skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the crux on the vacuums was that people thought: more powerful is better, but they don’t actually vacuum better. (Physics: the max pressure difference from room to vacuum is about 1 bar. Given a certain gap between the vacuum and the floor, the marginal benefit of a 3kW vacuum over a 1kW one is small)

But buying psychology just promotes inefficient vacuums at that point, so it could make sense for the regulator to try and fix that. (From an environmental perspective I agree with this one)

Note: I’m not even sure if the EU even legislated this at all. Turns out, a lot of so called EU regulations bashed by the UK tabloids were represented overly simplified to fit a desired narrative.

E.g. here is Wikipedia on how both sides used the regulation on food to ridicule and defense the EU:

> This regulation requires that bananas as a minimum standard must not have "abnormal curvature",[5] although no definition or guidance was given about the degree of curvature that would be regarded as "abnormal". This led to various stories about an EU ban on curved bananas.[6] This has been frequently repeated by pro-Europeans and Euro-sceptics alike; the former tending to regard it as an apocryphal or misleading Euromyth[6] and the latter regarding it as an example of needless European bureaucracy.

Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_N...
I had a similar issue with 32-bit software with a 16-bit installer. I've solved it by installing it within a VM running a 16-bit compatible OS, then copying the resulting program folder over to the main OS. Have you tried something like this?
Fictional or not, she taught me touch typing when I was a kid and I loved it! I couldn't wait for those story tasks. Thanks Mavis.
Musk says Apple passed on Tesla acquisition three years ago
9.7in iPad Pro, iPadOS 14.2, Safari. I confirmed it's still happening as described.
I don't relly develop for Windows, so most of my problems are related to OS GUIs and bundled software. Like how for some reason, most of the bundled UWP programs stopped working on my laptop after an update or how Windows 10 still supports two audio "channels" (default and communication) which many apps respect but the output device switcher only switches the default one and not the communication one and these options aren't even available in the "new" (it's been like 5 years at this point!!) settings app so you have to use the old "control panel" one which has now been removed from the menu and sometimes even search and the only way to get to it is to search for something related ans when it opens switch the tab to what you need even though this is not some obscure feature but something that every mainstream communication program uses and most users eventually run into and everyone constantly bitches about yet there is still no fix or even acknowledgement from MSFT because they fired all their testers/QC and care less about their paying customers than even the meanest of OSS maintainers.
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Regarding the more technical side, while I'm entirely unqualified to comment on kernels and low-level APIs, I actually like some NT/Windows design choices quite a lot more than Linux. Network transparency (\\shares) is a big one and in general the way external filesystems are handled (mounting makes no sense for desktop use - especially the way udisks or whatever does it). And while the way programs are stored and installed on Linux is a neat idea in theory, it all breaks the moment one app doesn't follow the standard and it imposes far too many restrictions that Windows doesn't suffer from.

Edit: sorry for the rant, I'm stupidly tired and have had a few drinks. Happy holidays!
> I don't care about driving. It still takes the same amount of time.

If it would be automated, the you would be able to use this time for something else rather than driving.
Yes unless you use the controller and it gives you carpal tunnel syndrome and rsi
How will it learn then? Will it remain static with only the initial seed of knowledge we initiate it with?

Will it have opinions about anything? How would it arrive at those opinions? Or are its opinions a config file that we load up?
I spent a few years on iOS and the number of notetaking apps that only use iCloud or Dropbox was infuriating. There was very rarely a WebDav or NextCloud option.
They aren’t risking anything... I’m not saying they actually flew in a jet pack I’m saying the footage isn’t real.

Seems like a safe way to get a ton of free press then say it was a marketing stunt in a few days. Aviation websites would be covering this a lot more seriously if it had credibility. Not reporting it to the FAA is also a weird move if it is real.

Here is the article with a statement from the FAA: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38403/video-taken-by-p...
Daily Crunch: Alibaba faces antitrust probe
"We have a European bureaucracy totally unaccountable to anybody, powers have gone from national parliaments - they haven't gone to the European Parliament, they've gone to the Commission and to some extent the Council of Ministers. These are quite serious matters."

— Jeremy Corbyn (who was a Eurosceptic for most of his life)

Please don't politicize too much the modern notion of 'Brexit' as actually being an easy left/right issue, it's much more complicated than that.
> Many Irish-Americans do care

Also, many US Catholics, more generally, have historically, and I suspect that the way the politics of religious identity have evolved recently, that might be even more true than when the Troubles were last active if they became so again.
I think you are on target with almost all of this but there are and have been many smart teams of focused AI researchers working from the assumptions you give.

Its not as many as narrow-AI focused teams and its not particularly common, but there are still many teams.

I mean you mentioned Bengio. He has absolutely recently been working from those assumptions you give. And I'm not sure what you are saying the distinction is between the approach you recommend and what he is suggesting in that paper.

I mean for an example of people that are really tuned into the real requirements of AGI, look at Joshua Tenenbaum and his collaborators over the years.

I don't see people being in denial about conscious reasoning. I do see quite a lot of loose and ambiguous usage of that word. So maybe you can try defining your use. Self-awareness, cognition that one is aware of versus subconscious cognition, high-level reasoning, "what it feels like", localization and integration of information, etc. are all related but different things. But researchers have been trying to address those things. Maybe their papers have not been as popular as GPT-3 though.
Humanoid “iCub” Robots Introduced in Healthcare Facilities
> As a member of the EU we have never once, ever been “forced” into anything.

Total nonsense. The EU set laws the UK had to follow, and the ECJ had the power to overrule UK courts.
Thankfully, this rewriting has never been my job. Companies where I've seen it were typically targeting Spark as the execution environment, so the production languages were Java and Scala, at a ratio of about 2:1. PySpark in production was either disallowed up front or quickly disallowed retroactively after experiencing the magic and delight of data scientists shipping production PySpark.
It's weird but no more weird than carmen sandiego, homer simpson, betty crocker or arnold schwarzenegger
1440p 144fps is ridiculous.
Tough enough getting a 720p low latency feed, which is what stadia does. It then upscales to 1080p and 4k
How fast is apple to fix bugs like that?
I am also affected.
In general the rejected papers are never discussed by conferences, as the authors will want to keep their from being public until they can publish it.

I don't entirely agree with this, and some subjects are moving away from this way of working, but it is still very common in computing.
Creating a MIDI pass-through recorder
The expectation is that if most other variables within your control are held constant, then the software should continue to work... perpetually.

I don't get this idea that people expect this stuff to be temporary. The code itself is eternal and if you can control for changes it should be able to run forever.
CO in my view is the only image editing tool created with "Grading" idea in mind. Colour correction control is amazing. Actually is the best software for photography, the only setback is €349.00 price. :) But LR is €144 per year, so..
My workflow is Fast Raw Viewer for organising and metadata, RAWTherapee for raw processing and Affinity Photo for final touches. Total cost: FRW - 20EUR / RAWTherapee - free/ Affinity Photo - 50EUR - Total: 70 EUR and no strings attached:)
I wish I had a weekly triple vote I could use on this comment.
yes technically we left 11 months ago but all the rules etc stayed the same for the transition period, its only next year and in the following years that we'll start to notice the effects (like having to get ETIAS to go to Europe in 2022, or having to get health insurance because EHIC isn't a thing for us anymore, and here's hoping the mobile operators are nice and don't reintroduce roaming charges)
The EU bureaucracy is at a higher level, like the Euro Working Group made up of financial ministers from EU countries.

There is a LOT of red tape involved in getting stuff done.
also https://twitter.com/luca_defeo/status/1314573802651688960 https://github.com/SQISign/sqisign
Capture One is 10x better than Lightroom.
I thought this too. The EU probably got what they wanted but Boris timed this to escape scrutiny and put the screws on parliament.
> But the development team still needs to be paid and the advanced features they add each year tend to be harder to implement, so over time the costs are increasing while sales go down.

Do they need to? I mean, if users don’t see the value in spending $150 for a few new features they don’t use, that says that maybe the ROI isn’t there for those features.

Think about the marginal value of each hour of developer time.

Value = number of feature’s users across the product’s lifetime * utility of the feature per user / cost to implement that feature.

Early in a product’s lifecycle the features added have high utility (you add the most important features first) and most of your users haven’t bought your product yet. (So features are a long term investment). Marginal expected value is high - assuming you get the sales. Later in a product’s lifecycle the features are more marginal (and often more costly to implement). If users don’t want to pay for the upgrade, what they’re saying is the new features being added aren’t worth the development cost. If the user base is still growing it might still be worth adding those features. But at some point you should entertain the idea that the product is essentially done. The best play might be to move most of the engineers to a new product. Keep a small team which can fix bugs, renew google maps API keys and add ARM support and so on and call it a day. Profit should go up at that point because you should keep getting sales while your costs plummet. Over time sales drop as your old product has sold to most users who want it, and in that time the income can be used to bring a new product to market.

This is the model the video game industry uses (to great effect). Why are we so allergic to the idea of “feature complete” in software?

The alternative is what Adobe does - try to wring ever more money from your customers while providing them less value each year. It’s no wonder customers are desperate for alternatives to their products.
This is fantastic! Thanks so much for the pointer...the ability to traverse tons of data formats quickly to "get a feel" for them (much like simonw's use case for some of the sqlite-utils) is exactly the tooling I need in cases like this, and the TUI interface is an awesome bonus. Will definitely be playing around with this over the next few days...thanks!
The borrow checker doesn’t understand orderings, as it doesn’t specifically need to. You can get race conditions, but not data races. Yes, you need to be careful when writing this kind of code.
40% of UK to EU exports were services. Although how deep the actual single market in services was in reality, and what the cost is of losing that, is difficult for me to grasp.
We are still in the transition period. But it is already having an effect. Brexit is sucking all of the oxygen out of the room. Lots of other things are being ignored because of Brexit. And the country is more divided than I ever remember it being in the past.
> We are chasing the wrong things...

It isn't obvious we are chasing anything. The graphics card industry was chasing more performance and the field of AI research was pushed along by that.

The field is full of smart people doing impressive work but there havn't ben any fundamental breakthroughs that aren't hardware driven.
Sony support PS4 and PS5 remote play on Android, so having Linux support for their controllers makes sense (the PS4 controller driver is in Android 10, but DualSense controllers aren't supported there yet)
Same reason they are happy to do business in low regulation, low cost of labor countries? Outside the EU, it's easier to have the regulations changed.
Yeah, exactly.

Now the UK can trade with those countries on its own terms rather than involving the EU.

That's a pretty big difference, and countries DO want to trade with the huge UK market.
Sometimes giving up deserves praise. It's not an easy decision to write off all the money you've invested in process, AMD realized it's what they had and made the right choice. That deserves praise.
Treating people this way is not itself professional. The inhumanity of the people with power and the willingness to exert it upon others in this fashion is deserving of a little, as you say, vitriol. (I would say "contempt".)

Treat. People. Decently.
Au contraire, I believe it would be inappropriate to refer to Harry Houdini as "Erik Weisz" except when discussing his personal life, for the same reason.
one of the top movies ever, unfortunately the sequels were really bad (Batman returns is still ok) until The Dark Knight come out, which is as good or better.

For me Jack Nicholson Joker > Heath Ledger Joker.
For the benefit of non-UK readers, the source in question (The Guardian) is a left-wing newspaper that is highly critical of the current UK government, and has been opposed to Brexit throughout the process.
I used to use multiple monitors, but now I’m using a Mac with a single large screen, and I use the Divvy app to easily split open application windows evenly across a single desktop. https://mizage.com/divvy/
Love it! That's how I learned too.
Any suggestions for an Acrobat alternative that can do simple things such as rotate a PDF or extract a page from it?

I use SumatraPDF as my daily PDF reader but still have to resort to Acrobat for those things. And the latest update (that requires creating an online account!) finally did it for me, I'm sick of Acrobat.
Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia [pdf]
You're also closer to a laptop screen. After using a 14" 1080p laptop I definitely would never go lower than 1440p at that size again.
> barring one scene in the first season

Yes! Was that the one where Avon, String, and Stinkum arrive with the cash bonuses? I am rewatching a third time right now and couldn't figure out why it stood out as somewhat clumsy. It even popped into my head while I was driving yesterday. You've just reminded me, so thank you.
There was never an ambition to diverge on day one. But as the COVID vaccine authorisation and rollout has shown, the UK is (somewhat) free to choose to do things which will influence the EU (in this example via the German press) to the mutual benefit of everyone. Sometimes 'solidarity' can prevent anyone from setting a good example.
> a security team must build trust

I do agree with this part.
There are other reasons to exempt 0. But the use of the words "even" and "odd" isn't accidental: whether the number can be divided into an equal (even) number of elements or whether there is an odd element left out.

When we are trying to figure out what can be encompassed in a term, the term's plain, non-mathematical meaning should be considered-- at the very least as a tiebreaker to equally valid definitions.
I don't disagree with you, which is why I use PyTorch instead of TensorFlow. But ZenML is very tied to the TF ecosystem.
BJ is 56 so six years older than me. He's old enough to remember pre EU UK. The UK joined the EC in 1973 and then we all moved towards the EU. I remember some of the teething troubles: Maggie getting a rebate coz "reasons". We got Concorde (with an e) off the ground with la belle France, etc etc.

There were endless discussions and hand wrangling over wine and grain lakes, butter mountains and other rather rubbish efforts to make inefficient forms of farming work by throwing money at it and storing a huge surplus until it was thrown away. The CAP was not exactly the EU's most glorious achievement. The UK as a manufacturer had already failed to adjust and improve in that area but services found its feet here instead. The old, failing ruler of a massive empire eventually found some peace with her neighbours with some forms of integration. We tried to join the ERM as a prelude to a single currency and that was a bit of a buggeration - it was Black Tuesday (can't remember the day) and we sank millions or billions into that experiment.

The UK is legendary when it comes to creating a massive bureaucracy, add a dash of our EU allies and between us we can create an edifice of truly grand proportions with the worst of all worlds. To cater to the usual prejudices: Instead of getting Germanic efficiency with UK innovation, and French magic and Italian flair and Spanish/Portuguese passion etc etc, we ended up with infighting, intrigue and bitching.

I voted "remain" but now I think that I was wrong. We - the UK can be a far better friend than a SO.

You are not from these parts: a clown is not a proper noun (hence the initial letter is not upper cased), you don't know what a colon is and a see is a form of government and not the big blue wobbly thing that I call a sea. I can't be arsed to comment on your last sentence.
I submit that there is no such thing as an average guy who voted for Brexit because of 300MM per week more for the NHS.
Search engines are kingmakers. So don't hate the SEO players, hate the game.
On one hand I agree- the big picture stuff is better with 2blue1brown. On the other hand, as far as doing the actual exercises that make me better at solving problems, Kahn felt a lot better.

I personally value being able to solve random problems better, as it makes me feel like I know the material better when I can apply it, but I think rational folks could disagree.
It sounds like what you are saying is that over the long term, there are no competent developers or organizations.

Or perhaps that due to survivorship bias, the evidence for incompetence that we see sticking around longest is also the most pathological.
I think the biggest problem was described pretty well in the first part.

The letters and rules were written when Apple only had 5% of market shares, and Digital / Mobile economy isn't a necessity. Now that they are 50%+ and every things requires to work Digitally to compete especially during the pandemic, those rules just cant stay the same.

Unfortunately Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs, as Jobs would probably have seen the problem. 30% on Spotify and Epic Games? Fine. But 30% of Educational / Teaching Streaming App?
A few years ago, me and a buddy were going to create something like this... but it was a web-based version that never went anywhere. Good job ;)
Sounds like something fairly easy to crack for those so inclined.
Unfortunately (maybe), drones aren't magical technology that you can only get from the government.

The cat is out of the bag, it's easy to make a drone at home out of generic parts. Anyone who wants to fly a drone into prohibited airspace can do it. And an even remotely-sophisticated attacker could do it with almost no chance of getting caught. That's just the world we live in now.
Timely and humanistic quote I added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup yesterday from the father of cybernetics...

Who was I, a man whose proudest ancestor had led a life in a Moslem community, to identify myself exclusively with West against East? - Norbert Weiner, MIT maths professor and philosopher, an American of Prussian Jewish extraction, founder of cybernetics and seminal work in control theory, referring to a philosopher/rabbi ancestor born in Cordova and domiciled in Cairo as physician to the Vizier of Egypt
I'm sorry but the list of 'accomishments' is laughable. Marking the creation of a Covid task force as an accomplishment is about the bare minimum I expect from anyone in office. Much more important is the fact that such task force was not heard from by the executive, given the testimony of, well, everyone on it.
Considering that the ps5 can play all PS4 games it seems highly likely.
I checked (just for you). All four gotos are reasonable forward gotos and not what the article "goto considered harmful" was referring to. As an aside, why did you write goto in all caps in your comment? While your comment was quite basic, it wasn't BASIC, so no such caps are required. Please don't shout.
How about Priti Patel and Rishi Sunak, current holders of two of the great offices of state. And the previous chancellor Sajid Javid? Or the previous PM Theresa May, or the previous Home Secretary Amber Rudd? Or arch-Brexiteer Andrea Leadsom. The ERG does fit that caricature to a certain extent but the mainstream Conservative party and its leadership doesn't.

And whether they do or don't it doesn't mean their politics is any more or less enlightened. If we're going to pick an axis to complain about it should be quite clearly be class, not gender or race.

Or just judge people on their individual actions or position of privilege.

I don't suddenly feel all warm and fuzzy about Rishi Sunak, who made millions off subprime and is now richer than the Queen, or Sajid Javid who was at the heart of disastrous decision-making from Deutsche Bank before the 2008 crisis and now fabulously wealthy as a result, because they're from ethnic minorities.
I had a similar problem. Also, sleep mode was not activated when then laptop screen was shut. Restart didn't work. I shut down and for some reason all the screens were reset and sleep mode activation worked again. Nonetheless, this problem is different from mine.
Yeah but it would be really disruptive to the EU. I imagine they just want to get on with usual business now brexit is 'done with'.
KodakCoin is dead, XRP RIP, US on stablecoins, seasteading fails again
The solar system example has some epistemic implications. Epistemology convetionally begins with a definition of knowledge as a justified belief in a proposition that is true, and the people who gave the 1-day answer did indeed believe the true proposition that the Earth revolves around the sun (subject to the caveats in the article). Was that belief justified? Well, they they probably received it from a knowledgable source, and if that is not regarded as justification, then by that standard, no-one knows much at all. It is also clear, however, that they do not have much understanding of the situation to which the proposition pertains. Epistemology, IMHO, should spend less time fussing over knowledge being a collection of propositions, and focus more on what it means to understand something.