skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having had a significant other that worked in journalism, this makes sense to me. Journalism has become a profession which is much easier to follow if you have an "elite" background. It can be a prestigious job, but with a low salary for decades. To break into it you often have to earn your stripes and work your way up. In "elite" journalism--major newspapers and outlets--this often includes very low paying or non-paying internships in some of the most expensive cities in the country. It's a lot easier to do this if you have parents that can pay your rent or max out their non-taxable gifts to you each year.

To even get these internships it helps to go to one of the top 5 J-school graduate programs, which are expensive ($30k+ tuition/year) and in high cost of living cities (except Mizzou). Due to the racial wealth gap in the US--which was caused by systemic racism--this means that upper-class White people are going to be the ones that can best outlast this system and end up making it as a journalist.
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If you just care about brain teasers, caffeine is quite effective at inducing small temporary increases in cognitive ability and is totally safe. Try having a big 'ol cup of joe before interviews.

If you want to learn how to think more critically, you need to force yourself to continuously engage new ideas and learn to recognize an author's motivations and biases while still evaluating their arguments objectively, putting aside your own past conclusions temporarily in order to understand their argument. Then do the same for ideas you have previously agreed with, and see which ideas hold up to scrutiny. Only then can you truly call conclusions your own.
Buying up and killing competitors seems worse for consumers than merely competing unfairly.
Your dangerous comment should be downvoted into oblivion. The whole point is that methanol is dangerous to handle.
This is not true. You will absorb the methanol into your skin.
That whole movie is about how the Jedi completely lost their way from millennia of stagnation to the point that they couldn't recognize the sith in their midsts anymore, and how their own well meaning influence contributed to their own downfall.
Why should it be?

If 90% of all sanitizers produced in Mexico were dangerous then it makes sense to include it in the headline: that’s useful information for the reader. But if it’s a tiny minority then knowing the country of origin doesn’t actually help the reader make a choice in the store.

In any case, this isn’t a new article, it’s an FDA dataset. It isn’t supposed to be editorialised.
"Worse" doesn't just mean "worse for the companies involved", it can also mean "worse for society". The net result of Google continually buying startups and shutting down the projects is that fewer products receive long-term support, receive any iterative improvements, or can be relied upon to exist later.
You can definetly hear it is pitched up.
> download Perl5.32 and never update it

I think this is an interesting sentiment when contrasted with the Python 2/3 split, where most people are pushing to get projects into on 3 and warning users of 2 they will not be getting official security patches any more. Maybe because Perl's community is smaller they wouldn't be as hard-line on this and release security fixes for Perl 5 if they were merited (though I don't see Perl as a tempting target for malware authors).

It feels like that article states that some people in the Perl community want to make the breaking changes to free themselves of legacy and gain the advantage of accessibility from new users by doing so, being that Perl 5 desperately needs new users, but contrasts this with the fact that protecting that legacy was both a core value of the Perl project and possibly one that held it back for too long.

I honestly wonder where we would be if Python never made the 2/3 split and we'd all still be using Python 2 at this point with all of its design flaws. Surely it wouldn't die from becoming outdated, seeing other languages do the same things better, as with Perl?
Why is that "curious?" They clearly state they're putting these on import alert to prevent them from entering the country, it's not like they're hiding anything. If they put out a blanked statement it would impact all Mexican manufacturers, including the ones that aren't contaminated, while giving people a false sense of security with all non-mexican origin products, when the lack of listings from other regions may just be because the FDA prioritized first looking into sanitizers that shared a similar supply chain and simply haven't gotten around to testing enough others yet to determine how widespread the problem is.
"Methanol, or wood alcohol, is a substance that can be toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested and can be life-threatening when ingested."

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-u...
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I have a personal blog where I blabbered on a bit about using CouchDB on the client side back in May : https://azartiz.com

And I outline the features on the new site for the app at https://cherrypc.com/home.html

That site is still under construction but there is a link to a demo of the app there. It doesn't run on a local CouchDB though, it uses the browser's IndexedDB.

You only change one line of code to use the IndexedDB, the cloud based CouchDB, or the locally installed CouchDB.

I did make a very simple demo of a "Rich Text Editor" app that runs on a CouchDB installed on your desktop pc though. After you've installed CouchDB and created an "Admin User" and password this page configures a user and a DB on your CouchDB:

https://cherrypc.com/app/editor/setup.html

After you created your user you're redirected to the app and prompted to login at this page:

https://cherrypc.com/app/editor/index.html

After you log in you can CRUD & print rich text documents.

It's a very simple app and all the code to make it is included in the source of those two html pages.
How efficient are these splits? If a 100mb file is split in 5, with 3 needed to recombine, we’d expect the pieces to be at least 333mb won’t we?
> conscious experience is generated

Is there any evidence that it is generated?
It's a recall, so that doesn't particularly relevant. In fact, it could have two harmful effects if that narrative took hold.

a) It could cause people to avoid all hand sanitiser from Mexico. Given that supplies are still uncertain, this could lead people to avoid using hand sanitiser at all, with negative effects.

b) It could cause people to incorrectly assume it's only a problem with products from Mexico, causing them to ignore future recalls. Realistically, given the massive rampup in production of the stuff, there will be more recalls.
Even a lot of relatively cheap record players have adjutable tonearm weights. But it's not just the vertical needle force that wears out the records. The other issue is lack of adjustable (or any) anti-skate force. This keeps the needle from being forced to one side of the groove.

I stumbled across the article recently where someone set up an A/B test to try to observe record damage from these cheap turntables. While there are some limitations of the experiment, I thought it was a good idea. There are too many "facts" that are just accepted as true without any emperical observation (not just in the audio community).

https://www.audioappraisal.com/will-a-cheap-turntable-damage...
Can anyone chime in to how Chinese NLP compares? I speak Mandarin as a second language at an intermediate level, and from my perspective it has some interesting properties compared to English (my native language) that seem like they might make NLP easier in ways that English NLP might be hard:

- The grammar for standard Mandarin is much simpler than English. No verb conjugations or strange tense rules ("go" -> "went")!

- Tense and even voice are explicit and additive - i.e. adding "呢" or "吧" to a sentence.

- Written, it seems less ambiguous. i.e. "duck" or "grave" have different meanings in English based on context, but that seems much much rarer in Chinese - two words spoken the same way but with different meanings usually have different written forms.
Because if it's longer than that your rotten soul is already burning in the callback hell.
It’s a good, chilling read but this sentence right at the end bothered me.

“Until they secure their personal liberty, at some unimaginable cost, free people everywhere will have to hope against hope that the world’s most intelligent machines are made elsewhere.”

I don’t agree, with the “right” people in charge, the intelligent machines pose a risk to humankind everywhere.
They mention that they are adding them to import alert in order to stop them from being legally imported into the US
If evolution was responsible for character recognition, reading would not be taught in schools...
I forked youtubedown because it has too many features. I don't want to download any files and I don't want to mux DASH formats. All I want is a script that prints the 360p video url as fast as possible. And JWZ broke support for premuxed video which I added back. And JWZ broke support for requesting a specific cipher which I added back. Basically youtubedown development went in a direction which diverged from my use case.
Methanol exposure through the skin can also cause a lot of issues: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750...
The Last Question (1956) [pdf]
While I agree with you a little, we have to admit the failure of american and "developed" nations industries isn't just due to generosity from their parts towards China.

China competed, made the sacrifices necessary to get it running at low cost and acceptable quality, and not us. Our factory workers can't compete at that price, can't bear the same struggle and can't do it on the scale of the chinese workers. We like to picture them as powerless ants in a crushing machine, but it's not so black and white for sure.

Get the factories back and you lose competitiveness and it's higher level Chinese service companies who will start designing products and replacing americans. It's a trap, and it's already showing signs it's working. I love my Huawei phone and it got me used not to have a google account. Something I could not imagine a year ago.
It is, but the moderators enforce a certain bias.
Tablets are too large and heavy for use cases that eink readers can fulfill. Nobody's going to hold up an iPad one handed over their head while lying in bed. Months of battery life make them more of a book than a tablet will ever be.
And they paid a lot of money to do that (as much as it was worth, at least), which was parent company's point. Whereas Amazon did not- they made only a partial investment in order the kill the entire thing. That full Google money (fairly, it could be argued) compensates the destruction you describe and allows the recipient of the money to do something else productive.
That would depend on the work. Something like Congratulations to John and Harry on their wedding, would be OK, as it is much like John and Joan.... fully legal.
Some rabid christians might refuse - crush them rightly.
Promoting nazi/racist stuff - all should refuse...
Systemd-boot is not originally designed in systemd philosophy.
It was originally gummiboot and got adopted into systemd project.

The explicit design goal was to be a minimal alternative to grub.
The 'arrangement' was to be that Nato members spend 2% of their GDP on defence, which they are not though.
Keep in mind this list contains subpotent products which are not dangerous to use and should not be discarded or recalled, just mentioned that you didn’t get the protection you were looking for.
You could also look at http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2011.pdf

You can combine the reconstruction properties of Reed Solomon (you need k of n pieces) with the All or Nothing Transform. Encrypting data so that you need all of the data to decrypt.

Then you can essentially do Shamir secret sharing witout storage overhead. A 1 MB file split so you need 5 pieces would have 200 KB pieces instead of 1mb pieces. This is at a cost of exchanging information theoretic security for computational security.
Jackass Investing and Millionaire Fastlane are good layman books. Expected Returns is a more advanced but accessible one. Also the Missing Risk Premium is good food for thought since if its thesis is correct nearly everything you read about risk management in typical indexing investing literature is bogus and the opposite of true.

Tl;dr is two much more sane approaches to investing are return driver focused or income generation focused capital allocation instead of asset appreciation and compounding based upon speculative indexing. These btw are what rich people do with their money (hedge funds, managed futures, income generating investments) not park it in index funds and hope the underlyings appreciate due to asset prices going up. Rich people pay 2/20 management fees because the fees pay for true diversification. Diversification is real but requires diversifying return drivers not asset classes. (Asset price changes are just one return driver.) If you are just sitting in asset backed index funds there are a variety of tail events (non-apocalyptic ones) where their action correlation goes to one and you’re perma-in the red until you die.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23690967 discussion of the acquisition itself.

Given how much was raised by the company itself (~$200M according to https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/north-8daa) the acquisition seems like Google providing an exit opportunity for the company and its investors, arguably much better for the ecosystem than what Amazon does
No, I agree that this one will be worse than the one in 1957, hence the use of “so far” in my original comment. However, I don’t think it will be very significantly, qualitatively worse than the one in 1957, at least from medical perspective. My point is that the current one is only really worse because of the response and perception.

I think it is reasonable to say that if we followed Swedish approach to COVID, we’d have similar outcomes. The epidemics in Sweden is mostly finished, they get few new cases and very few new deaths. If we had similar fatality rate to Sweden, we’d be looking at 200,000 deaths in the US. That’s an enormous, dizzying numbers. However, it wouldn’t be qualitatively different than 1957 Asian flu, and given how nobody has even heard of 1957 Asian flu epidemics, I claim that we wouldn’t have done such an enormous damage to livelihoods of hundreds of millions of Americans.

The cases in the US are going up, because this is how we go through with this whole ordeal. This is what happened in UK, Italy, Sweden, France, New York or New Jersey. They are now done with epidemics. Look at their graphs, despite relaxation of restrictions, case numbers are very low and flat or trending downwards. New York and New Jersey, with their absolutely disastrous policy of deliberately infecting nursing homes by forcing them to take COVID-positive patients, have most definitely resulted in very high death rates there compared to European countries. However, if instead of lockdowns, we pursued a sensible policy of protecting the most vulnerable, we’d be already done by now and could get on with our lives.
/r/geopolitics, but it is filled with real experts and has less outrage.
The core assumption in cognitive neuroscience is that cognition is centered in the activity of the brain. The second is that neuronal activation corresponds to function. After that it's about finding proxies for measuring activation. Which part of that makes the field junk science?
Is there a link?
> Stripe's founder mentioned that the internet is probably going to trend back toward "dinner party" type apps rather than "town square" type apps

I've always been more inclined towards dinner party type experiences, but no one in my social circle has agreed. They all prefer the town square.

One of my best app experiences to date was with Snapchat, when it first became popular. Several of my friends started using it, and it became a way to share funny or interesting things we saw in our day to day. If I saw something that I thought Dave and Jess would find interesting, I'd just send it to those two. Because it was so ephemeral, it was great for small things -- the sort of things it wouldn't be worth creating a group chat for. It was the equivalent of walking down the street with a small group of friends, pointing at something you noticed, and saying "check that out".

Eventually, both Instagram and Snapchat started pushing the story format, and seemingly overnight the experience turned from a dinner party into a town square. No one was sharing with small groups of friends anymore. When you add to your story, it's for everyone to see. I never understood why my friends saw that as a replacement for what we had before. I think perhaps, for most people, the desire to be heard and noticed by a crowd outweighs any benefits that sharing with a smaller group might bring.
Just to counter all the early-bird routines here:

Wake up 1130, muesli, start work 1200.

Lunch late afternoon depending on hunger, about 30 mins.

Work until 2000 or 2100 then get some food

High intensity excerise for 30 mins, shower.

Then depending on energy levels either more work, side projects, or just browsing internet from 2300 to 0200.
> I enjoyed this post, and more or less agree with the author's opinion that claims of superior vinyl audio quality are bunk - and particularly meaningless in a world where most new music is recorded or produced digitally in the first place.

Exactly, at least for me as well. Perhaps older music, mastered in analog and later put out for radio airplay (or converted to digital) by slamming all of the levels as high as they'd go, sounds better on vinyl insofar as vinyl is as close to "original" as you're going to get. The "loudness war" is a thing, for sure.

But for me, it's a hobby, and hobbies need not be completely efficient. I like fiddling with my mid-range record player, digging for albums I like, finding the one copy of a Broadway soundtrack of a wildly popular band's album that got made once and wasn't very popular[0], and just watching the record go round while I listen with decent headphones.

And, especially, reading articles like this that take a lighthearted view of taking apart a piece of kit.

0 - "American Idiot, the Musical"
Yup, and now also Defold engine and Amazon Lumberyard as well.
Seems to me that this is also a lovely use for a desktop laser cutter. Dig out a copy of Pynomo or something and make your own scales that suit whatever specialty application you have in mind.
I'm reallllly skeptical of their recommendations here, because of their two solutions for testing for the presence of methanol, one won't work for contaminated ethanol (which is what this is likely to be), and the other uses a toxic heavy metal with inhalation risks.
The article doesn't say anything about the internal (to Google) disposition of the team or thechnology -- only that the previous public product roadmap is cancelled. I'm unimpressed.
Yes, that was kind of my point.
The EU banned the use of methanol in windshield washer fluid[1], and the sooner the US does the same, the better. Methanol is very toxic. You don't spread windshield washer fluid all over your hands and breathe in the vapors for a reason. That reason is that you will go blind and/or die if you do.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/growth/content/new-restriction-methanol...
Short answer: generally it costs more money for worse results.

Longer answer: doing things in-house that are outside your core competencies and/or value creation model is a poor use of scarce resources (both capital and human—predominantly management bandwidth) and increases risk carried.

To give a concrete example: imagine you need to host your source code repository. You can pay for something like Bitbucket for $6/month/user and not have to worry about it. It’s a price that scales linearly with your team size and is a tiny fraction of their total cost.

Doing it in-house: you have to pay for hardware, storage, worry about backups, have somebody support it, have somebody manage the person that supports it, deal with users, find a solution to remote access, and so on. But all these miss the big cost—risk—what happens if the server dies or your office burns down? Nobody used to get fired for buying IBM, nobody now gets fired for buying a popular SaaS product.

You aren’t Google, at some point scale changes the equation, but that’s a rare spot to be in.
or, widely accepted standard [in german and slavic-languages] way back then, 'v' instead of 'u', and vice versa
We are creating a concentration camp for ourselves to get people to click ads.
I'm sure there is an odd piece here and there. But certainly not covered as frequently and as prominently as tech. To give context, US has almost exactly the same number of software engineers and nurses (~4 million).
Death in Tehran
Read what I said. I said I'm super concerned about it :D
In this thread, one person is saying they prefer MFs because they don't have to wait for an ACH transfer to complete, the other person is telling them to buy ETFs with a margin account (that is, using credit), because — as I interpret them — the cheaper ETF would be worth the interest on the margin.

But in this case, it's nonsensical if you're comparing VTSAX (0.04%/year expense ratio) and VTI (0.03%). If you have $10m in your account, the difference is $1k per year.

Often, ETFs have lower expense ratios because they are cheaper to manage; historically, mutual funds have had high fees, even for passively managed funds, and Vanguard is one of the companies that have worked to bring the fees down. But it's not always true that MFs are more expensive. VTSAX's ER is 0.04%; its ETF equivalent, VTI, is 0.03%. The difference is effectively zero.
OP here, I found this website when I was looking for a way to get the updated version (with correction) of a PG (Project Gutenberg) book and all changes/diffs from the point that I scrape the book from PG website for my language learning side project: https://www.bilinual.com

The bilinual Project also rebuild ebooks (modern HTML, PDF and open ePUB format) with better quality and readability( while it is not its prime goal). Take a look at one example here:

https://www.bilinual.com/book/18043sven/sv/en#line=68&lpp=23
https://www.bilinual.com/download/18043sven-sv-en.pdf
https://www.bilinual.com/download/18043sven-sv-en.epub
It's actually pretty easy to integrate the two. I've done that with the latest version of one of my apps.
Nit: while multiplication is commutative, the property you meant to use was symmetry. I'm sure it was a mistake and you know this, I'm just pointing it out to prevent confusion for others.

Edit: s/competitive/commutative/
I am not a lawyer, so take this with the grain of salt it needs.

Can’t the FSF or other entity file an injunction against the company from selling in other countries by filing the lawsuit with said countries? Based on copyright infringement/licensing infringement (not sure here it would fall)

Again, Not a lawyer, but I feel like corporations have done this in the past
Would it be worse if they didn’t acquire it, but crushed it in the market? Obviously we won’t know.
Unless they are working for free any publication would cost money. starlink.com exists and is filled with marketing graphics. So they spend money, Q.E.D. .

It could still be impressive if they published actual numbers. Instead we have that $0 claim that gets repeated.

Disclaimer: They could pay people with "exposure" I heard that is the way to go with graphics artists at least.
Yes you can! Apply an All or Nothing Transform before RS encoding so that you need all of the original data to decrypt. Then you can only decrypt if you have k of n pieces. You save by a factor of k in piece size over SSS.

http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2011.pdf