skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My colleagues (and probably twitter followers) are always sick of me ranting about stuff like this. A few years ago I decided to compile screenshots I'd posted on twitter in the previous single month:

https://blog.dantup.com/2016/04/have-software-developers-giv...

That it happens is bad enough, but the fact that so few care about it is reslly depressing :(
Yes, the term can't be trademarked, because they're both common English words used in combination (and that combination has a somewhat older, unrelated meaning, which further contributes to making the term untrademarkable).

But this isn't a trademark issue. No one has trademarked the word "carrots" either, but if someone were to sell pencils under the label "carrots", people would be understandably confused and annoyed.

It's the same thing here: don't call it open source if it's not. The software industry relies on that term having a specific, well-defined meaning. That meaning is widely agreed on, which, again, is why Numworks themselves is not claiming their stuff is open source.
Maybe because the only thing those investors put in was cash. Which doesn't actually generate any value outside of our economic system.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/20/eric-schmidt-ex-google-ceo-p...
> How can one C object span two symbols in the first place for this assumption to be invalid?

Because Linux isn’t written in C. It’s written in C, assembler, and linker script (.lds). In both assembly and linker script, one can lay out multiple symbols with a defined relationship. Unfortunately, C doesn’t have a way to say “give me a pointer to the object 10 bytes past the address p. Yes, I know it’s valid and it is not the same object as p.”
No, advertising is inherently problematic, and always has been.

* It's intrusive.

* It's distracting.

* It promotes a host of anti-usability features

* It's creepy, and you're creeping me out.

* Ads themselves price-discriminate -- though how and when I can never be certain

* The mechanisms of advertising networks pose security issues

* The goods and services which are most highly advertised are those which I'm least inclined to buy.

* It's not relevant.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/24107v/forbes_...

Adding to the above, from four years ago, I've since realised that advertising:

* Promotes crap content.

* Kills quality content.

* Undermines truth and liberal democracy.
Supports and sustains demagoguery, fascism, and institutional oppression.

See Dwight McDonald, "A Theory of Mass Culturei" (https://is.muni.cz/el/1421/jaro2008/ESB032/um/5136660/MacDon...) (1953) (PDF), Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totaltarianism (http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=arendt%20origins%20tota...), and Gerry Mander's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television* (http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=Mander+arguments+elimin...), for starters.

Hamilton Holt's excellent 1909 lecture, "Commercialism and Journalism", available from the Internet Archive, addresses most of the modern complaints against advertising, at a time when it was just beginning to massively re-shape (and, to be fair, enable) the modern media landscape.

https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holt
Many mainline Christians treat most of the Old Testament, especially scientifically implausible parts like Genesis, as tradition, and not literal fact. These are things that are perhaps taught in Sunday school to children, but not treated very seriously from a historical or scientific perspective.

This very morning in my church discussion group, we each had a list of questions to discuss our perspective on. This particular gal had the question, "What's your favorite traditional Christian symbol?" Her answer was "the Jesus fish, and the evolved Jesus fish with legs". They are not incompatible given how our denomination tries to understand God.
No it isn't, unless you keep a completely unnatural and very strenuous artificial light environment. Not just any light source either. This is worse than people who can't eat most foods and have to have an extremely picky diet, because at least they can do that anywhere and can create a stash of food. To expect this of anyone is ignorant and cruel, IMO.

> Unless you think you'd never resynchronize after moving across the world

The synchronization is to the sun and its light, not to human clocks. That it seems to be the same is because the latter mimic the former, not the other way around. So you can't just use an arbitrary clock, not with any reasonable effort.
Yes, universal subscriptions, based on capacity to pay. Or as is commonly referred: a tax.
Cash was just the medium of exchange. That cash was used to buy all sorts of things that have generated enormous value.
Naively, doing an ensemble of different networks is effectively this. I don't know if folks doing that, though. Pretty sure these edge cases don't matter nearly as much as lack of data for most of us.

Consider, can you recognize that distant relative you have never seen? Why not?
I have no stock in the proposed cost savings until it actually becomes a reality. What people don't realize is that reusability isn't as straightforward as SpaceX makes it seem. A used stage has to be taken apart, inspected and refurbished. It is unlikely that SpaceX saves any money on reusing their stages, they might even be losing money.

https://spacenews.com/spacexs-reusable-falcon-9-what-are-the...
Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud users
Thank you for pointing that out. My mistake in missing it!
The incidents I know about haven't been publicly exposed. If I spoke about them in specifics, the Institute would retaliate. One I can bring up -- since I don't think it exposes me -- is email.

In essence, if you use an institutional email account (or keep personal data on Athena or otherwise) you can presume administration will read it without permission. If you get into conflict with the Institute, personal emails can come up and be used against you.

MIT has a lot of good people, but "unaffiliated" is a difficult word to use here. The problems come from the very top of the administration. Just because a particular mental health organization is good and built up trust doesn't mean they have the power to not get overruled by the Central Administration later. Until and unless the Institute institutes some real checks and balances, students absolutely should go outside for mental health.
"Afterthought" is too a strong a term, but the largest aspect of that latest version of the library was to generalize the approach to aim at other non-DOM targets. I left another comment about this somewhere else in this thread. Basically, you can choose branch-local implementations of the main hdom interface. If none is provided, it uses the default one which targets the DOM...
AR, and overlaying "ghost scenes" over objects in front of you (e.g. a "ghost engineer" showing you how to repair iMacs) will be super useful, especially considering the "rewind" factor that doesn't exist in reality. You could learn skills remotely that would require the presence in an apprenticeship.

This might be a big source of income for companies specialized in mechanical engineering. They'd sell those ghost videos on a marketplace..
Actually you can use PostgreSQL in those with timescaledb plugin. ;)
This is a bizarre article. The lede is buried a little: towards the end we get a lengthy defence of a guy called Gary Null. It starts with this section:

> It was Dr. Gary Null’s investigation into this phenomenon that first alerted me that Wikipedia was playing fast and loose with the facts beyond of the political realm ... Null is a board-certified clinical nutritionist who has conducted over 40 clinical studies on lifestyle and diet, more than anyone else in his field. ... He has published over 700 articles, many in peer-reviewed journals, and has been invited to present his findings at scientific conferences.

To me, this reads as if Gary Null has a medical degree. He does not. His qualification is a PhD from an online university (Union Institute & University). The graduate school has since been dissolved following investigation from the Ohio Board of Regents.

Moving on, the author seems to have a bone to pick with Stephen Barrett (who runs quackwatch.org, which regularly criticises Null). This is how he's described:

> Stephen Barrett, a discredited former psychiatrist

Again, to me, that seems like he lost his license or something. After a quick google, Stephen Barrett holds a medical degree, and is retired. I couldn't find any evidence of disciplinary action of any sort.

Anyway, the author's main issue with the wikipedia page on Null seems to be that it portrays him as unscientific.

> I reviewed the scientific literature on five topics where Null and Barrett disagree – sugar, alcohol, mercury, fluoridation, and the safety of vitamins and minerals – and after scanning thousands of abstracts, found Barrett to be wrong on every issue.

This is pretty ridiculous. [Barrett's write-up on Null](http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/null.html) specifically mentions homeopathy, AIDS denialism, anti-vaccination, chelation therapy, among other things. Strangely the author makes no mention of those.

Hilariously, I think "the safety of vitamins and minerals" is referring to an incident where Null sued the manufacturer of his line of diet supplements (because yes, of course, he sells a line of diet supplements), after it allegedly hospitalised Null along with six other individuals. That story in itself is incredibly surreal (his website said he was "completely and totally healthy", for instance), so I recommend anyone interested to go read up on it.

I was a little disappointed at first that there wasn't a decent discussion of wikipedia's policies, but Gary Null is such a weird and wonderful character it more than made up for it!
> 1. Because the health industry is about as regulated as it gets so even if ML/AI is possible there is zero chance of it being allowed to replace the advice of a doctor.

i.e. the necessity of an identifiable scapegoat if things turn out badly

> 2. Because most people like seeing their doctor and talking to someone about their issues. There isn't exactly an appetite for disruption here.

Maybe a certain type of person who craves an authority figure of some sort to soothe their fears, but I'd have to see evidence of this. Most people I know hate going to the doctor, and dislike and distrust the doctor they end up seeing as often as not. Having a friendly doctor that you've been seeing most of your life, that other members of your family see, and that you get Christmas cards from is a class thing (at least in the US) that maybe 10-15% of people get.
I meant to imply that Uber and AirBnB have other investors which aren't really treated as such by the legal system: the drivers and hosts who have invested their time and capital driving, hosting guests, buying cars, and renting or buying property. I never meant to imply that the "actual" investors weren't real investors, only that the other sort is just as "actual" despite the legal reality where they are considered the only investors.
I highly doubt this is true. More likely, people won't officially admit how much they hate each other. But all you have to do is listen to any group talk about an absent friend to hear reliably negative feedback.
I mostly agree with this. But part of it is scientific illiteracy on behalf of most people, who want these 100% answers, not grades of evidence and certainty. An observation study is definitely helpful, but should be taken as what it is, an observational study, not truth, which is often how it is reported and understood.

But I don't think that coming to wrong conclusions is necessarily 'far more dangerous'. People who drink 1 drink a night are not likely to have dramatically different outcomes than people who abstain. (perhaps unless it contributes to binge drinking, but science already says that is bad)
Counterfactual Regret Minimization – The Core of Poker AI
Yet that compromise affects some people much more than others, which is the entire problem, and why some people go so far as to claim discrimination. I do agree that naps are an underutilized solution, but they don't really address the issue.
As long as I'm not misunderstanding you, it seems you are confusing free trade with free to make a decision or not. Free trade means you are able to sell (or buy) things across borders free from government intervention. In this case, the government says you can only sell if you pay a form of tax (paid by IP rather than money).

In particular, what people believe is unfair is how these barriers are applied unequal. If Chinese companies want to sell to the US, it's free of such hinders. The other way around, on the other hand, it's not. (obviously this is not true considering the latest tolls and what not, but that's the core premise anyway).

Btw. Compare this to a situation when somebody is asking you to kill someone, or they'll kill you. You're free to make a decision, but not necessarily free as what people usually refer to when talking about freedom.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_trade
I wouldn't put dark energy, black holes and the big bang on a level with dark matter.

Dark energy is just a name for what's otherwise known as cosmological constant. Yes, some people might believe that it's unnatural for the cosmological constant to be as small as it is and others might believe that it should really follow from a proper quantum theory, so there are definitely a bunch of open questions. But that doesn't change the fact that it's there.

The same thing goes for the Big Bang and black holes. We have absolutely no reason to believe they don't exist. (To the contrary, we have every reason to believe so.)

Dark matter, however, is just one possible (and comparatively speculative) explanation for various experimental deviations from theoretical predictions, regarding among others the stellar velocity distribution within galaxies, gravitational lensing and structure formation.
I don't know much about this stuff, so take this as me being genuinely curious.

> No, that would have the same problem - being able to send information back in time.

Would it? If a wormhole is connecting two points in spacetime, then could time also be traversed at the same time? E.g. traveling through the wormhole would move you far enough forward in time to not cause any problems?
The first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, was announced 10 years ago today
>"Kraftwerk and others were early adopters based on what was happening in detroit."

This is backwards. Detroit was very much influenced by Kraftwerk and the Eno produced stuff- specifically Autobahn and Trans Europe Express which were mid 1970s.
The exit was in 2005, and several hundred million was not bad (although it came after a failed effort to go public for somewhere north of a billion). I was very new to the startup game and had comparatively little at stake and didn’t understand any of the language but I was invited to some gatherings of engineers who had been screwed by the deal.

My impression is that founders or early investors often have a lot of ability to dilute the value of stock prior to making a deal (there’s description of similar shenanigans early in “Chaos Monkeys”)
I think VR will be the future of a lot of things. I used to think it was sort of fad, like 3D movies but maybe a little cooler.

Then our GIS department bought one and I’ve tried it a few times now. I always feel constrained when I go back to my two monitors.

The interface and technology in general has some way to go, but I think VR will be the biggest tech revolution in my lifetime and I’ve been around since before the refrigerator was a common thing.
That's great piece of software! I heavily use PlantUML but never found this kinds of nice editor before!

As a Qt newbie, I'm curious the reason why you choose Qt Widgets instead of QML. Maybe because it is hard to make it desktop-feel app using QML?
It's no more a "semantic quibble" than any other inaccurate use of a term is a semantic quibble. People are counting on headlines meaning what they say they mean, and this one doesn't.

If the headline mistakenly said "Lisp-compatible" instead of "Python-compatible", you wouldn't say "Oh, that's just a semantic quibble", right? You'd say it's wrong, flat out. The programming language it's compatible with is Python, not Lisp, so saying Lisp would just be inaccurate. (And they're both English words -- neither term is trademarked, obviously, and they both have meanings unrelated to their meanings in the realm of programming languages.)

Saying this is "open source" is wrong in exactly the same sense. The term has a settled meaning in the software world. The reason "non-commercial usage is incompatible with all the major open-source licenses", as you say, is that it is by definition incompatible with all open source licenses. Because "open source" means freedom for use for any purpose, including commercial purposes.

This is not merely a semantic quibble any more than any other wrong use of a word is a semantic quibble. It's wrong in the normal way that language usage can be wrong.
Underground Resistance was an amazing collective
I'm really glad to hear that you enjoy VR. I have a similar feeling when using BigScreen to do work. All I really need is like twice the resolution so that text is clearer and we can essentially have unlimited scalable desktops.
> He's basically unemployable as a developer

You mean as a C, C++, Java or C# developer.

Like you said yourself, web requires JavaScript and typically another for the server side (unless node ofc). You can be highly employable as a web developer without knowing the older languages in this case.
I commented on this recently on twitter & reddit:

https://twitter.com/toxi/status/1041143431786115072

https://twitter.com/toxi/status/1041144813092044800

https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/9deyxe/thinggeom_a...

Hth!
Okay I can agree with that but then there's no need to look for contrived examples, the C standard itself spells out a bunch of UB that arise from using pointers as "just integers". It's probably worth repeating, especially for people new to these languages, but it's not exactly breaking news. I guess I just expected something else when I started reading this article.
Chronic Lyme disease sufferers get the same response all the time. All the symptoms are dismissed as purely psychological. The lack of respect causes a lot of suffering in itself, but since it also means that patients who believe their doctors won't find ones who will actually treat them for the actual medical issues, it causes immense physical suffering. I've done a lot of reading of the core research into Lyme, and the certainty of mainstream physicians who handle patients this way is based largely on being too lazy to read that same research.
Ok, so I'm guessing you're more interested in the UI / interaction design side of things.

I recommend you start with these, some are books - some are videos - so have a look and see which one suits you more.

https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-user-experience-team-of...

https://designcode.io/

https://www.coursera.org/learn/human-computer-interaction

https://www.udemy.com/user-experience-design-fundamentals/
Ps. Thanks for the kind words!!! :)
Everything we eat causes cancer…sort of (2013)
Any news on the release of the book? Where to buy and when?
much appreciated.
dataflow, I've made a few replies elsewhere in this thread that address what you said. I don't want to make noise by repeating them here, but wanted to point them out, in case you'd like to see the counterargument.
A healthy human diet is 8700 kJ/ day. A gallon of gasoline has 120,000 kJ.

So, we are very energy efficient. But no so awesome in terms of energy storage density.
Taking pills just to follow a "normal" schedule set by other people sounds truly awful.
The commit log in the repo.
Allow me to back this up with an actual piece of research.

Here is an excerpt from the book "Why we sleep" (which BTW is written by a neuroscientist and psychology prof working at the Center for Human Sleep Science )

> An adult’s owlness or larkness, also known as their chronotype, is strongly determined by
genetics. If you are a night owl, it’s likely that one (or both) of your parents is a night owl.
Sadly, society treats night owls rather unfairly on two counts. First is the label of being lazy,
based on a night owl’s wont to wake up later in the day, due to the fact that they did not fall
asleep until the early-morning hours. Others (usually morning larks) will chastise night owls on
the erroneous assumption that such preferences are a choice, and if they were not so slovenly,
they could easily wake up early. However, night owls are not owls by choice. They are bound to
a delayed schedule by unavoidable DNA hardwiring. It is not their conscious fault, but rather
their genetic fate.
Second is the engrained, un-level playing field of society’s work scheduling, which is strongly biased toward early start times that punish owls and favor larks.

EDIT: This is just one argument against the generalization that humans are hard-wired to sleep early. The book is filled with countless research pieces and experiments; science seems to suggest otherwise. Highly recommended read!
it'd be great if you also dove into the other less known schizotypees like schizoaffective and schizotypal aka "Schizophrenia Lite"

I think people have an idea of what schizophrenia looks like but they might be surprised by other very closely related disorders.
The underlying problem is that memory access is slow, allocating registers is hard (so we let the compiler do it) and compilers don't always know what you're doing with memory.

So, in order to generate faster programs, compilers are getting more and more agressive about reusing data that has already been copied into registers, hiding under the shadows of 'undefined behavior.' The standard doesn't indicate a defined way to mess with this data so I'll just keep using the copy I have.

Writing through an untracked pointer probably convinced the compiler to dump its register caches.

C used to be thought of as kind of a portable assembly language, but when the compiler is doing all these optimizations, there's a lot of room for clashing.
“political speech is forbidden in the dorms”

That sounds a bit political. When the supervisor said this, were they inside or outside of the dorms?
You can do affordable housing when the building ground is cheap. Once you hit a certain floor (Munich & Berlin routinely do), affordable housing simply is not financeable.
> But memory isn't a linear address space

Would you mind expanding on this point a bit?
True, education was also one of the oldest uses of 3D, well before it became economical for games (3d simulation technology was later ported to some arcade machines), since the early 1980s. For ex, simulations for training first with the military and pilots.

But this takes it to another level and doesn't require a specialized set up for tooling or being in a particular location (custom simulation room).
I'm not the one spreading nonsense. You are wrong 100% and repeating yourself 3 times isn't going to change that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V

The number you are looking for is "payload to LEO". For Saturn that number is 310k lbs and for BFR it is 220k lbs. 310k is bigger than 220k.
I used to think this way until I realized we program ourselves with words and chose to believe the opposite because neuroplasticity is a thing and we are way less rigid/static creatures than we tell ourselves.

I change my life by changing my words.

Edit: No idea if this is applicable/useful for others, since we are also more complex than simply linguistically programmed machines. It's simply part of my own self-programming experiments. I'm not making claims this will work for all or anyone else; I'm simply sharing my truth. I'm curious if aligning beliefs with intrinsic motivation to change sleep patterns and changing thought/behavior patterns toward morning rising could lead to it.
The Global Race for 5G