skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing. I personally view "violent criminals" as regular human beings and believe we should stop classifying people as violent criminals the moment they no longer pose significant danger to others. But maybe you're right in seeing that most don't share these views. Regardless, what I'm trying to say is ALL people deserve to organize themselves in ways that lead to safe, healthy, and happy lives. We should not torture people for decades for murdering others. Rather, let them live in a way that allows them to thrive while protecting the rest from getting harmed.
It's not terribly difficult to hide nuclear warheads themselves. Their launch systems, however, require a significant amount of infrastructure that is usually easily visible. As is the infrastructure for building the warheads.
> To clarify, the JCenter repository will keep serving packages for 12 months until February 1st 2022. Only the JCenter REST API and UI will be sunsetted on May 1st 2021.
+1 for introducing me to the B&K 8600. It never occurred to me to search for a DC load device. I've been building FET-based loads and using a power supply to calibrate them. /smacks forehead/ This is what you miss when you don't get to work with professionals on your hobbies (i.e., building low power IoT sensors for funsies).
I agree - air tools are awesome in some cases, although modern brushless tools are often competitive if not superior to air tools compared to how things were a decade ago.

My complaint, really, is just how selfish it is to go out of your way to use a dirty energy source as a workaround for limits in your personal belief system.
Lots of people turn it off because Warnings are easier to ignore than Errors are
Because now IPython will automatically reformat you code while you type it with black ?

It should though fail gracefully if it can't import black.
Yes, it also looks very strange to me. The balls seem to decelerate before they hit the ground.

Firefox on Ubuntu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CihIHXj5HE

I'm guessing that this behaves differently on Chromium, or alternatively that OP has never seen a ball bounce before :)
Thoughts on Y Combinator’s New Deal. A Perspective from Emerging Markets
When AWS came out I was pretty sure there would be escapes. I mean, I can escape my normal account on my computer to root over and over. We see Chrome / web browser escapes all the time.

AWS has actually (at very large scale) seemed to avoid tenant to control plane escapes. That HAS to be a result of some type of in depth defense?

The other thought - I wonder how much access even their own engineers have? If their engineers don't have easy customer data access it may make it a bit harder to chain over to other accounts. A lot of control plane stuff you realize is there so internal staff can jump around easily.
> however reality is they have one of the highest suicide rates currently

Where are you getting your Swiss suicide statistics from please? How are you de-coupling assisted deaths from other suicide?
> I feel that this reflects the tech industry's obsession with hiring armies of relatively inexperienced developers, and then cycling through them, because we don't do what it takes to retain people.

That is true (and it won't change, so we need to behave like it won't...), but that is not the only reason.

An inheritance hierarchy in a large program that makes sense today might not make sense in a year or two. Refactoring it is hard. Refactoring a composition-based solution is easier.

Composition-based solutions are also easier to test: inject mocks. It's a lot easier to mock a compositional dependency than it is to mock behavior that's inherited from a parent class.

Given that composition is easier to maintain and test, and that it can achieve the same functionality as inheritance, I've pretty much stopped using inheritance. And I write Java 99% of the time.
They may be a degree of liability involved too - take/encourage/let tourists go there and it could have consequences for the tour operator?

I am very much not a lawyer.
You act as if the Amish produce nothing useful for society. While I see your point, I think making an effort to live more traditionally is a long way off from exploiting society.
I occasionally (yesterday in fact) experience this on StackOverflow. I'll be looking for an answer and come across one of my own answers or comments that I have no recollection of writing.

It's always pleasant to say hello to yourself.
Also you could do it underwater if you live near a coast. Basically an upside down cup with a pipe in it, sunk as deep as possible.
I'd rather I could just add a battery to RAM and use that as nv storage. I have seen (production, heavy load) systems that do this (RAMSAN is an example).
I think the point is that the official statistic averages all leases—not just new ones. If so, it will lag quite a bit behind changes in the market and not reflect the price you can expect to pay if you're currently shopping for an apartment and not grandfathered in on an existing lease.
The drug dealers for all the bad they do they also support and help the community a lot. This is part of their strategy, the community in turn protect them, hide them. In many favelas the drug lord is the law, and the law is don't poop where you eat. You may be able to steal from people outside the favela but not inside the favela, if you do the punishment can be medieval, like cut hands or even death. It's not only for residents though. Even as a tourist you are probably safe in a favela, it's their interest you feel safe so you don't feel intimidated to go buy drugs. But again after living in Rio and São Paulo for many years I wouldn't recommend anyone to do that.
Over the last few years, most of the internet upgraded to TLS. This technological shift made it much harder, and in many cases borderline impossible, for ISPs to mess with the traffic.
Don't know much about Rio, but what I have seen and heard elsewhere in Latin America over the years.

Often times organized crimes substitutes an absent government and enforce their own set of law and order in the community. They can't afford to just rob the people blind as sometimes portrayed in media. They rely on a somewhat sybmiotic relationship with the "citizens" to act as messengers, human surveillance cameras, warning them from unknown people entering, making false statements to the police etc. The gangs are often much more effective at crime prevention than the government, they often invest more locally than the government.

A big chunk of the violet crimes comes from conflicts between gangs. If you are part of the community and stay in line you can actually be pretty safe. As a tourist on the other hand, you are fair game.

Obviously, it is not everything is rosy and nice, but in my opinion one of the big challenges in facing organized crime, is that the governments don't actually have a believable improvement to offer to the people, so the locals will often defend the current situation.
Julia is great for NEW ML research. But it has serious downsides for mundane or even above average production work...

Flux has historically been more of a research project then a production library. That's ok, it holds a lot of promise. But, time to first gradient can be excessive. Minutes to discover a small bug excessive. Last I checked all of the adjacent libraries around it were broken due to incredibly frequent changes to the API.

Mlj doesn't impress me. There was a serious opportunity to change the way people do routine modelling using the strengths of julia. They basically made a half baked sklearn instead. Missed opportunity in my mind.

In general the components for statistical libraries are exceptional. However the ecosystem falls short to do things with them in a stable way.

The best libraries imo for data science work stem from the excellent db adapters, optimization library's, data frames jl, Turing jl, etc. Anything beyond that and it's usually better off just rolling your own or using another language all together... Current state of production, ie not code running a notebook is also ok at best...
They don't need to.

Omicron aside, peak infection rates were around 30 cases daily per 100k. The odds of the guy next to you having COVID were always very low. The odds of someone in the same building, airport, plane, bus, classroom, workplace, etc. having COVID were often quite high.

Airplane filtration systems mean you /only/ have to worry about the guy next to you, and not about everyone else on the airplane. That's pretty low risk.

The other curiosity about COVID are superspreaders. Most people don't spread COVID very much. A few people spread COVID /a lot/. The question isn't just whether you're sitting next to someone with COVID, but whether you're sitting next to a superspreader. If the person next to you has COVID, but isn't shedding a lot of virus, you're probably okay too.

That said, the guy next to you likely isn't shedding microscopic particles, but pretty large droplets. Your mask stops large droplets pretty well. The airplane filtration system just needs to get them before the become microscopic particles.
> Many Linux distros made it so that attempting to install "mysql" actually installs MariaDB instead, so when going this route, it's unfortunately always very hard to predict what you'll get or what will happen!

MariaDB is indeed pretty pleasant to use and for most use cases can be a drop in replacement for MySQL, should you not want to use MySQL, but also wouldn't want/need/be able to use PostgreSQL or something else: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/

I might be in the minority here, but i actually rather enjoy MySQL/MariaDB, since MySQL Workbench is still the best DBA software that i've used, especially because of the ER modelling and schema sync functionality, and their approach to schemas/users within a DB feels more reasonable than that of Oracle/PostgreSQL.

That said, both PL/SQL and PL/pgSQL feel more powerful than whatever MySQL/MariaDB has. Also, in regards to MariaDB in particular, their versions have diverged from MySQL somewhat, so you might still want to look into the differences, if migrating over: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/

As for predictability - nowadays i just run specific versions in containers (e.g. 10.7.1 or maybe 10.7 which corresponds to the patest PATCH release), to sidestep the distro differences altogether. It also lets me easily launch new instances, give resource limits to them, have multiple versions in parallel and mount the data directories wherever i need them, for easier backups etc.
About the security content of iOS 15.2.1 and iPadOS 15.2.1
Learn how to write phone apps and sell them on the App Store. You can be your own boss.
Thankfully my not so new handheld Garmin GPS unit has a specific NiMH battery mode. I'm sure it just changes the algorthm slightly to work with the NiMH's discharge rate.
Have you been in a cave? They're chilly, usually around 50F, year round. IIRC those "deep mines" are a LOT deeper than any compressed air storage system is likely to be.
As we know, outlawing activities is a sure-fire way to prevent them from happening!
I am a big fan of the working out analogy. In all cases you need to have a decent plan then execute-- basically this means showing up and putting in the work. If you do it right it should be a bit painful at times.

And just like working out some people will progress more rapidly than you and have an easier time at it. So what? As long as your goal isn't to 'place' at the elite level, this is irrelevant. You really just need to show up and embrace the struggle. (For elite level tasks including grad school, its a bit more involved.)
Yeah that would be even more convenient!
It could be arguable that he did. He certainly did not become a household name like Stephen Hawking, Charlie Chaplin, etc.

On the other hand before he died (unfortunately quite young) a group of his students and collaborators assembled for a festschrift conference and he told us that he felt he'd been successful.

It's his motivation so he gets to decide. In my estimation most of the other professors in his department were similarly successful.
I decided to re-frame this a bit. I have a website but don't have a blog. (here if curious: https://kolemcrae.com)

It may SEEM blog like though. There are articles with my opinions and lots of great info. They just aren't in a chronological order or dated.

I go in depth here: https://kolemcrae.com/notebook/notablog.html

Instead of "why I don't have a blog" maybe one should reframe it as "why do I have nothing to share"?
Yup, this is why major retailers (Walmart etc) don't use Amazon cloud services and instead use a competitor. I believe Walmart and some other large retailers use Azure but the retail industry in general is split between Azure & GCP for their cloud computing needs because they don't want to feed their competitor.
I'm pretty sure Intel loaned him the P5800X drives, starting before they were widely available for purchase. But those are a different product from the Optane DC persistent memory product that uses DIMM slots instead of PCIe and NVMe.
Awesome! Thanks for showing me this approach.

Having $0 available does seem to help a lot to solve the challenge.
MySQL also lets you control the layout of your table on disk via BTree primary storage and composite primary keys.
This Website Is Not a Blog
C++03 is Turing-complete, implying nothing in any newer Standard is "necessary". Yet, many things were added, for reasons. That you have failed to learn to understand those reasons is not a fault in the Standard. Blaming your own failure to to learn on the committee does not fool anybody.
The reaction is, I think, to the general form of this argument:

> Argument: This is X - not really,
X defined legally (..)

Which is in itself an often occurring argument which (in my opinion) isn't extremely useful.

You are transposing the legal definition of censorship into this argument. This is perfectly alright, except most people who make the argument "this is censorship" aren't referring to the legal definition of censorship. So your counterpoint is moot.

I'm not trying to say that those people are right necessarily, just that arguing against these points requires other arguments than this one.

(edited for clarity)
> 2-3% tax on every transaction

What's actually happening is that a ton of that is getting channeled into frequent flier miles and cash back and rewards and so on.

Not all of course, and there's probably room for disruption, but that's relevant.
I would love some formal methods baked in, so you can prove your shit works when you want to. Ideally like python and mypy, where you write your code as normal and optionally annotate.

That, or if we assume a few more years of speech recognition gets us to rock solid ASR, then a language designed from the ground up with speech as the input in mind, not the keyboard. I lost my ability to type temporarily, a while ago, and this idea has fascinated me since. I think new kinds of graphical “languages” could become more viable with ASR in mind.

Those, or a language that lets you express pipelines better. My typical pipelines at work involve many programs run on different machines. ETL some data with a spark cluster, save it to “memory” aka S3, train a model on a GPU, save it too, then deploy a service. Imagine if five line ‘main’ function in any program had to be split into five files plus a DAG declaration, and to access the state you had to refer to memory addresses by name. And you had no solid linting/type checking/etc across it. That’s the state of pipelines today.
The Essence of XML, (2003), [pdf]
The US will not try to assassinate people for lacking corporate governance.
TIL: In Singapore parents can declare their children "beyond parental control". From that point the government will take care of their behavior.

[1] https://singaporelegaladvice.com/law-articles/what-is-a-beyo...
Maybe if all the useful content on your site can fit into a snippet I don't want to visit it?
> Newer appliances have solved these problems. For example, the Yamaha PSS-A50 (a fantastic, inexpensive portable keyboard) has an option to configure the low-battery indicator for alkaline or NiMH chemistry.

Different NiMH chemistries have slightly different voltage curves.

Its an insidious problem. Different brands of NiMH just discharges in a "flat" manner, and all of them are at slightly different voltages. The electronics assume a voltage curve of Eneloop (typically, since Eneloop is the most popular NiMH brand), and other brands with their slightly different voltage-curves will throw it off.

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I find it more important to locally source NiMH batteries (ie: what I can buy from Walmart / Home Depo down the street, rather than paying for Amazon shipping) rather than standardizing upon the Eneloops that everyone else is buying, lol.

When I need a new AA cell, I buy it in my typical shopping runs, rather than waiting for shipping. I don't care enough about the voltage-curve problem to mass buy Eneloops yet. I largely just accept that the "low-battery" indicators are perpetually wrong.
>Pleasure seeking increases, sure, I just don't agree that violence is the prime focus or end goal of any majority of the participants or viewers of any of the things you brought up.

no, not prime focus yet. If hockey is a fresh pleasure, the fighting or violence isn't important. The end goal however is that you must have this violence or the pleasure seeker moves to the next thing which will have it.

>Violence might be a part of it, but it's clearly not the main part of any of it, otherwise violence would be increasing rather than decreasing in every single one of those, and more people would just turn to the simpler sources of violence.

That's my point and why i picked my choices. Violence isn't the prime focus. Afterall go watch boxing or MMA. Which some people have gotten their pleasure seek onto this for sure.

>Why would anybody watch Hockey for the fights when many games don't have any fights at all? Nobody who really just wants to see car crashes is going to sit through hours of cars driving in circles for the chance to occasionally see a car hit a wall and spin out.

Fighting is but 1 violence. Checking is another. Elbowing and slashing are others.

>Looking up "Nascar highlights" on YouTube, I can see that it's not all about crashes, it seems to be all about turnarounds, where somebody suddenly overtakes somebody else, or somebody loses their position quickly, so crashes are a part of that, but it doesn't seem to be "about crashes", but rather about changes in the standings of a race in progress.

Lets not even go into derbies where the goal is to literally crash into each other until you're the last working car.

Or monster trucks which crush other cars.

This is all about pleasure seeking and constantly need to increase which leads into sadism.
I finally switched to Duracell’s rechargeable NiMH batteries last year and won’t be going back to alkaline. They work well even for things like flashlights that need low self-discharge, and I no longer feel like I’m creating waste every time I burn through a battery.

I also came across some rechargeable lithium batteries packaged in 1.5V AAA, AA, C, D form factors, but they appeared to be newer and I was unsure about long-term reliability.
non-criminals? Do you mean non-violent criminals? Theft is a crime, perpetrating said crime makes you a criminal.
The bitcoin-to-bitcoin transactions may be censorship resistant, but sooner or later you will have to cash out to pay for other things (even if just taxes). We've simply moved the censorship from point-of-sale to point-of-exchange-to-fiat.
> Pikchr is designed to be embedded in fenced code blocks of Markdown

Odd choice, usually that's how you'd show the (possibly syntax-highlighted) code as-is, not execute/render it in situ.

E.g. what if I want a document that says 'this pikchr code generates this'? I'd expect to write something like:

```pikchr
arrow 200% "whatever"
```
renders:
$pikchr
arrow 200% "whatever"
$

(Or some other syntax) not the code block twice, once with some kind of escaping.
I'm going to talk to my boss tomorrow but I think its unlikely, Korea is GMT+9. I'd have to work outside of normal GMT+0 hours. My boss is great, but something like this will require higher clearance, which I doubt I'll get.
Speaking as someone who lived in the Bay Area, most of the impediment to getting out of town on the weekends was traffic on 80/101 from people commuting to and from work. Once you escaped past Sacramento most of the traffic disappeared.
I strongly agree. One of the most striking aspects of Collateral is how the camera captures the city at night. The entire movie feels like a liminal experience - otherworldly.
If I'm reading this right, I think UltraRAM doesn't solve this problem. From the article:

> its fast switching speed and program-erase cycling endurance is "one hundred to one thousand times better than flash."

I know flash can get some impressive endurance now, but if you start treating it like RAM, is 1000x that endurance even enough?
Even if you do switch to mavenCentral, there's only so much you could do about your dependencies. Unfortunately we still depend on JCenter's snapshot too much.
Yes, there are crazy optimizations in the regex crate. :-)

But it almost certainly depends on what you're doing. If you're using Nom, you're probably performing a parsing task. A regex might be faster there, but maybe not by too much, depending. If you're doing a searching task though, perhaps where there are few matches relative to the size of the haystack, then it's quite plausible that the regex will go a lot more than 3x as fast as Nom.

In any case, I'm not sure if Haskell is comparable. I'm not sure that any Haskell native regex engine is really known for its speed, although I haven't done any sort of comprehensive benchmarking.

There are other considerations. A parser written with Nom might be easier to read and/or manipulate than a parser written with regex. But even there, it depends.
On the subject of AA alkaline batteries - one thing I learned a long time ago somehow I'll share that people seem amazed by is that you can approximate their charge by bouncing them on a hard surface. Drop an AA battery negative/flat side down an inch or two onto a hard surface like a counter or table. A new battery will just land and thud. A dead battery will bounce repeatedly(you'll hear it more than see it).
You don't think an experiment killing 20 million people is worth it if we can make sure Trump doesn't have a good media-cycle? What are you some sort of fascist.
People also behave more masochistically when they're bored. When placed in a room with no other stimulation other than a button that (painfully) shocks you when pushed, people push the button out of boredom.
Canada reached a very high percentage of vaccination across the whole population, and rather quickly compared to other nations.
Frim 1:13 onwards in the video (prior to the pilot bailing out), the propeller is stopped.
Do you have evidence of these claims about Bellingcat?
I love reducing a problem to its minimal formalism.

I hate documentation that only includes the minimal formalism without examples.

It suggests the author never developed “Theory of Mind”.
That possibly explains the mysterious leaking battery problems. I remember that was an issue over twenty five years ago, which taught us not to leave batteries in devices. But then we accepted that they don't leak anymore. Then in the last five years or so, I keep finding gadgets that are destroyed, or almost so, from massive battery leaks. And alkalines don't seem to last very long, even though they are more expensive than they were.