skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's yet another take on the "regular modern human gets teleported into a magical world and becomes super strong because he has knowledge" trope that is all over the place in recent animes.

That being said, it's an interesting point of view. The character goes so far as taking personal a fight against a "golem plane" solely because he fears that the invention of planes will means that this world, like ours, won't have mechas. He doesn't have a care in the world but to use magic as a means to program mechas and completely disregards the fact that magic should be exciting in itself.
From what I've heard, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" seems unsupported by available historical evidence:

https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/32371/38995

>Among others. I searched and read a lot, looking for anything along the lines of "the long-isolated tribesmen were amazed at seeing a cell phone for the first time, and asked 'what kind of magic is this?'" But I have not found anything that relates a story of confusing technology with magic.

>The additional point about the tendency of visitors to THINK they've been perceived as superior divinities is extremely valuable.
Would you pay a monthly fee for a remote?
This is my feeling. Why people would invest in something that rots pretty fast!?
I think plumber is more apt: We take shit and send it places so people don't have to think about it.
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> A few months ago, I built a rudimentary unpowered exoskeleton

Umm, you cannot just drop that kind of comment on HN without more details. That's why we come here!
Most of us would just be full of ourselves to call ourselves magicians or imagine that anyone else sees us that way.

But there are people working towards creating things that no one will be able to control once they're out.
Agree with this. It makes me very angry.
Why are you so adamant to argue with me? I'm not projecting. I am talking about my thoughts on a subject I am experienced with.
Which is to conclude, either all ants are sentient, or no ants are sentient (but a variety of degrees of sentience is not expected), and the emergent behavior of a colony is its own phenomenon.
Thanks! Yeah, we have used it and can confirm it's pretty good :)
In this case it's probably genuine surprise. The ARM big.LITTLE trick (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE) been workable and shipping on real devices for half a decade now[1]. This is not particularly innovative ground, and to write a whole blog post without even mentioning the fact or doing a comparison with any of the existing devices implies that maybe the author didn't do enough research.

Whether that's worth being "rude" or not is an exercise for the reader.

[1] Edit to add: and producing fairly "meh" results as far as power consumption goes vs. their more conventional quad-core competitors. Honestly it's not impossible that Apple found some tricks to exploit here that the other SoC vendors haven't, but this post didn't find them.
DMA/Firewire over USB makes pretty much every systen vulnerable to USB attacks (ME aside.)
You disliked Pearson worksheets. That's different from Common Core.
I think it is easy to overestimate the importance of a managed language. Having to manage memory yourself is not that big a burden in many applications. In many cases it is a help.

For instance, I had a ETL program I was writing to process 100+ GB files. I pre-allocated all the memory I needed for exactly one row of data and immediately printed out the data when it finished that row (stream style).

The entire program processed 100 GB with lightning speed in less than 1K of memory. Maxing out the performance of the disk.

Best of all, I only had to free my memory at the end. Completely safe. No danger of double freeing and no extra memory allocation at all. Literally a dozen mallocs at the start and a dozen frees at the end.

Could I do that in Go? Sure. Would it have as optimized memory access? Maybe... but probably not. And C my entire program was 200 lines of code and absurdly fast.

Don't get me wrong, I love Go. I write programs in Go often. But for simple apps where the code can fit in a single file nothing can beat C. No bloat, no extra memory operations, and a code optimizer that has been being optimized for 30+ years. Go's code optimizer is not even close yet from what I can tell.
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"that stuff runs UNIX"
osx and ios have an very old UNIX legacy but as they currently stand are extremely restrictive walled gardens completey controlled by a single giant avaricious corporation. If you were true to your ideas you'd be running Linux which is open, open source and btw is most popular in Europe, eg. being the OS used by the public sector in Germany.
"doesn’t disrupt one’s concentration with modal windows"
What? please give an example. Linux's UI can be configured however u want.
"and runs circles around Windows desktops performance-wise"
That is just nonsensical. To talk about performance you need to be comparing 2 specific things. Which things are you talking about? As an example, heres two things I'm comparing; For fun once at work we compared benchmarks between two new laptops each costing about €1400. My colleague had a macbook pro, I had a msi gs60. My laptop scored about 3 times as much in cpu performance and 5 times as much in a unigine valley graphics becnchmark.
"The early ‘90’s computing paradigm with a lone desktop PC user and application isn’t cutting it any more" Sure things are going that way, but if you think most users are ready to do everything via web-apps now then u are living in a very rarefied bubble. photoshop, autocad, 3dsmax, ableton, an endless list of specialised, high performance demand, software for professionals, theres a long way to go before that kind of thing can run in a browser.
Also how is iOS os OSX somehow more web-app friendly? Youre much more restricted on them on what browser you can run and how u can configure it than on linux or even windows. html5 canvas doesnt even work properly on iOS.
Go being paddled by industry hot shots doesn't change the facts. A language designed for systems programming must have precise control on everything that goes on. When you are dealing with thousand threads on 100s of cores, every microsecond counts. When you are designing control software for aerial vehicles on embedded devices doing stuff in ISRs, every thing needs to be predictable. No one in their right mind will rely on gc in that kind of systems programming world.
Sounds like a pretty thin post-hoc explanation.
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All of my mice are Microsoft branded (I assume they are still manufacturing them). Pretty basic, cheap laser mice, one wired, one USB wireless. Never had any issues with them, and the wireless one is probably going on ten years old now.
Thanks, I think Snowcrash will be next.
Story here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/business/dealbook/uber-ce...
Ea-nasir-sist, surely.
You really aren't adding anything to this discussion.
I really loved the pacing of Knights and Magic, but the fact that the MC was a programmer in a past life is only relevant for maybe 3 episodes.
I used to work construction and a lot of the concepts translate well to software. You learn pretty quick that if you half ass something early in the build it'll come back to bite you later (didn't place your studs 16 inches apart? Enjoy marking them all out so you can put up drywall).

The tools are different but the ideas are the same.
> > Intel ME and the (assumed [0]) partnership with CIA to design and build this system

Then why do you need security clearance to work on Intel ME?
This is completely wrong, and a brief look at Common Core shows that it's not "incantations". It replaces the "incantations" of the past
But they can not decide the price of their service. I think this is a great difference.
I built a LinearRegression that can play Pong with me
And just hope the government just doesn't notice the coins leaving the wallet?
oh sorry i didn't know oberon ever amounted to anything
Evidence for this claim?
Their older Harmony remotes are great. And I don’t remember the last time I updated the firmware.
For me with my German bank account, sending money this way always requires a one time use code. The code is not digital, the bank sends you a list of 100+ codes printed on a piece of paper. So, I'm not really worried at all because there is no possible way for a scammer to get my codes.
OT: @StavrosK did you use to frequent metafilter?
Two other theories:

- Firmware is running SSL which doesn't support SHA-256, and a SHA-1 cert is expiring soon.

- Device (or other devices it communicates with) rely on cert pinning back to Symantec owned roots, and will somehow be affected by the Symantec distrust and Digicert acquisition.
Wikipedia says [1] that ARM big.LITTLE "Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP), which enables the use of all physical cores at the same time" has been "implemented in the Samsung Exynos starting with the Exynos 5 Octa series (5420, 5422, 5430)", available in Q3 2013.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE#Heterogeneous_m...
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Unlike chemical engineers, programmers have the ability to give specific instructions that machines obey. We put things in motion.
I went to a "Public Ivy" about ten years ago and at the time both CE and CS students started with C, CE students sticking with it and CS students moving on to Java. Is this still true for the average public school? Learning C and various Assembly languages and using them to program micros is where everything finally clicked for me. Rust is lovely but I don't ever see it being the CS101 language because of elegant but difficult concepts like lifetimes.
I'm also a fan of emacs shell and tramp, and use functions like this to start shells on remote boxes without the extra dired/whatever step:

(defun shell-foo()
(interactive)
(let ((default-directory "/ssh:bdarnell@foo:/home/bdarnell/"))
(shell "*shell-foo*")))
Oil futures exist and option prices are usually tied to speculation of quantity. If the price becomes wholly detached from scarcity; it's not a commodity or a currency, it's just means for speculative gambling.
Okay, but it sounds like this technique is targeting learning from a limited number of examples. How does it compare on CIFAR 10 when restricted to ten training images per class? That's the sort of thing that you don't even see in benchmarks, because there hasn't been any way to get a handle on the problem.
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The update framework is the second thing you figure out and don't cheap out on.

No in place updates, everything needs dual firmware support with the 0 stage bootloader in ROM.
> Lesson 1: Don't buy stuff like this that depends on an online component to locally control your electronics.

How do we, let along the average consumer, actually know this?
C++ >= 11 is your answer
This is pretty great, I will see if we can use it for our conference calls as well. Could you share some of the technical details behind the project?
Why are you being such a dick? Looking through your comment history and it seems like a pattern.
Do music/entertainment companies even scout anymore? Seems like a redundant role, given music publishing is largely dying out as well.
I just recently completed migration from Gmail. It does take a while because there are so many things you might forget to update and then you're like, "oh crap," I changed my email address and for some strange reason LastPass didn't store the password.
I used to be an architect, worked at it for a good few years, and only got into programming when I was approaching my 30's. Ive since found that my architecture experience gives me a huge advantage over my peers when it comes software architecture and project management.
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> If it is a foregone conclusion that the documents exist, the court can legally compel you to turn them over.

Are you sure? That would imply that you could be compelled to produce documents that are known to exist but were stolen from you.

It seems like a faulty premise. If they don't know where the documents are then how could they know they haven't been stolen or destroyed?

It's the same problem with encryption keys. Just because you had it yesterday doesn't mean you have it today. People actually lose or forget things, especially under stress.

That's one of the main purposes of protection against self-incrimination -- so that the government can't claim you know something that you don't and then hold you in contempt for not telling them.
I mean, i’m fine with trying for wealth redistribution again. Sure it’ll probably fail, but the current economy is not what success looks like either.

I’d rather have a worse performing economy with low income disparity than what we have, without a second thought.
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How much you think petsmart paid for that domain?
Hypothetical problem... Let's imagine a universe in which milk is a rare commodity, and milkshakes are worth their weight in gold. In this world, right now in 2017, 1 milkshake trades for $100 USD. You have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake. So we each hold the equivalent of $100. I drink your milkshake, effectively stealing $100 from you.

Fast forward to the year 2020. Milkshakes are now worth $1,000,000 USD. Have I deprived you of $100, or have I deprived you of $1,000,000? (Note that we can't seem to use retroactive NPV analysis in 2017, since in 2017 we had no way of accurately predicting how milkshakes would be priced in 2020.)

On the one hand, I appear to have imposed a severe opportunity cost on you. On the other hand, I haven't taken the world's only milkshake from you. So what I've literally stolen from you in 2017 is the present value of the milkshake, $100.

IANAL, and I will confess that I have no idea how a court of law would evaluate this case. But in economic terms, it certainly feels as though I've deprived you of more than $100. So what have I actually taken from you?

[EDIT: This post was meant to pose a question. It was not meant as a frank disagreement with the parent post per se. I've cleaned up the wording a bit to try to make it clearer.]
This is a really well-written article. It's clear, concise and sticks to the point, not drowning the reader in anecdotes and unrelated analogies. I've thought these same thoughts myself when explaining automation and how it would affect their lives to my parents, and was met with mostly indifference not because they were stubborn but because they simply couldn't wrap their heads around the idea that a computer (which, when they were growing up as teens, weren't even capable of doing things like e-mails) could ever fully replace them, people who studied for years to master and certify their respective jobs. This article describes that experience in a truly creative and interesting way.
While $1B is certainly a lot of money this is the first time (in a long time) I would have rather seen the founder not sell. Musically has a very unique approach to encourage and enable users to create content that I have not seen on any other platform (challenges, smooth video creation process, etc). While I am certainly not in the target demographic I am sure we will see this approach in future (video)content platforms.
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It would also be unfair to assume people would have continued to invest in bitcoin. That's an investment decision, and should not be part of the claim. Imagine if bitcoin had gone to 1/70 instead of 70x, would you still want to be paid back in bitcoins or currency value?
This kind of rhetoric is why we can't have civil discussions on this topic and why articles like this get flagged. Just concluding that "I think X is obvious and if you disagree then we have nothing further to discuss" will just result lose-lose situation for everyone.

There has been games built on the idea of trolling. I have personally been in a guild where the distinction between "just a choice of what words" and "they really mean it" resulted in a person being expelled from the group. The concept is fairly well established, but the effect isn't. This article gives additional data but the interpretation is up for discussion.

For example, do the data say that female players are treated worse by poor performing males, or do poor performing males act more submissive towards high performing males? The article do take a very biological view of the problem, so maybe we should compare the findings with studies done in nature on how animal use displaced aggression. About 80% of aggression in Baboons are are displaced aggression, normally done by a high ranking male having a setback and then go and attacking a low ranking male as form of stress management. If I recall right, the lowest ranking males don't have anyone else to displace the aggression so go after low ranking females instead.
Oh I know, (sysadmin here) but it has a host of other problems. For example security wise, distro specific quirks etc. I do have to acknowledge it has worked when nothing else has sometimes, and I liked how easy it was to use with samba. Also I prefer IPP these days, at least when stuck dealing with windows clients.
Speaking as a content director myself and former writer/journalist, it does kill me a little inside that much of my day is spent around figuring out how to do this mimicking and how much I have to push my writers to think about this too in their writing. The state of the media industry/content makes me sad.

Also just read this, coincidentally, about Buzzfeed today: https://www.startups.co/articles/interview-jonah-peretti-co-...
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It doesn't, parent poster was confused. The bones are required to make the method useful
I'm assuming because the lawyers managing the bankruptcy process tried recovering a certain amount of money in Yen, with the books being handled in Yen. Normal people deal with currency, not Bitcoin. Especially in 2013.

In bankruptcy proceedings, most assets are sold off and the remaining cash is distributed to shareholders and the likes.
You're being paid out your Yen amount (just like any other person who had a claim) but converted into Bitcoin (at todays prices, since the Bitcoins are gone / have been liquidated).
That's quite true. When you say you're a plumber, people can at least ask half-assed questions or provide a story when they were doing that themselves. When you say you're a programmer, the conversation usually ends with "Oh.". They have literally no clue how to get into the area.

How many of you have girlfriends who are genuinely interested in your craft and regularly talk with you about it ? Say, once per week. But if you're a photographer, that's instantly understandable to anyone. Anyone can chime in.

This reminds me of the time when Charlie Chaplin said to his friend Albert Einstein: "People like me because everyone understands me. People like you because no one understands you."
I don't know, that's like saying that the one way to measure quality of journalism is by number of clicks.

Good UX should help conversion rate, but so might dark patterns, obnoxious popups, lies, etc.
This is exactly the reason I despise Spring with a deep and abiding passion.

"Just add this dependency, and add these annotations to your class, and it will all Just Work."

"But...what do those annotations actually do?"

"Stop asking so many questions!"

I mean, I know the answers are out there, it's open source after all. But so much of it seems deliberately designed to obfuscate the flow of execution and make reasoning about the code as difficult as possible.
The funny thing is, people here and on Reddit bring out the argument "it's only censorship when a government does it! A private company can do whatever they want!" all the time when it's opinions they don't like being removed. But when it affects them, all a sudden it's censorship again.
You'd think we'd have a shared hard drive today.
This is forgetting that most craftsmanship small shops or other individual profession are self-employed and don't have minimum wage, maximum hours, unemployment benefits, etc. Think about bakers, nurses (outside of clinics/hospital), etc. It is not clear why "taxi drivers" shouldn't be allowed for people to be self-employed and managed their time themselves.
He has a YouTube channel now. https://www.youtube.com/user/Afrotechmods
Sure, but the appropriate amount, in my mind would have been $100 plus prevailing interest, not some in-kind distribution. Suppose there is only one milkshake in the world and it got destroyed, how would you ever repay the claim except by converting to currency value?
Infinite tape; party on...
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I've never seen wizards in fantasy novels have to deal with myriads of JIRA tickets, attend interminable mind-numbing meetings and solve impossible dependency hells. I guess that's why they call it fantasy.
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Another Valley company has wasted 17M USD
Maybe you've been at it longer than me.. and as one gets more experienced/jaded ones analogies become less romantic.. Wizard!, tradesman, garbageman, bureaucrat... I hope it doesnt get down to politician!!

Also software is a huge field and where u work in it probably has an effect. I never do internety stuff for example, I make computer games.
That's exactly how I feel about express middleware...
Sure thing, I suppose I could add a few feeds just to test it. Lol I think I'm subscribed to over 100, (or more,) so adding them by hand might not be the most fun thing.
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I forgot about that! Interesting point.
The senior staff at Unseen University in Pratchett's Discworld series are a lot like this.
Not at all! I just thought it was funny that I was accidentally still correct even though I totally didn't mean it that way.

Why does the water level have to be controlled so precisely in those pools? Is there some technical reason or is it another tourism related thing like turning up the waterfall's flow during the day?
Having a physical remote isn't the value proposition. Being able to remotely control a wide variety of aspects of my home is the service I would pay for. The hardware that accomplishes that is irrelevant.
Yeah, that would be me. :) At some point we supported it, but it turned out that for security reasons you would have to have a separate domain for your remoteStorage than your Nextcloud – which kind of defeats the purpose of easy integration.

At leas that is what I recall. Still think it would be great to integrate remoteStorage properly with Nextcloud! :)
If you want to impress people as a programmer, I think it helps to have imagination and side projects. Visual programming is nice, too (like SVG).
Right but if I’m shopping at Whole Foods, all the red grapes are organic. So are the eggs, whether they’re $4 or $9 a dozen.