skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most cobalt is from DRC and almost all cobalt from there is derived from child labor. It isn't slave labor; they get paid, though low wage. However child labor is bad as it is. It isn't as simple as boycotting though; families depend on the income. They shouldn't; children should go to school.

That's why the Fair Cobalt Alliance (FCA) [1] was initiated.

[1] https://www.theimpactfacility.com/commodities/cobalt/fair-co...
I vaguely recall that he had chosen somewhere else - but in the midst of the flights from HK(?) to other places, his passport was nulled by the US so he had to stay in Russ, could no longer board int'l flights or something (?)
> Major as in there's not a lot of really big acts, ala say Kiss or Van Halen, then sure. Is that so surprising?

This is what I mean, popularity of rock is dead compared to what it is has been. There is no innovation in genre, nothing is captivating. There is no new and modern sound to rock. Those bands did something different. There isn't an audience anymore to support that kind of band and there is nothing worth supporting like that out there.

If your going through bandcamp looking for indie bands that play 40 person bars with an audience of 3k likes on facebook, your not the typical listener. You seem to be either really into the scene or sound. metal fans might think there's new metal bands are good, but most people of have heard metal, the small differences between bands arent enough to captivate a new large audience.

Like for me, I don't want to hear another band that sounds like blink182, or nirvana or pink floyd or disturbed or anything other style I listened to death already. Rock now doesn't provide anything fresh.

> its much easier for smaller acts to find an audience. This leads to more variety,

Idk if you can make that assumption, there might be more punk bands then ever before but if they all sound the same, who cares?

> I think there's a lot of great music

I think your thinking of something different then I am. I'm not saying everyone out there are talentless hacks. Like jazz or like I said in the other post disco, some of it is even enjoyable and might have a gem or two. There are lots of talented musicians, but they're not really evolving the genre.

People will always be making music but that doesnt mean the genre is thriving. Maybe bands needs to go underground for a bit for a new sound to emerge. Or the 4 person band with a guitar and drums is going to go the way of jazz bands and younger generations grow up listening to rap and electronic.
Keyword: Wait.
Yeah, I can imagine that defending marketing+advertisement companies can be exhausting.
You are right, but what the hell is one to do? There are no credible media organizations with the resources of the NYT.
Linux 5.11 Supports the OUYA Game Console, Other New ARM Hardware Support
I'm more curious why there was an algorithm involved at all. Based upon the number of doses they had, they should have immediately been given to as many staff on first responder units, like ER, ICU, etc as would take it. My wife works at a hospital as a nurse and this is what they have done for the first phase of vaccination. After that I can see a need for an algorithm to determine who is most at need but there is no excuse for the administrators for what happened at Stanford.
Their Publishing Imprint Closed. Now They’re Bringing It Back
Yep,

Stanford resident acted. Health care workers at those other hospitals are apparently silent. That makes the difference.
Yes, this is a better reference.

That said, I can imagine that to a paleolithic hunter/gatherer it would be beneficial to use an arrangement of stones to "capture" a particular date. Dates of interest might be 'migration', 'planting', or 'harvesting' dates.

Setting up stones to cast a specific, and unique, shadow on a particular date is easy to do on that date. And I've done it on hiking trails for things like solstice dates for other hikers to discover later. Since the transformation of the shadow is predictable with motion of the Sun, I've also used it on trails where I experienced good conditions, so that when I come back to that trail, I can look at my 'date ducks' and they will tell me if it was earlier or later in the season when I set them up (assuming they haven't been moved of course).
Which crate are you using for graph manipulation?
It highly depends on the corpus and you can check for yourself.

I'm being lazy, but the results for Gutenberg books you can check online at http://labs.statsbiblioteket.dk/dsc/

- man is to woman as doctor is to reprovingly (nurse is the first noun, on position 4)
- woman is to man as doctor is to snodgrass (after a couple nonsense/rare words)

The most important thing that teaches us is that big corpora (bigger than PG) are essential for this method.
Wealthy people can afford multiple single-app semiburner phones, technical consultants for vpns/firewalls/piholes/etc, and assistants that will do the app installation and ordering on their own phones.

A lot of the privacy invasion stuff assumes you don't have multiple devices or multiple platform accounts. It's just a matter of cost to have 2-4 different devices and accounts and vpn routers if you want to keep from being tracked across platforms and use cases.
You'd be amazed how good geologists are at exactly that thing.
I have been playing this game in Google Stadia since last week and it has been mostly a joy. It has crashed 2 times, but that's all the bugs I have encounter. My only complain about the game is the npc AI is pretty low, but then you can always treat it as an arcade rpg fps kinda game. In any case I have been enjoying it a lot.
The social graph for the company of a single person will have a very low degree. I don't think you can do much statistics with it?
What does that even mean?
What's the difference between A and B?
I assume You don't think a spirit comes down and mediates inter-human interactions- they're not beyond physics- but rather that they're "beyond causality" as in 'normal' models don't have as much predictive power as you'd hope?
But if it's that, then I don't see a practical difference between both choices.
https://mobile.twitter.com/KyleHanslovan/status/133841999966...
I think this is funny that we’re on a .uk TLD for this. As far as I’m aware, scooters and segways etc are not legal to use anywhere in public in the UK (not that it stops people), which is why we don’t have the sort of scooter apps that mainland European cities have (lime etc).
Engineers have bosses, and they generally do what their bosses tell them to do.

So the responsibility should lie, as usual, with the people at the top, who set the direction for the company, not for low-level peons like engineers, who might be highly compensated, but the engineers don't set the direction for the company nor make the ultimate decisions regarding these algorithms.

But part of the tragedy of organizations is that responsibility tends to be diffused, so it's really hard to ultimately blame any one person.

There was a documentary (maybe called "The Corporation" or something) which showed some protestors outside some CEO's home, and the CEO's wife went out with some tea and cookies or something and invited the protestors inside their home to have a chat, and the CEO talked to the protestors and told them how helpless he himself was, as he was just part of the system with relatively limited ability to change it.

I'm not sure I buy that, and not sure the protestors did either, as the CEO still has enormous power. At the very least the CEO has the ear of the board of directors, and quite a lot of leeway as to how to run the business. They might not be able to change it all, but they can change a lot. Still, there's no denying that especially in a large organization no one person knows everything that's going on and can be accountable for absolutely everything, but leadership still exists and still is ultimately responsible.
(Thinking through it more, I bet "Advanced DOS" just means PC DOS >= 2.0!)
Yep, all enabled by the fact that Russia is so corrupt, anyone can pretty easily buy any data about anything on anyone. So any private citizen with a bit of money and some skills can effectively act like a para-intelligence agency, which is essentially what Bellingcat is.

For anyone curious, they have two excellent articles on this from a few days ago:

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-...

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/14/fsb...

There was also an amazing investigation into this published yesterday by a Russian outlet, interviewing some of the black market data brokers and law enforcement officers (both of whom claim some of the brokers will be hunted and killed by the state, now):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
My late wife suffered from early-onset alzheimer's disease and I went to see this movie and I felt that it was very far from the reality as I experienced it. Yes, it does portrait many of the things that happen to people with early-onset dementia, but what it left out, is often the insight on what the disease has on the people around them, something that Alice in the movie has until almost the end of the movie. I also feel that the movie ended far to early.

Also in the cases that it is not running in a family (which is about half of the cases), it often takes years before a diagnoses is made. Often, people suffer from a burn-out years before the final diagnosis is made. Often, they show major behavioral changes, before they begin to show the first visible changes. In the six years before the diagnoses was made, my wife, who did not originate from my home country, managed to improve her fluency in the national language.
https://catalogue.unccd.int/1551_GGW_Report_ENG_Final_040920... says they pivoted a bit:

“The aim of the GGW was originally to create a long vegetation barrier between the 100 and 400 mm isohyets, including ramps, and over a length of at least 7000 km along the Sahel, being roughly 15 km wide. In recent years this vision has evolved into an integrated ecosystem management approach, striving for a mosaic of different land use and production systems, including sustainable dryland management and restoration, the regeneration of natural vegetation as well as water retention and conservation measures”

I think that makes it hard to report % completed. Also, 4% is a lot of land (that same PDF says they currently target about 1½ million km² of land. That’s a lot more than that 7,000 by 15 km band originally envisioned (For comparison, the USA and Canada each are about 10 million km², so that would be about 7½% of North America), in the poorest part of the world.

As https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-05-02/africas-great-green-w... says “it will take at least a generation to make it a reality”
For people not familiar with London train stations: they're huge and can be very busy.

Here's video from one (St Pancras, about 35m people per normal year) today: https://twitter.com/scattermoon/status/1340393706009079812?s...

Most people appear to be wearing masks, but still it's not ideal.
Process-wise I think this is an industrial version of what NileRed [0] and prior AvE [1] tried. Pretty cool, if it's truly a durable alternative.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1H-323d838
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=880a_XgvBEo
i feel like this is missing the point..
Rolling Stone absolutely did not "own up to it," they repeatedly tried to minimize the damage the article had done to the individuals and groups portrayed in it, and further, even after the Columbia report, stood by all its editors, fact-checkers, and even the writer herself!

A good summary: https://web.archive.org/web/20150410094429/http://www.bloomb...
The reason why credit rating agencies have strict limits on what kind of information they can use is because for the first 50-75 years they were totally abusive. What the IMF want's isn't a return to that, but something worse. Where a mere interest in a subject has an effect on your finances.

Currently: Friend of mine had HepC. And then liver cancer. Reading up on that online? The blowback was just some annoying targeted ads.

IMF Future: You get denied a loan or have to pay higher rates because you were reading up on HepC.
This is going to be how it goes broadly, at a national and international level.

I guarantee you that you'll see access for the wealthy much sooner than you'll see access for the folks at highest risk. I don't know how to help with this, but I'd much rather see farm workers, grocery store clerks, the homeless, bus drivers, etc. get access after we take care of the medical staff (who are exposed to patients) and the elderly (and others in extremely risky environments.)

Yet I'm sure that's not how this will go.

How long before testing and vaccination becomes an employment perk at a FAANG company?
I tend to be very direct day to day. I think kindness doesn’t have to be in personal interactions, especially in a business context. I’m perfectly polite, but also very honest. I still use empathy to understand where people are coming from. You have to learn to give unconditionally without becoming a doormat. It’s tricky. I think you have to be purposeful with how you give to others. I also help people out and do my best to be kind in my private life (charity, supporting local food banks, etc). I think you can generalize this kindness is healthy thing way to far. For me the reward is helping people and making their lives better. In a business context I think your examples are very different from the more intrinsically rewarding giving and kindness.
SAR = Synthetic Aperture Radar
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

- Dune
Authoritative collectivist monocultures are also better at controlling the media and banned disagreement with the government position. All we hear is they are doing a good job so it must be true.
It’s funny that anyone who bought in at the previous $10k high and then saw a massive drop is now actually looking pretty good.
They did sign it with the key they found there, virus vendors detected fancy bear or such, customer support was in denial and recommended all customer to ignore this warning and disable scanning this binary, whitelist.

You don't need the GRU with such a company. Microsoft Defender would not help.
Even a 12 year old from mom's basement could have intruded the nuclear arsenal this way. The nation state allegation came from the stealth CC stuff they found. But apparently someone else also took the invitation via writable ftp.
That doesn't work well for me because I get still get pinterest.co.uk, pinterest.ca, pitnerest.it etc etc.

I guess we need wildcard domain exlclusion.
The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism
It’s not necessarily bad to enjoy camaraderie and mockery but of course you need to keep a mental model of who likes that and who doesn’t. As you meet new people you need to think “do they have that sense of humour”. Australia is well know for “if they take the mick it means they like you” but not everyone is like that.

The best thing is be yourself but add a layer of “Hope I didn’t offend you - I like to tease sometimes”. And add a tonne of common sense too!
Bitcoin->USD/any other real currency->car/beer/milk/microwave/house/coke

That's what "cashing out/in" means. Converting your investment into necessity, want or vice. No one desires investment vehicles. They desire using the investment vehicle to purchase a future item they can use.
You can use only the merge functionality - it can be launched from git (via mergetool).

I tried to convert from VS Code to PyCharm a while back - I didn't (too familiar with VSC), but I stuck with the merge view for some time - it's absolutely amazing!
Thank you, I mostly agree :)

And finally I have a good name for those people I discuss with on a regular basis - the "checklist experts" :D
Ok fine maybe we interpret compromise differently. Nonetheless I'm still against forced mask mandate.
You can monkey around with it here: http://bionlp-www.utu.fi/wv_demo/ (choose the English Google News model, but this may not be exactly the same set/model as the original report).

Man is to Woman as Doctor is to ___ gives 1) gynecologist
2) nurse 3) doctors 4) physician 5) pediatrician

Woman is to Man as Doctor is to ___ gives:
1) physician 2) doctors 3) surgeon 4) dentist 5) cardiologist

These are just generally near "Doctor" though: the ten nearest terms are physician, doctors, gynecologist, surgeon, dentist, pediatrician, pharmacist, neurologist, cardiologist, and nurse.

Some gender differences may persist (nurse is #2 for `woman`, but #68 for `man`, but it's also near `woman` generally and you could imagine it gets a bit of a boost from the verb ("to feed a baby") being attached exclusively to women too.

Anyway, my point is not that there's no bias (there certainly can be--seed GTP-3 with a prompt about Muslims) but that one should be wary of thinking they know what the model is doing.
It is rather unfortunate that a single website won out in the search engine war and became the front page of the internet.

It's more power than any one company should ever have.

There was a time where Google refused to filter on human intervention and for political reasons, but that time has long passed.
This is how-to-make-a-click-bait article-101.

Show me an x86 laptop in the same power envelope that can match the fanless MacBook Air with the m1. I’ll wait. Oh and do so at roughly 1k.

On the desktop the Mac mini is 699 USD in its base spec. The 5800X is 500 euros on its own before motherboard, case, ram etc etc.

Apples to apples benchmarks either controlling for power or price would make for a more relevant article.
Ask HN: What are you folks doing with your budget surplus?
Since there's a lot of rich folks here at hacker news Im kinda curious what you're all doing with your income?

I'm not really sure what to do after doing the basics of paying bills and doing the retirement plan roadmap. Im mostly putting my surplus on self-improvement classes, sending money to my parents and siblings, and putting some in ETFS and some options contracts and stock shares.

Im kinda hesitant to buy more stocks/options/index funds or buy a new car. The return on investment for fully paying my student loans doesnt look good either.

Im curious about what you are doing with your extra income or any interesting things other people are doing
The tabletop rpg rules for cyberpunk are for tabletop. Where math can’t be done in real time because humans. I expected a real-time adaptation of the rule set. If they wanted to be true to tabletop rules, it would be turn based.
I have a book I'd like to recommend, that has helped me, in growing up around aggressive and manipulative people, learn to both identify these behaviors in others as well as learn tools for calmly and clearly enforcing personal boundaries, even in the face of the other side throwing temper tantrums or bullying. Can send it to your contact info, if it's something that'd interest you.
Chef cofounder on CentOS: It’s time to open source everything
Maybe this? https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6894586
We'll see what the number end up, covid has spread since the beginning of this year, highly unlikely that in next 2 weeks suddenly the death jump significantly.

Also keep in mind that the excess death may or may not be due to covid alone.
Some advantages, I'm making assumptions here:

A car? Access to the internet? Their mental and physical health? No dependents? It's unclear how emteycz fed, cleaned, and clothed themselves while they had debt and no home, but plausibly there's some assistance there.

And the parent poster was talking about their privilege today in any case.
I live in the U.K. and did my PhD in a big department.

A friend of mine got cancer and then was told by his supervisor after he returned that he wasn’t good enough anymore and he should quit. He found a new supervisor and is now doing fine.

A female colleague did her PhD in Sweden and got hit on by her supervisor who kept staring at her chest every meeting, and eventually led to her leaving academia entirely.

That’s a minority of people I know working in academia but it’s not small.
You don't always get a choice.
I go through a lot of the details in my post on the Rust subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/kfiaqn/just_wanted_to...

But long story short, I end up doing most of the graph analysis by passing in the citations, using PyO3, to graph-tool in python then returning the data I need about each paper. I am planning on moving that over to Rust. But not being an academic I wanted to get feedback on the quality of the results before making it difficult to quickly test different types of algorithms.
Art in a petri dish: the Agar art awards 2020
i guessed that, but it is comedic irony from my perspective.
no intention to gouge you, just having a saturday.
cheers man.
Looks great, can you batch process Qt translation files?
Neither crash was within a few seconds. The EA crew fought it for 5 minutes, the LA crew 25 minutes.

-- Aviation Week, Sep 1, 2019

As for being an emergency, yes it was, and dealing with emergencies is most of pilot training. Dealing with runaway trim (which is how this failure exhibited) is part of that training. The Emergency Airworthiness Directive reiterated what the procedure was for runaway trim.

Runaway trim is so serious that it is a "memory item" meaning the pilots know how to deal with it without needing to consult a checklist.

While runaway trim should never happen, it is reasonable to expect the pilots to deal with it properly.
That isn’t really accurate. There is much more diversity in individual states depending on where you are than in most European countries.

That statement is kind of what I mean. I don’t think most people outside, and to some extent inside the US, appreciate how much diversity of culture exists in the US.
It’s too obvious even for a huge app. The empty catch alone is something I’d immediately “git blame” if I saw it. I work on a 20 year old massive enterprise app and there is lots of “not my job”, but someone would see it.

Also, it would likely (or hopefully) trigger a static analysis warning in the build as soon as it’s added. For such a sophisticated attack this would be too much of a weak point. It would be much better to have access to a point in the build system that enabled you to inject that code in or after the compilation, e.g by tampering with the tool chain on the build machines.
Does anyone know if this could be used to build high-rises? I imagine it has enough strength for a 10 story building, but the fire risk might be too high.
But numbers seem to be up again, this article is speaking of another lockdown: https://t.co/2S9b4HfUhg
I was 16 when Prop 13 passed. I thought adults who thought Prop 13 would force the government to stop wasteful spending were idiots. I predicted that the result would be governments and agencies nickel and diming to make up for shortfalls in property taxes. Worse thing was low property taxes would drive up real estate prices and make housing more unaffordable not less.

40 years on I was right.
It's true that not everybody forecasts everything, but I think it can be pretty precisely measured via things that they already track, like "how much does this person visit Facebook" and "based on engagement, what are their interests". They were very big on measuring factors related to growth; I'd be very surprised if they weren't measuring what causes people to leave.
Star Trek gets a pass. Politicians and their supporters who conduct foreign policy, start or stoke civil wars, abandon former friends etc because they view the world through the Star Trek perspective do not.

I may not have been clear in why I brought up the Star Trek example ... FYI, there is no "The Kurds", for example.