skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US is predominately automatic, but outside of N. America most of the world still uses manual.

I learned stick on a working holiday, driving utes in Western Australia
(Note that my experience is with US PhD process)

I have not heard of someone doing a PhD remotely from day one. It is definitely not unheard of to be mostly remote once you have mad some progress with you PhD. This can occur for example once you are writing your thesis, or due to an unexpected life event (such as your partner is starting a new job in a different state). Much like everything else with grad school, your experience will heavily depend on your advisor.

As for part-time, this is a little more murky. Most advisors will not want to fund (tuition and stipend) someone doing PhD part time, due to the very likely scenario of your PhD taking a much longer time to complete. It is not uncommon to work part time while doing a PhD though (such as a few hours of contracting/consulting).
The white invaders on a black background was iconic in my childhood, so I was kind of blown away when I first saw a real arcade machine with the painted backdrop and the screen reflected over it with a half silvered mirror (or whatever crazy tech they used in those days).
Yep agreed they're going for sensationalism. I was in cardiac arrest for 191 minutes before they got me onto the ECMO machine which was standing in for my heart and lungs. Those times though are pretty accurate because my husband was in contact with friends and emergency services so they have a lot of data about it.
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Why would I, there are tons already out there. The thing that frustrates me the most is that they all have more or less job offers from the same companies..
Switzerland individually is a bad example because it is pretty much the size of an individual US state, so it's cantons would just be counties in that example. A better comparison would be Switzerland's power-balance with the EU, especially in comparison to the extremes in population like Germany or Malta
Can anyone recommend a web-based, privacy respecting alternative to Google Docs/Sheets? It's the one part of Google products I haven't found a good replacement for.
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This reminds me of the coffin hotels in Neuromancer / one of the Gibson cyberpunk novels, although the real-life version is decidedly less cool (and probably more comfortable.)

In any case: if the cost was lower, I personally would find this somewhat appealing. A private bed and storage space in lower Manhattan for say, $400 a month, would actually be a decent deal. You'd have to be extremely minimalist, but that would be a feature and not a bug for the right audience. Add a VR system to each pod and you won't even notice the lack of space.
I am in South Louisiana as well, close to New Orleans. Grandfather is full Cajun, grew up in Cutoff, with his father being the captain of a shrimp boat.

One of my goals next year is to learn French. Do you speak French?
How much extra for access to the maggot-burger dispensers?
Yes it's true that they forced AMP despite some people not wanting it (and I think you are greatly overestimating the fraction of customers that actually care about this either way). But you know what they say, ask customers what they want and they'll say a faster horse. I don't think there's anything wrong or immoral about going against the current wishes of your customers to further the long term wishes of your customers instead.

That is much different than saying that Google is using AMP to make it easier to control results which was what the parent seemed to be implying. If this discussion is really not about AMP at all, but just about Google flexing their monopoly to do things customers don't want, then why is AMP the technology getting criticized for it? Why weren't we criticizing using SSL everywhere when Google depriortitzed non-SSL results?
Without examples, it's impossible to imagine something different for many people. We tech workers job hop because our experience is valuable and we make more money, but in crappy jobs the only way to more money is to put in more time. It makes sense for people in these sectors to stay at the same job.
But what I'm trying to say is that I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. It's not the margins that are too wide, it's the text that's too narrow.

This may sound like the same thing but it's not. It doesn't matter what percent of the page is taken up by margins, so long as the physical line length vs. font size is comfortable to read. Too long and it's harder to follow, too short and, as you say, you have to scroll constantly. If you had the same physical text width but a smaller font, it'd be better (so long as the font was still big enough to read comfortably).

Classical research suggests the ideal line length is somewhere between 45 to 75 characters. For the web it's suggested you can go up to 85 characters, depending on the font. This website sets the maximum width at 36.5em which is on the narrow side of things.
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German prisons as well I'd say.
I tried to kick Waze via Apple Maps but their routes are significantly worse. Sometimes the routes that Apple would give me were 10-20% longer than Waze's projection. Waze is the best, followed closely by Google Maps, and (unfortunately) Apple is a distance 3rd. Still hoping a viable alternative turns up!
Two ways:

1. Look at the domain. If it says "WSJ", don't click.

2. Accept the fact that there are people on HN who pay for WSJ, BusinessWeek, NY Times, etc. (as I do). These people like to read and comment on articles that are professionally written, edited, and fact-checked, despite having to pay for them. If this isn't what you want, that's OK. Let those who do prefer this sort of journalism read and comment on it without chiming in about the fact that it's not "free."
Thank you for your comment. Indeed the attribution part should be fixed.
Why? The Great Cannon is served from a proxy. It can inject whatever it wants. It doesn’t have to swap out ad tracker JS.
And the only reason that people who are working for money losing startups aren’t being “exploited” is because of the access to venture capital. And VCs get a lot of money from public pensions. If low margin businesses don’t “deserve” to be in business, neither do companies losing billions a year.
I’d rather they leave this kind of functionality to libraries than to include every possible thing they think people will use the language for.
Of course, I am not advocating that a merchant should never be liable for a product defect. All I am saying that there may be many mitigating or aggravating circumstances.

Note how the law that you cite also says "could be liable" - not that it is always liable.

I am also quite convinced that the "let's sue Amazon" bandwagon has a lot more to do with Amazon being a gigantic retailer with potentially large payoffs rather than the merits of the case.

Would you be so eager to sue the only retailer in your town, that is half broke, almost going out of business, that you happen to also need the most.
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A key difference: I don't think it was as common to be "co-living" with complete strangers (though maybe I'm wrong on that).

Sharing a room with someone you're pretty familiar with is a much different experience.
I'm sorry to say but the article isn't well written, the structure is incredibly off: the intro says it will be about one thing, then it just goes off in a different direction. Also, the conclusion is somewhat similar to - never use the Internet
I am a great fan (as much as one can be a fan of an analytics tool) and advocate for matomo. They even have server log analytics with no client-side tracking whatsoever.

We're using it for a big variety of clients small to big and sure, it's less capable than Google Analytics, but then again – most of our clients are just interested in simple visitor statistics to validate certain assumptions, not whether or not James Doe's engagement with our site has been 4.32% better after his second Flat White at Starbucks.

When ever there's a viable alternative to a Google product – go for it. Matomo is 100% viable and I feel much better tracking (anonymous!) user-behavior this way.
> To me it is obvious that the method in the article is far superior than teaching completing the square.

I disagree. I would need some convincing that "two numbers that multiply to C and sum to B must have an average of B/2, so they must be B/2 + z and B/2 - z, so (B/2 + z)(B/2 - z) = C" is by any means obviously superior to completing the square. Neither is immediately intuitive; both will require prompting and teaching by the teacher. Completing the square has uses beyond proving the quadratic theorem; this does not.

I should say: I find this an incredibly cool and level-appropriate proof of the quadratic equation, but I think its merits as an improvement in pedagogy are dubious.
See the image here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Pennsylvania

Like most states, Pennsylvania's rural areas tend to be more conservative and support Republicans. The resulting political map of Pennsylvania is therefore a red "T" in the center of the state with the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas a strong blue.
I can't find it back but in a recent article I read that it was useful to have an idea of the upper-boundary abilities of an arch+algorithm, so that you 'know' what you're aiming for, but it might not be attainable practically without huge human or decades of superoptimizer effort... Yes if your algorithm reaches for cold data, you'll get hit. Can you get around that? Do you really need to hit the cache when you're computing the seven-billionth decimal of pi or factoring numbers ? This work is quite interesting, if only for compilers or superoptimizers.
How could another human being be not-conscious while displaying all the signs of consciousness? Maybe I have a failure of imagination but if ask my mother "are you conscious?" and she says "yes" then that's pretty conclusive evidence to me. This is actually such a dumb thread I think I'm going to stop now.
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Is it a realistic target for Amazon to detect and manage this at the scale they operate?

Does a set of solution options exist, but Amazon doesn’t work on those?

Just thinking from solution angle, rather joining on Amazon bashing. (not that I lack reasons to do so)
With some minor privacy/security tweaks, I agree. Most "coffin hotels" are better than this without consuming more space.
at your level? consuming less resources. It's quite easy to lower your environmental footprint by a half, by changing and reducing consumption habits (eating less or no meat, no pets, avoiding to own a car if possible or at least not a heavy/polluting one, no cosmetics, soap bars instead of bottles, reusing, repairing everything, ..). If everyone in developed countries do that, it's virtually twice less people on the planet, and the environment will be much more likely to catch up in the short and long term

and voting for the right people, but I don't believe much in politics for the moment, on this problem

You've a very sane reaction I want to say, I hope most people will do too as quickly as possible
The idea that blind people don't/can't date is readily disprovable. Examples of anything will tend to be notable; that doesn't mean non-notable people don't exist.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5ajj7/how-dating-works-w...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2017/01/09/wh...

You might consider finding a local support group for people who've recently lost their sight.
Or "Why should I care about security, I have nothing of value" folks.

You do have something of value: Bandwidth.
This is reporting the same china tribunal mentioned in my OP. Interestingly, the interviewee mentioned by the Guardian here 'did not see any direct evidence of forced organ removal'; if the tribunal heard evidence from people with direct experience of organ removal, I'm surprised they were not quoted. It seems like I may have to dig deeper into the tribunal's actual report to gain more insight.
In addition to the advice given by the others, I would suggest to maybe participate in the Advent-of-code (https://adventofcode.com/). It started a few days ago but you should be able to quickly catch up.

You might do it to get back into coding, put it on a resume or just for fun (my reason to do it).

But the community around it (https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/) is really great and it's a lot of fun!

It also provides as a specific daily purpose, in contrast to some random code test online.

Best of luck!
FWIW amazon sells cremation urns for a decent price ($60-100).
Nah, it's totally different. It has beavers.
> "NCMEC’s image hash"

I had never heard of this. If a web app leverages AWS / Google Cloud / Azure for file storage, is it safe to assume that the web host is already running these checks?
Depends. I took a mid-level calculus class recently because it had been awhile since I'd integrated anything, and the professor had to spend a day reviewing how to factor and divide polynomials when they got to integrals which used trig identities. "Completing the square" was a new phrase to most students.

Everyone knew the quadratic formula, but most people don't pay attention to how formulas are derived, much less remember that sort of thing a few years later. If you want to guess whether an average student knows something, ask yourself, "would it be on the test?"
> A private bed and storage space in lower Manhattan for say, $400 a month

It would likely be similarly priced to the article, i.e. closer to $1200/month.

I think that's the real downside of things like this: They're offering a pretty steep discount compared to what it would cost to, say, rent a studio in lower manhattan, but not a steep enough discount that it would be affordable for someone making minimum wage.

It seems like a poor alternative to just having roommates and living in Crown Heights, is what I mean.
So, what I'm hearing is looks are not important to you.
Prisons allow visitors because prisoners generally can't leave. It's a much better deal IMO to be able to leave but not have visitors come to you.
And the _compliance_ department approved this? Wow.
The non-materialist argument is similar to creationist critiques of evolution. Scientists who study these things see a material explanation, but because these are enormously complex emergent properties they don't know the exact details. Critics then use a god of the gaps argument, saying that if a material explanation can't explain everything right now then a supernatural explanation (which which explains far less and runs counter to available evidence) should be favored. Behind both arguments lie an unease that the scientific approach knocks humans off their pedestal and makes them seem like everything else.

It's not surprising that the only neuroscientist in the article is arguing for a materialist approach.
This is a tiring example of why the web and all its technologies thoroughly suck. It's a boiling toilet fueled by greed.
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I think that it is freedom from government rules but lots of strict social rules. You can do what you want but don't get "uppity" and know you place. We will tell you what is ok not the Washington DC.
It is being an utter asshole with technicalities. Given a syringe of insulin a high enough dose to save someone too high in blood sugar can be used to kill someone stable or low.

Strip away all of the special pleading for authority and it is clear the bastards belong in jail for a long time.
I didn’t see this anywhere in the article (maybe I missed it), but because this utilizes the Great Firewall, it’s undoubtedly done by the Chinese government, right?
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I didn't know the history, I had no idea it was an open question for 12 years!

As I said, it was a very long time ago when I heard of the problem. I don't think it was in an interview, but I honestly don't remember the circumstances. I do remember being quite proud of myself, so I guess there's truly an element of bragging in my statement. Doesn't mean I lied though.
I could maybe see doing something like this if it was $300/month cheaper and each pod had a retractable door, almost like those Japanese capsule hotels. I get that in a space this small you aren't going to have much privacy, but to not have any sort of divider to block in the bed space seems over the top. Maybe the idea is that if people can close themselves off, they're more likely to do something like play their music too loud or watch stuff on their computer with the volume too high versus if there is no divider they'll be more conscientious?
So many companies in the UK don't seem to get it (or are purposefully doing bad security), we need regulation .. or perhaps just application of current legislation (I don't know) ..

There needs to be someone saying "you restricted your passwords to 8 alphabetic characters, your C-grade in charge of security can no longer hold a position that involves security, and you company must pay 50% of profits (subject to a minimum of 5% of revenue) as a fine.

With a very clear, basic, definition of minimum security levels for companies (above a certain size) to comply with.

We can't leave security to the market as the information isn't public and the market on the whole can't comprehend it.
So if the cannon is created using the great firewall, how does the Chinese government establish any sort of plausible argument that this isn't state-sponsored activity?

Do they just not care?

Some day soon a war will not be started with an assassins bullet but with a tool like this. I wonder when we start looking at them the same way?
That's cool. Je parle un peu de francais, et vous? Parisien, pas cadien, malheursement.
But these folks still have no answer for how free websites they consume daily (e.g. news) are to be funded, they don't pay, and don't want to see ads either. Yet they still expect these websites to exist.

I use Firefox's built Enhanced Tracking Prevention, that some sites call "ad blocking" but in reality it is super easy to have ads that don't get blocked by it, just make them non-creepy.
You're going to get downvoted for saying something objectively true.

I, on the other hand, desire social accolades. The emperor's new clothes are beautiful.
Interesting perspective. This could relate to other nuances on centralization of navigation services. If Google Maps is the sole provider , this means they have authority on what streets are most viable, which shops get prioritized, and even where borders get drawn.
There are men in prison that are able to find someone on the outside, that visit them, and want to date them once their time is served.
Monads aren't as hard as you think
Judging from the image in the article, the space isn't very well-designed. Something like Japanese pod hotels are far more space efficient and would probably let you fit 10 pods in the space of two bunkbeds.
I think I repeat basically this every time the topic comes up. Marketing works to build a market for products, but is expensive.

Yes, there are grass roots marketing that gets some languages adopted. They seem to be the exceptions proving the rule.

So much of the technical chase for getting a successful language feels jarring compared to the momentum of languages that are succeeding.
The OP is not trying to punish Amazon.

They are sharing valuable insights into which range of products are manipulated.

Thanks OP, the writeup was quite valuable.
And yet here you are. I'm interested how you would perceive something that might supercede the internet by being better (than a boiling toilet fueled by greed), ignoring network effects?
That might be what you are talking about, but just to confirm: Pleroma has an ability to proxy outbound requests via `pleroma.http` config out of the box
$1200/mo - bed, breakfast, and farts from the guy who loves garlic noodles and craft beer.
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I've wondered about this, in the years since.

Does anyone else have a sense of what (if any) pragmatic technical steps could effectively deter or neuter this tactic?

If the network can't demonstrate the ability to at least pump the brakes on this, it's hard to imagine other states or even the owners of large safe-monopoly ISPs won't get a little jealous of the tool.
If baidu.com is distributing the script, why is baidu.com not being flagged as malware by the various mechanisms used to block this kind of nastiness?

Are the vendors just cowards?
I had no idea this thing existed but it's actually a smart and relatively straightforwards thing for the PRC to do, shitty as it is...

I was especially impressed with their getting the target to retrieve, resize and transmit an image: that's a smart way to waste time...
Qualia is not a scientific concept and really needs to be dismissed. (By definition it cannot be measured or observed.) I doubt you agree, but any study of consciousness that has a chance of succeeding will need to be extremely rigorous. I believe that an explanation of consciousness - much like the theory of evolution - will be both very simple and very unpopular.
On the contrary, people pay for Netflix. People also pay for the ad-free upgrade to Hulu. Speaking to text websites, people are also using Brave, though I don't know how that experiment will work out in the end.
> You may have a significant advantage context switching for presales engineering and roles that deal with more unexpected runtime problems, etc.

I would think the opposite: with lower working memory, context switching will be more painful and impose greater performance problems.
Have you ever actually visited someone in prison? I have and I'd say meeting up in a coffee shop is infinitely preferable. You can only go there during a specific time. You have to go through a long screening process that might involve taking off undergarments for inspection so you have to get there early. You awkwardly sit in a room with the inmate at a table being constantly watched. You only get a small amount of time with them. It's not really very "social."
Browsers should prompt user and require confirmation before sucking down resources repeatedly in this way. Especially since this is grabbing images/content that are then not going to be displayed.
The map with the nations extending into Canada makes me think of Manifest Destiny.
Something similar to the web in the late 90s / early 2000s?
I don't remember when I ran into this, but it was certainly earlier than the 2010's. Perhaps 1980's or '90's.

Certainly the Internet has made it more likely that you've run into it and heard the solution.