skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s also likely faster to implement as a one-off for a hobbyist and, using a low-cost MCU, cheaper than building it around a $0.10 555 if you want to make a product.

https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/the-terrible-3-cent...
Evergrande’s collapse would have ‘profound consequences’ for China’s economy
Wow that's dark. The sheer, overriding expedience of all this activity is shocking. Peace to the families and loved ones.
the most recent publication with "hexagon" in the title from the quoted scientist, Leigh Fletcher, is:

R. Hueso, A. Sánchez-Lavega, J.F. Rojas, A.A. Simon, T. Barry, T. del Río-Gaztelurrutia, A. Antuñano, K.M. Sayanagi, M. Delcroix, L.N. Fletcher, E. García-Melendo, S. Pérez-Hoyos, J. Blalock, F. Colas, J. M. Gómez-Forrellad, J.L. Gunnarson, D. Peach, M.H. Wong (2019), Saturn atmospheric dynamics one year after Cassini: Long-lived features and time variations in the drift of the Hexagon, Icarus, Volume 336, 113429

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13849
Yes. Non tensor core fp16 ops are the default. Tensor cores are essentially 4x4 fp16 mac units and there's a requirement that matrix dimensions are multiples of 8[1] that needs to be met for them to be used.

[1]: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/performance/mixed-preci...
Those features are probably of zero value in that implementation scheme for the big clouds. Those are more the kind of things for small datacenters and 'hosting providers'.
Changes to Article 22 seem worth following fairly closely.

As I understand it, the original EU GDPR Article 22[1] disallows the use of solely automated data processes that have a legal or significant effect on individuals.

The Digital Marketing Association has a publication to educate marketers about the EU GDPR, and mentions[2] significant effects in the context of online marketing.

It explains, for example, that in a situation which borders on exploitation, an individual in debt could be provided with automated advertising about high-interest loans, leading them further towards financial and personal distress.

That's an example of a case where no legal effect is necessarily felt; I'm sure there are potential situations in which automated legal decisions would have an even more significant impact.

No doubt there is ambiguity in article 22 but I think that the UK Government, TIGRR and others involved should be careful not to open dangerous avenues while in the pursuit of (no-doubt well-meaning) scientific research angles.

[1] - https://gdpr.eu/article-22-automated-individual-decision-mak...

[2] - https://dma.org.uk/uploads/misc/5b322a16cc6a6-gdpr-for-marke...
Bill Gates Takes Control of Four Seasons Hotels in $10B Deal
I’m glad that there is a public consultation for this, and we should try our best to fill it out to give the government an understanding that they’ve screwed up, but I fear it will fall on deaf ears.
Obligatory, current, and timely XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2513/
And just to expand on the above, modern farming heavily exploits heterosis (1) for greatly improved yields and healthier crops, even when not using "GMO" crops.

This means that while seed saving is, strictly speaking, possible, it is uneconomical -- properly fully heterozygotic seeds coming from an organization dedicated to making them will yield so much more than the second generation descending from those seeds (or any other natural seed stock) that everyone will gladly pay for them.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis
Apple dealt major blow in Epic Games trial
Plus, the article is old (before delta) and an opinionated piece by one of the most biased news outlets ever. yikes....
There are real opportunities for airliners designed to take advantage of new developments. This one, though, is the opposite of a successful approach.

The new developments are:

1. Aerogel thermal insulation, enabling airborne tankage of liquified hydrogen, LH2.

2. LH2 to be synthesized on-site at airports using electrical power delivered by regional high-voltage DC transmission lines, and later by low-voltage underground superconducting transmission lines.

3. Cheap, abundant, intermittent renewable power, to be banked as LH2 during price minima at mid-day from solar, and at night from wind.

4. Direct, fuel-cell conversion of LH2 to power lightweight electrically-driven turbines.

Fully exploiting the opportunity will need whole new airframes to accommodate much larger but lightweight LH2 tankage that would not fit in current wings; and enabling advance investment in airport infrastructure to synthesize, store, and deliver LH2 to aircraft, starting at certain high-traffic intercontinental airports, to support the new fueling model.

The efficiency gains available, and reduction of CO2 delivered directly to the stratosphere, are enough to justify the massive upheaval. But the current blinkered economic structure of air transport mean it cannot happen without active, international government support.

Fortunately, the cost structure may be made transparent enough to leave little scope for the legalized corruption that plagues typical big infrastructure projects.

Intermediate rollout stages are plausible, such as conversion of existing turbojets to burn hydrogen; and of existing airframes to carry LH2 in under-wing tanks alongside engines.
The passage you quote does not address the distinction between "Spartiate" and "Spartan" that the author is attempting to make, and which is the subject I discuss in my comment above (in fact, that is the subjec of the "it" in "it appears" in my comment).

The author of the blog posts has basically made up the idea that "Spartiate" and "Spartan" are two different words with different meaning. "Spartan" or "Spartiate" on the one hand, and "Helot" on the other hand are two different categories, but "Spartan" and "Spartiate" are different Latinisations of the same Greek word, Σπαρτιάτης and not similar-sounding words with subtly different meaning, ast he author claims. This claim, that "Spartan" and "Spartiate" are different words representing different categories of people is the revisionism that I am commenting on.

Can you quote a passage from the linked series of blog posts that directly addresses this revisionism?
Agree. You can feel a 9V battery on your tongue, but not on the sweatiest of hands IME. (I still quick-check 9V batteries on my tongue.)
Retail stores have a finite and very small amount of shelf space. Publishers pay a lot for a significant percentage of that shelf space devoted to their product.

The App Store has effectively infinite space. There are so many products and search is so broken that it's extremely difficult for users to discover your product.

Rather than comparing the experience to brick and mortar stores a more apt comparison would be to throw your products in a landfill, junkyard, or extremely large flea market and expect your users to find them. Would you pay high commissions to a junkyard for tossing your product in a pile "somewhere in the back"?
Ok, if that's true, I'm back to raging about how absolutely ridiculous this is. Why obsolete a computer that can still run almost anything on high-ish settings @.@ Because there's 0.01% more crash or whatever....
Are you talking about WSL1 or WSL? Wsl2 is much much faster due to having a virtualized real linux kernel running
This is not the first time Google has been known to do this. Eric Schmidt was personally involved in the criminal conspiracy that formed one of the other high profile cases, and enjoyed a long and prosperous career at Google for many years afterward.

Google is not an ethical employer.
But I mean come on, they're Microsoft. If they really wanted filesystem access to be efficient across systems, we'd have it by now. Although convenient, I doubt that's on their list of primary motivations for doing this.
This is practically useless, since desktop computers doing some work can be easily eclipsed by a specialized hardware doing it for spammers and sybil attackers.
Doesn’t work for me on iPhone.
I'd say the locals went a bit overboard with their tourism billboard, but I suppose 27,600 km across isn't too big relative to the distance it might be seen at.
It continues to impress me that Google says it hires smart people, trains them not to put incriminating evidence in emails (really), and then hires managers who then put an entire chain into email (probably also archived as a group) and get the company written up on the front page of the NY Times (the very criteria they try to scare you with).
It is not only public companies, and the reasons are too numerous to list

A more recent trend it so they can claim to offer good benefits but in reality that is only for the select few actual employee's

Take for example the one company the claims to have a minimum wage of 70K (or what ever it was), I bet they are not paying the janitor, or other positions like that wage no they contracted those jobs out so now they can make the PR announcement they have this extremely high Min wage
Sorry if I frustrated you. If you frustrate me, I'll try to overlook it. Nevertheless, we are now in a different era, where enough people (a majority or a plurality) can move to cancel someone, and mostly get their way for a time. What to do about it? Pick user-first software that isn't beholden to coordinated cancel mobs. I'm not touting just Brave here, there are many such options now.
"Spartiate" is used to mean the free citizens of Sparta, as is "Spartan", but the author claims that one means the free citizens and the other the helots.

That is not standard.
Corepack Bundled in Node.js 16.9.1
> Please note that for the first release of WSLg, vGPU interops with the Weston compositor through system memory. If running on a discrete GPU, this effectively means that the rendered data is copied from VRAM to system memory before being presented to the compositor within WSLg, and uploaded onto the GPU again on the Windows side.

This is a pretty big limitation. Hopefully it can be addressed soon.
Bestagon :)
Opinions are my own. I also make no claim on the expertise of contractors.

The common saying in engineering is you use the right tools for the job. Likewise, you place the right people to the right job. It would be a mismatch to put an L5+ to do some low impact work. That would be an inefficient use of limited resources. The SWE would also be unhappy since that affects their perf/promo. Depends on the potential impact/difficulty/urgency, it might be more appropriate to save that work for an intern, fixterm, or TVC.

It's not about "so against having good old employees". It's business.
I was going to say that Italy convincted David Drummond in absentia but it turns out the sentence was suspended so he wouldn't actually have to go to jail.
Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law
For others who are curious, N=101 in the OP paper, which is a preliminary subset of the total subjects in the clinical trial (N=290, according to the registration).

To your second point, arginine supplementation can still be helpful for otherwise healthy individuals who are undergoing physiological stress due to illness. FWIW there are some supporting references on the Wikipedia page.
>> What would you change it to? I've implemented a GUI toolkit from scratch a couple times, and text editing was the hardest part by far.

I have no idea. The biggest problem with it now is that it's not resizable. We could use pango or something to render text at different sizes but that'd be a new dependency.

Also forgot: we do use a platform specific text entry widget.

Also2: when I say "we" I mean the previous maintainer did all the cross platform code. Since then it just works.
Funny... That's what many predicted would happen six months ago when the vaccine was available.

And your argument is that by the time the onerous regulation becomes unnecessary everyone will be used to it.

Kind of like how the patriot act was there for so long we all just became numb to the constant surveillance, the nude airport screenings etc.
i dipped back into crypto and doubled my money in a month :-D

i have a buddy that makes way too much money in real estate investing, but bigger buy-in stuff -- min $50k -- the group buys apt buildings, renovates them, eventually re-sells. just sit back and collect checks.
As a hiring manager I'm really surprised to see such a toxic viewpoint so freely shared.
Yeah, the way I got over it is just by remembering all the previous times that the sky was supposedly falling on us, and everything ended up fine.

But you need to have those memories in the first place, so the first mistakes are going to be tough. I now try to be that casual person for newcomers, because I know the reaction of those around you causes a big difference in your stress levels.
I haven't personally done much with VFIO but I have looked at it. From my initial look it seemed as if it would require two gpus, one for the host and one for the guest but it looks like some people have single gpu setups working

https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough
Yes, synecdochically and when it's clear from the context which one is meant. But when you say something like "Sparta was 80% slaves" it's not clear from the context and you have to clarify which one you mean, the city or the city-state. Otherwise you are only spreading confusion, just like the series of blog posts above.

And it is still the case that the helots were the slaves of the Spartans, that nobody called the helots "Spartans", and that nobody thought that "helots" were Spartans, not in any ancient source and not in any modern source I'm aware of outside the linked series of blog posts.

If you (or, you know, others) think this is wrong, you're welcome to show me where, in modern or ancient texts it says that "helots were spartans" and "sparta was mostly populated by slaves", or something similar -except of course for the scandalously revisionist blog posts we're discussing.
not sure what the question is, but tell me what i need to give you and i'll create an ad for my startup/service.
> Build software for doctors' offices and medical groups!

Please please please go into these areas with humility. Having worked for health tech companies in SF for a decade, I've seen so many people come from Google/Facebook/Mozilla/Ticketmaster/eBay to healthcare in order to "disrupt" and "fix" it. Their disruption or fixes are many times illegal, impractical, vaporware, or completely ignore industry standards and so can't speak the same language as all the other tools in the ecosystem. It generally doesn't end well if you don't deeply partner with stakeholders and domain experts.
A tangent: the UK has some of the best monitoring implemented and sees antibodies in about 95% of its population. That said, reinfection rate as of June 2021 (roughly pre-Delta) was 0.4% over that population cohort.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-national-surveillance...
Thanks, this sounds like an interesting project. Will look into it.
The law only applies to sites with 50M active users, so I think all the Gab-clones are safe!
Sure, I suppose it's just that if something claims to be cross-platform, and is using a common framework for that, I'm happy to assume it's either exactly the same or the same modulo title bar, and not require 'proof'.

If it were my own project and I had a few different views/features to show off in screenshots I might alternate them (assuming there were some differences, or light/dark themes). But I definitely wouldn't show three copies of the same thing to somehow emphasise 'works on Linux, Mac, and Windows, seelookproof'.
A colleague of mine created the EmojiVision app for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/emojivision/id1472824315

It's similar, but with different sets of emojis and variable fidelity. Very interesting results!
I have been consistently blown away at just how bad usb hubs really are. The market is absolutely saturated with garbage, but it seems like even the high quality ones aren't really that good.
If you consider abortion to be direct murder, there is no right to abortion. Refusing a covid vaccine is at best making a decision that may kill someone else. We allow these sorts of decisions all the time whether it be not limiting the amount of alcohol an adult can legally serve, smoking, etc.

While the arguments against covid vaccine mandates are similar to pro abortion arguments, the similarities are only superficial. The arguments are slightly different because the circumstances are and this is where the comparison breaks down.
Executives only go to jail if

1. They do something to harm the government (i.e Tax evasion)

2. They do something to harm a Rich person

3. They do something to harm another multinational corporation

If they just harm a few citizens... the government literally does not care
Ok. I'm happy with compile-time eval failing in normal Lisp, I might have given it an undefined symbol or something. And in Haskell I can go "off the grid" and write something dynamically typed, or even make a Lisp interpreter.

Can I have it both ways though? Can I get compile-time guarantees, about non-trivial run-time generated code? It feels like there's going to be a Halting Problem that stops me having my cake and eating it too.
You’re pretty much in agreement with the article from my POV.

“Work on interesting ideas, or ideas that you are genuinely interested in” is the bolded message.

Spending time painstakingly beautifying your impl of a clever algorithm or, like the author, homegrowing the 8000th iteration of a PM tool with kanban functionality instead of working with k8s/cassandra/<tech> just to have worked with it.

Kinda feel like we all end up doing this naturally most of the time after a few years or so, and they’ve just decided to write it down tbh.
I mean if you're already converting to set, why not just do

return list(set(list1).intersection(list2))

The downside of the "convert to set approach" is O(n) memory (+ time spent converting to a set that's ignored by big-O analysis). If the 2 lists are both sorted (as they are in the original example), then there's an O(n) algorithm that uses O(1) space by keeping offsets into each list & moving the pointer forward on the list with the smaller value at the pointer (noting spots of equality). There's some care that has to be done for duplicate elements but it should be trivial.
The wind animation doesn't work at all for me in Firefox (on Linux, version 91). I see a few large animation "sheets" where the wind is moving in the same direction, depending on where on the map I look. Works in Chromium. Anyone else have this problem?

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/eLyQa6X.jpg
Java and Swing are still a great option.
Linux has had read-only support for NTFS longer than WSL has been around. And if you think that Kernel patch is a testament to the greatness of Windows, you should try reading some of it. It's infamously incomprehensible.

I'd be onboard with Windows as a next-gen dev environment if it was compatible with more filesystems, had a more organized file structure, featured greater CPU compatibility, and eliminated the system registry altogether.
I don't off hand (my focus and research has been in the population health & dynamics for COVID versus vaccine side effects). There was a recent review by the CDC here: https://youtu.be/mfFeocgSKvU
And draining your phone battery.
By customers I guess you mean shoppers, yeah they never care nor they should. Merchants on the other hand will loose money if the solution don't scale affordably.
I find that you can often use analogies or describe very vaguely to at least make some sense. It does take nuance out of the thing you’re describing but maybe that’s helpful. I’ve had multiple times that I explain in simpler terms, and I come to realize what my idea actually looks like to other people.
I've been ideating on a travel planner for a while, and one of my original ideas was actually along these lines. I figured I'd have to build out a full travel planner first, but then I found this (https://www.inspirock.com/) which kinda covers the planning part, and probably wouldn't be toooooo difficult to hook into a voice command
Finance and compliance is lot more complicated than send me a Cheque for most businesses.

Stripe ( and others) have products right from incorporation (Atlas?), identity verification, custom reporting, fraud/risk, Charge backs, Tax reporting/ filing and even PoS terminals etc.

Most businesses have to deal with multiple channels (Android, web, iOS and others), custom reporting, and different risk/compliance will need solutions well beyond what Apple is offering
Epic was in breach of contract.

Which means not only do they have to pay the fine but Apple is likely to permanently ban them from the store.
3.2g of arginine in a day doesn't sound like a lot. There's around 2g in most meat/protein servings, and 1g on each egg yolk[0]. I wonder how much of the study outcome is just the result of changing dietary habits of the patients.

[0] http://www.dietandfitnesstoday.com/arginine.php
> My question is, if it's so advantageous to employ people via onsite staffing firms (basically half of FAANG's workforce is employed this way), why doesn't Google stop directly employing people altogether?

Because it’s the mix that is advantageous, not either one (employees only vs contractors only).
YouTube Music / Premium does this if I'm not wrong
The only thing I've seen that appears to be encrypted is something rtl_433 identifies as a "Microchip-HCS200", which seems likely to be a device using this chip [1] for remote keyless entry systems.

The encryption appears to be for authentication not secrecy. The button status is in an unencrypted portion of the message.

Of course there may be plenty of sensors out there that fully encrypt in which case rtl_433 would probably not have decoders for them and so I would not see them at all.

[1] https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/HCS200
Why this should be exactly microkernel?
You're right that the analogy was not quite right.

Here's a better one. Facebook creates a virtual world where 50% of the population choose. Apple creates a different virtual world which the other 50% choose.

If you simply look at the boundary/entrance you can say there's freedom of choice. But whether you choose apple or Facebook, there's 0 competition once you're inside that world.

Further, once you've established a home and connections within one world, switching to the other becomes quite expensive.

Competition at the gates, monopoly within.

I might add that this is very similar to the concept of company scrip whereby the local coal mine had a monopoly over local jobs and gouged workers for basic necessities. Absolutely you could have moved a town over, but the cost to do so was deemed too high in many cases.

When cost of switching is high, monopolistic power can be enforced upon customers. It's a similar situation with a lot of SaaS who have pricing power to strong arm their customers into high margins due to the cost of switching to alternative technologies. In a truly competitive market, SaaS margins should be close to 0. Obviously that's not the case today.

Regulation will catch up to all of these tricks, just a question of the timeline. Capitalism only works well when there's an environment of competition, and leveraging high costs of switching or large gated systems to enable profit margins well beyond what a competitive market would bear is antithetical to this concept.

That's why antitrust law is so important, and needs to evolve to handle modern business structures.