skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably want to adjust that metric for stock price ...
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> Apple doesn't do it for the good of mankind, but to push their own ad channels

This may be true. However it's also difficult to dispute that Apple has a far stronger and far more consistent stance on privacy than their competitors.

It was a big influence for me switching from Android to iOS a while back.

Google, Facebook, and Windows 10 have been getting ever more data greedy, Apple mostly haven't. To me, that's significant.
I'm really curious about this; thanks for adding this and iluminating so many of us that fail to consider deaf people when thinking about these things.

But I'm not sure I totally understand what Animoji does for you. Your deafness is irrelevant in the context of messaging apps, isn't it? Hearing people, when using Messages, have just writing/reading, just like you.

Is it that, being deaf, you are more used to puting extra emphasis on non-verbal communication, and thus the transition to Messages from "real life" conversation feels more limiting than for us? How is it any better than sending a short video, or may be recording a gif of your actual face? Doesn't the loss in fidelity make it frustratingly hard to express the nuances we get from facial expression?

I tend to think all of those grandiouse statements about "Opening new ways of communicating" or "Creating new connexions between people" are total bullshit. Most animoji users communicate equally well with or without them, it add's nothing except fun. And that's fine! Fun is good.

But it's really hard to put oneself on anyone else's shoes, and I'd love to know if anyone has found more value in animojis.
This would normally be my first reaction as well. (and it was for a moment) But if this kind of tech gets developed for a couple decades? You'd have a single firefighter that sits in an office, sends out a self driving firetruck, connects itself to the main, and sends out a couple dozen hoses that fly _into_ the fire and put it out faster than any human could do today from _outside_ the house.

I see this as the first baby steps to where things will ultimately end up. This may not be the exact tech, but it's a start.
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I am... I'm working on Gorgonia[0]. My goal this year is to provide a good alternative to Tensorflow and PyTorch. At the same time I'm working on several side projects that I believe will cause the fruition of an AGI.

I'm lucky in the sense that I get to work on things that uses Gorgonia at work (though I don't actually work on Gorgonia itself proper). Took a helluva long time to get here though. And very many failures

[0] - https://github.com/gorgonia/gorgonia
If there's a bottleneck anywhere in what you're working on, that's the most likely place for you to apply CS. But it's a tricky business; there's a risk benefit trade-off.

Writing complex code to solve a gnarly problem is often the wrong path, because it's harder for coworkers to understand the code, and harder for future maintainers to keep it correct. Thus it's often better to encapsulate the hard problem in a nice interface, and possibly release it as a separate library.

That's where most of those libraries you're gluing together come from. A tough bit of code that needed writing but also encapsulation.

A tougher problem than most CS problems you'll find while writing CRUD apps is getting architecture right, so that adding new features isn't an uphill struggle and doesn't involve piles of boilerplate. Getting the aesthetics right, making the code clear so that anyone can maintain it - this requires experience and the mastery that comes from it pays off in the longer term, because you can more easily leverage other people's efforts too.

If you can't find solace in mastering software design, you're better off moving away from CRUD apps and move to a developer of tools. Tooling, whether it's compilers, OSes, databases, whatever - has more interesting and deep technical challenges. Watch out though: tooling often doesn't pay particularly well because developers enjoy making tools themselves. They'll prefer to build their own shoddy hammer 9 times out of 10, precisely because they're in the same boat as you right now: they don't feel challenged.
Yes, of course, in a deflationary environment, rates can be negative. We are in an inflationary environment, though. Zero was thought to be a hard limit -- in terms of interest rate efficacy as a lever to act on the economy.

Now, the mantra is that near zero negatives are still within the efficacy envelope. It was not predicted, but stated after the fact. This is, to me, a clear sign that the model is wrong, and should be reviewed with no barriers to questioning basic assumptions.
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Recommendations in this area;

Books

'The Making of Karateka' by Jordan Mechner
http://amzn.eu/5iUrxxo

'The Making of Prince of Persia' by Jordan Mechner
http://amzn.eu/fJ0Nfr2

Documentaries

'From Bedrooms to Billions'
http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/about-the-film
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404567/

'From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years!'
http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com/amiga
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4603210/

Blog Posts

https://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/

Hope ^ these prove interesting, will update comment if I think of others ツ
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What, then, causes the phenomenon that fields interact with particles?

Historically, there has been a multitude of ideas and phenomena that have been labeled as causation. Aristotle, back then, identified four notions of causation, and the modern reader immediately will feel that some of these notions themselves are still too general. When you make a claim like "nature obeys causality", you need to be more precise in what you refer to by nature and causality, else your claim is far too ill-defined to mean much of anyting.
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I don't think MLK would be opposed to a more inclusive statement, and I don't think MLK would have downvoted someone for wanting women to be included in a population that is often presented to the world as largely male, even though it's really not.
> I think it'd be nice to have a browser option where it simply won't load content from outside of the current domain.

Take a look at uMatrix[0]. With the two rules

* * * block

* 1st-party * allow

you'll achieve what you want.

> To me what's more alarming is what percentage of websites load js from Google

That's where the Decentraleyes[1] plugin comes in handy. It injects a locally cached version of 3rd party cdn libraries. To use it easily in conjunction with uMatrix, you'll need some more rules that you can find in the FAQ[2].

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...

[2]: https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes/wiki/Frequently-As...
You should dabble in gamedevelopment, lots of room for innovation. Often you'll end up implementing some custom algorithm or solution where there were no previous library X that solved your exact problem. Sure, there are obviously lots of engines, algorithms, libs, standards here too... but I think it's one of the areas where you often have to come up with some new creative solution. At least, most of it is not CRUD ;-)
There are "real experts" in industry too. Industry doesn't need only good algorithms with solid foundations, which are invented in universities (say, SVM), but also people who understand the domain and can code that knowledge into algorithms and data (e.g. feature engineering).
My work is also similar to OP's: CRUD and figuring out business requirement (so called 'domain driven design'). It's kinda boring but the pay is good and there is almost no pressure. Some of my better coworkers are leaving for big data/ai/next big things startups, so to keep my mind from getting too cruddy I am doing the following:
- Keep learning, reading old good algorithm books, trying new techs and skills to improve myself. My employer actually encourage this.
- Sharing what I have learned with my coworkers so I can have better understanding and also help my coworkers too (sometimes). This is also encouraged by my employer.
- Foster adoption of those techniques in company's own project. Even CRUD apps benefit from good type safe functional programming practice, or batching with akka stream etc...
- Aside from those I also help my friend with his analytics startup as my Scala skill is useful for that line of work.

All of the above help me with finding a new company in case the current one goes out of business too.
I enthusiastically support requiring Facebook to have an IRB greenlight any user impacting changes they want to make.

That's a terrific idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board
The APIs provided access to data that had been shared with the person who was logged into the device, but not with random Facebook apps like Farmville. The New York Times' argument is essentially that the flag which stopped Cambridge Analytica and Zynga getting access to your data should also have stopped your actual friends from viewing it except through installing Facebook's official app.

It's hard to see any way in which making users choose between sharing their info with every dodgy quiz their friends use and forcing their friends to install the Facebook app and let it get its tendrils into their devices in order to interact with them would've been good for privacy, but this is exactly what the NYT is insisting Facebook should've done.
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Certainly, the hyper-elites live more secure lives, but fulfilling? Theres a whole line of research showing that beyond a certain point (different studies find different points over time, but generally somewhere in the upper middle class income range of elite workers), additional income is not correlated with further increases in measures of satisfaction, fulfillment, etc.
> [ESR] and Stallman were once close friends

I rather doubt that. One of ESR's skills is to insinuate that he's on closer terms with people than he really is, as astutely captured by this comic:

https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/wp-content/ep013.jpg

For a lengthy first hand report of an actual interaction between ESR and RMS, there's for instance this:

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-license.html

Does not look like former or current close friendship to me.
Might be bargain if your software vendor is still selling licenses ”per socket” (joke, I guess everybody has migrated to per core or something more complicated).

To put hardware prices to perspective, think how much it costs to run even a small development team. If hardware makes them more productive and/or happier, most of the time you should go for it. Sad too see expensive people stuck with mediocre tools.
Yes, but i cannot start my own network and join others ad-hock and move around as i please. I'm in multi year contracts, heck i couldn't even transfer my number until few years ago, and it's still a pain in the ass to do so.
Isn't Snow Leopard a complete myth? Back then they told to the public, that this is only a polish release, but they introduced the built-in anti virus solution, a complete rewritten Finder and QuickTime for example.
I remember that Snow Leo had lots of bugs in it's .0 release, it was only stable after some updates like every other OSX version.
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Sure the engine needs less maintenance (at least that's the claim), but there's more to the car than that. Besides the specific example was for realigning headlights and I'm not sure why the maintenance of something like that should be different for an electric car.
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> I think it'd be nice to have a browser option where it simply won't load content from outside of the current domain.

Firefox does have that as an option hidden in about:config ("privacy.firstparty.isolate").
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I'd say this comment is a tad unfair.

Most "one liners" fall under the category "most people would format very differently"

And this one at only 140 chars (a classic tweet)
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The purchase of github doesn't make immediate financial sense to me. This article posted a reason - to stave off Windows decline. While it is plausible, I still don't see it.
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When AMD released a competitive GPU, nVidia released a new GPU with chips that had been sitting in a warehouse for more than 6 months. Competition is necessary.
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Just submitted my PhD in ML (waiting to defend) and started working as a contractor in an exciting enough arm of a boring enough company.

So far it's all boring CRUD - but there may be interesting problems to solve as our team and product grows. I'm trying to position myself as the guy to tackle these interesting problems by taking a proactive role in planning and project management, without cornering myself as an irreplaceable part of the boring part of the business.
> In order to use a recent version of Xcode, you also need to have a relatively recent version of macOS. Unfortunately, this also means your hardware need to be up to date.

Eh? No it doesn't.

> When you discover you can no longer develop on your 2012 machine

The cutoff would be either 2008 or 2009 depending on line.
That's the same 'attack' you could make on https://jsfiddle.net

What I am getting at is that you can't form a url that will do this, you need to interact with the page to trigger it.
The words "privacy" and "Android" don't go well in the same sentence but at least on Android you can use FF with uBlock origin, while Apple keeps their walled garden with an iron fist (I'm beginning to wonder if that should be even legal; certainly an iPhone is everything but a loss leader for app and media purchases). Samsung isn't beyond mining your data either - the attention economy compromises everything.
Good point. I'm working on a project at the moment that's 100% performance oriented and it's sort of a pain to think about writing about it responsibly - i.e. keeping all the intermediate steps and half-good ideas around (and bug-free, and sorta-usable) long enough to be able to do performance analysis on all the stuff.

It's hard not just to sweep all the bad ideas and half-way steps under the rug and hit the world with this "aren't I clever" looking final product (without really helping anyone learn how to get there themselves on their own projects).
I do find ugly cars repulsive, but as other's say it's a personal taste thing.

It's the same guy, Dante Giacosa, who designed the Multipla and the 500.

I too dislike bland cars, but almost any mass market car is going to be bland. By mass market I mean anything under $/€20k and designed to appeal to the mass market. At least though with bland cars they just fade into the background and you can ignore them.
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Even at big tech companies, a lot of those ML models are fed by nightly jobs, so updated once a day. If the targeting occurs on an outside property, there may be more delay. So if you make a purchase on day X, you should expect to see the ad for another ~48 hours. That's assuming there's logic which actually de-targets you post-purchase.
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> They also know that an iPhone without access to Google Maps, Search, Mail, Authenticator, Youtube and a whole lot of other essential services won't be worth much to end users anymore.

Google Authenticator => Authy (it reimplements google auth)
Search => Safari
Gmail => Native Mail (its not like Google will drop IMAP support)

Killing YouTube on iOS would be pretty bad for Apple, but I’m sure that wouldn’t be profitable for Google (cutting off a third of an already-unprofitable company? no thanks). What’s left bedides that, Google docs? Well Apple has their own suite so does Microsoft. And they both have web editors that rival Google Docs and support multi-user editing. In general I’m pretty skeptical about this assertion that Apple “can’t” step on Google’s toes.
Mac has twice the amount of users on Steam that Linux has. And game studios mostly ignore Linux. Apple making themselves precious is not going to win them any hearts in the game industry.
Many people click on those ads due to buyer's remorse. Advertisers pay for clicks, and get what they pay for.
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They can't store data from European journalists, it's not GDPR compliant to gather personal data without consent. (I'm assuming there is no law requiring this information to exist)

In seriousness, it's scary how the US and EU seem to be driven apart recently. Incompatible laws and unilateral policies will lead to all sorts of real world problems.
Can facebook release a phone where you can develop apps with swift and an API similar to the iOS API? Or at least with a translation layer? Would that be illegal?

That would allow devs to develop apps for both platform very easily.
So it really does have to do with Facebook services only? That's what I thought yesterday, but still wasn't sure. Why not all social media then? What if I do want to share/like stuff? Just don't use Safari?
When people say they are ok with ads, they mean content based ads like your tv or billboard show. Not stalking mad man following ads.
This really angers me to some extent. Our oceans are not polluted because of use of plastic straws in the Western world. At the very least, they should look for the biggest sources of plastic in the Ocean, and try to reduce the influx there. This is also what software developers learn as a core principle: avoid premature optimization.

Recently there have been announcements that 10% of the plastic in the oceans is abandoned fishing nets: https://www.worldoceanfest.org/new-blog/2017/6/9/the-impact-...

Another estimate was that 95% of the plastic comes from just 10 rivers: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-pl... - 8 of them in Asia, 2 in Africa.

(those two numbers seem to contradict each other, unless 5% of fishing nets come from the rivers, but still - then they should focus on getting the right numbers, and then act on those numbers).

Even the case against plastic shopping bags is not so clear cut. Energy waste might be much higher for the alternatives. Assumptions that a non-plastic shopping bag can be used hundreds of times are overly optimistic. They get broken or lost much sooner.

Plastic packaging might be a huge boon to food hygiene. I don't think food manufacturers are doing it just for fun.

But no, we have to outlaw drinking straws. I'm sure that will save the planet.

I get it - drinking straws simply seem superfluous. So why not just regulate them away. But there is another fundamental issue here: why, indeed, simply regulate every detail of people's lives? There is a fundamentally anti-freedom attitude at work here.

Lastly, compared to global warming, plastic is not even a real issue. Earth itself probably doesn't care. Eventually, after a few hundred or thousand years, it will find a way to break down the plastic. Then again, maybe nature also doesn't care about global warming.
zucc buys relationship with Apple by handing over user data. A few years later and apple rebukes facebook by jacking what I assume is sandboxed javascript when facebook has bad pr
As a fellow geek, of course I was aware of the potential abuse.

Being party to conversations with C-level sociopaths is what really brings it home.

One example: One employer railed at the injustice (loss of profit) of not being able to share the millions of patient's medical records we'd accumulated with Big Pharma's marketing machine. This employer spent considerable effort trying to figure out how to work around the law (eg plausibly deniable anonymization).
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Excellent point! I've been a deeply religious Evangelical until my early twenties, and I find it interesting how large the gap is between the rather conspiratorial world view I used to have, and the one I've spent most of the rest of my life having (academic/secular/urban/liberal).

I feel a big part of the problem is that my 'new' world just truly doesn't get the extent of this difference, so any attempts to bridge this gap, however well-meaning, fail and unfortunately often lead to easy dismissal, or hostility/frustration.

An additional problem is that despite the fact that I've rejected this Evangelical world view, I feel there are so many aspects of it that would be extremely helpful to many of the problems that people in my current world face. I wish I knew how to get both sides to properly get to know each other, so to speak, because it would benefit everyone.
As someone who doesn't know what I am talking about, can I ask a stupid and naive question?

By converting energy into mass and mass into energy, would it be conceptually feasible to generate thrust in a closed circuit? My thinking is that you could use that for propulsion in space. We are currently relying on throwing stuff out to generate a reaction force and of course we quickly run out of things to throw. But if you could change the mass of particules in flight, you could increase the mass on the way forth and decrease the mass on the way back, generating continuous thrust?
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The "limitations" link in the posted page has a section on "Reflection", [1]. It says: "Support Status: Mostly supported ... Individual classes, methods, and fields that should be accessible via reflection must be specified during native image generation in a configuration file ..."

I'd assume libraries your app depends on should be usable via Reflection as well, and that their own calls to reflection APIs should work as well, as long as the classes your code, or the library codes, want to reach are somehow included in the Java --> Native conversion configuration files.

[1] https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/substratevm/LIMI...
Not strictly related to this discussion, but perhaps worth sharing.

I worked at a smaller tech company, and we kept saying "Correlation does not imply causation", and trying to come up with ways to separate them, etc. We spent/wasted a lot of time on this, explaining it to non-mathy people (which leads to even less confidence in data).

Then I went to work at one of the big tech companies, which is probably one of the best in the world at testing/data for product, and there I never heard it. If there was correlation, unless it was clearly spurious or a statistical fluke, they pushed on it hard. "It looks like more X means more DAUs. So let's manufacture more X." And it works pretty well for that company.

My takeaway is, I stopped thinking about this too much. Today, if there's correlation, unless it's clearly spurious/etc, and unless somebody has a better idea, I tell the product/eng team to push hard on it and don't even mention correlation vs causation.
Could you try and reorder the state checks to occur with decreasing state-transition probability? I.e. if I am currently in code, it is most likely that I will be in code next state as well, a bit less likely that I'll be in a single line comment, and even less likely that I'll be in a multiline comment. If I'm in a multiline comment, I will most likely be in a multiline comment next, or code, but unlikely to be in a single line comment.

Amongst a few equiprobable state transitions, ordering the checks by increasing expense might also help.
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Same here. I think there's another reason that's not so apparent
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