that is also easy to diff and edit without special software, thanks for this!
> I thought the official IRS form filler was discontinued?

IRS's own service was discontinued after an agreement with tax preparation companies that they would provide such a service (the IRS Free File Program) if your AGI is below 69k (nice).

Which they do, but try to hide as much as they can via negative SEO and various dark pattern, so that you unknowingly get directed towards "free" offers which quickly require you to pay.

There's plenty of information all over the net. And I thought I remembered LWT doing an episode on that recently, but apparently it was Patriot Act… in what I now learn was the last episode, that would certainly explain why it's been so long I've seen an episode pop up in my feed.
Same idea here in Ireland.

Reasons you might need to interact with the income tax system here:

1. You have significant (>€5000) non-employment income.

2. You worked for less than 12 months and are claiming your tax refund.

3. You disagree with the government assessed tax reciept (which is based on what your employer fills in).

For 90% of people then, they don't need to interact with it. Their employer reports their income, deducts an appropriate amount of taxes, and sends it to the government. End of process.
That list archive suggests that although there wasn't a clamour of applause for the idea at least some people were receptive. However it also suggests that there were plenty of more subtle incompatibilities which GREASing just this one place wouldn't solve.

It also seems like you admit that in other places ForgeRock is also doing something that's unsound:

> (Basically there are quite a few clients that use JSON mapping tools with enum types - List<JWSAlgorithm>. I know there are parts of our own codebase where we do this too).
There was an interesting study (sorry I don't like to lookup citations on my mobile) showing that the prognosis for skin cancer patients is better in the summer than the winter, presumably because they get more sunlight. Not causative, but interesting nonetheless.

Also MS is extremely prevalent at high latitudes compared to the tropics. Why? We know vitamin D has a role in protecting the insulation of the nerves, so maybe that's the mechanism. Anecdotal, but the one person I know with MS is white as the snow and avoids the sun like it's the devil.
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Figuring out where the most time is wasted. About 1/5 of my job is chasing SQL queries that didn't get run in some environment. I keep pushing for active tracking of which queries have been run where to try and eliminate that.
Almost the same for the Netherlands, we could do that from 1996 [1].

[1] https://over-ons.belastingdienst.nl/themas/digitalisering-en...
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RE: compiling on windows

Apple is honestly giving Microsoft a run for their money here. Many FOSS apps seem to have given up on OSX and few ever tried with iOS.
I spent 18 months working as a SWE at a company within Greentown Labs. I can confirm the companies there are all committed to making a meaningful impact around the domains of clean energy / green technology.
So true! Preview is one of those apps that Just Works™. I recently opened a PDF on a Windows 10 computer and was slightly shocked that a _web browser_ opened up to present the PDF. Being able to easily and quickly annotate a screen shots and photos for documentation is a huge boon, too.
The problem is that your political opponents say similar things. They're convinced - perhaps wrongly, but as far as I can tell honestly - that anti-Trump politicians are encouraging political violence and will commit more terror attacks in the name of preventing an authoritarian takeover. They point to James Hodgkinson the same way you point to Cesar Sayoc. As someone who's extremely opposed to political violence but not strongly partisan, how can I avoid splitting the difference here?
Last night I was on my way home on a relatively remote stretch in eastern Idaho that's 30 minutes from the nearest EMS and came upon a head on collision that just happened. Several others not involved surrounded the scene pretty quickly and started assessing the injured. I literally finished my Wilderness First Aid certification Saturday afternoon.
Can't speak for France, but in Ireland this system has been in place since it was done on paper. Most (all?) IT work for the government is contracted out to private companies.
Лукашенко Александр - 4,64% - 404 (Lukashenko, 26 years in power)

Тихановская Светлана - 87,68% - 7,639 (Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, removed from the country)

Others:

Дмитриев Андрей - 0,59% - 51

Канопацкая Анна - 0,25% - 22

Черечень Сергей - 0,38% - 33

Etc:

Против всех - 2,80% - 244

Предпочитаю не говорить - 3,66% - 319
Whatsapp however does not engage in censorship, something both Tiktok and Wechat have been proven to do.
Good luck finding a Supreme Court that would go along with it.
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A spool works too. If you have a spool you don't get the twists. The twists are incurred by coiling wire by adding to the sides of the coil without a rotation of the coil itself. If you use a rotating spool you won't have such an issue.
that's cause the article is written for seo and advertising purposes and not for educational purposes. do you know how many seo articles i have personally seen written with false information? i'm surprised they didn't throw in the obligatory quote from company ciso.