skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That study doesn't even remotely support what you said. If that's all you can find you're basically just making stuff up.
Point taken in that respect, I agree with you that glyphosate hasn't proven to be toxic or mutagenic across quite a lot of research, but if there's no non-toxic delivery vehicle for it it doesn't matter much :)
"Don't let a good crisis go to waste" and all that, I personally would like to understand the lurking gotchas. But after an in-depth reading of a previous post [0] and a quick reading of this one, the lead picture of a dumpster fire seems more applicable to the blog itself.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17438787
Egoism and intelligence are not the same.
The legal requirements are lower. They are not allowed to sell hosting to persons from sanctioned countries for example, and all companies follow that rule. But interpreting the law to mean you cannot show hosted sites to visitors from those countries (like Google) or that you cannot allow downloads of free software from your website (like Oracle JRE) is an over-reaction only some companies do. The real reason is that since they cannot extract money from these countries because of the sanctions, they don't care about their existence, or how much trouble people from those countries would face due to their decisions.
Ah, the daily "new css/html framework that nobody asked for and nobody needs" post.
Not semantic purity. Business need. Once your company is big enough to have some people who tell other people what to do and sign off on it, you have management, and the M in CMS is about being able to mirror that management.

I think you’re describing not a CMS, but a web UI for content authoring for a static site generator. That product category is described by Prose.io, a web UI for Git-backed static site generators:

“Prose provides a beautifully simple content authoring environment for CMS-free websites.”

http://prose.io/#about

Notice the phrase “CMS-free”, as in, if you just want to author and edit content, you don’t need a content management system.

Forestry understands this distinction, the first paragraph on their “Managing Content” docs talks about Roles. If you jump to pricing, and follow across, you see identity and access “Management” is the feature that grows with price.

https://forestry.io/#/

https://forestry.io/docs/editing/

https://forestry.io/pricing/

// Footnote: My interpretation is based on having built a commercial private label web-based CMS in late 90’s, predating Red Dot’s web based live editing released in 2001, and following static site gen ever since. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenText#Content_authoring
It’s interesting that the contractor had to pay a $500k fee to Berkeley for an affordable housing trust. While I applaud the spirit of such a thing, it seems like the last thing you want to do in a housing crisis is make building more expensive. Perhaps if the contractor didn’t have to pay such a high fee just to build the place, they could offer better prices to the tenants.

Can anyone comment on the work done by that housing trust?
Yeah, or an understandable side effect. The warning, when applied to everything is just noise.
I believe this was how the XBox One was originally going to work, but the outcry was so loud that Microsoft had to backtrack before the console was launched.

A particular criticism was that you would not be able to play any games without internet access, which would have made it useless for many people, including for example some military personnel deployed overseas.
>I don't think it's unreasonable for an adult to believe that their well-considered views are correct

Millions of teenage voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. Suffering under a "reasonable" but wrong adult is an extremely common life experience. So common that the sheer weight of observation suggests that "well-considered views" are usually wrong, if not completely ridiculous.

Many of my adult coworkers and friends have stated that they are just "making up adulting as they go" -- and I share this observation. Few, if any of us, really understand how things work, why things are the way they are, or if our actions are fair and correct. We would all be much better off if we admitted this poor state of affairs more openly.

>I feel this way because I've spent the last 34 years of my life gathering evidence, forming the views that I hold, and testing them against alternative interpretation.

Inductive reasoning, the process of building up small pieces of evidence and observations and forming a larger conclusion, is inherently unsound. The conclusions you build from this process are fallible, and should be held with suspicion.
There isn't much significance on the Beatles side of it. On the computer/algorithm/bayesian/tech/math side it might be moderately significant to some.

On the Beatles side, this is one of the few Lennon/McCartney songs where there was any recorded disagreement as to who contributed what. The results of this don't convince me, and given that one of the two involved is no longer here, it won't ever get settled.
If I'm not mistaken, jeremyjh was referring to checking for 0 in the denominator, not the numerator.
SBCL & Chez are really fast. I don't remember Factor having very high performance.
Primitive types such as booleans, int, floats, times etc. are passed by value.

Reference counting is only used for heap allocated values and types that themselves reference values, like pairs and tables.

https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl/blob/master/src/cixl/bo...
In fairness, with respect to both this case and the body of research cited in it, glyphosate wasn't the toxic part of Round Up.
Yeah, Boise is already exploding hence I didn't mention it (not familiar with the tech scene there, but I think it's one of the fastest growing cities in the country).
The Therac-25 is part of the core curriculum in computer engineering, but I wonder if it's actually (in the grand scheme of things) hat bad of an incident. Compared with Facebook fomenting ethnic cleansing in Asia, the people who were hurt or died were very limited. Are there any new(er) examples which can show the dangers of a widely distributed, connected horror?
> Edit: It's potentially productive if they open source some of their new stuff? I'm guessing the whole point is that the firm is developing its competitive edge.

In a way, it's even productive if the workers at Jane Street just get to do something they enjoy. But it's odd to judge a company by its by-products.
Actually they do most of the time, but when there is room for interpretation, different companies with different incentives choose to interpret them in different ways.
Why don't you go into that field? Is it because soul-crushing to talk to customers who waste money like that? Too much competition?
For OLED displays, black uses (almost?) no energy. For LCD displays, black uses more energy, since the pixel has to be energized to block out the backlight. The difference is negligible, though, since the backlight uses far more.
Reasonable to you, but others may think 20+ is fine. I’m not sure what the law is even trying to protect, or why it matters.
Highlights I picked out (slight edits to be understandable out of context):

"Are you ready for a world in which:

* Video-faking algorithms are so advanced that faked videos are impossible to distinguish from real footage

* Conversation bots have been trained to imitate specific people

* To avoid backlash, popular social media and game companies decide voluntarily to enforce time limits

* automation eliminates as many as 73 million American jobs

* Fortune 500 human resource departments have subscribed to a “smart employer” service that evaluates a person’s suitability for workplace cultures and stress levels, using public social media posts and “likes.”

* “Predictive justice” tools become the preferred method for determining prison sentences.

* A major social network company purchases a top U.S. bank and then bases mortgage rates, loan approvals, and credit access on deep data collected by its social platform

* Facial recognition technology is a mainstream tool available to any individual or organization"
>The recursive acronym "something is not something_else" is a pretty common naming convention in software

Right. Goes back far, too:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym#Notable_exam...

I particularly like EINE and ZWEI:

From the linked article:

>the two MIT Lisp Machine editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs", German for one) and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially", German for two)
There is, however, no expectation or any real plan that C++ will be gone from Firefox. There's a huge amount of code, and there's a cost to rewriting it.
So reducing the size of rooms by eliminating the bathroom and kitchenette and having public restrooms makes it group style living?

I'd certainly love a world where merely being able to live comfortably doesn't eat the majority of one's income. But if the system is fine introducing more "affordable" housing to young people who are already taking on the majority of the debt, there's a serious problem. They should reduce the expense of students wherever possible, within reason. I've known very intelligent, highly successful individuals who lived with much less at university. Calling building these apartments for students and calling them affordable is absurd.
It's always been funny to me as a functional programmer that Python took off. People always talk about how much quicker it is to write code in Python, and 99% of the time I find the Python code to be more complex than the OCaml/Scheme/Haskell/Common Lisp equivalents (minus, of course, the library support).
Javascript is just a platform to run transcompiled stuff on these days, not unlike the name giver's JVM
> Why does this dumb story keep getting posted on every GitLab thread?

I suspect it's because some people really like microsoft and are personally offended that a customer left.
Lawful punishment of bad quality software needs to be a thing, just like in other industries.

Only then will most companies actually start to care about software quality in their development processes.
I disagree with a lot of the article, but they do bring up the "hanging chad" debacle. Digital voting helps prevent these cases.
Primality testing formula: a single Python expression using only basic operators
> Over the past four years, I have introduced thousands of developers to Electron.

Then stop it!
> Computer Science argues for (and gets) high levels of funding by asserting economic rationales for funding with a justification that physics and maths struggle to match.

Every single grant application makes (often bogus) economic rationale for its puported benefits to society and the economy. The trope in mathematics is that everything is relevant for either cryptography or protein folding.

> theoretical CS which (tragically) effectively includes much of the database, programming language and methodology community, and much of the AI and ML community too, then this is a misallocation of capital

You may not accept it but there is a whole bunch of very theoretical mathematical work that goes on in AI and ML. There is a whole bunch of work that is more empirically grounded and less whiteboard as well. There is a whole spectrum on the whiteboard to deployed-in-the-real-world. That is why there are often Applied Physics programs, different from Physics programs, different from Engineering programs. And people in each of those have varying levels of overlaps with each other based on where they sit on the theoretical-applied spectrum.

> Don't you care about the harm that is inflicted on the people doing the development, their victims (everyone) and the reputation of the infrastructure that they create? What about voting machines?

I never said anything about not caring - this is a silly red herring. I was making a statement about the computational resources needed to solve people and project management issues in software engineering as a counter to your "just give them some whiteboards" comment. I still don't see why throwing more cloud compute resources at Software Engineering departments will make your Scrum meetings more efficient. In fact I don't know if academia is well-poised to solve such problems at all.

> arguing for grant funding on the basis of real world impact

The idea behind funding the sciences in academia is that we fund research that may have long-term impact on society. You don't get to throw a fit because every problem you have at work isn't being solved by someone sitting in a university.

> the estimates of performance based on the methodologies of testing from academia are so woeful?

Are you claiming that every experiment that comes out of a physics lab works flawlessly out in the real world? Or every paper from a life science lab goes on to successfully become a new medical treatment? I mentioned it before but there are often several fields of study dedicated to just taking highly controlled results from labs and trying to get them to work in the real world. Not everything makes it (especially in the life sciences example). AI/ML are at least better in that they often (but they should be doing it even more) give you what you need to replicate the lab experiment on the controlled, sanitized data.
I prefer sct -- a very simple tool for setting the color temperature:

https://github.com/faf0/sct

https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/sct-set-color-temperatu...
Reading through an actual breakdown of the bill... I have to admit I'm not a fan. Most specifically, I preferred the construction of GDPR over this one because it was more careful with its definitions where the ban wasn't on selling the data itself, it was on using and sharing data for purposes beyond the scope of the service the business provides.

It's an important distinction because Facebook and Google don't really sell your data per se, they sell you a service that does heuristic targeting for you based on their data. A small component of that product lets you use some shared data to track things like conversions, but that's not core of the objection to how Facebook does advertising.
Show HN: Grid Generator – Pixel art with customizable pixels
I'm not sure what it's referring to. I just went by the code for i386.

I just checked again. Searched for the "CR0" or "CR3" register, which would be used to set up the protected mode and virtual memory for the i386 CPU. Didn't find anything. Searched for "virtual" and found no match. Searched for "paging" and found no match. The process table entry only had the address to the starting function and the stack addresses for context switch; there's no process memory information. The process creation process didn't touch anything memory related, except setting up the stack.

I don't believe virtual memory is supported based on what's in the code.
You actually have to pay money to subscribe to Unity3D Pro to get the dark color scheme -- it's disabled in the free version.

And people actually seem to care passionately about it, on both sides of the issue, for many different reasons!

https://feedback.unity3d.com/suggestions/editor-dark-skin-th...

https://forum.unity.com/threads/dark-theme-pro-only-seriousl...
I'd guess 5R is Five Rings Capital, not Rentech.
Who cares about evidence and "what's more likely". Would you host your product on your competitor's servers? I'm not saying that's why they switched, but from a business perspective it makes sense to remove that risk.
My question is: Was the number of the samples relatively small? Both authors made much more music than only while being in the Beatles, and if the later songs (since the Beatles split) were also (or only!) used for training then I could imagine that such a training can be sufficient. But if only the Beatles songs were used, I suspect it could be possibly not enough to be completely sure. Moreover, I can imagine that the contribution to some songs was made by both in various phases, and that that could confuse the algorithm.
Still, you shouldn't destroy people lives before hearing all sides of the story. Let the facts come out first.

See
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rape_on_Campus
Another "holy shit I can't believe this is real" story that ended up being an almost complete fabrication.

Obviously we shouldn't downplay the victim, but we also shouldn't go on witch hunts.
I don’t understand how you think this should be implemented. Many classes informally conform to protocols or in some cases the conformance can only be checked at runtime with a respondsToSelector: check. So any generics at compile time stricter than what we currently have will just not work or be useful.
I read this article, and many years ago the full report, and one of the omissions on the list of causes that stood out to me was overcomplexity --- if you read about the possible functions of the machine, they really don't require multiple threads much less a full multitasking OS. None of these race conditions would've occurred if it was a simple single-threaded embedded controller.

To paraphrase an old Hoare quote, software can either be so simple it obviously contains no bugs, or so complex that it contains no obvious bugs.
Hackers Exploiting DLink Routers to Redirect Users to Fake Brazilian Banks
Bulma – Flexbox CSS framework
Would it be terribly unlikely that McCartney tried having fun by emulating Lennon, just for shits and giggles?
> deterministic universes contain no information at all except their initial state

How can it be otherwise? You can always completely describe the deterministic universe by its initial state plus a time value, even if its initial state appears much simpler than the later states.

A busy game of life scenario can arise from a simple starting point. If you don't know the rules, you're stuck describing the position of every dot, if you do, then you can create a complete description with much less information.
This isn’t what Swift means when it says it’s safe. “Safe” doesn’t mean your program doesn’t have bugs or can’t crasg; rather, it will never have to deal with things like memory corruption and related undefined behavior. In fact, Swift considers crashing rather than allowing such errors to propagate to be an explicit design goal.
Is that SEO, or them just paying to be there?
I care passionately that my personal preferences about light/dark shouldn’t be forced on other people with different preferences.
Any examples of successful direct listing ?
Doesn’t say much about the materials used for walls/insulation/etc. No info on HVAC either.

It does compare these to containers. After spending a few weeks overall inside an office building built of recycled shipping containers, I’d definitely think twice about considering these at any price - the air inside gets very stale and humid from breath alone. Nothing “breathes” inside and you end up in a very unpleasant tin can situation.

Good AC/dehumidifier, strategically planted plants and ventilation can help, but never fully cure this environment. At least not easily.

At $2200, it’s downright a ripoff.
Usually sharing a 1BR means the living room is converted into a bedroom, or similar arrangement.
You could have the subscripting method check at runtime and return an Optional.
> making copyright liberalization a topic for your elected officials

It'd be nice to have that luxury. But the situation these days doesn't really allow that. We're facing an all-out assault on environmental regulations, a persecution of all people brown and a possible compromise of our government by a hostile foreign power. Hell, even techies have net neutrality to try to try to regain. There's just very little reason for politicians to care about an issue that both parties largely agree on.

The days when I wrote my congresswoman about copyright issues feel like a pleasant dream, at this point, and not something I'd waste what little political influence I have on right now.
I know Amazon or Microsoft aren't much better, but it's sad to see Gitlab use Google. I though Gitlab are the good guys.
> I don't believe LLVM provides a stable cross language ABI, and AFAIK languages just use regular FFI (via the C ABI) to communicate with one another

Provided the compilers generate compatible versions of LLVM IR, then cross-language calls can be done at the IR level. See github.com/Keno/Cxx.jl

IIUC Swift already uses clang to load module maps in order to expose and call Objective-C, and they plan to do something similar with C++ (no link handy but I think there is an issue or enhancement proposal about it).
The memory management is more developer friendly and it doesn't get into the way like it still does in Rust, even with the upcoming NLL improvements, not all productivity use cases are covered, e.g. self referential references to fields in struct methods.

Then there are Swift Playgrounds and REPL for quick prototyping and those still aren't a thing in Rust.
> if the same tasks were in the hands of people who wanted CNNs or CNN+RN to work well, the results might have been different.

I guess that's an undesirable symptom of CNNs (etc.) still being an empirical rather than theoretical science.
I'll go a step further: most screens even black has some brightness and blueness. You can see the difference if you wear blue-blocking glasses. A pair of those is worthwhile. They're more widespread and inexpensive these days.

But yeah, like the other reply, I use Redshift slightly less blue in daytime and much less blue at night.
Crowd funding is one example. You’re not going to crowd fund a $200m blockbuster but I don’t see why we need to have those kinds of movies. Copyright and intellectual property laws benefit a small minority of people at the expense of the masses, and strike me as unfair. If a $200m movie is only feasible with draconian copyright laws, perhaps such a movie is unnecessary? I’d rather have the freedom to remix art and benefit from others doing so than live subject to surveillance just so the state can be sure I’m not copying movies that can be copied at no loss to others.

I don’t make movies but I have been working nights and weekends for nine months on a robot design [1] that is CC0 licensed, which means no copyright public domain.

The work can be a reward on its own, and work done by this kind of passion has a character very different from a massively for profit movie. Personally I’d enjoy the art more if we had no copyright. Then only those passionate about the art would make it, and people would fund what they enjoy. I’d vastly prefer that system.

[1] https://youtu.be/DXPmqCd0r04
a/c == account? I have never seen that one before
Outdoors at night, it makes you less of a target for moths, mosquitos and Predator drones.
I’ve met only a few of SWEs who were good at documenting, and only 1-2 of them who also enjoy it. From my experience, changing from SWE to Tech Writer is highly unusual - I’ve seen QA and BA folks change over, but never SWE.

Have you considered going into Developer Relations instead? It has a big overlap with Technical Writing, but spans beyond that to include community discussions and direct “support” comms.
There are all sorts of optimizations that are much harder to do in a non statically typed language. There are also all types of guaranteed safe automated refactoring you can do with a statically type language. I shutter to think about using a non type safe language with a large code base.
Right, in the US corn in (Blame Iowa :) ) is super subsidized.
There are some old benchmarks (2010) - http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2010/05/comparing-factor... , in 2018 sure, situation I think is different.