skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using "empowerment and enablement" as an excuse for not doing the repair during warranty is not acceptable.

Why would I want to repair a computer in warranty if I could instead spend time with my friends?

If not in warranty, I of course would appreciate manuals' and spare parts' availability.

But those are two very different kind of situations.
I agree with you. The thing I do not like with the current ads on the internet is that you are implicitly agreeing to a contract which is written nowhere and that you have no way of reading.
Seems like in that scheme anyone can retrieve the encrypted secret without authentication (just by knowing the username), and then try to brute-force it at will.
I was watching the marvelous new edition of the Comos series, and it was really annoying the time spend rebuffing theories like "evolution does not exist" or "no prove of global warning". Please give more of the good stuff.
Ha! Grad school at CMU took a chainsaw to my GPA after 1st year. Studying 16h/day and still didn't have enough time to complete all assignments and understand the material.

Awesome school though, would do it again.
Found the sales guy!
I'll have to give that a try, thanks!
I think you can make this degree out of the standard electives offered in any good CS program, although the courses at CMU are more likely to be great rather than just good.

To me it was just "the cool CS electives that you get to do if you get all the math, stats and signal processing down pat."

Sad news is that the fields that make up these interesting classes are things that people do PhDs in, so unless you get a PhD you're unlikely to get anyone to pay you to do them when you're done and will get stuck making the help button for the Google Cloud for Education Administrators Console anyway...
> If you don't want to see the ad, simply don't read the article. What makes you think you have the right to the content, without abiding its terms?

We've entered no contract, you have no right to dictate any terms to me at all. Period.

If you'd like to chose to not display your content when I have a blocker enabled, so be it, I'll leave and never come back.

But to make an assumption that you have any sort of control of my time and attention is insidious. Fuck off.

I'm not stealing when I drive by billboards without reading them, I'm not stealing when I turn my tv off when commercials come on, I'm sure as fuck not stealing when I block your ads.

If you'd like to enter into a contract that actually tries to enforce your ludicrous idea that my attention is implicitly yours to demand, I'd suspect you'll find very few takers...
I've been liking Techmeme [1] recently, which presents stories with additional sources and social context from generally knowledgable people. From their about page:

> Techmeme accomplishes this [...] by linking to stories from all around the web. Spotlighting the writings of reporters, commentators, and industry players from across the media and industry landscape [..] sparing readers the impossible task of monitoring an abundance of news sites, tweets, and status updates.

[1] https://www.techmeme.com/
is browsing an open s3 bucket hacking?
Gilliam's Quixote to Screen at Cannes
Waterfall was worse, but in general, yes, Agile sucks. Most places I have worked have turned it into a kind of bludgeon that leads to high stress, lousy designs, and so-so outcomes. Been waiting for the "next thing."
How hard is it to know? Young investors want to invest their free time. Make a product, which lets you invest your time and gives you return on that without doing anything.

For example, if a homeless kid wants to go to Thailand to have fun. BlackRock's startup should offer ROI for doing this.
> No, I think if creators release their content in the world it becomes the world's. If you want to set terms rent a shed in the Nevada desert, charge admission, and make people leave their phones outside.

The law disagrees. Intellectual property is a real thing. You can argue that it shouldn't be, but it is. Releasing something into the world doesn't mean that you no longer own it.

> The idea that there are "terms" when there's never even been a negotiation is absurd.

There has been a negotiation. Sites have a TOS. The fact that you choose not to read it does not mean that you can ignore it.
Case study in brief: Residents of Wilson, NC were unable to purchase quality high-speed internet access at any price. The incumbent near-monopoly private ISP in the state was disinterested in servicing rural communities to any significant degree, citing "cost of infrastructure" as their primary reason to neglect these markets. Eventually the folks in Wilson got tired of ISDN-equivalent internet access and took matters into their own hands. The municipality floated a bond, contracted to lay fiber, and within a couple years had most of the town wired up with some of the fasted connectivity anywhere on the eastern seaboard. Then (and only then) Time Warner steps in and starts pressuring state legislators to do something because "government shouldn't compete with private industry". HB 129 was drafted, passed the GA, and the governor at the time, while refusing to sign the thing, also refused to veto it. Wilson's ISP was forced to halt expansion despite several other local rural communities interest in getting added to the network. Internet access in eastern NC still sucks, with no remedy in sight.
But the parent clearly says "The only reason many of us use credit cards is to collect points". Unless, of course only reason means something else.
It's a pretty good class now!
> I can't recommend highly enough that everyone at least turn on the audible sound when their assistants are listening.

How do I do that for Google home?
I do not think they do.
Amen, and it's not some bullshit guru/conspiracy theorist talk. People have no idea how important the monetary system is for power, and how it really works.
A CS degree with an AI concentration closer to that of a masters student than an undergrad. While I think the importance of this degree is small, there are jobs that will prefer that.
I think that the way computer science emerged from EE is totally distinct to what’s happening right now. CS eventually abstracted away all of the electrical engineering aspects of the discipline and as a result you need no knowledge of digital logic design to study computer science. AI/ML I don’t think will ever be this way; you will always need CS knowledge in order to experiment/run/optimize your algorithms.
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I almost wonder if they're under-required. At most one required from a set of three? Is that going to keep Skynet at bay? ;)
Interestingly you will get a completely different answer if you ask people how happy they are with their car compared to asking them how happy they were with their morning drive to the office.
Anyone have any idea if this work is aligning with the Decentralized Identifier specification, or vise versa? https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/
Maybe after the community chooses a few “winners” the Rust devs could promote them as being “suggested” packages?

Also, some suggested metapackages/bundles wouldn’t hurt for newbies, like a set of crates for developing command line tools, for example.

Something like this: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/
The headline is a classic misstatement / misunderstanding of the evolutionary process.

Genes mutate. Naturally. All the time. Sometimes those become and advantage. Sometimes not.

Vaccines aren't "pushing" anything. They simply change the definition of advantageous.

In other words, evolution is more a process of elimination than it is an evolution (in the traditional seek to make progress sort of way.)
> could it also not be limited to a voice it is trained to know?

iPhones already do this. My wife's iPhone won't respond to me, and vice versa.

Though I don't know if this is enough to mitigate the attack mentioned in TFA.
> We've entered no contract, you have no right to dictate any terms to me at all. Period.

That's fine for you to say, it just doesn't happen to be true. TOS are enforceable to some degree.

> But to make an assumption that you have any sort of control of my time and attention is insidious. Fuck off.

So, you think you have a right to their work product, but they don't have a right to your attention? Why the asymmetry?
I don't know anything about Aurora and maybe I'm missing something. But why not just wrap everything in a TRANSACTION and then do a ROLLBACK if there's an issue?
It's no surprise that the internet is full of "meta debate" and "social shaming" - arguing about the terms of debate and who can participate, and not over any core issues. For debates to be productive, all sides need to agree on at least some facts, and come from a place of good faith. Most places online, anyone can walk in and add their comment. They don't need to share any assumptions with the rest of the audience, and they probably aren't invested in having a productive debate anyway. It produces drive-by commenters.

Productive debates are more likely to happen in places with 1. Moderation and 2. an invested community. That's what makes HN successful, in my opinion.

But we can't turn every comment section into HN. Moderation is expensive. And some sites aren't niche enough to foster a sense of community.

So we should probably remove most comment sections.

News sites are particularly bad. Anyone can just stop by, leave their shitty opinion, and walk away.
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Exactly. The energy required to manufacture, transport, install and maintain it would all be taxed.
>I sometimes wonder why Lisp has not been more popular in the technology industry. Is it the lack of sufficient marketing?

In the late 70s, cheap computers (IMSAI, Altair) were almost unable to run Lisp for useful purposes. Too little memory.

Minicomputers (DEC PDP /etc) were able to run full Lisp implementations but it worked slower than using other languages.

Lisp Machines (MIT CONS, etc) were able to run Lisp fast but those were dedicated, specialized hardware. And expensive.

Enter the late 80s; Lisp ran great on personal computers but implementations AFAIK were mostly commercial, so reserved to big budgets. I'd say Common Lisp did have success on the industry, used for many things (3D, CAD/CAM, simulation, etc).

Meanwhile the rest of the world was on Pascal, C, and C++.

Nowadays things are different, there are many Common Lisp implementations that are free and are good (SBCL and CCL, for example, are lightning fast).

But additionally, it is difficult to understand what advantages would Lisp bring. For this, the developer would have to grok (completely understand) the enormous value of metaprogramming, and to understand as well how flexible is CLOS.
I run Pi hole on my home network, and then connect to my home network VPN on my phone and get mobile ad blocking.
I am from the United States, next year I am probably going to attend the the University of Edinburgh for The Computer Science and Artificial intelligence course. Something I have been wondering is how US employers view the university, particularly with the somewhat strange (at least in the US) course title - "Artificial intelligence?"
Ok, but I'm still wondering which hotels are these corporate-friendly anti-consumer hotels. I haven't seen any hotels with non-free Wifi, and I've stayed at quite a few different big ones.

As for continental breakfast, sure it's not as good as some really good sit-down breakfast restaurant, but it's free and more importantly it's fast: you just go down to the lobby and either eat it there or grab some stuff and take it back to your room to munch on before you leave for the day. It's a big time-saver. Going to a separate restaurant and waiting for food to be made for you and delivered and then waiting and waiting and waiting for the waiter to bring you the check takes a lot of time.
I have been using DOT diagrams a bit recently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_languag... - I like it because I can put into source control too
Importantly, mice are exercised by being forced to run in wheels, i.e., cardio.

There have been studios in humans showing that cardio exercise has mental benefits, presumably in part due to increased blood flow to the brain. And anecdotally, among knowledge workers like lawyers and doctors, cardio exercise is disproportionately over-represented compared to average populations.
the jury gets to know the the value, and the error, and weight it accordingly, along with the rest of the evidence.

also the acceptable error on the GC/FID testing used for blood alcohol is 3-5%, depending on lab, etc. so that's 0.004. if you managed to get the cop's attention at 0.083, and you're drunk enough they bother to arrest you, instead of trying to find someone drunker to spend 2 hours arresting, the DA is still probably going to offer DWAI or less for your 0.083 unless you've got a long history of drunk driving.
CMU alumnus here (SCS & LTI). I don't see the degree a looking less beneficial, but I'm biased. CMU has perhaps a unique way of handling CS education. When I was there about. 20 years ago the CS department required you to have a minor and strongly encouraged a second major.

Most core CS work can be completed by the end of your sophomore year. There's not a lot of fundamentals. After that you can go for breadth of topic matter (embedded systems, networks, AI, cryptography/security, distributed systems, etc), as was the case for me. This degree seems to give more depth in regard to ML.

You're right about the prestige of the school. 15 years after getting my degrees I still get fast-tracked for interviews. So I feel the coursework matters very little when it comes to being recruited. That being said, the majority of the material I learned hasn't been used in my career. It's largely the way they teach you how to think and solve problems that companies familiar with CMU value.
Of course not, but that's a non-sequitur. A privately owned store has a public entrance, but we also are happy to accept the right of the store owner to charge admission or kick out people who cause trouble. Entering the store is not burglary, but staying there against the wishes of the owner is trespassing.
> Skype for business is absolutely excellent though.

I beg to differ on this.. we use Skype for business and have heard nothing but complaints.

One personal beef I have with it is IM messages don't sync between devices. I start a chat with someone on my workstation then when I leave my desk and try to see it on my phone it's unavailable. Or same issue when switching between an RDP and local session.
No, that is not how banks work. You are not holding actual legal tender, your bank account is a credit with that specific bank that the bank promises to pay back to you with legal tender on demand. But the bank has lent out that money and might not be able to actually pay you back (or might need to be bailed out by the FDIC to pay you back if your account is under $250k).

I agree though that existing banks could technically implement costless transfers or accounts for people outside the US with existing tech, but it is not worth it because of regulatory compliance issues and the archaic nature of the banking systems. But if those issues were to be fixed, might as well just hold what are now checking accounts directly with the government, rather than have the convoluted system of banks + massive regulation + FDIC insurance.
> I haven't seen that many examples of government run enterprises that can be said to be well-run. And how are we ever able to know whether they are run well when they are tax financed?

You also must not have read the article. It clearly discusses EPB, a municipality-owned company that operates profitably and was the first company to offer gigabit speeds in the US. They also have annual financial reports available on their website if you have questions about how well run they are.
I think you're both saying the same thing, though. If Apple makes their own credit card and has a tight relationship with Goldman, it's more likely that Apple will be able to "force" the card to be used with Apple Pay.
Programming is harder than proving. Well, programming poorly is easier than proving, but making something that you could release and won't look like gum and bailing wire is harder than proving. You wind up with a gum and bailing wire implementation that lives in your home directory until your laptop dies, and then you realize that nothing of value was lost because it has been years since you touched that project, and you move on.

Proofs are the ideal artifact for a researcher because they don't require maintenance and don't have users. Think hard, write it down, publish, and move on. Academia punishes researchers that create and maintain tools for other people to use (for an example, look at the Sage people) and rewards researchers that publish papers.

As a researcher, this feels wrong and frustrating, but there's really nothing I can do about it from within the system, or they'll kick me out for not publishing enough papers.
Common Lisp has: generic functions, homo-iconic macros written in Common Lisp, reflection, multiple dispatch, closures, optional typing, correct implementation of lexical scope, dynamically scoped variables, a metaobject protocol, conditions & restarts, and a compiler that is available for customization. One or a few of these have made it into other languages in some form or another - but not all together.

Common Lisp also has an excellent package manager (quicklisp/ASDF) a programmers IDE (emacs/slime vim/vlime), interoperation with C libraries (CFFI) and lots and lots of libraries that don't need to be constantly updated to keep them working because the underlying language changes.

I wouldn't call it just a slightly more powerful weapon.

Just the macros - my goodness - in Common Lisp you can write programs that write programs! It's easy and organic and elegant because they are written in the same language as everything else. Macros let you write code that customizes itself and optimizes itself at compile time for specific use cases. You can escape the drudgery of writing similar code over and over again. You kind of need s-expression syntax for macros to be easy to write - so no other language with complex syntax will ever have them like Common Lisp does.

Languages are all Turing complete - we can do everything in every language - but for the kind of hard problems that I want to solve, only Common Lisp has helped me out of the Turing tarpit. Also, C++ is a great domain specific language for creating tables of cache friendly compact data structures and it has great compilers.
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Hey, cool fact: you're not entering any such contract, and the idea that you are is insane.

There's no such thing as an implicit contract in this case (and most cases in general). If he chooses to serve his content and I choose to not read parts of that's fine.
Then shouldn’t the margin of error tolerance of the machine be part of the law as well?
there are? what's the evidence for that other than a subjective impression of Apple iphone's inferiority and a lack of imagination as to other people's motivations?
I still use /etc/hosts file based blocking and I enjoy it.
I have been so excited for this release! impl Trait is wonderful, thanks everybody
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-Os is pretty much useless. For comparison, I compiled my (reasonably sized) project with -Os and got a 12MB statically linked binary. But with -O3, the binary size is only 4.2MB. Not only -O3 produces faster code but it's also smaller.
Thank you, I'll give it a run!
So yeah, 1.26 is the most substantial release since 1.0, but there's lots more goodies coming in the pipeline

Will rust users get a break someday?
The lack of exercise is a historical abnormality. In that context, which feels more accurate, the title should be: "Do fathers who don't exercise have less intelligent children?"
Pyrostore co-founder here. When practitioners archive their data from
Kafka to other storage products (S3, SQL database, etc) today, they
are giving up on the log ordered structure of the data their ability
to consume their data in its original ordering, with its original
offsets and timestamps. Pyrostore structures and indexes your data in
S3 in order to provide a consumer that implements the Kafka consumer
interfaces, ensuring you are always able to stream from hot and cold
storage alike.
Some unexpected practical reasons you shouldn't use Medium.com
It may be naivety, but perhaps it's just clever marketing. As pointed out, any government has a short term incentive to retain maximum control over its currency . But if its citizens think the currency is being mismanaged and increasing inequality unfairly, then there's an incentive to come out with an alternative currency on the FEDs terms rather than being blindsided by some clever currency hatched by a private group. Silicon Valley style first mover advantages sounds more positive than fear of alternative cryptocurrencies though.

Thoughts are my own, not my employers.
Will students do better than random on exams?
> Of course it's stealing.

Oh, really?

What about the websites who allow dozens of third parties to serve me an unknown quantity and quality of content that I did not request? They steal my bandwidth, compute cycles, and privacy.

And what about data brokers? My browsing history is my work product; I create it through my own actions. Much of the information that data brokers sell about me would not and could not exist without my direct contributions. When they sell that data, do I get an appropriate share of their profits? No. They are regularly stealing and profiting from my work. The websites you claim I'm 'stealing' from are giving away tons of my information without anything even approaching affirmative consent.
Cando and Clasp are really inspiring. Is it easy to get academic funding for such a non-incremental idea?
Hi! Is there any technological limit that prevents you to expand it to other languages? I would be particularly interested in Italian and French.
In California with Prop 13, the current tax payers' property tax rates are well below those of newcomers regardless. So they have no incentive to change things, since their taxes stay at the same low rate either way, whereas in a normal state, I have an incentive to get as much new development in my town as possible to add to the tax base, especially if that new development is stuff that doesn't require lots of expensive infrastructure or tax subsidies.