skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russia sells off record amount of US treasury bonds
Total agreement. Libraries are a public good. Any disruption is going to be at least partial privatization. If it's going to remain free for the end user and not funded from public dollars, the public just became the product (to harp on that meme).
Could also just use Tor Browser - it's Firefox modified for privacy, all running through Tor, with search defaulted to DDG. Actually works pretty well as a drop-in system, and you can't beat the privacy.

Ironically, my biggest complaint is the search - a number of queries that I'd expect to "just work" on Google, DDG really struggles with. There actually is a noticeable difference in quality between them.
If you set the confidence threshold to 80% in the test you perform in (1), how many misidentifications do you see, if any?
The problem isn't google search as much as it is the fact that google search and their ad products allows them to promote their own products at a cost far less than their competitors.
Facebook will spend $10M on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s private jets and security
Then explain to me why the French are using Go, To etc. instead of TB and GB like everyone else?
I never said it meant 'Italian', only that I (wrongly) thought it was Italian..
Exactly, also asymmetrical decision power and non-aligned incentives.

If you are a founder and you get a proposal for a 10M$ acquisition, you know you will make something around 2-3M$, which is not too bad.

The employee however will make a small 100k if he owns 1% after dilution, which is usually not the case. This is after many years of hardwork, probably taking a paycut of at least 100k$ per year compared to a big company.
We do have the rand crate, and whole built-in benchmarks aren’t stable, the bencher crate does port them to stable Rust.

While we do add stuff a lot, we don’t break old things, so what you learn is still going to work!
Lingua franca in modern usage doesn't mean exactly the same thing as 'common language'.
This! When tech workers make up more than an eighth of the city's population and are some of the biggest local tax contributors as well.
Adobe Flash’s Gaming Legacy and My Efforts To Save It
Oh danger, orange, her hair may be, by the manger, quite, orange she sees, the fire burns bright, the ranger, he schemes, in death she finds evil Sir Granger's deeds.
Ironically, neither did Dr Matt Wood, the author of this AWS post.

He attempts to refute one unverifiable Rekognition configuration with another.
I recall one of the questions in my interview at google years ago:

"Do you know what kind of company Google is?"

"Sure, everyone thinks you're a tech company or a search company or whatever - but Google is an advertising company, and thats it. All the other stuff distracts from the fact that youre just the most profitable ad company."
The Economist: Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience
How many languages have these sub-languages "baked in"?
Except Uber was building a market.

If I start a company that just subsidizes Uber rides I'm never going to make money. Unless Moviepass provides some actual value to theatres, they won't make money. Theatres aren't going to give them discount rates to Star Wars or Avengers 4 because those movies sell out anyway.
Yes. Been there, done that.

I was wondering what it was I could have done. I was thinking of all the "grey area" things I may have been up to - then I paused and thought: "why am I concerned they could know so much?" because it's possible.

That was the final week I used Windows.

It will get worse before it gets better, and I'm actually thankful.
I must say I'm rather dissappointed in the writing quality of someone who purports to be an MFA candidate in Creative NonFiction. Though this may be more the fault of the blogstyle medium than antyhing else.

It is still better than the middle-school level writing of the editorial the author is responding to.

As for the points made therein, I'm a bit disgusted. The library was conceived as a place for anyone to go to elevate himself by learning. It is meant for a kind of public education. It is not a homeless shelter. Miss Oliver's claim that the library must exist to shelter the low detracts from it's original purpose, to educate the young and old.

Furthermore, Miss Oliver's argument, that we should keep the libraries for the homeless and the addicts jettisons the role of the library as a community center. How can one be comfortable leaving their children at a library when 75% of the patrons are current/former addicts and or homeless?

I love libraries. I grew up in them. I don't think Amazon should replace them (though I do think Amazon would do well to sponsor them, utilizing their distribution channels, repository of ebooks, and even publishing library editions via their print-on-demand services). However, Miss Olivers essay is more an argument to end libraries rather than to save them.
English speakers are not snobs; we borrow nice words and turns of phrase from wherever we encounter them. It's why English spelling is such a mess.
> there is no way that Chinese, as a multi-toned, symbolic language, will ever become the Lingua franca, as it is near impossible for most adults to learn, in contrast to English

While I agree it's unlikely that Chinese will usurp English's place as the global lingua franca (and the orthographic system is actually the main issue, but people could adopt Pinyin instead), it did function in this sort of role once in East Asia (look at the history of Japan, Korea, for instance).
I haven't been to a library in 30 years or so but it used to be that the list of people who borrowed the book were written in a piece of paper in the book itself.

So yes, I can imagine when it was normal to be able to know who borrowed a book last.

This was also common in Japan as it's important to the plot of the movie "Whispers of the Heart" (English title)
I live in New York and the only provider is spectrum. Yesterday I (and all my neighbors) got a letter from Optimum, offering better prices and higher bandwidth.
After calling Optimum I got told that Optimum doesn't service my area.

Is this a new type of turf war?
That reminds me of "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" :D
What is Tildes?
The need to break up monopolies isn't about the consumers as much as it is about having a competitive marketplace, where other businesses didn't have to struggle against googles ability to self promote itself. Markets work best when companies can compete on as close to equal terms as possible (which these days we only really see during the emergence of a new industry).
What's with the downvotes?
Magic Leap reveals Landscape and Immersive mixed reality app UIs
The Conversations That Cryptocurrency Killed
People are being harassed about minor things all the time in this country. The age of social media has just made it more visible. This summer there has been a trend of stories regarding people (usually white) calling the police on their neighbors (usually black) about things like: wearing socks to a pool, barbecuing, sleeping in the common area of the dormitory, and starting a lemonade stand.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/us/black-white-police.htm...
But 'common' is derived from Latin, too! :P
If you're content losing 90% of your followers because the server you host on decides to implement draconian censorship or start charging $50/mo, then yeah, be my guest and use the protocol as it is.

I personally think tying identity to a particular server instance is the wrong approach, whether you can beg your followers to come find your new location or not.

Also, your method only works if the server is still up. If your host server is taken down indefinitely, then you truly do get to rebuild your network again. Fun.
Thanks for the discussion. I assume that those who down vote do not reply.

But I disagree that recycling is a big point regarding solar panels and batteries.

IMO lack of recycling and toxic waste are very lame and ignorant and misleading excuses (by the main stream media) to refuse the solar power industry, the battery industry and the electric car industry.

The threat and harm of climate change is catastrophic and very real and change is very urgent.

The fight against climate change must not be a debate of wrong priorities (waste vs climate change) and short term profitability of companies.

No foolish austerity and no local (and needless) poisoning by solar panels and batteries is worth the harm of climate change.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/0...

https://truthout.org/articles/release-of-arctic-methane-may-...

http://www.climate-change-emergency-medical-response.org/2-d...

http://globalwarming.berrens.nl/globalwarming.htm

For more links:

https://lustysociety.org/ethics.html#climate
Transparent SLIs: See Google Cloud the way your application experiences it
I have always found the Irish approach to Gaelic amusing - you have a whole country that can speak a language that almost nobody actually does.
Relevant Mitchell and Webb sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W34wyKZlWQ

(audio nsfw)
Well my source is a Linguistics Textbook (Language Files, 11th Edition, p15-16) but it says that these changes happened as late as the 17th and 18th centuries because Scholars considered written Latin to be the ideal language (likely because most historical works had been translated to Latin at some point). So even though ending sentences in prepositions had been common for centuries in spoken English, that became frowned upon because it was not allowed in Latin.

Specific examples in the book of "rules" applied to English to match written Latin include:

- Don't ending sentences in prepositions

- Don't split infinitives

- Don't use double negatives

The chapter as a whole was actually about linguistic prescriptivism, but the Latin examples are pretty interesting nonetheless. 17th and 18th century seem pretty far past the point at which French would be the big influencer, but there's no doubt French did influence English as well (though more vocab it seems).
The end of the article points at cultural differences that need to be taken into account. Like someone said in this thread: know your audience!
Hardly seems like a large barrier. I would think the biggest issue would be finding the card company to partner up with, and then it doesn't sound like a very high barrier.

For theatres it's even easier to offer an unlimited option since they can just have the accounts internally. Studios can partner with theatres, though that seems overly complicated (I went to Mission Impossible last night, so I need a paramount account?)
I think that would be way too difficult than writing an emulator.
>Namely, the equity value of google would be more balanced with other smaller firms, and in turn we'd see more very rich people rather than fewer people with net worths well over 10 billion.

Why would that be a good thing? Or rather, a better thing than the current situation? Why would that even be desirable?

Again, antitrust laws exist for one reason: to protect consumers. Not to implement someone's idea of an ideal society or market.

If you believe e.g. that company equity should be more uniformly distributed, go talk to your congressman, have him draft a law to that effect and get congress to vote on it.
English is used by 52.9% of the top 10 million websites [1]. This doesn't factor in proficiency but I don't see why that should be included.

[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_language/a...
In arabic the both the noun and adjectives for "orange" roughly transliterates to "bortuqal":

برتقالي

What's the word for "Portugal" in arabic? "bortughal" (that is also not a good transliteration)

برتغال

Arabic is my favorite.
Are travel search engines hurting? priceline's stock is higher than ever?

This said, I agree with you on everything else you've said.
Oh, you mean you didn't see the last sub-clause of the last paragraph of the third section of the announcement page linked to from the page above? /s

"a new link-aggregator-style community site that's starting its invite-only alpha today"

Seriously, site creators and submitters, you need to do a better job of explaining what you're talking about!
Does anybody else here remember the late 90's when you had to try multiple search engines to get something close to what you were looking for? Google has largely solved that problem and are (IMO rightfully) rewarded for it.

I really like Google and their products. They simply make my life easier. I will admit it would be interesting to see what would happen if search was split up: would that tech improve at a faster pace than it does now? Or would we end up back in the late 90's?
You're calling English and Chinese 'lossy' in terms of their (comparative) lack of morphology?

(Natural language is pretty 'lossy' overall.)
>Then explain to me why the French are using Go, To etc. instead of TB and GB like everyone else?

Probably because some French law mandates it.
I've interacted quite a bit with both Sam and Peter. Your characterization rings completely false. I've never gotten the least hint of the impression they were doing this for self-promotion, but rather to serve to fill an obvious vacuum, perhaps even with a degree of reluctance.

I remember being excited when the “dep committee” was formed, because (if I remember correctly) it was set up with the explicit blessing of the Go Team, with a Go Team Member on it to facilitate two-way communication.

Your characterizations are both inaccurate and ugly.
> I don't see why the theaters themselves aren't just copying this for their chains

They are.
>hear what the customer is really saying not what you think they are saying. Don't immediately bucket them.

I have learned that this is a really nuanced skill and requires a level of maturity that is beyond some people.
...as the major shareholder, it makes sense, but it doesn't tell us anything.
Hard to argue for this when ISPs themselves are not regulated as a utility, even though you must have an ISP to use Google, in many municipalities they are just as much of a monopoly as Google, and they have engaged in even more anticompetitive tactics than Google.

If you want to regulate the whole Internet infrastructure - from device to ISP to web browser to search engine - as a utility you might have more of a case, but that gets a lot more complicated.
More like this: "No haga nada sin pedirme permiso."

Word for word: "Don't do nothing without asking me for permission."

Meaning: Don't do anything without asking me for permission.
Tildes.net says it's invite-only and leads to a blog post about the announcement of Tildes, but you have to parse the language to understand what it is. I honestly can't stand sites that assume you know what they are all about. Just a couple of sentences describing what it is and why you should care on the main page would be nice.
> For notes I use Evernote, but investigating Standard Notes.

I am a (former) Evernote employee. Before I joined I didn't use Evernote. After I left I started using Evernote extensively (Hard to use the app when you are constantly messing up your test account doing dev work :-) )

From my experience there I know that:

1) the people there really care about the customers. If there is any sort of problem, the customer support will really go to bat for the customer. There are more than a few times where CS ensured that a bug fix made it in.

2) If there is any sort of data corruption, Evernote will stop the weekly release to get back the data before doing the next release.

3) You can get a hold of a live human being to get support

4) Evernote has a explicit policy of never going to an ad model.

5) User privacy is highly important.

6) User security is highly important - if Evernote had a choice between Evernote as a company getting hacked or a user (not even a customer) getting their account hacked. Evernote errors on the side of protecting the users' security.

Please reward this positive company by paying for the product - that is their only revenue source :-)
Indeed:

$ echo 张𬎆| iconv -f utf-8 -t gb18030 | iconv -f gb18030 -t utf-8

张𬎆
I read the linked blog post about what it is, and I still don't know what it is. I guess it isn't for me.
More importantly, the library doesn't have an access fee. Computers and phones cost a nonzero amount of money; decent internet access, if available, can also be pretty pricey for people living check to check or worse.
I might sign up for the AMC one, or regal.

mostly I like to see movies at Cinerama though. Just way way better.
There is not a single screenshot to explain the product, anywhere.
The number of TLC cars has skyrocketed recently. Which, in many important ways, is a good thing. But this is a crowded city, literally everything that is at risk of runaway growth in this city is regulated, and for good reason, all the way down to hot dog carts.

Ironically, the Mayor wants to hand out more cart licenses, and he's already handed 5000 more parking passes for City employees.

The current administration is fragile when it comes to demands of their sponsors. Medallion owners and the hotel industry are two such sponsors (Airbnb crackdown).
Looks like the current asking price for medallions is now considerably less than $1MM:

https://nycitycab.com/Business/TaxiMedallionList.aspx
> "A natural answer might suggest itself: “I must have been unconsciously working away on these images—and solved or partially solved the mystery without even knowing it. Then the answer ‘broke through’ into consciousness, when I saw the image again.” Yet this would be quite wrong—the same sudden “pop out” occurs when we continuously contemplate the image, and there has been no opportunity for unconscious background pondering. The phenomenon of sudden insight stems not from unconscious thought, but from the nature of the problem: Searching for a meaningful interpretation with few helpful and unambiguous clues."

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. Just because we have an instance of conscious thought leading to the conclusion, and a scenario where it is possible that the unconscious is playing a role, the conclusion that in the second scenario the unconscious does not play a role based on the ability to come to the conclusion consciously does not follow. The nature of the problem here is not given enough of a definition for one to conclude that there is only one way to get to the answer, either.

>"The brain’s networks of neurons are highly interconnected, so there seems little scope for assigning different problems to different brain networks."

Except we know very well that the brain solves different kinds of problems in different areas... the Occipital lobe, Wernicke's area vs Broca's area, are different "sub problems" the brain is working on which the conscious part gets information about. Maybe different creative problems use the whole frontal cortex differently, but the "computational machine" that is our brain is definitely divided up into sub-problems; some are very, very obviously unconscious, like the "problem" of keeping our hearts beating.

>" If it is indeed possible to search for foods or countries simultaneously (even though we can consciously report the results of only one search at a time), then the rate at which we generate answers in both categories should be substantially greater than the rate at which we can generate answers from either category alone."

I think this is a bad experiment and a bad conclusion. It's a bad experiment because in the "control case" (only listing foods or only listing countries), the unconscious, if helping, would still be helping in these cases, trying to generate a list while the conscious mind is also trying to generate a list. So it's not really a controlled experiment, because the unconscious mind is never "stopped" - it is assumed to not be used. It's a bad conclusion then because the premise is faulty; we wouldn't expect someone to list two separate lists more quickly if the same unconscious mechanism is a poor assistant when making the lists alone, too.
Well, it is factual up to a point, which is great, and then he starts speculating, which is okay, and then he turns it into some indictment of Trump for tweeting that he was tortured, and then another indictment for not attacking more on the same issue. This brings all the weak sources into question. But really the problem is that I don’t care about his politics. Not do I care about Trump. I care about the fact that an entire nation full of people is living in some kind of perverse socialist utopian hell, and this tragic case is but one glimpse into it.

His name was Otto Warmbier. I will not forget.
Oh, reddit without all of the annoying users. Also, without all of the not-annoying users.

Hmmm.
> I said "you're by yourself". Forget the magazines, they are the crappiest magazines ever. The pages are sticky, they are awful.

I assumed you meant "by myself" as in "not with anyone you know". I've actually never sat in a waiting room that was entirely devoid of human life before, but I'm sure it happens in less populated areas.

> Your problem is you never took control of your smartphone.

I don't know where you got this impression. I'm not the person your original comment was responding to - I have a smartphone that I use and like.

> "Sit and think". No, I feel like reading some poetry or philosophy or an interesting article, or listening to music, or playing a puzzle game. I don't want to sit there thinking about the upcoming doctor's appointment.

Those are all valid ways to pass time - so is just sitting and thinking and everything else I said. Being able to do any of those things you listed with the swipe of a finger, even though they are not the usual suspects of Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and Twitter, is still a form of instant gratification and still has an effect on you. A negative effect, some (myself included) think.

Also, there are plenty of other things to think about aside from the upcoming doctor's appointment.

> They can be set to be just an innocent little screen with interesting words or whatever on it. My own smartphone doesn't annoy me, it does exactly what I want it to do. Zero notifications, internet data is off until I need it etc.

Yes, they can be used like this. I use my own smartphone in a similar manner.

I read something recently (I can't remember what) but it had a quote that I liked.

"You can choose not to use a TV, but you can't choose to live in a world where the TV doesn't exist"

In a similar sense, a person can choose to use a smartphone in a responsible manner or not to use one at all, but they can't choose to live in a culture that wasn't affected by smartphones. They can't choose to live in a world where endless distractions aren't always a few swipes away.

The closest they can get is ditching the smartphone, so that's what they do. It's not just a matter of configuring away the parts of a smartphone you don't like.
Google didn't invent online ads, not even the auctioned ones. Also, their innovations in the online ad space were generally limited to their search-based ad business.
It's in large bold text at the very top of the post:

If this is the first that you've heard of Tildes, you should start by reading the announcement blog post (https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes) for general information about the project and its goals.
I'm talking of the syntax. Why can't I write a macro in more rust-like form for example instead of a very different language
A Git Origin Story
I'd rather just get a ticket to a different movie twice, via moviepass, and just pay to see the "hot" movie normally.

I hate this surge pricing bullshit. It's just scalping and I'd rather lose moviepass entirely than every contribute to that shit.
How do you make money doing this? The answer is simple: volume.

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/first-citiwide...
Yes true (although it is from Old French) - let's go for 'shared speech' instead :)