skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like some application of "no true scottsman" combined with complex human interactions in a theoretically "simple" system. I guess the perfectly rational consumer fits in somehow too.
I find these two statements pretty interesting:

> Once a massive, uncensorable communication network becomes pervasive

> the old social institutions that guide public communication become irrelevant and we build new ones or face massive misinformation and propaganda campaigns

You're basically saying state run propaganda is the one you want... Which is "fine", but still propaganda and misinformation, just of a different nature (apparently you agree with that one)
I understand that avoiding spending a week on Y is important for business value, but constantly prioritizing shipping features in the cheapest manner possible also means not investing in the long-term growth of your developers. You don't learn much of value by gluing together a handful of framework functions. You become a better engineer by really struggling with and digging into Y for an entire week. If engineers are never given the freedom to do that, they stagnate as framework glue monkeys. "Deep work" is a rare thing in scrum shops.
Thanks for noticing! It’s the little things, ya know?
I've occasionally thought that if I were to design my own language, it would be nice to try using INT_MIN as the invalid value that marks None. I've never actually used the extra negative value you get from twos-compliment, so giving it up in exchange for a smaller Option<T> seems like an excellent trade. Though, I wonder if that might have some complications for stuff like overflow checking.

I suppose you could always wrap NonZero with an accessor that adds 1 if negative to achieve the same result, though that might be too much overhead to be worth it.
It is, but you can't do the work yourself.
Wow. It really does satisfy my ideal laptop.
EDIT: No builtin Ethernet port. Not my ideal.
In the UK (and EU I think) you can pick your own PIN. You just go to any atm and there's a 'change your PIN' option.
You could offer the owner a fixed payment in return for the rights to future ad revenue from that video.

This assumes the owner is less confident that the video will be popular than you are.
While that's true, it doesn't appear to have been a partisan or even controversial bill at the time, so I feel that it's disingenuous to blame Republicans.
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Go figure. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then
Any wifi other than yours, or your company's is huge security risk. I would not trust a second for a service like this.
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It doesn’t take a pattern of behavior to establish that catcalling is harassment.
If you control the majority of a legislative body, I argue it’s reasonable to blame that party for legislation they pass (as they could just as easily not pass it with the control they have). Likewise, the Republican President could have vetoed it (which he did not do).

Also, the legislation was sponsored by a Republican (Thomas “Tom” Davis III
Sponsor. Representative for Virginia's 11th congressional district).
Source: http://www.france24.com/en/20180801-france-passes-bill-impos...

> The new law also allows for fines of 90-750 euros ($105-$876) for gender-based harassment on streets and public transportation. It bans sexual or sexist comments and behavior that is degrading, humiliating, intimidating hostile or offensive.
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Interesting -I haven’t noticed that myself, but my weight tends to move in macro-trends: long periods of time when I’m either gaining or losing.

I did notice that the second “losing” time was much harder than the first. Possibly reduced metabolic rate due to aging?
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> Hackers can read too! They will also be promoting 8068 up their attempt trees in order to catch people who read this (or similar) articles.

Only if they know you’re a geek. The above fact won’t reach John Doe and influence his PIN choice.
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I think this is a clear case of the perfect being the enemy of the good. The cases you are highlighting are important and deserve discussion. However, if we were to wait for the perfect solution, we may never start. This I think gets started with a significantly observed subproblem.
Reminds me of Spaceballs.

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"That's the stupidest combination I ever heard in my life... That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage."
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this site is so full of sjw's
As I understand it, it applies to both genders, though obviously getting catcalled on as a man happens less.
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When I started to cook I actually gained a huge amount of weight. I've no idea what you mean by being hard to get high calorie numbers. It's as easy as any other way: you eat too much food. It was only when I actually learnt what a sensible serving size was and actually weighing out my ingredients (especially carbs) that I became normal again.
Sweet! It's like a fantasy console, but in real life.
That's why I've gone with the No 'S' Diet instead.

Much more straight-forward, much easier to adhere to.

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I don't see at all how your conclusion ("state run propaganda is the one you want") follows from what you quoted, or from that comment as a whole.
Not really sure what you are going for here. But, I kinda read this as downplaying the harrasment that women face. I'd assume thats not what you are trying to say, so, I'd suggest clarifying your comment.
I just recently learned about McMaster and noticed it's overpriced, but I don't know where else one would get all this variety of equipment. Where can I find such OEM suppliers?
Papers mentioned in the article:

"An Improved Illumination Model for Shaded Display" (1978):

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.107...

"A 3-Dimensional Representation for Fast Rendering of
Complex Scenes" (1980):

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.133...
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As the joke goes: "No self-respecting engineer would build a system for defeating emission tests, they'd build a generic system for defeating any test and create an instance specialized for emissions tests"
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> Catcalling [...] If you greet someone and smile

You understand that these are different things. You understand that they can legally be treated as different things. Well done.

[Edit: For whatever it's worth, I think the parent comment was mistaken but not worthy of being flagged.]
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> If you greet someone and smile, and they interpret your greeting or your smile as sinister, does this law make you a criminal?

No that's not harrasment. You're reducing a clear issue that women face daily to your concern about being falsly accused over a smile.

https://youtu.be/b1XGPvbWn0A
IMO the prior you was correct. We don't even think about all of the good these tools have done because we take it so for granted. The fact that these tools were built, without reference or consideration for politics is one of the greatest things ever to happen in human history. The fact that the internet is open, free, and (somewhat) decentralized would never have happened had politics been allowed to worm its way into the design process, and that would have been a tragedy of unspeakable proportions.
I'm sorry, but China has been a pro at stealing IP from the West. I'm actually with Trump on this one (gasp) - but I think it needs to go one step further and actually drop trade all together.

Fact is, China straight up has people from the government who sit in factories reverse engineering the stuff that's built. The Chinese government (after it's been reverse engineered) helps support competitive businesses, then locks out the U.S. or other Western competitors (as it's in the national interest).

It's insane that the west has put up with this, because it's literally going to cripple the west in the long run.

Regarding this case, it's espionage essentially... But not really supprising given the prior events.
My heuristic is: if my program is going to be 80% NumPy and friends anyway then R is probably better but if it’s going to be only 20% (e.g lots of user interface code or whatever) then Python is better. I probably wouldn’t use R for anything end-user-facing unless it was via Shiny, whereas I might use WxPython for a desktop app.

For interactive, exploratory/research use R in RStudio beats Python in Jupyter hands down.
I don't read French as well, but am also interested if it's gender specific, but I'm guessing it's not - it's probably because women get harassed a lot more than men on the streets.

I also wonder if this would be something that cities in the US like San Francisco would adopt. Not just harassment against women but just harassment in general. I do get harassed once in a while while walking in SF, but my wife definitely experiences a lot more of the catcalling and harassment than me. It just makes it uneasy to walk around in SF, day or night, when it's such a beautiful city.
Personally I see the alternative as a Silicon Valley which accepts that its output can never be "neutral" or "apolitical", no matter how many claims are made to the contrary, and which gives consideration to that before building things, allowing that consideration to influence the design.

Any time you're building technology with (or with the intention of) mass reach, "if the person I consider to be the most evil in the world were to commandeer this, what's the absolute worst they could manage to do with it" is a useful question to ask. If some companies had asked this question far earlier in their lifecycles, we might see a very different world around us today.
These samples just don’t look that impressive to me. It looks like they are just milking some tweaks in each one.

[1] Looks really good but only one light source and barely even a bounce of light. Nice backlight halo, but that’s not ray-tracing.

[2] Obviously a lot going on here and some progress of some sort but if only all the reflections weren’t so blurry. What’s up with that?

[3] 99% of what makes this scene look good is the PBR texture tuning. This lighting does not look good and nothing is moving. Very few reflections and small but they do look proper.
R was the first programming language I learned and I still use it a couple a times a week for work, but it wasn't until about 2 years into using R when I started learning python that I realised programming isn't difficult and frustrating, R is just badly designed.
You didn't set politics aside at all in this post. Your opinions are politically charged, or at least have significant political implications —though I suspect you know that.
Smart person: I only eat a tiny bit of candy/chocolate per week, and I haven't had any yet. This small piece of rich dark chocolate will be my allowance for the week, so I'll make sure to savor it.
>behavior that is... offensive

Banning intimidating behavior has a strong argument for it. Banning overtly sexual comments at least has a clear line to it.

But banning "offensive" behavior? I prefer the right to free speech over the right to not be offended.
I don't know how much of this is just the administration trying to come up with an excuse for their behavior, but this seems to say a lot about Japanese culture. In the West, discrimination was historically used to raise one above others and reinforce hierarchy. This behavior displays another very different, though equally abhorrent, practice. Japan's particular strain of collectivism is discriminating in order to create some perceived advantage for the country as a whole. Compare with American segregation, where a black person living near white people was seen as morally backwards because of the belief in racial superiority and hierarchy. This specific instance poses a more concerning behavior to me, because the people in question here did not think about discriminating in order to serve themselves; they were convinced that they were doing something good for everybody. Though attitudes have changed in Japan about gender, it seems like this will be something that will take a long time to go away because people don't only need to rationalize their discrimination, but instead they are convinced that they need to continue it as some kind of protection against societal issues even if they do (on the surface) believe in equality.
A million seconds is over 11 days straight without stopping for sleep, food, or anything! I very much doubt that they actually did it.
Yeah that's not really better at all. You can get the same protection with 3$ child-protection covers here.

The issue is exposed live voltage when you plug it in. Schuko and Europlugs generally don't allow this (even the flat plug is designed such that the contact aren't exposed anymore when they make contact)
It's not unfounded. The GCC compiler isn't splitting up because they fear someone would build a proprietary compiler using either backend or frontend API if they did it.

I can see that the same reasoning here would be valid; someone could write a proprietary GPG frontend.
"Hey, how are you doing this fine evening, stranger?"

Is that criminal harassment now in France? Or is it just greeting someone? Does it depend on if they are offended or not?
Non of the banks I used in Denmark has allowed that.
Can you describe the difference in objective terms?
I'm basically saying, there is no "fake news" it's all "fake" or white washed with the politics of the presenter.

By making the claim it's a technical innovation that led to the political problem - it's ignoring the fact it's a political problem, caused by a political problem (that everyone is biased by politics).

I think it's naive to think technical innovations cause the political issues. Even from the cold war example - it's politics that caused it, just the technology raised the stakes. Politics created the issue, not the engineering
Can u explain a little bit or post some links to help get started on understanding all that?
That's true if the company and the engineers exist in vacuum.

Very often, the engineer would get frustrated with this and look for work which is more interesting. That way, the company will be, increasingly, left with engineers who are there because they have no alternative.
Not the least because being offended is a blank check for anyone to define their own red line and impose them on others. And some people seem hyper sensitive...
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There are some great documentaries that show how unpleasant it can be as a woman to walk through a city. It's awful.

How do we go about remedying this situation without making criminals out of anyone who has a spur-of-the-moment interaction with a stranger a potential criminal? I think that's an important question, and I wonder how (if?) this French law addresses it.
No. never lower your prices because of a comment here. There will always be some cheapskate engineer here telling you your thing is too expensive.

That's fine. He is not your customer.

Your customer is businesses with money. Businesses that have seven dollars.

Those businesses, by the way, will just as happily spend $20/seat/month because that also rounds to zero for them. You can experiment with charging them that if you like. But whatever you do don't lower your prices. They're too cheap already.
Sure, I'm not saying you shouldn't see example command lines and their outputs. I'm just saying putting that in image form seems really stupid—I don't understand the desire/need. Anything that's in a gif should just be inline in the page as real text that you can copy and paste.
Line-interactive gets around it by simply using a inverter for both grid power and battery power, thusly being able to produce it's own sine wave inside the house. You can also use an VFI those convert grid to DC and then plug the battery in there, then convert back. Same effect.

A line interactive UPS does not sync necessarily sync you to the grid, though the electronic will usually try to keep it in sync. It's not necessary here.
Like a communist who calls genetics a "bourgeois science", or a libertarian who calls global warming a "government conspiracy": the point is to apply an ideology to an uncomfortable reality, and get labels that terminate any further thought.
The obviously critical right to be an asshole. Where would civilization be without assholes?
The mars rovers run on hardened CPU’s that cost 200k per board, as well as a commercial OS, so creating an open source community around that would be challenging.
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I do this too, with the result that I constantly forget my credit card PIN. It's extremely annoying but I don't really want to change it either for the reasons in the article.
No you got it wrong, WiFi is controlled by greedy monopolies and he’s just being disruptive ;)
I'm trying to come up with a list of countries that don't collect basically all data, and I'm coming up short. Do you have any suggestions?
It's actually not very different. Hebrew works in the same way, except it's not cursive. They share a common ancestor in Phoenician script I think, also used for a Semitic language, for which it works well. The Greek alphabet (and thence ours) was derived the Phoenician script that worked in a similar fashion, by adding vowels.
These kind of laws makes approaching people with a sexual interest to perhaps be considered as sexual harassment. That's why I have stopped approaching women, it's not worth the risk. When it's popular to write peoples names publicly on twitter without any evidence for example (metoo), then you know it has gone way to far.

The truth is if people find you attractive, the chance is much lower that they will consider it harassment (even if it may be) and just let it slide. I am sure that these laws will just backfire on the very people it were designed to protect.
I think people who can't understand the object difference should not then yell stuff to strangers on the street. I've managed to live 34 years without accidentally harassing anyone (that I know of). People who think they are going to have a problem with that should not yell stuff to strangers..at least not in france.
France doesn't have a purely jurisprudential system. Jurors have lots of leeway in passing judgements that aren't tightly bound by previous judgements.

I'm pretty sure your example be rightly called as non-harassing ( unless you're not sharing additional context)
I think the issue is the idea that we should continue to carve out exemptions to what most would consider a basic human right (free speech) because of people’s feelings.

Are you entitled to feeling safe? Yes, without infringing on the rights of others. Are you entitled to not being offended? No, that is not a right. You cannot legislate civility and decency in a free society. You cannot legislate emotional well being and fortitude.

Disclaimer: American, supporter of unrestricted free speech
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Where's the PAC? People will often surrender control of their systems for less (watching Netflix, accessing thepiratebay)
True, it doesn't. I didn't read the question carefully enough. Path-tracing is indeed a more sophisticated form of ray-tracing. In a path-tracing engine you'll still be calculating intersections to surfaces by ray-casting, ray-marching etc.
As the wikipedia page for ray-tracing states, "ray tracing is a rendering technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light as pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects". The range of complexity possible in that definition was already discussed in the above Quora article.
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We already had law against harassment. They are just very hard to enforce.

This law is mainly a PR move. It is a very common thing in France to pass law that will almost never be used because they are impossible to enforce. They only purpose is for the gov to say "look, we did something !".
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Reddit comments if you are interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/940jdc/fid...
I'm surprised that 1004 is that high up. I doubt it merely has to do with the Korean significance, unless the data source is heavily skewed towards PIN usage by Koreans.
I didn’t see anything gender-specific in this law. Only the advertising about the law is gendered.

Also, as far as I’ve understood, for the « long, sustained look », it has to be witnessed by a policeman directly. Therefore I don’t believe we can have many fines for this category. They said they’ll start the fines in September.

Another specific thing to know about France is, police doesn’t act. They might witness a skin-head peeing on the Hotel de Ville de Lyon, they won’t act. I’ve also never seen two people fighting on a street where cops would intervene, leave alone come (I should know, I get assaulted once a year, make a point of calling the cops, never seen them, even after the 4th call. I had to write the city mayor to make them act against a drug dealer who was doing parties in my street). They have sirens in all the time, but it’s just on the way back to the station for lunch time and at 5.30pm.

So, if one girl succeeds in having the fine applied, it’s already unfair.
This law is just another racist way to fine and punish POC. Anyone who has been to paris knows the primary cat-callers are not white. I thought Le Pen lost the election?
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Swift is a C++/Rust style language vs a Java language. It just looks really pretty, so you might not realize what it's implicitly doing under the hood.

It doesn't use full automatic GC, so of course it is going to be faster than Java.

Swift also has performance gotchas, like it's strings. It's strings are very easy to use in an non-performant way because they are going for full unicode correctness, even when you don't want it.

But it's also a young language with a whole bunch of low hanging fruit in the perf realm.

My perf scale is also more orientated towards business logic / app type things. If your really thinking about your perf and doing a rewrite in fully static C/C++, then I have no idea how much better you can get :)

Is common lisp fully GC?
Braid is maybe favourite game of all time.

The way it plays with the time dynamics and weaves it into it's story is brilliant.

I love the way it fed you story via the books and the way the levels play style were linked to the story.

It also has a brilliant soundtrack, e.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bTZMKVTM9k