skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would you shit all over your colleagues’ work like that?

Given that he was mandated to use it and it is, in his view, shit...maybe it'd be better to ask his colleagues why they've been shitting all over him?

I don't really see what loyalty he's meant to feel towards a project that some other part of a large company that recently acquired his company has developed.
From the associated article about this supposed "link tax".

> Anyone using snippets of journalistic online content must first get a license from the publisher.

Re-publishing a portion of a published work is not a "link". A link is only a reference (address) where something (e.g. a published work) may be found, which not part of the work itself. Displaying a portion of work might be an allowed "fair use"? (I only know US copyright law; the EU may have very different laws about when it is "fair" to bypass copyr8ight and use part of a work)

However, it is important to remember that (at least in US-like jurisdiction) that the amount of work included in a snippet is one of several features used when judging if a use is "fair". Another important question is if the use affects the market for the original work. An academic paper that quotes snippets from an article is probably fair (nobody would read the paper as a substitute for reading the original article), while an aggregator using the same snippets may not be a fair use if people are reading the aggregator to read the article instead of continuing to the original publisher. In general, each case probably requires judge to rule if a specific use is "fair".

> Because readers need to know what a link leads to before clicking, sites almost always include a snippet of the linked-to content as part of a link.

This is deliberately attempting to conflate re-publication with a hyperlink. Link previews are not needed, are not used for the vast majority of links on the web. Claiming that previews are "almost always" included is patently a lie.

Should it be necessary, this kind of feature is better implemented in the user agent. I'm fairly certain I saw link prefetch+preview extensions for Firefox ~10 years ago.

> Small publishers disadvantaged: Aggregators create a level playing field for independent publishers with less brand recognition to reach audiences.

Did Google or FB write this doublespeak? Allowing aggregators to republish copyright protected works benefits the big players by allowing them to steal existing markets.
I'm quite sure some some people do take pride in providing that level of service. There have been some fascinating fly-on-the-wall documentaries in the world of ultra-high net worth individuals recently -- top-end hotels, exclusive services you'd never imagine existed, and so on. Some of the people interviewed seemed to be genuinely happy, and often proud of what they did and their ability to satisfy obscure requests or handle strange emergencies or pay extraordinary attention to details.

It also wasn't uncommon for people in low-ranking jobs to be asked if they'd like to swap places with their clients and practically fall over themselves to say no. As one of the cleaners at a world-class London hotel said, she doesn't earn as much in a year as her current guest earns in an hour, and the bed does look comfy, but at least when her work is done for the day she won't need to be surrounded by security guards before she can even leave the building.
Law's are like playing wackamole when it comes to things like limiting how technology will be (ab)used. In the long run, those with means (resources [and various ways of protecting such], knowledge) will do what they can.
Read the 3rd book after season 2. Really recommend it to everyone. It had everything, sci-fi, action, drama, special effects, mystery...

Curious how this will workout on tv, although I will keep reading the books.
LocartionSmart isn’t SS7. They get the feeds and triangulation directly from the carrier (they purchase it).
Sorry, didn’t mean to imply it couldn’t; just pointing out that it’s important to handle despite the way the parent suggests it’s a ridiculous expectation.
She's asking that people read, learn and get involved in the process early in order to have some influence, so as not to be caught off-guard once these laws are enacted because once enacted, it'd be hard to have change happen. She's talking to a particular audience and that may not mesh with what all publishers in general want.
Yeah, but aren't startups and other profit-driven entities more interested in catering to the mainstream than to a small set of users with specific needs? If companies will gleefully ignore Linux (and BSDs), browsers other than the ones that ship with a major OS, privacy concerns, free speech principles or shipping to remote areas, I can't really expect them to care much for marginalized groups such as people with accessibility issues.
Set up a website for your proposed product. Describe what it does, post up some screenshots. Have a sign up page. When they get past a certain point put up a payment error message, or tell them that the product is limited to a selected group only.

If it's B2B, just do a PowerPoint presentation and try to sell it before you build it.
Outside of Five Eyes countries then.
No doubt that is what "Show Simplified View" turns on.
While it's nice that the robo-gardener is going to reduce pesticide use by being more precise in its spraying, it might be even better if the thing could be given a gripper to just yank out the offending sprout before it gets out of control.

Chuck it on the dirt and let it whither in the sun (since the bot is solar powered). The nutrients will return to the soil on the next rain.

It would be cool to see a herd of maybe 50 of these weed-picking robots ambling through a field.
Here looks like a GitHub gist you could use to do it for cffi vs Cython in Python, and PyPy.

< https://gist.github.com/brentp/7e173302952b210aeaf3 >
You can have it on the web with no issues until it gets popular as the music biz had one of these sites shut down.

If it’s just a github repo project not making any money then unless it gets crazy popular you should be fine.
It does AGPS, pointed to where exactly I was in my house.
> I didn't say they did... I was providing two examples.

But Cisco (i.e. Talos) are the ones finding the vulnerabilities in routers made by other companies in this case.

> Maybe if companies building software can't afford to keep it safe... they shouldn't be companies? Is that so controversial?

They still would be companies though. That's the point. If they expect to be out of business by then regardless, or they're outside of your jurisdiction, or they know they're judgment proof, it doesn't change their behavior.

It's like trying to address homelessness by allowing the victims of panhandling to sue the perpetrators. There is no blood to be had from that stone.

All you do is make the problem worse, because every company you destroy is a company which is no longer around to patch their installed base of devices. Meanwhile they're immediately replaced in the market by another company which is no better.

Regulation and liability only works against monopolies and other huge companies. When you actually have a competitive market like this, you need to use the carrot rather than the stick.
ctypes is pretty slow in my experience. Cython is a nice alternative. Native speed and datatypes where you need them, plain old python anywhere else.
You should not be transmitting sensitive information to the internet.
>The Financial Times and New York Media — have suspended their paid media spending on Facebook in response to the policy

I only read the FT in printed form, so I'm not aware if its online stories lean one way or the other.

But New York Media's imprints absolutely harbor an agenda. Even if that agenda is intended to mirror its audience, I can understand Facebook flagging its stories. Or at least NYMedia's fear of Facebook flagging its stories.

I saw one of those Facebook political flags this morning for the first time, and it was worthless. When I clicked the little link that was supposed to tell me who was paying for the ad, all it did was show me the name of the PAC, which was already displayed on the ad. No link to the PAC's website, or a list of people who are financially responsible or anything.

So Facebook's new political flagging system is all heat, no light.
It is a lot. You don't have to live in the most expensive house you can find within 10 minutes of work.

I am a US citizen and I didn't go to college. I live near Chicago.
I'm biased by sunk cost (http://fuse.rupy.se/about.html) and skeptic of SpatialOS (which looks like a pile of garbage on top of netty/akka).

But I would have to say a resounding _yes_.

Action MMOs are the final medium, one day we will all be either living in Mad Max or we will be plugged into one, or both!

Imagine WoW, then PUBG; and extrapolate.
I don't necessarily agree but the immediate downvotes anyone receives for questioning the EU's pure intentions is interesting.

People are either extremely trusting of huge global governments or we're being brigaded.
Not all public is as math-literate as you.
Check out https://github.com/ruslo/hunter for a fantastic CMake package manager built to solve this issue.
The reason why respecting free market economics is good in my view is because it respects individuals. China doesn't, "we" don't. It's a total non-starter to speak of "respect" when the individual, the poor person, the civilian in another country, the dissenter, are not respected. How many people were murdered in US and UK wars for the purpose economic "openness"? How much green do companies in European countries make from that? But that doesn't give China a free pass. Were the Allies perfect when fighting the Nazis? No? Aren't you still glad they won?
Are these boats able to reliably withstand such a heavy storm (assuming they don't get smashed against the ship or some rocks/land of course)?
If a software company tells me, that their software is safe, they should be liable in case it isn't.

Most FOSS licenses come with 'without warranty' notice. Businesses, who use it, should know that.
Massive difference between vegetarian and whole food plant based.

I hear what you're saying, but I didn't mention the word easy, just that everyone I know who has switched to a whole food plant based diet has lost weight, whether they intended to or not.

So eating a pound of pecans would be no problem. The orange juice on the other hand isn't WFPB
FWIW Python does ship with the turtle module as part of the standard library:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html?highlight=turt...

Though I don't know if that counts as a Logo implementation.
I believe you're misreading the numbers. They're the "elapsed time in millis", so lower is better. The only result better than c itself seems to be luajit, which is quite impressive. I wonder how it achieves that.
Neither of which are whole food plant based.
RL-Adventure-2: PyTorch tutorial of a2c/ppo/acer/ddpg/td3/soft a2c/gail/her
Just watched that video, long but awesome. I'm not sure on how exactly his strategy is supposed to go, but it sounds like the superproject is another repo. I don't really want that. What I'm thinking right now is to use the same overall idea, but instead of a superproject, I use the same repo, and use:
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/ExternalProject.h...

But put that behind a flag, that defaults to off, so it doesn't interfere with the distributions. And it supports patching so I can patch whatever dependency's CMake, in the event that they don't (yet?) support the same strategy so it can work transitively without having to boil the ocean. Granted, you would need to write patch files, for basically all your deps initially because nobody else is doing it that way.

For reference, I'm trying to help convert an existing open source project from autotools to cmake, but at work I'm the resident cmake expert, and we have multiple products, which effectively are built as different 'distributions' (not always Linux based) so I've been searching for a good way to do this for a while, even though I just started contributing to OSS.
This benchmark would imply that isn't usually the case: http://david.rothlis.net/ninja-benchmark/.
Google's advantage is also its Achilles heel: it is incredibly general purpose and searches the entire web.

Now how much of the web is all that useful? If a search results page on Google is just Google's opinion of what they think you want, what happens if you use a similar-enough algorithm but narrow the scope of the web you index to something more likely to contain information you can actually use?

Google today isn't even as useful to me as Google was 10 years ago. It has noticeably gotten worse. There has to be a fairly large niche there that several more specialized search engines could find a home.
I know, right?
https://pasteboard.co/Hn35e51.png
You're treating this as a conventional copyright issue, but I'm not sure that's correct. To quote the EFF's summary:

> This isn't a copyright, because the link tax is paid to the publisher rather than the author, and because it is payable even if the portion of the news article taken isn't copyright-protected, falls within a copyright exception, or is freely licensed.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/how-have-europes-uploa...
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis [pdf]
Tesla has ambitious goals, especially when it comes to reusing existing hardware, but right now the software is level 2.
Build tools not useful? So what you just re-write your entire gcc compilation command every time? Do you build the.o files separately or rebuild them every time even when they don't need it? This is where Make really shines. It's would be far top expensive to build projects in C if you had to recompile every file every time.
> Both of these facts are irrelevant to the underlying argument.

Exactly.
I'm fascinated by this joke, but I have to admit, I don't get it.
What a disaster that only the parties which are steadily alienating voters have a stance against enabling general censorship of publishing.
Hunter allows this using the HUNTER_DISABLED flag. https://github.com/ruslo/hunter
Does anyone know of a good way to comprehensively (and believably, in the eyes of the court) block the EU from your web services? It's getting out of hand, and I'd like to be able to avoid this cost in some cases.
> have I consented to this use of my personal data just because my blog is on the public web?

Yes, there's a difference between sharing information and publishing it.
It says it's about number, but then in the Examples section, Sorbian lists three nominative forms and one genitive. But not all the genitive forms, just the plural form. And no other cases. I'm... confused about how this is supposed to work.
A weed on the dirt would likely grow in the new spot, and gripping is tricky. But to your point, what about just a spike or hammer or blade to just mash the weed? More simple than a grip.
I've been around baylands and remember seeing a large group of feral cats a few years ago under the bayshore freeway underpass. Could explain why they are gone.
A0C: Alpha Zero in Continuous Action Space
I don't think things in real life lead to non-termination, because humans are flexible and get bored. (In fact I'm pretty sure this is the evolutionary advantage behind boredom - it's a mechanism for breaking out of loops.)
Cut my programming teeth on QBASIC...Well, actually BASICA on the IBM PC before that. Still got my "101 BASIC Games" book on a shelf here somewhere, very tattered and dog eared.

My personal favourite though, was creating 'look alike' apps of existing accounting and database system that ran on the IBM XT's in the offices I interned at back in the day, with fake but world ending error messages that would pop up when the operator tried to select menu options or fill in fields. (This was the days of "War Games" too, so it was fun to see a receptionist freak out when she saw a "Connected to NORAD - Commencing missile launch sequence in 10... 9... 8...")
I think there are EU paid shills on HackerNews now. They do exist. I've also noticed they downvote anti-EU post en masse after they've been posted for some time (I have multiple throwaway). Sorry for the tin foil, but it's not normal that when a post is anti-EU it gets upvoted at first and then it suddently falls into oblivion in a short amount of time, like someone suddently noticed. That's not a normal pattern for upvotes/downvotes on these kind of boards.
Honestly it's sad that ycombinators, and many other private companies, have to deal with State-paid actors that influence discussions on their boards.
I'm also not really happy I have to write such inflamatory posts, but while I know I don't have proof I can't stop myself in revealing what I suspect.
In any case we're reaching another point in history where we will soon have to fight for basic human rights in western countries. And when these times come it means that as there are victims there are persecutors. Good times ahead.
Thought so.

If you're primarily a *NIX user, there are a bunch of reasonable build system alternatives out there, but if "supporting Windows" is even a little bit of a priority, I have found CMake to be far and away the least painful way to build multi-platform software on Windows, especially if you're a novice.

Until Meson even approaches being as easy to use on Windows, I feel like it's going to continue to be second fiddle.
I believe most of these if not all of the languages have a native C compatibility layer. Java has JNI. Zig and Rust inherently use llvm. Go has cgo. nim compiles to C. luajit has its own FFI notation. Etc.
If they get rid of the owls, then maybe they'll finally be able to build on the lot next to the park. (There are tons of ground squirrels and then the owls follow...)

I know, I know, they aren't doing this on purpose, but these things have a funny way of "just working out"...
When I got started in the fertilizer business some farmers used to just band spray herbicides cutting two thirds of the cost. Then they would mechanically rip out the rest of the weeds using a cultivator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultivator

What hurt cultivators was it needed to be done timely and the more acres farmed it became difficult to hit that window so it fell out of use. But what if a robot did the cultivation? It would only have to identify the crop and stay down the center of row, plus it could operate 24 hours a day. I'm not certain why that's a more difficult task than selectively spraying chemicals?
Turing was great! I remember making a Scorched Earth clone with it in high school.
Also relevant is EWD's belief that exposure to BASIC inflicts permanent damage on a student's brains.

edit:

> It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

from EWD498: How do we tell truths that might hurt? (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EW...)
In this example the two "drive to airport" actions are different.

If (volcano_status == GONNA_BLOW)
pack_everything_and_run();
else if (volcano_status == NO_WORRIES)
pack_suitcase_and_leave_for_holiday();
else if (volcano_status == UNKNOWN)
cancel_holiday();
Imagine making a right turn at an intersection where you have to cross two of these, one after the other. Your car's tires are not going to make nearly as good contact with the road, making your brakes less effective should you need to use them.

Turning, of course, puts lateral forces on the tires, making traction worse.
Agreed, really a great book!
I agree that it's kind of hard to claim criminal negligence for software bugs, after all it's very hard to make something bug free and software is that weird edge case where you can tell someone exactly what it does, but not in a way that is useful for preventing problems.

That said in extreme cases like e.g. airplanes I think it would be fair to consider it negligent when code is just brought into production without any kind of debugging or testing.

I guess the stakes decide when something is or isn't negligent.
At that speed, and if you won't need fancy buffering and got the necessary 3.3-ish volt ready, check out some esp8266-based mesh/repeated tech. Possibly with using wires on their (quad-) SPI bus to pair two, potentially over quite a sizable line length. Saves airtime.
Probably there have been some other times like this, but we forgot them
It may be second fiddle for people who care about Windows, but thankfully they seem to be few and far between these days. There's no reason to support Windows when they won't even pretend to care about standards compliance. Although even then, having to draw the ignorant masses of Windows devs out of their GUIs would be quite a task.
I wrote up a little thing about all the alternatives https://geokon-gh.github.io/hunterintro.html. Tldr: Hunter is by far the best options and makes CMake painless. It also solves some multiple-dependency and toolchain issues that are nearly impossible to get right with vanilla CMake
Yes. But he better try to line the incentive's of those he does business with up with those you have.
Mint – A refreshing programming language for the front-end web
Third, aren’t you allowed to charge a reasonable fee? I suspect 99% of these requests go away if you charge $50, which seems reasonable if it takes someone more than 15 mins to respond.

Unfortunately, even this won't work. Article 15(3) [1] states:

"The controller shall provide a copy of the personal data undergoing processing. For any further copies requested by the data subject, the controller may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs. Where the data subject makes the request by electronic means, and unless otherwise requested by the data subject, the information shall be provided in a commonly used electronic form. "

In other words, you have to provide the first copy for free and may only charge for subsequently requested copies.

[1] http://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/article-15-right-of-acce...
Crew on your superyacht is not your employees, it's a service. It's more like a hairdresser or barista. Do you ask your barista if they had enough sleep? Do you ask your hotel room cleaner if they ate well? Do you have another bedroom for your dogwalker?

Your employees and you are the team. You hunt together, you win together, you celebrate together. You may know the name of a waiter, but you don't have the same relationship with them, right?
That only solves the problem if you're protecting against backward batteries, not the "two sources" problem
Software is a mess by choice. Let those who made it a mess burn.

Nobody has half a fucking clue where the libraries they're slapping together come from, nor how they're maintained, nor how they're vulnerable. It gets worse every day with trash like DockerHub, and has no relief in sight.

So yeah -- let the folks who won't adhere to proper engineering burn.
Or, you know, make sure cables are ratifying standards, or if you're a GPU manufacturer, make sure the 3V3 supply is tolerant to being externally driven and doesn't backpower anything in the GPU (not exactly hard).
>I think just because the FBI tells me to jump doesn't mean I should jump

You can find independent corroboration of this this malware with little effort. And if your gear is compromised, it's most likely doing something you don't want. So "jumping" is the smart move here unless you just want to be contrary.

The second point is: if you're assuming a conspiracy based on zero evidence, why not go big?
Are the most trivial of topics publishable if they say something negative about a big tech company? I think NYT would not have gone with this if say, John Deere employees were feeding cats outside their headquarters.