skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Historically, law enforcement, courts and at time even military force have been used to put down labour action when it goes outside the box the NRLA drew.

>Even regular picketing sometimes gets sanctioned by the police. Just this October John Deere picketers were sanctioned for blocking a gate. [1]

Did those actions get put down because it was labor action, or was it because those actions were not acceptable? ie. if I said [unpopular thing] online, and a bunch of protesters showed up to my house and blocked my driveway, preventing me from going to work, would it be reasonable for the police to disperse those protesters? would it be reasonable for me to get an injunction against those protesters to prevent them from doing it again?
the "assurances" had an unless we feel like it exemption.
Then don’t enable iCloud backup. If you do enable iCloud backup you’ll have your images scanned in both cases.

There’s functionally no difference, except one offers a future path to encryption on iCloud servers.

If this was about on device scanning without iCloud backup enabled then I’d agree with you, but it’s not.
We don't provide entity disambiguation out of a box. It's more of a on request for Enterprise clients.

But overall, entity disambiguation is one of the most useful and difficult tasks in the NLP.

SpaCy supports entity linking via knowledge base: https://spacy.io/api/entitylinker
Do you think that the economy has shrunk in half in real terms in the last 20 years? Because that’s essentially what it would mean for those numbers to be true.
Yup. Twice a day, results show up somewhere before 90 days, ceasing treatment after point appears to continue to provide results.

"In phase 1 and 2 studies, UNR844 exhibited a good safety profile and there were no treatment-related study discontinuations. In addition, all patients showed substantial near visual acuity improvements by day 15.3,4 By day 91, 82% of patients had 20/40 or better near vision and 36% had 20/25 or better near vision. Novartis expects the drop to be labeled for use twice daily for approximately 90 days. The effects of this dosing regimen have been found to last up to 7 months without further dosing. "

https://modernod.com/articles/2020-sept/coming-soon-presbyop...

Article mentions a marketing file year of 2021 but I have read that they did a Phase IIa trial that should finish in 2022 (2023? Can't find the citation ATM)
Advertisements are violent, they are invasive and manipulative. Agree, they should be illegal.
Given how much is at stake when it comes to government spending and the economy at large, I highly suspect CPI has been a victim of Goodhart's Law for quite some time.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Is there anything as elitist as saying "Hope that clears things up for you."? As if you are an arbiter of clarity.

I'll do my part building things that are pretty and useful. You do whatever you think is best.
Interest rates are a base cost to everything. Base cost to business and base cost to consumers. Interest rate increases will raise prices (cause inflation), especially since many consumers are paying for things with savings and not debt.
That is it! Thank you! Amazing. :D I remember using this program pretending to have broken the screen. My parents did not believe me. :D
Theoretically it can be rewritten to do the requests in parallel, but currently it isn't.
Maybe it's been update, but when I clicked through just now it says:

Xsnow is a software application that creates the appearance of snow falling on the elements of the graphical user interface of a computer system.
Sure, but I didn't think that obesity deaths needed a factor unique to Covid 19 to explain. I'd expect, as a layman, that what causes obese people to die more from Coronavirus is probably the same thing that causes them to die more from everything else that stresses the body. (Whatever that is.)
It seems that the "convincing people to not get fat" project has been a massive failure so far.
Part of the 'avoiding taxes' equation here was giving the government (or setting aside) ~$600 million dollars to pay for oil spill related problems.

So I mean she did avoid paying income tax, but only by giving up $600 million dollars to the government (which flowed back to her personal taxes to offset any income).
By simply telling people the same thing several times, almost literally word-for-word, people will go from blank stares almost miraculously to collaborating with and understanding the simplest explanations. Or else.
To note, that's an optional thing. I've never seen ads in gmail, as I've never enabled that feature.
I've been using Python for years and was not aware of this feature
Personally, I just "ignore" those big problems, as I have no authority to fix them. I focus on what I can do: help my family when they need it, teach my kid(s) to be good and intelligent people (for my and my wife's definition of good and intelligent), and work in industries or on technology that will have a positive effect on the world (like distributed energy resource/load controls, currently). I can only affect my little part of the world, so why worry about those big issues that are above my paygrade? I just vote for whom I think will help most (hard to find these days), raise my voice when I see something I don't like (like when someone is being rude to a clerk at a store), and the rest is up to fate/the universe/god(s)/whatever.
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It would be very easy to scrape Zillow in 2021, sure. But it would have been very difficult to do so in 1970!
I suspect it's going to be quite a while before they reach price parity. Even with the current high capital costs supply isn't matching demand. We have to build a lot of battery factories and that isn't going to happen overnight.
I'm ashamed to admit I forgot about that once the news cycle moved on. Someone should definitely be held accountable, especially since all evidence points to it not even being an honest mistake, but rather a PR move made against the advice of ground commanders.
Good news for debtors! Remember that "cross of gold" speech? There was a time when it was popular to ask the government for inflation.
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The timelines of the extradition and the submarine deal don't match up exactly... but the idea that the English-speaking countries can rely on one another runs deep and long.
How do you discover information you’re not actively looking for?

Eg maybe being environmentally friendly is super important to you. You don’t even realize that today the detergent you’re using isn’t as such. Advertising allows for someone to educate you that products exist that you’re not aware of that align to your needs/wants/desires.
And I’m saying you’re thinking about it incorrectly. Technology isn’t a line that can be graphed from less advanced to more advanced. If you think deeply about it for any length of time, you can see why that absurd notion deconstructs.
Not only that, but no release in the last year is likely to be missing fixes for security issues on any sufficiently complicated project.
Perhaps but even if that is the case, the general consensus appears to be that home purchase prices increased ~17 - 19% over the last year so right in line with the estimate by this site. If anything it would drag the estimate upwards.
This is a distraction from GP's nonsensical point. How does building more 500-1500 sqft apartments increase the price-per-square-foot of any type of housing, big or small?
How to direct your life if you're a bright techy under 20 years of age.
I don't think that's them being cheeky or anything. The first thing I thought of when I saw this vuln was whether logback was also affected - a lot of the services at my workplace use logback, and I've used logback for a couple of personal projects. It makes sense for them to come out today and say "We are not associated with log4j2 and don't have this vulnerability", especially because logback was built to succeed log4j 1.
I imagine it being very useful to understand what you just said
I'm not sure what you're imagining, but this is probably the location being discussed: https://goo.gl/maps/UJr6wGZ6GEhQypWg9

If not that particular market, there's similar ones along either direction of the stroad. The whole area is designed for cars, it's not walkable. Yes it's inefficient, but totally understandable why OP drives to cross a street.
Interesting the focus on piracy in this article. TV was losing it when their customers started needing a DVR to watch their favourite shows because of counter programming and to skip the 18 minutes of advertising per hour of TV. Now everyone has an average of two of Netflix/Prime/etc. because it's just eliminating the DVR and all the headaches involved and just getting the shows you want when you want them.

TV is still around and will be for a while yet, but it continues to fade.
Agree. I particularly hate advertisements in public spaces. I often consciously try to avert my eyes, it's like pollution to me, just visual/mental.
Section 3 of the linked Parfit article touches on the notion that Rawls's distinction is mostly one of framing, not of actual recommendations:

"Third, Rawls regards Utilitarians as his main opponents. At the
level of theory, he may be right. But the questions I have been
discussing are, in practice, more important. If nature gave to some
of us more resources, have we a moral claim to keep these resources,
and the wealth they bring? If we happen to be born with greater talents, and in consequence produce more, have we a claim to greater
rewards? In practical terms, Rawls's main opponents are those who
answer Yes to such questions. Egalitarians and Utilitarians both answer
No. Both agree that such inequalities are not justified. In this disagreement, Rawls, Mill, and Sidgwick are on the same side."

That said, to your original point, Rawls does espouse maximizing for the least well-off ("maximin"). The "priority view" doesn't need to be so extreme. It can simply be biased toward improving the lot of the badly-off, rather than putting an absolute priority on the worst-off member of the population. They are definitely related, but it's muddled by Rawls's (somewhat inconsistent) rejection of a consequentialist framing.
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The story goes that he was with his wife going to a dinner. On the way he got the flash of insight after years of working on the problem but he had no paper to write it down. When passing a bridge, he carved the equation on the side of the bridge to remind himself on the way back after the dinner.
This collection of free SoundFonts might be of interest :) https://www.pistonsoft.com/soundfonts.html
> seemingly from putting multiple chips on everything.

This irritates me so much. I don’t need or want computer chips in most of my appliances. Outside of what is needed for the efficient operating of an engine, I don’t want a bunch of electronics in a vehicle. If the shortage is just chips, could we go back to manufacturing goods without them? It’s what I wanted anyway.
I think the increase (over a $1/gallon since last year) in gas prices is doing a number on not only shipping but a large group of low income folks. For a lot of the country, public transportation is either limited or non-existent. Higher gas prices not only affect the cost of goods but increase the cost of going to a job.
I interpreted that line as directed towards the Agents, who are all men.
I do agree that the privacy invading stuff is a more urgent problem. But I want to add a counterpoint about the physical ads. I remember when they banned all the billboards in São Paulo and the city ended up looking much better after it. The change ended up being highly regarded by the residents.
They will feel nostalgia but I don't think playing the specialists, a niche mod for a pastime at that time, is the same as playing fortnite, an heavily marketed locked-up game with a world audience.
If the bubble pops, those securities are generally worthless. If I didn't know better, I'd say this is a move to bankrupt the US government. As it stands, it is idiocy and will bankrupt the government if things go sideways in the housing market.

Though, given the rate of inflation, the housing market may not pop as land is a secure asset that the wealthy are getting into.
It's batshit crazy that we'd fill our houses with extremely bright nighttime lighting and entertainment that out classes the most lavish, exclusive medieval or Roman imperial festival, all available on-tap every single night in every room of our house and tunable to our every whim, and not expect it to completely ruin sleep patterns for a high percentage of the population.

"People have trouble sleeping. Could it be lack of sunlight? Stress? Personal moral failure?"

Hahaha, OK, yeah, maybe those things a little, but maybe let's start with the thing that's very obviously most of the problem if we're trying to solve this (which we aren't, because no-one can give up their infinite carnival)
Some notable "adjustments" that are made when computing the CPI:

* using "owners equivalent rent" rather than house prices: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...

* factoring in technology as deflationary. yea, your phone is 20% more expensive, but it has twice the computation power, so it's actually a deflationary component

* substituting goods to account for substitution bias (https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi....). Substituting chicken for beef was heavily criticized.
If your goal is to be a top researcher at a top university, yeah economic interests are a top concern. If instead you just want to study and be left alone, there's plenty of room for that. For instance you can just study and then teach what you study, then do it again the next day. As long as you teach enough students to cover your salary (not hard), then there's a place for you.
You could ask your employer to match the inflation with a raise every year (on top of the actual raises you might've earned). I think this is a reasonable ask, though understandably not all companies are able to cover the inflation by raising their prices etc.

When it comes to protecting your assets from inflation, I suppose investing in companies that pay good dividends and are able to cover the inflation in their business model should be a relatively safe bet, as they continue to provide a steady cashflow. If you think the inflation is here to stay and you want to take on more risk, you could take out a loan and leverage that by investing it, as the inflation should cover the interest.

Note that this is NOT financial advice -- I'm anyway not qualified to give that, so take this only as food for thought.
Papers are a conversation as much as anything else.

I agree that these days the tooling makes it much easier to distribute code & data somehow to match up, but there is also a cost/incentive mismatch. Basically to do a decent release of what you are working on and worse, potentially support it, costs time but has no real career value (yet). Which means it's mostly only done by people who are philosophically convinced of its value.

I think this will change over time, at least in some areas, but it won't be quick.
s/Assange/Nathaniel Frank/

Manning was chatting with "Nathaniel Frank". That was understood to be a pseudonym for someone at Wikileaks, but there's no proof of any of that. So, these charges are even more bullshit.
Yes, this is a post about learning how to ride a bike -- not learning how to ride a bike as a metaphor for something else.
Wait until they raise cereal prices 20% at the beginning of next year lol
I wonder where the notion that productivity software should be “attractive” came from. Were whole businesses not built on VisiCalc?

The registers at B&H photo in NYC appear to be some DOS terminal system, but the employees know the keyboard shortcuts by muscle memory and the interface’s reaction time is instantaneous. If that’s not good software I don’t know what is.
If Opec has already hit peak oil then no amount of pressure can pull blood from a stone.
We need to get away from oil. Global Warming is very serious. Higher prices will encourage it and lowering prices will postpone it. We don't need to increase production.
Because if there's a company (in this case a sole proprietorship) that reports business expenses exceeding income, what is there to tax?

The objection is to the idea that you can fuck up the world for everyone else and somehow mischaracterize the cleanup of that fuckup as a "normal business expense". The cleanup of an oil spill should come from post-tax profits, the burden should 100% be on the company. They made their profits from the extraction of common resources, they can restore the common resources to a healthily state. If it is economically unviable to do so, well, I guess you shouldn't be extracting those common resources then.

If the company cannot afford to perform the cleanup it should be nationalized and sold off until the cleanup can be funded. I'm heavily in favor of this also applying to the Board and Investors in the company, there needs to be real consequences with being involved in world-destroying corporate fuckups. Ideally to the point that being on the Board of an Energy Company carries the very real consequence of flipping burgers for the rest of your days should the company you are supposed to be overseeing fucks up badly enough.

The objection is to the idea that one can somehow come out ahead while also fucking the world up for everyone else. The objection is to the complete and total lack of Consequences for Actions.
A free media forms part of what keeps a Western military to stricter rules of engagement.
The consensus view is that this is the result of QE. The Fed has "pumped trillions of dollars into the economy." And that explains the blistering inflation print today.

But consider:

1. gold, the traditional inflation hedge, is at the same price it was in 2011 (~$1,800) after having gone nowhere in the last year

2. the 30-year treasury is yielding 1.85%, a real yield of -4.95%

3. the Eurodollar futures curve recently inverted [1]

4. The dollar is up noticeably against other currencies [4]

The "pumping money" idea makes no sense based on what QE actually does. Here's how QE works. The Fed buys a Treasury from a bank. In exchange, the Fed credits the bank with a reserve asset. That reserve asset is held in an account at the Fed and can not leave the Federal Reserve system. Nor can it be used to buy stocks, bonds, or CEO yachts. This is not "money" in the sense that most people think of the word. It's more like a kind of utility token. QE is a way to turn treasuries into reserve assets. In other words, it's a swap with no net money creation.

Regarding (1), some say derivatives are to blame for gold's abysmal performance. Well, similar derivatives markets exists for stocks, and those have been ripping higher thank you very much.

Well, the consensus view says, (2) is explained by the fact that the Fed controls the Treasury market. But does it really?

Consider the observable effects of QE by taking a look at a chart of 30-year treasury yields since the early 1980s and you'll see a straight channel running down and to the right. QE had zero effect on this long term trend line.[2] If the Fed actually "controlled" the treasury market during QE, wouldn't the trend line be broken in some way?

The most esoteric of these factors is (3). Still, the Fed's balance sheet has no eurodollar futures. So why is that this market is signaling lower yields and slower economic growth ahead?

Bottom line: the Fed is being blamed for skyrocketing inflation. However, there's a case to be made that the Fed's actions have little to do with what's going on because QE's effects on the economy actually make little difference. See, for example, the Bank of Japan, which tried QE long before the US and concluded that its effects were mixed at best.[3]

All of this leads to the conclusion that this kind of inflation print is a blip, and the Fed had nothing to do with it. In other words, inflation really is transitory. Gold, treasuries, and the eurodollar market are all signaling slower growth and lower inflation ahead. Possibly much lower.

QE is largely a confidence trick. It's time to have a closer look at the man behind the curtain.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-03/bets-that...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DGS30

[3] https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...

[4] https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=dxy
Underwhelming. Object detection then pan the associated sound based on position in frame and amplify based on size.
If I understand correctly, yes, calculus on quaternions is a useful thing. I'm not sure whether or not you have an equivalent of the residue theorem from the calculus of complex variables, but I'm pretty sure that you can do path integrals and stuff...
When people talk about density, everyone has a different idea what it means. That said, you can have density without having crowding. Crowding is something that everyone agrees is bad, but density is neither bad nor good--it totally depends on so many factors. You can have enough population density to have a lot of walkable amenities and viable public transport and still have large living spaces and even personal gardens/yards.
I don’t drive, I’m mostly on a plant-based diet, and I’ve been on 100% renewable energy for years. I’m very much alive, and also am willing to believe we’re not close to double digit inflation based on my costs.

And I live in one of those high-priced metros, so I actually experienced a rent cut since everyone fled to Miami and Austin (thereby increasing prices there).

Obviously your experience may be different, but remember econometrics tracks the entire economy, not just your budget.
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Graphics look great, but gameplay looks dull. Same tired old stuff, shooting at prettier targets (none of which can shoot straight other than when the plot calls for it).
You're correct. It is much more then I implied. My point was that for people outside Israel, it's difficult to boycott a governmental body.

Also, it's important to mention that the academic boycott if Israeli institutions is an important component of the BDS movement. A general boycott is necessary because there is a moral imperative to end the occupation and only outside pressure, like the pressure that was exerted on the apartheid regime in South Africa, can perhaps achieve this.

Why academia? Because Israeli academia is also a mouthpiece of the establishment and is used to
enable Israel to present itself abroad as "the only democracy in the Middle East."