skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Open Source" (as if it's a single movement) didn't win in creating desirable, accessible, commercial or beautiful software.

It 'won' in the worst possible way - big companies like Amazon and Facebook took the work, hid it in their datacenters behind their paywalls, and use it to extract money from people.

Nobody has any more freedom with their data and their computing because Facebook uses PHP, than they would have on a proprietary desktop OS.

"you can have an open source OS and browser which connects you to a restrictive interface where your data is under someone else's control" is a lose for all of us.
"Fabric" has had a generic distributed meaning way before the Python tool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabric_computing

Microsoft's full product name is "Azure Service Fabric" which properly disambiguates it rather than staking a claim to a common network-related single English word as you claim the Python fabric library does.
Related to this?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-16/analyst-spots-14-b...
I might add, that exchanging these BTC into fiat is a taxable event.
That is not how it works these days, a lot of things can update separately from Windows itself, my current solution is to use Scoop an open source Windows CLI package manager which can update it whenever a new version comes out
I don’t know how you can link to an article about banning killing machine video content as a comparison to banning gay content with a straight face.

This is an example of YouTube taking positive social responsibility which is fantastic. And no, “positive” is not subjective in this case at at all.
What would appear in a lightweight fork of Riot though?
Do you just remove a lot of the fluff to make it a bit more accessible for the public/general consumer?
> His bedroom is upstairs. That's where police found him sleeping when 15 officers raided the family home last Wednesday morning.

Calculate the cost of the 15 officers raid plus prosecution plus the damages to the teenager and repeatedly bash it over the head of the responsible officer in the next election. This is how to deal with this shit in democracy. Even if people are insensitive to someone else's freedom they are sensitive about their money.
"You Can't Do Data Science Effectively in a GUI" would have been a more honest title, as that is the crux of the speaker's talk.
FB does an amazing job in crisis management at gunpoint?!
US law prohibits businesses from discrimination. If you're sued, you can't argue that you only discriminated the average amount.
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Reminds me of feeding black licorice "Drop" to non Dutch people, make sure napkins or a trash can is nearby for them to spit it back out.
Can exit popup extension really increase sales?
The whole problem is that single cases are not statistics yet people would live to apply global generalized statistics to single cases.

What you touched upon is the accuracy/ bias trade-off. To have evidence in particular case you need to attempt to debias the particular system and see how it affects accuracy. Sometimes, it may even vastly improve it.

What is more important is that the systems are not benchmarked properly. As in compared against very simple metrics and systems. Such as: against random decision. Against simple recidivism prevention (grudge system). Against plain math metrics with constants.

To add, they're opaque and it is impossible to easily extract the factors that went into any given single decision. This means they act fully irrationally. Intelligently but irrationally.
Would you say it's a correct description of Matrix to call it "Jabber/XMP without the whole XML mess and over HTTP"?
The author may be wrong in some areas, but I think he is also right elsewhere. I don't think your TLDR is accurate.
More competition has not lead to better conditions for workers. We are currently at such a low level of employment that economists don't know what the natural level of employment is anymore and this is still happening to employees.

You're argument that "they would have had it worse" assumes that that Amazon wouldn't have employees these people if they were only making billionaires instead of people worth 100s of billions. How is western society making more money and goods than ever but the average worker is doing worse while the richest are getting richer than ever?

Unfettered capitalism doesn't lead to all boats rising because eventually you run against hard limits like how many ISPs can run wires on telephone polls, or how many tons of freight can be physically moved from point a to point b. Someone will eventually take control of one of these natural monoplies and extract as much rent as possible from both employees and consumers unless they are forced to do otherwise.

To state that, in an era of less regulation than in America's golden age where we see the average citizen's life stagnating or even getting worse, we need even less regulation so that the people who are worth more than entire countries can compete better is at best putting your head in the sand and at worst being actively against your fellow man.

Not everyone deserves a fucking Lamborghini and steak every night with our current technology but they certainly don't deserve to have to choose between food and medicine or to have to piss in a fucking bottle to save their bosses a few dollars in exchange for not being made homeless

Edit:your point about the government in Seattle not helping out because they make more money from people asking for regulations is not something I am arguing against, as you certainly have a point there. I think the main problem is that most humans on an instinctual level would value a 1% gain in their resources infinitely higher than preventing a 50% loss in all of societys resources and so we end up with assholes everywhere trying their best to be the quoted example on Wikipedia about the tragedy of the commons
For a non-safety feature they do scream a lot about how many lives it saved...
"Surveillance Risk" means that there is a risk that somebody other than the French government can do surveillance.

> If so, this might be either pretty expensive or could go wrong.

Keep in mind that they also wasted millions on building a "Google Competitor": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero

For the people receiving the money it didn't go wrong though.
The problem is usually the smug owners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFn1WEaYY3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIjnmVkzOM4

And Telsa, whilst more innovate than a Prius seems to have created latest generation of smugness (at least it seems that way on Twitter and their new model 3).
As I am trying to put my iPad Pro 12.9 to more productive use, the single most limiting thing is, that the files application does not have access to all apps document storage. E.g. I cannot move a movie file from iCloud to the TV app or vice versa. Nor can I easily move other files from app to app. Nor can I copy files from and to external media connected via USB. Images are special cased as apps can access the photo library and you can drag and drop them, but real file access via the files app would be more flexible. Fixing this should be possible without a conceptual change of the app concept and would enhance the productive use immensely.

As a developer of course there is the other big limitiation: the constraints of developing software on the iPad. For me, this is the main distinction between a device and a computer: the ability to program it. Due to the app store and its rules, iOS is a very secure and stable environment. This makes the iOS platform very attractive, and I think it was the right approach to start with a restricted environment and remove some restrictions over time. So I do think it makes sense to limit distribution of apps to the app store, but the restriction on what apps can do on the device should be reviewed, even if that blurs the lines to the app store. An environment like termux, which still could be completely sandboxed, would increase the usability of the iPad a lot. Or even, going completely crazy, a whole Linux VM in an app sandbox. On the other side, having a full blown IDE for creating and locally running iOS applications would be a huge step forward.

The hardware itself leaves little wishes - except perhaps for a small overwork of the smart keyboard to have that additional row of function keys (less urgent) and of course the escape key. And little improvements of the ergonomics of the cursor and the return key. While the non-programmers users probably can live with the current layout, I am really surprised that Apple is ignoring the needs of any programmers so thoroughly.
I’ll tell you more: _human judgment_ contains bias. You can’t possibly think logically about every single judgment, particularly when information is incomplete, which it is in the overwhelming majority of cases. It is not a given, to me, that on average AI does any worse than the human population outside the “woke” segment. Or even _within_ that segment considered in isolation.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero
The spin here is funny. The article pretends this is done to prevent eavesdropping, while it is probably closer to the truth that this is done to ensure eavesdropping by the DGSI.
There are two different arguments here, one very common and long lived that Apple is good at protecting users, and the other that Apple is not prioritizing the process for web developers. Maybe you are conflating them?
That vision was abandoned while Jobs was still around. It was a way to bootstrap the first wave of apps but Apple’s principles of quality and security mean it’s not feasible. I’ll be really disappointed if they give in to the PWA movement and sacrifice those principles.

I don’t quite understand what the issue with native apps is in all honesty?
He's Israeli. Not sure if he lives there right now though.
A unified algorithm for elementary functions (1971) [pdf]
I´m not surprised by this if it´s really true. Zuckerberg's focus should be on his users and not the advertisers and organizations. I think he wants to compare Facebook with Google in collecting data. And there are many other Social Networks which we can use. If Facebook doesn´t change his plans than it might go down. Not at the moment but steadily year after year.
The correction would be to make the systems learn continuously in an online fashion. This is a hard open algorithmic problem though - how to achieve that in a stable robust way.
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Pretty sure a recent update to Wine allows you to run Photoshop in Wine on Linux
thanks! thats exactly what I was looking for since instagram disabled the /?__a=1 url
Added, awesome, definitely keen.
Good luck and hopefully the inevitable negativity of the internet isn't too bitter!
Yeah I know about Citibike, Velib, Capital Bikeshare, and the Nike ones in Portland, all of which are part of how I ended up accumulating enough experience of the topic to end up baffled that they're actually popular. But from your comments I realize it's about avoiding a commitment. And I'm not trying to sound as judgmental as that probably sounds. It's to enable you to NOT own a bike. But for reference here's how I've dealt with your five issues:

1. My current bike cost $550 new, 6 years ago, so that would've been less than $100/yr, if I hadn't replaced parts and spent more. But I get unlimited rides. And it'll last another 20 years if I'm not a fad-follower and don't get reckless or unlucky.

2. I do it myself, that way I'm the one in control of when it fails to get done.

3. Always lock it. Never had a problem. Having a cheap $550 bike probably helps.

4. Yep America's like that. I carry mine up & down from the 3rd floor. If I move I'll choose not to live above the 3rd floor. Or maybe I'll live on the 5th floor after all, and become a bad-ass with huge calves and five flights of endurance.

5. I wear rain gear.
Download LAN messenger (Internal chat) software for your office premises
How E-commerce Startup Is a Great Idea
They're being practical. They couldn't win - neither by spreading FUD, calling Linux "a cancer", funding the SCO lawsuit - so they choose to "embrace" Linux and open source whenever it suits them.

On the other hand their contempt for the (paying!) customer is sill blatantly evident, it's right there in Windows 10 telemetry settings being reset.
A super rugged ereader, waterproof with solar panels on the back and pre-loaded with Wikipedia and other useful educational resources.

I'd find that useful. I'm sure people/kids in developing countries would too.
Probably. I'm able to piece together a lot more of what happened and why in Count Zero than I am from Neuromancer. But I still think they're both "required reading". Neuromancer has its great bits that are worth reading and mulling over.

I remember being blown away by the Rasta. Because even in a book that predicted an information matrix connecting everything before the internet existed, that character predicted the culture that would form on it.

He compares their internet to Babylon, which in Rastafari thought refers to Israel's captivity by Babylon and is a symbol of oppressive foreign power. The internet can be an oppressive place with the advertising and the tracking and the pressures of social media.

But beyond just that, Babylon to someone like a Rasta also points back to Babel, and the Tower of Babel was a massive structure built by humanity to unite themselves and become like gods, but which led to their division instead (a theme which is the core of Snow Crash as well).

The modern internet is definitely a massive structure, and on one hand provides a previously unimaginable access to information (Snow Crash considers the possibility that the Tower was built for astrological purposes, thus it too is built for purposes of information). It can sometimes feel like being virtually omniscient. But we've also seen that as people connect online, memes which trigger strong negative emotions spread rapidly. People are once again becoming divided, as we've seen with political developments in recent years.

It probably helped that I read it while dubstep (which originally spun off from dub) was still sweeping the internet so that helped make the connection all the more intriguing.
Prospectors have been known to take sourdough starters to make bread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourdough#History

On the lam, no. In a team with a waggon or two to carry flour and a dutch oven, absolutely.
Contingency.

That's just a standard good governance principle.
> Empirically, what other US car company is making as big of a difference in greening transport?

Assuming you're not fixated on "car company" per se (because why should corporate form matter), then Janette Sadik-Khan and NYCDoT have probably made a bigger difference in greening US transport than Tesla to date. And worldwide, of course, there are countless contenders.

"Greening" is only half the battle: the other half is liveable cities and streets. Personal motor transport makes that worse, whether electric or internal combustion. If Musk delivers on better public transport then Tesla can claim some credit there, but as yet there's nothing to show.
You can create a shortcut to

C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL mmsys.cpl,,playback
Fair enough. When I said profitable, I used the wrong word for what I meant. What I meant to say was sustainable. Profitable public transit is easily sustainable. Unprofitable public transit, harder to make sustainable, requires a really serious government commitment, and there are so many other things that also seriously require government equipment. For example, if I had to choose between Vancouver having good public transit and good public health care, I'd choose good public health care. Of course in an ideal world, they'd find funding for two (and more) unprofitable public programs.
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Especially as they are still in the process of "debugging" the production line to achieve the planned production speeds, it should be no surprise that they might want to do some changes to the production line which would require stopping it while applying those changes. So these stops could be actually quite good news as the production should be boosted long term.
1. [...]

Seems reasonable...

2. [...]

Okay, but seriously. Excel spreadsheets, dude. I mean, come on.

3. [...]

I'm not going to defend being a lazy shit bag, but developers are soldiers, and we are not paid to think. We are not paid to think. We are not paid to think.

We are paid to follow orders. We are paid to not act out of turn. We are paid to shut up, mind our own business, and not form opinions, while delivering predictable results, in a reliable fashion, without garrish creativity.

The inirtia of an organization involving the efforts of tens or hundreds of people, will, in many cases stultify the best intentions of any well-meaning, self-sacrificing individual.

In some cases it is absolute death to jump the line, and cut to the chase, simply because of observed inefficiency. Sometimes, you just have to see a thing, know it's a problem, and wait for the responsible person to act on it, no matter how ferociously it burns.

4. [...]

That's because modern civilization as we know it, is just absolutely beyond fucking absurd. And lately especially so. I get that listening to people bitch and moan is a chore, but this isn't about "what the company does" and is instead about having the taste to not be snarky within an inappropriate context. It in the same family of behavioral qualities as not being a douche nozzle, and using harsh language in front of small children.

See also: We are not paid to think. We are paid to shut up and mind our own business.

5. [...]

This feels like incomplete information. Did you give them more [double] money for the same work, and then they instead asked you if they could keep their original [single] money, but work half as much? I sense a ratio that isn't entirely irrational in this situation.
I think the bigger problem with the business model is that the things break down constantly. I usually have to check >5 of them to find one that works.
In you position, you are privy to a lot of information about your customers identities and order sizes before the order is executed. Do you sell this information to other customers? Because if you did, your example would be comparable to what's being discussed here.
That's why I have a simple rule:

"No JavaScript on the desktop"

And suddenly 8GBs of ram is at least 4x too much(Linux) even when I'm using "bloated" Java apps...

https://suckless.org/sucks/web/:

Millions of jobs are based on outputting HTML in an inefficient way.
I'm thinking seriusly installing on an old computer that haves Windows XP and a Debian 9.
I have Windows XP there, because is the last Windows that supports a old Roland plotter from early of 90's. ReactOS can use Windows XP drivers ?
SecondLife was almost there, with its own economy and all. And so did other games like Eve online.

But the problem was economy. A virtual world with a centralized economy can never get enough traction because people must trust the platform completely. Otherwise all their riches they accumulated in the virtual world can be wiped out overnight and they can't do anything about it.

This is why projects like Decentraland (over Ethereum) and High Fidelity (by the founder of SecondLife) are getting attention.
I´m the COO of Zenkit, a project management tool. But that´s not the point right now. On our Blog https://blog.zenkit.com we want to try to show people how to work effectively alone, in teams and remote. We also show how to use systems like Zenkit to organize every company level.
"Is too complex?" it is not right type of question. "How many people should work exclusively on K8S?" is right type of question.
If you put a human in charge of a judgement call, mostly there are mechanisms to monitor them, a requirement that they give reasons for their decisions, and mechanisms to appeal those judgements.

We aren't used to having to do that with decisions made by computers.

It's not that AI makes better or worse decisions, it's the way we treat those decisions.
If you're talking about the metadata, yes, probably. It 's the same kind of eavesdropping capability you'd have from Signal servers (i.e: not much).

Also: from what we've seen of Macron's team, they've proven that they have good-enough internal technical advisors; so it remains to be seen if they'd use a solution that can be eavesdropped.
But there's no way to do so in JavaScript unless you implement a numeric type by hand

This is not true: with 64-bit floating-point numbers, calculations on numbers in a range from Number.MIN_SAFE_INTEGER (2^53-1) to Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (-2^53-1) are safe to do. If you go outside this range, the numbers are no longer exact, so you'll have to check for overflow, but it's the same when you use native machine integer types (e.g. uint64) in most languages that have them.

The only situation when a JavaScript Number type is treated as an integer is a vendor specific optimization for small integers (e.g: Smi in v8).

A number is integer if it doesn't have a fractional component regardless of how it's represented by a computer.

There are also operations in JavaScript that treat their inputs as 32-bit integers (numbers are taken modulo 2^32), such as bitwise operations and Math.imul. But if you don't use them, integers can be as large or as small as described above.
Rent in SF is over $5 per square foot per month. So if your bike displaces the use of 6 square feet in your apartment you're paying $30 per month to house it. If you only want a bike a few times a year it's better to rent.
The real question is not what but why. I can think of several ways how the entire ad industry could be done without any data collection on users.
Microsoft is becoming the cool company once again by embracing open-source technologies and contributing to various other OS projects. They are refocusing their business all around Azure subscriptions.
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> With humans, you can change an opinion.

Do you ever see anybody change their opinion? Usually they won't change simply after hearing an argument. They change only when they have an utterly different life experience. In other words, only when they are conditioned by new data, in no ways different from how an AI changes its opinion.
> You may be overestimating how easy cut and cover is.

Not only that, it's not always feasible depending on the depth of the tunnel. The 2nd ave tunnel is 80 feet deep, and in a city with heavy underground infrastructure already in place.
Untangling cause from effect in this case is extremely hard.

It is like with plagues. If you put many people with plague in one area do expect that others will catch it. If the rule to segregate is silly enough do expect a correlation of plague with certain characteristics of people put together and the locations. Or their sizes. Maybe it is "cities" or "presence of slums" not skin colour, combined with overrepresentation of people with certain skin colour in them.

It takes some write genius analysis and experimentation to untangle such complex effects from causes.

Call again when you have an AI that can deal with this. Essentially a researcher AI.
I came around to this couple of days late, so I don't know if it's worth it but here's my take on it.

Your identified problem was - Don't like cooking and don't want to eat outside.

The solution you had was - crowdsource cooking.

But how about looking it in another way? What do you disliked more - cooking or unhealthy outside food?

I dislike cooking. One of the issues with cooking is that prep, measurement and deciding menu takes time. Lot of times I am stuck with - what to cook today?

So, how do we solve this problem? Meal Kits.

I know they still don't take away from the fact that you need to cook. But it is similar to getting food from outside, even if they are your neighbor.

So, it is not only the problem but solution that matters as well.
Thanks for the insightful response. Declarative, classic Unix VM automation definitely is filled with work arounds and hidden surprises.