skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, probably it will affect accessing a range of hardware devices that include a web interface (such as routers).

A recent example:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/177834-modern-browsers-and-lega...
>> has to inspect your paper in-depth

That depends on the goal of your writing. Technical writer like to think they are above such things, but often the goal is less to convey information and more to keep eyeballs on an article. Sometimes you want to give the customer what they need as efficiently as possible. Other times the goal is to hold their attention as long as possible. You have to adjust you writing to both the audience and the desires of your publication medium.
I'm not familiar with any of these memes about lisp. If anything, the stuff you're claiming about lisp I've heard about Haskell.
> Blaming us single individuals is easy, but we a are not directly responsible for this

Companies are comprised of people. Governments are comprised of people. We absolutely are responsible and we have the power to do something about it. Stop being so passive and dismissive, if you care.
I've run TLS 1.2 only on my site for a year or two, and I've not encountered any problems. The ecommerce websites I manage are TLS 1.1 and 1.2 only, and not heard complaints.
And why should we care? For all I know you might be some kind of e-celeb and coming to Hacker News without knowing who THE mollienne is would be akin to swearing in church, but I still fail to see what I'm supposed to do with your public key.
As i write this comment I have my grandpas turban in one hand, and my motorcycle helmet in the other. I like to believe that I was raised to be reasonable when it comes to religious application. I’ll take the full-face everytime.
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Sure, most SEC complaints are for lack of transparency, because they don't have laws against a lot of the stuff they want to stop. But they don't go around prosecuting for lack of transparency of good things. If they fined someone for it, it's probably because they don't approve of the thing they did, which is a good sign they're going to fine others that do it.

And it's not like a lot of internalizers are going around with prospectuses saying "we're gonna purposefully move markets to give your customers worse prices", so the SEC isn't going to have much trouble fining them if they decide to (assuming this is actually happening all the time).
You don't need all of these concepts on an everyday basis.

If you don't use ES5 stuff that was replaced in newer versions, things get much simpler.

let, =>, === etc.
I was able to stay this route. Started at $4k/week and worked my way up to $6k/week and still rising. If you can manage a project/have technical lead skills/have a hyper specialty (e.g. AR/VR, cryptography/security, AI/ML) I've seen rates anywhere from $150-300/hr.
Don't even bother with the while True. If you get a bucket collision with a random number, just don't log anything, or just fatally crash because you can't trust the platform's PRNG or don't have enough available entropy or are just plain unlucky. Keep it proper O(1).
Does this mean I can include "have had strong opinions on the Internet; 25 years experience" on my résumé now?

While that sounds flippant, I'd actually love to have some input in this area; it's long been an area of passion for me, but I don't have a law degree. Which I suspect is true of a lot of people around these parts.
It's funny, we get upset that China censors the free and open exchange of ideas until the subject of intellectual property comes up, and then we get upset because China doesn't respect the fact that we like to keep ideas under lock and key. Once you get under all the bullshit it's as simple as America believing that it should win and China should lose. The problem is, that by merit of demographics, and China's stable political and economic system, they're on track to become the dominant and economic power in the world, and there's not a lot you can do about it.

You can worry that China could have too much leverage over Google if they become dependent on profits earned in China. It's corroborated in the article you provided:

>a deeply conservative Pence sounded like liberal stalwart Sen. Elizabeth Warren in arguing the Chinese are using America’s own short-term-oriented financial system against it.

Our shareholder value short-term oriented financial system is a problem in our own backyard, something we can do something about rather than fearmongering against China. It remains a strict hypothetical that that Google would kowtow to China's demands and censor it's domestic search engine. I don't think they'll do that, but even if they did, we can cross that bridge when we get to it, until then it's just a hypothetical worst case scenario. If Google has a dangerous amount of control over the flow of information, that's because it's the service that most Americans choose to use, which is kind of the shitty thing about a free and open society. In China if they decide something is a net negative, they can stop it.
turntable.fm. Amazing product/community. Better for music discovery than anything else I have ever used.
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I started version control with CVS. Just a bit better than copying.

I started distributed version control with monotone. That felt better but the central db felt a bit unnatural.

A bit later came mercurial and I was really happy with it. It all made sense. Easy interface and when you wanted to do something strange like rewrite history, you had to use a plugin.

Then came git (rhymes to better know your sh*t). I'm not surrounded by the smartest guys but most people I met only have a superficial understanding of git and looking at these flight rules kind of confirms the complexity of git.

I strongly believe that 80% of the current users of git would be better off with mercurial. But then everybody uses git for the remaining 20%.
What you seem to be describing are micro facet models which while commonly used in PBR renderers are not really fundamental to PBR. One of the major things that distinguishes PBR from earlier approaches is trying to ensure BRDFs for non emissive surfaces aren't adding energy by reflecting more total outgoing radiance than incoming radiance. Micro facet models help achieve that but there is also research that tries to more or less directly use measured BRDFs as well as trying to fit micro facet based and other models' parameters to measured data.

Of course there are non local scattering effects that are not captured by BRDFs and that can be perceptually important for some materials so there are also extensions like BSDFs used in some PBR renderers. Overall the PBR approach is to try and understand the underlying physics and drop or approximate (in a more or less principled way) the parts that are impractical to simulate or have small perceptual effects in most situations. It's not really about any specific such approximation like micro facet models. "Physically Based" seems like a perfectly good name for this approach, perhaps "Physically Inspired" would have been an appropriate alternative.
I haven't seen what the authors recommend..
This reminded me of a steganography blog post I wrote back when I was doing computer security.

It should be possible to binarily concatenate compressed (RAR'd or ZIP'd) text data directly to a JPG.

Then you can save it as an image on the client, or uncompress it in the client browser and read the data.

The differences are 1) the saved image won't look like random pixels-- it'll look like whatever base image you choose and 2) you don't have to worry about writing the encoding/decoding data as bitmap stuff.
Case against Amazon and MS participating in JEDI program
So I just cancelled my Amazon subscriptions. Subscribe and Save and will cancel my Prime membership. I love AWS but will stay away from it and same goes for MS products

These companies are on a slippery slope. They are not defense contractors and pose as consumer goods and tech companies. If their bottom line start getting defined by defense contracts, they will perpetuate it. It will become business as usual. At extreme they will encourage conflicts as it's good for them

I hope people vote with their money and distance themselves from Amazon and MS or any company that acts on money at all costs
> It's only as difficult as you make it.

Or as difficult as the authors of the code you're using made it.
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It seems pretty old school to have to commute to an office in order to work. Why is remote work not mainstream yet? Seems pretty obvious we’ll end up all working remotely in a near future. Instead of putting 100% of our resources in green and self driven vehicles. I think Elon Musk missed that one :) [sarcasm]
That sounds awesome, if it does seamless search from subscription services and plays mp3 as well! The article doesn't quite make it clear what the functionality will be.
It is a transparent attempt to inject a political discussion into a topic where it is not appropriate. Your use of ad hominem in supporting this is just as transparent. There are other places where this discussion would be appropriate.
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> People write music on their computers

I'm perfectly fine with that. Computers can be musical instruments and even if they don't take years to master to get a tone or a riff out that does not diminish the accomplishment, which is all about creating original sounds, not about how those sounds are made.
Wouldn't it be easy to just allow people to mark their account as a bots.

Also, I assume most bots use an api. why not list the source of the tweet and add a filter. mobile twitter app, buffer, etc. You need to register to use the api I assume.
Annual mosquito infestations have been irregular of late. This year was the worst in maybe the past five, probably due to the insane amount of rain we've had in the Philly area.

But in the past several years I remember being surprised that mosquitoes really didn't pose much of a problem. I could work in the yard well past sunset without becoming vampire food. That wasn't true a decade ago, IIRC.
We need a post-libetal order now
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Would love to try this.

The thing about the Hp was that I could open it up and make a note within seconds. Faster than any other known method. Including pencil and paper.
The author is an M.D. and oncological researcher. New developments in medicine are his bread and butter. That blurb sounds impressive and "oh, I'm really being taken care of!" to a layman, but to someone with actual domain expertise it sounds like "I'll create a GUI interface in Visual Basic to track an IP address".

Key questions to consider: What, exactly, is being tested? How? How do the results affect medication dosage? Which medications? How does this differ from existing medical practice where doctors routinely adjust dosages to balance efficacy and unwanted side effects?
is this dog moonwalking?
In what real-world prediction market / sports gambling / poker tournament etc are you betting on anything other than the output if some consensus process?
That's a good question, something all men need to ask themselves (after they get over the stupid idea that it isn't happening or women are making it up)...

Here's the thing. It's so common for women that they don't detail every little incident in their lives to every man in their lives, because it's too much to track. Do you remember every driver who cut you off in traffic? That's kind of the level of the low-grade sexual harassment women deal with. It's just about every day.

So no, I'm not told everything. And hopefully, most of the time, it's not that the women in my life are afraid to speak up to me about it. It's not that my then ten year old daughter was afraid or ashamed to talk to me about being warned about a lecherous, creepy man in a position of power. It's that even then, she knew it was part of life as a woman.

By age 10, I had already asked a few female friends to be her "bad aunties". Their job was to be adult women she could talk to who weren't in her chain of command - not parents, or teachers, or officials of any sort. They were there to listen and advise when she needed it. And they were specifically asked to keep her confidence no matter what - even from me, and her mother. And she knew this. She knew she had adult women her life she could turn to when she didn't have anyone else she felt safe with, knowing that her parents trusted them with her.

I recommend this to every father.
F-Droid supports reproducible builds and all APK's they serve are built from source.
Then again, Lisp, Smalltalk, Haskell, etc. predate JS, from a historical perspective.
I still have a fly problem at home, it hasn't abated a bit
The cost of switching from Google was low when Search was their only product. They have their hooks a lot deeeper in users these days. Android, Gmail, Docs, and others are harder to switch away from.
those initiatives do not seem open source and non-profit, like Tribler.
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I should have asked what you believe is more. $75-100 is definitely in the "cheap" range, $100-150 I see for senior generalists, and $150-300 I see for the principal/architect/specialist rates. At some point the number isn't sustainable unless you're like a brand-name entity (e.g. John Carmack, Jeff Atwood, John Resig, and I'm just guessing here).
Why is that? What has been your experience?
Oh absolutely. No language is immune to bad code and bad APIs. A good developer experience requires diligence. That starts with a good understanding of the language.
Could it be a Corp or an NGO ? Or does it have to be a natural person?
> I know about that the whole lime - lemon thing.

Be careful; my quote has nothing to do with the confusion between lemons and limes that occurred hundreds of years later. The Navy instituted a lime juice ration in 1799. They switched out lemons ("limes") for what we would call limes in 1865, setting themselves up for the reintroduction of scurvy. But James Lancaster performed his experiment (and reported his result of 100% scurvy prevention to Naval authorities) in 1601.
You're right, it occurred to me as well. He looks more like a 14th / 15th century european scholar than a neocromancer.
No. India was a colony, and the British exploited India’s resources, but they also built infrastructure and institutions and preserved most of the social structure. Indians were never property of British people. Families weren’t separate with children being bought and sold to other plantations. Indians’ social structure wasn’t completely broken down in order to turn them into a slave class.

More important: what the British did to India isn’t America’s problem. Blacks in America continue to suffer huge disparities compared to whites. They live like second class citizens in their own country. That’s our burden to fix. We can’t absolve ourselves of the responsibility by saying “it was before my time.” Our Congress is the same Congress that passed the Fugitive Slave Act. Our Supreme Court is the same Supreme Court that upheld Plessy and Dredd Scott. Especially asians, most of whom came here voluntarily, and who knew the obligations that had been incurred by the society they were trying to be a part of. We can’t avail ourselves of the benefits of being American but then say we are unwilling to help pay down our societal debt because it’s not our problem.
This is great! I'm excited that the curriculum of the top-rated bootcamp will now be so much more accessible to the world- not only to people who can afford to move to one of the two cities where App Academy has in-person campuses (San Francisco and New York) and be jobless while they go through the program. This is a dream come true! Breaking down barriers!
If you can join a gym with an indoor pool and sign your kids up for swimming lessons then that will give you at least 30 minutes twice a week to lift.
I remember distinctly when someone introduced Google (ca 1999) to me as an Altavista alternative where the good results were actually on the first page. As in, with Altavista you needed to rummage through the first couple pages (luckily back then you only had a couple pages' worth of results) to find what you were looking for.

Maybe what we miss is not exactly Altavista but a mid-2000s Google, also with the low occurrence of spam and sponsored content that we had back then. How about duckduckgo, does it fit the bill?
That's a trivial detail of the parent's anecdote which may or may not have been exaggerated for narrative purposes and completely tangential to the point they were making. Given the subject matter it's pointless and a frankly bit insensitive to nitpick that IMO.
They're sharing what they can obviously, but the platform will be different. There are a lot of cars that are like 90% similar, especially sedans and crossovers sharing the same platform. To that extent, the Model X apparently used the Model S platform as its starting point (but no idea if it's still shared). The Model 3 however is a mid-sized sedan compared to S's full-size, so the sharing would mostly be limited to tech and components, but not platform.
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That's a fair point, but the fact that there's yet another protocol, not mentioned on the XMPP E2E wiki, kinda plays into the point itself: XMPP has E2E maybe with a bunch of random protocols and the stars (and the people you talk with) need to align _just right_ for all of it to work. I think it would be fair to say that everyone uses WhatsApp and I know what they get, and at this point only XMPP people use XMPP (explicitly) and maybe they get some kind of E2E but who knows which one and what properties that has.
My 2008 MBP has a cool feature I miss: regardless of whether the laptop was o switched on or off, lid open or shut, you could press a little button on the left side and a number of LEDs would light up to indicate how much battery you had left.
Then do educate us instead of posting passive-aggressive comments! This is hacker news, not biohacker news, it's not really surprising that most people here (including myself) are not very knowledgeable on the subject.
I've also done this and can agree with the parent of this comment.

The problem here is once they have traction and funding, they likely have a full-time CTO. Fractional CTOs are generally needed at the seed stage when the technical solution hasn't really come together and they don't have this skill-set in house. They also don't have money. It's a slippery slope, and you're better off being a technical advisor (low effort, low equity, low risk) than working underpaid and overworked.
To add to nemo44x's response...

> but ultimately, I'm not confident one can write a license that focus-targets SaaS vendors without potentially exposing just plain mongo users to the same litigation.

I completely understand your trepidation, but I hope I can set your mind at ease about that. From our FAQ (https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license...):

> What are the implications of this new license on applications built using MongoDB and made available as a service (SaaS)?

> The copyleft condition of Section 13 of the SSPL applies only when you are offering the functionality of MongoDB, or modified versions of MongoDB, to third parties as a service. There is no copyleft condition for other SaaS applications that use MongoDB as a database.
China is easy to pick on because it's the greatest evil the world is facing today. There are plenty of other shitholes around the world, but only China is capable of forcing almost every country and company into their submission.

Also, there's a big difference between using a free product and working for a company that supports China/Saudi Arabia/etc. Or in YC's case, bringing billions of dollars worth of investment into a country that sends Muslims to concentration camps, and helping them build a dystopian surveillance state that will force everyone to spread their propaganda and fall in line; while being completely helpless as hundreds of millions of lives are destroyed..

That being said, I do try to avoid using products of unethical companies, and I would resign without a second's hesitation if I found out my company was involved with these evil governments.
I completely agree with that criticism, but that's still not grounds for just firing him and for certain parts of the media branding him a misogynist.
Google is better, but I would argue that further giving Google influence in the global internet is a bad thing. We need to curb the influence of single actors. If Google goes into China they will become omnipotent. They will use this to greatly raise the bar of entry into the tech sector. It would become physically impossible for any other players to compete with Google's level of market share on the web.

So while Google might benefit, humanity would suffer.
The only way to combat propaganda and 'fake news' is for its audience to apply some critical thinking. As far as I'm aware the Internet in Myanmar is not restricted/censored, so people there have every opportunity to check facts - that they do not appear to may be a symptom of Internet access being such a new phenomenon there.
This looks really amazing! I'll have to try this out with documentation, and it would likely be great for html books as well. Thank you!
People who have never seen the grass on the other side can't make a judgement as to whether it is greener.

I have visited countries where personal freedoms are curtailed but the general population had food, water, shelter and luxuries so they were content. It is only the moment they realize that those things are in danger or they covet what other nations have that problems arise.

You can't miss what you never lost.
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That's a little harsh, perhaps.

The legacy of be blical stories is far deeper tham dogma. The other day, i watched a (very sacreligious) cartoon (castlelvania e1). In it, Dracula's wife is burned at the stake for witchraft, by the church. On her way out, she calls out to dracula. "Forgive them! Don't take vengence. They don't know what you're doing."

This is exactly what the author is talking about. The dogma isn't there. If the scene was boring or banal it wouldn't have been recreated in the cartoon.

Still, its a reference everone gets, and the metaphor is extremely deep.
FWIW, the book gives a more detailed description of the assumptions/limitations of pbrt here: http://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/Color_and_Radiometry/Radiom...

E.g. it doesn't handle things like polarization, interference or fluorescence, assumes light is instantaneous, etc.
I think this is the first time in history a robot has twerked. A great milestone.
>The counterargument is that censoring political speech is decidedly indecent regardless of anyone's intentions

This is (as I understand it) a deontological, rather than a consequential, argument. So that cannot really be a 'counterargument' because it has a disjoint set of premises. You can argue that the premise for GP's argument (something along the lines of `The decision of whether to operate Google in China should depend on the aforementioned having better outcomes for chinese citizens than otherwise`) is incorrect or you can argue on the basis of his premise, but giving a different argument on a different premise (something like `the rule "don't censor political speech" should never be broken`) does not make a counterargument.
Just scrap the helmet requirement altogether, but let the insurance companies charge wildly different rates based on whether you wear a helmet or not, so long as the rates are in line with the actual risk.
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Microsoft Money. Very convenient and had good reporting. Mint is ok, but it's reporting is very weak.
wouldn't the older versions of mongodb still be under the old license? (IANAL)
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