skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran into this counterintuitive situation when trying to do better simulations of a fusion reactor I designed. High end physics simulation software that might do the job starts at $50k. Then there will still be tradeoffs on the accuracy of the simulation.

Because of the way it uses some older, off the shelf equipment for a key part of the device, I might actually be able to build a prototype for that price.
> In early versions of the Macintosh Finder, Trash contents were listed in volatile memory. Files moved to the Trash would appear there only until the Finder session ended, then they would be automatically erased. When System 7 was released, the Trash became a folder that retained its contents until the user chose to empty the trash.
The site mentions:

> Visual Mind is an AI engine specifically designed for understanding and scoring visual appearance of a website. Visual Mind has analyzed over a million websites to achieve an accuracy rate of over 97%.

How does accuracy work in a project like this, where the result is subjective?
The article is different from what was aired, which appears to me to be more interesting, as it starts with:

"On August 24, 2015, a 21-year-old British hacker named TriCk stepped out of an Internet cafe in Raqqa, Syria, and climbed into his car. He didn't know it, but he'd been under surveillance for days. He pulled into a gas station, and just as he started filling the tank, a single Hellfire missile came down on him like a meteor from the sky. He was killed instantly."

And it seems to be longer too.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/763545811

They also later identify the "British hacker's" name: Junaid Hussain.

A report from Britain, 2015, claims it wasn't an operation done by the U.S. alone:

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/isis-ter...
> Why is it then that nvidia is singled out for hatred in this regard? nvidia is an evil, baby-killing company for not open sourcing its drivers, but all the others with closed drivers (including ARM up until today) don't get hated on.

Because they're a target of a dedicated smearing campaign from certain OSS communities who are pissed that they didn't just rewrite their drivers on their one-sided command. The kernel team rejected the nVidias API and built their own and now they expect nVidia to just bow to them.

After decades of providing fast and stable Linux 3D accelerated support.
I think that sexual tentacles from males can regenerate, but I'm not sure at this moment.
> The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) confirmed nine years after that El Masri was “severely beaten, sodomized, shackled, and hooded, and subjected total sensory deprivation—carried out in the presence of state officials of Macedonia and within its jurisdiction.”

> Macedonia’s “government was consequently responsible for those acts performed by foreign officials…Those measures had been used with premeditation, the aim being to cause Mr. Masri severe pain and suffering in order to obtain information,” the ECHR additionally found.

> (...)

> “The U.S. diplomatic cables revealed the extent of pressure brought upon the German authorities (and in parallel, relevant Spanish authorities) not to act upon the clear evidence of criminal acts by the USA even though by then exposed,” Goetz added.

Then some Americans are confused that many in the western world don't like American influence. I find it outrageous that these things happen, and I wouldn't want my government to consider such a country an ally.
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You can make this argument at various levels:

"Speech may influence someone to act in a certain manner, but it doesn't cause them to act that way—they have to choose to act, and in doing so take full responsibility for the consequences."

Replace "speech" with "bribery" or a mafia boss giving an order to commit a crime.

Causality, in the sense that you're using it, is legalistic. In practice, the Jonestown religion/cult, it's beliefs, and membership did cause a mass suicide and murder. That obviously doesn't absolve anyone of anything, but you can't exonerate the religion on a philosophical technicality. Religion is a right. That does not mean that it is harmless, powerless or unrelated to causality.

Speech is just the same. Voting too. Powerful. Dangerous.

If you believe that free speech needs to be protected because it causes no harm... that's the road to losing it, because it's premised on a demonstrable untruth.
This only affects developers. Limited scope.

Wasn't there something related about Microsoft Lumia phones?
I would define it as continual majority rule.

The anti-majority aspect should be obvious at this point: the President lost the popular vote (and indeed got the votes of only 26% of eligible voters), and the majority of the Senate represents a minority of voters.

The continual part is also essential. The less frequent the votes and/or elections, the less the public is able to express their wishes (and hold representatives accountable). Lifetime terms on the Supreme Court are the worst aspect of this. A member of the Supreme Court may be nominated by a President who lost the popular vote, confirmed by the Senate controlled by a minority of voters and whose members are only up for election once in 6 years. The Supreme Court justice then may hold power for decades, even as the "political winds" shift underneath the Court.

It's also important to note how difficult it is to change the laws, especially the Constitution itself. The Constitution was amended relatively frequently in the past, but now it's almost unthinkable. Separation of powers, checks and balances, mean that a determined minority can prevent pretty much anything from happening. They can completely thwart the majority from acting or changing the existing laws (which unfortunately have no expiration date).
Probably. I've been saying the same thing for a while.
Wavelength specificity. You only get the original focal depth at the wavelength you used to make the hologram, and it changes proportional to the wavelength. When you consider that blue light is 2/3 the wavelength of red light, you can see that this is chromatic aberrations big brother.
Either way, it takes 5 justices to make a majority.
If you say so. I have nothing to prove to you and have no desire to do so. Even if I showed the email you'd claim it's fake or whatever. And I am not going to show personal email to some rando on the internet with a throwaway account simply because they question the veracity of my statement. TO be blunt, I really don't give a flying monkeys whether you believe me or not.
I trend to use jq with a file all the time, I prefer to curl first and later operate on top. /slug
I'm the same as many here for whom the computer is the problem rather than the cell phone. What's interesting is that the computer is simultaneously a bicycle for the mind and a handicap.
Probably not. I had found a few octopus in cetacean's stomachs, but they prefer squids. Gregarious and much more convenient to hunt.

Seals on the other time... Yup; I can tell you than monk seals definitely eat octopus.
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> What an ignorant thing to say

> (...)

> http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11138

> http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2019/08/special-breakthroug...

Thanks for that, because my comment applies exceedingly well to people like Peter Woit and Sabine Hossenfelder; I've never heard of Michael Banks.
"You can't prove it" isn't a terribly convincing defense.
Papers Explained has a rebuttal of some of the points:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ89be_685o
I tested https://gildas-lormeau.github.io/ (score 56) which is also a single request website. Almost all the websites with similar visual scores are okay for me.
Yep, kind of.

The comma operations means that the "filters" are duplicated, so instead of one json state you would pass two if there's one coma; and ofcourse any number of commas are allowed.
We'll see how a story that refutes the also popular but also nuts "Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility" goes -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24526130
This is inaccurate.

The phase-out of the 747 was well on the way long before the pandemic was ever a twinkle in a pangolin's eye, or wherever it came from. Those airlines that still fly them are mostly not changing their plans to either phase them out or keep flying them due to the pandemic.

As at the end of 2019, there was not a single scheduled passenger operator of the 747 anywhere in the Americas, and only two in Europe (BA and Lufthansa). Prior to the pandemic, BA announced plans to retire all 747s in 2024. They brought forward the date due to the downturn, but they're the only airline to do so for their 747 fleet as far as I can tell. Lufthansa flies the new 747-8 and is very unlikely to retire them any time soon.

There are still plenty of 747 operators in Asia: among others, Air China, Air India, Thai, Rossiya, Korean, China Airlines. Thai and China Airlines both had existing plans before the pandemic to retire their aging 747s, and the rest have all indicated that they plan to keep flying them.
"Extending democracy into the economic sphere" is a funny way to describe theft by the majority.

Today, under capitalism, we already have democracy in the economic sphere. Each of us already has single-use votes proportional to our means (i.e. money). If you want more votes to use, do something valuable so that others vote for you (i.e. pay you). If a worker wants durable rights to the means of production, they can trade some votes for stock.

Now, one might cry foul that not everyone has the same voice under this system. Not everyone has the same voice in the US legislative branch on account of the Senate's design. So it goes. Least bad solution. Etc.

Sincerely, please point me somewhere that I might read about why this socialism you profess won't degenerate into sclerotic totalitarianism within two generations. What has changed about people's hearts so that the noble experiment you want to run (with other people's resources) won't cause the same calamities that it has before? As folks often quip, insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.
I probably do. In any case, I would design a fundamental core system with an open API for extensions, that could be developed and maintained by third-parties, based on additional requirements by each hospital.
Data availability got much better in the past following years (as a software engineer I can finally do modelling based on data published by medical researchers), but it's still too slow, which costs real lives.

,,Data underlying the study cannot be made publicly available due to ethical concerns about patient confidentiality''

I don't believe that any part of the data couldn't be made available (D-vitamin level - age - covid test results at least, even if location/time would be too sensitive to share). Not sharing any data has ethical concerns as well.
Note that while this page says "facts", some of the facts presented are editorialized to match the writer's expectations. Example: the infection fatality rate estimate only mentions the lower bound of the confidence interval.

Another example: the part on the Oxford vaccine completely misrepresents what the publication on the macaques experiment says.

So, there might be useful information there, but I suggest reading cum grano salis, and often check the sources instead of trusting what's written blindly.
>> Until treatment and vaccine for coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) becomes widely available, other methods of reducing infection rates should be explored.

Until we figure out how to profit, maybe we should let people use existing stuff so they dont die?

Yeah, I woke up in a bad mood :-/
Looks like the author loves Quake 3. This looks so similar to pro-q3dm6 (The Camping Grounds)! Love it!
It’s a mystery to me, too. I find cigarette butts and beer cans on many of the trails I hike. I can understand the occasional cliff bar wrapper that may have accidentally fallen from a pack. But the rest is intentional and unjustifiable.
cf. the Vauxhall Nova car

"No va" means "doesn't go" in Spanish.
Or the truly perverse kind who name their directories "Folder"
All I'm getting a generic info page without scores, and when I click the button to show my score, it shows "Error posting feed", taking me to the initial page. Is the app broken, or am I missing a catch?
> It’s totally absurd that US can kidnap random people outside their country.

kidnap... and assassinate.

Is not the US people in any case, is their government. And some of those people seem to have severe and worrying sadistic undercurrents in their personality. As human beings, torturers are a real failure.
>I'm pretty sure one of them had literally left their business card

Business cards aren't free to make, you make them with intent to give them out to people.

More plausible scenario was that someone who had received the card just threw it away.
It depends on what kind of applications one is writing.

In many applications errors are dispatched to some common handler far above the call stack. This is also the justification for uncheked exceptions in C# given by Anders Hejlsberg.
Pls try again. Sometimes when the model is not able to predict within certain time it gives that error.

Appreciate for highlighting this. We are fixing it.
What strikes me with the US is that they can be very progressive on some issues (e.g. lgbt rights), yet totally backward on others (torture, death penalty, mass incarceration and so on...).
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I tried to explain it on the Performance section and on the report

https://github.com/davesnx/query-json#performance
https://github.com/davesnx/query-json/blob/master/benchmarks...

But all explanations aren't based by any evidence, just asumptions.
Michael Abrash had a great series of articles in Dr. Dobbs detailing how he came to work for Intel (which spun Larabee) after talking at a game conference with some of their people to ask them for a lerp (linear interpolation) instruction in x86 extensions[0] :)

Oh and Larabee gave us more than AVX512, it also gave us the Xeon Phis, which were accelerators (much akin to the GPGPU of nvidia GPUs?) aimed at scientific code undeer the promise that "since it's x86, you don't need to change your code that much!". However:

> An empirical performance and programmability study has been performed by researchers, in which the authors claim that achieving high performance with Xeon Phi still needs help from programmers and that merely relying on compilers with traditional programming models is still far from reality. However, research in various domains, such as life sciences, and deep learning demonstrated that exploiting both the thread- and SIMD-parallelism of Xeon Phi achieves significant speed-ups.

(from Wikipedia[1])

So pretty much the same as a GPU. It is a bit unfortunate that, in theory, good OpenCL support could have made running this code in 2/4/8 core CPUs (with or without SMT) or in the thread-beast that are/were the Phis. But that woud've probably required OpenCL to be a bit more mature, and Intel skipped that train too.

[0] https://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/a-first-look-at-the-larrabe...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi
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Thanks for this really. I looked it and trust me AI has got this completely wrong ..we will include this as exception when we train again.. thanks for trying..
Well, I enjoyed the site.
Or maybe cp, or rm, or rsync, or mount, or wget, or netcat (both gnu and bsd) ... it’s really pretty reasonable to expect -v to mean verbose ;-).
> Not providing any value judgement but… this seems completely irrelevant to the topic. Rust has long-settled on not exceptions, and they are largely incompatible with the language's stated goals and purpose.

I think that it's possible to build a bridge from Result to panics, thus allowing a developer to choose a particular style of error-handling. I don't understand why exceptions are incompatible with language stated goals.

> Except for the part where their very existence is optional.

But that's up to developer to decide, right? By default panics do work. If I want to call `abort()` on panic, I have to explicitly configure it.

> You mean like `Result::unwrap` which has existed since before Rust 1.0 was a thing?

Yes, but with improved panics (including hierarchy of panics, capturing stacktrace) and enhanced language syntax to better integrate that model into a language, rather than discouraging people from using it.
Another report:

https://assangecourt.report/september-18-morning

"Mr El-Masri was due to give evidence by video link, but, after a legal argument, presiding judge Vanessa Baraitser decided that it would be sufficient for his statement to be read to the court and he need not appear."
> Rust has long-settled on not exceptions, and they are largely incompatible with the language's stated goals and purpose.

Completely agree here.

What we dislike is rust fanboys spreading misinformation about GC, misinformation about exceptions, misinformation about mutability..
Does Calculators reduce Arithmetic capabilities ?
“Whenever a new major CUDA Compute Capability is released, the ABI is broken. A new NVIDIA C++ Standard Library ABI version is introduced and becomes the default and support for all older ABI versions is dropped.”

https://github.com/NVIDIA/libcudacxx/blob/main/docs/releases...
Yes. It depends on your threat model. You have to just someone at some point of you're not running your own datacentres.
Oh, your made up generalization is important because it counters another made up generalization. Gotcha.

The older Gen Z are barely graduating college, by the way. Maybe start by looking at the growth of computer science majors.
And correct: the telos of the clickbait economy is fascist kitsch

I'm not sure how to parse this. What does it mean for something to have kitsch as its ultimate aim, or for an economy to have an aim?

I think I understand what the author is getting at, which is that exciting the lizard brain in humans is easy to do by creating artificial fears and enemies, and that it takes very little effort to construct this "art". But "telos" specifically doesn't mean "a means", it means "purposeful aim". And I don't think kitsch is the aim. If anything, the aim of the clickbait economy seems to simply be to displace all other economies, which is a rather trite statement in itself.

On the other hand, maybe the author was simply looking for a high-brow synonym for "product" and missed the mark? It's like saying "the telos of the pottery industry is kitchenware". No it isn't: the telos of the industry is to safely store long-term goods.
It seems to me that earlier RISC designs learned the same lesson with branch and load delay slots. They performed fine when introduced, but did not adapt well. All of this was tried to improve the speed of in-order CPUs. Once OOO became widespread, such hardware assists became pointless (And it would appear to me that the dependency assists you describe will similarly not stay relevant all that long).
You are just spewing talking points and narrative, meanwhile Stone is putting shit like “anything to save the plan - Richard Nixon” in writing in his emails to co conspirators. You are not being smart. Just look at the evidence, they coordinated with Wikileaks and Russians and got caught. Saying “well others do it” is not a defense, Trump has loyal prosecutors who can make the case if they can.
Electric motors are already incredibly efficient, so even halving their losses / doubling the efficiency would increase range by at most a few percent.
Also Hyundai Kona, "cona" means "cunt" or "pussy" in Portuguese.
Oh gosh I'm blind, I missed that line completely from the summary page.

But does that mean all the bribes were given to employees in India? I wonder why they are not being charged? Perhaps because that part of the fraud happened within the Indian jurisdiction? Or are maybe they are waiting on Indian law enforcement to formally charge them.
Sadly the URL field didn’t turn off corrections, so typing my own domain (my name, lowercase, concatenated) was a bit of a challenge on my iPad…
No, I'm saying the comedian guy is.
Hilariously my blog (kn100.me) also got 38 percent and the site provides screenshots of other sites with similar scores, which were all 404/500 error pages... I thought my blog looked nice :(
In all honesty, out of the combinations for two and three letter acronyms there’s bound to be a language out the there where the meaning is crude. I recall on here recently, something being rude in Finnish or Swedish. We’re professionals, it’s just a name, who cares.
Unix users have "cu". Do "man cu", if you are curious. I haven't played with "cu" since the UUCP email era. Good times.
High scores for my companies website https://thewolf.co.nz

Do I wonder how accurate this could be and what the training data is.
I foresee rebalancing to cash in October, see how the election turns out and shakes things up, then take a critical look at reinvesting in 2021.
Let me spin up a $5 vps on some random company, setup next cloud, and then send a link to my friend so he can download a song?
Silly!
I think the traditional way of understanding daily life in a given time is reading fiction set in the time.
I think both statements can be true.
It's just when there are only two hundred people around, each voice has more influence then even an enthusiastic politician nowadays.

So just by living like we do today with having opinions and voicing them you've already influenced your society back then.
If you do the same today, nothing would've changed.
But that is part of the appeal of errors as part of the return. Recoverable errors are just return values and can be handled with normal code, and irrecoverable errors panic.
Nice pun. But I think Java will have a bright future with Project Loom coming.
> that's a lot of characters added

Not really.

> for essentially the same result

With the huge differences that

1. it signals that things can fail, which largely doesn't exist with unchecked exceptions unless you re-add that information which is going to lead to similar amounts of "characters added" (e.g. “throws”)

2. you're explicitly opting into the costs and information-discarding effects, which is rather important for the language's purported goals, it supports that use-case without discarding its other important use-cases

> exceptions were introduced because bubbling things up explicitely is a pain !

Not really either, exceptions were introduced to structure error handling rather than use ad-hoc and generally in-band methods, or unrestricted jumps. They also provided a very useful hook point to provide contextual information (by default or otherwise) which the aforementioned ad-hoc methods didn't account for e.g. not much contextual data you can bundle in a shell or C error code.

Leveraging sum types for error handling is an oddly recent development, both because most languages don't have sum types, and because that it could be used thus doesn't seem like a very old realisation at large (just look at error handling in Haskell).
Air New Zealand famously offered Antarctic sight-seeing flights in the late 70s. All stopped in 1979 when one of the planes crashed into Mount Erebus on Ross Island, killing all 257 people on board.

I guess modern airliners make it safer but I was surprised to see them running today.

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