skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That used to be true, but becomes less true with each new version of the respective language specs. Sometimes the differences are obvious because legal identifiers in C can be keywords in C++, sometimes the difference is subtle, like with the rules regarding type punning.

But the major point is that there are almost always safer or more ergonomic ways to do things using C++ features that are not present in C.
Audi PB18 e-tron combines Le Mans prowess with electric future
On the other hand you don't need to worry about cases, gender etc with English, as it jettisoned those features. No need to memorise what gender a table is, or wondering which one of 14 cases to use.

Every language is irregular because humans are irregular, but I don't think it is justified to paint English as somehow more difficult than other languages. The difficulty of a language just depends on the languages you already know, prior exposure, available resources to learn it etc - and the last two of these are typically much better for English than most other languages.
Lack of citations establishing notability means wikipedia generally assumes something isn't notable enough, and per GPs words no such sources exist. (I'm not saying this is necessary a great and problem-free system, but that's how it works as far as I understand)
How will this help? The usenet providers will be responsible for the uploads their own customers do -- not for the content posted elsewhere on Usenet.
How does this compare to

https://wilderness.now.sh

... I am about to pick an SVG animation tool and I'm not sure which way to go...
It's really good, I just set the base path to point at a dir in Dropbox path and that's it, I have a autosyncing journal on all my computers.
ReSeq: making new use of old DNA sequencers
My phone is coupled with my laptop.
All my settings are backed up. All my docs, pics, music, random files all are synced with “cloud”.
If my laptop or my phone gets hit by a bus I will go to the nearest shop, get a new device and get it set up from backup within an hour.

I delegated the fine tuning and customization to a third party once I realized I don’t have time for it anymore.

I am fine with it although it is not ideal and there is room for improvement. There is always some. Everywhere.

Please ping me from future when Linux (or Fuchsia or whatever is there in the second half of 2020s) is capable of that as well and there are vendors/providers who are honest, dependable and trusted who I can allow to store my data, identity and privacy and have good sleep.

Cheers.
> Virtually everyone would prefer not "needing income", that's just another way of saying "be rich". Meaningful work is a luxury.

If you honestly believe this you need to broaden your outlook. There are interesting people all over the world experimenting with different systems of living and working without a traditional means of income. It's not about wanting to "be rich".
China is banning anonymity but actually helping crypto
> Or rather, if you don't think it's a one-off, do you really think that they will be able to replicate this level of success "at will" in the future?

It's not a binary. If I can consistently roll a 6 on a die at 1/4 probability, I'm still doing _something_ based on skill, in aggregate, while the outcome of any given roll is still largely being governed by chance.

> It's clever but this particular combination of events do not occur every month.

Adaptability isn't about _making_ the opportunity. It's about having enough flexibility to capitalise on it when it presents itself.
I think that’s a key element to the success. It introduces an obvious upward bias in karma, but I don’t see that as a problem.

For one, it prevents creating new accounts to downvote someone that pisses you off. For me personally, it means I downvote only for “adds absolutely nothing and is somehow harmful to HN community”. I probably upvote : downvote at 20:1 or greater.

When deciding if a comment voting system is good or bad, I look heavily towards the outcome, and secondarily towards the mechanism. I think outcome on HN is second to none.
Yeah, those silly people, blaming an EU that enforces a monetary policy for the benefit of Germany, imposes pro-corporate and anti-labour laws and agreements (Maastricht, Lisbon treaty, etc), and is ruled by backroom deals and "might is right", for their countries ills...

Obviously they were victims of the "Kremlin anti-western propaganda"...
No doubt it depends on your location. Cycle commuters in my locale look like [1] - you might see people with TT bars and shaved legs from time to time, but it's certainly not the norm. And if instead of cycle commuters you look at weekend cyclists on scenic bike paths, or the bikes locked to bike racks at major train stations, the vast majority won't be top-price high performance bikes.

[1] https://www.123rf.com/photo_30847100_london-may-6th-unidenti...
MNIST is joke. I can train linear regression and acheive 90% accuracy.

CIFAR-10 is the new MNIST today.
Low Private car ownership isnt a cultural thing in China, it's qutie heavily regulated and coming from above. e.g. getting a license plate takes ages, at certain days only certain license plates can drive.
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The original research has been done by the company inventing the file format. Reporting on it is not original research.
Looks like the TTYrec is missing. Did NAO remove it?
How can you achieve a +100 Magicbane without Wizard-mode? Damn.

I didn't watch the TTYREC but I am seriously puzzled by that. Anyone has insight into this?
It's a design decision: the creators wanted to make a sandbox in which players have to create their metagames themselves. In this regard, EVE is a masterpiece.
A 4% signup rate actually signifies really well targeted emails. Not everyone who doesn't sign up is annoyed by the mail (or did even open or read it).
I think this is far from beeing spam, where you would see signup rates well below 1%.
File format is .fit its used in a lot of GPS devices specifically for cycling. Its not super hard to find info on but the info is scattered over random sources
Was useful to read thanks! I like gambling and often buy lotteries. Recently I found info about e-commerce project with the element of gamble. I checked drakemall reviews on https://drakemall.info/ and it turned out to be a win-win store where every buyer get random prize in any case. I just bought my first mystery box!
How is any of that related to a non-functioning EU?
> adding a link to this false-positive emulator script[0] as an example of how stupid the proposal is.

This is a very interesting twitter thread. The script, and the posted screenshots, repeatedly demonstrate the solution to a single very simple math problem for particular values of input variables. It seems that Alec Muffett is relying on the idea that he wrote a script -- a script which was easy to write and solves a very easy problem -- to provide more credibility than the laws of probability have in their own right, which is -- to me -- 100% backwards. If your script disagrees with the math, particularly at this level, the odds are overwhelming that your script has a bug, not that the math was wrong.
It's worth noting that French speed cameras may work a bit differently to what Americans expect. They're a revenue generation mechanism over here, not a safety measure.

Imagine you're driving down a divided motorway at freeway speed, when for no evident reason there's a single 90kph speed sign visible for a couple seconds behind a bridge. That's the signal that 100 yards further on there will be a hidden speed camera. Then the speed limit will go back up to 130kph immediately afterwards.

So when you move to a new area you find out about these things when a series of fines arrive in the mail. Often for being recorded going 91kph in that 90 zone.

It's maddening as a safe driver, having to keep constantly alert and ready to slam on the brakes going down any unfamiliar piece of road.

I'm not overly saddened to hear there are fewer of those things around for a while.
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I love the momentum around Swift these days, and the LSP looks very interesting.
now you should be free and bold to click the disagree / refuse / no-cookies button and get the experience you expect.

because if the tracking/ad/shit/any cookies are not fundamentally required for the page to show, then denying you the usage of the site is a violation of your privacy (because you can't give selective consent to specific data uses)

sure, a lot of sites throw up the ugly banner, but now you can click fuck cookies, because fuck cookies if you only want to read a fucking HTML page with pictures. they can still make stats about your visit and aggregate them, but tracking cookies are absurd. (they can filter out repeated visits by looking at IP addresses and browser fingerprinting and/or they can ask you nicely to help them get better stats, but now they have to unbundle that from the ad tracking purpose.)
Apple implementing a spec designed by Microsoft!?!?! Joking, I love that Microsoft came out with LangServ though, felt like something we all should of figured out years and years ago, good thing they wanted to make a cross platform text editor :) I gotta give Microsoft their props, they hire some really smart people who do some great things for the software industry.

Props to Apple for doing this too, I am looking forward towards the next stages for the LangServ v4 spec, not sure what more they could do to make it awesome, but I'm sure there's plenty that could happen in the future in this space.
Not much unless I have already caught up earlier in the day, like on weekends. I usually go right to the 'Ask' page as I like reading the discussions in the comments.
I wrote to my MEP and this is the response I got:

Following a number of important amendments being made to the Copyright Directive since July, the proposal was put to a plenary vote in September, which over 60% of MEPs supported. During further negotiations between Parliament, the Council (EU Member States) and the European Commission, any remaining shortcomings can be addressed.

I am in favour of a balanced Copyright Directive that allows for a free and fair internet, and also ensures the fair remuneration of creators, artists, publishers and journalists who create important jobs, growth and innovation in the EU.

With regard to a stronger right for press publishers, Article 11 allows for:
• Fair remuneration for journalists and press publishers for the use of their articles.
• Financially independent press (independent from platforms).
• Quality journalism.
• Journalists to get a share of the press publishers' remuneration.
Private use of press articles is allowed.
Hyperlinking is allowed.

With regard to the value gap, Article 13 allows for:
• Platforms to take more responsibility for the content on their websites.
• Fair remuneration for European right holders (artists, musicians, authors etc.) from the platforms that use their works.
• Platforms to conclude licenses with the right holders.
• Right holders and platforms to find a practical solution to bring copyright and liability in a better balance.
The scope of Article 13 has been limited to those platforms which infringe the most copyright.
Platforms like Spotify, iTunes, Netflix, eBay, Wikipedia, dating-platforms, software developing platforms, blogs, private homepages, dropbox etc. do not fall under Article 13.

Copyright rules need to reflect the new realities and business models of the 21st century, particularly the rise of digital media. Press publishers and other content producers should receive a fair share for the use of their content on the internet. Currently, most generated revenue goes to the platforms and aggregators, such as Google, Facebook, YouTube.

It is of course a priority that the Internet remains a platform where free speech prevails. The rules will only affect platforms that explicitly make profit from copyrighted works. Private individuals can continue to share content on the internet for non-commercial purpose. Platforms such as universities, scientific databases and online encyclopaedias, which are not dealing with copyright content as their primary purpose, will all be exempt from the new rules.

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I'm not saying English is more difficult than other languages, I'm saying it's not "very easy".
> However, I'm not sure if EU politicians are that smart...

Even if they would be, they still are too corrupt, to stick to their own senses.
> If the EU didn't exist, Germany would still be staffing its nursing homes with cheap(er) foreign labour, just done under a visa rather than EU freedom of movement.

Or worse: the care would be become too expensive and peoples arses wouldn't be wiped at all..
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Please read Article 13 and tell me it's sound. Spoiler: it's not.
Google Board Sued for Hushing Claims of Executive Misconduct
Good point, I think it goes past that though?
Racing cycles and saddles aren't comfortable.
And as for the quality feel. Is a smart rod going the feel better than a traditional rod?
Computer LCD screens weren't so susceptible to glare until sometime in the past decade when manufacturers decided that the deep black is worth the sacrifice.

Before that, screens were simply matte, I think. And now there are matte films that you can slap on the smooth glareful screen (much recommend).
Hmm. Cycling didn't exist then, and I think that counts as a useful addition to exercise. In particular, the ability to have serious cardiovascular workouts with reduced impact is huge (swimming obviously existed, but only where you had a useful body of water).
So if the official documentation isn't enough and info on random websites isn't enough than what possible source can be used? Do we have to find a group of academics to look at the file and write a PDF saying "yep the official docs are indeed correct"?
Engine license fees, high or low, are known in advance and threaten only the optimists.
The "accessibility" that is at stake is of a different nature: game developers expecting Improbable middleware to serve them as dependably as their game engine, without suddenly disappearing into thin hair because of a usage terms dispute and at the whim of Unity.
The story comes from towing, where the vehicles are often only stable in tension (if weight is poorly distributed or strange aerodynamic loads) and you can damp the oscillation by hitting the gas on the tow or the electric brakes on the trailer. It you try to stop the oscillation by hitting the brakes on the tow, you'll end up in a horrible accident.

The aerodynamic load of a trailer is enough at highway speeds that its like hitting the trailer brakes already if you panic and take your foot off the gas, so if that didn't cause a recovery you're best off flooring it to get the system in tension which usually eliminates sway, then carefully slow down.

People who haven't looked into the mechanical engineering of towing are often confused why 400 pounds of stuff in the pickup bed is no problem but 400 pounds of trailer requires strange elaborate sway bars and brake systems and strange dampeners on the hitch... its a oscillation damper not a total power dissipation issue.

In theory a perfect aerodynamic and weight balance tow and trailer would never fishtail at any speed; in practice of course they do.
I was wondering whether that means that Xcode will adopt LSP as well and found this article: https://nshipster.com/language-server-protocol/

"Getting Xcode to use our new LSP service should make it viable to use other LSP services as well, and it’s something that we are interested in, but we don’t have specific plans to announce at this moment."

It would be great if this becomes reality. I currently hate switching editors/IDEs for a project using several technologies, because e.g. Xcode is great at C++ debugging but terrible at CUDA editing.
That last part of "demanding more pay" almost never happens. The reality is, service economies start a race to the bottom by taking advantage of the lower starting cost of living and then the economy doesn't really improve. People just live with lower starting costs of living and lower quality of life in many cases.

Note that I use the term lower starting costs of living. There's a reason a lot of people migrate if they can. It's because these countries (like Sri Lanka which is where I live) have costs that suddenly spike the moment you aspire to a better quality of life and the salaries don't keep up.

But I digress. The evidence of the local economies not necessarily improving is there in many outsourced service economy based countries. India is a prime example. And when outsourced jobs started moving away, there were articles describing India's IT industry as a bloodbath (or something similar).

So no. Paying people better actually improves the economy of the country. Especially if it's non local currency. Most countries benefit from inflows of strong foreign currency. People start having less incentive to leave the country so brain drain is less. People can reach higher quality life goals, so purchasing and usage of local services increase (think food and beverage, local tourism, clothing, and even other simple services like laundry).

The idea that US companies paying higher rates is going to wreck an economy of a lower performing country is very unlikely. The reality is that if it somehow became a norm, (unlikely since if rates are high globally, you'd keep the jobs local as much as possible), people would just form new companies to service that market.

Which is technically what is already happening in countries like India and Sri Lanka.

So no. Please pay people better. It'll most likely help that country's economy.
English is indeed one of the simplest languages to learn, as is Mandarin. English, Mandarin, and Latin are the standard examples for the theory in linguistics that simplicity in a language is caused by absorbing a large number of speakers who had to learn as adults.
I don't, GUI is just not the same. Lice are the same graphic size as dragons, it's hard to ignore that. If it's an "l" vs a "D" my imagination is allowed to make the difference.
I suspect that this is mostly the results of the all or nothing being the easier to implement solution. I've seen several websites that do a offer a more advanced tool where you can opt-out of some cookies (3rd party tracking mostly) but still use the main site.
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> I live in a very poor EU country (out of choice) and most young people fuck off to Germany or France because their home states have no jobs for them. They don't come back either which causes a massive brain drain on these places.

> because the good stuff that is locally produced gets exported to the rich places

The cynic in me would say this is an example of the EU functioning very well, for it's intended purpose of funnelling resources to those of the equal who are more equal than others? ;)
If you’re interested in more of this kind of player-made history of Eve, I highly recommend Empires of Eve, both the book and the podcast series:

https://m.soundcloud.com/empiresofeve

The podcast is very well produced and has interviews with the major players from the early years of Eve.

Occasionally when I get the craving to play Eve, I also end up listening to a few episodes of Talking on Stations, an eve podcast that gives fascinating in depth analysis of a world I’ll never have time for.
As much as I like GDPR, I have no idea why would this law be any good. Perhaps I'm not seeing something here - can anyone explain how this law is good for society?
> Does the autonomy of the group of 10 shrink as predicted by Paul Graham's "virtual person" argument? It might or it might not - and it's certainly not obvious that the constraints imposed on a 10-people company by their relationships with the external world are any better or worse, from any given angle, than the constraints imposed on a 10-people team by their relationships with the company employing the team.

A 10-person company inherently has a fairly high level of autonomy; the outside world can impose broad constraints but there's a pretty low limit on how much you can interfere in day-to-day activity when you're not in the building. It's conceivable that a 10-person team in a group of 100 could have that much autonomy, but it's extremely rare IME - e.g. I've never known a 10-person team within a 100-person company to have the authority to hire at will; it's rare for a team to be allowed to change hosting providers without that decision being made at higher level.

> Why do people contribute to projects like Linux or LLVM without getting paid for it?

Leaving aside that most contributors are paid by employers to work on those projects, unpaid contributors to those projects won't be in the kind of boss-team relationship Graham is criticising. Open-source contributors inherently have a much higher level of autonomy because there's no "the company pays your salary" dynamic.

> Are Linux or LLVM uninspiring? Were they only inspiring when they were too small for most of their current practical uses?

Yes, exactly. (Specific subprojects within them might still be inspiring)

> If productivity is concentrated in small companies - or companies of size X - why aren't companies of this size drive the other companies out of business?

They do, all the time; the normal business lifecycle is that an innovative company outcompetes the bloated incumbent, but gradually bloats up itself, until a smaller, more innovative company outcompetes it.
> That's exactly what he has done and there is nothing wrong with that when it's done right (Charles I. Jones is a top man).

That sounds like an argument from authority to me. If he decides to use the form Y = A^b L and I decide to use, say, a confluent hypergeometric function, who's to say who is correct?
It looks surprisingly reasonable.

"internet platforms that organise and promote large amounts of copyright-protected works uploaded by their users in order to make a profit"

That's actually a lot of limitation. From my understanding: "organise and promote" means it is not simple hosting, and "in order to make a profit" excludes organizations like Wikimedia Commons and "large amounts" most likely excludes smaller websites like fan sites, and "uploaded by their users" exclude search engines.

It is clearly meant to target a form of abuse that is much too common in the "internet as we know it". It is mostly apparent in sites like PornHub. They live by monetizing content they don't have the rights for, and they use their status as a platform as a way to stay legal. I think YouTube admitted that in the early days, they voluntarily turned a blind eye to copyright infringement as a way to grow ahead of their competition.

It is unfair to legitimate companies who do their best to make sure their content really is original or properly licensed.

And if it changes the internet as we know it today, is it that bad? It will push people to self publish instead of relying on "platforms", like the old internet.

As for the potential for abuse, remember that the article isn't finished, it has yet to be completed, ratified, and tried. Public debate is important and we shall not let everything pass, but IMHO, the spirit is good.
Sometimes they will also make small changes to code that was generated earlier, typically by changing a branch instruction to point somewhere else.

Dynamic linkers may do that, too, though glibc doesn't normally do it, as far as I know: it prefers to update a pointer to code: same result without needing memory that is both writable and executable and without having to invalidate the instruction cache.