skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the fund for it was set up from the trust of Alfred Nobel in accordance with his will. So presumably whatever law in Norway involves trusts and enforcing peoples last will would be binding on the fund, and thus on the committee
The article says they went over the row limit so the later.
I guess we read different papers. The ones I read are mainly in psychology, sociology, political science, and political philosophy. And in having read well over 1,000 papers (just by counting in Zotero), I can't ever recall reading part of a paper and thinking "this is fluff" or "this must have been added specifically to get through review".

Not once.

Maybe it's a problem in other fields, or in very specific journals? I honestly don't even know what fluff looks like, which is why I'm so confused by this whole thread.
I think the fundamental problem here is that the table/entity is incredibly badly named. What kind of contract has only three fields?! This isn't a case of YAGNI; no real-world "contract" is this simple.

It appears to actually be some sort of contract_period or contract_duration, and probably has a link to a real "contract" object somewhere that contains the real meat of the concept. But it's hard to tell what's literal and what's the author trying to simplify the example for us.
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And with a CRT you can also have the tube implode, and then you get 1000s of 1g sharp glass shards in your face.
WTF, they have a big Azure deal with Microsoft, why the hell would the be using Excel as the data source?

IT ineptitude of the highest order, although I'm not surprised having been involved with government IT previously.
Adding a version field can be useful to avoid this. Particularly if your entire state is stored in one object.
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Phones only listen when you use them. Speakers listen all the time. Phone calls are usually not transcribed where speaker recordings are, and can be searched back in time as well. Phone calls are not recorded, though metadata is.

So basically a “smart speaker” is like having 24/7/365 surveillance in your home.
I know that there some common topics with Eric's books.
Do you think Eric focuses as much as I do about data?
Their exploitative, self-absorbed behavior sets them apart from the charismatic, “transformational” leaders they are often confused with.

OK.

So, was Steve Jobs a transformational leader or a narcissistic leader?

We all hate narcissists when we have to deal with them, and perhaps we hate our own narcissism. But look at the incentives: CEOs are often terrible people because, to become CEO, you have to battle your way to the top in an increasingly machiavellian up-or-out pyramid and make awful decisions in the interest of the business (I've had to fire someone, it is horrible.) So we shouldn't be surprised to find many sociopaths there.

The offered solutions don't address incentives, and rely on the board, which is filled with the same type of people who are in the C-Suite. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

We are all aware that sociopaths are bad. Tell us something we don't know, Berkeley.
You can mute the mic on a smart speaker too. Doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of people have them always on, just as they do with their phones.
No. Cats, sure, they are inherently risk-averse. Dogs -- I disagree. Dogs are extremely aggressive to any human that isn't approved by their owner. There are nearly 5 MILLION dog attacks per year in the US alone, some 30-40 of which are fatal, which is several orders of magnitude higher than any wildlife attacks even if you account for the density difference. You can count the yearly wolf attacks in North America on one hand. Wolf-human interactions are incredibly rare.

Wolves have evolved to optimize for their own survival, and although they are powerful predators, they are risk averse as well, and will not go after prey that they are unsure of -- you would be too if you had to use your strength to kill for every single meal or starve to death if injured.

Dogs have been bred to fearlessly protect and attack the owner at all costs, including putting their own survival on the line, which is very much NOT how wolves think.

I'd much rather be in wolf or coyote territory than a place with stray dogs.
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My Amazon Alexa Listens to conversations to suggest items to purchase the next time I go on amazon. I hate this.

Also I pretty much only use it to listen to the radio.
Speaking of feelings, I think you underestimate their complexity. Poetry was essentially invented because our vocabulary, for all its breadth, fails to convey exactly what we mean.
It would offer access to the mac software ecosystem, particularly the (imho) cohesive set of underlying frameworks. Just like linux is "just" a kernel but is in reality a center of floss development, actively organizing around bringing binary compatibility can bring incidental benefits.

That said at this point I don't see anything inherently easier or beneficial about this than creating some other project around an alternative paradigm than PC derived desktop systems on top of some existing better supported kernel.

That said contrary to what the previous poster implied I don't think either OpenDarwin or PureDarwin aimed at reproducing the proprietary bits—they were/are essentially quirky, buggy, poorly documented BSDs just as reliant on the floss ecosystem as much better supported stacks.
The first one was not updated for years, I doubt the current one will either.
It looks like at least one company has started to produce products that tie together the radio <-> FPGA <-> GPU compute pipeline for SDR using cuSignal and these Jetson modules: https://www.crowdsupply.com/deepwave-digital/air-t

It's pretty neat stuff to think about DSP on hundreds of MHz of bandwidth being something that you can do in software these days. I remember when that was firmly in the realm of "don't bother unless you want to design a custom ASIC" and now it's starting to become even hobbyist-accessible.
To my understanding, these smart speakers only phone home when you say the keyword, right? They aren't storing or sending everything they hear throughout the day. So the cases where this could be abused by police has to be small. Seems like it would likely be used to verify that someone was home when they said they were because they asked Alexa a question at that time.

In other words, I don't think Amazon ever receives the "wrongthink" Alexa hears, unless you say it directly to Alexa.
If you are looking for something that you can use so your daughter can run a browser and then zoom into a class session then I would suggest a Raspberry PI 4GB or 8GB. I have a 4GB Nano. Comparing the Pi 4GB and Nano 2GB. The 4GB of the Pi is an important factor vs the 2GB. Personally I would recommend the 8GB Pi.

There are many more Pi's out there so the development community and support is stronger than Nano. The Nano has support, just not in the same area. I have had problems with the Nano where memory gets chewed up in some way and I just reboot it after a while. The Nano does have the advantage of an Nvidia GPU, but it appears that is of no benefit to you.

Although the Nano does not have built-in wifi I don't think that is a substantial issue, but it does mean you need to get a wifi dongle. Of more concern is the need for a fan on the Nano. I have found that it gets hot fairly easily when pushed.

Bottom line is that in my opinion the small amount of memory is a substantial to avoid the Nano 2GB, the 4GB Pi is good and for about $30 more the 8GB Pi is a definite step up.
Yeah, it's a lot easier to jump ship than to try and convice the board that the leader isn't right, I feel. I wouldn't be willing to do that.
I dont own a mac. But it supported pretty much anything my laptop let me do

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156808

Gestures:
* Tap-to-click
* Two finger tap for right click
* Two finger scroll
* Pinch to zoom
* Three finger drag & drop or highlight
* Four finger swipe down to show desktop
* Four finger swipe up to maximise current window
* Four finger swipe sideways to change current window focus
* Left handed mouse support (swap left and right mouse click)
It's taking ages for me to switch channels in the Linux desktop app.
Its showing blank screen in desktop app.
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To a point I agree, but formal verification is a thing and wouldn’t handle a normal mainstream language as we know it.
I have managed to install anbox & the modules successfully in Xubuntu (without snap). However, _application manager service_ needs to be started, and I am at a loss how to do this...
The anti-sports stance is deliberate. Pursuing athletics at a high level takes time and money, both of which would better be directed elsewhere in a world of limited resources. It's also sending a message: this is a school, not a sports club; if you want sports, join the sports club, there you get sports.

There are studies that school districts that dropped sports have better academic outcomes: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-cas...

Especially, what's with the focus on competitive sports? At school you absolutely want to reach the unfit kids because school sports is the only time they get any kind of exercise. You have to be inclusionary, the purpose is public health, individual fitness, not competition, but competitive sports is exclusionary.

Also, what's with the focus on team sports? American schoolkids have a staggering need for conformity, and team sports seem to feed that need.
I don't think this is true; these are just policies set by his executors and the Foundation, not even in the will of Nobel [1]. Even the posthumous restriction is more an implicit reading of his phrasing, that the prize (money) should be awarded to such a person (rather than the person or in honor of the person).

And in fact the three person limit seems to already stretch his definition.

It seems that this would be easily changeable by the foundation, as there is nobody with standing or grounds to contest the changes, as Nobel and his executors have long since left us to our own devices.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Foundation, and https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/full-text-of-alfred-... for complete text.
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This year’s Nobel Prize is awarded to three scientists who have made a decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world.

Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice made seminal discoveries that led to the identification of a novel virus, Hepatitis C virus. Prior to their work, the discovery of the Hepatitis A and B viruses had been critical steps forward, but the majority of blood-borne hepatitis cases remained unexplained. The discovery of Hepatitis C virus revealed the cause of the remaining cases of chronic hepatitis and made possible blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives.
Hammers and screwdrivers are both used to fasten things but they're used in different circumstances. Just like databases and Excel can both store data, but they probably should have used a database here.
> DARK

Ooooof. This is of course a joke, but it's why you should be careful in naming. My guess is they mean "SHADOW" or "LOW_LIGHT".
Then why pre-install anything? I'm not in the field, but I would think that a lot of people would want to run there Python CV code on it. Or is it, becaue they want you to use CUDA?
One issue they have is that very few companies are willing to have the government as a customer. That's one reason why they keep going back to the same failed firms time and time again.

Reasons vary but the ones I've seen are generally:

1. Complex procurement regulations that take a lot of effort to comply with by contractors.

2. Low willingness to pay (both price-wise and time-wise).

3. Civil servants are nightmare customers who don't know what they want and are under no pressure to figure it out, so there's a lot of timewasting involved.

4. PR nightmare if/when things go wrong even if it's not your fault, as government is relatively open compared to other types of customers so easier to find out about problems, and lots of people automatically blame the private sector in preference to blaming government employees due to (misguided) assumptions of moral superiority of the public sector.
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Most research papers are just a forced ceremonial sacrifice of time and resources. There is so much junk for every good article.

The PhD should be judged on their work rather than some semirandom publishing process.

Eg. like the normal thing should be one or zero papers published during a technical doctorial thesis and the effort is put into the thesis itself.
Your link shows parallel construction from Hemisphere, which is separate from the NSA phone metadata collection program.
You're paying that $200K because otherwise there is no way you're getting the business off the ground. And "simple" is relative, every customer is going to need a customized app.

This is not a trivial field, contrary to what some are trying to claim.
Personally I think of working in a branch as the process of creating a patch set. A patch in a series should only depend on its predecessors. You can submit more than one patch in a pull request.

I would never send out a patch set for review that includes all the "oops" "typo" "iteration 50" etc. commits I make as I work on code. Those are pure noise.

However, git is a tool for development, and during development I should be able to use git in whichever way is convenient for me: commit, rewrite and do whatever the hell I want with my local history. Not having that freedom is the primary reason why working with most non-distributed version control systems is such a pain.

When it comes to actually merging patch series to master, I like not doing fast-forward merges, since you maintain a natural grouping of the applied changes.
You measure the credit of what people claim against who does what work. It’s not the same but a very similar phenomenon is measuring for examples of Dunning-Kruger.
> I'm all for data privacy, but in the event of a crime being committed we need to allow every tool available to find the truth

Are you sure? This isn't the future I signed up for. The justifications for this surveillance tech are so incredibly flimsy
Except someone else sees the machine taking in cash, and says to the the barber “I’ll give you a 20% cut to swap out to my machine”. When the economics wake up, it’s a race to zero.
My personal experience backs up this thesis. I've observed that (for better and for worse), the culture of an organization is profoundly shaped by the dominant personality in the leadership team.

I have also in the past found myself being led by a deeply unethical individual, resulting (along with everyone else in the organization) in the difficult situation where we have had to collectively somehow drag the organization back out from under the lies (and perhaps fraud) committed by that single unethical leader.

This is a serious issue, and not something that we should take lightly. Not only have I experienced serious health repercussions from this episode in my life, but I have also seen other victims within the organization suffer emotional and psychological problems over the following years.

Creating a functioning, productive and healthy organization is such a critical activity - for all of us. It is something which by now we should know how to approach systematically and reliably, and yet I don't yet see (or perhaps am simply not aware) of a state-of-the art approach to this, or even a useful set of metrics by which we can judge success.
Make the customers of digital goods first-in-line creditors. It's basically goods stolen from people, at the moment of shutting down - they should be first in line. Most companies don't shut down when they run out of their last dollar; Rather, they shut down when they have more liabilities than assets.

The result would be that traditional creditors will demand an escrow for that digital data before giving any money (or providing products before payment), to make sure that they are not bypassed -- which would be the desired result for everyone.
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GCP has done more price increases than that.

Heck it charges for In use public ips attached to a GCE node. That was also a price increase.
I’ve had mine for 7 years and I hear no squeaking. I’m not a small guy either.
Using Excel is strange, so using columns really isn’t a massive leap. It is rows as per other articles, there aren’t even that many tests available to go over 1m.
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The with-baffle is interesting (and call-with-exit).

My personal take on Scheme is that call/cc is elegant and powerful in the same way that assembly language is elegant and powerful—and just like it’s hard to reason about programs that make creative use of assembly language constructs, it’s hard to reason about programs that make creative use of call/cc. Just like you can implement nearly any control structure in assembly, you can implement many with call/cc. I was once working on a Scheme compiler but abandoned the efforts once I realized the enormous negative impact that call/cc has on writing compilers, interpreters, and library code.

Do you want to write a reasonably fast and general mapcar? Do you want to do some basic escape analysis to see if you can allocate a value on the stack? Better have a good, long think about things. The withering gaze of call/cc will make your face melt.

So, years ago, I was hopeful that there would be an officially sanctioned Scheme without call/cc. Call it what you will. It never materialized.

You can think of it as two sides of the same coin—just like objects are a poor substitute for closures and closures are a poor substitute for objects, call/cc is a poor substitute for exception handling, and exception handling is a poor substitute for call/cc. R7RS adds SRFI-34, but you still see stuff like with-baffle and call-with-exit precisely because call/cc is like a stick of dynamite that you can put in your code, and there’s no way it can work across any kind of FFI boundary without severe restrictions.
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Coastal California has also been seeing persistent out of season fog so I think it’s applicable.
I have done it, it took a couple weeks. Recommend getting a power scraper if you want to make a large plate.
> these smart speakers only phone home when you say the keyword, right?

Without it being open source, there's no guarantee though?
Sadly, lots of people are not in their right mind about these things. Lots of people do use Excel to store and share data, leading to all sorts of problems. Strings inadvertently getting converted to dates, leading/trailing whitespace, data integrity not being enforced in any way, and now apparently missing data. And very important data at that. Some people love Excel just a bit too much.
This actually sounds like a neat idea from a theoretical perspective, but isn't it how cracks work, and how crack-generators evade that?
> for a complicated domain object with many other composed objects this starts to be a pain

It may be that complicated domain objects with many other composed objects are not compatible with this style of programming.

Whether or not that's a good thing could be the subject of an interesting discussion. For one thing, negative experiences with the "large complex classes" approach to domain modeling is a major factor in the backlash against object-oriented programming. Lately I've been trying to familiarize myself more with the early literature of OOP, and I'm discovering that even OOP's early pioneers had already had bad experiences with it, and would warn against the temptation to do things that way. OTOH, there's undeniably a certain attractiveness to it, otherwise it wouldn't be so common.
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The US mafia was for a time at least. Used to be common knowledge.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/5f5lph/e...
What I wanted to say that since I don't have that many people other than me looking into my code there no reason to preserve real development history of every feature and IMO 3 "feature commits" are preferable than my development mess of 50 "fix that fix this" commits.
For a very long time, it did.

Weaknesses of Access in no particular order: very poor multi-user/multi-device-access features. No real concept of servers. Buggy, had a nasty habit of corrupting its custom file format causing data loss (Excel never does this). Does expect you to understand SQL, data normalisation, etc. VBA just about serviceable for a spreadsheet but not good enough for a 'real' database-backed app.

Probably someone could try and make a better Access. There are surely lots of startups doing that already, along with hosting. All the "no code" tools that are out there, etc. Access had the advantage of coming with Office so lots of people had it already, whereas today's subscription based services that host your data have incremental cost.
I tried the cloud version of this out on someone's recommendation last week, and was impressed. It gets expensive quite fast looking at the price plans though. The k6 open source library behind it seems cool too.
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shield new version are released every 2 years 2015,2017 the latest 2019 so unlikely a new version comes out this year. I still am using the 2015 version as 2019 is not much of an upgrade.
From Zoom: "We have identified the issue causing a subset of customers to be unable to make calls externally using Zoom Phone. We will continue to provide updates as we have them."

I have been taking tickets from my organizations users since about 8am Eastern that some outbound Zoom Phone calls fail.
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What's narcissism really? Is it NPD or another cluster of personality disorders, or is it a much more pervasive set of examples of poor character and undeveloped virtue?

From the article: "Narcissistic leaders have personalities that are profoundly grandiose, overconfident, and dishonest, credit-stealing, and blame-throwing, according to Chatman. They are abusive to their subordinates, think they are superior, don’t listen to experts, create conflict, and believe the rules simply don’t apply to them. They can explode in rage at any sign of disagreement or disloyalty. There’s always an “I” in their conception of the team."

It reads more like a complaint and not an observation. I think the basic mistake these and other people make when they interpret the myth of Narcissus is thinking that he is in love with "himself," instead of the more incisive insight that he is preoccupied with his reflection, that is, how he imagines himself to be perceived by others. That is the crippling pathology, which manifests in bizarre behavior that is over-indexed on shaping the perfectness of that reflection. Whenever I see "narcissism," mentioned anywhere these days, it's always the same kind of complaint made by someone who identifies as feeling inferior to an imagined charismatic, glad handling, type-A personality.

Narcissism really is a pervasive problem, but mainly because it's not what most people think it is, and the roots of it are not something most people are prepared to face.
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