skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, C was given a different name when classes were added to it.

Thing is, adding and/or removing features may have an impact on the implementation, can potentially introduce subtle changes to the semantics of the existing constructs and therefore their behavior at run time, have general performance implications (e.g. due to a change in what optimizations are possible), etc. Is it "the same language"? Not quite. It is a "super-language," at best. If it's 100% backwards compatible, that is (which is not guaranteed).
Police serve themselves and the state, putting their lives well above those they are supposed to serve and protect. I don't think the public's opinion is likely to change until there's some radical reform.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/07/07/graphic-video-minne...

This officer shot into a car seven times with a little girl on board, murdering a man who was cooperating.

And then he gets off without charge, despite there being video evidence. Where is the justice in that? People aren't that dumb, they aren't being treated fairly and they know it.

According to this study, less than 30% of people believe that police behave lawfully.
I'm sure they have some smart people working on that and what the people would tolerate. It's kind of like boiling a frog. If the temperature increases too much the frog jumps out. If you do it slowly the frog stays in and eventually dies.

On second thought that may not be the best analogy but it's close. As far as the demand curve goes they can just judge things by sales. If the price increase off-sets the loss of sales but increases revenue then they would keep doing it. If not they will stop.
Interesting, I've never seen this before. Seems like it would be easy enough for me to add this as an alternate means of initialization.
I didn't downvote, but I expect you got downvoted for a misleading bifurcation. You might well be interpreted as saying "the alternative to nuclear power is more coal" which sounds sort of plausible until you think about it. Or "every time we close a nuclear plant we need to open a new coal-fired electricity plant to replace it". New coal plants isn't what's replacing the nuclear plants that are being closed, so your bifurcation is just misleading rhetoric.
I like how the conversation here degenerated into arguments about watering your lawn; something which isn't really done in Germany, where this phenomenon was first noticed.

FWIIW I noticed the lack of bugs mostly by noticing Spain seems to still have a lot of bugs sticking to the windshield (not so in Germany). Also the total lack of lightning bugs when I moved back to New England after two decades.
Martial arts are not always about fighting. It also has a lot of with body control, emotional control, focus and being calm.

You don't need to practice heavy, fight oriented figures to practice martial arts too.

I'm a Zen practitioner for ~4 years, and my master is also started to mix qigong into the practices. I also dance (tango), and there's awful lot in common with qigong about body control, movement and balance.

There's an old proverb: "A good dancer is a good fighter, and a good fighter is a good dancer."
yes. you can't call bitcoin, the technology, a scam. it works. if you have an urgency to transfer a specific amount of money today reliably, you can do it. maybe you want to call bitcoin, the investment a scam? possibly, especially if someone overpromised you. But do you think we could do a class action lawsuit against the bitcoin core devs for that reason?
I really wish languages would standardize on at least some of these questions to make comparisons possible.
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That's a technical possibility. But in reality, MPs just don't have the incentives to do that. They just wouldn't get elected next time. It's unthinkable that the UK would choose to remain without a referendum. And the thing is that as of now, a referendum (and I'm not even saying what should be asked there) is also not a politically viable option.
>From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

Unmentioned is the judgment that you don't need that, I don't need this, buy they do need that other thing. I'm being overly generic, but what counts as a need and what needs are fulfilled is still a political issue of discrimination in communism. Do you need shelter if the weather isn't lethal? Do you need food that is anything above the bare minimum to survive? Do you need emotional support? All needs are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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Yes, it's all so stylized that all these bold new bespoke fonts... all look the same.
I'd really like Amazon (and other similar sites) to improve customer service by being more transparent and providing some modest authentication to the goods sold.

* Clearly state if the seller is an OEM, An OEM authorized 3rd party, or 'other'.
* NOT co-mingle products*
* * Unless authorized and then enumerate with which other sellers the co-mingling is authorized.
* Allow filtering by all of the above.
Get help. No man is an island.
Time to rewatch Gattaca I suppose
I would predict the opposite. If you have 4,000 satellites you can justify ground stations but if you have one cubesat you might prefer to rent by the minute.
My mother recently bought a new house and put in an artificial lawn. I didn't know what to think at first. It just went against "how things are supposed to be" in my mind, having grown up in northern Oregon where everything is (mostly) lush, green and "natural" looking. She's had it for 4 years now. She's never had to water it, never had to mow it and has never had to put chemicals on it. It looks great all year around. It feels nice. Not the nice "natural cool feeling" that you get with natural grass, but feels close enough. After a few minutes barefoot in it you forget it's not real. People stop their cars to get out and look. Some even get out and touch it. A few have even come up to the door to ask her about it. Needlessly to say, I've come around on this and think more people should do it. There is no need to dump hundreds of gallons of clean drinking water on a yard every year, or chemicals (which seem to be playing a part in bee population reduction), or noise from machines used by maintenance crews, or pollution from all of those machines. A lawn takes a LOT of work and resources.
There's not much farming there due to not much farmland in those places.

A more useful example would be New Zealand:

> “You had a system dictated by government programs that was thrown out the window overnight,” Hausman adds in a recent interview with The Daily Signal. “But the farmers kind of reinvented themselves and now New Zealand is a powerhouse when it comes to agricultural production on the world stage.” https://www.dailysignal.com/2016/09/22/what-happened-when-ne...
fyi neither of your links work.
I visited there on a school trip and we all took the tour, I probably didn't get as much out of it as I would now but I still remember it 25+ years later so I guess it was worth it. The school also took us to see Electric Mountain which has been on HN once or twice too IIRC. I guess it was a pretty science loving school. Seeing these things first hand helped in putting extremist views on the subject into context in later years.
1. You can get an OOM error (or a stack overflow) in most languages (including Rust).

2. Safety-critical hard realtime systems require far more determinism guarantees than a language/runtime alone can provide. For example, they require deterministic scheduling of threads (usually round robin with very strong prioritization guarantees and bounded task-switching latence), and so require a realtime OS. Also, safety-critical realtime systems have ways of guaranteeing bounded memory growth, for both the stack and the heap. These exist in specialized languages for realtime such as SPARK (an Ada variant) and SCADE.

3. Java is actually used in safety-critical hard realtime systems, including avionics, but in a special, hard realtime JVM that has different kinds of deterministic guarantees (when run on a realtime OS), including memory allocation, scheduling and hard deadlines for asynchronous events (see https://www.aicas.com/cms/en/rtsj). What's particularly cool about realtime Java is that it allows for a safe mix of realtime and non-realtime threads, as even in realtime systems, the actual realtime part is usually a small portion of the program.
It even allows to stream audio only while turning the screen off.
Labeling someone's thoughtful arguments ('conservative') serves only to invalidate those arguments via an appeal to emotion or an association fallacy.
I agree - pretty much the first thing I do when starting a YT video is disable annotations.
You're supposed to change the name globals as mentioned in the README.md file.

Then you also need to create a `res` directory in the root directory and install the necessary dependencies. Then you also need to change the encoding when you load the serialized data in the preprocessing notebook.
From what I gather, fixed columns was all FORTRAN versions up to F77, since Wikipedia says free format was introduced in Fortran 90 [0]. But it may have been the case perhaps that some compilers supported proprietary directives to support this in earlier versions--I wouldn't know, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#Fortran_90
I mainly look at the ratio of stars to open issues. I find this to be a very good heuristic:

http://repoq.com/baidu/Familia/

http://repoq.com/nltk/nltk

http://repoq.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim

http://repoq.com/lists/natural_language_processing
I grew up on a farm, I'm one of 4 kids. My brother is now a farmer, and my brother-in-law took over my dad's operation. But really, only two could stay on, the rest of us had to find our own way, as the pie is only so big. Same for small farm towns, there is a normal attrition, where most of your best-and-brightest kids leave town and don't return. The rest stick around. Some become farmers, most other become supporting staff (mechanics, truckers, feed sales, etc) for the various farming operations. So the towns don't grow much, if at all.
I didn't bring up Chile, my parent did. Replace "Chile" in our comments with "arbitrary country X" if you prefer.
Got a citation handy by any chance?
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Side note: Pie charts are terrible for conveying any real information. Stick with bar charts for ratios.
Correct. However, the problem is the existing discrimination is not remedied, and is instead perpetuated, under a fully blind approach.

Inequality is another discussion than bias and discrimination, in my view. Inequality is solved by implementing encouraging measures. Discrimination is resolved by removing entrenched barriers.
These days, I would expect bcantrill to be excited by something written in Rust :)
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As an American, I'm sorry and I agree with your criticism of that rhetoric.
I wonder how something like this is even remotely debatable, its not like we invented free speech just the other day and now are working out the finer details of whats ok to say in front of law enforcement, let alone the fact that it seems like they have wide discretion to interpret the law at that particular moment according to how they are feeling emotionally.

On the other hand, what if you refuse to speak to any officer, even one that has no probable cause but would like to know if its gonna rain today and asks if you could check your phone and tell him and you decide to ignore or walk away from said officer? Does that establish enough probable cause (granted the officer feels slighted) to order you to speak or perform an action or present ID? Then, if they decide you are not complying with orders and put cuffs on you, how ironic would it be that you now have the right to remain silent once under arrest but never before?
If they did that they wouldn't be farmers loving their craft but business owners that happened to own a farm.
Can confirm. I have this thought about tech on HN about once a week. Though I will say this thread is relatively tame compared to others I've seen today.
Shopping on Amazon these days feels like walking through a back alley in Shanghai trying to find a pair of authentic Nike Air Jordans.
It's good for the economy. Creates a lot of jobs.
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Yeah, but they are apparently out of date: https://github.com/baidu/Familia/issues/70

And the pretrained models it ships with are trained against a Mandarin corpus.
Down linking data has never been the particularly difficult part of working with a satellite though getting it up there with all the approvals that requires was and still is the major hurdle. Just because it's easy to downlink doesn't mean the FCC is going to suddenly rubberstamp every startup's 10k satellite constellation.
Can someone explain why this is important?
How everyone should be making money online in 2019.
Have we hit a megapixel resolution limit?
The blind vetting process removes it in the conditional. In that: conditional on having requisite experience and education, you pass a bar.

It does nothing to the joint distribution, in that the conditional distribution ignores that systemic bias has already been applied, this full independence at that point perpetuates the accumulated, extant bias.
I bet those call-ins are automated systems in this day and age that have no network access or haven't otherwise been updated. But it still works, right?
That’s because you were more naive when you were younger and now you’re not.

People are fooling themselves if they think any for-profit company doesn’t put profits first.
They can also quit now or yesterday. Why Feb 1? Also most of these folks will get another job that will provide a compensation that largely makes up for unvested stock they haven't got yet. They aren't really walking away from anything, and this seems like a virtue-signaling pat on one's own back.
Regardless of who made the definition, that's the definition you're following.

We're going in circles here as long as you fundamentally believe diversity of physical and biological details is important. If that's what you want to enforce in your workforce, even though it is meaningless to the job, then you're designing for an outcome, and not opportunity. Inclusive does not exist in a vacuum; to include some means to exclude others.
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For the good of the human race, let's all assume that catacombs was just being petty, please!
Considering the difficulty of dumping heat in a vacuum and the cost of orbiting huge heat exchangers, I wager that heavy computing shall remain a mostly planetary activity for quite a while longer.
I am pretty happy with it
(well, relative to the newer ones)
It's about not having to build your own Ground Station. To me "Downlink" implies that it's just the link between two pre-existing things, the satellite and something on the ground.
Oh my, the name could hardly be more unfortunate as it evokes the "Let a 1000 flowers blossom" campaign.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/226950.html
> They track use by embedding a link to the third party font provider, which does a 302 redirect to a file on your server that requires revalidation every load.

GDPR, here we come!

> Automated bot traffic, whether benign, malicious, search engines, or anything at all, becomes very expensive. A flood of scrapers hitting your site shifts from a minor nuisance to a very big deal.

As they used to say on the chans: "Oh, exploitable!"

This would be a wonderful way to financially DDoS some organization you just don't like very much.
Realistically, that sort of thing suffers. My wife keeps an early schedule and anything past 7 or 8 is iffy. She can usually do it, but there's a non trivial chance that she'll be too tired to function properly.
Unless they've already changed the exchange rate, it looks like they cashed out everyone's Tether balances to fiat?

Any Tether deposits initiated before 14:30:00 UTC on the 27th of November will be credited to the user's fiat wallet balances
The sad take away from this, for me, is that even though politicians may seem stupid, they are mostly acting stupid because that's what gets you elected. They are not stupid, just ruthless.
As long as homes in the bay area are regularly going for $2m and Google is one of the extremely few companies that has an attainable $400k+ TC... I don't see a shortage of people applying in the bay area either.
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One project was pretty lucky; my wife’s employer had a manual process that was very time consuming and inefficient. My wife mentioned it and I told her I could help solve it. It was a huge risk because we had no way to get infront or anyone that could sign off, and being a huge company it would have been a horrible process. I decided to develope a solution first and pitch it. Luckily it worked out for me because they easily could have turned me down and I would have spent months developing it for nothing. However; I enjoyed making it and looked at it as a learning experience so I wasn’t too concerned either way.

Now they pay monthly and it’s been a good recurring source of income for me.

Another project was something I built for myself a few years ago (macvendors.com) and made available. After about 4-5 years traffic picked up and it started to grow. Now I receive about 350 million API request per month and growing. We recently introduced paid plans but the income from them is pretty much irrelevant, under $100/m. The site makes a little bit of ad revenue though which helps.
This mirrors my experiences with Duolingo. I tried it out, and realized that it went against my ideas about learning languages: translation, no person involved, no real communication. Maybe they'll remedy some of these, as the article notes, but I feel very strongly that translation like this is nearly useless busy-work, and further, harmful.
When I learn a language, I use translation to look words up, but strive to expose myself to rich language. By this I mean large amounts of language, some of it near my level (textbook dialogues), some of it way above (an audiobook of favorite book), as interest dictates.
In addition I write people in the language and make friends on sites like italki, or in apps like HelloTalk and Tandem.
I don't worry about learning words, nearly ever. I just expose myself to them and look them up when I 'notice' them (my brain: oh, this word is interesting, we've heard it before... What does it mean?).
I hate translation when learning with a passion, and listen a lot to get away from it.

Results (N=1, YMMV) have been fantastic with Russian. It's strong enough now that it messes with my English and I can make the same mistakes a Russian/Ukrainian would in English if I've been using Russian a lot.

Learning languages is cool, and it opens so many doors and connects you with all sorts of people. If Duolingo works for someone, great. From working as a tutor and getting to know lots of students, you'd be better off doing what I talk about above, but something is better than nothing, and perfect is the enemy of good here.
No- the market will buy and sell Tether at the market-discovered price- which means it's no longer centrally "pegged" by Bitfinex.

This could be because they want to better take advantage of the difference in price themselves, knowing that their books are good and that the token is backed- or, following the narrative, it's because the token isn't 1:1 backed. Either way, this further erodes trust in Tether
"us" = development team
"them" = stakeholders/product owner/project managers/managers/ux designers/etc.
> Does a user benefit if Google facilitates government spying?

Yes. Chinese users will most definitely greatly benefit from having a censored Google in China instead of having just a censored Baido.

The only people who won't benefit from it are self entitled 20-year-old Google employees across the ocean who in reality don't give a shit about Chinese people, what they want, or how the average Chinese person feels like, but care a lot about appearing righteous in front of their peers.

I find the idea of rich western individuals debating in their exclusive social club the theoretical moral faults of allowing to give the Chinese access to modern technology extremely condescending, and completely disconnected for any actual concern or understanding of real people. It's obvious that all of those people would feel better with themselves if people in China rotted for eternity with their existing tools, as long as they don't have to hear anything about it.
Already being done in a small way: https://www.itelescope.net/
So, basically, laziness
Do they also hire "boys"? I think the term you're looking for is "women".
Yes! If available, I try to buy all my electronics from Abt.com or B&H Photo, primarily to avoid fakes and co-mingling. For non-electronic items, it's often surprisingly difficult to find them off-Amazon, at the same-or-better prices, and with expedient shipping. I'd buy more high-ticket items from Amazon if they implemented better supply-chain controls.
And there's been pushback from subsequent cases, from that very article:

The general legal position today is that the business judgment that directors may exercise is expansive. Management decisions will not be challenged where one can point to any rational link to benefiting the corporation as a whole.
I think I misunderstood your comment then, because I agree with this response.
> If you go around advertising your package, get people to depend on it, then compromise them later, that's malpractice on your part.

I'm not sure how much he advertised it.

This is part of the problem I have with things like npm, cargo, etc.

They defaults are set to try to suck up your work and get you to make it public.

Consequently, semi-useful things get loose probably long before people intended them to and probably long before people realize how much work they just signed up for.
I doubt 1% of people on HN truly understand it top to bottom.

It's a pretty complex topic. Math, Programming, Economics, practical application of Cryptography and applied Financial processes and it would be tough for anyone to really grasp the whole thing.

After a talk I gave I had a highschool kid mention "you should try a blockchain" in response to a security issue I had discussed... I nodded and smiled. When a family friend tried to get us to invest in his shared mining operation he explained a similarly vague description of the mathy database - I didn't smile as much.
only on very low quality videos or pirated music videos.
The reason I comment a lot in these threads is because lots of other people post things in these threads that appear (to me) obviously wrong. There seems to be this notion that governments are what makes the world go round, and people going about their daily lives do so only by the governments' blessings. I don't believe that is the way the world works, or is even a useful way to model how the world works. I believe the world works by individuals going about their daily business, and government in practice tends to just get in the way, slow things down, and make things more expensive. I believe that a reduction of government (by leaving the EU, abolishing tariffs, abolishing immigration restrictions, etc.) is obviously the right thing to do.

I am not trolling.
> At least in (non-protestant) christianity people have absolute utility.

Christianity allocates some souls to hell and others to heaven. Isn't that an expression of differential utility to God's purpose?

> But you should not try to determine the worth of a person as person

I agree that should usually be the case before the law, and in that context we should generally pretend that all people are created equal. But for most other purposes it is valuable to determine individual fitness for that purpose. And there are few purposes for which that fitness is uniform.