skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. The device belongs to the insurance company and they're only willing to pay for it if it's actually being used. They are quite expensive machines, and they don't want people having them in their house, and not actually using them (CPAP has a very low patient compliance rate).

And that's why they have tracking built-in. You're perfectly able to buy the machine yourself without insurance and then you don't have to turn on the modem.

And also after you've used it for a while they give it to you and then you can turn off the modem.
We're voting right now in Switzerland about giving voting rights in some areas to 16yo. A common rhetoric against that is calling them "manipulation mass for the left". Of course that's conveniently ignoring the manipulation mass of the conservative right, the 70+ which vote having a completely different horizon in mind.
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> developers

> socialized health care, workers rights, mandated vacation time, overtime limits, minimum wages, and UBI are all lightyears away.

do you mean software developers?
I don't see why developers need all those. Developers are one of the highest paid people on the whole planet, like top 10% in USA. Most people not in the know think levels.fyi must be fake.

This seems like ridiculous entitlement to expect even more. Why can't they spend their own money to buy the things they are lacking.
That doesn't sound more palatable than GMOs?
> I think it's reasonable for people to worry that they're being replaced

My issue is the entitlement that goes hand in hand with this mentality. Everyone replaces someone. What makes me so special that I get to go, “oh no you don’t, all cultural change ends with me and my friends unless I specifically sanction the change”?

People made room for me, after all.
Are you saying that you can sue in any jurisdiction, regardless of where the tort took place, and compel the bank’s officers to appear in court?

> In most of the country it's five figures

I said the types of damages, not the amount (which is also limited).
The writer may himself be far from young.
The idea that politicians are corruptible chiefly through election campaigning is one thing. I rather have the impression that the corrupt environment is what attracts many candidates in the first place -- make it to congress, then rake it in from all the privileged information of the industries you're regulating, not to mention the unreasonably lucrative speaking engagements you're owed when out of office.

No amount of screwing around with term limits will somehow suddenly reduce corruption and make the U.S. a functioning democracy. No amount of voting out the incumbents will change much -- the parties significantly predetermine who you get to vote for in the first place, of course.
Food in the future imho will be a block of food in whatever shape you’d like with whatever texture you like that will give you optimal nutrition based on the individual and will taste however you like due to advances in neuroscience.
We really need to start differentiating between Dr. and "Dr."
Also I think the real estate disaster is one of the main culprits of most 'common people' problems. One cannot afford an early retirement from a taxing job, cos guess what mortgage is a criminal 10-15x their yearly salary..so good luck pensioning before 70...if at all. Here in the UK this has reached absurd levels and nobody in the goverment says a word about it in real (and no, 'easier access to credit' is absolutely not the right answer)... pay 5-6 pounds for a filter coffee and a plain croissant.. cos the tiny shop has to pay 100k / year in rent.... it's just a road to civil war... hopefully soon.
Here’s a counter example: France reduced its presidential term from seven to five years because it found that the longer term exhibited worse hysteresis.*

Also, California implemented term limits which have made the government worse: rather than having a politician learn the ropes and build a specific practice over time, they get into office, spend a term learning and doing a little useful stuff; by the second term they can start to be really useful, but have to think about their next job as well. This has increased the power of lobbyists who do have longer tenure.

* The specific problem was electing an unpopular and corrupt president because his alternative was worse.
Sometimes it's just not a good time for "fetus" and removing it is the easiest solution.
You may be onto something.

>The Surface Transportation Board already knows this; the FRA knows this, the shippers know this; the car owners/lessees know this, the executives know this; and certainly the front line knows all too well

If all these people know about it, why haven't we heard of this before?
>Most Americans say they want a more equal society, yet policies aimed at increasing equality for disadvantaged groups in higher education, corporations, government, and elsewhere continue to generate backlash.

So lets flush this out. There's no women in tech is a common concern. The shoot from the hip is that men are discriminatory or harassing in the workplace. But that doesn't stand up to there being no women doing tech in college. The problem occurs before college.

So lets say we want equality. What do we do? We don't go to high school and get women into tech? wtf? That isn't what we do. Instead we offer free college tuition if you're female. We outright are discriminating against men.

What will that do? If you're a man, the way to look at this correctly is that tuition is covered unless you're a man. You are being punished for being male. What's the consequences? It's going to make those men angry they are being punished. While women get a free ride.

Then men/women get out of college, you are all a bunch of newbs and you apply for a job but the woman gets it solely because she's a woman. You are being punished for being male.

What do you think is happening? You aren't fixing the problem of equality. You're making the problem worse, you're going to have off the cuff remarks that any woman in a tech field is only there because she's female. Did she earn that position? Maybe she deserves to be there but giving women a free ride is going to create prejudice against them.

>"We found that people think of the world in zero-sum terms, so that a gain for one group must necessarily be a loss for another," says study co-author Derek Brown, a Berkeley Haas doctoral student. "This seems to be a cognitive mistake that everyone is susceptible to, not just a vociferous minority that has antipathy toward any certain group."

Where in my above illustration is it zero-sum? This is worse than zero-sum. You are producing new prejudice, a huge negative. You are still discriminating against identity, a huge negative. Your actions are making everything worse, of course we are going to oppose stupidity.
If "magic" means changing reality with your mind, then programming is the closest thing to magic (that we know of).
No elected terms would lead to a better government.
> pulling anyone who made changes to infra to the dispatchers themselves.

I’m not up on railway lingo, can you expand on this?
> What about forcing hospitals to spend on staff if they are too profitable?

Why do I suspect we'd see 'hollywood' accounting for medical if this ever were to be a 'thing'?

'Medical accounting' would become such a thing that we'd end up seeing every hospital running in the red all the time, to avoid this sort of thing. Someone would still be bringing in profits, but much much harder to spot.
>I would love to take all your money, put you back to living paycheck to paycheck and see how 'lazy' you get after the daily struggle to house and feed yourself with no way to get ahead and no light at the end of the tunnel.

Been. There. Done. That. And now I have an office job.

He's onto something. I can't quite put my finger on it but it seems like a pervasive societal problem at all levels, or at least all levels I've experienced. It's like society has developed some weird way of denying people their agency when it could benefit them but hold them responsible when it is bad for them.

>It's insensitive, out of touch people like you that make it hell to be a front line worker.

It's out of touch. People like you are why it's getting worse and not better.

You tell me how to flip my burgers. You tell me doing it this way is for my own good or it's the efficient way, or it delivers the optimum burger, or whatever. But I can't meet my stupid KPIs doing it the approved way. So I have to do it "wrong". If I fail to meet my KPIs doing it "wrong" I get fired. When I do meet them I don't get anything for it. The best I can hope for is get lucky and not get unlucky long enough to use my "experience" to get some better job. In our effort to make everything consistent, risk free and all those other buzzwords that the MBAs and the clipboard warriors jack each-other off to we've done the opposite, we've made everything reliant on luck instead of skill. In your quest to quantify everything, minimize the bad and maximize the good you've denied everyone any possible upside that could come from putting in any extra effort, owning their work, taking pride in their craft, whatever you want to call it. And this Kafkaesque situation seems to have permeated every industry and every profession. (I dare one of the people who will inevitably take issue with this paragraph to rebut it.)

The parallel to some freight train engineer barreling across some flat state with a train that's too big and too fast who's just hoping it all works out should be obvious.
That connection was implied, but not explicit. Just wanted to make sure I was drawing the right inference. I guess my thought would be that there are plenty of ad-free business models that would allow this content without (explicit playing before and during content) ads. It’s also my experience that there are still ads with their paid service, which is why I stopped paying for it. I would happily pay for a YouTube ad-free experience.

Some other user mentioned that there “was no free lunch” but explicit ads before and during videos don’t have to be the payment for said lunch.
Hackers are now hiding malware in Windows Event Logs
IMHO, the primary value of any framework (from an organization / product lifetime perspective) is two-fold.

#1 - Organize and implement in a manner that adheres to some standards, so someone can always be found to maintain and fix it.

#2 - Create some interfaces that break components apart.

What standards and what interfaces (and how many) are an order of magnitude less important than that they exist at all.
The olden days were dirty! Never mind that cars were burning leaded gas too. I wonder if the print shop air was actually cleaner than the air in Manhattan back then?
I don’t know how many times we have to listen to failed predictions of the future before we stop trusting them.
Preview, the Mac app people forget about
Perhaps, but this doesn't give much to the people in Lac-Megantic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaste...
I run a restaurant. A regular domestics (bud, miller, coors) run about $1.10 per can/bottle if you get a single case. Busy bars ordering 10 cases at a time will be getting discounts. Unless you're going to the shittiest dive bar in town, a $3 domestic bottle is nearly 200% markup.
If this is compiling to asm.js then every single line of the program is Javascript and it's running entirely in a Javascript interpreter. If it's not Javascript, then what is it?

I mean, if someone compiles a Markdown document and sticks the result on their website, do you say, "this isn't HTML"? People are free to use words however they want I guess, but I don't understand the perspective where the way a project was written suddenly means that the compiled result isn't Javascript -- it feels like it's taking the word "pure" in a metaphysical direction that I just don't really grok.
The first thing I did is move my phone out of the bedroom. This helped break the habit of picking it up right away in the morning, and created some friction. I keep it on my desk on a charger.

The second thing I did was decide on a few things I had to do before picking up my phone for the first time in the morning. This like a game, where I started with one thing and then built up more, to see how many things I could get done before checking my messages. I started with taking a shower. Then I added walking the dog, then coffee, then breakfast... now I'm up to the point where my entire morning routine has to happen before I pick up my phone.

It's not easy. I'm not perfect at this, and there are days when I go back to bad habits. (In this context, I use "bad habits" to mean "habits that prevent me achieving the goals I set for myself). That's why I block certain websites still, for myself, to help from getting back into those habits.
This last part is really important. If you don't already know what GenServer or Application or Supervisor are/do, finding out from just the docs or internet posts is extremely hard.
No: they are more manageable and rely less on crews working 12hr shifts regularly so less mistakes happen.
It's worth comparing the way the Constitution is amended in Hungary and the USA. In Hungary the process is too fast, in the USA the process is too slow. There must be a sweet spot, in-between these two countries:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/thesis-1-there-is-one-corre...
Shameless plug for my employer Einride. We are building a almost driverless truck (AD with remote safety driver). Really cool company to work for.

https://www.einride.tech/pod

Edit: Driverless clarification.
It's useful to have differentiable versions of all sorts of rendering techniques. They can be used as input to training for whatever you want to do.
Yeah, I'll just eat fresh meat, fruit and veg, thanks, you do you.
Buddhist also pray for others. Metta Bhavana is not the same as regular prayers
No thanks. If this becomes a reality(unlikely) and I live that long, I'll be moving somewhere far from where its happening. I currently in a small community. We get our eggs and ground beef from a local family farm.

Most of the articles like these are written by people entirely out of touch with life outside of a city. This author has lived in NY city their entire life.

Farming and agriculture are entirely sustainable practices even with climate change looming. It is only the methods we use that need to change. Overuse of fertilizers and pesticides, over-farming/tilling, and stupid crop rotations are to blame. The best way to get an insect resistant form of corn? Breed corn. Don't modify its genetics in a lab with the end goal of finding a strain that requires a petrochemical bath to survive.
I wrote an app for my daughters years ago using Adobe Air and it was quite successful in the early days of the app store when it was easy to load such apps. Was really useful for my daughters as they have always excelled at math. May not be suitable for a 5 year old, but depends on the kid and parent. The idea is to provide a simple interface for learning single digit arithmetic "patterns".

The objective was to create a UI that let kids relax re: feeling the need to always find the right answer. They just need to "imagine" (right mind) the right answer and click on the answer presented. Over time associative memory response leads them to recognize the patterns for single digit arithmetic, and the "arithmetic" part of math becomes instantaneous. That makes things like factoring fractions (an early hurdle) quite a lot easier because no real thought is involved in seeing the common denominator, etc. (See the chart of one of my daughter's progress in the video below to see how she learned associatively.)

After mastering single digit arithmetic, the app allows kids to move on to seeing how the "algorithmic" approach for multi digit problems is easy. (Note: the reliance on the algo approach is very much WRONG in the current "common core" approach to math in the USA. I acknowledge the "additional understanding" provided by the common core, but I do not see the algo/memory approach as the evil many common core folks see it as.)

I knew some older kids who really hated math (middle school), and found they really struggled when asked "What is 6 x 9 ??" or any other simple arithmetic problem. Finger counting and taking 10-20 seconds for just one step in the process of doing multi-digit multiplication or division is a real hindrance which definitely keeps them from progressing/appreciating math.

Some of the older kids did work though my App, and it had a very, very positive effect. Some sampling issues re: who I knew so YMMV.

I ported the app to a pure HTML/JS app, and hope to soon release it as an Github open source app that can be run locally as a PWA. Unfortunately I am way behind getting this done. Happy to share the code via my private Github account if anyone wants to help with this relatively trivial task.

Right now it runs fine, of course, in a browser with the exception of Safari because Apple is pretty aggressive about not supporting Indexeddb for local storage. Just be sure to be aware of how all the browsers will automatically delete local storage is an app is not used within N days. Any Chrome-based browser should be fine. (The fix for Webkit is not hard as it involves a very longterm bug Apple has never address, so well understood. Again, just have not had time to get to it.)

From the early Air app (current app is very similar although there are some differences e.g. graphs).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK3wzeGVRQ4

MathFlashApp (will be active for a few more months until Google shuts down its free Workspace users):
www.mathflashapp.com

HTH,
nsc
In the article the protagonist asked for IPad Pro and got AirPods.
The Hackathon Survival Guide
Why use NeRFs? An important question is: what is the difference? The instant NGP learns an SDF, so it isn’t an either/or question, right? A couple of people have mentioned to me that the Berkeley paper doesn’t require a neural network, that you can use an optimizer on the density field instead. I don’t fully grasp the exact difference between those things in detail, having not implemented it myself, but using a direct optimizer without a neural network seems like an important conceptual distinction to make and worthy of research, doesn’t it? We should distill the process to its essence, break down the pieces, remove complexity and dependencies until we understand the utility and effectiveness of all the parts, shouldn’t we?

Possibly relevant for this paper is also the fact that Nerfs are less than 2 years old, while SDFs in rendering are almost 30 years old, and maybe in practice more than that.
You can put the switch in between the plate and the force sensor.

Then all the force is on the sensor and is also a switch.
Re-read the post. They could afford to run fewer ads. Right now, google is optimizing for profits at the possible cost of user experience, which may hurt google long-term. It's their right to do that, but I think it's a poor idea in the long term.
Your last question isn't even rhetorical. For almost everyone in USA's tech, it's only a matter of compensation. Should we expect anything different when even UC Berkeley's CS program doesn't have a single ethics requirement? (EECS has one, but their CS grad output is way lower)

I wish a tech crash like dot-com would happen already—in my very naive hope that the unscrupulous rat racers whose sole purpose is to perpetuate this infinite loop of SAT-level/IQ-test job recruitment + gamified promotion optimization will leave so they can ruin another industry. This is a terrible thought to have for peers, but after the past decade of nonsensical gatekeeping and unsustainable college major growth, I genuinely feel these people increasingly make everyday work life unbearable.
Clickbait hyperbolic title

> robbery
> n. 1) the direct taking of property from a person through force, threat or intimidation. Robbery is a felony. [1]

“Screwed” is likely the word you wanted as it is a concept of justice and not criminality.

[1] https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=1868
> My unsolicited opinion: a government reflects its people.

A democracy tends to reflect its people a dictatorship tends to reflect the dictator.
Seems awfully egocentric to declare other people’s beliefs “aren’t Buddhism”.

Perhaps you should read more if you haven’t encountered the teachings on not becoming disconnected, but instead present and purposeful post enlightenment.
I too had the same issue, I figured you must click the "Sorted by 1 field" badge. I wanted to sort by # of employees and I couldnt see the first few rows.
"Completely removing" audio would be silly of course, but you can "simplify" the audio system, maybe making some trade-offs in capabilities (e.g. no mixing, effects) but still having a functional and usable audio system.

(Audio on Linux is not "broken all the time" in my experience by the way; for the most part, it works pretty well out-of-the-box without mucking about. My particular problem is only a practical problem with one particular game that just barely runs on my system anyway.)
No, I took it as "asking for a friend"
Using Influence Functions to clean up computer vision datasets
If insects were actually efficient, they'd be processing them into tasteless protein powder already and nobody would know the difference. They already do it with milk, eggs, soybeans, peas, et cetera.

I suspect that the only true economic niche of insect foods is getting gross-out clicks for infotainment media. Existing insect-derived products range from expensive to unobtainium: carmine, silk, honey, resilin, spider silk. I guess shellac isn't that expensive.
It's not dangerous, it's just bad timing. It makes it look like NYT "chose" that word because of the recent ruling and is making a political statement, even though it's totally random.
This doesn't seem very inclusive.
Oh, I completely agree. And competition is almost always a good thing. However, corner cutting for something like a commercial airliner is negligent if it has an impact on safety. We are lucky it did not have a bigger impact on human lives. Hopefully this is a lesson well learned.
This is a clone of "close friends" on Instagram stories.

There is only one Circle per user.

Not sure why everyone seems to be thinking you can define multiple circles, a la email alisases or Google+
In 1990s we were writing a virus at school which applied this algorithm to all characters on the DOS screen after some period of inactivity. Destroying Norton Commander on a computer used by a teacher or sysadmin was quite fun (the virus had to be manually installed, did not survive reboot and screen was restored on keypress event, so it was quite harmless). Nobody punished us for this kind of jokes.
You have a very city-centric view, I think.

Here, in Canada, some cities allow the keeping of chickens. These are >1M population cities (not greater metro pop., but actual cities).

In suburban areas, this is more wide spread, and in rural communities? Now legal where before it was not.

This is not just for eggs, but butchering too.

(There are limits on numbers per household...).

So it has already happened where I live.

You may not be aware, but you don't have to butcher the animals yourself. Here, your local butcher will, just as with any game animal.
> But "best government is least government" is a truly toxic and self-destructive meme that has badly infected US culture. If you want to understand what you're actually saying with that sentence, s/government/civilization/g. Government is simply the mechanism through which we collectively build our civilization.

Now that our civilization is built, we don't need armies of elected politicians or long-term, unelected functionaries controlling the society or ourselves.
I don't think the $15/TB figure is accurate. The list drives are either unavailable on Amazon, or they are external drives which would be unsuitable for a data center.

I think we're looking at $75/TB on the lower end.
It has often been the best place to buy/sell computer parts. Mostly because facebook marketplace killed Craigslist for me locally and I refuse to get on facebook.