skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple Arcade is a good example of this. With the subscription, they have a bunch of games which used to be gem games, but had that part of the monetization removed. And all of the games are better for it - they removed a lot of the frustration, gambling, unnecessary delays, which had been added to push people to buy gems.

This is half-true, at least for the ones I tried on Apple Arcade. Example, the Castlevania game. All the stupid gem gacha bullshit addiction-driving stuff is still in the game, it's just that you no longer buy the gems, the game just absolutely throws gems at you for free while you play. But you've still got all the stupid mobile game addiction driving stuff like daily quests, 'pulls' to randomly get items, a tedious and complex system of upgrades for weapons/characters that's completely unnecessary (except it is necessary because the difficulty's tuned such that you'll never get through the game without engaging with it all), all that stuff. The Star Trek game was similar IIRC.

The games are still worse despite not wanting money, the (originally) monetization-driven game design poisons it anyway. For me this was one of the most disappointing parts of Apple Arcade, I'd thought the point was to pay for access to _quality_ games, not bullshit mobile games with the IAP hastily ripped out.
I think it was likely both. That conditions can diminish a human being is obvious to perceive but impossible to accept. However, if conditions don't suffice to explain, then it seems like there must be something wrong with the person themselves, not just the state of their being oppressed, & this often gets construed as contempt for "people" per se. So, by way of compassion, Morris also had contempt. But I'd say it was more like disappointment than contempt. (Which is perhaps even more provocative.)
Doesn't the set of available system fonts contribute a lot towards fingerprinting?
Retrofitting seccomp or a custom Apparmor policy are both much lower hanging fruit. The problem is folk tend to link these things directly into their web servers
Cool toolset. Thanks for sharing it, and I sincerely wish you luck.

It appears to be one that is aimed at JavaScript/TypeScript developers, as opposed to native Swift devs (like me). Some of the tools are quite interesting, but only a few would probably apply to my workflow.
Probably not what you are looking for, but if you can afford it, I can highly recommend the Prusa I3 MK3S+ (actually I have the MK3S, but it's pretty similar).

The quality of the prints is incredible and the printer is really easy to use. I've printed a bunch of parts for use around the house that have solved problems where there's no way I could get a commercial solution -- I can just design what I want in Fusion 360 and print it.

This was my first (and only!) 3D printer so I don't have any comparisons, but I have been tempted to get a Ender-3 (Pro) just as a comparison (although I don't really have the space for 2 3D printers).

I did recently augment it with OctoPrint on a RPi with a touch screen (and of course a 3D printed front "console" that accommodated it) ... makes it much nicer to use and I can remotely manage via Wifi.
Bummer, I made a typo.

> parts of the electricity -> parts OR the electricity

Quite the distinction there. I was referring to reviews in the global context where there are plenty of places on earth where even getting power is hard and you might be constrained to limited wattage or battery backups that drain very fast on high performance parts. All to build up an extra example context where there is no 'absolute' truth to some reviews out there.
Children Over 5 to Require Vaccine Passports in San Francisco
And for users this is solved by disabling webfonts and forcing your chosen system font on all pages.

It's even an option in Firefox. And not something that's hidden in about:config. one of the benefits of Firefox over Chrome.

Only thing that breaks is when developers abuse fonts to display random icons in non-standard ways (other than unicode symbols/emoji/...).
You're just saying the same thing.

Suppose the incompetent authorities aren't worse than random. They're just censoring whatever ambiguous things they don't like independent of their veracity. Then the expected chance that it's true is 50%. Coin flip. You add to that any amount of things censored intentionally because they know for sure that they're true and you're above 50%.
I get the impression that philosophy of mind people neither have dogs nor ride horses seriously, as both are supremely complex relationships and conversations without verbal language - as defined by being a way of communicating abstractions, counterfactuals, and non-present things.

The dogs I've had all understood nonverbal and almost invisible cues, but the horse case would probably blow their minds. A ride is a conversation with another being that asks it to suspend its instincts as a literal prey animal, let a predator climb on its back, maintain this suspension of instinct, and then contact muscles, move each limb and bend its body in a precise way in response to microexpressions of the body that originate from intentions in the riders mind, both in and outside its natural habitat, and even trust you enough to blindly jump obstacles without any idea of what's on the other side of them if they are doing XC.

Serious riders cultivate a sophisticated and rich sub-language for communicating with completely different beings - and one that transfers between them! Putting on shows is just a way to make money and support the habit, but it has almost nothing to do with the human art of communicating with other beings. When you reframe riding a horse as riding an alien, suddenly it's insanely cool that we can do these incredibly sophisticated things without language.

I wish I could source it but there was an AI talk posted here where the speaker said, "language is a tool we evolved to act through others," and I think it was in the context of getting ML agents to develop ways to co-ordinate and scale. It's a rudimentary tool, but it is not the substrate or the real for anything other than perhaps the ego, which I believe is also an artifact of language.

Language is not so much the scaffolding as it is a keyhole that provides a very narrow view of the world, and perhaps of the self, which I suspect is also an artifact of language. The notion of "I," is above the fold of language, whereas when you are working with another being without language, the "I," disappears, much like when we have other intense experiences like speeding on a motorcycle or tripping balls on a mismeasured dose of hallucinogens, not often at the same time. BJJ practitioners talk about similar ways of relating as well.

Maybe it's just me, but as someone who spends much of their time cultivating skills outside the domain of language, I'd wonder if philosophers of mind need to get out more?
Have those predictions come to pass?
Much of the reason Vi(m) is still in use today is because it’s guaranteed to be on pretty much any *nix box. When it’s 3AM and you’re trying to rewrite /etc/lstab from scratch and the network won’t come up… there’s no way you’re installing emacs or nano.
>The other is that they're authoritarians too incompetent to convincingly demonstrate that something they believe to be false actually is false using evidence or reasoning, since otherwise it wouldn't have to be censored.

There aren't enough hours in the day to waste answering every single instance of bullshit posted to the internet with a thoroughly researched, evidence-based point for point rebuttal that would only be buried under another layer of bullshit.
I remember when the encyclopedia salesman came to our apartment to show my parents the three sets of encyclopedias they sold. We bought the Book of Knowledge (for grade school), the Encyclopedia Americana (high school and university), and The World of Science (a popular science set for high school IIRC)set. My older children make fun of me, because I sniff books at the bookstore, or when I get a new book in the mail. It goes back to opening up those encyclopedias and associating their scent with an enjoyable adventure of the mind.
Imbalanced Classification
I used to think this, but sveltes templating language is trivial and keeps the problem space manageable for its maintainers.
Widespread security risk identified in phones and Bluetooth devices
It's definitely free money if you are eco-conscious and would decide to reduce your carbon emissions anyway. Since I decided not to have a car and live in an apartment anyway, it's literally free money.
I have one of these Odyssey 2s still with the box. It is an interesting console.
IRS announces 401(k) limit increases to $20,500
I agree. Vaccines are neither 100.00% safe nor are they mind control chips.

Granted they're much, much closer to safe than they are mind control. But waving away safety concerns is dangerous too.
I think this is a promising start! However, it’s a rather abstract argument and might be improved by concrete examples.

One aspect of humility might be to avoid abstract generalizations and stick to shallow observations. For example, instead of arguing that some kinds of architecture are good and other kinds of architecture are terrible, and speculating about why, you could simply say, “this building looks good to me” and “I don’t like how this building looks.”

Or you could say that a particular article seems plausible or implausible to you, rather than saying it’s true or false.

But making universal-sounding claims is an ingrained habit that seems hard to shake.
That's a lot of freshly-squeezed aborted calves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_bovine_serum

> Huge tanks known as bioreactors line the main room, where cells harvested from live animals will be bathed in nutrients such as glucose, vitamins and amino acids. The bioreactors create an environment similar to an animal’s body, and the nutrients feed the cells until they get bigger, forming an unstructured, ground meat-like product.

That's not how it works. You need hormones that we cannot synthesize yet.
Android USB Tether on macOS – Another Single Developer OSS Project
Android USB Tether on MacOS relies on the efforts of one stalwart dev, and with the release of Apple Silicon, the community is a bit stuck. Yet another open source project deployed commercially (drone-maker DJI is mentioned), but still relying on one dev to build and sign for new Apple releases.
Thank you. I was in the process of writing this exact comment but kept tripping over my own words and eventually gave up.
>this works quite well

if you consider swapping a font and potentially the layout after the viewer has already started reading the intial load as working quite well, then we definitely have different definitions. the only thing more annoying would be if the layout changed because you threw an ad at me after intial layout
Right. So in the example you just listed you hop online to play video games and because your friend group has your IP you get DDoSed during your competitive match and you don't get rank one in some video game. Instead the person who DDoSed you gets rank one.

So you arrange to have your IP address changed and you remove the people who had it and that works for a time, but it turns out that if they know you're username they can use that to discover your IP through the social graph. So it happens again and you realize what is going on and so you change you're username.

And for a time that works, but one day you're streaming to thousands of your fans and you accidentally tab to the wrong window and your username becomes visible and your IP gets leaked again and you get DDoSed.

You're not a technical person, but you're tired of it. A non-decentralized service hides your IP. You sign up. Because it is monetized it is free and so the sign up experience is frictionless.

We started in your world. There was a problem. The resolution of that problem resulted in leaving your world. In a market place in which everyone was allowed to compete with each other someone else offered a higher utility service than you did. Their service also had the benefit that poor people can use it, while your service is subtly oppressive and elitist requiring you to own resources like a stable internet connection, a router, a computer, and other things which many people don't have in order to have a complete experience online. So you were lower utility and you oppressed poor people.

We take as a given that you solved every technical problem. Your simple solution didn't work. So now you're going to have to complicate it. Also, this isn't hypothetical, because this evolution has literally played out historically already. So if you don't like it or don't find it to be realistic you can be frustrated with reality and history and humans. Because it be like that.
With the advent of Nx [1] and Axon [2] for Elixir, I felt like the missing piece was the data munging en route to the machine learning. With Polars [3] making strides and Rustler [4] available to make a safe bridge for Elixir NIFs, I saw a path to get dataframes in Elixir that are _fast_.

I'm really pleased with how it turned out. Inspired by the Nx architecture, which uses pluggable backends, I built a thin user-facing API that calls into (theoretically, as polars is the only extant backend) pluggable dataframe backends. What really excited me about this approach is that it permits a similar approach to what we see in dplyr [5], where you can manipulate in-memory data frames using the same API as remote databases or spark dataframes.

Next up is to move to lazy-by-default. To be as unsurprising as possible, Explorer dataframes are (for all intents and purposes) immutable. This has required a fair amount of copying when using the eager API from Polars, and because Rustler NIF resources use atomic reference counting and the GC only sweeps intermittently, there can be some pretty bad memory performance. Fortunately Polars also has a lazy API. The plan is to use that with 'peeking' for display.

After that, I'd like to move into additional backends. I'm particularly keen on Ecto (database) and Apache Arrow/Ballista for distributed and OLAP work. There is also work underway for a pure Elixir backend so the library can ship without a Rust dependency. Speaking of which, there's work on prebuilt binaries underway as well.

I'd love feedback on the API! I aimed for a dplyr-ish API as I think it melds better with a functional language than pandas. Generally I find dplyr more intuitive than pandas. The philosophy here is to get from brain to data as simply and intuitively as possible.

Finally, contributions and any other feedback are super, super welcome. It's early days and I'm also a startup founder so I haven't been able to dedicate as much time as I'd like, but I try to get some work done and add features at least once a week.

Thanks for looking!

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[1] https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx

[2] https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon

[3] https://github.com/pola-rs/polars

[4] https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

[5] https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/
Can't say that I'm using Vim effectively, but at least the basic keys are fine.

Basic movement keys are split into two hands. J / K (up & down) are still next to each other and are operated with the left hand. H / L (left & right) are still close together and are operated with the right hand. It actually feels better to use and easier to remember than the one-row arrow cluster on QWERTY.

W / B (to next word & to previous word) are close together and are operated by the right hand. I actually use W B much more than H L and it feels great.

Y / P (copy & paste) are next to each other which is great.

Ctrl B / F (page up & down) are a bit counter intuitive because of the position (page up is below page down). Ctrl U / D (half page up & down) are fine.

A I O (various ways to enter insert mode) are clustered into left hand home row. S C R (various ways to replace text) are clustered into right hand.
I had a warm memory triggered by the OP, and now you have too! Another reason to be grateful for what we have.
Does Tokyo have much affordable housing ?

It's a very special situation on its own, but buying a house will usually get you into the 30+ years mortgage plans, and old
buildings are earthquake hazards so I wouldn't call them high quality. Rents haven't much fallen even as inflation grew, and cheap places like Leopalaces are a hell to live in.
All in all it looks to me to be a hard to live town if you're not in a decently good paying job.
Perhaps British English?

(US review)
to study again something you have already learned, in preparation for an exam:
We're revising (algebra) for the test tomorrow.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ja/dictionary/english/revis...
What about heterosexual sex?
I think we need to find a better way for the philosophy behind the scientific method to click.

The entire idea of a "fact" is flawed. We simply have more good evidence for some things than others. Teaching people to critically evaluate and compare the evidence is the trick.

Perhaps studying different perspectives of a politically neutral historic event would help people to understand.
Keep the battery charged or it will fail and you will not be able to revive it
Wow, the die shot! It looks like an eerie caricature of then-contemporary chip designs. I have seen blocky hand layouts, and modern (presumably) auto layouts that look like bacteria cultures. But I have never seen warped and slanted blocks.
This is very true, especially when pre-processing text and other unstructured data. It ends up being a lot of loops, string manipulation, and dict lookups.

Fortunately, with a tool like DVC or even Make, you usually don't have to (or want to) put that code in the same script as the actual machine learning part. So you can theoretically run the former with PyPy and the latter with CPython, if you really need to maximize both.
The base rate of truth for stuff people spread is much, much lower than 50%.
Note this article is about world food prices, not the United States food prices.

> Debt to GDP is 130% and structurally basically guaranteed to nominally increase over the next 10 years

Debt to GDP has actually been declining since Q2 2020 and sits at ~125%. There is nothing that says increases are inevitable.

> CPI for energy is 25% percent right now.

Yes and it was at negative 17% for April of last year and stayed negative for the whole rest of the year. Were you worried about deflation at the time? If instead of spooking yourself with rates of change, you switch your graph to Average price data and look at Gasoline, you'll see that we're still below 2014 levels.

> The inflation writing is on the wall.

Why don't we look at US food price staples?

Eggs are nowhere near their 2015 high: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111

Milk has yet to reach 2014 levels: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000709112

Sugar has yet to reach 2012 levels: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000715211

Pork chops spiked up hugely, almost back to 2014 levels! They're going back down now. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000FD3101

Chicken too spiked higher (than ever before this time), and is now back at 2014 levels: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000706111

Rice is still lower than it was during the 2008 recession: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000701312

Ground beef is the only one that's surpassed 2014 levels: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000703112
The borrow checker wasn't conceived of until Rust had been in the works for years, so that's one reason why that wasn't what happened.

The language was grown. It just wasn't grown with an initial central feature, it was grown with an initial problem that it was trying to solve: a concurrent, safe systems language. As Rust explored the problem space, tradeoffs were identified, some were weighed differently than previously, some new strategies for solving these problems were discovered, and things were refined.

Verification is actively underway. It's totally understandable to want to wait until it's here, but that doesn't mean it's impossible, just nontrivial.

(Also, there are more papers that are older, like https://people.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/papers/rustbelt/paper.pdf from 2018, which this paper cites.)
Yes. Although I don't know if it's an issue on phones/tablets or not.

Also Firefox has an option to ignore CSS specified fonts.
Yes, adding ntpd or chrony is another package but they really aren’t that big or burdensome on modern embedded systems. If you can fit systemd you can probably fit a real time daemon, too.

I could understand if you’re running in a system with single digit MB of ram or flash, maybe you can’t fit them, but those sizes systems today are quite rare.
It would sadly not be legal under Federal law, as crown corporations have to be founded for the national interest. The provincial government and quebecers would absolutely love it though, Hydro Quebec is so profitable yet the electricity is so cheap.
You think that's magic, check out optical lattice clocks. Blows my mind every time I re-read about them and accept "yes, this actually works".
In order to save my users’ bandwidth, I only use web fonts at the lightest weights, usually < 300.
Numpy and other C extensions that heavily use the CPython API (as opposed to the CFFI) are known to be slower under PyPy. That's probably not ever going to be a strong area for it.
Consider we might be in a bubble: https://www.reuters.com/world/higher-food-prices-help-fuel-4...

Experts predicted that there might be more hunger deaths from the pandemic than from Covid. Will be interesting to see what happens.
Is there a specific worry that this would solve, or is it just the general uncomfortableness with it not being a 100% guarantee?
I’m not sure how to interpret this, even after reading the article. Is any reason given for why the last 4 Performance cores get only a limited amount of work?
From the keynote of CVPR. CVPR is the premier annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses.

https://cvpr2021.thecvf.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6bOwQdCJrcCVPR
I'd like to question 12 MB JS-framework-that-everyone-bandwagoned-because-everyone-else-thinks-its-hip before we ever touch webfonts. Webfonts atleast provide a sense of utility - athough now that I think of it - typography is horribly misused and abused by designers. If your headline takes 40% of the screen with a giant 96 pt typeface and the bottom 20% is taken up by a cookie banner, you need help.
True, but

(1) uber owns nothing (mostly), and
(2) depreciation doesn't really affect real-world profit/loss as a "regular person" expects. Its mostly an accounting tool (that often lets companies hide money). If you eg. build a building, you can depreciate ~10% a year in many cases, but that doesn't really mean you're losing/gaining money.

Eg. a residential building can depreciate at 5% a year. If you owned and rented a house in SF, its not decreasing in value by 5% a year, probably even considering cost of repairs/upgrades grows as a building ages (the purpose of this metric). So including a (-5% of building) depreciation amount on the earnings of said rental property makes little sense when evaluating if its "profitable".
That's some poorly crafted charts.
Which we know because we had a public debate and gave each side a chance to make their strongest case.

Wait.
I am vaguely uncomfortable with this idea for reasons I am struggling to put into words, but that is a more viable path, yeah.
What? China loves hydro. They're building the most hydro in the world. They have the largest hydroelectric dam in the world (built with the help of Hydro Quebec btw, though the Federal government didn't like that iirc)
> this effectively becomes a new tax on the middle class

Middle class but, even more, low-income class.