skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No the 2009 one. Caused narcolepsy in a small number of people. Notably the mechanism was the same one as in the flu itself, so actually getting the flu would have caused worse narcolepsy.
How much can you trust a third party to take your complete data set, full of sensitive information, and treat it correctly? How long will they store it for? Who can access it while it’s being processed? What gets output in their internal logs? They’re asking for a lot of blind faith
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Many (most?) companies that care to track your productivity in invasive ways will have security policies locking out USB devices.

Even plugging in a charging cable at my company will get you a visit from the IT Security department.
Salmon roe at 50g per dose thrice a week works nicely for me. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5596017/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6399499/. I take it in conjunction with a source of choline and uridine.

I also take 2g of magnesium l-threonate per day. As a stimulant I take phenylpiracetam at 100mg per dose on a per need basis. Semax and selank I take on occasion.

Ice baths have also been very helpful. I'll leave it at that; pm me for further info.
I remember using python at the time because I wasn't given admin rights on those machines (contractor) but they had python 3 already installed, it was just the quickest to do the job without admin escalation.

Just to clarify you can definitely also do mouse moves with python and ctypes.
What does it do? I don't have a Spotify account.
It's time to build a computer to answer these questions. Let's call it Deep... I dunno... Thought?
Jared Spataro, the corporate vice president for Microsoft 365, said in a statement. “We also believe that privacy is a human right, and we’re deeply committed to the privacy of every person who uses our products.”

That is absolutely laughable.
Not lock down people's devices basically. [L]GPLv3 requires that people are able to replace the [L]GPLv3'd binaries in their own devices if they want to (so they actually take advantage of the code being FLOSS instead of some nice theoretical novelty - ie. it is nice that my router uses Linux and find it amusing that it comes with the GPLv2 printed out, but what is the point if i can't open it up and fix/change some things that annoy me?). Apple wants to keep the devices they sell you under tight control, so [L]GPLv3 rubs them wrong.

And so they avoid it.

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization

It might also be about patents since IIRC [L]GPLv3 requires that if you use a [L]GPLv3'd program and that program infringes some of your patents then you are not allowed to sue others over their use of your patents in the same program.
My fucking Google Home can't even figure out how to play the auto playlist "My Likes" on YouTube Music.

Previously, I could say "Play my Thumbs Up" and it could do so on Google Play Music.

It keeps playing a song called "My Likes". Jesus fucking Christ, Google. If I say "Play my My Likes playlist" something random happens.

Do these guys even use their product? I'm just glad this album didn't come out before the forced migration.

EDIT: Okay, I went to verify it and this has to be the best instance of massive PEBKAC plus some UX donkeyness. The auto playlist is called "Your Likes" so I can get the Assistant to do the right thing by telling her to play her likes (Ok Google, play your likes). What the fuck man. But fine. At least I got it working.

I've suffered with this for months and now I find a solution in the few minutes after posting this.
That's about viable nowadays.

Elaborating: Until recently, your best option for running CIL in an AOT type environment would be Mono AOT, which has it's own limitations.

Nowadays, however, we do have CoreRT in a state that lets you do AOT, still with limitations around things like reflection. But, it's fairly doable nowadays, I would think.
> […] up to 70% logic density gain […]

What does this figure reflect when transistor density has only increased by ~45%?
They're publicly traded. Their revenue sources are open for the public to read. The other guy saying they're diversified linked to their quarterly to show 80% ad revenue. That's pretty much "they're an ad company".
I found that too. It’s just that there is a lot of detail, eg in the emails etc, that don’t seem to contribute anything to the game, and then you hit this abrupt place where it says “this will tell you where Anne is”, but it doesn’t.

It feels like there should be some other thing to explore somewhere that makes sense of the emails and the cake and the odd tweets.
What exactly are "materialized views"?
Ask HN: Why does HN hate humor?
I understand that HN tries to be pretty on topic & focused and does not appreciate unrelated comments etc. As such silly jokes etc are generally frowned upon.

However, humor can also be used to get a nontrivial point across and doesn't have to be "empty of content". It seems to me that the same point phrased as a declarative statement vs a joke are received completely differently.

For example,

1. "Tesla is overvalued because of x, y, z."

2. "Just read about x, y, z. Better call my broker and dump some shares."

Sometimes the addition of humor can show just how silly the context is, something that a formal declarative statement cannot.

So, why does HN hate humor?
Certified organic food is not healthier or cheaper, certainly.

Whether it's better for the environment is much less clear; the USDA organic requirements are pretty watered down, and modern pesticides responsibly applied are pretty safe, but synthetic fertilizer, as typically applied on commercial scale farms, is pretty darn bad for ecosystems.
Canola oil has only been eaten since the 1970s. My individual existence is older than that.
That's easy. Go buy them credit card gift cards.
Last mile is expensive, but that’s just a question of local population density. Network backbones are relatively cheap making total land area mostly a meaningless limitation. 4x land area increases average distance between cities by ~2x so that doesn’t change much. Thus while truly rural areas are an issue wiring every suburb and midsized town in the US is roughly as difficult as the UK.

The difference mostly comes down to corruption as the US government heavily subsidized network deployments, but without any requirement they actually build networks. Add a lot of anticompetitive legislation in the US and things really slowed down. It’s slowly gotten better over time, but many areas still have terrible internet availability.

PS: I pay ~66$ per month for 20/20 and live in a 22 story building so density isn’t the issue.
It's a "reactive impedance surface" metasurface (the squares) to better isolate the circular patch (or mushroom?) antennas and then a suspended layer of director elements for both linear polarizations (which passes circular).
>>A lot of people would lose their job in the insurance industry if universal health care was adopted. But it's still the right thing to do.

No it really is not. but I also do not want to diverge in a debate over healthcare policy and how government run healthcare is not the Utopia people like you make it out to be, nor how many of the advancement in care the world enjoys is funded by the US Health system (which is one of the reason the US health system is so expensive) and if the US does go to be Government Run Single Payer we will see a HUGE decline is health care advancement worldwide

>>A hand-in-hat existence has absolutely nothing to do with freedom, if anything it's its opposite.

This is factually incorrect and ignorant of how these economic regulation actually impact the poor. Most of the time it causes business to fold, and the bottom rungs of the economic ladder to be removed, limiting options and forcing an ever increasing number of people in to poverty and into the welfare state. Which is then use ironically to justify more regulation which causes yet more people in the poverty and the welfare state, this cycle repeats over and over, and over again

Government regulations have NEVER lifted anyone out of poverty, free market capitalism does not, and only free market capitalism
>>> Adding teeth to the chain would probably not be worth it

When the Kursk was raised they first cut it in half using an abrasive chain/cable. In that instance it was pressed down from above the structure.

"A cutting chain made of abrasive covered bushes on a thick steel wire was pulled back and forth across the hull by the cylinders. Vertical forces were supplied by the controllable vertical position of the suction piles."

https://www.maritimejournal.com/news101/tugs,-towing-and-sal...
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"The common good" is an entirely red flag these days.
While I appreciate your point I think the current UK government have done more than average to "shake up" the civil service. Others might describe these changes in less charitable terms.
The headline sounds like an old-school direct response advertisement --- https://swiped.co/file/american-rat-race-ad-by-ben-suarez/
Yeah, that's the mechanism I'm describing.

Droughts, storms and volcanoes are on a totally different scale than nuclear war, climate change, or topsoil erosion though. You could argue that we're in control of those problems, but I'm not holding my breath.
Can't say expected much , but he sounds like he uploaded a bunch of basic loops.

If your gonna do this at least bring real content
It's important to differentiate here.. fraud by deception is only partly mitigated - if some slick sales droid convinces you to dump your life savings into a dodgy ICO, that's really not all that different to what Bernie Madoff did.

The critical difference is that the smart contract lets you peek under the covers. If the contract allows for its owners to do things to your tokens, that will be plainly visible in the code, regardless of what the owner says. The owners can lie about it, but the lie can be seen by all and sundry. The creators of the token mathematically cannot do anything the contract doesn't allow them to do.
Most mammals have a similar brain architecture. Humans share the limbic system with animals like dogs, cows and pigs. This means these animals have extremely similar subjective experiences of pain, fear, joy and other emotions.

For a consistent framework of ethics, these animals should be treated essentially as lobotomized humans.
I'm a bit of both, so I guess I take the radical approach--straight from mathematics to C++/ASM/FPGA/ASIC. Ultimately programming languages are just an alternate notative system for mathematics--formal language theory actually formalizes and generalizes this, it's what us Computer Scientist's specialize in generally.

Since the computer is just a glorified calculator with memory (sorry Apple), we can fit the whole thing into a formal mathematical framework.
Nope. My work hasn't ever mentioned explicitly that they monitor us but they're also tracking productivity somehow. Interestingly, they had to tell people to stop working so much once we transitioned to work-from-home. They found that people were working way longer hours and not taking lunches.
anonymous surveys to identify managers who create burnout

Every “anonymous” workplace survey I’ve ever done has always had a unique URL with a GUID embedded and a warning not to forward the email to anyone.
Thanks! That's super nice and very close to what I was looking for all this time.

I just learned how to mount all my Windows drive under /mnt using (using the `disks` software), so hopefully this should index those files too.
I don't think the problem necessarily is that Tesseract is slow, but that the whole process of rendering a PDF to a series of PNGs on which you can then run OCR is slow (which is what it does in the background).
Yeah uhm... Never been to /r/asd, and now I'm slightly afraid of checking it out, seeing as two comments have been deleted :D
Waymo is building a new replica city to test its driverless tech
These resemble portfolio hedging bets on potential future paths of technology playforms that could affect their ad biz. Google seems to buy a spread of small bets with several-year expiry and high convexity (i.e. big payout if equilibrium shifts in that direction). I suspect a number of these come out of discussions anticipating what could be next after mobile.
YouTube music has been a really mixed bag. Disappointed by the forced transition.
What about the other big problem ignored here:
does your streaming platform separate compute and storage?

Because GCP DataFlow does. Flink doesn't.
DataFlow allows you to elastically scale the compute you need (Snowflake, Databricks). If you can't do that, materialized views will be a more niche feature for bigger 24x7 deployments with predictable workflows.
I have 5 Google Home devices (one Max, two regulars, and two minis) and I'm dreading the day Google Home shows up on killedbygoogle.com.
The difference is in the transparency and purpose of the metrics. Salesforce’s entire purpose is to measure and publicize performance metrics across the business, down to the individual.

In Sales, this means meetings, calls, deals, etc. In Service, this means satisfaction scores, handle times, etc.

All of those are well understood employee productivity scores.

I think this scares people because no one is sure how it’ll be measured and used. At first blush, it just looks like a proxy for identifying luddites and/or people who hate chat — regardless of their actual job performance.
Worth clarifying that this is about Moderna and Pfizer’s new Covid-19 vaccines and about "minorities" in the US.

Not all vaccines are developed in the US and people who are a minority in the US are not necessarily minorities elsewhere.
I mean, it's a language and open source. If the community really hates the direction Google takes it, they can fork it and support whatever features they want.
"google never made it clear it would be temporary"

Why would you ever assume any service is permanent?

"The broken trust comes from the idea that google likely promoted this as something that will be a new ongoing community"

Anyone who "trusted" that a free service would work forever is being unrealistic.

"they try to build up communities then abandon them with no recourse"

They're hosting open source content. You can fork that. Anyone can fork it. If your content were hosted on Poly, you could use Takeout to download all of it in one go.

"that are now scattered again because they trusted google"

If there's any blame here, I would think it would be that there's not a group of people (like us at HN) who work closely with sites like Poly to back them up before they are shut down. Once we have a track record, we can ask Google to say not just, "We're shutting Poly down," but "and it's moving to Hacker News Back Things Up .com."

If someone wants to bridge that gap, moving this content to the Internet Archive or something, that sounds worthwhile.
That's interesting. I have a Fairphone 3 with a stock Android 10 and it does not come with the Duo pre-installed. The icon for video chats in Contacts app is greyed-out. After installing the Google Duo, it becomes active.

Is it possible to remove/deactivate it via adb or other tools?
When I started programming, i expected that I would have a learning curve that went like this: the more I learned, the less I needed to learn.

Instead, I found that the more I learned, the more I realized I didn't know. Finding answers inevitably lead to more questions that I had answered in the first place.

I don't know that we will get to the point that will stop being true, or how many lifetimes it would take a single person to understand it all. It certainly feels like we are past 1 already.

[Edit-] My comment originally focused more on natural sciences in general, but then I changed the opening quip to the personal anecdote about programming. The last paragraph, however, was geared more towards science, and knowledge in general, not programming languages per se.
I don't know, I thought Vulfpeck's "Sleepify" hit the nail on the head without bringing any "real" content.
Developers have a program that emulates China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ rhetoric
This is also the thesis in "HyperNormalisation"[1] by Adam Curtis, who is quoted in this article. Like anything by Curtis, it's a good watch[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLgkQBFTPw
I am not a doctor but normal pneumonia recovery doesn't cause myocarditis, memory loss, abnormal liver function, kidney damage or gastrointestinal damage.

It seems very likely at this point that COVID is a disease of the blood vessels, which has the potential to do some really nasty damage to your organs. The numbers are hard to estimate but I've seen experts say that they think about 5 times the number of people who die will have enough problems to be considered having a long term disability. With estimates of case fatality being about .5% - 1.5% that would mean about 5% of the people who get it will have enough long term damage to be disabled.
I hear what you are saying. Spreadsheet/database hybrid vigor :)
Seconding this one, it strikes a very good balance between theory/pragmatism/entertainment/broader-context. It's oriented around the steps of actually implementing the thing, but there are lots of great little tidbits that shed light on surrounding subjects.

The usage of Java for this purpose is a bit... contrived, but it's not because the author doesn't know what he's doing, and following along in a different language that's better-suited to the task makes a good exercise for the reader
What exactly do you mean by "build quality"? Do you just mean built from glass and aluminium? (hardly obvious choices for a laptop). IMHO, Apple can hardly claim to be leading in "build quality", what with glued-in batteries, un-repairable designs and keyboard reliability issues that have been ongoing for years.
It's a stretch. A big one.

I answered this a while back: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/c1bjw4/rga_ripgrep_bu...
"Based on tracking your GPS and behavior on Facebook, we need you to come in for an injection."

Where do I sign up?!
>Given human survival often relied upon farmed livestock how can you say this? By using this metric for a species' survival nearly nothing should be allowed to live.

When considering an ethical question, typically one must have the "ability to have acted differently." To be grotesque: I may be justified in eating a dead relative to survive in some nightmare scenario, however its permissibility here doesn't allow me the opportunity to desecrate human corpses for pleasurable eating. Is it possible there was a point at which humans were required to perform otherwise unethical acts to survive? Yes, absolutely. Does that permit the same behavior when its necessity no longer exists? I wouldn't think so.

>If you think farming animals is bad wait until you see a Hyena eating the guts out of an animal that is still alive, and will be for most of the meal.

Hyena's aren't moral agents, they cannot consider the ethical content of their decisions. Even if they were, the bad behavior of one moral agent usually isn't a justification for another's unethical behavior.
Most Apple users aren't techies.

So a macbook user can now feel he has the best computer and nobody else is even close. Nobody else is being manufactured using that magic. Maybe he'll even brag about that.

How much is that worth to Apple ?
> It's just that they don't use it for measuring productivity due to the obvious flaw that it can be hacked if employees know about it.

I would think the bigger issue is that there isn't any basis to say that the metrics collected are a realistic capture of productivity. Measuring stuff and understanding measurements is hard, and you don't want to make big and consequential decisions on a bullshit number.
I loved Google poly! It was a great place to find models for A-frame scenes. A-frame is VR basically built in HTML. I really liked it as a teaching tool especially for kids. Like learn HTML elements by finding a bear on Google poly and putting it in your scene.

It was a little frustrating in some places since a lot of it was oriented around their VR drawing tool (Tilt Brush) which my system didn't support.
Having some experience running serverless applications in a large, distributed environment, I can say that this could have easily gone very wrong.

I've seen first hand how a serverless application, "scaling" to meet a huge demand, will stampede the weakest downstream service and DDoS it.

In this case they're lucky that their payment processor (Stripe) didn't start throttling them. You may have spoken with Stripe beforehand about your expected load and get some sort of agreement / whitelist for your API token. That would be very wise.
Such people, when met in real life face to face, inevitably remind me of Aesop's fable concerning a fox who wanted grapes but couldn't reach them.
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No one mentioned the Purdue Compiler Construction kit yet? Weren't they and the Amsterdam compiler kit the 2 'big ones' back in the day ?
Arecibo Observatory’s 305-meter telescope suffers collapse
"I cannot go more than a few days tops without animal protein, or I start to get weird cravings"

Have you tried many vegetarian meat substitutes?

When I talk to meat eaters about this, many of them haven't tried many at all, and if they had tried anything it's maybe one product ten years ago.

The world of vegetarian meat substitutes has exploded in recent years, and there is just so much variety these days, many of them are really incredibly delicious and I'd stack them up against most meat any day.

Ok, they might not be 100% accurate, and tend to lack the blood, veins, gristle, skin, fat and bones of authentic meat products, but I think most people can live without those, if not even actively want to avoid some of that.
It looks like cachedir yanked version 0.1.1. This is usually only done when a very serious issue is discovered, though I don't know what the reason is in this case.

https://crates.io/crates/cachedir
Only so far as it would occur naturally, assuming their vat simulates reality sufficiently
That kind of caching is an interesting solution to incrementally building a database instead of spending hours up-front indexing. So the tool is ready for immediate use. Quite nifty :-)
It really has. Google Play Music integrated so well with everything. YT Music has the massive advantage that there is so much more music on YouTube but damn, the integration is shambolic.
I don't think they even have full saturation in their pilot cities and only see one city added in the last year. Considering Google's tendency to cut projects below a certain size as much I'd love to be a Google fiber customer it's more realistic to expect it to be killed in the next year or two.
Although what you say makes sense, which is the respective GDPR rule? I don’t recall seeing something like this.
> It's not a massive change, but it's changing and ads are at the lowest percentage of overall revenue they've ever been.

"More diversified than it's ever been" can be factually true here, but for the purposes of this discussion was highly inaccurate.