skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! My searches completely failed to find that. I can’t use it as a ruby library, but perhaps I can pull out the heuristics.yml and the naive bayes classifier weights to use in another language.
> The real problem with languages these days is people conflate personal preference with irrefutable fact.

This bears repeating. I've found language preference and style depends a huge amount on education, language exposure, and even neurotypes. For example, personally I dislike keeping pieces of state in my head. I have gravitated towards a very functional style, eschew OOP, short functions, lots of static typing. I need it to stay sane. My kryptonite is long, scripty things with tons of mutable state and magic. Some people can work like that. They can keep a big chunk of varying state in their head. I don't proscribe that either type is better (though the former is much more approachable for those new to the codebase). It's just different tradeoffs.
DeepMind’s Collect and Infer: A Fresh Look at Data-Efficient RL
I'm not sure about other industries, but for me personally, my competency is in large part based on my ability to quickly pick up domain knowledge and apply it successfully.

I'm not really sure how you test for a base level of that, besides proven demonstration on your resume and doing semi-correlated coding quizzes.
But we are also running hepa filters inside for the same reason.
Collection of artwork made with the integer circle algorithm (Minsky circle)
> It seems like a lot of hoops to jump through when Visual Studio (and Visual Studio Code) can index a very large codebase in a few seconds.

I think you are not thinking large enough. An IDE absolutely can not index a very large codebase and allow users to make complex queries on it. Think multiple millions lines of code here. The use case is closer to "find me all the variables of this type or a type derived from it in all the projects at Facebook" than "go to this definition in the project I'm currently editing".
It is a bit worse than that -- because these were largely people who did not fall for the religious-based Puritanism. D&D is Satanic. Now it is problematic.

It appears that people will fall for this Puritanism as long as the flavor packet that comes with it is to their taste.
And it's like the people who make trucks don't get it and keep trying to make their trucks more like cars to appeal to the car market.
A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (2015)
I've had similar experiences with their customer support, both through chat and email.

Multiple reps were writing back and forth with me and I told them twice to please close the ticket as no one understood what I really was asking about. Then the ticket somehow got escalated internally and the next response was indeed what I I was after.
I worked with someone a while back who had huge separated spikes in the hair, and who cycled to work. I watched them putting on the cycle helmet - it was done extremely carefully, with the spikes poking through the holes.
For macOS, where you can also install Chrome or Firefox if you wanted to. Not iOS. Not even in beta.
I love /r/battlestations and /r/averagebattlestations for exactly that reason. Really cool to see what other people have for a setup.
That's rather rich coming from a magazine (like all of them really) that has so decidedly chosen a team for the culture wars.

I can't say that it's a matter of 'democracy' but simply human nature on the large scale. Personal and mass behavior (personal in the aggregate I guess) is going to be steered by a combination of top-down force and bottom-up culture. Diversity implies a lack of bottom-up control systems so, if anything, you need less democracy in modern states.

Obviously social media makes it easier to gin up a mob, and there's always been the truth that small yet loud contingents can punch above their weight, but it seems to me that there's nothing really new here. Social media appears to allow impolite behavior at lower cost, but that poor behavior was always built into the individual.

Perhaps what I'd like to hear is some insight from a participant in the Yugoslavia breakup.
> Just stop using Windows.

As a happy user of i5, I don't feel any need to upgrade to Windows 11 from Windows 10.
Yes, it's a wonderful filter, isn't it?
"Church tax in Germany is a 8-9% surcharge on top of your income tax."

That is a stunning amount. I wonder how many Berlin based Startup Developers are having a second look at the salary receipt right now...
I concur. At this point, it's probably better to create some kind of virtual machine as a compatibility layer. That way it can be updated separately and it doesn't need to be part of the actual system. Alternatively, it could probably be a sub-system like WSL - and completely optional.
Yea, the page seems directed towards university students. I don't think meant it for staff/faculty.
South Australia has so much solar, at times there is zero grid demand. It is a management nightmare for grid operators, but that's what they're getting paid for (instead of generation, which is shifting to direct payment from consumers with solar on their roofs).

The future of grids is orchestration between variable demand and variable generation, along with pumped storage, battery storage, and long distance transmission.
It's not that crazy a statement if you have a virtual disk. Linux would cache that disk image and thus file system operations in Windows (which are known to be slower than in Linux) runs much faster because they're not getting stalled by slower hardware operations. It's worth remembering just how slow the old mechanical drives were -- the difference might not be as distinct (nor even exist at all) between virtualised and bare metal now that SSDs are the norm.

As for why file system operations are slower in Windows than on Linux, there's quite a lot of discussion around that from WSL. I don't really recall the internals of Windows fs operations but there is something about those syscalls generating events that trigger other processes (eg so you can attach a virus scanner) vs Linux's approach of optimising the syscall for performance. The Linux approach does have it's disadvantages in that often you'd want to write software that is triggered upon a file system event and there's no way to watch a nested directory. But overall I'd take the win with fast reads and writes.
I already thought about it and tried, and the experience is even worse than with just bottom.
So... they are paying money to the government that they aren't required to?
I think she pulls punches here, but why wouldn't she, because that's what she's writing about.

The underlying factor is that the Private sphere has been eroded, and there are generations of people who have no concept of it. They exist in the Public sphere, and so the thoughts and conversations of others are suddenly subject to "accountbility." There is no conventional notion of what is ones business and what is not. As though for these atomized people with few close relationships and a lack of personal boundaries, that nothing is their business because they are not invited into intimate relationships means everything is because they don't know there is a difference between what is and what isn't.

Appelbaum says:

> A decade ago, I wrote a book about the Sovietization of Central Europe in the 1940s, and found that much of the political conformism of the early Communist period was the result not of violence or direct state coercion, but rather of intense peer pressure. Even without a clear risk to their life, people felt obliged—not just for the sake of their career but for their children, their friends, their spouse—to repeat slogans that they didn’t believe, or to perform acts of public obeisance to a political party they privately scorned.

Even Appelbaum, who wrote a scathing survey of this very phenomenon, hedges herself as not being overly sympathetic to wrongthink, lest she be expelled from the intelligentsia circles she works in for a lack of fervency. What bothers me is that even smart people like her are not seeing the forest for the trees, and how this is a managed phenomenon.

> Despite the right-wing rhetoric that says otherwise, these procedures are not being driven by a “unified left” (there is no “unified left”), or by a unified movement of any kind, let alone by the government.

While I can see why she would want to avoid risking the attention of the people behind this, it is in fact co-ordinated, and the "left," is only one of the hosts and funnels used for it.

Anyway, it's not a discussion or discourse. There is an entire generation of young people who understand attention as power, and any engagement at all is just an enabler. The solution is to form personal networks of intimate relationships based on establishing incremental trust, without permanently recording every second of it, and try to restore some of the Private sphere as an overall effect. If Anne Appelbaum has been cowed by these people, we are much further down the road to perdition than we know.
That's interesting. I would have thought the opposite, since people would likely eat more home-cooked food, especially for lunch.

On the other hand, I baked so many cakes that I had to stop myself for health reasons.
I've been reading the feedback on /r/windows11 for a few weeks, and this release feels rushed. First available to public test at the end of June[0], and they're shipping it less than four months later with almost none of the issues/limitations/complaints being addressed.

This whole release feels very, if you'll excuse the expression, "lipstick on a pig." They didn't really fix any of the underlying and longstanding issues people had with Windows 10, threw a new thin veneer on top, and called it a new thing.

This October 5th release just feels like them expanding their public beta test to most Windows 10 users. I'm normally an early adopter (e.g. running iOS 15 Beta 7 right now), but I'm going to wait six months or more after Oct5 because this isn't even close to being production ready.

[0] https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/06/28/announc...
I had a similar thing with jiu-jitsu in my 30s. It's fairly low-impact as combat sports go (which is great!), but I had been playing other sports (judo and wrestling) for the majority of my life and those have periodic non-concussive impacts.

After 20 years of practice, I felt just a touch foggy, and I took a few months off to see if anything changed and if my brain cleared up. It definitely did, and I therefore had to quit so I could continue to do programming work at a high level.

Absolute bummer, but that's life, I guess.
The big ticket, agreed upon progressive priorities are still for the benefit of all: Green New Deal, Medicare for all, accessible higher education. I find it more difficult to find policies for the common good coming from conservatives these days. Does anyone have examples?
> Consumers don't want to pay because most content on the web is not worth paying for.

This can be true at the same as another truth: consumers would pay for some content on the web if it was convenient to pay small amounts for it on an ad-hoc basis. Nobody is suggesting that most of the web is worth paying for, but that doesn't mean that none of it is, and it also doesn't mean that subscription models (which mostly avoid the micropayment "problem") should be the only way to address this.
Paywalled- but of course it does show enough of the article to slag off Trump. Yeah that’s not getting old at all!

Flagged for politics and paywall
You’ve tried the snark twice, but it’s not aiding your point.

What is the actual mechanism you think should be implemented, and how does that support cross-party referencing while avoiding other modes of vulnerability (e.g. denial of service)?
I've had some issues with layout mostly and I never use google products on Firefox, but that may be due to ublock being aggressive with it's filters. And yeah the tab reloading is weird because it only affects some people and when it does it's very constant. Honestly I didn't mind since I'm not affected by the bug anymore since I've upgraded my phone.

The real problem was the add-on removal. I know you can still get them through the collections work around on Firefox nightly but... It's a pain and I'm still honestly baffled that Mozilla would just remove one of the only "selling" points for their mobile browser. I'm not averse to change and I get that it is sometimes needed to cut complexity, so I got why they needed to depreciate stuff likd XAML. But in this case afaik nothing was communicated, the new engine already supports the add ons... but only on nightly? Very puzzling
>The problem is commuting, which stems from a lack of housing.

I think you'll find that a great many people don't want to live in the denser areas where offices often tend to be. You can scold about that all you want, but you could make cities arbitrarily dense and a lot of people, indeed more, wouldn't want to live in them if they weren't making a commuting tradeoff because of work.
I wonder if raising fees in the developer program would recoup some of the cost of doing at least some of these things. 99 dollars for an individual and 299 for a business if I recall correctly, that’s peanuts and hasn’t been raised in a very long time. I don’t think asking for more is bad, since it’s a yearly fixed cost
I sort of buy that they're not supporting CPUs without a TPM chip, but it's absolute nonsense that they're also obsoleting a ton of new CPUs for really obscure reasons.
How Much Exercise You Need to 'Offset' a Day of Sitting
what does the network adapter options look like now?
It is a rational option. It takes much less space on the side while still showing my running apps, time, tray and notification counter.
If the app/play stores allowed alternative payment mechanisms, then third parties would have an incentive to build out an end-to-end flow as well, possibly even better than Apple or Google do (eg upgrade pricing, better cross-platform support).
Be sure that apple doesn't try to sue you for that in any way. Fighting against them on court could already be your end.
I made a mistake reading it. You're right, thanks for catching that!
People also consume refined sugar, alcohol, saturated fat and cigarettes regularly.

Just because something is common doesn't mean it's good for you.

I'm not against closed software mind you, I'm using some myself, but the web as a platform has reached this amazing stage because it's been built on openness. And now the very same companies that became rich thanks to this openness want to close it to get all the benefits for themself.
Wicking materials don't use PFAS (although see edit below). The properties that PFAS endows a fabric are pretty much of the opposite of what you need for wicking. Wicking fabrics such as Capilene and polypropylene must be wettable in order to work. PFAS reduces the wettability of fibers. That's its whole point.

PFAS is used in nearly all current water resistant fabrics, including clothing, upholstery, and carpet. The industry calls these Durable Water Resistant (DWR) treatments.

PFAS-free treatments are only just recently hitting the market, but there are only a few so far and they're expensive. The North Face's Futurlight, Helly Hanson's Lifa are the only ones I know by name, but I've heard that Marmot and Mountain Hardware have some PFC-free garments as well.

EDIT:

I searched "PFAS wicking" and I see a some underwear makers are claiming their DWR treated products have enhanced wicking properties. This is confusing marketing. The DWR isn't actually enhacing the wicking. Rather, it's keeping the surface of the fabric that's next to the skin dry, while the untreated bulk of the fabric wicks moisture away. This is sort of like the thin perforated polyethylene membrane used in Band Aids to keep the would dry and prevent adhesion of the dressing.

Nevertheless, it appears we now have to be wary of forever chemicals in our underwear. Lame.
Rust must stabilize its ABI if it seeks to be a useful systems language. You usually don't have to worry about ABI for LLVM and GCC interaction, so why should you need to worry about rustc and gccrs interaction?
C++ STL and MSVC are known exceptions. In other words, anything produced by gccrs will already be incompatible with rustc.

Yeah that was me I'm afraid. That said, I strongly disagree that -fno-strict-aliasing changes language semantics in an appreciable way, since using it to deliberately circumvent the aliasing rules still wouldn't be sanctioned by Rust. You'd just have a predictable, mostly acceptable form of "UB" rather than whatever glitter the compiler feels like farting into your face. If I was asking for a flag that broke existing code, I'd understand, but since this change is totally backwards compatible, I don't understand the objection.
I think most positions like "electronic voting machines" are just ... issues of convenience and not really tied to any political ideology.

Frankly I think that's most political situations.

"No nation building" was a vary big part of Bush Jr's platform ... and then he started some nation building that we only just got out of 20 years later.
I am wating for the toilet programing language
Software is ubiquitous, us technologists work in way more industries than "tech".
Right. It’s been a bit frustrating to see this in Gnome, but at least I can use another theme to shrink things back down a bit.
I mean the virus came from China so I guess they didn't do that great of a job of controlling it. Not only that but can we really trust the numbers China is reporting? They have been completely non-compliant with investigations which could have resulted in saved lives. Lots of people (most?) in the US seem to have the same brazen attitude of not wearing masks in crowded spaces. Not long ago CDC was advising that people who are fully vaccinated don't need to wear masks in crowded public spaces.
Well, depends on your definition of free market. Wiki says:

> In a free market, the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government or other authority, and from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities.

So while your remark about state regulations isn't wrong, the (grand)parent comment is clearly talking about the second part of this definition.

Whose freedom is the "free" bit about? Is it about Apple being free to do whatever they want with their platform or is it about me being free to buy iPhone apps from anyone?
India's shift away from open democracy and free press is bad news for big tech
>Evolution can work on any time scale, including instantly. Look no further than a large asteroid turning into a meteorite, it is evolution done in hours, where everything larger than a cat dies.

A large asteroid will not make me grow a new sensory organ, it will simply kill me. Not all genetic changes take an equivalent amount of time, or are equally feasible.

- Growing taller or shorter can happen rapidly because genes for these traits already exist and must simply be selected from the environment.

- Moving away from a bifurcated body plan is probably impossible, as it is too fundamental to many other systems in the body.

Obviously there's a wide area in between those two examples, but we're discussing whether or not certain traits that people have are 1) genetic in origin, and 2) liable to drift much over time.

Given that religion has been a constant for all known human history (and pre-history, depending on how you interpret artifacts) I would suggest that it's likely to be strongly wrapped up in the same things which build human psychology and human social structure. I want to admit here this is just my view on the topic, and I'm not suggesting that this established scientific fact. In any case, I'm a firm believer in the argument that many who identify as "liberal" and definitely-not-Christian nonetheless have many beliefs which could otherwise be categorized as religious. I want to make it clear I'm not attacking or praising these beliefs, but simply suggesting that parts of the mind which lead people toward religion are a bit more fundamental to humanity, and are not something such as hair color which can be easily or capriciously changed.
Seems reasonable. Nice product, well priced, strong sustainablilty credentials.

Good for them.
I really do think the “old guard” has the most to lose from commercial real estate investments.

Think about who sits on the board for a major company… It’s owners and executives from commercial real estate firms. There is a ton of money around commercial real estate, so letting it all just collapse (or losing even 10% of that market) is billions of dollars shifted around the economy.

Most “normal” people who are working from home have little interest in commercial property (aside from a REIT, maybe), so they don’t care at all if the office buildings go empty.

It’s not hard to imagine the board rooms having these discussions and being pushed toward getting people back in the office. And it’s evident they are pushing the propaganda machine with effectiveness studies and articles about how remote work doesn’t work.
You might be noticing that the media does not demand any logical consistency from democrats.
Ok, so I sheepishly admit that didn't know how to block analytics. Now I do.

https://www.privacyaffairs.com/block-google-analytics/
>Scientology has an IRS tax exemption in the US as another religion, but it seems in Germany the state has made their life quite difficult.

Scientology's founder has been quoted as saying: "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.” German courts have argued that because of this (and the organization's behavior after he died) that it's actually a for-profit business organization masquerading as a religion.

EDIT: I probably should add that the US is rather extreme amongst nations worldwide in that it does tend to recognize personal conviction rather than only shared dogma/tradition as a form of 'religion'. It's unlikely but I could see the organization losing tax-exempt status. Even if this happened, the individuals couldn't be prohibited from practicing what they believe is a religion.
> Plausible proxy runs as a first-party connection and is only blocked by those visitors who block JavaScript entirely. It is not blocked by any browser or adblocker

Would be interested to also include that into the statistics. How many nerds block javascript? I wouldn't be counted by the plausible proxy since I disable javascript per default via ublock and if I allow javascript I still filter it using uMatrix.
>In particular, when the status quo is unjust, saying that you don't identify with either the left or the right often means that you're OK with the status quo.

The correct answer to this view is "so what?" If I choose to watch cartoons tonight rather than evangelize about whatever causes on Twitter, does that mean that I'm "OK with the status quo"? I guess in some sense it does - but again, so what? If you want to cast aspersions on me for this choice, I would just say that you have unreasonably high expectations regarding how much people should care about your cause, and I'd strongly suspect you of being a hypocrite on the matter.
> HEPA filters

This is probably the most important. If you work from home, it might be prudent to at least have a one-room HEPA filter in your home office.