skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain a little more about what you're trying to simulate and why you chose the model that you did?

Also... did you consider using known sound change processes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_change
Wouldn't it be great if after a few more successful launches and recoveries they just come out and say they've been re-using the rockets all along.
> I've been running somewhat sadistic live experiments over the last years. The results show that loosely-organized groups of "average" people will systematically beat tightly-coupled teams of "brilliant" people, when solving the same problems, on the same playing field. We have done twin studies: take the same software DNA, fork it, and raise in two opposed environments. The outcome is dramatically clear. The crowd beats the genius. Not just once either. It happens over and over.

I'd like to know more about this. Has he written about these experiments elsewhere?
This is just a link to the book 1984, which apart from presumably being a copyright violation, isn't exactly something to build a forum discussion around. Flagged.
Ask HN: Much cheaper computing power – what would you implement?
Imagine that you have any amount of computing power much cheaper than from current providers. What would you implement having that possibilities?
They fight like hell to avoid doing maintenance for the same reason any low-margin business avoids doing anything that isn't absolutely necessary: to protect their slim profit margins. They are not taking a "loss" on maintenance; maintenance is one of many costs of doing business and one slummier landlords try to minimize as much as they can get away with.

There is no fallacy here. For all maintenance done, either the renters cover the costs of the maintenance or the landlord loses money on the property. Trying to avoid performing the maintenance in the first place doesn't change that.
If you have a sufficiently high DPI screen this is definitely the best option.

Font hinting and anti-aliasing is only useful because people have giant ~70-100 dpi screens which look awful without it. On mobile where you have 300-400 DPI it's no issue. Even with 4k desktop monitors with ~200 DPI it seems much less necessary.
These stories are spread by Erdogan, IMO I find the 'Erdogan staged everything' conspiracy much more believable.
Bringing back democracy by sacking thousands of judges.
Another fancy bug website for the list! https://github.com/KeenRivals/Bugsite-Index
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I had to install software (GWX) and keep it updated in order to prevent Microsoft from trying to trick me into installing Windows 10 and nagging me every 10 minutes to "upgrade".

Perhaps not malware, but not a huge leap away from it.
Actually in my experience, leaving Wifi on saves the battery, compared to telco network. Wifi seems to be more power-efficient than 3G or LTE.

Of course, if you want a week on the battery, you must have data off, both wifi and mobile.
Brilliant, now whenever I criticize him online I will instantly lose as per Godwin's law. Well played, well played.
The trouble is this encourages a tendency to assume that whoever is has executive power today is the legitimate representative of democracy so long as they once won an election.

Now from what little I know of Turkey, I think Erdogan does have a good democratic case behind him, since he seem popular and won a recent election. But it also really does count against him if he roughshod of the machinery (such as a free press) that makes democracy work.

I don't know enough about Turkey to balance those two things, so I am not willing to stand on any side in this dispute.
If the linked page is too long for you (seeeveeen paaageeees! OMG WTF TLDR!), here's a choice quote: "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." This, I think, is the core idea of 1984.

But seriously, go read the linked essay: it's even more applicable now than when it was written, 70 years ago. 1984 is, in this regard, a lengthier version of this (okay, this claim is not entirely serious).
I was really looking forward to letting my daughter (and wife, who was interested) in using this.

Then I realised it won't work on their iPad (4th Gen with Retina) - which runs everything fine, and there's no need to uprade it.

So there we go - they won't be using this.
> or any console produced by Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft

I suspect that'll change. Sony and Microsoft are both using more or less standard AMD GPUs, and game (engine) developers will demand it.
Apparently Arm's Founder isn't particularly into it:

"ARM is the proudest achievement of my life. The proposed sale to SoftBank is a sad day for me and for technology in Britain."

https://twitter.com/hermannhauser/status/755008815553273858
It's public domain in Canada.
My coworker's home machine upgraded itself to Windows 10 without his consent, and afterwards he couldn't reliably connect to the internet, or do a few other things that he previously could. He eventually restored the machine back to Windows 7 to get it working again. Sounds like "damage" to me.
It would be interesting if the words from the different islands came from existing languages, for instance (and for myself) I would put French, Portuguese and English, to have the ability to understand how they get mixed
Can I write DOS code in D?
Ecosystem: a complex network or interconnected system.
If only Apple would update them! Grrr! waitingforshellingoutcash
> If someone submits a bunch of code, and the only kind of comment on it they get is "there's no newline before this 'continue' statement",

Oh, far from it. "Newline before `continue'" was raised because project's code
guidelines clearly required it. And there were other things, like not using
a callback function to .foreach() method for something that could be done in
place with `foreach' loop. This was commented as "great, more unnecessary
work". Not an attitude of somebody who wants to learn.

Have you actually read the review comments?

> The whole interaction could have gone very differently if someone had thought to include a simple "thank you" in the comments.

Well, the "thank you" comment should clearly be said by the Indian guy.
Somebody took the effort to teach him in a setting that from the beginning was
exactly this: a person learning from a more experienced one.

> As it stands, this is just pointless and counterproductive hazing of a new contributor.

No. As it stands, it's teaching somebody who came to learn. I remind you
again, it's GSoC.
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I wish the language the best, but I find it a bit confusing to call it Perl 6. It is basically a new language, something different than Perl (5).
The copyright status of 1984 varies around the world. It is in the public domain in some major English-speaking countries like Canada and Australia [1].

For that reason, I don't think HN should take down the link due to copyright alone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Copyright...
Hackers, sure … we know the real reason is he doesn't get to procrastinate on the internet.
It was a real warning, well a bit fantastical but more in the form of satire. He could see where it was going.
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Yeah. But the really interesting thing for me was seeing that when Curl originally fixed it in 2001, they admitted the fix might not work for "Windows NT" (where environment variables are case-insensitive).

From our testing, we could get getenv in mod_php to return HTTP_PROXY when you ask for getenv('http_proxy') (seems to happen in the apr stuff?) - but that didn't affect PHP's libcurl extension, which made it a whole lot less interesting.

But yeah, if you're running curl itself under CGI with case-insensitive env vars you might still be in trouble.
That's a pointless metric to use for affordability, because that $300 difference is purely inflation. It has absolutely nothing to do with Apple making their products cheaper.
That's 8 years for F9, and 9 years for the Shuttle.

I wouldn't call 1 year faster unprecedented. The Apollo program was unprecedented. It took only 8 years to put a man on the moon, from putting a man in space.
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Disagree, on both counts. 1984 is in the public domain in several countries, and it is more relevant than ever. Shoutout to anyone else here working in advertising analytics :p
>I'd say £32k is beyond taking the piss for someone with a CS undergraduate degree and having to live in Cambridge

Whilst it's not giant it's not super low either. I'd be surprised if you could find that many tech (that is not banking/consultancy) companies in Cambridge (or indeed London) offering signficantly more than that. There's also things like Bonus, Share Scheme and pension (private health insurance too but that's a pretty common perk) that needs to be brought in the comparison.
Far from being a "parody". It was written as a warning.

It seems that quite a few governments in various countries appear to think it was a manual.
The issue with Chrome extensions, just like with android apps, is that people never check the permissions and just click OK.

Extensions make it even easier to install them, though, just need to redirect a user.

I've also come upon some spam sites that try to get you to install extensions with annoying alerts that prevent you from closing the page, playing a recorded message "To close the page, just install the XX extension".

The only remedy is good screening in the app stores. Actually, for apps/extensions installed from the official repository, I would be OK with remote removal. This would probably spark an outcry from certain parties, but as long as it does not extend to manually installed extensions it's acceptable to me.
I've played with ReactMotion, but I was under the impression that it was only for styles, not for arbitrary component attributes.

In the Readme they say the `style` property is required, and they also don't show any examples of animating something other than style.
The data's being collected regardless of whether they use it to target ads at you, the risk profile doesn't change at all.
The specific case was the fork of ZeroMQ in 2011 to create Crossroads.io, in which the two dominant contributors took the project and created a head-on competitor. They used their own preferred process. The ZeroMQ project switched to a community-driven process (C4). Crossroads died after a short while. It then spawned Nanomsg, which tried again to beat the ZeroMQ community in this game. Again it failed. That spawned several dark forks, none of which has had any traction. I wrote about this in http://hintjens.com/blog:112.

I didn't provoke the fork, really, yet when it happened, it seemed like a perfect experiment. Same DNA, two different environments.
Any country with a large Muslim population will have negative views of America due to US support for Israel.

It really is that simple. Turkey has its cosmopolitan side, but numerically they don't match the Erdogan supporters, who in general skew towards the Islamist side.
I'd add automated tests to my build based on fuzzing and randomly generated simulated scenarios.
Hi, Sorry for the lack of explanation. it was a fun project. I wanted to simulate agents who talking and learning new words from themselves. Each island has 12 agents, and there are gates of islands for travelling between of them. In this way, the agents can spread their words to other islands.

Edit: I'm just replacing a vowel or const on a word for sound change. It may be better with natural sound change processes. I'll work on that. Thank you!
Theoretically every project is easier with AST manipulation due to being able to create a high level DSL that directly maps to your problem.

In practice, I think good DSLs are hard to make and so most projects never get the full benefit. I don't have any production lisp experience though(i'm a hobbyist lisper) so I could definitely be wrong there
> Wordstar was the product that invented the “what you see is what you get” notion later to be dubbed WYSIWYG

TECO Emacs was already as WYSIWYG than WordStar years previously, to say nothing of Bravo and other such PARC work from the early 1970s.

> It invented numerous features including overlays, later to develop into DLL’s.

Overlays date from at least the 1960s; Fred Brooks (I think? Unless it was Plauger?) famously lamented that the OS/360 linker had history's best overlay support, at exactly the moment that the advent of paged virtual memory made overlays obsolete.

WordStar's UI certainly was very influential.
Ugh, I cant imagine how unfuriating that must be! We are all one human race and we need each other.
Payload insurance won't like that very much.
Not in copyright anymore in several countries, including my own (Canada) [1]. Kind of interesting question about treatment of works on the internet with differing copyright laws across borders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Copyright...
How much oversight/transparency do we think we will see over the presumed coming trials of the 6000 arrested following the failed coup?
Thank you four your feedback. I'll work on that. Maybe I should remove Turkish specific characters.
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4ish years ago I had an old, unupdated netbook get infected with conduit extension, which spread through the sync mechanism to my newer laptops.
A bug that looks easy but is in fact hard is the worst case: low reputational payoff, but very high effort.

The first thought is that there ought to be an objective measure of the work done that can incentive contribution by accurately reflecting what someone has added to the community. On the other hand, measure lines of code added might have some unintended consequences...

It seems to me though that OP did appreciate the amount of effort involved, and presumably even more so because it was unglamorous work.

If all the community members understand that, then it seems to me the system is working to some extent. If peers are able to value the most useful contributions - that's what you are looking for, right?
I haven't finished reading the paper, but the use of the word 'inferior' early on caught my eye & tickled my spidey sense.

"The monotonic negative relationship between income and total time suggests online attention is an inferior good."

To my eyes, this seems to be drawing a causal conclusion, and implying a negative judgement. I might be mis-interpreting use of the word 'inferior' here, but later in the paper, references to inferior seem less sensational to me.

"we also observe “attention inferiority,” decline in the amount of online attention with higher income."

"We find further evidence for persistent attention inferiority, namely, that higher income households spend less total time online per week."

Those seem to say inferior == less, whereas the first one seems to suggest that the Internet is less valuable to higher income people. Am I off base?

"We are limited in our ability to draw conclusions about the total time spent online by a household across all devices, and we possess no information about which household member spent time on the PC in multi-dweller households."

So, they make a lot of noise about higher incomes spending less time online, and yet one possible explanation is that higher income families have more devices and spend time online simultaneously, whereas lower income families have to serialize their use.
I've used the d4 pattern, but I've referred to it as d3act, as in "dee-three-act".
Yes. So then the title is very misleading and should not be called D4.js.
"Are things better now? For most of us, life is easy. We are fed and pampered, kept healthy and alive. We left our planet with our new owners, and never looked back. Perhaps wild humans still roam there. Disease, conflict, poverty, hunger, waste: these are historical concepts, unknown to us moderns.

Does the immortality compensate for utter loss of self-determination? Did the Borg(s) save us from ourselves, or did they break the branch of human history? When they bred the predator out of us, did they raise us up, or condemn us to evolutionary death? It is unknowable."

In the Matrix movie there was an interesting moment when Cypher grew tired of all real world struggle and wanted to return into his cocoon, take the blue pill back and to enjoy relative comfort in the illusory world of the Matrix. Self-determination, obviously, didn't work for him.
So don't opt in to targeted ads. Google, Facebook, etc all provide ways for you to opt out completely.

Also, from what I can tell, the parent post is about a Google program that's opt-in rather than opt-out so it's not even on by default anyway, I can't see what's so bad about it.
There's hardly anything "natural" about human ecosystems, or human relationships for that matter.
tl;dr my friend's mac broke all macs suck
It gives you a continuously changing variable that you can use for whatever you want. The name style is confusing, because it isn't actually a style. In the very first example it's just displaying the changing value.
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Good luck democratically opposing someone who, after gaining power through democracy, begins stifling dissent in the media and the judiciary. If the Turkish people don't understand that this man is trying to create the machinery for autocracy, then they can't be saved.
So what is defined as good work? That reminds me of managers who say they only want the best. The best varies greatly from role to role and company to company.
>But sometimes that’s the work that needs to be done.

So pay me. Like you said - it's work - I expect to be paid for work and if you need it done or it's in your interest it gets done - pay someone to do it (or do it yourself).
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If you like this line of thinking, you will appreciate the recent book "The Seventh Sense" which looks at the upcoming world from the perspective of network science. I'm about halfway through and highly recommend it.
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Interesting idea, good luck.

Try placing the video higher up in the page, and also adding a voice over - it's more catchy than reading text.
Make a 32GB-ish partition and activate Windows 10 there. You might need to find something that can defrag at boot to relocate system files to make a big enough space... AOMEI offers their partition resizing tools free even for commercial use: http://www.aomeitech.com/freeware.html
Ask HN: Plagiarism on GitHub – What to do?
Hi everyone,

I've been working on a command line tool for more than 6 months.

A member on Github changed the name of the project, reduced the number of features by removing 3rd-party libraries (all of them are optional in my CLI), and took the entire idea including modularity, plugins and even the mac logo () on the title of the project.

He should have created Pull Requests to contribute to the project instead of modifying the original project and posting it as a separate project in 4 days (vs 6 months that it took to me to organize and create all that code).

100% of the changes he made could have been made through Pull Requests.

If someone wants to take a look and contribute to the original project, this is the URL:
https://github.com/guarinogabriel/Mac-CLI

What would you do if this happens with your project?

Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks!
But Hitler died... perhaps something is lost in translation?
I agree.

It would be ironic if discussion on Nineteen Eighty-Four was effectively censored (Room 101'ed) due to being flagged for copyright.
They gave up by not mentioning it even once at the last BUILD. That's when even as a dev, I realized the platform had been virtually abandoned.
According to the article, "Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman indicated his kingdom aimed to do more Silicon Valley deals like the $3.5 billion investment in Uber Technologies Inc. announced two weeks earlier."

The picture shows the Saudi Prince, who will be investing all those billions in Silicon Valley companies, surrounded by smiling Silicon Valley venture capitalists, who are in the business of managing billions for a fee.

No wonder the VCs are smiling!
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> With digital you could make money on the cameras themselves

You could, but you rarely do. The profit margin on the consumer-level DSLRs is really low. They make money from the stuff around it.
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I believe the author's experience was in Singapore. My understanding is its constitution prohibits racial discrimination against citizens [1] but is silent on racial discrimination against non-citizens.

Of course, the citizenship of the author or his spouse are not stated in the article.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_12_of_the_Constitution...
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This is central to the paper, but it helps to get a sense of the actual numbers:

"...those with incomes greater than $100,000 spend 835 minutes of time online per week while those with incomes less than $15,000 spend 979 minutes of time online. A similar monotonicity appears in 2013."
The vendor lock-in alone is enough to make BaaS dead on arrival. Some seem to lock you not only on specific platform APIs but also on a single programming language(i.e. javascript) like it wasn't worse enough to have a single language on the client.
Ad ? What's that ? Oh that thing before "block".

I head about that.. it's a TV stuff no ?
I liked it very much. Applies not only to open source projects but also to regular software that you get payed for. May be you should not try get satisfaction from recognition, but get it from knowing that you are doing a good job; every day. Let the job be the reward. And yes, programming is a hard job.
Great article. I really appreciate that the OP describes a more closed-form solution to what makes a senior engineer, rather than platitudes like "learn 5 languages".

One nit I'd pick with it though is that many large and bureaucratic companies won't appreciate an engineer who decides it on them to fix hiring, culture, product marketing fit and marketing. If you find yourself in this position, it's time to move on to somewhere else that will. Typically, those companies are startups.
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The answer is not to save Kodak, but rather sell the patents and chemicals business, and wind down the photography business in a way that maximises shareholder returns (ie. without ploughing capital into a low margin business like digital cameras, or a business where they had no competitive advantage such as ink jet printers).

Michael Dell received a lot of criticism for saying in the 90s that if he was CEO of Apple he would wind down the company and return capital to shareholders. But far too many CEOs are blind to this option.
My girlfriend has type 1 diabetes and uses this. It's been a huge improvement in her life - as others have mentioned, it's really like the best thing since insulin.

One thing that's been really awesome to see is how T1D patients and parents with little or no experience with FOSS have taken this stuff: "You mean you guys just made this amazing thing 100% for free?!?!?!". It's like watching the birth of open source all over again :-)

The T1D hacking movement is huge - for example, my GF and I recently replaced the batteries in her CGM transmitter (you're not supposed to be able to do this, so it involved a dremel and solder and playing the tiny fingers game). The older transmitters last about 6 months, and then you have to order them through a horrible medical supply company that knows you're not their real customer (your insurance company and device manufacturers are) so this is a big deal.

An even bigger deal: the newer Dexcom transmitters turn off after 3 months. Dexcom claims that new features mean they need more juice, but T1D hackers reversing the new protocol discovered that the app they come with turns them off. Fortunately, it seems possible to turn them back on without dremels and the tiny finger game.

A closed loop APS is the next step for us :-)