skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a fast reader myself, I can't get myself to listen to audiobooks or podcasts while sitting in one place.
When I'm walking, it doesn't bother me as much, so I listen to them on my morning/evening walk in the park. I finished several books this way.
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This is why I use old.reddit.com, or the compact version ( https://reddit.com/.compact )
This initiative will probably make you change your mind...
Disneyland is tracking guests and generating big profits doing it
I agree with most of the comments here that you should just pay for Spotify... BUT genuine question. If it's just muted then the ad still plays and Spotify and the artist still get their money, so what is the harm?

(the obvious answer would be the advertising company, anyone else or anything else I am not seeing?)
Open source projects on GitHub:

https://github.com/23andMe/

https://github.com/color/

https://github.com/recursionpharma/
You seriously need to work on your documentation, I can't understand if this is to pass the env variables or what? if its only sending them then how are we supposed to accept them? and if we are using a different implementation to read from a file then why do we even need this?
When owners of capital collude to remove owning as an option, they become sole arbiters of pricing.

So "afford" becomes a bit odd when someone simply expands their profit margins as much as the market will bear.
That’s exactly the point, to make that internal customer external, and make any special access or APIs they have available to competitors on an equal footing.
Most ads on Spotify are not even intrusive - they are (in)famously bad for advertising Spotify's own premium service (try premium for free!).

This is just ridiculous. If you're annoyed by the ads, get a subscription then.
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I think making textbooks more accessible to students will be a huge positive movement for education, especially in countries such as the states where education is already a multi billion dollar industry.
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Too cynical for me.

I've met quite a few wealthy people during my career and the only ones who seemed happy had a stoical detachment from their winnings. For the rest I would say their drive was verging on a mental illness.
Tag management & grouping tags in hierarchy is the missing.
Well, that's the meaning of "unwitting". I think the article is only saying that tencent collect (information on) the pictures shared by users through the service.
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My company gives us free subscription to GetAbstract.com, on which you get summary of books(the app has audio feature, narrated by real person).
I started playing around with word embeddings in SpaCy for finding synonyms, antonyms or any kind of word similarity that could be used to cluster a list of words into different conceptual groups. So far, the results doesn't seem to correlate very well with what I would consider "similar". Hopefully combining it with tools like WordNet and lemmatization + Levenshtein distance can get me closer to something useful though.
I do the same, and listen to most audio books or podcasts at at least 1.33x (this four-thirds factor reduces the listening time by a quarter). A contributing element to determining what speed factor is suitable is what I think of as "information density" in the writing style. With content that requires more digestion, such as The Economist (particularly their more technical articles), I do best processing their excellent audio edition at a simple 1.0x.
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I use the zone out to go to sleep at night :-)

But, if I'm walking or driving, it tends to keep my mind more active, alert, and aids my concentration on not only the book, but the walking and driving too.
You missed the point. It's not about what React does, it is the "nobody uses jQuery anymore, everybody uses React" syndrome. React doesn't need to do anything as long as we use it.
I believe it's actually that people don't like exclusivity of platform. A game for PC should be sold on all platforms (or at least the major ones).

A tv series should be distributed on all platforms, rather than just HBO or Neflix or Hulu. Making exclusivity deals should be outlawed as anti-consumer.
It's definitely a different thing, and I listen to different books than I would read. Fiction rarely works for me, as an audiobook. Douglas Adams is a notable exception. His audiobooks were fantastic, and I assume this relates to those books' origin as radio-dramas.

It depends on context though. If I'm driving and listening, my attention is good enough to follow light nonfiction. If I'm washing dishes or commuting, something more conversational like a podcast is better.

Incidentally, I'd be real interested in audiobooks as supplements to books rather than just alternative mediums. Take a book like Sapiens. I like to read a book like that, using my eyes. But.. if each chapter/topic had a conversation between ynh and colleagues, students or somesuch... It makes for a nice supplement. Read the books take on the paleolithic/linguistic revolution.. and then maybe conversationally talk about alternative possibilities or the history of the idea.

Not limited to college course based books (sapiens was "intro to world history," before it was a book). "Classics" could have book club-like companion audiobooks. I'm all in if someone want to make a companion audiobook to George Orwell's essays, for example.
No its an ethical concern. To the degree, that some countries have legal frameworks to make sure that unethical studies dont take place.

Conducting a study on unknowing testsubjects which aims to influence the subject is an ethical question. Picture for example the nocebo effect, there are only limited studies on humans, as inducing these negative effects on unknowing subjects is extremely unethical. An ethics board has to, among other things, evaluate if your study will induce any negative effects in the participants. While negative effects can be accepted, its extremely unlikely for unknowing testsubjects which didnt give meaningful consent.
> The authors justed picked the 10th example in the list without clearly stating it.

That's not an accurate description what Bolukbasi et al (2016) [0] did. In particular, they do not list x close to lovely + he - she and then pick arbitrarily from that list. Instead, they explicitly reject that approach (see appendix A), because they're looking for pairs of words that are maximally gendered. They do that by finding x and y such that the angle between x - y and she - he is minimized. Since the task they're solving is different, you can't fault them for getting different results.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06520
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very interesting to watch. great result!
Having to log in to Google just to read a message on a mailing list always creeps me out. Every time I see it it looks like a phishing attempt :-/
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Unfortunately that ship has long since sailed. Every company is A/B testing everything on every user.
Slight nit: GCC has been written in C++ (not C) for several years now.
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I started Red Mars. I love the setting and engineering but couldn't get through all the political intrigue.
As a previous employee of one of the biggest free to play game companies i felt pretty bad.

What parents aren't aware of is the fact that game companies except the developers employ professional PhD psychologists to take advantage of people - mostly kids.
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While not based on Word2Vec, there's a puzzle game that uses words to craft and manipulate rules of a physical world: Baba Is You. https://hempuli.com/baba/
I would consider losing a metal straw or canvas bag as negligent, but devious?
This seems to be all about heap-allocated objects. Can the ownership machinery reason about lifetimes of stack-allocated objects at all?

For example, i would like to declare a buffer on the stack, read some data into it, make const pointers into the buffer, put those pointers in heap-allocated structs, put those structs in a vector, and do some manipulation. As long as all the heap-allocated structs expire before i return from the function where the buffer was declared, this is entirely safe, but if they escape, i'm in trouble.
Isn't Go inspired by Oberon? That would explain some things.
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Unprecedented': Netflix revoking Why scene heralded as world first
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We're all to blame for Wikipedia's huge sexism problem
What happens if you get the latent space of king, do no algebra and return the outcome with king being excluded? In case it's queen, then the author is correct and these examples are highly misleading. In case it's something like prince, Lord or ruler of the seven kingdoms the latent space algebra would be suitable imho.

Also, if we think about it in terms of decision manifolds, it seems the distance between queen and king is too large for the simple - man + woman to have an effect. Why not scale that substraction, so it leads to a change in predicted class without removing king? But of course finding a justifiable weight would be hard..
I've been reading for more than 50 years and listening to audiobooks for the last 30 or so. I find I get different things out of the two formats. When I listened to Lord of the Rings (by the excellent Rob Inglis), there were all sorts of turns of phrase and whole sections that I didn't remember from my previous readings (multiple).

But this article is spot on for me, I can't listen to audio books where I'm trying to learn something while doing anything other than driving. Some non-fiction is also simply too dense to effectively learn from while listening, I want to stop and reflect, re-read and make notes.

I started listening to "The Hard Thing about Hard Things" on Audible and quickly abandoned it for the hard back. My dead tree copy has numerous notes and a few dozen stickies as bookmarks.
You re-hash the client's hash on the server as part of the verification, no?
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As far as I understand this statement is inaccurate in regards to alcohol (I'm not sure about the other drugs).

Psychological and physical dependency are two separate things. Alcohol addiction normally begins with psychological dependency and may or may not progress to a physical dependency too: https://goaskalice.columbia.edu/answered-questions/drinking-...
Relevant text:

So what was happening during Apollo 11, as I recall, was that repeated jobs to process rendezvous radar data (that of course were not really there) were scheduled because a misconfiguration of the radar switches. Thus, the core sets got filled up and a 1202 alarm was generated. The 1201 that came later in the landing was because the scheduling request that caused the actual overflow was one that had requested a VAC area.

Quite fascinating that these alarms automatically rebooted computer and picked up essential jobs exactly where they had left off.
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Not evolution, but I would recommend King Solomon's Ring, written by the Austrian scientist Konrad Lorenz in 1949. (Nominations: Best science book ever). A wonderful bookv in the English translation, so I would guess the French translation would be good too.

Also anything of Oliver Sacks' popular books: humorous, interesting, and insightful.

For evolution, I personally still enjoy reading The Selfish Gene (and The Extended Phenotype), but maybe you should read it first (because although it is superbly written, many people would not find it stimulating).
Try listening after you’ve pushed yourself to exhaustion after intense exercise — body won’t want to do anything but lie there — mind can totally focus on story . Also helps if what your listening to is actually good —- try Andy weirs THE MARTIAN
yes but it takes millions of years so no need to worry, and the replacement rate you need is small.
Same goes for all the extensions. The Linux version is really solid.
Model of imperial Rome that took historian 35 years to build
I disagree. I don't see much bragging around here. And amazing people hang here, which are often very humble.
The sewage plant will stop pumping out sewage if its power is gone. The sewage that floods the power plant will then drain away; it is only flooded if there is a continuous influx of sewage. So yes, it looks like this is a proper NOT gate because the power plant is flooded iff the sewage plant's power is on (modulo propagation delays).
For me, it's part of the experience. Going too slow for anything written as prose is detrimental - I feel, and this may be a strange way of putting it, 'bogged down in words', and I'm not actually experiencing the narrative. I feel like I'm spending too much time on "He said" and other connecting words, which pulls me out of the world.

It's one of the reasons I prefer books to audiobooks - I can slow down and enjoy the speech/intricate descriptions, but virtually skip over 'functional' words.
I think he means lunar eclipses do actually happen in the Moon (the Moon stops reflecting light) while solar eclipses happen only in Earth and not in the Sun (the Sun keeps emitting light as usual).

What we call lunar eclipses are what the inhabitants of the Moon would call solar eclipses and what we call solar eclipse they would call Earth eclipses, if they used similar terminology.
There is a moral equivalence between the method, not the goal.
Gold is very resistant to any sort of oxidation (the oxides are less stable than the metal), but of course using gold for a rocket wouldn't be very practical.
Could digital clothing help stop climate change?
Sure, they won't be exactly the same - but give it 20 generations and there won't be a significant difference.

The people will largely be genetically the same, the population and its distribution will be largely the same - they'll fit into the same ecological niche, they'll be inventing the same things and polluting the same rivers.

There is potential for the butterfly effect to do something - the right change to an unstable equilibrium certainly has the potential to trigger a cascade of events.

In general though, such events are highly improbable - and even dramatically cascading events will have their impacts dampened across time and space.
My girlfriend works in healthcare. She complains a lot about stress at work. Burned-out colleagues, unrealistic schedules, a rotten culture. As far as I can judge from her stories, this has mainly to do with shitty management. Her manager would not last two weeks at my company. My company can afford good managers. Since managers are not tied to a sector (in the way nurses or musicians are), the good ones tend to go where they are payed good money and the bad ones end up wreaking havoc where they are payed at least some money. That, also, is Baumol in action.
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Yes, the result seems entirely predictable and logical to me. Even using normal human logic, even if the amount of meaning that the whole term "king" contains is 100%, the "male" part of that meaning would answer for maybe what, ~20%? The rest would imaginatively be filled with things like "top executive in an organization", "power by family relations, not by democracy", "fancy clothes", "chess piece", "ceremonial post more than actual decision making in some countries", "feudalism", etc.
> Today we build web applications with general purpose language runtimes. Osgood is an experiment that asks the question: "What if we built a runtime specifically for web apps? What kind of benefits can we get from being at a higher level of abstraction?"

Isn’t this also the PHP, Allaire ColdFusion, and ASP/ASP.net experiment, each making a very different set of tradeoffs? Or successors such as OpenRESTY with built in LuaJIT?

It’s true a lot of “we” think web apps are built in general purpose runtimes, but plenty who think that’s lower ROI, so there’s a body of prior art here.

Excited to see experiments continuing this direction. Also consider looking back over past 25 years to when that question was first experimented with — which concepts stuck the landing, which concepts were left behind, and why.
Exactly, this is a good point! There are two factors, the baseline speed of the narrator and the complexity of the topic.

Years ago, I attended a Pragmatic Marketing course and the speaker started off by saying he spoke really fast but once you got used to it, you would never be bored or find your mind wandering. I remember that to this day and when I'm speaking in public, I try to keep my pace up.

The problem is that the speed up "breaks" you. Once I started listening to podcasts at higher speeds, I stopped being able to listen to slower-paced podcasts at 1.0x without losing focus.
Why did I suddenly have a flashback to Netscape?
<insert rant about Ford discontinuing sedans in the US including the manual shift-only Focus and Fiesta STs...>
Even if you don't have a Facebook account, Facebook still has your browsing history via the their SDK that is usually used to implement the "login with facebook" button. The sdk actually injects a iframe on the hosting website, allowing Facebook to know every time you go to this website.
This means in two decades we won't have any record of what was in these textbooks, right? :/
Apple’s curation programme is Apple Arcade: https://www.apple.com/apple-arcade/ . The takeaway headline: “No ads. No in‑app purchases.”
> As an aside, did you know that They/Them has been in use for centuries as a gender-neutral singular pronoun, and often makes your text clearer and more readable when referring to a single person of unknown or unspecified gender?

Oh, I couldn’t remind of they/them as I am not a native speaker of English. Thanks for pointing that out!
Besides the size of the book Brendan Gregg is pretty much the current expert in Linux performance and has been for some time. If the book is anything like the quality of his blog (which I am sure it will, perhaps even surpass) then I will surely be buying it.
To clear up the confusion of the grandparent comment: I guess you mean smelting iron from its ore (because actually creating new iron atoms would require nuclear fusion)
Many textbook publishers, including Pearson, have already begun strongly encouraging professors to use additional online components from the publisher for things like homework assignments.

Even if you buy the textbook used, you still have to purchase an online access code from the publisher (often for $100+ for the semester).

The textbook publishers have been working on crushing the textbook resale market for years, and this seems to be the final nail in the coffin.
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It's against Apples store TOS. Hope they act.
> that's the meaning of "unwitting".

No: they don‘t aid, period. They just use the service which uses blacklist technologies. That‘s all I see there.
> well there is this: #ifdef _MSC_VER __declspec( align(16) ) struct float4 { float v[4]; }; #else struct float4 { float v[4]; } __attribute__ ((aligned(16))); #endif

I don't understand what you are trying to say here? Why not just use

struct alignas(16) float4 { float v[4]; };

You can even put both __declspec( align(16) ) and __attribute__ ((aligned(16))) in the same place if you want to have a fallback for older compilers.
I did the Nand2Tetris course which includes building a basic compiler.

It just helps fully understand how you go from words in a file to actually doing computations and how purely abstract ideas like a 'class' are implemented.

To be fair, I studied Physics and not CS so I didn't have the opportunity to study Compilers at University.
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I don't understand that comment either. Perhaps that comment meant that its parent comment looks like the end of early 2000-era email forwards that would end with sentimental messages. But I don't know what is being referred to as trite.
It will be interesting to see where this goes. After undergrad and grad school, the amount of times I’ve gone back to hardcopy books or course notes is so tiny that It didn’t justify lugging them around over many moves. (And I love books - prefer bookcases to wallpaper!)

The current model of forcing student to re-buy books that are only marginally updated on an annual basis is wasteful. The real question is will total cost go up or down. I’m ok if Pearson gets more profits if the costs to students goes down, along with complexity to faculty. (Faculty may get less money)
Serious stuff indeed ;)

Thanks spking for posting! Although not entirely clear why.

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Just saying, I didn’t use a single textbook throughout my entire CS degree here. All of the course materials were available freely on our Moodle instance or through our library. Most of the course materials were produced by the lecturers, and where they had written a proper textbook, they just sent us the PDFs.
How about... asking them for it?
You don't have to ask that exact interview question, but you'd be surprised at both the sentimental and historical value that recordings of small mindane things can have.
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Someone else linked a book, but this TV show, Connections by James Burke [1], follows this idea of cyclical dependencies in technology. Society starts with the plow. Definitely a great watch, even though it was made basically pre-internet.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
I used to be alt-right
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Haven't used Spotify in years, but back then the ads were much louder than music. I'm not sure if that's still correct, but I've read about this issue multiple times.

You could argue that you should just get a subscription, but intrusive ads defeat the whole idea of a free version. Might as well remove it, if you're going to make it tedious to use.
This is too complex. There is nice function elint-current-buffer that helps me with basic corrections.
> But then his statements about lunar v solar eclipses, I just disagree with completely.

In what way, and why?
Is the proposed embedding of ownership/borrowing into D complete? Rust has these ugly lifetime annotations which is one of the reasons I do not like its syntax. Why is there nothing like this in the proposal for D? Or why is it not needed?
No, that is not my understanding of the paper.

It's 4 uses for a heavy-duty "bag for life" to be better for the environment than a disposable one.

As supported by this Environment Agency report:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

6 billion fewer plastic bags were issues in the UK after they started getting taxed. That's only a small amount of CO2 saved per bag, but not negligible on a national scale, and it's completely avoidable.

Plus you only have to have a very small percentage out of 6 billion bags escaping the standard refuse system for them to become an environmental problem in themselves.

I think it is well worth it.
I don't think they're limiting the time period for the lynchings. So although the rate is based on the population in 1900, it's not limited to that year or decade, so it's not past tense.
Krita used to be a jack-of-all-trades painting program for the first few years of its existence. At some point, the devs figured out that they can get people to fund development more effectively when they focus on one usecase (digital painting w/ tablet) and make that really solid.
There are simple ways to deal with it. Remove the caps on Indian or other country Visas. The world is quite big.