skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure? I guess if the US and others which eat to much meat cut of 10% of their meat consumption, how much spinach could you grow on the land where the animal food was grown?
Aha. Very trustworthy. 70% of the ads I see on youtube are borderline scammy. Shady investment thingies, sometimes outright scam. But YouTube is filtering bad content now, aha. Double standard at its best. Puritanism I guess. Maybe it is time to boycott this nonsense.
Not sure what you mean by shopping API, but here is all that their affiliate program policies[0] say about price comparisons with other sites:

> if you choose to display prices for any Product on your Site in any “comparison” format (including through the use of any price-comparison tool or engine) together with prices for the same or similar products offered through any web site or other means other than an Amazon Site, you must display both the lowest “new” price and, if we provide it to you, the lowest “used” price at which the Product is available on the Amazon Site.

[0] https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies
Why does back off / retry require unpredictability?
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Did Trump get treated with hydroxychloroquine?

Answer: No

Anyone believing the BS that this is an efficient drug is delusional
Use the old cable you already have. That’s the point! There’re billions of them already.
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Those observations resonate with me. This does sound a lot like the now almost ancient dream of Prolog/Smalltalk where you'd have this much more semantic and malleable environment to work with and shape to the specific purpose it needs to fulfill, without any artificial barriers.

And I don't see why that semantic singularity couldn't be local (or at leat private), instead of the current hodge-podge of "cloud" offerings trying to siphon as much data as they can – under the guise of improving the user experience – just to lock you into their version of the perfect walled garden.
A couple of years ago, I met a startup in Munich which did exactly the same and had a working prototype. Their product landing page is still online [0], I never heard of them since.

[0]: https://www.nova-audio.com/
I'm aware of the blog post, but "no immediate plans" is not as reassuring as it needs to be for users to switch browsers, and for extension developers to invest in the platform.

> We have no immediate plans to remove blocking webRequest and are working with add-on developers to gain a better understanding of how they use the APIs in question to help determine how to best support them.

I think stronger language is needed to reassure people that continuing to offer powerful extension APIs is truly important for Mozilla.
As soon as the bug report queue has dried up, then, well, yes.

Has CUPS reached the TeX nirvana?
Does that actually require unpredictability? Or is it just a defense in depth type thing where we believe we don't need it, but some unknown vulnerability/attack might make unpredictability beneficial?
Interesting that you should mention the idea of scenes, just as we've begun working on them in Snap!
Well, for one CUPS could be modernized. Currently CUPS is a rather poor user experience, setting up a printer is non-trivial for the average user and often enough requires digging into CUPS internals.

It's configured either via an ancient and partially broken printer applet (and with broken I mean I have a reproducible crash when trying to view my printer queue before the current print has begun printing on that printer, reported somewhere in 2015 but never fixed) or via the web interface, which is broken in different, exciting ways. Sometimes printing breaks, my browser for example cannot print, it always just prints an error message (which is not logged, it's only printed, there is no way to tell something went wrong by looking at CUPS), so all prints have to be done by another utility.

The code for CUPS isn't finished, it's a mess. The printing experience on Linux could best be described as "piss poor" if you're being nice about it. The best thing about CUPS one could say is "most of the time it'll have you printer do something that resembles printing your document".
Good for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Passage
>Has CUPS reached the TeX nirvana?

No
I'll definitely consider this. It's bothered me for a while that the treatment for the heartburn is acid suppressants, but one of the few things that seems to be helpful is drinking lemonade.
"secure" in the website refers to predictability. Do you have a source on how to predict rc4?
Why would that matter? What harm or benefit would archiving or not archiving ccc have?
But how unlikely is it really, given the history of her husband?
Why would the military do it near LA, startling pilots?
Yeah, I'm just thinking that dance seems less about the competition than gymnastics, so might be a healthier atmosphere.

Our gymnastics club has a kind of parkour club which seems more about having fun and being active which I think me might move my son to when he's old enough.
While I think you're right in the sense of "semantic interfaces are our best hope for driving inovation", I'm not optimistic this will happen. Everything I've seen in popular desktop UX has been migrating away from even the slightest semblance of that for the past 10 years.

The problem is that semantics require coordination, and agreement on some semblance of a common language. Popular apps can just strong-arm others into making the clever hacks, which for them is far less effort than coordinating some sort of UI language.
PCL5 is well supported in my experience. PCL6 on more modern printers. Compared to Linux, the Windows printing experience is easy. 99.9% of the time, you go into your settings, click on devices, click on "add device" and wait for the printer to show up (usually within 30 seconds, sometimes takes 2-3 minutes). Then you click that and you can print. That is the 99.9% case.

On Linux you're way less lucky if you wanna print, god forbid the document is more complex than a text file.
Well let’s keep in mind Biden has denied any such interaction with Burisma, has denied any wrongdoing in his son’s appointment, has denied any implication of graft. Despite information that at least warrants some hard questioning. Now this comes out and Biden’s team has not denied its legitimacy. And this from a candidate who’s last bid for President tanked because of his own admitted lying and plagiarizing. Judge it how you like but I don’t think you can extend Biden a benefit of the doubt — quite the opposite should be the default position, probably for any politician.
Oh emigration goes without saying! We moved to Ireland. Should be naturalized in the next year which would make things a lot easier.

Thanks for sharing your experience, it's helpful to hear from someone who did it.
> "The video platform said it would now ban any content with claims about COVID-19 vaccines that contradict consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization."

The local health authorities (in the US) and the WHO also told us in February and March that masks were useless for normal people. Even though people in Asian countries were broadly wearing masks based on prior experience from SARS. It turns out that the US public health authorities and the WHO were both wrong.
Android has allowed you to individually turn off an application's notifications since Android 4.1 (https://www.digitaltrends.com/android/how-to-turn-off-notifi...). That's 8 years ago now.

Also pretty much every phone allows you to turn on DnD from the notification drawer.
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To avoid a stampede of requests by synchronised clients.
Fairly recently a 195 gigapixel photo was taken of this bridge from a nearby building.

http://sh-meet.bigpixel.cn/
Yes but this has been politicised so heavily even the truth is normally garnished with a partizan message. It's hard to believe YouTube will be even remotely competent when it comes to filtering fact from fiction in this case.
>Anecdotally, it seems that the more the internet has expanded our ability to communicate, the more widespread misinformation has gotten.

I don't think this is the right conclusion. After thinking about it more, it's not like the internet is patient zero for conspiracies and misinformation. It's just that the internet has exposed to the rest of us how common it is for people to hold such beliefs.
I was a fan of their products first; Once I was in a gig at a customer’s office (standard Java/Spring $350, nothing fancy) and I identify a typical problem that all companies have (Don’t really want to tell you, because I’ve said on this forum I vote Trump so I don’t want people to retaliate against my product) and I thought the best place to implement it would be a corporate tool, like the Atlassian products. Long story short, it really took employees a lot of time to do a task, « which I can automate in 2 days as a programmer » (that’s what every programmer says before they spend a year on it).

I finished the gig then I developed the solution alone, and indeed there was decent demand for it. And once it was well-designed, there was even more demand for it. And when we marketed for multi-node clusters... it seems we could charge anything we want as long as we have the enterprise features (cluster, performance reports, XML export, REST APIs, permissions, all those details that are important for companies).
Demonetize and demote these videos, without taking them down entirely. Make them accessible through search but do not recommend them to people who are not specifically looking for the videos.
Apple owns the code to CUPS. They hired Sweet, the author, and got the code as well.
He's still going at it to this day on Twitter.
Many prologs or derivates (like datalog or picat) use efficient sat solvers internally for quite some time already.
I use xmonad, windows grouped in virtual workspaces by task.

1 - quick browsing

2 - development (editor and browser)

3...7 - if "development" accumulates too many windows (uncomfortable) and I don't want to close them yet, subset I work with pushed to next number (or subset I want to investigate later)

8 - audio

9 - servers

It exits, it is not mainstream.
I am working on a side project where I am building a desktop environment for Linux and the BSDs that implements OpenDoc-style components using Common Lisp, where components are objects and where they could be combined not only by using code, but graphically as well. This is inspired by Smalltalk, Lisp machines, and OpenDoc. Another aspect of this desktop environment is its support for very flexible user interfaces that can be easily modified. This project is motivated by my frustrations with existing desktop environments (I lament the stagnation of macOS) and my desire to see something like a modern Lisp machine.

Below is a document that describes my ideas:

http://mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-proposal-for-...

I'm still in the very early phases of this project; there's no code available, and I'm currently in the process of learning Wayland and graphics programming (I have a background in systems programming and I've been getting up to speed on graphics programming in order to carry out this project).
I believe numpy.random uses PCG by default.
https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/random/index.html
Mine is similar.

Can easily fall into a light sleep which lasts about 30 minutes, then I wake up. I've never been able to figure out of it's something environmental pulling me out, or just me.

Those 30 minutes are just enough of a power nap I'm up until 4:00am.

At this point I know trying to go back to sleep is futile so I just get up and go do something productive.
That's no replacement for CUPS. Far from it, it builds upon CUPS. From the page you linked:

> PAPPL requires a POSIX-compliant host operating system such as Linux®, macOS®, QNX®, or VxWorks®. It also requires the following support libraries:
> CUPS 2.2 or later for the CUPS libraries (libcups2/libcupsimage2)
Fact checking is hard and time-consuming but making up bullshit is easy. People love sharing contary-to-conventional-wisdom news and ideas that they come across, because it makes them feel smart.

Given these two facts, it's far easier for lies to spread quicker than truth.

How do you solve for this in your spherical cow model of free speech?
For real. The ebaumsworld guy did it and made out like a bandit (millions of dollars if I recall correct)
Yes it does in some cases. Take Alzheimer's disease for example. What is the mechanism for the disease? We don't know. But the consensus is it's not amyloid plaques, based on the most recent data. Some scientists think it still is, but the consensus is it's not.

Scientific truth is not black and white but rather shades of gray. Yes, some things we know the absolute truth (or rather there is so much evidence that it's unlikely it's wrong), but there is plenty that we're just "pretty sure" and that's typically based on consensus.
> Was the NY Post article actually filled with disinformation?

Yes.

Parroting Russian disinformation during an election campaign because your owners don't like the politics of said disinformation target should be removed.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/14/biden-campaign-lash...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

There needs to be more censorship on FB and YouTube which are in addition to Fox News doing WAY more damage to the United States than any foreign terrorists could ever dream.
It does not require true unpredictability, the key aim being to have each host retry at a different time.

There is no need to cryptographic strength, which is costly, and pseudo-randomness is enough and much cheaper.
Lobster guy?!
> Workplaces are a neutral environment.

Political neutrality doesn't exist. “Do not discuss politics” is a defense of the status quo.
Sounds pretty undecidable to me to proof that a pseudo number generator has a challenging prediction difficulty.
> I wish I didn't know it because (1) I see "begs the question" used much more frequently to mean "compels us to consider" than the logical fallacy and (2) every time I see it used that way, an annoying, pedantic voice in the back of my head says, "oh, it's used wrong!"

I've trained myself to automatically substitute "prompts the question" whenever I see "begs the question". That way I save emotional energy. (A technique learned from several XKCD cartoons.)
You assume that the WHO and others have to be right all the time everytime. And that they changed their minds regarding COVID-19 because of "public" pressure and not because of new insights. Both assumptions are not correct IMHO.

The CDC did bow to political authority on COVID-19 measures so. Contrary to science.
To provide one anecdotal data counterpoint: I decided to try cold showers a few years ago (not Wim Hof method, just showers) and although I generaly get ill very rarely, that year I cougt something three times. It obviously does not prove anything, might have been just bad luck, but after the third time I did not have the willpower to restart the cold showers routine again.

Maybe I was doing it wrong but I do not know how - I started with just showering my legs with lukewarm water and progressed to colder water and longer time gradually, very slowly. However, it never made me feel as good as some people here descibe. Sometimes I felt slightly refreshed during the summer but more often I just felt cold and stiff and I had strong desire to return to bed to warm up but I could not do that and I had to sit in my office cold and miserable for hours.

Maybe cold showers are not for everybody?
> The whole point is that on Android, you can opt out.

The principle of Privacy isn't the act of giving people options (Facebook uses this excuse all the time - "but users had the option! not our fault!").

The principle is designing privacy into the default way people use things. At an ecosystem level the privacy awareness level and incentive structure is clear between the big companies.

Nitpicking and hyperbole isn't helping make your point like you think it is. Do you think my mom knows how to opt out of something like that on Android or if that's even possible? No. But she's IS going to be using Apple Maps by default and have a heightened level of privacy all the same.

Privacy is taking care of your entire customer base and making intelligent default considerations. Not giving nerds a pane of options.
The point is that nobody can easily eavesdrop the meeting, e.g. by copying the network stream.

This of courses does not prevent Zoom from eavesdropping, should law enforcement or a three-letter agency demand that.

With E2EE, Zoom themselves cannot access meeting streams, much like any other third party, including police and NSA.
The circular chart example given for Machine Learning is virtually identical to a cycle of continuous improvement in a service or manufacturing operation, except for one little detail,

with Continuous Improvement you don't want the minimum viable product, you want the Maximum Viable Product.

Seems like a machine learning outfit would really benefit from a leader who is smarter to begin with, a better learner, and already more skilled in the task that you want the machine to do.
Yay, this is great, and should be used for everything! /s

If we used this for medical advice in my country, this would make it very funny... at the start of the epidemic, our government "experts" said:

- "healthy people don't need masks"

...and youtube would censor all the "fearmongering paranoics" advocating for mask use.

Then on some random spring day, our government makes a new rule:

- "you need a mask and gloves to enter any closed public space (stores,...)" (yes, literally overnight)

And youtube would censor everybody saying that masks don't help healthy people.
Hooolyyy craaap!! That was a good read, thank you.

Quote: "Ivan is an Amish alpha-geek. He is always the first to try a new gadget or technique. He gets in his head that the new flowbitzmodulator would be really useful."

flowbitzmodulator!! That's my new word for this week...my wife's going to kill me
These algorithms are fantastic for microcontroller applications. You can even choose the multiplicative constant so that it fits in a Thumb-2 immediate and save yourself a constant pool reference, with no degradation in quality for the output (as measured by spectral tests).
Here’s a Javascript implementation,

https://observablehq.com/@jrus/permuted-congruential-generat...

It’s a bit of a pain because Javascript can’t do native 64-bit integer arithmetic. But it should still be fast enough for most purposes.
15 year old boys tend not to have that “water off a ducks back” skill, even when they’ve been brought up with social media.

Still you can always rely on your heroes:

https://youtu.be/raGruhb8Qbg
Microsoft rolls out new extensions API but promises to leave ad blockers alone
If they added the feature themselves, likely many more people would find it and use it, and the average price paid would drop.

The way it currently works represents a kind of price discrimination, just like providing coupons that people have to find and cut out. Price sensitive people make the effort to track down pricing information and may be prepared to wait for a better deal. Price insensitive ones don’t and aren’t.
It's sad to see such "to hell with it" naivete (and the comments here with broad supporting evidence that data scientists are poor software developers.

There are also a lot of DS people wrestling with the deeper challenges at the heart of MLOps and beyond just advocating sane team-based workflows, are looking at ways to harden and structure ML specific processes in the planning, design, build, and deploy phases.

Sean Taylor at Lyft on choosing metrics - https://medium.com/@seanjtaylor/designing-and-evaluating-met...

Test coverage of ML models and a good discussion on why and how ML code testing isn't the same as traditional testing - https://www.jeremyjordan.me/testing-ml/

A tool for Behavioral testing of NLP models - https://github.com/marcotcr/checklist

How to be a 10x data scientist (spoiler: have a professional end to end workflow) - https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-be-a-10x-data-scientis...

Ml-specific technical debt, how to measure it, some ideas on how to handle it, this paper has spawned a lot of great tools - http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5656-hidden-technical-debt-in-ma...

Adversarial instance and outlier detection - https://github.com/SeldonIO/alibi-detect

And of course a whole suite of tools and research beingn done on data, pipeline, and model management, optimizing deployment and serving, explainability and interpretability, all in the service of applying enterprise-ready, engineering-grade rigor to data science.

And then you read something like this and want to tear your hair out.
Youtube already had plenty of free speech where everyone can say anything unhindered and is rewarded if they generate attention.

The ultimate free speech hasn't lead anywhere good on the internet because quacks that previously where relegated to soap boxes in their villages when free speech was thought of in the US are now given the same platform and power of voice as field experts who have studied their domain for years and know the dangers.
Xoshiro over PCG arguments:
http://pcg.di.unimi.it/pcg.php

Response by the author:
https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/on-vignas-pcg-critique.html

Personally, I use a SIMD Xoshiro256+ when I want a solid and fast RNG (although I mostly use Julia's default -- a MersenneTwister).
> huge amount of amazon’s retail business is as a platform for others to sell their products and the revenue/profit from that is a different game than shipped and sold by amazon

This would makes sense.
~95% of my Amazon purchases are 'sold by amazon', ~4% are 'fulfilled by amazon', as I strongly avoid 3rd party sellers.
I am not sure how representative that is of larger customer base of Amazon.
If its large enough, CCC traffic for Amazon is less desirable.

> And amazon does already have these features.

Not even close.
The Drama between the author of PCG (u/ProfONeill) and the author of xoshiro (u/sebastianovigna) is one of the more entertanining parts of the C++ community. Too bad that despite that fierce competition, the <random> standard header itself is universally hated.
Since it’s Android, I wonder if you could install something open source and more to your liking?