skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several bookstores have been sustaining themselves in Toronto for some time now. We've lost some old favourites over time like World's Biggest Bookstore [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Biggest_Bookstore]

But there are several great ones that remain. Some offer online book shopping now, others require physical presence.

Some of my favourites, and as far as I know they're still doing well enough:

* BMV [http://www.bmvbooks.com]

* Zoinks! [https://zoinks.ca]

* Ayerego Books [https://www.ayeregobooks.com]

* ABC Bookstore [https://www.blogto.com/bookstores/abc-book-store-toronto/]

* Seekers Books [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Seekers+Books/@43.6657637,...]

* Ben McNally Books [https://benmcnallybooks.com]

* University of Toronto Bookstore [https://uoftbookstore.com] — Of course, we're lucky to have this one downtown. They have a large technical collection as well as pretty well any academic subject taught at U of T.
I'm not trying to shut down the conversation.

In this case it is the conversation. "Why do we defend and obsess over 3rd party business interests of corporate giants?" is the topic we are discussing. Keep up.
What did that subreddit do besides hating on trans people? I never saw anything but countless posts targeting hate against trans people.
But that's the piano roll that is recording our sense of time!
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For about a decade, I used to live very close to a Barnes and Noble, and almost as close to a Half-Price Books used book store. I'd go to each about once a week and browse around. Bought loads of books from Half-Price books (probably more than 1000 over 10 years), and a handful from Barnes and Noble. Definitely found lots of books I never would have found on Amazon. OTOH, there are lots of books I've bought from Amazon that I couldn't find in either of those bookstore either, but those tend to be specialized. I never browse Amazon for books, I wouldn't even know how to do that in any way that wasn't just a pain in the ass.
As a paying subscriber of NY Times, WSJ, WaPo, and others mentioned, having “big journalism” consolidated into Apple News’ clean consistent reader-centric UI is a huge benefit.

When a provider’s own app chooses to drown subscription content in run-of-site first party ads — looking at you, NY Times — I am suspicious of that provider’s motives for dropping Apple News.

If they didn’t like the Apple News channel sales or rates, that would be the thing they could negotiate.

This feels like wanting to keep their cake (subscribers) and eat it too (advertise to known households).
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It was brewing for a while. I am surprised that so many apps got b&. I was sure weChat and TikTok were gonna get axed but not others
> If you have a difficult time saying horrible things about Hillary Clinton without attacking her gender, you might actually be sexist. Think about it. How do you really feel about women?

It is unclear for me where this comes from? Did GP update their post after you replied or did you reply to something GP didn't say or even imply?
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Sooner or later it will happen
So glad to see this. My kids are getting into prime Klutz age now, so it was really depressing to go searching and see that Scholastic has basically killed it off...
Chapo Trap House is left leaning
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>This is a common sentiment: distrust in the US government.

No, this ain't just it. Even if I trusted the current US government (which is already a shaky premise to begin with), I cannot be sure I will trust the US government that will be in place in 10 years or 20 years. And once you give them that power, there is no easy way to put it back in the box.

So, for me at least, it is less about distrust and more of a "freedom" or "systems" sort of an argument. I am ok with the government issuing some sort of an "advisory list" of potentially invasive apps. But no, I don't want government to essentially preventing me from using certain apps due to "privacy concerns", if I am aware of the risks and still want to proceed.
This is an interesting and important thing you pointed out, thanks for sharing. Unfortunately I cannot answer your question since I'm on the edge of trying Pijul myself, and only briefly read about the patch-based model that it uses.
It's from Starship Troopers the book. I really liked it, but it might not be for some.
r/Chapotraphouse which is mentioned in the title was left leaning. On the ither hand many other right wing subreddits were not deleted. Hard to see how people make this a partisan issue.
I wish it were that easy, but the things that keep people from shouting extremely distasteful but legal speech on every street corner of busy intersections don't really work for the internet, at least not yet. I suspect the only way to get a truly free and open honest platforms, is by removing anonymity and forcing users to categorize/tag their speech and then use punitive measures if they don't tag correctly.

Say you have a native feature where anonymous users or anyone will not see (by default) certain types of content by tags. The community might vote on which tags to require users to "opt in" to view. The only way to be banned might be, assuming legal speech in the first place, would be if someone posts content that fits within a community agreed upon tag, but the user fails to tag it.

I haven't given this a ton of thought, but I would love to see something like this tried.
A lot of what makes a person a superspreader is not biology but behavior. They happen to be in a place with a lot of other people, they didn't maintained distance, didn't used facemasks, and probably neither the people that got infected did.

The point is that superspreader have the same behavior elements of most of the other people on those places, and each of them potentially will go to more big meetings and parties taking few if any measures to avoid keep infeting. You are dealing with clusters of superspreaders, not individuals, that may infect "normal" people as well as not all their contacts with other people will be in big parties.

Good policies to prevent the spreading of the disease should take those clusters and cultures into account.
most sites use a html modal to ask for the permission, and if you answer yes they make the request to the browser api which shows his own modal.
Yeah: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-india-china/indians-hold-f...

China is basically using these apps as spyware.
"Super spreader" reminds me of the language "super predator" which was used to depict black kids as violent rapists in US media.

Edit: Sounds like some good ol media designed to get attention via fear.

There might be a few people carelessly running around spreading the virus. There are a few documented cases of this happening early on. Possibly there are some individuals who will do this again in time.
What are your thoughts about China banning anything but local apps/services for domestic use but the rest of the world is OK with allowing Chinese apps/services to compete with the domestic apps/services? I think there is some level of asymmetry here, not sure how best to resolve it without giving up the citizen's freedoms as you expressed. This asymmetry is problematic because western democracies are barred to profit from Chinese market (1.3 billion people) and the Chinese companies which are in bed with the CCP would benefit domestically + internationally. That's unfair I think.

One compromise would be to promote democracies around the world and incentivize apps/services developed, operated and controlled in democratic environments.
>You've just unintentionally identified the exact problem. You think my response was somehow "sexist" or hostile. I don't. I do think it mostly contains critical thought. If you think my comment should be censored, you've lost all credibility as far as I'm concerned.

You'll notice I didn't say any of the things of which you accuse me, nor do I think them (yet).

> If you care enough about karma to brag about it, you probably are a terrible contributor to HN anyway.

I'm confident about what this situation says about me and my contributions here and feel no need to defend myself further.
Biggest difference I have seen is a change from random trolls (often who were easy to identify and proud of who what/they were) to larger, organized campaigns. Even if the campaign isn't running on your forum, people are reading Facebook or whatever and this causes many people to start spouting similar stuff they have seen. And even here, the comments often get close to looking like astro-turfing. I barely read the comments anymore, usually only a quick glance to see if there are more links relevant to the topic.
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Ah, I guess my memory is faulty. It looks like Windows 8 was actually the first version to do away with the classic theme entirely.
I didn't upvote this, as this is just some guys heuristic.

But, I find the exploration vs exploitation mental model useful. There is theory behind it (which is used in reinforcement learning):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit
Easy to follow the money on this one. Trump admin has been MUCH less giving than Obama admin / GWB admin / etc when it comes to trade with China. They'll be much better off if Joe Biden wins in November than if Trump gets another 4 years. Investment well spent and paying dividends today.
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r/AHS staged a massive public brigading campaign in 2018 to get as many right-wing subreddits banned as possible.
China moved into Indian territory and has killed 20 Indian soldiers and this is how India is retaliating. The prime minister is not even mentioning China in his speeches or tweets. This has been a disaster for our country.
On Android you can use web apps in Firefox, with content blocking powered by uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger. This is because Android allows real Firefox, engine and all and Firefox implements the web push API.

This gives you unmatched privacy. As I've said elsewhere too, see this Facebook page listing apps that share data with them via FB's SDK and marvel at how privacy friendly your iOS device really is:

https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity

The notion that Apple is not implementing the web push API for example, for privacy reasons, is stupid.
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I think they need to do this as there is no support for asymmetric CPU cores on Intel or macOS prior to Apple Silicon.
They banned /r/politics?
India bans dozens of Chinese apps, including TikTok, citing security reasons
No. The lower level mods were forced in by the Reddit admin a while back. There were warnings about these sock mods long ago. The subsequent banning of the top mods effectively put these sock mods in control.
> The more I see about Meg Whitman the more I'm convinced she's just an idiot who happened to be in the right place at the right time

Well, in this case at least she partnered with the right person. I am not sure if anyone in Hollywood raises money better than Jeffrey Katzenberg (both for business and politics).
So it's time to change the system. Ranked choice voting and a third party could make a world of difference. Continuing to give all your money to an entity you don't trust isn't a working plan. It leads to, for instance, the COVID response.

Defeatism around something so critically important to the success of a country isn't a plan.
The "globally influential" and London being a top financial center will certainly decrease after Brexit. You'll see a lot of EU banking moving from London to Berlin or possibly Paris.
IMO it's partially a discoverability issue. Hate groups target young/vulnerable people, and start off with subtle/ironic hate and then groom people into more serious hate. If you read leaked chat transcripts, and even KKK manuals, they discuss this specifically as a tactic. By moving this stuff off of reddit, it makes it harder for those people to find it, because they'd have to go looking for it. It doesn't solve the problem of hate in society, but it helps.

The other thing is that reddit is inherently multi-topic. You can't host hate groups and then quarantine them from non-hate groups. So what you get is a bunch of people who showed up for the hate groups also commenting hateful things in the non-hate groups. This creates problems for people who wish to have a hate-free experience to talk about their gardening projects or video games.
Oh, that's a super good, but very difficult question to answer in general.

SDF ray marching is quite commonly used in the demo scene and on ShaderToy without an acceleration structure (or "BVH" - Bounding Volume Hierarchy), while ray tracing usually has one. It's common for SDF ray marching scenes to have a very limited number of procedural hand-coded primitives, while ray tracing usually has a lot of simple primitives like triangles and spheres that come out of some modeling tool.

The Godot engine, however, has a BVH, so their SDF complexity will depend on that.

In it's inner loop, SDF ray marching does a point query against the BVH, while ray tracing does a line query. Both will end up traversing along the line (ray) through the BVH.

I'd guess that, attempting to compare apples to apples, ray marching has a slightly higher complexity in practice than ray tracing since it takes multiple iterations to reach a surface, where ray tracing (usually) gets there in one step. But there are multiple factors that can offset this complexity difference, because there are some amazing tricks you can play with ray marching to reduce the number of rays, and because ray marching often better utilizes a GPU.
ChapoTrapHouse, which was the largest left wing sub.

Edit (since I can't reply): r/politics is American liberalism, which is centrist.
Don't hold your breath, especially regarding any action taken against /r/politics or an effort to make it actually politically neutral.
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> Give people the ability to work with and manually adjust the algorithms that are built to offer them products/ make recommendations.

I think most people are already there. Even non technical people see their recommandations get flooded by dozens of similar videos, and quickly realize they’ll have to find by themselves different videos if they want to see their recommended stream change.

I had my son explain he didn’t want to click on the unboxing video even if he was interested, because it would make all his feed unboxing videos.
a floppy-based Dropbox.
> What's the technical path to a airborne virus monitor?

Idk specifics but I remember reading about projects like these [1] 18 years ago and haven’t seen much development since. I’m sure one of us has more information than I. Maybe they’ve gotten past the perpetual 20 years in the future problem? Regardless, a silicon based particle detector based on the nose is the most promising direction I think to developing something functional.

[1]https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/ne10000000...
not at all. lisp and haskell are entirely different worlds. don't be fooled by the claim that lisp and haskell are both functional languages. haskell is functional to a fault, but lisp is anything you want it to be. it depends on which lisp you choose. i believe that clojure is more on the functional side, scheme somewhere in the middle, but common lisp (the language i am familiar with), is barely more functional than python. functional programming is not using functions as the main method for code organization.
I'm curious about what obviously true biological characteristics of women reinforce negative stereotypes about them, if you have any. Otherwise I don't really see the point in the hypothetical.
Overnight, I agree. But I think the decoupling will happen. The outsourcing to China took about 10 years (mid 90s to mid 2000s). It will likely not take a lot longer to decouple. 10y is very rapid.
See also "the long march through the institutions."
Well, the US goverment has interfered with it's citizens downloading whatever software they want, and is currently doing so via embargoes.

I think banning spyware is less problematic than the rest of the current and past interference and might actually have some positive effects.
You sparked my curiosity, do you have examples you can share?
> scanning a shelf and picking out something that catches your eye was a more efficient process, yielding more spontaneity and serendipity and quality, than the existing "recommended books" algorithms that exist on my library's online app

So much this.
The sad part is that you're not allowed to say this or nobody will hire you since you will be deemed "not passionate enough". This is a unique trait to CS careers that does not exist in other jobs where they rightfully treat their jobs like a job, not some spiritual life calling.
You're correct. I could have just mentioned Germany/France/Italy being bigger by themselves than Russia.

It's even less then I expected. Weird.

Perhaps Wolfram Alpha had different numbers

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: checked. No it isn't, perhaps I was checking military expenditure then since that was what I was comparing a while ago.

Conclusion that I had was that Europe is outspending Russia easily in military.
I think the problems articulated in this article will make Deno attractive to many JavaScript developers. The standard Deno library has everything needed for building server-side dynamic websites.

But I think what will speed adoption of Deno is something that has been little-commented on: the runtime is a single-executable. This massively simplifies deployment.

Contrast that with Node, Python, Ruby and the way they spew out dozen, often 100s, of tiny script files all over the place. Simple, uncomplicated deployment solutions (particularly for self-hosting) simply don't exist with many interpreted languages. Whatever you think of Deno, their decision to create a single executable runtime will make it attractive to many developers.
Confusion caused by attempting to sort human beliefs in a one-dimensional space strikes again! To be clear I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you or the parent poster, just commenting on the ambiguity.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679425
You're completely missing the point: no government should get to decide what apps to ban.
As long as there isn't a better system, voting for the lesser evil seems like the least one could do. You can continue the fight for a better system when you don't have an actively racist president for example.
For decades browsing the bookstores on Saturday mornings was a bi-weekly treat for me. These days, 95% of my books are bought online and for the Kindle.

Tech and science books aimed at the scientific literate but non-specialist have all but disappeared. The physical quality of fiction books in terms of print quality and binding are just garbage compared to 25 years ago.

It is a bit sad for a book lover. Our home is still filled with multiple thousands of books, probably also several hundreds still unread as new books were bought at a higher frequency than they could be read, so moving down the strata of an ever accumulating 'to read' sediment.

With the instant availability and fulfillment of online eBook purchases, that vice has disappeared together with it's joy.
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I truly hope you're not an American or any other citizen of a country who is basically doing exactly the same thing. Would be highly ironic to sit and yell about Russia if so.
I'm not sure where to draw the line between security and privacy and whether this distinction should be made at all, but: http://archive.is/WYLKa

TL;DR TikTok looks waaaaaay more shady than FB with their Android SDK.

(seems like archive.is is down atm, tried to load via wayback machine, but they don't have this site cached, ugh)
Yes, some of them are somewhat hyperbolic like the Apple keyboard thing which was apparently related to some sort of anti-spam feature, but in general that makes TikTok a privacy mess, which is undoubtly true but not really grounds for a national ban on the basis of security. By that logic you'd have to throw half the app store out.
We in the U.S. should have partnered more closely with India in the first place. India is democratic and hold values closer to our own. The CCP not so much.
And T_D should be banned years ago for blatant doxxing, brigading, and threats of violence, all clear violations of Reddit's rules.

The admin has repeatedly been too scared to enforce their own rules, just doing half measures like that to pass the buck.
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Certainly not a superpower by these metrics. However, Russia does possess a vast number of WMDs which still puts it superpower category.
Political use of social media is propaganda. I agree with this move.
Expressed Preferences vs. Revealed Preferences

>19% of the public uses google and/or facebook services.
This is one of those comments that seems interesting and believable because it's so confidently stated. But is any of this speculation actually accurate?

I agree with the second half of the comment. Facebook has been capricious, and thus it's hard to trust building on top of them for the long term. But the first few paragraphs just seem like unsubstantiated gossip.
If we walk into the past a little in 2000 world is not intertwined with China, and very likely 2040 world is not intertwined with China.

If only people read about PBOC, CNY/CNH and how currency is a political tool within China, you realize they have successfully exploited the "free market" impulse to effectively use state capitalism and dumping to create the world we are in Today.

Just because the supply chains got complex and intertwined with China does not mean it will that way forever -- it is going to be a painful 5 - 10 years, just like the ramp up, the tear down will take time.
Social media companies and "the left" are not the same. Although they surely have some overlap (just as social media companies and "the right" surely have some overlap), conflating them entirely with each other is simply false. We cannot assign political conspiracies to entire industries.
It think they use the naming because their message is that they don’t slap a few random parts together, but optimize a complete design.

Certainly, for many workloads, what matters isn’t the performance of the CPU but how efficiently it can offload those tasks to the GPU and ‘Neural Engine’. Those two parts also might use up the majority of the transistors.

The CPU also _could_ have a few un-ARM-like extensions that help in emulating x86. It may be interesting to watch what gets committed to LLVM.
Tiktok can be a huge threat because their recommendation algorithms are black box. This makes them capable of controlling how potentially dangerous information is disseminated in the United States, including topics influencing elections.
/r/politics is a liberal subreddit. It regularly censors leftists and people on right. Don't call something "left" when you mean liberal.
> Name three PWA apps please

Fastmail, Facebook, Twitter.

None of them work on iOS due to lacking web push notifications. All of them can work on Android as PWAs and as PWAs they are more secure and privacy friendly (not only due to less permissions granted, but also because you can protect yourself with uBlock Origin et all).

Keep in mind that your personal experience is an anecdote.
> In fact, the web is unique in allowing you to actually inspect the source that is running on your machine

To be fair, this is changing with WASM. On the other hand, there are tons of obfuscation opportunities with native executables that don't exist for WASM.
Interesting, what are the benefits of using this vs Sagemaker?