skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the comments there? The OP doesn't have it right.
In this era, the deeper you are able to see past the b.s that you are bombarded with, the more you will understand. Facebook has been bombarded with negative publicity for almost a year now, if you look past these articles, you will see that Facebook has not taken any sort of hit at all. Go see what the average person is like and you will understand why this is the case (This is also true for Donald Trump winning the election). We tech people live in a bubble.
Gang violence is often included in mass shooting statistics, and rightfully so, but depending on the depiction or commercial are not shown as such. On the other side of the coin, often times, gang crime is taken out of mass shooting statistical data, making it look far less likely, but more realistic to rich, white, suburban targeted audiences that politicians tend to advertise to. Neither is a lie, but both data sets are "massaged" to suit political narratives popular with particular bases.
I can't help but giggle at the thought of Emirati hackers.
For whatever reason my mind can't wrap around the fact that an extremely religious people can also be at the high end of tech (at the very least high enough to figure out 0days and such).

Does anyone have any info on since when this has actually been like this? I'd like to look up how their CS education works and that kind of stuff.
The whole point was to fully anesthetize them, not merely sedate them. The risk that they’d panic or become disoriented was too great.
Check this out https://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity
Ooh, I hadn't seen Brackets before, it looks interesting. Thanks. For anybody else who's curious, https://brackets.io/
Good grief, he did that with just 4 tracks! Sounds exactly like I remember it too. Thanks for sharing.
What kind of things do they love about Facebook? I’d be interested to hear.
I also grew up in rural Wisconsin, but lived in Madison for several years as well, and I've seen the other side of that coin too. There's plenty of snobby progressives who live in their blue bubble, often working for the state gov't or university, and assume they know what's best for the hicks in the rest of the state. The /r/wisconsin subreddit is full of the type.

The tribalism from both ends is definitely disheartening.
> derping around endless is still how I use trackers.. and after hating it for a long time, I actually now love it to not ever consider anything "finished", and trackers are perfect for that.

I've definitely had many satisfying evenings twiddling knobs in Reason, but after a while it loses its fun for me if I don't feel I'm eventually getting to something worth sharing with others.

> I say that because a friend of mine thinks making music is somehow translating the music we can compose in our heads into reality, and at least for me, that's not the case. I can sing in the shower, or "think music", but when I sit down with a tracker, I'm still surprised by the results, like, I didn't come up with this, I just found it.

Yes, I absolutely agree that the instrument affects the music in profound ways. Music is such a physical act that what you'd compose with a keyboard (piano or typewriter) is different than what you'd compose with a guitar in your hands instead.

I love everything about your comment.
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You obviously haven't spent too much time around Europeans. They (we) think about totally different things to Americans in general. Privacy (especially in Germany) has always been a hot topic. You can barely use your card to pay for things anywhere in Berlin for example because people use cash to not be tracked.
The darkweb is weird and can be fun but is mostly nothing just like the earlier weird internet.
The second floor of The D is a magical place. It is also the location of the first Bitcoin ATM in Las Vegas if I recall correctly.
This is just random nit picking but the five year plan is a stalinist concern to rapidly industrialize an agrarian to fit into a marxist model of having a means of production to conflict over in the first place. Marx had no such concerns.
I am not referencing larger imageboards, I am responding specifically about lainchan as I've lurked there for some time and sometimes posted there. Lainchan is nothing more than a hyper-focused /g/ with "cyberpunk" theme. In fact, lainchan split some two years ago into two different sites that are, content-wise, exactly the same because some of its members threw a hissy fit over a new administrator for childish and inane reasons - as if its old one was any better. Maybe one out of every half-dozen posts on /lambda/ is worth reading - most others are noncommittal sound bytes, wordy demonstrations of vocabulary, or nostalgia-chasing about the "good ol' days" of imageboards like 4chan.

It is not a good community, jacoblambda.
The Model 3 outsold all of those by huge margins, and startups in China are not going to sell cars in the US — or any large market outside of China — any time soon due to safety standards.

IMO the biggest dealbreaker for non-Tesla EVs is the extremely anemic state of affairs for non-Supercharger charging stations: there are barely any of them, many are poorly maintained or broken (or reserved for customers/employees/building residents), and dear God they're slow. As a Tesla owner, I can't imagine having to depend on them... Half the time I come across one, which is rare enough as it is, whatever I find is literally unusable, and the rest of the time getting a decent charge takes hours. With a Supercharger I can reliably get 100+ miles in about 15 minutes, which is plenty for almost anything, and there's many, many more charging stations.
True.

More commonly, I see banner/figlet/etc. type fonts put into html apparently for no purpose other than artistic reasons.
I would like to see the increasing granulization of insurance put to an end, because otherwise it won’t stop. There should be one pool, everyone’s in it, we spread risk, and the whole damn thing is simpler and easier to regulate. Sure, Mr Base Jumper is going to raise your premiums when he breaks his leg, so what. Maybe he doesn’t drink and so has less health affects than you. Or you’ll raise his premiums when it turns out you carried a gene for disease-X and got it at 45.

What we have now is an ad-hoc nonsensible set of what you can and can’t risk profile on, and every time we learn some new way to risk profile then we’ll have to decide again if we want to regulate it. On top of that this just increases the risk of insurance companies getting it wrong and needing to be bailed out. I’d rather we had a conservative, boring and simple insurance industry and just get off the treadmill.
If the thrust reversers are deployed in flight, you're going to crash, even if near the ground. The airplane would be uncontrollable.

If the engines quit, you still have control.
Your Speakers Could Be Turned into Eavesdropping Microphones (2016)
I had the realization that I may lose some specific music one day, but I'll always have access to new music
> leave my phone at home.

Why is this important to you? Aside from going for a run I can't think of any situation where it bothers me to take my phone with.
Maybe the author of the article is simply growing older? This is the geeky equivalent of "modern music is crap, unlike the one of my youth".
I think it's clearer to understand the Church-Turing thesis as two theses, not one. Turing's thesis was that (intuitive) computability equals (formalizable) Turing computability.

So you could completely ignore the recursive functions part (and so, Church's Thesis) and there would still be the same sort of lay confusion about the computability thesis.
Not exactly. Disabling the borrow checker is an internal implementation detail of the locking types, but it happens opaquely to the code using the locks.

The locking types make assurances with regards to the lifetimes of their parameters / contents / return values and these are still enforced by the compiler.
This is awesome. You might want to add "Printed" to the front of your title, because I've seen quite a few ASCII art projects before and almost skipped over this, but the fact that it's printed is quite novel to me at least.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/rising-speed-technological-...
Check out https://tidelift.com if you’re interested in something more robust that won’t take 10%. A bunch of ex-Red Hat guys who are truly open source legends behind it.
Similar to the cobra effect.

Which was brilliantly satirised by Pratchett's in discworld by the cities ruler (same except with rats) who had a simple solution "tax the rat farms".
Elon Musk’s highflying 2018
Is there an open-standard way for an Apple Watch to unlock a Linux workstation or IoT device?
I was on the internet before http - a time when nntp and gopher ruled the waves. At that time and in the decade that followed, the net was populated with geeks, nerds and people who could be considered on the edges of the distribution of societal/behavioural norms in some way. This population was responsible for the overwhelming majority of "content" - said content being published directly by the "content creators". Hence the weird and wacky world of oddball websites that the early www was comprised of. As the skew of netizens changed to reflect that of wider society, so too did the inclination/ability to self-publish content without some help, creating the demand that gave rise to Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. As for the content, its variety came to reflect that of broader society i.e. overwhelmingly vanilla, inane, mundane. The gems are still out there - just like needles in the proverbial haystack.

My 2c.
I wouldn't call neoconservatives realpolitik. They were idealist proponents of an activist foreign policy.

Realpolitik would have been leaving Saddam in place as less risky than invading.
That is typically the case, but it doesn't have to be. You could have an interpreted language that determines all the types when the code is first parsed and generates errors before it starts executing. You can also have a statically compiled language that defers (some or all) type checking until runtime.
Fair enough. The Stock Market is a pay-to-play game for sure.
I don't disagree that finding ways for prolific open source contributors to be able to monetize their expertise is incredibly valuable, but I'm not sure if that's actually DevFlight's focus.

Their website copy focuses on "the maintainer's" project, and DevFlight's comments on this post repeatedly reference leveraging any community channels the maintainer created (such as social media and Slack) for outreach. As well, the example list of projects they listed above has a presumption of authority/control over the project or else they don't make as much sense - you can't guarantee things like project stability or prioritize features without having some presumption of authority over the project to back it.

While DevFlight is focusing on the individual, from what I can tell it's specifically on individuals that are project maintainers, and not simply prolific contributors. From a corporate standpoint, those are two vastly different sales pitches. If the maintainer of the project commits to prioritizing feature requests or stability of the project, then they have the actual authority/capacity to follow through on that commitment. A prolific contributor might have the expertise and familiarity with the project to make those commitments, but if the maintainers have other ideas, the contributor would have no resolution other than to fork the project to maintain their commitment. Then the company is operating off of a custom fork of the project, maintained by a single person and not as battle tested as the official project, which may or may not have to deviate further away from the official project over time depending on what the contributor committed to vs. where the official project is going.

Companies hire third parties to customize, integrate, and support software all the time. And a prolific contributor to a project is a really good individual to choose for that type of work. The conversion rate for cold selling those services via outbound lead generation, without the weight of someone who can speak authoritatively on behalf of the project, will be significantly lower though.

Hopefully Victor or Tony can chime in and provide some clarification on who their target audience is. :)
He works for a hedge fund in Toronto (or used to?). Pretty sure these are all his own words. And you’re right they’re great. Whenever there’s earnings reports from the big tech companies - his are the first comments I look for.
As somebody whose read some of those privacy policies, I'm not sure I understand what I'm agreeing to.

For example, in gsuite they only claim to not mine your data for advertising purposes. Does that mean 'we only use your data to provide the service', or does it mean 'we use your data for everything but advertising'?

Many people I know barely even know how their data is or isn't used, and are shocked by recent news stories. That's not informed consent imo
Agreed, I started with XBee radios, they do secure networking and full mesh but they're relatively expensive, a single radio cost about £40 a few years back.

To add an MCU and peripherals brings a single device cost up considerably.

I'd hoped, some years ago when I first started my IoT endeavours that the cost would come down but ZigBee has not, and sadly things like ZLL (ZigBee Light Link) that companies such as Philips use for Hue, perpetuate the propriety nature.

My entire home is Hue (ZLL) but for anything non-Hue I use Z-Wave devices which are relatively cheaper and support secure mode.
iOS messaging apps need an option to warn the sender (or block delivery) when the receiver has non-iOS devices, e.g. in a specific group context with sensitive data.
Tesla also just lost another CFO. Deepak Ahuja announced he’s leaving. Again.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/musk-says-tesla-cfo-deepak-a...
> CPU usage (allow an initial burst, but after a few seconds dial down to max ~0.5% of CPU, with additional bursts allowed after any user interaction like click or keyboard)

Funny how Mozilla spent so long trying to make firefox multi process and right after they got there it was decided that we had to throttle these process anyway.
The problem is that I'm actually using the HashMap not only for concurrency but also for synchronization. Looking at the Java ConcurrentHashMap it wouldn't work. I need the equivalent of an RwLock per key so that stale data is never read and there are never two writers for the same key. But thinking about it, it's a fairly different data structure from ConcurrentHashMap.
It solves the problem of how to enjoy the sensory experience of human existence, for one.

It also solves the problem of how to express complex and abstract human emotion and intellectual ideas in ways that would be nearly impossible to relate to otherwise.

It helps bring large disparate groups of people together and supports the formation of happy communities... Provides respite from other more mundane, unsolvable problems...

It solves more problems than it creates, that is for sure.
I bet that you're into free content too, when you're not on your high horse. The public domain is a great thing and we should feel entitled to it.

Don't forget that a paywall only enriches the owners of the site; it does nothing to ensure that journalists are compensated. If you want to fund artists, do it directly; paying an artist's owner and hoping that the owner is a good person is a losing strategy.
Is there another vehicle company that is close to Tesla in self-driving capabilities?

If Teslas drive themselves and other EVs don't, are they a comparable car?
The fact that you label the two sides as "hicks" and "snobby progressives" only hurts your stance.

I think we can agree that both sides don't typically listen to each other, and if we're all using language like that then we never will.

Why should I debate you on medicare subsidies, e.g. if you've labeled me a "snobby progressive" and then have taken the victim role to boot?
Why should developers cater for users who are running severely outdated hardware?

I don't disagree with you, I was running an ancient laptop as my main box until a few months ago, so I know first-hand how frustrating it is. It's hard to play games or watch videos with only 128mb VRAM and almost no shader/codec acceleration support!.

But at the same time, it greatly increases the variety of devices and standards you need to support (there's a pretty huge gap between a 10 year old machine and a modern one, but 3 or 5 years are reasonably similar), and thus blows out the scope and difficulty of creating and maintaining a system. As a programmer, it's quite frustrating when removing support for outdated hardware / operating systems could make a system so much cleaner.

Then there's security considerations, e.g. if you have to leave deprecated versions of SSL enabled to support outdated clients, that weakens the entire system.
Not OP, but I dislike having things in my pockets so much I keep my wallet and keys in my desk at work. Not having to carry anything around would be really nice.
Cost, Quality or Access. Whatever you get on one comes at the sacrifice of another.

This is called the Iron Triangle of healthcare.

Furthermore, you can have public insurance that charges co-pays, high-deductibles etc. Public Healthcare does not guarantee 'free healthcare', and if it did it would do so at cost of access (rationing) or quality (cost-effective care).

You can do that today with an HMO or a High-deductible plan if you wish.

There are many issues with healthcare in the us, but this is not a solution for them.
Tesla shares drop sharply after Musk announces CFO Deepak Ahuja is leaving
Does nobody remember the Lockheed aircraft that ran off the end of the runway because both the brakes and lift spoilers refused to deploy?

It was another case of misguided safety interlock. IIRC, they landed 20 knots fast because of storm conditions; the brakes wouldn't go with too little weight sensed, and the lift spoilers wouldn't go above a certain speed. Catch-22!
History will not look kindly on you or your work destroying the lives of vulnerable people.
I'm familiar with those firms, but I wouldn't call them Mittelstand enterprises, unless we're calling Siemens and Thyssen Krupp small-to-medium sized. What do they make that lasts centuries that say, General Electric(such as it was) or Halliburton / Bechtel et al don't make?
I guess what I'm getting at is that massive generalizations really aren't helpful.
> Whatever the reasons may be for this decision, it allows DDG to track all links that the user follows from the results page. That is no better than Google. It is not a privacy improvement in that regard.

It's meant so that the sites you click on can't see your search queries via the Referer HTTP header.

You can turn that off in DDG's settings[1] under the privacy tab. It's the "Redirect" switch. They explain more about it[2]. Basically, it's a privacy choice they give you between preventing sites you visit from seeing your search queries or preventing DDG from seeing what you clicked on.

If you want, you can prevent both by enabling their settings option to use POST instead of GET in their search. Then you can disable the redirect and the sites won't be able to see your search query from Referer, because it would have been passed through the request body instead of URL parameters. However, that's going to prevent you from being able to have your searches in your browser history.

EDIT: I now note why you mentioned javascript and why the Referer option talks about being needed on old browsers. It seems that when javascript is enabled, they do something else to ensure that Referer doesn't leak search queries without passing info on what you clicked on to DDG. That means that, by default on a typical browser, both leaks are prevented. That's pretty neat.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/settings#

[2] https://duck.co/help/results/rduckduckgocom
I believe mobile / response / bootstrap killed the unique designs. CSS helped make things easier over inline style tags
I am very scared of flying (although I still do it, although it's not fun). Any advice/rationalism you can convey? I am a person that became sweaty and anxious reading your post.
I can’t tell if everyone here is serious when they say they haven’t looked back.

Google knowledge graph is years ahead of DDG. Average person does not want to click through results, s/he just wants the answer. Compare these queries in Google vs. ddg:

- nba scores
- 2018 super bowl
- lakers roster
- movies in theatres
- game of thrones cast
- $aapl
- where is my phone
- 2019 thanksgiving

etc
I thought the Pythagorean Theorem assumed that x and y were orthogonal? Then

2<x, y> = 0

This is such a funny coincidence, by the way. My prof literally proved the Pythagorean Theorem on inner product spaces today in class.
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> What is this uniquely German tech that lasts centuries?

Beats me. I've owned a Mercedes in the past and it was a piece of junk. Things constantly breaking on it, the lamps were always burning out, it'd burn oil prematurely. The service dept at the dealership was always happy to see me, as another $$$$ ka-ching repair. Never again.
The goal of the justice system in the USA is punitive retribution, not lowering crime rates or rehabilitation.
That's really bizarre. I wonder where they got that idea. Why do you say "still"?
Didn't Elon later tweet something along the lines of "He must be an actual pedo because he hasn't sued me for libel yet?" Can't say I blame the guy for suing after that.

Some of the very specific things Musk said also seem a bit too specific for just joking around. "He’s an old, single white guy from England who’s been traveling to or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years, mostly Pattaya Beach, until moving to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time."
Believing that Walker and his cronies fell for any of it versus were in on it might be a little naive.
Facebook's forward growth is going to come from persistently leveraging the userbase with a continued, gradual slowdown in growth. They don't need to diversify their revenue stream, they're growing sales at 30% and are larger than Oracle. Their social monopoly is going to make it very difficult for them to do meaningful acquisitions freely (unless they're well outside social). They couldn't easily buy the next YouTube, WhatsApp or Instagram at this point due to anti-trust concerns.

They did selectively start buying back shares recently as a form of capital return. I'd expect that to continue to the extent the stock remains modestly priced versus the business growth rate.

If all they do is keep on the same path, they easily get from here to $100+ billion in sales by doing nothing special beyond what they're already doing. Plus ~$35 billion in profit to go with it.

A mere 6% average sales growth per year for the next ten years gets them to $100b in sales. More likely, they get there in fiscal 2022 without much trouble.
you have been asked about scalability, and you have not answered. I do not know if it really is a serious project, or a project with which you wish to self-promote.

In as much as, take care of your https, you expire next month.

And the numerous cookies that are implanted, including those of a counter that you have hidden somewhere, those of tumblr, those of doubleclick, yahoo ..

Adblock blocks an item Which apparently is also hidden somewhere. Because when I deactivate it, I can not reach what it is.

This is a tumblr? Turned? Too much for a site with 19 songs.

Likewise, it is appreciated as something that is free.
I'm sorry for my English. Good luck with the project.
A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics
And if it doesn't "just work" then there will be a clear error message pointing to the problem instead of nasal demons haunting you. That way you can debug and fix the problem much more easily.
Where did you get that quote from?

We don't exclude the spam folder.