skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was. For some reason, searching call of the wild in my gmail archive didn't turn up the emails, but dailylit found it and it was, in fact Call of the Wild (yay spectacular memory for useless details). Dailylit does have a click here to get the next installment immediately feature and I read the 37 installments over three days (it's a short book).
I agree, but that doesn't affect the question of competitiveness between satellite and ground options.

A few thousand satellites sounds like a lot, but the amount of ground installations that would have to be done to give the same area of access is staggering.
Yes, but at the risk of repeating myself, if this crossed a certain murky threshold, we would have more than reports and support fora, we would have preprints and preliminary numbers.

From my own small sample of people I personally know, I can tell you about twenty reports of complete recovery, and one long hauler.

Is that typical? We agree that it will be years before we know with any certainty. I'm pointing out the dog that isn't barking.

Also worth pointing out: a family friend in her 80s never recovered from a bout of pneumonia, suffering a reduced quality of life until her death about a year later. Severe illnesses do this sometimes, that's known. Is Covid more likely to? Not known.
You can even get started without buying anything, there's an SDR website where you can experiment with a remote SDR.
It's in the Netherlands.

Just browse to here:
http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
I was simply pointing to original source docs from one of the co-inventors of packet-based switching, on which the Internet is based. There's a larger series of Baran's works at RAND:

https://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html

Nukes were definitely part of the Zeitgeist:

In 1962, a nuclear confrontation seemed imminent. The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) were embroiled in the Cuban missile crisis. Both were in the process of building hair-trigger nuclear ballistic missile systems. Each country pondered post-nuclear attack scenarios.

U.S. authorities considered ways to communicate in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. How could any sort of “command and control network” survive? Paul Baran, a researcher at RAND, offered a solution: design a more robust communications network using “redundancy” and “digital” technology.
And that's why I'm incredibly cynical about politicians and activists who use amorphous political terms like "hate speech". It eventually becomes a club wielded by whoever is making the rules of today's Calvinball game.
Fantastic work. This looks immediately useful. I'm often inspecting data structures with D3, but the ability to do this on the server side is a game changer. Can't wait to try it out.
I love this idea, though I don't think it's necessary to only pick books that were released through serial publication. What's useful about this project to me is that, well, reading is already hard with so many distractions, but having bite-sized episodes through email might help people make progress without the overhead of sitting down with a book and feeling guilty when they can't make progress.

Another idea is to graduate the project into a more cohesive system: one of the emails you could periodically send is the first N pages of a random, untitled book.

Subject: "[Mystery Book] A story about redemption, a wrongfully imprisoned man." —just a byline summary like that.

And at the end of the email, you provide a link they can click that will subscribe to the rest of that book.
That is an emphasis of the approach I was taking here: http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd

Using it feels very different from a traditional debugger where you need to control every step: it's often sufficient to just observe passively and note when incorrect patterns surface.
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So you make a good point. Yes, borrowed dollars CAN become inflationary. We will see this when PPP loans become grants. There are however, also deflationary effects happening at the same time due to the current pandemic...so which will dominate is hard to tell right now.

We are also experiencing supply and demand shocks, so we are experiencing higher prices in certain goods, but this is not inflation, we would expect that prices would return to normal when the constraint of the virus is removed.

I have a hypothesis that modern supply chains combined with weak labor make consumer inflation basically a thing of the past and we worry far too much about inflation that won't materialize in our normally operating global economy.
"Reclaiming territory" is kind of a bullshit excuse though. I that actually made for moral justification, then just about everyone should be conquering each other right now.

For instance, other people could reason that the current government in China is illegitimate and the Republic of China is currently exiled in Taiwan. If Taiwan were to annex China (hard to believe now but just for a thought experiment) then this would be "reclaiming territory".

I also once heard a (very racist) Japanese man explain how Japan was the true inheritor of the Ming dynasty's traditions and so invading China was just "re-claiming territory" that was stolen by manchurians.

I could go on but these are just narratives used to justify violence.
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> absolutist

Fine.

> inside one's own property.

Ah. That's quite specific. i.e. it excludes much of what's being discussed here.
I think it would be great to read these works as they were intended to be read, and it's awesome you're leveraging public domain literature to do this. Not sure which I'll start with yet, but I'll be sure to sign up!
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I also don't understand how one can be in a carefree state of mind while being poor (choosing not to worry about loosing everything), but not be able to attain that mental state while being wealthy (choosing not to worry about losing a negligible amount).

Is the relationship such that the more there is to lose, the easier it is to be unaffected by worry?
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I have a common last name and my email is my first initial and my last name.

I get so much misdirected mail that I don’t even try to help these people.

I hope John gets to his zoom interview for Deputy Chief of Police later today, because I’m not going to tell him about it.
I think is is a very narrow view on the world.

I'd gladly give up houshold chores if it was cheap and wouldn't require a person coming in my home.
In addition to information technology, because a lot of them also offer cloud computing or other kind of developer-targeted services:

Apple: Consumer discretionary (electronics)

Alphabet: Communication services (advertising and fiber networks), health care (mostly research), financials (investing), whatever urban planning is classified under,

Amazon: Consumer discretionary (retail), consumer staples (food)

Microsoft: Industrials (office services), communication services

Facebook: Communication services (chat apps and advertising)

I could be totally off base, and investors do ignore the "tech" label. But from what I've heard in the news and seen in discussions, it doesn't seem so.
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ellyagg's post makes no sense even in this context. Not worried about not being able to feed one's family when making $20k per year, but worried about your employer and colleague's when making $100k per year?

There is nowhere in the US where $20k per year will give you security of any type (food, water, shelter, healthcare, schooling, etc) to provide for your family, not to mention a $20k per year job is likelier to have no ability to move up in any significant way.
unix like

macOS is certified Unix. Has been for over a decade.
And the Roomba fits this rule of thumb again by replacing the vacuum cleaner (which replaced, what, taking rugs outside and beating them with sticks?)

On a tangent: How was wall-to-wall carpeting cleaned before the invention of the Hoover? Did it just not exist before then? Or it just collected dirt until it was replaced?
That's not why it's independent now. It's independent because after the war, it went back to the government of China, which was the Koumintang. When they lost the Chinese Civil War, they retreated to Taiwan. Hence their claim to still be the legitimate government of the mainland.
But the read of turn will not be eternally mirrored to the original write - at some point the rename file eventually moves on when the original store (an observable side effect) retires like a register renaming.

Notice that your code has a backward jump between the write and the read and the example in the article (and the code of the other person I replied to) does not.

There is no logic needed to interrupt the renaming such as a signal from another core holding the cache, the rename just naturally retires beyond a certain point.

Read Morris Marden's 2014 patent on it for more details.

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/16/3f/47/ea08705...
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That seems pretty short-sighted. Sure my 1st grader knows his way around an iPad enough to play games and watch Netflix, that doesn't mean he's going to understand installing new software or what it means when Zoom isn't working and they have to switch to Hangouts. Yeah, he'll come ask me and I'll figure it out quickly, but I've interacted with enough other parents to know that being able to do so isn't commonplace. Heck even the teachers get confused just setting that stuff up.
the bookshop.org site that the parent comment mentioned is an attempt at that solution
Any issue about which there's a cultural movement going on can serve as a handy pretext for measures that consolidate one's own power. It kind of seems obvious to point out, but nonetheless let's continue to be open to the possibility that such consolidation is not mere coincidence, or more to the point, that the measure is not even well-intentioned and in fact has nothing do to with the ostensible issue/reason (in this case, hate speech). The most cynical of power grabs are usually cloaked in the most noble of pretenses. That's how you make the unpalatable, palatable.
The go-to text is Manufacturing Consent.
Most of the source books are still in print. There are a few that are harder to find.

https://talsorianstore.com/collections/cyberpunk
I think legacy contributed most.

On modern Linux, it’s possible, and not even terribly hard, to implement hardware-accelerated video playback without any libraries or frameworks, by directly consuming V4L2 API exposed by the kernel. Here’s a proof, I did it alone spending a month or so part time, and resource use is lower than VLC’s despite my code is in .NET: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/VrmacVideo

However, that wasn’t always the case. Until recently software had to fallback to software decoders, and implement other workarounds. Software developers are reluctant to throw away old code and do something completely different.

1. They spent much time on that old code (sunk cost fallacy).

2. Old code usually works more often than it doesn’t (don’t fix things which aren’t broken).

3. Massive refactor of large software is very expensive in general. Moving stuff from CPU to GPU is going to cause large changes in many parts. You can’t usually afford to copy uncompressed video frames from VRAM back to system RAM and call it a day, that would be too much bandwidth. Instead, you have to change a lot of other code to handle GPU textures instead of system RAM images.
Yes you're right. It has to do with how he derived the approximation formula for the natural logarithm. He needed a function y=sin(x) for his log(y) calculations. But I am not sure when the log(f(x))) tables for the other trigonometric functions came about. As far I understood, initially a single log(y) table sufficed.
Completely agree. Perhaps we should get on air and outnumber them :)
As with source code, if you can get a consistent linter/formatter run on the file before commit you should see less "jitter" in the diffs those commits produce.

I got some decent results with `xmllint --format` which is the linter/formatter from libxml2 (so available in most Linux distros and ported to most platforms).

(I was using xmllint as a formatting step when unpacking ODT files in my similar tool to the directly above; mentioned in a sibling comment. I found the XML files in ODT files were much more prone to being minimalized and reformatted/reordered on every save in comparison to DOCX which was surprisingly more stable in XML formatting.)
Lenovo talk a good game, but I have thus far been unable to find a linux laptop available for purchase on the lenovo site.
But you aren't concluding, because people disagree on precisely what qualifies as "murder," that there should be no laws against murder. That is the argument proposed in the earlier comment about why there should not be laws against hate speech.
They aren't lying, just confused. They probably made a hotmail.com account and assumed it would work with gmail.com.
yeah that makes sense. some folks will find an independent store from far away and make that their "home" bookstore. powells is that for a lot of people
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"One day, Ali Baba is at work collecting and cutting firewood in the forest, when he happens to overhear a group of 40 thieves visiting their stored treasure. Their treasure is in a cave, the mouth of which is sealed by a huge rock. It opens on the magic words "open sesame" and seals itself on the words "close sesame". When the thieves are gone, Ali Baba enters the cave himself and takes a single bag of gold coins home."
This is certainly true, but it's also true that Chinese colonized Taiwan as well. Taiwan has had a long history of outsiders coming in and taking over. At least today Taiwan's current inhabitants are in control of their own country, but unfortunately China wants to try to go in again. It seems Taiwan can never be left in peace.
Sorry I worded that poorly, what I meant is that you shouldn't be writing code where the fact an implicit copy constructor allocates is a concern at all, because C++ has very clear copy semantics.

With a handful of exceptions you essentially will never need to worry about this if you restrict assignment and argument passing of non-POD types to references within the critical code blocks. And in the case that you do need to worry about it, the copy constructor should be explicitly deleted anyway.

It's a footgun to be sure, but it's not a serious one with a bit of discipline. If you're used to doing real-time safe programming, you'll get paranoid about code that could invoke an allocator (or write your own).
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cool, will check it out. thanks
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I think the difficulty in onboarding students and parents with anything the first time is going to be the hardest and most painful.

But once you're there lock-in is pretty minimal because joining a class is just "click the link the teacher sent out this morning."
And right after that we can remove any FTP client that uses the FTP protocol to download content Google doesn't like. We should scan all apps that use a common, published protocol to make sure the protocol is not being used to consume objectionable content. /s

The app is not the service; the protocol is not the platform.
Okay come on. This sequence of comments is funny, you have to admit.

"Google is censoring apps"

"It's because those apps can access hate speech"

"You can use this other app store"

"They ban this app, though"

"But that's because it's for hate speech"

Come on, this is peak comedy.
You misunderstand the article. Your username has no dots, and dots are allowed but ignored when your username is referenced (when logging in, when receiving messages, etc). Nobody can remove the dots from your username because they aren't there in the first place.

If you just want a different number of dots in your outbound mails, go to the gmail settings and add a new presentation under "Send mail as ..." and set it as the default.
You're allowed to do whatever you want, as am I. I claim that your comment was unconstructive and paraphrased the meaning of your comment. I didn't learn anything about the weaknesses of Go from reading your comment, I learned that you don't like it and there was a vague suggestion that it is unpopular at google, and that the reason its popular outside of google has to do with cargo culting. But you neglected to express why you thought its weaknesses of go (what are those weaknesses?) that leads to this situation.

I would genuinely like to know what your criticism of the language is, but you haven't offered any. The comment you wrote does not add any clarity to the discussion of Go, in fact I think it takes away clarity by relying on suggestion and avoiding grappling with any details. I think it was not a useful contribution to this thread. I'll leave it at that.
He redefines what technical debt means and then claims the new definition doesn't happen, so what other people define as technical debt must not happen either.
I got a bunch of mortgage documentation for another person with my name (i assume they either are a 1-t brett (or a misheard brent, brad or brit) or their email contains their middle initial or someone misheard their last name over the phone ( there are several spellings for my last name that are more or less homophones ).. either way I now have enough information to easily steal their identity.

I feel like most, majorish, online services do email verification, but when you are giving your email address to a someone over the phone, that's where most of the problems start.
>They think they're protecting the world from bad ideas, without noticing how they themselves promote other bad ideas.

They, being Google executives, are only thinking of the company's bottom line when they make these decisions.

Don't underestimate the impact of a few thousand (or more) Rose Twitter users spamming a companies marketing page. That company goes to Google and says "make this stop, I don't care how", then Google execs decide who they want to piss off, which is generally the people paying them the least amount of money.
wireless mouse

plugged into a specific port

So, is it wireless or not? Or is it one of those Bluetooth dongle things from the 1990's?

If the mouse is Bluetooth, why not just have it connect directly to the computer? Every Mac since 2003 has had built-in Bluetooth.
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A century ago in the United States the phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater" was used in a Supreme Court ruling upholding the censorship of anti-draft activists during World War I, and within living memory the United States had various laws censoring pornographic photos and videos. There was even a time when it was illegal to have the Post Office carry written information about contraception:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws

Just a decade ago free speech rights were expanded to include corporations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Ele...

In case anyone tries to claim that the founders intended for the most expansive possible understanding of freedom of speech, the fact is that one of the earliest laws passed in the United States was a law that censored criticisms of the Federal government (in an attempt to crack down on foreign misinformation campaigns):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
Advocates can still be rational, zealots rarely are.
Facebook is working on this.[1] There's even a $100,000 "Hateful Memes" competition.[2]

In order for AI to become a more effective tool for detecting hate speech, it must be able to understand content the way people do: holistically. When viewing a meme, for example, we don’t think about the words and photo independently of each other; we understand the combined meaning. This is extremely challenging for machines, however, because it means they can’t analyze the text and the image separately. They must combine these different modalities and understand how the meaning changes when they are presented together.

Facebook is going for the really hard case, where non-hate images and non-hate text combine to induce hate. They already have a text-only system.

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2020/05/12/facebook-is-using-more-ai...

[2] https://ai.facebook.com/tools/hatefulmemes/
well, using the dot between any two letters or not, you have 2^6 = 64 combinations (without even using double or triple dots...)
Did Altered Carbon have anything new with technological advancements leading to immortality?

When I read the books I was struck by Quellcrist Falconer's approach to guerilla warfare. She thought that immortality allowed guerillas to use time as cover, the way guerillas of past ages had concealed themselves in urban crowds or the remote countryside. It was the first time I had encountered that idea. (Someone who's read even more SF than me may cite earlier antecedents.)

The TV adaptation replaced this interesting character and her ideas with the well-worn Noble Reactionary telling us that Technology Is Bad.
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Maintenance of good code is very different than going in and fixing a bunch of TODOs so the thing won't break outside the happy path.
What Firefox really needs is a little icon (preferably displayed prominently in the toolbar) that appears when videos are not being decoded in hardware. I'm sure they've lost users who just think Firefox is "super laggy with YouTube" or that "Firefox really eats battery". An indication that something is wrong and the browser knows about it prevents the assumption that the browser is just buggy/slow/etc; the word-of-mouth changes from "Firefox sucks" to "Firefox told me it couldn't hardware accelerate my videos or something?" Still not positive, but potential users will hear that Firefox might not work with their hardware, rather than that Firefox is buggy, slow, and unreliable.

And I know technical users would appreciate it. I still don't know what is and isn't getting hardware video decode, or whether I actually need a particular about:config flag or system package, and I have tried hard to figure out.
>Clearly it’s ok to do it in oil on canvas so...

A very confident yet untrue statement. Many celebrities expressed extreme discomfort over people photoshopping them nude or creating lifelike drawings of them nude (yes, that includes "oil on canvas").

>Artists sell images of actors all the time. People know they’re paintings.

Just because people know they're fake does not mean it's okay.

You only addressed the issue of people believing faked scandalous content. What about the fact that it's simply fucked up to create lifelike sexual content of a non-consenting person for the sole purpose of sexual pleasure?

People don't want to be publicly seen naked or having sex because they highly value their privacy when it comes to their bodies. Simulating extremely private acts or images is just violating and disrespectful. They are the victims.
In my experience, it's mostly the situations where people give their emails in person that are a problem: Receipts from in-store purchases (and in-store credit card signups), hotel reservations and rewards programs, EMR signups, lawyers offices, banks, realtors, etc.

Websites are pretty good at verifying email addresses these days. The real world, not so much. The super funny part is when you try to ask the bank/doctor/etc. to stop sending someone else's personal info to your email address, and they tell you they can't make that change since you aren't the account owner.