skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe off-topic, but that's one side of the coin, and I suppose the other is that being exposed to more sensory input accelerates development, or makes it even possible (on higher levels of cognition). If this wasn't the case, why wouldn't we just be bigger and carry longer? Is size viz megafauna really that suboptimal for any more significant reasons than being hunted human hunters? I would almost say that longer pre-natal development was suboptimal, because we'd either become bored, or supersmart, but anyhow superegoistic for lack of nurture.

Calling it premature is ironic, if we reach nominal maturity only after 10 or more years as far as fertility is concerned--the equivalent in AI would be the procreation of a neural net, perhaps after exploiting a bug in the game, breaking out to rewrite a better version of itself, or colluding with itself in self play. Yes, this is going off-topic.
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Exercise and Its Signaling
There are memory-safe languages that aren't Javascript, you know
The primary loser in all of this is Java.

Companies must be actively reconsidering their involvement with Java - I know a handful.

Google, on their part, is pushing Kotlin to avoid the Java branding. Next is Flutter to entirely get off Java. There seems to be some evidence that they're also beginning to avoid the Android brand in places.
Here's the thing. If you tell me traditional print newspapers are dying because of falling subscription and display ad numbers, I get it.

But online news portals laying off is, in my opinion, more of a sign of incompetence and less of falling subscriptions.

These companies like HuffPo and BuzzFeed came around when the problems facing traditional newspapers were clear as day.

Indeed, they directly contributed to the problem of falling subscription of newspapers with their chase for eyeballs as probably their sole metric for success.

The onus lied on them to scale their business as their revenue scaled. Don't hire expensive offices and hundreds of people just to churn out listicles and a little bit of journalism a la Buzzfeed.

Grow with the growth in your revenue and metric growth in key areas.

Nothing has fundamentally changed in the news industry establishment of Buzzfeed so they can't cry of falling subscription.

Regardless of amount of VC money you receive, businesses should have profitability and sustainability in mind from day one instead of "let's build they will come".

Of course chasing growth with revenue taking a backseat worked for Google or Facebook but for every Facebook/Google, there are thousands of companies, employee lives and millions of dollars wasted on such an unsustainable model.
filters cannot be applied retroactively, however.

be sure to write your filters before receiving anything. Especially important if you're importing your email for the first time... and insanely annoying if you want to debug such an advanced filter.

as always with fastmail: It has great features... but always with a massive caveat.
true. on macos many of the QT and java apps that used to be the norm were a lot worse. clipped buttons, for example.

or pseudo-aqua buttons that were not quite right, uncanny-valley style.
It's not the fault of the vendor if you decide to buy their product. If you didn't need the product features then you shouldn't buy it but enterprise deals are rarely about the absolute price.
Soros is actually a huge advocate for freedom and privacy of the individual.
Yeah, inclusive how?
16K miles on the LEAF in 49 months. Literally has only required wiper blades once (a calendar item) and filling the washer reservoir several times.

Totally agree on it not being a full replacement for an ICE car. We have the Honda for that and truly long distance trips are by airplane anyway, so the LEAF is enough if it can do the commuting duties (16mi/day for me) and can go round-trip to the airport.
For those hardcore atheists that just can't fathom why someone would believe in Christianity/religion in general, let me ask you are you WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic)?

If the answer is yes, I can highly recommend the book The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. It didn't really change my opinion on religion but it did give me a different view and perspective into why some others do believe in it.
TransferWise: How two Estonians made a global FinTech startup
I believe that one could make a REST API over other protocols like IMAP or NNTP.
Poweramp returns from the grave with a new UI
> You just need an ADT and interface.

Yes, you can do that, but it's always going to be far more cumbersome than native multi-value return would be. Even in the simplest case (stack allocation in the caller), you have to define a new struct that has no other purpose, in a place visible to both caller and callee. You also have to refer to the status and value as struct members rather than simple variables. That's already worse than using a return value for the status and a reference parameter for the value.

I guess you could say that multi-value return is just syntactic sugar for more reference parameters. That's mostly true at the source level, but at the object level not quite. Using a reference parameter requires an extra stack operation (or register allocation) to push the parameter's address, in addition to whatever was done to allocate the parameter itself. Then the callee has to access it via pointer dereferences. With true multi-value return neither is necessary. The exact details are left as an easy exercise for any reader who knows how function calls work at that level. (BTW yes, interprocedural optimization can make that overhead go away, but a lot of code is written in C specifically to avoid relying on super-smart compilers and runtimes.)

Multi-value return isn't a huge deal, though. I appreciate having it in Python, but in almost thirty years I rarely missed it in C. While I wouldn't necessarily oppose its addition, I think it's more in keeping with C's general spirit of simplicity to leave it out.
Just as one example, wind resistant umbrellas have an actual useful feature regular umbrellas don't have.
I would have just had the CO2 level read via a $8 I2C device connected to an Esp8266/Esp32 running Arduino.

I would post the result to a web service in this fashion from the Esp8266:

https://techtutorialsx.com/2016/07/21/esp8266-post-requests/

Then just setup a nice Graphana+Prometheus as a service, graphana.com is nice and can expose a Prometheus end point over basic http auth - easy to post to. Then you can setup alerts, graphs, dashboards, etc.

In fact you could have a whole suite of IoT reports flowing in from various Arduinos really easily. Or at least a couple CO2 sensors spread around the house.

Total investment of coding would be about 30-50 lines of Arduino code for the Esp8266 and you may even get away with the free plan on Graphana.com.

I obviously like to outsource as much as possible these days. Less learning, but more efficient.
Hu? Constantly establishing new connections saves power vs. maintaining one estalished connection? Could you explain how that works?

And could you also explain how constantly making new connections makes things work more reliably over unreliable links? Like, does that allow you to transfer data when the network link is down? Does the fact that inside the TLS/TCP connection data is transferred via HTTP instead of IMAP somehow make the TCP connection work better over lossy links?

It would seem to me like the exact opposite should be the case, if it has any effect at all?
The problem with starcraft is - interface overhead is significant part of the game. AI doesn't have to cope with that - every click is perfect, and moving the mouse from one edge of the screen to the other takes no time.

If you want to make it fair - place an AI-steered robot in front of the screen, and make it record the screen with camera, and actually move the mouse and press the keys.

Then I can agree it's fair :)

But then of course AI would be incredibly bad.

Right now the advantage doesn't come from faster thinking, but from much higher bandwith and precision that AI has when controlling the game. It's anything but fair.

With chess it's not a problem, because interface overhead is negligible.
How Slack Got Their First Users
Will the nas connecting count for the 30 days?

I've been thinking about having an external backup of about 5 TB of images, video and documents in an encrypted form but I have issues finding someone who can do it properly.

For now I just have a 2nd nas at my fathers house that mirrors my data.
As an alternative but similar idea, Proof of Work was originally developed to solve the email spam problem. The idea was that you would hash the email body + timestamp + nonce producing a hash with some number of leading zeros. It would be fast for individual devices to compute and fast for email servers to verify en mass but expensive if you needed to send lots of emails.

The obvious downside is that since the system is fundamentally just cryptography it doesn't discriminate between spam and legitimate bulk mail (password resets, newsletters, mailing lists, etc.)
People come up with ideas for frustrating things they have a lot of contact with; seemingly every HGV driver has "invented" a way to automate matching cab (ie tractor) plates to trailer plates.

People buy cheap umbrellas, they suck, the people imagine better umbrellas that cost more: goto START.

A 9yo of my acquaintance is really inventive; he often says "what if we had something that would ...", yes, if you'd invented and developed that 50 years ago you'd have been a multi-millionaire.

A lot of inventions arise naturally out of a creative mind being confronted with the problem.
is Java a standard now? Did ECMA/ISO pick it up?
Diffability is not a great argument against YAML/for JSON IMO. Tools can usually handle that for you.

What is the largest concern about YAML is that truncated documents are almost always still valid documents. The likelihood of that happening compared to, say, a git merge gone wrong is much lower, but the consequences are likely much worse.

I don't have a strong opinion on structured data file format, but that's an issue with YAML that often goes unmentioned.
General response info at [0].
Tech description of impact of space weather on electric grids at [1]

I know from work (don't have links, sorry) that some distribution and transmission network operators include solar disruption in their incident response planning.

[0] https://www.ready.gov/space-weather

[1] https://fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/spaceweather.pdf
i have to agree with you here. It's good class if you want to focus on theory and veer towards academic part of ML.
You can try a product called SpinRite (grc.com) - it can help revive the drive to get your data out of it.
Gaming, as a global phenomenon generates each year revenue of $110 Billion and is growing rapidly. It is also a sector that is run by people who are technologically inclined and predominantly younger. Blockchain does need that bit of persona to target for early adoption.
Where there's muck, there's brass.

Business is smelly, messy, and just filled with exceptions, special cases, and weird deals with an diabolical structures.

Most startups start with a beautiful, elegant system with zero real users, then they hit traction, and with added business the business logic parts of the code base turn into eldritch monstrosities.
Creditors Say Edward Lampert Reaped Billions but Left Sears Insolvent
This depends upon you first telling us at what level you are? beg, int, ad.
>>> An underappreciated facet of payday loans is that without them desperate people would borrow from unsavoury people - making them illegal drives the high risk loan business underground into the hands of the Mafia. And then the consequences for the desperate people for defaulting is no longer bankruptcy, but broken legs or worse.

> If you cap maximum interest rates then people who are deemed too 'high risk' will be refused credit. As a result, they will seek credit elsewhere.

You could solve the loan shark problem and cap the interest rate by socializing the rest of the risk through some mechanism -- say a regulation that requires TBTF banks to offer payday loans and make up for the loss through their other products. Obviously there are details to be worked out, but the burden of a policy to combat loan sharking does not have to fall on the most vulnerable.
The FAQ of the company responsible for selling ISBNs in Germany (1000 ISBNs cost ~310 EUR incl. VAT here) states that the country of the publisher is the decisive factor on where to buy the ISBNs. So if a book written by the author got translated to German, would he have to buy a German ISBN?

Otherwise he could just acquire all his ISBNs in Canada for free?
IT certification path – Cheatsheet
The description immediately reminded me of a book called "Understanding Computation." Scrolling down I see the video is by Tom Stuart, the author of that book. I'd really recommend it (the book) for anyone interested in learning about "big step" (operational) and "small step" (structural) semantics.
YouTube doesn't care if you buy what the ad is selling. They are selling the fact that you viewed the ad.
I've uzed the original mbed NXP LPC1768 several years ago, and didn't do too much with the vendor ecosystem, but it was very easy to just use the regular ARM-GCC compiler and extract the functionality I needed from their libraries into my own projects.
I don’t think you need to be on the grid. A sufficiently large CME would induce currents in any unshielded electrical device. Kind of like an EMP bomb would break most cars by destroying the starter motor.
I think the issue here is that in an ideal world, neither would exist. The original reply to your comment suggests that this is not even being considered and thus is satirizing your rationale.
>There are, on occasion, factual errors in a story. When it happens they issue a correction.

They go far deeper than this. Anyone that follows any polarizing issue is well aware that pushing a narrative via omission of key details (or not covering a story at all because it doesn't fit their narrative) is rampant among the established media. Sure the stuff they write about usually actually happened but you have no idea which particular articles are being spun and which way they're being spun (though you can take an educated guess).

It's hard to tell if they're intentionally spinning a narrative of if they're woefully ignorant of their own cognitive bias and go around confirming their bias.

In any case, if the NYY, WaPo or WSJ is publishing half truths and half the story I don't see that as being categorically different from Fake News(TM) because the affect on the population at scale is similar.
NT was pretty damn good, in hindsight. 2K was alright too but bang-for-seniority NT4 was great.
When it comes to "things that make me feel like I'm living in a sci-fi future", things like drones and the internet doesn't hold a candle to the kind of stuff that is done in modern biological research, especially "nanotech" stuff like this. It's mind-boggling.
What would be an interesting side-project would be to apply some machine learning, so a user could describe the kind of person / activity in a sentence and it would be generated using this.
Is there anything in the email headers that shows the authenticated user? My preference would be that email providers rewrite the From: header to match the authenticated user and that the sender uses the Reply-To: header to direct replies to a destination of their choice.
Well, why say that? Of course it's an attempt at excusing it. I almost included a sentence saying "Yes, he was a product of an earlier time, but (civilized) people didn't go around treating women like that then any more than they do nowadays, i.e. not at all."
The wordpress argument is about the question if a court would see a plugin as an independent work, or as an modification of wordpress. Copyright law allows for independent works to interface with each other without permission from both authors, but do not allow modification of a work without permission.

The distinction between a modification and a interface is an interesting legally gray area, but it is not relevant to the claim that Oracle is making. They say that the interface itself in Java was artistically made and thus made the header files copyright-able. If the courts agree with Oracle then it makes it impossible to write software that have compatible interface, since it is (almost) impossible to do so without creating copies the interface.
Ooooof, wow, thanks for the heads up. There's no way that's going to work... I edit my filters and apply them retroactively... There's no way I can set them in stone the first time. :( is there any email service that doesn't have this limitation?
And if you argue against this insanity at a code review, some clod is going to misquote Knuth at you. "Don't prematurely optimize" doesn't mean "just alloc half a gig of memory, and profile later if performance is unsatisfactory."
@nbevans could you provide a few more details here on the agent and where it is hosted? The agent itself does not rely on the IIS worker pool and we are not aware of any bugs in this area. If we have some we would love to get them addressed.
That's tech industry marketing in a nutshell though. How many startup homepages promise "seamless integration with your stack" or "first-class customer experience" and fail to deliver?

Nokia's tagline back in the day used to be "Connecting People", and yet today it is FB that brazenly repeats this ad nauseam in its press statements each time another breach of user privacy is revealed.
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Oh please. Your patents are worthless without the backing of a large corporation with heavy legal firepower.

Individuals and small businesses are terribly underserved by the current regime. If money is what buys you protection, then the current patent system is the mob.
Easy, just look at reporting on mass shootings. What there is a white person doing a mass shooting (e.g., 3 days ago in Florida) the entire paper is about "senseless violence", "deeply disturbed individuals" and unexplained pain and suffering.

When a brown person is doing a mass shooting, there is almost almost always a narrative about terrorism and how obviously the person must have been a terrorist and we just need to somehow find the link, even if the person has no clear link to anything.

The WaPo is pretty balanced on this front. But dont pretend the NYT is unbaised here. WSJ is certainly biased.
Kraken CEO uses watermarks to prove 100,000 KYC data haul was not hacked
I would also love to hear replies to this. I used mbed in the past and have been fairly dissatisfied with it for two reasons:

It uses c++ for the sake of using c++ instead of leveraging the extreme bonuses c++ provides over using c for embedded. For example, it tends to use dynamic memory allocation heavily, doesn't make use of unique/shared pointer, doesn't use templates properly (if at all) in places it would be ideal (hence increasing code size and slowing things down).

Last I checked, it doesn't support cmake at all, and instead used an extremely complicated and conveluted build system/process.

Both of those combined made me run away and never look back. Another side thing as of late is it seems to be officially supported by arm, which means it will never run on other cores like risc-v. I am not interested in getting stuck with one platform when riscv (in my opinion) has incredible potential for microcontrollers and is seemingly right around the corner.
What is the font?
I guess it should match the outside air as close as possible. So around 400ppm
"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."
Yes, I agree. But this was way more fun :)
That is because the person I responded to didn't mention that and actually wrote that _walking_ was effective, not a caloric deficit.
React vs. Angular Compared: Which One Suits Your Project Better?
>Some [telegraph] operators, in an attempt to spare their networks from further damage, disconnected their batteries from the lines, only to find that they could still send messages using only the current provided by the storm.

That's one of my favorite versions of "if life hands you lemons, make lemonade" stories.

Knowing what we know now about CME's, I wonder if it has ever been surmised that one option that might spare some expensive parts of the electric grid is a massive grid-wide disconnection prior to the CME arrival. This wouldn't save everything, but I think it would save a lot of blown megatransformers were they to be removed from transmission lines, reducing induced currents through them.
Sure, I get that. I get there is a whole weird and wacky world of email use that is considered legitimate and needs to work that way for a myriad of reasons. I don't get why their MTA cannot at least have an option to reject mail from your domains if it's not being sent using your account credentials.

The average layperson will not get that. I'm fairly sure if my mother received an email that wasn't delivered to a their spam folder saying "Hey, remember that old copy of my birth certificate you have floating around? Could you send that. Also, CC my good friend bad_user@fastmail.com" that she would call me first - if I was reachable. Also is totally ignorant of digital signatures and most likely unable to verify any present anyway.

As much as I dislike Google and try to avoid their products and services at all cost, at least I have confidence this wouldn't happen with them. Not that I would go back, but it's still concerning.
As a desktop Linux user who rarely got to have good GUI applications until electron became popular because it's barely economical for anyone to actually maintain 3 sep UIs, I am absolutely looking for more of it

And to be clear, what we're talking about is more options for folks that want to ship to all platforms and focus on perfecting one UI.

Is it better than doing a truly native app on each platform? Of course not, but that's outside the realm of possibility for the resources most developers have
What am I being downvoted for here exactly, downvoters?[0] Do people think the behaviour mentioned is at all acceptable?! Or that 'extremely ugly sexist behaviour' isn't a fair characterization? I can't see what else in what I said could cause offence. We are talking about Feynman, who believed in speaking the plain truth, pretty or not. And that story is just very creepy:

"in many ways Richard was a sexist. Whenever it came time for his daily bowl of soup he would look around for the nearest "girl" and ask if she would fetch it to him. It did not matter if she was the cook, an engineer, or the president of the company. I once asked a female engineer who had just been a victim of this if it bothered her. "Yes, it really annoys me," she said."

[0] Sorry to mention it, but this doesn't seem quite the standard case.
There is a Musicland (979) but Bookland seems to “invaded” parts of its namespace!

These are hacks so that you only need one table rather than separate lists of ISBNs and EANs. Chairs (etc) didn’t have a pre-existing registry so....no need Chairland.