skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was my understanding that Google / Apple do not charge a fee on in-app purchases which are not platform specific and which use third-party payment processing.

Never having played Fortnite, I assumed that in-app purchases are specific to your account and would carry-over if you moved from Android to iOS. Is that not the case?
Brazil's population is growing, so it's really the rate of violence especially for 15-35 year olds that's important.

However, all current and past statistics are questionable making assessment difficult.
Not one but 3 and a half. Her predecessor from the same party ruled for 8 years and she was president for 6 years before being impeached for fiscal embezzlement. So yeah... 12 years in which crime rates skyrocketed.
From the POV of this explanation, it's then quite fortuitous that the complexes are just two-dimensional over the reals, and can thus be easily visualized. That is, as soon as you adjoin the roots of x^2 + 1, and close under field operations, you actually get the roots of all polynomials.
That is Douthat's go-to theme, isn't it....
Care to elaborate why? I'm not affiliated with the project in any way. But if it works well and the documentation/support are there, why is it as completely unusable as you seem to claim? Your comment sounds like you're just fighting the holy FOSS war.
> Go on youtube and instagram and check out all of the normal white dudes posting content from Xinjiang.

Are they poking around, looking for evidence of mass detentions? Or are they complaining about how they "spent more time being frustrated, bored, and whinging about lost funds than actually enjoying ourselves" (https://www.lostwithpurpose.com/why-we-didnt-like-traveling-...)?
Continuing the tangent: I've often wondered if having a separate voting system for "agree/disagree" and "correct/incorrect" would help

/thinking out loud
DNS-over-QUIC is a plausible alternative to DNSCurve, but you're still looking at a fallback to TCP TLS when you encounter a middlebox which is interfering with all the UDP traffic it doesn't outright block.
Your two choices unnecessarily rule out a third: that Dropbox client phones home what filesystem is in use, and so they have concrete data backing their assertion.
Yeah, when I hear "bad neighborhood", I think more of property related crime, graffiti, loitering, abandoned/neglected houses, etc.
New Nvidia Paper Accelerates Large-Scale Language Modelling
"Professor Winter Gig"

Location: on the beach in FL / SoCal / ?
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: A.I./Machine Learning, Crypto/Bitcoin/Blockchain
Résumé/CV: see below
Email: profsummergig@gmail.com

I'm a computer professor in the business school of a university in the Rocky Mountain area.
I get a month off in winter and want to visit some place surfable (e.g. coastal FL or SoCal) to practice surfing.

During that stay, I'd like to work for a start-up on strategy / evangelizing for A.I./Machine Learning or Crypto/Bitcoin/Blockchain. Don't need pay, but sweat equity and a place to crash would be yuuuuuge.

My ideal schedule will be to surf 4 hours a day, and spend 8 hours a day working at the start-up.

Good public speaking skills (have presented at TEDx, video is online).

My regular reads (and YouTube and Twitter addictions) include: Nassim Taleb, Scott Adams, Derek Sivers, Marc Andreessen, Paul Graham.

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Lifelong autodidact. I've taught myself some Spanish (Pimsleur Level IV and Michel Thomas Level "Foundation") and some French (Pimsleur Level I and Michel Thomas Level "Foundation"). Fluent in English and Hindi. Earned a PhD. Good cook, regular meditator, swing and salsa dancer, barefoot hiker. U.S. citizen.
That's a big can of worms. This dual employment may have its drawbacks (I think mostly due to the fact that this is a mega-corp; for a small bootstrapped company it's only good, I think), but consider the following two topics:

* People would work in academic institution XOR your company: you cannot give the grant to the best in your field and still have him work for you, so you'd always want to hire the best you can, and give the grants to the rest;

* Grants most often support publications, not working solutions. At least with government-sponsored grants it's best when the academic analysis and publication is sponsored from a grant, whereas industrial involvement guarantees that the work is relevant and the published solution actually works.
You just feed sizeof the instance of the object you're allocating memory for. That entails funky pseudo-dereferences for pointers so the compiler doesn't give you the size of a pointer. It will look up the object's type and requisite size to fill in the argument to malloc(). If the object in question has an unknown type (maybe all you've got is a void *) then you will have to provide the size by other means.
In Florianópolis. It is a big island and it used to be very peaceful, until the work to "clean up" Rio's and Sao Paulo's slums was started in preparation for the World Cup and Olympic Games.
Not Brazilian but I used to live there. I'd say one of the main problems for the average citizen is the general uncertainty. When you leave your house to go out for the night, for example, you're planning your route based on what streets you're less likely to be robbed on. On TV, last year, a woman from Rio was being interviewed at the hospital and said "it used to be if you left your house, you didn't know if you'd be coming back. Now you don't even know if you'll get to where you're trying to go."

Personally, and due to the mostly tropical weather, living in Brazil also means wearing simple clothes, nothing fancy (not that this was a derivation from my actual style). Some people apparently carry a stealable amount of money on them - possibly in a second wallet, in a place that can be easily reached for when/if held up.

A few years ago, I saw a news report about the popularity of an anti-theft accessory for the back of one's cell phone, connected to a ring that goes on the user's finger, so that no one can run by and grab it. Though when confronted with someone who stops you and wants your phone, it's best to just give it to them, cause they could be not only armed but on drugs (ex. sniffing glue). Plus, if you do react, it's possible - depending on your location, like downtown or the beach - they have several friends nearby.

Malls tend to be the de facto "public space" where teens hang out, due to a lack of actual safe public spaces.

I'm sure I could say a lot more but those are some general thoughts that come to mind. Most of my years in Brazil were spent in Rio, fyi.
Millions of Brazilians Fall Back into Poverty

https://apnews.com/89afd8d964984eb69678129e7d4a16cc

"Meanwhile, budgetary pressures and the conservative policies of President Michel Temer are translating into cuts in social services. Among those hit is the Bolsa Familia — Family Allowance — program that gives small subsidies each month to qualifying low-income people. It’s credited with much of the poverty reduction during Brazil’s boom decade."
Apparently the 18th century :-D !

https://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guid...
Out of curiosity, why did Qt Quick not accomplish your objectives? I think it has a quazi-CSS/HTML/Javascript engine in the QML language
I would recommend this approach to any project that deals with databases. Having SQL or other query languages spread around the codebase makes it extremely hard to refactor or test and can also cause security issues.

I always write simple functions like "CustomerFunctions.GetCustomersByCountry" and keep all SQL in that file. Makes the code more readable and testable.
I love how you still hold on to the narrative that if we elect women all the problems will go away when in Brazil female politicians like Dilma Housseff and Gleisi Hoffman are pretty much as corrupt as their male counterparts.
Harvard Researchers Apply Deep Generative Models to Inverse Molecular Design
The wonderful thing about a (relatively) plaintext site like this is you can 'print' it into whatever random format you want.
Lowering crime rates has never really been the goal of gun confiscation.
I was just trying to avoid a large and obvious enumeration in my comment. I assumed we all knew things like browser engine, development/compilation hardware, app store choice, software installation method, system OS choice, runtime eval approach (e.g. JIT), phone/sms app choice, keyboard choice, etc, etc are not subject to choice and in most cases competition is actively prevented. I suppose my assumption was wrong though.
I think particularly in the case of FAIR, this is a response to Facebook being outspoken about "dual affiliation" with their AI researchers, so it's a response really to Facebook specifically.

https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10155435964892143
Amazon launches Auto SDK to bring Alexa to more cars
Play Store is the default app store on essentially all Android devices aside from the Amazon Kindle Fire. Adding a third-party app store involves enabling sideloading in the system settings and manually downloading an APK. Why would a user go to that effort, when essentially all Android apps are already available on the Play Store?
Can just download the ticket on your phone or print it. You save time anyways not having to check in. It's just the idiot tax for people for not reading.

Free check in of extra luggage at the gate. If you end up paying for the "luxury" of in-cabin, then your flight becomes the same price if you flew with some other airline that offers cabin luggage.

For short flights you don't need reclining seats. I don't like reclining seats anyway because you are stealing space from the person behind (and also getting stolen from the person in front).

Wear headphones or sleep to ignore ads.

Can't expect half as cheap flights without something to cover for it.
Tell that to the users who have to wait ages for "Electron" to start, and then gives their system resources the hug of death. Life is way more nuanced than "FOSS is good, everything else is bad".
I think an important factor is the salary disparity. Unless you live in the middle of nowhere, academic salaries cannot provide an upper middle-class lifestyle anymore. Academics are only human and it is natural to want the lifestyle all of their peers from grad school, college (or even their recently graduated student who works for FAANG) seem to enjoy. Unless academic salaries in CS increase significantly (and match say, business school salaries), this trend will continue.
Expat here, moved to Paris with my SO a few years ago, both working in software development.

It's true that everyone here must know some English, but the average level is bad to atrocious (even among people in their early 20s), and like others in this thread have said, many people hate being forced to switch to English for a colleague who can't be bothered to learn French. You may get by professionally (assuming a company is even willing to hire you if they know all your colleagues will hate you; think "culture fit" for a Silicon Valley way of putting this), but you will not be treated in a welcoming way and will de facto be excluded from conversations at lunch, in breaks, and at social events. I've seen this happen to expat colleagues. All this gets much better if you show that you are putting in the effort and learning, even if your current level is poor.

Really, if you settle anywhere, learn the language. Especially in France. French is neither super easy nor particularly beautiful IMHO, but it's not rocket science either. Not putting in the effort will harm you both professionally and socially.
Thanks for that. I was sceptical and went for a dig. In most conflicts the civilian to combatant death ratio is high, with numbers like 9:1 cited. This is probably over estimated but having a civilian toll lower than combatant is unusual. As far as I can tell Syria has a toll of about 3.5 combatants to each civilian.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
The grandparent post said nothing about memorizing.
What would be a reasonable split between Google and app developers? Or is there a better method that Google should use, like charging X% for individual services?
No question it's nice... But I can't seem to keep a mobile phone over a long period of time without it feeling more slow and buggy. I think the updates have everything to do with that.
As a US citizen residing in the US, no I couldn't. (They might voluntarily disclose, applying GDPR globally, but they aren't required to do so.)

Additionally, my interaction is with BMW USA, not BMW AG. If teleservices is instantiated locally in the US for US customers, then it's doubly the case the BMW need not respond to any such inquiry.
I said it before and I'll say it again: VuePress is impressively easy to get started with. Running `vuepress dev` in an empty directory is all you need to get started.

Also, I really love the decision to make `README.md` files act as the `index.html` files. This has the benefit of making your docs easy to read from your projects Github repo.

Looking forward to seeing how it progresses.
Sure, but synaptic pruning happens at all ages. After all that's how we learn anything and forget unimportant experiences. It would be interesting if one could strengthen certain interconntions while weakening the mental illness causing ones.
Crime reduction in 1992 (in the US) is attributed by some to Roe v Wade (1972). It took 20 years. The young people who are dying now (guns deaths hit the young and poor the worst) were born at the end of the 1990s and start of 2000s, which was a period of high unemployment and even famine (300 children died of malnutrition per day in 2001).
I haven't done a full survey, but my overwhelming impression is that most universities do require very substantial humanities coursework for all students, including STEM student. I went to UC San Diego - check out the requirements at Revelle college:

https://revelle.ucsd.edu/academics/general-education/index.h...

This isn't unusual, many state or private university systems require this - and the humanities requirements for an engineering major are considerably more substantial than the math and science requirements for a humanities major.

I like this emphasis on breadth, though I do think it may put graduates of US based programs at a disadvantage in PhD programs, as many of the international students focus more intensely on a specialty at the undergraduate level. Breadth is helpful, but it can put you at a disadvantage for the first couple of years of graduate coursework (in programs that have 33-50% attrition rates).
There are quite a few options. I am not deaf, but I did quite a bit of damage when I was young and stupid. Of these, I've only tried Dragon Dictation as I'm too stubborn/embarrassed to try other options or get hearing aids.

- Ava - Ava sounds good and it used to be called Trancense. I'll try this one first once I get over my stupid shit - https://www.ava.me

- Dragon dictation is really helpful in meetings.

- Speaksee is raising money right now, but if it works as well as advertised, it would be a dream. I have more trouble hearing on my phone than in person (unless there's lots of background noise) - https://www.speak-see.com

- I'd like to try Texthear, but I'm an iOS user and their pricing model on iOS ($0.30 a minute sold in 30 minute blocks) is fucking insane. The download comes with 30 seconds preloaded, but that's not much to test it on the speakers I have the most trouble with. The Android app is free. https://texthear.com

One thing to note is that for many of these technologies, the quality of your mic is important. Another thing to note is that they're not particularly discrete. If they're like me, they might find that the speech to text problem is easier to solve than the stigma of using one.
I don't want to dismiss your point, when it comes to gun control I don't really have a strong opinion, I see both sides. But I wouldn't simply put these numbers in direct correlation with gun control.

There are other factors that are much more important than gun control changes such as the political crisis, economical crisis and rise in gang violence filled by drug dollars.
Then they wouldn't own the research and the resultant capabilities by default. Yes they do and might continue open sourcing most of their research, but they have right of first refusal to publish, which is really the most important piece.
That problem is fairly limited to one large chunk of one continent. Other countries have this figured out, there is no reason why working solutions could not be copied from elsewhere. NIH is a thing outside of IT.
If I were to recommend a strategy, it would be to talk with your cofounder. See how they react. Listen to their ideas about how to proceed forward. The best reasonable outcome may be anythinge from continuing together to lawyering up to dropping the project for a better opportunity.

I mean, maybe the timing isn't right and two years of fulltime work without generating an ongoing business concern is something to consider dispassionately.
I hate this sort of framing, and it's so common. "Google will miss out on ..." would have been accurate and still interesting.

The same "lose" language is often used when discussing tax cuts or tax breaks ("lost tax revenue"). I wonder whether those journalists misunderstand economics that much, or if it's done on purpose.
> > That leaves us with three options in cases like 9/11:

> There are no other cases like 9/11, except maybe Pearl Harbor.

> The third option worked pretty well there.

That was total war, with existential threats all around. 9/11 did not lead to total war.

> Vietnam was actually an example of the second option failing. While there was some effort at nation-building, it was as a means to defeating the “bad guys” (the so-called “hearts and minds” campaign), not rebuilding after taking care of the “bad guys”.

A distinction without much difference. Also true of Iraq (we engaged in nation-building both, for its own sake and to help pacify the place). We didn't stay very long after pacifying Iraq, and some would argue we never did pacify it.

> > Intervention in the Balkans did work in the 90s, but we didn't occupy

> The US was deeply involved in post-conflict peacekeeping and nation-building in the Balkans. In fact, it was still involved in that well into the time of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Yeah, but there once the Serbians lost, and once a deal was reached with Russia, there was no source of further conflict, and this all happened fairly early on after U.S. intervention began, so the American public's patience was never tried, and we did not occupy either. That's not the case in Afghanistan.

If anything the Balkans experience shows when we can nation-build: when the conflict ends decisively. (We didn't end the conflict. The Croats and Bosnians did, with our help, yes, but they did the heavy fighting.)
That's related to the "Brown M&M Test", as named by the detail in the Van Halen tour rider, and used by some people as an immediately visible indicator that the venue actually read the technical specs. If you see a "brown M&M", you know you need to double-check every last detail of the contractor's work. If you don't, you can probably get away with random spot-checks.

In the end, someone has to actually get paid to squeeze the oranges or pick all the brown M&Ms out of the bag, but that cost is insignificant in the face of reassurance that the person with whom you are doing business is reliable and actually listens to you.

The crazy request may only be in there as reassurance that all the mundane details are being handled appropriately. If you screw up the barbershop quartet singing "Copacabana" to arriving guests while wearing Nicholas Cage masks and holding two quarters of a muskmelon apiece, with seeds, then you just might screw up the cake-cutting ceremony, too.
Are voting machines really connected to the Internet?
That's what happens when you subsidize farmers in a few counties in California and eliminate the produce industry nationwide.
FDA allows marketing of first direct-to-consumer app for contraceptive use
Likeliness to change is certainly a factor, but I think the level to which you are agnostic to the particular technology is more important. If I am choosing the technology to provide functionality that can be provided with pretty much the same semantics by other technologies, then I think it often makes sense to create the abstraction so that they can be swapped out. On the other hand, if I am choosing technology for semantics that are particular to that technology, I don't think creating the extra abstraction makes sense.

For instance, caching is functionality that could be backed by redis, memcached, etc. and I think it makes sense to create a cache API in most cases. On the other hand, if I am processing data with Kafka, I want to interface with Kafka directly for all the special functionality and nuance that makes it great for particular use-cases.
Tweet Earns Google’s Spectre Whizz a Midnight Eviction from Caesars and DEF CON
> I wonder if GDPR is a factor for new car sales.

You brought the GDPR into it.
Tesla Is Seeking a Wide Investor Pool for Its Take-Private Plan
You will need to encrypt your vote, but they make forms of encryption that can be unlocked with multiple keys.

The encryption would need to be written so there is a fail safe password that identifies the opposite party was voted for, to stop voting coercion.
Haha, I totally wrote that up but deleted it at the risk of sounding too fastidious.
Brazil's Deep Cuts To Science Funding Will Lock Country In The Past

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/10/12/557099357/brazi...
>> here were only around 13,000 murders last year in the US

And 5% of those were in Chicago alone.
It depends on whether the system you're using overcommits memory. Some OSes (eg Linux) provide settings to limit virtual memory use to some percentage of physical memory. See http://engineering.pivotal.io/post/virtual_memory_settings_i...

The only time you should avoid checking malloc() return values are for special mallocs that really cannot return NULL. One example is FreeBSD's kernel malloc() when called with the M_WAITOK flag.
California Wildfires: Inmates Are Risking Their Lives for $2 a Day
I know that BMI is imperfect, but it seems like a reasonable enough proxy measure when you're looking at whole-population trends for the USA. I don't think a more reasonable measure is really needed for this purpose.

The BMI of athletes, or the limited options of people who live in food deserts, really seem like missing-the-forest-for-the-trees tangents in these sorts of discussions. According to the "rise of obesity in America" chart in the article, overweight-or-more among American women went from about 40% in 1960 to about 80% in 2014, with the highest percentage increase in the "extremely obese" subgroup. It's interesting to speculate about what drives it. But I don't think we can explain the trend with "they got shredded" or "they moved to food deserts" when we're talking about 40% of all American women.

Maybe my intuition is wrong -- maybe there are enough people with high muscle mass that it's skewing entire charts like the Vox article shows. If you have citations to that effect, I'll read them with gratitude.
"If you think experts are expensive, you should see how much amateurs cost!" or something to that effect.
> Python is single threaded.

That's not true, there are multiple threads in Python i.e. zlib from the standard library.

People want unsafe code to communicate concurrently through the Python thread state. I'll let someone else tackle that one.
One interesting Google project which I think shares a similar goal (but is not quite so easy to port yet) is Cobalt.

It strips down a subset of HTML that can then be used to render UI across different base platforms. I feel like it could be a good starting point as well

https://cobalt.foo/

I believe it's currently used by Youtube to render its HTML5 app on many set-top box devices