skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clever, I suppose a strong metal backplate could be made for the usb to rest below the watch itself, but maybe it’d take too much space. I think a microcontroller for the microSD to usb is needed.
Indeed, but it's messed up that we had to invent all this new standard just to keep including hundreds of Analytics scripts
I didn't mean shorter term loan, just shorter fix. I think the answer is it just works surprisingly differently here (UK) vs. there (US).

Here a normal thing to do is something like 30 year loan on a 1/2/3/5 year fixed rate, after which it would be some relatively horrendous variable rate [^] - but you don't pay that, you just switch to a new fixed rate at the same or other provider (technically remortgaging).

So you're leveraged for the full 30 (or whatever) year term regardless, but you make some decision about how 'good' you think the rates are at the moment and what direction they're moving in (and pretend your adversary isn't a massive bank with a lot more information and smart people behind it) and fix for accordingly many years (more costing a slightly worse rate of course).

[^] - you could also just choose a variable rate to begin with, but that's not really relevant here, I just mean I think typically the rate you'd drop to after the end of the fixed rate would be worse than that, as in you're going to pay more spread over whatever it's tracking.
The snopes article links directly to the Big Mac index [1] which is the authority on the real cost of a Big Mac.
It’s cheaper in Denmark than in the U.S. by any measure.

1. https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
Learning Chess when I was 9 years old (1994) helped my way of thinking. It taught me to think of multiple possibilities, think afar, and to think of what could I do if things don't go the way I want them to go. Hence my belief in it.
So interesting. They basically admit that Ivermectin might be effective, has low toxicity, is cheap, BUT, the science community has spent 18 months pushing vaccines and refuse to seriously look into Ivermectin.

This is serious, serious malfeasance. The amount of effort out into destroying the doctor patient relationship and taking ivermectin out of the doctors toolbox is too great. That energy should have instead been spent answering the question.

"One very large trial in humans appeared to show that ivermectin was effective against COVID-19, but it was later withdrawn following accusations of plagiarism and manipulated data. Since then, a number of small, variable-quality trials have had varying results. An analysis of the state of the field published in late July indicated it wasn't possible to use these studies to determine if ivermectin was helpful or harmful. The situation doesn't seem to have changed dramatically since. Currently, most health authorities indicate that there is no evidence supporting ivermectin's use against COVID-19."

"None of this is to say that more definitive studies won't eventually determine that ivermectin is effective against COVID-19. But experienced public health authorities have concluded that those studies haven't been done yet and that the studies that have been done don't collectively amount to evidence."
I don't think the Japanese was defending very well against the firebombs either by that point.

> Japan didn't have the resources to fight against singular bombers anymore. They focused only on the groups of bombers. At this point, it was clear that their air-force was soundly defeated.

It doesn't really make sense that it is easier to take down 10 bombers than 1, does it?

It sounds like you mean the hypothetical where as many bombers were each sent individual to nuke as many cities that would be harder to defend against, because any bombers that got through would do so much more damage.

So it's important to differential between potential destruction and actual destruction. The firebombings did incontrovertibly more damage, and after the war both governments had reason to not emphasize this.
How drawing?
They averaged the entire us University system, and only covered in state tuition at public university. In-state varies greatly, from $16,070 in NH, $14,440 in PA to $5,220 in WY. Out of state tuition is 2 to 4 times as expensive. I think 6 figure debt is often from private or advanced degrees.

https://www.valuepenguin.com/student-loans/average-cost-of-c...

Edit: I also wonder what the living costs in other countries is. Do students in Germany pay for all their expenses too? Books, housing, food? Because your costs for a year are going to be another 15k or more, unless you can live and eat at home and walk to school.
I use their "Collections" feature for this. A book can be in multiple collections, and I have a "Basement" collection for books in storage. They also have tags that you can use for a similar purpose.
I think our perspectives are in complete agreement, and your comment proves that allowing e-bikes to go faster than 25kph, or operate without use of the pedals isn’t necessary.

I’m certainly not advocating that e-bike should mix with cars. I’m saying the than an e-bike that assists beyond 25kph, or doesn’t require peddling, isn’t an e-bike. It’s just an unlicensed motorbike pretending to be an e-bike.
That's true, and in fairness it's not like any degree is "complete". Yes, you learn facts and information, but ideally a good university "teaches you how to learn". It's there to give you a framework and enough information so that you can teach yourself, and I suppose in that sense, WGU does a pretty good job with that.
> Because chances are THEIR manager won't understand. Or their manager's manager. Etc. You will look bad no matter what.

Maybe that's why FAANG and top 5 capitalizations all have former engineers as CEO.
This way, Canonical gets paid by the people who want to stay on old versions - meaning more investment in new versions. I strongly suspect that this long-term support costs the customer a lot more than it costs Canonical to support the old versions
Millions around the world are being tortured to death
Millions around the world are being tortured to death with top secret weapons. No2Gangstalking.ca visit share help end the evil.
Compound (YC S19) is hiring designers to build products for startup employees
I could easily see someone racking up that much debt. It’s almost encouraged, as part of the whole “going to college experience”.

You take out loans so you can pay for school, pay for room and board, and have enough money to buy toiletries and what not.

if we take a look a few pretty common public colleges that people from my class went to:

BGSU [1] - ~$28,500/year x 4 years = $115,000

Kent [2] - ~$30,000/year x 4 years = $120,000

In all fairness there’s financial aid, and scholarships, and plenty of ways to decrease costs (living off campus, or even living with your parents and commuting, if you live close enough and have/can afford a car). Or attending a 2 year college and transferring.

Now imagine if you went to a private college (rumored to be a “better” education). An example near me:

Case Western Reserve [3] - ~75,000/ year x 4 years = $300,000

Now on top of all that, remember that student loans are still loans, and as such have interest. So while you can defer payments on the loans while you’re still in school, interest still accrues on those loans for 4 years.

And that’s just for an undergraduate degree. Someone with a masters has an additional two years of schooling, and more for a doctorate.

[1] https://www.bgsu.edu/financial-aid/about-aid/cost-of-attenda...

[2] https://www.kent.edu/financialaid/tuition-and-other-costs

[3] https://case.edu/financialaid/undergraduates/cost-undergradu...
Education has quite opaque pricing which makes comparison difficult.

For example, my undergraduate Alma Mater, a New York State University, charges 7K per year in-state, 25K out-of-state. Which one of those is factored into the average cited here?

Furthermore, what percentage of students actually pay this tuition? Poor students get financial aid from the government and the university, good students get academic scholarships - all the way up to a free ride. Are those discounts reflected in the averages?

And, direct tuition is not the full story of the cost of education. For example, while it looks like a NY student can get a good deal on State education, it's possible that their family's life-time tax bill to support education far exceeds the savings. Likewise, if German tuition seems cheap - where is the money coming from? Germans must be paying for it in some other way.

The thing that matters the most is: how affordable is a college education to someone. Let's say I am a New York resident with good grades and I can get a half-ride tuition (3.5K/year) at a very good State School, the fact that I could also go to NYU (50k/year) or Columbia (61k/year) is irrelevant to my affordability. If I chose to go in to 240K debt to go to Columbia, that's my choice and my problem I could have gone to Stony Brook and pay 14K for 4 years for a solid education.

And finally, there's the elephant in the room that not all degrees are the same, but somehow they cost the same. If I get a highly relevant degree (let's say, Engineering) then even the 240K student debt can be easily paid off in a few years of full time work, and launch me into a great career (though, the Stony Brook degree would too.) On the other hand, the fact that Columbia would likewise happily bill you 240K for a soft-degree that will never lead to a good job is a fricking crime.
The reason why this will fix it is because Ctrl+Alt+Delete has a higher level of system interrupt than alternate ways to get to task manager. Ctrl+Alt+Delete fixes a surprising number of issues by interrupting runaway issues.
Earth travels around the Sun at 30 km/s, delay an asteroid by 4 minutes and it will miss completely.

If your nuke can slow the asteroid from 20km/s to 19.9 km/s, then you need to nuke it 6 days before it hits earth.
https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm

Which has been done before.
Is it really true that eReaders are easier on the eyes than comparable displays? (It seems true to me, anecdotally, but I'm curious if this is just a marketing campaign playing tricks on me).

The PPI of eReaders don't seem that much higher than comparable high quality phones/tablets. Is there a theoretical explanation for why eReaders could be better for eye health?
One of the points that I don’t think is fully clear from Wikipedia is that this is not just about notation - it’s about creating a limited set of tables that combine mortality and compound interest and which can then be used to calculate the desired discounted cashflow value by hand.

As such I think the use of the tables and notation have reduced significantly since PCs first appeared on the scene.

Today almost all life actuarial computations are done using either spreadsheets or dedicated (proprietary) software packages from actuarial consultancies which can do much more sophisticated cashflow projections - for example using stochastic investment return assumptions.

Might be too far to say this is a historical curiosity by now but not by much.
What if we mixed in the possibility that a non-genuine apple screen is actually also a keyboard aaaand could be cheaper because it includes software that in some way is able to phone home. I realize there are many layers of tinfoil here but it was fun to imagine nonetheless.
Are the n-grams always at most n=2 bigrams?
> We can have an inclusive Internet without this bullshit.

We can but it won't be Gemini. Gemini has fought _tooth and nail_ against accessibility and accessibility metadata. And Geminauts still mostly produce GMI files even though Gemini says nothing about distributing only GMI files. The early Gemini days had optimism about using screen readers to view pages, but that went nowhere. The mailing list has consistently chosen a desire for ascetic, technical minimalism over accessibility. If those are the preferences, then it sounds a lot less like "inclusive Internet without this bullshit" and more like "our cool club where only the plain text kids hang out".
For the interested, this phenomenon is known as (deep) double descent:

https://openai.com/blog/deep-double-descent/

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FRv7ryoqtvSuqBxuT/understand...

(Edit: Oh, the definition appears in the abstract of the linked paper.)
Compare long term vaccine safety to long-lasting after-effects of covid-19.
It's because many religions and mythologies based the stories they tell on actual events (or handed down stories of events). People naturally incorporate those into their own system of beliefs. Often the most prominent tales are shared amongst various religions and cultures and that certainly doesn't "prove" any one of their belief systems in particular. The prevalence does, however, help to validate the science behind the discovery.
Honor-based cultures come with their own set of problems.

> The concept of honour appears to have declined in importance in the modern West; conscience has replaced it in the individual context, and the rule of law (with the rights and duties defined therein) has taken over in a social context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honour
The main difference is they use e-paper displays which reflect light rather than emit it. Less eye strain due to less difference in amplitude to ambient light.
IoT without Internet is just oT. I agree that not all embedded devices with networking capabilities necessarily access the internet, but I don't think you can call something that doesn't use have WAN access "IoT" just by definition.

I think many devices without WAN access would fall under the "ICS" or even SCADA umbrella.

Personally, I'd support a law that forces companies to expose their source code when they stop supporting IoT devices. Forcing companies to balance their trade secrets with customer updates should help the internet get more secure, even if it raises the prices at first.
> Also I would like to know how you would attach a debugger to a stack that contained, among others, ASM/C-code running on an embedded device on the other side of the world, some MFC/C code on a gateway windows computer, perl scripts running god knows where and a PL/SQL bundle on an Oracle server in another country and some Java logic on a different server.

That sounds incredibly brittle. But each of these components should be debuggable individually and have a well defined interface.
GopherJS with Go 1.17 support is released
If you have cloud billing issues, such as the crypto mining described here, you can reach a human and get it reverted at the other clouds. Not sure the author is making a valid comparison between cloud and company services. There are many horror stories of businesses on the Amazon store who have not been able to reach a human.

I've personally talked to Google Cloud support on many occasions and had billing disputes reversed.
One issue that I've been dealing with over the last 48hrs is that pushing Docker images to GHCR has been randomly failing with 403 errors.

AFAIK, there has been no communication/acknowledgement of this as an issue. It makes it hard to decide to pick GHCR as a registry of choice.
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The whole concept of "accredited investors" is dumb. I don't need the nanny state telling me which investments I'm too stupid to buy.
I'm sure that was a "bugfix" where someone complained that website required you to hit CTRL-Q to navigate or something and the browser was consuming the key. Have to make it work like Chrome.
Love my remarkable. But it doesn't have a backlight, so you cannot read in the dark which is a pain point.
I bought F-91W for my SATs in senior year of high school... I've been an acolyte ever since. It's hands-down the most comfortable and versatile watch I've ever worn.

My dream is a partnership between Apple and Casio that ads some of the smart watch features & biometric measurements to a classic F-91W design...
A drop of rain is small indeed, but many drops can fill oceans.

It is scary indeed, to think we can't help raise children unless we give birth to them ourselves, while ignoring millions of struggling kids today. Why can't we love them as our own? Ultimately, we all come from the same source [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
The guy was a brigadier general. A fact weirdly not mention in any article on the issue, but at least mentioned in the wiki page.
I love lending books to friends without the expectation or need to get them back, and ebooks often make this impossible. I also love perusing used book stores, another sad casualty of digital formats.
Using destructors just reference counting done the hard way.

> burn an unmeasurably small fraction of runtime

That’s also known as a very short pause.
> See also the 80186, a CPU incompatible with the PC. Maybe a sign Intel didn't believed in the future of the PC ?

The 80186 was already well in its design phase when the PC was developed. And the PC wasn't even what Intel thought a personal computer should look like; they were pushing the multibus based systems hard at the time with their iSBC line.
I have an android ereader without a wacom layer, my favorite app to use is Moon+ Reader. If you have access to an android device, I strongly recommend trying it out. The customizations allowed are staggering and I can't imagine getting a new device that is unable to run it. KoReader is also great and open source. People don't love the way the animations work on an ereader but you could use the Kindle app as well.
RPC vs. Messaging – which is faster?
It's natural to feel upset about bike lanes being over-capacity, but maybe look at it this way: Now there is demonstrated need for expanded capacity, and a deep-pocket lobby (Amazon) on your side.

Perhaps getting a larger coalition of users on board is exactly what we need to expand bike infrastructure. The scarcity of bike lanes is wholly artificial and easily fixed by transitioning more automobile infrastructure.
> they made the right choice

You can't say that definitively. It seems unethical and incorrect to me.
Because once you increase the speed to mesh with road traffic & add strength to survive a collision with a car, you have a car.
I've also heard this about Sonic Visualizer + vamp plugins

Could anyone familiar with this area recommend more tools like the original post and these? Would really appreciate it.
Read up on biology and engineer a virus that creates a worldwide pandemic. It'll shut down cities, keep people from leaving their homes, decimate air travel industry, shut down manufacturing, and create an international supply chain crisis.

If that doesn't work we're fucked.
Weaponized ManageEngine flaw poses ‘serious risk’ to high-profile US targets
At least in the case of the new ereader amazon just released, some of them include LED backlighting.
But the article you linked doesn't seem to refute that Big Macs don't cost particularly more in Denmark than the US. If you do go by the "Big Mac index" (with price relative to 1hr @ average wage) it is probably more affordable in Denmark than US
This is definitely not true - and a misunderstanding of the power equation.

Unions represent their members (sometimes not equally).

That's it.

They try to extract the most.

That's it.

They are not looking out for anyone's best interests but their own, they are not setting prices necessarily rationally, they are not acting for the benefit of the community at large.

There are 5 'factions' in a companies power dynamic:

1) Owners
2) Executives
3) Labour (i.e. Unions)
4) Customers
5) Suppliers

+ Arguably 'other financiers' (i.e.lenders) make up a 6th.

+ There are externalities, like 'the environment'

The surpluses will be divided among those parties given wherever the power equilibrium rests.

If a company is very weak compared to it's customer (like having Apple as a main customer), it won't make a lot of profit so not a ton of surpluses for the other groups. This is called a 'Monopsony' (i.e. Apple has power over it's supply chain).

If a company is very weak compared to it's supply chain (like a small retail store), they're not going to capture much surplus either.

If the investors have great leverage because capital is sparse, they get more surplus. If money is everywhere, they have less leverage.

Union power is an odd one because it's driven by non-market forces i.e. the regulatory limits of what unions can and cannot do given the local laws. In some regions, they are very powerful with (aka Germany, Denmark) with varying kinds of influence.

In the US, the auto-workers Unions are incredibly powerful, so much so that the standards that they establish fold-over into the non-unionized plants.

In a sense, the government roughly sets union wages by imparting the degree of power that unions have to strike etc...
I would watch this movie / tv series
>In practice, these huge models are, in laymans terms, fucking awesome and work really well e.g. they generalize and work in production. No one understands why.

To add nuance to this, these models are awesome at interpolation, but not so much at extrapolation. Or in different terms, they generalize very well to an IID test set, but don't generalize under (even slight) distribution shift.

The main reason for this is that these models tend to solve classification and regression problem quite differently from how humans do it. Broadly speaking, a large, flexible NN will find a "shortcut", i.e. a simple relation between some part of the input and the output, which may not be informative in the way we want; such as a watermark in the corner of an image, or statistical regularities in textures which disappear in slightly different lighting conditions. See e.g. https://thegradient.pub/shortcuts-neural-networks-love-to-ch...

I think it's fair to say that these models are great when you have an enormous dataset that covers the entire domain, but sub-Google-scale problems are usually still solved by underparametrized models (even at Google).
Big Mac Index says Sweden is just under 10% more expensive than US

https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
They don't want you to use anything but amazon's book store, not to side load your own epubs. Epub support is relatively trivial for them, they do not support it on purpose. They love people reading, but only books purchased from them!
Yes, those of us who follow these things know about that decision, but as more and more people find out, there is less and less trust and respect for police, and that's not good for society nor the police.

The odd thing is that many PDs around the country are doubling down rather than re-examining their mission and culture.
Ostensibly, heat pumps could dual-purpose as AC and dehumidification, but if you have enough water for a heat pump, the condensation you collect probably isn't going to be very significant.

Edit: My point being you don't have to supply 2MJ of energy, you need to move it. That can be done for less.
I appreciate companies like Packt who supply credits to download DRM-free versions of the books you read. I get a free credit each month to download any book from them, DRM-free.
They didn't have bad intentions, but they might have mismatched incentives.

An FBI agent wants to stop criminals and have a big bust more-so than they want to generally preserve the economy.
So this is saying that employees shouldn't get to choose whether to go to the office or be remote? I know I'd much rather be back in the office 5 days per week than never be able to go to the office again.
Thank you for the writeup, it seems like they have done a great job with The Framework. Does it come in that beige-looking color shown on the yellow background?

I think I might want a beige laptop, something with the fine lines of The Framework and the raw aesthetic appeal of Lappy 486.
Chiming in: Another happy LT user here.
The code looks readable. This needs to be exposed, it's quite easy, and it seems interactive.
Yes, but my point is that is not the interesting part. The interesting part is where the $22 is arrived at from.
"The 'Mystery' of the Bible's Phantom Camels"

There's one really obvious solution to that mystery.