skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! Not inside the tutorial, but in the 'real' game there is a console that you can log anything into.
This. My parents never let me have soda or juice when I was just thirsty. That probably had more to do with saving money than health, but the constant repetition of "if you're thirsty, drink water" has been etched into my soul.
Hehe, yes, I am sure.

Mine was 800€. To pay this, you need to be a coffee nerd, but I think it is absolutely the most important thing to get consistency and satisfaction. I use an inherited antique ceramique (no plastique) pour over filter and do not feel it has any drawbacks.

I will try Tetsu's technique.
I'm pulling this out of nowhere but let's say bigger populations correlate with ease of detection.

It would imply that the average planet is less detectable than our own planet and thus the Fermi-Paradoxon is resolved from our perspective. Lots of life absolutely everywhere but most of it is undetectable.

Of course this is only about our perspective, the assumption is that aliens would never visit us. So one step further, bigger populations correlate with ability travel. (pulled out of nowhere) However, if they are advanced enough to visit us and therefore have a bigger population than ours (interplanetary species), wouldn't they run into the opposite problem? They would have trouble detecting us because we only live on a single planet.
There's a UK company which is hoping to launch regular airship services for short routes within the next 5 years: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/airships-for-c...
edit: Having read the original DR report (albeit translated by Google), I think I was wrong (as were many of the English reports). Original reply below …

> In fact, it's both: The government's Dunhammer Report is the report into NSA/FE's Op. Dunhammer.
It's true that a vector space has a designated origin. Whether you choose that to interpret as "vectors being anchored" is, I guess, up to you - that's just an issue of language usage, not of mathematics.

I personally don't consider functions or polynomials to be "anchored", but yes, of course there is the zero polynomial etc.

Also, keep in mind that physicists, for example, often use a more restricted definition of "vector" than mathematicians. That Wikipedia definition you quoted doesn't strike me as very mathematical. A mathematician's definition of an affine space is much more abstract.
Ask HN: What are you doing against arbitrary app suspensions by Google?
Our app was suspended a few months ago by Google. We submitted an appeals request which was finally approved by Google (after a month of discussion).

Now, three months later, our app was suspended again for exactly the same reason, against which we had already successfully appealed.

We tried to appeal once again, which was declined this time. The only difference from a few months ago: the person in charge for our case has changed.

It seems that you are completely dependent on the person assigned to your case, leading to arbitrary instead of consistent decisions.

It even went so far that our app was in a quantum state for some time because it was approved and suspended at the same time. This seems to be an indication, that the organizational process for app suspensions at Google doesn’t work quite right.

Do you have any suggestions how to move forward?

In general, I’m quite unhappy how app suspensions work for the Google Play Store. When your app got suspended, developer access to your app is terminated as well. This means, you can’t implement any changes requested by Google. Instead you have to upload a new app id, losing all downloads and reviews, and have to start all over again from the ground up.

Compare this to suspensions in Apple’s App Store: The relevant update of your app is held back until things are clarified. Then the update will either be released or you will have to implement some changes. However, you won’t lose the reputation you have built up to this point. Using Linux since decades, I'm not suspected of being an Apple fan boy. But in this case, this seems to be a process which is more developer friendly.

I’m also looking for alternatives to the Google Play Store for Android. Is F-Droid also recommended for closed source apps? I was also checking out the Huawei store, to reduce the dependency on Google at least a little bit. Anything else?
Yes, XAML was (is?) quite nice to create interfaces, with notably grid and components support years before CSS got them. It has its pain points (including the different incompatible implementations) but I always did somewhat OK designs faster with it than I ever did with CSS. Android AXML is indeed a (bad) joke though.
The above was a joke. And where did I say “I don’t want to look at micropython”?

I do know that if I want to learn it, it isn’t something out of my reach. But there are things you can do with C you can’t do with micropython, so other than from academic standpoint, what’s the point? I am already proeficient with C.

That said, I don’t care what other people do. I had good intentions with my advice, talking from 20 years of experience in the field.
Studio monitors and HiFi equipment seem like different categories and use cases to me. HiFi speakers should fill the room. To get a good sound from studio monitors you need to be positioned well. Just moving a little bit can make a big difference in the sound.
Yeah the description above is very outdated, currently the main focus is on everyone's own savings (2nd and 3rd pillar), its foolish to rely on the common 1st one for anything.

Switzerland has a bit unique position within Europe by having the highest salaries, so plenty of folks retire to places like Spain or Italy (or Bali) where your Swiss pension can give you relative luxury lifestyle compared to not so great lifestyle back en Suisse.

Generally everybody in Europe wants to have Swiss pensions, not only for the amount but also for the 3-pillar systems where you actually save decent amount for yourself to live comfortably and/or retire early. Not the case in most european countries AFAIK.
Yes, the algorithm you proposed is impressive and has the potential to become a game-changer.

However, I think the MNIST and the Ying/Yang dataset, using latency-coding, are not the ideal example to demonstrate its performance.

These datasets are useful to demonstrate nonlinear classification, and it's certainly great to see that the spiking network performs competitively. However, the transformation into a latency code costs time, in terms of computation, and also in terms of representation, before even one item is classified. Perceptron-based ANNs with continuous outputs don't require this step and will always have an edge over spiking networks in such scenarios.

I think what the field is really lacking is an ML problem that can leverage spiking networks directly, that does not require costly conversion of data into a representation that is suitable for spiking networks.
Many countries have realised that relying on a continuously growing population has its own problems.

So you need a pension system for a population that doesn't grow. Basically that means that everybody has to pay for their own pension. It doesn't really matter whether you do it as taxes that get paid to the people currently retired or by saving money.

The solution The Netherlands came up with (next to moving to an individual pension system) to try to raise the retirement age to 67. This is quite unpopular. But it's either that or a low pension.
A good way to determine the point of transparency of lossy encoding for yourself, is to ABX test on your own equipment, with files you've converted yourself. A good way to do this is with Foobar2000's ABX plugin, which lets you compare back and forth and on whole tracks or short snippets if you want.

In my experience, headphones always yield the best results, and surprisingly it doesn't matter if I use the stock earbuds from my phone or a nice set of AKG over-ear headphones. It's not a matter of absolute sound quality, just the fact that you cut out room interactions and get the sound straight to your ears makes a big difference.

MP3 has some built-in flaws that no encoder can completely cover up, short sharp sounds like castanets really expose the pre-echo, harpsichord shows similar issues. It also has a tendency to make cymbals sound "washy" or "underwater", which all lossy codecs do to some degree, but MP3 is especially bad.

Still, at 192kbps I have to really focus to hear it in normal listening, but it's more or less always there even at 320kbps in problem tracks, if I really focus in on short sections. It just sounds subtly "off". But I hope no one actually listens to music like that, in short repeated sub-1 second sections to narrow in on a specific castanet snap ;-)

As for more modern codecs like Opus and AAC, it's generally completely transparent for me at 128kbps, and that's with a bit of playing it safe, I'm pretty sure I could drop Opus down to 96kbps. Modern codecs are really impressive.

I keep my music library in FLAC, both because I know it's CD quality and because it's an archive. I want to be able to convert the tracks to any new codec that may come along, if I need to.

My library is 280GB currently, and storage is cheap :-)
I'd like to offer a german perspective on this.
I've been a freelancer (webdev) for about 1.5 years now (about 3 years of experience) and this is how that calculation would look here:

Employed at 100k Euro, no kids, not married:

- 27.406 Euro income tax

- 1.243 Euro solidarity tax

- 7.923 Euro pension fund

- 1.022 Euro unemployment insurance

- 1.030 Euro statutory nursing care insurance

- 4.440 Euro health insurance

= 56.932 Euros left over.

Health care can be made a bit cheaper with a private insurance company but this is the ballpark most people would be in. All the listed taxes and insurances are mandatory.

Freelance with 100k Euro, no kids, not married:

- 22.290 Euro income tax

- 1.225 Euro solidarity tax

- 10.594 Euro health insurance

- 15.840 Euro pension fund

= 51.310 Euro

However: Paying into the pension fund is not mandatory as a freelancer and you can also choose how much to pay and health insurance can be made cheaper here as well. Health insurance and pension fund will be deducted from your taxable income. Also as others have mentioned you can suddenly deduct a lot of things (phone bills, parts of your electricity bill, buying a new laptop etc.).

The main kicker here however is this: I work as a freelance webdev and so far I have managed to make about 80 Euros/hour which given my current workload will result in about 130k Euros of income this year. I have yet to get an offer from any company willing to pay more than 100k.
I think it would be smart to be prepared for potential future backlash and the pendulum swinging the other way. Look at vaping. Or Timothy Leary.

Is there a red team approach that can help ensure we don't misstep in the momentum to overturn the drug war?
> I'm always surprised when people show what modern CSS and HTML5 is capable of doing.

There are web servers written in Brainfuck and Bash. They are capable of it, you can be surprised by it, but it doesn't mean that this is useable or applicable in real life.

What CSS lacks? Take what Sass offers, go through feature by feature, and you'll find so many things lacking. Some of them are slowly making their way into CSS, with emphasis on slowly: variables are in, nesting has been debated for 6 years now.

What else CSS lacks, and will lack forever due to the core nature of HTML and CSS? Actual useful animations. Where you can animate a height: auto, or a list item being removed from a list.
> If you want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions effectively, you must support nuclear power.

Very strong statement but no evidence whatsoever.

Germany's a bad example, we're (that is: the government during the last 16 years) doing a lot to keep really old crappy coal power plants running and slow the transformation towards renewables. And still, 50% of the electricity is produced by renewables.
Exactly. Tragically, people think individual action doesn't achieve anything, but they measure the wrong thing, that one person's impact on one or two actions. Our greatest impact is in leading others, which multiplies. To lead others we must first lead ourselves. My personal actions have led me to consult corporate executives, mayors, congressmembers, and other influential people.

From the article:

> not yet investing at sufficient scale in technologies that support fast decarbonisation of their economies

The most effective "technology" is to consume less. What will do that is acting on different values, instead of growth, enjoying what we have, instead of efficiency, resilience, instead of comfort and convenience, meaning, purpose, and the satisfaction of a job well done. Human societies lived with those values for hundreds of thousands of years in some cases, and centuries in many others, with higher markers of health, longevity, stability, and equality than our culture until very recently, but those markers are going back down. And will drop precipitously if we don't return to those values.

Population growth may be leveling off in the most polluting nations, but it's globally growing and over sustainable levels. Economically we can sustain population decreasing and many nations have lowered birth rates with the opposite of the One Child Policy coercion or eugenics, purely voluntary, noncoercive, leading to stability, health, and abundance.

> “Every day, we witness the worsening consequences of the climate crisis for communities around the world – farmers’ crops failing; floods and fires engulfing towns and villages; families facing an uncertain future."

We can dance around sustainability issues all we want, we eventually reach both overpopulation and overconsumption, both driven by growth, both driven by cultural beliefs and values we can change. This community loves nuclear, but without considering your point, that we aren't using new energies to replace but to augment. If we ever expect to stop growing and instead shrinking our polluting behavior, the sooner the better, as in now, which requires leadership more like Churchill, Mandela, MLK, and peers, not new technology. It costs nothing and improves our lives. When we learn to reduce consumption, nuclear will help. With our current values, we'll keep growing until hitting its limits, back where we are now, but with more people and dependency, making reduction harder.

To quantify all this, I recommend Tom Murphy's book Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet, which I wrote about https://joshuaspodek.com/the-science-book-of-the-decade-ener....
It's the hardware. You can pick up 1kg single source raw beans for anywhere between $8-$20 USD depending on your interests. Roasted, these will taste better than anything you'll buy in a store and will almost as good -> better than mail order specialty roasts.

However, a good roaster costs $400-$1K+, a good grinder costs $200+, and a good (used) espresso maker costs another $200-$400. All of these amounts can escalate very quickly.
I don't know why you threw in 'young', that clearly isn't part of the equation. My retired mother and her retired friends all love to drink on the beach. It seems to be very popular with the elderly.
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Abstaining from alcohol is also a praised act since time immemorial. Trying to keep one's mind and body free from intoxicants is also a noble goal and is something that is part of us as human, AND it is what distinguishes us from animals (animals in general don't abstain from things out of sheer willpower, but human beings in general do, be it dieting, teetotaling, etc.).

This just isn't the truth. "Free from intoxicants" might be noble for some, but on the other hand, different sorts of intoxicants have been used for religion for a very, very long time. Folks have used this stuff for a very long time - not just alcohol. Folks to this day espouse the benefits of things like LSD and MDMA: pot/hash can be used to good effect.

Not to mention that folks bond over such experiences. Drinking 8 drinks in a night isn't necessarily dangerous, depending on the strength of the alcohol - no one said it was rapid either, nor unsafe. Just like you an do LSD or mushrooms and not be unsafe.

And there is just no way to know if animals abstain from things out of sheer willpower: We simply cannot communicate with animals on a level to give us that understanding. Animals DO seem to partake of mind-altering substances, though. (catnip, anyone?).

We tell folks to drive every day, and driving is a risky and dangerous behavior which easily endangers the public, by teh way.
Is there anything useful out of this?

All other species that don't know the actual distributions should expect that all other species are larger than themselves.

If we base our search for alien intelligence on this assumption but it turns out that intelligent life is not possible on smaller stars because the habbitable distance also means the planet is tidally locked and some other filters, we're wasting our time.

It's great for SCI-FI though.
I use taskwarrior in combination with taskwiki and occasional taskwarrior-tui usage. Taskwiki allows me to store arbitrary notes in markdown files while keeping the relevant tasks list auto-generated and synchronized with data in the task tracker. It works really well together.

[0]: https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior

[1]: https://github.com/tools-life/taskwiki

[2]: https://github.com/kdheepak/taskwarrior-tui
> Are we saying someone who had a loved one die before their time?

I hope not. Death is something you have to learn to cope with at some point. If we call that already a trauma, I think we have a rather big problem. And I am saying this because I have experience with it. I had my father and my aunt die in their 30s, when I was around 13. That was unpleasant, but still from the "such is life" category.
> one of the reasons big infrastructure projects were undertaken in the middle ages was just the opposite: to provide a reason for an economy to exist. Something for the population to do.

This isn't really compatible with anything I know about the middle ages. Can you show someone of the time writing or otherwise demonstrating that he doesn't want the cathedral, but he's afraid of what the population will get up to if they're left idle?
"Appeal to hypocrisy" is the other name of tu quoque fallacy:

Tu quoque, or _the appeal to hypocrisy_, is an informal fallacy that intends to discredit the opponent's argument by attacking the opponent's own personal behavior as being inconsistent with the argument's conclusion(s).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Maybe "critique" was the wrong choice of word.
Your point is now much more clear to me, thank you for your insights.
Some people would argue it already is in the wrong hands. Without any conspiracy theory required, it is controlled by a tiny, wealthy elite with power and connections to manipulate our political discourse and ensure their new power is not scrutinised.
My generation was taught: "Once you have physical access, the game is over." I believe this is still true. Pretending otherwise feels like snake oil.
That's from the article, which describes the vehicle used by Pres. Johnson. One could hope some progress have been made since then.
Well you couldn't find a bigger collection of hypocrites than a G7 summit except perhaps at WEF summit
Here's the report

https://learn.tearfund.org/resources/policy-reports/cleaning...
Germany, France or Romania have similar 3 pillars, so I'd say the system is far from being a Swiss particularity.
Edit: the Swiss pension is so high because the contributions are also that high. Nobody stops an Italian to contribute four times as much, in order to receive four times as much pension. But the difference as you say comes from the salary level - although the expenses are just as high, so if you spend your retirement in Switzerland you will feel just as rich as a German in Germany. Only the Swiss retired (and healthy) going abroad get to feel that advantage.
Can't you just scan the QR code?
This sounds really interesting. Do you have any recommended reading lists for this project?
And if we know the actual distributions... we know the actual distributions and there's nothing predictive about this whole thing.
Hi Will! Your talks really left a mark on me and I’ve been playing around with relational programming stuffs ever since. Thank you!

While you’re here... Has there been any progress on support for rational numbers (or other number systems) in pure minikanren? I’ve always wanted to have a crack at it, but have no idea if it has already been done.
But does "above the median population" actually tell you anything that is useful? I don't see that as being anything more than a truism.
Pirelli puts a wireless sensor in its new tire for the McLaren Artura
Grind retention is : /

I use a Rancilio MD 80 that I picked up for 80CHF. The guy I bought it from didn't know what he had. It's as large as my Gaggia, but grind retention be damned, I'm not giving it up.
Nuclear is a tiny sliver in that chart. If decarbonization takes 1.3% longer because we also get rid of nuclear I think few people will complain. It would of course be nice for the climate to first shut off coal plants and then nuclear plants, but it's hard to get a majority for that in Germany's current political climate.
Yes. A V60 dripper is £6 and the filter papers are about 6p each.

It's the coffee that's expensive. That soon leads into getting a good grinder so you don't end up with expensive stale grinds (whole beans stay fresh longer).
Wirecast has been around since the mid-2000s and has a very similar feature set to OBS. It is lacking in some areas and ahead of the curve in others (Wirecast has GPU-accelerated scene preview thumbnails instead of OBS’ flat text list). VMix is another successful proprietary desktop streaming software. You could also probably add the OG, TriCaster, to the same list as it solves many of the same problems (video switching on commodity PC hardware, real-time layering/compositing, desktop capture, etc) but is married to NewTek’s hardware.
So the tax evasion, worker abuses and militant anti-unionisation weren't enough!

I often see comments like this, and I truly wonder if anything would prevent people from using Amazon. I don't want to criticise you specifically — it's so easy to say you would switch but becoming increasingly difficult to do. And motivated cognition is really a thing.
Oddly enough, it seems the internet [login forms] have created an uptick in 43 year old nuns.

The church finally has a solution to their clergy loss. ;)
For a split second I thought a composer from the English Renaissance era wrote a book about logic.