skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They said "game adoptions of blockbuster movies", and I made no other point than that they are not "adoptions" (whatever that means - I'm pretty sure they meant to say adaptations) of movies.
Or there is appetite, just not at the speed at which Telltale was pushing out sequels. They have clearly been successful for a while (otherwise hardly anybody would be noticing their demise), but while sequels are comfortably predictable compared to the lottery ticket of a fresh launch, they also come with an inherent limitation: the market for a sequel can be no bigger than the number of people who have already consumed the iteration before and still want more. There will always be losses. Repeat that a few times and numbers will be predictably low. Do the same at a high release cadence and you also lose those who might eventually want a sequel, but not at the prescribed sped, they may not even have finished the previous iteration. Consumers who built up a consumption backlog will lose interest in the whole franchise because they are immune to new release hype.
Unless the fine is implemented as a percent of revenue, market cap or the like. Similarly, the US government once threatened to fine Yahoo $250k per day for non-compliance with PRISM. [0]

As an aside, what do you think is draconian about such a law? It seems like there are reasonable arguments for why it would be in the national best interest to keep an ongoing investigation classified. In fact it seems like an unusually straight forward application of the cliche justification “for national security reasons.”

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8305925
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I only realised the pun in the product name when I first saw someone make this homophonic substitution error.
'SnapCrap' app invites San Francisco residents to report poop on city streets
Why censor illegal contents is tyranny? How come we have no power to delete those contents? Your country has your law, and our has ours. Our Chinese people have the right to delete what we think are illegal contents!
Learning to play the instrument by ear is a completely different thing from learning to play a song by ear. My bachelor's is in classical guitar performance, but I've been playing all sorts of instruments my whole life. If I hear something "new" and play it by ear it's because it sounds similar to another thing that I've learned to play before. Learn a whole bunch of songs, and eventually you'll hear something "new" and say, "wait a minute that's not new to me, that's only a little different from the last song I learned."

I recommend that you learn using every resource available to you, build a vocabulary of music you can draw on while you're at the harmonium, and then go about discovering music by ear. Forcing yourself to learn the skill of harmonium playing only by trial and error is an unnecessary constraint, and it will take you much longer to play fluently by ear.
You know, I thought that specific parts being switched to steel was a reason for the uptake of popularity in a wood burning stove, but I see this is only a case in a very specific market of wood burning stoves. Thanks for the correction!
I have a great counter-example for you: Gorsuch.

The problem isn't supported much the accusations (though Ford gave powerful testimony) as his response. He is condemned by his own words. He was evasive, dissembling, maudlin, vengeful, conspiracy minded, hair splitting, seemingly conveniently forgetful, enraged at being questioned, sly, prevaricating, devious. In a word, dishonest. Not the qualities one wants for a judge on the highest court in the land.
I thought that you could simply not answer the NSL question (hence warrant canaries)
What’s racist about it? The Chinese state has a very long and well documented history of brutal authoritarianism spanning many emperors and dynasties. Mao didn’t change that and neither did Xi. If you think I meant anything about Chinese individuals maybe you should re-examine my words and your conclusions...
It was a discussion to me, but I was in a light mood. As studies have shown, it's liberals that don't tolerate alternative viewpoints and here we show that playing out. I know it's going to happen, yet it's still isolating. You guys do a fantastic job.
I think there is a real disconnect between what peer review is and what the public seems to think peer review is.

The public seems to think that peer review indicates that something is true, but that's clearly not the case because we have no way of verifying any of the data used, etc.

The paper that got published in a top journal "Human Reaction to Rape Culture and Queer Performativity at Urban Dog Parks in Portland, Oregon", while silly, doesn't seem like it has to be rejected if it were an honest paper that actually did the experiments they said they did. It seems no more silly than the lobster nonsense Jordan Peterson peddles and conservatives eat up. I don't personally think it's a useful paper, but most individual papers rarely are, even in CS.
I do not see any part of my comment that you could be replying to, and would think that you meant to reply elsewhere were it not for the quoted text (which again, does not appear to be the subject of your comment).
IANAL but I think it is a grey area. Licenses are contracts, and contracts usually require "consideration", but there is also something called "Promissory Estoppel"
which may nullify that. I found out about it from someone on here a while back and went down a rabbit hole googling it.
My point was that if they had this abysmal advantage now, it means they would see it coming several years prior and would work on OS and anything else it needed.

But it's not the point, main point is that I think statement that current A12 is close (to whatever reasonable %) to top desktop chips is simply not true. I didn't see any concrete evidence of it, and everyone just seem to like this idea, that's why it was talked much lately. I'm all for great advantages and all that, but I still must use common sense, 3-4W vs 150+ W - that's too much.
For me, it has been the ability to build websites.
This is the very skill that changed my life for the better. Why? First of all it opened so many more job opportunities. I graduated in Economics and Management, just like tens of thousands of other kids. Very few of them though knew HTML, leave alone a full-stack web framework.
Coding was an incredible asset that landed me great executive digital jobs all over the world and made my low grades much less important.

So from a career and safe job point of view it was great. But even more important is that somehow i am the go-to person when a friend of mine wants to build a brand new digital business, which today's always requires a website of some sort. Being able to bootstrap a digital business is an incredible way to increase my chances to reach financial independence.

Being able to build any kind of website has thus been the greatest advantage and has definitely shaped my life for the best.

All the time spent reading programming books, tutorials and debugging my early apps really has paid off.
When i look back, i am amazed by how much each single hour i have invested into web development, has given back to me as financial return.

This however has shaped a bit negatively the way i relate to learning new skills. When i am comparing each potential new skill i have to invest time in, with the incredible returns i got from web development, i find tough to invest time in something difficult to monetize immediately.
In the end i guess each skill you learn enrich you somehow.
A new molecular programming language: CRN++
> technically if you don't pay for code the copyright holder can revoke the license at any time

So Linus can all of a sudden say that Linux is no longer GPL?!
Wow, that would be the press doing their job! Still too early to tell whether this is what happened.
Any reliable weapon is 'Military Grade', and automatic weapons are already banned. This tired stance is redundant and misguided. Go push politics somewhere else.
The "law of the pipe" strikes again. No pipe company wants to be in the pipe business--they always want to be in the content business. At the first opportunity, they will start creating their own content and deprecating everybody else's.

This is what anti- net neutrality looks like with atoms rather than electrons.
> However, if someone did let their OOB network full outbound access, I could see this slipping through.

Quite, especially in small networks and inline ilos, entirely possible that people plug the ilo (ipmi etc) to a more open network. Sure, nothing in, but no block on stuff going out.
What you are describing has always been true, though. I’m not sure what change you are seeing that causes you to sour on amazon.

Granted I’ve never received a counterfeit.
If you think JIRA is slow, you should check out tools like HP Quality Center. That thing was such a piece of garbage the last time I had it foisted on me (2015), it:

- made JIRA look fast

- only ran in IE6

- required a special MSIE shell to run in Win7

- despite running only in IE6/Windows, it had several places where it broke from the standard Windows UX
They need to invest in making their hardware documented and accessible. Obviously their secrecy isn't doing their customers any favors regardless of how you look at it.

What's more valuable to the consumer? A device that doesn't work and cannot reasonably be repaired or a device that was repaired with knock off parts and inexperienced labor that still gets the job done?

To take an adage from farmers; "The best machine is one that can perform it's duties despite it's condition."
I'm okay with cheap/counterfeit goods for some items, if I know what I'm buying and the price reflects that. I'm not okay with paying full price and receiving a worse product than I paid for.

Examples of things I would not buy knockoff/counterfeit would be power supplies, battery packs or anything dealing line voltage due to the obvious fire hazard. Examples of things I am fine with buying off aliexpress might be flash programmers, project boxes, clothes, etc.

Also, the examples I gave off amazon were not counterfeits, but rather wrong products. I bought a 12TB HDD and received a 6TB one from the same brand. Obviously I'm not okay with that, having paid full price for the 12TB one.

Seems pretty simple, right?
They also will not take online orders during the Sabbath (i.e., Friday evening until Saturday evening). It's peculiar that they enforce it for online checkout. It's a quality website nonetheless.
You literally can't tell until they write code. Having done hundreds of interviews, that's the clearest take away I have.

The candidates you're trying to avoid are really good at passing a phone screen since they have a lot of experience at it, constantly looking for jobs.
So his taxes have to subsidize Amazon's lack of reliable process?
If your failures don't count, you're not doing anything important.
I don't use JavaScript very much, so keep that context in mind.

As far as JavaScript the language goes, my biggest complaints are to do with the sparse standard library (leftpad should be something easy to do with built-in string formatting functions[0], not a 3rd-party library), unexpected behaviour (the map/parseInt thing[1] being one example), etc.

The unexpected behaviour stuff is truly a case of needing to understand the language - after all, why should JavaScript behave like Python? However, as someone who doesn't use JS much, these bits of weirdness make it more difficult to use when I need to.

[0] https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.rjust - this is a Python example, but why doesn't JS have this in its stdlib?

[1] https://wsvincent.com/javascript-parseint-map/
Maybe. I just don’t see a shred of evidence developers generally hate Apple.
They do, and I believe it's because it gives them a better platform from which to pursue GPL violation claims. I think that's basically sensible and an exception to OP's general statement -- if you're contributing to an FSF project, you need to understand that what you're doing is political as well as technical. You're giving FSF more ammunition with which to enforce copyleft. FSF is an exception to the concern that the asignee of your copyright is going to do a proprietary relicensing.
The majority contributor(s) (i.e. those that are making you sign the CLA) can relicence their contributions, and keep your tiny contributions MIT licenced.

Hopefully they can't relicence retroactivelly, so the previous version of the software stays available, but any following versions can be entirely closed source (but they keep your MIT licence notice).
This person probably lives in Seattle.
I have no problem with keeping the details of an investigation classified. The issues is that you can't even say there is an investigation.
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Fox isn't just "any" media, it's state media. Your president watches it religiously and they have an immense influence over what he says.

He has chosen to go to war with the press. To shut out reporters from the press corps. To viciously and regularly attack various media.

You are slowly approaching a Russian-like regime where, if an outlet is not to the president's liking, it gets shut out entirely. It's blatant, and most republicans refuse to acknowledge it (all the while claiming they're pro free speech etc).

Will you personally also be OK with that when it happens, since "well at least the democrats won't be in control anymore"?

I'm scared for your country. Seeing the effect of propaganda after-the-fact in countries like Russia, North Korea, China, and many other dictatorships... it's one thing. Seeing it happen live, that's just out of this world for me.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/451/
I think you're a bit confused about the nature and continuity of the "Chinese state." How do you account, for instance, for warlords ruling the country in the early 20th C., if it's just a series of emperors ruling a unified country for thousands of years? Given the fractured continuity, it seems to me that you could only argue for the unchanging cruelty of Chinese rule by arguing that there's something cruel about Chinese people or their culture.
Failure to mention NJIT's EIES or The Source for that matter renders this article's origin claims kinda questionable. Push reset, try again.
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This is pretty fascinating. The statements by Apple and Amazon on one side vs. Bloomberg are very hard to reconcile.

I'm very interested to see where this goes. I hope we get to find out who is full or crap on this. Either Bloomberg got seriously played (I'm assuming they wouldn't just make up stuff for a good story or report based on sources that didn't appear credible) or Apple and Amazon are lying fearlessly and in great detail. This doesn't seem like the prism situation where it was pretty easy to reconcile the company PR statements with the snowden leaks.
There are tools that solve the problems. It's called GitLab Issue Boards or Phabricator.
Vimwiki for text notes
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Engineering and science have an advantage, however, in that they are empirical and readily tested. Things evaluate to true or false, even if doing the evaluation is difficult. In the humanities, things often come down to value judgements and mere assertions, which cannot be validated one way or another.
That's why I think we'll see a lot of small-scale distributed storage, rather than giant industrial storage plants that match our current concept of the power grid. If you're running, say, a big box store, buying your own local storage for the store can make economic sense if it can pay for itself by buying dynamically priced energy. And then it doesn't need to be huge, because it's not trying to power a city, it's just trying to power your warehouse/store. A block of batteries, or a thermal system, or a water tower starts looking pretty attractive financially.
It's a cleaner design, but I don't think it addresses the core of the issue.

You can still have say a "multi-threaded program" with a global mutex (the threads are created with RFMEM), and then when you want to fork (without RFMEM), you can be prone to deadlocks.

I guess the thread library has channels, and that doesn't happen? But as far as I know there are still mutexes in Go, and I would presume plan 9.

Go also has problems forking since it has a multi-threaded runtime. It only exposes os.ForkExec(), not os.Fork() and os.Execv().
The leading metric to change all of this is to develop a person's self-awareness, to connect themselves with themselves more deeply, so they can feel the pull-distraction that ads cause - and understanding the manipulation and general shallow level of information used in ads - and thus feel repulsed by them, and then want to not have them be in their life unexpectedly. If you can't perceive or sense the impact or associate to the impact, then you can't care about it - and caring is what leads to impulse, and action vs. laziness.

It is definitely warrants to be concern and care to have, for safety and security purposes of society as a whole to counter the will of bad actors that perhaps will ebb and flow until the end of time; it's why I believe as a signal point (a canary) for government-citizen relationships, is a deeply embedded law that allows for mesh networks to be always allowed - and so the moment there is an organized crackdown on this, we can know something is up - whether that is capitalistic for-profit efforts of people thinking more selfishly or a bad actor who has malicious and hatred-based goals/impulses.
Indeed it is - stage 6. Individually acting for the good of others and the future, rather than short term self interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_o...
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You have no right to force us to accept your human rights! We Chinese people believe if there is poverty, if you have nothing to eat, you absolutely have no human right. So our government has lifted 700 million people out of poverty, and this is real HUMAN RIGHT!
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>All the mainstream press (aside from Fox) endorsed Clinton.

It is possible to endorse Clinton without being a puppet for some DNC controlled leftist conspiracy, especially when the only other option vocally denounces you as a puppet for some DNC controlled leftist conspiracy. Why would anyone but Fox News support Trump in that case?

That being said, media "endorsing" candidates is a practice that should probably be ended anyway. But it's still worth pointing out that endorsing a candidate is not necessarily the same as agreeing to take orders from that candidate's party.
> There is plenty of precedent for the US government issuing national security letters (“NSLs”) containing gag orders for ongoing investigations

I don't think the U.S. government can compel companies to lie. It can, though, request them to.

If the NSA said "your servers were compromised by a state-sponsored scheme, and we'd like your co-operation in running counterintelligence operations" I think it would be fair for a company to say "yes". Particularly if part of the offer included help extracting infected hardware from said company's infrastructure.
> complain and get a free month of Prime added ad infinitum

They will only do this 12 times a year. You can also request that they give you the late item for free.
The article gets into some technical aspects, but focuses specifically on A11->A12 changes.

Mostly, A-series chips have enormous L1 cache, great cache hierarchy and management, and very low memory latency. A12 specifically seems to have included an almost total redesign of the cache hierarchy.

I'm sure there are many more reasons their designs significantly outperform competitors, but I've not seen any more publicly available analysis.
There's a lot of middle ground between misleading-downplaying and bragging.
I used to work on a system that processed lots of batch jobs. The jobs themselves were built to run inside of a software framework because they needed to be customized for different purposes but still had lots of common needs.

So we had a process that would start up, initialize the framework, then look for jobs to run. For each job, it would fork, giving the job an initialized framework but also giving jobs some isolation.

Android does something similar:

"Each app process is forked from an existing process called Zygote. The Zygote process starts when the system boots and loads common framework code and resources (such as activity themes). To start a new app process, the system forks the Zygote process then loads and runs the app's code in the new process. This approach allows most of the RAM pages allocated for framework code and resources to be shared across all app processes."

( https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/memory-overv... )
Last time I checked AI does not know how to fact check and without fact checking one cannot determine with a high degree of certainty if news is fake or not.
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Easy to reconcile them after the facts all came out maybe, who says this time will be different?
It limits a lot of contributions, yes. It's certainly "unfree". But I still signed it happily, even if I agree with a lot of op's points.

In my case I need the FSF to defend any evil actions which did happen before with these type of packages (libredwg), and will happen again. I certainly don't want to be at the end of such a lawsuit or infringement claim (like illegally using a trademark), and I'm happy that the FSF will defend us. Even if the external contributions are 10x lower than with a non-gnu project and it's a pain.
> so you need a huge storage infrastructure (batteries, presumably)

The approach in the UK is to build Combined Cycle Gas Turbine [0] stations rather than storage infrastructure, as CCGT can be spun up quickly if renewables aren't cooperating. When I checked this awesome dashboard [1] just now, 48% of the UK's power was CCGT compared with approx 12% wind solar, presumably partly today has been still foggy. On good days solar and wind get to 30%.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle

[1] http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/index.php
Each contributor may only re-license their contributions independently. If there's any of Linus's own work left in the kernel it would have to be rewritten should he decide that he was fed up with RMS and was going to take Linux closed source. ;)
I wasn't necessarily referring to the author here, it is more of a straw-man really. Could have worded that better.
At least there's a standard for junk science -- it replicates or it doesn't.
Thanks. Looks promising, except the notes don't seem to get synced between devices according to the reviews.
Def possible they are lying. There are a lot of companies competing with white box manufacturers. If you can't name a single source, and you have two major companies saying these claims aren't accurate... then maybe you should hold off before making judgments.
I don't see how a CLA materially affects this possibility, though. If my company sponsors a BSD-licensed open source project without enforcing a CLA and then decides that starting with the next major version, we're taking it closed source, the exact same thing you describe is just as likely to happen as with a CLA -- the deciding factor seems to me to be whether most of the development activity happening on the codebase is community-driven or driven by paid developers at the company. Conversely, if the community is active and doing a lot of major work already, and there are enough non-company developers with the time, interest, and skill to start and sustain a fork, they're going to do that with or without a CLA.
Witness this classic complaint from Peter Elias: https://oikosjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/elias1958ir...

published in 1958 when he was editor of the IRE (now IEEE) Transactions on Information Theory.