skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no solution to such things as "bitflip in memory" because once that happens, all bets are off.

Static typing for a faulty lambda calculus: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2108

You can build as much fault tolerance as you like to the point where you'd have to wait for a proton to decay before you see an error.
A Peddler of Fake Reviews on TripAdvisor Gets Jail Time
yes a webgl + wasm based one, build on top of zeronet
I don't understand why any of this was necessary in the first place, the only reason I can think of is this being on the wishlist of a powerful lobbying bloc.

There is something suspect about the EU's cavalier attitude in churning out internet regulations, they generally favor old industries and incumbents.
This is the kind of thing I was talking about elsewhere. You need to take responsibility for maintaining mental engagement regardless of the transmission. Using a manual transmission as a crutch for mental focus is a terrible idea.
Maybe Alipay/WeChat can use their vast amount of money and deep connections to Chinese manufacturing to make simple devices that literally only act as a wallet (hopefully simply enough such that even the elderly and technically/actually illiterate can use them), and then partner with banks (or become ones themselves) to provision bank accounts for people who they sell those devices to.

If enough vendors stop accepting cash, then that alone ought to be reason enough for people in rural areas to make the effort to get/purchase these devices, assuming Wechat/Alipay makes the effort to distribute them.

Though it seems that there is limited market value to doing such a potentially expensive and politically tricky maneuver. Classic scenario in a capitalist world—the market doesn't see profit in protecting a helpless class like the poor and elderly, so the market proceeds to ignore them and screw them over.
The likes of YouTube will be affected the least. They already have aggressive copyright enforcement measures in place, and they can afford to do that.

Smaller, more independent platforms will not be able to afford to implement compliance with these new regulations, and will potentially be driven out of business.
They've learned how to appeal to the easily-convinced crowd with all their "openness" and "modernity" (for lack of a better word.) They're opening up stuff that wasn't likely to be a source of revenue, and I bet they make even more from the non-obvious telemetry embedded in them. I see it as nothing more than another marketing attempt.
Seems like linux is the clear choice for now given the corporate behavior of MS and Apple.
Yeah, it seems to me UKIP has good track record of things "getting rammed through without a public discussion" by now, like the 350 million for the NHS with Brexit.
You might be interested in the https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab subreddit. The prevailing wisdom there is to buy used enterprise hardware, install a hyperadvisor, and set up separate VM's for everything. It's easy to scale, easy to tinker with, and really flexible.
How do people find the balance between Agile (working software over documentation) vs enough documentation that you don't have to ask around your team every time you need a config change?
I guess the test suite doesn't check for the halting problem yet.

(but seriously, it's great when a project is so stable that having a bug is newsworthy).
As a foreigner I have an alipay account and didn't need a Chinese back account.
> that value isn't and can't be captured by the educator.

Oh, but it is. Quality of education is clearly valued by parents. And depending on which school-district you live in, your property tax rate varies, and the quality of the local public schools correlates rather strongly.

While I don't have personal experience with this situation ... I can easily imagine that a good private school's elevator pitch would be something to the effect of "you and we are both located in $D1, which has cheap property taxes and questionable public schools; by living here you will pay less property tax over your adult life than you would by living in $D2; however, not only can our school make your kids smarter than $D2's acclaimed public-schools can, but we can do that without costing you more tuition than that lifetime-difference in property taxes."

> Capitalism only values something insofar as it can be directly exploited for personal profit.

Personal profit is precisely the best way to motivate humans to do anything that is valuable to society.

If someone is doing something of value without profiting personally, the next question about that activity is "what info am I missing about how they profit?".
It is an intended block on convincing people through facts. In all reality, the EU is ruled by old bureaucrats and they see internet like a commodity that needs to be controlled and regulated. Make a joke on the internet? Think twice your IP will be your liability.
I overheard some discussion of the "upload filter" on the radio. It was very simplified, all about big rights-holders that have to ensure they get paid, and nothing about the power of consumers or even journalists or those acting like that (review/commentary).
Mandatory disclosure: I am a programmer working for EA and the following are my personal opinions. I do not represent EA in any official capacity.

It's my strong opinion that the whole loot box phenomenon makes games as a whole worse.

For me, it's not the gambling aspects of it, per se. I am an avid Magic: the Gathering player and never decried the way its loot boxes (boosters) work. It's the fact that, the way these boxes have been handled by many games noticeably warps the design goals of the game from "make an engaging experience" to "motivate the player to buy more loot boxes".

What I mean is that many modern games have loot boxes or microtransactions permeating its design to such a degree that most features seem planned around how they motivate players to spend more money in-game.

This has been at its worst in mobile games, but there are plenty of console and PC titles with this issue as well. It's even gotten so far that big titles with no microtransactions include a heavy focus on loot boxes which can only be gained as quest rewards or bought using in-game currency (Horizon Zero Dawn comes to mind).

I really don't like it. I get no joy from wading through mountains of useless items in the hope of finding that one rare gem I actually want. This applies to ordinary loot in RPGs as well. So, seeing that the global trend has been for games to evolve in this direction has been very frustrating for me. As such, this recent pushback - both these legal actions as well as the player backlash of recent loot box controversies - have been very interesting developments which I hope will lead to market-wide improvements in overall game design.

To elaborate: I do not mind microtransactions in general. There are a few games which have plenty of ways to spend real money in-game but which do not bother me (Fortnite, Elder Scrolls Online). The key difference, here, is that those are games in which the core game loop does not heavily incentivize you to spend money and where in-game transactions will mainly get you cosmetic content or additional story campaigns.
Germany was a pioneer with its "Leistungsschutzrecht" and German publishers indeed wanted to force Google to show their news snippets (and therefore pay for them).
Their reasoning was that Google as a monopoly position and therefore they have to show news from all publishers equally.
> Low-skill immigrants are a net positive in the long term (i.e., once their children grow up)

In a magical hand-wavey manner where we ignore alternatives, obvious consequences, and opportunity costs.

They gloss over the reason they are considered a net positive is because almost everyone is.

For example their models will show that if the poorest Americans have lots more kids we will collectively be better off.

It’s pretty much just economists and the Catholic Church who believe it.
Or you have the spec written twice, by two independent people and then compare.
Use multi-stage builds with docker
Only if you care about these minor annoyances more than the major ones offered by the Linux Desktop.
This is pretty dumb.
And here we return to the currency vs. store of value debate.

In terms of currency, it goes back to utility. At the moment, Bitcoin (or almost any other crypto) has no or limited utility. By that I mean it is pretty well isolated from the real world – while you can pay for some things with it, you cannot pay for even a significant portion of things you might spend money on in a given day.

Some merchants accept it, that's true, but ya, the idea that you can move your money into BTC and buy groceries, a coffee, pay your rent, buy lunch, pay for the taxi, etc are not possible now unless you really go out of your way. In my neighbourhood (capital city of a north central European country) you can buy coffee at one place with Bitcoin but there's nothing else around to use it on.

And if the merchant takes it, then what? So now they either use a service that accepts BTC and takes a cut of it to translate it to fiat or they let you transfer BTC to their wallet as a way to pay, so they still have to move it into fiat to pay their bills, employees, etc.

And as a store value, it's pretty volatile. It's been bleeding since January.

Don't get me wrong, I believe in digital money and the concept of Bitcoin, but I think there's still a long way to go. It's not inconceivable that it hits 0.
the EU's capability to be authoritarian (and from what I gather, propensity to use this authority) was one of the reasons I voted to leave. The central dictation of "how it shall be", reality be damned, reminds me of the Soviet Union. Obviously not to the same extent and severity, but the EU is making the same mistakes in thinking that broad-brush central planning of a huge geographic region isn't a fundamentally flawed concept.
Is there any reason now why Google shouldn't shutdown all their EU web services and remove its divisions like it did in China?

If they did so they can conveniently also ignore that $5B anti-trust fine.
Here are more details on the process following this vote from the EDRi: https://edri.org/press-release-eu-parliament-flip-flops-back...
Even torque converter automatics don't use torque converters for anything other than low speeds anymore. Most modern automatic transmissions have the ability to mechanically couple the input shaft directly to the transmission effectively bypassing the torque converter in most if not every gear.

It's one the of the reasons the ZF8 transmission is used in everything from the new BMW 8 series down to the Dodge Charger.
#CreatePreneurAfrica Sipho Mushwana , LAW OF RHYTHM. LAW OF ONENESS
A choke gets used once upon start, a shift happens dozens of times per drive, it's not the same thing.

It's still "increasing engagement" which is what GP claimed to want. How about a persistent pull to the right in the steering? That's continuous and increases engagement. How about occasional "death wobble" as found in many Jeeps? That will really sharpen your focus and keep you engaged.

And no paddle replaces the sheer joy of rowing your own.

That's a purely subjective statement.
The users certainly don't, but I think that Hiroshimoot will be rather miffed if he starts getting shit from the EU for not complying with these insane rules.
Of all those items I'm happy Art 11 is the one most likely to blow up on the face of those pushing for it
Questions about Open Source in light of the Lerna license amendment
Does “learning” really bring you out of poverty?

Or is this the same old trope with an extra step added?
As a POC I have never been kicked out of a library or a Starbucks and I'm from the south. Situations happen, but that doesn't mean it happens everywhere. Sometimes I wonder why when you look at me all you see is a helpless POC, it's very demoralizing and trivializes us.
- Why or how would the minimum wage be compared to the average wage of another country? It's the minimum.

- Agreed on the single earner families on minimum wage guaranteed to be in poverty. But, pointing somewhere else and saying "It's better there!" seems off to me. Pick a specific policy and advocate for it. Higher minimum wage? Guaranteed housing? Universal basic income?
I'd love to see a YT channel or a website that teaches how to do stuff like this for the non-tinkerer. I'm thinking along the lines of Primitive Techknology's channel where he simply shows the process step-by-step.
Crypto Candidate Brian Forde Shares Lessons from the Campaign Trail
It wasn’t obvious at the time that web design should have anything to do with print. Its immediate predecessors were a bunch of online systems like BBSes, Compuserve, Prodigy that either ran inside a terminal emulator with garish ANSI colors at best, or shipped with their own custom GUI app for access.

There was a lot of activity in the late ‘90s around what “authentic to the medium” web design could look like, but I don’t remember people being very interested in emulating traditional print design — which itself was in turmoil thanks to digital publishing systems. Open a 1996 issue of Wired and you’ll probably think the designers were on crack: purple text on garish background images, cut-up barely readable fonts, that kind of thing.
Do you think that after GDPR and the fact that everyone actually took it seriously the EU is trying to see if they can keep pulling the same string and making the world dance?
So their actions weren't even the best thing for themselves?
To be fair, Ubuntu does send usage data to Canonical, unlike some other distros. Whether or not that counts as "spying" to you is another question.
On the contrary. As those of us who lived through the 90s keep trying to tell you youngsters, this is Microsoft's default operating level of low.
You can use Linux with the Preempt RT patch or Xenomai, which is using a kind of micro kernel in addition to the Linux Kernel. The downside is you have to rewrite your drivers for Xenomai.

I thought that the latter was better in terms of performance but the article below seems to affirm they are not that big. (but it is coming from the Preempt RT side)

http://linuxgizmos.com/real-time-linux-explained/
How to price chatbots? Common and innovative pricing models
One could say the same thing about americans and it would probably just as true/false.

Me personally I'm not into that kind of generalisation.
>What am I gaining?

Free time to do something else but coding.
Companies are just people though - the guys in charge of decisions are the ones we're ultimately evaluating. That the left hand of the company doesn't know what the right hand of the company is doing isn't much of an excuse, as ultimately the buck stops at the executive and board positions.

There's no way a decision like this one didn't get approval from the top layers of the company as it no doubt had to go through different levels of legal, product and everything in between.
> This may differ by country, but you typically only show up in the numbers if you were fired.

We're discussing the US here, and for the US this is not correct: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#unemployed
> I cannot imagine that, for example, the Chans will take this kindly.

That will be funny
White House Hobbles Nuclear Weapons Safety Agency
Individual countries cannot "interpret the directive as they see fit". Transposition has to match the directive, otherwise the whole excercise would be pointless.
I wish the EU would, so that it stops damaging things for the rest of the planet. Eventually the costs of complying with the EU's decrees will get high enough where it will make more sense for companies to block European traffic than comply.
I'm wondering how many of the complaints here are to do with FrontPage itself, or the very idea of WYSIWYG web design.

To me, it seems that web design is a visual thing. And if so, then a WYSIWYG editor is the appropriate thing to use. I'm suspicious that some people here don't think visually, and don't see the value in thinking visually.

I don't know what people mean when they say "bad markup". I imagine it might include things like positioning elements using absolute coordinates. But I'm sure this is solvable by previewing the webpage on different resolutions, browsers and device types.
Because you could just read the text and view the images without being disturbed by 3 floating elements you have to close first, then when you scrolled 25% down some new thing popping up in your way, then when you scrolled 50% down some other annoying thing happening, and when at the end of the article suddenly it changes into another one, all while some video starts autoplaying but not without first having a wait during which you cannot pause it, and without following you around in a tiny window at the bottom that automatically appears again when you scroll, even if you tried to pause it. All while some small floating elements on the sides somehow appear on top of small parts of the text you are trying to read left or right.
If this directive is voted, it will be interesting to watch the aftermath. Copyright is a legacy concept that is incompatible with digital media. This will make the absurdity of owning an idea and profiting from it virtually forever (at least as a ratio of human life) stand out. I hope it leads to a changes in the mindset/laws regarding IP.
Oh no, MEPs refused to talk to an internet troll.

Flow my tears.
Do you really believe this is something politicians came up with in the first place?

This is another example of the classic lobbies-driven political decision where politicians pass legislations as a favour to their friends in corporate A or corporate B.

Also, if they think this will fix the revenue problems of the majority of newspaper publishers they are certainly wrong, newspaper are not dying because people read news on Google.
I think it's going to work like jaywalking - it's illegal, but I've done it, and it's fine as long as it doesn't cause a bigger issue, and as long as enforcer isn't overzealous. It's true though, that it's a weapon waiting to be used for political reasons, and the perspective of that happening is no good for anybody.
The problem is that Google is without question a monopoly, and so I think that there is a valid argument that it needs to be regulated and be forced to be impartial in the results shown. The fact that they show people's content without giving them page views (in a world where page views are how you get significant amounts of money, not to mention subscription opportunities) is a conscious decision to implement a feature that arguably impacts revenue. I think there is also a valid argument for this as well.

But I do think that the EU copyright law is significantly flawed because it's purpose is to further extend the already ridiculously over-extended draconian copyright laws that exist in the EU. I don't think the issues they (ostensibly) set out to solve are something that should be ignored though -- Google acting as a biased monopoly which implements features that impact people's ability to make money is a real problem that needs to be solved somehow.
Provide something to back up the claim that less educated Americans are working 3 jobs and that it's impossible for them to receive education. The evidence I provided to support my claim is not perfect but it's better than a video of bush making a joke
That’s all true. I don’t actually think that anyone is out to get me in particular, I just find unaccountable concentrations of power and authority distasteful (and troubling). So, I try not to encourage them.

I’m interested in self-hosting for autonomy more than security.

That said, the data Google controls will likely outlive Google the legal entity/business-model of today. Including that huge security apparatus. The long-term (say 10 years from now) security of your data is moot if you can’t control it.

Google have been quite good with allowing exports, and promising to delete things (probably more like perma-hash, but I’ll take it). However, they’re increasingly behaving in ways I don’t expect or like. It’s been great, but they no longer seem like good stewards to me.
No individuals or companies can gain money from suing you for jaywalking. This is different.
> Hard mode is comparable across the same game.

Our ancestors struggled in a much harsher world and got us to a point where we can enjoy easy mode.

Why can’t the poorest Americans do the same?
Yes, the Googles and Facebooks of the future will be affected the most.

This is consolidation of power, finally locking down the Free Internet just as we've done with every other industry. Stripping the power to change from the small.

And what are we doing about it?
Am really intrigued by this line - I've never had any reason to suspect my Amazon items in the UK have been counterfeit, whereas it seems like a common refrain in the States. Greater reliance on the third-party market and intermingling stock? Or radically different product base?
I thought it asks you to opt-in when you install?
I emailed my 10 UK MEP "representatives" about this law, explaining why it was bad news and encouraging them to vote against it.

I received one "pre-canned" email acknowledgement from UKIP, attempting to make the bill into an "EU bullying us" issue, and nothing from anyone else. One politician I tried to call had a published phone number that connected to a commercial money lending service.

And mainstream political parties wonder why people feel disenfranchised. They have become a professional political class, completely disconnected from the people they purport to represent. The result is protest (Trump, Brexit et al).
This is a hell of a demo, on a hell of a hardware.
It's as impressive as 8088MPH if you ask me.
Priscilla?
With MTG you can skip the whole booster buying and just get the cards you want from people who have them. The rarest most desirable cards in standard are $10-$50 at most. If you want a rare overwatch skin you have no option but keep buying boxes until you get it.
I’m the parent of a teenager who has struggled with an unhealthy obsession with features like this. A kid who is 14 or 15 is able to intellectually understand how to use these game systems, but at the same time he or she is often lacking the type of sophisticated understanding that an adult would have (e.g. that gambling can be addictive and therefore restraint and self-observation is required). They greatly overestimate their ability to participate in a safe and healthy way.

I would like to see loot boxes out of games for players under 18. Loot boxes are not a real part of the game anyway, they are a way for the publisher add the types of subconscious psychological rewards to “increase engagement” that are now rightfully criticized in platforms like Facebook.
Yes, that is unfortunately the case. Exactly this is creating a feeling amongst many of us that something is fundamentally wrong with the EU as governing and legislative body. Of course, you could reverse that and say: People have to inform themselves properly. But that's just the situation were in right now.
Remember the quaint old times when the very last vestiges of anti-trust still existed in the US and MS got in trouble for this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Legally, employers have to make sure that wait staged are making at least minimum wage after tips, or make up the difference themselves. I've heard enforced enfircement can be lax though.
Just an aside, you shouldn't be holding the clutch in much. Only when coming to a stop in first gear (hold until the vehicle behind you stops so you know you won't get rear ended) and when starting to move (i.e. a few seconds before a light changes, or once traffic clears and you're planning to start moving again). You should be in neutral while stopped otherwise.