skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japanese craft breweries are turning unsold beer into gin
No, it's a fundamental problem with Adobe software.
Can you provide some information as to how I could do a cheap GPS setup for a non GPS iPad in a similar manner?
So LV particularly recycles their water. The dryness is awful and it’s why I moved. But anything that can be reclaimed and reused is. The only waste is the stuff people pour into the yards and thus let evaporate instead of staying in the system. It’s also got the Hoover Dam and Colorado river piped straight to it. (Unfortunately much of that water is sent out to California, but that’s another problem.)

Yes, water’s a huge issue in the southwest. It’s also managed differently in different places. But from what I saw in LV, I think it can be a solved problem. It is not a constraint.

Edit-But let’s assume water is a constraint. Then why don’t we add to the needed infrastructure projects a project to pump water in from the coast? I’m sure there’s a feasible and affordable way to do it since we already have the highway systems. Just run some pipes alongside it - powered by solar? Doesn’t need to be running 24/7.
I have an eithical dilemma for you. As of now on an average 33000 ppl are killed in road accidents in USA. Lets say Tesla's or other ICE makers' autopilot reduces this to 20000 deaths. But of those 20000 deaths, say 2000 were purely because of autopilot alogrithm which wouldn't have happened if there was no autopilot. As a regulator what will you do. Approve autopilot because it saved 13000 people or ban it because 2000 were killed just because of it? I know how this will play in media. Unfortunately autopilot will be demonized and most likely will get banned.
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~fkarlsso/genkau2.html
I bought Halide when it first came out. As a photography enthusiast, having trying out the app for a bit, I came to the conclusion that phone photography should be kept as simple as possible. While having advance options is great, the reason I carry a phone and not a camera on that certain occasion is because of its simplicity. I don't want to mess with aperture, exposure or focusing, etc. while on the go. If I wanted to do that I would bring my camera. So, yet I think there will be people who's excited for this kind of app, I see it has no use for me personally. It's a nice app though, and no doubt there will be people enjoying it, but the default iOS app does a good job for what I want.
Morbidity involves abnormal and/or unhealthy interest in death. How is optimization (or at least an attempt at doing so) morbid?

It certainly does sound exhausting though.
If the European university systems are so great, why are their results so horrible?

Where's the great wealth, economic growth, high productivity, and high incomes? The majority of Europe is languishing very badly and it's getting worse by the year.

> $40K/year for similar academics you get almost for free in Europe.

It's not free at all, and everyone knows it's not free.

Let's see you do the final tally, which includes income across a lifetime vs tax rates.

Europeans pay epic taxes in part for that 'free' college. The US middle class pays very low taxes by comparison. That has to be factored into the equation.

The US middle class is richer than the middle class in: Sweden, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Greece, Poland and Czechia among numerous others.

The US median wealth figure is comparable to Norway.

I think it's important to restate that: the US middle class is richer than the middle class in Sweden, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands and Denmark - you know, just four of the supposedly best off nations in world history.

So where are the great results for that non-free education?
A classic book on using writing to come up with new ideas is "Thinking on Paper"[0]:

"Thinking on Paper shows how writer's block as well as many other writing problems are engendered by the tendency, supported by traditional approaches, to separate thinking from writing. Drawing on the developing field of symbol theory, V.A. Howard and J.H. Barton explain why this separation is unsound and demonstrate how to improve dramatically our ability to generate and express ideas."

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Paper-V-Howard/dp/0688077587
I agree. However, at least on Firefox I can set the "browser.link.open_newwindow" option to disable this feature (and to otherwise configure it); I set it to 1 to tell it to ignore target="_blank".
Most online classes are just really crappy small scale closed MOOCs and most people are incapable of profitably completing a MOOC. Those who can, perhaps 10-15% of the population, are the same people who could have done reasonably well given a textbook and told to complete all the exercises and the test is in three months. Learning materials are not the limiting factor on learning.
yes indeed which is why markets have allocated resources in such a way that the regions that are very fertile make a lot of food and then sell it to places that aren't, rather than filling them with more terrible low density housing of which the US has already too much
I own Photoshop CS4 but I couldn't get it working on Wine Linux so I feel fully justified in using a pirated "Portable" copy.

This is what happens when companies don't support their own products.
I run my life by morals, not by law, but with a risk tolerance bounded by the effects of law.

That said, my moral interpretation of closed-source software is that I can do whatever the hell I want with it as long as I'm not distributing it to others without permission. Anything that enters my private residence, whether it be a CD I may have bought, or a very long byte array that got transmitted into my internal LAN in return for a payment, is fair game for me to do anything I want with, as long as it doesn't reach anyone outside.
That's definitely a good choice for those used to Photoshop, I can barely use PS now, so it's probably not a good fit for me.

Anything to pull from PS's dominance is good though!
I have been using Pixelmator Pro as a Photoshop substitute on OS X.

I have been pretty happy with it, but I would be happy with Photoshop 7.

What alternatives exist for ‘After Effects’, though?
There is a spiritual practice to go to bed everyday like on a death bed, visualising completely and clearly that I will not wake up tomorrow morning, this is it, this is the end. It does change life profoundly, no computation needed :)
Thanks. It will be great if they can rate the content as well.
I thought Uber return to Austin after the city changed the law to accommodate them, not the other way around.
I'll keep that in mind for the future. Not sure they'll let me in this year.
that is both very funny and very poignant
Sure, but mixture models and mutually exclusive events are less common to work with than just "models." Obviously there are times when you add probabilities together, but usually you don't. Even when you're writing a mixture model, or doing bayes nets, most of the work is done with log probabilities in the various branches, and only retransformed into linear space when the branches are combined.
Yes, this is the exact issue!
Yes. That makes it worse lol
>> Can't travel cross country,

Unless you want to travel non-stop for 7 to 8 hour plus without taking a break, then you can.
I see people running OSX Lion to run newer CS versions than CS3 because they can’t be installed on operating systems that have gotten security updates in the last five years.

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This is awesome! I skimmed through a couple of the videos, and I absolutely cannot wait to go through it in full this weekend.
Really? I’ve been there many times and have never noticed. Maybe it’s a newer trend?
1. Absolutely not. Some people enjoy teaching/research and interacting with students. The "life of the mind". It's true that even people who really enjoy that life are unlikely to take a $100K+ paycut for the lifestyle, but people willing to take that paycut in exchange for security do exist. See also: people who leave SFBA FAANG jobs to take "stable but boring" engineering positions in the south/midwest. Just because you're not on the corporate ladder climbing route doesn't mean you're incompetent.

2. Some people are extremely risk-averse and therefore value stability higher than the typical candidate. Often to a fault. Arguably sometimes not to a fault, though. Do you know how to perfectly price perpetuities or annuities and compare the long-term value of that investment to something more volatile? Because that's basically what this "tenure vs. industry" calculation amounts to. And it's not trivial -- undergrads and even masters students struggle with the math. Point is, most people don't know enough about finance to make rational economic decisions, or even if they do, choose values for parameters in the calculation based on personal anxieties because there's no perfect access to future ground truth. Do all the math and learn what you already knew -- the values of a few parameters determine what you should do. But those parameters are unknown and ultimately instantiated by your particular animal spirits.

3. But most importantly, consider the counter-factual. So what? What's the alternative? Pay better? You're a department chair at a tuition-dependent institution. Your budget is your budget. Paying better isn't an option. The best you can do is offer tenure and do your best to recruit the right type of candidate. But without tenure on the table you'll never recruit a competent candidate. Seriously, what competent person would take a less secure job for $100+K lower salary? So it's "try or die" in some sense.

If these alternatives aren't broadly available to every competent candidate -- so basically everything outside of CS and maybe a few other fields -- the dynamics change and you can ad junctify. And universities do ad junctify in those cases. See: the humanities.
You can probably get a full refund in Australia, as the product is no longer fit for purpose. I'm not sure how easy it would be to get the money though.
Because there's dozens of states where indoor dining is not restricted at all and they're getting no different results in Covid cases?
I mean, isn't it clear, ever since the bulk creation / funding of so many colleges (and faculty positions) pre + post WW2, the US faculty job market has been on a decline ever since -- (that is, from the average postdoc's point of view of success % when seeking a faculty position).

You do understand right, that the faculty system relies on a pyramid of people entering and leaving the system? And only a certain fraction getting to the top, and people having to vacate the top of the pyramid for anyone else to get there? (for stable, or in other words, stagnant fields)

When the US was in a college-building phase (funded by economic stimulus / public programs), all these posts were new and empty, waiting to be filled. So it enabled a generation of new professors to fill those ranks. As that became stable, now instead of a fresh pyramid you fill with eager people (who think that's still how easy it is), you have grad students and postdocs seeing who can outlast each other (or publish more) to get to the top through attrition or publishing prowess.

Certain fields, let's say, pure math, or history, until a professor retires or dies, there's just no spot for the people below even to compete for. That's why you see people going to Asia, Middle East, etc. where the new money and universities are. Follow the money. I mean this is pure population pyramid, demographic stuff that you can predict. You almost don't even need to know the student's thesis topic to say what chance he/she has of becoming a professor.

And Covid put all this on hold now -- or at least the departure end of the pyramid. No one in their sane mind would retire or give up their faculty position in this environment. And colleges can barely bring in enough revenue to maintain their classes, let alone expand some department. And yet you see stories of more students going into grad school for this limbo period.

Joining the climb up the ladder -- it's not going to end well. Or, it's going to be even worse than before, I'm guessing.
It's a very long bytearray.

You own a CPU. Because you own that CPU, you get to play gatekeeper and decide which parts of that bytearray go to your CPU and which ones don't. That's not for Adobe to decide.

The bytearray they send you is just a suggestion of what to run on your CPU. They provided you a suggestion in return for a payment.

You don't have to run all of that suggestion. You can selectively run parts of it.
Speaking of UI, I’ve been using Photoshop since 1999 and it’s remarkable how little the UI has changed. Sure there are new panels and features, but the basic layout and most of the keyboard shortcuts are all the same. The consistency and familiarity is really nice but I’m sure they’ve sacrificed a ton of UX potential to keep old farts like me.
This was the advice I gave my sister: one major for passion, one for future employment. I graduated during 2010 with a humanities degree, and while I loved the things I learned and did really well academically, I was auto-rejected from a lot of interesting job opportunities during a really shitty economy because I simply didn't have a resume that distinguished me from anyone else and said "this guy could be valuable." My sister studied something she loved but also tried accounting, realized she hated it, and switched to something else practical, which got her a great job right out of school and put her way ahead of me financially and career-wise. I would give the same advice to any young person. You may not love every single class you take, but the investment will pay off immensely in terms of overall lifetime happiness, financial security, and career growth. You might also discover some passion in an unexpected place. On the flip side, don't study only for practicality. College is one of the few times in life you will have total intellectual freedom to follow your curiosity without restriction. Don't squander it only learning a trade. Find some subject that piques your curiosity, practicality be damned.
I haven't done it, and the e1000 driver is pretty big, so it's hard to scan quickly, but the general shape is you'd need to support the kernel functions the driver calls, and setup compatible kernel structures for the driver. At least the parts of the driver you call.

Things like kernel malloc to setup pages and what not, mapping the device address, allocating interrupts, DMA (maybe), PCI, logging, maybe locking, basic c library stuff (memcpy etc). Some of those, you can probably just stub out, but some if it you have to do (badly or not). Some of that you probably need or want to build anyway.

It's a fair bit of work, but if you want to support a lot of hardware, it's probably less work than porting a bunch of drivers.
Semi-related: tried using Adobe XD once to practice UI graphic design and apparently they wont support windows 10 ltsb. Loyal Figma customer now.
It's 2020, the ipad is 10 years old. It was a revolutionary product. Some people stood in line for hours to be the first to own it. Well that reminds me, i do own one!

Get it out of the closet and ah, the battery is depleted. Who expects it to hold charge after... 8 years? I don't have a cable either. I have lightning though, even usb-c. But nope, it's the old 30 pin charger. Order it online.

Still works! Except, I haven't successfully managed to download a single app. It hangs forever. Same thing for itunes.
Academic here -- this brings up something that I always like to spread the word about: Contrary to some apparently common perceptions, grad school, especially in the sciences, generally pays you rather than the other way around.

Things like professional masters degrees (incl. some engineering degrees) are likely to cost money, but in the sciences both MS and PhD should be fully funded at reputable universities -- either through TAing, your advisers grants, or if you're lucky, fellowships.
Sadly not likely. Most of their customers have no other choices.
Yes. I got to experience this on a trip back to LA (family health fun and games). I hope after all the misery is over that the increased open air dining and parklets stick around.
> Even with the original install disks

The quoted sentence is what people are bothered by. The program is still lying around on a disk, but cannot be used legally.
Water is not a constraint, it follows the same laws of supply and demand as other resources, and even when in demand, remains among the cheapest. It's actually very easy to reduce consumption (0.5 GPM faucets, 1 GPM showers and 0.7 GPF toilets), stretch the supply (grey water systems), reuse it almost indefinitely (teriary treated water), increase real supply (pipelines/aqueducts/water trucks/desalination), etc.

Even if your locality has to foot the bill for some huge, expensive water projects like those, it's still going to cost a tiny fraction of your household expenditures. Whereas scare land in popular cities will cost you the bulk of your income for decades.
https://www.jio.com/fiber/en-in/monthly-plans

India got on the gigabit bandwagon but sadly its still stupid. The highest plan shows 1Gbps with a whopping 6.6 tb data.

So around 13 hours of fully saturating your connection? How is that truly unlimited? They now call it "commercial usage policy". Wtf.

What is the point in offering internet and then fup ? I understand for lower plans to push you to higher plans but what about the highest plan?
Where is there even marginally arable land and not food production? Well, I mean, except when there is suburban sprawl sitting on it, instead, which seems to be what you are proposing, rather ironically?
Are there any great alternatives to Flash (Animate) that can output SVG animation? I think that's the last piece for me.
Pretty much anything that can pull down random URLs gets that, and this comes with curl and wget.

There's logic in the madness. Barely.
A Brief History of Surgeons
Fantastic! Maybe the outrage here resulted in something good?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24746001

Also: I switched from Spotify to Youtube Music as a matter of principle after that drama. I hate the Youtube Music web UI so much, already.
The guys here are using the old telephony channels and infrastructure. The old state monopoly definitely helped building the infra once, but not sure what else is needed. Back in the nineties the government didn't have an idea what internet is and people just did it.

TBH, due to consolidation of the market, the big telecom customers are worse and we are no longer in the top 10 of the world for speed/price ranking, but if you find a small provider, they actually care to provide you with decent service. Especially for NZ, isn't the population density high enough? Always thought that two islands are not that much space for few million people.
Or a lifestyle change. Take your pick.
I'm in the middle of drafting a patent in the map space right now and discovery has been one of the most fascinating parts, notably how many patents are laser-focused on UAV tech use cases in recent years. It's likewise been encouraging to see how many mapping patents have been granted to startups in the past few decades.
> Because there's dozens of states where indoor dining is not restricted at all and they're getting no different results in Covid cases?

Is that after adjusting for things like population density/urbanization?

Also, while I don't have an easy cross references of case rates and restrictions, it certainly looks like the places at the top of per-capita case rates are also disproportionately places that have not had strong mandatory restrictions, so I suspect your claim is wrong as stated, too.
That article is about why employers shouldn't tell their employees who to vote for. This is telling their customers who to vote for. And even then the context matters I think.
Thanks for sharing what you've learned in so much detail! Sounds promising, hope all the best for you
It may not have returned to its previous high, but it definitely bounced back. I know people who were hired into positions that were frozen unfilled during the recession and subsequently reopened.
Hey! Just wanted to say thanks for posting this, I wasn't aware of it but am excited to read it -- I've been craving a more technical treatment of Taleb's subject matter.
Even with arbitration, tons and tons of arbitrations cases can hurt even large businesses.

To be clear though, arbitration where the employer chooses and pays (pays off really) the firm in question seems the definition of a conflict of interest and a one-sided contract that should be thrown out.
There’s also a Knight Rider Lab in the Atlantic Ocean. Michael Knight is so cool his secret base has a McDonald’s. I wonder how KITT gets there though.
> Certain fields, let's say, pure math, or history, until a professor retires or dies, there's just no spot for the people below even to compete for

Lots of research happens at government agencies, non-profits, museums, for-profit companies and international projects (e.g. ITER). As long as a grad student doesn’t insist on making faculty, they’re not necessarily constrained to a zero-sum field.
Extensible SQL Lexer and Parser for Rust
The "standard" count in Classical Pranayama is usually 1:4:2 i.e. breathe in for x secs, hold for 4x secs and exhale for 2x secs.
As someone who has used both quite a bit, IMO Procreate is nice, and very good for certain things, but not even close to Photoshop.

If I can't run it on a desktop computer, big fat meh.
I worked there in the old days when I was in high school (late 90's), and one of the most disgusting stories I have about a job is when I went to refill the orange juice dispenser machine, and a giant swarm of flies were all over and in the top of the machine. In the orange juice, all along the sides of the inside, and flying around like a small swarm when I opened it.

I yelped and stepped back. A manager rushed over to me, slammed the lid shut, and told me to not tell anyone.

I quit a couple weeks later.
It's available in the web archive, among other places.
They are worried that if data is stored in a medium that is not Free/Libre that whatever is used to read the data will be discontinued/made prohibitively expensive and the information will be effectively lost.

I'm of mixed feelings about the situation, but tend to agree.

The biggest sign of hope that I see is that many programs use either open or simple enough standards that non-authorized/non-supported software can open it. However, this is always subject to change.
Apple's Motion can do most stuff After Effects can do and many tricks it can't. Plus it's really nice not having to do RAM previews or renders. Just playback and it works!

Is Autodesk Combustion still around? That was another competitor of theirs back in the day.
GIMP is great for a lot of stuff, but it's like comparing the usability of FreeBSD to ios
I could see this happening with Teslas in the future...
It does, in fact current age is the only thing the table [1] accounts for, which makes the death date adopted by the author actually somewhat arbitrary (being based solely on when the author happened to first think of this concept): they seem to indicate no plan to adjust it as they age, mentioning that one day they may even pass the date.

[1] http://www.health.state.ny.us/health_care/medicaid/publicati...
It sounds absurd now but I wouldn’t be surprised if cars are locked down like that at some point. Just look at the stuff Tesla does all the time.
The e1000 came to mind because it's a commonly emulated network card. I wonder now what is more common in real servers.
I think that the problem is from your end . I tried installing it and ended up installing without any problem.
Look at "planned obsolescence": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
I recommend looking into long term Airbnb options too. It can be a pretty significant savings if you stay somewhere for a few weeks.
Others have already released that patch. ;-)