skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s less verbose than many statically typed languages due to inference. As long as you stay away from high level type extensions like RankNTypes, you can write whole programs without a single type annotation and still get full type checking.
What a sneaky wording.

> fetches Amazon’s price for products that users see on Walmart.com, Target.com and elsewhere.

To me that reads: "we will turn your computer to a node in our scraping botnet". I would guess the internal documents they have will refer to this as market research, but the fact remains that this sounds like a botnet under construction.
In your example, you have two groups of four musicians, one with an engineer, and one without.

- Group A has the same productivity as a similar group from 1850

- Group B (with the engineer and recording gear) has way higher productivity due to mass distribution

Because the two labour markets are connected (people can move between markets A and B), the folks in Group A have gotten pay increases due only to the increases in productivity in market B.
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Yes, but you should acknowledge that you don't get to make that decision for me.
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> Almost all improvements now are iterative.

Improvements are directed to where the money goes. UCI racing rules hold back experimentation outside of concept bikes. E-bikes may have broken the dam open and we'll start to see a lot of interesting things come out in that direction.
It is always about how to drive traffic and that will always be part of the game, whatever you are writing for. Good long form ideas might have a place, but most people are not interested in that type of information let alone that type of format. You can have something interesting to say that may benefit many people, but without marketing to get your ideas out, it becomes a rather "personal" endeavor. You can try different form of marketing (like click-bait titles and other gimmicks) to get your ideas out there, but ultimately if you don't have the cash to fund the campaign to promote your own site, you will be relying on sites like medium.com or whatever blogs of your choice to have a hand in spreading your message.

If you truly believed you were writing things that people will want to read, long form or not, you SHOULD be willing to invest in marketing yourself to promote your own site. At least enough to justify your "risk vs reward" balance.

Taking out a Facebook ad for your local area is not as expensive as you might think and I honestly believe the whole Google Ads and Facebook Ads have allowed the little guys to buy ads and distribute them to the specific target they want. The tools are there, what is lacking is the will and confidence to follow through.
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Author here. What’s new is the ICO has changed their guidance: they had explicitly stated analytics was acceptable in the past. The law itself hasn’t changed, but what most people thought was compliant is now unambiguously not.
Has the author made sure he's using the exact same set of word embeddings as utilized by the authors of that paper? Are they trained on exactly the same corpus with the same parameters? Do the md5 hashes match? This could be cheating... Or it could be a case of model mismatch. I'm left without a clear reason to prefer one explanation over the other.
Well, I'm from the UK and I definitely think that it is something you should be proud of - it was awesome and the astronauts, all of them, true heroes.

NB I apparently watched the Apollo 11 landing at the age of 4 and was utterly obsessed with it for many years as a kid.
I walk to and from work - they are perfect for me. My body is engaged so the audiobooks stimulate my brain just enough to allow me to stay locked in.
It can't be guessed, but it can be shared, which is a vulnerability for content that would otherwise be inconvenient to share e.g. large videos.
As a rebuttal:

> We are not anti-union, but we are not neutral either.

https://youtu.be/AQeGBHxIyHw

Of course they're gonna say that. All of the other countries listed in that article didn't, so quite a cherry pick you got there.
True, it's just he loosened the notion of real and virtual to an extent that's unfamiliar to people.

Anyway nice profile name. :D
I guess for me I mostly halfheart on the audiobook end. Like if I missed a sentence or two I'll just let it go. So I dont listen to serious books. On the other hand some weight training doesn't really require a fast cadence if not training for explosion I assume. Interestingly for me music sometimes can mess up my own exercise tempo.
The US unemployment rate is at 3.6%, the lowest in living memory. It has never been easier to find a new job.

The number of people working multiple jobs to make ends meet peaked in the 90s, but the legend lives on...

That you find blue collar job conditions unacceptable says something about you, not too much about the jobs.
This is a very globalist view. What about region specific jobs? The worker in Bangladesh absolutely isn't in the local competitive pool for service jobs. When we talk about exported goods, then sure.
I am not, just shared my perspective on the matter
I think they think that their exclusive rights to their books will make the trend irrelevant as people will have to work through them to get access to their books.

Hopefully people will just flock to alternatives.
Sources: Amazon faces a full-blown EU antitrust probe within days
You can't partially apply type parameters in rust, that is HKT. But traits & associated types in traits get you pretty far.
Conversely, I've seen many businesses fail because their software is too unreliable. Better technology helps mitigate this.
I think it is a step forward to pay users for data. Of course, amazon still collects everything it can anyway, for free. But in principle, this is good.
But two things.

1. What is the correct price? Amazon is doing this to better discriminate customers on offerings, price and quality. It's essentially the sophisticated version of what econ 101 calls "siphoning off the consumer surplus by price discrimination". At this stage, it is highly doubtful that the fixed 10 bucks actually represents the true value that the consumer's data.

2. Externalities. Especially considering that amazon can classify you by other means, people that are like you getting these 10 bucks means that amazon increases its discriminatory power toward you - whether you have gotten the money or not. This is a negative externality - one that the market simply can not solve because we fundamentally lack information and this behavior essentially induces a prisoners dilemma among consumers. Amazon is going to know everything anyway, so I might as well take the 10 bucks.
Adding to Neil's answer:

Racket is currently being relicensed as MIT / Apache 2.

https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/1570

It's a slow process though. Not because people object to relicensing, but some people are no longer in contact with the Racket community and they can be difficult to find.
Scribd's model is pretty close. They've moved from a monthly token system to flat fee for nearly unlimited listening.
He has[0]:

- Bachelors, Masters and M.Phil in Zoology from Madras Christian College

- Masters in Medical Anthropology from Harvard

- Doctorate in Ecological Sciences from Old Dominion

- Doctorate in History of Science from Harvard

As long as you accept that a Master's is considered an advanced degree (I do FWIW), he doesn't seem to be lying about it.

[0]https://krea.edu.in/faculty.html
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https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/
> You see this is because the new generations expect to rent ....

Why do you say that?
They complain when they take your data in exchange for a service.

They complain when they pay you money for your data.

They just want to complain. Thus their complaints are simply worthless.
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The M5 does a 10.5 1/4 mile, it is a very impressive time for a production vehicle but it's not insane. A lot of production sports bikes are into the 9s.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_car...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fastest_production_mot...

edit: Actually 10.5 is pretty insane for a production vehicle but we live in a time with a lot of insanely fast and overpowered cars.
I do one ear when I'm walking or working. I do both if I'm at the gym.
> but it absolutely requires public key crypto to be done correctly

It actually doesn't, have a look at how the Firefox Account Login protocol works, essentially using only hashing and KDFs:

https://blog.mozilla.org/warner/2014/05/23/the-new-sync-prot...

It doesn't really achieve challenge-response without it, but it does mean at least that the server never sees the plaintext password.
Its sorta like "seawater will rust steel eventually" vs we make all our ships out of steel.

The ancient Boeing report is quoted at length as gospel but the reasoning is not explained. Here's some weird facts:

1) Most metals are not happy with NTO because any moisture turns NTO into concentrated nitric acid and nitric eats lots of metals.

2) Some industrial nitric acid plant components are made of very expensive titanium because its strong and essentially nitric acid corrosion proof. This makes Ti sound fantastic for NTO... however...

3) It is true that titanium is one of the few metals you can dunk in seawater where stress-corrosion does NOT occur. Which makes people even more hyper optimistic about Ti for NTO tanks as per above... however...

4) Unfortunately titanium DOES stress corrode in NTO. Stress corrosion is where essentially microcracks that would normally heal in other metals instead get a higher volume "rust" oxidation in the crack slowly breaking the metal apart after thousands or millions of cycles even if an unstressed part would never wear. Think of a perfectly painted garage that would never have wood rot due the the paint protecting the wood, but if you bend the wood back and forth tiny cracks will form in the paint and the water will soak thru the cracks into the wood and the garage wood will rot eventually even if the paint was theoretically perfect under unstressed conditions. Its actually a little more complicated than this.

So from an engineering standpoint if you build something under millions of cycles of repetitive stress like the shaft of a circulation pump in an industrial production NTO tank out of titanium, you're doomed to have it shear in a "sooner than economically viable" amount of time like a couple months of continuous use maybe. On the other hand if you build a valve that will only exist for a little while and only be under a couple stress cycles in its lifetime and only possibly operate once for a few seconds, thats very likely OK.

There is also a systems issue where if a life-critical failure occurs upstream resulting in everyone being dead already, it doesn't matter if downstream a system that should never be contaminated fails and burns. Or rephrased if enough stuff upstream broke such that the helium system literally caught fire, the crew are already dead men and the ships already lost so it doesn't really matter much anymore if the helium system burns or does not burn at that point. I mean its technically interesting but if you're gonna lose the vehicle and pax it doesn't matter really in the long run. Kinda like the old line about how we could build jet liners to the same standards as black boxes, but the external G forces of the crash would kill the passengers inside the giant black box so realistically why bother. If something upstream fails badly enough that the helium system is compromised, they're already dead anyway so engineering a theoretically indestructible helium system is a waste of time if the mission, ship, and passengers are already lost, so may as well save the weight and labor.
I generally support regulations that protect privacy, as I'm sure most of us do. But they can come at a very real human cost, as in this case. Especially when it comes to regulations that affect people who aren't able to express their preferences (because they have died, are incapacitated, are not able to think clearly for whatever reason, etc), any general rule is going to lead to some bad outcomes.

FWIW I tend to think 911 calls ought to be public because they are public records. There are probably ways of making them public but not completely easy to access (eg, you could only listen to a specific record on site in a records archive). That would at least guard against the problems of releasing everything on the internet, which would impose major reputational risks to everybody who ever made a 911 call.
This go around, "Hey, it's not like it's a total body scan."

Next year, "I did a total body scan at the Amazon Outlet and Care Center and got a free year of Amazon Prime."

Next next year, "The Amazon chip implant was totally painless and I got an account credit of 100 Bezos Bucks."

Next decade, "Alabama is the only state I'm not allowed to marry Alexa."
Leather belts would work fine if you made them wide enough. I'd expect a canvas belt to be used instead - wide again being key. I'd expect to need a the belt to be a couple cm wide to work. A chain is better, but this should work.
> unless you block them with something like pi-hole or no script

Even that wouldn't work if anyone is using custom domain names (which the vast majority of published endpoints will be). The best you can do is black list Amazon owned IPs. But you should expect half the web (figure made up) to break and potentially in unexpected ways). Not to mention plenty of other internet based infra like IoT devices, smart TVs, etc
Increasing minimum wage will do nothing. If you increase the cost of the workers of a good then the cost of the good increases. The idea that we can raise the minimum wage without inflating will never happen, companies are not just going to absorb the costs of increased wages, they will increase their prices to compensate. So the net effect of raising the minimum wage is nothing.
Making 911 calls available because "your family wants to know" seems to be too far of a violation of privacy. While I feel sorry for the person who lost their brother, he can go to court and ask for the records to be released - which seems about the correct amount of privacy protection for something like this.
I read books, and listen to them with TTS software. This was I can switch between listening and reading and keep my place.
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Hi, Brendan, will your new book useful for DevOps|SRE engineers, how do you think?
> This company has its priorities ass backwards at times, apparently fart gags and video games are more important than delivering promised voice commands and then doing a proper blue tooth audio stack.

This. It makes It makes me angry when I see those features it reminds me that this is a company not run by adults.
> But the whole point of WSL is that I can use the nice GUIs available on Windows.

I think the point is that you can have a linux environment on your windows machine without running your own VM, not that you can use GUIs for your platform back end. If I just wanted GUIs I would use Mac OS. The real godsend of WSL is that we poor souls who are forced to use windows machines at work can finally have a development environment that isn't a second class citizen (assuming you aren't a windows platform developer). I'm not sure that it's fair to say that WSL doesn't solve anything for anyone just because it doesn't fit your workflow. I run node, haskell, and python in WSL and VSCode remote development extensions provides me with a full featured IDE for each of those environments, along with git integration if I should need it. Usually I just open up a terminal when I need to use git. Anyway, the next version of WSL will host a full linux kernel, so it should be easier to use X forwarding if you need linux-native GUI applications.
I would appreciate American tourists not to abuse the Autobahn as their racetrack.

And remember, even when there is no speed limit, Richtgeschwindigkeit is 80 mph, and if you're going faster, the judge will apportion more liability to you in case of an accident, even if you've driven perfectly.
In one model I found online[1], the closest word to "king" was "kings" (0.71) and the second closest was "queen" (0.65).

[1] http://bionlp-www.utu.fi/wv_demo/ (making sure to select the English model)
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I am always on the lookout for something like Minecraft, but is geared towards construction in a large scale without the restriction of a first person view, ie having an RTS style zoomable God camera.
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Why don't you just use moneydollars for those titles as you want to start them and save your credits for the bigger books? That's what I've been doing.
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I would have thought the issue was more that many books have pacing that takes forever when read aloud. (You generally read faster than it takes to read out loud.)

In any case, you may be looking for radio plays. It's sort of a niche these days but it probably takes better advantage of the medium than simply reading fiction does. (I find non-fiction audiobooks to be very hit or miss. You can't have any real dependency on maps, figures, code/equations, etc. and the content has to be simple enough that you can just go through it at a constant linear pace.)
your 2 sentence explanation is better than the entire article!
Applying the principle of charity our parent quoted their terms to demonstrate consent, not legal trickery.

The criticism against this argument would be that those terms aren't sufficient to provide consent as people habitually ignore them.

Not sure what would count as the morally appropriate implementation of consent. Probably some middle-ground between buried in terms and continuously re-emerging full screen blocking warning labels.

The easy way out is probably found in some of the legal implementations of sufficiently informed consent.
Having 911 recordings public is one of the most insane things about this country.

Why not make my doctor visits public too?
Going quiet by government by hiding mistakes of police forces.. oh yes. Hide more ..
I don't find it a step forward at all. It's a move toward pricing out the privacy-conscious. Right now, auto insurers in Canada will give you a premium reduction if you let them spy on you as you drive. But what happens when that becomes the norm? People end up paying a premium to not be spied on. Eventually privacy becomes unaffordable.
I think that may have been the old S. The reports I've read have not seen that issue with the 3.
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Joseph Needham is hardly a fount of objectivity and lack of bias too.
I said the same thing in a comment further down.
UK based people with a TV license can watch "8 days to the moon and back" on BBC iPlayer.

I've seen both Apollo 11 and 8 days to the moon and back, and while there are stylistic differences, the power is much the same.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006p5f/8-days-to-the...
That has nothing to do with the parent comment, which was about manufacturing processes and planning. The bailouts were the result of overproduction and high labor costs in an unexpectedly shrinking market.
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OpenID Connect, aka. 'OIDC', is widely deployed. It's a compatible extension on top of OAuth 2.0, the latter of which was often used to provide third-party apps some delegated access to users' data at some data silo. This all coincided with the proliferation of HTTP-native APIs inspired by the easiest-to-implement tenets of REST. The payload of OIDC and OAuth 2.0 can be carried with in HTTP headers, which is a good fit for these APIs and simplifies implementation.

OIDC is used by some branded 'sign-in' buttons like 'Sign-in with Google' [1], and the new 'Sign in with Apple' feature is a close copy of the OIDC, if not yet directly conformant and compatible [2].

[1] https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OpenIDConne... [2] https://openid.net/2019/06/27/open-letter-from-the-openid-fo...
Why is this named 'paradox' since it doesn't express a paradox?
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hmm, me too :o)

but from reading the 'dealers of lightning' it was kind of apparent, that parc had a huge influence on development of internetworking-protocols than is widely known f.e. we must surely remeber about the 'parc universal packet' aka PUP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_Universal_Packet) as a precursor to the much beloved tcp/ip protocol suite etc etc.

unfortunately, i didn't really enjoy the 'wizards' book as much as i would have really liked...i had the distinct impression that it was kind of 'jumping all over the place'
that's a very good suggestion. thank you!
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Here's a (legal) free version: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/3144/1/adoisr.pdf

I recommend this extension: https://unpaywall.org/
Can confirm. I was an electronic tech in US government work in the 1980's. We routinely used MEK (methyl ethyl keytones) to clean circuit boards, with zero protections. We got these weird requests to confirm we did this of our own free will in the late 80's. Then, in the 2000's, similarly weird requests to confirm we "knew the risks". If you complied, you were guaranteed VA coverage.

Anectodally, strange rates of lower gastric, bladder, and other carcinomas in in my peer group.
Concert orchestras aren't only paid for live performances, they also record, and musicians themselves flit between gigs and often wear a lot of different hats. There's a lot of cross pollination with musicians.
Why spend so much energy arguing on something that wasn't even the point OP was making?
It does seem to be a rather meaningless exercise and depends on what you start with. If you have a back garden or a tiny plot of land, you can easily grow the required ingredients and raise the chicken for far less than $1500, although the wheat will take that amount of time to grow. If you start with absolutely nothing and insist on farming wheat in the middle of San Francisco, it can certainly cost far more than $1500 to get your chicken sandwich.
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The claim "While countries such as the US contribute almost nothing to plastic waste in the oceans" is laughable. Where do you think all that single use plastic from US goes? It's an externality that US doesn't pay for but likes to talk about a lot. https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/pft/2019/3/6/15700....
Do they paint the helicopter differently for every Tour de france?
I do not know about cars but using electrical tape on aircraft is absolutely not allowed. Unlike in most electronics vehicles deal with vibration, improper wire routing will cause chafing against any surface it touches over time causing exposed wires and shorts in the best case. Zip ties are obviously not allowed because they would cause chafing themselves, electrical tape will likely come come undone after some years. I have seen cheap electrical tape do so before with age. I can't imagine cars do not deal with a level of vibration that would cause this.