skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most usual source of that flicker these days is driving LEDs (usually in a string of Christmas lights) with half-wave rectified AC, which can be considered PWM with a 50% duty cycle over the same period as the input signal - 60Hz in the US and I think Japan, 50Hz most other places. That's slow enough to see easily; it would surprise me to learn that PWM at ten times the rate is slow enough to see at all.

Looking at the code I wrote a while back to drive a four-digit common-cathode LED display (you know, a TV bomb timer!) as a clock, I find that after all the tuning I did to get rid of flicker, I ended up activating each digit for 1ms at a time. Granted, running under Raspbian this is going to flicker anyway from time to time because multitasking, but that aside, I found no PWM flicker perceptible, even at what is effectively 20% duty cycle over a 5ms period. (The decimals are implemented as a fifth "digit".) So I'm going to guess that .5KHz and up are fine for most humans. Fish I don't know about; (1) cites a flicker fusion rate between 2 and 40Hz for swordfish, but for goldfish I've no idea, other than to guess that .5KHz and up is probably fine for them too.

(1) https://www.google.com/amp/amp.livescience.com/3799-fish-eye... (Sorry for AMP, but taking it off the front nets me a timeout from livescience.com. Something broken there, I'm guessing.)
I definitely agree that it works wonders. When I was a child I had a dentist work on my teeth using the same technique, albeit it was jokes instead of story-telling.
I'm expecting design without any ports or buttons, just solid piece of glass with tiny holes for speaker and microphone. May be not for iPhone 8. Apple believes in wireless feature, they are known to work on wireless charging, they already removed audio port, so there's no much reason to keep single port and it would make iPhone somewhat special.
You won't achieve that by encouraging people at doing math, it's not attractive enough. Just like it's hard to sell vegetable to somebody eating chocolate. And I LOOOOVE vegetables.

You can, however, achieve this by encouraging nerds to get people skills. Double benefit :

- they will have an easier life

- nerds will be less stigmatized, linked topics will so be more appealing and math more successful

I agree though that putting more kids in contact with math sooner will help a lot. A lot of kids like maths if it's shown to them with passion before they are exposed to the social stereotype or nerdiness.
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There's so much more to a distribution than how the software is packaged. Elementary is a great example: https://elementary.io/

Yes, snaps make it so that the upstreams don't have to worry about repackaging their app for every distro. Just makes a snap and your app instantly works in a growing list of places: https://snapcraft.io/docs/core/install

But it also simplifies the work for distros. You don't need careful human review of every upload when you can trust that the app is adequately sandboxed. You don't turn away upstreams because your distro is frozen for release.

Much as I use Ubuntu myself, I find it sad that its success has created a high bar for smaller distros: the bulk of software vendors provide an Ubuntu-specific repo and nothing else (hello Spotify). Hopefully snaps will give distros broader reach and free them to innovate in more interesting areas.
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I suppose you're confusing the user-facing feature with what actually happens on their servers.
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A nice touch would have been to include a "Fall 2018" slide like you see in a lot of movie trailers. I'm presuming that the iPhone 7s is probably already in physical mockup if not preproduction.
Cooptimus, most likely.

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Anybody recognizes what's the track behind the video? I like it.
Every time I see one of these, it reminds me of the story about how Apple's official policy on rejecting unsolicited ideas made a little girl cry: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/apple-legal-makes-little-...
Wealth transfers from parent to child happen way before the death of the parent.

Inheritance tax is not an effective way to avoid this. A different solution is needed
I always see Rust this and Rust that everywhere. Do people mostly think it's a trend or does it have it's merits?
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sounds nasty for blind people andor people using lynx
I actually can't name anything better. I was just saying that whilst VS is "the best", the best isn't really that great (without a plugin from Jetbrains)...
In my own testing I could see flicker at 10kHz, during fast eye movement only. This has nothing to do with flicker fusion threshold. Instead it's a failure of saccadic masking. At 10kHz it's subtle enough that it's not at all annoying, but I do find 1kHz slightly annoying. The commonly used 200Hz is definitely annoying.
Although designed for investors, rather than founders, this is an interesting (English-language) primer on different corporate structures available under German business law, and the regulations that pertain to each: http://www.fr-lawfirm.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Aufsaetze/Doi...
> Based on his actions since Jan 20, he should be isolated, shunned, denounced and blocked by all available means

I'd change "Jan 20" for "the 1980s" because he's always been a monstrous excuse of a human being willing to say anything and do anything to advance his personal interests.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13191129
> Which leads to all of his sources of information supporting his decisions.

What, in the last 18 months, gives you the impression he listens to anyone outside of his coterie of right-wing schmoozers anyway?
Well, how about this:

ls . -r -file -fi *.html | cp -d /home/new_dir/

It is a bit shorter than your bash equivalent, still doing the same thing.

I think you're mistaken about what `cp` (`Copy-Item`) is intended to do. Its main purpose is to copy, not to filter. Yes, `Copy-Item` supports filtering because it's part of the "common parameters", but to be more in line with the cmdlets' original purposes, you should `ls` (`Get-ChildItem`) first, because it has more filtering capability, and then pipe the results to `cp`.

Is it complex? No, actually its complexity is exactly the same as that of your `find` example! `find` is more or less equivalent to `ls` in that both gathers the list of files that meet certain criteria. And then, like `find` invokes `cp` multiple times to do actual copying, `ls` (`Get-ChildItem`) feeds its result to `cp` (`Copy-Item`). They are structured in a similar way.

I'd even say the PS one-liner is more akin to "the UNIX philosophy". In the bash one-liner, there is a direct parent-child relationship between `find` and `cp`, which doesn't utilize pipes at all. Whereas the PS one-liner connects two equivalent processes (`ls` and `cp`) with a pipe. This is exactly what I'd call "small processes work together to get the job done", which is again the UNIX way.
May I call you back in 2030?

Something can have merits and still only be a trend (I the sense that it starts to gain a bit of traction and then dies off). These things are not opposites and the ways programming languages live and die are quite complicated, sometimes the weirdest ones go on to rule the world, while other which look promising never leave their niche.
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I talked to a guy at Mozilla once and he said they got a pretty instable build. Some tests take a few runs before you know they are really okay and don't fail because something is wrong.

Hope Rust will get this problem solved :)
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> if you're writing free software because you're community-minded, then it's not unreasonable to expect some engagement from the community

Yes it is. Just because you are 'community-minded' doesn't mean you get that - there is no expectation there unless explicitly warranted.
Not to sound snide or cynical, but the ending feels like life to me. You make all of these choices that matter through out the story (your life), but then in the end everyone finishes in the same place (you die). It pretty much brings home the notion that it's the journey that should matter and not just the destination.
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Great. Thx for the info.

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I'm assuming that the "I am not a robot" image captchas are being used as a massive source of training data. I've notice there are several tiers of question:

* Select the images containing a street sign

* Select the squares in an image containing a street sign

* Draw a polygon around the sign

Someone better informed than me might be able to comment on how that fits in to deep learning strategies.
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> People will say that I am a racist, sexist, bigot.

If you voted for Trump, yes, they will because you voted for someone who is all of those things - you were perfectly ok with his behaviour on those axes.
In this case, I do believe that Carmack is so intelligent and so far removed from a random citizen when it comes to graphics engines that it would take probably thousands of hours for a normal person to actually understand what was happening here, if they even cared, which they would not. "So let's start with a voxel"... [much time passes] "so for the sake of making the rendering pipeline efficient, its common to ..."

Without any sort of grasp on the range of solutions for the piece of this system in question, I find it absurd that a normal citizen would be tasked with ruling on this.
We will, but the government won't. And because the government needs to keep tax income flowing, it will promote native procreation.
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I agree with the other comments as well, that treating F# as a second-class citizen is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

As someone who was telling myself, "One day, I should learn F#", this thread makes me pause.

Throw all your weight behind it, make it a first-class citizen, and Microsoft may be the first to make functional programming mainstream. That would be exciting.
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I wish the managers earlier in my career had given me 1-1s. Done right, they can really accelerate your career development and help you get more out of your job, as well as be a better employee.

1-1s and being available/approachable are not mutually exclusive. Not every employee is comfortable bringing up nagging frustrations without a formal venue for them. Especially those earlier in their careers.

And in terms of interruptions, some of us would rather have an hour scheduled on the calendar that we can work around than random drive-by interruptions from a manager who wants to "stay in touch". A 1-1 is for those conversations that the employee might not otherwise initiate, and it's for exploratory chats that eventually make it to territory you might not have covered if you were only discussing what's front of mind.
It seems to be the platform that keeps things sticky. C has Unices, embedded systems, and kernels. Javscript has browsers as a platform. C# and VB have Windows as a platform. etc.

Rust doesn't appear to have a platform to keep it sticky yet, so as you say it may have merit but only be a trend.
On the mark.

Edit: well, after writing this, I hope you don't mind if I point that Tunisia is not middle east and that you probably wanted to write "haven't" ;)
I don't think there is a government that has ever existed that has not made a mistake. As an American, I can proudly criticize specific actions of my government I may disagree with, but I still feel, despite its flaws, generally does relative good for a majority of its people and the world. I feel similar about the Israeli government. Yes, they too, like the American government, and <insert other government here>, have made decisions not so well-received in the past, and likely in the future. But overall, I feel the Israeli government, like the American government, does much more good for its people and in the world than otherwise. Despite how you feel about the Israeli government, I cannot think of another government that takes in wounded people, who may be willing to risk their lives to destroy your very government, and provides medical aid without question.
I'm all for skepticism of statistics, but you're offering an anecdote to refute it...
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Some good points, but just to clarify snaps current behaviour re libssl et al:

Snap makes a distinction between a minimal set of critical core system dependencies, and application dependencies.

So on every system with a snap, there is also a 'core' snap, which has the base root fs, including glic, libssl, bash, etc. This core snap is updated regularly by its publisher (just Canonical's ubuntu core snap right now, but nothing stopping some other core snap). So a lot of critical updates are applied by default, as per normal distro policy, but just in a better way (rollback, transactional, qa, etc).

The application snap is only responsible for keeping its own dependencies up to date, it uses the base libraries from the core snap. It's distinct from docker in this way, it tries to define a line between core and app dependencies, to get the best of both worlds. I.E. critical components are updated ASAP by the disro security team, but apps are free to use a specific version of a library (e.g gnome, qt) that they want to use, rather than being stuck on the distro maintained version. Which, of course, they can still use if they want :)

It does push the burden on updating libraries to the app vendor, but on the flip side, snaps run in a very confined environment, which mitigates the scope of most CVEs there might be in an older library.

A lot of careful trade-offs considered and involved in the design - we'll see they're the right trade offs or not :)
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Unfortunately this is not a uniquely Israeli problem. Likely a similar effect can be achieved in the states with something like LLC "shell" companies.
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IMO, Rust is the most promising technology of the decade.

We had C and C++ for a long time, and never managed to replace them. We created higher level languages (Haskell, Go, Java) as a mitigation but they never really succeeded in that domain.

Instead, they found they own favorite tasks, and are used for it. We now have better tools for other tasks, but C and C++ are still untouched.

Then arrived Rust. Something really low level. Something that is compatible with C, can do what C does, but better, safer, easier to write. Something with a terrific community improving the language at an amazing pace.

But what surprise me the most is the professional attitude of rust designers. They are pragmatic, but promote best practices. They don't get in the heat of the moment, but are passionate. They listen to the community and yet maintain a coherent design. They are working meticulously and are very productive.

Those are usually opposite qualities, you only see them joined in attitude of masters of some sort.

That is amazing to witness.

P.S: I think you need to know at least one very high level language, one very low, and one specialized in some task if you want to have versatility in your tool-belt.

I used to recommend Python, C, and one among Go/Erlang/JS/Java/Swift depending of your tasks.

I think it's time to recommend beginners to learn rust before C (although I recommend Python before rust). I hope that C will become to the new generation, what assembly is to us.
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The page would have cost me 60 euros worth of data in Cuba. If I pressed refresh, because something didn't load? 120 euros.
The problem in your last sentence is the trick, one which humanity has yet to solve in any sort of sustainable way. Maybe strong AI can finally save us from ourselves.
Gogland is great, but so far I haven't seen a feature that makes is strictly better, but I agree that it is a great alternative.

There is also the fact that VSCode is open-source.
I enjoy seeing completely original concept designs, but I also like seeing what designers can do when restricted to an established design style as well. I feel like it can be equally difficult to itinerate on an establish design as it is to come up with something more original.

I remember seeing a really cool design concept last year for an iPhone 7 with a slide out physical keyboard while keeping the overall iPhone design language.
I've indeed seen that kind of thing happen, so yes, there can be some poor soul doing this. But it's still more likely that MS doesn't think Windows not letting you run your programs is a high priority problem.
This all resonates with the feelings I also went through with the ending of Mass Effect - deep disappointment. But then they delivered the "Citadel DLC" - probably the best DLC ever made for a game, a gentle and humorous farewell with all the characters that I got to know during all those years, I swear I never thought I could cry and laugh so hard at a game, but it turned out I could. Totally redeemed Bioware in my eyes and gave me the sense of closure with the series that I wanted. Definitely recommended for everyone who got through all the 3 games and was bummed out with the ending.
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Here's a good talk about the history of Rust and how it was developed by Mozilla to solve problems they had with Gecko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79PSagCD_AY
Darn! I was hoping for some sort of exciting new historiographical technique.
All that __name__ stuff in Python looks like line noise to me.
Having not written much Rust yet, I agree from the outside.

I still use C and C++ in my daily job. I tried D, which wanted to be a "better C++", but the problem was it didn't really add anything new -- it tidied up various rough edges, but didn't offer enough benefits to be worth the switch.

I never took other candidates, like Go, seriously. While there are programs written in C and C++ which probably should be written in something like Go, it wasn't a serious replacement for places where C/C++ really excel.

Rust seems to provide real benefits. Also (and importantly for external people like me), is being used to write real software I'm using. Firefox (obviously), and also 'rust-parallel', and 'ripgrep', which have just slotted into my daily life and work cleanly, fast and well.
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Linked video was deleted, here's a repost:
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Main thing I see no commenting about is the robot appears to be able to walk on two legs AND roll on two; the arm/leg layout matches their robots that walk in four legs.
Blurry distinction. C has Unices but so has everything else, other than .NET-before-a-half-mature-Mono and decades-out-of-date historic win/dos-only langs/IDEs/compilers.

So things like momentum/inertia, fewer-stumbling-blocks-on-the-platform, network effects, and critical-mass-tipping-points are still also in diffuse play imho..
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For a company that has always been handed (basically free) money at obscene valuations, why would you assume they care about two billion? Maybe it's just as simple as that?

It's an excellent argument as to why I will not be purchasing this stock.
I currently have a Nexus 6P and I'm not sure how I feel about the trend of having curved screens. It doesn't seem to add much utility and comes with some significant drawbacks like a more easily broken screen. I'm also not sure how well you can get those tempered glass screen protectors to work. I would be somewhat surprised if Apple goes down that route. If they do then I'm sure the curved screen fad will be taken to a whole new level and I doubt I'll be able to buy a non-curved screen phone for much longer.

I'm sure having smaller bezels, especially on the top and bottom, will be a welcome improvement though.
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The same story in Switzerland, perhaps even worse. Any company here generally requires a full-time administrator to handle the paperwork (and salaries here are huge). Or you can outsource it to the agency, but it will cost at least $10k/year, even for the smallest operations (cheaper than hiring a full-time administrator, however, agencies tend to miss things).
When I've been the vendor, the most appreciated gifts have been food that this person can choose to either bring home or share with their office. I don't need more knick-knacks, but being able to put a smile on my co-workers faces puts a smile on mine.

But more importantly, include a heartfelt personalized card thanking the entire team and specifically calling out that person for going above and beyond. A card like that can lift an entire office's morale for the rest of the week, and is something your PM can show off on their desk or use as evidence when asking for a raise.
So was mine, although a little more indirectly.

With AmigaBASIC 1.2 from MicroSoft but probably without any input from Bill Gates.

My first programming session involved changing the parameters of a ellipse drawing routine. Which was AFAIR from a programming tutorial that was part of the manual.
...because they had no ethics.

Ethics is surely a thing that should be omnipresent.
The build itself is stable. The testsuites, not so much. The problem is that written testcases sometimes unwillingly rely on timing or races. When you have thousands and thousands of tests, as Firefox has, there's a reasonably likelyhood at least one of them will trigger.

The tests are mostly written in JavaScript, the language Firefox needs to run, so not much Rust can do there.
It can also be summed like this;

(ME 1: Drew Karpyshyn) Cerberus thinks humanity has to have the techonological edge, even when it comes to crossing the ethics line, a simple "for science!" taken to the extreme. Even before you figure it out you expect a blackop like that to exist.

(ME 2: Karpyshyn & Mac Walters) We need a fresh start for players who didn't play ME1, Cerberus is a little more ambigious and the overall tone darker-er, still agreeable (given aliens' and human governments do nothing about it) or at least understandable line of thinking "we can't save everyone let's focus on our kind". Weak but not horrible.

(ME3: Walters) WE WERE REAPERS ALL ALONG. WE COMMON HUMANOID ENEMY NOW. ALSO MARTIN SHEEN.
> a lidocaine-adrenalin mix, which when injected into a vessel (by mistake), will make your heart race, your blood pressure skyrocket, and provoke a general sense of unease/impending doom

Wait, that's not supposed to happen? I pretty much just figured oh well, it's epi, what are you gonna do.
>recommend beginners to learn rust before C

This is one thing I've been musing over. Would a beginner see the benefits of rust without first understanding the drawbacks of C?

In my opinion they'd just see it as "this annoying borrow checker thing" and find it frustrating.
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I believe the difference is that you can no longer build without Rust. The original post in that thread talks about requiring it being the default - those are not the same.
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