skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>* a setup that doesn't violate EULAs

This was a reference to what you're talking about.
Half Life: The Decay of Knowledge and What to Do About It
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Please stop using console.log(), it’s broken…
> Which is why eating in fast food joints is playing russian roulette with your diet. You literally have no idea of what goes into the food.

Aren't they mandated to print truthful nutrition information?
Baidu is pretty much limited to a single country, mind you. And Yahoo uses Bing data, and almost certainly pays Microsoft for it.

Microsoft almost certainly spends a lot less money on Bing than Google spends on Google Search, there's a good chance that Microsoft's spending per search query is lower than Google's. Bear in mind, being "good enough" costs significantly less than being "the best".

Also, Microsoft announced that Bing started being profitable in 2015, and they've grown since: http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-bing-search-business...
Upon re-reading I realize my last sentence did not come out exactly as I wanted to say it. What I really meant was that in the end (when they left the house) I realized that you both have and haven't a lot of influence on your children.

And even though I'm really happy with the way they turned out, and we like patting ourselves on the back for that, it's just as true that things could have gone sideways so easily due to bad luck, circumstances, things not under our control.

And all the good intentions beforehand notwithstanding: people have their faults, have bad days, can be unlucky.

Love, understanding, empathy, and humility make life so much better for everyone.
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Well the difference there is that people wanting to become actors or artists know it is a long shot, and that most likely they will end up waiting tables or tending bar in hopes of a big break that never comes. At least in times of bubbles, SV isn't like that - people found companies and hire people who do quite well until the bubble bursts.
We properly presume your network to be hostile and malicious to security. You've declared it so. Therefor everything is encrypted and secured. Your hostile network is no different than a hostile network of a small country bent on attacking the security of the communication.

So feel free to have insecure communication provided you control all devices on the network. It will still be insecure.
Calling it just a "nifty UI" really, really downplays the advancements and ease of use added to it. To the point where the jab at Slack is just childish.
With respect to #15 and 16, how is LambdaSchool not the same AND what happens if your numbers do not go as projected? How will you avoid becoming these points in the future if LambdaSchool does not gain traction?
The doubling of knowledge increases the learning load over time. As a body of knowledge doubles so does the cost of wrapping your head around what we already know. This cost is the burden of knowledge. To be the best in a general field today requires that you know more than the person who was the best only 20 years ago. Not only do you have to be better to be the best, but you also have to be better just to stay in the game.
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Back in the day (late 1980's) there was ample motivation as I had no knowledge of or access to the 65816. Programmable logic has changed the landscape since then -- and btw I have whimsically contemplated a modern re-issue of the KK. (I've also contemplated some KK-ish hacks that would yield an improved 65816!) But I agree the scope for practical application has shrunken. In the first place you'd need to be committed to the 65xx family, because alternative, modern processors offer compelling advantages not featured by 65xx.

That said, KK has features not present on the 65816, and in certain applications these could be pivotal. Obvious examples include the NEXT instruction and the new addressing mode. Less obviously, KK preserves the 65C02's bit-manipulation instructions, which can be a boon in I/O-intensive code. The '816 sacrificed these opcodes to make room for alternative, also-worthy objectives.
You're being incredibly mean-spirited in your comments.

More importantly, you're wrong. Lots of people (myself included) use and love Dropbox, and find it valuable.

You're not actually saying anything specific in your comment, just "it's not valuable". Do you want to offer actual criticism?
Let's hope not. Oracle is where innovation goes to die. Their catalog of software is a horrendous maze of interconnected crap. Dealing with that suite nearly brought me to leave my current organization. Mercifully I was moved off that team.
There is a large list of public XMPP servers one can register on ( https://list.jabber.at/ & https://xmpp.net/directory.php )

https://movim.eu/ is another option (has a fancy web client, android & linux client and of course supports any XMPP client)
The key I found it so listen to something very familiar so that you can focus just enough to keep any anxiety at bay, but that doesn't demand too much attention. As I said in an earlier comment, I found listening to familiar movie dialog a reasonable solution.
I was using it mostly with VSCode and fs(harp)i/fs(harp)c as well, because I didn't have Visual Studio Professional (you can't use community at work) on my company computer.

With VS it's quite easy to manage projects. The cool thing about Rust is that the Cargo system works well from a simple text editor. And with cargo init you get an empty project set up.
Ford.
So true, I've worked in tons of places with proxies but zero with epoxied usb ports or locked down network configuration. The only thing these proxies ever achieved was lower productivity due to hours of configuring custom software or not being able to browse useful information on legit sites like stackoverflow. It's just a play from IT so they can add a tickbox saying their network is secure when in fact it's a big fat joke as these proxies usually act on a blacklist basis and not whitelist.
I have lost ~50 lbs on a keto diet. I test for ketones almost daily and only fall out of keto 1 out of 10 days or so.

My blood chemistry is better than it ever has been. My A1C is great. My LDL and VLDL are very low. I eat saturated fat and olive oil. I eat fish 2 or more times a week. Some white fish (cod) but mostly salmon and a little tuna. I have more weight to lose, maybe another 40 lbs. I was trending towards metabolic syndrome before keto. I exercise for 40 to 50 mins a day, 5 days a week. Strength training walking and more.

Since going keto (2 years ago) I have had no colds, no ear infections, no sinus infections. I have had the flu once. That is it. I used to get a lot of ear infections and colds and more. Several times a year.

I have heart disease. I had 4-way bypass more than 10 years ago. I take a statin and aspirin.

I am under two doctors care, a primary and a cardiologist. They support my keto diet. My primary says my systemic level of infection is very low resulting in less sickness.

I am a sample size of one so take that for what it is worth.
On the top image, I see that the back side of the page has clearly leaked through. In my experiences with scanning paper, I found a trick that essentially eliminates any visible backside content: Using a flatbed scanner, I would scan with the lid open, and the room darkened.

The worst thing to do is to scan with the lid closed, with a lid that has a white background. This would increase the reflection from the backside of the page.
Something very basic, such as "comment what you're working on so I can help" or "just write me a brief email outlining what you want to learn" or "you are aware learning to be a developer takes more than 2 or 3 months from zero knowledge, right?"
> you can bet your bottom dollar that when HR is hiring at Purdue they take the ag science BS grads over the high school grads.

And I bet that is true. The person who graduated with a BS in agriculture science is able to complete the BS in agriculture science for the same reason that they will do well in the work place. The fact that the person was selected by the school to enrol in a ag science program means that the person is already determined to be better suited to the workplace the someone of the average population. They were already the best hire before they even enrolled to study agriculture science.

I mean, if you handed a agriculture science BS to a homeless person with a drug addiction, I bet the high school graduate is going to start looking far more appealing in comparison. However, someone who is homeless with a drug addiction problem is going to be immediately escorted off college campus even if he tried to get a degree. The degree isn't the appealing part to employers. It's the type of person who is able to attain a degree.

> there is no practical reason to not hire a college graduate for almost any job nowadays because there are so many of them looking for work at any rate beyond part time minimum wage.

I am not sure what you mean. Only about 30% of the workforce have a college degree. Employers don't have the choice to hire college graduates, even if they wanted to. Although that you say that a large portion of that 30% are struggling to find work is fascinating and, as income is a result of supply and demand, supports that incomes are not rising with attainment.

> Even if their degree is wholly inappropriate for your job, and even if your job has no reason to expect a college degree, just the fact they have one means two things - A. they can put up with rote bullshit while having the choice not to for years, and B. they are almost always indebted and thus are going to be more loyal to the paycheck.

Which is all well and good, but the fact remains that the income bonus isn't showing up in the data. These people are making the same amount as they would have had they not gone to college. They are making more than the drug addicted homeless person, yes, but that is not because of school. They would still be making more than the drug addicted homeless person even without school. And the Bill Gates of the world would still be making more money than you even if school wasn't a thing. Income diversity across the population has been around as long as we have been able to measure income and it was never a result of who went to school and who didn't.
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I applaud the intention behind it but it would be yet another addition to such endeavors. Problem is not the lack of such ideas, the problem is lack of any organized approach to address this problem at a Global Stage.

Similar to World coming together to fight against measles and polio, basic human needs such as shelter, etc. need to be met.
Presumably ordinary people selected at random are harder to bribe than people who are pretty much required to accept donations to get elected. These donations often have strings attached.

Besides that 'The desire to be a politician should be enough to ban you from ever becoming one' (Bill Connolly), those who don't accept dubious donations will suffer in advertising dollars compared to those who do.
Lambda School - I'll contact your organization... which contact should I use? I can only find prospective student contacts.
How to Easily Share React Components Between Projects and Apps
A species that destroys itself should probably take a sick day at home and get better before infecting the rest of the universe.

If there was an alternative to living on Earth, the "life boats" would invariably go to just the ultra wealthy. If you think large wealth disparity is harmful now, imagine how unconcerned the ultra wealthy will be about the Earth's fate when they didn't have to share it.
At least another decade! There are significant technical hurdles for any near-eye display, such as brightness both of the AR components, and pass-through of the real world. Those are not solved problems, especially without creating a $10,000+ device. Resolution is a challenge, especially with something like an FSD, and with diffractive waveguides other optical gremlins lurk. Form factor is also no joke when wearing something on your face, especially when it’s being partly supported by your nose.

Throwing money at this is necessary to solve the issues outlined, but not today and not next year. It’s also possible thst in a decade we’ll discover that other issues arise which require, surprise, more time and money to solve. Remember that for most people AR/VR still has to compete with traditional displays, which get cheaper, have higher resolution, and are lighter and thinner than ever before.

If really flexible screens or holographic tech makes a leap in that decade+ too, then AR/VR could find that it’s no longer even that desirable as more than a niche tool/toy.
Amusing. A couple of years ago, a review of a volume of Mailer's letters said that he had a "big guilt mountain" of friends' books still unread, and a "little guilt mountain" of letters unread or at least unanswered.
How hard is it to build in Silicon Valley? Here’s one example
BSc thesis summary: Neural networks with ReLU activation are splines
I don't see how the tuple is better in this case since the first thing you need to do is check the flag to see if the value is valid. The tuple version then needs to be split over two lines instead of a single line like

if(TryGetSomething(3, out MyType outvar)) { ... }
Its great that this contest is focused on positive applications of technology. This science fiction project from ASU is related: http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/ The goal was science fiction short stories that inspire and set an example for young minds. Much of science fiction is now dystopian. Each story highlights the potential good that science can do and creates a sense of wonder and longing to learn more and do good things with science and technology.
One central theme is that we have all of the technology we need to solve basic problems on the hardware, software side of things. What we are lacking is political will. Some of the stories tackle this topic: what would new tools look like that would help the political system and make it better?
Two that would be great to see for this hardware hackaday: distributed mesh network internet and hardware vaults that hold blockchain contracts of ownership for everything. Another cool one is the haptic feedback shirt. Looking forward to seeing how this contest plays out.
> When a player encounters a non-player character in Far Cry 5, two systems are at work: trust and morale. If you raise your weapon at someone you've never met before, they will react with distrust or fear, warning you to lower your gun. If the NPC recognises a lingering threat from you, it will launch an attack of its own, fearing for its own 'life'. When facing a group of enemies, as you pick off members of a gang, individual foes may realise they're outclassed and lose their thirst for combat, and attempt to flee as they sees their 'friends' taken out. Elsewhere, animal companions will respond to player activity, cowing close to the ground unprompted when you crouch into stealth, for instance. It's the sort of work that adds depth and realism to the world.

Fascinating. Meanwhile, watch Fred (a friendly AI in Far Cry 5) fly the player directly over a known enemy outpost, crash the helicopter, then later crouch immediately in front of the player when the player is trying to stalk the outpost - to the point where the weakness of the AI becomes the talking main point of the video:

https://youtu.be/iauG9h6N-PQ?t=377

Totally agreed one day this will make a difference, but in the meantime: game AI is still game AI.
Publishing to the internet, particularly nicely formatted and with a nice editor, is still a pita. A big pita. Worse if you're Steve Yegge and anything you write can get a hundred thousand visitors.

I ran a wordpress blog for a while. What a godawful piece of shit that is. Security critical updates all the time, and HAHAHAHA, they regularly break themes. I have no idea why, but probably because wordpress refuses to create a nice them api so they can try and gpl every theme. Plus it's slow. Plus it's difficult to secure. I had originally used a hosted wp instance until that got repeatedly hacked. Then I ran it myself. Yuck.

Then I used octopress for a while. I had to configure nginx and ssl and then deal with things like figuring out why pygments broke. Something went wrong with python which obviously I'm using inside by ruby blog engine. Mathjax deprecated their cdn and I'm still too lazy to go fix it.

Medium, imo, creates a nice solution where (1) writing is pleasant, (2) publishing is easy and comes out nicely formatted, and (3) when you're busy, you spend the majority of your time writing instead of doing ancillary things.
But is there much homelessness to solve outside of cities? When I think of poor rural areas I think of abandoned houses, not of people sleeping under the stars for lack of novel construction techniques.

The "help the poor" angle could be a clever attention hack though, if the technology is fast and cheap enough there might be a nice market in civil engineering somewhere between concrete and gabions to pivot to.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geogebra-augmented-reality/i...
BeOS had an threading implementation like this in C++ in 1999: https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/TheKernelKit_Thr...
Another great, highly opinionated, but still great, Yegge post.

My favorite quotations:

1. "Android’s dev stack is the world’s biggest poo sandwich"

2. "And Android? Yep. It’s the biggest poo sandwich of them all."

3. "...there are two Android APIs for getting mouse-click events on a scrolling list, but one of those APIs doesn’t work on LG. I mean come on."

4. "I love Kotlin; it’s the future of Java. But let’s face it: It’s not where the mobile market is headed. "

5. ... the Android org at Google is not sure whether cross-platform is good for them or bad for them, but that they are leaning towards “bad”

6. "most of the big shops are aggressively dumping [the android gradle build system] in favor of Buck — Facebook’s Android build system. Google is chasing a dying strategy here."

7. "guess who else is making a big play with a competing [android app] store? You guessed it: Jeff Bezos"

8. "if you’re locked in a fierce competitive race ... and need to launch faster, you should probably go with something other than Android Native ... Among the cross-platform options, React Native is looking like a winner"

9. "there are a lot of big sharks circling the Android boat. Google needs to be careful."
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The idea is that the funding mechanisms at the heart of democracy comes with strings attached - people who are pretty much required to accept donations to get elected. These donations often have strings attached.

Besides that 'The desire to be a politician should be enough to ban you from ever becoming one' (Bill Connolly), those who don't accept dubious donations will suffer in advertising dollars compared to those who do.

Additionally it has been noted that psychopaths often rise to the top - a problem that isn't presented with demarchy.
Seriously though, I'm glad I'm able to opt out of all this channelsy advertising-at-me business. I don't want to be a consumer in this market. I just want communication tools.

I'm looking forward to receiving my Librem 5, and I'm pleased Lineage continues producing phone software intended for users, not advertisers.
Ease of use is a very important feature, extremely conductive to actual work. Do not downplay that.
They're also not "random", they're an armed SWAT military/police squad.

Even if they were humans, it would be "Half Life 2", not "No Russian".
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I'd say technology can also increase the burden of skill. I.e. an average jigsaw and pencil line requires less skill and is safer than operating a CNC router, until the router gets a ton of failsafes, sensors, etc implemented. the Anti-crash features probably cost more in a CNC than the rest of the machine does (and that is why mine doesn't have any except the minimum).

You're right that quality matters. My take on this is designing for poor tolerances to still yield strong structures. This 3D printing approach looks good for some aspects, but the lack of a roof seems disqualifying for me. The roof is the hard part, and potentially the easiest part to do incorrectly/unsafely. I'm surprised they didn't just print in crenelations in the top edge to allow drop-in roof joists. a simple shed roof seems like it could have easily been integrated.
While this initiative goes against human nature (pay for a good when I’m entitled not to pay, that is “the crazy business man”), nothing prevent OSS devs from adding to their licenses clauses that require a 1% donation of profits into the 10 most used open source projects used by the company. It probably adds considerable friction to users adding the OSS code though.
That sounds pretty likely.
> The irony being that most of the big shops are aggressively dumping it in favor of Buck — Facebook’s Android build system. Google is chasing a dying strategy here.

Igave it a try to a "small" project and there weren't any noticeable advantage over Gradle (and given that Instant Run is working quite well, it was really buggy when it comes out).

I know for a fact that aside from Facebook, Uber uses it and comes out with a nice Gradle plugin for Buck called OkBuck[0]. I wonder what other big shops use as well. And I would like to know if anyone here has used it and saw any dramatic advantage over Gradle and worth investing time integrating Buck into current projects.

[0]: https://github.com/uber/okbuck
Just said.. it always eats resources, no changelogs, and customer service doesn't respond (even when I was a paying customer).
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Yes. but I am not sure if Nvidia is pushing it yet. But at least in Linux, you have to apply some patches to enable passthrough for consumer GPUs.
Hey HN,

Way back in the day when I first working on what'll become WL, I wrote about my experiences learning to code and posted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227770

It's been a fun, rocky, educational, stressful, and amazing few years, and I feel like it's time to pass it on to someone new.

I wrote this post with ALL the details (which are fun to read on their own, even if you're not interested in a weddings-based business). I hope you find it interesting!
Kinda not really keen on its perverse use of title with "Strongman". China makes up 1.38 billion people of the world's population and the over generalizations of the article don't highlight the issues that China faces in the coming few decades and the need for a unified leadership. Coming from the US's perspective, it's very hard to write a cohesive article that accurately reflects China, to be honest. Additionally, I think anyone from a high-density urban center like New York has a tough time taking into perspective how wide the country's foot-print is across Asia.

I may be equally unqualified, but its a pretty terse way to write about our largest economic party in the world.
The difference being that these are actually super helpful links. I'd be happy with an outline link being a permanent fixture. Get all the text and images, without all the garbage.
You should no better than that. It is only free in pure functional languages if they keep every single world around, then the overhead of checkpointing is nil because they are basically doing it already! So choose between "save the world because that's what we already do" or "save the world after the fact," it is pretty much the same.