skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, no offense, but I'm growing most of my family's food using permaculture techniques and selling the surplus at the local farmer's market. Just like my parents did before me and my grandparents did before them. I'm not just some internet denizen who has read some blog posts. Just because it wasn't called permaculture until Bill Mollison published his "Permaculture Manual" in 1988 doesn't mean farmers haven't used many of these principles for a very long time. In fact, this is how stable, complex natural ecosystems actually work.
I am intrigued as to why the compiler feels it is allowed to simplify a function returning nothing as a no-op. After all this function allocates memory and stores things in there. This is a side effect that the optimization suppresses.
I would like that quite a bit. As X11 is probably the worst part of Linux. That said, you'd lose a lot of apps and games in the process.
I’m sorry, but the left has not only talked about all these things, but they’ve actually pushed legislation for this.

The idea that the US left does not even want to talk about sex Ed, birth control, health insurance...mental health funding, funding research on the effects of guns, licensing, etc... is so out of whack from reality.

You are basically taking what every one on the US left (almost no one in any sort of governmental power on the US left has proposed a gun ban) is pushing for and complaining that no one wants to talk about it.

It’s remarkable how entrenched the idea that the only problem is that both sides are equally wrong is in the US.
I think that underestimates how truly difficult it would be. How many machines are out there in the world still running NT4? Identifying bugs is all well and good but ensuring the fixes go where they're needed... that would be a whole lot more work.
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There's place and time for falling down properly. Then there are situations when you're learning and suddenly you're down. If it saves you a broken coxis or wrist, why wouldn't you do this? I guarantee it still hurts when you fall down.
Back when Windows 8 was causing all sorts of problems I did my annual top ten list of what's coming in the following year. One of my predictions was that Microsoft would move Windows to using Linux as the back end.

Overall Windows would become much more stable, they might be able to get some Mac users to switch and they could put more people on getting the UI right. Like a lot of my bolder predictions on each years list I got it way wrong.

In my defense I didn't know anyone at Microsoft at the time to run my idea by. Still think it makes some sense though in a way they ended up giving Windows at the *nix command line as a gift to Mac developers. I'm happy with Windows 10, for me it's just good enough.
You're arguing for some kind of private quality assurance scheme or yelp reviews, not a mandatory government license.
I'm not going to pretend there aren't issues, but subjectively it feels to me like there are few. The UI is decent and usable.

For me the dealing with the few issues that arise is a better use of my time than wrestling with things like Docker on Mac, homebrew, ancient python, and weird VPN issues that seem to pop up with every upgrade.
they sure screwed up during the iraq war. that's a big notable exception to their general excellence at writing about and discovering important and accurate things.
This is a common argument for having government take over, but it's unsubstantiated in my opinion.

For example, an automobile is an extremely complex product where the outcome of a purchase takes years to materialize, and yet we have highly developed market-based mechanisms for ascertaining the quality of automobiles.

Bottom-up decentralized processes disseminate correct information very efficiently. Wikipedia would be a good example of that. Anyone can quickly find a reasonably good answer on almost any issue, of any level of complexity, using a Google search to return the top Wikipedia page on it.

>>Studies already show doctors get judged mostly by how nice they are.

That doesn't tell us much. The quality of doctors may already be assured by the overly stringent licensing process, and price is made a non-factor by insurance/government coverage, so consumers look for signs of empathy, as its the only other relevant variable and the only one that they control.

While there's no indication that reputation markets don't work, there's plenty of evidence that government take-over of industries turns out just as classical economic theory would predict: disastrously.

One major case is healthcare: in every developed country over the last 50 years, government regulation and control of healthcare has massively increased, and this as corresponded with substantial increases in healthcare expenditure as a percentage of GDP.

In the US for example, the number of hospital administrators increased 3,200% between 1975 and 2010, compared to a 150% increase in physicians, and this increasing inefficiency is due to an increasing number of regulations:

https://www.athenahealth.com/insight/expert-forum-rise-and-r...
They aren't publishing it, just indexing what others have published.

The aggregation of information should never be censored; it is telling you where things are out there in the world.

As a loosely related topic; the conveyance of truthful or believed to be truthful information should never be suppressed. However polity asking someone to be quiet for a time or for some other reason might be. This is why I believe 'state secrets' and secrets of all other types should only be for a specific limited time, and that all official records MUST receive re-classification on a regular interval (say once every 10 years, but a new review party who must also agree that it's worth keeping secret for another 10 years). Failure to review should result in publishing ~1 year after the expiration period.
I've thought the same thing for a long time (10+ years, I must be wrong). It makes sense from a business perspective as well. I still think it will happen, but not sure when. The addition of Ubuntu shell was a pretty interesting move.
What index funds doesn't Vanguard offer?
User data on what stocks they buy and sell

Except between the time the user clicks buy and when it the buy actually happens. Basically hedge funds are able to receive and parse this data, and change their orders to an advantage before the users order hits the actual exchange

Its analogous to a MITM attack

Despite my wording its not necessarily bad, but I think users should have a better understanding of it.
Well, the alternative to CEOs making these decisions that they are made by politicians and bureaucrats. They are equally capable lying to people and hiding facts out of self interest. I think we could all name a few.

There is no magical alternative economic system that gives people ethics and takes away self interest. What you need are strong institutions that provide checks on corruption and malfeasance. Institution such as investigative reporting, good regulations, and independent agencies enforcing those regulations. You need these regardless of if the means of production are publicly or privately owned, regardless of if your prices are set by the free market or by bureaucrats (or by software someday).

> It's easier to regulate behavior when you don't reward executives and businesses who use immoral behavior to increase profits.

Sure, but allowing consumer choice in a free market allows checks on corporate malfeasance that are hard to replicate with regulations. Free markets and regulations can work together better than either on their own. (Or they can work against each other when poorly implemented)

There are certainly problems with how our free market is structured to incentivize short terms profits for share holders over the longer term health of the company. We could do a much better job with regulatory capture and giving executives of major corporations actual jail sentences.
The general issues of compensation and the beurocratic aspects of the work seem to be much larger issues than any lack of patriotism.

I'd note that the civilian side of the government has similar struggles.
Probably because it’s sure to get downvoted and flagged. Deviation from the hive mind is not appreciated here. As I write this my karma is 5497. Let’s see how it plummets.
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People do talk about other unemployment rates, the labor participation rate. like on the marketplace daily radio show/podcast.
I agree, it is news-worthy on HN:

Discussion about suppression of speech on the Internet.
Oh, joy. Now we have to have a disucussion about jwz' anti-autistic bullshit.
The allocation’s address is only ever stored into a local variable. The compiler can therefore prove it’s not used elsewhere (short of e.g. scanning the whole heap for it)
Give openSuse Tumbleweed a try, with KDE Plasma. I've been running it on a 10 year old XPS 13, smooth as butter.

Or KDE Neon if you'd rather have an Ubuntu core. I heard good things about it but didn't try.
Yeah, because you know what'd be really great? If Windows had the same fragmentation mess that Linux Desktop does.
> slavery 300 years ago

The emancipation proclamation was signed January 1, 1863, or 156 years ago.
I do not use LaTeX or dvips or Type1 fonts, so I suppose I am not affected. I wrote my own DVI driver that supports PK fonts and converts directly to PBM without needing PostScript.

Probably, other users who do not add any new fonts also would not be affected, I suppose.

That article says "This same vulnerable function is used by other tools in TeX Live: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips and luatex. I only built an exploit for pdflatex, the most widely used of the vulnerable tools." I only use the program "tex", not any of those four.

Still, the article is good and is interesting and explains it, and is good to fix them for users who do use these things.
> So, if you're in the age group most likely to die from an overdose, then cancer is either the fourth or the second of your worries - far from the least.

Why did you decide to collate by age? It's a non-sequitur.
Safely driving is far harder than safely cutting hair and the consequences of failing at it are incomparably worse than the consequences of failing at safe hair cutting.

Driving is one of the most dangerous things that ordinary people engage in. You're hundreds of times more likely to kill someone driving than doing any other activity, by virtue of the relative deadliness of motor vehicle accidents, and how much driving the ordinary person does.

That you need 1,600 hours of instruction to cut hair in California, far in excess of what any jurisdiction requires to get a license to drive, is the most blatant demonstration of the injustice of occupational licensing.
A friend who is in telecom told me that when talking to a prepaid calling card software company, one of the features was the ability to change by how much the prepaid calling card would overbill.

For instance, you make a 12 minute, 5 second call (12.1 minutes with 6-second billing which means 60 seconds is billed in tenths of a minute) - the software records it as say, 12.6 minutes.
Why not 90/10?
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The two-sentence summary is ”Cultures around the world (historical and current) have an incredible variety and richness of traditions/practices related to debt. Debt is of central importance in every human society, predates and provides the conceptual foundation for economic exchange and property rights and many other cultural practices/institutions, and the culture-specific details are fascinating to read about.”
Corruption is a thing. The specific organizational model really doesn’t seem to matter much. In a game theoretic sense, I think the only option is to make whistleblowing optimal.

I like rules. Weird shadow rules that aren’t written down make me unreasonably angry. Corruption likes having two sets of rules.

I don’t know the mechanism. Automatic immunity for alleged whistleblowers _seems_ reasonable. There are ways to exploit that. But for an institutionalized system, maybe the losses are worth it.
By definition, steam has been heated to a high temperature and exists as stray molecules before condensing back to water droplets. I guess microbes can't easily survive or be carried along in this process.

That said, it seems it's possible that this kind of thing can happen [1], but it's rare (and though that article is confusingly written, it seems that the bacteria in that case came from the air, after the steam had re-formed as water droplets).

Anyway, the OP says this amoeba in a neti-pot scenario is rare too, so it seems we're always talking about fringe cases with this kind of stuff.

[1] http://www.cleveland19.com/story/33829012/doctors-warn-about...
So how does replacing the kernel help with that?
What percentage of Elsevier documents are published there exclusively but otherwise public domain or freely license.

I think part of the problem is discovery.

https://getpolarized.io/

Polar is an app that people use for PDF and document annotation (supports web content too).

I'm shipping cloud support early next week.

Anyway, one of the features that's going to come out soon is social document discovery.

I'd like to use your friends to discover what PDFs to read and this would bypass the paywall problem.
How's this for a disclaimer:

"There's almost no potential upside and a massive potential downside."
No doubt every case is different, so there's no contradiction here. If it's efficient for you, great. Ubuntu wasn't worth it for me. The UI is fine, but there's too much that just doesn't work, or works poorly, and I'm not going to do the research involved to overcome these things.

I don't really believe Microsoft is going to do a linux as a consumer-grade replacement for Windows, but if it did, I suspect the issues I have would go away. Hardware vendors would write drivers, missing software pieces would be filled in, etc.

[Edit: I committed the cardinal sin - or is it a common convention? - of commenting on an article before reading it. A mistake in this case - I realise now the article is just silly speculative hand-waving]
In the case of NCIX (electronics retailer like Newegg but in Canada), they recently went bankrupt and sold off their servers without wiping their data. The servers contained 15 years worth of personal information for their customers (4 million orders, 250,000 plain text payment cards, passwords, email addresses, etc). The person who received the servers then started selling them on Craigslist, and allowed people to simply buy the data and make a copy.

That's one example of a worst case scenario.
My understanding is that, unless you have a function prototype, you will lose type info about the parameters:

"The empty list in a function declarator that is not part of a definition of that function specifies that no information about the number or types of the parameters is supplied."

i.e. the most important is the end of that sentence, so GCC behavior should be right.
That's the point. If the constitution changed every four years, it wouldn't be much use.
There must be precedent on this, but drafting unconstitutional bills is not itself unconstitutional, the bills are just invalidated by the courts.

Congress is the one responsible for all of this. Trump can only play an ancillary role.
Hemp and bamboo can change the world! EcoPlanet Bamboo has been doing just this in South Africa. www.ecoplanetbamboo.za.com - this farm is amazing to see how bamboo can regenerate the soil and be used for innovative products. Well managed hemp and bamboo plantations should be encouraged!
> the Japanese briefly gaining and losing control of the NBC/GE conglomerate.

Japan never owned GE or NBC. They bought a 51% interest in Rockefeller Center (where NBC was/is based) in 1989 [1], which is just real-estate. The high prices the Japanese often paid for trophy real-estate and businesses during the bubble years, is often held up as a reference point to the end of the run. China began doing something similar just before Xi came to power, then Xi put a hard stop to it.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/31/business/japanese-buy-new...
Do colors used have any meaning? When I look at it as part of a tree, green and calm colors for me always suggest healthy growth. I understand my question might be a bit political. I'm just getting this feeling when I perceive all the beautiful graphs as part of a tree. This probably would get many downvotes. But still I want to let you know my instant feelings.
And then?

People know what Dropbox is, and people that don't know what Dropbox is, probably aren't going to buy Dropbox.

People don't land on Dropbox.com by chance.

In fact, when describing GDrive ir iCloud Drive or OneDrive, people say "it's like Dropbox".
And the idea that someone dying past the age of reproducing by definition cant be darwinism

Also there is no level of fitness that would have prevented this

You get one mistake for your mortality
Minecraft is still included in the latest "full" version of the Raspbian OS. The version they have is really a great way to introduce kids to coding too.

Here's where you can find what you're looking for:

https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/?interests[]=ga...
Bamboo can be used to hold a lot of CO2 and store it in long term products. The fiber is also being used in a concrete mix to reduce the carbon footprint and reduce weight etc.. Bamboo plantations can be great for the planet. www.ecoplanetbambooplantations.com
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I meant to say To, my mistake there. That doesn’t negate my point, almost all mailing lists include a List-ID and/or other similar fields. That’s included even when the list was bcc’d and is what you should be filtering on, not the To: field. Gmail even uses it automatically when you click on a message from a mailing list and click “filter messages like this”.
Are you going to stop bathing or showering in untreated water because it might get inside you that way?

We all weigh risk against convenience. This is very low risk.
Would you be willing to pay for such a tool?
Didn't know we owed money to World Bank of Earth 29.
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You forget that the Supreme Court can only hear those cases that are brought before it, and that Congress can pass new laws to replace ones that have been struck down. In principle, it could even pass the exact same law again. It might get struck down again, but there's no actual penalty for making an unconstitutional law.
There is an eaisier question. Is it better to have more ambulances or faster ambulances. Faster wins every time.

Analogy is a terrible argument. But I kinda think faster transportation beats more transportation every single time.
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I suspect not legally possible. There is a lot of code in the NT kernel from various other companies that at least at one point was under NDA, and a lot probably still is.
Sigh. No offense but it's comments like this that remind me why no, I haven't tried desktop linux recently. No, I am not going to mess around trying KDE Plasma or SomethingElse Tumbleweed or OpenWuffe SnufflePuss XL or any other of the billion permutations of half-baked shit which might or might not work. I am mid-career, I have money, I have little time and even less interest in fucking around with any of that just to get a working computer that meets my needs.

I want a big company, who I trust will follow through, to take my money and solve my problems with The Desktop Linux™. I need office apps, I need music apps, I need image processing, I need some sort of integrated cloud offering, and I'd like a unix-like back end. I'll pay money for this. I will not pay in time. Apple does this for me currently; MS is possibly the only possible other company which could take on such a challenge, hence the interest in the idea.

It's sort of ironic to me that one of the main reasons I like linux on the server - which I use exclusively - is because I perceive it as "just working" in a way that MS servers never do. The situation is entirely inverted on the desktop - OSX, and to a lesser extent Windows, "just work" and the solutions to all of my problems are, at most, an install and possibly a few dollars away. Linux is very far from that currently, and until it gets a whole lot closer - and it will probably take a big company to actually do it - that door is closed to me, and people like me, for the foreseeable future.
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Obviously there are risks involved in occupations involving contact, as your allusion to priest sexual abuse scandals references, but people need human touch.

How much depression, suicide and drug-abuse is caused by the desire to tightly control commercial human contact and the resultant dead-weight loss of people not getting enough of it?

Unless there is a pressing public health threat from an activity (e.g. someone who doesn't know how to drive, operating a motor vehicle on public roads), society should think very long and hard before restricting people from engaging in that activity.

If there is going to be licensing, it should be limited to restricting how people can market their skills, where only those licensed can market themselves as licensed. This gives quality-conscious consumers an easy way to identify licensed practitioners, while giving those who value affordability over safety the option of unlicensed services.
Unless the programmer uses the null object pattern in which case everything is hunky dory. For example, an empty "Program" would probably do the job.
Chinese import growth over 2018 was mostly in the double digit range (averaged 14.6% Jan. through Nov.). Its imports from Europe, Japan and ASEAN grew 10% or higher.

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/china/total-imports-gr...
Ah, no, strong cybersecurity for the US Government would make the cost of killing people higher.
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When I read the title my first reaction was 'Who tf does the world owe money to, the martians?'.

Though reading the article and comments did make it a lot clearer to me.
> Where are people going to park their cars if parking is not mandatory for all these triplexes being built?

In non-mandatory parking garages.
And then you have iOS, OSX, ChromeOS, & Android that both upgrade annually. I'm sure you'll be happy with Windows 10 though considering it's the last official Window release. Really it's not though; it's just rolling releases in the background.

I'm afraid you have to realize you're in the tail end of the tech adoption cycle[1], either in the late majority or bordering on laggard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_adopter
I think you're confused about the benefits/drawbacks of increasing batch size. The training progress per optimizer step increases with batch size (otherwise the smallest batch would be always optimal). Increasing the batch size improves the quality of a single optimizer step but does not scale linearly. (i.e., larger batch training requires more samples to converge than small batch training even though fewer steps are required). Depending on the problem scale the computational efficiency of larger batches makes this tradeoff worth it because even though you need to process more samples to converge, it will take less wall clock time due to improved efficiency.
> then the question becomes to do what?

If you write code and know anything about security, one of the biggest impacts you could make would be in securing US government systems. Even if you are German or Brazilian, securing US Government systems would make the world safer than securing your own government.