skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Safety/Quality regulations reduces choices and quantity.

They also prevent people dying when they plug in their appliance, or dying because there's lead paint on the product, or buying flour that's adulterated with alum, plaster of Paris or chalk.

The history of food and electrical regulations, on both sides of the Atlantic, are enough to convince me that rich and poor (I have been both) are better served by enough regulation to ensure basic standards are met. In the case of the US and food, prior to such regulation, adulteration was more common than not[0].

> If someone wants to buy/use despite knowing the risks, let him.

This is never the case. The risks are hidden, the product masquerades as a genuine iPhone charger, or contains unsafe substances that cannot be known without laboratory testing. Data is taken "to provide a better service", without mention of the 206 places it's sold to, or other uses for which it is mined, or the fun psychological experiments staff might run on their users.

To relate it back to the original discussion about data, I am fully in favour of regulations that demand adequate safeguards and protections of personal data, and high expectations of diligence from companies that must use such data. It goes without saying that I am in favour of severe penalties for egregious breach of such regulations.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-04/harvey-wiley-us-chemi...
This is amazing. Imagine being able to try apps on a website without installing them. Or make web apps with a sane framework in a sane language.
> How does this work in a world where developer administer their own services?

in that world the developer plays admin too, and can configure crossplane as an admin.
> Some part of me is concerned that photo ID laws amount to a poll tax.

Here in Argentina, everyone has a national ID ("DNI") and it cost about US$10 and you have to pay it two or three times in your lifetime, not every year or at every election. I don't understand how something like can be so expensive to make someone avoid voting. (Anyway, here you can get your national ID for free if you really can't pay for it.)
Does Flutter have easy modules for standard things like login, comments, payments etc. or does that involve writing separate server side code?
But there is very little left to innovate. Almost all kinds of apps are there. AGI is only possible by large corps because of the massive compute requirement.

The next Google/Facebook will be made when either of the following criteria are met:

1. They mess up hard, causing a critical mass to boycott it (highly unlikely)

2. New world changing communication technology is invented, similar to the internet. With similar applications AND government regulations delaying them from developing on the new technology

3. Processing chips become so fast that the average person is able to afford and run a 1 petaflop computer just like the cost of buying and running a PC's today.

Amazon was possible because of the internet. Facebook will remain the King until some communication related world changing technology arrives.

The low hanging fruit is already picked.
Rendering Shape Soft Edges Effect and Java 10, Java 11 Support in Android Apps
CCPA, face to face with the GDPR: An in depth comparative analysis
> are ready for your contributions on GitHub: WPF

Currently, the linked WPF repository is almost empty. Very little code, and not a single .cpp file. WPF's native layer is huge, wpfgfx_v0400.dll, PresentationNative_v0400.dll, etc., lots of complexity between .NET and Direct3D 9.0c.
It's worth noting this is a testament to Microsoft's (extreme) dedication to backwards compatibility.

I sometimes wonder who's more fanatical: the glibc folks or MS. But it seems to have paid off for both teams in the end, so (especially as a young engineer) who am I to judge?
> Let's say there are 10 schools at Stanford's level (there aren't).

That’s way off base. Schools like MIT and Stanfard are comparable for CS students. But High IQ people are not so limited. So, you need to include say Cal Arts which absolutely stomps Standfard for people interested in Animation etc. Standfard might reasonably attract 1% of the very high IQ population if you assume high IQ people go to elite schools. But, as a CS student that took an actual IQ test and was classified as exceptionally gifted aka 160-174 IQ, I can say never had any interest in doing so. IQ tests are relatively uncommon now days, but historically high IQ people where very likely to choose local options and not infrequently avoid collage and join the military etc. There is very little evidence this has changed.

Anyway, 90 IQ is really close enough to average not to appear significantly different in most situations.
This is only a problem when you remove properties from an object. Ok, in this particular case, I buy your theory... but I'll ask again: is all the added cruft really worth this small safety? I mean, when you say "when the types of objects (...) are known"... isn't this the kind of stuff that tests are supposed to catch? You check to see if the object being passed into a function has all the properties it needs to have. Right? And if you need that kind of safety, couldn't you just enforce the use of constructors for "important" objects, and use instanceof to check for proper usage? All while using the constructs provided by JavaScript itself?
There is a x-plat open-source UI framework heavily inspired by WPF called Avalonia that has a Skia renderer.
> If every other block has enough room on the curb, for 30 cars to be parked for free, then surely, there should be room for one or two scooters to do the same.

Then...lobby your city for scooter parking. Car parking is supported because people very much want it, and politicians no there is a cost to not having it.
If you are scanning historic data looking for correlations, you will almost certainly fall for some of the same traps that are common in p hacking.

Now, can you mitigate some by carefully doing an experiment again? Certainly. But you should also not constrain experiments to only things to have been measuring already.
The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation
Donating scooters to the city under the current laws isn't particularly effect give method of getting the laws changed.
so simple and so cool

i sometimes wonder if plants can predict (roughly) weather conditions (e.g. rainfall, temperature extremes) years in advance. and if so, can we network them and come up with better predictions.
$20,000 masters degrees isn't what I have in mind, sorry. That's just more of the same old same old. Nothing innovative about that.

The whole point of MOOCs is to delivery high-quality courses for free. If there is some sort of fee type system then it has to be affordable for everyone, even for people in places like rural India.
Thank you for the appropriate terminology. I'm not a professional in the field, so I learned something useful!!
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> 90 IQ is really close enough to average not to appear significantly different in most situations.

Population average? Maybe. Subpopulation of professional programmers average? Less likely.
This mental model explains why people are usually more incompetent than evil
Awesome explanation, thanks! (And I'm really glad you like ktail!)

This sounds like a much better foundation to build on than Helm. To me, Kubecfg sounds a lot more palatable than both Helm and Ksonnet.

As an aside, Kubecfg still isn't something you (or at least I) would expect developers to work directly with. We have devs who currently just do "tool app deploy foo" (using our homegrown CLI) to deploy an app; they don't need to understand much about Kubernetes, though they understand the basics about pods, kubectl and so on. With Helm, they'd need to know to run "helm install --upgrade --values-from k8s/production.yaml ./chart" or some other extremely long command line. In short, none of the existing tools are high-level enough.

There are Heroku-like PaaS abstractions on top of Kubernetes that give you a simplified entrypoint into deployment, but I feel like what's needed isn't a whole platform, just an opinionated top layer. Kubernetes deals with discrete objects, what you want is a higher-level tool that deals with atomic groups of objects, i.e. apps.

Long story short, are there any rumblings in the community about going in this direction? The lack of such a tool, at least as far as I've found, has lead me to consider maybe creating one, based on the experience we've had with our in-house CLI tooling, and perhaps using Kubecfg as a foundation. Thoughts?
I know why you're getting down voted, but you're not exactly wrong. There used to be TVs and video monitors, and then there were computer monitors. They were all CRTs. The computer monitors were way more expensive than TVs partly due to being progressive scan vs interlaced. Televisions had low resolution and included things like speakers and tuners. Video monitors could be had with much higher resolution for post/broadcast facilities even though they were still interlaced.

It wasn't until everything went flat screen where "TVs", computer monitors, video monitors became so interchangeable. However, there's really not many 72" computer monitors to fill up the space in my living room.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, eh?
That's strange, did something change drastically for the latest Galaxy Watch? I have a Gear S2 from a few years ago, and I can get Outlook / GMail / WeChat / Kakaotalk notifications just fine. In fact, I was getting notifications from so many random apps, I started silencing most of them.
No problem, and yeah, I realized about 15 minutes after I posted that that I probably misread your comment, hence the edit at the end.

Out of curiosity, are you going to open source the chrome one?
Any office worker who feels this way should immediately start his own rice paddy.
I agree that the whole "soap opera effect" is nonsense. We just associate too-low frame rates with cinema, so people expect it in films and if it isn't there they get confused and complain, even if the actual quality is better. I mean, why would you want less realism? Should we add noise and scratches back too?

That said, in this tweet they are talking about motion interpolation done by TVs for content that wasn't actually shot at 60fps. That can look bad (depending on the TV).

I suspect there are a lot (maybe most?) of viewing systems that can't display 24 fps natively anyway though so you are probably always going to get some interpolation these days.

They should just shoot at 60fps. People can skip every other frame if they really think it is better.
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> The whole point of MOOCs is to delivery high-quality courses for free.

No, it's not.
Khan Academy is no where near what I have in mind. Khan Academy is a tutorial site, not a replacement for traditional courses. Big difference.
Flutter is a framework, Dart is a language.
I agree with that statement. That statement is never true for PHP. It is the wrong solution. Stop using it.
Is it the same panels though? I've heard that a lot of these new TV vendors are buying panels that might not have met the QA standards of Samsung, Apple, Sony, etc, but still function. Rather than trashing the unit, it gets sold off to a different company.
I don't think either "linear types" or "affine types" (they're separate but related things) are ambiguous terms. Under linear typing, values must be used once, and under affine typing, at most once.

Could you clarify the ambiguity you see, and how Zig has them?
I've tried EdX as well and no that is not what I want.
They did, check out the Local app they released.
Well for WPF there was silverlight for a while, a limited but (gimped)cross platform version of WPF.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were abstractions to make porting to openGL easier.
If you want a counterexample though, Goodreads seems to work really well with a five star rating system. Goodreads reviewers in particular seem to take the precise number of stars quite seriously, and many reviews include a line like "I really wish I could give this book 2.5 stars, but GoodReads won't let me, so I had to round up/down."

I've wondered before if this says something about heavy book readers as a population, since the five star rating system doesn't seem to work that well anywhere else outside of professional critical reviews.
I've had the same issue! People say that EdX is so great and it is equivalent in course quality but it simply isn't. I haven't' seen that. All of the courses are heavily watered down...and I mean significantly watered down like you don't even learn 20% of what you learn from the traditional course in college.
How do you know they are a man?
The Secret Service wants to test facial recognition around the White House
Cars are licensed, and substantial taxes are paid for the privilege of using the public roads, including city streets.

Unlike the nuisance bikes and scooters now littering sidewalks and parks which are typically designed for pedestrians anyway.
Very cool idea, but other than the examples, I didn't very much luck. It wasn't able to guess a basic Fibonacci or FizzBuzz, and for isEven, it returned isOdd, which I guess is close but still.
Try the YouTube Classic Addon in the Mozilla Extension Store. It disables the new styling for YouTube that makes it sluggish on Firefox.
Steam[1] still has more peak concurrent users than Fortnite at 14 million if you add the games up, while Fortnite is over 8 million[2]. Fortnite does have a huge install base, but I imagine most of them that need a store (i.e. not consoles, so basically PCs) already have Steam, and at least one game in it.

For new users that don't have steam, there might be an inventive to use the Epic games launcher, especially if there's a discount, but having games split across two systems is really annoying (but it's not too bad for one game), so I imagine without an incentive most existing Steam users will opt out, thus preserving Steam's dominance.

1: https://store.steampowered.com/stats/

2: https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2018/11/08/fortnites-concurren...
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95 was my first graphical OS. I did not know:

- The "loading bar" image was loaded into and remained fixed in VGA memory. The animation was achieved by cycling the color palette over the area the bar appeared.

- Both the loading and shutdown images are 320x400. Conventional VGA is 640x480. The smaller image took advantage of the display to stretch the image into the desired aspect ratio.
More like: Life is complicated and not black and white.

The Chinese actions in Xinjiang are an overreaction, and wrong, but:

1) Every western country has an equivalently bad record regarding reaction to terror attacks and/or separatist movements.

2) Nobody in the tech community cared until the dragonfly thing came up and they all went on wikipedia looking for reasons to hate China.

The way people talk about China these days reminds me of McCarthyism more than humanism. I have to wonder, if China were less successful, and the people were poorer, would they be less upset? They're fine with buying cheap goods, after all..
When lawyers gain access to your source code.
no kidding...it's become some convention in the last 15 or so years, but in the early 1990s working on supercomputers i had never heard of it.
New Scam Apps Take Advantage of iPhone Touch ID
I doubt they need to, copying successful features is enough since their own version is the default and they can jam it in users faces in ways that third parties can't.

And just like their acquisitions based on Onvao data, they'll have a whole lot of information on what ideas are worth stealing.
Something that we can all agree on, lets give everyone a free photo ID and a free assault rifle as soon as they turn 18. Oh wait...
I thought I was the only one with a Magnavox 386 PC. It was back when they had John Cleese as a spokesman, as I recall.
Heavens no: FBSON FTW!
Facebook: The Last Chapter

They're becoming Yahoo...they need insane qtr to qtr growth or else its stock gets smashed, and takes everything else with it. Who wants to work for a has-been?

Google escaped it by adding ads virtually on 100% of the page and added ads one by one on mobile pages and didn't do them much harm. How many ads are now on mobile, 4 or 5? Google still can monetize Maps and Translate and people are doing more of their stuff online.

I guess FB can add more ads but "everyone" has or had FB so adding new users is a challenge. Not sure how Whatsapp can be monetized, in a way that is worth trying.
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Typescript isn't JavaScript
Other Christians just call it deliverance, not salvation. You seek deliverance from demons, or demonic strongholds.
It's fascinating that this all comes about because movies are still filmed at such a low framerate, and people find it no longer looks 'cinematic' when the framerate is better, just because they're so used to movies having a low framerate.
An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future
There was a followup to Uprooted? How did I miss that!
This announcement comes just days after FB hired a crack team of anti-trust defense lawyers, of course it's a move to defend against potential regulation/litigation. I'm not saying their defense team caused this change either, just that there this fits a pattern that shows FB's leadership is very concerned about potential government action against them.
PolicyKit: Users with UID greater than INT_MAX can execute any systemctl command
My opinion is that the individual right to self-defense is a fundamental human right.
Any links to details?
False. Even the iPhone billboards were shot with iPhone without “attachments.” Time magazine had covers shot on iPhone without attachments.

http://time.com/4921227/time-magazine-covers-shot-on-iphone/
Fuchsia is to Google as Tizen is to Samsung... something keep in the back pocket for a worst-case legal total war, but unlikely to see any real world use.
The author is talking about doom but the screenshot is Wolfenstein
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Interesting concept, now to rush and lookup word2vec applications and see if they make sense for code :p

Also, props for an academic work having an extensive README! https://github.com/tech-srl/code2vec

I do wonder if some sort of AST normalization would improve the input signal. Example 8 on the website shows their system correctly identifying an isPrime function. However some irrelevant perturbations can break it. If you swap the if statement condition around from `n % i == 0` to `0 == n % i` the proposed names are totally different and make no sense.
too little, too late.

the exodus has already begun
For a while, computer monitors were limited by the HDTV specs, but a computer monitor usually has better specs - often resolution, refresh rate, display lag, connectivity options, etc.
If someone wanted to attempt it, it would make much more sense as a fork rather than part of the mainline.
Name an open source freemium project run by a for-profit company which /doesn't/ benefit the company more than the individual submitting patches?
A search for "thunkable alternatives" yields some alts that require adult curating. Sorry, I don't have experience with any.
Samsung topples P&G as world’s largest advertiser
They sell ads based on your current search terms, not your search and browsing history. Your browsing history is easier for Google to summarize based on all your searches, and URLs you click which get redirected from google.com to other sites with a unique hash.
Another fun fact from @foone on Twitter[1]:

The "It's now safe to turn off your computer" screen is (sometimes) backed by DOS, meaning you can type in "mode co80" and get the DOS prompt back. You can also type any DOS commands blind, and they'll work, invisibly!

The referenced tweet below also includes a GIF of the behavior.

1: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1018973818197430273
Futures as well, however, it's not so easy.
I absolutely detest your website.

That unrequested popup window asking "Are you interested in a free guided consultation about Ripley?" should go away when I click NO not give another popup. Pissed me the F%#%k off.
In college (2003), I took a 486-40 laptop for note-taking. It ran either a DOS+GEM setup or OS/2 3.0. This offered a no-distractions (no games, no wi-fi) experience and ran well on the available hardware.

Honestly, PC/GEOS would have been even better suited to task. Less resource intensive, but still with decent WYSIWYG tools. I may have to put together a bootable device with FreeDOS and GEOS this weekend.
FYI, the job site is broken. Is there any other way I can apply?
The truth is though...you need both. You need the technical knowledge and the practical skills.
Just add Alexa support, and set it up to bark when it needs water, and you have the future of pets - autonomous plants.
If someone leaves a couch on the curb and you take it is that stealing?

A lot of these bird drops don’t seem regulated at all. I’m not even sure they are really bird’s property anymore.

Incidentally when someone just dumps a couch on the curb it isn’t full of hard to dispose hazardous materials, unlike these scooters.
Mozilla is by the way also of the opinion that a monoculture would be horrible for the web. Arguments that I've heard from Mozilla employees:

- Without competitors, innovation is dead. If there was only one web-engine, why bother improving it further? Given that it's open-source, it could theoretically be forked, but in that moment you again have two different web engines or more. Also, Mozilla would have to fork Blink from day one, because many things in it, they do not consider acceptable.

- A monoculture means one security problem makes everyone vulnerable.

- Multiple implementations challenge standards. You still would want a definition of a standard, or an API if you will, to point web developers to. But those are only going to point problems out after you've already implemented it, and likely also after other websites are already using the feature productively. They also can't point out stupid specifications that aren't going to allow you to update your browser engine in the future. So, you'd be much more likely to have to break compatibility, which doesn't play well with the web.
Of course I'm aware of that, but it would be a shame if most people's first exposure to geometry was in university!

I would argue that the fact that it does not cover modern geometry is exactly what makes it valuable. Learning is best as a process of rediscovery.
Interesting article, I suppose.

This seems to parallel a resurgence of TLM that I've noticed over the last couple years.
> Um, lunatic, obviously

He would accept that answer (at least if we take the trilemma argument in isolation). The point is not that he is "Lord", but that good teacher is not one of the viable options[1]. You clearly haven't read him very carefully.

[1] Although good teacher whose teachings have been manipulated/corrupted would seem to offer a fourth option. But then what, if any, of his teachings could be reliably attributed to the man himself? So "corrupted good teacher" is practically equivalent to myth. We thus have Lord, Liar, Lunatic, or Legend. Any of those four would seem a rational position.
I hope it doesn't use much more memory than VS2017. Upgrading from VS 2015 to 2017 with a large web project slowed my machine to a crawl at times, requiring an upgrade to 16GB of RAM.
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