skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could also be viewed as a comparison between two different styles of C++.
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I think it's time I publicly shared about how Microsoft stole my code
Even "wrong" decisions have the force of law.

I haven't read any specific cases, but I wonder if 5th (and 4th) Amendment issues were raised at trial in the first place; perhaps those protections weren't even put in play properly.

[Update] an example of this concern is raised elsewhere in this thread[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17211885
I don't want to get into a long debate on this subject but the fallacy you base your argument on is that there is no other way to pay for "society" other than taxation.

Food and housing are essential things "for the society to function" yet are not supplied by the government through taxation, food for thought...
One of the unfortunate side effects of Roseanne
Still trying to understand the nature of understanding: the etymologies
Both of you are somewhat right. The various events of the late seventeenth century helped prevent revolution from popping up around the French Revolution, but their political system at the time prevented most of the country from having a role in politics. This was a wide issue in Europe, and the Revolutions of 1848 were largely about that issue. Britain had addressed that issue with the Reform Acts, allowing their government to stay stable through the period.
Sure, but please don't. That's going the wrong way down a one-way street.
Sorry, I messed up the link to the main article on my site. Here is the corrected link:

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_C...
Watched about an hour so far and this is fabulous. The talks very clearly outline the bounds of the problem space (known and unknown) and then start going region to region. The goal is to perceive the texture of the knowledge domain. This is my favorite way to learn about a subject.

Looks like it's gonna be a nerdy Saturday night binge watching these. Too bad there isn't a Netflix for this kind of stuff
Sounded like a weapons cache to me! But I was sure it was actually something more reasonable.
People don't like it when you point out the indirect effects of a system. I'm assuming that is why you got downvotes.
There's a ton even beyond old mainstays like Xamarin, Phonegap/Cordova, Titanium. Even Alibaba made one:

https://weex.apache.org

There's new stuff like Ionic, NativeScript, and Flutter. There's obscure ones like Codename One. And there's speculative ones like SCADE and Kotlin Native which are really just language bridges.
This is good news for Flutter?
Yes, it’s called Super Dune II
Considering how much more technology has evolved since then, it isn't far-fetched to think that this pace of devolution into totalitarianism could happen much faster today.

In fact, this is precisely what happened with ISIS. I shudder to think what might have happened if the powers to be had not put aside their differences to fight a common foe.
The History of Europe: Every Year [video]
Well React and React Native are two different things, just because they move away from it for their apps doesn't mean they're going to move away from it on the web.
Just finished the first video. She's a great story teller and very engaging. I'm really delighted to have been made aware of this.
Treatment identical to Han Chinese would be a great start.
Why is this a debate? Seriously.

There probably wouldn't be a debate if malaria were a big problem here.
Of course it's a bigger problem: it's happening more often, to more people, in larger amounts.

Society may have a bigger problem with violent theft than with employers stealing wages, but that society views it this way in itself is a problem.
They allowed the kids to choose the candy of their choice from several, it's also been repeated (and not getting the same results they got originally) in different cultures with treats appropriate for the culture.
I'm... curious. What motivated you to stay?
In most cases you can just file a wage claim:

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileWageClaim.htm (For California)
Yup stories like this get reported on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17202338
Even if that client were to pay (and they're probably not inclined to send money to the firm), what's to say that the CEO won't keep it all as their own "back-pay"?

I would contact an employment lawyer so that you'll get your 2+ months of pay, turn in all company materials and data, and leave on Monday morning.
Ten Other Men Left Genetic Legacies So Huge They Rival Genghis Khan's (2015)
WOW, what country?
It's much easier and cheaper to find engineers that have web technology experience as opposed to those that have native mobile development experience, hence part of the draw for bigger companies. And the ability to share code is a non-negligible optimization at scale.
> Hell, I went to college hoping to get a wage around $60k

In the sake of full disclosure, what year did you graduate college?
I think the mere fact that the OP feels the need to state that (paraphrasing) "possibly additional techniques besides deep learning will be likely necessary to reach AGI" reveals just how deeply the hype has infected the research community. This overblown self-delusion infects reporting on self-driving cars, automatic translation, facial recognition, content generation, and any number of other tasks that have reached the sort-of-works-but-not-really point with deep learning methods. But however rapid recent progress has been, these things won't be "solved" anytime soon, and we keep falling into the trap of believing the hype based on toy results. It'll be better for the researchers, investors, and society to be a little more skeptical of the claim that "computers can solve everything, we're 80% of the way there, just give us more time and money, and don't try to solve the problems any other way while you wait!"
This is a great point. Xi is a strongman dictator and has arguably harmed Communist rule a lot more than he realizes by eliminating term limits. If the next ruler is some fool who cannot handle the crises that a country inevitably faces... it could lead to the country's undoing.

Which is why I am personally a lot more alarmed at the current US Presidency than most of my peers. Inept rulers have historically been the best predictors of a civilization's downfall. The fervent opposition to the administration by ordinary US citizens gives me hope but if Republicans continue to hold on to power after November, I really do feel that all will be lost.
Devtools reminds me of the Smalltalk environment.
A non-profit? Lol. Quick way to fix that is to let donors know about those ridiculous expenses. A private for profit company should be able to do whatever it wants because they are competing in a free market. Those high expenses might be justified as part of their strategy to recruit top management talent. Basically, those expenses are paid back by the output of those incurring them. A non-profit on the other hand — they are tax exempt, so taxpayers get to subsidize that 10k apartment.
I'm sure some of it is propaganda, but I think it's also an artifact of very adversarial management/labor splits that were more common in the past. If management is full of exploitative dicks, it's not surprising that the unions would also think in a zero-sum fashion.

There's a fantastic This American Life that I've recommended here before: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015

It's on the NUMMI plant. GM's worst plant was shut down; Toyota took it over as part of a joint venture to show GM how to make cars in the Toyota way. The story of the workers and how they change as they work for an employer that treats them with respect is amazing.

It definitely made me believe that unions indeed could be shitty. But also, that it's not a one-sided thing, and that other relationships are not just possible, but necessary if we're going to make things that are more useful and reliable than a '79 Chevette.
The permafrost where the vault is dug significantly melted last year.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-s...
How useful would this be for a total beginner who wants to start messing around with and learning FPGAs? Looks super skookum.
You’ve been downvoted and I have no idea why.

I make around that and without health insurance my chronic illness would be a disaster financially. Fortunately with decent insurance it’s just a disaster physically and emotionally.
It actually looks pretty nice (imo), but also seems like another one of those, "well, we'll see if it picks up any steam in a few years..." kinda situations.

The article is also clearly written and informative.
Good question; I edited to clarify what I was saying.
Treading carefully? The current App Store search ads are mostly useful for tricking newbies into downloading the wrong app, and all of Apple's music apps keep nagging me to try Apple Music. If anything, I hope their new model will be a little more subtle.
I got hilariously lucky and dropped out in 2013 with an awesome offer in hand, but I was aiming for a graduation in 2014. My hopes were calibrated by the salaries I was seeing my friends get (in the midwest) with mediocre grades similar to my own.
A brief introduction to quantum computing
NB: LineageOS has similar sentiments and did not accept patches to enable microG.

Thus microG maintains its own fork of LineageOS; the microG team would need to fork Copperhead.
The typo on the second slide, "Marr's Level's of analysis" kinda jumps out doesn't it?
Not only this, but I think we miss the more important detail that AGIs like our brains are probably so generally successful because they are relatively sloppy. So while they can reliably solve all sorts of problems for which they have little or no preparation, they are also remarkably unreliable for solving specific problems requiring specific answers. But these traits are likely two sides of the same coin. And any software solution that replicates the desirable traits is likely going to come with some of the undesirable ones as well.
American corporations are making it a reality and they want a one-size-fits-all approach worldwide.
Or simply use the replacer to generate what you want - include illegal characters like letters, and once they get removed, you get what you want: `((x)=>5)(x)` becomes `(()=>5)()` once the x is removed.

I don't see a way to exploit it, but that means very little (as shown by the fact that the author missed this one).
FYI, the term "wage theft" has a standard definition: employers stealing from employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
I ... think you might have misunderstood the story.
Exactly. And if you step out of line politically in China, you quickly get a bullet to the back of the head.
This is why Stallman says we need to push to have a link out to the un-minified (or in this case source code that led to the WASM) so that people can go and read the source.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214257
Why would you let a rumor influence your decision? Also, even if it were true, why would it influence your decision?
As a long-time Logic user who frankly has just never bothered to try anything else, is there anything I'm missing by not trying Reason?
> I purchased a license for the full edition.

Payments

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Proof? Libya has currently been broken into four or more warring states, each controlling some part of Libya.

>Also the Syria and Yemen are civil wars. Don't know how you think it's reasonable to pin that on the "US, NATO and friends".

By providing the various sides with arms and support. Though I think you can put much of the blame of the civil wars staring on the US, even if you disagree the wars are still dramatically different than it would be without US support.
A look back at Nature’s 2015 “Deep Learning”
Comprehensive and excellent! And +10 for getting into compartmentalization.
If voters punished parties for things they did in the past, that would be a force towards more long term thinking instead of always reacting to whatever scapegoat the rabble wants to hang today.
By the way, do modern antiviruses detect and cure DOS viruses? In just so many cases DOS games copied around between computers used to be infected, I suspect a portion of those available for download on unofficial websites can be infected to.
I was the webhost.
Collective bargaining devalues me as an individual contributor. If my pay is fixed to whatever level the union negotiated for me and those with equal seniority, I can’t get past that wage. My upward mobility is traded for a reduction in downward mobility. I would have less incentive to work harder or go the extra mile. I would have the passion and motivation of a clerk at the department of motor vehicles. You can’t fire me unless I do something really bad and I can’t get a raise unless everyone else also gets a raise. I can’t move employers to seek better wages because I’d lose seniority.

Collective bargaining is a life sentence of mediocrity for both a company and individuals. However, for 19th and 20th style assembly line type work where workers are literally interchangeable, then I can understand the appeal of collective bargaining. Some guy turning the same screw all day on an assembly line — there is not much room for “excelling” — you either turn the screw when the next part gets to you, or you don’t. Screw-turning doesn’t really have much opportunity for innovation or extra-mile at the individual level. But for a restaurant worker who might be extra nice to a customer or stay a few minutes late to help make the place extra clean or the kitchen worker who reduces food waste by being more efficient — even those “low” level jobs would be harmed by collective bargaining. Jobs that benefit from collective bargaining are ones with extremely minimal autonomy or require an extremely low skill set: just turn a screw. For jobs that actually require intelligence (emotional or intellectual,) collective bargaining is an insult. Unless of course you are poorly motivated in which case it’s a gift.
This is actually an amazing analogy.
Choose HTML5. Choose Node. Choose your fucking social networking sites. Choose open APIs and a per-year subscription model. Choose microformats, micropayments, and SOA. Choose targeted mobile advertising. Choose user-contributed content. Choose your widgets in a range of matching Bootstrap colors. Choose a CDN, or two, or three. Choose the long-tail and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose surfing on that walled-garden device, a machine you paid for but do not own, watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing videos, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up followers you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose WebAssembly.

(Not my idea, I just updated it for the times. Please don't mod down for foul language kthx, it's a homage to the original.)
To paraphrase Maciej Ceglowski, this is machine learning as a vehicle for for bias laundering.
Well, in the UK there's a waiver you can sign that lets you work more than 48 hours a week. It's more beneficial to the employer imo, but people who want a lot of overtime can actually get it. I just wonder if it's stricter in Germany - i.e. you can work 40hrs/week and that's absolutely it.
That may well be what ultimately tips the balance, sadly - as climate change extends the range of anopheles and friends, associated tropical diseases including Malaria will start to appear in Europe and the US.
>> I’d genuinely take a pay cut to work in a high-functioning environment where workflows and systems are well orchestrated, rather than one where everything is an uphill slog due to arcane make-work rules.

This is a very interesting take and I'm exactly the same way. In fact, I just gave notice last week at my current position so that I could pursue a position with a company that was leaner and where more of my time would be spent on relevant work versus meta work. Fortunately, the complete compensation packages, benefits, insurance, et al. at both places came out to about a wash. My current employer is more secure from an employment perspective but I'm willing to give that up in exchange for "staying in the game" technically and for seeing the fruits of my labor have a more direct impact in the marketplace.
> in the left lower corner

Fix: "in the right lower corner"
what reactions did you expect?
I don't get this distrust of your ISP regarding DNS queries. They're one of the few parties we're actually paying. I don't see anyone paying 8.8.8.8 or most other alternatives people use. If we can't trust them, who the hell are you going to trust?
You should maybe answer the actual question asked by parent instead.
To add insult to injury, it's an x86 Chromebook that doesn't require any of that custom ARM configuration to run.
I was a mobile developer and moved away from it towards web development because of how uncertain the future looks for the tooling.

Investing hundreds of hours into the web framework of the week at least informs me on javascript/html/css in general. However, with mobile, your experience with Swift and AutoLayout might be totally irrelevant in the job market if most businesses want a Cordova or React Native developer, and vice versa, or the mood of the industry shifts.

Further, from a business POV, what do you do? 3 separate codebases (iOS, Android, Web) for native, and deal with a nightmare of hiring, maintenance, and disparate features? 2 separate codebases via hybrid native, and pray the platform continues to be supported while dealing with shaky native features? One codebase + extra for a Cordova application, having suboptimal performance + UX alongside another hiring nightmare? Or pray Apple decides to be benevolent, and hitch your app to iOS picking up support for PWAs?

People who complain about churn in front end have never done mobile.
I joined http://www.platohq.com a few months ago. It's been awesome for me.
(-> readability is matters only and really what)

Like so?

https://clojure.org/guides/threading_macros
Sure, but can it be built on ReactOS?
REST is not very structured and means something a little different to every implementer. Systems like Thrift and GRPC build an uambiguous contract around the request and response schema, with IDL serving as documentation whose correctness is mechanically enforced. Since both parties have the IDL, the messages can be packed efficiently on the wire without any field names and in formats that are less computationally intensive to parse/serialize than JSON. It’s also relatively clear which IDL changes are breaking and which are backwards compatible (the latter being the only kind you can sanely make in a running distributed system). The wire protocol can be less chatty and better suited to multiplexing a high volume of traffic along the same socket, which was a shortcoming of HTTP until relatively recently with HTTP2.
I would wager that all of those correlate so heavily to wealth bracket that it would be a wash. And a surprise for you.

That is, wealth is a proxy for all of those measures. And every attempt at fixing those measures has ended poorly. At best.
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A thought experiment, from an ignorant Canadian to those Chinese who accept ethnic discrimination in national policy:

Generation(s) of Han Chinese and Uighurs get together and start having children. An act of loving subversion, if you will. At what level of mixing does the dangerous Uighur contribution become safe to you? 50%? 25%? 12.5%?

[Only somewhat tongue-in-cheek.]
I disagree. You can do a lot to avoid mass surveillance. But you need to think like a smart criminal. Or a spy. And that comes hard for some.

I truly doubt that there's much hope for limiting mass surveillance in the US. The NSA does not respect the law. Because it's a military organization, and the US is always at war. At most, the NSA merely pretends to respect the law.
Well, you see, what I did is search for the specific mosquito from the quoted text and found a link to a species of spider who's primary food source is the very same mosquito being discussed.

So either the scientist isn't very good at the google or just doesn't like "vampire spiders" and is lying about there being no predators for this mosquito. Whichever way you look at it this is the person you're trusting to release genetically modified organisms into the wild.
I remembered the same quote.

Also, in the book, I found the story of how Java came to dominate fields in finance, covered in the first half of the book, very interesting.
Tricky. I prefer C and use it at home for fun. C++ is strictly for work. But I also like to program in ways that are safe by construction, and C++ gives me tools like unique_ptr and std::vector for doing that.

But I agree those tools are limited. The class of bugs which C++ protects you from are the shallow ones. Coding with discipline will prevent more bugs than switching to C++.

Languages with real memory safety however are a genunie step up. Rust for example makes it painful to not code with discipline. Unfortunately I find it makes programing painful in general -- so I am still waiting for a safe language that is as much fun as C.
You make great points but mobile still favors native greatly- only React Native has made any significant challenge to it. Yes there are a lot of options but I suspect the tooling questions in mobile is about stuff like Objective-C/Java vs Swift/Kotlin or Autolayout vs. third party libraries, not native vs. cross-platform.
Other than an announcement from Facebook that this project is being moved away from I would rather consult the github page which has updates from the last two days ago.

If they are moving away it would make more sense that they changed the licence to BSD on these projects. On the other hand even if they are moving away from using react native wouldn't the community try to pick it up?
Rightfully so, how can this be seen any other way? It's the manufacturer's responsibility to make a product that doesn't burn down your house.