skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This note is perhaps conflating hardware with software. It sounds like a reasonable solution to me for each university or school to have some small server hardware running free software that supports their online needs.
At the moment it seems like there is more competition and thus more new ideas coming out of China. Social media in the west seem to be dominated by a few giants that succesfully chokes any newcomers before they get started.
The short videos are alongside the long-form content. They divert user attention if the long feature hits a lull. The investment of the short video is perceived to be lower, so users will stay in the app for longer.
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Why would you need to buy "approved" chargers? If the vendor gets to dictate which chargers I buy, I'm worse off than before the days of USB charging.

Also, a lot of official chargers are cheap, bulky and slow. Third party does not and has never implied "cheap knockoff". In this case, they aren't knock-offs at all.
"Free as in speech, not free as in beer"
tzs is proposing URNs rather than textual program names. A URL is unnecessarily specific (though I suppose you could anycast URL resolution)
History is interpretation , yes, but that doesn’t mean that facts don’t exist.
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I'm in southeastern Canada years ago smoke from Quebec forest fires made the sky red. The soil where I am from is also red. It was like living on Mars. The fun ends quickly when your throat gets scratchy and there is no where you can go to escape it the air in your house has to come from outside too.

I'm not looking forward to any smoke now my dad has COPD, IPF, is on oxygen, and he's elderly. If we get any amount of smoke here it will be the end of him. It's hard enough trying to keep him from contracting SARS-Cov-2 and developing covid-19.
Exactly! General Electric was very much the Apple of the 19th century. Edison's genius was recognizing that he had to create demand for his product. It was not the case of "build it and they will come" - not even with the light bulb! Not only that, but Edison made the light bulb economically viable for everyday use. That's not a small feat! In a similar vein we all know Ford didn't invent the automobile, he was able to mass produce the automobile and make it affordable for everyone. We really need to distinguish between invention and mass production and scaling. Every country likes to claim the former, it was the United States that was really good at the latter - especially from the late 19th to mid 20th centuries.
> The obligation was on Softbank, not on ARM

Plausibly the obligation on Softbank could require them, when selling, to require the new buyer agree to the same obligation.
> First of all, one common statistic is that 90% of trash in the ocean that comes from people dumping it (in rivers) comes from just 10 rivers, all in China/Asia.

> but that's not where the problem is.

Maybe we should stop using them as our factories for 80% of the gadgets, tech, clothes, &c. we consume.
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I think you and many others block ads because on many websites they are implemented so aggressively that it renders the website near unusable. This aggressive implementation is, in a way, a manipulation of the intention of ad tech and ruins how well results can be measured. Pop-up ads create false clicks, numerous ads on a page lessen the value of any given ad impression, etc.

The solution is less, but better ads sold at a higher cost. This is generally what makes search advertising work. Popular keywords garner a premium price, which in turn prices out those who are looking to manipulate the advertising platform with misleading ads. Higher cost ads means that less ads need to be sold to make a profit. Unfortunately, such an elegant solution has yet to be seen for content based websites, and so massive amounts of ad placements are added to websites just to break even.
This is so close to being a tab I'll constantly have open for coding. Simple volume and pause controls make this a 10/10 site. Awesome job!!
So you never use Amazon for product discovery or evaluation? You've never gone to a store and said "I wonder what Amazon prices that at and what people say about it?"
I predict they will try to shove it down our throats, for example by adding a dedicated button for inserting shorts in the keyboard app.

Or adding it to your Google feed as a mandatory section, making people hate it even more.
Huh. I couldn’t find anything about it one way or the other.
For most behavioural profiling stuff it should be sufficient to just know which page element the mouse was over, no pixel-precise x/y coordinates needed.

But if a mouse enters element A at time x, then enters element B at time x+n, and then enters element C at time x+m (and so on) - you can extrapolate the path the mouse most likely must have taken - and at which speed and acceleration - to be able to get to all these positions at those time points. It's just an approximation of course, but can be surprisingly accurate.
The US has a big advantage with its large home market. It's always going to be hard to compete against that.

Also it doesn't help that we have such a large financial services sector. This sector soaks up a lot of graduates that might otherwise be working in technology. It also makes it harder for other sectors to compete. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

Add a government that spends all its time pandering to the over 60's (hence Brexit) and you can see where we are going wrong.
Basically anything and everything that I can surmise will complete within 15 minutes.
Anecdotally, I can certainly relate strongly to the quotes you pointed out.
Maybe just that Swift has generics?
They will love the loop of an unskippable 15-second ad followed by a 15-second video.
Across JP Morgan as a whole, the "relative importance of the work" isn't going to change significantly over time. It definitely has nothing to do with WFH. It's far more likely that a drop in LOC is caused by an increased difficulty of mentorship, slower time to resolve blockers, etc.
And soon to be crypto scam ads and videos on there too ,which YouTube will ignore
Color me deeply skeptical.

Theil and Zuck have chosen algorithmic fascism.

They'd rather be kings in hell than mere billionaires in a democracy.
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Is it that clear-cut? Is a nice friendly org that considers the options and picks something minimal and ostensibly ethical like Fathom or Plausible and then just uses that to keep track of how they are doing evil? Or is that not a third party, just first-party outsourced? Not sure what definition we're working with here :)
When I stepped out of my house last night and saw clouds and a little bit of blue I was ridiculously happy. None of the predicted wind or rain has shown up so far, I wonder if the fires are blocking the normal wind from the ocean.
I listen to the Nujabes homework edit songs for the same reason. They’re basically multi-hour long. seamlessly repeating cuts of a chill song.
I feel like this article is trying to draw predictions from faulty baselines. Being "overdue" for something is rarely a good indicator for when it will happen. On top of this, the sample size of only a handful of bear markets / recessions is not a great sample size for drawing averages. The law of large numbers certainly doesn't come into play, and we can't really rely on this distribution being Gaussian.

The reality is that we don't know when the next bear market will happen or how long it will last. If we knew when the next bear market would happen, it wouldn't. If we knew how long the current bear market will last, it would end. It's the same argument that if it's known that a stock price will go from $100 to $101 tomorrow, demand for it will increase to the point it will reach $101 today.
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There are different kinds of fasting. They don't eat from sun rise until sunset during Ramadan. I'd qualify that as fasting.
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From a purely scientific side, the "principles of evidence" show a plausible story, competing with less extraordinary and also plausible options (like similar viruses mutating in similar ways, or transfer of genome portions in some other way than the few simple ones discussed in the article).
The article contains apparently knowledgeable reflections about what is possible or more or less likely, not actual evidence; true evidence would have to be of a more forensic nature, and it would increase the usefulness of this theory from a way to irritate China to a way to find useful information about therapy and vaccines.

From a more literary and psychological angle, the evidence of disregard for alternative explanations, if not bad faith, is strong enough to discredit the article and place it on the spectrum of more or less intentional falsehood between completely delusional crackpot pseudo-research and completely deliberate poisonous PR effort.
Flawed from the first sentence, this article would have us all insist on free software in a Sith world of absolutes.

Software is a tool like any other tool, and we all make trade-offs based on our priorities.

...except for the folks like Richard Stallman. They’re willing to suffer through bad solutions (or have the time and skills to write their own) just to maintain this ideological line in the sand.

The thing is, people who have real jobs and aren’t just academics like Stallman have to get shit done.

Sure, a lot of open source software is actually better than proprietary alternatives. a lot of open source software is an easy choice.

I’d like to see Richard Stallman run a wedding photography business without touching proprietary software. Or a restaurant. Or a scalable, highly available SaaS company.

If he ever had a job that made him do any of those things, he’d quickly realize that as CEO instead of chief computer tinkerer you suddenly start making those trade-offs.

“I could pay 5 engineers devote 10% of their time to maintaining and patching a monitoring system, or I can just buy Datadog.”

“I can spend 20% more time editing photos, or I can just buy Photoshop.”

“I can spend 20% of our IT person’s time maintaining our self-hosted video conference solution and email server, or I can just buy G Suite.”

Schools are actually one of the worst places for open source software. K-12 institutions are not technical and need a ton of hand-holding. And if the stuff breaks, your students will sit there twiddling their thumbs wasting taxpayer dollars.
You are committing the genetic fallacy[0] by stating your argument in this way. A paper like this should be judged on its merits, not its origin.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy
Yes. This is a huge cost for school districts, particularly since both G Suite and Microsoft 365 are free for schools and require practically zero admin time. There's no competition in terms of cost here.
The kW*h doesn't make sense in this context, either. It is a unit of energy, and would imply a one-time cost to have bubbles made from then on.
I believe in your theory. I wrote about it recently as it’s been a long-standing challenge for me to balance different creative/literary/social aspects of my self with those emphasized by programming all day.

http://www.pcmaffey.com/how-programming-shapes-the-mind
Nobody has ruled out this was a lab release. Experts when asked directly usually give a "50/50" answer as to natural vs. released from a lab.

Ignorant people confuse 100% man-made with crossed or enhanced in the lab, but crossing is as easy as putting a pangolin and a bat in the same cage.
To play the devil’s advocate - I reckon it’s all to do with support. If something breaks they can just pick up the phone and tell them to sort it out. What will they do when a random open source program breaks? Open a github issue?

I’m also sure deals like that come with other goodies, for example, my university offered free, licensed windows, office & visual studio installations.

Also, electronics course had windows-only software that we all had to use.

I’m sure it’s not that easy to switch. There must be deals on deals upon deals depending on where the school budget comes from and who approves it and so on.
I think a bigger problem is that there is no training involved. I worked in higher ed (tech side) for a few years, and every time they bought a package (for admissions management, grades, donations, etc) there was training provided as part of the purchase.

You don’t get that with free software, and for your average professor/admissions rep/grant writer/alumni nagger that’s a big deal. It doesn’t matter if it’s the 100% perfect solution to every problem they have... if they don’t know how to use it.
> Neanderthals were less social than us....they could only trust and bond with a dozen or so others

I'm very curious, any justification of this?
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The Unix bc utility is a basic calculator.

$ man bc

bc - An arbitrary precision calculator language
Probably the strangest part of this is a person trying to sell a paid version of a compiler. Did that person miss the boat by 30 years? All mainstream programming languages today are free and open source. Programming languages are platforms that thrive only when they're widely adopted. The community that adopts it builds the libraries and ecosystem necessary for it to be viable. You can't possibly build a new platform with a high barrier to entry if you're competing with established platforms where the barrier to entry is next to nothing.
Perhaps, but this argument could be extended. Many "developers" do little more than glue together bits of framework boilerplate.
> incoherent whataboutism blaming Joe Biden for nazi attacks

yeah dude, tell me more about this alleged "slander" of Ngo, no dude he's a grifter, that's not "FUD", that's old news and not really controversial.
But you probably should read the paper first.
I think there is now a real will from the chinese government to limit plastic pollution.

For example, waste sorting started in Shanghai a year ago and started in Beijing last June [0].

This is not the usual waste sorting we are experiencing in Europe, for example, since you need to decline your identity and not make any mistake while sorting or you may get charged.

Probably a bit too invasive (this is China after all) but more thorough for what I consider a good cause.

Besides, the first bans on plastic use will take effect on January [1]. This is only for small items now, but this is a first step, and it also includes production of these items, which is especially impressive considering China supremacy on the production lines.

[0] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3016801/shan...

[1] https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3101241...
Looks good! What’s the reason you say you wouldn’t use aluminum next time?
In that article the primary purpose seems to be to reduce soundwaves rather than preventing fish from passing through, so both sources are in agreement there that it lessens soundwaves.

Also the pressures could be different. It's not hard to imagine that higher pressure would act as a bigger deterrent to passing through, so maybe that's what they're using at the construction site?

Both the bubble barrier page and the article you linked are fairly short on specifics though, which is a shame. It wouldn't be that hard to write out some pressures...
Some playlists have the info, some others don't.
Regarding carbon-14, there is so little of it that it makes no sense to even think about it (about 1 in 10^12 atoms). In addition, all biological matter (including you and the food you eat) has carbon-14 present in it -- that's the basic principle behind carbon dating. In fact, ash from wood burning would probably have more carbon-14 if anything.

But yes, the article you linked talks about trace amounts of uranium and other materials that actually could be harmful.
>> Free software isn’t really free, it requires a team of software developers to maintain the self hosted servers that it’s running on

Free (libre) software isn't necessarily free (gratis) either. Stallman isn't against people being compensated for providing a service, he's against licenses and business models that restrict what you're allowed to do with stuff, especially after you've paid for it. And paid software doesn't really eliminate the need for trained (non-gratis) administration personnel and additional management infrastructure either.

As usual I think the absolute of what Stallman's saying here isn't very pragmatic, but the way many schools depend entirely on massive Microsoft contracts isn't really pragmatic either. My school paid a huge amount of money for these huge accounts with Microsoft. And I saw a lot of students leave school with a heavy dependence on Microsoft. I on the other hand, also completed virtually all of my assignments on a tiny Linux netbook using OpenOffice / LibreOffice that cost me a fraction of what everyone else was using. And even as someone who loves the idea of running `git clone` for software I use to make little tweaks? I never once in 4 years found a reason to do that for OpenOffice or LibreOffice.

Are those Microsoft contracts really worth it for places that have limited funding and a charter to provide education for the broadest good? I'd absolutely agree there's cases where it's better for the school to simply purchase something quick that solves their problem. I wouldn't have a problem with that. But most of the arguments I hear against even considering the alternatives just sound like resistance to change for the sake of it.
>I get what you mean by this, but why can't these solutions be used in places that are willing to make a difference?

Our efforts (and resources) might be better allocated in an area that has a bigger impact. This is basically the idea behind cap and trade. Why spend $10 to pick up 1 ton of plastic waste in the first world (made up numbers), when you can spend $10 to pick up 5 tons of plastic waste in asia? A more concrete example would be the water conservation measures in calfiornia a few years ago. The vast majority of the water usage is by agriculture, but residents were asked to engage in water saving practices (not watering laws, short showers, opt-in water at restaurants) at great inconvenience to them, even though any savings would be a drop in the bucket overall.
That happens in Seattle too. I'm surprised the metal expands that much myself.
Wild guess here but his compiler probably can recognize that it can replace sy*128 with a bit shift instruction. :-)
(thats what I would want)

It can't know that with a named constant.

(Same would be true for any value that's a power of 2.
Usually a real speed up.)
How does one establish the 'fact' that "neanderthals [had] a spiritual life". We just can't. I don't doubt they did but that's my belief not fact.
"Users on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal) can take advantage of additional optimizations found on newer ARM-based processors. The large-system extensions (LSE) are enabled by using the included libc6-lse package, which can result in orders of magnitude performance improvements."
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Indeed, no tears dropped here.
For those US companies it does, but I don't think that would apply here since it would be a japanese company investing in a UK company, of course, I could be wrong. Either way the point is "most of the reasons given in this article didn't apply to Softbank which is why it doesn't make sense that they should have argued this when the Softbank investment happened"
The figure I have seen is that muscle wasting drops to less than 0.2 kg per day once the body fully enter ketosis.
Obviously, anyone considering a fast longer than a few days should do so under the supervision of a doctor who can monitor electrolyte levels etc. They can also check for the rare enzyme defect called Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, those with it are unable to fast safely.
And not everyone lives in the US. How much do you think it costs in USD for an app developer in a developing country to create an app, and how much is that $99/year as a percent of yearly income?
C++17 has sum types?
The article just looks back at the prior 10 US bear markets, which is about all we have the data for. No two are the same, and past performance never predicts future results, but there is generally some value in looking at how markets played out in the past.
So we've had nationwide government schooling in the United States for a bit over a hundred years at this point. Would you say that those schools have created a "good, happy" fabric of society?
There is no evidence for the natural selection hypothesis either.
Depending on your intent fasting can be for a lot of things.

The health benefits of fasting aren’t about total calorie restriction, but ARE about shifting when you eat to allow your body to kick over into the fasted state for a period of time to get the benefits of that.

I practice a 24 hour fast once a week, for spiritual and health benefits, not to lose weight, and enjoy a very full dinner after the 24 hour fast.

Ramadan looks very much to me to be about fasting, at least spiritually.
That's true in general as almost all products have a flat cost rather than charging you a percentage of your income.
> Right now in the UK, the basic testing infrastructure is more-or-less world class as far as I can tell

Today for the second day in less than a week the country has no testing availability whatsoever according to the official website.

World class?
This works into my other comment about how training is provided for big box purchases. No one in any form of academia has the time or money to develop their own training materials - the tool is supposed to benefit the students, anything that isn’t directly doing that isn’t a priority.
Definitely not. I never want to see a >6MB GIF.

(Yeah, Shorts won’t be using a GIF, but I must grumble about news articles using GIFs when they’re a stupidly bad way of representing a video. I honestly have no idea why any reputable news organisation would ever use GIFs like this.)
PEP is also "Politically exposed person" in anti money launcering circles, and often the lists we get are PDFs.

Seems like PEP is used for more things too :)
Off topic, why is bubble sort called bubble sort? Is it because bubbles are slow?
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(Needless to say, pretty much all the problems with false positives, inadequate technology, the diffculty of scaling up, etc would have been much bigger problems in the US a few months ago given the much larger population and the improvements in Covid-19 testing technology since then.)

But had we initiated aggressive testing earlier, the population needing to be tested would've been much, much smaller. A single test now, with the virus widespread in the population, is worth much, much less than a test back in February. Testing effectiveness should not be measured in tests/population, but in tests/active infections. We had a great deal more leverage back in February and March, and a little testing back them would've been equivalent in effectiveness to massive amounts of testing now. It's a moving goal post, not for political reasons, but for clear epidemiological ones.