jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
No question that Apple's quality has gone done. However, who's has gone up? Or better yet: Who is actually building quality software systems?
Comparing only in the same problem domains as Apple:
All of my Android devices have been rife with equivalently bad issues. Windows? Different quality issues, but just as bad. Google web systems? Same case. Better in some aspects, worse in others.
Perhaps I'm old and jaded. Still, seems like we've reached a point in software development where building quality systems is not possible with existing methodologies. Where some problems, while we are able to develop 90% solutions, the last 10% might as well be impossible.
The even more jaded part of me wonders: Does it even matter?
If there is a waveguide involved why does the headline talk about photons in free space? Photons in waveguides are not in free space.

The title should be corrected to something truthful, like "Photons in waveguide-like configuration travel slower than light due to self-interference, as predicted".

Anything else is deliberately, willfully, misleading click-bait (I am a physicist and clicked on the comments specifically to avoid clicking on a click-bait headline I knew was almost certainly a lie.)
Two suggestions:

1. Use placeholder= to show sample text

2. Explicitly request certain details
Even though I agree with the author in terms of moral hypocrisy, what is the better alternative for the existing system?

Of course, we can suggest many alternatives. But the implementation requires the buy in from the people who have loads of money. Then, this boils down to the personal preference of capitalist or the moneyed interests.

Isn't it (one's personal preference, that is) the same as people of the same kind club together. Like alumni clubs of elite schools; paypal alumni; friends of the big money and power. How can one destroy such networks? Even some hypothetical system destroys such networks, such a hypothetical system ends up setting up another network: think of the polit bureau of the Chinese community party. These politburo members own various industries in China.
You could distribute it as a single index.html file, with unobfuscated/unminimized vanilla javascript. The user could then execute it offline no problem.
I've thought about this problem as a start up idea

The thing is, it's trivial to come up with fake card details. Stupidly trivial.

And the more intensive your verification, the lower your conversion rate from click to sale...

So the idea would have to be something like validating valid ID before the sale happens, since validating a real form of identification can take days in some cases.

Maybe you could become a household name in anti-scalping and get people to sign up before they ever buy something from a specific retailer, then provide an API retailers can use to verify a "real person" was registered on your site with a given set of info.

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The problem is convincing a retailer to let you get hooks in their checkout system for this. At the end of the day demand is so high for these things even taking dissatisfaction into account it really isn't costing the retailer anything at all...

If anything it's just driving demand even higher as it attracts speculators who otherwise wouldn't be interested...
There's also lazygit[1], which is written in Go.

[1] https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
My wipers come on automatically in my Tesla

Also I can control them from the wheel. IMO they should be able to be controlled by the wheel in all vehicles, though I know that is not currently the case.
The models we simulate from will probably be politically charged. However, economics itself is highly political, you could at least possibly see the biases and assumptions in the models.

This would probably be the way.
There was a rumor floating around that Apple was going to stick the reader behind the screen. Having both would be really awesome.
I feel like this phenomena really can only happen in 'first-world' countries like America -- in fact, maybe it's almost a uniquely American thing driven by our culture of optimism... combined with the need to look trendy, which doesn't really have any geographical boundaries.
The SEC is empowered by law to stop any stock from trading for 10 days if it believes that doing so is in the public interest.
In the age of Ad Block, I say a return of $50 every 6 months or per video tutorial is good if not remarkable.
Other good reasons to move away from Ubuntu:

* They show you ads on login

* They periodically phone home with: Ubuntu version, kernel version, architecture, CPU model, curl/wget version, cloud (if applicable; aws/openstack/...). This is part of the delivery system of the ads mentioned above. See /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news for the actual script.
I’d expect something on the order of half of people are probably down for 80% pay for a four day work week (I’d guess the majority of folks making at least 125% of their area median income plus a smattering of others). At that point it’s trading 20% of pay that will leave you still comfortable in return for an extra 50% of free days. That’s a huge amount of extra life in your own terms.
So you literally cannot boot an M1 Mac with a nonfunctional internal drive, even if you’re successfully ’booting’ from an external drive before it fails? The SSD is integral to its functioning?
Wow!!

Really impressive work - in seconds, I see so much both richness of ideas and potential!

And, as is so often the case, the really interesting work happens on the intersection of two fields - neural nets and cellular automata here. I've got tons of new reading to do now!

Any plans to extend it to generation in 3D space?
I'm not talking about "a diet" but diet, as in what one eats throughout the day, week, year. What is needed is not a diet, but an absolute change in lifestyle. It will not simply change the way your plate looks and how much is on it, but how your life looks.

This is a big commitment and people have a tendency to quit when one single thing fails. The key is not willpower, it is persistence. It took me years to get to a point where I felt in control of my weight. It wasn't easy and I did many stupid things but I just kept on going on.

A big part of it is not seeing a lack of progress in scale weight or body composition as a personal failure but as valuable feedback or just an "oopsie".
> Adding new languages is already supported.

This is true only to a degree: Adding new procedural languages is supported, but support for new query dialects (i.e. the main contact surface of most applications with an SQL RDBMS) is not currently a supported feature.

As mentioned in the psql-hackers thread from the article, currently the postgresql-specific parsed syntax tree is passed through many components, and to replace the syntax you'd have to alter and recompile the core application.
Diffusion is precisely why open-air filters (filters that draw in a portion of the air and filter it) work!

The Dyson filter is an open-air filter, that draws a small sample of the air through a filter, and passes the rest through unfiltered.

Each pass reduces the average (diffused) load of contaminants.

Two identically effective filters with different flow rates will eventually achieve a specified target diffused contaminant load in the air in the space; the only difference will be the time taken to achieve this (given a fixed initial contaminant load).

This should be clear...
The question I have is what's in it for Microsoft, why did they even bother to do this in the first place? I can't believe there would be that big of a cash incentive.
This work has led to some unfortunate misconceptions.

In particular, this weakness has nothing to do with Computer Vision and also nothing to do with deep learning. They only break ConvNets on images because images are fun to look at and ConvNets are state of the art. But at its core, the weakness is related to use of linear functions. In fact, you can break a simple linear classifier (e.g. Softmax Classifier or Logistic Regression) in just the same way. And you could similarly break speech recognition systems, etc. I covered this in CS231n in "Visualizing/Understanding ConvNets" lecture, slides around #50 (http://vision.stanford.edu/teaching/cs231n/slides/lecture8.p...).

The way I like to think about this is that for any input (e.g. an image), imagine there are billion tiny noise patterns you could add to the input. The vast majority in hundreds of billions are harmless and don't change the classifications, but given the weights of the network, backpropagation allows us to efficiently compute (with dynamic programming, basically) exactly the single most damaging noise pattern out of all billions.

All that being said, this is a concern and people are working on fixing it.
This. The craziness of "he set of the detection machine but it's clearly a false-positive, but now that he's on our radar let's grill him in case he just happens to be a terrorist" should be obvious to anyone.
> The question is, when?

Easy. When the bubble pops.
And other people do agree with you.

For eg. In Perl there is big momentum behind Padre (http://padre.perlide.org/) and there are similar projects in Python (quick google shows Leo & Pyk).
Have a look at Redcar: http://github.com/danlucraft/redcar

Also try Textmate. Can't be extended (directly) with Ruby but it does rely heavily on Unix shell for lots of its stuff (usually Ruby scripts).
It really depends on location. At my uni, most of everything is pay with cash, all the shops are close to an ATM so it really isn't a big deal and can help move things along if there are a lot of people around.

Other stores though it is frustrating, the thing that frustrates me the most is news agents with a $10 minimum when a newspaper is probably less than $2 and the average magazine comes in under to. I've offered to pay $10 for a $8 magazine before to avoid the hassle just to be told that they won't let me so I have to buy something I don't want to make the $10.

I understand the transaction fee problem, but I think the goodwill you get by allowing pay by card no matter how small the purchase offsets this.
Got a link proving that it's profitable?

Last time I looked into this there was much confusion about posting a small yearly profit (which they've done for the last few years) and actually having a positive return on the umpteen billion dollar investment they've made.

Various figures I looked at then (maybe 6 months ago) suggested they were still 1-10 Billion in the hole overall with some hope that they'd break even after this generation, though obviously the model they've followed means another giant investment at the beginning of the next round of the console war.
Joshua (of delicious) and Jimbo (of Wikipedia) both have ibanking backgrounds as well I believe.
I highly doubt anybody is going to check if a project that has that box checked actually incorporate encryption.
The data is not clear about that. If I had taken this survey, my response to the following question would make you think that this was my first functional language, when in fact I have been exploring exotic languages for about five years.

"What language did you use just prior to adopting Clojure – or, if Clojure is not your primary language now, what is that primary language?"

Clojure is my favorite language right now and, if I had taken the survey, I would have answered "Java" because that is what I use for most of the day at my job. However, I have also used almost every language on that pie chart (except for Ada and C#) and would prefer almost any of those over Java (except for C, C++, and C#) if other people were not involved in the choice of my primary language.

Fortunately, I have successfully lobbied to have Clojure included in my workplace. I am very much enjoying the transition away from Java.
I have seen cases where news articles are written using the wikipedia article but not citing it and then the information in the original wikipedia article is citing using the news article that got the information from wikipedia in the first place.
Yes, the basic idea is that if a founder has, for example, 25% of the equity in the company but is subject to a 5 year vesting they just don't get the shares that would have vested after they leave. If they move on after 2 years, that is 15% of the company that is no longer outstanding equity and therefore everyone else's stakes (VCs, other founders, employees) are proportionately larger.

In the original AVC post he hints about this by talking about doing the right thing and accelerating the vesting in these scenarios, but that could obviously mean a lot of things in terms of actual amounts depending on the situation.
It took me a few minutes to figure out what was going on... silly me
You can't really tell for sure. The resulting binaries will depend heavily on deterministic factors such as the exact versions of build tools and build OS used, and may also depend on non-deterministic factors such as the order of execution of different threads in the build process affecting orderings in the resulting binaries.

With packages, the easiest way to eliminate doubt is to build the binary packages from the source packages yourself. This is relatively straightforward as source packages contain all the information needed (options etc) to make the build automation work.

You should also read Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html), which shows that even if the binaries were built from the exact source they claim, you still can't trust them unless you can also trust the toolchain and its entire ancestry.
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i386sx?
Though some of the damage born around 1921 was self-inflicted.
I think capitalism will kill artificial intelligence. Just look in boardrooms and classrooms and senates across the world and see what it's done to the real thing.
Apple Watch does not run iOS apps (at the moment). https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...:

"Apple Watch requires the presence of an iPhone to run third-party apps. Creation of a third-party app requires two separate bundles: a WatchKit app that runs on Apple Watch and a WatchKit extension that runs on the user’s iPhone. The WatchKit app contains only the storyboards and resource files associated with your app’s user interface. The WatchKit extension contains the code for managing the WatchKit app’s user interface and for responding to user interactions."

On the other hand, the 5000 is a bit inflated. It is more like 1000 apps and 4000 watch faces.

And of course, the race is still very much on. I would think sales numbers will be more important than app counts because they will drive app counts up. In that sense, the "over 400.000 sold" (http://fortune.com/2014/03/20/pebble-sold-400000-smartwatche...) from last march is better news for Pebble than that 1000 apps.
Throwing out the opposite perspective, I carry a keychain Squirt, and while it has a knife it isn't a terribly good one for anything that requires a sharp blade. So I carry a Spyderco Dragonfly as well.

But I honestly think this is aimed more at the crowd who would carry this:

http://www.leatherman.com/25.html#start=1

...which is the travel-compliant bladeless Leatherman.
That's actually a very interesting question. Evolution means that out of all states that stem from the current one, the optimal one tends to endure, so the "best of all possible worlds" is indeed a pretty good way of phrasing it, if a little vague.

Staying fertile till we drop dead would be sub-optimal because germline stem cells (the "factories" that produce sperm and eggs) accumulate mutations as we age. Those mutations are useful as one of many mechanisms of evolution, but they must only occur in reasonable amounts, as they also increase the probability of nonviable offspring.

In short, protecting genetic information while still allowing evolution is a hard problem. This problem is not solved in exactly the same way by different organisms, and occurs on different time-scales.
>The only difference is now you're on the side of the old guard.

The old guard of self-published independent music creators who distribute their work on multiple digital platforms in order to fully engage with their audience? The likes of which were only made possible by YouTube in the first place?

So that means Google is part of the new guard of controlling and demanding music distributors who lock the artist into a long term contract on their own terms, or the artist can't use their distribution channels in an effort to lock out the distributor's competitors at the expense of the artist.

Yeah, you certainly got that one right...
That is a very bleak, and, if I may say so, quite sexist world view. Or I guess I should count myself lucky that in my work/social environments, people don't base their respect of other people on gender, but on behaviour and attitude.

Also, I don't necessarily see vigilance against a potential attacker as wrongheaded. I see it as sensible, you're hedging against a very-low-probability but very-dire-consequence risk. No matter how close we come to complete gender equality, there will always be mentally disturbed persons who will attack people weaker than them. (Note that I am not saying that most assailants or rapists have mental disorders, it seems the research says only ~ 10% do.)
She is beyond doubt pretentious and pedantic. She is also brilliant and can wield words in a way others wield deadly weapons in a theatre of war. You might have trouble listening to her say it, but it's almost always worth listening to what she says and how she says it.

Also, it's been a long time since I've seen science fiction and sci-fi jumbled together as a single genre.
Those windows are not normal. As far as I know, front windows always stay together when they break, and side windows scatter to little pieces.

I understand why you would make the front window super strong. But the side windows, why can't they not scatter like in all the other cars?
I agree with your points, but I admit I also suffer confusion regarding climate change. I agree it's real, I'm willing to do some things about it, but I'm not willing to go crazy.

I look at https://co2.myclimate.org/en/portfolios?calculation_id=29330...

and I see that 8.4 t CO2 is about average for EU citizens and rough estimate would cost easily less than $300 USD per citizen, sorry for mixing regional numbers.

If this is accurate, then it seems the cost of doing eliminating CO2 globally equals around 6billion people * $300. $1.8 trillion dollars, that feels like an absurdly low number.
The only time I have used recover in production code is in the rollback path of a highly concurrent transaction manager.
>where an ICE has a pretty fixed resistance.

That's what the gearbox is for
No you would put the results of keyword spotting in one though.
I was actually wondering about how that car is allowed on the road considering it looks like it would slice anyone it hit in two.

I wasn't aware the US didn't have regulations for that.
Still a dev after 4.5 years. I don't really know what i want to do, and dev work pays pretty well for not having a lot of hours. I'm also improving a lot over the past year, so I'm going to keep saving money and keep at it until I reach a level where I can "always" fall back on it.

I think maybe a technical sales role could be good. Can interact with people more (I'm social and don't totally look like a developer).
I don't know if its a legal requirement, but every car with passenger airbags I've ridden in over the last five years at least has had the ability to disable the passenger airbag, and clear warnings that you should do so if a child is in the front seat.
Pendulum is better
Yeah I don't think the argument was ever that if you're in the top 10% (or whatever) of society economically you'll get more in the US than in Europe (or anywhere else). In Europe everyone is squeezed more towards the middle - less risk and less reward.

The point is that I want to live in a more egalitarian society even if that means I personally have to pay higher taxes (relative to what I get back in social services).

But also I think you may overestimate how secure your position is - people get sick in a way that means they can't work for a while (or at all), or are limited in how much they can work. I also never thought it would happen to me but when I was in my mid 30s with no history of serious illness or any health issues I was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. I had to get operated to remove it pretty much instantly and was not able to work for months afterwards. For as long as 6 months after the operation I was only working very part time, and this is for a more or less best case scenario with cancer - it was caught early & I didn't need chemotherapy or radiation therapy. If I was less fortunate I may have been unable to work for a year+ afterwards and may have never 100% fully recovered.

And this is not the only way your fortunes can change, you can get hit by a bus, get injured in a burglary, get drunk one night and slip and fall. All of these can more or less random events can result in you continuing to live but without the ability to command as high a wage afterwards. I personally know people (software engineers even) that experienced stuff like that, or even seemingly less severe issues (burn out, depression) that still meant they were no longer at the top of society economically like they were used to.

I want to reiterate that I'm not trying to convince you you are "wrong" - maybe your personal risk/reward tolerance is such that where you are makes more sense for you. I'm an immigrant here and could have immigrated to the US instead of to Europe if I wanted to (I'm Israeli so had no particular advantage that would have made it easier to go to Europe than to America).
I think the answer is yes. But why should this be framed as farmers?

I think everyone should have hte right to repair their own equipment. I think that right should be extended to rental and leased equipment too.
Can completely understand. We support both YAML and JSON. This isn’t documented that well, so we can add a section in the docs on that.
> Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) cited its “complete authority over ERCOT” to direct that ERCOT set pricing at $9/kWh until the grid could manage the outage situation after being ravaged by the freezing winter storm.

from: https://www.griddy.com/post/griddy-update-why-energy-prices-...

Prices should have fallen and did not.
I agree with the sentiment of “yes”. But I think the title/question reflects reality:

>But these days it’s dealerships — via sales and service agreements with manufacturers — that have legal access to these diagnostic tools. So when an error message pops up, farmers and independent mechanics are out in the cold, sometimes literally.
Duo video and audio calling for me have been the best for repliability and latency comparing it vs zoom and others. The ML techniques they use to fill blanks + use of AV1 are really great.