skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's pretty wild how brazen Hunter Biden has been, with essentially zero scrutiny from the liberal media.

My meta-tinfoil hat theory is that stories of his depravity have been intentionally shared by dem insiders to conservative channels to mitigate the national security risk of someone extorting Joe - can't blackmail if the info is already public.
Whether later-no-harm is a feature or a bug is the biggest difference, I think, between people who like STV/IRV and people who dislike it.
This will affect only 6000 people who were not imprisoned for marijuana use/possession.
The 8 hour day [0] did not happen because employers were nice, it was a hard, often bloody, fight in countries all over the world. Spain put it into law in the 16th century, most of the world didn’t get it until the early 20th century.

Increases in productivity probably help, but you could say the same thing about the last 30 years — a time when globally wage growth has been flat for most.

Time again, history shows labor rights are demanded not given, except for the few industries where people are most valuable asset of a company.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
Score voting (also known as range voting) is not a very good system to use in a real election because there's a huge risk that, on a scale of 1 to 10, the extremists will all give their candidate a score of 10 and everyone else 1, whereas the moderates will score their candidates, say, 7 or 8 and score the ones they don't like 3 or 4. The extremists could thus prevail despite being significantly outnumbered by moderates.

Or in other words, it's not safe to vote honestly in a score voting system because you're throwing your voting influence away. The rational thing is to maximize all your votes to be 1 or 10 and nothing in between.

Approval voting is just that. Basically it avoids the problem by forcing everyone to vote tactically.

STAR voting approaches it differently, by using score voting to select the top two, and then doing a runoff with the votes maximized. (Under STAR there's a risk that you might have two extremist ideological clones that make it to the runoff.)

I think plain score voting could work reasonably well in a primary.
I'm not constitutional lawyer, but those sound like things only the legislature can do, which is beyond his control. The things he has done are things the executive has in it's power.
Speak for yourself. The vast majority of engineers I know (in the US and Europe) don't do more than 40 hours a week and without weekends, and oftentimes many work even fewer hours, perhaps even 20 hours a week. There are also so many jobs that if you're truly doing more than 40, that's because you want to or at least haven't bothered to start looking to switch jobs.
I ran into the opposite of this when my oldest kid was looking at middle schools (Denver Public Schools are more or less open enrollment). The Denver School of Science and Technology did not use free software, and in fact ran exclusively on Windows. I found this odd, because free software would allow students to actually run things (DNS, web servers, wireless access, routers) as opposed to becoming "power users" ignorant of what sacred Microsoft black boxes do. Between that, a fairly strict dress code, and the promise of mandatory homework, we rejected DSST middle school.
And what's the point of it in space? Knowledge doesn't disappear when it's not on wikipedia. If humans are still around they will continue contributing to knowledge. Just because it's not printed or recorded doesn't mean that information or knowledge doesn't exist.
I've worked for US companies on their EU offices for nearly 10 years, and there's definitely much less of it here, but I've definitely ran into some US employees who have been less than impressed at how unavailable I am outside hours in that time
I love this idea: it feels very parsimonious, and it's optimal (in a very narrow sense) by definition. I can't find much criticism of it, though, aside from:

https://groups.google.com/g/electionscience/c/wT1_hN38b8s
Seo backlinks maybe. Or YouTube traffic generators for ad revenue?
> London gets this (mostly) right, because there "contactless card" includes Visa/MasterCard/Amex/Maestro credit and debit cards

Lyon and many other French cities do this already anyway.

I dislike it because it's about the opposite of anonymous.
Boston Dynamics: “General Purpose Robots Should Not Be Weaponized”
I went the other direction. Took a job that paid half as much as my previous one, but it's interesting work, and I'm a lot happier. Grass is always greener I guess.
like a food truck for industry, or an entire factory hyperconverged into one 'machine'

shame they don't show what the inside looks like
Treaties are not permanent, they can be withdrawn or terminated.

Also the UN isn't nearly as powerful as you seem to think it is. A substantial amount of the UN's power comes from the USA.

Other UN members can pass laws to keep cannabis illegal. There's no reason for the UN to create friction for POTUS on this. But even if there is friction, ask yourself what exactly can the rest of the UN do to stop POTUS. Not many UN member states are in a position to simultaneously care about the UN cannabis treaties and pose sanction threats to the USA.
Not that many people are in jail purely for simple cannabis possession. The important part here is that these people now have their criminal records wiped clean.
Non custodial ownership is still an option, even if not advisable.

If my non-tech savvy grandma wanted to own some bitcoin, I'd probably suggest she just keeps it on the exchange. Counterparty risk is probably less than risk of user error.
NERF is neural radiance fields (the neural 3D reconstruction method that nVidia published recently.)

Basically if I’m reading it right, this does the synthesis in latent space (which describes the scene rather than rendering vocals) then translates it into a NERF. It sounds kind like the Stable Diffusion description that was on here earlier.
I did when I was young. "The Manhattan" restaurant had them. They were weird, but delicious.
Thanks for taking the time to fill in some blanks. Great links.
God it's a group, right?
Or any sort of CAD
Because it's so short, it doesn't actually say very much. Nearly all of its application is a matter of interpretation spanning literally millions of pages.
The amount of money spent for police and prison and the number of wasted human years (while in prison) is staggering. At the same time, I wish there was better data on the number of people who have permanent mental illness due to drug use. Is there much causation or just correlation?
149 people in jail right now. But thousands more will have their records wiped clean.
My hypothetical company can always not go for a billion dollars of revenue, which makes those issues irrelevant even if we assume the worst possible handling.
Can you expand on 1c, specifically what you mean by ‘be’ verbs?

Someone else with clue feel free to jump in.
I saw this on Reddit and it resonated. Yes, it’s the election season and we’re seeing democracy in action: that’s when elected officials do things you like and then you vote for them again. Not sure why you’re making it sound like a bad thing.
This is absolutely about the election. Why didn’t he do this in his first 100 days? Because it wasn’t election season.
This is demonstrably untrue - looking at the tech industry for example. Salaries are enormous with no unions.

You shouldn’t state opinions as fact.
Not an expert but I believe the problem with molten salt cooling for reactor designs is that nuclear reactors are supposed to just run for decades without replacing major parts that are really really radioactive. We just can't make parts that will resist corrosion for that long, unlike those towers in the solar arrays, which are really simple to replace. That's leaving aside the high level waste recovery, disposal, and storage issues.
A big function of Staff engineers is working across teams. Cross-team communication and alignment is difficult.
Certainly a safer reactor is strictly better. But keep in mind that nuclear power is already one of the safest, and by many metrics the safest forms of power generation [1] [2]. Like shark attacks, people's attention gravitates towards the exotic ways people meet their ends.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

2. https://ourworldindata.org/nuclear-energy#what-are-the-safes...
I thought ISO added them when C went from ANSI C (1989) to ISO C (1990), along with wchar.h and such. I might misremember, though, it's been a long time since I did anything serious with C.

Come to think of it, didn't they remove trigraphs in one of the more recent iterations of the standard?
This reminds me of an old essay: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/07/25/hitting-the-high-n...

The thesis is that the "10x engineers" don't output a linear multiple of the same kind of work their peers do. Instead, they implement solutions that their peers wouldn't or couldn't over any length of time.

This matches my experience.
> I can imagine feeling really disturbed should something like this happen to me.

It is happening to you, every single day, you just didn't know it before. You should be disturbed, that's the point.
Ask HN: Why does Machine Learning use these assumptions?
I'm trying to learn the nuts-and-bolts of Machine Learning, but the more I dig in, the stupider the assumptions seem to be.

The thought keeps popping into my head over and over again: Just because it works doesn't mean it works well, or that it works in a smart, optimal, or even ontologically truthful/useful/realistic way.

There are no shortage of videos, papers, tutorials, blogs that explain the math & models in detail. But there are exceptionally few sources that explain the underlying assumptions...and why these are useful (or not useful) assumptions.

Why does Machine Learning use these assumptions?

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1) Sigmoid Functions & Binary Classification - I understand the math and the probabilities.

But rather: WHY would you want to classify using a binary system of classification? WHY would you want to reduce everything to yes/no? Or more accurately, a probability of yes/no? Or even chained probabilities of yes/no?

Is it just due to being stuck in the paradigm of programming on machines built on yes/no logic gates? Trying to perform these very complex tasks (identification, generation, whatever) on CPUs and software that are, in and of themselves, built on binary distinction?

If all you have is a binary logic gate (hammer), then everything looks like a cumulative distribution function (nail)?

Isn't this a totally moronic approach? Or is it just the best we got? I feel like it's stuck back in the signal processing days of trying to "fit" and force a signal to achieve a certain pattern without realizing the what or why. Turning knobs on an oscilloscope.

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2) Layers - Why are artificial neural networks setup as "layers"?

Isn't this more like an assembly line? Doesn't that seem dumb? Why would someone believe, in their heart of hearts, that intelligence or pattern recognition, or any kind of thinking, happens procedurally?

Doesn't this (again) seem like a very moronic approach? One that is based on the procedural nature of the machine itself? And the programmer themself? And not the nature of thinking, intelligence, or even complex analysis / complex systems?

Complex systems with lots of variables and lots of dimensions don't actually interact like this. They don't have "layers", this is a totally made-up assumption that has major implications on the entire field.

Was this just chosen out of necessity, because software and programs need a beginning and an end? And input and an output? Or is there some really convincing argument, that speaks to the philosophy and ontology of these decisions?
Sounds right.

I’m also not sure how damning the accusation is that he worked on squaring the circle. It wouldn’t be proven impossible for hundreds years after his time.

I guess you could say he chased something already widely accepted but not proven, but kind of big deal? I wouldn’t fault someone for spending some spare time on P ≠ NP just out of curiosity.
Advertising corrupts. This will serve to discredit the entire concept of advertising.
> Exceptions of course would be to do it with someone remotely, like a friend or a family member -- it is a good way to potentially 'hang out' with people who aren't physically there. But the same caveats apply.

An increasing number of relationships are happening purely remotely. My company went fully remote due to the pandemic and I've started building working relationships, and yes a friendship even, with new employees completely remotely. And I'm a millenial who remembers a distinct separation between the online and offline (and the modem tones lol). (Though I was a very online kid and have made many internet friends over the years.)

Younger relatives of mine don't see as strong a separation and they have friends who they made in primary school that they stayed in touch with despite families moving a long ways away because of how easy remote communication is these days; when I was a kid moving locales meant a new set of friends. It's this demographic and this world that I think is poised to enter VR experiences en masse. Gen X and older Millenials probably still have too strong concepts of "offline" and "online" (and usually prioritize "offline" over "online") to break this barrier down (as you say, a quintessential part of the "offline" experience is snuggling with your dog or an SO) but I'm pretty confident that younger folks won't see this distinction as pronounced. I might be wrong of course.
Does it actually work? I installed the app and tried to download wikipedia two or three times, each time it just failed. Eventually I gave up.
What position exactly? That good things done for cynical reasons is superior to nothing ever done? To me that seems plainly logical

I appreciate your idealistic opining but when you look at the reality of the competition, what Biden has done lately is just on another level. It’s unfortunate indeed that democracy has been so thoroughly corrupted by late stage capitalism, but it doesn’t make sense to lament the times it does something useful
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-undead-dormant-bacteria-life.h...
When I was looking this is exactly how MRI headphones worked. Just with a much longer tube
This site is comically bad. I clicked on "Why" and got "It’s free, more secure, and runs on almost PC." What is an "almost PC"? Is that what you call a Linux desktop machine? (Yes, I know it's a typo)
The idea with molten salt reactors is that they aren't under pressure. Unlike a PWR, which will experience more and more pressure until it pops, a molten salt reactor can handle much higher temperatures before failing. This enables designs that can be passively cooled in the event of coolant system failures.
Your app is always running to answer those GET so it's not serverless. Serverless means that your rust code would be invoked upon GET.
Principal Software Engineer, but yeah.
@geodel posted Gates' review of "Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric" below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33114049
This kind of comment is exactly what I feared first time I heard about wsl.
> Take it one step further. A test _never_ has a binary outcome, this is _always_ the result of some score thresholded against something else (could be another score).

By test do you mean model/method? Because not all models have a score eg. discrete classifiers.

CART classifiers are simply large if/else statements. There is no tunable threshold and while some people sort of draw something that looks like a ROC, it's not quite as useful.

But of course you are right, in the real world you would be comparing many different models built with different methods and hyper params using a variety of metrics.
In many cases it also makes no sense. Wells tap aquifers. Aquifers are often highly local and not equivalent to a watershed (which is surface water and precipitation). Depending on local geology, the aquifer being tapped could even be completely isolated from the watershed!
As a very nearsighted programmer suffering from increasing age-related farsightedness, I often fantasize about a VR headset that would allow me to comfortably focus (say 6 feet away while wearing contacts) on a huge virtual tmux session for coding.

I don't know if this is even remotely a possibility but it sure would beat dealing with constant CSS (can't see s*t)
Clicking on the web browser in Ubuntu isn't any different to doing so on Windows.

How many people need more than: browser, word/excel clone, and email client?

Everything is moving onto the web and Windows becomes less relevant.

Why do you think ChromeOS is so popular?
Hopefully I will be in Paris and Rome in the near future. What is the equivalent of Uber in Paris and Rome?
AMD PRELIM 3Q REV. ABOUT $5.6B, EST. $6.71B

AMD CITES WEAKER CLIENT SEGMENT REVENUE

AMD: WEAKER THAN EXPECTED PC MARKET, INVENTORY CORRECTIONS
>Biden can't do anything about the State level charges most people are charged with

nothing whatsoever, other than you know, shuffling https://www.drugs.com/article/csa-schedule-1.html
One day we're going to learn that the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened because there was a shark in that tsunami who attacked the power plant.
Money is fungible so debt can be considered serviced by whatever portion of the federal budget comes from taxes vs more debt. With no deficit spending it would be 100% taxes. With no taxes it’d be 100% more debt.

It’s fine to service debt with more debt if the tax base grows faster than the debt load. When you raise interest rates the debt load goes up quickly though, faster than the tax base. If you issue too much debt the only way to repay it after a certain point is more debt, which increases the monetary base, which leads to inflation. We are not at that point, but we are at the point where something has to give - either rates, government spending, or taxes - to reduce inflation.

Inflation is considered bad because nobody wants to use a currency with too much inflation. Sure the government can always print more money (actually when it’s “printed” it’s the Federal Reserve buying debt from the government with money created de novo) but runaway inflation is one of the worst possible outcomes, and past a certain point becomes the only option.

I don’t know exactly what other points you are trying to make but it’s not true that this is self-balancing. The balancing is done by the Federal Reserve in concert with the rest of the government (who set taxes and spending) through interest rates and open market operations. There is also not an infinite capacity for US debt at the rates the Fed wants which is why the Fed has to buy the debt itself sometimes.
The kid in the story is 10 to 13 years old. At what age would a kid be able to use a device unattended (presumably meaning one that access the internet and allows for communications)?

Not to mention the infeasibility if the kid is allowed to hang out with other kids without adults present.
All HN comments should have a tl;dr as well, so that I don't have to waste my time with filler content.

TikTok has the best format. Just show me content in easily digestible blurbs, and stop wasting my time!
Blob appears before Modern English. I don't think Will Shakespeare uses the word in a play, but it would have been a word familiar to some audiences at least.

It's probably from an earlier English, before the vowel shift, back then you'd need to trace spoken language, which we can't do, very little is being written down and preserved. By the time Johnson makes a dictionary, centuries later, the origins of "blob" are already lost like many other words.
Example: Dennis Nedry

Prior experience: Solution architect at Jurassic Park. Present: Dinosaur food
To be fair, I took it from the author and did some modifications. I think it was very clear how he described it. https://twitter.com/kaitochondria/status/1578083629334294529...
better than "itchy bum colony".
That’s not forgery. That’s inflation.

You only get a net positive income for producing gold if the price is higher than the cost of production.
Britain is at much higher risk because unlike Germany and several other countries on the continent it has virtually no gas storage capacity. Here in Germany we have at least two full months of reserves. Despite Britain's size it has only 1% of the storage capacity that the continent has, even the Dutch storage capacity is nine times higher. One of the reasons? Britain closed one of its largest domestic storage facilities in 2017 for budget reasons. (750 million over ten years)

Obviously the war plays an important role but Tory economic philosophy is well at work here as well, just like in any other public sector.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/24/how-uk-ener...
Being detained at the border is not legally denial of entry, but it effectively is. Or you can enter, but by doing so you'll forfeit any property you had with you. There are all sorts of loopholes like that, and CBP will happily exploit every one of them.
First, consider Obama, who claims himself to have policies of a Reagan Republican, did not want to legalize marijuana. Then, after considering that, listen to all the excuses. Rescheduling marijuana was one pen stroke away from him for 8 years.
Depends on your tradeoffs.

If you elect, oh, 5 people in each district then your proportionality is still granular to about 17% of the vote in the district (for single member districts it's granular to about 50%, of course). And your districts are 5x as large as single member districts are for the same number of representatives. What it does give you though is better electability for local independents.

With mixed-member proportional you can easily get down to couple-percent granularity while maintaining medium-size districts (typically twice as large as single-member).
It's also that there are no guarantees your hardware is supported -- so when you do bother, you might find yourself in config hell trying to get your wifi to work.
It should rhyme:

if (x > y)
x = y;
Apparently it makes liquid bouillon?
I'd say NBCUniversally.
Can you point to any cases of US citizens being denied entry?

The closest I'm aware of is having US citizens overseas be put on the no-fly list, which in practice amounts to the same thing if they can't get to Canada/Mexico either. But hey, they won't be denied entry if they swim across!
Can't they just as easily skip the shred step?
Because he didn't want to. Why is this difficult for people to understand?
GitHub is using Vitess internally to avoid applications needing to be shard aware
He encouraged all state governors to do the same:

>Second, I am urging all Governors to do the same with regard to state offenses. Just as no one should be in a Federal prison solely due to the possession of marijuana, no one should be in a local jail or state prison for that reason, either.

(https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...)
My wife got a B in his course (because of a mixup about lab attendance, which was not an issue with the professor), and attended (at the time) the most competitive medical school in the US. No one "needs" an A.
Well Shotwell said on on March 22nd France and Poland donated, but the US didn't. Several days later on April 5th USAID announced a US government deal, so she was right at the time. The headline is extremely deceptive. Wapo is owned by Bezos who's building a Starlink competitor, Amazon Kuiper, that stands to gain from bad press about the competition.
We're working on camera boards now for our AR Mode (it will likely be featured in our an engineering update next week). After our boards are finished (~2-4 weeks), we'll be able to integrate them into our review units for our first integrated camera tests.
Maybe I just don't understand what goes into CAD (probably even), but I don't see it? CAD needs to spit out precise dimensions for things at the end, while this sort of AI is just going to spit out "something more or less like this", it doesn't seem likely to be usable?