skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think like many Google products, Google Home can best be understood as a moat protecting their search business.

Maybe voice search will be a big thing, maybe not. But if it proves to be one, Google needs to have an established product in that space before it takes off and they're left playing catch-up.
Pretty remarkable that the "elites" are still demanding pity (or at minimum asking people to discuss their "disillusionment") but there's nary a peep for people like me who didn't have the privilege of membership in elite institutions.

What do I get? All I see is constant disrespect from society and from places like HackerNews. Where's the sympathy for a state school grad like me struggling to get a top job, or struggling to be taken seriously?
I'm in canada and on only one device under the same account I constantly get French ads on youtube. My language settings are all English across all my devices, it's the same youtube account, but for some reason, only on the ps4 youtube app, I get French ads. No idea why, i've scoured every setting possible, I don't live in a French speaking part of canada, i've never watched French videos, never given google any indication I can speak French(which I can't), have never turned on any French language settings on the ps4, all language settings across everything is English from what I can tell, I just have no idea.
The problem you can't even sideload apps on iPhone.
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No, I had not been following it, interesting, thank you for drawing my attention to it.

Based on the relevant Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus%E2%80%93Turkey_maritime...) and a few other sources I briefly looked over, it appears that the nub of the argument is that, due to a different, earlier dispute with Greece, Turkey was one of only 15 countries (including Venezuela, Eritrea, South Sudan, and Kyrgyzstan) that refused to sign UNCLOS, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Under international law, Cyprus has a right to certain areas of sea around its internationally recognized territory. All 167 countries who signed UNCLOS agree with the principle of territorial waters.

Turkey's invasion and annexation of the north of the island was against international rules at the time and has never been recognized as legal by any other country. Even today, Turkey is the only country which recognizes Northern Cyprus.

Now that gas deposits have been discovered in Cypriot waters, the Turks have threatened military action against any equipment installed to extract that gas. No other country believes that this would be anything other than an illegal interference in another country's territory.

Again, I do not see how this strong man nationalism and isolationism is helping the Turkish people. If Turkey had not invaded Cyprus in 1974 it would probably have become a full member of the EU by the late 1980's, shortly after Greece. That would, I believe, have been of great benefit to the Turkish economy and the Turkish people, including better human rights and better relations with neighboring countries.
The speed of a signal in wire or fiber is largely irrelevant. Most of your latency is taken going up and down your ginormous software stack. Take a look at what is required for wire-speed processing.

Security is improved by reducing the number of disparate components.
You’re assuming a baseline at or above those intro courses. I’ve had engineers who don’t know how paragraphs work, or whose vocabulary and reading comprehension seems to have stunted at middle school.

Those people are usually stuck as juniors without formal education because they’re not at the point where self-teaching is possible.

Ymmv
Neat. This appears to be the same as https://i.reddit.com/r/programming
It's been pretty jaw-dropping to see the visuals on Youtube over the past months. I hope it's every bit as good as it looks...that screenshot showing the city lights at evening is just a beaut.

I'm not sure if I'll splurge sooner or later, but I like to set up homebrew missions in the flight sims I have on hand here. It's been fun to throw the dice and add some variables into what can become an air-taxi game (dice determine time of day, passengers, weather, location, payment, maintenance costs, etc.), a rescue game, a stunt-flying game, and so on...

My son and I once tried simulating an Indiana Jones-style adventure by stealing a Ju-87 from Berlin, but the flight model for that thing was a bit too detailed and we couldn't recover from my son's urgent zoom-climb. :-) Anyway, I had fun imitating John Rhys-Davies with the soundtrack playing in the background, all the way down.

It's a great hobby, major props to Microsoft on their attention to this new effort.
Thank you for a very curious channel, I'm going to watch it all. Why does the doctor look so weird anyway? I mean his eyes - sort of a crazy gaze. Isn't he blind or something? Or is that an effect of a medication he takes?
great article, thanks!
I've stop/started using TODO's many times mainly because of the common problems you highlight in the article, I'm going to give them another go as this simple system will work.
I've often tried to use Trello, paper, sticky notes etc but they all lacked a process for management. This system keeps items where they need to be and they may actually get done, cheers.
Which is funny because AMD drivers on linux has been nothing short of trouble (both open source and proprietary) and Nvidia’s blob just works.
I recently played a couple of new games for old systems. There exist really good ones. You can check those links:

https://www.protovision.games/

https://zxonline.net/

https://doublesidedgames.com/

http://www.retroworks.es/index_en.php

For me is very hard to determine what drives me to such games. It seems completely irrational. Maybe it is really a nostalgia. My first machine was an IBM XT PC in 1994 when I was 8 years old. It was more then 10 years behind the state of the art. Indeed it has capabilities close to the 8-bit machines despite being 16-bit.
It drives me a little nuts when people say stuff like this (they said it about Reiser, too) --- because you can say the same thing about tens of thousands of young offenders imprisoned for crimes we don't have a rooting interest in.

We need to reduce sentences across the board, for both violent and nonviolent crimes, because our sentencing ranges are bonkers. But it's immoral to single out crimes committed by people we identify with personally as particularly worthy of leniency.

At any rate, presuming the evidence holds up, it's unlikely that this person is going to find any leniency at all. High profile is tough but survivable; monetized is tougher still. High profile and monetized? My guess is they're going to make an example out of him.
I think that part of the article is frankly intellectually dishonest.

I agree that there is a problem with them not allowing different descriptions in different countries, and I agree that they should add this feature to the store.

I wouldn’t have a problem with this being litigated on its own merits. I can see potential legal arguments.

I don’t see what this has to do with antitrust or the rest of the claims, which just seem like a tortured way to introduce an ethical dimension to the argument.

No proposed antitrust remedy has anything to do with challenging authoritarian regimens. If anything the remedies would make the situation worse.

One obvious pathological outcome is that if Apple is forced to create infrastructure to allow multiple stores, every authoritarian state will trivially mandate the installation of a state run store app, with all manner of tracking, privacy abuses, etc., even the ones which had previously had no leverage over Apple.
Yeah maybe, I don’t know what goes on in Apple’s mind. I’m merely pointing out that emergency funds get ridiculously large when you’re a big corporation.

The risk an emergency fund has to guard against is of course offset by your level of diversification of revenue streams. And again, Apple knows better about their situation and risk tolerance than I would.
Transport Energy Use and Greenhouse Gases in Urban Passenger Transport Systems
What piece of evidence would make me doubt the validity of the claims in this article? It lines up quite well with previous public statements by the administration: for example, the president made derogatory statements about cities with Democrat mayors, claiming they were unsafe places. He quite obviously, publicly, and directly demonizes Democrats as lesser citizens, constantly.

Discrediting the media as a whole, taking any media story to be untruthful by default is the wrong approach. Without independent media, the only mouthpiece is the state.

Instead, we should compare stories from multiple sources and fact check where we can, and use our critical thinking to evaluate the motivations behind the actors in a story.
My personal guess is that it won't happen on a large scale. After all, most people feel connected to the places where they live and to the people around them. Moving to another country can be difficult if the divide (language, religion, customs, political system and its stability, law, personal and property rights, safety) is wide. This seriously limits the choice of places people would be willing to move to long-term in the first place. Historically, large-scale permanent migrations happened only if living conditions in the place of origin became hostile.

Also, where would people move to? Many destinations are developing countries and thus the cost of living there will rise in the long term. Also, these expats would be heavily affected by foreign exchange rates.

People might indeed cluster up in certain places, buy property there and live a leisurely livestyle. These factors would make prices rise and in the long term it would become less attractive to move there. This happened in Spain where property prices in premium locations have skyrocketed because of well-off people from other EU countries buying homes there. Depending on how much the goverments of the target countries care about this, they might think about countermeasures, such as restricting property acquisition to locals.

If the outflux of money becomes significant, it will affect relations with the target country as the origin country will seek to reverse the flow. Trade deals will be affected, and developmental aids, if there are any, might be reduced. If it works, the target country might make it more difficult for expats to stay long-term. But the most straightforward approach might be to limit the UBI based on residency, or make the expat lose perks such as voting rights.
Until you ask those inexperienced and unskilled people to do something important.
ye but its also such destructive information that its plausibility overlaps with propaganda. We have the same sort of thing in the UK, reports that Labour encouraged immigration to "rub diversity in the faces of the right" or reports that the Conservatives don't build social housing "because people that live in them won't vote for us".

Those statements are such political dynamite and evoke such an emotional response from the public that they become suspicious merely due to their political effectiveness. It doesn't mean they're not true, just much less likely to be true so we should be careful in treating them as fact.
Somewhat related, there is "keyboard free" usage for e.g. AirPods and HomePods. Music is a major usage domain for both, the former can also be useful for maps.
Gives a lot of false positives for words that don't match at all.

"aka" -> cha
no.
Because we have biological evidence for a sexuality which is richer than his socially-constructed binary sexuality. Specifically, we know about intersex [0] chromosomal arrangements, and we know that they don't just neatly fall into male and female arrangements.

We might expect of university professors that they grok the basis of their field, and what they're actually studying. When somebody insists that they ought to be tenured, we ought to double-check that they understand science. The Nature memo that he complains about [1] merely says that the Trump administration is incorrect to think that genitals determine chromosomal layout, and a brief sanity check shows that indeed it should be entirely the other way around, and even then, chromosomes don't guarantee that genitals will develop a certain way.

The author groks this critique and doubles down; in [2] he insists that intersex people are less than 0.02% of the population, and thus don't matter. That should show you exactly how unscientific he is; he points to his degree over and over as evidence of his quality, but fails at hard numbers. Meanwhile we estimate XXY chromosomes [3] and XXX chromosomes [4] to occur in around 0.1% to 0.2% of the population, and that's just one of dozens of possible chromosomal arrangements. (Or two, I guess, depending on how one counts.) He is at least an order of magnitude off, possibly more, and doesn't care because it would require him to back down from the hill he's chosen.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07238-8

[2] https://quillette.com/2018/11/30/the-new-evolution-deniers/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_X_syndrome
This will be a boon for RISC-V
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Me too. I also violate it every day. Just this day I used System.out.println, for example.
First they need to determine his political leanings, then they'll have a good idea of how to move forward.
If you fast forward the progress 30 years you can imagine the near-perfect simulation of any experience which just has wild implications for society. If everyone's house can feel like Versailles and their food taste like lobster and their sex partner look like People's Sexiest Man/Woman alive a lot of what drives human motivation disappears.
Here's a better explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier
But the pay for each of those is orders of magnitude apart.
I wouldn't assume even that... "X was chosen because a matrix decomposition suggested it was relevant" isn't so great either... WordNet is/was rarely used as just a single hop, those hops are somewhat arbitrary to begin with, and ultimately it never really materialized as a useful tool. If it can't be used for anything, then there's nothing to explain!
It’s sad to be reminded of that.

For a moment there I had genuine hope.
If this is true let this kid go and fire the people at Twitter who he duped.
What kind of mindset would lead to this behavior??
Maybe it doesn't matter.
It feels -to me- like simply being exposed to people
who say things like: "What?-- no, that's not good"
while remaining professional, respectful, and humorous,
is a vaccine against not wanting to seem jerky, yet
staying secure.
But having no experience also can work against you in giant ways like leading to dead ends and hurdles you don't know how to overcome.

Overall there's not a good argument that it's a better position for an individual to be in for success.
My point is that it's funny that what makes TikTok poisonous is not the incredibly intrusive surveillance itself, but rather the fact that it's being done by a foreign company/government (which ultimately can probably do a lot less harm to Americans with all that info than Microsoft or the US government).
>Is it make you also somehow immune to fire arms for example?

No, you have to start off with daily injections of small arms fires (think .22 caliber) in order to begin building immunity. Over time you gain immunity and then can work your way up to larger calibers.
All cause mortality is just a categorical bucket.
I believe there's a saying: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Add LinkedIn for SNS
Retailers buy POS terminals? Not rent them from their bank?
Yup, that's where I heard it from. Had this streaming in the background the other day. The amount of anti-competitive behavior they had on these companies that I hadn't even known about was astounding.
There has been an evolutionary arms race between viruses and potential host cells where host cells constantly figure out new defenses and viruses figure out ways to counter them. The adaptive immune system is a very sophisticated defense mechanism, but not the only one available. E.g. check out Toll like receptors [1], PKR [2], APOBEC3, etc.

Viruses of course have to counter these defenses somehow, but it still slows them down, and if only because they require additional RNA/DNA to encode it which can mutate and render subsequent viruses inactive.

There is a great lecture on the topic of intrinsic and innate defenses against viruses by Vincent Racianello [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll-like_receptor#Summary_of_...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_kinase_R

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMNbrTlV4_w
It's comparing effort to get to the same monetization.

Software is easier to create, doesn't need to be a hit to be used, and you can be paid to write it and to sell it.

Music requires much more creative work, the production is often unpaid, and the work product usually doesn't make much unless it's a hit with millions of plays.
"Languages like these made programming a lot easier and took many things out of the programmer’s hands. They were object-oriented and came with things as an IDE and garbage collection.

This meant that programmers had fewer things to worry about"

Yeah, right. Those lazy programmers.

It's obviously become easier to build complex software, but software is now required to be much more complex. There are still many things to worry about (actually far more than previously, I'd say), but they're not the same things.
This matches glucosamine's effect on me pretty well. I have a genetic joint condition that makes any repetitive motion cause damage and pain. Glucosamine (4500mg/day) is provably the one thing that lets me have a normal career (carefully chosen job still). If I stop taking it for a few days, that's a problem. I stepped up to that dosage, noticing clear improvements a week or so after each increase.

I couldn't run 15 miles though! Walking 1km is risky even on a good day, even with glucosamine.
Retail millennials are now in charge
Multiply that 500ms and 200mb by more than a few thousand users and you are talking about real time and money.

Everything seems to have been optimized for the enterprise market.
It might work if we did tax the super rich more, but we don't, we often tax them less through capital gains. Taxless corporations would become vehicles for tax avoidance/evasion.

The stock market is not "the economy", "the economy" is not doing too well, but the stock market keeps steaming along while a lot of people struggle and congress does its handwringing over the cost of meager stimulus packages. Maybe some extra tax revenue would be useful.

Dividends can already get special tax treatment, and many corporations are averting taxation entirely. For a lot of situations we're already at your ideal scenario in a round about way, except we're failing to tax the super rich.
If you are thinking of producing books in multilingual editions in the future, you might want to get some independent expert feedback about the quality of the translations your friends produced this time around. Those translations might have been fine. But there are many ways translations can be inadequate, from misunderstandings of subtle but important nuances in the source text to prose that sounds awkward and unnatural in the target language. Such problems can seriously impact both how accurately your message is conveyed and how well your book sells.

I worked as a professional translator (Japanese to English) for twenty years, and I always feel very uncomfortable when a paper or book I've written is translated into a language I can't read.
Where do you see the 30% YoY increase? This statistic is pretty useless if it is on a per units sold basis.
That just comes back to my original comment then. How do you determine what counts as "all news"?

You can't just use the list of "businesses participating in the code" because that's considered discriminatory and illegal under the new law. And if you decide using any other method, you risk accidentally classifying one of the "businesses participating in the code" as "not news" and showing it in search results anyway, which is also illegal under this law.

The best solution I can think of would be to use the list of businesses participating in the code as a starting point, and then add other non-participants through some other method. But then you run into a similar problem: what happens if you accidentally classify a non-participant as "not news" and they see a surge of traffic because they're one of the only news organizations in Australia that shows up in Google search results? Wouldn't that also be considered discriminatory and illegal under the new law, since that organization wouldn't have shown up in the results if they were a participant?
I am making the claim that corporations when facing extinction will choose money over some intangible concept like journalistic integrity.

I meant I was not taking a position on anything particular in this Vanity Fair article. You are correct though that there is a pattern. We can agree there.

At the end of the day, I just don’t trust corporations to be fair arbiters of objective truth. Not because it’s inherently impossible but because nobody seems to care about it these days. They’re just giving the market what they demonstrably want.

Note: I am not posting anonymously. My username is my real name.
I think this is a great idea for people for people wanting to respect other's sensitivity.

However, I also think that it is even more important for people to respect other languages/cultures by not attributing their own independent negative connotations.

For example when it comes to naming a project, a Swede shouldn't get offended by an English-speaker using "fan" (Swedish swear for devil), and an English speaker shouldn't get offended by a Swede using "slut" (Swedish root for stop/end).

Maybe I'm wrong, but this is a neat service nonetheless.
I use and see others use smart watch triggered from time to time. Occasionally I see people use Bluetooth headphone triggers.

Believe it or not a lot of use is out of the public eye, though. Lots of usage is in cars (where there has been a sharp shift to phone powered interfaces), and as an assistive tech. They are great for breastfeeding moms as an example.
I'm similarly skeptical of the government, but this is no Lee Harvey Oswald. There's no dead president. These "double your cash" scams are widespread and some of the least sophisticated sorts of scams. It was poorly worded and the website that was intended to give each visitor a unique wallet address (which would have made block chain analysis difficult) was not even functioning properly. There was no exploit, it was social engineering via phone. Why would the government even bother? As others have noted, more sophisticated attackers could have caused much more damage (manipulated markets, precipitated political crises, et cetera). The guy was selling Twitter usernames on a forum that people use to sell accounts. It wasn't just boasting, there are actual transactions that occurred over Discord and at ogforums.
Musk: ‘China rocks’ while the U.S. is full of ‘complacency and entitlement’