skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are an integral part of nature, and therefore everything that people do can be considered a “part” of nature, just as a beaver builds a dam. This concept that human beings are somehow distinct from or superior to or outside of nature is plainly silly, as it fails every objective test one could devise to define it.

Until we possess the technology as a species to potentially destroy the biosphere (this requires boiling the oceans and is presently at least 100% beyond our current capabilities), save me this talk of natural processes (human activities) “ruining” anything. All we’re doing is temporarily rearranging parts of the crust, on a smaller scale than the planet itself does on a fairly regular basis.
Pittsburgh: An Emerging Hotbed of Robotics, AI Companies
"FOSS was never about trust in software owners."

Actually, it is. That's why foundations such as Apache, Mozilla, Khronos, etc exist. Transfers of ownership, abandonment, and bad faith are not new. We need to trust not only in the software for today, but for tomorrow as well. Foundations step in because they're able to harness the financial clout to attract maintainers.

"We must make software simpler."

We must make software INTERFACES simpler. And that means opinionated solutions, preferably with a HEAVILY opinionated top layer API for the 80% and a less opinionated lower layer API for the 20%.

This is where "wide open" development systems such as Javascript and Lisp fail: They offer too much freedom. You need a standard, opinionated library that provides most of what people need, just for interoperability sake. You need standard ways of doing the common tasks so that people can harness those patterns into reusable modules that stand a greater chance of working well with others.
This is exactly the issue with the style of threads used in Slack, Teams, Hangouts Chat etc. Their useful half-life tends to them being forgotten quickly.
A Tale of Two Commits (2018)
Whataboutism. As always, two Wrongs don’t make a Right, and OP is not even talking about the morality of it (everyone agrees it is immoral) but about countermeasures.
Or any subject.

Or the whole population.

You see how ridiculous these questions are?
probably a rootkit on the device to catch the message before transit.
Though I wonder if tools like TEMPEST work for mobile phone screens.
Topics aren't mandatory in Zulip. You can enable the "no topic" thread which makes them effectively optional.

Yes Slack has threads, but they aren't implemented in a way that's conducive to ad-hoc interaction over longer periods of time.
Oh. I can hear it now.
No, that's not how it works. Al Lowe is indeed violating copyright by selling these. You can't just go selling your ex-employers source code because it "happened to be on your laptop". It's absolutely a copyright violation.

The reason you can sell physical goods is because of the first sale doctrine and alike. Al Lowe never bought this source code on physical media; rather he created it during his employment. Thus he is not permitted to sell it.
Could someone clarify the impact of this legislation on decentralized platforms?

It seems to me that all of the problems here stem from the fact that there's a centralized entity that is profiting from the re-use of links.

If you have a peer-to-peer protocol with no-one to "go after" so to speak, what happens then?

On the face of it this legislation looks bad, but could it be seen as a good thing if it sows the seeds for decentralized platforms to outcompete centralized ones (because they have a competitive advantage due to lower cost)?

The users themselves don't seem to be committing any crime by posting the links - it seems like the website, owned by a company or individual, ends up being chased after. So what if they don't exist?
It's quite obvious after watching his videos that the 'campaign' is just a joke. Felix and his subscribers know that he will inevitably lose the top spot on Youtube and they're just having some fun.

Majority of Felix's content is just satire and inside jokes. If you know Felix and his content, it's very obvious that the diss track is actually poking more fun at other Youtubers who make diss tracks unironically.

Here's a decent video by EmpLemon explaining the history of Pewdiepie's channel and where he is now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cvgoY0cmzk
Now the clouds are parting.
Thanks for your explaination :)
No, the point is that in practice FOSS code is not any more open than closed source.

That's the point of this piece. For any non-trivial edit on a real project with real deadlines the source code is effectively useless, because no one has the time, the resources, or possibly even the inclination to fix bugs, do full-coverage testing, or make custom modifications.

So you have to take the internals on trust. Which is a ridiculous situation when so many packages are created as hobby projects with - literally - no guarantee of performance or reliability.

I realise it's hard for FOSS advocates to understand this, because it's a fundamental flaw with the FOSS philosophy. The benefits are "obvious" to crusaders, but the objective reality is that large swathes of FOSS are full of casual or hobby code that barely works, has gaping security vulns, and/or is nowhere close to being robust enough for production.

"Make software simpler" is a good goal, but hard to do. Other solutions are also possible. They're hard too. So it goes.

But there will be no solutions at all until the FOSS community starts dealing with professional reality instead of relying on free-to-tinker-without-consequences rhetoric - and understands that there are real problems that need real answers, and not just more "Clap Louder" and "At least we're not Microsoft".
Anti-vax movement blamed for 30% jump in measles cases worldwide
How long has Google Voice been around, more than a decade? Excuses are wearing very thin. Their failure to come to Europe is the whole reason Skype exists.
New FDA Import Ban Means GMO Salmon Won’t Be Sold in U.S. Anytime Soon
impl Lactation for Spider
I'd say it depends on what fiction. This is actually the strength of sci-fi and fantasy - they're allowed to construct a society from grounds up, for the reader to compare & contrast with the one they live in, and consider a path from one to the other.
Alaska earthquake: 7.0-magnitude quake rocks buildings in Anchorage
> (You might ask "who would write this code?" As Schemers say: "macros do.")

To expand on this point - in the more prosaic world of C++ - this sort of code comes about all the time in templated code. For example, the above loop you posted might have been found in something like:

```
template <unsigned N, unsigned M>
class Matrix {
static Matrix Identity() { ... }
}

auto m = Matrix<4, 4>::Identity();

```

The other major source of these sorts of constants leading to DCE oppportunities is inlining. Consider a more classical, matrix implementation that is not templated and doesn't lift its dimensions into the type:

```
class Matrix {
unsigned n;
unsigned m;
static Matrix Identity(unsigned n, unsigned m) { ... }
}

// Somewhere else
Matrix m = Matrix::Identity(4, 4);

```

Here, the inlining of the call to `Identity` at the call-site will turn the `n` and `m` in the body of `Identity` into the constant 4.

If I had to make an educated guess - inlining typically generates these (i.e. partial evaluation, constant folding, an DCE) situations most often in compilers. An incredible amount of information can flow from caller to callee when you specialize the callee for that call-site.
Why don't you simply admit that you just don't give a shit about anyone using somewhat info from some website and die? You just don't care about it.

You just don't care. He died and it's his own fault, right? You should say it loud.
Are you saying “so what if Reddit does not exist?” Is that your argument?
Play with historical pdp, vax and 3b2 Unix systems
Exactly that! When I was living on the street, we used to call the fire "stoneage-tv".
Because the human brains have such a long history of staring "into" the fire, I have the mild suspicion, that reading on e-ink displays without a backlight might make it less likely to get lost in thoughts, than when staring on a "glowing" screen.
Unfortunately the only competetive screens are still rather expensive (paperlike)..

..damn, I got lost in offtopic thoughts again! ; )
Wow, had no idea. TIL thanks!
Or, they murder people with such frequency and lack of consequence that, why bother encrypting? Why would anyone pay attention this time?
What recent Boeing crash? I cannot think of anything recent involving the autopilot.
These are good points but:

> JavaScript is not a great language to build high speed low resource inference engines.

This is a browser plugin analyzing html downloaded at human browsing speed. I doubt performance is a primary requirement.

> Even if achieved in JavaScript, the model would be simple to pull out and reuse elsewhere, possibly to learn how to game it.

The binary model is obfuscated but still distributed. I expect that the added difficulty of working with the binary model is small compared to the overall challenge of gaming it.

> Good models will be built by good data scientists, whose favorite tools likely don't produce models that can be serialized for use in a JavaScript inference engine.

Models built in research-optimized environments can be translated after the fact to match production needs. (It is getting easier with e.g. standard interchange formats for neural models.). Kapersky is a resource-rich org working on security software -- exactly the folks whom, if diligent and well intentioned, should invest in such hardening.
Worse. In OOP you can at least mostly see where the thing comes from. In biology, evolution doesn’t readily provide the source code. It’d be like trying to name a class that inherits from a chain of obfuscated machine code snippets, some of which you can no longer see.
I don't think it's "a good thing" that they're making it harder to run online services.

I agree that the likely outcome is that decentralised systems get better, and I agree that that outcome would be a good thing. I still don't think the end justifies the means, and would rather see politicians just leave the internet alone: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
It's a shame people are downvoting this because it's a reasonable response.

However, I think you're making two mistakes. One, I think to most people they absolutely are making that claim. Two, as I say they may technically be the accurate claims but they're extremely misleading and designed to hide the fact that the cars do not have this ability right now in a usable form.

> They aren't saying the car has that capability.

They have this as a headline: "Full Self-Driving Capability". Under it it says "Build upon Enhanced Autopilot and order Full Self-Driving Capability on your Tesla." I am not cutting sentences in half or anything, they very explicitly say that I can order full self-driving capability on my tesla.

So I can order full self driving capability on a Tesla. They say I can buy a car with that capability. They say parts of it may not be available, depending where I am (though I'm on a country specific page where they know full well that it is not usable).

One of the first things on the page is a video showing self driving!

I feel if I list a series of functionalities on a product I'm selling then say "We can't say exactly when each of these will be available in your area" while I know that definitely none of them are available then I am being either misleading or completely dishonest.

> When iOS 12 was released, one was true but the other wasn't. It wasn't until Apple released iOS 12.1 that iPhones were capable of making 16-way FaceTime calls.

And I'd say they were dishonest if they had headlines of "16 way FaceTime call capability" under which it says "Order the 16 way capable version today!"

> If you're saying that Tesla claiming hardware support is tantamount to claiming full functionality, then how do you suggest they describe the situation?

Quite simple - make it extremely obvious that it's not yet available. Say "Future self driving capabilities". Make it clear that it may never be usable where you live. Maybe have a clear note on the video that the car you buy won't do that when you get it.

As a side, I do not understand their claim either - they say all cars produced have the necessary hardware but then later say it's my choice to order as an extra because the basic version doesn't have it.
> It isn't literally milk

It isn't cow milk, but other than that I'm not really sure what you're saying. Milk is what you get when milking an animal. It's a pretty broad term. However I do doubt that this would be as nutritious to humans as milk from cows or other mammals.
On Wikipedia I read:

"The proposal makes explicit that this does not include private cloud storage services, non-profit encyclopedias (such as Wikipedia), non-profit educational or scientific repositories, nor a variety of other cases."

The directive says:

"The definition of an online content sharing service provider under this Directive targets only online services which play an important role on the online content market by competing with other online content services, such as online audio and video streaming services, for the same audiences. The services covered by this intervention are those the main or one of the main
purposes of which is to provide access to a large amount of copyright
-protected content uploaded by their users with the purpose of obtaining profit therefrom, either directly or indirectly, by organising it and promoting it in order to attract more audiences. Organising and promoting content involves for example indexing the content, presenting it in a certain manner and categorising it, as well as using targeted promotion on it. The definition does not include services whose main purpose is not to provide access to copyright protected content with the purpose of obtaining profit from this activity. These include, for instance, electronic communication services within the meaning of Regulation 2015/2120/EU, including internet access providers, as well as providers of cloud services which allow users, to upload content for their own use, such as cyberlockers, or online marketplaces whose main activity is online retail and not giving access to copyright protected content. Nor does this definition cover websites which store and provide access to content for non-for-profit purposes, such as online encyclopaedias, scientific or educational repositories or open source software developing platforms which do not store and give access to content for profit making purposes. In order to ensure the high level of copyright protection and to avoid the possible application of the liability exemption mechanism provided for in this Directive, this Directive should not apply to services the main purpose of which is to engage in or to facilitate copyright piracy."
The fact that there are only 2 makes me think that it doesn't apply though. I just hope nobody trise to go make a third.
I never understood if the people who are willing to buy those (same goes for Olympic medals) are doing it out of some sort of “dignified charity” or are they so cynical that they are willing to own a badge of merit that someone else got.

I always wonder what they do with these afterwards how often are these returned to the original recipient or family? I’ve seen stories about people who found medals of honor at pawn shops and bought them to returned them.

I just simply can’t fathom owning something like this as a trophy.
What is the end game for Reddit if this does pass? Will it just block European users?
I realized there's a middle ground, of course, after posting. I'm not a regular android user, but understand the 'room for improvement' line of thought for software in general. However, given how much things generally go downhill when new versions are released, 'improvements' in a real sense are often hard to come by. Often, I much prefer my stagnant releases vs watching features I use go away, or UI changes hide my normal workflows in 'upgrades'.
This looks a bit like (but also slightly different from) modeling with metaballs in Blender.
Not that I know of. It's not really worth it for short integers (64 bits or less). But it's helpful with bignums.
> Google employees are a loud bunch. They always seem to be making statements, protesting or petitioning.

Reminds me of The Circle.
He used to be all that but i don't think its the case off late. But i know his jokes are not for everyone so may be its not for me.

Thanks for the clarification and video.
Are there any (unsupervise or min supervised) methods yet that learn on non repeating datasets? As humans we don’t really learn by rereading the same text 35 times, or stear at the same picture continuously, and so why are all these algorithm research papers keep focusing on methods that are basically trying to fit a function over a static known and labeled data?
Yeah, they can definitely be jarring at first. But if you use them for a little while in a terminal that supports them (I use kitty[1]), the non ligature font will look jarring instead. I'm not so sure about using them for online code samples, though...

[1]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
I can't speak for Erlang, but I use Elixir and not primarily for the concurrency model. I just really like the language (and it's functional-but-accessible approach), relative speed (compared to Ruby), fault-tolerance, community.

In particular the fault tolerance and process-based approach is just awesome. I regularly find myself writing code with just the 'happy path' (and only the obvious error handling), which just feels a ton nicer than the more defensive approach I generally take in other languages.

The tooling around the language is also really nice.
This thingy is so "queer" that has IMHO a strange appeal, it is funny in a somehow "serious" way.

I can recognize the pattern behind so many pointless articles/blog posts about programming tools or languages.
Well, you could look to see if the cops are behind you. If it's a malicious actor posing in cop cars already, I think there's bigger issues, since most will stop if they see they're being followed by a cop with their lights on.
Hence the “how will we secure them” at some point there will be no driver, even if the car still has a steering wheele and controls you might be in the back seat napping while the car drives you.

Audi already has a backseat traffic driver mode where you can get a foot rub while the car drives in traffic.

This will eventually require a solution.
It's more than that. Deliberately creating the environment where people ignore their conscience is always a huge mistake, beyond the particular issue. As a species, we need to be paying more attention to our consciences, not less.
A bunch of employees working for one of the biggest publishers/distributers of spyware are able to rationalize themselves into beliving Dragonfly is a good thing. I'm not suprised.
Or pay 49 cents at Blendle (refund if you don’t like it)

https://blendle.com/i/wsjcom/cia-intercepts-underpin-assessm...
Milk is explicitly defined as coming from mammary glands in mammals.
The bazillions of android users relying on Google services is a big audience, and fundamentally captive too.

I reckon the problem is that very few services actually make money, everything else is so low-stakes in monetary terms that they can afford to be super-casual about it.
I have no sympathy for the ad industry whatsoever. At this point I’m rooting for anyone making their business model less viable.
Same problem with spider silk. An awesome material but slightly difficult to harvest on an industrial scale.
> I do doubt that this would be as nutritious to humans as milk from cows or other mammals.

From the article:
containing nearly four times the protein of cow’s milk

And we needn't get into how "coconut milk", "almond milk", etc. are somehow inappropriate uses of "milk" despite their entry into the lexicon millennia ago.
Where a future hypothetical ketamine prescription could be filled from, I can't say, but clinics charging $1500/session have it in nasal sprays and lozenge form, I'm hopeful that a corner store would eventually be able to fill it easily once one of the pharmaceutical companies manage to package it up in a form they deem lucrative. (Which will involve patenting some part of it, possibly the delivery mechanism, since ketamine itself is past patentable date.)

Depression is an insidious disease, and being able to fill it at the corner store, rather than having to go all the way to hospital (which can be a scary and frustrating experience) might make the difference between having the medication, and not.
Either way, something still seems off. If MongoDB and Elasticsearch were 3-5x more performant I would still find that surprising. A > 10-20x difference really seems like a configuration or implementation issue.
> Once you get used to the threading model of Zulip its hard to tolerate threading model like Slack which is really inefficient and time wasting.

This!

I got a bunch of our community to try out many of the different chat systems out there. Zulip was an interesting one as there were two points that really changed their perception of it as a platform:

1. When they were told there was a "Night Mode" - aesthetics are important! (something Slack arguably got right, IMHO beyond that it's just fancy IRC).

2. After around 5-10 minutes of playing around the penny drops as to why the stream and topic "zooming" is implemented in the way is it. Usually a "Holy Cow" moment.

Once you "get" it, going back to anything else feels like going back in time.
Agreed. More likely that management will say ‘don’t use that dependency’ or ‘we will write our own from scratch’
Oh my god.

https://copy.sh/life/?pattern=TetrisOTCAMP.mc

OH MY GOD!

My eyes are watering and I can’t stop deeply chuckling at the sheer collaborative esoteric audacity
Upload filters ala Google’s ContentId. The impact will be similar to Youtube in the short term. Since Reddit is GIFs not audio it will be topical things like FIFA replays etc.

The ultimate goal is to lay ground work for filtering/shadow banning political content. But that will happen slowly, not overnight.
The problem with the merit based visa system is it locks out highly talented self-taught individuals without college degrees. There's a lot of them in tech. Even though they have tons of experience in their respected fields the 'merit' systems are weighed heavily on education.
I agree.

Perhaps I'm just jaded; it seems obvious to me that the political view on copyright is radically out of touch with constituents, and copyright law is morphing from something that's a bit weird, to probably OTT, to evil, and eventually into complete absurdity as a result.

The entire system benefits a tiny number of elite players whilst the man on the street ignores copyright completely - unless their choice is restricted (e.g. DRM) they won't even think about violating it, it's "not a thing" to them.

If I thought that the legal system accurately represented the desires of the population, centralized entities wouldn't be anywhere near as much of a problem. It blatantly obviously doesn't, though.
I have. I used it when creating a long running report. While polling, the end point would also return a status update - the percentage complete and where it was in the process.
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox - for firefox
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome - for chrome
I hope so... among many other more significant things on the web, and I say that as a current EU citizen - the people creating these laws need to see them fail hard.

Having the best intentions is not enough when defining laws for complex technology with broad application, it is necessary to have a basic understanding of it and the scope of it's reach - they clearly do not.
I think the opposite conclusion should be true. Make any other extrajudicial killing as transparent and visible as this one and you’ll get the same level of “fuss”
What a weird but heartwarmingly beautiful story!