skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Explorabook and Earthsearch loom hugely in my childhood memories; I can't think of another book that has stuck with me so much. Reminiscing with my mother now (I'm 30) about times spent eating biscotti in the Barnes & Noble cafe. Was recently trying to source a couple copies in Germany for a friend's kid. Now I'm reminded of the other titles, I'll probably get a set for myself as well :) Truly, thanks a million for bringing these into the world.
India-China+Clash+Could+Be+a+Sign+of+Things+to+Come
Why is this the case? Is triangulating your position from LEO harder somehow? Or is it something like that satellites don't have accurate enough clocks? Or something else?
yup, at 40 and after my divorce.
“and though forbidden, the first thing some developers did was benchmark the machine."

That’s why Apple is saving the new chips for the new Macs.
I mean, the punch a nazi in the face meme was spawned by a self defined nazi being punched in the face.

I am not surprised you a using a throwaway to defend this.
Retweeting a video that says "white power" is something racists do, though, so you might need a better example.
We can hand out as many dollars as people want to save to feel secure. That’s how a sovereign currency works.

If nobody wants to save then by definition whatever is spent will be collected by tax.

Perhaps read The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton to understand how that works
What makes it viable is that there will always be someone who is happy to part with their money.

If a businessman is smart enough to help that person be happy with the transaction, then I feel they are entitled to their reward.

Calling such practices amoral and scummy is a nice way to make oneself feel better about having not thought of it first.
I didn’t realize r/twox allowed trans women; the name has always made me a bit skeptical because rhetoric about chromosomes is so common amongst transphobes.
India China have military asymmetry, in favor of later.

In such scenario, it is not difficult to imagine, that India use whatever strengths it has, to compensate for this asymmetry.

India is a big digital market. Consumerism is being weaponized.
One can debate if this indeed is the driver or not.
Yet, a statement has been made.

Boycott of Chinese physical goods is not as straightforward as digital ones. Low hanging fruit, to make a statement.
It appears to have been a cross-platform mass-banning which included actions from Google (YouTube) and Amazon (Twitch) as well.
Do you have any existing books you would recommend from your "tech and science books aimed at the scientific literate but non-specialist" category?
Not to mention state sponsored private firm, being private is just optics.
The “progressives” have made their move in preparation for the election. Here’s hoping ol’Donny wins again so the leftists can start some self-reflection.

Chaptraphouse is nothing compared to all the other “mainstream” subs like politics and news that are still under their control.
JBoss took WS/WL out of the way.

Disclosure: I was one of the main people who got Tomcat open sourced.
Sometimes I wish the Michael Moore would, for at least one film series, adopt the Penn and Teller "Bullshit!" concept where one episode covers a prominent but controversial belief, and a follow-up (or even a segment within the same episode) covers its antithesis.

They mentioned once that they wanted to create a "Bullshit Bullshit!" which would debunk ways that their previous episodes were wrong or could be argued as such. I don't think they ever got around to it, but the idea is gold.
We need some sort of logic behind words and meaning. To call /r/politics or CNN etc left wing is too much. I don’t have an exact argument on hand. It just feels so wrong to subvert the expectation of a word or phrase this much to casually call stuff like this left wing.

As op said:
“ Edit (since I can't reply): r/politics is American liberalism, which is centrist.”

I don’t care about being that specific. Just don’t call it left wing.

Your bias is really showing in your second paragraph. So it’s not about rule breaking repeatedly like many subreddits including I bet /r/politics? There’s a certain frequency with which it has to occur? I Highly doubt that guideline has been followed consistently.
Or just use Tweeetbot, it weighs in at 7.2MB and the last update was 8 months ago.
As someone who's not a big fan of Java, I don't get those arguments.

If anything my argument for Java would be that it tries to be good at -everything-, and because that attempt started from day one (versus, say, C# starting primarily on desktop, then Web, and worrying about smaller targets and big servers later).

And I think it's pretty good at all of that from a 'capability' standpoint.

But because it tries to be all things for all people, it's pretty easy to wind up down rabbit holes of large frameworks. And that leads to the warts Java has from a usability standpoint.
a strange game - the only winning move is not to play.
The paradox of tolerance is bullshit though, as it's not based on empirical evidence.

It's just armchair philosophy used as justification for intolerance by intellectuals, the mental gymnastic people need to get over their cognitive dissonance.

AFAIK Plato came up with it to justify autocracy. That says it all actually.
I see where you're coming from and I agree with you overall, in particular how this is a first cut approximation.

But I still want to nitpick the details a bit. If you want to determine whether there was a change in the failure rate, you need to use rate statistics - failures per service-hour. Your analysis is only using the numerator while we know the denominator (the number of services in GitHub that can go out) has increased over time - GitHub Actions and Packages are relatively new.
Use nearly anything as an input device with fingertip-based gesture sensor
YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech
Almost certainly an excuse to further suppress PWAs.
TD wasn't either until just now ... maybe those 'others' will be tomorrow?

I'm not sure the timing of non specific sub banning really means anything.
"Skeptical of gender" is a cover phrase for "denying the existence of trans people". So, yes.
That is for sure how I feel looking at r/pics trending post in the last months
> The_Donald involved a lot of spreading their message / fake news sites / spamming across other subs and etc.

Yea, I gotta say, having to previously deal with r/The_Donald brigades on another large subreddit was incredibly annoying and depressing.

Can't speak to spreading fake news, but massive influxes of r/The_Donald users spamming truly vile stuff in an ostensibly non-political sub really sucked (as a moderator, to clean up).

The only thing that works imo is fairly strict moderation, or extremely niche/small communities. Everything else just gets swamped by toxicity. Decentralized vs centralized isn't really the right dimension to look at I think.

And as soon as your small community grows... the trolls come a-knocking.
How do the Mozilla folks cope with these build-time issues?
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I totally agree with you there, I was arguing from the view of a bad actor, not necessarily a government.

For a bad actor, the cost-reward looks pretty low (if we assume a high initial investment like a couple hundred million dollars to approach our goal of data collection in a shorter timeframe), but for a government that is probably totally doable.
I see someone isn’t a fan of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.

What’s your evidence that left wing violence exceeds right wing?

By the by, a lot of the “left wing” violence recently was caused by right wing militia “boogaloo” people.

https://www.salon.com/2020/06/17/far-right-boogaloo-boy-kill...
You need to eat. You want some other things in life that are not needs. You won't get good at something that makes you miserable while learning to do it (not to be confused with getting bored once you are good at it). Work really hard on whatever it is you do well because that leaves you with the money to do other things you enjoy that makes money.

The important part is to choose well. Magnus Carlson makes overa million dollars per year playing chess. I play chess, but it is highly unlikely I will ever make that much. Thus even though study could make me better, I don't study chess hard enough to become best in the world. I enjoy programming computers, and I get paid great for doing that. I could probably make more money than either of the previous if I was going for CEO, but I would hate the job so I let someone else do it (the competition is stiff too, but even if I never make CEO I'd be earning a lot more money in upper management)

The point is to choose what you become good at for money, and study as hard as needed, and then work as hard as needed to make the rest of your life work. In today's world you probably can't work less than 40 hours a week, so you need to choose that 40 hours well (note, chess world champion and CEO wannabes work more than 40 hours a week, one more reason to love it if you are doing it). You can choose to save and retire early if you want. Many people choose not to retire because they love their job, others retire early: both are valid life choices.

There is nothing wrong with switching courses. My dad switched from mainframes to PCs, and then back to mainframes. I know someone who quit programming to sell real estate. When to switch is a hard question because you have to accept that you are not the best for at least a while.
Maintainer here. There are a bunch of feature-level differences between Cortex and SageMaker (spot instance support on Cortex is one that comes up a lot), but the real core differences are:

1. Cortex is for ML engineering, SageMaker is for data science.

Cortex is designed specifically for the needs of production-scale ML applications. Deploying a model as an API with Cortex will be familiar to anyone who has used Serverless or Beanstalk before--you write your API in a Python script (Cortex provides a Predictor class for this), you configure your deployment with a YAML file, and you deploy with the Cortex CLI. You can see a GIF of a deployment on the repo: https://github.com/cortexlabs/cortex

In order to deploy the API, Cortex automates all the necessary cloud infrastructure. It spins up a k8s cluster, containerizes/deploys your API, configures autoscaling, implements a load balancer, streams logs, tracks predictions, handles rolling updates, implements different deployment strategies, cleans up, etc.

Because Cortex is just focused on serving models, not the data science/model training side, it can do all of the above automatically in ways that are familiar to software engineers (e.g. YAML/a CLI instead of notebooks/a Python SDK). This solves a lot of production challenges with ML, particularly around reliable deployment processes and collaboration.

Additionally, decoupling serving from training allows Cortex to be agnostic as to how you develop your model. You can use SageMaker, download a pre-trained model, whatever you like, so long as it can generate predictions.

2. Cortex is free and open source.

The obvious benefit here is cost--you don't pay the ~40% premium for EC2 instances that SageMaker charges. Additionally, we believe that there are fundamental benefits to open source infrastructure, in terms of transparency and control.
> This is Reddit taking a long-term stance on what type of content they want on their platform.

It's hard to take that "long-term stance" seriously when they basically make policies up as they go along. Now they're telling us that they want to make the site free of hate against identifiable groups - except if that group is in the majority, then the policy doesn't apply and it's 100% okay to whip up hate against them! Yay nihilists and misanthropes, I guess? Isn't that a bit ludicrous?
It means /r/sino won't be banned which is a CPC propaganda sub
I have access to a SMD oven (just a toaster oven with a fancy controller.) Manually applied solder paste, placed the parts and they flowed just fine. Same process with a hot air gun should work but will be a little more finicky.
> I don't know how but thus far we've had no real issues.

Because you only have 50 users, which is nothing. It’s the same reason communism is such an appealing idea, in very small communities it works but doesn’t scale up to nation-sized ones.
Maybe because they bought a lot of stupid and annoying commercials that made no sense to anyone.
And the news traveled pretty quickly to so many different subreddits before the ban wave. All the subs that had a chance of getting banned were making posts warning about an upcoming ban, and I even saw a post in r/againsthatesubreddits like 6 hours before the banwave that was talking about the post on watchredditdie in a way that sounded like they knew it was true.

I highly doubt that all these mods just saw one post from a medium sized subreddit and started preparing for a ban. Seems to me like all the mods within certain subreddits knew and it got leaked to other mods.
Alibaba and aliexpress are not popular in india, hardly anyone uses them in India. May be that’s why they were spared banning.
Machine Learning Opening New Doors for FPGAs
Your slippery slope arguments won't go very far when there are Literal Actual Nazis out there making comments about Jews, flying swastikas, and heiling Donald.
Honestly it's hard to figure out what even you're saying.

That reads more like a general ideology of persicution you're describing that you think is true ... rather than anything about what I said.
Like your interests? Your behavior? Your realtime location? Your health issues? Your mood? Any event that is going on in your life? Like someone died, or someone is having a birthday or you are attending a wedding?

Oh you have a wedding to attend do you? Here let me show you this ad for gifts that you can purchase at 50% discount. Oh but what about the dress that you need to wear? Here, buy this suit with 20% discount. Oh wait, you need to fly to say Delhi from your current location. Here let me offer you tickets to book your flights to at 10% discount. And while we are at it, let us retarget you endlessly, wherever you go, whichever site you visit! We will follow you. Until you buy one of the above!

Do you not see how quickly one can profile with realtime access to data? Aadhaar breach did not even include biometrics. But I bet your phone (if Chinese made) with a fingerprint or face lock would not only have your biometrics but also know every single detail about you in realtime through these apps. Aadhaar data breach is pale in comparison to this! And you have been feeding realtime data to a draconian regime for the past decade. If Aadhaar data breach upsets you, you should be frightened with what data gets collected by these social media companies.
> How effective has "confronting fascism with the truth" ever been?

When white people were afraid of black violence, Martin Luther King showed them black people peacefully hand in hand with ministers in their Sunday best, walking toward Selma and remaining nonviolent even as they were met with violence.

When straight people saw gay people as dangerous deviants, Harvey Milk showed them gay people in their families, jobs, and neighborhoods, behaving like the normal people they are. I personally grew up in a church that taught homophobia--my own opinions were fundamentally changed by one of my friends coming out in high school.

Ask yourself your own question: when has censorship ever been effective?[1] I'd argue that, among other things the election of Trump is partly a backlash against attempts to control speech by the left. It's no mistake that a big part of the pro-Trump narrative was just that he "spoke his mind".

[1] Whenever I ask this question, people always respond by pointing to one study which showed banning a few hate subreddits decreased hate speech on Reddit, so I'll preemptively respond to that by saying that there's absolutely no evidence that bigots on Reddit didn't simply move to Voat at that time.
Another fun factoid about The_Donald's love of free speech is that they immediately and permanently banned anyone who disagreed with anything said on that sub. Good riddance
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> Following your analogy

But you're not following the analogy. You just took it word for word and attacked something that wasn't even the point of it. You may as well have said "but websites aren't made of sugar".

I made concrete points on why websites shouldn't be trusted with such access. You did more of what was shown before, rattled the trinkets. And the use cases you listed don't seem like something you can't achieve now with existing APIs or dedicated apps, which makes more sense.

Stands to prove that the point of the analogy is more appropriate than ever: people can't understand the problem, let alone the solution.
Who wanted a $10M wealth cap? How would that even work? How widespread was that belief in any popular sub?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/nyregion/east-new-york-pr...
> However Google is pushing those APIs because they know tracking people without cookies in future is a big challenge for them and they need new ways of tracking people.

Why would it be? They have the search data, they know what you clicked on, they have GA on 60-80% of sites, they have plenty of information, tracking and profiling users isn't the issue. Tracking and profiling users legally is what's hard.
The real question is: did the husband score Reece a sweet deal, or was the husband recruited so that Quibi could snag Reece at all?
Oldest Viking settlement possibly unearthed in Iceland
This isn't about some minor annoyance, I'm pointing out something I truly believe holds society back, though not necessarily to some major degree

How much literature has disappeared from history because certain languages or vernaculars fell out of use?

Hell, why do we even bother teaching classical English if it's just going to change, right? We should just let kids learn from their parents and media - no use being a prescriptivist!

And yes, I do believe that some languages and dialects are vastly more expressive and unambiguous than others, but I don't expect the average person to understand that. Ultimately we're all free to speak as we wish but don't shame me for trying to preserve the necessary consistency that makes language useful.
This is a long-used term that isn't specific to COVID-19, which describes a legitimate medical phenomenon with a wide historical basis. Ever head of Typhoid Mary? She was a superspreader.

Interestingly, people who claim everything about COVID-19 is a conspiracy by the media (or the elites, or whoever) to control the populace with fear are significantly more likely to be superspreaders. Why? Because all the simple, moderately-inconvenient precautions they refuse to take legitimately do slow the spread of the disease. Someone who frequently goes within 6 feet of other people while not wearing a mask and leaves their home more frequently than necessary has a much higher chance of getting the disease, a much higher chance of transmitting the disease to each person they come into contact with while contagious, and also a much higher number of contacts to potentially infect.

The term is actually incredibly useful, even on an individual level - if I'm considering who I'm willing to interact with, someone who's come into close contact with 500 people in the past week while not wearing a mask is significantly more dangerous to me and my loved ones than someone who has come into contact with 50 people at a distance of 6 feet or more while wearing a mask.
While private corporations also have incentives and private individuals bring their own biases into play, there remain extremely important differences between the capabilities of corporations and states. State actors can effectuate arrests within their own territory, deploy military assets, make territorial claims, conduct assassinations, and generally use their information-gathering and influence to support significantly more violent goals.

Like, I get that the milquetoast world advertisers want to live in is some kind of lens that colors the views and opinions presented by their platforms. It's just that the worst that happens from being influenced by it is it that you live a more boring life and consume more product. That's not nearly as worrying as being influenced to hating racial minorities in an attempt to distract from the South China Sea or something.
It might not be illegal by laws of the land, but its illegal in our world and we will instantly kick + permanently ban any member who is caught cheating. We take it as seriously as any illegal activity (as defined by law of the land).
"We can see the values are relatively densely clustered near 0 and increasingly sparse the further you move away from the origin. As another example, half of all 32-bit floating point numbers reside in the real interval [-1,1]. "

I knew this in general but this specific statistic was eye-opening to me. Systems like OpenGL normalize coordinates so they only use values in this [-1,1] range. That means they effectively lose half the expressive power of the 32 bits. Are there other machine representations of real numbers which would be better for that use case? i.e. restricted to that range and evenly distributed?
But, if a nation can be threatened by an application, a chat, or a social network, can the ban solve the problem?
Every time I am debugging something I feel something like this: “f*ck this, I am going to give up if this doesn’t work”, until I finally solve the problem. Then I get a temporary high for about 5 seconds, rinse and repeat. Maybe there is something wrong with me, but that’s fun for me lol.
> Generally though, I’m concerned that other states and municipalities aren’t going to deal with a resurgence as well as the NYC metro area might. My family lives in New Jersey, so I’d be comfortable going out there if I felt that I had to, but I’d absolutely prefer paying to stay in NYC over returning to family living in most of the other US states.

You have to keep in mind that COVID wasn't much of a problem in the rest of America to begin with. Daily deaths in NJ have ranged from 34-132 for the month of June. In Florida, which has twice as many people, it's been 7-70. In Texas, which has three times as many people, it's been 6-47. Here in Maryland, which is a bit smaller than NJ, the highest count ever was 74 in early May, back when NJ was seeing 350+ deaths per day.

We'll see how those numbers react to recent case number spikes, but there is nothing about the situation in New York that would encourage me that NYC will handle the resurgence better. The same factors that caused NY and NJ to be hit devastatingly hard off the bat (density, population mobility) will remain liabilities as things reopen.
Have you not noticed that libraries rarely have many books anymore? Most of the space is taken up by computers, 3d printers and various other things, conference rooms and various other things. Not that those things are bad, they're just not books.
Hahah that's so true!!!
are people expanding their perspective from encountering non mainstream content dangerous? it appears many view the subreddit as being awful. Is it possible that another could view awful content and derive positive value from it?
In order to do that you have to go the Silk Road route, and try to host the site untraceably, paying for the server in Bitcoin, with the server hosted in a country with a no-extradition policy but has fast Internet. Otherwise for the platform to exist on the "regular" Internet, with servers and server admin living in a country with laws, the platform has to start policing content - banning the sale of drugs, weapons, and murder-for-hire, along with censoring other material - porn, gore, child pornography, copyright infringing material, files that are covered under ITAR.

The Internet is rife with censorship. It just offends our first amendment sensibilities to call it that for some very specific categories.