skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure about a full course. But I have a younger sibling going into 8th grade. He’s been doing learning on IXL to supplement his education this summer. It offers different subjects like math, language/literature, science etc. He’ll do that for 2-3 hours on weekdays.
> It doesn’t work like that. A lot of the networks’s and Netflix’s breakout shows were not planned to be great.

That might be true for a lot of breakout shows, but not all of them. House of Cards was arguably Netflix' first breakout show, and Netflix outbid other networks for House of Cards when they were just starting to focus on original programming. That was always painted in showbiz media as a very deliberate plan based on Netflix' data about their users' preferences.
Analyzing Protest Music in America
I've just got into the habit of unsubscribing every time I start a free trial on iOS. I just tap settings -> iCloud account -> subscriptions and then cancel the sub I just started. It gives me access throughout the trial and if I go to use it and it blocks me because the subscription ended I take measure of my own sadness to decide I want to pay.
update: I updated to 78.0.2 and it seems to be fixed. It's not in the release notes though, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.0.2/releasenotes/
It would be a huge expense for us to convert anything to "Free WinServer". We would have to redevelop all of our infrastructure for deploying software, porting and testing the software, configuring, monitoring, and deploying machines... We're probably talking six figures of time and on top of that the opportunity cost of not working on something else. We already have tools and experience for using Linux for everything that doesn't absolutely require Windows.

We really only run Windows for: MS-SQL, our dev workstations, and the backup server for the dev workstations.

One real pain point for running Windows is the regular BSA or similar audits. We try very hard to make sure that we are properly licensed, but when the auditor comes knocking we have to spend around a week going through and verifying everything, making sure that no licenses have expired, etc...

Even buying servers is made harder with Microsoft... "Ok, the license price specifies X per core and Y for memory, so to hit the licensing and system sweet spot we need this many cores but no more and this much memory."

With Linux we can just pick the system sweet spot for our use, and then at the end of the year we send donations to open source projects we use. That can sometimes be painful, (had problems with paypal for some of the most recent donations), but the licensing terms are much more obvious and less specialized.
You don't need Windows to use Active Directory.
Another point. Especially with these content based services, it's all about the next piece of content you can provide.

For example, if Dave Chapelle signed an exclusive deal with Quibi, then all of a sudden those 92% that didn't want to come back will come back in droves.

Quibi isn't a lost cause, they set up the infrastructure and are just getting started on releasing content. Everything depends on if they can find their must-see-tv.
If natural processes can only be artfully and artificially arranged to perform computation and not thinking how is it that we are having this conversation.
Try googling "index of".
https://www.k12.com/
It sounds like you need a fourth language there, perhaps something from Russian, Italian or Spanish literature. Unfortunately, everything I think of has too many pages.
List of Semantic Reasoners
Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’
There's nothing harsh about it. It's factual.

It does require 2FA, which makes the statement in the headline false.

It doesn't require 2FA reauthentication, which means you already passed 2FA.

You could say: "You don't need a password to log in to anyone's gmail account", while meaning that you just need to have access to their unlocked device while they're logged in.
> Yeah it ends when you make a statement about someone that accuses them of a crime

Why should I avoid talking about something because it pertains to a criminal proceeding? If I get sexually assaulted, should I avoid reaching out to anyone for support? If a person cheated me out of money during a business transaction, should I avoid calling them out on it? If someone punches me, and the police decide not to press charges, do I avoid warning anyone?
Ingenious. Another article like "We will never travel faster than lightspeed", or "We will never be able to live forever", or as people back in the stone age would have said "We will never have a fission reactor".

When will people finally realize that we know absolutely NOTHING about what's possible and whats not. Science made baby steps. We are 100 years in. And yeah, we know everything right? Yeah General AI... Not gonna happen.
Do they have to be failed?
The coding part of the project (extracting information, setup elastic search, build website) took me around two days. But some information had to be extracted manually. I hired a freelancer on upwork for that who spent ~30hs on it.
It would be cool if conferences would collect data directly with the submission more carefully so that we can analyse more easily which country/lab is getting stronger and why.
I think to authors are overly optimistic in our ability detecting highly dilute samples. Pooling studies in Dengue Fever using RT-PCR found sensitivity fell faster than could be explained by dilution effects alone. At 100:1 or 20:1 pooling the false negative rate will be unacceptable.

Edit: false positive -> false negative
But are they willing to pay for it?...
We know that machines with AGI are possible - humans are such machines.

Maybe you could discuss whether classical computers could achieve AGI, but I think overall the quest is to build machines with AGI, not necessarily in the form of classical computers.
Those opinions are currently stigmatized as “racist dogwhistles” and “white supremacy”. I’m generally pro-immigration myself, but I believe it’s possible to advocate for limited immigration without being a racist.
Why cant you just log out and back in to preemptively trigger the login?
I would have thought it's possible to pass the Turing test without being "in the world". But you'd have to be much more intelligent than an average human to do that, because you'd be successfully imitating something that is nothing like you.
Connecting via OAuth, presumably.
https://purelyfunctional.tv/
https://lambdaisland.com/
https://tbaldridge.pivotshare.com/
https://practicalli.github.io/
It's not really worthy of funding anymore. Certainly not by the government. It's just not competitive with other options. I used to be a longtime Libre Office user. Back then, MS Office was expensive and only available on Windows. Even the Mac version wasn't completely compatible.

MS Office is better than it's ever been, with a variety of licensing options that are affordable. And if you're a student you can get it for peanuts or free. Being able to use the same tools on desktop, web and mobile with everything accessible in OneDrive is a no brainer and outstanding value for the high end price of $99/yr for a family plan. If you're on a less expensive individual plan, a student plan or a discounted plan through your employer's HUP benefits, it's really kind of an easy decision.
Discoverability. Users browsing Play Store might see your app in related apps list or in search results. And you will get a way to gather user feedback without hosting and moderating forum or discussion board. Also, we are still at the point when you tell user to download an app, one usually goes to Play/App Store, not searches the web.
Whoops. And to think that I went and checked and corrected myself and then still managed to do it wrong :/
The numbers I compared to were the "full tax wedge" numbers which includes social service payments both on the employee AND employer side on top of income taxes. I on purpose picked the category that gives the highest numbers in the OECD report, well above the numbers people will see on their tax returns in most cases.

I'm sure the commenter above was including something else, which is what I'm curious about, given that as far as I can tell the highest marginal federal tax rate I can find is only 27.5%, and average effective rates far lower, but I don't know what other costs people might incur.

If Brazil is in fact a higher tax country than most of the wealthiest countries in the world, I'd love to know more.
"Good for users" was in the context of PWAs, not installed PWAs. Clearly the user's expectation is that clearing browsing data will clear data for web apps they navigate to in the browser.

Installed PWAs is another question. I suspect users will be surprised if they clear their browsing data only to discover they have to login again to Twitter, for example.

I may raise this question to the Edge Chromium team. I'm certain it's been raised before, but with Microsoft making PWAs first-class on Windows[0], this becomes a more prominent issue.

[0]: https://www.windowscentral.com/heres-how-microsoft-making-ed...
The automangler really changed up the title as posted here.
https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.261-199303-I/en
Judging by the stock market performance, this is a perfect time to IPO.

It may end in tears like a 2000 IPO, but tech is so hot right now. For example, look at recent public offerings like DKNG and NKLA
I don’t think so. Denmark or Sweden lacks a minimum wage. People are free to not work with Uber. They are free to work with them. If there is labor that will accept Uber’s terms, let them. Allow competition. Remove the regulations around taxis having medallions that cost 100k.
This is kind of a stupid take on the movie. The main message of the movie is that citizenship carries with it not only privileges but also responsibilities. Granted the action is so over-the-top it's sometimes comical, but if the director intended it as a satire, it just goes to show once again that leftists can't do satire. This was supposed to equate American liberty with fascism or something? Give me a break.
Downvotes result in a ban, though. Also votes were supposed to control quality, not agreeability.
> I want to restructure stuff, make multiple versions of functions, move them in and out of comment blocks or just leave code there for REPL use.

I think programming at the REPL requires a very different mindset from how a lot of us learned initially. The thought of leaving commented code in our codebase is one of those things we're told not to do, but there's a great snippet from one of Stuart Halloway's talks where he mentions "Rich Comments" (pun intended I think).

Rich is apparently known for leaving REPL code inside comment blocks specifically for testing purposes, and as a sort of transcript of the work that was done. [0]

Its a great approach, and one that I've adopted, but it seems wrong at first glance when taken out of the context of a REPL.

[0] https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blame/4ef4b1ed7a2e8bb0aaa...
$50k in lobbying for $1.4B (possibly $3.5B)? Seems like a hell of a ROI.

I’ve never understood why elected officials seem willing to acquiesce to huge pork barrel projects for such little $$ in lobbying. “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Lobbying Dollars”?
Is there a HN approved way of doing this?

I recall there being various solutions that cleaned older versions of Windows, but perhaps did so a bit too aggressively (disabling services left and right in the XP era), so experts recommended against using them. I have no idea about the current state of affairs, but may find myself in the same boat soon and need to know.
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> MSFT had reason to believe that the Ribbon was more accessible and discoverable to users than the old menu structure. I was dubious at the time, but since the shift I have come to believe that they are correct. I think the Ribbon is better for the vast majority of users.

Microsoft also removed the start menu on Windows once and everybody hated it. Sometimes, MSFT is wrong.
Is it right to say they are basically IT consultants
Low-level I/O doesn't seem to have that much complexity, unless you're trying to handle all of the engineers' levels of abstraction at once.

Let's say you're writing a /dev/console driver for an RS-232 connection. Trying to represent "ring indicator", "parity failure", "invalid UTF-8 sequence", "keyboard interrupt", "hup" and "buffer full" at the same level in the type system will fail abysmally, but that's not a sensible way of doing it.

I could definitely implement this while leveraging the power of Rust's type system – Haskell would be a stretch, but only because it's side-effect free and I/O is pretty much all side-effects.
I don't like giving my real name out online but I have a GitHub repo that does this automatically as a CI/CD job and a single shell script. It's really neat. Reach out to me (my username @ gmail.com) and I'll share it with you/
Not a JVM expert but the fact that it's all JVM bytecode for both comiled and dynamic langs should help.
Firefox needs to catch up on PWA support for desktop, Safari too.
If not already mentioned, John Stevenson's Practicalli site and YouTube channel are very good and active. If you are going down the Emacs route for the first time, his contributions in and around and explaining Spacemacs are pure gold
And if you have language support in org, use an org file.

#+BEGIN_SRC lisp
(+ 1 2)
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: 3

(type C-c C-c inside the source block)

If you use noweb it'll also include referenced blocks in the evaluated unit:

#+NAME: foo
#+BEGIN_SRC lisp
(defun foo (n) (+ 1 n))
#+END_SRC

#+BEGIN_SRC lisp :noweb yes
<<foo>>
(foo 2)
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: 3

This lets you have many versions of code in one file (if that's a sensible thing for you, very useful when exploring a new library or concept though), and in the end you can aggregate it all into one source file for sharing with others:

#+BEGIN_SRC lisp :tangle foo.lisp
<<foo>>
<<bar>>
#+END_SRC

(type C-c C-v C-t to create the file)

I've mainly used this (for interactive development) with Common Lisp, but it should work for most other languages that offer similar interactivity.
>it doesn't allow the user to preemptively re-auth to restart the clock.

AFAICT there are separate clocks for separate high-privileged actions, and some actions require re-authentication every time.

As an example, accessing a saved password on passwords.google.com requires re-authentication for each item you want to access.
Yep, works with my external non-Apple display, LG.
Unicorn data scientists – why should we all learn DevOps
Salesforce has eclipsed Oracle in market cap
This strikes me as conceptually similar to the problem of printing floating point numbers. A naive algorithm will convert the binary floating point to decimal and print that out, with potentially many trailing digits that are more or less garbage. The more human-friendly algorithms figure out the shortest/simplest decimal that would be rounded to the same binary floating point quantity, and prints that instead.
Yes, Facebook requires that any mobile app using Facebook login do so via their SDK. Presumably they will disable your Facebook app (breaking login) if you don’t comply.
Yeah, pretty much every 2FA I have set up has done this.
The CCP should make its propaganda slightly more subtle.
There’s a difference between logging into Google via 2FA and having subsequent interactions not require the 2nd factor, and turning off 2FA without a reconfirmation. You don’t want maximum usability in disabling your security mechanisms.
But that's still very nearly the opposite sort of business model as Quibi. Youtubers generally start out with very little investment and build their audiences manually through grassroots interest. I don't know of anyone who has raised over a billion dollars and created a huge expensive production company upfront before then launching a Patreon account and getting enough $5/month patrons to make it worth it. That idea sounds ludicrous because it likely is ludicrous.
Whose Land – Indigenous Nations of North America
So, California not only checks that fire insurers are strong enough to pay out when needed, but also sets limits to insurance rates?

I don’t see how, in a competitive market, the latter helps consumers. Yes, it can keep prices low for consumers, but only as long as insurance companies are willing to do business at the price set by the state.

If they are, competition should drive the price below that set by the state, making setting maximum rates unnecessary.

Net effect of a too low maximum rate would be that consumers go from having the choice between no insurance and expensive insurance go to having no choice but no insurance.

So, the implication seems to be that, in California, the market for fire insurance is broken. Is that the case?
I'd prefer to avoid the skillset lock-in, even if it was free.
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For another example of things staying the same far longer than they should within left-wing thought:

Most of the "leftist cannon" still believes in psychoanalysis or it's increasingly absurd derivatives (schizoanalysis or analytic psychoanalysis being good examples).

Not sure what to do about disproven bullshit being peddled as facts by parts of academia. I shouldn't have to argue with a PH.D in critical terror studies about the existence of the Oedipus complex...
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A rising tide lifts all boats. Maybe a decent time for a capex heavy business with mediocre metrics to go public?
You shouldn’t pervert justice just because someone is poor. If you’re ok with not following justice, but rather an emotional sense of vengeance, then why allow income at all? Let the state provide the needs and have the citizens provide the ability? At some point you either have to admit that you’re ok with theft by the state for the greater good or that you have created some arbitrary line in the sand where theft is not linger okay. The second option is hypocritical, but own that too.
The Windows software ecosystem is incredibly sketchy, no wonder viruses are still a thing: for some reason people hate hosting binaries but love to redirect you to fishy, ad-ridden shareware websites where a click on the wrong place will place a toolbar on your browser. I hate downloading software on Windows so much.
> "What's the sense in publishing your PWA in the Store?

We've trained a generation of users to look for apps in app stores. I blogged about this here[0], but having your PWA in app stores means more users for your app.

[0]: https://debuggerdotbreak.judahgabriel.com/2018/04/13/i-built...
Also check out @reborg and his much underrated YouTube channel. I really hope he can get his book finished
I'm sure the parent knows the meaning of the word, but was asking as more of a philosophical exercise. But funny enough, your example is still describing extrinsic value. Tools don't have intrinsic value. They're valuable because of a problem they solve. If they stop solving that problem or the problem no longer exists, the same thing happens to their value.
> Because computers operate on the rational numbers instead of the real numbers,

Computers are just devices that perform computations. It's perfectly possible to construct computers that operate on values that are continuous and not discrete. In fact, such computers have been constructed before. They are know as analog computers and were used for things like numerically solving differential equations.
Those situations are tricky: that type of login looks very much like a compromised account.
It's wild to me that

1. There are tons of replies in this thread. People have very strong feelings about signal.

2. Some people feel VERY STRONGLY that the pin numbers are stupid, and it has a terrible UX.

3. Some people feel VERY STRONGLY that the phone numbers are the simplest, most straightforward thing to use, and they would hate Signal if they didn't support it.

4. Some people feel VERY STRONGLY that they don't want their phone number used as an identifier, and it's a failure of Signal that they use them.

And it seems like many of these replies assume that their own position is the only possible one to take (or at least the only intelligent one!).

Imagine working on Signal and trying to create a product that pleases all these people, as well as even less technically minded folks, while having none of the usual analytics at your disposal to measure actual user interaction!

My hat's off to Signal. I admire their work but I don't envy their position.
Wouldn't the solution here be encouraging condom use in heterosexual pornography! The cat is out of the bag, so to speak.
"A computer is just a playback machine for binary logic."

If you have code changing code, based on input, which is a neural net, then you have a bit more.
I don't think this is a particularly good analogy either. you don't have some moral obligation to fix up the old code for the other team. you do it because that's what you're getting paid for. if you really don't feel like fixing it, there's nothing wrong with quitting the job.
There is likely other factors at play.

You can't really conclude that "this stuff" is harmless just looking at the tendencies. I agree though that I my pick for what is ruining society would be something else...
A large part of the stress came from residential schools. Children were taken from their parents to be "raised right" by the government.

There is a big debate here in Canada about Canada's founding father John A MacDonald because he approved residential schools. It would be like a debate over George Washington in the US should he be on money, statues erected and so on.

Another topic is missing women in indigenous communities. Often murdered by a partner or stranger or simply gone missing without any known reason.

It's interesting to see how little talk there is in the US over rights of First Nations (or "Native American") people. It's a daily discussion here in Canada going on for years.
Mediocre metrics is generous from my experience working with them.
Also Businesses which has no use for an app, can claim 'We have an app' as many like to do and now they can convert their website to a publishable app more easily.
Right, that was my intuition as well. Ten minutes is still too long for the use case that they’re targeting, of people on the go who want to fill in time looking at their phone. A ten-minute short still requires a level of concentration (and absence of interruptions) not suited for that scenario. Social media is still a lot better for that, as is tiktok’s far lower video length.

And, yes, I know it sounds kind of bizarre to ridicule a ten-minute short as “too long”. Fortunately, the public is (still, for now) absolutely willing to watch productions that take a bigger time and attention investment. It’s just, they want to watch it at home, possibly with others, on a bigscreen. Quibi deliberately avoided that with the “mobile only” constraint that they’re now reversing.

Edit: sorry for overusing “still”.
Former Senior Windows SysAdmin here --worked in large scale infrastructures and was the lead in a team dedicated to securing hundreds/thousands of servers.

My answer: No f*ing way.

I've seen too many times that pattern of "oh we fixed this security flaw on a patch tuesday only to realize it opened a backdoor in some other way". Securing Windows boxes is a pointless rat race. They have backdoors in them, guaranteed.
Not at all. Uber may discreetly and artificially limit the orders for drivers from their infrastructure (assuming idle or downtime don't count as work hours). Grab, for example, has been known to unilaterally and unfairly reduce the workloads on drivers not affiliated with an exclusive fleet company.