skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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If you read the article, it specifies that advanced soroban is taught in some private school, and that it was phased out in the 1970s. Currently elementary students get a total of 4 hours of instruction spread over grade 3 and 4 (which is probably just enough that, a couple years later, they would still know what it is). So while the title is grammatically correct, it is also misleading.
Or alternatively you'd manage to take down all of microsoft's patents for that one time they thought a paper clip telling people what to do was innovative... Less jokingly, I'm sure microsoft has a dumb patent or two kicking around, that doesn't mean their entire suite is BS.
He raises a good point though because even if it's not a product for some people, they will still have their data harvested without consent as a result of talking in proximity of a person wearing one such pair.
There's been child abuse on Facebook too, but it doesn't seem to get the moniker "app plagued by child abuse".
You're probably right. Just look at Google. Occasionally there's a Google-free phone OS announced, but 99.99% of Android users aren't going anywhere.
In my opinion, the best yardstick for a health care system is how long you have to wait to be treated for cancer. By that yardstick, countries like Canada and England stack up quite poorly when compared to the USA. Canadians don't come to the US to save money on health care. They come to the US because they have an expensive potentially fatal medical condition, and they might not survive a six month waiting period for treatment.
I'm not sure that works out. Doesn't bone conduction need a lot of pressure? I could see that getting uncomfortable in a hurry with constant wear.
The article states that they stopped as soon as conditions turned dangerous. This is a very common outcome by the Fremont Police Department.

Worth noting also that criminals know about the rules... which one might speculate gives them an incentive to flee into dangerous situations.
This comparison is incredibly tired. People may scrutinize electric cars unfairly, but there are real scrutinies to be made, and you can't just wave everybody away by calling them luddites. I also find the choice of comparison to smack of superiority, which is the last thing techno-progressives need more of in their public image.
Hmm what features would a git synced via -

https://github.com/simonthum/git-sync #this gives low friction commits/pull/push

Using https://github.com/rexim/org-cliplink #this gives nice looking links in your orgmode

When added to orgmode it far past what a standalone bookmarks managerey thing does.

ie - follow up to this github issue in 3 weeks with a bookmark in the TODO

Ymmv of course.
Ok, we've replaced the article title with a phrase from the first sentence.
I'd prefer just upping the potential consequences for patent trolling - heavier fines for standard violations and the option, if a violation can be shown to demonstrate clear intent, to jail the offender.

Seriously, want to solve all white collar crime ever? Put some jail time on the table and watch everyone straighten right out.
Zstd also has a multithreaded mode. On the CLI `zstd -T0` tells zstd to use all available cores.
The problem is that "atypical shape" is really common. All airpods need is some sort of ear-anchor / earclick thing.

I find that if I buy the old foam covers, they fit in my ear a little better and I can still close the case over them. It gets in the way of some of the sensor operation though.

The amazon buds look like they will fit more ears.
Sometimes I make an oatmeal cookie that is traditional in my family. It can be considered a healthy cookie, not very sweet, but I'm always impressed with the amount of sugar that goes with it. I wonder how much goes in the really sweet ones.
on the other hand, breaking down a chicken is work too but probably an improvement for the meat eater over packaged breasts

The provenance of the chicken is going to be much more important than whether is broken down at a factory, by the butcher, or at home.
Hey can you also let us know which jokes we can laugh at too?
It's just as convincing when she drops it on her kids...
Can someone explain the WARP+ section?
First, it says

> [argo continually monitors] thousands of routes over the Internet between our data centers. That data builds a database which maps every IP address range with the fastest possible route to every destination.

and then they seem to assert that this is impossible with https traffic because the tcp payload is encrypted. For routing, as I understand it, none of the payload should have to be inspected... what am I missing?
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Talked to a cop once. He said one way of dealing with a fast cars during a chase was to break it off after a while. Smarter ones will abandon the car. Dumb ones will head to a gas station to fill their tank and that's were you pop them.
It's looking dismal for sure, but the truth is we don't know what will happen. The best we can probably do is to start cataloging DNA as rapidly as possible, in hopes that we can reverse and recover from the damage in the nearby future.

Also, it would seem that carbon sequestration should be relatively trivial from the genetic engineering front. Is anyone working on that?
Still sounds awfully general. I mean, it is clearly subjective, but I think the issue is the divide between domain specific technical expertise and lawyers / judges who would argue a patent is exploitable.
I guess I'd want a social network where people aren't constantly tracked for monetisation purposes and where their personal information isn't sold to the highest bidder. Where any creators there can actually do well on the platform, and where the recommendation systems aren't ridiculously unfairly tilted in favour of the already super popular types.

And hell, one where the moderation system is fair all round. No preferences, no biases towards the rich or popular or whatever, just simple rules they enforce equally for all users, maybe with a nice way to counter the claim and get a person to listen to your response.

Plus somewhere a bunch of interesting people are posting interesting content on a regular basis. As in, stuff that isn't purely political in its nature, and isn't all about cryptocurrencies like bitcoin but about everyday topics instead.

That's not too complicated is it?
You quoted me, then made a very insincere and uncharitable implication of what I said.

I don't have any ideology, I was just pointing out how post-hoc explanations always fit the data. But that you could take other examples and come to opposite conclusions.
...or hot potatoes.

Anyway, add the Vigesimal system for numbers above 49 and you're really off to the races
https://www.kbh-sprogcenter.dk/en/blog/learn-danish-numbers/

For the sake of hilarity, let's add that Icelandic people are forced to study Danish in school Because Reasons. Icelandic is not mutually intelligible with the major Scandinavian languages, even in written form. The argument for studying Danish is of course that everyone benefits from Nordic countries sticking together.

But Danish is the most cumbersome way to get some of that benefit of a common language.

Some Icelandic professor character actually recently dropped a hot take, suggesting that Icelandic schools could switch to teach some form of Finland Swedish, because it'd be remarkably easy for Icelandic speakers to pronounce and probably the easiest option for most people in the Nordics to grasp relative to effort.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

Being a Swedish speaker from Helsinki, Finland, I kind of don't like the nasality of my own dialect. I'd prefer to listen to dialects from the Swedish west coast around Gothernburg all day, because those are very soft sounding. But the suggestion likely makes some sense. Formal/common institutional spoken Finland Swedish is indeed overly articulated and devoid of slang.

Informal Finland Swedish tends to be hyperlocal and may carry loan words from Finnish, which is a non-starter in the other Nordic countries, and very much frowned upon by Swedish schools in Finland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_Swedish
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I know it's anecdotal, but my mom is a police dispatcher and told me they call off high speed chases all the time, especially those involving motorcycles.
I will say that my experience with gyms and their cancellation processes is awful. "We recommend sending a certified letter to cancel your membership," for example. It only makes me not want to go back to the same one when my circumstances change. And I'm unlikely to give referrals because you basically kick me in the nuts on the way out, just to try to scam an extra month or two of unused gym time.
The weird thing about Kik was that everyone I met that used it thought it had some sort automatic message deletion like Telegram, but I don't think it did. Old messages would stay forever.
A curved LiPo battery being shipped in a real device! cool! This has been a long time coming
I think it's more that Amazon has so much money that their version of market research looks much different than what you typically think of as market research.

Producing a new device, throwing it up on their website to sell, and seeing how well it does is Amazon's version of market research. It's "move fast and break things" brought into the hardware space. They actually even say as much in their description of the "Day 1 Editions" program, of which the Echo Loop is part of.
I wouldn't consider providing customers who paid for rakes with shovels instead to be an "obvious business practice"...
That's absolutely fine and a good way to work. However, I do still believe that plain old estimation has its place. Consider that you are part of a bunch of executives deciding in January whether to build a product A, which would have to be done by Black Friday, or product B, which would have to be done by Christmas.

Even after such a high-level decision is made, a broad scope estimate must also sometimes be made. For example: "would we have time to add a chatbot to this product?". If so, you could need to hire people with the relevant experience and have them ramp up. But if you have an estimate in the spirit of "well, must-haves A, B and C are probably going to take no less than X months, and the chatbot would take just as long if not more, so it's better to drop the chatbot idea and invest its budget elsewhere".
> But when it is addressed directly, the focus turns to the victim and trying to identify what is wrong with them, not with the group.

This is because it is the only effective way to change anything. The victim has to recognize their situation, develop the will to escape / change it, and then do concrete steps. Of course, not alone. You are not guilty of anything, but it is still your responsability to change your life if you want it. It is hard and shitty, but nobody will change because you feel shitty.

It is the same as with every other difficult situation. I could stagnate my whole life, complaining about nobody helped me when I first voiced suicidal thoughts at age 10. I was fucking hard and many people failed me, including me. I did not have a childhood. I see every right to complain and blame others. But who will this help? No one. I had to change something. Because my environment is the last thing that will change.

> I want to raise awareness and stop this from happening to anyone else.

I will be blunt: This is not an effective way of achieving this goal. Much more effective would be to 1) get help (helps you to tackle those problems in your environment) and 2) join an organization that does deal with bullying (they likely know how to reach more people more effectively).
> you politely believe them and move on, comfortable in the knowledge that it may or may not be true.

You have a very different understanding of the word "believe" than I do.
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"Mesa 19.2.0 implements the Vulkan 1.1 API". I didn't realise that Mesa supports a number of different APIs, including OpenCL.
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While you're right, I also wonder why anyone cares if a bunch of cash-rich, overconfident private equity funds get fleeced? They're more than capable of taking care of themselves.

"Counterfeit capitalism" in the era of cheap money is probably a net benefit to the average Joe because it subsidies his co-working space/taxi trips/meal deliveries/etc.
Similar problem in the custom keyboard community. The cheapest custom aluminum keyboard cases cost something like $50-80 shipped. It's often cheaper to buy a brand new one from China than to buy used domestically in NA or Europe. It obviously helps the Chinese manufacturers, but it totally kills the entry-level resale market.
1. True for mainstream books, absolutely not true for academic special interest titles. Many books simply aren't available - including some still-in-print titles from academic publishers.

2. Ditto. Pricing algos and greed can do insane things to prices. When I needed one out-of-print academic title recently the copies on Amazon were going for four figures. Luckily the author had uploaded a PDF to his web site.

For other books I've looked at, three figures aren't rare. Communicating with sellers directly has sometimes brought the price down to something more reasonable - a sale now being worth more than a listing that may take years to pay off.

3. This part is true - pay, wait, receive. Although it's not infallible, because some of the bigger sellers play an arbitrage game where an algo checks possible sources for tens of thousands of titles and then if found, adds a percentage to create an auto-listing. I've had orders cancelled when this process has failed, for whatever reason.
... but will it take out a bunch of NPM packages with it?
It's a bit amusing that if you look at the picture of the parking lot showing where the author's dad worked and where he parked, his parking spot is not way off away from everything else, it's actually in what would be prime parking location for some other businesses' customers. I feel like there's a lesson about externalities there.
I would applaud you sending a letter, but honestly this company might not even receive mail at their box or just outright discard items coming from unknown parties. I feel like you'd be putting some effort into this and they wouldn't even notice or read your letter.

These sorts of trolls tend to operate with a minimal amount of staffing since they're usually subsidiary spin off companies (so nothing but bare bones is allocated in terms of payroll) and since patent trolling is such a gamble (if you're trolling 200 patents with the expectation of getting one or two hits then you should try and minimize costs)
Lead pigments added to turmeric threaten public health across Bangladesh
The cloud integrations feel suspect. "Ditch Google! Use us instead! You can trust us!"
One speculates that suggestion wasn't made in good faith.
If the envelope is the right size it absolutely does meet all the requirements. Put it in a bubble wrap envelope and it won't stick out.

>And even if it did, once again, it would still be more expensive.

You keep saying this, but so far have not identified what the comparable option you're showing that's cheaper.

In my initial comment I asked for locations, dimensions, and weight. You only provided weight, so I had to guess the others based on the product page.
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The phrase they used to describe here is interesting. "Noise Reduction" rather than "Noise cancellation". IMHO they are different. I am sure it must be better than other earphones but it sounds different than Noise cancellation.
Maybe that wasn't implemented in 2002.
Yeah, that seems entirely crazy to me.

I was like "That seems high" so I checked my usage meter and it say 112kWh. OK then. Then I notice it's set to monthly.

So that's about 4kWh per day. It will be a bunch more in winter, and your place is much bigger than mine, but still - that number seems kinda crazy huge to me.
Like parent said, the patent doesn't actually seem have anything to do with facial recognition. I read it as talking about images that have already been identified, by some unspecified process. The process could be facial recognition, but it could also just be the user herself manually identifying each image.

I do agree that the patent is too unclear and broad, and that everything described must have been already known by 2008.
> Would you make this same argument when journalists cover fi[n]ance or war?

Yes. A journalist's job is to report news, not make it. Activist journalism has virtually destroyed the reputation of the press.

What good is any coverage if your audience thinks you're dishonest?

> Just because everyone is on-board, should journalists stop asking questions?

They should not be distorting their coverage of the answers.

> If all journalism is is a mouthpiece, why do we need it in the age of internet?

Activist journalism is just a mouthpiece for interest groups.
Oh right, 5F is the precursor to 5G - the prototype for it.
I'm being sarcastic by the way -- that shit doesn't work
Aren't bluetooth headsets mostly receivers, not transmitters though?
Except on the other side of the road.
Teslas don’t seem like a good idea to me for a police depsrtment. Not only are they significantly more expensive (20k more according to the article), but they also suffer from battery degredation, long repair times, and also a reliance on a single company to still exist in the future to provide repairs (which is definately not a given if you trust Tesla bond yields). Also the dependence on Tesla charging stations is not ideal either, though probably not a huge issue in California.

Personally I’m not sure I would ever buy an electric vehicle (not that I even have the option where I live) and if had to guess, I wouldn’t be surprised if oil powered cars are the dominant paradigm for the next 50 years or so. Even after that, I would guess that oil powered cars are going to be driving for at least 100 years at best.

Ignoring the climate externality, oil is, like, the best. The most useful substance that man has ever found, probably.
> No. No court would allow that under common law. A court would find an argument that what a person agreed to a decade earlier cannot bind the person they are in the present, because the two people are not in effect the same person, as reasonable.

So you're saying that a blanket rule to make contracts that involve selling ones-self into slavery makes sense? Or that there are certain circumstances in which selling oneself into slavery is alright, and so it should be adjudicated by the court on a case by case basis?

How even could someone who is a slave (and therefore likely limited in their movements) petition a court?

> A court would find an argument that what a person agreed to a decade earlier cannot bind the person they are in the present

People sign contracts for more than 10 years all the time (mortgages, as an example). You saying we can just back out of those?
> I have not; I was expecting it, given the amount of modifications from Bromite patches (which is zero, as far as I understood).

I won't lie, I would have expected the same if I were in your shoes. Thinking positively though, it's possible that the /e/ people don't care much about the attribution they themselves receive and don't realize what it means to others to be recognized for their personal hard work. Asking nicely might show them that other people in the open source community do care. The worst that can happen is that the people behind the project do indeed not care about you and are rude about it, but in that case nothing really changes anyway. Things can only improve from here, I'd say!

Based on the changes I've seen, they basically replaced all instances of "Bromite" and "Chrome" in the source code with "Browser". I don't see much /e/-specific code in there at all, aside from a project description and some links in the documentation. They did add a reference to the original project to the AUTHORS file, so I'd like to believe in a variation of Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by laziness.

> Sorry, I will avoid discussing this, it has all the clues to become an endless and inconclusive talk :)
I completely agree :)
There are 60 million people on Medicare. If you can’t negotiate with twice the population of Canada I don’t think the problem is not enough beneficiaries.
I vaguely remember using CTRL-7 to get the ASCII BEL character (0x07). This was a long time ago, and I don't see it on any current systems.

Another special case: On most keyboards (I suppose it's the terminal emulator that implements it), CTRL-SPACE emits the NUL character. (I find that useful because I use C-@ as the prefix key in tmux.)
MAS will download updates automatically, but it whinges and demands you tend to it if the app is open. Contrast to App Store on iOS, or Chrome, which just does everything in the background.

Obviously the model here is different, but its still a minor frustration to me.
That's a political choice that places make.
> "While we are ready to take on the SEC in court, we underestimated the tactics they would employ. How they would take our quotes out of context to manipulate the public to view us as bad actors. How they would pressure exchanges not to list Kin. And how they would draw out a long and expensive process to drain our resources."

Anything you say, can and WILL be used against you in a court of law. Without good lawyers you are screwed. Careful what you say publicly and to officers or anybody like the SEC. Bring a lawyer, discuss your battle plan.

If a cop says only guilty people need lawyers you pay no attention to such ignorance. Lawyer the hell up.
Can't wait until ray tracing is more mainstream. I know NVIDIA has their share of uncool things but I really appreciate them making the RTX series, hopefully we'll see more and more of this.
Because something simple already exists, for this very use-case (and apparently, in the case of LoRa, with better range)?

I'm personally rooting for this to bomb badly.
SA either just used these stock images or their graphics person threw it together, I wouldn't guess it has any real link to the study.
I thought this was me. I started tracking calories, sure enough I just plain old wasn't eating enough. Actually eating the calories planned made all the difference, although I felt stuffed pretty much all the time.
This sometimes works for games, but not for everything. Consider, for example:

* Tax-reporting software

* Adding a coupon system to your ecommerce software in time for Black Friday

* etc
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At least they brought attention to how bad it was to rely on NPM. If anyone doesn't remember, this is how the whole left-pad issue started: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/141577284765/kik-left-pad-and-np...
Spot on. I like to think that the system-gaming doesn't necessarily disadvantage the committed and passionate researcher (who researches to satisfy personal curiosity).
I'm not sure what exactly you are responding to, but low discrepancy samples is not at all what this page is about. There have been a lot of papers on many different techniques with various upsides and drawbacks when it comes to reducing noise.

Comparing this overview to one of the most basic techniques that is used everywhere and is a given is like reading an article on a modern car engine and dismissing it because you saw someone light some gas on fire 30 years ago.
What was the $1B valuation based on? It seems absurd.
I think their statement about Dawkins’ apparently having never opened a Bible was in regard to his theological understanding, not historical.

Having read Dawkins, my primary critique of him overall is that he regularly demonstrates a willful ignorance as to what religious people actually believe. He’s content to attack straw men and not the propositional truth claims at the heart of religious belief.