skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a response to your dead comment, not only do they not have feelings towards adults in any meaningful sense, other than making a friend, but they actually feel disgust and revulsion towards sexual settings involving adults. In a way, it is as if their sexual axis has been inverted, and instead of being disgusted by one, they're instead disgusted by the other.

It's also not a belief. The science has put it clearly that such people exist. Saying otherwise is to deny the science. Not only can the science measure someone's response to material, but even their neuronal response to it. It _is_ a spectrum, so there are types who aren't that bad off, and perhaps, even ones who are lightly touched by it. But, the idea that it is purely a form of deviance and twisting is flawed.

There are pieces of anecdotal science (studies on small samples of people who report it helping them not have to commit crime), a country level study on crime in the Czech Republic, and expert opinions from half a dozen experts which would suggest that at worst it is neutral and at best it reduces crime.

Most importantly, there has never been evidence that it causes crime. This property has largely been assumed, and has never been tested in such a fashion, despite a lot of people assuming it has been tested and produced such results. There is an exception where prisoners wanting to get early parole / better conditions play along with flawed studies.

According to Dr. Seto, those who commit crimes are largely antisocial individuals who were leaning and moving in that direction to begin with. And that they ultimately would have reached that conclusion.

At most, I might advise putting a content warning on a site or a piece that explains that it is a piece of fiction, and that it should be not be enacted. But, I've never seen actual evidence, only conjecture, that that it could be a problem. It's just not listed in actual psych profiles.

And while I will condemn someone acting out the crimes, condemning someone for consuming / producing a piece of media is going to feel like an adversarial attack on them (which fuels in-group bias, meeting up with like-minded people, distancing, and conspiracy theories), and it ultimately just deprives them of pleasure, without any real gain (and that is in the best case).

If someone does feel it is making them really likely to do something that they shouldn't, I would strongly advise that they don't read it, and I don't feel that a level-headed individual would just run all the way to doing a crime.

As for those reviews, I would have to know what they actually say. But, people say all sorts of things when they're "horny". And critics will critic.
Can't you heat the stainless steel enough for stamping but way below the melting point?
Did that make the user experience worse or better?
Mastodon, Pleroma and other ActivityPub platforms have gained traction with millions of users, even Gab was just a (very outdated) fork of Mastodon.

Matrix is federating chat, with Mozilla, Gitter and numerous others natively using the Matrix protocol. Meanwhile, there are dozens of mature bridges to pull in IRC, Slack, Discord, etc so you no longer have to install their software: https://matrix.org/bridges/
RISC-V has the C extension (compressed opcodes, similar to Thumb-2) and code density then is comparable to x86 which is the main CISC in use these days.
SLAC is looking for Data Engineers
I would add this cheap book to anyone interested in EE, or fooling around with circuits. The book just basically goes back to Ohm’s law, but I guess there are EE whom graduate, but forget the basics?

Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School
Glynn Lunney, Key Flight Director with Apollo 13, Has Died
Likewise, the Obama administration resettled the vast majority of its Mideast and African "refugees" in red states.
The automakers don’t manufacture many low end trucks for what it’s worth. Yes you can buy a fleet ready vehicle if you have a fleet, but no dealer is stocking anything in the last year except the luxury trim. Parts shortages and unprecedented demand (people buying camping trailer sand trucks due to Covid) have broken the market.

Source: myself having gone through process of buying a truck a few months ago. Looked at mid size trucks (I own acreage, making hobby farm), but only could find the 60k optioned vehicles. Ended up full-size luxury trim due to tax break possibilities plus only available stock. Pretty wild right now. Used market also hosed, almost price of new.
MAME on Apple M1
As a practicing EE (power systems), I agree. It often becomes clear when someone is unable to distinguish a practical limit (this equipment is not rated for X, our operating procedures prohibit doing X) from a physical one (X is not possible because of underlying physical principles).
Emacs has a lot of amazing extensions! Magit is unparalleled for working with Git. The problem is that they break more frequently, in my experience. The very fact that I have to install a 3rd-party DSL to have a sane package management experience is beyond the pale from a usability perspective.
Europe's own official medical & regulatory agencies studied the vaccines and have authorized AstraZeneca for general use. This is from their Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee.

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/publi...

The blood clots happened in people with very specific health conditions

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/covid-19-vaccine-astrazene...

Can't get any more official than this.

If our EU states choose to block AZ after this, then it's clearly a decision based on factors beyond health & medical.
No, but you at least realize an analog filter is a thing that exists. You don't remember the specifics, but you could study them if you needed to.
> One of the perpetrators in these Bay Area attacks was caught on video, and was Black, and reporter after reporter was asking me—are Black people going after Asians? These were Asian American reporters I was talking with. And I kept asking them, What’s the evidence? Are there other videos?

So, what were the answers? Are there other videos? Or was that the only one? Are there maybe even statistics? I'd expect a "professor of political science and Asian American studies at the University of California, Irvine, who has previously written a book about Black-Korean community relations in New York City and is finishing up a new one: Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World" to know these things, or at least research them for the interview.
>These same people showed up at the nation's capital with every intention of taking hostages & holding show trials.

Is that the current description? What happened to "attempted coup"? Oh wait, maybe five armed people out of 150 who entered the Capitol != coup attempt by any level of common sense, so I guess now the above is the description du jour. Never mind the preposterousness of such a group also "taking hostages & holding show trials". Perhaps in another few months the MSM consensus will finally get to what was and is obvious to anyone who isn't histrionic: 150 idiots (the vast majority unarmed) who illegally trespassed into a government building. They can and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law ... As far as "illegal trespass into a government building" can go, at least.

(And no, the Capitol police officer who died wasn't "killed by a fire extinguisher" wielded by said idiots. He died at home from unknown causes and apparently wasn't assaulted by anyone https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/02/politics/brian-sicknick-charg... .)
Man I wish I knew enough KiCAD.
I think that's the real reason behind COVID. REMAIN INDOORS.
http://archive.is/OLpPn
You’re in for a treat! The demoscene has a fascinating mix of high technical skill with artistic ability.

This is a good overview of some of the best demoscene stuff of 2020: https://youtu.be/CVAvuhNBt-Y
I suppose it depends on the definition of art and craftsmanship. Sometimes people tolerate lower reliability, and sometimes that’s ok for “art”. E.g. Harley Davidsons are not reliable, but that’s almost by design at some point. My German car mechanic was almost a social scene... owners were in and out so much we got familiar with each other and would go grab a beer while we waited for certain work to be finished. Point is, you don’t even mind that much if you really love the product. Italians and Germans just hit different with their industrial design. I fall in and out of love with each of them for different things... cars... espresso machines ... bikes. I don’t think the world would be a better place with only highly reliable products.
> but most chess engines have a real-valued estimate of their equity in the game that is between 0 and 1

My understanding is that Chess engines do not evaluate a 0-1 value to representing chance to win.

They evaluate the perceived material advantage from the current board position.

See: https://www.chess.com/blog/ChessMN16/how-to-read-engine-eval...
As an anecdotal datapoint, let's throw down my selling on paper (believe me or not, it's alright):

- I'm a 43 old white dude who looks 35. No kids, no smoking, little drinking, blood donor, roughly vegetarian who can shoot a hair off an ant's head at 25 yards.

- I make ~$500k but I never mention it. I've been middle-class, poor, and relatively comfortable. I have a much wider range of life experiences than the average office worker.

- I was affiliated with a big name university and could've done a PhD if there wasn't a specific economic disincentive to do so. (Many moons ago, I was offered a dark matter research assistant job at 15.)

- I ride around on a pimped-out, overpowered scooter that can drag race most motorcycles and supercars, go almost fast enough to go on the highway, and semi-blast quality music.

- I have a big-ass, bitchin' apartment that somewhat matches my personality. It needs interior decorating and plants.

- I read big, meaty titles in history, literature, economics, philosophy, and psychology, but not much pop fiction.

- I fly powered paragliders (PPG), cook well, and am cleaner (not OCD), more domesticated, and DIY than most people.

- I have a very unique, rare dog that is visually-striking.

- I'm center basketball-player tall.

- I'm about 8/10 to where women might communicate with me on OLD, but I don't because it's such a fake, constrained, skewed, unnatural waste of time that doesn't spark actual chemistry.

- Women generally enjoy my company and say I'm fun. I've had polygynous arrangements with bi/pan women. In that department, I have been around.

- My confidence level is solid.

Guess what? I can't find anyone I would date seriously. I basically gave up because they don't exist or are inaccessible. Women may throw themselves at me to sleep with them all the time (including pulling over to shout propositions at me from their cars), but they're not dating material.

What I'm looking for in a woman: they have to be fit, any age legal (17) to 30, any ethnicity, any background, good habits, no kids, smart enough to complete an advanced degree, fun, sense of humor, sane, not entitled/bad attitude, and honest. Being realistic, it is extremely unlikely that I will ever find someone to have kids with who I could remotely respect. I might as well get over it even if it makes me sad and lonely.
A History of Capacity Challenges in Computer Science (2016) [pdf]
Frank Abagnale (of Catch Me if You Can fame) gave a talk at Google (available on YouTube) in which he said he doesn't possess a debit card: Too much risk. With a credit card, there's no risk. You can contest any charge, and it's not your money that's gone while the bureaucrats fiddle.
I’ve used lsp-mode for python, go, typescript, rust, and haskell. Had to do a little bit of fiddling with settings and trying different servers to get something performant for a very large python codebase, and I did some more fiddling to adjust some delays and whatnot to get everything feeling snappy with the way I edit text. I still find that it feels faster on Linux than on Mac, but I don’t use the latter much anymore anyway.

My general impression of lsp-mode is that it’s great, once you get the settings the way you like them. Errors and warnings are nicely integrated into flycheck, and the lsp-ui package provides some niceties like automatically showing function signatures, showing error information inline with the code, and so on.
> So much of what EEs learn in their coursework is of low utility.

>I have never had a single EE course

Enough said.
Brazil agency fines Apple $2M for not including charger in iPhone 12 box
I'm reading all this talk of students losing months/years worth of data and wondering if the universities should make attending a 1 hour computer do's and dont's class mandatory for all new students? Atleast those who are diligent but not technically knowledgeable will benefit.
I left emacs for vscode. The intellisense and code snippets did it for me.
>I do, however, somewhat suspect that the crucial difficulty of Emacs comes from its messiness, from the huge number of people writing interesting extensions in it, and how they don't always quite play nicely with each other without a bit of glue code.

There's no excuse for Emacs to be as inaccessible as it is though. What is "crucial difficulty?" You write an awful lot of words to excuse why the world's most powerful text editor does not have a high level of polish or usability out of the box. Usability is not at odds with power: it's complementary. The rich extension ecosystem is amazing, and there are tools in it that cannot be had anywhere else (Magit is my git client for everything, even when using IntelliJ and VSCode). But the number of extensions that exist to fix bad and/or obsolete defaults, and the number of extensions that add basic usability improvements, is really high as well.

I'm not advocating for eliminating what makes Emacs Emacs. I'm advocating for improving the out-of-the-box usability story so that the editor isn't putting people off before they get a chance to understand and experience its power. In short: I don't believe its messiness is an inevitable effect of its power. I think it's a product of the attitude that certain things about it should suck to weed out users who don't fully agree with its ideology.

>By comparison Emacs would of course be the Lisp of text editors. One could try and make Lisp as accessible and nailed down as Java, after all its extreme customisability lends itself to that, but at that point you'd just be writing a poor man's Java instead of Lisp.

I say this as an OCaml and Elixir programmer: there's nothing wrong with writing Java. The world runs on Java, not Lisp. Statistically speaking more Emacs users probably use it to write Java than any other programming language. If we're not going to meet the world where it's at, we will fail eventually.
I dont know if it is depressing or encouraging that a team of learned guys who get paid mid 6-figures come up with this kind of strategy.
U.S. jury tells Apple to pay $308.5M for patent infringement
college-goers and faculty use word processing and email programs religiously.

During crunch weeks it's not uncommon for students to log 16+ hours a day on the computer, keeping up with heavy workloads.

Anyone who claims that it's okay for a specialized industry professional to be ignorant about (very) basic computer use is absolutely wrong; it applies to all fields either within the professional aspect, or at the very least during the learning process while slogging through college and the attached social networking.

We chastise the elderly for being unwilling or unable to learn to use and accept mobile phones, meanwhile current-generation students from non-cs fields are having trouble with the very basics of computer use, made all the worse by the fact that most modern colleges are by-and-large paperless and entirely reliant on the use of personal computers?

Great.
Haha no comment
It does actually sound like things have improved since when I started moving away from primary development in emacs circa 2016-17. It might be time to revisit my config file. I still end up coding in emacs a lot of the time.
Google AMP – 70% drop on conversions
New particles were found at CERN
Volcanic Eruption in Iceland [video]
Yuri Denisyuk's original concept for wavefront reconstruction was to make a little 3D ID picture of a face, inspired by a Russian sci-fi story.
DisColorAsian: The Trauma of Mispronouncing “Minari”
Mental health issues may have no clear physiological cause. Even if there's a physiological aspect, it's unclear what the causes that condition. Depression, for example, we see low serotonin levels, but we don't know why the levels are low. In the case of addiction, the mechanism is clear. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/278/5335/45
1) At risk exposure commitments (vs preorders). The Eu didn’t want to take risk and only wanted to pay upfront for what can be delivered. The uk got a VC to allocate risk and pick vaccines (Kate Bingham) vs a Sandra Gallina who was focused on lower prices. If vaccines failed the Uk govt lost money vs the EU approach where nothing would be lost since its just a pre-order. This is the reason the Uk govt insisted on being supplied first.

2) Sourcing multiple vaccine candidates early on & focusing on speed (vs national equity such as France’s insistence on Sanofi matching Biontech). Sanofi's candidate failed/was too slow in the end and is almost a primary reason for the EU failure.

3) Brewing early, AZ had similar issues as they do in the EU and was late in the UK as well. The vaccines were expected in October but were pushed to end December because of similar problems as are happening in Belgium. It takes 3 months to fix a brew so its not easy to deal with. The UK govt got an Indian firm to help get some technical expertise to get that brew to scale faster (partnership approach)

4) Securing low dead volume syringes early on - allowing up to 7 doses vs 5 from a vial. The Eu only started to look in December whereas the NHS got them in June.

5) Centralised NHS database to find candidates to test the vaccine on for phase 3 trials within the UK/Regulatory nimbleness. Having the trials in the UK allowed them to be monitored far more closely.

6) Focus on enabling onshore manufacturing. The govt specifically replaced Merck with AZ to ensure this, so blockades were in control and other key ingredients were made onshore for other candidates (such as the Pfizer vaccine).

7) Partnership approach with AZ/Pfizer, etc in ecuring supplies using the RAF. Where something wasn't available onshore the RAF was sent to personally pick up anything in another country and no expense was spared. It looked a bit dodgy because this part was done using shorthand process where parliamentary scrutiny wasn't properly applied. Covid locked up transport so vaccine makers were asked what they needed and the Uk govt helped secure it vs leaving it to the manufacturers to secure it.
Its novelty. Were there a longer history of mRNA vaccines, or had the COVID19 ones had the normal vaccine development/testing time, I would likely feel differently. My doctor (who has already received a vaccine; not sure which one) more or less told me that were he not working in healthcare he would, like me, wait.
Got it. I do research in reinforcement learning and I can sympathize with the difficulty here - in my experience, even something as simple as "I want to balance two objectives: 1) the agent should get a high score and 2) the agent should try to make as few decisions as possible" tends to result in the agent doing neither of those things well"
How to handle monitoring as a solo founder
As you see in the article, it did ship. but only in the beta version that was sent out to testers and journalists before the actual launch. Normal users never saw it but the people who were informing the users about the product did.
I am going to be honest, these kind of articles are useless.

1. Make sure you understand the concepts

2. Mark what you dont know clearly

3. Write down what you know

4. Use 3 to find out 2.

Oh gee, thanks!

This is a more realistic approach.

1. Have a reasonable amount of mathematical talent

2. Study materials appropriate to your current level and mathematical maturity.

3. Work hard at it.

4. Ask for help when you are stuck

There.
I live in downtown Austin. One of my neighbors brought home 14 (!) women, they barely all fit in an elevator, and you could tell what they were up to. Another time, I counted 3 polyamorous relationships in the span of two city blocks where a guy was affectionately holding hands with 2 women. This is the way life works, whether you want to believe it, or not.

I had a girlfriend who gave me/us three of her college girlfriends.
>VSCode is much more popular today. Emacs is GPL -- I expect it to be there in 20 years too. I won't trust Microsoft long term.

VSCode is open source, too. There are forks with the Microsoft IP removed from it. I believe Eclipse and RedHat maintain one now as well.

Other than that I basically agree with you. I much prefer Emacs to VSCode, but there are annoying things about it that mean I don't want to use it full time.
But maybe with 5 million real examples sampled from the distribution CIFAR-10 was sampled from they would in fact see a difference. Maybe the generative model is capturing only a limited slice of the diversity that the ideal model would really see.

It seems like they should have downsampled from an actually large dataset rather than generatively upsampled from a small dataset. Unless I'm missing something?
It's possible to be completely accurate and show no obvious bias, but be propaganda by careful choice of what is and is not mentioned and how it is framed. The best propaganda doesn't isn't obviously propagandistic, it simply sets the agenda according to a pre-determined point of view.
The old artist couldn't sell their work. The new artist sells their soul
Absolutely lovely design and presentation. I truly appreciate the thoughtfulness and care that has gone into building this.

The layout and clarity are top notch. Theming is just perfect. Switching from a light to dark theme takes care of the images too. Far too many pages switch the theme of the page but leave images as is, resulting in bright images in an otherwise dark themed page.

The UK Gov themselves take great pride in their attention to accessibility, so kudos to them as well.
Gearing adds weight and complexity, and complexity brings unreliability. Best avoided where possible.

Putting car engines into recreational aircraft has been popular over the years, but never really 'took off', with high failure rates from being run at consistent power levels way past their design goals. The best conversions are high displacement naturally aspirated engines that end up looking remarkably like the existing Lycoming/Continental aviation engine installations.
> The extractive behavior the tech giants exhibit has been the norm for modern capitalism since Milton Friedman set its objective function in 1970: “The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” This is all the sadder, though, since the tech industry set out to model something better. The generosity of open source software and the World Wide Web, the genius of algorithmically amplified collective intelligence are still there...

I don't buy that at all, the tech INDUSTRY was the result of attempting to extract value out of technology. I have to scoff at the inclusion of "algorithmically amplified intelligence" as one of the egalitarian core values of SV. If you hadn't caught on by then, you must have been heady off the fumes of it all.
If you're a big-time CEO, you can have 50 women in a night.

See also: Felix Dennis
Stack Exchange's Be Nice Policy and Public Figures
35 years since I graduated. A little surprised to find that many of the books are the same.
I don't think you can call yourself an EE if you don't know anything about RF.