skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have spent the last 7 years building ontologies (knowledge bases), small and large. Like with most tech articles, this one is pushing a very specific point of view that is relevant to megacorporations but certainly not to most companies that would benefit from the deployment of graph-structured knowledge bases.

Unless a company has tons of extra cash to burn using technologies like neo4j, Spark, etc., they are better off just building an ontology on top of their existing datastores.

The work on the semantic web in the 2000s added a lot of valuable ideas and I see a tendency to downplay these ideas in favor of new technologies. Storing relationships as RDF triples and building indices that are well-suited to your queries will be good enough for the majority of people who need an ontology.

I have found that graph-based systems don't model time well. When you are building a knowledge base, you often need to understand how knowledge has changed over time. You may want to relate facts across time or understand what the state of knowledge was within a given period of time. This usually takes extra work.

Another thing that I have found these graph-based systems to do poorly is the management of storage classes for different types of data. If you are building a graph knowledge base, not all the information in your knowledge base will be consumed in the same way. If your knowledge base is sufficiently large, you will want to store less frequently accessed data on cheaper storage (e.g. HDD or even object storage like S3) and hotter data on more expensive storage (SSD or even maybe keep it in memory). I have always had to write this code by myself and haven't found a tool that helps to manage this very importance concern in ontology building.

That turned into a bit of a ramble, but damn ontologies are cool. :)
Google does the same.
uMatrix. You can configure it to allow everything else by default if cookies is all you care about.

Then, also enable uBlock origin's "annoyances" filter.
Thank you for sharing that link. I always wondered why phage therapy isn't more widely developed. This feels like an example of an exponential tech improvement that our linear democratic institutions are having trouble adapting to. I wonder what the answer will be.
Showing proof of age so you can drink alcohol and participate in the sexualized activities at a club are nowhere near in the same ballpark as "paper's please" tyranny in order to participate in society.
This isn't my focus, but my understanding is that there's a difference between researching SARS-CoV viruses and SARS-CoV-2 viruses.

(related link: https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about... )
Secure boot is a prerequisite for having a walled garden. It was never an answer to the question of how to prevent rootkits from persisting by hooking into the boot process, because that was never a widespread problem. It's an answer to the question of how we can make sure we get 10¢ every time someone sells a $1.50 download of Angry Potato Fiends. Maybe, in some cases, there's a concession where the end user can drill down into some third-tier menu and press up-down-left-right-triangle-square to set the device in "developer mode" so they can run what they like, but that's nowhere near the same as it just being free.
Well said, but I think the problem we're fighting is that people don't view these as vaccines so much as preventive treatment now. The Israel, Malta, and Iceland cases with very high vaccination rates and growing number of hospitalizations means we need to acknowledge that these things don't confer immunity, but that their benefit is still tangible and real in that it confers better outcomes to those that do contract the disease.
The lopsided nature of the numbers is not an accident. That half of all sexual assaults and rapes occur at the hands of intimate partners and family is reflective of the nature of these crimes -- usually they are perpetrated when the assailant has isolated his victim, many times starting from a place of trust.

The point of noting that 90% figure is not so you can come up with some sort of Bayesian probability of your getting assaulted based on population level statistics. It's to shift the narrative of the nature of sexual assault and rape to something more reflective of the reality of these crimes in practice.

You even see it here in this thread, the idea that homeless people are lurking in the street ready to rape and assault you if you make the mistake of offering them kindness. But that's not how 90%+ of these crimes actually happen in practice, so why should our first response to the homeless be one of profound distrust?

> I'm pretty sure that more people are killed by slipping in the bathtub than by falling into a volcano. You should not conclude that falling into a volcano is safer than slipping in a bathtub, because people encounter bathtubs a lot more and you have not corrected your figures for frequency of encounters.

Again, it's not just about the frequency of encounters, it's about the nature of them. On any given day I encounter more strangers than I do friends and family. But my interactions with strangers are not conducive to the crimes of rape and sexual assault. Friends, family, and acquaintances work to gain your trust before they violate it. If we really want to get into it, then the thing to watch out for is not stranger versus familiar status of a person, but whether they direct certain manipulative behaviors toward you.
Are you claiming that the US is not a democracy?
There's no way to show these shots are efficacious in the under 18 group with any amount of doses.

Where I live, 0.05% (yes, 5 per 10k) of total deaths (remember, we're only comparing confirmed cases, actual cases much larger) affected those under 50. For those under 18, deaths since the pandemic began are literally single digits.

You might decry comparing deaths of a demographic against total cases, but it's essential. People under 50 simply aren't as vulnerable to having any symptomatic level of infection.

Since we're talking single digit deaths under 18, I don't think there's a scientific way to say those deaths were caused by this pandemic in any fashion. It's beyond statistically insignificant, these are most likely children on chemo or have some other very serious underlying condition.
If only there were some far less costly preventative measures that could be taken to limit COVID hospitalizations instead of building more ICU capacity…
> Don't forget what makes COVID19 so insidious: without testing, it takes time before an infected contagious person shows symptoms. By the time they decide to stay off public spaces, they have already potentially spread the virus.

but AFAIK even vaccinated people can spread the virus?
Not that I recall, and even if it had, that wouldn't help, as there was no way to cast the resulting chunk of memory to whatever arbitrary type you needed it to be.
Also there’s nothing that says a jet engine needs to use jet fuel. You could use electric heaters to heat the air, because ultimately it is a heat engine and it doesn’t care where the heat comes from.

Surely, if you took an existing jet engine and put some electric heaters in it would be very inefficient, but if you played to the strengths of electric heat, you could potentially make something interesting. For example, there are no potentially corrosive combustion products and in fact you don't even need to have oxygen flowing through it - it might as well be CO2 (hello martian electric jets).

The second benefit is that you can deliver electric heat into a closed system continuously without cooling it from fluid flow. It's more beneficial for furnaces and things, but maybe there's a design out there that can take advantage of it. Probably more relevant for some sort of closed cycle piston aircraft. You could reach higher internal temperatures as long as the materials can support it.
Not ants, rather societies that can agree on long term, as opposed to short term, economic goals and modify them easily when needed. Most individual humans aren’t able to do this. A society able to achieve it would be truly remarkable.

Despotic systems like communism on the other hand only reflect the goals of a chosen few. So by human limitation these goals can never adequately represent the complexity of the governed. Such societies will inevitably degenerate and fall behind.

While pure market oriented societies can fall into “activity traps” from which it might be hard for them to climb out of.
That's rather one-sided. Both major US parties recognize (almost certainly correctly) that the more friction you put in the voting process, however seemingly reasonable, the fewer low-income people will proportionately vote. And one party considers that a bug while the other considers it a feature.

ADDED: Is there anything in this statement that is remotely controversial?
If you add their list to uBlock, my understanding is that it only hides the notices, never accepts anything.
The Government will just claim blanket state secrets on everything, and a judge will rubber stamp it.
I tried the cookie settings on TrustArc's own site (https://trustarc.com) and they don't appear to have the timeouts. Though they do have a weird way to select "Essential Cookies Only". You have to say no to "Functional" and "Advertising" cookies, separately...2 clicks instead of 1.

Also, their site is currently VERY slow loading.
1) it is a certain, very visible symbol of a certain type of approach to ‘terrorism’ that a large portion of the US population supports very strongly (do you remember all the comments for years about ‘glass parking lot’ re: the Middle East? I do.)

2) it opened a massive can of worms legally, and a huge mess related to what to do with detainees (some of which have now lost their original national citizenships and/or normal lives), as they are now basically wards of the US gov’t, with no existing legal framework to cover what to do. It wouldn’t surprise me if when it does get shutdown many of them end up being Refugees the US ends up supporting. Good luck explaining THAT to the voters.

So it’s a big legal and PR mess that there is little incentive to try to fix for any politician. Lots of downside, little upside.
SEPA is a poor choice to rename especially I'm the EU, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area?wpro...
Restricting people's freedom of movement based on their liability to spread dangerous diseases is much more reasonable than restricting their freedom of movement based on where they were born.
Hmm. Meanwhile, Norwegian data suggests that a single dose is highly protective against serious disease, yet largely ineffective (20% or so) against infection. Perhaps the best strategy is to give young people a single dose, then let the infection run its course.
Read more on how hard and long GM tried to suppress opposition to leaded gas, it was no conspiracy.
Unlikely that anyone intelligent rejects the actual science part of it, which is not controversial. What they reject is the media-politician complex’s version, which then gets reported — by the same media — as “rejecting the science”.
Legally, there was never any war. This means that "war prisoners" are actually just people that the US illegally kidnapped, illegally detained, and illegally tortured. Ignore the legal window dressing around these "trials", it is all illegal.
I have read it and replied.
That's not true: people in the peanut gallery can be swayed. sub-midwits like myself only form opinions based on what smarter people have convinced us about areas we're not experts on.
As someone who previously kept a successful side hustle in arts and lifestyle journalism* while working full time in tech in my 20s and early 30s (wrote fashion and lifestyle columns and articles for newspapers and magazines) - do it as a side hustle first.

There are lots of arts talent roles, but here's one view from writing:

It costs you nothing to find editors and pitch articles to them in your off time, and you can see how far you get. Quitting a tech job to pursue it without making money on it first is substituting a commitment ploy on yourself for using your actual skills to succeed. Do you want to be a martyr to your own dream because it represents the reinvention you desire, or do you want to survive to have the choice to do the thing well? Writing is 90% an itinerant sales job, and the marginally better quality of your writing to anyone elses is going to go through the filter of the house voice of editors first anyway. A "career" in journalism now is more of a political career than one in arts. Sure, there's performance involved, but it's mainly a narrative gatekeeping role that is unrelated to artistic talent, insight, or skill, and getting a full time role favors a certain kind of navigator or operator. Being 70th percentile writer talent is just table stakes.

Figure out if you are organizationally savvy enough to land a prestige magazine/media job, and then ask, if you're really that good, why would you waste that skill for an intern level salary in a dying business, when the skills could make you jr. exec level at a real social center of power like a platform company, ibank, political campaign, etc.

If you like the arts, partner up with a gallery owner and invest or raise money for them.

I'd recommend abstracting the roles you're considering from the work itself. e.g. Do you want to write opinions instead of code, manage writers instead of developers, sell and trade in access instead of products, etc.

It's possible you just want to be a professor, which is its own decades long slog through adjunct hell as well, but the beauty of relatively high paying tech jobs is that you can use them as leverage into these other things on the side.
There are plenty of large companies in the Ruby space. Some of the more notable ones being Shopify, Stripe, Airbnb, and GitHub.
You admit to having never run a gas station and you are making unsubstantiated claims. Most small store, regardless of ethnicity of owners,prefer cash as credit cards take a bite out of their margins.( I have never owned a store but I had worked as a cashier in a family store. ) Your father and you need to see a therapist if this is what you thing all (tax fraud)Indian owned stores are doing.
That's a little nit-picky, don't you think?

In any case, it's not inc(Pascal), now, is it?
>Considering that's the main goal of such policies, it seems like a success.

The ends justifies the means right?
I'm wondering if it's possible to hammer rocks to find potential fossils?
You read the paper wrong. They use a 6-face ambient cube instead of the SH9 term. I guess the SH9 term was somewhat expensive in 2007, but it's now pretty standard for representing ambient diffuse light, and has much better results than the ambient cube. For more on that, see this slide deck: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2006/SIGGRAPH06_C...

But yes, understanding some physical basis for lighting is helpful even for non-photo-realistic rendering.
Why Is America So Bad at Keeping People Alive?
TEL (tetraethyl lead) had and has other advantages over ethanol beyond patentability -

Unlike TEL, ethanol is hydrophilic, which makes gasoline blended with it more apt to be contaminated with water, and other water containing contaminants, this is particularly relevant for aviation uses and also reducing incidences of vapor lock.

TEL is also (more) rubber and seal friendly, other than the (very) high risk of lead toxicity, TEL blended gasoline is easier to work with and process than Ethanol blended gasoline.

TEL also acts as a natural lubricant of its own, the lead acting as lubricant, particularly on valve and other top end engine components.

This isn't really a defense of TEL - particularly not in road gas, while it was understood that exposure to large quantities of lead was toxic, toxicity of low dose exposure to environmental lead wasn't really fully understood until the 50's/60's, we also didn't really understood how long environmental lead lingered around until the 60's. Modern technologies have overcome much of the issues from ethanol in road gas, but there are reasons TEL is still used in AvGas.

TEL in AvGas was vital in reaching higher octane, and Ethanol is contraindicated in AvGas (at the last I looked into the topic) because of its hydrophilic nature - our ability (the allies) to produce high octane AvGas is one of the factors that won WW2, and use of TEL was a deciding factor in that.
Either the screen or the print depends on the surrounding environment. The print also depends on how it is lit.

To some extent one learns that something that looks like this in one environment will look like that in that environment.
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Telemetry is not a vote (for which you are asked to cast). Telemetry is extracting information from you and transmitting it together with private information like IP address without asking you ( as it is opt out by default). Telemetry also costs you in resources (bandwidth, cpu..) which is problematic when resources are scarce. This is a good enough reason for many to want a zero telemetry browser and do whatever they can to disable it in browsers like Firefox.

And now because Mozilla lacks data from its most coveted “tech” users, it does make decisions based on data that it has, which is usually totally opposite (like in your example) which in turns pisses off these users even more and they jump ship, taking all their friends and family with them (because they are the “tech” person in their circle). That is how you lose users.

You can of course make a zero telemetry browser, relying 100% on your own research and what the users volunteer to tell you directly. And those most passionate about it with tell you the most, a wonderful positive feedback loop. But this would require a change of product development mindset to a completely user centric one.
Actually mixing ethanol with petrol is a pretty common thing...

The main issue stations won't do it unless compelled is that it will reduce gas mileage slightly. You don't want to be the company selling gas that has a lower mileage. If they could sell it at a lower price that would be something.

The thing is that you need a lot more ethanol than tetraethyllead, so it actually does end up being more expensive, for the same energy.

And actually cast iron blocks are still being used nowadays.
Did you even read the article from the BBC? We are talking about rates of death in children, not the general population.

More children have been shot in Chicago in the past year than have died from covid in the entire country.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9979619/More-childr...

I'm finished communicating with you. You're not participating in this discussion in good faith.
Following the leads, DOI:10.1145/2742647.2742658 says the accelerometer in Apple iPhone 6, Google Nexus 5 and Samsung Galaxy S5 supports 4kHz sampling. However, the OS limits it to 200Hz to conserve power. Googling around, it appears there are accelerometers with much higher bandwidths.

Here's how 8 bps mono speech at 4kHz sounds like: https://vocaroo.com/102J6NRULedu (download link: http://fpaste.dy.fi/oyU/dl)

Sounds pretty good. At 2kHz it gets a bit hard to listen to but I can still understand a fair proportion of it. I imagine it shouldn't be too hard to come up with an algorithm (or neural net) to resynthesize the higher frequencies and make it easier to understand.

2kHz sample: https://vocaroo.com/18F3LkYrsPNQ (download: http://fpaste.dy.fi/rvy/dl)

(Obviously these are not accelerometer recordings, just normal microphone recordings downsampled with sox)

I agree it's a bit silly complaint though. I see it a lot in security circles: if some feature doesn't give you perfect protection against all possible attacks, it's a problem. At the same time, the same people advocate mitigations and techniques that only apply to certain attacks. It's as if there's no silver bullet, but it's a damn shame if you deploy something that isn't a silver bullet!
Was thinking it would be a memo about how soul crushing adding regulatory compliance to UIs is.
I find the question of "how to know if this is a simulation or reality", much deeper and interesting philosophically, than the gender-fluid stuff.
Like JK.Rowling claiming that Voldemor would have voted Brexit (lol), this seems like a opportunistic re-writting of the original scenario to piggy-back on something trendy.
> The fact that the entire clade has a root in October 2019... indicates that there was not slow community spread before the initiation of the pandemic period. There is no weaker progenitor virus.

SARS-CoV-2 has an error checking polymerase and a relatively slow molecular clock. Just because observed sequences have little divergence from our first observation does not imply that we actually observed the species jump.

The preadaptation argument doesn't hold much water. SARS and MERS were deadly and high transmissible.

That said, let's suppose we did observe cases shortly after it initially infected humans. Shi's lab regularly went caving in search of coronaviruses in bats. These expeditions have previously been described as reckless. The possibility that a lab worker became accidentally infected in a cave shouldn't be counted out by anyone advancing GoF origin claims.
I also found and noted the cat, then more non-cats, then one starfox.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lllyasviel/style2paints/ma...
We already spend a lot on healthcare as it is, more so here in the USA than in countries with universal healthcare. Should we go from spending 17.7% of our GDP to 30%? Just because some people aren’t interested getting a vaccine?
Why python? Doesn't Julia compose traditional ODE solvers with differential programming better?
I went on a long Tesla road trip with about half of the Supercharger stations at places like Sheetz. But sure, urban gas stations will suffer. And good, because they are health menaces when in dense locations near housing.
What’s worth knowing in economics?
Why O. Henry is so much more than those short stories you had to read in school
No, he implied that to survive running a gas station, they will need to break the laws (tax evasion).
I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that leaded gasoline is much worse.
In mathematics, the symbol "<" is also used for non-strict partial orders, where it effectively means “less than or equal to” instead of “strictly less than”. Working with non-strict partial orders is often easier than working with the equivalent strict partial order, and for economy of notation/ease of writing some mathematicians still use “<“ then instead of “≤”. In the rare cases they want to express strictly-less-than for a particular pair in the non-strict partial order, they can use the “less than but not equals” sign.

> "subset" and "equals" are not disjoint (equal sets are each others subsets)

There is “⊂” vs. “⊆” just like there’s “<“ vs. “≤”. A set is not a strict subset of itself, merely a non-strict subset of itself.
https://archive.ph/5ZLXx
And speaking subjectively, I have always preferred HSV because I came to color from the background of mixing pigments (painting). Adding white to a pigment to desaturate it (make it more pastel) is intuitive with paints ... as is adding black to darken a pigment.

HSV (and Okhsv) more closely match my painterly intuition.
>The point of noting that 90% figure is not so you can come up with some sort of Bayesian probability of your getting assaulted based on population level statistics.

It's quite common that people have a point when they are presenting statistics, but they have made this point in error. Statistics aren't something you're only supposed to use for the one conclusion someone wants you to draw from them.

>Again, it's not just about the frequency of encounters, it's about the nature of them. On any given day I encounter more strangers than I do friends and family.

You have fewer man-hours of encounters with strangers than you do with people you know, even if the absolute number of the strangers is higher. (And you shouldn't be invoking "friends and family", since that isn't the same as "people you know".)