skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would subscribe to the WSJ if they didn't make it so hard to cancel. I guess a few states have laws about making it easy to cancel a subscription, but:

"For all other subscribers, please contact Customer Service at the numbers listed below as we do not accept cancellations by mail or email or by any other means other than calling Customer Service"

-- https://customercenter.wsj.com/help/article?topic=Policies&t...

Nope.
My daughter (2) sleep talks "more milkies"
They should probably ban milk.
Well, the way I learned C was by taking this class many years ago:
https://see.stanford.edu/Course/CS107 (not this specific instance of the class, but same instructor so I assume the curriculum is the same...).

There are surely more efficient ways...
The evidence to me, late stage career (I was in government, and uni research and then latterly in systems and networks in the uni system, latterly outside in the NFP internet public governance space), is we're off the rails both inside academia and in private industry research. Neither feel like fully open minds.
> To be fair, Congress could, on a whim, change the definitions of hate speech whenever they felt like it.

In the US, the legislature cannot unilaterally create rules that outlaw certain speech (unless that speech falls outside of the guarantees of the US Constitution). Also, there's no current definition of 'hate speech' in federal law.
Once, I recovered 600MB of my /dev/null file from my zeroed out HD! It's like it was never deleted.
What it needs is a cryptocurrency with LONGER time between blocks. Say an hour instead of 10 minutes. Dogecoin uses 1 minute block times, if I recall correctly. The light time to Mars round trip is something like 10 to 45 minutes depending on what part of the 26 month Earth-Mars synodic cycle you’re at.
Google Fires Ethical AI Lead Margaret Mitchell
Shadowbanning is lying, plain and simple. I don't doubt that it works. Lying often works.
Typical failure mode is adding all their places, duplicating what was already mapped.

Or low paid contractors damaging unrelated data while doing this.

But adding accurate data is highly welcome!
Clear violation of company policy is not disagreement. The entitlement of people never ceases to amaze me.
Not necessarily. Google's US-based employees would be protected by Sarbanes-Oxley Act if they did it to report on fraud.

But generally, yes. Unless you have a truly extraordinary reason you can get easily fired in most companies.
Vipassana meditation makes me more awake in dreams. Better remembering. More lucid.

I hear it's common.

If anybody's looking for a way to do that, there you go.
I thought that while there's data now, the sample is _extremely_ skewed to Chinese hashers:

https://news.bitcoin.com/65-of-global-bitcoin-hashrate-conce...
You're probably right that Armstrong would be too humble to say it, but increased engineering effort is the only conceivable mechanism for unreliable networks to produce more reliable systems. I can't even tell what you think is going on.
First: cholesterols are a family of molecules, like alcohols, not just one thing.

Second: statins inhibit cholesterols so while it is associated, it's good to mention that cholesterols are anti-depressive, which is something anyone with any university bio education will know.
Definitely needs a better homepage, one better targeted at developers, which so many fail to do.
How much of the work done by researchers like her is actually secret? I am under the impression that most everything gets published in open papers. Or is it common to withhold key information from what is published?
Talking like a true survivor of Venus atmosphere adventure...

PoC or GTFO.
I have to admit, I wonder why she needs to submit documentation to the consulate specifying that Beijing Xi Diaoyutai Hospital is a front for PLA-employed doctors. Shouldn't they know?
Contrarian here. Lots of people saying lawyer up. I would first just like to say that's on the assumption you're in the USA; plenty of jurisdictions that would be an over reaction.

But assuming you are in the US, and they are potentially defaming you as individuals, then in my view deferring to an attorney puts everyone on edge and seals lips, whereas it seems very unlikely that an apparently failing company will expend dwindling resources and runway chasing a civil suit for an unemployed engineer.

Personally, I'd let them run their mouths and capture what you can. You could even try to be helpful by questioning what problems they're having and why they think it's you just to have them make further statements that either bolster a defence or give you ammunition for defamation proceedings should you wish to.

Don't fret too much (all assuming you've done nothing wrong). They're likely just stressed to the gills with a failing business in a pandemic so not acting rationally.
This will happen
And Pandemic, and many others. I think Bobby Kotick once said something like, if you want to see your game studio shut down, sell it to EA. It's true that founders want to cash out but you can be sure that in all these places there were many people who wanted to keep making games.
Let's ban anything not written in assembly.
Problems and Outages for Amazon Web Services
Seems like this might relate to the reshuffling of AI organization at Google: https://blog.google/technology/ai/marian-croak-responsible-a...

From a complete outsider, this seems like a smart shift toward more mature leadership.
A lot of businesses buy other businesses simply to shut them down and reduce competition, though.
The reality though is we have no idea what's possible here: we just know what's not commercially viable to offer as a service.

HDD recovery research is almost certainly a well-funded area of intelligence services, so I imagine their are a few electron microscopes and STMs which can do it.

There's certainly no military data destruction guide which doesn't start with "shred the platter to this grain size".
So you're saying when the government finds out a person is a spy that in itself is no big deal and that the government then still needs to find a horrendously more sinister thing they did like... lying?! in order to charge them with something?
I mean, I assume that most people doing these high-end jobs actually want to be doing them. If they've sold their souls, that's a seperate issue.
I've experienced that dream memory thing too. A whole other set of memories that I hook up with when I'm in dreamland.

It makes you think.
Even if you would hire lawyer, it would be often far less expensive.

And for many uses there is no viable alternative.
Running tabs in a separate process has been a boon IMO. It’s better security and a crashed tab doesn't bring the browser down and an unresponsive tab can be killed independently.
I question the relevance of this with cloud based solutions such as AWS Lambda, where you can spin up a production ready auto-scaled service very quickly; it certainly reduces the cost of ownership and operations. Sure if you are a team of 20 developers working on an app - go monolith.

But if you are a 300 person organization launching something from the ground up, I would choose many serverless solutions over a single monolith.
Totally agree. Generally if I can't get the ball rolling remebering last nights dream before I'm really awake, I won't be able to get much detail at all.

> Most people have at least 2-4 REM sleep phases at night

One of the things I've noticed in taking a dream journal over the past few years is that when I remember a night's dreams thoroughly, they're often split into a handful of distinct sections, with each one being an almost entirely self contained story and scene. I never made the connection until now but I wonder if each 'scene' is a specific REM cycle.
> Our open institutions don't work in a world filled with rich nation states with bad intentions

How does that sentiment apply here? Suppose the maximum possible malice on the part of the CCP, the PLA, and Song Chen. What could they have accomplished by getting a neurologist into a research project?
Government control is a whole different animal to the privatized moderation that is common in the current big social media sites. Private moderators don't receive unfair support from all-powerful state authorities nor do they have the total power of the state to censor beyond their platform. The Indian government is clearly upset that they lack the power to bully Twitter into silencing their critics:

> Citing threats to public order, on February 1, Indian authorities appeared to have requested Twitter to suspend or remove dozens of accounts on its platform. Twitter briefly complied but, after public outcry, reinstated the accounts and then refused to remove hundreds more.

> After weeks of battling with Twitter, some of India’s most prominent Hindu nationalist politicians took to their social accounts and instructed their followers to leave Western social networks for Koo, a local, free-speech platform. “I am now on Koo,” tweeted India’s minister of commerce and industry, Piyush Goyal.
It’s been successful in obtaining usage, but I am still confused how it accomplished this beyond a bunch of people asking for it. What problems does Bitcoin solve for these traditional finance institutions that could give us a better barometer of its success?
What exactly do they have on the lady, except that she is an officer in the PLA? OK, she's wearing uniform and is employed at a military hospital, but members of the US Medical Corps are officers at military hospitals. It's easy to understand why a physician might wish to work in brain disease. What secrets were exfiltrated?
Hindu is a label automatically applied to all Indian.

Being a "Christian" is about actually accepting the bible, the first words that people hear from god is to kill the non-believers and idolators.

I understand where you are coming from, but I am fairly certain 99% of the Hindutva groups would be fine as long as you do not hold such extreme views.

So what is your take on the aggressive evangelism (mostly American) going on in India.

And what do you think of the RSS definition of Hindu which includes all Christians & Muslims who consider India their cultural source.
> I would propose alternative is to fix your monolith first. If the team can't rewrite their ball of mud as a new monolith, then what are the chances of successfully rewriting and changing architecture?

A million times this. If you can't chart the path to fixing what you have, you don't understand the problem space well enough.

The most common reply I've heard to this is "but the old one was in [OLD FRAMEWORK] and we will rewrite in [NEW FRAMEWORK OR LANGUAGE]," blaming the problem not on unclear concepts/hacks or shortcuts taken to patch over fuzzy requirements but on purely "technical" tech debt. But it usually takes wayyyyy longer than they expect to actually finish the rewrite... because of all the surprises from not fully understanding it in the first place.

So even if you want the new language or framework, your roadmap isn't complete until you understand the old one well enough.
This was the first RPG I played, which may have played a part in me not liking RPGs to this day.

The manual was amazing though, with the cool descriptions of the world and all the different types of magic. Game publishers/developers really knew how to make manuals those days. But the game itself just didn't make sense.
I have made for myself something alike:

https://imgur.com/a/By9YN2q

Is made on wood, to being on the style of MS Ergo but not curved (yet I think it feel nice as is).
It's been a long time since I looked into it but water rights are controlled at the individual state level so 50 different takes on who owns what and how... unless you're talking about navigable waterways, which brings in federal jurisdiction, eg this lawsuit.
> I also don't care if megacorps use the data to make jillions of dollars and never contribute

I can see you've received lots of praise for your commitment to open source, your passion about mapping, your contribution to the world. Regardless, the above statement just seems sad and depressing, the acknowledgement and resignation.
What do I do if I want to play the Ultima series from I to VII? And - can I somehow do this on Linux rather than Windows (without a Windows VM)? e.g. perhaps with DosBox?
Diablo II: Resurrected
I understand that you're trying to be open-minded, but it's not warranted when dealing with the CCP/PLA. They have been at war with us since Mao in the 1950's.

The US government primarily uses grant fraud charges against CCP spies, since there is fairly detailed paperwork around grants.

The CCP uses their spies and Thousand Talents Program to steal secrets and methods, patent inventions funded by foreign countries, and to control dissent.

When you hear of a PLA spy, they are some of the most motivated, most educated and smartest people in China - they have to be to get into the civil service (same with most developing countries - working for the govt is highly desirable in India and Indonesia also.)

So what your comment misses is that she was a CCP mole in our country, able to influence other people and a conduit for information back to the CCP.
> There is a growing group of people who are increasingly doubtful of this

Most targeted advertising, sure.

Targeted ads based on interests? Diet? General age range? Of course those will be more effective.

Showing me targeted ads for fitness products has been very effective, I have a yoga and a workout app I use that are both 100% due to targeted ads. I also have tried out various food products (keto cereal!) due to targeted ads.

Interest based ads work, if done well. Now that said, ads for stuff I already bought, eh, less so. Even worse if I buy something from an ad, get it home, unbox it, then google for help. Now I get ads trying to sell me the same product again. Though I'm not sure how horribly invasive ads would have to be to avoid that scenario.

I've generally found FB ads to be, honestly, useful at times.

What I really don't trust are kickstarter campaigns running YT ads. Shouts 'scam!' to me almost instantly.

Also that YT ad that was playing a few months ago for the $20 adjustable dumbbell set that went to a super shady site. (Normally adjustable dumbbells go for $500+...) It appeared to be a fake storefront, but YT kept happily running the ad day after day.

It was well targeted though. :)
I have heard that academic departments literally bend over backwards to cultivate women as professors and extend every possible advantage to them in order to promote them. This is from a classmate who did her PhD and is now a tenure-track professor at a prominent school. I know for a fact that she was also the recipients of various scholarships, grants etc. while she was in school, many of which she attributed to being a woman in the field.

Your statement that "it's hard for women in CompSci" rings false to me. I think women do face higher barriers in many corporate settings that have been mostly male-dominated, but my personal observations about women in CompSci academia lead me to believe that women are treated better vis-a-vis their counterparts in other university departments, and also in other male-dominated industries.
Africa is the largest growing continent and just like China has been an extremely important market for many companies, so too will many developing African countries. Apple would love to be the market leader there and any headstart they can get will pay dividends in the future.
For the uninitiated, 'urban naxal' is the broad brush pejorative term that the Indian right wing uses to describe anyone who disagrees with them.
I have a lot more respect for MS and MSR than I used to. I grew up, and I learned more about both. Nowhere is perfect but, in a different context of the US attempts to define extraterritorial control on data held by European hosted services, MS was the company which stood up to the department of state. Google and the others folded.
Try vipassana meditation. It'll make you remember your dreams. And more.
Eh what about maybe they have a different threat model to you? Maybe they have elderly relatives who just about switched from SMS to Whatsapp and they want to talk them in an easy way?
The thought has occurred to me - and I wouldn't mind a thumb-trackball on the right hand, either. Design in the physical world is well outside my wheelhouse though - is a keyboard an approachable project for somebody who hasn't done woodworking/machining before, or would I be better served working on smaller projects first?
The problem that U8 had was that the rest of the Ultimas were mindblowing and pushing the frontiers of what a game could be with every release.

U5 built a massive world. U6 took it further with npcs with lives and schedules instead of just being a static display in a shop, U7 built on that and felt like a living world. U8 took us out of the britannia we loved, and put us into a much smaller world with no companions. It would have been fine as a different game, or as a section of a larger game.

Also... I hated the jumping puzzles because the movement was so clunky. I'm pretty sure those existed, but it has been 20 years so maybe I'm remembering that wrong.
Numerical stability is a fundamental problem with interpolating splines defined over Euler spirals because a unique solution is not always guaranteed to exist. I'm pretty sure there's a theorem in there somewhere if deflections can be bounded, but I haven't found it yet.

If you don't need exact Euler spirals and are ok with increasing the tension on high deflection (which imho is valid for design tasks like making fonts), then the approach of the hyperbezier spline might be an appealing alternative. I believe that always has a solution, but the current solver is kinda dumb and can fail when points are very close together. I plan on improving it.

The general idea of the hyperbezier solver - use Hermite geometric interpolation, and solve the tangent angles for G2 continuity - is a better approach than what the Spiro code does. That has technically richer capabilities (including G4 continuity if needed), but is less stable.

I don't promise anything, but if you want to file an issue against linebender/spline with more detailed requirements of what you need, I will at least take a look at it.
Gebru wasn't fired because she "cast Google in a bad light", she gave an ultimatum to her boss threatening to resign if they don't disclose names of all reviewers who criticized her work AND blasted group emails calling for sabotage

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f2kYWDXwhzYnq8ebVtuk9CqQ...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/k77sxz/d_t...
I do have empathy for the poor. I used to work at a Shell gas station and I've talked to all kinds of people from Land Rover high rollers to drug addicts buying glass roses.

When you talk to the people flipping burgers in America, youll see a whole spectrum. And when you see these people earning a minimum wage and waste their life smoking weed, modifying their cars with shit they can't afford and playing video games all day, I have zero empathy for them. There are people that want to improve and I've had several conversations how they can't afford education or vocational school or any sort of apprentice practice. I have a lot of empathy for them.
>You can’t transplant a platter into another reader

Then why do I get tons of results on YouTube of people doing exactly that, when searching for “HDD transplant”?
We do not manually create any graphs. The infrastructure we have developed allows us to create new graphs without writing any code:

- On the backend we can add new data pipelines to any public data by setting a few configuration parameters

- The front end is completely modular with re-usable D3 components

While we are doing the configuration ourselves for now, we plan to open this up over time.
Hey! Sorry we haven't made one but we will in the future. For right now, I'll type it out here. A couple of projects I'd like to highlight:

- Nanite: A writing goal app to help people keep track of their written words per day and provides stats on how they're doing, what they're writing, etc.

- Rekku: An anime recommendation system using machine learning, it actually just got integrated with a large anime website: https://www.randomanime.org/anime-like/

For this season, we have some ideas of areas we'd like to work on (personally I like education tech, finance, etc.) but it's more so based on brainstorming with the different teams and what their personal goals are.

In terms of reviews we did end up surveying the crowd at the end of season 2. The reason we didn't include it in a page was because they were very question oriented instead of something easily clip-able facepalm. Here are some answers the "What did you like about CCA?" question:

- Team was friendly, work was enjoyable. I think working on a project with a definitive goal in mind, and audience in mind, really helped.

- The mentoring: it's supportive, helpful, and a valuable way to gain feedback on what one is working on. Pairing UX designers/researchers with developers: a great way to encourage/develop soft skills and teamwork. The weekly meetings are also good for keeping everything/everyone on track with what to work on or talk about issues/tasks that need to be addressed.

- Team work: there was a strong spirit of collaboration towards a common goal with various skills contributed from mentors and participants. This came through strongly in the polite and constructive language used in meetings, and the helpful demeanour of all towards each other.
Oh man - quite possibly my favorite game of all time. I find it funny that the remastered graphics look exactly like how I remember the game (though they're clearly improved).
i only use it to buy weed.
Next news briefing is scheduled for Monday, I'd expect new pictures then; the current batch of images were released in todays news briefing.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/watch-online...
This doesn't really seem to address how they work, in two fundamental ways:

1) We've had a good idea of the pharmacokinetics for a little while. All this research does is enhance that knowledge and take it one level deeper. Essentially, we've just gone one turtle lower in the pile of turtles standing on backs.

2) No theory of how antidepressants work will complete until we also understand why they so often do not work for many people.
Silbo Gomero: ‘Special and Beautiful’ Whistled Language
Honestly I could try to ignore the memory consumption if at least it was snappy. The few electron apps I use have visible lag when I do something that forces a large redraw.

That's a problem that didn't have with GTK app running on a computer with one order of magnitude less computing power and RAM two decades ago. VS code on the first computer I used to program would probably be unusable (if it even launched), yet we had full fledged IDEs back then. I'm not talking about advanced language server plugins here, just basic usage.

The great side effect of this is that if you avoid all this wasteful crap and keep using old school technology, computers are snappier than ever. My terminal always pops up instantly, nvim fires up faster than I can press return, rg lets me search a huge codebase with barely noticeable latency. My IMAP mail client is faster, more configurable and more ergonomic than any webmail I've seen.

Life is good when you avoid the www.
The videos show him getting mobbed by students, the University offered no protection for him. When told that students were going "car to car" looking for them, the University told police not to get involved.

It's a radical story and it needs more attention.
Windows should be banned on Mars. That would be a good fresh start.
Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism has become ‘techno-feudalism’