skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a completely different thing to „get it up and running” and to fully operate and monitor 24/7 a highly available environment using full time SREs with strict contracted SLAs.
PCI PIO Board (2001)
Can second this. I was worried that course would be over my head since I never took physics in college, but he does a great job prepping you to understand the end of the course.
According to the article, its privacy is worse. Also, its implementation of ITP leaks more information when it is enabled (the default) than when it is disabled.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/01/24/information-leaks-via-saf...
>> If you look at a horse for a minute it could be the equivalent of training on 1 million images of a horse.

If you trained a neural net with 1 million images of the same horse, it would learn to recognise that horse... but no other horse. Neural net datasets try to include as many variants of the target concept as possible in order to capture as many of the common features of instances of that concept as possible. A single horse would not suffice, e.g. 1 million images of a white horse would teach a neural net that horses are only white, etc.

Also, a child can learn to recognise horses from a caricature of a horse- which is a single image of a horse, not 1 million images. Whatever human minds do when they learn to recognise objects, that's not training with big data in real time.
If you have a cyclic dependency in your project then you more likely have a DAG that’s not sufficiently broken down. That is if A and B seem to depend on each other you have some sub tasks in each that need to be pulled out. If this still fails to break the apparent cycle, you’ve got a problem.

Another thing to keep in mind is that there's a distinction between a system having cyclic dependencies (I need A & B working because they communicate with each other), and the task ordering. During development you can end up with a partially correct system. If A sends to B, and B sends to A but I only have one person working on both parts, then it's possible I'll end up in a state where A sends to B but not the reverse. That's fine during development. Yes, the system is "wrong" per the design or spec. But it's a partial system (like a half-built bridge). Your tasks will appear to have a cycle, but in reality you will break it by selecting one portion to complete first so in the end it remains (based on the chosen path) a DAG.
A lesson I took from reading a biography of Dickens, regarding the current belief about an era and the documented behaviour pointed out that we hold "victorian values" up as some amazing moral high-ground: it was actually a normalised hypocrisy, Wealthy upper-middle classes and above could do whatever they liked in private, as long as you kept up appearances publicly. Only middle classes and below were expected to conform to the public norms.

I suspect Boston of the time of Edwards to be the same: different to the current public view, but probably palpably documented in notes, diaries of the time.

That, bad dentition, bad nutrition, bad opticians and a lack of antibiotics probably make any time before 1940 less appealing to me.
Please permit me to cast blame upon the medium we use. I intended no sarcasm.
Pandemics end in different ways, but never quick and neat
“Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.”

Thomas Gray
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44301/ode-on-a-distan...
My ideal UI would be having multiple accounts on different servers and a client with a slack/discord like sidebar to quickly and easily switch between them.

Then I could have one profile for coding, one for gaming, one for politics. The feed for each would only be about that topic so I can delve into what I feel like at that moment. The other big benefit is that I know everyone following me is following for that topic. On Twitter I mostly talk about tech and when I post about politics it may be uninteresting to 80% of my followers. Because one single account is supposed to represent me they have to put up with that and it creates a worse user experience.

The advantage of anonymous virtual accounts is we can have as many of them as we like, we should embrace that and build a better social network because of it.
I wonder if tinnitus itself also generates metabolites.
According to the article, in previous cases the Courts have found the banks responsible for losses held in 3rd party vaults, presumably to discourage exactly this kind of effort to dodge liability.
Both of the major parties in the US have this issue. They're big tent parties, and the various factions often have conflicting values.

It's probably true that, broadly speaking, Muslims tend to be more socially conservative than other Democrats. But then again, there was a similar issue with black voters and gay rights; black Democrats were less supportive than white Democrats, despite black people voting for Democrats far more than white people, on average.
This comment section took an unexpected turn.
Jetpack sighted again above Los Angeles, this time at 6k feet
Anyone know what they're planting?
Does this mean some sort of artificial gravity may be possible after all by causing some kind of inflation?
As you may know, one of the great problems in physics is to unite relativity and quantum mechanics. It happens to be that the graviton is a concept from QM and "gravity is not a force" is a concept that lives in the theory of relativity.
> I'm sure I fall victim to this when reading outside my expertise as well, i.e. when reading about genetics stuff or quantum computing.

I try to avoid this by focusing on the content, not who the researchers are. If they can do some cool new thing with mosquito genetics, now I know that. I don't need to know whether the specific paper being hyped is novel or whether 95% of the content was proved by someone else: that's a task for the Nobel committee and I wouldn't recognise the researchers' names again anyway.
The baby in the hammock is not in a seated position like in a normal car seat, and with a baby inside there's not much curvature. (We have two car seats, one lie-flat and one normal, since we expected to travel more with the baby, we're well aware of the issues. Of course COVID put a stop to that plan. The hammock worked well on a whistlestop tour of Germany and Ireland visiting our respective relatives, during the summer COVID lull.)

We got the hammock after he would continuously wake up in a bedside cot.

Do your own research, of course. I'm just saying what worked for us. I'm not invested in selling the product.
Used this to write my master dissertation back in 2003-2004. At least for me it is how every word processor should be, like an IDE, a front-end for CLI tools that are in turn amenable to automation (I used a Makefile to sanity check and generate the final document versions.)
> Enforcing restrictions for closed spaces or making people wear a mask is not corrosion of democracy.

You’re really understating what has happened and what is going on.

> Corrosion of democracy is when these rules are used selectively and for political reasons.

When Mayor De Blasio and Governor Cuomo limit church gatherings, but not protests, what would you call that?

If you don’t think the rules are being unevenly enforced, and for political reasons, then you aren’t paying attention.

And if you don’t think it is the people who are calling for this uneven enforcement, you’re paying even less attention.
What the hell do you even hope to fix in something that small and who else would you trust to repair something that expensive?
14-bedroom, 11,000 sq. ft castle on 94 acres. Not too bad.

By way of comparison, this is what $3.3M buys you in SF: https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/2070-Beach-St-94123/...
Short answer: It doesn't work that way.

Long answer: Developers, or more specifically, Microsoft PM's would keelhaul you for cutting of that stream of sweet, sweet, monetizable data, and regardless, with the right scripting, there is no difference between user input regardless of whether it is you with a mouse or a malicious actor dropping a payload to run shellcode.

The vulnerability is something encountered through dropping a specially crafted media file into a pipeline of hardware encoder/decoders that apparently goes through a poorly developed section of Windows.
The fact that something cannot be done perfectly is not a valid excuse to do it poolry.
Google Says Biggest DDoS Attack on Record Hit the Company in 2017
Regulation and nationalization are two different things.

Only in America could the two be conflated.

A market does not work for a natural monopoly.
was just going to comment CPAP machine! Hands down most life-changing thing I have acquired.
What is so great about having many different languages?

It is sad when cultural heritage is lost because it was written in a language no one speaks anymore. But this problem is caused by having many different languages. In a parallel reality, where the culture spoke the same language as other countries, the cultural heritage would not be lost.

It is sad when a group of people is discriminated or has fewer oportunities, because they cannot use their language. But again, in a parallel reality, where these people didn't grow up speaking a different language, the problem doesn't exist.

If you could magically change the world so that it would have 10× more languages, 10× more scripts, and 10× more USB connector types, would it make the world a better place? If not, then why changing it in the opposite direction wouldn't make it better?

When a language disappears today, it is bad because we lose information, and because the last users of the language have a problem communicating. But if you could magically change the past to replace that language by English centuries ago, there would be no lost information and no suffering users. And if we could agree on a common language today, we would be magically changing the future just like that. (Esperanto gives the additional advantage of being more regular.)
A couple years ago all you heard about was kids who didn't want to get shot in school. Now it's communities of color who don't want to get shot by police. It sure is a lot nicer to keep my head in the sand.
Would be interested to learn more about you're experience. I'm suffering from some RSI, so I'm thinking a pen tablet could help - I've already tried every type of mouse out there.

Two questions:
1. How do you scroll ?!
2. What Wacom tablet do you recommend?
This article is garbage.

I was initially concerned as we're building a sleep wearable that uses sound to alter your sleep state. I thought...crap, is there evidence what we are doing is harmful? We're consulting with neurologists, so I would have been surprised, as they have brought up some potential issues we need to test for with what we are doing.

Here's very early evidence of the positive effect our technology is having. This is early evidence of auditory stimulation having positive effect on sleep. https://imgur.com/z4vqS3w This is from my Oura tracker (so we have a 3rd party monitoring) and over 8 nights. Yes, there is potential placebo effect here, and the first 4 nights I slept better than I usually do. We are preparing for a more robust study.

If you're keen to find out more about what we're building, check out https://soundmind.co and sign-up to get on the waitlist.

I'll be writing a blog post of our early findings shortly.
Yes but have you seen how they care about the environment so much that they didn't include a charger and headphones?
Slightly off topic, but you managed to clearly articulate what bothers me about a lot of well meaning regulation. GDPR in particular comes to mind - I was never worried about what some small time blogger was doing with my personal info, only (for example) Google and PayPal.
I'm happy they didn't, making it a great video for me as well :)

Not that I'm afraid of math, I just don't feel like I need to see equations when it's a concept that is being explained rather than how to numerically calculate something. Math helps me as much as a code implementation does to explain the concept of a variable: I can observe its behavior but it doesn't necessarily teach me the concept.
> generally support the EFF and think netizens need far more protections than they have, and those need to come through legislation. But I don't get why this mandated interoperability is a good idea.

It does look like a solution in search of a problem to me. Plenty of social networks have grown up while Facebook existed. Off the top of my head Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp, Viber, Tiktok, Yikyak, LinkedIn.

It's not clear what the practical impact of forced interoperability means. It (probably) upends the current revenue model. Who is going to maintain the back end API when the revenue is captured by the front end?
Haven't heard of ClickUp before. Perhaps I instinctively ignored it before because of the name. It looks like a crossbreed between Airtable and Jira, and it makes me wonder how well it'll handle dense task lists... Still, thanks for mentioning it, I'll take a closer look.

RE Jira - I've never seen a GANTT chart & critical path pulled out of it, though I imagine management 2 layers above me had that option. That said, my experience with Jira was somewhat painful, with a rather slow and annoyingly click-heavy UI. Also, IIRC, tasks in Jira can only have one level of subtasks, and I don't recall being able to form DAGs from them.

I imagine it's hard to prevent featuritis in this tool category, when you're addressing different hierarchy levels simultaneously. That said, there are many successful companies, like Trello, that thrive on delivering bare-bones, simplified tooling with perfected UX. I just wonder why there doesn't seem to be anything like that for a featureset that includes tasks forming DAGs, GANTT charts, computing critical path, and relative scheduling (e.g. "task Y takes starts after X and takes 5 work days").
My site is hosted with WebFaction and I just got the email that I have until December to find a new host.

I am probably going to go with OpalStack, especially if they can migrate my site. I want to go with them mainly because it's from former WebFaction devs.

Vultr is another good option, but I'd prefer the past of least resistance for learning a new host.
There is good work done in GNU Emacs, but in other respects I have to disagree.

Having Emacs be "Lisp all the way down" is my ideal, and the ideal of many other Emacs users.

While rewriting the C portions of Emacs in Rust would be a step forward, because of its non-Lispy nature it would still fall far short of an Emacs fully written in Lisp or Scheme.

Ideally, Emacs would be fully written in and scripted in the same language, and that language would be a Lisp.
How can we manipulate gravity?
I never studied this stuff, so the genius of your intuitive explanation is appreciated.

My intuitive response to your intuitive explanation: This ball is moving through spacetime relative to the earth, which is in turn also moving through spacetime relative to the sun - and so light is being deflected off of this ball at each point in its position in spacetime relative to the sun for much longer than light is being deflected off of this ball at each point in its position in spacetime relative to the earth - have I got that right?

Light is a hitman
Perpetual driveby shooter
Never missing
As we dance through the night
I honestly don't know how to debate someone who would equate the privacy invasions of Google with Mozilla. You say in one comment that "there are a plethora of third-party tools that allow you to clear your browser data [...] you'd also be surprised how much you can do [...] from a simple policy file." and in the very next comment insist that "it's easy!".

Lastly, your suggestion that we shouldn't enshrine privacy in law because we haven't enshrined other important things is nonsense. As you well know, enshrining privacy in law would cost the taxpayer $0 while the others you mentioned would literally cost trillions.

Not a very convincing argument.
"The oversized flat turf yard" - that's my favorite about sf homes. everything is relative.
In Toronto most new condos come with Ethernet ports in walls. Fiber to apartment is not exotic either. The board of the condo I lived in managed to get from Bell a CAD 25/mo (USD 19/mo) offer for 100Mbs internet for all tenants. Usually it's CAD 80/mo (USD 60/mo).
Yes, and look, France has the only working energy market in Europe.

Turns out telling businesses what they can and can't do just means they hire smarter people to do what they want in more convoluted ways.
Has anyone kept on using it after their thesis days??
Awesome! What's the plan for Cadence? Do you plan to maintain both projects moving forward or you'll start shifting community to Temporal and deprecate Cadence?

I ask because internally we just deployed our first Cadence cluster a few weeks ago -- it'd be good to know what to expect and what the founders of the project suggest to do now that Temporal is officially released to production?
Covid Kills Inertia: Homeownership Edition
Transfer learning is a thing though. If you train your network with thousands of pictures of cats, dogs, chickens, birds, goats but no horses, it's possible you can teach it to recognise a horse with a single additional image.

Not sure exactly how good the state of the art is compared to human children on that task, but it can't be too far off.
This video really cleared up a lot of misunderstandings for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwgIjBUYVc

I had never visualized it this way in my head before, and it all makes a lot more sense now. Highly recommend!
And property taxes are only $3,900 a year. That's not much more than the monthly property taxes in your California comparison.
Opacus: A high-speed library for models with differential privacy
Yep. Go look at r/DataHoarder if you want real life examples of people doing so.
Modern Python Dictionaries A confluence of a dozen great ideas
The Death of Seneca
There shouldn't be any cycles in properly broken out plan, because the flow of time creates a causal directness; a true cycle would prevent any of the tasks involved from starting, which obviously doesn't happen in real life. Sometimes you may need to break things down a bit more.

And that's why I'm asking for a tool that lets me model projects as Directed Acyclic Graphs of tasks. Because all I seem to be getting in popular tools is a flat list with some categorizing, or a single level of subtasks at best. I want to be able to express directly that this subtask has sub-subtasks, and that this sub-subtask depends on completion of a subtask from some other task (without making it a dependency between root tasks).
Sometimes I feel like an alien when people suggest earplugs for noise problems. Maybe I just process sound very differently.

Earplugs succeed at exactly one task: attenuating dangerous sound levels down to comfortable ones. The don't reduce the amount of information. A 30dB conversation is exactly as distracting as a 60dB conversation. I also have custom fitted IEMs that provide similar attenuation. These are equally useless when disconnected. You still need masking sound. You just need less of it.

In a quiet environment, earplugs amplify the sounds of my own body. I hear my heart beating. I hear fluid sloshing around. I hear very prominent vibrations from anywhere my head is shifting relative to the pillow. I'd have to work pretty hard to design a more unsettling sleep-deprivation apparatus than earplugs.

None of this is remotely as useful as an actually quiet room with a box fan running.
Common sense, coordinated, and effective.

And what if I don’t want to do what your common sense suggestions say I should? Or I disagree with you in regard to what is common sense.

Now we are at the fundamental issue.
Apparently this is suddenly a bigger issue during the pandemic. I’ll look for that article...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/well/live/dentists-tooth-...
We are inside the atmosphere at least...
I wonder how expensive it is to maintain the castle. And since it has some kind of official designation, if you have to use period-accurate materials for repairs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem
That seems overly broad. The whole point of a communications service from the user's point of view is to process user data, namely the messages that the user sends or receives via that service.
The Mayfield Handbook of Scientific Technical Writing
Tinymap: Memory-Efficient Immutable HashMap/HashSet
Obviously depends on where you look for this kind of reasoning, but I don’t think it is compatible with data in general.

Sweden’s death graph totally looks like “inventory of likely-to-die people exhausted”, regardless of testing (they have not changed recommendations or actions).

Israel had no first wave in April (it had a blip, which turns out was essentially limited to ultra orthodox religious which are about 15% of the population).

In September, the official 2nd wave but really 1st wave struck the entire population - and testing capacity was already high (about 0.7% of the population tested daily). And the stats looked way too similar to other countries’ first wave.

The US is a weakly connected network of hundreds of different repositories, which makes it really hard to observe similar processes - they are not visible on aggregate.
I never needed the battery backups on my alarm clocks: in a power outage, the box fan would stop, waking me up instantly.
This is a useful way to think about it, but you have to keep in mind that (even flat) spacetime is not Euclidean but Minkowskian: in the distance metric, time has an opposite sign to the spatial dimensions. So when you "rotate" a four-vector, it actually follows the surface of a hyperboloid rather than a sphere, which means that rotation has a discontinuity at Θ = π/4 (in normalized units) and the vector escapes to infinity! Only massless objects can travel "at the speed of π/4", everything else can only approach but never reach that speed.
>Or what is our time size?

That's just another way of describing the total time you exist.
So.... I'm lost. What is a Central Bank Digital Currency?

The article he links is pretty corporate-speak. Can anyone translate? What's in the seeming boilerplate now that wasn't there before. Why are they excited about it and how does this mean they can do more stimulus?
I copy pasted the text. Anyway, suicides are decreasing in Peru. That's the important point.
He's probably thinking of the cost of batteries needed for seasonal storage, but it's hard to tell. Using batteries that way would be foolish, of course.
The banks might be ultimately responsible, but if they go under the FDIC is still responsible for repaying the depositors. What else are you going to tell them? "Sorry grandma, FDIC deposit insurance doesn't cover losses held in 3rd party vaults so all your life savings are lost" would be political suicide.
To be fair this is also a pretty nice house given the location.
I wasn't clear. I'm describing the developers of the project management system we now use. They announced new scheduling features over a year ago, and nothing has happened. And there have been a lot of slowdowns and crashes, which they have been slow to fix.

Our developers like tools that support their processes. They just want something that works, and is under active development.
> My benefits are lousy but the contractor I work for probably charges my employer, yes.

On top of whatever your direct employer charges to the government agency hiring them to cover profit and other costs (management overhead, contracting overhead) associated with your employment, there's also contract management overhead for the government agency. For contractors, the total cost is usually a greater multiple of salary + benefits than it is for direct employees (though if the benefits suck enough, maybe still a smaller multiple of bare salary.)
my visualization of this view:
https://landgreen.github.io/physics/notes/relativity/general...