skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To a first approximation, yes. There are exceptions of course and people fall into them. But the energy that will go into trying to create your own exception is likely to be greater than the energy that goes into a PhD and the odds of winding up in a research position are lower than with a PhD.

Think about it from the perspective of a person hiring for a research position. How would not having a PhD be a positive? Not having a PhD doesn't correlate with anything positive. It correlates with less training, less commitment, and less experience. And it correlates with the candidate not valuing these things.

The PhD is more in your control than finding a research position without one. Good luck.
This is a fair offer. Take it. If 2 of you worked on something for 3 months and you don't believe it is worth 30k pounds means you don't believe in it yourself.
This is a good example of the bubble the internet lives in. Every criticism of the monoculture must be russian or chinese trolling.
You can't in good faith make the argument that t_D was a positive sub. It loved Trump, yes, but it also frequently called for the execution of Muslims [1], immigrants [2], Planned Parenthood employees [3], Hillary Clinton [4], etc. [5]

[1] https://archive.is/Kfl86 https://archive.is/DwlAc

[2] https://archive.is/oOqOR

[3] https://archive.is/LGH19

[4] https://archive.is/0uCjr https://archive.ph/LPuGH https://archive.fo/Z0s1x

[5] https://archive.ph/2Gj8w
Yes, child pornography seems to be the one big outlier. However, even the Supreme Court ruled to expand free speech in the case of a borderline child porn case. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coalit....

Most of the child pornography laws that are used in prosecution are actually obscenity laws, which are an entirely different class of strange laws. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography_laws_in_the_....

Obviously this is probably the most egregious and disgusting form of criminality out there, so it's an important issue to deal with. I'm not sure what the proper solution is, but what we have now seems to work, given its extremely limited and well-defined scope.
> afraid of looking stupid

The author said they’ve not seen this much, but it’s what drives most bad decisions: ego.
Government's can and do fail.
Railway oriented programming, Clojure and exception handling: why and how?
Does anyone actually believe these numbers? Reddit seems half filled with bots and alt accounts to me.
Like predator
Old Polish tango in Polish and Hebrew.[0]

Russian version[1] of Polish tango Ostatnie Niedziela imortalized in a film chronicling the purges of 1930's Soviet Union.[2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEL0RL_bBkw

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8sRJ-zAMFk

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111579/
Stanford professor: To eliminate Covid would have to destroy our entire society
It's versioned, so if we come up with significant improvements later, we can bump the version.

This format fills two voids:

1. The lack of native types in most of the other formats

2. The lack of either editability or processing efficiency, depending on whether it's a binary or text format.

I developed this format because I'm tired of putting encodings on top of encodings (i.e. base64) and other such tricks, just to get my data across to the other side, and I want a general purpose data format that's efficient as well as readable.
Then make it illegal for any ship built by that company to dock on american shores until every ship they've ever built can be audited for not having this fuckery. At their expense. There needs to be consequences for people breaking the law.
mcg, I presume. But 200mcg is a really high dose. 10-20 would be a microdose for most. I hope you test your stuff and have the right potency because your comment doesn't sound right.
How It Feels When Software Watches You Take Tests
Thanks for that perspective. That could explain it indeed. The psychiatrists I saw were the ones working the ward, not outpatients. So they really do see the worst of it. That being said, I really do admire the work they do, the people there are typically not easy to work with, at least not while they are on the ward.

I am lucky in that I'm on a low dose of not too strong medication (valproate acid, 600mg slow release daily). If I go off (I've weaned off it myself before) nothing really extreme seems to happen.
Hope you are doing well with your medication.
Stand-up comedy doesn't have a fraction of the audience, sadly, and many cinemas already serve booze and proper food, even going as far as to-your-seat-service. Everything is ruined, isn't it?
>Fundamentally an ethical system is not that different from a mathematical one: there are some assumptions, some deductive rules, and a potentially infinite set of conclusions that result from applying those deductive rules to those assumptions.

Even simple enough math starting from formal axioms are incomplete (Godel) [1]. Real world ethics, starting by ethical assumptions will be 1000 times as full of holes and inconsistencies. And that's before we even consider language ambiguities in the much more complex "ethical assumptions".

[1] "The first incompleteness theorem states that no consistent system of axioms whose theorems can be listed by an effective procedure (i.e., an algorithm) is capable of proving all truths about the arithmetic of natural numbers. For any such consistent formal system, there will always be statements about natural numbers that are true, but that are unprovable within the system. The second incompleteness theorem, an extension of the first, shows that the system cannot demonstrate its own consistency".
I very much agree with you on virtual/drawn "child pornography", in which there is no victim and no abuse. Fiction should always be unrestricted.
It sounds like the grungy work you'd need to look into is a canary deploy with a production traffic duplicator. Spin up a version N+1 in AWS, copy all the traffic N is getting, only hook N+1 to mocks and observed behavior.

If your monitoring and alerting and quotas are setup right you'll know if the version update is ok.

To me that is very scary work though. Very difficult and risky and this article re-applies (at least to me).
This is too accurate. Thought control in its simplicity. Ban all dissenting opinions, create a bunch of hacked up minions.
>Of course, you can have objective claims such as "if all people followed this principle, it would have this outcome".

Good luck proving the outcome for anything less than very trivial cases...
Shameless plug: AWW (https://awwapp.com/) supports all of these and there's a free version.
What are Differential Equations and how do they work?
I read a bit but I'd like to see a comparison of the same data structure in JSON, YAML and NT.

I would also like to see YAML converted to NT and back to YAML just to see if there is any information loss.
Numerous modern medicine is derived from plants or traditional herbal medicine. Aspirin is the most famous example, it's the active ingredient of willow-based remedies.

It's still a bad idea to drink willow-bark tea in lieu of taking an aspirin nowadays.
Was Damon Albarn was Justine frishman of elasticas boyfriend at the time?

I remember Dave rowntree of blur also wrote some Linux drivers
As did MySpace.

The two of us are unable to reach consensus on genuine offering value versus the importance of business ethics. I believe we can better cease this discussion.
Providers record where you go, the bar records who you are.
As an avid reddit user, wtf? That's not my feeling at all. What subreddits do you use?
Oh my God I remember so acutely the helpful folks on IRC that would SSH into my machine to help me out. Simpler times.
Yes, I'm thinking of doing that. I'll try to lower a bit his price and go with what I can get.
What about WiFi, and the adage, "you can't switch air"?
Lots of questions; top 2:

How did you get started?

Is there a reasonably safe (both medically and legally) way to source it?
The complicating factor is that every disease/disorder/condition (both mental and physical) is a combination of genetics, environment, and the nonlinear interaction of genetics and environment. We can measure the genetic factors, and with somewhat more difficulty, the environmental factors. But that interaction term is extremely difficult to measure. It encompasses things like those mentioned in the article: the fact that "sick" people often don't appear sick unless there is an environmental stressor exacerbating their condition. This kind of conditional effect is very hard to measure scientifically.
> I'm sure a government could detect that a citizen visited grindr.com, but it'd be harder to guarantee that they actually had intent to commit "crimes" without access to unencrypted internal messages.

Why would that hypothetical government care about that? Just lock everyone up!
Where do people use DMR/D-Star/etc for ham radio? All I ever hear are AM, FM and SSB for voice.
I love 'the incremental approach to compiler construction'. Here are a few other courses that use this approach to teach compiler construction:

* http://www.ccs.neu.edu/course/cs4410/

* https://ucsd-cse131-f19.github.io/

* https://jeapostrophe.github.io/courses/2017/spring/406/notes...
My immediate thought given title
I truly was, and it's was hilarious.

California/Silicon Valley has a big issue of absolutely belief they are right. Big tech companies want to stop "disinformation" by banning people from their platforms.

A recent case is Dr. Li-Meng Yan who's been publishing research about CoV2 origins. There are academics who've taken issue with some of those releases/papers, and there is room for discussion for sure. But it should be discussed. Twitter just said, "nope, disinformation, cut and dry" and banned her account.

There are a lot of experts recently who have been banned on platforms like YouTube, Twitter, et. al. for spreading bad information. But science is not democratic. California companies have somehow become the arbitrators of what is good and bad science.

But coming back off of science to t_d, the same applies. It's a huge feedback loop of "he's bad" and a "fascists" and subs like these showed time and time again the massive media distortion of every one of his statements. There are a lot of agendas going on here and few of them are for the Truth.
I'm surprised there aren't more comments about this. It is a brilliantly positioned service that takes some features that were previously only available at the paid levels ($20 and up) and bundles them into a $5 add-on for free users.

I have been working with WordPress-to-static on Cloudflare Workers for a while and am very curious to see how this solution performs.
They never said it was, and it would be fine to have multiple open standards if they are suited for different things. M17 looks to be better suited for digital voice than AX.25.
The assumption of SETI has been that an advanced civilization is broadcasting a narrow-band (in the 'water hole' and possibly modulated) omni-directional signal using a large amount of energy. We can see stars across the galaxy (and, indeed, in other galaxies), so by using some large fraction of a star's energy this should be possible.

We're not far from having the telescope technology that enables us to spectrally sample the atmospheres of extrasolar planets to detect gases that are associated with life (as we know it) and even of technological civilizations (e.g. chlorofluorocarbons). This is a form of SETI too. Using such technology, an alien civilization could beam signals to selected planets that show such signs and save the energy of broadcasting omnidirectionally.

The purpose of SETI is not necessarily to confirm such possibilities (my opinion is that civilizations like us are really rare at this stage of the Universe's evolution - maybe less than one per galaxy). But at least to rule them out.
Twitter as well.
If no one really wanted to read that, then your comment wouldn’t be the first one on this thread. Thank you for sharing with us.
"What is best in life?"

"To squish your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their queen"
> The way this happened is pretty simple. At Strong Towns, we call it the Growth Ponzi Scheme. Through a combination of federal incentives, state programs and private capital, cities were able to rapidly grow by expanding horizontally. This provided the local government with the immediate revenues that come from new growth -- permit fees, utility fees, property tax increases, sales tax -- and, in exchange, the city takes on the long term responsibility of servicing and maintaining all the new infrastructure. The money comes in handy in the present while the future obligation is, well....a long time in the future.

This is the lens through which Strong Towns views the country's cities. It's a useful model that explains a great deal. It's also falsifiable.

The growth Ponzi scheme hypothesis says that the source of America's infrastructure problems is subsidies from higher levels of governments (e.g., federal) to lower levels (e.g., cities) for infrastructure. The outcome is always the same: infrastructure that can't be maintained because its costs were never accounted for.

The Strong Towns website is chock full of examples, and Lafayette LA is just one. At this point if you live in any US city it seems pretty likely that you'll find a Growth Ponzi at work.

Also, that 3D map should scare the liver out of local politicians.
Our stories have more in common than you might think. I've always had a focus on trying to understand things, but I've also encountered people who would throw pragmatism and logic out the window as soon as I'd get real.

For me, (recreational) drugs are not the solution at all but they've been a part of my life and they're part of an explanation of things, so any therapist who would dismiss the experience entirely also dismisses the nature of my approach to those experiences, and in doing so they create their own blind spot and less useful to me because they've already established that they're unwilling or incapable of looking at the big picture.

The psychiatrist I'm talking about never mentions drugs actively, never sings praises of any of those experiences or even makes any particularly positive comment about them, but he doesn't disparage them and he inquires about what the experiences were ("what pills? what dosage?" etc, usually when relevant - otherwise I'll volunteer what I think is relevant without fear). And he is willing to answer my questions ("what are the advantages/drawbacks when taking a little bit more than the nominal dose for this treatment?"), and is willing to try different approaches that we discuss and reflect on.

This builds a trust relationship that does more for treatment than people might think. I don't need to amplify the meds using doses of Abilify and whatnot, I don't need to deal with side-effects that go unadressed, etc. If there are issues, I can talk to someone who isn't prejudiced, who is willing to offer alternatives, willing to discuss the compromises related to those alternatives, and willing to devise a plan that is medically sound to get from A to B.

As for the psychiatric help, I'm glad that for you not taking coffee and doing sports is enough. I've mistakenly thought that for years (more vitamin D, "it's S.A.D", no coffee for months, more exercise, etc etc), but I had to hit a wall hard before I encountered the help that I realized I needed my whole life.

For people who relate to this thread (with BPD) or people with severe depression and other psychiatric issues, proper psychiatric help is not really an optional thing but much more like the knee surgery required to walk properly or the wheelchair that is required to be autonomous: whether temporary (former) or permanent (latter), it's an essential element that can enable some people to actually live, and live well.
If I recall correctly, its initial user base was mostly composed of fake users, to make it appear as if had quickly become popular.
This is a bit of a disaster, I won't shed any tears for the massive multiplexes or the people behind Cineworld, but their local Picturehouse cinemas are wonderful, often local hubs and employ many dedicated and lovely people. In and around London, I will personally miss Bromley Picturehouse, The Ritzy in Brixton and The Gate in Notting Hill. Cineworld Feltham for a time was the busiest cinema in the entire country, seemingly due to its schedule of Bollywood movies. A lot of customers and employees being hammered here.

If Odeon or anyone can muster up the cash, which they probably can't, picking up the Picturehouse chain would be seriously marvellous.
> ...the problem is more subtle.

What is 'the problem' that you are apparently trying to address here? Everyone in the discussion is well aware that the 2nd. law of thermodynamics prevents the continuous extraction of work from ambient heat without there being a temperature difference. Are you saying that the paper is claiming that this has been done? If not that, are you claiming that the device, as described in the paper, is incapable of generating power from fluctuations in the ambient temperature? Have you identified some other problem in the paper? Alternatively - I don't think you are saying this, but I will put it in for completeness - could it be that you are saying that the paper shows that this team really has invented a Maxwell's diode, capable of continuously extracting work from the ambient heat of a closed system in thermal equilibrium?

If you are still only taking issue with the press release, you are just nerdsplaining to a bunch of people who already get it, thank you very much.
>I think one answer is tax cuts for charity.

>To be clear, not making your tax payments less, but rather choosing where it goes.

Giving to charities reduces your tax burden, at least in the US.

In fact, you can generally deduct up to half your income[0] based on charitable contributions.

Does that meet your desire to better direct your tax dollars?

[0] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
Consolidation or not. I think local independent cinemas have been a dying breed for many years.
Seems like it, legally. I stand corrected.
Depending on what's in the skin cream, it might not be an unreasonable thing to do. They often contain not much more than plant fats and stablilizers. Probably the perfume will make it taste foul, but it won't kill you.
Nice! Would you (presuming you're the author) consider adding something like Haitian Voodoo drumming? A poster suggested listening to rhythmic voodoo drumming to improve focus under an article posted about two weeks ago, which I've been doing. It really works wonders, using something like this mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e8bUyC55cc.

I know drumming isn't really ambient, but that "tribal" soundscape helps train my coding mind like nothing else.
Got a VIC-20 for Christmas in 1982, and the excellent Programmers' Reference Guide a few months later. Later, my high school had a partnership with a local university, so I was able to get an account on their VAX/VMS systems, and access to their labs and even dial-up access.
Nvidia and Arm, Because, Apple
My understanding is that, if you use their plugin, they only rebuild the cache when you add new content.

Any crawlers would be interacting only with the cached version of your site, hosted on the nearest edge location.
> If commit messages refer to other commits by ID (e.g. "this reverts commit 01234567890abcdef", "In commit 0013deadbeef9a..."), those commit messages should be rewritten to refer to the new commit IDs

Finally, a tool that does this! I wish git rebase could do it.
I guess there should be a sound technical reason for choosing to encrypt with a well known key vs transmitting cleartext, but I fail to imagine it.

What's the advantage of doing it?
This is the problem of politics in a nutshell. We tend to have strong opinions, as is out democratic duty. It's impossible (or very hard) to form opinions based on specifics. So we fall into tragically cliched thinking.

"The problem" is whatever the problem always is. Maybe its Capitalism. Maybe its "kickbacks, overregulation, collusion in bidding, and simple "match the budget" bids" It's probably whatever your worldview always points to.
What real effects ? I'm curious
Does anyone know of data tools that could help (say) a city council understand the position of their own municipality? I think a lot of people are flying blind, not asking the right questions.
Perhaps because bars can also store the devices MAC address which helps identify it...

(recent iOS devices use random MAC addresses by the way for improved privacy in which case i think this wouldn't help/identify a device anymore.)
Good question, and one we have thought about quite a bit. We very much know that we’ll be involved in a cat and mouse game with facial recognition companies over time. Our objective is to protect users from facial recognition today and going forward. Even if next year, for instance, a facial recognition company can develop tech that works on protected images posted this year, if we are able to advance our protection to match advances in facial recognition next year the user will still be protected in real time - which is what really matters. So in short - it likely won’t matter if/when there are advances in facial recognition if we can keep up!
Protect/Sell people’s personal data is like the main ethical issue with software engineering.
How to Deal with Foggy or Ambiguous Project Starts
Thank you. I appreciate it
Also light has very complex interactions with various of our biological symptoms, and I personally would be wary of unintended consequences without long term testing. e.g. it could interfere with sleep, or have other subtle effects
I'm 31, when I was 12 my dad gave me his old Pentium 100MHz, because he bought himself a new PC.

I was hooked immediately - I wanted to make games so I stole(after getting a hard "no" upon asking) a few CDs from PC magazines from my dad and started installing any software that would catch my attention.

My first lines of code were a result of reverse-engineering a "family homepage" - something one could generate in the original Sims game - I think I made an image change its source URL on hover or something like that.

Unfortunately my potato PC had a radiator issue so any serious work could only be done in the middle of winter with the window wide open - otherwise after 20 minutes or so I would get random errors, restarts etc.

Later I got a floppy disc from school with the Logo platform and a book about Pascal + CD from my friend and a CD with MS FrontPage.

Having obtained these tools and with the radiator fixed I almost failed a year in school, because I already found my calling and homework was a distant second priority.

Looking back I regret I didn't have an internet connection until 2007 or so.
Yet a paternity test is not allowed without the potential fraudsteress's permission.
You are going full circle without realising it.

A political party may be banned in Germany, as in: You cannot vote for them any more. For that to happen, they have to be hostile against fundamental parts of the constitution. That is division of powers, free development of the individual, independence of courts and stuff like that. Only then a ban might be even considered.

And it is still fully legal to be against these things, tweet about them or whatever.

This is to -protect- Jews, Muslims and Christians, because as was so colourfully demonstrated in Germany 33-45 it is very easy to run a platform striving to destroy these values within a democratic framework. (Similar to what the Free Speech Paradox is about)

There is no slippery slope here, and your argument that there is either bad faith or extremely uniformed.
We don't all “speak American.” Neither does Python. Chardet and the encodings