skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many near future cyberpunk shows/novels feature a corporate congress that began after the government collapsed from debt overload and corporations decided to "help out" by taking over their role. Every year this seems to become more and more inevitable, it's just a natural progression of how things are going.
- to me they seem like a solution waiting for a problem

I feel exactly the same. However, SC are a very interesting technology. I prefer to study it now, to be ready when the humanity is OK with electronic money (cryptocurrencies) and come to electronic contracts.
That seems to be the objective, yes - that's what people mean by "starve the beast", and all those people who object strongly to the existence or power of the Federal government.
My experience: just make sure you're already confident implementing it on a CPU first. GPU coding is hard enough without actual difficulty.

If you want to cover "all the details that [you] have learned", it'll help to state what you learned.
Also, what exercises you've done already - what level are you at?

1. a shadertoy (web, desktop or app) for GPU programming, with comveniences for image processing. That deals with all the BS boilerplate you learnt, from a general point of view, and will be useful.

2. Fluid simulation (but, there's a lot of non-GPU maths to understand).
It led to easily over a million extra in revenue that year.
My boss was delighted to take credit for it

Had a similar experience once. A small change generated $2m/year extra revenue. That amount just about covered the bonuses of two execs while I got the standard 3% raise. Not the only reason, but I left shortly afterwards.
Maybe your competitor finds out while you are trying to build the prototype, builds one more quickly and gets the patent before you!
> I believe when Charlie Brooker first got on board with Netflix to produce the third season of Black Mirror, he made a suggestion to introduce some kind of interactive element to the show

I really hope you’re wrong. I mean, watching Metalhead put me off watching Black Mirror for a couple of months because that episode was just so extremely fucking dark. But I really don’t want to be able to choose a different ending to that story.

In my opinion, we shouldn’t be able to water down Black Mirror with happy endings, and extend our denial about what tech can potentially do to our lives.
To some extent yes - I have experienced the financial side of this - but those are generally just statements to prove you have enough money to stay in the country until you leave. Just the same with medical records stating that you don't have an infectious disease.

It doesn't include your entire history of financial transactions and investments, nor does it include a history of all operations and procedures that you had done.
I'd say 'multiple smaller tools' is actually what Babel has become. It started out as a tool to compile ES6 to ES5 (6to5 it was called), but now it's a kind of framework(?) that you can add various smaller packages to for various 'transpiling' purposes.
I see Facebook’s React team is in the comments. Please keep in mind that the open source aspect of React is part of Facebook’s hiring strategy. While I believe the React team are genuine in their friendliness and passion for their work, they also represent and are payed handsomely by one of the worst offenders in surveillance capitalism.

(I realize some might feel a comment like this is out of place here, but considering the recent news about enormous leaks and privacy violations, I think it would be more strange if it wasn’t brought up.)
This is the n-th time I'm reading a suggestion to help Venezuela using Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies. I wonder whoever came up with this and whether there's any save reasoning behind it or if it's just a cryptonerd fantasy. Venezuela has a very low average internet connection speed, reportedly one of the lowest in the world. Sources I've found say it's no better than 2 Mbit/s. On that speed, downloading the current Bitcoin blockchain would take about 18 days.

With such an internet infrastracture, is the country even capable of maintaining an up-to-date connection to the bitcoin network?
I think it is unethical to hire someone, if you are both part of a special interest network of any kind. If you compare their citation record on (http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Ceresole.1 and http://inspirehep.net/author/profile/A.Strumia.1), there is really little contest who should be hired though (both work in high energy physics, Ceresole more on theory, Strumia on phenomenology). But yes I agree there are many factors that play into the hiring decision we can't know about. In any case it seems most likely that this was his primary motivation.
What about the issue that Brave is based on Chromium.
And thus any privacy features are nullified because it essentially reports back to Google?

Is there any merrit to this argument?
I doubt it. The data is stored externally in the filesystem and referenced in the SQLite database. I guess something happens in the filesystem or during every second storing process, so that the metadata references become out of sync.
I wish I could

- backup essentials to iCloud

- and backup pretty much everything (whatever I want) to iTunes so that I could do a full restore from a local backup.
Hands-on: HP’s leather-clad laptop might just be the best convertible around
> GDPR will very soon start to be used by corrupt politicians and other criminals who want "to be forgotten" for their misdeeds

GDPR isn't the right to be forgotten, it's mainly about ownership of customer data, consent & privacy. You can have a look at this developer guide: https://techblog.bozho.net/gdpr-practical-guide-developers/ for what it means as a developer.
That sounds like a fairly large financial privilege to me. If you are working two jobs to just get enough food to survive, and your friends are in a similar situation, you don't have that opportunity or ability to take risks.
The new amdgpu driver (which has been in mainline Linux for a few years now) works really well for me, on X11 and on Wayland, for all applications that I tried with it (for games, that includes Cities Skylines, Civ 5, various other games based on Source and Unity). AFAIK it works with all GCN models, so basically all graphics cards manufactured by AMD after ca. 2012/2013.
Are there any public projects based on this engine?
It appears to be "external" to the sqllite database

https://forums.raywenderlich.com/t/where-is-allows-external-...
> The internet was doing fine for decades with minimal involvement from governments - why change things?

Because the threat landscape — both malware and privacy-related — have seen a sea-change.
Frankly, I can't really understand how come people believe what you just wrote. Yes, technology created many problems, but we can't solve them by doing less technology, without reintroducing problems we've already solved. We can either not solve them, or try to solve it with more progress (likely introducing new problems as well).

In other words: we dug a hole for ourselves with technology, but the only way we can dig ourselves out of it is with more technology. This is pretty much obvious.
Which tends to be a signal for being unqualified
Even if you have no money you can bet your personal time and effort.

I agree that having financial resources is a huge leg up, but I don't believe it's mandatory. My beliefs are formed from personal experience. I came from a working class family that lived below the poverty line. My parents kicked me out at 18 with a warning that if I ever wanted to come back I'd better be ready to pay them rent. (Resolved that I would never take them up on that offer, never did.) When I started my business I had $250 in the bank and no idea how I was going to pay the next month's rent.

For years I failed and I sacrificed where I had to. I worked long hours at terrible rates, I didn't spend a dollar more than necessary to survive, I gave up on my hope of saving and buying property, I neglected my health, I gave up on my hope of finding a partner and starting a family because women aren't interested in a nerd who has nothing to his name except dreams.

These are the sacrifices you can make if you aren't born into wealth but you want to achieve it. Some people absolutely have success handed to them. They have a safety net which allows them to fail until they succeed. For the rest of us, you sacrifice time, energy, opportunity, and health.

It took years but it worked, one day I hit on a great business and it all turned around.

Being broke certainly limits the type of opportunity you can invest in, but there's always something.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Upton Sinclair
Look for the helpers, that are going right. Ironically, the cached version returns a 404 error, here's a wayback version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181001110144/http://www.safety...
That is not the person's problem, that is the HR department's problem and the company's problem.

And, really, a reason to look for another company.
Is Opera Touch also owned by Opera's Chinese parent company? I couldn't see anything mentioned in the few articles I checked.
If you have a large amount of data to store, instead of embedding it in-line inside the database itself you’d store it in a separate file.
I really believe that it is better to have many small 'throw-away' programming languages that can interoperate with each other, than having a few huge languages that are isolated in their own ecosystem.

A language shouldn't be complex nor should it take more than a few days to learn, and it should be easy to abandon when another language is better suited for a problem.

What actually makes many languages useful is their standard libraries and library ecosystem, and the two always get mixed up. When people talk about how great language X is, in most cases they mean how feature-rich or easy to use the standard library of that language is.

With few exceptions, those libraries shouldn't be tied to a specific language. Let me access your library written in language X from my language Y.

Let me easily create projects that are made of different languages, for each part of the project the language that fits this part best.
They actually made drugs legal in Mexico, then the USA put an end to that:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/1940-the-year-mex...

The drug cartels were losing out on a lot of money too as a result apparently.
Website says I've reached my limit for the week. Even though it's my first time there for months. Jesus these article websites are becoming such greedy beggars
I believe parent lacks faith in humanity and basic human nature to use that new tech properly to properly solve the new problems.
One thing I hadn’t thought of until a friend who is a parent mentioned it, is that if you have a young child and that child is currently out of your sight you basically have to pick up a call from any possibly local number, it’s just too risky not to. I would imagine that accounts for a lot of the success of this strategy.
Yes I would not trust them just as I don't understand how people buy Chinese spy phones
Oh god. An article on things going right is returning a 500 error. :-)
Real estate bubbles rarely burst unless there is accompanying unemployment. The reason is psychological, people hate realizing a loss.

Another practical reason is that if borrow $1 million for a house, and it is now worth $800,000 you just keep paying off the mortgage and hope prices go up again. Selling it would require you pay in some cash to pay off the loan. All this is provided you keep you job and can afford the loan.
or even more effective and cheaper: protection of existing habitats
What are the foundationDB guys doing ? After they got bought I was hoping so much that ios would get a brand new storage technology that really works well using their famous testing environment.

I don't know what's wrong with core data because throughout the years it's been one of those technology that are both unconvenient AND regularely unreliable.
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Largely agree but if everyone did this, bugs would not surface... for this to work, some people ought to upgrade and others hang back.. which is already what happens anyway...
They rushed to get it out of beta without making sure that things like sites with self signed certificates are rendered.

Just visit

https://badssl.com/

and see what happens when browsing that site.
I disagree. They can do whatever they want because it's passion driven.

If people finds the new language wonderful they'll choose to spend their time there and to create their own community around it.

It's their free time and they have every right to choose how to spend it.

Also with RPC, the apache project arrow, etc... there'll always be people out there will bridge community.

Also is this really a problem? Programming language fragmentation? I've seen front end javascript frameworks fragmentation everywhere and they're fine with it. And the solution on the horizon are standardization such as web component (via w3c). These frameworks converge toward web component and now it's getting standardize. I'd argued that because of the fragmentation we actually know what we want to standardize and it also pushed for it.

If there weren't any fragmentation I'm not entirely sure if web component would ever be standardize.
It doesn't matter whether or not it is. While you are there they are your gods and after you leave they're untouchable. If the border security is rude or downright abusive your only recourse is just not going to the country in question.
I think the argument is pretty straightforward:

You take the following things as premises:
a.) Humans tend to reproduce, often above-reproduction level
b.) Humans usually tend to optimize their well-being
c.) Well-being of individuals of your own species is more important than well-being of other species

The first two should be uncontroversial.
The third one is not uncontroversial but still the foundation of most legal systems worldwide.

The argument goes:
More humans need more resources. Each generation uses more resources than the previous generation, due to (b). Even if you could educate everyone to use less, due to (a) you would still have to provide more resources.
Better technology allows more efficient generation of resources with less impact on the environment.
Thus if you care about the environment/whatever, technical advances are a good thing.
You could also try to kill humans/don't allow them to reproduce but this clashes with (c) and basic decency.

Also: You will never convince a non-marginal amount of humans to give up pleasure for some greater good.

- Cruelty of meat production will be solved by artificial meat, not by a tiny percentage of vegetarians.
- Global warming will also be solved by clean energy, not by using less energy.

What Hassabis is hinting at is the possibility of using AI to advance crops (GMOs) and materials in way that allows efficient provision of more stuff for more people. It is far more likely that these efforts yield fruits than that you convince 8B people to constrain their consumption (we've tried the latter for many years now: If you're aware of any progress made so far I, please share).
Small correction: Finnish MEP Nils Torvalds is actually Linus’s dad.
I feel it's safer these days to assume any digital product that's owned by a Chinese parent company is compromised, than assuming it isn't.
Does the article's history page keep a record of what the content of the link was when it was updated?

I guess it doesn't, but assuming that IA records every link as it gets added you can use the history page to see which snapshot on the wayback machine corresponds to the link at the time it was added.

You could use that to compare to now, but unless you made sure to snapshot the content regularly (whenever the page is edited?) you wouldn't necessarily know when the content drift happened, or if multiple changes have happened to the content over time.

Using the history page would likely give you enough information to, for example, do a study on links to find out how many have different content now vs when the link was added.
And Rosa Parks primary motivation was that she was black and denied a seat.

Since when does motivation make someones point invalid?
On iOS, there can’t really be an alternative to Safari because there is no way to change the default browser system wide.

No matter how careful you are, eventually some app somewhere will open an URL, causing Safari to open, but now that it’s not your default browser, all your login state, your favorites and, heck, even just the familiar UI will be missing.

No. Until iOS allows setting a default browser, there is no point to accept this kind of friction and at least I myself feel much better off just using Safari and getting a consistent browser experience even if an app opens an URL.
I've read 512 headlines in this format to learn not to care.
The $38M Earthquake Alert System Can Buy the West Coast Precious Seconds
I can't come up with counter arguments to your post that you would not dismiss. That doesn't mean you're right, it means I'm bad at coming up with high quality counter arguments.
I think it is the pictures of a former king pin being tried sitting in a court that prosecutors want, it sends a message that no one is above the law. Being tried in absentia doesn't really tick that box.
From my point of view, Nix is a knee-jerk reaction to lack of using linker map files to produce shared object libraries which contain versioned API interfaces, like all the traditional UNIX operating systems do it (for example, illumos based ones like SmartOS).

Adding insult to injury is the fact that the GNU link editor, ld(1), also supports linker map files. Instead of tending to the symptom, why not fix the root cause by using linker map files when linking to declare interfaces and their versions?

As for explicit dependencies, the find dependencies script in RPM should be fixed instead re-inventing yet another packaging subsystem, again trying to fix the symptom rather than the root cause.

This all starkly reminds me of the 2nd system effect and design from "The Mythical Man Month".
If you enable it, there's that "switch to your second space" permanent alert you can't hide or dismiss.
don't waste your time on cuda. Wait until an open artitecture replaces this proprietary clusterf*ck
Findera, a search engine that wants to compete with LinkedIn
You should come to Paris then :)
The internet of old was something better. Of course it was, it was full of techies, scientists and hobbyists having absurdly involved discussions on Usenet and IRC. That was before Eternal September and the rampant commercialisation, tracking and grabbing all the data possible as often as possible.

The earliest years of commercialisation were pretty good too - hundreds of small sites, all trying really hard, but all with terrible site design. :) The worst that adtech could yet come up with was an ugly animated gif and a little flash - which was super easy to block.

"Regulations like GDPR arguably make users complacent and lowers their guard"

What guard? How does a non IT expert envisage the ways that harvested data impacts their lives? Or the countless ways it can be connected up with other sources until it becomes pervasive? How are they meant to know that the news article they read has 15 different trackers on it along with the ads, or the reason some creepy retargeting ad turns up later in the day as though it knew what they were thinking?

Sometimes I wonder if _I_ know enough to take care adequately, and I've been online since before the www.

Now add the dark patterns and misinformation to completely misrepresent what most of these sites are doing with that data. Some of the big names excel at this.

"why change things?"

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and a hundred others got so greedy about data and tracking that the overreach was impossible to ignore. If GDPR wasn't already in progress, Cambridge Analytica and similar stories would have ensured it would get a reaction soon. Probably a worse reaction.
If you want to do something about this (and other) negligible organizations, head over to https://opt-out.eu, search for Apollo, and the site will generate a GDPR erasure request that you can send. Disclaimer: I'm one of the site's creators.
How  to Create a Safer Bluetooth Connection
I'm not sure how old that article is, but parts of gcc suite have been rewritten in a subset of C++ for several years now (https://lwn.net/Articles/542457/), starting from over 10 years ago.
I came here just to say, "wow, look at that old WAIS URL". http://cgi.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/read.wais.doc.pl?/wais/TIL...

WAIS rocked, too bad gopher beat it.

Of course, the real horror is that NCSA added the img tag to their gopher browser, and now it's the end of the Internet (news at 11).
Ironically, I want an ad-blocker that hides all GDPR consent popovers, cookie warnings, etc. They are constant annoyance, especially on mobile. Also a browser that automatically uses a VPN when an American news site blocks European IPs.
Okay, don't worry then. I'm sure some people will come around with high quality counter arguments.
constantly making important decisions

This does not explain how CEOs such as Fiorina and Elop can inject themselves into established companies, run them into the ground, and still walk away with lavish rewards. They are in a completely different category than ordinary Workers.
Using slab.com
Writer of 'The Witcher' Demands at Least 60 Mln PLN  of Additional Remuneration
An Extension-Oriented Compiler [pdf]
It's a good job we don't base hiring decisions on something as simplistic as # of citations then, isn't it?
Why Only Risk-Takers Find Real Fulfillment
Enhancing the Description-To-Behavior Fidelity in Android Apps
Could also just be a circadian rythm thing. I’m sure there are many otherwise normal people who’s biological clock would prefer to sleep early and wake up at 4.
Subverting the whole justice system... Hmm. That sounds comically familiar :)
I don't think it would be too hard to enable some kind of preliminary filing while still requiring a functional prototype.
What would you consider to be “official” enough then? All EdX MOOCs are backed by real institutions, for example.
Your idea is just to magnify the current approach, not change it.