skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't have time to read this article to get to what i infer is some discussion about capital vs. labor - it hasn't shown up a few pages into the article - so i'll just reply to what you said outside of the link.

the idea that "woke labor" is non-labor is hilarious. first, this isn't possible for the vast majority of people who actually provide value to capital - you know, the people pouring coffee, or stocking shelves, etc. try being "woke" about your value at a grocery store and let me know how it goes.

second, once enough of your class is "woke" you're back at square 1, trying to beat up people below you to pander to capital. (aside: this sort of "get yours and get out" is emblematic of america generally, and not flattering imo)

that the game is stacked against those who labor is more of a pathological outcome of labor not being very powerful. this is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. it's a bandaid over cancer.

fix the system: organize.
I cannot understand the people who believe it’s their absolute right to use an ad blocker (a position I agree with) but then don’t believe it’s the site’s absolute right to decide whether or not they will serve you content.
I don't think there is any evidence to say that doctors and scientists are any more susceptible to bribery than any other person. There are millions of doctors and scientists in this country. Are they all on the payroll? Of course not. Free pass away, unless you truly believe that one bad apple must sour the whole bunch.
I have issues with Facebook and do everything I can to limit my interaction with the platform, but for some situations it's unavoidable - RSVPs to events where there is no alternative, some things relating to births/deaths or marriages, close family members who I've failed to coax off their messaging platform all come to mind. In those situations I'm not going to compromise my own security or privacy.
again, this narrative falls flat against empirical evidence that policies that support child care increase birth rates!

If you only care about population decline, you have an easy to undrestand tool for solving this problem, that doesn't involve trying to establish cultural hedgemony to try and convince everyone that they have to have at least 2 kids each.
Yes. I would say people or teams which developed solutions that look as if they "just appeared out of careful consideration" did not -- they simply learned from others and took in that prior world knowledge. The solution space for most problems is not "one global optimum" -- use cases have to be taken into account (which is why great projects like Clojure are not used for everything).

I would go so far to say there isn't actually a dichotomy here -- you should be swapping between launching something with a hypothesis (in lean mode) then gathering feedback and considering alternatives as you are proven correct/incorrect (hammock mode). I think Galls Law [1] is also relevant here:

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system."

If all you do is think and think, then you open yourself to mis-timing a solution, feature and scope creep, and risking "unknown unknowns". If all you do is launch and incrementally iterate you'll be stuck solving very narrow problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law
Any activated carbon filter should do - these molecules are pretty big and will be caught by a Brita filter or similar. Faucet attachment systems are the most effective.

https://nowtoronto.com/what-chemicals-do-brita-type-filters-...
Same with XXX instead, which even gets auto-highlighted by many editors.
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As one of those 20 people, I feel like I'm in good company!

Five years is pessimistic. The core library is still in a state of flux, but the team is getting the fundamentals hammered out. Once the foundation is in place, adding higher level apis should be relatively straightforward.

Re: XLA/MLIR, s4tf is actively trying to coordinate with other groups within google. Whatever short term losses there are in time/energy will be paid off down the road when the project can piggyback off other people's progress.

Finally, while the swift evolution process isn't going as quickly as would be desired, the changes needed to merge the tensorflow branch have been identified and are being worked on. It's just a matter of time till the two projects are in sync.
rm -rf / can accidentally go into prod after proof reading.

"Sorry you're bankrupt boss it was just a typo"
It’s like being a poker player, but you probably get paid more.
tl;dr: Ever used one of those "new mouse" feature test / demo applications? If you did it with a 5-button mouse, you've already figured out how to make your own one-handed chording keyboard. Also, the patent(s) are probably unenforceable.

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I just quickly did this to visualize the poll responses.

https://www.meta-chart.com/share/how-much-would-people-pay-f...

Personally my bid is in the $50 slice, because I see this as a deconstructed / reconfigured 5-button mouse without the laser (or ball if you are more of a retro sort). Even a regular 5-button mouse driver would be able to read it correctly without modification to the code - you are only concerned with interpreting the input and writing the output at this point.

In a pinch, and for dev purposes, you could probably get away with experimenting just by putting tape over the laser sensor (or remove the ball if you're that retro guy) and then writing the interpreting chord combinations until you decide build it into a prettier, and less likely to give you CTS, form factor.

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As to the patent, lest we forget devices like this one have existed for decades already using the one-handed-gravity claim extensively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Qh5bHtHMY

There probably is some novelty in what he's come up with, but absolutely everything about it appears to have prior art. Unless my implementation idea is missing something.

Maybe he could patent some parts of the form. But then I think every company working in VR would immediately take issue. A VR paddle with 5 keys is exactly this guy's patent(s) if you ignore all the bells and whistles like spacial sensors. A wireless 5-button mouse already squashes that part of the patent.

> He's invented a 5-button mouse without a sense of direction!

I'm certainly open to discussion on this because I think OP has a really interesting question, and I'm a little surprised that there is so little commercial attention. Is there a chording machine monopoly not yet mentioned here?
That's basically my attitude too, and I'd consider myself one of the more pro-adblocker advocates.

I see the internet as a bunch of servers talking to each other. Some make requests to others, some respond to those requests by sending content.

You can block me, you can choose to not send or respond data to my requests, and you can send your website/content in some form that's better suited to Perl golf or the obfuscated C contest. That's your prerogative.

On my end, I get to decide who I send my requests to, how I spend my time and attention, and what I do on my machine with incoming requests and data.

Make your site bad enough, and I (and others) will stop going, and eventually you'll likely sow the seeds of your own destruction (as people move away and create competition), but fundamentally that's your call to make.

Just like its mine to ignore you or your requests that I talk to your affiliated servers, edit and filter the content once it's on my machine/infrastructure, and not pay attention to the nonsense you send.
My go-to would be "Do you know if sshd would work?" To me, framing it directly as a knowledge question, and to not appear as if you're coming from a place of authority (unless you know both their problem and your solution both well enough to solve it without running into edge cases, and how often does that happen?). They either know or they don't, or potentially have a reason for not trying in the first place. If they don't know and don't have a reason, it's a simple "well, that's what I'd try next, it could make things easy if it works" to get your suggestion out there, but you let them solve their problem (if it works...)
Google "toaster dualit". You will find chrome, dangerously hot toasters for hundreds of dollars. It's up to you to figure out how to electrocute yourself, but I don't see why a little ingenuity wouldn't suffice.

I don't think they have the features of the Sunbeam though. If there is a model that does, I'd like to know about it since it sounds brilliant.
I've been remote for 10 years and I agree. I was traveling around Asia for the first year or so and now am married and have a son.

I need socialization at least once/week or I start getting depressed.
PG&E Had Systemic Problems with Power Line Maintenance, California Probe Finds
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fm56p5rV1t2Euh6WLtBFKGqI...
You mean www.xn--faebook-vxa.com of course :P
Windows-1252/ISO-8859-1 (the two charsets are so commonly conflated that it's often best to treat them as one) was the dominant [non-ASCII] charset of the web until around 2007 or 2008, and their prevalence more recently is only about 5%.

A collection of Usenet messages gathered in 2014 (see http://quetzalcoatal.blogspot.com/2014/03/understanding-emai... for full details) showed that out of 1,000,000 messages, about 530,000 were actually ASCII; 270,000 were ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252; and only 75,000 were UTF-8. More modern numbers would probably show higher UTF-8 counts, although Usenet is notoriously conservative in terms of technology.

What I'm trying to elucidate here is that the rise of UTF-8 isn't because most text is ASCII, but because there's been a rather more concerted effort to default content generation to UTF-8 and treat other charsets only as legacy inputs. Well, with the exception of the Japanese, who tend to be strongly averse to UTF-8. (I've been told that Japanese email users would rather have their text get silently mangled than silently converted to UTF-8 because you're quoting an email with a smart quote [not present in any of the 3 Japanese charsets], whereas every other locale was happy changing the default charset for writing to UTF-8).
Huh, tried several variations. Can't find anything under SEAR. Maybe the recruiter just leaked an internal URL?
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There's some justice to that argument for access to strictly discretionary sites, but Facebook has been so 'successful' that it's now approaching monopolistic power, & is something close to required infrastructure. There are an increasing number of online contacts which literally offer no alternative. I have a few fake facebook accounts I'll use where I literally have no alternative, none of which have real data associated with them.

I personally have a 100% no-corporate-propaganda rule. No logos on anything where avoidable, no ads allowed on my network, etc. If ads slip through ad blockers & I notice an ad somewhere I place the advertised product or company on a 'never buy' list.

No-one other than Facebook has any benefit to gain by forcing ads on me, and frankly in the very unlikely circumstance that people do manage to damage Facebook by circumventing its propaganda platform, so much the better. I'd very much like to see it driven out of business (wild fantasy, I know).
Related: for anybody looking for [another] great tool to create a documentation website, take a look at Antora[1]. It uses the Asciidoc/Asciidoctor toolchain.

[1]: antora.org
I don’t remember it redirecting. But I forget the past all the time.
Securely running processes that require the entire syscall interface (2018)
well damn because I have about 20
Interesting justification there as well.

> I feel that the nightmare of Nineteen Eighty-Four is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency.
> The nuclear waste is so tragic and horrific and the effects so egregious I can only imagine you are grossly misinformed or a paid troll.

More horrific than the millions killed by air pollution?

This is not to say that nuclear waste isn't a significant problem and one we can do a much better job dealing with, but spreading blatant misinformation does not do anything to help anyone.
I took Valium for a back muscle spasm and it worked perfectly, although it may have been mostly psychological.
No, they've both always been 100% open source (ignoring the complaints about React's previous BSD+PATENTS license). React is built by Facebook, while Vue is primarily built by Evan You (+ a team of core contributors).

The "copying" comments are largely due to things like Vue's new proposed hooks API being very much inspired by React coming up with hooks in the first place.
US manufacturing contracts for 4 straight month trade conflicts global weakness
They could have ported ocaml to the clr instead of doing their own ms thing. They could have promoted ocaml instead of splitting the community interested in a practical ml derived language - with the consequence that today neither has a relevant user base.
The internet/web is USED by businesses.

The internet/web is not FOR businesses.

Perhaps that's the fundamental difference in perspective about who's responsibility it is to make allowances for who serves/receives content...
>It is, of course, a fiction. But if we can't take away from the fiction "We should trust robots with global resource planning" without some critical thinking, we shouldn't take away "robots can never be trusted and will always betray humanity" without some critical thinking either.

Ironically, it isn't so much leaving the robots to their own devices that is the issue. It's what we'll talk ourselves into doing with them that concerns me.

Then again, I'm a Protomen fan, so I may be prejudiced in that regard.

https://protomen.com/
Show HN: I made an app that is alarming when someone is staring at my screen
it looks like an inside job when the CEO of ICANN sells the .Org TLD to himself...
For the most part, I use longs (for instance a FixedVec is a (long,long,long) struct where 1 = 1/1000 of a meter).

However, complicated calculations or anything involving angles or other math functions quickly becomes more convenient when expressed as a Fix64, which is more or less a drop in replacement for float.

I would ideally use Fix64 everywhere, but given the torturous route the C# takes to be transformed into something that's executed on the client machines, my faith in the compiler's ability to generate good code for that is basically zero. I mentally treat long + long as a single instruction, but Fix64 + Fix64 as a function call.
The partisan nature of media companies certainly contributes when 90% of the reporters lean one way and laud social media strategies for one candidate and loath when the other follows suit. No one network has a monopoly on conspiracy theories.l, they all push narratives. As far as entertainment, that industry is notoriously scummy and rife with political connections.
> Here's the suggestion: don't ask!

In addition to my learning (and other reviewers too embarrassed to ask a question they might be wrong about), I can't count the times I've asked a simple probing question about X and gotten a short response that includes "thinking about it more I realized that X is correct but I completely screwed up Y!"
> U.S. life expectancy is basically going up in linear fashion. But if you look at expenditures, we used to spend a few percentage points of GDP on healthcare, and now it’s about 18%. So we’ve gone up to 18%, and we’re not even boosting the rate. I’m not saying it’s the fault of any one group of people, but something has gone wrong.

(US life expectancy actually declined for a 3rd straight year due to "deaths of despair" like drug overdoses and suicides)

But as for the 18% of GDP on healthcare, medicine is an inelastic good that has severe supply side restrictions (AMA + legislation) and no price transparency. Companies are profiting greatly, it's great for GDP and terrible for people.

Similar for the other "cost disease" areas mentioned: education and housing (though for different reasons).

Slatestarcodex has a good overview on cost disease too: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
Ask the average person on the street in the 60's to explain why America was at war in Vietnam and they'll tell you something vague about Communism. Ask the average person on the street in 1776 to explain the economic and political factors that lead to the Declaration of Independence and they'll think it has something to do with tea. The fact that the world is not filled with current event junkies is nothing new. I'm not saying there's been no eroding of American democracy or the like, but it's not like people have been suddenly brainwashed in a way that's fundamentally different than prior decades.
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Not really, you just need a recursive filtering algorithm such as this:

https://github.com/tiratatp/facebook_adblock/blob/master/src...
I wrote that it was `n-1` in my comment. Doesn't seem like much of a trick to me.
Io: Prototype-based OO language with minimal syntax inspired by Self and Lisp
Tyler makes a compelling case in his book[1] that economic growth is responsible for most of the biggest improvements in human flourishing over the past century. He concludes that economic growth is a moral imperative.

All three participants in this interview discuss the "exponential inputs, linear outputs" problem/slow-down that industries face as they scale and mature.

Question: how far does ROI have to fall for the growth of an industry to cost more than its returns to society are morally worth? Is this even possible? Or is there an assumption that the market would somehow fix/prevent this scenario?]

[1] Tyler Cowen, Stubborn Attachments, 2018
I mean one look at the website kind of tells you why.

The extension could be a lot less intrusive as well - just compare it to uBlock Origin for example. There doesn't need to be an onboarding message. I don't need to see "F.B. Purity hid:" prominently in the middle of my feed - just put that at the bottom right of the screen in gray text or in the extension. Etc.

I'm probably going to uninstall it because it makes FB even uglier.
Section 8.3 on page 265 has the following:

In 1983, Billotet-Hoffman and Bryngdahl [11] suggested using an ordered dither threshold array in place of the fixed threshold used in error diffusion. However, the resulting halftoned output differs little from conventional ordered dither.

Later in the chapter they explore the idea of using a random threshold instead of an ordered pattern.

[11] Billotet-Hoffman, C. and O. Bryngdahl (1983)
"On the error diffusion technique for electronic halftoning",
Proc. SID, vol. 24, pp. 253-258
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There isn't one. Unicode considers superscripting a matter of presentation, which Unicode doesn't cover, except when it does.
You are connecting your phone to a wifi spot or honeycomb network around your places, they all have IPs, so IP is enough to tell where u live, not very accurate but enough to figure out many things.
At some point, I figure you will always need human intervention to get actually idiomatic interop, whether it's C marshalling, JSON serialization, database persistence, etc.
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Excepting some of the weird combining mark tricks used for flags and some more straightforward modifiers for skin tone, they’re basically a bunch of inert codepoints that you can get away with just popping in a high-res PNG for. No complicated typesetting, not even any kerning. If you handle surrogate pairs correctly (which is also needed for some real, widely used languages) common emojis will work fine.

I don’t see what’s technically impressive about them, care to elaborate?
There seems to be a blackjack analogy here. Don’t let the boss catch on!
Chatty bacteria may be most vulnerable to viruses (2018)
I'd argue /g/ on 4chan is actually. 3-4 threads get filled a day (~300 replies each).

It's honestly the only real reason to go on /g/ (or really 4chan in general) for me.
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Differential privacy is more about preserving privacy from consumers of data (e.g. a user running a query) -- it doesn't have guarantees around what sort of data is collected (e.g. google could expose a differentially private API, but internally they would still have all of your data).

Edit: after considering it more, I realize you can certainly apply some mechanisms from differential privacy to play a part in the data collection schemes.
Oh man, I so badly want to use DDG. I was actually using DDG for the past several months and just switched back to Google today. As a developer, I'm constantly searching for things and I just couldn't justify the additional 5-10 seconds it would take me to re-do a search. Say I make 100 searches/day: (.2 * 100 * 7.5)/60 = 12.5min/wk. Not to mention the disruption in flow caused by those repeat searches. I applaud DDG for what they're doing, going up against a behemoth, but I just can't seem to make it work for me.
It's trivial to send a different stream, though, and stop sending content for the primary stream for the duration. I believe a comment elsewhere says Twitch is doing this with HLS