skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol I thought it might be. The dialect has changed a lot since I last dabbled in JS.
The classic "Fuck Off" hubris from Apple.

Their B.S. is getting out of hand. List of gripes:

1. Heavy handed regulation of app store: This needs intervention from regulatory authorities. Apple has successfully inserted itself between the consumer and producer of apps. It plays kingmaker, and very clearly promotes internal apps to the competition (recent ban of the Steam app is a prime example). It's only legal recourse stems from being ~17% of the mobile hardware market, but from a paid-app developer's perspective, not being on the app-store is a definitive death-knell. It's a clear monopoly in the 'paid-app' space, and others are arguing a monopoly classification on other grounds [1][2]

2. Unreasonable restrictions placed on approved apps - like disallowing non-webkit based browser engines. Restricting API access though user security isn't compromised (dlopen, webgl-2, opencl, vulkan, etc). Restrictions designed to choke-hold potential competitors & restrict user choice

3. Forced licensing of hardware parts for accessory makers (look up the Apple MFI program)

4. Purposeful non-conformance towards industry standards (like OpenGl, Vulkan, WebGl, many, many holes in open-wen compliance). This non-conformance is steeped in monopolistic, unfair-trade-practices psychology to maintain absolute, unfair control over any potential competition.

I hope France fucks them for purposefully slowing down older iPhones/iPads. And hope the FTC, EU regulatory authorities pay heed to app-developers (and consumers) getting shafted by a beast of a corporation.

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-monopoly-ubs-steven-mil...

[2]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3157551/mobile/apple-must-fa...
WHY just can't apple upgrade opengl and python??? They have the $$$
And bash and ...
The Model 3 has a much better battery chemistry. The LR version stays at 120kW for a remarkably long time. The SR version will not be as fast, but it won’t be like the old S60.

If your charging stops are 15-20 minutes then they’re similar to mine... except mine take me twice as far and thus happen half as often.

If you don’t want to consider trips over 3 hours then the whole issue of fast charging disappears for long range EVs. You can do those trips without charging in the middle at all. This discussion is completely pointless unless we look at longer trips.
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A lot of the point of Vulkan is not having to rewrite your entire graphics stack for every OS you want to target.
I thought it was insightful. Fundamentally, “move fast and break things” means you’re not going to be afraid to do something just because you haven’t thought through all the repercussions yet. Personally I find it easy to see how to, as an engineer...ignore hunches that there might be a security hole or a privacy hole in the interest of pushing things forward. “Move fast and break things” implies that you’ll get something working out the door and you’ll come back and fix it later. When you always move to the next thing, you never really come back and fix all the things you broke.
Way faster in most scenarios actually. I'll give it that. (Any scenario I've tested anyway.)

But it's also more difficult for the lay programmer to use as well.
Every ad agency has an analytics side now.
Smash your Depression
The Four Layers to Great Documentation
Except your version of an emoji doesn't look anything at all like my version of what is supposed to be the same emoji.

I don't think that solves the problem at all. In fact, I don't think that solves any problems at all.

If anything, it causes way more problems than it solves.
> He is okay with people charging money for their code[4]. This creates SES (socioeconomic status) barriers for vulnerable and impoverished people.

No, this lowers SES barriers for vulnerable and impoverished people to get into software development and thus become less vulnerable and impoverished and influence how the world works. If you can't charge money for your code, only rich people can write software.

> This is like saying "access to information and education should be free" but then charging admission for a public library.

No, this is like saying "access to information and education should be free" and also agreeing that authors shouldn't have to work for free.

If you want to have a public library, you don't ask authors to work for free, you use taxes to pay the authors for their work, and then make it available to the public for "free". Which is something that you can do even better under Stallman's model: If you pay someone for a piece of Free Software, you not only can then lend it to the public for free, you are actually allowed to give away as many copies of it as you want to the public for free, for the public to keep and redistribute and modify.

> Further, that could prevent people from review/verifying the program before purchasing it.

It absolutely doesn't have to. You totally can make a contract selling Free Software with the additional requirement that certain measures of quality must be met by the seller, so the buyer can refuse to pay if the software turns out to be crap.
The license simply doesn't apply to the author.
You can actually get an i3 for perilously close to $20k these days, at least in the Bay Area. PGE+BMW are offering $10k back to buyers, plus $7500 federal tax credit, plus $2500 CA tax credit. I was a model 3 reservation holder, and strongly considered the i3, but ultimately configured a Model 3 a couple of weeks ago (now pushed to July delivery as they're stalling to not hit 200k units before Q3).
My criteria is based on how they treated me on several occasions.
Vulkan on Metal is already faster than OpenGL so this is a non-story. If you want cross-platform support use Vulkan, if you want ultimate performance target DirectX and Metal.
Our descendants will probably see us as moral monsters
Hell, I waited 4 months for a VW Golf.

And ordering (and waiting months for) a car is the norm in Europe. I actually think the buy-something-off-the-lot culture is why we get so few options on cars in the US; just a bunch of shades of dull with dull options bundles.
> It would be pretty hard to express the sentiment the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emoji can, and even if you put the effort into writing it, you'd lose the immediacy.

"meh"
This is just sheer abject failure to distinguish between the description in one's head and the actual thing one is describing
Haha... The only marketing Elon has is word of mouth and the press interviewing him.
Hmm, looks like that's changed. Back in 2012, they were reported as "profitable nearly the entire way" in their history. https://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/github-finally-raises-funding-...

and more recently there've been articles on their revenues hitting 100m. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/11/github-has-a-110-million-run...

but it sounds like their costs have outgrown their earnings.

I stand corrected.
I'd love for both Android and iOS to find a way to be smart about audible notifications.

Low-hanging fruit seems to be to disable, or drastically reduce notification volume when the device is held in a hand and the screen is on. I get nervous ticks when someone is texting in a public space with loud notifications.

Another feature that might make sense is somehow detecting when the owner of the phone is out of earshot. Phones left behind in an open plan office, getting notifications, ringing etc is very annoying.
I get that these were good apps for them to test out their new UIKit thing on, but that's not all that I'm talking about. They're devoting time at keynotes to their News app. And they're clearly putting time into courting content partners. That's what surprising to me; the totality of their effort in this area.
Unfortunately, the NYT article is vague on how each of the approved device makers were using the data -- they only say "some partners" stored the data. But it doesn't seem like Apple in particular used the API in that capacity. From the article: "An Apple spokesman said the company relied on private access to Facebook data for features that enabled users to post photos to the social network without opening the Facebook app, among other things. Apple said its phones no longer had such access to Facebook as of last September."
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I can update to iOS12 right and test this stuff out so it's hardly vaporware.

Google's announcement is just that an announcement if it was working then you could downloaded it, until this it's meaningless.
Density is almost meaningless here. What’s important is the distance between them outside of cities. There are still substantial gaps.

The network is large, yes. But so many of the locations you see are single or dual units. You can’t count on such a facility when traveling, because it might be in use. I’d hesitate to count on any station with 4 or fewer stalls. I guess if the density is good enough you could hunt around for a free one, but that sounds awful.
Yes, and deprecation doesn’t mean a lot on the Mac. Apple often deprecates stuff and still leaves it in. They remove it only when there’s something to be gained.

(eg. linking with the system-provided OpenSSL has been deprecated for years, but AFAIK they still ship it.)
> Chevy Volt

That's not bad at all. The garbage-looking EVs are what essentially forced me down the route of hybrid.
Just copy paste from here:

"Please remove all data you have on me. I do not consent with your privacy policy. I don't give permission for your organization to use any kind of information you have about me."

https://github.com/contact/privacy
Why call it Enterprise Edition or EE everywhere when you have to write documentation about the reason for that naming and the intricacies around the licensing? And then explain that the unlicensed EE is actually CE which is just the MIT licensed code and the other stuff is not under that license? No one's going to expect that, they're going to think they're on a trial.

It sounds like a shady marketing ploy considering you could provide `sudo apt install gitlab-ce` in addition to `sudo apt install gitlab-ee` (or even just have `sudo apt install gitlab`). This isn't making it easier, it's just shifting the burden onto the user and hoping they'll pay up because they got a nerfed 'enterprise' install.
Very vague description of your anecdotal evidence. I mean, for starters, which time period are you referring to?
Wow, a bunch of words, with no real promises worth a damn. I'm so impressed.
This is not the least bit surprising.

As one of the creators of Direct X at Microsoft commented when Metal was first announced, "Why help Android siphon off their game developers by propping up OpenGL?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20140606055700/http://www.alexst...
> I have no idea what concept is even meant to be communicated by such an absurd thing

Depends on context. If we were discussing someone, it might signal criticism or a desire to party. The fact that it cannot compress losslessly into words is the whole point.
Nice to see this hitting the front page. None of my submissions of it ever did. Happy to answer any questions about it here should they come up.

Certainly the biggest thing I took away from this was that the GC in Go is a far larger overhead than you would think, even for something that runs in 30ms.
Microsoft and Apple in the news about Git*. I’m waiting for Google and Amazon to announce something too.
I’ve been wondering why Bitbucket just gets ignored with all the Github news. I get that Gitlab is the new hotness but they’ve been offering free private repos before gitlab was even a thing.
I am currently in an extremely cheap rental. That's how I got myself off the street.

I bought a house at age 27 with zero down and no money to cover closing costs. I know something about wheeling and dealing in real estate.

The fact that I was recently homeless is not evidence that I don't know anything about real estate. I had student loans and a lengthy health crisis.

To be as clear as possible, I wasn't describing the issues I have run into in order to indicate that I personally can't pull this off. Just describing what can be involved and trying to indicate that it can be a dead end for a lot of people with a low income. I don't expect it to be a dead end for me, though it has proven to be a speed bump.
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Everything I've read about YouTube Kids is that the filtering doesn't actually work well and is largely algorithmic.

Apparently they finally added an option for curated channels (known brands / everything is reviewed by a human moderator) about a month ago, but you have to enable that option.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/business/media/youtube-ki...
I'm impressed how far GitLab has come in a short amount of time. It's a pretty well-designed platform, when it comes down to it. I think the Vue-based user interface and the data model are probably the cornerstones of it, and using Ruby on the backend just helps them iterate quickly. Ruby also seems to be getting more robust [1]. Their CI/CD platform is really a great approach, emphasizing the GitLab Worker as a portable CI runner that communicates through the API. For resource-intensive apps it helps to not have the number and size of CI workers be limited by a SaaS plan like they tend to be with other CI/CD platforms.

[1] https://githubengineering.com/removing-oobgc/
I'm not saying there aren't decent games on iOS. You can find gems like Monument Valley, Florence, or, as I mentioned, the games ported from other platforms like Limbo, Terraria, and so on. But take a look at the top charts on the iOS app store and compare that to the top games on Steam. With few exceptions, the games on iOS are riddled with ads, microtransactions, and are designed to be as addictive as possible.

The point is that the kind of games that thrive on the app store tend to be exploitative and low quality. Desktop gaming isn't immune from that, but it's a dramatically better platform.
I'm sure we can look forward to the next electronconf not being cancelled.
You are not too far off, as a first approximation you can say unitary means deterministic. But you are wrong with the time evolution not being deterministic, time evolution in quantum mechanics is deterministic. What seems not to be deterministic in the general case are measurement outcomes, that is where we take the Born rule, square the probability amplitudes, and get the probabilities for the different measurement outcomes.

But here lies the incompatibility I am asking about, time evolution is unitary and is in a sense incompatible with the Born rule stating that different measurement outcomes are possible. You can not have unitary time evolution and different possible measurement outcomes starting from the same initial state, at least not in a really obvious way.
That will require different headlights, different onboard charging, different software etc. Shipping some cars, north of the border is much, much easier.
>People saying that it is easy to migrate don’t know what they are talking about.

You're right in a lot of ways.

A personal detail is that I've developed a bad habit of searching "github <project name>" when I need to find something. As if any project worth its salt is on github.

I'm changing that habit, I even started sharing my projects between github and gitlab over a year ago.
> In the last National Assessment of Adult Literacy, 43% of Americans were assessed as having "basic or below basic" literacy. They can extract basic factual information from short, straightforward texts, but little more than that.

That's intentionally misleading and it's thrown around frequently without clarification of what the basic and below basic levels exactly mean, how they compare to the rest of the world, and who is in the figures (a lot of non-English speaking immigrants), usually to try to prove points.

The US basic literacy level is a high bar compared to what 95% of the planet actually tests at. Over half of China is below basic by the US standard. Over half of Eastern Europe is below the US basic line, including Russia.

In the US ~44% of the below basic population are non-native English speakers, who didn't speak English at all prior to starting school. 39% are Hispanic adults. Ie this group overwhelmingly consists of currently or originally low skill, poor immigrants (people that wouldn't even be allowed into most other developed nations such as Canada).

Demonstrating that effect in action, 43% of hispanic adults test poorly in literacy, compared to about 10% of white adults. Gee, I wonder if immigration into a new culture + language barrier has something to do with these numbers.

Despite a vast immigration flow of low skill, poor, low English literate persons since 1980, the US literacy rate didn't drop meaningfully. That means literacy rates for the base population increased.

Despite all of that, the US is the 7th most literate nation on earth, in front of: Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, France, New Zealand, Belgium, Israel, South Korea, Italy, Ireland, Russia.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/03/...
Here in the UK I would settle for the reintroduction of squatter's rights. Tony Blair abolished them.

(To be completely accurate, you are still entitled to claim land after 12 years unchallenged adverse possession. What changed under Blair is you now also need the permission of the landowner. Which you will never get.)
Do they?

https://twitter.com/zedd/status/1002244316087992320

This person attributes AP to saving his life when he fell asleep at the wheel. But AP is not meant to be some kind of fail-safe for impaired driving. Had he crashed, wouldn't Tesla blame the driver, as they have in every other AP crash?
Related:

- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/4517
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44486
- https://github.com/gogs/gogs/issues/4437
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/184
- https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/1612

I can only imagine how great it would be to have all these forge federated not only with each other, but with the whole ActivityPub network (Mastodon & co.) as well…
I feel better about moving to Mint every day.
That's no different than orthodox Christian theology. Like with a handful of other unique religions, orthodox Christianity fundamentally put great value into and encouraged work in the temporal world. In Roman Catholic theology science--knowing the physical world through exploration and labor--is at least in principle an avenue of holy revelation similar to that of the bible and the Church.

I think the difference is in the shedding of the ancient modes of worship. Follow Protestant theologies to their logical end and the only way to manifest piety is through industrious labor. It's not just that work is prayer; that concept was already present in orthodox Christianity. Work becomes the religion, rather than being one aspect of a more complex system of worship.
Anecdata. I reserved a Model 3 on day one, but bought a Model S in the meantime. Still holding my reservation, but unless I can test drive a Model 3, and it's a lot more fun to drive, then I'll probably just get a second S.
WWDC 2018 – The Developer Migration – Apple
Honestly, I like the phrase 'math people' or 'computer people' a bit better.

Not always necessary to follow the formal rules of story telling, to tell a story. Reading the same patterns over and over, sounds kind of boring...
Wow, those are very nice, informative and pretty fast 3D visualizations!!! Just a small bug(or a feature), when you are viewing a molecule and remove the surface you can’t switch it back on (from Safari on iPad).
Alex Grey Continues to Work on Visionary Art Temple
First UTXO Commitment on Bitcoin Cash Testnet Explained
Most Open Source code is Free Software, and vice-versa. The definitions are pretty close. The difference is in the philosophy of the movements. He's not against MIT/BSD/Apache/etc licensed code.
well, all we need is the third coming of steven christ

come on steve, reinvent death please
Unlikely on many of these counts.
‪Seeing a big surge in imported projects to SourceForge today. Welcome‬
Python can also import only some names from a module:

from module import name, name, name

and can also run a module import under control of a try/except block, so you can trap the ImportError and do something about it. A typical use is to try to import the C version (for performance) of a module, and if that fails, fall back to the pure Python version of the same module; e.g. cElementTree and ElementTree:

try:
import cElementTree
except ImportError:
import ElementTree
The main thing I got from the MIT article is this:

"This system relies on an array of antennas that emit radio waves of slightly different frequencies. As the radio waves travel, they overlap and combine in different ways."

This is known as constructive interference, pretty nifty to see it used in this context. The range has been increased from 10 cm to 1 meter since the paper I co-authored on this subject. Impressive!

These kinds of applications have also been a long time coming. With IoT devices and NFC readers looming around the corner, I think it is likely that we will see some pretty innovative medical inventions. Likewise, as mentioned by NKosmatos, we need to take the security aspect very seriously. Some of these NFC devices are programmable, and should defend against attacks that could lead to events such as withholding life-saving medicine or misreporting biometrics.

For reference, check out this paper I co-authored:

Suitability of NFC for Medical Device Communication and Power Delivery (2007)

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4454171/

And if you're interested in an early paper about RFID-delivered viruses, check out this by Tanenbaum et al.:

http://www.rfidvirus.org/papers/percom.06.pdf
While that may be somewhat true (and I disagree with the tiny fraction assessment, unless you are measuring in some other metric than time investment), I feel like it would still greatly increase your QA budget. Each additional back-end that is supported now requires extensive testing through the game development process.
For reading, I agree, but if you're making changes it is a different story.
No it explains why Putin's top staff has gone back to using typewriters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/russia-reverts...

Course if NSA can decode speech from just the vibrations of a window how much longer will it take for them to know which key you just pressed on a typewriter?

https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/4/5968243/mit-turns-recorded...
What's the reason that dealers won't cooperate? Fears that repairs will be lower?
Then you could just use one of the existing engines like Unity.