skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can happen on all of the digital distribution channels and it's going to be a bigger problem as the digital world continues to fragment.
The charges were dropped due to the seriousness of the charges that remained (and the corrupt Fed that would complicate the matter) but the judge found sufficient evidence of intent to order the hits (e.g. messages specifically ordering the hits, sending payment for the hits in the amount of $650k in bitcoin from wallets found on his laptop, writing in his journal "I ordered some people killed" and "they were killed") that those attempted hits were used as a sentencing enhancement for the other charges he was found guilty of - namely the criminal conspiracy and maintaining a criminal enterprise.

And "without parole" is a meaningless thing in Federal prison since there is no parole. If you commit Federal crimes, you get to do Federal sentences.

See page 20 onwards for the evidence that the judge weighed about the ordered hits: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/17/17A559/20426/20171...
Hyperscalers, not that many. But there are lots of other hosting providers and company who run their own infrastructure.
It might possibly also have been one of the contract stipulations when Microsoft licensed the FSX code to Lockheed.
In terms of complexity, IMO basic home cultivation is somewhere between baking a simple loaf of bread and assembling an IKEA shelf unit and installing it on the wall. It takes basic web search skills to find info on front-to-back DIY technique, and one can find colonized media online or at the farmers market.

That being said, every level of simplification grants a hobby a new audience. I think the objection here is the attempt to create a Juicero model, where you get a fancy machine that requires (maybe DRM'd? not sure) media pods in perpetuity if you want to keep using it.

(edit: doesn't appear to be vendor locked media, but the machine is $299... I spent less on that for my pressure canner, mason jars, fruiting chamber, and food dehydrator put together. sort of puts into question who this is for.)
Life is not fair. It only bothers you if you allow it to. Don't be bitter. Be better. Be grateful for what you have.
The world is poorer than it could be when war happens.
It seems to be a broader trend, even in the US. High level politicians and political operatives seem to be openly committing crimes and defying the law with no fear of repercussions.
At some point in history there was a jvm chip like that. It's long gone, not sure for what reason.
> Crypto exchange Binance blocks Russian users targeted by sanctions

> "We're blocking accounts of those on the sanctions list (if they have Binance accounts) and ensuring that all sanctions are met in full,"

https://www.reuters.com/technology/crypto-exchange-binance-s...
The Science and Capabilities of a Jupiter Brain
I have a theory about it, as someone who used Lisp since 1987 and Scheme more thereafter: there's no concise version of what https://docs.python.org is and that makes ALL the difference.

I know what exists, have the books, etc, but nothing is as well organized to be as easily searchable and without digression as what the Python world has set up for itself.
I feel like this isn't the case? All dispos in California and Washington were cash only.. because they couldn't get accounts with banks.
Not in Germany. The landlord only has access in emergencies or in your presence, and the preventing renter from accessing whatever they rented isn't legal under any sane circumstances.

Of course you can terminate the contract, but for rented flats or houses that includes 3 to 9 months of notification period (depending on how long the contract is already running).

Germany and Austria are not exactly "at-will" countries: existing legislation is about balancing the interests of both parties, and when in doubt favors the regular person.
I do wonder how many of the remaining 5% are Indians with VPNs. We’re in a niche industry so we ignore enquirers from people we can’t verify. So no big deal. Just a shame that we can’t really do business with India via a website.

Edit: I don’t have a Twitter account so was unable to see what was linked
Note that there is a separate project to use the GCC backend with the Rustc frontend. At least in the short-term, that project will be the better approach to providing the benefits of more hardware support, since it will be more complete and compatible with the rustc/llvm compiler.

The main benefit of a GCC front-end is to move Rust beyond a single vendor, and shakeout ambiguities in the (informal) language specification.
AllenNLP has only ever supported Torch. At the moment, Tango only supports Torch as well, but Jax support is well underway.

And yeah, Tango is a lot like a build script. In fact, I used to manage my experiments with Makefiles. Tango is better though. Results don't have to be single files, and they don't have to live in one filesystem either, so I can run the GPU-heavy parts of my experiments on one machine, and the CPU-heavy parts on another. The way you version your code is better than what Makefiles can do. You have actual control beyond file modification time. And of course, there is the whole Python integration stuff.
(Assuming you mean AC) - HVAC systems are generally designed to keep air flowing through the building optimally, which may include control systems for attenuating fans, exterior building air intake, and whatnot as a function of sensor measurements. I'm not sure how often CO2 is taken into account during building design or operation to be honest, aside from rough targets on designed occupancy rates and volumetric estimates of airflow.

In the UK, most buildings are naturally ventilated. There's no mechanical ventilation moving air around automatically, you gotta open your window if you want airflow. In the winter this generally puts people between a rock and a hard place: either you are slightly cold and sitting in a stuffy roof, or you open a window and are REALLY cold and also go broke from the energy bills :P
This article explains the terrible experiences I've had with my Experian credit report. I recently acquired a loan, and in the process found multiple fraudulent hard credit checks against my frozen (?) account.

Now I know why. My only recourse is I suppose to call my loan originator and advise them against the reliability of Experian.
You can try https://families.google.com/families which will share your purchases across accounts, however, it does not work for connecting a regular Gmail and Google Workspace account together.
I've been expecting Germany will turn their nuclear plants back on soon, given the Ukraine situation. Haven't seen it happen yet though.
To make more money through selling ads.
The US & Canada are energy independent (or at least equalized imports/exports) and food exporters. The EU is a net importer of both so pretty clear why recent events would favor the US/Canada & not the EU.
Good example of why you need to fight even for big tech rights.
I can tell you with 100% certainty that by age 7 the average quality of peers has diverged significantly between bad schools and good ones. Do you want your children hanging out with defiant, unmotivated children who view school as a jail and run around shooting spitballs, spewing racial slurs, and even bringing weapons to school?
From what I understand, Joshua Katz had a sexual relationship with one of his undergraduate students and behaved inappropriately with several others. When the matter was first being investigated he contacted the student directly and then failed to disclose this fact to the investigators, who then learned about it when the student filed a new complaint. I know it is fashionable to say this is about Katz's "speech" but the case would be much easier to make if he'd upheld basic standards of professional behavior (i.e., don't date or try to date your students.)
NS2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_2
> That and consolidate accounts.

Happened to me with Bandcamp. Support was kind and helpful. After I gave them proof of my purchases, they just merged the collections to my current one. Excellent experience. I wish it was always like this.
The joke clearly whooshed for me, LOL. I'm Canadian, and conversational in French, so I forget how similar the languages can be.
It looks like the limestone just dripped in a rough circle.
AllenNLP started before transformers, and so it provided high level abstractions to experiment with model architectures, which is where much of NLP research was happening at the time. Transformers definitely changed the playing field, as it became the basis for most models!
I lived and worked throughout Berkeley, San Jose, Cupertino, Marin County from '80-'95. I've been in the original Apple office. I remember 280 before all the CISCO and Oracle buildings went up. I have my share of stories.

Still I feel like us old guys have got to have more on the ball for the new-comers than (i) memories (ii) rants about how it used to be.

A psychologist once pointed out old people go to memories if they've got nothing going on now. I like Warren Buffet's line noted for not investing in tech: I might be old fashioned but I'm not old fashioned stupid.

Part of having gray hairs is to know what was stuck-on-stupid then, and not repeat it now. Part of having those gray hairs is a Peter Drucker take on business: factual, direct, and unsentimental but not mean. The future (i.e. today relative to '89) isn't always better.
The only argument I'm making here is that closing schools and switching young children to "distance learning" was a bad tradeoff and a disaster. It was driven by fear, anti-science nonsense, and the concerns of large US teachers unions. The CDC in general failed, and is run by liars with contempt for the general public.

I'm not sure what we could have done once the virus entered wild mammal populations and began circulating in places with no public health infrastructure. This happened pretty early on. The Omicron variants came out of mice populations in South Africa.
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I appreciate the push back; it's how I learn and refine my positions.

I think it very much depends on what field you want to go into and the institution. Since I have the misfortune of having my primary academic research interests lie in the intersection of tech and society, my work is/would be unfortunately politicized. I'd also go in through Library/Information Science (which my Master's is in) if I were to get a PhD and go into research, and that particular field is STEEPED in rightthink.

I'm happy to hear that you had a positive experience, and it's definitely possible. It's just harder to find that than it used to be, and the opportunity cost for trying is very high.

> It's absolutely critical for our society that there be real institutions where policy critics can survive.

100% agree. I'd love for academia to grow a spine and assert itself.

(I did debate leaving the country, but as someone with a disability that isn't a permanent option.)
Putin is counting on Western Europeans to place their short term material comfort ahead of their long term security.
Several works of Pissarro, Munch, Matisse, Picasso, Miro et cetera are in museums in a single copy. MOST of their work are in private collections in a numbered signed lithographs.
In the long-term absolutely, but electrification of domestic heating and industry, and nuclear / wind / solar / hydroelectric power plants aren't going to be built by November.

Right now we're using coal for electricity again, and that's much worse than using NS2 in the short term.
Those charges were not dropped. They were predicates of his conspiracy charge. The murders-for-hire were charged conduct, brought into the trial and rebuttable by the defense, and considered during sentencing.
It's quite the opposite. It's an honor that this is big enough news that the president is going to be the one presenting this to the world.
Or buying disks. Probably for dirt cheap prices for many of these movies. Still reasonable for long term storage and viewing.

I get it, this is the failure of a service, but piracy is hardly the only option.
That is not what destroyed Assange's reputation. Working for Putin after he ran out of money did that long before the obscure stunt you mention
There is a big difference between producing enough power on average and having power when you want it. Going 100% off grid is possible in Chicago but I doubt it's cost effective. Staying grid connected is offloading all the difficult parts to your electric company.
> I recommend you watch some videos of people using an IDE/Emacs or some text editor with sufficient support like VSCode to write Lisp code interactively. How they build a program while it is running. But also doing mechanical things like navigation and structural editing.

Could you please provide a link to some example videos you recommend? Greatly appreciated!
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7TboWvVERU

Context:

The old munich airport in Riem was closed in the 90s. The new airport was very far away. Gadgetbahn Transrapid, running through tunnels and above the remains of the old olympia train line from '72, should save the day. MP Stoiber tries to explain the advantages.

Translation:

If you start from the main station in Munich with 10 minutes, without having to check in at the airport yet, then you basically start at the airport, at the main station in Munich you start your flight. 10 minutes. Take a look at the major airports. If you go to Heathrow in London or anywhere else, Charles de Gaulle in France or in Rome, if you look at the distances, if you look at Frankfurt, you will find that 10 minutes is all you need to find your gate in Frankfurt. If you start from the main station, you get into the main station[1], you take the Transrapid to Franz Josef Strauss[2] Airport in 10 minutes, then you practically start here, at the main station in Munich. Of course, this means that the main station basically grows closer to Bavaria, to the Bavarian cities, because that is obvious, because many lines from Bavaria converge at the main station.

[1] "get into" like you would get into a bus, like if the station actually transports you to your destination
[2] Bavarian MP and German Minister in the 60s/70s/80s, Munich Airport is named after him
The main issue is changing countries, as your digital purchases will likely not stay with the account when you do so.
Another good one:

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears: https://youtu.be/NTWA_7-ld_U
Never seen it written down. They just told me once at customer service when I went to cash my rebate check and they noticed it was smaller than the membership price difference.
This sounds ridiculous, but you'll be surprised how thwarted your average american is at accents. If someone wrote down the french words, I'm pretty sure grandma would've figured it out.

I'm somewhat the defacto interviewer at my company for latino interviewees because of my time in south america. I don't even speak spanish barring enough to survive, but I can understand their english better than my peers. When they asked how I was understanding what they said, I didn't even realize I was the only one getting it.

I think people in general should hang out in strange lands to get your brain to be more flexible to different kinds of inputs even if you don't plan learning a new language.
SARS-CoV-2 mutations confer resistance to Paxlovid
It’s really not that simple. The reasons for shutting down are multiple, not the least of which is staffing.
Yup. We have microcontrollers that we'd like to write rust on, but we can't because llvm doesn't support the architecture.
glad to see big tech take data security seriously - it is vital there is a separation between corp vs state, citizens are most protected if these are not in cahoots but in some degree of tension.
Not only Czech Republic.
> And while it’s by far the most complex option, one of the nice bits with it would be that the system columns could be packed as well. Currently there’s quite a bit of waste because there are 6 system columns (by default), the first 5 are 4 bytes, but the 6th (ctid) is 6 bytes, meaning 2 bytes of padding if your first column is a SERIAL, and 6 if the first column is a BIGSERIAL (or an other double-aligned column).

FWIW, system columns aren't stored as normal columns in tuples. Some of them are implied (e.g. tableoid doesn't need to be stored in each tuple, ctid is inferred from position), others are not stored in the way normal columns are stored (e.g. xmin, xmax).
Soxhlet extraction into ethanol might be promising for this (higher efficiency compared to soak and strain).

Just need to see if the elevated temp over a period of a couple of hours negatively impacts potency I guess.
People have spent a multitude of hours doing other activities alone as well--painting alone, looking at the stars alone, practicing dance alone, using the restroom alone...
You're right, but there's also room for an old guy to reminisce on an anniversary.
A lot of visuals were just hand-animated. Especially the fluorescent highlights over the human actors. Just drawn on top of the film. Only a handful of sequences were fully digital, but it was still mind-blowing for 1982.
Quantum algorithms conquer a new kind of problem
https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.calibre_ebook.calibre
No - another point to those who purchase physical media. Pirates are partially responsible for why we have DRM in the first place.

Physical media (especially 4K Blu Ray Discs with their ~80-90GB movie sizes) are higher quality than pirate streams, have resale value, are fully legal, and you can share them easily with friends without them raising an eyebrow.
It's a prototype, so not necessarily indicative of the final finish. That looks like it's been cut by a craft knife, which is unlikely to be the final manufacturing process.
Read up on UHVDC. You pay significant conversion losses, but per mile it’s very efficient.
Biden's probably not going to be taking credit for any images this week.
My favorite is changing the tests every few years. You're still testing, so people can't call you on that, but the test results aren't like for like, so you can't compare them and see how things are going on a longer scale.

That and the focus on point in time test results to evaluate a school rather than analyzing results taken from multiple periods. X% of Y grade students at grade level in year Z doesn't tell you much about the quality of the school in year Z, unless you know where those students were at in year Z - 1.
Pirates ruined this opportunity initially (by providing a reason to lock things down), and greed ruined it thereafter.

After all, why sell what you can rent?
By the look of it, it seems they prefer coal and power cuts to nuclear energy. As long as they own their choices.
The number one cause of death in that same age group was (and remains) accidents, and yet driving has not been curtailed. Young families could not attend school, go to work, or gather with loved ones because of the #4 killer, but the #1 killer inspired no such restrictions.

I don't know what qualifies technically as a hysteria, but locking people in their homes for months for fear of something less dangerous than a typical daily activity sounds like a promising candidate.
Formats are a different point from “ebook groups”. To answer your question — I’ll modify the line that calls the conversion program (which is, at the moment, Calibre’s ebook-convert). As you can imagine, I’ve already had to do that a few times over the last 15 years. It took me less time than the “add to library” dances would have.

I still don’t understand “keeping track”. So you have several readers, there are books on them, you read the books. Calibre does not sync notes or reading position anyway (and certainly not wirelessly), as far as I know.
I find that my computer is stealing all my time. My default is to sit in front of my computer.

I'll write an email, jot a few notes.

Inevitably I will open up a video or a game and distract myself.

If I'm spending time with myself and I'm at home, I'm on my computer.

I think it's a problem. I'm considering thinking about it some more and writing a blog post on it.
It certainly explains why the US pushed so much for sanctions against Russia, and it's less clear why Europe so enthusiastically shot itself in the foot by following suit.

Edit: this is not a "minor economic pain" for Europe and might reach extreme consequences later this year.

On the other hand, the US have played extremely well, gaining on all fronts (increased influence through enlarged Nato and, increased weapons sales, increases oil/gas profits), while China is left in an awkward position. Only downside seems to have been the push for alternatives to dollar/western-centric financial system.
> Yes, many Mosfilm classics seems to be on YouTube

This seems to vary a lot. I just checked and there were several Moscfilm films available (including Stalker) but I'm pretty sure I checked this about 6 months ago and there weren't many available - some were available for rent, but not free view.
Can VSCode editing be as fast as Emacs/Vim?
I’d like to say I’m a vscode power user - I use a huge amount of shortcuts, keystrokes, etc. To the point where when peers watch me code I get comments on my proficiency with the IDE. Time and time again, though, I’ll stumble across YouTube videos or some form of media explaining that vsc skill ceiling is far lower than vim/eMacs.

I don’t have a problem with anything on vsc - in fact, I use it when I ssh into servers because I like the nice “at a glance” file UI, and I don’t have to cd & ls to see where and what everything is.

Unlearning all the vsc keystrokes, shortcuts, and tools is going to be a serious time commitment, but I’m a young guy and have a long career ahead of me. If vim is really that much faster, I’d be willing to take the performance hit for long term growth.
You actually can - https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/lli.html

LLVM's original purpose was something analogous to the JVM, but it's obviously evolved to be more of a compiler platform, debugging toolchain, etc these days

(No direct hardware support, though, as cool as that sounds)
One time I found a bug that doubled the size of the America's Army download, back when downloads like this took a day (* retries) on a typical DSL connection. I reported it to them so they banned me for hacking (they banned me from the forums, mind you, not the game) and didn't fix the issue. Lol.
It's interesting to see Europeans POV on the war in Ukraine - from here in the US it always looked like they were fully onboard with supporting Ukraine, but from the comments I see here, it seems people are starting to be unhappy about it because of the effects on their economy.

In the US we also feel the effects, but not as much.

It might be time for the US to help Europe monetarily with this, to share the pain as it were.

I'm not happy to pay more for things, but I'm willing to do it because it's the right thing to do.

Am I incorrect, are these comments from Europeans minority views, or is sentiment really starting to shift?
Yes. All the digital platforms rely on licenses with the actual rights holders. A producer used to license movies across multiple platforms for largest reach but as the market continues to splinter and fracture and large studios keep being bought out by content houses (Netflix, Prime, Disney, etc) the incentive to have a wide distribution channel is being replaced with an incentive to hoard licensed content to pull higher subscriber numbers.

If the rights holder pulls the license and you own the movie on that platform, you no longer own the movie. Digital purchases need to be able to follow a user from service to service but I'll be long gone before that happens.
Plastic storage tubs from IKEA or similar works out cheaper, and higher volume.

Its pretty hard to fuck up as well.
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