skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Why install something that will only cause problems?

However, for those who are willing to accept the problems to try something different, it's surprisingly un-bad. Majority of Steam stuff does work, via their fork of Wine; if it's not officially compatible, you can enable it anyway.
Neither Vista nor 7 had any distractions. Except for the games like Minesweeper.
The more I learn about machine learning, the more it seems to me that the real key is to understand optimization algorithms (both analytical and numerical) and how/when they are likely to converge. Am I wrong? Are there good books summarizing the relationship between all the different approaches to optimization used in ML?
Perhaps try Jitsi Meet?
You could use requested pays with s3 or GCP, which requires the reader to use their own project and pay for requests.
I guess my question is, if your body has built-in superpowers like Bluetooth or infrared vision or auxilary information storage, why would it be illegal to use them if it would make you a better doctor?

Maybe the tests are not testing the right skills.

As a patient I want to see the best doctor possible, and if they have retrofitted their bodies to be more competent at treating conditions I would totally want that.
It's not hard for me to imagine. The closest gas station to my house has ads on all the gas pumps.

The worst part is that the sound from all the pumps are slightly out of sync from each other. Which I assume will happen with these things as well.
Makes sense, but I'm replying to a comment that wondered if the assumption that the lights were actually networked was a good one. I thought it was, because they all went out at the same time.
Yes. It feels unprofessional.
Not so super smart, then, are they?

Throughout all these comments i just hear George Carlin....'people that should be.....'
Well if you read the article...

“It is very easy to get Bluetooth fitted in the ears. It is attached to the ear temporarily and can be removed. Such a technique was used by a Vyapam scam accused too to clear his medical exam eight years ago.”

And the article also mentions that the Indian Supreme Court themselves cancelled the licenses for 634 doctors licenses issued between 2008 - 2013.. some of which used this same technique.

How it works, where does it go; I have no idea. But clearly it's not a one-off case.

P.S. I think that it's perhaps surgically clipped deep in the inner ear somehow, and not inserted beneath the skin.
For bipolar or other disorders, not much of a discernible effect for depressives
It's not malicious - it's capitalist.
> Incarceration shouldn't be the first answer, but it might very well be the tenth or eleventh...if only to actually protect everyone else.

Again, this assumes incarceration works, which you don't get to just assume.

If someone comes out of prison and then bashes someone's head in with a bat, then the incarceration didn't work. You're still looking at this from a perspective of, "we have an answer that will work, but we want to avoid it when possible." And that's not the reality, sometimes incarceration doesn't fix the problem.

> What is the alternative? [...] If all your compassion does is allow for someone to destroy themselves (like decriminalize drugs and provide safe places for people to pursue their addictions), then is that the alternative?

I think that part of looking for an alternative should be trying to find out if the alternative produces better results than what we're already doing. If prison doesn't produce lower recidivism rates than social programs, then yeah, obviously the social programs are the correct alternative even if some people take advantage of them -- because we're not looking at a scenario where either system (social programs or prison) has 100% effectiveness at preventing crime.

Let me flip your own question back: if all your cruelty does is drive people into harder crime and more desperate actions when they get out of prison, then is that the alternative? The alternative to social programs is something that is wildly expensive and that is often ineffective at reforming behavior?

You have to look this stuff more pragmatically and less emotionally. We can have a conversation about the ethics of prison, and that can be an important conversation, but it really has nothing to do with the separate question of whether or not prison is practical and cost effective at keeping down crime levels. Both ethics and practicality matter for policy, but they are not dependent variables with each other -- something feeling harsher or crueler to you does not magically mean it works better.
Note that is the first ever straightforward announcement of the removal accessible to the end user, and it wasn't even available when release happened (about 12 hours ago). It's like giving a hard hat to a man that has already got to the emergency room.
Not only limited to Gaussian Spheres but also being isotropic (Unless data is pre processed or distance is defined by Mahalanobis Distance).
I flagged it because of the editorializing in the title.
Problem here is that purpose of Google Maps is completely divergent between users and Google.

For example Food/Hotels/Groceries is an ideal place to show ads - which is the primary actual purpose of Google Maps as far as Google is concerned.
The Contradictions and Confusion of Getting Americans to Buy Electric Cars
Okay, I'm stumped. /Why/?
I was able to dig up the sales report.

https://imgur.com/a/xE9UG1B
Do you plan to charge in the future?
What you're looking for is not "free", it is still free software even if they change the default search engines that come pre-configured in their software. You are looking for software aligned with your politics (which is fine!)
I guess I for one just have no faith that Living Carbon won't just become Monsanto 2.0, which in today's climate of X-as-a-Service seems likely.
That's the thing. Even if we were to suggest that the parent's ideas had merit (big "if"), it's pretty laughable to think that the US is capable of doing this properly. Looking back, it's hard to find American successes in this sort of meddling, all the way back to WWII.
I think there needs to be acknowledgement that there are two different learning tracks in higher education - one that is facts & figures, and one that is experiential. For better or worse, most institutions treat success in facts & figures as a high quality proxy indicating future success in the experiential areas, which includes everything from how an individual knows how to learn & how to teach themselves, to how they effectively build relationships and collaborate with others. Speaking as someone both liberal arts & technical degrees, and technical & business leadership experience over 20 years in manufacturing & big tech, my assessment is that this is ridiculous. Of course there will always be a need for "human computers" -- people who specialize in functions requiring programmatic, fact-based work -- but most jobs are not like this, and most individuals who prefer this type of work would generally benefit from expanding their comfort and capacity in human-centric skills.

To this end, I agree vigorously that the current state of higher education is both unsustainable and insane, but I think the end game will be more private enterprise & public sector employers deciding to expand intern & apprenticeship programs as an alternative to being constrained in hiring to the pipeline of candidates emerging from top universities. We'll see.
Be careful with that!
You can launch free tier instances anywhere you like in Oracle cloud, but unless they are in your home region, Oracle will charge you full price.
The core design problem for graph databases is data locality during join recursion. If you shard your data model by key, the cross-shard join operation asymptotically converges on a Cartesian product for each join iteration i.e. pathological data locality. This is why most graph databases have such poor scalability in practice.

A less intuitive approach is to shard the data model based on edge similarity measures, such that a specific key does not map to a single shard. While this obviously has poorer locality for simple key lookup, cross-shard join operations -- the most expensive operation and what actually matters -- only involve a tightly bounded number of shards and therefore have much better locality. While this was originally developed for to make the problem scale on supercomputers (at IBM Research AFAIK), it is entirely amenable to use in graph databases.

At the storage engine level, first-class support for indexing by similarity measures has different design requirements and tradeoffs than simple key lookup or ordered-tree indexing. While you could make it work on a KV store, the impedance mismatch would incur a significant performance drag. This cuts both ways; storage engines optimized for use with similarity measure designs are going to offer poor performance if you try to put b-trees or LSM-trees on top of them.
So your preferred solution is to segregate poor people? Wild.
> police have no ability to do anything about it.

BS. I have caught the criminals that broke into my house and stole over 15k in computers and cameras, and that they had a crime ring, storage units, etc. Cop response, "we can't get warrants on the weekend". I filed a complaint to the city, got a call from the union, telling me I can't file a complaint against officer friendly because he is about to retire in a month.

This is one incident, I have more. Same goes for the Portland police. They don't do their jobs, even when they are done for them. In Portland, I also caught the guy that broke in my car. The detective that was assigned my case, "don't do my job!" and then he just dropped it. Name and address of perp and a witness that would testify.

A couple months ago I was talking to an off duty cop that was doing traffic for a construction site on Capitol Hill, she thought I was out canvasing to recall Sawant. She said her attitude and the attitude of Seattle cops is that the liberals in Seattle can drown in their own shit, she is moving out of the state because she doesn't feel respected. Good riddance!
https://archive.ph/i861X
Other than a Librem or PinePhone, what else would you suggest?
The browser is provided for free. Selling search defaults/inclusions is by far the least intrusive way to make money to fund the development of the browser.
Settings are supposed to exist, despite what corner-cutting suits would like to believe.

Different people do have different needs, and it's clear that Google Maps attempts to reach a wide audience since it's both a map, business directory, and navigation service.

If it must ask, offer "always pick faster route" and "always follow planned route" buttons on first use and in a menu somewhere.
What % of that time is required for just computing the timestamps of these files? I bet it's a few orders of magnitude faster.
> There is an age old Ubuntu bug (which bleeds into many Ubuntu based Distributions) where the installer wipes out the bootloader of a drive that you aren't even installing the OS on

Can you link bug report? Personally I never encountered it (and while I had some corruptions over time I would say that Windows is even worse here and I would not call it to be in hobbyist tweaker mode)
Of course goal is not "stop all crime".

But "end homelessness" was never only about simply providing shelter.
Why do you think they won’t let us fill the menu with pins?
Right it varies greatly depending on dose. If you don't know the exact dose your friend took (they don't sound like an anesthesiologist) then you're insulting someone you likely know much less than.
> This is inaccurate of my views. It's not that "visual programming is bad" it's that everything we call visual programming is not actually visual! Scratch is not visual. It's just text programming with more steps.

Certainly "Visual" is a spectrum, not an on/off switch. Adding syntax coloring to a textual program is a step towards adding visual cues that improve recognition of its parts. Scratch adds over an imperative language a more detailed visual syntax that conveys the types of control structures and the relations between actions and parameters, and allows filling them in by interactive recognition rather than pure recall; so it's a step further in transforming a classic language into a visual one.

Further steps in that direction include changing paradigms to functional or logic programs, that more explicitly represent changes in state through visual cues, relieving you from having to work them out in your short-term memory. Everything about visual languages is built towards adding expressiveness to the actual representation to convey as much information about the running program as possible.

> I still don't think this is a visual language, but it is maybe more visual than traditional visual languages. A spreadsheet is something like a visual layout on top of a program.

Programs are visual entities - they have a very concrete physical structure of a tree. That's why good indentation is essential even when the parser doesn't care about it at all.

A program Abstract Syntax Tree is composed of very, well, abstract components; a program keywords represent objects quite separated of their final form during runtime, i.e. their actual values, but their connections can be often understood in terms of their spatial relations. Our brain is really very good at that, even for textual representations.

> Even with a true visual language I don't think the need for a mental model can be removed.

Completely agree. But building a mental model is way easier when working at several levels of abstraction at the same time, i.e. both concrete values and the abstractions that tie together those values in a concept encompassing them (see the concept of the Ladder of Abstraction).[1] And being able to actually see the values of variables and the connections between processes that change them, instead of having to imagine all those by running the program in your head, is a large advantage. The debugger is the quintessential visual tool, letting you inspect the true relations and processes of a running program through interactive manipulation, even for languages that otherwise lack any visual cues while being built.

[1] http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
No company is better. Any company that tries to do better is driven to bankruptcy by market forces.

Don't buy a Mac - they may not have ads but they have their own problems. Your best option is apparently to buy a PC and run Linux.
> Linux is a lot better for developers

Depends on he kind of developer. Web developer? Probably. Game developer? It's a joke.

> Even a majority of Steam games seem to work on Linux now, via Valve's fork of Wine.

That at least is true, it's getting a lot better. However, VR is still a hell of a lot more problematic on Linux even if you're using Valve's hardware.

Like I said, a lot of it comes down to how and why you use a desktop computer in the first place.
Would that actually mean anything in a contemporary American election? Most of the electorate has an attention span of about 30 seconds.
Yes I remember driver compatibility issues, especially for graphics drivers. It was running it with some sort of undergraded flag and disabling enhanced visual mode, and actually with that flag, the windows vista looked and worked like Windows XP. I think Windows is the best when it comes to backward compatibility in comparison with others. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You've already got Ads in your start bar though?
I have a close acquaintance who uses ketamine to manage depression and Complex PTSD. My experience as a bystander is that the depressive symptoms reoccur periodically regardless of the use of ketamine. The depressive symptoms seem to be caused by the PTSD, and ketamine does not seem to alleviate the PTSD.

I'm saying this as a huge fan of the positive impact of ketamine.

There are some symptoms that seem like they need more rewiring.
Putin could attack a nato country, and that would be WW3. Nothing we can do about it. I’d bet 3 weeks ago you weren’t expecting an outright invasion, when people were saying it wouldn’t happen and we all needed to calm down…
This[1] reply on Twitter explains and includes a link and quote from the manufacturer’s manual for these signs, indicating the message will play if they have not been set up properly (i.e., default out-of-the-box password still in place unchanged). This seems like the equivalent of the old blinking “12:00” on a VCR clock.

[1] https://twitter.com/hyperplanes/status/1503275823360585735
> Mozilla Firefox removing control from the user

Did they? You can still add Yandex back manually (and trivially), it's just not included with the stock install.
Surely there is an engineer there who understands plain text passwords is wrong, so why can't he fix it?
This is awesome project! I looked into starting a "real world travel" app for oculus with recorded videos, but not having an easy way to record 6dof videos is a big problem for true VR experience with videos. If you can pull this off, you have the potential to actually make VR more mainstream outside gameverse. Good luck and congrats!
I'm pretty sure `git push` and `git pull` display whatever banner the server decides to send. So this could be implemented in Github tomorrow with no git update needed.
> The Intel/x86 mantra that desktops should be allowed to be massively inefficient just to pump up the clock speed fractionally is what's changing.

Nonsense. Nobody is going to just give up "free" performance.

> I for one, agree with Apple - 450W beasts aren't really needed.

Nobody makes a 450W consumer CPU, so this is a strawman. The M1 Ultra's 200W already puts it quite far beyond the typical consumer setup of 65-125W anyway.

Regardless if 450W lets your work finish faster than 200W, that's a tradeoff ~everyone makes. Nothing about that is changing.

> Most workflows can be (or already are) parallelized so multiple cores can demolish what a fast single-thread can tackle

If this is truly the case for you then you'd already be on the Threadripper/Epyc train and the M1 Ultra would be kinda boring.
Based on my experience teaching I don't think individual variability is that large. In a semester-long course with 3 or 4 exams the top students and bottom students are mostly consistent from exam to exam.

That said, of course individual variability does exist. In one graduate-level math class I misremembered one theorem which caused me to immediately lose 40/100 points--there were only 5 questions on the exam, and that theorem was central to two of them. Had those two questions been different I probably would have scored much better. I consider that a poorly-written exam, though, since so much of the score was dependent on recalling one theorem correctly. I somehow still ended up with an A in that course, I can only assume through either creative accounting or a generous grading curve.

In any case, I don't know any other method of evaluation which is more fair than exams. Every method of evaluation is subject to similar sources of individual variability and some have other issues in addition. "Fair" in such cases is a mirage. It's not like there's some other objective evaluation that we can use instead of exams, just ones with different biases.
Giving them housing doesn't mean they also get immunity from criminal laws.

Recidivism itself is seen as a factor during sentencing, which means that even for the same isolated criminal act the same perpetrator gets longer and longer sentences.
To help others could you please tell us more information... Did you have 2FA? If yes was it SMS or with U2F-key? Which country where you previously in? Did you change places?
Your reading of the situation is wrong.

Vista broke 30% market share meaning that MS can push terrible UX and get away with it. Further, in the Vista era there was a more palpable reduction in performance that doesn't seem to be happening.

MS has made their calculation, and it may lead to more revenue.
I used to work for a firm creating software for handling patient's data in hospitals. Mainly using Xenix, all software source was controlled via the Revision Control System, part of the OS. R.C.S allowed earlier versions of source to be generated easily, when required. All devs using R.C.S accepted it and used it easily, many times each day.
I don't know, and tbh I don't care. Doesn't seem like Microsoft care either.
Umm…ketamine IV at these doses is most certainly a unique and insane experience, speaking as someone who’s done it about a dozen times for anxiety.
Probably because I'm a tiny minority in my effectivly one party state and annoying people who vote the other way is about the best I can realistically accomplish.
You mean watch? Vanced doesn't let you downlooad videos at all.
If it were possible to just call up Google and get your account back then that's how people would steal accounts.

It's not very useful advice after the fact, but multi-factor authentication and recovery email accounts are highly advisable.
Russia accuses Kyiv of deadly missile attack on Donetsk
AppEngine has redone its pricing model at least once, possibly twice, in a way that upset people.
Be careful what you wish for - it might come true.

What will replace it? Android on PC?
Good questions! The end use of the wood depends on the location of the pilot project and how close it is to a mill. Given the duration of our pilot projects, the trees will be too large to be used for anything outside of saw timber for furniture of construction. We don't allow for our seedlings to be used for pulp / paper in our landowner agreements. Decay can also refer to the decay of wood products etc.

One of the biggest issues with forest carbon in general is the duration in which the CO2 can be stored before it is released back into the atmosphere. While trees have the benefit of being able to be planted right now at scale, climate change is a problem of relative rates. Currently, trees do lack the ability to store carbon for thousands of years underground. Of course you can coppice and keep replanting them post harvest but there will be some carbon returned to the atmosphere even if all your timber goes to wood products that have a long lifespan. Trees can't solve climate change on their own but they can quickly remove carbon in a low cost way buying ourselves more time to scale up other types of CDR solutions.
ZFS Boot Environments Revolutions
Its le nukes time..windows can exist on, inside the vm-box
Epson announces launch of their first industrial pellet extrusion 3D printer
It's a trick to reduce the average number of PTO days taken by the employees. When companies offer use-it-or-lose-it 20 days of PTO, the average PTO usage per employee is going to be like 19 days. But when they keep the 20 day policy behind the scenes (because HR systems don't often support "unlimited"), but call it unlimited, PTO usage drops dramatically.

Plus, there are other benefits to the employer, like not having to pay out banked PTO to employees who leave.

Unless it comes with a mandatory minimum, unlimited PTO is a negative for me.
There's a line I can't cross; I like being physical. The Internet and its medusa of services already takes me away from meaningful choices, why should I deepen that connection that feels so overwhelmingly oppressive already?
As a brown person I keep asking myself this everyday, it doesn't seem fair at all. If you raise the point you're making you'll be drowned out with "don't bring me your whataboutism, lives are being lost as we speak". Brown lives have been lost for quite a while now ...
Well, optimistically we can at least say that some crypto projects attempt to decentralize functionality and assets.

You're quite right though that the devil is in the details, and that most of the time, these projects are not immune to politics or ad hoc regulation.
"Maxwell's equations of software" examined (2008)