skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not correct. Positive leap seconds are caused by Earth's rotation rate slowing. Recently the Earth has begun to rotate slightly faster, possibly caused by climate change, which may mean a negative leap second is necessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_rotation
Bought one about a week ago, because of similar research studies. I don't notice anything different. I use it in the bedroom when sleeping.

May be my air quality was already pretty good. I will check the status of the filter after a few weeks to see how much purifying it had to do.
Spurred by pandemic, Barcelona backs greener, car-free future
> eventually they'll start arguing about who's more libertarian

As will adherents to every political persuasion. Some even go so far as to violently purge their impure members.
It was Porter Ranch, due to a gas leak:

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-air-purifiers-f...

(Not that leaking gas would get meaningfully filtered by the average air purifier.)

This study found improvements due to the air purifiers:

https://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai20-188...
Also buses are generally much more massive than the vehicles they collide with, leading to much lower forces on bus passengers than on car passengers.

I don't know if this applies to general passenger buses or just school buses, but in the US they have closely spaced seats with energy-absorbing seat backs that limit the force on each passenger and how far the passenger can move in a collision.

Smaller school buses (under 10k pounds) are required to have lap and/or shoulder belts at all seating positions.
I've suffered from terrible allergies my entire life. I bought the best air filter I could find and then bought two portable HEPA air filters running the best filters I could find. It's been great. I went months without allergy medicine. A total quality of life improvement.
> We have had to invent a way of compensating for the variable rate of spin such that "midday" is still the middle of the day and "midnight" is still the middle of the night.

Just granularity of timezones causes 30min offset of civil 'midday' and 'midnight' to astronomical one (more with political borders of timezones instead of strict 15°). DST adds another 1h of offset.

If we want adjustments so these concepts would not slowly drift away, we can just shift timezones once per few thousand years.
The problem isn't that there's no valid use case for it; it's that there's no use case for it in SAML, just as there's no valid SAML use case for XML comments (which also broke SAML).

You can defend DSIG in a lot of different ways. I'll disagree with all of them and feel like I could probably win the argument; DSIG is a cursed standard. But that's not the bar you have to clear in this discussion; here you have to establish that DSIG is good for SAML. It clearly isn't.
I'm aware what I'm about to say is a dumb non sequitur that doesn't really make sense, but: it's kind of unfortunate that we carbon-based animal lifeforms on this carbon-rich planet are so susceptible to harm from so many carbon-based molecules.
At least when it was released, IIS 10 supported HTTP/2, but did not support Kerberos, Negotiate or NTLM authentication over HTTP/2.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/get-started/whats-new-i...

I’m not sure that it’s a problem with HTTP/2 that Microsoft found no reason to implement Windows authentication for it.
>The wealthy spend relatively little of their wealth on discretionary spending.

So they have unnecessary wealth just sitting around that they don't need.
In particular, shadow maps, raytracing/global illumination were built-into Unreal but basically a Phd project in LOVR.
So this is basically just a strongly worded letter.

Anything here or elsewhere suggestive of the FTC actually doing anything else, like investigating for other wrongful denial of service?

....would that even be within their powers to investigate?
Lua feels so rigid, inflexible compared to something like JS. If you want abstractions, and want functions to be first order objects etc, does Lua help. Does Lua have "eval" or something similar?
Amazon will pay you $10 for your palm prints
It's possible but tediuos to run Postgres standalone. I packaged Postgres up for our Bazel build which requires a hermetic environment. The hard parts were:

1. Postgres doesn't really didn't want to be statically compiled, according to [1].

2. Messing with LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to an embedded glibc and openssl when running the heremetic postgres binaries.

3. Postgres will absolutely refuse to run the server process as root. That's sensible for a production environment but a pain in CI because it would require setting up another user on machines. I patched away the problem to allow Postgres to run as root.

On the bright side, with some minor tweaking, Postgres can start a fresh database in 300 ms which is plenty fast for tests and you avoid spinning up Docker containers. I ended up using template databases to only spin up the database once per test suite. Each tests then copies the database template for each test in the suite which reduced the setup time per test to ~20 ms.

Instead of using rules_foreign_cc to build Postgres from source with Bazel, I ended up building Postgres outside of Bazel with Docker and zipping it up by target platform (linux|darwin)_(arm64|amd64).

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4E0DE1B6.6070600@postn...
For years now congressmen have said stuff along the lines of "exceptional access to encrypted content for law enforcement" ie a backdoor. This is Apple pre-empting any more litigation like Australia, Germany and Ireland's recent privacy violating laws so that governments can just ask Apple to add XYZ prohibited content to their client-side scanner.
I am not sure who this person is. How much has he published in ML and what is his h-index.

As examples, Le Cun has a h-index of 127
Hinton 164
Goodfellow 75 etc. None of them consider AGI to be a realistic possibility this century. Kurzweil, the AGI proponent, has an hindex of 22.
not pity. You cannot compile modern code with MPW and PowerPlant.
A question: would it be too much work to port Love2D to a different embedding language? (I'm currently having looks at Squirrel (http://www.squirrel-lang.org/) I always thought Lua was tightly coupled with the framework, but what you've mentioned seems to imply that's not the case.
When measuring the price index of natural gas should you average in contracts written 50 years ago but still active, regardless of whether that price is currently available on the market?

> Eating food grown yourself is a different experience than shopping at the supermarket. Should we factor farm land cost into the CPI?

If 70% of the population paid for a "gardening experience" like they do for gym memberships, etc then yeah I would expect that to be in CPI.
It’s a research dataset, similar to MNIST or CIFAR. Stanford does not want to be in the business of monetizing patient data, so it restricts commercial use.
Hmmm, I mean, I've got room for some cereal serving shrinkage. Let's see how this goes.

(Smirks in ginormous 40 oz. bag of Malt-O Meal Cocoa Dyno-Bites)
I bought a few co2 and voc detectors and air purifiers to try and help with this. Air purifiers are useful during pollen season and for dust not sure anything else. The co2 detectors were actually great for knowing when to open the door or window in my office or living room
Do you feel any slight difference on your breath, health, body at all? Something worth noticing?
And what if you don’t want the process to close? What if you want to open a new window after closing the others? On Windows you have to wait for the whole app to start up again.
No one is thinking that. It was an example by the other commenter of a free and valuable service provided by the government as part of their side of the bargain
Any idea if this currently has support for the Vive trackers? (Would love to track objects as well as hands.)
Knowing the more likely etymology, it's a little awkward when I see the billboards for a dentist in my area named Dr. Ficker.
The message, I'm pretty sure, wasn't that it was that kind of garden. Just that the landscape was already heavily transformed by the time Europeans arrived, but the Europeans didn't know that and assumed what they saw was its wild state.

It's not limited to California, either, as it's now suspected that North America's vast inland prairies were largely created by people setting fires and that we'd see something closer to forests if it were truly untouched.

It's not an implausible degree of control to have. They weren't fighting fires, they were setting them.
Extending the sibling comment a bit, if you run it exclusively on HTTPS, with Firefox or some other browser that understands it shouldn't share your password with any site that asks, it's just a bug-prone, slow authentication mechanism.

But MS has also the "Negotiate" protocol they made to replace NTLM on IE (because even the IE team considered it irremediably broken). That one is a variant of Kerberos, and a lot of people say just NTLM when they mean "Negotiate with a possible downgrade to NTLM".
Basis for Body Temperature Increases During G-Tummo Meditation
For whatever it's worth, I spent a ton of time researching this and came to the conclusion that cleaning your indoor air is probably the first thing you should do for your health: https://dynomight.net/air/

But I suggest you DIY a purifier instead of spending a ton of money on one: https://dynomight.net/better-DIY-air-purifier.html
I have felt way better with a HEPA-filter in my room and better ventilation. (Also got a vacum-mop-robot that reduced dust a lot by vacumming and mopping daily my main working area and bedroom)
The good thing about NeoVim getting a real language for its plugins now is that it can start diving into and making uber complex and and uber awesome plugins like org-mode [0]

Another good thing is now that org-mode is likely to have a popular and maybe hopefully almost complete second implementation, it'll probably get a proper spec.

[0] https://github.com/kristijanhusak/orgmode.nvim
That is precisely the reason I switched back to Firefox after all those Chrome years.

The Firefox startup is pretty much instant. Chrome starts fast as well, but there is a moment, when it's just a blank window that I can't do anything with.

Firefox opens instantly to a usable window with the cursor blinking on the address bar.
> the obvious solution is computers should simply measure seconds since the epoch

Obvious solutions are usually wrong, and this one is no exception.

How do you represent a time which lies well in the future, like "January 1, 2030, midnight GMT" in that format? Since leap seconds are only announced 6 months in advance, any number you pick right now could be off by as much as 15-20 seconds in either direction. Conversely, as those leap seconds are decided upon, the human-readable representation of that number could change unpredictably.
You can compile it from the source code yourself if you want. Realistically speaking there may be a backdoor in closed-source Google Play Services, but not in the open-source AOSP project.
Get a $20 box fan and slap a house intake HEPA filter replacement on the back of it. It will do just as well if not better than an expensive HEPA filter.

If it makes a difference and you want something that sounds different or has some extra features, then you could get a nicer one.
Vote with your wallet and don't give Apple another cent.
And the hundreds (thousands?) of millionaires who work there, designing and implementing all this stuff.
Robots Unloading Trucks
I was being facetious.

The previous poster was comparing building California homes near trees to the folks who build on flood plains.

A natural expansion of that tells you that you can't build in Santa Rosa (Tubbs Fire), Oakland hills (more fires), the Bay Area (earthquakes, someday the Hayward Fault will let loose), or really much of anywhere near the coast (rising sea levels, California Coastal Commission has decided that protecting your property with water barriers is no bueno).
This can happen only because whenever any slippery-slope action was taken previously, there is an army of apologists and "explainers" who rush to "correct" your instinctive aversion to these changes. It's always the same - the initial comment is seemingly kind, yet with an underlying menace, and if you continue to express opposition, they change tack to being extremely aggressive and rude.

See the comment threads around this topic, and look back to other related events (notably the tech giants censoring people "for the betterment of society" in the past 12 months).

Boiling a frog may happen slowly, but the water continues to heat up even if we pretend it doesn't. Very disappointed with this action by Apple.
I've been meaning to experiment with GAN art for a while now, but never managed to actually study or run any notebooks. I saw NightCafe Creator mentioned in another thread earlier today, and it made it too easy not to try a few prompts. Very neat first experience!

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/EqWtT6LUB3WwVd3T56...

https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/iH0oqPjpo4oEHvxwlB...

Does it support the pipes and weights I saw mentioned in a few notebooks, eg. "motorbike:75 | bicycle:25 | car:0"?
Is there an army of hackers waiting around to exploit a 30 year old operating system? And not even Windows; but Solaris. Notwithstanding, quite sure anyone installing this is doing it to fiddle, not trade crypto.
I don’t think Lisp is popular in European academia? Europe is very much hard core type theory. Just look at Coq, Idris, Haskell etc.
Don’t most websites prohibit someone from scraping and harvesting the data on them? Most recently, I can think of Yelp, Amazon, and GitHub prohibiting this, as well as the Aaron Swartz case.
I setup a landing page and got 207 emails. I ended up taking down the signup form recently. I am too busy building the product to send out email sequences at this time. I have an idea for a new process that cuts to the chase so I can avoid emails.
You do harm a burglar when you call for emergency services; but the burglar doesn't pay for your security system. And more accurately: an innocent man pays for his neighbor's security system, which has a "one in a trillion" chance of accusing the innocent man of breaking in, totally randomly and without any evidence. Of course, the chances are slim, and he would never be charged with breaking in if it did happen, but would you still take that deal?

I've seen the "right to unreasonable search and seizure" Americans hold quoted a bit during this discussion. Valid, though to be clear, the Constitution doesn't apply for private company products. But more interestingly: what about right against self-incrimination? That's what Apple is pushing here; that by owning an iPhone, you may incriminate yourself, and actually it may end up happening whether you're actually guilty or not.
Is there examples or a single page document of how to get start upto a finished working example?

Does it support interactive applications, I mean does it handle inputs? Does it have physics/collision detection?
https://archive.is/06ZSh
I think you're coming to a strange conclusion in what you've said...Ivermectin is out of patent - far less money can be made from it. US pharmaceutical company Merck – one of the manufacturers of patent-free Ivermectin actively discourages use of ivermectin -- Also Merck signs $356M deal to supply US with experimental coronavirus drug. These are the financial interests you should be looking at.

https://swprs.org/merck-claim-exposing-big-pharma-lobbyists/

Vaccine prices have been increasing.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/health/1...

Additionally, 'one $5 vaccine' is just wrong. There is already 3rd booster shots being administered in Israel with the pfizer vaccine as its effectiveness is diminished with the delta strain (and Epsilon..no doubt till Omega) ...The possibility of these vaccines being used similar to annual/bi annual flu booster shots is far from 0.

Nor is your comparison a fair one...It isn't a split between use the vaccine or have everyone require days of medical care (that would of course cost more...Not necessarily to the benefit of pharma companies though) -- IF ivermectin was a effective (even just 5%) prophylactic OR treatment/therapy against severe covid symptoms (let alone possibly doing both of these things) that certainly would affect the profits of phara companies getting contracts and sales of their patented offerings.
I'm not sure if benchmarks reflect real-world performance with adblockers and other extensions installed. I've been using FF (nightly) as my daily driver on Linux and Mac for years and I don't see any perceptible difference in page loading times compared to Chrome. The only area where I find Chrome noticeably faster is in starting the application itself, but since I rarely close the browser this is not something I see often.

Unfortunately corporates seem to be ignoring Firefox entirely - last 2 companies I worked at, their webapp worked only in Chrome. So I'm forced to use Chrome (or Chrome-ish browsers like Brave) also on a daily basis.
URL for it: https://github.com/rkeene/saml-idp
I have found that many conversations that would have been public in an office setting are now held in private chats, or in specialized channels that particularly newcomers won't be a part of.

Additionally, someone who's new is much easier to spot and thus be reminded of when they're physically proximate. Someone new on chat who doesn't have much to contribute yet can very easily vanish, so while they may be able to pull information from others, much less information will be deliberately pushed their way.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but we have millennia of culture and evolution built around in-person interactions.
> How does that data support the case that climate change is the main culprit?

Most likely because people don't know what they're talking about. There are a lot of potential causes, probably some more that never come up, but an awful lot of absolutely certain theories.
Yes they're ultra rare and the lootboxes always cost money to open in CSGO.
Which is funny because coney used to be pronounced more like cunny and was deliberately pronounced coney to get away from the vulgar associations.
> Also the vaccines are pretty cheap

cheap times billions of doses is not cheap anymore. And Pfizer and co continuously increased the prize of the vaccines without any pushback.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

This quote shows up often, but it really is just perfectly pithy.
Thanks for being honest about it. Lots of kudos! It is fine to be happy with a specific language. It is not fine (and very immature) to assume everybody else are idiots. Especially when those “idiots” have created all the software we use.
“The FTC received no notice that Facebook would be publicly invoking our consent decree to justify terminating academic research earlier this week.”

Of course they didn't. After you are fined 5b it's no surprise you go full on defensive. What's the alternative? Asking the ftc every single time what they should do?

I'm no fan of Facebook but if they didn't stop the research they could be found guilty again for the exact same reason
so Facebook is asserting that advertisers have more privacy rights than its end-users.
> DeepMind’s reinforcement learning agents might have become the masters of the virtual XLand. But their simulated world doesn’t even have a fraction of the intricacies of the real world. That gap will continue to remain a challenge for a long time.

I guess the question is how the learning curve of a world increases as you add more complexity/realism to it.

If one of these agents was placed in an environment like Minecraft, I wonder how quickly it would learn that building a pickaxe is beneficial for survival. It wouldn't be fair to expect it to brute force (let alone intuit) what the correct crafting recipe is for one of those, but it could be told when it has the necessary ingredients, and given a reward for each new type of item it holds.
for those who keep repeating some strange conspiracy theory, explain how this drug would be more successful than a vaccine that absolutely is effective and is available prior to anyone getting any trace of covid.

sure, theres a lack of vaccines in undeveloped country and this coukd be a stop gap, but so could vitamin D. Theres no reality where i take ivermictin today and 6 months from now im protected. most vaccines for mostm people, that is the routine and normal expectations.

its a medical curiousity and so is vitamin D, but this false idea that its going to some how displace vaccines is antivaxx wishfulfillment. wake up, antivax is a viral meme bourne by ignorant and transmissible by people who view science through obtuse political lenses and no drug will penetrate that viscious type of stupidity because its spreas by super spreaders like russia, american theology and republican monied interest.

the real viral threat is the meme and ivermictan wont stop that either. people arnt antimask because theres a vaccine.
Right, but that's my point about Apple making choices around an arbitrary age cutoff.
>In many cases, people are not willing to do the theoretically/physically best/most energy efficient solution because it’s much, much cheaper to not.

This is why we need to change the economics of the situation. If we raise taxes on the very wealthy, Jeff Bezos might not get to go to space, but we could insulate a few hundred thousand houses.
I actually have a decent relationship with Lua. It's not my favorite language in the world. But it works.

I hated Love though. Not for any technical reason. I really wanted to use it. But, every damn library seemed to be a play on Anal or Lube.

I realize that's a silly reason to give up on a piece of technology. But it's also silly those things had to have unfortunate names to begin with.
I do love listening to John McWhorter‘s podcast about language, Lexicon Valley
From what I've heard, the requirements keep going up due to the variants, and the vaccine isn't as effective as a regular vaccine. It would also be a bit unfair to have people enjoy herd immunity because others took the risk to vaccinate themselves.
Keeping an air purifier running efficiently requires me to keep all the windows closed which negatively effects the temperature in my apartment. Is it worth the trade off?
A city I used to live in has a Hilfiker Ln, named for the family that has lived at the end of that street, which is on a hill, for over 150 years. I've always wondered if that was coincidence or not.
where can i buy this filter?
I have to say, LÖVE 2d holds a special place with me because it's the first 'real programming game engine' (as in language only no accompanying ide or such) I ever actually developed anything that I would consider a fully fledged completed program I made entirely by myself with.

This looks pretty awesome and all but I can't see the benefits over something like unity or unreal or the amazing for the cost and features Godot.

I really like Lua. I've always recommended it to beginners or anyone curious about programming for fun over every other language. I've used it myself extensively

But in this day and age, I can't really see recommendating this or even LÖVE2d anymore to anyone interested in getting into game programming.

There's just too many high quality alternatives these days.
A shrinking population isn't necessarily a problem, and might be a good thing in the long run to reduce environmental damage. But part of the reason appears to be declining fertility due to widespread health problems like obesity and exposure to endocrine disruptor chemicals. That's the real problem we need to address.