skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a lawyer, but is non-transferrable warranties even a thing? I've never had a single product where they asked me for identity to use the warranty. At worst, they asked for a proof of purchase, which some second-hand sellers are happy to provide when they still have it.

Also worth noting: hardware manufacturers have found a better option to suppress the second hand market. Hardware locking (iCloud/Knox lock) is terribly efficient at this, essentially turning perfectly good devices into bricks. It's even "better" because they can advertise it as a security feature for gullible users who don't realize Apple/Samsung still has the master key and there's an entire corrupt grey market of company workers getting money under the table to defeat the lock in almost every phone store across the planet...
the narrative is walking a thin red line and people pick the view they like, should or actually have.

3-31 NYT posts story about UA fears of saboteurs (pro-Russian Ukrainian civilians). 4-2 UA news publishes story of UA forces going into #Bucha to clear it of "saboteurs & accomplices". Now photos/vids show many of the dead with RU food bags & white RU armbands. UA looking guilty.

https://twitter.com/morphonios/status/1510943831109287940?s=...
That would only make a different problem of having a only a touch screen and no physical buttons, which most people hate. Turns out knobs and buttons are really good UI for most functions. I don't ever want a car that doesn't have a volume knob, preferably one that doubles as the on/off for the audio.
"Web3" generally refers to this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3
They're not suspected, they admitted it, and paid their speeding fine.
I had a similar experience, not crypto-related.

My employer paid me a couple of grand in expenses, which I quickly moved to another account. That triggered an account freeze.

I asked the customer service rep for "why" - couldn't tell me. They then asked me for payslips to prove my story. I told them feck off because they could see the monthly entries marked "Salary" from the same source.

I escalated the matter and it took several hours before my account was unfrozen.

Lesson: only keep a minimum amount of money in UK bank accounts.
I don't see why, what's really wrong with what I said? It's about 15H of work to do it, worth it on many aspects
You are going to leave a platform if a certain person is allowed the right to speak there? Have you tried Weibo or VKontakte? Those seem like the sort of sites you'd enjoy then.
It hasn't "started" as anything, it was literally same people in same Lubyanka offices.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=web3&geo=AR
That is really cool!

What do people think of BayesDB being used for the same thing?:

"BayesDB, which is open source and in use by organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan, lets users who lack statistics training understand the probable implications of data by writing queries in a simple, SQL-like language."[0]

Check out BayesDB if you have not already[1]!

[0]: https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/vikash-mansinghka-10-06-20...
[1]: http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/software/bayesdb/
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words. Software Engineers are prone to this. @lunasorcery has a talk on this subject.

https://twitter.com/lunasorcery/status/1278984875190689798
Disgruntled former Monzo customer here too. Froze my account after I cashed out some bitcoin on Coinbase, held on to all my money for over a year and refused to answer support requests. Only got my money back off them when I brought the financial ombudsmen into it.

Don't touch them with a ten foot pole.
Precisely because of that I use a different solution: Dropbox + KeePassXC. If someone wants to access my passwords, they first have to get into my Dropbox account, then get the password to the KeePass file. At this point that level of security is good enough for me.

Edit: typos.
That would make heroin addicts the happiest people on earth. Seems like a flawed measure.
Yes, stored at your house is fine for most people. There's a big security jump between "needing your password" and "needing your password plus having to steal something from your house."

There's also a big jump between "stealing something from your house" and "stealing something from your house plus figuring out your password."
I would have far preferred being able to pick a default folder or tag to put photos in so they're organized when I take them without the need for any ML. That's what the camera script I wrote for my Pinephone does. Important photos get human readable names when after the first time I use them.

It turns out if you actually use your computer intelligently it's very pleasant to use.
Thanks for posting this cxr. It's a really useful for my research on
social attitudes to aggression and technology.
Imagine a scenario where Twitter and Facebook lose their ability to unconditionally moderate the content of their platforms. Presumably they would need to check with government censors first? Again, I understand how annoying moderation can be! I just don't understand the alternative and I do not see how this alternative is not a huge violation of the First Amendment — this would precisely be the government telling private companies what they can and cannot publish.
Isn't "foraging" just euphemism for "looting"? They were not picking wild berries. They were taking that food from peasants. So yes, peasants were in for bad times.
I believe that we should be making whatever changes we need to ensure that some of the most capable minds in our field are doing something more useful than ad tech. Speaking from experience, seeing where my classmates went to after we graduated a few years ago.
some un-solicited advise I got on house market (I have recently purchased after searching for 24+mths )

no one sells their house for less than they bought in unless they HAVE to. They just don't sell.

So for me, as a buyer potentially waiting for the market to correct, its not worth waiting, your life will have passed by in the meantime.
> I think we are infinitely resourceful and capable of re-imagining and re-engineering our environment - in a good way!

> But the problem we face is vested interests and the institutions they have captured.

The second sentence contradicts the first one.
What’s wrong with being anti-vax? Should we kick off the anti-GMO people as well? And QAnon is like the left wing boogie man. Anyone complaining about it sounds like a left wing Alex Jones. It’s silly.
Unless you're personally trans or transphobic, what is it about those words that make them the most important thing to you when it comes to freedom of speech?

They're not remotely what comes into my head for that subject, and I can think of many things where freedom of speech is far more important to me than which words are used in which ways to define sex/gender/etc.

Is it possible that you too have allowed minority interest groups to convince you that trans people are the next big threat, just as gay people were decades ago, and that's why it's the first thing you think of? (Not a rhetorical question, I don't know anything about you and hopefully you're completely not transphobic! But many transphobic people don't consider that word to describe them yet do fall for and repeat explicitly transphobic agendas...)
Set a timer for 10 minutes

Close your eyes
Look straight between your eyebrows
Breath in for 6 count mentally
Breath out for 6 count mentally
When breathing in and out keep looking into the blackness between the eyebrows
There is simply no meaningful legal distinction between the two in this context. See https://twitter.com/badsec230takes
What does this mean or rather what does this look like? When I see these I never understand if it’s for or against governmental free speech. As I understand it , services under governmental control are under even more free speech restrictions than privateer services since they have a duty to crack down on whatever values a government is beholden to (anti-porn, anti-illegal activity, anti-Anonymization). What is the end goal here?
Really cool! Love that it's Rust + Webassembly. Also I hadn't encountered the GCU activation, so thanks for that!
> My point is that US security interests outweighed Cuba's sovereignty and security interests in face of a real threat

You're having trouble reconciling this because because you're not viewing the USA as "the bad guy" when it comes to Cuba. There are similarities in the two situations - large country repeatedly interfering in newly independent smaller neighbour (who they insist belongs within their sphere of influence), who in turn reaches out internationally for allies to help with defence. But to acknowledge this similarity you need to willing to recognise that the USA was the aggressor in Cuba, just as Russia is the aggressor in Ukraine.
I don't agree that this instance is among the kind that can "be perceived as respectful" - I think we can make space to acknowledge that that is a thing, and that nevertheless this is not an instance of respectfully direct communication. So that's a red herring.

Moreover I don't see that "being European" has anything to do with anything, and classifying someone as either being "capable of" or not "capable of" receiving direct feedback, far from respectful, is an instance of insulting with plausible deniability, which is perhaps the most practiced art form of internet comment sections.
> The solution is to create that meaning for ourselves even while acknowledging that meaning is a delusion.

I have not been able to manage this trick. How do you make yourself act as though you believe something when you already know it could never be true?
I can definitely relate to the way you described yourself and have been in a very similar position in the past. What helped is to chunk whatever I am doing in smaller chunks, for example getting to know the very basics when learning a new technology before diving into the more complex stuff and build upon that. This had the nice side-effect of multiplying the number of gratification moments.

Also, I've noticed I learn best when I actively try to limit the number of times I switch context within a day, this might require you to plan whatever it is you want to deep-dive beforehand, but your mileage might vary.
The 7% gap is literally the article posted here
I think the real problem is cheap H1B labor. The customer service ethos just isn't there. For anything important, I'd directly hire an American IT professional to install my own cloud services on my own servers (such software does exist, even open source), than hire willfully capricious CCP pigs like Google, Amazon, or Microsoft forever holding an ax over my head. Just sayin'.
Is it even that? People tolerate a lot more artifacts in 3D than 2D. If you wrote a 2D graphics engine that used triangles as primitives people probably wouldn't like it (and it would probably render text very slowly.)
You didn't read the linked article did you?

The linked article says the gap is 7% overall.
Heh, I actually use a productivity extension for Firefox that prevents me from visiting certain sites during certain hours, and it deliberately offers the ability to disable about:addons as well during that time so that I can't easily turn the blocking off.
What governmental body is stopping you or infringing on your rights to not do so?
Smartphone-based colorimetric determination of GHB and GBL in beverages
Dude it's literally the linked article.
Is there no JS APIs to use those either? Cause that would make it infinitely cooler imho, then you can surface it as a way to show off web app themes on the front-end too.
I feel like you misinterpreted the initial comment and you’re now using that as a reason to go on your own unrelated rant. Nobody said that Doom mods are bad or that they’re corrupting Id’s legacy or even that this specific Doom mod was a mistake. They just don’t like the way it looks, that’s it. It’s not that big of a deal.
I second this strongly.

Meditation helps me be less reactive to stimulus and also decreases the occurrence of random thoughts.

Think of the human body as an IO system. Your sensory organs constantly giving you inputs from all directions.

Your mind deciding what the output should be.

When you meditate - I feel like you add a latency to your responses which allows you indirectly to focus better.

Second thing that really helps is a non distracting environment (decreasing potential inputs) - have a space where there isn’t much distractions.

Phones with push notifications id say are one of the biggest sources of distractions - I have most notifications switched off and check different messenger/mail apps periodically as I finish blocks of work - this absolutely helps in terms of focus.
>This seems like the right decision (and I'm saying this as an LGBT person). The problem is, it just doesn't seem like legislation is the right instrument for promoting diversity in boardrooms.

Oh for sure it's the right decision. If even the legislation's intention was successful, forcing this matter will only go to create more radicalization and make the situation worse.

>I anecdotally recall studies that found organizations with greater diversity deliver better financial results, and that public companies have a responsibility to their shareholders.

Regardless of the issue you wish to prop up. There is always a study that says it will work.

>It's important to state this because businesses exist primarily to create profits, not promote social movements. There's a legitimate business justification to diversity policies.

Businesses should not even consider diversity. There is a problem in some businesses in that they do discriminate. They discriminate against and that's the ideal goal of what should be fixed. Or should it? If we are in a free market and Business 1 refuses to hire LGBT. Business 2 hires those and will eventually pick up good people that give them a competitive advantage.

Government coming in and using force to make Business 1 take LGBT on the board... That's not going to work out.
Creative Nonfiction Training Exercises
Safe deposit box with my password manager info in it (and my wife has a key and box access). Anything I want to die with me is not in there. I still have more work to do to organize my affairs but for now it's better than nothing.
Practice.

Treat focus like a skill you develop, or a muscle that you train to be stronger. If you wanted to improve your weightlifting you would schedule regular gym visits and create a plan to do a certain amount of lifting each day with slightly more weight each week. If you wanted to improve your running you’d set aside time to run and try to run incrementally farther over time. Focus is the same: You need to start small, schedule time for it, and work your way up. You can’t expect to run a 6-minute mile or benchpress 400 lbs without practice, so you shouldn’t expect to sit down and focus through completing multiple side projects quickly without building your way up to it.

Start with incremental goals. If you only consider goals that are too far out of reach for your current focus conditioning (finishing multiple entire projects) then you’re only going to get frustrated. Break projects down into incremental milestones and set intermediate goals to reach each milestone. Decompose into individual features and track them in a simple project management software if it helps.

You want to get to the point where you can sit down at your computer, know what task you can work on next, and have that task be small enough that you can finish it in one sitting or one evening. Practice breaking down your problems into smaller and smaller portions until you reach this goal.
I like to hear about them so I have an idea of what could be in the future. Granted it might not happen, or take years longer than expected. But I do like to know that it could potentially mean that I have an electric vehicle to chose from when my current one dies in 10+ years.

Also, these sound great for ultralight planes. Even though the electric motor weight is much lower than the gas engine options, battery weight makes electric almost impossible without significantly sacrificing flight duration.
I've switched to Starling. I still use Coinbase yet Starling have never frozen my account or held on to my money for a year.
I said it was tricky. But, for example, there could be stronger laws against media which contains objectively provable lies.
> So in 99% of cases there is no way to "extract" money from cards without [...]

The card has the customer's IBAN, which you can use along with their ID and have them sign a contract to allow you to deduct the purchase via direct debit, the system is routinely used for point of sale, but is mostly known for regular recurring billing.

It's too much of a hassle and deviation from standard business practices for shops to use it in practice, so they just wait until the network is up.

But it's not because there's "no way", embossed cards were a hassle too. We've just gotten used to less manual paperwork.
QAnon is "real", or at least real enough that it keeps coming up in indictments of Jan 6 people. Whereas Alex Jones libels the parents of murdered children.
I believe you. Chronic brain inflammation is known to cause anxiety and depression, with nearly immediate relief with anti-inflammatories. Ignore the ignorant.

If you have allergies and sensitivities to perfumes: read this in full: https://edswellness.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Dr-Afrin-...

Mastocytosis, an inflammatory disease that involves mast cell (a type of immune cell) dysfunction, nearly always presents with what looks like terrible anxiety.

Look into glial activation and things that help with that.

If omega-3 helped, you may find several other things beneficial, as other people reported: quercetin and/or rutin (intracts with meds, check out the interactions first hand, pharmacists will be useful, you are on your own), etifoxine, low dose naltrexone, even benzodiazepines help with inflammation as well (diazepam and clonazepam inhibit some overactive immune cells). Others report that weekly shots of B12 helped (italian bell palsy protocols are 500-1000mcg weekly for 8 weeks)

All the best and speedy recovery.
> the factory that built that refrigerator heat pump from the 70' is unlikely to still be making it.

Yes but why? Why do we have 400 different models of heat pump for every fridge out there? I can understand that once every decade or so a new tech comes out that's worthy of developing parts from. But even then the new parts could be retrofitted into existing designs.

> "if a part is no longer produced or sold by the IP owner then it is legal to recreate and sell clones of that part"

That would be a huge improvement. What would be an even better improvement would be to abolish so-called IP entirely and to mandate actual durability for all parts sold. Think about lightbulbs: the parts/socket are standard (no IP involved), every factory can produce them, and yet we still have crazy bad durability.
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An example J file because this link doesn't say much:

https://github.com/jsoftware/data_jd/blob/master/csv/csv.ijs
The classic solution to this problem is fail2ban: https://www.fail2ban.org
> Ridiculous. None of those jobs can be performed remotely.

Neither can teaching. Not to mention social development.
I'm glad that you live in a country where you feel that threats to exterminate you are empty and can be dismissed. Might I guess from your comment that you live in a country with two oceans between it and any aggressors?

My own country is in fact surrounded by people who have tried multiple times to wipe us off the map with bombs, and failing that, now try to wipe us off the map with lie campaigns to influence social opinion. There is no reason to think that they won't continue to use bombs in the future. Perhaps if someone had a literal (not proverbial) warhead pointed at your children, then you would be less cavalier and naive.
My take-away is that it's nothing to do with statistics but a re-framing
of the risk-responsibility relation;

"danger has transformed from a pathogen into a behaviour."

I think I broadly support that view, as it's the same way I frame
people's relation to digital risk like social media.
Haha. The outraged complaints by those who've been repeating that line for years claiming "Twitter is a private company, they can ban who they like" would be epic.

Also I bet they would call to regulate or even nationalize social media platforms as soon as companies like Twitter switch to a more balanced moderation approach and don't aid in amplifying certain politics.
I don't mind the downer comments because they provide information. Even if I think this is impressive and awesome, I don't want to see the top comment "this is impressive and awesome!" That's a low information comment.

High information comments don't have to be critical but they often are. Because it's saying something in opposition to the original post. That's why you often see threads that go back and forth between criticism and response. If you agree, you don't need to say anything.

This guy doesn't have zero interest in it. He mentioned he loves doom, the technology and modders but thinks this takes away from the intended well crafted aesthetic value of the game.
>> Twitter has had the ability to algorithmically filter white supremacists for years, but they haven't enabled it because GOP politicians are white supremacists.

You definitely seem to be implying that here. If all components of what you say are true…who is the only group that benefits?

Perhaps I read it wrong.
If it wasn't Theranos-style fraud, then why is theranos in the headline
I'm intrigued but skeptical of this bit:

Jd is a columnar (column oriented) RDBMS.

Most RDBMS systems are row oriented. Ages ago they fell into the trap of thinking of tables as rows (records). You can see how this happened. The end user wants the record that has a first name, last name, license, make, model, color, and date. So a row was the unit of information and rows were stored sequentially on disk. Row orientation works for small amounts of data. But think about what happens when there are lots of rows and the user wants all rows where the license starts with 123 and the color is blue or black. In a naive system the application has to read every single byte of data from the disk. There are lots of bytes and reading from disk is, by orders of magnitude, the slowest part of the performance equation. To answer this simple question all the data had to be read from disk. This is a performance disaster and that is where decades of adding bandages and kludges started.

Jd is columnar so the data is 'fully inverted'. This means all of the license numbers are stored together and sequentially on disk. The same for all the other columns. Think about the earlier query for license and color. Jd gets the license numbers from disk (a tiny fraction of the database) and generates a boolean mask of rows that match. It then gets the color column from disk (another small fraction of the data) and generates a boolean mask of matches and ANDS that with the other mask. It can now directly read just the rows from just the columns that are required in the result. Only a small fraction of the data is read. In J, columns used in queries are likely already in memory and the query runs at ram speed, not the sad and slow disk speed.

Both scenarios above are simplified, but the point is strong and valid. The end user thinks in records, but the work to get those records is best organized by columns.

Row oriented is slavishly tied to the design ideas of filing cabinets and manila folders. Column oriented embraces computers.

A table column is a mapped file.

What's the other side of this argument?