skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure rigging copy protection to deny usage is a great strategy. could instead continue to grant access but notify and then use as trigger for a sales conversation. "Hey looks like you're running five instances of random webapp, we're really pleased you are finding more valuable ways to use it then we initially discussed. Looks like the contract is out of date, you're only licenced for two instances, let's get that updated..."

I'm pretty bad at this but you get the general idea.
Now even the linker gets reinvented as unreadable templates? Is there a benefit?
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>If someone helps you live when otherwise you're going to die, you should tolerate more of his weirdness.

Yes, if someone has control over your life or death, you should probably do what they say.

That is what most people call "violent coercion".

>You either believe in capitalism and thus meritocracy as its twin, or neither.

Well, quite...
On a similar note, there has been a concerted effort over the past few decadesto stop South Americans from chewing coca leaf and making tea from it, both of which are orders of magnitude less harmful than refined cocaine, and traditions that stretch back millennia.
Don’t offer co-workers help unless asked
And their status is not likely to change while one of their flock is the Prime Minister.
Thanks! This is pretty cool
LRW-1000:Naturally-Distributed Large-Scale Benchmark for Lip Reading in the Wild
Italy Has a Lot of Problems. Austerity Isn’t One
Montreal winters are a bit extreme. That said, the top of Mont Royal after a fresh snow fall is a magical place.
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Settings having a search facility is helpful. Something like `apropos` that searches all installed apps and suggests matches seems like it would already be in the latest gen phones?
> Studies have shown that organizational cultures that value meritocracy often result in greater inequality

Inequality is not in and of itself a bad thing. It is the reasons for that inequality that can be unjust.

If you and I are unequal in society either because you made poor decisions or else were unwilling to work as hard as me, that is in fact "just" even if it is not "equal". Equality at all costs simply does not work, which is why it has failed every time humanity has tried to enforce it on society.

We should fight inequality that results from factors like ethnicity, ideology, and disability, but what's interesting to note is that people like Coraline have shown no qualms about creating inequality for those with different political views-- calling even for the explulsion of OSS devs from projects where their only crime is holding a different political view in private.

It's hard to read her comments and the phrasing of the CoC and not think that its purpose is to allow purging those who commit "wrongthink".
Just the amount of mobile data transfer that could be saved by 1MB of software pre-distributed to all browsers would be huge.

That would be great. I’m normally a fan of multiple competing implementations, but this might be an area where a single common library implementation, developed in partnership by all browser vendors, would be beneficial. All the code would be in wasm so it would be portable by definition. And with everybody using exactly the same implementation there shouldn’t be any sneaky incompatibilities. With a single master repo it could be versioned and updated cleanly.

Just as long as it’s kept small (1MB sounds like a good goal) and there isn’t too much churn -- those are the real challenges.
Google: Providing Tools at Your Fingertip
You can make the onboarding so simple they don't need help?
Why would I want to eat soup with a knife? That sounds like it would cause more problems than it solves. A knife you can eat soup with is exactly the kind of over-engineered nonsense feature that modern OSs cram in. But I could carve a spoon with a knife.

Let me give a less analogous example: Windows recently (or will soon, I forget) have a Dark Mode, which will make window colors darker and text colors brighter. This is a feature upgrade, apparently. Yet back in Windows 95 people would have laughed at you for making a big deal out of that, because you could just arbitrarily change all the window and text colors at will. No reghacks, no CSS, just a simple settings widget [0].

Another example is how ludicrous application installation has become. In the DOS and MacOS Classic days you just copied a folder to a disk, any disk, and ran it and it worked. Nowadays there's package managers and SxS and you can't even install applications to different disks. Is the former method more limited? In some ways yes. But it is also much more flexible in others and much simpler, it's easy to reason about and fits perfectly with the file management metaphor that is the core abstraction of desktop OSs.

[0]http://toastytech.com/guis/win95schemes.png
I think what people mean is that purported meritocracies aren't often actual meritocracies, since unequal opportunities will give some people's contributions more weight than others.

Unfortunately, rather than explaining how self-proclaimed meritocracies often aren't actually judging on merit, such remarks often get wrapped in remarks about cis white males or whatever (or at least - the ones that make the rounds do), which understandably leads to people getting defensive.

Additionally, as a sibling comment shows, there also appears to be some misleading research, which I think is more likely to happen when arguments like these become as heated as they are.

Thus, I'm not sure whether the argument is true or not. However, I think it's good to separate it from the loud voices unsuccessfully making it, and to try to consider it on its own... merits.
I always have to smile when I hear "Spirit in the Sky" used in a religious context as if it's a genuine worship song.
Linear regression implemented four different ways (MLE, OLS, GD, MCMC)
I'm not even sure this is possible in mysql. Last time I checked mysql still couldn't do DDL statements in a transaction.
As long as you write code that's type stable, yea. Type stable means that the compiler can deduce the types of the variables used in a function given the types of the arguments passed to the function. An example of code that's not type stable is code something like this:

function test1(n)
x = 0
for i = 1:n
if i == 10
x = x + 0.1
else
x = x + 1
end
end
return x
end

It isn't type stable because x starts out as an int but then changes to a float in the middle of the loop. This code compiles to 78 instructions.

The following code is type stable:

function test2(n)
x = 0.0
for i = 1:n
if i == 10
x = x + 0.1
else
x = x + 1.0
end
end
return x
end

This code compiles to 14 instructions.
Ha, not arguing EU doesn’t provide value, but specific to the transaction? Not much there: the Apple App Store transaction takes place around the world without the EU’s input. The value you are describing is very much on a different level to purchasing an app electronically. I just thought it was interesting that apple’s cut is viewed as unethical and illegal when the government takes the same. If 30% is the cost of providing a stable, safe marketplace, and EU and Apple are both creating marketplaces, then I don’t see the foul, except that those are pricey marketplaces
> id is doing fine without Carmack

Oh yep, I didn't mean that Oculus would be fucked without him; I can see how my comment could be interpreted that way. I meant that Carmack would probably only leave if Oculus was likely to be shutting their doors soon or was seriously going down the tubes and had a huge shift in direction.
Interesting link!

> After an initial failure, he succeeded with CA-SORT, a program enabling computers to sort through data quickly and economically. Wang's SORT offered competition to a similar IBM program, and Wang convinced many businesses with IBM hardware to change over to CA's product. Mainframe software was licensed rather than sold, and the recurring revenue from the licenses of the SORT software was a great boost to Computer Associates.
And such dynamics should be acknowledged and opposed wherever they exist.

Power itself can't be opposed. By definition, opposition doesn't exist without power.

Abuse can be opposed and to some extent mitigated but it's not at all a static game. When you build walls humans go around them, climb over them, dig under them, or break through them. There is no wall that one person can build that another cannot overcome.
>In theory, one could define "merit" in a way that recognises behaviour alongside technical contributions, but in practice that is rarely how the term is interpreted by tech communities.

Linus' contribution is not just the code he commits, but his ability to organize and marshall developers. That ability is tied to his communication skills.

To the extent that his discourse drives skilled developers away, it is a detriment which is presumably why he is working on it. If it were to get extreme and he became unable to lead due to his toxicity, "meritocracy" would imply that he would step down or be removed.
Well, to be fair, it is lots easier to do when it is parked.
Both my parents and my grandmother use iPhones now and I do notice the limited functionality they are comfortable with but I believe the problem goes beyond the iPhone and into general tech literacy.
I taught my dad to use 1Password then noticed he never uses the biometrics to log in, then reveals the password and memorizes it instead of copy pasting. He definitely set up touchID and has interacted with text before yet in this context forgot they both exist. I wonder if some of these examples like the map direction example are about the same. People who know better just forgetting parts of functionality depending on the context of the problem.
Personally, I'd rather not take my work everywhere, but even then there's RDP. If you happen to spend a lot of time developing in locations without decent internet, then I guess a development laptop is a good idea.
Is work from home a good option for women during medical abortion?
The photo of the wreck from the article and the wreck in the video are very different. The video has nothing to do with the latest find.

Note also that one of the divers in the video is silting badly towards the end. I don't think that those are professional archeologist divers in the video.
Rodney Brooks on Artificial Intelligence (Podcast; Sep.24, 2018)
You just commented a suggested improvement which proves that it's not easy to follow code. Your suggestion is very good, you still had to process the previous code to understand and it wasn't clear at first.
Unikernels: No Longer an Academic Exercise?
Can't you just not tell it about your network and use it like a dumb TV?
The MSRD3X40 patch debacle
> But zero-based indexing is not just some arbitrary offset. Programmers just like it.

Um, that's the definition of "arbitrary".
That does not matter. We want to measure closeness, not superficial similarity. Which species have the most recent common ancestor.

A hyrax is closer to an elephant. It's not even a rodent. Dolphins and whales aren't fish either, even though they live under water and have fins.
A-Z Tutorial: From MNIST data to real-time iPhone recognition app with CoreML
Apple are shutting down screen time tracking apps on iOS
Choosing Umrah packages
Pregnant Elsa vs. Green Spider-Man Family w/ Surprise Kinder Surprise Color Counting For President!
Small files are killing your query performance. Make bigger files instead
YC W2019 Invite/Rejection
Has anyone received an invite/rejection email for the W2019 batch?
If you don't use old Jet 2.x/3.x databases, there is probably a way to disable MSRD2X40/MSRD3X40 via the registry.
>If someone helps you live when otherwise you're going to die

>That is what most people call “violent coercion”.

Really? Is it?

There’s no point in continuing here, I’m afraid we’re too far apart to gain anything from this discussion. Have a good day.
"harvesting" is also neutral or somewhat positive, the correct word is "stealing"
The controversial benchmarks are always at the 1080p level, and I have to wonder: who are these magical consumers who are willing to consider shelling out for an i9 and yet are still playing at 1080p.

Of course such marketing benchmarking HAS to be done at 1080p, because anything more challenging and you're entirely gpu bound with cpu differences becoming margin of error fractions of a percent.
It's all for telemetry/data collection to fuel advertising.
“Excuse me but this Apple already has a bite taken out of it!”
<quote>C++ for example, is a hard language, but the learning curve is ... progressive (rise bit by bit).

Rust on the other hand, is like climbing a cliff
</quote>

c++11+ is a hill that is so freaking high that you do not see the top.. like Olympus Mons.

honestly i do not see much difference in learning c++ or rust - in order to write good programs you should know most of the c++ standard and that's a lot to absorb.
because I read what he posted before I post myself:

> My parents are also from Ukraine, and in my part of Spain the language commonly spoken "on the streets" is Catalan, so within the timespan of a day I always have to changee between and speak 5 different languages (Outside- > Catalan and Spanish, Computer-> English & Spanish, Family-> Ukrainian and Russian)
That's impressive foresight.

Why did Linus make such fanfare about his departure if it was always intended to be so short?
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doesn't look very "modern" at all

This is the sort of thing that turns me off C++ completely. It used to be a pragmatic extension to C, now it's about trend-chasing.

The code could be simpler (the extra "index" which is essentially a state variable is odd), but IMHO it is otherwise perfectly fine. Useless superficial criticism like this is just another form of cargo-culting.
Actually there are plenty of options with Algol derived languages.
I've been using StimulusJS on most projects since June and continue to be impressed by how much cleaner I can make things. It really does just "sprinkle in" to add a bit of extra and necessary functionality while otherwise getting out of the way.

Love it.
You misread the paper. The surnames Anderson and Thompson have white connotations, while Jefferson and Washington have black connotations. The researchers backed up their choices with data. From page 3:

> For example, based on data from the United States Census, 90 and 75 percent of individuals with Washington and Jefferson surnames are African American, respectively. Similarly, 90 percent of individuals with a surname of either Hernandez or Garcia are Hispanic, and 70 percent of Andersons and Thompsons are white.
Also, it's better shielded than twisted pair.

It's funny, keeping everything else constant, the center conductor can move quite a bit away from the exact axial center of the shield before the impedance changes very much.

PS. Neill, not Neil
no the word gmail uses is "+"
Re: 3), here's a clean and technically humble way that I typically use.

enum {
KEY_FOO,
KEY_BAR,
KEY_BLAH,
NUM_KEYS,
};

struct KeyInfo {
const char *name;
int info1;
float info2;
};

const static struct KeyInfo keyInfo[NUM_KEYS] = {
#define MAKE(x, y, z) [x] = { #x, y, z }
MAKE( KEY_FOO, 1, 1.0 ),
MAKE( KEY_BAR, 7, 3.5 ),
MAKE( KEY_BLAH, 42, 127.2 ),
#undef MAKE
};

void print_key(int key)
{
printf("%d's name is %s\n", key, keyInfo[key].name);
}

It's both low-tech and maintainable. It compiles super quick. If one doesn't like that one has to type KEY_FOO twice (in the enum and in the array definition), one can use X-macros or code generation. But personally I don't care.
Things an architect should know
If they can choose not to help they're not "helping you to live", they're choosing not to kill you.

And if they choose whether to kill you based on whether you do what they want, that's violent coercion.
Inb4 the EU fanboys burst in and downvote this shit.
There's a bunch at Staples.

I also just found some plans, might make one so it's adjustable my way: http://www.craftsmanspace.com/free-projects/kneeling-chair-p...
> The proposal will force platforms, like YouTube, to prioritize content from a small number of large companies.

That's orthogonal to what the Article 13 really says. If anything, it will "force" the platforms to prioritize original content over remakes.
Part of me hopes that this mess will at least have the positive side-effect of more people embracing copyleft practices, but I doubt it will happen.
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As a conservative, I've never really paid any attention to Hillsong stuff. What I did hear of typical pentecostal music struck me as pretty shallow and.....commercial. Admittedly as an ignoramus, I do wonder how they get around tax exemption while they rake this all in.

I know you can't brush everyone with the same stroke, but it feels reminiscent of those mega-pastors that fly around in their private jets to shake hands and take selfies with the poor - the message becomes a sideshow to the brand. It makes me uneasy - but, disclaimer, I don't really know on the pentecostal spectrum of commercialism where they lie.
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RISC OS goes fully open source (updated)
Exposing Azure Services Using API Management
Yes. As did pretty much anyone who sold their companies to Yahoo (assuming they weren't just in it for the paycheck, obvs.)
Your comment reminds me of Johnny Cash covering Personal Jesus.
It's orthogonal to the intention, perhaps.

However, in implementation, it's much easier to make a few deals with large companies, rather than to ensure that each of the tens of millions of nobodies with 10 subscribers completely adheres to the letter of the law.
"YouTube has already invested more than $60 million into its Content ID system"

That actually seems low to me, given we're talking about numbers (revenue, users) in the billions.
I'm guessing most people get their phones from their phone provider or online.

And of course there are still countries where there is no Apple store, but you see quite a few iPhones.
I said power dynamics (i.e. power imbalances) should be opposed, not the abstract concept of power itself.
They really should add "Image credit: " to the text beneath the image to indicate that it is not an image description.
> iirc we don’t have “permanent” acceleration tech

Which is exactly why low G-tolerance doesn't matter. You have a limited amount of delta-V, whether you apply it all in one go or spread out over a year makes little difference given the timescales that are already involved in interstellar travel.
It is artisanal so it varies dramatically in style and quality. I’ve had both great and diarrhea-inducing chicha.
> This is too often the attitude of Julia people

And it's a good attitude for the Julia people to have. Their target audience is not just (or even mainly) full time developers. They're targeting scientists, statisticians etc. As such, it makes sense for Julia to use conventions that are appropriate to their audience. This pervades the whole of Julia, not just indexing although the latter is exceptionally rich for this reason.

> Programmers just like it

That's a reason for having 0-based indexing but not an especially good one. And for Python it was an arbitrary decision. That's not to say that 0-based indexing is necessarily an arbitrary decision, it wasn't for C, for example, but it often is.
Intro to soldering with Kitty Ears
Why IT and tech professionals want to move to the Netherlands
Spain is in the same position. EU is doomed. Is it just a question of time.
This is even better:

> The burden of copyright proof will be too high for most independent creators to instantly demonstrate.

If I record a video, and YT bans it because their faulty algorithm triggered a false alarm, how exactly the "burden of copyright proof" should be "too high" for me?

First of all, they should prove that someone else owns the copyright. If they're mistaken - because of copyright trolls or faulty algorithms - it should be their burden, not the authors'.
I don't care if it's bad for creators, I care if it's bad for users.
2012-2015 was still 700€/year at Centrale - I'll let you guess which one.

Don't forget though that housing, food, "Sécurité Sociale", library, etc. weren't included.
It depends on the curriculum. At the last place I studied Computer Science, the department was led largely by Matthias Felleisen and Olin Shivers, and the first book they require reading is How to Design Programs: https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/part_preface.html

You could write 100% functional code that handles every edge case you could think of, and you could still get a B- on an exam for not using the 'Design Recipe.' While frustrating, the students do emerge as 'junior SWEs' with a grasp on how to design organized, efficient, and complex programs themselves.
I am surprised that as travel to Mars is becoming more of a reality, there are not a lot more folks trying to reach Mars for commercial gain.

I am correlating this back to when the Europeans are going around the globe and colonising every land mass they can land on. Why are should Mars be any different?
Big companies can just make deals and use whatever they want.

Independent content creators don't have the resources to go to EMI and cut a deal for using their music as soundtrack for their videos.

In addition, for a big company being sued is part of business, while for a regular guy it can mean bankruptcy. Taking the risk of using other people's stuff--even if it should obviously be considered fair use--might be too much of a gamble for most people.

This is of course bad because the quality could go down and it makes the whole process more frustrating, but most importantly it makes reviewing stuff risky, specially for negative reviews where it's not unusual for the author of the reviewed item to sue for defamation (and now for using footage without permission) if a negative review becomes popular.
Part of me just thinks this will be bad for youtube in the long run, not content creators as they (and their audience) will find other outlets.
That makes sense. But then how would this be possible to do as a "non-optional" feature?
Hillsong is influential, no doubt. But I bet in the long run, even more influential will be the music from 'Veggietales'. (Sort of like 'Schoolhouse Rock'. Very catchy, and popular with all ages.)