skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I tested it on recipes which Google has destroyed and this was the first result, a simple clear recipe:

http://demont.myds.me/leerecipes/mainmeals/mainmeals1/chicke...

compared to Google's endless drivel of "This chicken stir fry recipe will become a staple in your home. It’s so quick to make and you can use whatever vegetables you have on hand. It tastes wonderful regardless of how you alter the ingredients. ... " JUST SHUT UP AND GIVE ME THE RECIPE!

https://natashaskitchen.com/chicken-stir-fry-recipe/
Less insulting error messages would be more welcome than casting out others without any consideration.

You may distribute "shame" however you want, but this only helps enforcing the damaging insults and amplifying them.
There needs to be law enforcement against the company itself. Penalties should take away the same proportion of income as they would be for a median citizen. If a crime is severe enough for a person to do 1 year in prison for, that's about 2% of their lifetime income taken from them plus loss of freedom. A crime of comparable severity should cost a company 2% in perpetuity. If they are outcompeted or forced into restructuring so be it. The threat of non-negligible financial consequences is the only thing that will compel change.

The individual low level employees are about as culpable for the emissions cheating as the muscle cells of a serial killer are for murdering someone. They hold no meaningful decision making power within the organization and operate according to the local incentive structure. The executives responsible for shaping the incentive structure are the ones who should be individually penalized. Market forces would help with this if illegal practices were appropriately costly.
We need to be creative and make types relevant to the resources being modeled. If the infrastructure database is just a bunch of string identifier fields then it isn't very helpful. You have to find good abstractions and model the resources in types that bring meaning to the data.
Yes, I think you're right that UMCG is just for within a single process. It's meant to support Google's fibers library, which offers a nice structured concurrency programming model within a process with nested schedulers. Eg, the outermost scheduler might be earliest fiber tree gets scheduled first, and then within a fiber tree (which often represents one request) the scheduler is typically LIFO for efficiency. The idea is that when using this library, the process has more information about what its threads are doing, so it can make better scheduling decisions than the kernel and can do it more quickly. It doesn't replace the kernel scheduler exactly, just makes it have less to do because there are fewer unblocked threads per process.

This ghOSt thing looks unrelated and system-wide. Like a more customizable version of the usual kernel scheduling. But I'm guessing based on one paragraph and will be interested to see the paper/presentation.

I'm not sure if there's any big gap between where neither does what you want.
> In general, I think I understand where the criticism is coming from. Every time I post on social media about being deplatformed, banned, or silenced, someone chimes in with their own story about being banned because “big government is trying to suppress the fact that echinacea cures Covid” or whatever. Spoiler, echinacea doesn’t cure Covid, but this is the kind of crazy nonsense my work is compared to. Are you a credential person? Great, I’m a scientist with a PhD from one of the top universities in the world. I’ve worked at NASA. I’ve published a number of papers.

I couldn't care less for this shit. "Yes I understand the necessity of censorship. But not me. I've worked at NASA. I've published 'a number of papers.'" Lol.

> The problem isn’t my thoroughly detailed research, which I would love to have critiqued in good faith. The problem is big tech companies making billions of dollars aren’t capable of doing basic analysis of scientific work, or hiring a team that can, which is why the best they’re capable of on the pandemic front, for example, is attaching a link to the CDC website on every post that mentions “Covid” or “vaccine.”

Indeed. They are not capable of doing basic analysis of every video, or hiring a team that can. Billions of dollars aren't enough to hire a team to analyze every video on youtube.
> Compare with discord, where it's ephemeral and behind a walled garden

Discord chats are persistent.
I agree with you about how it looks reading only this persons story. However, my experience with Atlassian was that taking PTO is no problem, and normally a request like this would not have met pushback. From what I know of the situation, there was a lot more to it than this.
The Win32 widgets are scalable, actually. They support device-independent units out of the box, even in Windows 95.
The lie is now well known, and the legislature is still free to check the executive branch and the NSA.
I'm another who had exactly the same experience. That one sentence did the entire country a massive favour (and is, sadly, no longer true)

The quality of the documentation with these early computers was also truly exceptional. I learned basic in a weekend.
That's interesting! I never thought of libvirt that way.
And now $85 billion worth of American military arms as well.
That study doesn't even say that. It doesn't propose causation, and looks at accessible firearms, not gun ownership. There's no way a gun kept in a safe or a nightstand reasonably affects your likelihood of getting shot, everything else being equal.

> We also did not account for the potential of reverse causation between gun possession and gun assault.

The study's methodology looks terrible. It's a case-control population study of Philly over 3 years. Every case began as a notification about a shooting case investigated by police. The vast majority of shooting data comes from shooting cases forwarded by police, not by sampling and then finding which of the sample were involved in shootings. As such, they excluded a valuable dataset of police-reported assaults that didn't result in shootings, which could have corrected some biases in the data based on how the cases came to the researchers' attention.

The 95% confidence intervals are wildly variable, and if you look at figure 3, any significant amount of lying by surveyed control subjects about having guns leads to insignificant results. If you call up some random gun-owner in Philly and ask them if they have a gun, how likely do you think it is that they'll lie? Those 4.x and 5.x odds ratios look impressive, but even after assuming 0% lying by case controls, they only barely clear the statistical significance bar.

It's difficult to speculate all the ways a study like could be flawed without seeing the underlying data and putting a lot of effort into analyzing it and how they corrected for potential confounders, but I'm not at all surprised they found gun possession correlated with increased odds of getting shot.

The causation determination really comes down to what kind of gun owner you are. There are a subset who own guns, carry guns, and do everything they can reasonably do to stay out of trouble, which often means avoiding friends or social environments that are generally "trouble". In that case, gun possession probably lowers your risk, because it makes you hyperaware of dangers and their avoidance. It's like a game you play every time you leave your home, of what can go wrong and what's the best way to handle it. Very quickly, that game becomes a habit and becomes uninteresting except when you do something or go somewhere unusual.

Then there's the subset of people who own guns and carry them because they're likely to get into trouble, they go around looking for trouble, or they go around oblivious to trouble. For them, maybe there's mild causation, having a gun makes them more confident to take more risks, or maybe there's no causation, and it's just the higher rate of gun ownership among those types (which includes criminals) that leads to poorly designed studies finding a statistical correlation between gun possession and getting shot. And there's no way to run these studies I've ever seen that satisfies both sides. Someone always thinks some study disregards something important.
$5/month is such a steep barrier. How many subscription services can we take in our lives? Why can't it be $2/month? it certainly would attract more users.
There are still expectations on the amount or level of work to be done. If you're meeting those and not blocking others, there's no reason one couldn't take more time off.

It's certainly a tricky thing to sort out, though. As you noted, "abuse" is possible, but defining what constitutes abuse is nearly impossible.
This blog post is garbage.
If the red line between you using a tool or not depends on the harmless word to describe a pricing tier, this is not a professionally made decision.
You are, at best, making a hobbyist tier choice.
If they're making a point, I don't understand it. They seem to be ridiculing someone for trying to protect their identity. Any famous person will be acutely aware of how problematic it can be to "just join a server as your real identity."

I've had similar problems. I fully agree with the other commenter: if you have a point, just say it minus the cheek.
In this decision, there were three judges:

> Judge Diaz [Obama] wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge Motz [Clinton] joined as to Parts I and II.A, and in which Judge Rushing [Trump] joined as to Part II.B.2 and C.

> Judge Motz [Clinton] wrote an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part. Judge Rushing [Trump] wrote an opinion concurring in part and in the judgment.

https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/201191.P.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals...

Three judges from three administrations and both parties, all in agreement and disagreement. It's that way because they're a circuit court and they're applying law and precedent.
I watch more on my phone than on tv - sitting on a train, in bed at night etc
That's great. I've been very impressed by the performance of nmslib in my scenarios. I'll definitely check out eh - thanks for sharing!
Something that's important to keep in mind with murder rates is that they are tiny. That France's tiny number is more tiny than the US's tiny number is irrelevant. If you wanted to lower the frequency of unexpected deaths you'd spend all your time and money doing things that would encourage people to exercise more, or something like that.

Another thing to keep in mind is that murders are not random, whereas the other ways people die early often are pretty random (like car accidents). Regular Americans living regular lives have an effectively zero change of being murdered. Just ignore it.
In Submarine Deal with Australia, U.S. Counters China but Enrages France
does it work both ways? can i present this data as an alibi when i need one? if its not deemed accurate for that why would it be considered for evidence? and if it is that seems like free alibis for everyone guilty or not ;)
The QL failed because (amongst other things) they had outsourced the basic interpreter to another company for the ZX series and decided to bring it in house for the QL :(
1) No, sometimes it's necessary.

2) Where did _I_ make up any numbers?

3) Not exactly a "business" acronym IMO.
Statistically women should have much less concern for safety since they are less involved in violent altercations and men in general don't tend to attack women, unlike what popular culture these days tries to make us believe
A good VPN won't _have_ logs, so they _can't_ comply with legal requests (instead of won't)
Who do you think Pakistan, UAE, and Saudi Arabia by the arms from?
Oh if you've seen it ... Cypher seems to be spreading: standardised and adopted by DBs other than neo4j, so I thought a good slow month to pick it up, play with a few of the DBs, toy project ... but not if you know it already.
Absolutely fascinating stuff! Thank you for the links, friend, and welcome to a highly-treasured spot on my hard drive; all of these materials are going directly to my ~/Research directory! Computer architectures are an area I'd love to enter when I'm more experienced, so these are an incredible source of inspiration.

I'm also deeply in love with the merlintec website. It's refreshing to see a website which has persisted since 1999(!), and without a lick of JavaScript it would seem!

Could I purchase a Merlin 6 or a Pegasus 2000?

Speaking of which, the way that the Pegasus 2000's eGUI documentation[1] is written is incredibly dear. The "world" and "heaven" analogies are great!
I don't know, if a military goes rogue, they'll go for the gun owners first.
I don't know how many of the contributors here have been to the army, but if you have been, you will know that some shotguns and guns won't go far against military arsenals. It might help a bit against police forces, but military? Forget it.
To even compete with a military force, you need coordination and logistics.

And this is one of the reasons why I am against civilian gun carriage:

https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/b9b/49f/034f952656161db66b95...

I am in Europe and have lived in some LATAM places where everyone, everyone carries a gun or has a couple of them at home, the law be damned.
It's a bit better in the US, as the poverty in the US is not as widespread, but I believe a peaceful society should be without guns, police can have them, military can have them. If that don't work, you need a revolution or run away anyway, and a Glock won't do much there.
That's the problem with corporations deciding what is right and what is wrong. Or what is considered hate speach.

Most people would agree Nazis are bad (except for the Nazis themselves), then you have anti-vax. In my opinion bad but clearly not an opinion shared by a large group of people.

We'll live in a world where free speech is controlled by tech corps. Which is all well and dandy when their views align with yours but horrific when they don't. The other option would be to not have anyone policing speach which has shown to be problematic as well.

The legal system needs to step up and own online speach monitoring and removals
I get your point. Signing up for yet another forum with confirmation email, password and so on ... totally annoying.

Couldn't the solution be a mastodon instance/server?

If people used careful tagging combined with search, it might enable all that seeking for help online, but without signing on for another forum every time they're dealing with a new topic.
There's a correlation between religiosity and anti-vaccine sentiment, but I'd go as far as to say we have good reason to think there isn't causation. Case in point: the LDS church leadership is insisting on vaccination and masks during services, however individual Mormons are fiercely opposed to these positions [1].

I think a better explanation for the correlation is that those who derive their identity from the white evangelical subculture feel that their own church leadership don't best represent what it means to be a part of that group. I assume thought leaders like Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump hold more legitimacy in certain respects with evangelicals than explicitly religious leaders do. I don't think labels like "evangelical", "white", and "conservative" properly capture this group; it's more of a synthesis of these individual identities that have mobilized into a greater reactionary movement.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-religion-coronav...
Mentionable is a lot of especially poorer kids live in multigenerational households. Children can get infectd with covid in school and then infect their grandparents that live with them.

I like to point out having their parents and grandparents get sick and die from Covid has a huge negative effect on children. That vastly outweighs the minimal risk of vaccination. Something like 50,000 children have lost a parent. And a few million children have lost a grandparent. That's bad.
You know what else would help qualify potential buyers, but do it more accurately? Publishing the actual pricing.
(2020).

simon's been doing an amazing job. he also keeps a really really good monthly blog with what he's been up to, which is one of the most informative, interesting, useful resources on the planet for understanding what's happening with the planet's leading edge open source display technologies:

https://emersion.fr/blog/

101% worth a follow.

last month he was working on a new display-damage scene graph to optimize screen updates with, did some work on borrowing DRM devices for XR/VR displays, worked on gamescope gpu profiling/performance tooling, updated/refactored some embedded chips to make PinePhone run better. and he has a stream of small projects which are always fascinating: "The new project of the month is blackbox. It’s a small utility which silently records debug logs of a program, and dumps the recorded logs on-demand." (reminds me of JACK Time Machine but for programs not audio). Simon iconifies what open source ought to be: not just source, not just free-as-in-, but an accessible, cooperative, multiplayer exploration of the world. Simon's blogging unfolds his (vast) sections of the map & shows us all what he's found. It's amazing, especially since Simon is up to such good stuff.
I know somebody who has been navigating Atlassian's PTO policy. For what it's worth, their manager and team have been very accommodating, notwithstanding the extremely unclear policies.

That being said, unlimited PTO is a scam. Nothing more to it.

Imagine if your bank didn't keep track of your account balance, instead offering "unlimited" withdrawals. Then, whenever they feel like you have withdrawn "too much", they terminate your account. Nobody would sign up for that! Unlimited PTO is no different - it's a way to take advantage of the power imbalance between employer and employee, nothing more.
Agreed, there's a lot of optimizations you can unlock if you ignore JS misfeatures like modifying Array.prototype. But it's important for compilers to be precise about the semantics they implement. I just saw the section about enabling checks for when the assumptions are violated, that's a good thing to have.
It seems highly unlikely to me that many people would switch from D to R if the democrats stopped pursuing gun control.

On the other hand I know many people who will hold their nose and vote R only because they don’t want to lose their gun rights.
And that's why tech needs a union. You'll always lose as an employee, on your own.
It's certainly bad to get angry - I mentioned that there. I should clarify the anger happens when it's repeated more than on a one-off. E.g. if you have the same sloppy signs for 6 months (where I can tell by reading the code that you didn't even try to run your code locally), then I'm not learning anything and I'm getting frustrated because you're clearly not taking feedback to heart.

I try to avoid letting this show, but it's frustrating.
Yeah, knowing my SO's location is super important for multiple reasons imo... Primarily safety and knowing how long it will take to get back from someplace (or how long I can keep messing around with stuff at home). I'm sure there's other valid reasons but kinda just provides me peace of mind.
Being able to check in a SQL file to our repo to manage all of our infra sounds like a dream. Added myself to the early access.
The problem with a mailing list is that the interfaces for interacting with mailing lists are all terrible. I've yet to see one that comes _close_ to the UX that discord/slack (and tbh even IRC) provide.
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"A report flagged concerns by unnamed political parties in the European Union, including one in Poland."

Well, that's interesting. US political parties didn't register their concerns. The headline might have reflected this, since it's for a US audience.
I guess mass administration -> one mistake can destroy everything.
I still don't think the parallel between Amazon and Genius works. Amazon is hugely dominant, where millions of people use it daily or weekly. I'd expect that the overlap between Amazon users and online shoppers is very high. But given Genius's semi-failure, I'd be hard pressed to believe that Genius has a similar mindshare among music listeners or lyrics looker-uppers.

I also don't think Amazon has spent that like you say on "getting that checkout process as frictionless as possible". What they've spent it on is magnifying Amazon's dominance and profitability. And a checkout experience is 25 years old at this point; it's not exactly a hotbed of innovation. My random local bookstore is using some perfectly solid package that does just fine. It's no harder to check out there than Amazon. And as a bonus, shopping is easier and they're always going to send me an authentic copy of the book.
Sounds like a fucking weird place to keep it, so I don't think they should.
Who should stop treating gun ownership as a right wing issue? Left wing people? Most left wing people think there should be fewer guns.
It's always retrospective, of course, because whether you are "allowed" will be determined in court afterwards. The answer is sometimes yes. Usually you're only allowed to kill, or attempt to kill people when your or someone else's life is immediately at risk.
Based on your responses to other comments you would prefer to stay indoors and learn some tech. As you are a back end engineer I would suggest learning some tech which is wildly different but useful and fun. May I recommend blender! [1]

[1] https://cgmasters.net/training-courses/blender-for-complete-...
> Microsoft needs someone with a vision for Windows at the helm,

Is it possible for a project to be abused for long enough that it becomes irrecoverable from any financially sensible perspective?

I mean this seriously: I've heard the codebase for Windows is really, really ancient and making updates is a nightmare. It's almost like trying to revive a lost language.

What if Windows has passed the threshold where the cost to fix it is beyond its potential for revenue? What if it's slowly approaching the threshold where simply maintaining it is beyond its potential for revenue?
I had the Epyx one, but I never realized there were others.
Apple does not have this figured out, and if they do, they don’t care.
I don't guard mine, but I also don't have a normal name address. Hard to overstate how much that has been a benefit for me.
Right. It's perfectly fine to build something for yourself. And, why not test if there's any market for it.
> Why can't I select text on that page?

Enabling "reader mode" in Firefox did the trick.
Uhmm, yes?

Mobile is the main format for content consumption on YouTube, Instagram and YouTube, all platforms which are predominantly used by young(er) audiences.

I barely ever watch YouTube (for entertainment purposes) on my notebook or desktop, but primarily on my phone. Many of my friends don't even own a TV or a monitor setup.
This is really great! It speaks very much to my use-case (building user embeddings and serving them both to analysts + other ML models).

I was wondering if there was a reasonable way to store raw data next to the embeddings such that:
1. Analysts can run queries to filter down to a space they understand (the raw data).
2. Nearest neighbors can be run on top of their selection on the embedding space.

Our main use case is segmentation, so giving analysts access to the raw feature space is very important.
The NY Times spread some misinformation that Russia had offered a bounty to the Taliban for killing American soldiers [1].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/remember-...
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