skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be much easier to open up a TV and disconnect the wifi antenna. People don't like this idea, but modern TVs are actually pretty simple and modular.
I bet he has it turned off.
I don't even know how the phrase "refugees from big tech" could be offensive or insensitive. It isn't at all.

Given the burnout rate and the pace of the tech world, it's an apt (and even meaningful) description of the state of working in that industry.

To presume/take offence at every single word is absolutely silly.
Peter Gabriel's first four solo albums were untitled. Well, the fourth was titled in America, but untitled everywhere else. Fans tend to distinguish them by the cover art: there's "Car", "Scratch", "Melt", and "Security".
I’m currently attempting to NOT do reinforcement learning research, and the points made in this article are why, in the negative.

In naive RL, we model every process as having unknown dynamics and an unknown optimal policy, and furthermore the dynamics are assumed to be Markov decision processes. An MDP is, as far as I know, the least restrictive (hence most general) setting in which a dynamic process can be considered a “process”; any more general and the only “dynamics” we would be left with would be pure random noise.

But for nearly all physical systems of interest, the dynamics can be described perfectly well as differential equations. We might not know the structure of the equations, but simply stating that the dynamics are in fact differential equations, and building a learning algorithm around that assumption, actually provides a significant amount of structure vice MDPs. So I am researching differential equation-based learning techniques, on the assumption that they should be much more data efficient.

The arguments put forth here seem to indicate that I should stop, and just wait for computing to catch up to extremely high dimensional MDPs.

Harrumph.
The Apple M1 devices have in-progress support, sounds like it is almost usable.

https://asahilinux.org/
> I don't see any reason why it would just go away as a concept, though. It seems like it's pretty well established at this point that there is a collection of characteristics that some people have that fit the current understanding of what is meant by "autism".

The caveat being that this category exists within the current framework. The same could be said about "female hysteria", and pretty much all psychological conditions that have been left behind as symptoms of the zeitgeist.
At this point I'm actively avoiding buying any tech upgrades due to shenanigans like this. From TVs to computers to dishwashers. I have a good enough set of last gen dumb tech and I'm holding onto it as long as I can. 1080p60 is more than good enough.
As long as it's not your fingernail.
Cell membranes (remember the “lipid bilayer”?) include cholesterol molecules floating around within the phospholipid matrix to help the cell membrane stay flexible and flowy. This is the case for all cell membranes in the body, afaik.
Figures and tables are just usually not part of an abstract.
I spent 6 months on a private health insurance plan 4 years ago. It was about $200 per month with a very high deductible.

This is in a state that is favorable for ACA. I just hopped on the state website now and I can get a similar plan with a premium of $250 per month. There are a lot of options with better deductibles and higher premiums.

It's a burden for those who want to go without external employment, but I found it reasonable. It's less than my monthly budget for food.
What the world needs now is this running in webassembly to relay messages through a websocket or something.
It doesn’t matter if he can copyright it, he can still sell NFTs of each album track.
> but my opinion is that junior engineers aren't properly tuned for what is and isn't a good engineer and if they are, they shouldn't be a junior engineer.

Presumably they aren't instructed to evaluate for that, but instead to identify glaring communication or other interaction issues.
Totally. He's watching his house burn down, and is trying to act like it's just another play on the chessboard. I particularly loath how Russian spin keeps trying to make this about being a proxy war with the west. They invaded a country incredibly similar ethnically, linguistically, and culturally to themselves. It's like beating your own kids to spite the step father.
Memory managed languages and pointers aren't a disjoint set.
This will work great up until oh about the mid 2010's when vehicles started getting cellular connections "for free." This will be the next thing that happens with TV's, and you won't be able to turn it off.
Not only does jailbreaking not break warranties, it's illegal for companies to imply that they do:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2018/04/ftc-s...
The interviewee is usually interviewing on their current company's dime. It's even easier now with many folks working from home, you don't even need an excuse.
Free users of YouTube outnumber YouTube Premium subscribers by an overwhelming number. If no ads isn't worth $10/month, you can bet no ads isn't worth several hundred dollars on each TV purchase.

If most YouTube users were Premium subscribers, it would more than double revenue. Premium subscribers are worth more to Google than free ones are in ads revenue, by a lot. Monetized channels receive orders of magnitude more revenue per view from Premium subscribers than free ones.
Plenty of duplicate artist names, Spotify artist support will split them into separate artists if you contact them, and now aggregators like DistroKid let you specify the actual artist ID when uploading (at least for some DSPs). It’s just another instance of there are only two hard problems :)
Any marketing graduate/mba can write this kind of stuff without batting an eye after 4-5 years of training in college :)
There are two camps that want something mutually exclusive (work from home vs work in office). Additionally, in order to get what they want, they need the other group to comply.* The struggle is spilling over into the comment threads.

* If everyone works in the office, and the work from home people are still remote, they get passed over for promotions and basically have a good chance of tanking their career. If everyone works from home, the work in office people lose a lot of human interaction that they need on a human level.
My friend I'm sure we probably have a different definition of animal experimentation because if you look through the write-ups from some of the chemicals there: He clearly states that he's doing rectal hyperthermia bioassays with rabbits and that he finds that you know disgusting but it's an effective way to tell if the compound is a stimulant or depressive by the respective increase or decrease in body temperature, and in the ballpark amounts in which it's effective.

To paraphrase him he says something like "inserting thermocouples into that rectums of restrained rabbits is not something that I'm much enthused about and I have a jaundiced view of."

I'll try to find that link and update it heh :)

So for your reference that's exactly what I meant by animal experimentation obviously helped him stay safe by giving him some more data on the compound before he took it himself.

edit: link: last paragraph here https://erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal125.sht...
it would be a valid case of class action imho. Its not like these updates would've only affected one or two people.
>a polygamous marriage necessarily requires that 2 people of the same sex are married to each other

I never heard of that idea before, but I didn't really know anything about how it is in fact defined where it is legal and customary.

I found something that describes the "Law of Marriage Act of 1971" of Tanzania:

"Under Section 10(1) of the Act, a marriage is defined as “the
voluntary union of a man and a woman, intended to last for their joint lives,” and may either be monogamous or polygamous (or potentially polygamous). Further, under Section 57, no wife in a polygamous marriage holds a superior position in matrimonial homes than any other wife."

I read that as saying that polygamy consists of a set of bilateral relationships having one person in common, and not a complete graph of all possible relationships between the individuals.

The paper I found that in seems to be about issues arising in divorce in Tanzania.

The problem is stated as:

"Because non-divorcing co-wives cannot be a party to divorce proceedings, and only parties can claim a stake in marital assets, the LMA currently offers no means for non-divorcing co-wives to claim a stake in marital property"

This sounds to me like wives are not considered to have a relationship to each other, and that has social implications which are important.

One can't overgeneralize based on this one source and one country, but it tends to make me more confident in my guess that "non-transitive" is the norm.
> it doesn't prove that reducing cholesterol by other means wouldn't increase mortality risk. It's possible, for instance, that lower cholesterol does increase mortality, but that statins are offsetting that increase in some other way.

It's within the realm of possibility, but very unlikely given the state of the evidence.

Ok, ignore statins because that seems to be a trigger. Another way to test this hypothesis is to look at people with polymorphisms in their lipid regulation genes that cause different cholesterol levels, ranging from familial hypercholesterolemia to the opposite, lifelong low cholesterol. Drugs don't come into this, so it's not an intervention trial or RCT, but it's called a Mendelian randomization trial. Here's one: https://www.jacc.org/doi/full/10.1016/j.jacc.2012.09.017

> All 9 polymorphisms were associated with a highly consistent reduction in the risk of CHD per unit lower LDL-C, with no evidence of heterogeneity of effect (I2 = 0.0%). In a meta-analysis combining nonoverlapping data from 312,321 participants, naturally random allocation to long-term exposure to lower LDL-C was associated with a 54.5% (95% confidence interval: 48.8% to 59.5%) reduction in the risk of CHD for each mmol/l (38.7 mg/dl) lower LDL-C. This represents a 3-fold greater reduction in the risk of CHD per unit lower LDL-C than that observed during treatment with a statin started later in life (p = 8.43 × 10−19).
And when a market is limited to only a few players, that means that the only relief will be whatever is provided by government rule making.
Well, suburbs for one wouldn't exist. You'd still need some infrastructure, being able to move things around by truck is useful, but it would look different. Roads wouldn't need to be so big if you just needed occasional access by truck.
Not so. This work is real progress brought about by significant technical innovations over the last 5 years. I name three:

1. Two cool long-read sequencing technologies (PacbBio HiFi and Oxford Nanopore)

2. Hydatiform moles carrying human chromosomes for easier sequencing

3. Excellent code for assembly through complex regions of the human genome (e.g., code for assembling pangenomes by Garrison and Li).
i bet they will just put a sim card inside the tv, and ota update it.
That honestly doesn't sound that bad. Any solopreneur who's planning on going independent could afford this by 2-3 nights of Uber over a weekend.
Parents provide more than just moral teaching. For example, when kids screw up, wealthy parents can buy them second chances and the appearance of moral rectitude — when in the same situation a poor kid would be ashcanned as a dissolute moral failure, whose parents didn't know how to budget, didn't pass on a strong will to persevere, etc.
Or a drop in replacement board to drive the display
At 5GHz the skin depth is pretty shallow; in units(1), sqrt(2 / copperconductivity 2 pi 5 GHz mu0) says 0.93 microns. I think you could probably get by with 3 microns of copper vacuum-deposited on Mylar or on fiberglass window screen.

Steel window screen coated in copper might work even better and could be made by electroplating first a nickel flash and then the copper layer, avoiding the expense of vacuum coating. I'm not clear enough on the physics to be sure, and maybe it would be worse, but the skin depth in even ordinary steel is about an order of magnitude smaller because of its magnetic permeability.

"Booster bags" for shoplifting use (ungrounded!) aluminum foil. I think the reason they have to be several layers thick is that anti-shoplifting RFID tags operate at a much lower frequency, and aluminum foil is typically only 10 microns thick.
I’ve never had a smart tv that ran Netflix, etc natively better than a Roku or Fire Tv. Non-integrated means nothing here. You press a button and get Netflix whether it’s on the Roku or the slower integrated Samsung software.
And this is why you can buy a 55” television for $35 on sale.
Yes, I agree. There are also some important details.

1. That state is short. Minutes or hours.
2. That state is different from the long changes.
3. The long term effects can be enhanced by the activities you do during the temporary state, including thinking.
4. Long term effects can be enhanced and maintained by non-drug activities.

This whole setup seems to be especially good at curing illnesses that are caused by something “at the cognitive level”. It won’t do much for anxiety caused by a hyperactive gland. It will for anxiety caused by a fear of death.
That's what I do. It works, but there are a couple downsides worth mentioning:

- Firmware updates are more annoying to do. LG has added some new features via firmware updates, like Dolby Vision at 120 Hz, but since I've never updated my firmware I'm behind. I believe I could update via USB but like I said, the downside is it's more annoying to do.

- The TV still wants to be smart. Every time I turn on my LG CX I get a bar of apps that pop up along the bottom of the screen. Half the time this auto-dismisses in a few seconds, but the other half of the time it persists and I have to manually dismiss it. It's a minor inconvenience, but it's one of those annoying reminders that my "dumb" TV isn't dumb enough.

But overall, I'd highly recommend others doing something similar. Though I've heard of some TVs auto-connecting to networks like Amazon Sidewalk, so perhaps this approach won't always work.
Well not quite: There is still a lot of ambiguity and compression in centromeres. But I agree that we are almost there.

So, this complete genome is a full set of 23 sequences without any "not sure" positions or "gaps" in the sequence.
> (never graduated from high school but wanted to show my kids the importance of a degree).

I’m curious about this statement.

What did getting a four year degree after the fact show or create a more compelling argument for traditional college?
Not to be that person, but the free marketplace doesn't exist. All markets are legislated, and government picks winners and losers all the time, and that's not inherently bad.
> Of course, you may not accept that there is de facto discrimination by private actors, but then you need to explain the underrepresenation of different demographics, and likely in order to appear reasonably sane, your argument needs to be something other than "that's just the way it is". What argument is there to explain the underrepresentation that doesn't ultimately confirm that it is actually discrimination?

Why do you believe that all positions in all domains should be perfectly proportional with the underlying population across the six dimensions you've decided to care about? Is that reasonable?

That is not to say that discrimination is imaginary. It is not to say we should ignore it. It is to say that disproportionate outcomes are not evidence of discrimination. In other words, the fact that 20% of Nobel prize winners are Jews is not evidence of a global Jewish cabal. Nor should you stay up at night wondering where all the white rappers are.

If you actually want to help disadvantaged groups, focus on existing programs that don't effectively serve those groups. Like public schools. How can we make public schools work better?

The truly inane thing about mandating one black/gay/woman/whatever on every board is that those people won't be disadvantaged. They aren't going to invite people off the street to sit on their boards. It's just cosmetic bullshit.
IANAL but in the USA this might be worth pursuing restitution for the cost of the TV in a small claims court and publicizing it. If a few hundred or few thousand people all did this in a coordinated fashion (via a discord or subreddit) that might be enough to have an effect.
Nah, I'm right. In an earlier more sedate era when it was more popular, the average user was a woman into TV fandom who just posted stuff like this all day:

https://worldheritagepostorganization.tumblr.com/post/674066...

But most of them have left now. I don't think you remember the spirit of the site properly if you think people on there are doing, like, normal stuff that makes sense.

(Remember in 2017 when a user turned out to be faking having HIV so they wouldn't be cancelled for writing real people fanfic about Lin Manuel Miranda? And they were called out by someone else who wrote real people fanfic about him where he was a cannibal?)
and yet so many people would routinely post pictures, text and tag themselves in photos on facebook. i think a lot of people are plain desensitized to this, or plain don't care.

I wish that everyone is as creeped out as you. may be that would affect some change.
I think the average number of active cellphones per person and sometimes-used TVs per person are both about 0.8. Where do you live that there are orders of magnitude more TVs than cellphones?
I don’t understand how wearing personal protective equipment is a signal of a virtue other than self preservation? It struck me as a strange statement in a pandemic that taking safety measures is a political statement. I’m sure that some were trying to make a political statement but in my personal experience folks were just worried about their elderly, sick, and selves and doing their best to use the only tool provided to feel safe. This doesn’t sound like virtue signaling as described in the article.

The people intentionally flouting public health mandates in some cases I’m sure genuinely had medical reasons to not. But most didn’t do it because they simply didn’t want to, and found comrades in others that denounced the mandates. This side was most certainly political and the lack of a mask was a public and obvious way to signal their beliefs against what they felt was oppression. And public health mandates are genuinely oppressive, which is why Supreme Court law has had to be settled (over a hundred years ago) that they’re allowed in a country with liberty at its core.

But I don’t think the two sides are symmetric. One is complying with the law of the land and acting in self preservation which requires only acquiesce, the other is resisting it and trying to build a consolidated movement around their cause. The first can’t reasonably be a form of virtue signaling, while the second may very well be.
Some thoughts on Go's unusual approach to identifier visibility
Originally Vizio was buying the same components but selling for less because they didn’t have the brand name. The quality/price ratio was great when I bought my first 40 inch Vizio like 10-15 years ago.
Modern smart TVs will aggressively connect to the internet themselves without you needing to do it for them. If your neighbor has an open wifi hotspot, or of a local cable monopoly has all the routers acting as hotspots under their control, that's enough. Also, simply including a mobile connection is a possibility - cars do it, TVs can as well if the manufacturer considers the price is worth it.
This will right the ship no doubt.
That's a good point, thank you for bringing it up. Finding the right examples is really tricky. sort.Search is binary search and hence a bit tricky to benchmark properly because of how ridiculously fast it is. Only a handful of comparison calls are made even for huge slices.
Yeah I don't disagree with you there. I feel like I've looked at this website for way too long and still don't know what exactly is going on.

Every time I peek at the web3 community I just get overwhelmed. I thought AI was buzzword heavy but these people have developed their own language with only buzzwords.
Resentment from people who have been held mentally hostage by their socialite coworkers who wander around interrupting others for a significant portion of their day.
Wouldn't the remaster have been primarily his recordings?
I am amused that despite mentioning both Keygen Church and Master Boot Record, this list refrains from mentioning that the former is a side project of the latter.

And, yeah, if I was still collecting my music as CDs? Keygen Church would be filed next to the MBR because of that, not over in the Ks.
> But they didn't sell defective goods. They sold goods that were fit for purpose, and then the manufacturer deliberately destroyed them.

You don't see the manufacturer's ability to reach out and destroy the item you've already purchased as a defect in the item?
“Buy & Sell Private Data, While Preserving Privacy”

I’ll sell you as much urandom data as you can buy buddy. Very private stuff, no link to anything.
Ain’t gonna happen.

Every human has unique de novo germline mutations (estimated to be in the range of 100 to 200).

In addition every cell (other than RBCs) will have a small number of its own unique somatic mutations.

And then there is radiation!
This video was the inspiration for posting this!
I predict all the usual network TV overlay ads will eventually turn into this. Why put a fixed banner saying "don't forget to catch a new episode of The Voice at 9pm!" during a show when you can make it interactive/clickable and tailor it to specific demographics based on the TV watching patterns?
Some jailbreaks blow fuses in devices. Pretty sure Samsung phones do this.
I own two Vizio TVs, they should be never connected to the net. Their antennas should be castrated. Vizio is famous for spying on users and making 1/2 of their revenue from data and ads.
I have switched careers multiple times. Electrical engineer to computer engineer to systems programmer to systems analyst to business analyst to IT support and then network engineer to academic and now back to programming mechatronic systems.

Although I've never given it much thought, my switching has always been into a field that I became interested in. Applying the principle of adjacent possible, i.e. using my existing skills to provide the foundation for stepping into a new field. In hindsight, the downside is that I probably would have had a more lucrative career by not jumping around. But I had fun and when the fun left, I would start looking for new opportunities.

It might not be obvious, but I tended to work for smallish companies who were ramping up in the area that I got hired to do. Obviously large companies are far more interested in candidates who can prove that they have 5+ years experience doing exactly what they are looking for.
When I read the headline I thought this would be about using micro drones for polination instead of real bees. Maybe one of the last animals still helping in major scale farming is about to fall to the machines.

However this is instead about a more closely symbiotic relationship with bees.
Cool!
Yeah good point. The point is not that lower serum cholesterol must be monotonically better down to 0, just that observational studies like this overestimate the the minimum due to confounders like underlying disease.
This is insane of course. Hope your next job goes much better for you.
Some TVs deliver features they've promised through updates. My 2018 Sony needed an update to support Dolby Vision. More recent models needed updates for HDMI 2.1 support.

There are also bugs that get fixed through updates. (HDMI CEC is notorious for this -- an update might fix something but break something else.)
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Those fuckers. What more to say. No commercials was part of the appeal to streaming services. I will never buy one of their TVs