skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You obviously have an agenda in your comment. Do you have any evidence that suggests the expansion of government correlates strongly to income inequality? Scandinavian countries are a great example of countries with large government and low inequality.
Text-to-voice should be able to handle fonts... Are these weird unicode characters?
Did you manually implement the jpeg file format? How did you get it to save without jpeg compression overwriting your bits? I'm working on a similar project https://github.com/smchughinfo/steganographyjr but so far only png files work. I think it would be nice to manually implement gifs and jpegs but they are not easy algorithms and I suspect there are multiple flavors of each so it just seems like a huge undertaking. ...i will probably try ImageSharp https://github.com/SixLabors/ImageSharp
Agreed. My "happiest" days were with my old Blackberry. I honestly just want: Secure OS, Phone, Text/Message, and Web Browser.

I don't have need for 2000 botnet apps.
Who draws the line of what these categories are?

Let's say for example, you are not racist, nor sexist, but you also do not subscribe to the "positive discrimination" (oxymoron) bullshit, and instead of hiring people to meet diversity quotas, you hire people purely based on their fitness for the role you are hiring for.

When you reject certain "unprivileged" individuals because others are more fit for the role, they take a disliking to you and falsely label you as racist for this decision. The hoards of do-gooder SJWs rally behind them and wrongly damage the reputation of your company based on a completely false testimony.

Who are the shitty people here?

Also, when you classify people based on their skin colour (white), and then use this to make a sweeping generalization, this is called racism. Your hypocrisy is offensive.
Can you cite a source or describe what you mean by "our creativity"?
We simply don't have the metrics to show it one way or the other. We have M2V for example in the US, but it isn't broken out by household income percentiles or even quintiles. We could have great velocity from lots of capital movement from equities for example, but very sluggish velocity in retail sectors that serve the low and middle socioeconomic classes.

I think the general weakness in retail (not entirely attributable to e-commerce, as e-tailing is still around 10-15% of overall retail) is likely explainable by low velocity of money in the low to middle classes. The wage stagnation over the past few decades while overall corporate revenue and profits continue to grow certainly suggest some kind of low velocity or siphoning effect. There's a certain survivorship bias in that comparison since corporations that stagnate to much eventually are put out of business, while developed nation citizens can stagnate until they pass away, so it isn't a perfect comparison to hypothesize about. But again, we simply aren't measuring for any of this nuance at this time.

If we did start measuring for it somehow, then someone would have to figure out how to measure the unit of money moving between income bands and from household to/from "big corporations" (say, any of the publicly-traded companies in the CRSP US Total Market Index and privately-held companies with the same amount of revenue as the lowest revenue element in the CRSP). Damned if I know how that would be captured, though.
Literally just ignore most requirements on job sites and apply anyways.
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Their student loan refinancing products are pretty fantastic. I highly recommend anyone with a large student loan to look them up!
Monkeypatching to a large extent fell out of favour with Ruby developers maybe a decade ago, largely because of Rails. It's still being used, but with much more care and it tends to be far more "opt-in" (as in providing the facilities for you to specifically ask for it).

> Is there any reason to use Ruby outside Rails?

Personally I've disliked Rails for about as long as I've used Ruby (14 years). What appealed to me about Ruby then, and still does boils down to:

- Concise while being by far the most readable language I've worked with. The day something beats Ruby on that, I'll consider switching. If they don't beat it on that, they'll have to bring immense other advantages.

- The flexibility the blocks and meta-programming brings and general Smalltalk influence on the object model.

Ruby is in many ways basically a well supported Stalltalk with pretty syntax.

I'd turn it around: I don't see any reasons not to use Ruby for any of the type of work I do.

> faster VMs, better tooling,

The faster VMs would be nice, but Ruby performance is improving fast enough. In some niches it will matter, but you can call out from Ruby to other languages easily enough - you can run JS, C, Python code from Ruby if you need to, so both the performance and tooling is largely moot for my uses, while I can understand it's an issue for some.

The last time I saw a need to rewrite any code in C to speed it up was a decade ago. Of course that depends what you're doing, but for a lot of areas, it's just "fast enough" that there's little need to worry about speed. Premature optimisation and all that.

> large corporations on committees developing language features, etc.

Yeah, no thanks. That's a good reason for me to prefer Ruby as well.
GDscript was created to better integrate with Godot's internals, there is a whole section in their FAQ why they didn't use another language[0]

Warnings for C# are there because it's new, and there is not enough resources to support it better. Also C# is not that easy to integrate as it doesn't have most data structures used in game development, so your own have to be made. In the end it changes so drastically that you might just call it a new language.

[0] http://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/about/faq.html#gdscript-w...
Is President Trump Attending the World Economy Forum in Davos?
> I bet most people's token solution...

That wasn't an assertion tied to an agenda. It was an assumption about the typical US citizen, as a preamble.
The jurisdiction of the prosecutor.
Man, is there anything Fourier Transforms can't do? For a music project in college, I created a book of Hammond Organ presets by taking slices of samples from actual instruments and running FTs on them, then finding the best approximation in Hammond drawbar notation. The fact that it worked so well was such a satisfying experience that I managed to make 100+ combinations.
The cloud vs. open source redux
Since nowadays everything is connected to the web somehow, should we not look for a better term than "web developer"?
Maybe first start with laws to make lobbying illegal (corporate donations/favors), and axe corporate person-hood.
Your Flaws Are Probably More Attractive Than You Think They Are
Prism Break is actively maintained and a lot of thought is being put into curation. Privacy Tools recommends Claws Mail, but Prism Break removed it after investigating the code: https://gitlab.com/prism-break/prism-break/issues/2043
Harvard Psychologist on Joe Rogan commented on this phenomenon in the past couple days, social media was definitely part of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI6rX96oYnY
GNAT is one implementation, among at least 7 existing Ada implementations.

Ada Core, Green Hills, PTC (owns former IBM and Aonix compiler divisions), DDC-I.RR Software, OC Systems.

If the implementation is not able to validate stack size correctness on function entry and throw a stack allocation exception on failure, then it is a compiler bug.

In Ada this is a required runtime check, unless explicitly disabled.

The only way the stack layout would be corrupted, in a bug free Ada compiler, is to explicitly disable such check and make use of unchecked pointers in unsafe code.
>because of cultural significance and whatnot.

No, because Miss Saigon is a fictional piece of work, as is Lolita. Committing a crime in a piece of fiction is obviously not equivalent to actual child pornography, just like showing an action movie isn't equivalent to footage of actual violent crime.

There is no blurry line here. Child abuse and child pornography are clearly defined terms. Justifying child abuse in a novel might be morally offensive, but is not a crime, abusing an actual child however, and publishing footage of it, is.
Which new Fedora logo design do you prefer?
That's a much better article, free of claims of scientific bafflement. :)
Why does it strike you as wildly implausible that different groups of people might differ in their (average) levels of creativity, and that the differences might be partly heritable (a better word than inherent when referring to average differences)? We know that many group differences exist, e.g., men are taller than women, people of African ancestry are darker-skinned than people of European ancestry, etc. Given that sex differences and racial differences clearly exist, what reason is there to believe that they only occur along dimensions that society doesn’t place value on?
I'd surmise that over 591 years (short of an exhaustive study) many 'rich' families have -not- remained rich. I'm not sure what 'rich' means; who's in a position (or even can be) to know who was objectively 'richest' then; and centuries have a tendency to erase many or most fine details, and to embroider others.
I think investment is actually a measured variable.
Its called survivor bias :)
I said leader of the free world. They will choose to not work in the coal mine and prefer places with kids. They have served their time so we have to give them options they will choose.
I was resisting posting my OT question on this thread, but I will, briefly: Is there something like Lichess for Go (the board game)? Similar quality and openness.

A couple of years ago, I spent a good little chunk of time searching something out, and I think I recall seeing a few interesting candidates, but I didn't follow through and don't have those results at hand.
You may want to look into an Android phone that has "Do Not Disturb" on. It will hide notifications from showing on the statusbar. So unless you explicitly open that app, you won't know if there's a notification to be had.

I have a Nokia 6.1 with Android 9.0. The other day, I actually missed some important messages because I had DND turned on, thinking it was the same thing as silent mode.
Thankyou.

I'm not sure I've come across so many new words outside of a science paper that I didn't understand :S .

What would be the use case for a d1 ?
It has a dark mode with different colors. Let's not villify blue in general though :P
>In Diamond v. Diehr, SCOTUS said that software was patentable insofar as it was part of a larger patentable system, the software in question being a controller for a rubber mold.

Not true. They said system could be patentable despite having software as a component. This is common sense. If an invention includes a pulley, a wheel, and a lever, you don't evaluate what's there if those non-novel elements are removed; you look at the whole system. SCOTUS said to look at the system as a whole, including the software. But the novelty and non-obviousness have to exist in the system as a whole. If it's only novel and non-obvious in the software, generally speaking, no patent. They did allow for the possibility that patentable software might possibly exist, but the gist of the ruling is that they hadn't seen such software yet. Also that it was up to congress to clarify, because they didn't feel 100% comfortable deciding if software could possibly be patentable.

So they basically stopped a millimeter short of saying software couldn't be patented at all, and the State St ruling stuck a crowbar in that crack.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10819538
An apples and oranges comparison. Any difference would surely be made up by all the tests one would have to write to be sure the clojure code was free of basic errors.
Disney's Bob Iger learning from Kodak's Mistakes
>I bet most people's token solution to this will be to expand the size of government [...] which will [...] only solidify these "elites" & special interest group's market positions...

and:

>No one ever wants to [...] limit government...

???

Um...
but, um, won't limiting government "only solidify these 'elites' & special interest group's market positions"?

Right now they have to negotiate with the government to determine what they can take. Under your proposal, they would negotiate with no one to determine what they can take.

There is no outcome where the élites don't win. Only a spectrum along which we have varying degrees of control over them. Under the current regime, we have relatively little control over them. Under your proposal, we have even less.

One road leads to disease and despair, but the other leads to death and destruction.
But yet all 4,000 of them still work for the largest surveillance corporation that has ever existed. At least now they think they have the moral high ground.
The prices of resources disagree with that assessment.
In that case it would be nice to actually answer my question.

> If I missed that, where can I find more about it?

How do COM type libraries get generated in Rust?
Pff, how many such posts I saw, and in few months later "I'm in Mac again".
How are you measuring the size of governments?
This is probably being done on purpose to evade, or break parsing of text into processing.
CdC pioneered this approach in 0r|)3R 2 3\/@d3 phil73rs

[in order to evade filters]
Hello folks! I wrote this article - so if you have any questions, feel free to shoot them my way. :)
2 people:

- German translator

- Canadian broker
It's possible now!
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/app-install-b...
I read the comment in whole, and it sets this up as a clear strawman. I bet on lots of things that end up being wrong. Why is the commenter so against big government when not a single soul proposed making the American government any bigger either in the comments or the article?
This is nothing new. There have always been threats to the livelihood of the next generation - economic depression, world wars, nuclear holocaust.

I think we look back at prior generations with rose colored glasses if we somehow think our current existence is dramatically worse than theirs.
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This is unsurprising. Americans are lazy.
Lobbying happens everywhere. Having it legalized makes it more transparent and helps you voting next elections. In my country it's illegal yet they do it behind the curtains
Note to self: revoke ssh keys of users found to be using this.
What's the best path from a career perspective?

I spent 3 years in front end, largely because I didn't have a CS degree and didn't want to study for those "invert a binary tree" style Google interview questions (I don't have a problem with theory, I just prefer working on real-world problems than studying for interviews).

I was making a good six-figure salary before taking a sabbatical, but may be re-entering the workforce in the not too distant future. I need to decide whether to pursue front-end/full-stack jobs again, or to specialize in something else.

Although front-end would seem to be the most logical since it was my specialty (specifically React), I'm afraid that the influx of bootcamp grads pumping out React devs will saturate the front end talent pool and make jobs more competitive and limit salaries. That and front end still seems to have this stigma of being "easier" than backend, and I don't see that changing. I don't want to invest my career in a field that doesn't garner any respect or have any long-term job security.

Is there any truth to this, or am I being overly pessimistic?
10 minutes a year.
Relevant Article:
Poland's lost property https://www.ft.com/content/be98d9aa-360d-11df-aa43-00144feab...
Virtual Reality Version of Second Life with Open Source Code
Amazon’s IMDb Launches Free Ad-Supported Movie, TV Service in U.S
You're giving me flashbacks to 'slippery slope' arguments I was hearing from people years ago...
People always pretend the US government size is small and tiny countries in Scandinavia have giant ones. Yet few countries have the massive number of agencies and law the US does. The size of population certainly plays a role in this but ultimately it affects the average person operating in such a society.

I'm not talking about taxation. I'm talking about the size of the administrative state, ie. the amount of intervention the government engages in in the economy and socially.
If you want to be a web dev startup hipster, this list is for you!
Yea, I don't quite agree with those saying this is all baloney. It can be daunting though, but you can do a lot just on the power of html, css and vanilla js + text editor, so take heart beginners.
> It was an assumption about the typical US citizen, as a preamble.

Is it an assumption based in any way in reality, or based on the author's constructed strawman perception?
> Child abuse and child pornography are clearly defined terms.

How well defined are they really? People have gone to jail for possessing cartoon imagery that depicts children in a way that is deemed pornography under child pornography laws. That does not match your definition of abusing an actual child and publishing footage of it. Such imagery is entirely fictional and seems closer to a story in a novel than a physical act that took place in the real world.
People have been saying that ever since, uhm, the first Mandrake release? It’s so much easier now, soon it will all be so smooth! except every year there is something else to rewrite/rejig.

As soon as auto-configuring XFree was kinda figured out, out goes XFree and in comes x.org. Xorg getting to the point where having 3d animations doesn’t require kernel-module-config expertise? Out goes Xorg, in comes Wayland. Gnome 2 worked out the kinks? Time for Unity! Kde 4 finally getting snappy? time to break it up! Init systems figured out? Systemd! ALSA getting adoption? Pulseaudio! Pulseaudio finally working? Let’s rip it out! And so on and so forth, in an endless churn.

Now, this sort of churn also happens in commercial alternatives; but stuff gets shipped when it’s 99.9% working, left running for years (or decades, if from Microsoft), then maybe gets rewritten with something that must be better (no regressions) or it won’t even ship. In the Linux world, it’s all just thrown over the wall; maybe you’ll be lucky and it will work on your machine, and maybe it won’t. By the time it gets fixed, it will be time to replace it. And so the experience is a perennial struggle against half-finished, unpolished software.
Yes I would. Answering otherwise leads straight into Minority Report.
What made me switch to Ruby was after I as an experiment rewrote a queuing middleware server that was about 5k lines in C, into about 500 lines of Ruby that had more functionality. It was slower, sure, but it drove CPU load from 1% to 10% of a single core before we hit disk IO limits, so it just didn't matter. What did matter was the improved maintainability of simplifying the codebase that much..

The point being that often the "hulking layered codebase" doesn't need to be.
They track us in real-time down to a meter, predict when and where we will travel, know who we interact with, know our DNA[1], know what food we like, when we are sick, what our political leanings are, can predict what our children will like / dislike and probably can predict when we'll die...

If any of that isn't completely true yet, it will be.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/23andme-is-terrif...
Eh, I've been running xmonad within Gnome since (checks git blame) 2011 and I don't think I'm changing things anytime soon. Well, for the first 2 years I fiddled a lot and made sure I could just configure a computer the way I liked with a script. Occasionally I'll have an issue like Ubuntu switching to Gnome 3 but even that, the biggest disruption in years, just took an evening of fiddling to fix.
Am I the only one more excited about Librem 5 than about previous efforts at the time? When Openmoko shipped, I haven't even yet considered buying any smartphone. Then when Ubuntu Edge was a subject I had a phone, but thought about the project as a me-too kind. At the time there was a plethora of alternative platforms. Now I feel that things settled with mobile OSes, so it seems that there is a place for moderate hype. I had higher hopes for FirefoxOS, but devices were weak and nothing better came up. FirefoxOS set too high expectations.

With Librem I feel it's a bit more straightforward. There will maybe be also Necuno Mobile with similar software stack, but cheaper hardware. So it's just maybe more realistic this time?
Uh oh, you're getting grayed down. Get those critical thoughts out of your head at once and get back onto the reservation.
Well you don't, do you. Not many people will need or be able to use an open phone.
The Dafang firmware he flashed allows RTSP so they can be used as generic VOIP cameras. That functionality isn't present in the original firmware.
I honestly do not know which side you are referring to as your statement could apply to either and be true.
Funny, I'm thinking of moving in the opposite direction due to the lack of support of hidpi in the latest LTS Ubuntu. There's some support in Kubuntu, but I don't like KDE.
Because they are required, anything else is optional. Note that food and gas are also more expensive. Optional items must be cheaper and better because we can't afford them to be more expensive.
continued degradation of the social safety net in this country

What degradation? Spending on the social safety net has only ever increased, not decreased.
I find that when I google Linux problems I'm much more likely to get dozens of answers, all of them wrong. They're for a different distro, or a different arrangement of the software stack, or out of date, or not actually answers (why would you want to do that?), or just plain wrong.

Theoretically it could be a lot better, if the documentation was better, the stack wasn't so maddeningly complicated, and there wasn't so much needless fragmentation.
Isn't it inevitable that AI will be used to improve targeting technology for weaponry? Am I wrong in assuming that if U.S. doesn't develop this tech some other country will?
The existence of the dossier itself is provably not fake. The content however is, along with the original story of how it came to be funded, created, and disseminated.

It's not even plausible. The man is a germophobe. He had to overcome a handshake aversion (Where has your hand been today? Eeeew...) to even run for office.

It was trivial for the people in power to brief presidents or start a government investigation, with or without merit, and this leads the court to determine public interest. It's getting to be circular logic here, with merit coming from merit.
Well, why does not BBC ask the question: Does Britain have a constitution?
I feel like this author of this article is this close to developing a working class consciousness..
This is fascinating. As a novice meditator, I lasted three days on a silent meditation retreat and it was perhaps the most psychologically taxing experience of my life. I can't imagine the mental strength this guy had and years of mental preparation necessary in order to make it through.
Who wouldn't be? We have lost 60% of animals since the 1970s, insects have dropped 75%, the oceans are acidifying, and our soil is being depleted. What do people think we are going to eat?