skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is, but it’s not a universal rule. In the 2+ years I actively used Dataloader (not using GraphQL-JS right now), I had one feature request which got implemented, but other than that it was perfectly stable and fit for use.
How to do this without paying hundreds of dollars:

1. Get $5/month virtual machine anywhere.

2. Install https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse

3. Install https://about.riot.im/

4. Register & Login to your own chat server

5. ???

6. Profit.
Sorry, I think I misread/misunderstood your original post or inferred something from it that wasn't there. Often I get frustrated with the extreme anti-GMO crowd, and likely let that emotion cloud my response to you.
i look around and see a world struggling with pollution and inequality.
Do you have any data/studies backing your claim, or am I supposed to take it all on faith?
You can mitigate most of it - not all, but quite a large fraction.

First off, ad-block your browser as much as you can; if you want to really nuke things, go with something like a https://pi-hole.net/

Secondly - get rid of cable television, and stop listening to Clear Channel radio (or any radio for that matter). Avoid ad-driven streaming services (video or audio). In fact, you might cut them out entirely.

Instead, read and/or create stuff to fill your free time. Or write, or learn, or whatever. Anything except being a complete consumer.

Stop going to brick-and-mortar chain stores or restaurants; instead, seek out independent places for similar offerings. Note that these places will not be "ad free" - they are businesses, and as such they must do some amount of marketing. But it will be a local thing only, and much more low-key at that.

For the remainder of stuff, use online shopping. Of course, if you use Amazon, Ebay, Ali Express, etc - there is going to be a level of advertising there. You might be able to block some of it, but not all - do what you can to lighten the load.

Doing all of that leaves only billboards and signage, and of course incidental advertising (overhearing a radio, seeing a TV or something at a friend's house, etc). But if you do everything else, and maybe a few other minor things, you can eliminate almost all of it.

I can think of a potential way you could also eliminate the signage and other forms of passive and incidental advertising, but you'd be a pariah if you tried it. But potentially it could work (and quite possibly be done extremely well, almost to the point where such advertising would "disappear" from your otherwise normal daily life).
Your line of thinking is exemplary of what I was talking about: “violence first, democracy later”, “democracy comes from fighting”, and soon enough thousands of people are sent to die for nothing in a Middle-Eastern desert.
Why would they even need to to trust a server for key exchange? Wouldn't it be more reasonable to just exchange public keys at the time of adding the contact to their contact list and then only update the keys using previously used keys?
PDT and MST are the same time all year long, as far as I know, so there's no effective difference. I suppose this means that other places in Pacific time that have DST part of the year would be on the same labeled time zone as California part of the year for cultural and historical reasons.
> too many steps when using Hangouts in Slack

What are the steps involved? For us, it's "tap the phone icon in the top right".
Carnap: A formal logic framework for Haskell
Apple doesn't really care much about backwards compatibility. I'm sure they will have an x86 emulator, but it probably won't be very fast (read: useless for games) and will probably be dropped entirely a few years down the line.
I used to be pessimistic about it too. I think it will happen in a proper way in some places, in others it will be used as a tool to amass more power, as the human nature implies it will.

But the silver lining is that we are creating a collective conciousness through tools like the internet. Humans can naturally create this collective sentient being when forming a tribe for instance. Our problem, in our particular point of history of civilization, was always the problem of scale.

Now with the internet we are again able to form this collective mind in a bigger scale. We are still in the infancy of this process, and thats why this collective is acting as a dumb giant. But I think that as we evolve in this process, this collective mind will get more sophisticated. And soon we will be able to collectivelly control whats best for the greater good, trying to repel all hostile movements that could try to control the resources to the benefit of a few.

The problem is: it will take a lot of fight to get there, some of us will fall, but i believe that some of us will get there first.
I just started using Mix.com, they have a mobile, chrome, and firefox extension that lets you save from around the web. It lets you organize the articles you want to save into collections you can customize. Also it seems if I add articles about a certain topic it will give me more recommendations. You can save any link, including tweets. I do not believe it works with Facebook posts.
That sounds like a truthful explanation of their motives. On the one hand, I definitely welcome challengers to the chip industry. On the other, I remember the Power days. Having non Mac users “talk down” to me about using a different processor was beyond annoying. It adds a quill to the Mac haters. Here’s hoping Apple produces cpus that outperform their competitors like their 2 G/s ssds do.

Also makes me not really happy to buy any current hardware of theirs.
> This is a fine article for what it is, but isn't it really "Apple marketing walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip"? (at least I assume Anand wasn't hired as a SoC architect)

I wonder how that colors the reviews - if the outlet is too critical about a device, they can quickly lose these special privileges.
This is an advanced trick, but I've successfully done this as part of a binary search to find the glyph at the visual mid-point of the string. UTF-8 is self-synchronizing so you can detect if you cut a code point in half. You still need to handle things like ligatures which even UTF-32 won't speak to directly.

Doesn't work well with BIDI languages, or Mongolian. Seriously if you haven't tested with Mongolian your code is probably wrong.
> general consensus is that Daylight Saving Time is better for farmers, and energy consumption, as well as being less disruptive to children who are particularly affected by the ping-ponging of the clock in the spring and fall.

I think the author is arguing against getting rid of DST? In which case, what he wrote above (which BTW is a link that goes to an article that backs up not a single thing he said) actually goes against his point. It says that if we stay on permanent DST, it's better for everyone.
They are preventing upgrading, not just downgrading...
Combined code coverage for Flutter and Dart
Eventual vs. Strong Consistency in Distributed Databases
> but OSS by indie developers is pretty much dead

I have never seen a viable "business model" around F/OSS end-user application software. Every time I ask the F/OSS fanboys for this, they either come up short or ramble about "selling support."

The closest I've even considered was the OpenBSD model, where you keep everything free and open, but sell the "official distribution." The modern app store ecosystem actually improves the viability of this. However, that approach probably has a lot of limitations.

That being said, I prefer to open-source anything I do that I don't intend to make money off of. I personally despise the "closed-source free-as-in-beer" model that some indie non-Linux developers seem to opt for.
Why do you think maintaining the sense of free will is evolutionarily costly? If anything, to me, it seems like a heuristic shortcut that is imperfect but is useful most of the time, and saves resources overall.

As a close analogy, we've all said something like, "My car wants to pull to the right." Nobody claims the car has free will, but "wanting to pull to the right" is a useful way to both communicate and to think about it. What is is in the car's makeup that causes it to want to pull to the right?

There are plenty other examples where people have false beliefs yet still cling to them. If you ask drivers if they are better or worse than average, about 10% will say worse. My point is, having false beliefs doesn't always exert a strong evolutionary pressure.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of the hardware and software used in your company?
For companies that have over 100 servers (for example), do you use software to track the servers and their relation to a product or service? I'm not referring to desktops and applications, but somewhere where you can manage that the finance system consists of these 12 servers, 2 web services and this software.

In ITIL 3, this was a CMDB (Configuration Management Database).

For 'enterprise', there are solutions from Service Now, BMC and IBM. But these are very complex and very expensive. What are some solutions for small to medium companies that can't justify using enterprise software for this?
Well, this is Apple's official point of view on Swift's purpose.

> Swift is a successor to both the C and Objective-C languages. It includes low-level primitives such as types, flow control, and operators. It also provides object-oriented features such as classes, protocols, and generics, giving Cocoa and Cocoa Touch developers the performance and power they demand.

Taken from https://developer.apple.com/swift/

> Swift is intended as a replacement for C-based languages (C, C++, and Objective-C).

Taken from https://swift.org/about/
> When you strip away all the stuff a laptop doesn't need, you're left with... an x86 chip!

You're left with an ARM chip
Try voting out your sergeant.

Try having a political leader jailing people who don’t do what he tells them to do.
> If my decisions are not a product of my prior state, then they are not my decisions. The definition of 'me' is my prior state.

There are two problems with this definition of free will.

First, it implies that your present self (and future selves) are all entirely subservient to your prior state, and surrounding environment. Ie, the present you has no way of overcoming your past self or your environment. This means that you're essentially sitting in a roller-coaster ride, with no levers to pull or opportunity for change. Sure, your past self made the decision to get on the ride. But your present and future self are all helpless from that point on.

Second, did even your past have any free will? The chain of causation extends all the way back. Your past self at time T-X is itself entirely subservient to your past self at time T-X-1. Extend this all the way back, and you realize that you're subservient to your "self" at the moment of conception. At no point did your consciousness have any ability to change the course of the life that was already plotted for it. If I predict at the moment of your birth, every single thing that will happen in your life and every decision you will make, can you really claim to possess free will?

Hence why people try to cling on to randomness and uncertainty. "If the future can be perfectly predicted, people definitely do not have free will => ergo, if the future cannot be perfectly predicted, then maybe we have free will?" I agree with you though that this is shoddy reasoning. Just because there exists randomness at the quantum level, just means that we're passengers in a driverless car that's rolling dice. Randomness that we have no control over, does not grant us free will in any way.
I enjoy being a tourist in winding mazes. But when I want to get to work? Give me wide straight roads.
Again, assuming all future versions are bad is _fine_ if that's what you want to do.

Responding to a peer that says "I know TLS 1.3" with "Too bad, we're talking TLS 1.2" was and is entirely in obedience with the specifications. As far as I know _every_ major middlebox on the market today now does this in their latest versions, most of them advertised this as "TLS 1.3 now supported"‡

But for "security" vendors silently being secure doesn't sell products, they would rather have an alarm "TLS Protocol Attack prevented!" and block the connection. Doesn't make you any safer, but that was never their priority. It's also easier for them to do than correctly implementing the protocol.

‡ In much the same way that "HD Ready" televisions "supported" High Definition television. In that you couldn't watch HD TV on those televisions, but hey, it was "supported"... those televisions existed in the same universe where HD TV existed. Likewise, modern Cisco or Palo Alto Networks middleboxes "support" TLS 1.3 by saying they want to talk TLS 1.2 instead...
Nothing's free in life.

In this case you pay with your social details. Ultimately everyone decides for themselves whether they find the price acceptable or not.
I certainly believe it’s scalable, but I have a hard time seeing the need for two caching products, a queue and a db just to get it to start.
Well this is indeed Mundane. This is just a Rust frontend to an OpenSSL fork. There's nothing of major interest here and not sure why it's getting attention. There are already Rust frontends to OpenSSL.
I have been in a couple slightly dicey situations but overall have found that there are always other things I’d like to have time to do if I didn’t spend so much energy babysitting a shitty tool or process.

You find out frequently that people who use the tool have ten things they never asked for because the tools don’t even handle basic common sense concerns. It feels like asking for a pony, possibly from a neglectful parent.

You fix a few things and get labeled as clever or useful. People come to you with more stuff and it expands your grasp of the organization. For me this strategy has opened up leadership opportunities.

You can still be laid off but everybody else will wonder who was the idiot who got rid of the person who was keeping the ship afloat.
Similar to the time distance of an Elvis style slapback vocal echo. Less than ~40ms and it’s not perceived as a distinct sound, more than ~120 ms and it starts to sound obvious like a reggae dub echo. Same sound perception time constants show up all over audio recording.
connects twitter account to make a comment

doesn't do a thing
My favorite are the ones that re-sign connections without ever verifying that the original connection was signed by a legitimate authority.
Apple's track record of being able to switch architectures is absolutely incredible. If they want to switch, they can switch.

To think that deep in the Apple labs that don't already have A-X laptops running - and have for, for a while is not thinking like Apple would.
I can't imagine people in the northern reaches of Mountain time would be pleased about never having DST. They'd likely be better off moving to CST (so no DST).
In the Stripe example, the prospects had expressed strong interest in using Stripe, during the conversation. So the founder said "great! I'll set it up for you right now"

That's the total opposite of what happened to you. In fairness, GP could have been more explicit when describing the approach.
This example is banal but that is sort of the point:

When we started Cronitor we handled our monthly recurring billing for the first ten users by dropping a stripe checkout form on our site (like 5 lines of JavaScript) and then manually charging users at renewal. In that period before product validation we didn’t want to spend even an hour on anything that didn’t add value for users.
Perl is used to generate the final assembly files so they can be adapted between different x86_64 variants/systems/assemblers.
It is kind of funny that it passed by less than the required % of votes in the legislature, though.
Ah yeah, I do everything you've mentioned! :) In fact, typically if an ad interrupts some website or video (including modal popups asking me to "sign up for the newsletter!"), I just close the page. I don't care, there's little content worth me subjecting myself to that abuse. I hope their analytics catch the "bounces" of someone leaving the site at the moment the ads showed up. That might be a bit of an extreme view, but I'm just sick of it, especially as someone who has been using the net since ~1992 and seen it become just completely overridden by non-content.
Sounds like something Don Draper would say.
It seems likely other governments are using the same techniques and that our, I'm assuming, Western view of China as overbearingly authoritarian is tainted by a lot of cultural baggage: that the hostility of the Chinese security services towards their own population isn't as markedly different as we imagine it to be, because I - for example - have been carefully inculcated into the idea that Western governments are beneficent in their spying whilst other governments are malicious.

Decades of careful propagandised hatred for the Commies, or the Reds, or whatever slur, is hard to shake off too.

Or maybe you're right. But it's impossible to trust what our own governments say to us now.
Every such paper I've seen assumes AGI is possible, and is only concerned with the how question. Alternatively, it talks about 'qualia' and 'consciousness' which are not well defined enough to answer the question whether AGI is possible.

If you've seen any papers addressing the more fundamental question in a quantitative manner I'd be interested to see a link.
Right, but permanent daylight time is the whole motivation; reading the history and analysis of AB 807 (which put this on the ballot) as it went through the legislature is instructive.
> Sure, but they can be removed in a few seconds.

They can haphazardly reappear in time. I've seen this happen on 2 completely unrelated PCs.

It's probably just bugged. I've found the W10 Start Menu in general to be dodgy. The keyboard-driven search seems like it's totally nondeterministic, e.g. exact string matches for the name of something in Control Panel sometimes finds it and sometimes doesn't.
By the same programmer as uTorrent.
Documentation doesn't exist to explain concepts and give tutorials so much as document functionality and possibly show examples of use.
I have no idea. It seems like the author wants permanent Standard time?
> Would you live comfortably in this world?

if its not then I find a way to adapt. I accept that the only thing constant is change.

> Would you build this?

many2 reason or could be simply just because is exciting
> This is where many of the arguments against government regulation break down. If you take government out of the picture, you're still left dealing with massive institutions and bureaucratic regulations.

This is only true of uncompetitive markets. If Target refused to sell you clothes because someone made a false copyright infringement claim against you, you would laugh in their face and go shop at any of a thousand other stores. And for exactly that reason they don't even attempt to do things like that.

Moreover, in many cases the regulations are what make markets uncompetitive. Providing internet service to urban areas is highly lucrative and has relatively low costs -- if you could pull $40/month from each of a hundred people just for wiring a single high rise, companies would be lining up left and right to do that. But you aren't allowed to do that without also providing service to an area covering hundreds of square miles, including random farmhouses that are ten miles apart from one another. A competent government would instead solve that problem through direct subsidies to providers who expand into rural areas (or leave it to the market to figure out how to connect sparse farmhouses with some kind of medium-speed directional wireless or similar), and then there would be more competition. But we haven't got that.

Moreover, even when there are actual natural monopolies (like roads or rural internet) that can justify government involvement, what works best in those cases is often for the government to just provide the thing directly rather than trying to regulate some independent private entity with a 96% chance of capturing the regulators.
If you do that, you can just simplify it down to an automatic bluetooth beacon that identifies you to the government- and if you don't carry one you're not allowed out in public.

I think they just don't want to be quite so blatant and obvious about it.
I can tell the difference between Coke, Pepsi, Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, fountain or bottle or can, and often which fast food establishment the coke came from if it's fountain. There's nothing about special about it, anymore than telling the difference between tuna and toro. After a bit of experience, it's not challenging.
Sure. But I'm speaking from the user's perspective. Who knows, maybe it's important for Ivan what small little people are concerned about.
They’re not real courts so no they can’t demand you to prove anything. I don’t know where you’re coming from but it’s nothing but unsubstantiated fear.
Honestly, if it happens, I bet the rest of the West Coast follows suit, and then the rest of the country.
Yes, they probably support email as well, that's not the point.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

(not saying this is the case here, just that it shouldn't be a concern)
I think there's no such thing as free will in any case. At least for the religions notion of free will floating around in my mind:

if (!is_fully_deterministic(universe) &&
have(universe, RANDOM_CHOICE))
assert(!have(universe, FREE_WILL));
if (is_fully_deterministic(universe))
assert(!have(universe, FREE_WILL));

The only remaining way to have that sort of free will is to have non-random laws that somehow are not fully deterministic. I'm not sure what that would mean. Non-random -> deterministic, no?

However, even in a fully-deterministic universe, or a mostly-deterministic universe, we will appear to have free will in so far as we cannot read minds and we cannot predict next states for the universe on any scale, with any accuracy, and in any amount of time that would be practical for determining e.g. whether someone is at fault for their actions. And it's pretty clear that this will always be so.

The question of whether we have free will, then, is sort of moot. From a social perspective we have little to choice but to act as if we do have free will.
Those companies went bust fast IIRC?
See also, also, also, Scott Alexander's take on "Seeing Like a State". Like always, both funny and insightful.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-like...
Exactly. Why couldn't developers/hackers start using the ML chip via python etc to do machine learning, facial recognition from remote cameras, etc?
HQ Trivia internal turmoil and shrinking audience have pushed it to the brink
So the ad industry has developed a set of techniques that work to persuade potential customers to buy ads, but those same techniques don't work to sell products/services which aren't ads?

How does that work?
I'm about to walk out the door so I can't look up papers, but I'm going to guess that it's based as much on dynamics as actual proportions of limbs. I would estimate the number of features to be on the scale of 2000-2010 era facial recognition. Dynamics would increase the number of dimensions, making it possible to separate two people with nearly identical features.

However, I do agree that inferring the proportions from video imagery at various angles and with various items of clothing is going to be challenging due to systemic distortion, e.g. inferring incorrect angle due to clothing.
"Few" has a specific meaning when applied to something countable. 40 is not "a few" in any common use of the word.

You don't say "It took the settlers 180 days to ride a wagon across the country, but today it only takes a few hours to drive across the country" when you meant "40 hours".

If you want to use "few", you'd use a different unit like "and now it only takes a few days". Or "And you can send a signal to that star system in a few decades".