skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels like the definition of a No True Scotsman fallacy.

Maybe they should drive an Uber instead? No, that's not a real job, just a side gig. How about working at a drive-thru? Nope, that's supposed to a temporary stop for high schoolers. How about [...] (equally dismissive judgement).

These are adult humans putting out content and getting paid for it. That makes it a real job.
What a 15-foot-tall piano sounds like
What is a hardware-accelerated browser? What did you use?
"which connected China’s best teachers "... I wonder why they choose the best teachers for this type study? Wouldn't a randomized, average sample produce more objective results?
Very cool!

There is a typo in the title: metero for meteor.
I"ll second that experience. I've actually started to come to love using the lowest spec computer capable of reasonably doing the job I need it too.

Right now I'm on a quest to actually break out of the computing models I"m used to (generally glorified ETL) and to break into other models of computation and process modelling. I've got a hunch there is a direct parallel of applicability between keeping disparate people effectively working together, and writing programs which can smoothly do the same. The trick is breaking out of old modes of thinking, which I think a radical discontinuity in hardware capability for me will help accomplish. At least that's what I keep telling myself.
I think it’s okay to die. As Stevenson once put it:

Under the wide and starry sky,

Dig the grave and let me lie.

Glad did I live and gladly die,

And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:

Here he lies where he longed to be;

Home is the sailor, home from sea,

And the hunter home from the hill.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
How is this possibly acceptable? We've given people verifiable proof that this binary is not the one we created, yet users should crack on and install it anyway?
I just acknowledge the reality that all these "self made millionaires/billionaires", in literally every instance I've ever seen, recieve massive handouts from parents/uncles etc. that I would have never gotten from mine. Probably his entire childhood includes random things like private piano lessons at the critical young age for maximal value, which I obviously did not receive.

I'm already pretty successful relative to my peers.

He might be a billionaire instead of a millionaire because he "made personal choices" but his first million is much better explained by his handouts than by personal choices. "Personal choices" is such vague shallow and useless advice, it only tells me that he was smart enough not to blow it all on cocain.

They only water I can glean from this rock of a comment is that I should have chosen to be born in his family instead of mine.
No, meritocracy works fine.

It's far from perfect, but the 'special case' you describe is actually rare.

There are people who are brilliant and hardworking in the academic sense slinging coffee for life, because both those attributes will result in 'good grades' which is a really good proxy for other things in life.
Do you have suggested reading for how to learn about this effort? Most meditation and yoga related content I find is geared toward the woke soccer mom, not those looking for acutely reflective time
[Replying to my own comment]

Just been to the Tesco at Roneo Corner in Havering (1 borough further out than Barking and Dageham).

38 customers without a mask inside the store (excludes kids even teens, excludes anyone with a pointless visor, excludes anyone with a green and yellow lanyard which means they're exempt).

8 members of staff without a mask (again, excluding as above).

Highlights include:

* a woman in Islamic dress with a head scarf and eye veil, she had covered every inch of her skin EXCEPT for her mouth and nose.

* a staff member with a managers badge and no mask

* a parent who took off his mask and gave it to his baby to play with once he was inside

* an aisle with about 40 people crammed in looking at the discount section with a staff member with no mask holding a "2m social distance" sign and getting in people's way, but not stopping them or asking anyone to move on!?
Did you see the Hope-Simpson figure? Texas is roughly 36N to 26N. That puts it close/within the tropical zone.

That zone has a relatively diffuse outbreak curve, seems like there's some type of subtle signal though, whereas the higher latitudes get walloped in the winter months and there's not much going on the rest of the year.

Surely you understand that seasons vary geographically? What's winter in Texas at best? 50F?
I'm planning on eventually creating a chatroom out of the Console newsletter community when it gets large enough to help solve this problem.

https://console.substack.com/
And to think Al Gore was only 42 then
Depends on the company for upgrading, not the employee. All the financial institutions in America are still running windows 7 mostly bc the managers and execs fear switching over, so they would rather run the whole corporation on an essentially unsupported and obsolete closed source operating system than upgrade and figure out a nominally different ui than they are used to.

Inertia is a powerful force in the IT departments of Corp America.
"Men" as such are never anti- or pro- anything.

There's endless lines of division among "men". Some men want to keep the "flow" of sex under control and don't like when sex is "handed out" too easily to men they don't see as worthy.

Some other men like the deal if they operate the business like a pimp or porn producer.

Consumer men may like it because they feel they can't satisfy their urges in other ways or they don't feel like the "real deal" is worth the effort and risk in comparison to these substitutes.

There are also men who just cheer on the empowered self-actualizing women to do what they desire to express their sexuality freely.

"Men" includes Rocco Siffredi, your local pastor, the loser nerdy virgin, the strict traditional father figure, a Christian wait-until-marriage boy, the nofap evangelist, etc. etc.
Precisely what you said: Power grid has security. Compromising 90% of connected devices with a mainstream OS would, at once:

(1) Tank the economy

(2) Likely, be doable with resources totaling in the single-digit million dollars

Modern wars are largely about industrial capacity.

But if it is equally easy to compromise the grid, why not do both?

This may sound like a movie plot, but so did the invasion of Poland at the beginning of WWII, the attack on Pearl Harbor, nuclear bombs on Japan, the rape of Nanjing, or many other actual events which Actually Did Happen.

We tend to underestimate the impact of rare events: our brains are conditioned to discount anything which happens once or less than once per lifetime. That's likely why humanity will kill itself at some point.
Hello good mornig
It's not a porn addiction I think so much as craving the woman's attention and the perception of intimacy with them. It's a terrible deal for the consumer but it's also the oldest profession transferred to the digital age.
I’m not @lostgame and I’m not ace, but I can easily imagine that a constant barrage of stuff that you’re not into could be triggering/empathise with someone saying that it troubles them.

For example, and I know this is a “me” problem rather than something objective in the world: I find BDSM quite repellent because (a) I cannot at a glance tell if the image presented is roleplay or actual assault, and (b) because I am unable to empathise with the desire to see others in pain.

((b) means I also have a problem with the existence of the Saw franchise, let alone what felt like endless and unavoidable real-world advertising for it).

In the case of porn: orgasm-noises in porn are often (I won’t claim percentages, but often) somewhat similar to mild-to-medium pain noises, so I can easily believe that’s upsetting especially for someone who has never heard the real life version.
I have a 1992 edition of O'Reilly's The Whole Internet. The WWW merits a very short chapter in the vein of there's this new fangled thing that came out of CERN. (But, really, let's talk about Gopher.)
I have always wondered why people even bother with that. All that data goes on the ticket they write you and if you are ticketed the officer has to appear in court to validate the citation. If you don’t get any kind of citation there is no action against you to complain about. But if you just need something to complain about let a lawyer do it for you.
No offense, but your take on social attitudes about porn is really strange and pretty misogynistic.

> “ Some feel like porn gives unearned satisfaction to young men, a virtual substitute they don't have to work for.”

What? Maybe extremist groups like the proud boys, but I’ve literally never heard this objection. People tend to worry more about socialization and the harmful psychological effects porn can have on people.

> “ Others may feel camgirls are collecting undeserved money, they don't do actual noble valuable work, just cash in based on their genetics and immorality.”

Again, thats an extremist misogynistic viewpoint. The real objections I’ve heard concern the exploitation of the industry and the lack of protections for workers.

All the worldviews you describe are hyper-conservative, and don’t at all describe society as a whole.
Walking helps me too. Long walks rather than short/brisk ones.

I think this has to be about the 'diffused mode' of the brain- they talked about in the course 'Learning How To Learn'- as opposed to the focused mode.
I think it's worth remembering that the term meritocracy was created as satire.

The Rise of the Meritocracy, where it was first used, is an explicitly dystopian novel.
They should set both the minimum size and maximum size to 4 GB (assuming it's enough).

Heap resizing has a much bigger impact on performance than garbage collection.
So we're optimizing for parents and their childcare needs. It always seemed to me that childcare was a separate but intersectional problem and we do a disservice to our students by confusing it as the same problem.
Also China feels like a very poor comparison target as a westerner
Tl;dr

"It's nice to just take a moment and reflect: because the British felt they were being left behind by the computer revolution, they decided to make TV shows about computers. To do that, they needed a computer, so an underdog British company came up with a good one. And when that little company needed to build a faster CPU, because Intel couldn't be bothered to answer their calls, they made their own. This in-house CPU just so happened to not use much power or make much heat, which got the attention of Apple, who used it to power what most people consider to be its biggest failure. From there, of course, the company went on to take over the fucking world.
If I made that up, you'd say I was trying too hard to be quirky or that I'd seen too many Wes Anderson movies. But that's reality."
I got some downvotes for this, but look at the numbers. I'm not saying it's the best language for eCommerce, but it is the workhorse. It's the old beige cash register in the corner bodega that's still the heart of thousands of businesses. These businesses don't have the margins to replace their Magento or WooCommerce shop, hence the need for pragmatism. If you're thinking about Shopify or AWS this or that you are already thinking about the wrong part of the industry.
As a woman in tech, I feel that it isn't actually a meritocracy.

I think people have a habit of assuming men did the real work in a project, so they get a disproportionate share of the credit. People also have a habit of pushing women towards front end work, making the assumption that men are more 'technical' than women. It can be difficult to watch men get all of the credit for your blood, sweat and tears. It's especially bitter when they then say it's a meritocracy and you feel like saying 'what exactly did you contribute to this?'.

The concept of a meritocracy sounds nice on paper, but I think it ignores how humans work. The first issue is that I don't think we are especially good at identifying the best unless it's very easy to measure (sport for example). The second point is that it takes work to overcome your own biases and I think this feeds into how we evaluate 'the best' more than we like to admit.
I've been seeing the same pattern on Discord programming servers. Most of the questions are about absolute beginners not knowing how to configure their editor properly or forgetting a semicolon etc. While there's nothing bad with that, it's hard to ask more difficult questions. Most of the time your question just gets ignored. Sometimes you get totally off-topic replies like "just make an electron app it works everywhere" when asking a question about C++ GUI toolkits and so on.
I cover this topic quite a lot in my talks - Deep Learning in Java for software engineers. Today you can build pretty much any deep learning model in Java that you can do with Python with availability of plenty of ML & Deep Learning frameworks for Java. If you're interested in this, check out projects like :

- https://djl.ai
- https://deeplearning4j.org
- https://github.com/tensorflow/java
- https://github.com/pytorch/java-demo
- https://www.deepnetts.com
- https://tribuo.org
- ONNX support for Java
- MLFlow for Java https://docs.databricks.com/applications/mlflow/index.html
- SparkMLlib : https://spark.apache.org/mllib/

All of the above listed projects allow one to perform Deep Learning Training and Deployment models into production. Happy to answer any questions on this subject. You can also sign up for my newsletter on this topic https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oa_TtltDRmnov2bv5Cqo2Hiwfb0...
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 with support for PCI Express will be ideal for something like this.
And behold the privacy violating, intrusive, malware inhabited, monopoly ridden POS it has become. From huge corporations to Russian and Chinese hackers - - - the root of all evil is money
Consider a simple radar as capable of locating objects in 3D spherical coordinates- range, azimuth, and elevation. Radar is typically really good at measuring distance, but because of the physics of wavelengths and antennas, it needs a relatively huge aperture to achieve good angular resolution.

SAR technique create a virtual or synthetic antenna by imaging coherently over a path that draws out the synthetic aperture.

Of course, time continues as the the platform (satellite in this case) is moving. SAR then requires precise spatial/temporal awareness to combine the returns from the ground into a coherent image.

It is similar to long exposure in photography leading to seeing dim objects far away.

In both cases, if objects in the imaged scene are moving during the scanning period, they become blurred in the final result.
The web != all things transferred over TCP/IP.

Talk and meet? Skype, Zoom don't run on "the web" as such; need dedicated apps even if those may be based on Electron.

Video (Youtube) only has left Flash-based playback behind like 3 or 4 years ago; the resulting DRM required for video playback hasn't made purist happy, and resulted in a bitter controversy over TBL accepting interfaces to proprietary DRM into (proprietary) browsers.

Digitized information of our civilization being one search away hasn't been my experience at all in the last five years or so, with ads and ad-heavy sites being shoved onto you all the time. Even if it were, there's no strategy going forward to preserve that wealth for generations to come in times of monopolization.

As the first ever website demonstrates, the web originally was a means for easy self-publishing of digital text. Today, with platforms, verticals, network effects, the privacy minefield the web has become, and the complexity of the browsers left standing to support modern experiences as expected by consumers, it's questionable if that has actually been achieved.
Distinguish a rock rolling down a hill from a brain: a rock rolling down a hill finds the best path by having its route supervised by the surface of the hill, etc.

Everything is everything if your level of abstraction is "thing".

The relevant characteristics of "biological intelligence" and of the functioning of the brain do not exist at the "try and try again" level of abstraction. (At this level, as above, we couldn't distinguish and animal from a rock; nor, I imagine, basically any physical process from any other.)

Organic systems grow in response to interaction with their environments, acquiring novel physical structure and causal properties. Neurological intelligence allows for theory-formulation on single-example cases (eg., a child burning their hand once is sufficient to build a theory of their immediate environment).

The list goes on.

The capacities of these systems do not obtain in the machine case, and likewise, the machine cases has no functional analogues at the relevant level of distinction.

This dumb form of statistics called, "approximate associative modelling over 1tn cases", ie., Machine Learning, has nothing new to say about intelligence, biology or neurology.

We have been doing non-linear regression and optimisation since the victorian era.
Companies can generally agree to sell you a product only as part of a package deal. You can't get the Happy Meal toy without paying for the burger and fries. So normally they could insist you can't get the cable service without paying for the modem rental.

Whether they are allowed call it a "meal deal" or a "convenience fee" or a "special discount" or a "rental fee" is more about marketing than economics.
Read about discrimination and hostility former sex workers face. It is very real and can be pretty ugly.

Many employers won't hire you and will fire you if they find out - regardless how great worker you at. Plenty of prospective partners take issue with it or can't deal with feelings of resentment, jealousy etc.
FIR Filter Design and Software Implementation in STM32
Thx, after some more investigating I decided to write my own CPU stuff first then maybe add OpenGL compute shaders if I need them...
Perhaps a variant can be devised which causes a dice roll at the time of each capture. The attacker needs to roll more than the number of direct supports a piece is having to take it, otherwise they lose the attacking piece.

It will be a bit like XCOM, before a move one will know the percentage of success of various captures, and will have to make a decision in that light.

So even a higly probable capture has a small chance of failure, sometimes resulting in the player in a weaker position being able to stage a spectacular comeback victory. In normal chess it perhaps impossible to win from a disadvantaged position.

Is there any such chess varient which uses dice, to add a chance element?
North Korea also has a border with China (and a short one with Russia), and both some elements of the post, and facts on the ground, strongly suggest that this is the border being discussed. I would guess that the driver was Chinese rather than a North Korean defector, but living close enough to the border to either have observed some of the specific things mentioned, or to be in a community where these observations were commonplace.
Literally continued scrolling through the thread, and found this comment after a your other one dismissing being an OnlyFans creator as not being a real job. I don't disagree with your point here, but the cognitive dissonance is deafening.
Heck I’m in my 30s and I do that sometimes. I just set up a new Mac after using an iPad Pro for a few months and the number of times I touched the screen is embarrassing.
"there is no simple way of determining the "best" candidate"

There is, it just so happens many people applying are already good by virtue of their credentials.

What you are not seeing are the zillions of truly unqualified people show up.

If you want to gain some confidence in meritocracy, then simply open up your next dev position to literally 'anyone' and start interviewing 'random people' for that high paying job.

Then, you'll quickly realize how very few people are actually qualified.

Interviewing is generally about 1) narrowing the pool of actually qualified and then 2) ... well, it's hard from there on in as you point out.

But it's mostly highly meritocratic at least, each hiring mechanism is in isolation.
I have a Chromebook with a 2400x1600 display. Not one of the standard resolutions, but it is 200-some ppi.
I would agree on principle however this benchmark is comparing a desktop CPU to a laptop CPU.

If anything underclocking the desktop CPU is making the benchmark more meaningful.
The math involved turns out to be really simple linear algebra. Matrix multiplication is an embarrassingly parallel task.
It was reasonably common advice, (around 2000-2004) in the MS Small Business Server groups to tell people to wait for a few days before installing updates, to see if other people had problems.

(I'd try to find a few posts but Google searches of Usenet newsgroups is suboptimal).

EDIT here's one thread talking about installing some, but not all, patches and updates: https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft.public.backoffice.smal...
>A society should delegate its jobs to those who are smartest, most capable, and most accomplished in that field. Because they are the ones who can best lead society through the worldly challenges we face everyday. Corrupting this process by discriminating on the basis of family ties, personal friendships, wealth, race, or gender, is simply cutting your nose to spite your face.

I'm confused because it seems like the article is arguing for meritocracy. How else would you measure who's the "most accomplished" in their field without some concept of "merit"?

It's confusing as hell to even discuss this if we just switch the terminology all around, and we don't have to.

Discrimination based upon family ties or personal friendships is nepotism, based upon wealth it's classism, based upon race it's racism, and based upon gender it's sexism. To me, addressing these issues in our society is the priority.
Like Wikipedia, Stackoverflow is plagued by power-tripping moderators. Similar as with deleted Wikipedia articles I have never understood what benefits there are to deletion of pages/articles when there is already voting to mark "bad" questions.
Say no more :) https://youtu.be/hShY6xZWVGE
Many hotels have responded by adding “resort fees” on top of the base rate.

This is all attributable to weak consumer protection laws.
well for that purpose e-readers are good solution - no apps, no notifications, just text what you need :)
Before the web we had BBSs and computer friends would meet in person gasp.
An interesting comment/backgrounder on that meme:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/coomer...

(The article is more interesting than the stereotypical headline suggests.)
I wondered about this recently and assumed one reason this sort of thing doesn't catch on for mainstream sports like football (soccer) or basketball is because it'd be a mess to spectate/broadcast. Sounds fun though!
This gave me a new perspective on what became routine words after many decades. Thank you!
My dad co-owned a small company in the early 90s and they just got new computers but he convinced the rest of the owners that they needed to invest in serial network equipment “to share files”. In reality they ended up playing multiplayer Doom with it.
There are millennials with teenage daughters now. Older mothers with teenages daughters grew up watching Madonna videos on MTV. I'll need more explanation to understand the generational gap you're describing.
Absolutely, after the first shot you do have immunity but it's not as fully developed compared with having two, so it will take longer to respond than with two, and that does present a larger window of opportunity for the virus to cause problems.