skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thrown by Greenwald's and Taibbi's shift to the right. In the case of Taibbi it seems like he's still butthurt by getting beaten up over #metoo stuff.

Of course there's plenty to criticize about mainstream media and "leftism", but Taibbi's critiques seem to be significantly aligned with right wing messaging.

I "lean left" but like to consider myself as non-ideological and when I checked what he's had to say lately it seems to be devoid of criticism of the right. I'm not writing this to condemn him, I'm genuinely puzzled. Counter examples welcomed.

Edit: I was curious about Taibbi's change in tone and searched to see if I was alone in this and came across this: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/what-happened-to-mat...
The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops
Back in college (90’s), we had a Solaris shop. One time after a long power outage we discovered that we couldn’t bring up the system because of a circular dependency.

It’s been decades, something along the lines of a NIS server depending on a file server and vice-versa. We managed to manually get the services running and then do a clean reboot after the rest of the systems came up.
Missouri just doesn't have the allure of the Italian countryside.
We are seeing continued DDoS attacks against our infrastructure
They're always seeking more.
Sorry to be such a bore but when scanning humans the images should only be good enough to make a good diagnosis. If they are better than needed, the wise thing to do is lower the radiation exposure.
From the second paragraph in the abstract, it seems that they adjust for age: "Mortality rates from clinical studies were corrected for age, sex, and diabetes."
Nothing is stopping me and I am working on this.
This is exactly what I’m trying to fix - and why I quit a job at Stripe to do it. We had mainframes, we had data centers, we have the cloud - and now folks are talking about fixing the internet with blockchains.

What we really need is more -server software- in the hands of every day people. The first web browser was also a web server - and today almost every human alive has a web-client in their pocket - but server software is for nerds, highly paid working at Facebook or Amazon.

Home hosting, self hosting, hobby sites - it’s not just some fond memory to me - it’s a legitimate possibility for human communication that was swept away by the vast monetary power of advertising. And it doesn’t have to be weird text only blogs about science fiction. It’s time to bring the internet back home!
> I'm sorry... you're wrong.

> deliberate perfect practice is obviously the most important thing

I said that we shouldn't count too much on the idea of brain wiring. As far as I understood, the second quote above agrees with me. I didn't mean to disregard the presence of savants or other phenomena not explained by practice, deliberate or not. If my previous reply suggested so, I would like to correct it here.
If you were working on a production system that had a failure, you'd probably want to dig into the why behind the failure and take some steps to keep it from happening in the future. Why not apply the same to your own failures and treat them as an opportunity to improve yourself? I like the idea of tracking my own personal performance to help mitigate future problems.

There is probably only going to be a retro for the incident if it was something really bad. Even then it's not going to focus on you, it'll be more about cross team efforts and higher level issues.

Having a personal tracker may help you understand your own weak spots, common sources of problems, and trends in your work. For each incident look at things like why it happened, what could have been done to avoid it, and the context that the mistake was made in (e.g. we had three issues going at the time and were under a product deadline for X which was due in the next two weeks).

To measure performance you could classify the mistake type and plot it over time. It could be something general like the preventable/complex/innovative buckets stated in the article with technical details like: missed the bug during PR review, misunderstood the system architecture, missed handling an edge case, etc. Having the issues clearly stated for yourself should help you not make a similar mistake going forward. If you have a trend in the data you can focus your personal development on areas where you're weak. Keeping a reference of issues that have happened should help with understanding the problem history a year later too. That could be good for planning future work since you'll know where some of the hard spots might be.
Is it actually Wacom maintaining the Linux Wacom drivers or is it community maintained ?
>What are the odds that you manage to pick those few stocks that produce those returns?

Aren't most of those stocks the best performers of each industry? Can you fail by buying FAANG?
Neither does Rochester New York, where you can get a pretty decent house for $80k.
Paywall bypass - come from Twitter: https://twitter.com/FT/status/1453663471007055873
Pink, a botnet that competed with the vendor to control infected devices
My understanding is that since Africa is connected to Europe by either land or a very small amount of water, you tend to get the same situation as Mexican immigrants into the US. You're optimizing more for risk-takers instead of wealth (which actually works pretty well with the US's culture, but might not in continental Europe).

African immigrants to the US, on the other hand, tend to be quite wealthy/well educated. I think at one point Nigerian applicants for US citizenship were the most educated nationality. Presumably this is because the sheer cost of going there filters out a lot of people.
Because it doesn't really matter. Its not like you can't use the word Apple anymore. You can even use it in your company name if you aren't making computer goods/services.
There was definitely a time when swallowing little round coloured artificially-produced objects was seen as weird and dangerous. It became normal when people saw enough positive side-effects. The same might happen here.
Yeah. And even "maximizing benefit/utility" is not logic (I went with that, since at best, it's what many mean by "makes logical sense").

Logic could as well be used perfectly well for minimizing benefit, it's just a tool for forming and evaluating syllogisms based on a set of axioms.
This is one of the reasons I think nix is a game changer. Not need to care about that, just put everything in nix-shell.
Yeah, the one I remember popping up was Olathe. They really tried to push it and make it sound nice.

Would be better for them if there weren't an entire documentary episode about a community fear of foreigners and some murders.[1]

Come for the money and housing assistance. Stay if you survive.

1 - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8119994/
The “live” ticker box transactions are randomly generated; see the source code:

http://coin-ether.net/scripts/table.js
I’m not sure what you mean by taking offense. I don’t feel offended; I’m not a game story writer, so whatever he writes cannot possibly offend me.

I also am not criticizing the first part of that single sentence (“I’m not great”). I find the paragraph in its entirety distasteful, when he said others are so bad that he was awesome.
Started taking high levels of d3 a few months before covid, as I had very low levels. (Autoimmune)

A year later and I got covid. A few scary nights. I recovered but had a sharp increase in micro-clotting. Something that was an issue before Covid. I had to double blood thinners to keep symptoms under control. Took six months before I could lower dosage again.

Covid aside I’m much healthier since upping d3. I had been bed ridden with uncontrollable migraines the year prior.
When my wife when through invasive breast cancer some years ago¹, I got started with RadiAnt because it's easy to construct a nice looking3d reconstruction, but I quickly hit a ceiling what I was able to accomplish.

With slicer I was able to produced compelling pictures to highlight the objects of interest by using custom color scales and transparency. For fun I also followed some tutorial on bone segregation for 3d printing, something that is clearly beyond the reach of RadiAnt.

Still, I would recommend to learn the basics in RadiAnt by trying to see what is in the written radiologist report². You will have to learn quite a bit of arcane terminology but I found that process quite rewarding and strangely empowering.

1- 3 years after her last treatment she is still cancer free, I hope it stays that way...

2- Ask for a copy of the report when you get the DICOM DVD. If the scan was taken at a hospital they will probably redirect you to the medical archives and it assuredly won't be ready when you get the DVD but they can mail it to you.
The issue is that hardware systems have evolved in a very dynamic way over the years. Initially GPUs were mostly fixed function hardware with proprietary APIs for each driver. Then we had Microsoft that was able to flex its platform power to build a vendor interface in Direct3D. Now we have Apple doing the same thing with Metal. The issue is going to be the ever increasing integration of heterogenous compute engines in unique ways. Google Tensor SoC, Apple A/M chips, etc. AMD is going to increasingly license their IP to build out custom SoC for companies like Samsung.

The best chance to build a standard on top of all this change is to not view this as a "GPU abstraction" but rather a collection of compute engines. At this layer, the place where this happens will be compiler toolchain. IMO (as ex-NVIDIA compiler guy) the best effort happening right now is MLIR [1]. I don't know if dialec is the right abstraction but thats where things are at right now. The best example is is IREE [2] which is written at Google for mapping a lot of of the sophisticated translation inference on mobile for acceleration across GPU, neural engines, etc.

[1] https://mlir.llvm.org

[2] https://google.github.io/iree/
"Musicophelia" was really eye opening. I think it's attuned me to noticing more of the interesting differences among the (mostly amateur including myself) musicians I play with.
I only use Linux and indeed, drivers work OOtB and don't require you to sign any privacy policy. Although you don't have the fancy GUI that they have on Windows.

The Huion GT works OOtB with the Wacom drivers. For the 1060+, I tried all the out-of-tree drivers without any luck, but that was about 3 years ago.

https://digimend.github.io/drivers/digimend/tablets/

(support was added in 2018, so now it probably works after minimal work)
It is possible to promote better alternatives without being smug or taking a holier-than-thou attitude. But you're not going to convince anyone to switch with a comment that presumes your alternative is already the default and that everyone will know what you're talking about, rather than actually name and explain the alternative.
Spiderweb software is really legendary for anyone who was a Mac user in the 90s. Really great products.
Do you want to download music for free?
There are so many online music streaming apps these days that people actually forget they can download music for free.
OK, here's a comparison.

For the first infection, immunity acquired by infection doesn't exist yet, so for the first infection, that strategy offers an increased risk of death of 20× or more compared to vaccination.

For the second infection, the two strategies are roughly equal. Not exact, but the details don't matter, because...

For these two on average, immunity acquired by infection offers about 10.5× the chance of death. If the effectiveness during the second infection varies very much, then that number will be 9 or 13 or something, so who cares about that detail. The number 20 dwarfs everything else. The only way to make the two strategies comparable is to ignore the outcome of the first infection.

Note that 20 isn't meant as a serious estimate, it's a number I picked out of a hat. MUCH higher estimates are available. You may have read that 99.5% of deaths in the US are unvaccinated. If you start with that number and that two-thirds of the USians are vaccinated, then the number 20 becomes 400, and immunity acquired by infection is then roughly 200× as dangerous as the vaccines they use in the US.
I've been testing https://search.brave.com/ and liking it so far.
But now these clever people will bring incentives etc to entice these creatures. Just depends on how much economic incentive these whales bring to the table.

Happens to many politicians by rich/powerful people across the world.
What a fantastic choice of analogy to convey how sheaves attach data to a base space. With so many "Category Theory for Programmers" tutorials floating around, it's refreshing to see such a precise and easily comprehensible explanation of such topics while maintaining their geometric nature.

I wonder if it would be too hopeful to look forward to an illustrative example of sections of sheaves of minecraft chunks in the future.
After being down for over 48 hours, Roblox has identified the issue
Internal cause does not necessarily mean a technical mishap. Read rogue sysadmin or other employee initiated event.
He's made a few more recently, has a patreon, etc.
Ninja Cookie
If launches are expensive (e.g. 400M USD for a Delta IV Heavy launch) then you have to engineer the payload to make it worth that launch cost. It needs to be super reliable and last a long time, it needs to provide a lot of value, and you may get only one shot to get it right. There's not going to be a backup James Webb telescope if there's a glitch with the first one.

If launches are cheap (e.g. a few million USD targeted by Starship), you can use more off the shelf hardware and iterate to see what works. Replacing satellites is not such a big deal.
It went up when it was known that the site was down, so it can be a bit hard to predict.
Germany debates how to form gender-neutral words out of its gendered language
What you describe sounds a lot like the 'bystander effect' which occurs a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
So what do you suggest? Immediate cessation of all research?
That data you provided is for London, Ontario, Canada. I was speaking about London, England, UK. That being said I looked up the official data and calculated around 3% for dwelling vacancy in London for 2020 [0]. Though, if look at individual boroughs one finds there is a high vacancy rate in certain areas [1] (based on the same data from [0]).

[0]: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dwelling-stock-inc...

[1]: https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/one-in-three-homes-in-...
> No, they aren't. They are distinct axes of variation, but not opposed.

I'm only talking about the usage of "gender." This an empirical linguistic question. Some people literally mean sex, others literally mean everything but. As a native English speaker, I see both frequently. Hop on Twitter and you can see both within 30 seconds. This doesn't preclude additional usages among laymen and academic disciplines.

In the sense that nature is the opposite of nurture, "gender" used in the "everything but" way is completely at odds with sex. Likewise when a male identifies their gender as "female" or as a "woman," we get a different understanding of their gender depending on the meaning of "gender" used. At best we might say that male isn't quite the opposite of female, but in terms of reproduction, those are the exclusive roles.

I feel satisfied enough to call these meanings opposites, and "gender" looks similar enough to other auto-antonyms. We have two very different evaluations of "gender" that can shift the meaning of an entire sentence to mean the opposite thing.
I see this from the Canadian context and Canada is in the process of buying/building a new SMR and has more in the pipeline with funding lined up. Canada still has some coal to phase out, and the lure of the idea of small reactors for remote communities will always make is popular with Canadian technocrats - if not the public.

China is building a lot of plants now too, they will want to sell that technology and build for others.

I can understand why COP wouldn't be keen to have prominent nuclear stuff in the public areas, nuclear isn't very popular with the general public. But the host country is commissioning new plants right now, they obviously see it as a viable option, so it has a seat at the table at COP26.

I haven't heard a peep about global minimum taxes as it relates to COP26, maybe you are confused about the G20 meeting that just happened?
Do we need the in the Cloud Native World bit of the question? I'd argue the answer is *yes* wherever.
if you want to fork your function call then you do it explicitly with $(my_function). I'm aware that people are always discovering things for the first time but there is literally decades of thought that has gone into why bash behaves the way it does. and there's a pretty good reason why the bash authors decided not to make function calls fork by default...
That's really cool that Live has it built in to the piano roll now. I've been using Bitwig with the plugin Scaler 2 for this purpose.
I get what supposed to be happening

but, please don't keep repeating yourself in meetings it's annoying
I wonder if this type of research itself might at some point influence an animal’s language.

In this study, if the researchers were to consistently play a particular call when a school of fish were nearby I wonder if younger whales might learn the human produced call to mean a school of fish. Is it possible this research could instead lead to us presenting a species with our interpretation of their language which we would then have a much clearer understanding of?

Rather that just us understanding them, I wonder how this might help them understand us.
But in reality you never see such scripts.
> Well, because it simply doesn't work for them: returning from a function does not trigger the EXIT signal.

It doesn't trigger EXIT, but it does trigger RETURN. Just trap both:

#!/bin/bash

foo() {
trap "echo 'Cleanup!'" RETURN EXIT

#return
#exit

echo "Kill me with ^C or \"kill $$\""
while true ; do : ; done
}

foo # should print 'Cleanup!' on SIGTERM,
# returning, or calling exit
Default Mode Network: Impact on ADHD
>How is a regular guy going to achieve the same results as a hedge fund with a 10 million dollar portfolio?

Maybe by finding a well managed small fund and buying into it?
If you read up on the standard CDC vaccine schedule, you will discover many different vaccines with many different technologies. There is no such thing as a “standard” vaccine.

IPV , OPV, the DTaP vaccines, the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, and measles are all different technologies. They’re all biologics, though.
There are source control tools for Oracle and SQL Server, debugging tools, code profilers, and no need to waste bandwidth with data.

I would rather reach for them than the currently trendy ORM framework.
Nintendo to close Bay Area office
I wonder if he'd be happy that his legacy seems to have just fueled fossil fuel funded conspiracies by adding some aura of credibility to their lies.

I can't imagine he would.
How are Vulkan and WebGPU vendor dependent?
That people need a study to know these differences exist is the real head scratcher.
A good way to summarize it is: Gladwell implied that if you did 10k hours, you'd become world class, that's it! Ericsson identified that the most significant differentiator between the top performers at conservatories and the rest was how much of their lives they had spent doing rigorous practice. Those are two totally different things. To paraphrase Ericsson in a way that is meaningful for most people, he basically said "10k hours is the average we saw of our top performers" (10+ years, 3 hours a day). He in no way implies that doing that would make you world class, or that all world class performers had done it. He never says it's either necessary or sufficient - just what they observed their top subjects had done relative to their bottom ones, so if you want to get good, start there. There are people out there who are world class after playing half that, and scads and scads who aren't and have done more than double.

I took a lot longer than 10 years to do my 10k+ hours, but by now at age 47 I've done them. So have most of my musician friends. We gig around town. lol. 10k is table stakes.
The Views That Made Him Persona Non Grata at MIT: https://www.newsweek.com/diversity-problem-campus-opinion-16...

Ninety years ago Germany had the best universities in the world. Then an ideological regime obsessed with race came to power and drove many of the best scholars out, gutting
the faculties and leading to sustained decay that German universities never fully recovered from.

Comparing DEI to the Nazis and the holocaust. That's what made him PNG at MIT.

It's like that Twitter comment:

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views

Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?

Con: LOL no...no not those views

Me: So....deregulation?

Con: Haha no not those views either

Me: Which views, exactly?

Con: Oh, you know the ones
What else would owning the company mean, if not that? You would have to agree proportionally with the other owners (of which there are none) on who to put in place to run the company.
Not a big surprise given the insanely high power density of nuclear reactors.
Is it the same thing though? I would guess the most undesirable places in Italy are still much better than even some mediocre places in the US.
... and lots of developers forget that singletons are global state.

Especially with node where you do not have a dedicated sandbox per user request, programming needs to be request-agnostic. This is especially painful with mixing server-side and non-server-side code where you do have a dedicated 'sandbox' on the client side (aka browser).
You think you are diversified, but how much do you have on RED.
Also, pay rates seem to be inversely proportional to the job's benefit to society. Vulture capitalists rake in the dough while workers who do essential tasks to actually make other people's lives better don't get paid shit.