skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excuse my sloppy comment. Lila did a terrible job, but Sue was running Wikimedia while there was a slow decline in editors since the mid 00s. Having donated to Wikimedia previously, I no longer do, because senior leadership (across "administrations") is more concerned with issues completely disconnected from their core role ("To unlock the world's knowledge"). Those dollars go to the Internet Archive now (which stores copies of Wikipedia distinct from Wikimedia's control).

Non profit dollars are hard to come by, and the greater issue and frustration is watching orgs like Mozilla and Wikimedia incinerate them on causes that are not their mission (in stark contrast to efficient, nimble orgs like Let's Encrypt and the Free Law Project).
I interviewed for ML positions at my company. I'd imagine it would be more difficult as an external hire.

It seems to me that if you actually want to do interesting stuff like design the models, then they want a PhD or extensive ML experience (I only have a masters in info sci with no ML experience). I could have gotten into a position for cleaning data, helping to train the model, or integration with other systems. I really don't want to be cleaning data or other boring stuff like that, so I didn't take it.
I watch/read RT just like I do BBC, PressTV, telesur and US media like NYTimes and so on. They’re often reporting exactly the same thing, from the same angle even.
I've donated thousands of dollars to Wikimedia over the years. Before I retired, I took frequent advantage of my company's policy for matching donations, doubling the amount I gave. After retirement, I set my "Amazon Smile" donations to go there. Maybe I'm bragging, but I just want to show I actually care about the topic.

I know children's cancer and other horrible things pull on more heart strings, but Wikipedia makes such a huge wealth of great information available to such a huge percentage of the world, including many poor people who might otherwise not have access to much education. Saving sick kids is kind, but there are lot of healthy kids who could use a leg up too.

I honestly don't value the other Wikimedia projects very much, and I'm sure there is waste in their policies and beuracracy, but assuming Wikipedia is only getting 10% of my donations, I still think it's great bang for the buck.

If there is a better charity, I'd like to know about it. However, this article reads to me as "Meh, you shouldn't really feel obligated", and I don't think it said much that was useful.
I would say either make it about Covid or don't. Right now there are "Covid symptoms" like hepatitis so it's clear you just grabbed a pile of things. Either call it multi-purpose or remove the non-covid stuff (or create a another one for non-covid).

I enjoy also looking at Google Trends to see what has changed over time so think about doing something with that too (time lapse maps?).

Overall the idea is excellent and I can see this getting a lot of use by regular folks if promoted correctly. Move it off github and monitize it better.
>There is no danger to them breathing in the methane, even in very large amounts. It does nothing to you.

Some info about methane for you:

>Methane is nontoxic, yet it is extremely flammable and may form explosive mixtures with air. Methane is also an asphyxiant if the oxygen concentration is reduced to below about 16% by displacement, as most people can tolerate a reduction from 21% to 16% without ill effects.

So not totally harmless.
I hope people keep this in mind when you purchase "DLC" features for your car - features that you can unlock after purchase like this: https://www.cars.com/articles/bmw-software-updates-will-enab...
Take a look around. That baby has been gone for a while now.
yes, I think it's called marketplace for a reason.
I donated in the past and would have said yes in 2015.

in 2020 however it appears to me that wikpedia gentrified, accruing a thick fat of bureaucrats and has somewhat been stagnating around his stack.

reducing support is maybe a good opportunity for them to lean down a little and get back at rethinking the future of crowd knowledge self-organization, instead of putting layers of gates and red tapes around each bureaucrat turf.
Make a noise, talk about it, because it’s being silenced. If enough people are outraged, we can really make a difference.
Could someone with more background in these electrical devices shed some light? This looks really cool, but I'm a little confused. Looks like this is very new tech?
Summary: HAT[1] for Raspberry Pi that attaches to the GPIO pins, that gives you access to a daughterboard with 16 memristors. Appears to be designed purely for hardware users to explore memristor electrical properties.

What appears to be a PCI swappable connector is a nice touch.

Price tag $180.

I can't say I buy the neural network hype in the rest of the article, but whatever floats your boat.

[1]I believe this has been backronymed to "Hardware Attached on Top"
What were the problems with the "lila era management" in your opinion? The article made it sound like there were just some well intentioned decisions received poorly, that led to that person being sacked. But there's often a festering hoard of management issues beneath what's apparent to outsiders like us, and I'm wondering if that was the case here.
if your phone gets stolen you can remove the phone as a key, this info needs to be synced back from tesla.

It doesn't need internet access to unlock it, but it needs periodic internet access to sync this info.
Agreed it requires no category theory, but I'm an experienced programmer in a few languages and I've found it very hard to learn. I can get to a basic level, where I write rather verbose programs because of all the recursion and immutability, and I sense that I need to make better to use of the core abstractions that the language is known for (those with names which point to concepts in abstract algebra and category theory), and I've totally failed to do that in the two times I've spent a few weeks trying to learn.

Advice gratefully received!
When I go for the usual flu vaccine in November, how would I know which strains its protecting me against?
Power density for supercapacitors is higher than batteries, but there aren't many applications that need more power than what the best lithium polymer cells that provide. 100C cells are readily available, which can discharge their full capacity about 1/100 hour ~= 36 seconds. These are the cells that power high-speed RC planes and handheld power banks that can jumpstart your car. One caveat with high discharge rate batteries is that cycle life is not necessarily any better, and charge rates are usually much lower than discharge rates, so sometimes you will see supercapacitors used to temporarily hold a large amount of energy.

Hydrogen has high power density in the sense that you can let it out of the tank very quickly and ignite it, but unless you want an explosion you are still constrained by an ICE motor or fuel cell. Those are much less power dense than batteries.
For 4 years I worked at a publishing/education company and developped on a solution for educational interactive ebooks in HTML.

A couple of insights from those years:

PDF is popular because it fits the paper designer mindset and because Adobe InDesign is pretty much the standard in the publishing industry.

HTML is a much better format for the digital age. It's responsive, interactive, etc, but even today, the best way to produce HTML is by using a code editor.

Even if there was a good WYSIWYG tool, editorial designers come from the paper world and have a really hard time understanding the responsive model.

Many times I've fantasized about working on a tool made for designers to produce HTML, but it would be a ton of work and I don't really think there is a market for it. Many ebook formats are actually HTML, but I think the industry is getting by with conversion tools from Word. Most HTML content comes from blogs and journals which already have an established pipeline and don't need a general purpose HTML production solution. Education is the strongest use case, but most education companies are still rooted in paper and switching to interactive education is quite a leap.
Totally agree. Implementing something yourself also helps you better understand how established similar systems work. It also takes out the “magic” from things. For example when you look at a compiler first, it seems incredibly complex. But once you write your own simple compiler you can quickly see that a compiler consists of components that can be understood .
Multicast and the Markets
The neo-darwinian appeal is, unfortunately, not supported by evidence. The myth of the Alpha wolf is just that, a myth [0]. There is some evidence in pre-colombian contact societies that the Emperor and his cadre were responsible for many of society's children [I can't find the link right now, my bad]. However, if anything, this reinforces the societal aspect over the more 'base'/darwinian aspect.

Also, this doesn't explain Joe's appeal toward men. If the meanest monkey has the most offspring, then his appeal should be with women.

[0] https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-really-be-alp...
> By April 1st, 2022, it will be accepted by health professionals that a vitamin D treatment protocol similar to that used in the study is better than existing treatments

I think you want a more crisp end condition than that. There seem to be lots of claims that remain in dispute for long times, or where "everyone knows" it works but there's no official recognition.

For example, the FDA does not allow claiming on boxes of vitamin C that it treats any disease, even scurvy.
Considered by who?
There are a lot of people saying, "This isn't a problem, just use the key/keycard". Which is a fair thing to say, but not what Tesla markets.

Tesla strongly markets the idea that "all you need is the phone".

I know that my in-laws with a Tesla don't carry the key cards. They just use their phone.

So either Tesla needs to make a much stronger push for carrying one's key/keycard, or they need to fix the bug that makes the local bluetooth on the app stop working (or both).

Maybe some people will learn an important lesson here and start carrying their cards.
I think the way Logo was taught in schools certainly didn't help. When baby programmer me first discovered you could define functions and used them I remember getting scolded for not following the lesson plan and continuing to do things the hard way. The lesson plan of course lumped function definitions as "advanced" and really only for "the next grade up". My impression is most teachers didn't actually want to teach "the next grade up" of Logo (as it was hard for them) so it was always just the same basic Turtle graphics anyone ever learned (sometimes over and over again, grade to grade), diminishing the point of Logo as an entry way into those harder to teach topics such as functions and recursion. It doesn't seem surprising that pop culture only remembers turtle graphics, when that's all anyone was ever taught.
> Unlike most companies the employees at Mozilla did feel compelled and safe enough to speak out against their CEO, that doesn't fly at many companies.

Why don't they speak last years? Do they support how CEO manages company? If not should we believe employees had any say than?

> even though I'm not religious

That's the problem, I'd expect if you was the president these prayers would not have a word. Minority who does not understand other minorities.

> You are describing it as if people were mad at other people for not calling Eich out

No, I am describing people who said not a world of love. Who see only their stance and force it on other people. I by comparison do not care - that's neutral. I am against propaganda and hate speech.
I agree with the comment about hype. It seems the business people think it's either a magic bullet for all problems or that a futuristic Terminator is going to replace their job.
Wikidata already existed during the knowledge engine fiasco, so if it was the same thing im not sure what they were doing.

I suspect a lot of KE's failure related to inconsistent messaging and project scope. I'm pretty sure even now, nobody knows what KE was planned to be or what its value proposition would be, or "what" it actually is beyond buzzwords
I agree with your assessment of unfairness. I personally see the solution as building way more housing.

If you only make it illegal to build housing near pre-existing industry, then what? That's basically a let them eat cake argument (not saying that that's what you're suggesting), because now there aren't cheap options near industry, and unless zoning changes allow for much more housing in the non-industrial areas, then the supply of housing goes down, the price goes up, and poor people just have to deal (all in the name of being saved from industry).
I use GNU Icecat [1]. It is Firefox ESR rebranded, without Mozilla, tracking, pocket, etc. Please note that it does come with some fairly opinionated addons. LibreJS blocks all nonfree javascript for example. You can of course disable these addons if you find them too cumbersome.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
>Climate modeling, like most compute intensive fields, uses Fortran because it's fast and that's what the software needs to be.

Also because the laws of physics (and the math to do approximation) don't change very often. The older that Runge-Kutta function is in the codebase, the more chance it has to be part of the sample code that they test the compiler's optimizer/benchmark with too!

And Fortran is old enough it's possible to build wrappers around it, should the user really need a new interface.
Tim Cook on antitrust investigations: 'There is no monopoly here
You've described a solution that puts the cost/work on the provider. IPFS and BitTorrent shifts that to the consumers.
I think that's a step too far. Losing the screen while in motion is quite disorienting, yes the car continues to function fine mechanically, but you lose all of your telemetry, voice commands, maps/navigation, and some other critical functions like wiper settings. In addition to that, the Model 3 has very poor rear visibility, so it's pretty unsafe to do much of any backing up without screen-view cameras.
> at least for N95 masks there are plenty of substitute materials available in abundance

Can you name any? That would literally be world changing right now.

As far as my research has revealed it is literally only melt-blown fabric that can meet N95 standards and the vast, vast majority of melt-blown fabric does not (we use tons of the stuff in sofas and mattresses but that stuff isn't anywhere near N95).

And no, your dust sensor will not meet lab requirements for N95 testing unless it had a very large price tag.
Okay, thanks, that makes a bit more sense, but also still the wrong way to handle this. It should work like SSH where the car accepts certain (digital) keys that can be revoked...
Some of the most heavily-contributing editors to Wikipedia are on the autistic spectrum. (I don’t think this is a very controversial statement for anyone involved in the community.) They are editing because organizing information and making articles as complete as possible assuages an inner itch – essentially the work is its own reward. Paying them for their activity would not change much, and I personally would question whether it is even necessary.
Taking bets on "Microsoft was nudged into buying GitHub by one of the three letter clubs" being revealed one day
I never said any of these things.

Why do you act like I want to take technology away from anyone?

Go ask Microsoft, Google and Apple how much money they spend on accessibility and then compare that to the income of /e/OS.

How would you fix that resource problem if not by trying to get better funding?
I wouldn't care as much if they weren't simultaneously sacking their work force and ending work on popular products. I'm sure Google is trying to paint them in a bad light, but honestly it's not hard with the current leadership and doesn't take any dishonesty.
How can they possibly be calling this "native"? :/
The author states:

>"The type system in Rust is obviously very influenced by the type system of Haskell, but they also implemented “ownership” which allows for the killer feature garbage-collection free automatic memory management."

I always assumed that garbage collection was simply a convenience offered by a particular language.

I was also under the impression that memory leaks were the class of problems that were addressed by garbage collection and that memory safety was a class of problems that was concerned with things like buffer overflows and corruption and addressed by runtime checks.

However after reading I feel like I have failed to understand the role of garbage collection in enforcing memory safety. Is memory management and memory safety not so cleanly divided?

Could someone explain or point me to a good resource for understanding how garbage collection is used to enforce memory safety?
This isn't a big-LITTLE situation. The controller is there to manage board state without waking up the CPU, as extremely commonly found on server- and embedded-class deployments. They've probably even got a document describing how to drop in your favorite IPMI software (be it Dell's DRAC or HP's iLO, etc).
LI take the attitude that if I learn something, time spent programming is never wasted.”

That’s my philosophy now. Always try to learn new stuff and how to do things better. Even if it doesn’t work out, at least you know why.
The Dark Souls one is interesting, because losing a big stack of souls sucks. But at some point you're probably gonna find an easily grindable stack of enemies and just farm them for a few minutes for 15 minutes and get way more. So it's not that big of a deal.

But it still works pretty well in spite of that. The emotional harm of loss stings.
Mumble mumble, Bertrand Russell, mumble...
You sound like the troll
Pretty sure their 'AI reflow' is something that is not (nor will be) in the standard
Somewhat related : microscopy footage of how stinging nettles inject poison is pretty mindlowing

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rduoN53J7MU&t=1s
Quick Notes on Differentiable Monte Carlo Simulations
Q1: all of the above. Moving vehicles and equipment. Stunts/practical effects/etc. High power lighting and electrical cords strung everywhere. Tripping hazards. Falling hazards. Oh, and as a rule, never get in the helicopter.

Q2: I don’t know. I imagine it depends on how much is being built and how controlled the environment would be.

Edit: I should also stress the impact of sleep deprivation on accidents and mistakes. Filmmaking hours are often pegged at 12+ as a standard day, and a well financed production won’t bat an eye at paying the penalties to push a crew.
I'm fairly sure this may fail muster as the only reason the one signature contract by the company to you is generally well tolerated is because it is unequivocally clear what your "consideration", (or what you get out of the arrangement) is in fact, and that by your acceptance, you state you are satisfied. In the case of software, that being access to the software itself in the form intended by the writer of the boilerplate contract.

It is not so clear that when you unilaterally cross things out, screenshot that altered document, then click accept that those terms are then binding on the counterparty since they have not had the opportunity to also stipulate or modify their terms (define their consideration) in light of your changes.

Legally speaking, there is nothing wrong with asking for different terms from the boilerplate, but economically and practically there is. It does single you out as a desirable client to fire.

In the end, it's not the legal construct of a contract that is the problem. It's that the market has widely deemed it acceptable to only automate or implement the first stage of it.

To offer an illustration of what should actually be done software-wise (super-ideal case);

You offer a short demo of the core value add, get passed the courtship phase and down to brass tacks. You are offered the boilerplate agreement with an option to accept as is, decline, or accept with modifications. Upon accepting with modifications, you are given a text entry box, and a helpful DSL to reference clauses you wish to change or strike. You utilize that, and click a confirmation button to send a message to a legally authorized representative of the vendor, who then formulates their consideration, and presents it back to you, repeat until everyone is happy.

Then you open the software and do your thing.

It should be quite evident why no one (given the economic optimization function) has converged on that solution.

It's way easier to just put enough in to defend you as a company in the boilerplate and rely on most people being unconditional to actual challenge your term offerings. That works absurdly well, and until it doesn't, I don't see a great opportunity for migration from the status quo to that. You might get slow adoption of that ideal workflow, but it will have to be paired with a better bottom line for service providers, otherwise they won't even bother to offer the actually legally complete communication channel as a first-class process.
Comments should be sparse, used only where code is not self-explanatory. If you follow that rule, spotting obsolete comments in code review is easy. I've seen it.
Some American industries have the foresight to gobble up all the land around them and become landlords. Every few years they get the option to decline renewing a lease and expanding their facilities.

But since they control the construction around them, they can do their own zoning after a fashion to avoid worst case scenarios like condo balconies downwind from their exhaust.

I’m gonna fault Sriracha here a bit for cheaping out not preventing a problem. Land speculators can’t buy land that isn’t for sale. And they can’t use dirty tricks against another corporation to force a sale, like they might against private land owners.
The article's conclusion doesn't really even seem to have a conclusion, does it? It looks to be a list of counterpoints to a non-exhaustive listing of reasons to donate, but it doesn't conclude whether one should or should not donate.
"We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels; but because we need a lot of inventors."

- Bruce Joyce
Firefox is dead. Deal with it. It's just a matter of time.

Web-browser is not very profitable bussines, and by bloating web with more and more complexity, we made sure maintaining alternative implementations is getting harder and more costly.

The Web degenerated into it's natural conclusion - a centralized platform controlled by a handful of corporations extracting value from its users.

Seriously, better start exploring alternatives already if you care about your privacy and freedom, because this route is gone.
Raspberry Pi Power Monitor
> Together with his lack of keeping the guests straight it creates a pretty toxic sludge that makes it impossible for casual audiences to determine who actually knows what they're talking about and who doesn't.

If anything, that is wonderful. Having multiple opinions put forward without context is a great way to engage critical thinking skills. The audience then has to decide what they 'feel' is correct. If the people with the facts can't sway the audience with said fact, then they should go back and figure out why that is. That will help them in the future and make the facts all the stronger.
The UK has definitely suffered exactly the same problem. We still don't have even a track and trace app and testing is patchy.
Sure, but they intimate that only Oracle could get the job done.
Exactly! I swear so much regulatory tip-toeing is just to uphold the charade that government-run services should be verboten.
Like this but a plugin? https://github.com/thomseddon/traefik-forward-auth
Yeah, "turtle graphics" were a tiny subset of what Logo was meant to teach.
Rocket league became free today. Many are downloading it right now.