skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its becoming much harder to be an organization that in some way does not benefit from larger corporations. Asking anyone to first get their funding right then get their free speech right is not the right order IMO although in an ideal world it would be great. What if the funding takes a long time to sort out? Don't do free speech until then?
It's incremental. The default schedule is to do hourly backups, but you can customise the interval and/or set up Arq to only backup on certain Wifi networks.
To add to the sibling posts:

Crawling the Web. Although you might think that you can crawl a web site by poking through the HTML looking for <a> tags and opening the URLs they contain; that stopped working well a long time ago. Modern sites are essentially complex GUI applications that run inside...a browser. You need either a browser, or some browser-equivalent thing therefore in order to run them and properly crawl them.
I'm not a pedant. To me, the word "pedantry" describes the colour of the sky. Get used to it.
Not sure if that's a serious question or not, but it probably looks like this:

Wake up, Ask Alexa for the news, Alexa turn on lights and TV. Cook breakfast, set timer using Alexa. Leave message for kids.

Go to work for x hours.

Come home, Alexa news, alexa audio book, cook dinner, add low items to shopping list, doorbell rings, Alexa check security camera. Sit down to eat dinner, Alexa play Spotify. Alexa turn off the lights. Alexa wake me up at 6:30.
Just a guess: if you wanted to extract one of the images you took with this camera, it's already in the GIF format which people are familiar with.
Their fabric handling is reasonable, but not a breakthrough. They're laying flat pieces of fabric on top of other flat pieces.[1] A human flattens out the pieces and feeds them in. This has been done before with vacuum pickers.[2] There's also an approach where the fabric is starched first to make it stiff for robot handling. After assembly, the garment is washed to remove the starch.[3]

Dealing with fabric that isn't flat is a popular robotics research topic, but results are not very good.[4] Willow Robotics used to have a demo of towel folding with a robot, but it was extremely slow.

[1] https://grabitinc.com/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI7u9V5aYt4
[3] http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/11/technology/robots-garment-ma...
[4] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.689...
Good call. I just submitted an issue to UBlock to get their JS client added to the block lists:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/659

Sorry Edgemesh team, but this kind of activity without user opt-in is not okay.
Based on my interpretation, using that logic as a reason to withhold the data probably furthers the exclusionary/isolationist phenomenon that exists in modern academia already.
Certainly people who are formally accredited to 'correctly interpret this data' are quantifiable, but without providing it to the non-credentialed as well we shouldn't draw statistical claims based on their ability to correctly analyze something they've been denied access to, or suppose their intentions as a reason to exclude access.
what counts as funded by Google?

if you have a media product that is monetized through ads and you put Google ads on your site, are you funded by Google?

if you are a member of a political party that Google made contributions to, are you funded by Google?
Crime is a really stupid way to make money. I mean objectively, the cost benefit analysis just doesn't make any sense. The only reason to do it is you have poor impulse control and can't succeed in normal financial activities.

An ultra-smart ultra-selfish hacker would sit down, do the math, and spend 5 years killing it on Wall-street doing quasi-legal machine trading in total safety. Rather than risk imprisonment and permanently damaging his career prospects over a few thousand dollars from Grandma's credit card.

Case in point:

Carl Gugasian, graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. Got a masters in systems analysis, and was a PhD student in statistics. His intelligent, methodical approach to robbing banks let him get away with it for 30 years. He earned about 2 million dollars doing it, which is about a million less than his undergraduate engineering degree alone would have earned him during that same period if he'd just gotten a regular job.

He also eventually got caught, through pure dumb chance he couldn't have planned for, and spent 20 years in prison. So not only did he make less money being a criminal, he got to go to federal pound me in the ass prison for his golden years.
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> Google summer of code

Trains and evaluates young engineers either for them to hire or to work in their ecosystem

> $100 Million per year for non-profits

PR, taxes, and as the article describes, leverage.

> OSS releases

Giving things out for free helps pull everyone into your ecosystem.

> Of course you can say that this is motivated by PR objectives. But then you're creating a situation where they couldn't do anything right.

This is true. The only way for a company to be truly altruistic in a capitalist system is to be irrational: donate anonymously to organizations that oppose it, buy commercial time and then air white noise to block other groups from political ads. No company is going to do that (or if they do they won't last long).

There's no real solution that involves "tsk"ing at Google or trying to shame them into "doing the right thing". That has to come from outside.
Forgive the ignorance, but why do we need threads when we already have the event loop?

And, as a follow-up, why introduce a new concurrency model that's based on Java instead of, say, creating a concurrent "event pool" where execution order isn't guaranteed and callbacks are executed with maximum concurrency (edit: to clarify, I mean maximum parallelism)?
Hedge funds, prop trading etc. do hire from math heavy background. But I agree.

My advice is only good for CS or similar (ECE, Data Science) PhD's.
White privilege is threatened by growing equality for minorities. Angry whites confuse this gradual loss of privileged status with some kind of persecution. In fact, they have no idea what it means to be persecuted or to face real discrimination. There is no other ethnicity that has to deal with less persecution and discrimination.

Trump couldn't even denounce the white nationalist ideology that made some loser drive his car into a crowd of protestors and kill one of them. He won't hesitate to talk shit about absolutely everyone except white supremacists and Russia.

For the rest of us who aren't gaslighting ourselves, it's pretty obvious what he is.
This dialog is tangential at best. Sure, if you want to call them privileges instead of rights because they are inherently violable, go ahead, but everyone else will refer to them as rights because its the common nomenclature. The idea of a right is that governments must work to secure them for its people.

To redirect back to the parent post: if you don't want to call them rights, do you think internet access should be an essential privilege that governments must secure for their people? If so, how do you propose that privilege be fulfilled in rural communities that currently don't have internet access? It would seem to be a fundamental violation of the governmental charter not to provide it, and who would be held accountable for that violation?
Silicon of the requisite purity is not just lying around. Purifying it takes a significant amount of energy, which puts a floor under the price.
And here I was hoping it would be a reiteration of "Fast, cheap, and good: pick any two".
Android has a file system. It's a operating system (a Linux variant). I'm suggesting that neither a file system nor an operating system is necessary, or even desirable. Just run an interactive programming language continuously on the bare metal, with its image periodically backed up to secondary storage.
We need to stop outsourcing. /s~
It's awesome to see work on concurrency, but I'd really like to se a model that didn't involve shared memory.

JavaScript on the web already has the concept of Transferrables. It'd be great to explore how user-land code could create transferrable objects and graphs of them so they could be sent between threads without threads sharing the same heap.
> in nature it's quite common for any or all of those things to be taken away

Not by people, is the point. Rights only apply in terms of humans and human society, obviously.
> So why is the automation of this final step going to be the thing that prevents countries from climbing the "development ladder"?

I believe you're misharacterising the issue. The trouble with technology is that well, you either have it or you don't. Labour on the other hand is fungible. So with a sweatshop you can go from unskilled workforce to $$$t-shirt$$$ with base supplies and bog standard infrastructure.

Acquiring, operating and conducting maintenance on precision robotics on the other hand...
+1 - I was actually excited about seeing that version
http://gizmodo.com/the-secret-deals-that-mean-you-have-to-wa... The big fish already do pay because ISPs hold their customers hostage. They've "opened new revenue channels" by realizing that they can just pay a small amount for lobbying efforts so FCC and friends will leave them alone to make a larger amount from content sources.
Totally agree. I carry my Mavic everywhere I go. I'm the author of this page and it is slightly dated. Happy to answer any questions or help folks get started with their own quads. My most recent posts on the topic are here: nathan.vertile.com/blog
The VA2000 is a FPGA based graphics card for Amiga 2000/3000/4000 computers
Slightly unrelated: when juxtaposing pictures in a before-after presentation, but the before picture before (left), and the after picture, after (right).

In the original picture from Wikimedia used in this article (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pico_Bol%C3%ADvar_19...), it was already in left-to-right order, someone took the effort to invert it.

Unless you are writing to an audience that have a right-to-left writing system, in that case invert what I suggested, I suppose.
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No offense, but, I would never want you in any position of power over me.
You could view it as a form of the right to assemble in the US constitution. The government doesn't have to give you a place to assemble, your rights aren't violated if your meeting venue is double booked, etc. But the government can't categorically preclude you from meeting.
Public squares are also owned by the public and managed by the government. Does that mean the government should be able to pick and choose which viewpoints are valid enough to use the public square, for the sake of the public good?
Corporations (like Google) and billionaires (like Eric Schmidt) buying our politicians (by influencing them with sponsored think tank studies)
For me, the issue with the Touch Bar, and with this software is that it misses the reason I want shortcuts in the first place. I don't want another screen with shifting context, I want to rely on muscle memory to execute a task _without_ UI context. I want to interact with graphical context using my main display (touch or otherwise), and I don't want to use a smaller less flexible display for this task.

That said it is a neat technical achievement, and I applaud any effort to improve the HMI.
I wouldn't call my experiences in private IRB to be terrible at all, honestly.
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No, there is no such thing. We are born with mirror neurons, empathy, instincts for cooperation perhaps, but it doesn't make sense to say you are born with rights. Rights are a social construct.
Java is the same, but final fields are special. The object cannot be published until they're completely initialized (unless the constructor unsafely publishes them).
I don't get it, aren't germans super-touchy about nazi issues and the holocaust? I would imagine jews would be in some sort of "protected class" status in germany, at least culturally.
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If I add up the parts of the cartridge, I come to around $88 (including a $35 touch screen).

The demo makes me wanna take a picture like that and give the cartridge away. Maybe if it can get under $10 that would be feasible? And before that, at $20 or $30 they could sell them at theme parks where they take your picture in a roller coaster.
> i am potentially wrong

Not just potentially. See this: https://github.com/Const-me/LookupTables
Good, qualified, honest reviewers.

Hal Varian (UC Berkeley) has some 1990s refs, which remain good. "Grouplens" is the project/product.

Randy Farmer literally wrote the book on the topic. There's a book, blog, and wiki.

Frankly, Farmer's work, good as it is, largely reinforces my view that Varian captured the essence of the problem, which I've summarised in my opening 'graph. You cannot algorithmically correct for crap quality assessment.

If you're interested in the long-form answer, the fields are epistemology (philosophy) and epistemics (science).

Enjoy!

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/publish.html

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~ngood/

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/japan/

http://buildingreputation.com
> a simple test is if the internet goes down are my rights being violated?

Depends; is someone doing it on purpose so that you don't have access, or it is a genuine equipment failure?
The original V8, created by one man, was already pretty amazing.
It's irrelevant, the bug is that the JVM published the String before String.value was completely initialized. This is in violation of the JMM.
I wonder if removing patent protection for herbicide resistance genes would slow this cycle down.

At the very least, it would make it more difficult for monsanto to sue organic farmers because monsanto gmos contaminated the organic crop.
I'm sure the EPA and local environmental departments have rules against this.
>I largely agree with this, but in some fields I also think it is an over supply of PhD problem as well.

Looking abstractly at the "market", you are right. Asking a person on a tenure track committee why they're forcing newer hires to do a lot more than they ever had to do to get tenure, and getting that answer, is problematic.

Nothing in the market is forcing the hand of the person on the committee. Nothing. It is the equivalent of "I'm being a nasty jerk because I can." The market helps in him being nasty, but it is his/her choice to be so.
The key is in the word "access". In most countries, there is always _access_ to food or shelter through social services on a basis of immediate need, but not long term property rights over it or the resources to secure it long term.
GIFs are usually compressed so each frame isn’t the full image.
And then you have Bill Gates going: this year, I'm going to eradicate disease X from the planet for all humanity because I have the money.

That's altruism.

Research into self driving cars, on a closed platform, is a PR move.
I can pull up prices for other goods, too if you want. Especially rents (in e.g., Munich where I lived all my life) went up similarly while salaries stagnate. Munich rents are on par with Swiss rents, which is crazy if one looks at the difference in salaries.

Luckily, now I live in Zurich, which is prosperous like Germany 30-40 years ago. Full disclaimer: I run a tech recruiting agency that focuses on matching engineers with jobs in Zurich (job-page: https://coderfit.com/openedjobs/, Medium post: "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech" https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...)
How History Explains the Korean Crisis
What's the point of using HTTPS on a local network? If you want to expose an IoT device to the internet (assuming you can deal with the NAT barrier), why not use a domain name like for any other server?
https://www.newamerica.org/new-america/press-releases/new-am...
In D&D's alignment system "evil" is close to "selfish".

A lawful-good company would try to promote better security for all users. A chaotic-good company would tank the search-rankings of anyone who didn't implement better security. A lawful-evil company would track your every move and offer an opt-out system. A chaotic-evil company would have the opt-out form do nothing.
I understand that they do persist to disk and store data differently but the ones I've seen used in practice are in memory during runtime. It as been a few years but so maybe this has changed. Any examples?

Graph databases also are only fast when doing graph transversal lookups. They all have index just like RDB. Sure you got from parent->child->grandchild quickly but how to do you find the parent in the first place? An index normally.
Sorry, but we need shared memory for fast sharing of large immutable data structures.
It has nothing to do with whether String is correct

It has everything to do with it. You have to explain how you ended up with a broken instance of String. The internal state of a String instance is hosed, which is a massive violation of all sorts of JVM guarantees and assumptions - this is the OG immutable class, after all. There are two options - a broken String implementation or a broken JVM implementation.
AWS has Certificate Manager, you don't need let's encrypt.
Get sheet done using Google spreadsheets
I think eventloop implements concurrency only but thread will implement concurrency with parallelism.
Yet they fail to count when you stop living for free, when society stops paying for your peace and security. That happens in the exact same second.
if not "provide" than "ensure" ... although if you feel that food, clean water, shelter, or health are human rights those are things you aren't necessarily born with.
Bran Stark and the Problem of Omniscience
It seems a bit disingenuous to call out imply all sides are the same when one party put into place these rules and the other party is removing them.
And when ISPs eventually resort to requiring you insert a root certificate to use the internet at all, your ISP will judge you.
At first I chuckled. Then I recalled few stories.
Don't say that like it's some long running historical understanding of what the word "right" means. If that is now the definition, it's a new definition much more ambiguous than the old.

A right used to mean something that was passed to you by 'your creator' because of your humanity. A right wasn't something someone else could provide, it was only something we could all defend. Life, liberty, property. Not the work output of another man; that used to be called slavery.
That is a cool idea
No worries - that's exactly what uBlock is there for! :)
We've struggled to find the best way to add opt out on the client side without effecting the actual page itself (e.g. pop-up etc) and would love to get some thoughts on this - please PM me if you have any. Alternatively we went with a more aggressive approach on network based detection (e.g. metered connections, replication across ASN vs intra-ASN etc).
> Early tractors didn't do much for underdeveloped nations. Mainframe computers didn't either. The default state of capital-intensive technology is to improve productivity, but not to bring capital and work into underdeveloped nations. Whatever benefits accrue there are the diffuse rewards of expanding global production.

When early tractors were being deployed, all regions and countries were quite undeveloped in agricultural mechanization, compared to today. Likewise, when early computers were being created, all countries had primitive infomation technology. The default state of capital intensive technology is to be deployed first where capital is relatively cheap and labour is relatively expensive. The "diffuse rewards" of expanding global production are pretty much the whole point, since the magnitude of those rewards are huge.

The recent economic boom of much of the less-industrialized world was characterized by (compared to the industrialized world) labour-intensive production, true - however, it was much less labor intensive than had been the case before. It was absolutely characterized by people adopting more mechanization, more automation, more technology. So this is why it doesn't make sense to me to think that a high-productivity technology will stall growth. If a t-shirt robot is more expensive than a Bangladeshi textile worker's wage, then we'll see continued high use of human labour in that industry. If the robot becomes cheaper, then the Bangladeshi textile workers will shift to other industries (as they mostly did when they went from being farmers and handcraft workers to being textile workers, over the last few decades.)
Please disclose your affiliation; you to linked to snips.ai in each one of your comments over the past month.
To me it describes excessive concern with minor details and rules.

but thats none of my business tho
How creative! Nice work
> Don't be a prescriptivist, words don't have a single fixed meaning, just because Lock defined right to mean something long long ago doesn't mean that's what people mean when they use the word.

Yes, I know. I agreed with that in the comment you're replying to.

> Rights means stuff we as a majority agree everyone should have, it's not less useful, and it's what rights have always actually meant.

If "rights" are just "things we want people to have", then why is "internet access" a right, but not a yacht or a penthouse apartment? Wouldn't we be happier if everyone had those?

I don't give a shit, really, if people go for a "Locke conception" of rights or whatever. I just don't really have a clue what it means anymore to say something is a "human right," if it includes super expensive stuff that a lot of countries can't afford.
If the entire US market is overheated because too much capital is chasing too few investment opportunities, which is the likely cause, then trying to cram that money into an even smaller set of investments is obviously not going to help matters. It'll sure help line the pockets of the people running the active investment funds though.
I don't think you can get away with that for theoretical and practical reasons:

1.

There is a ton of code out there which does something like

def contains(that: Thing): Boolean =
this.value identity that || this.value equality that

Pretty much every single collection implementation would be broken if this stopped working with value types.
Additionally, you would run into issues with floating point numbers which would not be found/retrieved anymore if identity were removed.

2.

The idea to define a _sane_ definition of identity/equality across all types is there to avoid the "next-best" option: boxing primitives to wrapper classes which is both slow and has terrible semantics.

3.

I don't really think restricting identity to e.g. reference types makes sense given that equality is defined for every type. Either none of them should be available by default, or both should be.

There _are_ multiple valid ways to compare to things (consider floating point numbers for a second) and making one more privileged than the other feels wrong.
Some kindhearted people aren't very smart. I'm not sure anyone deserves being scammed aside from the scammers themselves.