skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not very hard to imagine someplace like India getting praise for a nearly identical program. "Country offers job placement training to poorest rural workers" sounds like it would be popular everywhere.

It also reminds me that the US still has internment schools, where poor Native American children "voluntarily" live in Catholic foster homes and attend US public school.
What confuses me most about matrix is that rooms don't have a home on any particular instance. That does seem to remove part of the point with separate servers. Basically, it's mostly the user identity provider that is the federation.
The author helped build Quantum Computing For The Very Curious (https://quantum.country/qcvc) as a proof-of-concept and, IMO, it shows just what the bottleneck in "learning" from any kind of text is.

QCVC periodically inserts spaced repetition exercises that prompt the reader to recall arbitrary facts about what they just read. The authors even seem to be aware that mere mnemonics won't be enough, e.g., when they write:

> I am, by the way, somewhat uncomfortable with some of the questions just asked. My personal experience is that spaced-repetition learning works well when learning facts I have a lot of context for, and care a lot about. It’s a rare person who finds the detailed entries in a unitary matrix fascinating! That’s not to say they aren’t – actually, they are, but you need a lot more context than I’ve provided to see why (for instance) that -i−i in the YY is just so darn interesting.

Is lack of recall the problem or a symptom of the problem? If we want to learn about ants, should we start by drilling a million ant facts? Focus on building recall around all the categories of ants and their geography?

Sorry, why do we care about Hadamard gates?

All the "fixes" to this are squarely in the domain of books-as-books: better organization, better scaffolding, better sequencing of concepts, etc.
There are all sorts of problems with houses built in say the last 10-15 years. The leasehold scam has headlines, but even freeholds come with things like 'estate charges' and 'management companies', which mean that nearby public spaces (open areas, playgrounds etc) are owned by a private company, and that company can charge whatever they want to house owners, without even giving them a breakdown of the costs! Note these are public facilities open to everyone, not just residents.

Half the time the roads aren't even maintained by the council, but there's no rebate on council tax.

But I have to admit this is a new one on me.
Exactly. The apartment complex I'm in rents out some apartments on AirBnB, including the one directly above me. The direct impact is only that it gets vacuumed far more often than a normal tenant would (between each AirBnB usage, about twice a week), increasing the noise. The indirect impact is that I do not have an opportunity to say hello to neighbors, ask how they are doing, send excess baked goods, etc. If a long-term neighbor is being loud, you can rely on that relationship to ask for quiet. If a short-term neighbor is being loud, you have no relationship with them, so you need to instead escalate to the management, who may or may not enforce noise limits at all.
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I think the textbook vs. Pinker/Taleb/Dawkins books can be coarsely classified as "fact books" and "idea books".

Pretty much every textbook (especially introductory ones) is a fact book. They are structured summaries of a field of knowledge, and the goal is to convey as much information as possible. There is no room for extended personal commentary.

An idea book on the other hand does not simply present facts, but fits them in a narrative designed by the author. You don't necessarily obtain the overview of a body of knowledge. It is more like having a long chat with the author, who is preferably an expert in said body of knowledge.

For the learning part, idea books are more effective at getting the "big picture" across, while textbooks require more effort by the reader to either memorize the concepts or see how they fit together at a higher level.

In the end I don't think one can be classifies as more effective than the other since they correspond to different needs.

Consider two AI books, the "Modern Approach" textbook by Norvig and Russell, and "Human Compatible" by the same Russell. A student who wants to do AI research should read the textbook, and spend a lot of time studying it. A layperson who wants to get an overview of the AI field as it stands today, and see what are the possible problems that interest a layperson like himself, should read the latter book, spending much less time than the student.
NASA lays out $28B plan to return astronauts to the moon in 2024
> ...modern Classics departments are made uncomfortable by the parallels with present day barbarian invasions of Europe.

Present day invasions?
What's the problem with the Poppler-based ones? I've been producing (with LaTeX) and consuming (with Poppler/Okular) PDFs for a decade and never once have I had to worry about anything related to the format (including tracking).
If Chrome doesn't use pdf.js, then neither would Edge, which is a Chrome fork. My original comment may have been mistaken.
https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/11406
Parts of the UK that have so much immigration from India that the local population are majority desi are few and far between. There’s nothing like historical Irish immigration to Britain. Scottish Catholics before 1970 or so were all descendants of the Irish and that’s what ~40% of the Scots? There were so many Irish in Liverpool they elected Irish Parliamentary Party MPs before the Irish Civil War. And still assimilation proceeds rapidly. Wayne Rooney Player for England, not Ireland. Out marriage is the death of ethnic identity. Look at the US. There are actually people identify as White, or as Asian American. How far does a Chinese, Vietnamese or Japanese person have to be divorced from their culture to think the most important thing about their ethnic identity is their skin color? Similar dynamic earlier in US history when the ethnic marriage markets collapsed into religion bounded marriage markets, when Herberger wrote Catholic Protestant Jew. Once people are willing to marry out assimilation is a matter of time absent continued immigration. Irish immigration to the US dropped off a cliff in the 1990s. One day South Boston will be known for some other group, not the Irish, just like Little Italy turns into Chinatown.
Apple Park cost $5 billion and took over a decade to design a build. I'd call that a lot more disruptive than experimenting with WFH.
Probably good news for startups that are not remote-based. They will have a competitive advantage.
That's what I was trying to say, praise kids for their actual accomplishments.
"Tracking" is almost a weasel word these days. What matters is what is tracks. Tracking some things is just fine, IMO.

The problem now is a lack of trust, not the least of which because there's often not that much transparency and very little accountability in the way of law, as well as various actors that constantly try to skirt the line (i.e. Facebook, Google, etc.)
>The vaccine is to the toxin produced by the bacteria, not to the bacteria itself; supposedly, by the time the body manages to kill the bacteria (even if already recognized by the immune system), there is too much toxin in the system.

I'm not an immunologist, but I don't think you're correct here.

>It is administered, and is likely working, but never went through the rigorous testing we now do for vaccines; furthermore, after it was introduced, tetanus incidence decreased considerably also in places that did not use a vaccine. The history of the tetanus vaccine is not what I expected when I started looking at it.

Deaths worldwide from Tetanus didn't decrease substantially until the 80s when the vaccine starting being administered everywhere. So don't know what you're talking about.
We are just the biological process whose end result is the singularity. We are the stepping stone for the final consciousness
"What is culturally and ethnically Mongolian actually stretches across the Middle East, as well as large swaths of Russia and Europe."

It simply isn't feasible to grant every cultural group the full extent of their historical claims.
> Only downside is you have to shave your head, Professor Xavier style.

Yes, but you gain the ability to find other mutants!

As an outsider with a bit of EE background, this seems pretty dang impressive. Seems like a potential huge boon for the disabled. Something like this might have made it easier for Dr. Stephen Hawking to communicate.
While true, one thing to consider is that, if renting an apartment that sleeps 4 is cheaper than renting two otherwise similar hotel rooms that sleep 2, that means the travelers have more money to spend while they're there.

Is this significant to matter to the other tourism industries in Paris? That I don't know... Does it outweigh the issues people have with AirBNB? Probably not...
Airbnb listings are associated with a fairly small but noticeable increase in rents: https://hbr.org/2019/04/research-when-airbnb-listings-in-a-c...

But the question I always wonder is what's so special about hotels that they get to build dozens or hundreds of apartments but don't have to put them on the market? It seems like there is a lot of problems baked into zoning, and it doesn't seem fair to punish Airbnb owners who are playing arbitrage.
Songbird while it was alive as well [0]

(Anyone here work on that? I have great nostalgia for it and the cute black bird logo)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)
Fun fact: The US declaration of war against Austria-Hungary, for a change, was justified by the sinking of the US ship Marguerite by a submarine whose officer "spoke Austrian"[0]. As the saying goes in my part of Europe, "winners are not judged".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_declaration_of_w...
It is irrational behavior for these landlords to evict or pileup unrealistic future obligations. On the other side of covid it will be far better to have an existing in place restaurant or bar tenant than to try and lease space in a glut market and take on lots of tenant onboarding costs.
It does, thanks I missed it skimming the page.
A lot of things aren't right or fair in this world.

No shit.
This sentence just says : "Accept things how they are"
This is the sentence of tyrans and their priests.

"Well not everybody can be free you know" said the slaveowner.
"Well not all people are equals you know" said the aristocrat.
I just quoted the article, so the source is the OP link. They just hide it at the bottom and then make the headline a lie to get your click.
An exogenous shock is almost alwyas needed. It provides energy for a system to move into a new equilibrium.
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Very interesting indeed. I wonder whether other US companies would also pull their apps or instead rush to fill the gap facebook left.
I played around to see if this can actually replace Airtable. Because of its tight integration with Google apps (and how one day they could shutdown external Google Sheets API access), they probably have a decent advantage. Also free is good...Airtable pricing is not the most friendly/transparent for startups.
Mind you, normies, who come to socialize, are a big problem there as they bring their normie standards and are infuriating.
I was on a book buying binge a few months ago, I got it then :-) Just thought to myself how much money I saved on books thanks to sites like library genesis ...
Amazon Restricts Advertising from Rival Device Makers on Its Site
I'm very intrigued--can I get any more details about how you could safely do that? Did you, e.g. disconnect the main breaker and have a spare Van de Graaff generator lying around?
> the content of the field data is hard to reuse.

A lot of people don't care, because they come from forms in cartaceous - where they have to manually retype everything anyway. For many, their "DBMS" will be an Excel sheet with a dozen rows. The more advanced types likely have some Adobe software that does all the magic.

Fillable PDF forms are really seen as a courtesy to users more than anything particularly useful to the emitter.
Why is that? the whole idea is that remote isn't as bad as we thought it is.
didn't go to war against the Axis supremacists until they expanded outside their borders...

Your parent comment is probably supposing that all supremacist movements eventually wind up doing this. Which is not a ridiculous suggestion- a fundamental precept of supremacist movements is usually the idea that the supposedly supreme group has a right to rule, and such ideas have a history of leading to invasion & conquest.
Remote work is not a catchall. I live in a 400 sq/ft apartment. My ISP charges 250 a month for gigabyte speeds. I have nowhere to go and all outlets for me to work somewhere else are primarily closed. Furthermore, I have just started my career, all those networking opportunities which help you find your next job have been debilitated.

I am sure there is a place for a hybrid option but celebrating remote as the future discourages me to enter the field.
Yes, that's what I referred to with:

> and is already familiar with 'loo's and pronounces them 'loo'.

It's not just (and predominantly not) the 'toilet' though, it's the room or facility; what you would call a 'washroom'.
Most of it is just the HN echo chamber. Folks commenting that GCP my be shut down because it doesn't make as much money as Azure, totally oblivious to the fact that Google has billions invested in physical buildings and hardware being hammered on and built out around the world as we speak, just shows that folks here are out of the loop on this type of thing.
Did anyone try to pluck out PDFs from /dev/urandom? How about from radiotelescope feed? Maybe the first evidence of extraterrestrial life will be some poor alien's tax form?
Anuses can have teeth, farts can be weapons, butts can be homes
The marketplace did not fail. The Chrome Web Store lives on - it's just the PAYMENT section of it that fails. All the extensions will still exist and be available for download, we devs just can't use Google's payment or subscription service anymore.

So if a dev has thousands subscribers paying monthly through Google's system, they will all have to sign up again with a new payment processor - there is no way to migrate the payment info, only the license info.

And yes Google takes a cut each month so it's hard to imagine why they have decided to forgo these millions of dollars and at the same time hurt extension devs - because I can imagine a very large number of people deciding not to resubscribe :(
> should be expected to then copyright it's material when providing it digitally to the public?

I'm saying they have the copyright.
I would support Airbnb if it encouraged the couch-surfing model more. As in, the owners live on the property full time and have an extra room or couch they'll willing to lend out, with extra amenities to make it worth some amount of money. Deviating from this quickly devolves into the current situation.
Parasites in freshwater fish make them more hazardous than ocean fish
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Interesting how cherry picking quotes can push whatever narrative you want. In a different article, it said “while there are advantages to the temporary system, a physical presence at the office is irreplaceable, Cook said.” https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/09/22/apple-ceo-tim-coo...
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On MacOS to get accents you just "hold <vowel>, and press <number in pop up for the accent you want>".

For ü, "hold u, press 2".

You don't need to use "Option" for anything.
I understand that this definitely helps some vested interests (hotel industry, for instance), but the issue transcends a discussion of hotels vs. Airbnb and the cost of housing.

I've had the displeasure of living in an apartment building that was used partially for long-term tenants (of which I was one) and short-term Airbnb guests. The experience was terrible. Constant noise, incredibly inconsiderate people leaving trash everywhere, etc. The interesting thing is the short-term units weren't cheap; they were actually rather expensive. So it wasn't as though we were getting a bunch of college partier types; they were typically young professionals. Given how unpleasant it was, I can't imagine how bad it would be if the quality of guests had been different.

The building was a large house that had been divided into a number of units. I spoke to some of our neighbors (who owned their homes, they were not renting units like we were) and they expressed the difficulty they'd had with the short-term guests in our building. It had been years of calling the police, legal action, etc. The people I spoke with seemed pretty reasonable; they wanted a quiet neighborhood where their kids could play. They didn't enjoy finding drugs in the drive way and urine all over their property.

Airbnb, in my opinion, definitely has a detrimental effect on communities. Even if the guests are nice, if some large fraction of the population is turning over daily, that necessarily takes away from the community.
Redundancy could be another reason.
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It's mainly to protect Hotels, bed-taxes, etc.

No, it's mainly to protect residents. The people who actually make a city a city. If you're looking for greed and cash, look to the Airbnb companies that operate hundreds or thousands of rentals.

Hotels are zoned into commercial areas so that they don't ruin residential areas. Airbnb flouts that.

There are places in Chicago where corporations that own fleets of Airbnb buildings bought up half the residential properties on a single block and turned them into Airbnb rentals. It destroyed the quality of life for the people who have put all of their money and time into the neighborhood.
That's still hiding behind the pref. But the media keys support would be ebabled by default on Fx81, and support for media session would be enabled by default on Fx82.

The pref for media keys : media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled
The pref for media session : dom.media.mediasession.enabled

See more details on https://bit.ly/2WJDEY0
I discovered late in life (high school IIRC) that you don't have to read a book once.
Like you, today, I will dedicate my first read through to exposure, nothing more ("What don't I know that immediately jumps out at me? What do I immediately understand? What am I struggling with?")
In subsequent read throughs,these questions get answered as I reinforce the learning with cross referencing, exercises and deep thought of the subject matter while drinking tea, sitting on the porch bathing in the sun.
To me learning from books remains powerful. It's a shame that how we learn from books is rarely emphasized.
True. Although most metros (SV being somewhat of an exception) you get 60-90 minutes out of the downtown and there is much cheaper housing available. (And many of the offices aren't even in the downtown anyway.)

I live a (non-rush hour) hour from Boston which I still consider "close" to the metro in that I can drive in for the evening and have even commuted in--admittedly a long commute. But I'm in a small semi-rural town. It's not true rural cheap but it's a lot less expensive than actually in the city or close-in suburbs.
This is a distinction without a difference.

Goobook sell campaign attribution (so you can see which campaigns resulted in sales and/or clicks). They also allow you to micro-target campaigns to specific demographics. Combine these two, and it becomes trivial to infer data about particular individuals.

The only difference, as far as I can see, between a data broker and Goobook is that the broker does the linking for you and sends the data as a nicely-formatted table.
The thousand bucks extra they make a week whether they get called or not makes up for it. It's not like I clock watch my team anyway, if they took an extra hour here or there I don't bat an eyelid, they're all hard workers and they get the job done without complaining.
Manufacturers could do a better job at making screen replacements easy, as that's what breaks a lot. Other than that, having software updates for a long time is a much more important missing piece on Android than this. For anyone that cares about security Android phones become outdated far faster than the hardware becomes broken. Android One is a step in the right direction but there aren't enough manufacturers and models:

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

Nokia is the only manufacturer that seems to have a whole range on it, and even they are messing with Android.
It’s not an alien concept.

It’s that the Bay Area is extremely low density compared to other comparable population centers such as New York, London, or you-name-the-city.

It’s just not practical to use conventional forms such as busses and light rail, and this is partly why Uber and Lyft had the leverage to force the state to back down over classifying workers as employees.
I wish ctrl+tab would cycle through all recent tabs regardless of what container they’re in.
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I wonder where all the people begging others not to forget about the Holocaust are. The fact that such astrocities still exist proves that remembering past ones is self-serving in a sense.
The magic words are "the line is crackly when I try to hear someone" which will be recorded as "interference" and cause and engineer to be sent out. Then get them to open up any junction boxes that you can see. Normally the problem is that one of these has leaked causing poor coupling.
The way to fix that is to bring back effective covenants. Covenants were neutered in the US under the guise of the civil rights movement; the government explicitly wanted to stop people from deciding what kind of neighborhood they wanted to live in, because most people want to live with their own ethnic group.
Hotels don't get built on ground designated for residential, surely?
It's probably a positive for people squeezed out by rents in Paris ;-)
Google plans far beyond 2020, and far beyond this pandemic. Further, these deals were closed long before this year.

Work culture will change for sure, and the layout and form that commercial real estate takes will change too, but it’s far too early to say that the space they’re getting is not worth the investment.
Feedback: When I first went to the site I thought it wasn’t working. It was only after I created an account (which I was hesitant to do) that I was able to view the Postgres and Elasticsearch tutorial.

I went through the Postgres tutorial and it worked well, good job. I’ve never created a usable database so quickly before, this is cool.
In another comment I described how my iPhone 3GS was still usable, and would even still connect to the App Store seven years after I bought it.
Yeah, fair enough, that's a reasonable scenario.
A text that is approaching book length.
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> Are there any others coming out soon or are Samsung far ahead of the competition?

There have been a number of PCIe 4.0 drives coming out so far.

* Gigabyte AORUS (5GBps read)
* XPG Gammix S50 Lite (5GBps read, lowest power consumption for laptops)

Both seem pretty close to the 5.5GBps PS5 speed, and probably would work. 7GBps sequential is the fastest SSD I've seen so far, though QD1 IOPS is more important to the typical user.
Hugged to death. I’ll need to come back
Arguably the pressures of increased cost is distributed exponentially, so the whatever the top of the market can tolerate puts a compounded level of stress/pressure downstream on society.
Happy to email you with feedback on your resume, if you'd like?
Yahoo was doing this way back in 2013 and Marissa Mayer banned it because it wasn’t working. What has changed since then apart from the pandemic? I expect most companies to go back to office work after the pandemic, for the same reasons why they were not doing much remote work before. In Apple’s case, IP theft is likely to be the trigger.