skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While MATLAB and Numpy were influenced by the APL family of languages, they contain a small subset of the design available in the J/K/APL world. Informally most users of array languages would not consider them close family members, though perhaps they're cousins.
The “MAD with Aliens” portion of the book isn’t particularly relevant to the dark forest theory it postulates. The MAD in the book only applies to a conflict between earth and another nearby non-technologically-sophisticated alien spices, who are competing for earths resources in order to survive. The conflict is resolved by both us and them advancing beyond the need for earth, and becoming full dark forest participants.
I'm going to guess, no.
Saying he got the money from selling cocaine is almost the opposite to entrapment. It certainly didn’t lead them to selling him Bitcoin when they would not have otherwise - he didn’t induce them to commit a crime.

What he did was show they were happy to deal with a supposed criminal, even knowing the money had come from his crimes.
OpenAI disbands its robotics research team
Every serious C/C++ shop I've seen is seriously considering incorporating or switching to Rust. I don't think that's true for many other languages unless they would otherwise be switching to an unsafe language like C/C++ for performance reasons, which is probably a minority.
Entrapment is a thing, its just not this thing. That word means something else.
Making 250 tanks is going to involve a hell of a lot of people. That said, I’m sure they’ll be found pretty quick.
If they had used a voice actor to recite the Bourdain letter --- would that be the same sacrilege as using an AI?
Entrapment is a thing but it’s not this thing. Entrapment is making someone do something they wouldn’t have done otherwise.
>been taken off suicide watch, and whose camera system, which was covering his corridor, was out of order. Plus the guards didn’t really seem to pay much attention.

The problem is that those are way more common in american prisons than you would hope. Meaning we can't really know whether epstein was executed or just allowed to die by an apathetic and malevolent prison system.

That doesn't excuse the absolute lack of effort by Barr and Garland to try to find anything out.
Not at all. But I would like to see legislation (or some strong rule) that forces huge corporations or companies over a certain market share to host all legal content.

Similar to how television broadcasters have regulations that that force them to provide equal time to all major candidates.

I think there’s some reasonable threshold that doesn’t require small providers to host everything.
Back in those days it wasn’t unheard of. Good ol’ dselect!
> Does this count as a massive scale UBI experiment?

No, its (another, of many) experiment with exactly the kind of system UBI is defined in opposition to.
My brother and I had a running joke that Tom Araya from Slayer died in the mid 90s, based on his ashen appearance in the Divine Intervention sleeve. Our “theory” was all of his vocals after then were bits of previous recordings reassembled into new songs. It sounded technically possible with manual editing back then, but it has already gone so far as to automatable.

In this case, for a documentary, I see how that’s a defensible used case. They could hire an actor to read the email, imitating Bourdain’s voice as closely as possible, to the same effect. Other uses certainly could be problematic. Discussing them and working out legal and cultural rules is very relevant right now. We’ve already had posthumous celebrity event appearances over the past couple of years. Famous actors could be in movies with needing to be involved very much - mainly an IP license. I have no doubt record companies would love to create new music with all the artists of the 60s-80s, dead or alive.
I always think I can draw the line in the sand as a very rational and relatively well read person.

But then I remember that the best thinkers the world has ever seen (Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, ad nauseum) were never able to look beyond their noses to see the human suffering of others.

Aka, they were perfectly happy to have a society run by slaves, to ignore the plight of the poor and sick, etc.
Oh goodie, using linguistic references from Google to justify accusatory paranoia. Let's play that game!

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Kowtow&geo=US

I-I-I-is North Dakota a bastion of Chinese context!?

Your conspiracy theory is not only nakedly annoying, but pointless until you address this very serious North Dakota problem.
> "convenience" is just marketing.

No, it isn't. This is intentional ignorance and if people keep believing it we will absolutely lose. This kind of thinking goes all the way back to the 1980s and 1990s when people said "GUIs are for wimps" and became increasingly irrelevant as everyone started using GUIs.

When I am driving and need turn by turn directions, if I have to take extra steps to get my maps app to work I might have to pull over or might try to do it while driving and crash. My map app must "just work."

If I'm about to give a talk and I plug in the projector's HDMI cable and my video driver crashes and I have to load up a config file, I look amateurish. My video subsystem must "just work."

If I'm trying to close a deal and can't share a document, the deal may fail and revenue could be lost. People might even lose their jobs. My collaboration system must "just work."

I could keep going.

Convenience is extremely important in the real world. It saves time, money, and even lives.
The problem with this is that people use Google Drive for a lot of purposes. Including private ones.

I really don't want Google removing my stuff because of some T&C crap when I'm not even sharing it with anyone. An external HDD is much less likely to break but it doesn't try to impose any opinions on my data. Overall the risk of data loss is much less with redundant personal storage.

At least just disable the sharing feature but don't delete it or ban the account. It makes the service completely unreliable as a storage medium. Sharing is only a tiny part of the features of these services and the only part where such limitations should apply.

For example I don't have anything really bad but I do have copyrighted stuff on my O365 like ISO images to have handy when I need to reinstall something. I'm not sharing them but if they'd be deleted anyway I'd be really really pissed.

And really, Google/MS shouldn't even be able to see what we store on Drive unless we try to share it publicly. It really should be zero-knowledge encrypted. Luckily there's apps like Cryptomator.
The idea of the `unsafe` keyword in Rust isn't that a single use of it anywhere in the dependency chain must make the entire code base suspect. Instead, the point is that encapsulation can be used to create primitives that rely on `unsafe` internally but whose interface doesn't provide any way to violate memory safety; downstream consumers of the interface shouldn't need to worry themselves about upholding memory safety.

Here's a contrived example, imagine a library with the following public function:

pub fn index_or_zero_i_guess_lol_idk(array: Vec<u8>, index: usize) -> u8 {
if index < array.len() {
// SAFETY: array index must be in bounds
unsafe { *array.get_unchecked(index) }
} else {
0 // yolo
}
}

Does a downstream consumer of this library need to do anything to ensure memory safety of their own code? No, because the unsafe `get_unchecked` function has exactly one caller-upheld safety invariant, that the array index is in bounds (documented at https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#safety ), and because this code makes sure to uphold the invariant, the buck stops here. A downstream consumer need not use `unsafe` at all, and thus not give up the guard rails. And even in a single codebase, `unsafe` only "infects" the module that it's in, not the whole codebase, since a module is the unit of encapsulation in Rust. If you make your modules containing `unsafe` as small as possible, then you reduce amount of code that needs audited for safety.

And that's the whole point of `unsafe` in Rust: to reduce the scope of code that can potentially be memory-unsafe. It firmly places responsibility on users of `unsafe` to ensure that they uphold the necessary safety invariants; there's never any question as to which code is responsible for memory unsafety, as it can always be traced back to a single use of the `unsafe` keyword somewhere that has failed to uphold a safety invariant. It doesn't outright eliminate bugs--humans are fallible--but it makes it obvious when they might happen, it makes it easier to have confidence that they won't happen, and when they do happen it's easier to figure out why.
The defendant is pretty well known around these parts and the initial arrest wasn't terribly surprising to those who had run-ins with him.

Here's a particularly egregious example: https://old.reddit.com/r/grandrapids/comments/lvqr6k/geek_gr...
If "bitcoin is not money" then you are opening a can of worms that nobody wants opened. Especially if you treat it like personal property as the linked document prefers. Wash sale rules probably start to apply. You're going to need to charge sales tax and get a business license from your local city just to trade on Coinbase, etc. No thanks.

Each dollar bill or Euro or Yuan, etc, has a serial number. That means you can lay claim to an exact bill, just like with Bitcoin. But we call money fungible because we don't actually care which dollar bill it is we are holding. They are all the same from a value standpoint.
Secretary of the Treasury to Convene a Meeting to Discuss Stablecoins
Throwing in my comment like a penny down a wishing well:

Google recently turned off my gmail because my google drive quota was exceeded. They were "protecting" me from myself, by denying me the ability to buy more storage. They refuse to accept any payment method until I deliver a passport photo to them.

The problems here go a bit beyond them being the steward of information or arbiter of right vs wrong. They'll deny you service for any or no reason, and leave no recourse when their algorithm malfunctions.

That said, they can ban distribution of misleading content. It's their right, and no one can dispute that. I'm not sure what people hope to accomplish by expressing outrage over this. We wouldn't want providers not to be able to decide what content to distribute.
Isn’t it a consequence of a post rendering creative editing, e.g. blurring of the generated chromaticities colours, rather than the code itself being broken. No display can reproduce the entirety of the chromaticity diagram, thus there will always be some form of “cheating” required to try to picture it. I do agree with you that burring is not great though and does not really serve anything but aesthetics.
> What does it add? Why does it suggest itself?

What do you think it does? No idea where you're going with this.
Indeed, green contributes more. Example of the Y channel after blurring r/g/b: https://imgur.com/a/3p15Qe1

And colured versions: https://imgur.com/a/Knq2Ue3

(image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower#/media/File:Flower_post...)
> Those will be the people who make things, and also have a good set of tools and maybe a milling machine.

One of the chief things I hope that home-cloud operators get to, quickly, is multi-tenancy. Given how easy it is to take some Raspberry Pi's & build a home Kubernetes cluster (or to spend $1000 & build a radically better version), the next question is: how do we scale that impact?

I'd love for my work to scale to my friends! I used to spend so long trying to build ldap into the ftp, http, xmpp, &c self-hosted systems I made, thinking one day it might help friends too. And I still think that way, but now that vision is less about building super-tip-top services to serve everyone, and more about building a platform that my friends could run their own services on easily, in a reasonable way. #selfhosted, I hope, begins to federalize somewhat, that we can selfhost each other, via some common, well known platforms that support these endeavours to help us build together.

Personally I like to imagine grade school having a half dozen servers, and kids getting their own virtual clusters to operate as they might, to learn about & immerse themselves in computing. This kind of feels like a maker-space sort of idea: a collectively owned means of production, an availability of tools that is community owned & operated. Ideally in my school server model, the kids themselves get the experience (at some point) of bootstrapping their own clusters, get the end to end experience (take one machine out, format the drive, compile a linux kernel, install os, install cluster/platform software, join another hardware unit to it). Similar to a rep-rap producing another one, sort of; creating the chain of knowledge to reproduce & understand.

There's plenty of semi-interesting existing examples to cite with regard to collective hosting: the SDF cluster, tilde.club, &c. I guess I hope that we can virtualize a little more, give more people something closer to their own sovereign little spaces on computing hardware, where-as historically these have been operated more akin to singular shared spaces.
The power to arbitrarily take down content on their own servers? Like I'm with you that it's an overreach but this really isn't that much power in the grand scheme of things. Don't publish on Google Drive and they can't touch you. Very very little pushes you to publish on Drive. Unlike social media where the lock-in the the ability to find an audience Drive is a glorified S3 bucket for all it matters.
Possibly because an invasion of Norway with the tacit approval of the EU wouldn't be as much of a stretch as you imagine.

The oil must flow. Look at Venezuela if you believe otherwise.
Sounds like they just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work harder.

They could also accept checks via the mail. Or cash via the mail. Or cryptocurrencies. Or gift cards. Or barter. There are multiple options available to them.
China's Hong Kong policy head calls for wider security clampdown
I've thought about a it a lot. I definitely see some sense to ASRC's stance. Last I heard they're providing an ~$8k/year dividend to each of their shareholders (every Iñupiat tribe member). That certainly does some good. They also give out scholarships and do other beneficial things.

There'd be less money for all of that if the oil work stopped. I understand that that's problematic.

On the other hand, I believe the government contracting side of ASRC's business has grown at a faster pace than the oil side. I'd sure prefer to see them make a stand and pivot into less damaging areas than oil exploration and extraction. But yeah, I do get why they do it.
Do you feel the same way about free speech zones? Don't like what someone says, just force them to move out of the way so they end up protesting to an empty audience. Naturally if it's a big enough protest you may have to use violence (tear gas, riot police ect...) to do this but hey, they still get their right to free speech, so i guess it's all good and democratic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
If they didn't want to invoke it, they wouldn't have put it in the contract.

Would you sign a contract that says I have the right to point a gun at you at all times, with only my unofficial assurances that I won't pull the trigger?
You know what's funny about this?

The most common color of Call To Action buttons on websites is blue.
You’d probably have less overall risk on upgrades if you actually did it more often. A couple of times a year can result in quite a jump when using a rolling distro
> identity didn't really explode until 2016 or so

what? So feminisms just didn't exist until 2016? Rush Limbaugh didn't constantly use the term Feminazi in the early 90s?

The gay rights movement didn't just start, it's been going for half a century.

It's arguable that modern identity politics really began after Civil rights and the mad dash of Dixiecrats to the Republican party afterwards.
Strictly speaking, "platform" is an umbrella term, and people are actually distinguishing between publisher and non-publisher.
There was one other notable exception to free speech that undermines your point: obscenity is not, or has not been, considered speech under the terms of the free speech amendment. So, at least historically, there is some precedent for considering that some forms of human expression can be censored on their own merits.

I should note that I am anti-censorship and consider such laws absurd, but my point is that we can't rely on readings of the constitution to self-evidently protect us from such things.
In 2003 the US Government and media collaborated to start the Iraq War based on false reporting. Tens of thousands of people died. Today, the notion that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction would be suppressed as "misinformation" because it contradicts the official narrative.
> The purpose-specific computing is more profitable right now.

If people paid for open general purpose systems and software those would be more profitable because people use them more and use them for more serious things.

I am very close to deciding that the FOSS movement is partly responsible for this dystopia. More specifically it's the substituting of free "as in beer" for free "as in freedom." These two are actually at odds. Free "as in beer" is the bait on the hook for surveillance capitalism.
I can’t actually verify that number presented in that paper. I’ve looked and that stat is attributed to that paper, but there’s no evidence that the paper said that. Plus the paper is pay walled so unverified.
Legal LSD
Yellen to Convene U.S. Regulators to Discuss Stablecoins
I was a huge fan of these sorts of shows as well! Having talked with folks who had full access to the specs however, my understanding is that there are specs and there are specs. Basically the specs that give advantage or could be exploited as weaknesses on the battlefield were classified whereas the kind of stuff you could deduce just by watching one operate in the field was not. So for example, seeing how far a tank could shoot by watching one compete, not classified. But 'how many' shootable things and 'what kind' it carries might be classified.
Tolerance of wrong viewpoints is different than the active support algorithms give to discovering false content.
I think this is why one of the older analog video formats, I can't remember if it was VHS or NTSC, used less bandwidth for blue color than for the other colors. This was not noticeable unless blue letters were recorded, which always looked more blurry than letters in other colors.
That just seems like entrapment... Bitcoin to me has always been an intangible asset. If someone is willing to exchange cash for it then that does not mean Bitcoin is suddenly cash. I wonder what the government's argument would be if bitcoin were tangible, say bottle caps.
The jury can, of course, decide to convict a ham sandwich, or to let a blood-on-his-hands killer go, but the instructions given to the jury differ. That difference matters. If it didn't, the US could safely do away with the fifth amendment, and nothing of value would be lost.[1]

The point is that in the US, the prosecutor can't even suggest (well, they can suggest, but an objection will be raised) that the defendant's silence is an indication of guilt.

[1] Anyone who was compelled to testify against themselves would just point out that they did so under duress, and surely, a reasonable jury would throw that testimony out. I certainly would. For some reason though, we don't expect juries to be reasonable on this point.
I'm on a medium sized team so this might not be possible for everyone. The way I resolve this in my Trunk-Based source control system(so we heavily use Feature Flags) is to just never merge.

Every person who is to check-in code is to first stash their changes, pull all code, then pop the stash and deal with any conflicts locally, do the relevant testing, then check-in. The entire repo is checkin 1 -> checkin 2 -> checkin 3 -> etc..

When viewed in this light it is no different than if you had pulled the baz() code before you started editing anything. Would you have changed it to bar() or not?
Similar to the Apple Store experience above, mostly but even in the way people will look at you both good/bad
This TV series was mostly bad, but sometimes exciting. I saw it all, unfortunately. Did you actually take the premise seriously?

Norway getting invaded because they removed 2% of the global oil supply is not realistic.
Well.... yes, and. If you think of an NPN transistor as a current-operated switch (e.g. to drive an LED or relay), then you can have a pretty simple model of said NPN transistor. If you want to make a low-noise PIN diode photodetector amplifier with an op amp, you want to understand noise per root Hz, input offset voltages, variations with temperature, gain, frequency and phase response, and so much more. So, as is often the case in Engineering: It Depends...
I mean that you can just set the game to be 720p with very little noticeable difference. Also at either 720p or 800p many custom graphics options are just not going to make things look any better/worse on a screen that size & resolution.

And 30FPS is just fine, especially for an ultra portable, and when you can probably get more than that out of it with customized graphics options. When I played Witcher 3 years ago it was actually on a machine that barely kept it going at 30FPS w/ low-medium settings. It was fine. One of the best games I played, and the lack of high quality textures too nothing away from that. Do you think people don't know they're making a quality trade off when they play the Witcher 3 on a Switch? Of course they know! NOW they'll be able to play it on a more powerful device that can serve as a full PC and has access to an enormous library.

You're complaining that this isn't good enough to be a primary gaming PC, and that misses the point: That's not the market target. This is setup to be a secondary device for existing gamers and an entry to PC gaming for others that want a wider selection than on a console or a Switch.
I have built an app to email yourself notes in one tap : https://boomerang-app.io.

Works with Siri and share extension and is available for free on iOS and Android.

I have released it 5 years ago as a side project and keep updating it since then, motivated by the organic traction and (lot of) positive reviews !
A Python package for floating-point binary fractions. Do math in base 2
A python package for manipulating binary strings with infinite precision. It comes with tones of helper functions such as: add, shift, fill, to_exponential...
9 in 10 people have some affliction of astigmatism. Astigmatism is just that your eye isn’t perfectly spherical. What does your eye prescription say in the cyl and axis fields, that’s your astigmatism correction.
The bone luge thing was completely made up. The restaurant didn’t do bone luges. It’s mentioned explicitly in World Travel.

I have no problem with a fake voice reading Bourdain’s own words.
Well I do buy groceries with crypto, I don't see why that should be an issue. There are even crypto credits cards these days in case the shop doesn't support it.

Price stability is relative, I do earn some money in USD and always exchange it asap because USD is loosing value relative to my currency. Sure crypto tanked more in the last month's, but it could very well go up as well next week and is still way more than when I bought them like 7 months ago. Something that is unlikely with $

Also TransferWise as well as Xoom don't work in every country do they? Also likely they have high fees? I don't know, I never had any need for those. Can I transfer 10000$ without any stupid checks that slow everything down?