skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fun part about this is, forced labour for men remained legal until 1957’s UN treaty. Forced labour was abolished by the ILO treaty of 1930 but had a specific exclusion at Article 11, to exclude men 17-to-49 who didn’t have official or familial responsibilities.

ILO 1930 PDF: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangk...
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I think in the long run, maintaining a productivity pace is more about habits and space and less about specific tricks.

For me, I do almost the same things every day: waking at the same hour most of the time (around 06:00 or 06:30), drinking a cup of coffee while planning the day.

I also do my work mostly in the same space in the house, at my desk: when I sit in the chair, I immediately start working. It helps a lot to have an excellent and curated todo list, action-oriented so that I can start working directly without too much time to think about other things.

Some other small things I do:

1. I use one account on my Mac for work and another one for personal/leisure.

2. I mostly use the computer for work. I don't play games on it, and I almost don't use social media on the computer (for this and for other things like reading books or posts, I mostly use an iPad).

3. I use a Pomodoro app to start working. I just open it when I sit on the chair and add the first task I want to focus on. But after 1/2 pomodoros, I drift off it and continue focusing.

4. It also helps me put on my headphones even if sometimes I don't listen to the music. But I think this is a habit of focusing from when I was working years ago in an open-space or in coffee shops.

5. I use multiple keyboards some days: I have three external keyboards on my desk, and when I feel I am losing focus and I need to maintain it, I change the keyboard. It gives me a similar feeling like using a good pen to draw something or to write a good text on a piece of paper and just want to continue using it :)
> Isn't multi-armed bandit a simple reinforcement learning algo

It is indeed.

Its a restricted form of it. In RL one can allow a state change after an action which in turn can make the same 'arms'|'actions' behave differently because their behavior is tied to the state. The state one lands in can also exercise control over which state you end up next. Its for this reason some extra book keeping is necessary for full-fledged RL. But you are absolutely right that bandits are considered a simplified version of RL. By controlling the size of the state space one can control how bandit like the solution will behave.

There is also something called a contextual bandit that sits between pure bandits and RL. CBs do not have state change, but they do have access to a side information that can affect the 'arms'. In RL one needs to think not only about the reward but also about the possibility of ending up in a 'dead-end| hard-to-recover-from' state because the immediate reward was high. CBs do not have such 'traps' but have more modeling power because the reward of an arm can depend on this side-information, usually called context.

The heat that you are getting from some comments is unwarranted.

EDIT: Holy mother of monkey milk you have a ton of super interesting interviews ! Glad I ran into your content. Better late than never.
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Dammit I'm old. I'm sorry if I do the old man barking at clouds.

But.

How's different or better than this 9$ smartphone mount?
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All this compromises and costs just for a slightly bigger screen? While I'm driving?
I'm curious if this is to address the current potential of a large shift of users moving to different brokerages and to keep Robinhood afloat until IPO in which it will have to fend for itself. I've seen a large sentiment online, and in public spaces expressing how angry the consumer is about RH restricting trading.
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Yeah, if you’re sick or near sick people, it’s probably a good idea. It’s standard practice in Asia.

Here’s a Taiwanese children’s show from three years ago encouraging mask wearing: https://youtu.be/qXaD871hXnc?t=18s
I absolutely think the self-hosting story definitely only works for the widespread world if those of us capable of self-hosting provide services to less-technical users we know.
> if new variants escape inoculation by the vaccine

Do they? I've looked for information on this, but haven't found it. Do existing vaccines protect against the new variant from the UK?
Microsoft's Java implementation that got them sued was J++. As part of the settlement, they weren't allowed to add any new features to it, and it quietly faded into obscurity, along with its CLR counterpart J#, the latter having finally left even extended support in 2017.

C# was developed independently of J++ and J# (though J# was based on J++ to provide a transition path for J++ developers), and although Anders Hejlsberg (original lead architect of C#) did also work on J++, he also worked on Turbo Pascal and Delphi before coming to Microsoft, and I'd suspect that those influenced C# more (more conceptually than syntactically, of course).
One redditor has made (at least if he gets out now) somewhere around $50m. It’s highly likely this redditor is one of the biggest winners from the WSB crowd.

Melvin is down $5,000m.

Who do you suppose accounts for most of the remaining $4,950m in Melvin’s losses?
Could you have use a DMCA request if they used copyrighted content?
YouTube presumably does what they do because they'd otherwise be sued by very large companies with lots of lawyers and money. (Whether or not those suits had any merit, they still take resources and are an effective threat.)

Apple is not in the same position: the businesses who would sue them to try to force them to enforce their copyright are much much smaller than it (and are additionally very reliant on Apple).
Yeah imagine of the evil of asking money from customers for work done or service provided. Never heard such thing in human history.
Only 10% of people with positive test results have "long term" health effects >= 3 weeks? Does that seem frighteningly out of the ordinary compared to other diseases?

When I had the flu or pneumonia in the past I could still feel effects over a month later.
And sure, New York Post isn't where I would typically get financial news from. However, most of the financial news sources had silver high on their page this morning. Its still the headline story on Bloomberg.
Since 9 there's pg_upgrade, personally I never had an issue and it was very fast, so the downtime is in the order of a few minutes, which is ok for my usecase. YMMV.
Excellent there you go.

Is there a way to just do the index build part, short of dropping an index and adding it back?
A large proportion of these "wild" animals are actually farmed.

https://m.dw.com/en/biodiversity-wet-markets-life-animals-co...
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This does not sound like they are saying the language itself is bad for the users.

It sounds more like they are saying it’s a nightmare for the creators of the language to maintain.
I worked with mainframes long ago, for about a year.

When it came to JCL, the advice I got and what everyone I worked with did, was to copy working JCL and modify it. I never wrote it from scratch, nor did I know anyone who did.
I often hear of lawyers turned developers. Anyone gone from developer to lawyer?
This isn't nearly as much of an issue as it used to be. People complain about google grabbing more control over android by cutting manufacturers off from play services, but they needed to get their asses kicked in a lot of cases.
Comets, Not Moons
The stocks(GME) are still limited/restricted btw
Typhoons in Korea amplified wildfires in America
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So is mine. The point here is that it won't be 1-2 years from now when it gets abandoned just like every other Android device.

Considering that the lifecycle of the average Ford is many years longer than that of any mobile device, this is clearly going to be problematic.
People still use Bank of America and Wells Fargo despite the incredibly customer-hostile things they've done in the past. I will not be surprised if Robinhood weathers this pretty well after a short term hit.
Work is hell. And hell is other people. Work is people. People are hell.
My 2016 focus did get some updates, but on the other hand it wasn't connected to the internet so in terms of risk it wasn't nearly as much of an issue
This was just reported today.

> Researchers don’t understand exactly how the disease might trigger Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, or whether the cases are temporary or permanent. But 14 percent of those with severe covid-19 developed a form of the disorder, one analysis found.

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I used to pair the Microsoft SYNC system with my Windows phone in my Ford Fiesta and it was awesome. It would link immediately, the voice commands were straight forward and always worked quickly and accurately.

I barely use the voice commands in my Corolla right now. It almost never works, takes forever to sync with my phone (Samsung Android) and the voice commands are total shit. It either doesn't understand me or the commands are so cumbersome just do something basic, its a waste of time compared to just grabbing my phone and pushing a few buttons. Compared the SYNC where I could say, "Call parents, home." and it just worked.
This is a fascinating game to watch. I watched The Big Short yesterday for the first time, as it's trending on Netflix and was suggested, and this moment feels similar to exposing a weakness in the system that needs to be addressed - and hopefully not to strengthen the wrong position; I didn't realize the incredible actors cast for it, obviously they took on the roles as it's an incredibly important story for the general public to be educated about, to understand.

Feels like a good day to watch The Wolf of Wall Sreet.
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I don't. They played themselves.
Someone put forth the example of polio. It was endemic but not epidemic till the rise of cities facilitated transmission.
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My car came with a built-in GPS system, with integration into a smaller screen visible right on the dashboard, so I don't need to turn my head to look at the might screen to see the estimated distance remaining to an upcoming turn.

This GPS system is pretty terrible compared to google maps. It does nominally have voice recognition to allow setting it eyes free, and disables most of the physical buttons when the car is in motion to "comply" with anti-distraction laws.

However, the voice recognition system is so shitty, it would literally be safer to lock it out when moving, and enable all touchscreen features instead. Think have to spell the destination out one letter at at time, with an 80% chance it even understands the letter right in the first place.

Using google map's voice recognition system is orders of magnitude better and less distracting.

Plus user's can access their preferred non-radio music sources like Spotify.
"The Other Side" was fighting on four fronts at their borders, and had supply lines a thousand miles long on ground, with maybe a quarter of the material and manpower.

If you know anything about logistics you'd conclude that the latter had a much harder logistical challenge, especially since the Axis didn't have much of an Atlantic Navy.

The issue of a US v China confrontation is that this won't repeat. The US will not be able to go unopposed in the seas, and it will have to supply with non-naval means.

Also, it's worth remembering that in the case you're talking about, the US against the Axis in Europe, the US was not a major or deciding force, which is a major part of why it was able to afford such extended supply lines. In an alternative scenario where the rest of the Allies were so weak as that the US was the dominant power in the conflict, maintaining those supply lines would have been incredibly difficult.
Oh wow, Prodigy looks amazing. I need a tool for audio annotation, and looks like you guys built just the right thing for me.

Please invest more in SEO; I didn't find you guys two weeks ago when I researched different options for audio annotation :D.
I'm trying to understand why dependent types can't represent linearity since you can model Nat at type level in dependent types. Dependent types can do capability modeling at the type level and linearity (or affinity) seems like a capability. From this thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/20k4ei/do_dependen...) it seems like it can be done. I'm looking for something more formal to explain the orthogonality (or simulatability) of linear types inside a dependent type system.
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It is quite awkward that the output of "working" and "completely broken" alerting systems have the same visible effect -- no alerts.

For Prometheus users, I wrote alertmanager-status to let a third-party "website up?" monitoring server check your alertmanager: https://github.com/jrockway/alertmanager-status

(I also wrote one of the main Google Fiber monitoring systems back when I was at Google. We spent quite a bit of time on monitoring monitoring, because whenever there was an actual incident people would ask us "is this real, or just the monitoring system being down?" Previous monitoring systems were flaky so people were kind of conditioned to ignore the improved system -- so we had to have a lot of dashboards to show them that there was really an ongoing issue.)
Agreed, especially with the addition of wireless CarPlay/Android Auto AND wireless charging.
There's also the poor man's version of this where you pull your debugging symbols out to a card edge. Have done that on several design and it worked well. You get to play with what you want on the connector for the design typically, so have thrown ethernet MII on there in addition JTAG and UART.
That works right up until it doesn't. For example, if you have two interacting places where the compiler has guessed what to do, maybe the compiler resolves the interaction in the wrong way. It's the same problem that arises if you don't commit after merging into a Git repository (which, by the way, is possible but takes explicit opt-in): it keeps on working fine up until two previous merges conflict with each other.

I much prefer Rust's approach, which is to fail out but also make it extremely easy to apply the fix the compiler has guessed.
I self-host via a 1T SD card in my phone (encrypted). Why pull from/risk "the cloud" when I can have my stuff on me in the first place?
>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01843566

Many seem to have had the same reaction as you! ;)
No, the evil of pretending to be open source and pro community, but only really caring about $£€.
People like you and I didn't decide that it was what we wanted. We just have no other options, because the companies which impose the terms aggressively snuff out or buy up their competition.

I would argue that people are accepting these terms under duress; "consent" is the wrong word.

The market believes that Facebook et al will be able to continue enforcing their will unilaterally, and that is good for the companies, so their stocks go up.
It's what I like about the movie. I grew up with classic Looney Tunes and Cartoon Network cartoons. The humor is often nonsensical in the same way.
> Another great resource there is Twitter: following distributed systems practitioners and researchers, and seeing what they tweet about.

What's your twitter handle?
Prefacing that I am not a philosopher, but I think that hermeneutics would reject the idea that "real" and "reality" can exist outside of the interpretation that people have of something that has happened. To an extent, real and reality is the same and one with its interpretation. You get into these weird spots where two people could experience the same event, interpret it in different ways, leading up to two different "realities" of the event. I don't know enough to know how this would be reconciled within hermeneutic epistemology, but that's something interesting to keep in mind.
"There are a few people currently working on NAS boards based on the CM4."

I continue to appreciate the time and attention you are paying to these new boards on your blog and in your comments here at HN - thank you.

I am having trouble sourcing maxed out CM4 parts - that is, 8 GB ram and 32 GB onboard storage[1]. They are either sold out until August or October or something silly like that or they are only available in 200+ quantity.

Do you have any suggestions as to where I could source those ?

[1] CM4008032, I think ...
do i get a consent screen if i don't have an account
Microsoft's Bing ready to step in if Google pulls search from Australia
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Not sure about these extremes. I was a working class student in the UK and most of my fellow students still managed to party pretty hard, just efficiently (Sainsbury's Basics Vodka + Blue Bolt, M-Cat, drink deals at the SU and other horrific student nights).
Quant finance: G-Research (my employer).