skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft still dominates a huge Software market - is there a viable competitor for the Office suite?

And Azure is doing pretty well too - it's a 3 horse race with AWS and Google, and there does not necessarily have to be a single long term winner.
C++ currently has a package manager. It is called git. Git has submodules for dependency management, tags for release management and binary downloads, gpg signing for authenticity and online services for hosting.
New iPhone brings face recognition (and fears) to the masses
Procedural music is really hard to get right.
More sinisterily, armies used planes to drop bombs on cities and shot soldiers on battlefields in Europe as early as 1914.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_Wor...
Good tips, but then why pay for a modern phone?
You have to find reliable critics to critique your work. Eventually, you can do a bit of this on your own as you develop an eye and self awareness for it.
https://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/

TL;DR a loss of writers and voice talent from resignations and deaths combined (probably) with the show simply running out of things to say (especially as its irreverent tone took over culture; see also: DFW’s writings on TV) led to its 1) becoming exactly the thing it was originally skewering, 2) relying too much on the “homer gets a new job” gimmick, 3) shifting homer’s Characterization significantly, and not for the better, and 4) spending an awful lot more time subjecting homer to cartoon violence.

Decline is foreshadowed in S7, proceeds rapidly from there, and the show’s wholly a shell of itself (a “zombie”) past S12. Site argues its case pretty well, worth a read.
https://imgur.com/sHWA4kp example image of search results

you can also save your github repository as an image https://imgur.com/1fqrCt2
As Twitter Has Gone to Algorithms – Our Reach and Engagement Been Killed
Extra scenarios:

* Not all our libraries are available in the same ecosystem. We need to mix JVM with C++ with a sprinkle of Python [via jep].

* We run a lot of small variations over the same code base. We'd rather not wait to re-deploy 99% of a fat binary for each run.
I am happy to read an article like this because it's very rare to see a woman admitting that many (but not all) women actually exploit sexism to their own advantage, and that she did too, on some occasions.

I think this is one good way towards progress in this sense.
PWAs are not supposed to replace native apps just to augment today's web apps.
Merely because it isnt likely that a person will feel shame does not mean that this article isnt (1) written with that intention; (2) written with that effect; and most importantly, (3) written with that technique.

See, for example, however every major comedian speaks about Trump. That is ridicule and shaming of him, of his personality and character. Yet, he's mostly shameless.

I would guess that actually the people who display shame the least (or seem least self-aware about when it is appropriate to display shame, etc.) are those most likely to incite shaming in others.

Don't you get angry at someone laughing (in ridicule) at you? Doesn't this provoke, sometimes, a brooding preoccupation with ridiculing them back? Is it likely that would be effective?

When people are preoccupied in this way, they are dealing with their own internal emotional state (anger, resentment, etc.) -- they arent thinking, "well this will be effective".

By way of example: all of late-night TV.
Companies don't have a moral responsibility to do that, but it's a smart retention strategy. If good devs feel like they're learning useless non transferable skills, they'll be more likely to leave for the sake of their career. If they feel like the business is investing in them, they'll be more likely to stay.
How difficult would it be to launch a paraplegic little person that wronged me?
Good SEO.
They know the power that comes with doing this yet men never cry foul or sexist when they observe this. Feminists will react wholly different.
Here's a winning demoscene production, 256 bytes, on a Commodore 64.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8

Technical discussion here: https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
As I was reading the beginning of this article to my wife, she said that it might be a problem for a percentage of women who are nice looking, but might not be as true for more ordinary looking ones (not to mention the perhaps less gifted)

As I find her beautiful, she's very shy and don't have the same point of view on herself, so doesn't see her as a potentially objectified person. I guess there's a part, maybe not that little, of women who feel the same.
That is harsh, perhaps true.

We cut our cord about 8 years ago and our TV has been limited to streaming and Netflix (DVDs too) My observation is that a great show seems to need 2 to 3 seasons to really find their pace, rhythm, and get it figured out. This is changing with the short season episodic content that everyone is doing now but network shows sort of need some time to find themselves. Beyond about season 7, they all fall apart in some way. I really can’t think of anything that lasted 10 plus season and wasn’t effectively a different show from s1, only the names are really the same; definitely the feelings it gives you will have changed. I really only watched Simpsons occasionally during the first 3 seasons, it’s hard to fathom it having anything in common with then now.
> Ultimately argues that Simpsons was a great piece of counter culture, then it just won and became culture, losing its ability to skewer mainstream comedy.

I feel like South Park has managed to do both.
Maybe Marvin Minsky was right about neural nets (he’d surely be shaking his head right now, maybe dropping an “I told you so” or two...)
Wonder if Nix package manager would work here. It is not strictly tied to the OS unlike deb, rpm etc. It should work in most Linux distributions and MacOS. And it is not a single language. Mono-language package managers work for a while, then all of the sudden needing to deploy other languages / framework and it becomes awkward.

Moreover it emphasizes reproducible build and seems to handle dependencies in a sane way.
Intentionally with a nice view into Notes with unreleased project code names and calendar invites with other employee names?

This is not intentional PR.
> SynDaver employees like to create monsters from dried out, damaged parts in the finishing room.

This sounds like a fun place to work
The field of Music Theory is algorithms & patterns for music. Computer music provides the opportunity for rapid iteration. If that direction were followed intensely, music theory would become a sub-topic within Psychology.
A friend introduced me to Sade this year and I love her down tempo soulful sound. The music has a sort of background sadness which I wouldn't have understood when I was younger.
Do you really believe that the CC rewards are free?!? You, the customer, ultimately pay for them. Purchase by CC costs the merchants money (how much is it nowadays, around 2-3%?), the merchants pass that price increase on to customers (regardless whether they pay by cash or credit card nonetheless).
I love the “electric fence” examples, but I’m not as skeptical as Scott that perhaps humans simply haven’t invented the mathematical tools required to break this fence. Isn’t that something that has happened plenty of times?

You could pretty easily write a parody of this article focused on taking square roots of negative numbers. For generations it looked obvious that no matter which number we tried to square, it would never result in a negative number. You can see the same sort of electric fence that can’t just be a coincidence: we can find the square root of zero, but even the slightest bit less than zero and suddenly there is no square root!

Obviously this sounds silly, because we know that mathemticians invented a new tool: imaginary numbers (a name apparently given mockingly by critical mathematicians), which can be used not only to find square roots of negative numbers, but also to solve problems that don’t obviously involve square roots of negative numbers.
Nix barely works on Windows, that is, only through the WSL. I’d imagine that alone makes it a non-starter for what OP wants; Windows is a very important platform for C++.
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"Why have women never tried to manipulate me?"
I think the extra piece of this is to have the right feedback measures in place and then try everything; that is, at least don't keep doing the same thing that isn't working.

It's like a search tree. A good mentor can help you prune the tree, and save you time-to-proficiency/mastery. Some of us can't seem to back up and find the other paths. Or we keep trying but our instincts work against us & keep us away from the paths that will have the "successful" outcomes.
>extremely useful to anyone else looking to launch a Spectacles type device.

That audience is tiny and has budgets to hire marketers with much better analysis than this article.

I don't use Snapchat, but take a look at all the anti-Snapchat posts in his Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/joshconstine

It feels more like someone shorting stocks than providing thoughtful analysis.
Distribution and marketing are good points. Inferior products with better marketing and distribution sometimes win out especially when they partner with monopolistic/oligopolistic channels.

What do you mean by 'vitality'?

Luxury products provide social signal value rather than pure performance.

I agree that imperfect rationality is a major factor in human decision making and perhaps should be included into the model somehow.

I'm not sure how Nash's game theory is related to this. Care to elaborate?

PS. I didn't downvote you and feel that too much downvoting, sometimes unwarranted, occurs on HN lately.
Probably because they have the discipline to close questions that aren't appropriate, even when people like the answers. Good for them.
Associating, agreeing, and promoting things that are simply not true, are offensive. I am sure there are worse terms to describe your stereotypes.

I have yet to meet anyone refer to themselves as a "hillbilly" in WV.

Most people outside of WV I have met associate it with coal, or white-water rafting, not forests.

"Rolling coal" - I have never heard of that term, nor have I seen this behavior. Nor would I agree that this "passes for humor".

Heroin is a problem, yes. However, that is not limited to WV.
I like modern js for frontend work, but this is why I like statically typed languages on the backend for anything critical or complicated. Even if the documentation for a library is out of date or for a different version, IDE autocompletion allows you to figure things out on your own. Not just when type hints were provided, but in every case.
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Correct, and neither does the quasi-religious belief that currency somehow has significance in the theoretical absence of a state.
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The phrase "dark kitchen" seems like an attempt to make this sound more illicit or unhygienic than it actually is. It's just a restaurant without the sitting part — I think "delivery-only restaurant" would be a fairer term.
> Simpsons was a great piece of counter culture, then it just won and became culture

I've often mused over this as well. I remember when Simpsons was first aired in the UK, there was lots of complaints over it. The WI (Women's Institute) running campaigns again the show because its content was considered harmful. People even threatening to boycott the BBC and any high street stores that sold Simpsons merchandise. Slogans like "Eat my shorts" caused massive outrage. Yet most of those people who were angered by the very concept of the show ended up watching it with their own families. And in the end the show became a victim of it's own success; it's no longer able to surprise people without going totally random. A point South Park commented on in one of their shows where Butters keeps being reminded that all of this plot ideas have already happened in the Simpsons (this was before South Park became just as tired as the Simpsons)
Thurston has a great answer. People need to avoid thinking in academic departments and focus on asking which problems are important to them. Focus on problem first, then figure out what basic principles you need to tackle the problem, regardless of the field these basic principles come from.
Yes I used in on Android, Windows, and Linux
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How about just buying a good camera?

A point-and-shoot with better specs than an iPhone X can be had for $90.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&D...
The reason hackernews is great is because it has some audience which wants to discuss and debate how things work. This is a very unique and good form of education, only internet made it possible.

But for large part of society they don't understand technology. Technology or science should be simple to understand, humans developed language- that is also a technology to me(do we really need a science degree to understand those things). For some reason large population thinks of tech people or scientists in general as nerds or geeks and that it is not cool to them. I think the flaw is in outdated primary education and the way we define education. And the portraying of science people as nerds or confused people on TV further exaggerates this.

We can't blame governments per say, for a democracy to work properly everyone has to participate, and part of the newer generation will eventually become the future government. In order to participate, you have to understand how things work. If people are not taught how to think critically early on and they're either caught up in making a living or watching and following bunch of trendy celebrities on twitter and tv, it is not going to happen.
No, really, what's a monad?
What in the world is this? Your plug says nothing, and your page says nothing. Hell, even the URL is pretty meaningless.
Can’t read on iPhone SE without subscribing to email list :(
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Worse is better/creative limitation/blub paradox: Smalltalk, like Lisp, is too powerful; you can do essentially anything you desire in a bunch of different ways. Too much flexibility makes it harder for a clear use case to emerge and having too many choice points only makes pathfinding through the solution space more difficult unless you've made a bunch of firm decisions beforehand. Other languages like Go or Python make many of these decisions for you. It seems like the ideal pattern in these ultra-expressive languages is to construct a much more restricted DSL which can ultimately lead to a proliferation of completing solutions a la the JS ecosystem.

Inner platform/walled garden: Almost all Smalltalk systems basically implement their own operating system complete with their own integrated graphics system/window manager, process scheduler, and so on. It's an amazing environment for creating applications but it doesn't play well with the outside world and there isn't a straightforward way to 'shake' an image down to just your application. Deployment usually comes with the overhead of the entire Smalltalk system and interop with native can be somewhat limited. Imagine if Java applications only ran within Eclipse.

Zipf's law: The popular languages are so popular that their communities generate their own gravity (i.e. lots of effort tends to attract more effort). Despite Smalltalk's many appealing qualities (ergonomics, simplicity, maturity, robustness..) it stands in the shadow of giants; many people don't even know it's there or can't invest the effort to give it a shot so it never achieves critical mass.
That is an interesting preference. I usually hear it the other way. That people would prefer to start dynamic when they understand the problem/domain the least and then move to static types when they become more sure about the taxonomy of things.
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You just made a mind boggling amount of assumptions in one sentence.
> It is not strictly tied to the OS unlike deb, rpm etc.

Which is false. DEBs and RPMs are not tied to the OS in any particular way.
Especially visible in OpenPKG project (it used RPM), which was running on
Solaris just fine.

It's more likely that it's OS distribution that is tied to the package
manager, not the reverse.
55 % 102 would produce 55102

I made it up.
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In fact it's totally subjective, for many of the reasons you pointed out.

More specifically, I'd say that there are rules based on who you want to please. People who think "X popular fiction is stylistically poor," do think that way for a reason, and you could appeal to them by taking note of that reason and applying it to your writing.

But at the end the day, your reason for thinking that 50 Shades of Grey is bad, or the Nobel committee's reasons for choosing X author (or songwriter) aren't any better or more important than anyone else's reasons for liking what they like and disliking what they dislike.

For me, coming around to this perspective was not a happy experience. I sort-of wish we lived in world where fiction could be objectively judged. For one thing, it would make finding good books a whole lot easier.
Not really. The single-pixel attacks are impressive because they just modify individual pixels but the concept of adversarial image generation is a broad and increasingly well studied area within neural networks. There are infinitely many ways to structure adversarial images not just single pixel defects.
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vitality

Sorry, virality. Damn autocomplete.

Luxury products provide social signal value rather than pure performance.

Social signaling is often (usually? Outside subsistence cases - there are some good studies showing how this switches over) more important than performance.

Sometimes performance and social signaling are correlated, but they don't have to be.

I'm not sure how Nash's game theory is related to this. Care to elaborate?

A product marketplace is pretty much the perfect example of a non-competitive game. Indeed, the New Yorker used is as one:

The setting could be nuclear negotiations, such as the ones currently taking place between Iran and the great powers. It could be a product market, in which a number of firms compete for business.[1]

This is a relatively mature field, and there are some fairly comprehensive ways of expressing the likelihood of success of a product.

Unfortunately your formula doesn't capture anything like enough of the complexities of a market place.

But hey - it is simple, and you typed it quickly, and it seems like it could be right so nothing else matters, right?

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-triumph-and-...
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Aging, mediocre programmer seeks fellow technical-minded individuals
Very soon ageism will catch up with me and I'll be unemployed. ( I'm in my forties). I'm smart enough to do most business related software development but mediocre enough that I won't be hired by the likes of Google.
As they say, most technical work or any work that requires deep focused thinking is generally a race to the bottom. I see great potential if programmers/technical/above average minded people are willing to put aside their overly individualist and reclusive tendencies, and start realistically co-operating. I'll like to get in touch with fellow technical minded individuals who have realized this, and who want to hash out ideas for any mutual co-operation. I have nothing concrete in mind yet, but I can be reasonably sure that I'm not looking for software related ideas. I am 100% sure that if I do not take any steps now I'm going to be a unemployed bum in a few years. ( besides being unemployed you will also be see as useless - if you are male. Make no mistake, society is harsh on men who are not racking in money.)

A starting point could be some online forum where ideas/views can be exchanged. It must me emphasized that this post is not a solicitation for money. Money might be involved but only at a significantly later stage. Email: dennis_jeeves-1((at))yahoo.com

-------------------------------------------------------------

p.s - I have had a few emails to my previous similar posts. In addition to emailing me I suggest that you also respond to my post here. It lets readers know that there are people in similar situations and that their problems (of ageism/jobs) are not unique.
But in both cases the merchant receives dollars. When actually paying with Bitcoin, the merchant would receive Bitcoin.

The point is that it's a Visa transaction not a Bitcoin transaction.
Your observation is incorrect.
was, sadly.
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This is a fair point.

I guess my only response would be that some of the complexity classes in "some more efficiently than others, of course" might be impractical even if they are theoretically possible.
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I just watched that episode, and it was just depressing. The jokes were completely predictable (the frogs in particular were cringe worthy) and the culture criticism sounds like a bad rehash of a George Carlin sketch - and he's been dead for a decade.

By the way, I only started watching the Simpsons regularly when they were on season 15, when Fox opened up a channel in my country, so I saw the old and the new episodes at the same age. I still saw a tremendous difference, and would in fact often change the channel during the new ones.
Always Sunny?
Seems to be South Park is having a bit of a renaissance.
I find apt completely unsatisfying as a package manager, even when I don't care about OS compatibility, for software development. I doubt yum is any better.
Don't get me wrong, I love Jackie and I think there's something to this. I adored his movies when I was a kid, even his more violent ones, and still do to this day. I just think it's not fair or true to paint all of his movies as being childlike. Including some of the ones the poster directly referenced.
In other words, it could redefine "short term".
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I have been contemplating trying to use Nix packages (or debs/rpms) to manage dependencies for embedded/cross-compiled projects. This would mostly just be a matter of putting header files and static-libraries into the correct paths I suppose.
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DJ Spinna's best of sade mix is good:

https://www.mixcloud.com/Double0Soul/dj-spinna-best-of-sade-...

Fave sade jams are "love is stronger than pride" (especially the mad professor lover's rock remix), "I couldn't love you more", "cherish the day"

I remember laughing at my friend's mom for playing "Smooth operator" in the car when i was 10, now i love that jam hehe
GPS + Maps is the killer app for me. The only reason for not switching to a dumbphone.
>Beyond about season 7, they all fall apart in some way.

To give a somewhat different perspective, I personally have a "5 season rule." Maybe it's more like 5 seasons +- 2 or something like that depending upon the show. Some shows aren't that interesting once their quirkiness wears off and other change things up enough to keep going longer.

But whatever the exact number, I just weary of the characters, the format, the style, etc. after a time of just about any show even if it doesn't decline in "objective" quality. I'm definitely not a person that wants some beloved series to go on forever. Generally if something has gotten a few seasons under its belt and wraps up in a reasonable way I'm very happy to let it go. (And this is truer than ever today when there are far more good shows on television/streaming than I watch.)