skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, that wasn't intended as an argument that OpenJDK is unsafe, I was just asking why it's relevant that Oracle hasn't shown aggression towards non-Oracle OpenJDK distributions yet, when nobody has brought up concerns about how Oracle already is aggressive towards OpenJDK distributions.

I can probably agree that Oracle is relatively unlikely to start coming after people for patent infringement related to using OpenJDK or forks thereof, when OpenJDK is licensed under a license with a patent grant. My biggest concern is just that Oracle seems like a thoroughly evil and unpredictable company, and I wouldn't like to use technology they own and which uses patents they own. I wouldn't have imagined that Oracle would ever come after people for re-implementing their API; I can't imagine what Oracle will do in the future, but I won't build a business or institution around the assumption that they will do nothing. It's not like there aren't a plethora of other solutions for anything developed by Oracle, most of which are better than Oracle's alternatives.
There's a whole other argument to be made about the quality of a speedo/dash that fails function so soon.
IE 10, not 11.
I expect in 10-20 years most panel cleaning is done by robots similar to window cleaning robots, with small ramps allowing the robots easy traversal over the whole installation. The technology is directly transferable from vacuum robots and window cleaning robots, with the added benefit of knowing the geometry in advance.
You'd have to do a full investigation into the possibility of fraudulent claims first.

Only after you eliminated fraudulent claimants would you be able to do the math.

e.g. https://www.thejc.com/news/world/17-charged-over-25-million-...
That's very troubling; but to me it seems orthogonal to the matter at hand, in a work environment is not necessary to use overt facial recognition, the absence of overt public facial recognition would seem to make no difference to the ability for police corruption (or gov corrupt use of police resources, as that may well be) to operate in that way.

Thanks for sharing; do you disagree with my analysis?
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What many commentors here don't realise is that Google also uses reCaptcha to make you do free work for them.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation
There are many more good technical talks at FOSDEM, though. The Congress is really nice - so nice that it attracts many people who just want to participate in a cool event.
Caloric restriction (extreme dieting) is well known to increase lifespan. Intermittent fasting shows tentative promise.
Ask HN: Is there a bsc computer science certification exam
Is there any bsc certification exam for computer science one can take without having to use 3-4 years in school to get a bsc degree?
What is the difference between a software liscence such as GPL and a "contract" that must include consideration?
On frontend:

Google Todo app tutorials and pick the one you like the syntax the most and you can complete in a couple of hours. There are gazillion of tutorials out there how to build one. I would follow a React based for learning purposes.

For backend:

Try a simple Express backend with Node.js and Firebase as a database. With a todo app, you will never run out of the free tier and migrating between server provider will be very simple.

Level it up with a nice UI library:

https://ant.design/
Or... Just run openjdk! Problem solved
Agreed, it's still excellent. Obviously it doesn't contain the many new results that have appeared since it's final edition, but that's irrelevant for the learning the basic information-theoretic aspects of quantum mechanics.
I found that the ipad pro keyboard is surprisingly ergonomic, exactly because of this.
As a prominent pessimist on this topic, lately I've seen several anecdotal evidence cases where this is actually not that true anymore.

If enough high-level tech talent starts refusing to write such systems then trust me, govts and corps are slowed down and inconvenienced for real. 5 junior programmers can't write software as well as 1 senior.

Sure those orgs might win in the end, but we can delay that "end" with years if not decades. And if they get frustrated by the delays, they'll make a mistake.
Google is the jewel in the crown for Alphabet, the only real source of profit in the whole operation. Whether that justifies his salary is another issue.
I agree with you that humans in history have had very varied diets. Some humans have had a very long history of lots of meat and dairy. Some have a history of eating grains, pulses, vegetables and other plants. It really depends on what point in time, what civilization and which geographical area we're talking about. Humans are remarkably capable of adapting to a very wide variety of diet when they need to. At any rate, I'd like to show a chart:

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

And this is just in the USA. Only 9% of emissions comes from agriculture. Even if you cut out all of that, you don't even nearly make a dent in greenhouse emissions. The real challenge is figuring out how we clean up our transportation, energy and industrial infrastructure. The problem is, consumption doesn't necessarily have an impact there.

I think I principally just really disagree with you about consumer activism. I think that the reason why regulation was needed in the first place in order to accomplish many overall wins was because consumer activism is just too weak. Long term, externalities will produce a race to the bottom that is disastrous for society -- individuals don't give things up for moral reasons, they give them up because of incentives. I think we need to close the feedback loop and take the negative externalities of all of these contributors to climate change and integrate them back into our financial, political and social incentives system.

But that requires us to take aim at businesses. Big businesses, of course, would rather us take aim at each other as consumers. If consumers are busy policing each other, they'll get distracted from ever holding the big businesses to task when they're not doing their fair share. And of course, it's scary to hold them to task. They have endless resources, they can bury individuals in court, lobby politicians, spend on PR campaigns that serve as risk mitigation for their regulatory costs. It's much safer to change your behavior as a consumer and moralize other consumers if they don't change their own.

But again, it has limits. Once you get beyond those limits, consumers do not have influence. But, consumers are citizens, and citizens have influence over their country. They can participate in their communities to perform direct action, they can run for office to effect political change, and they can organize to vote for politicians that can make changes that help society run better. I believe in there being more than consumerism to citizenship (not saying you don't).
>> To participate in war and revolution don't you have to, you know, leave the house?

2016. One can very effectively wage a "war" through social media. Hacking aside, any angry young man (or woman) with an internet connection can foment serious change. He can get people out on the streets. He can trigger violence.
This is all politics. There's nothing reasonable about it.
As if the tsunami of people is a force of nature. It's not. The one thing we're not allowed to talk under capitalism. The job creators must have maximum "freedom". More jobs, of any kind, are always good, right?
It's possible, but it also seems likely to me that such an event would totally devastate a person, and that we don't hear much from devastated people.
I don't use a lot of data so my monthly phone bill is usually under $35. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Expand my original post from “delivery trucks” to “small trucks/vans on demonstrable business”. Also, other than for major construction, no more semi-trucks in the city.

And electric buses ASAP. They’re the loudest and dirtiest vehicles out here. And definitely no more tour buses.

That would make this city soar in terms of places people want to live and visit.
Ok, enough. I'll try your app now :)
>Buzzfeed's Justin Bieber haircut quizzes, however, do not provide any value to the users, apart from a tiny fleeting endorphin rush, maybe.

Depends on whether you measure people's stated or revealed preferences. Traffic stats make the revealed preferences pretty clear.
If you are seriously suggesting that a penny is worth the same to a wealthy man as a child, we cannot have a serious conversation.
Remember when Facebook busted the wage fixing cartel fueled by Steve Jobs tantrums.

Somehow Google had enough money to give the entire engineering staff a 10% raise. I'm sure they'd like to bring that back.
If everyone who drives is opposed to congestion control, why is it even on the table?
It's like saying the phone system aren't telecommunications because the yellow pages exist.
The copyright to non-Oracle OpenJDK distributions is still owned by Oracle, but Oracle licenses OpenJDK as free software (as in beer and in speech).

I think that even if it made sense to assign virtue judgments to corporations, it would be a huge stretch to claim that Oracle is any more evil than other companies of similar size, like Google, Facebook, Microsoft or Apple, but as I work for Oracle, I'm obviously biased.
Just poll which talks the audience wants to see beforehand. Works fine for the Chaos Communication Congress. The one room per track concept of FOSDEM doesn't provide much of a practical benefit AFAICT.
Or, just being 17/18 years old without a clue in the world and tons of external pressures to take on that debt.
> The parade of concerned parents writing these kinds of articles have conveniently forgotten how much TV and video games many of us consumed in 1980s and 1990s.

One of the great things about growing up in the UK in the '80s is that there were only four television channels, and they were all a bit rubbish (we got a fraction of the cartoons the US did, and our local children's programmes were often extremely dull). I did watch TV, but there was usually nothing worth watching on, so i had no choice but to go and do other things - read, draw, make things, try and program a computer, etc.
As an adult, I see my "boredom" more clearly as a psychological imperative "Do Something!" combined with an existential reply "Nothing Is Worth Doing!"

The result is inaction, the fix is either identifying something, anything worthwhile (the state often points to some unresolved need), or acting anyway despite the meaninglessness (only tenable for short periods, better to rearrange one's environment to avoid such situations altogether).
> For example, Oracle once added a clause about "embedded devices" needing a commercial license. With a very broad definition of embedded.

No, field-of-use restrictions had applied under Sun, too, as licensing Java to mobile/embedded devices was Java's income source. Later, various commercial features were also a source of income. Oracle has now completely opened the JDK (and there are no field-of-use restrictions for the free license), opened all commercial features, and has switched to a support model.

Like all companies providing open source runtimes/languages, Oracle, too, must fund Java somehow (as I explained in another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19069655). You're free to think that the funding model now is less preferable to you personally than the previous ones, but I don't think anyone can claim it is any more of a "cash grab" than the previous monetization strategies.

I think that if anyone claims that recent changes to Java's licensing and release models are not for the better, then they are either misled or misleading.
“I’m giving you an order to show me your ID” isn't skirting the law, it's invoking it. It's illegal to disobey police, even illegal orders.
The Apple investment was almost three years ago, were the others more recent?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-china/apple-invests...
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Because police take advantage of peoples' ignorance of their rights.
As a more practical and realistic alternative to Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" I would highly recommend "The Millionaire Next Door" by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko.

While not as eye catching or sexy as some other "get rich quick" books, it offers a profile of the average millionaire using research and interviews by the authors. As somebody who grew up thinking that wealth equated to status (and vice versa), this book was eye opening!
Not only that, but websites don't have TLS certificates securing their IP-address-form hostnames. The user's browser probably wouldn't even allow the site to load, if the web server even accepted the IP address as a hostname to begin with. The modern web is virtually useless without DNS.
Sounds like a hack if I ever heard of one.
In addition to the other cm2187's accurate observation that this may be literal survivor bias, the other potential explanation is whether the control group was well designed.

Israel is currently ~50% Sephardic Jews, descendants from Middle Eastern/North African peoples. Holocaust survivors are almost all Ashkenazi Jews (European ancestors). If the study was comparing Ashkenazi Jews in the test group vs a control group that was majority Sephardic, it's possible the differences in lifetime was due to some cultural or genetic differences between the two groups.

The study doesn't seem to account for this confounding variable.
I'm talking about the days when you built your own computer (from individual chips) -- pre-Apple II days, nothing as exotic as 640x480 much less color -- in fact motels in those days would still advertise that they had color TVs! We didn't have one.
I think there's some truth to that, though.

As a former video game addict, I look back on my time spent gaming as largely a waste. Most of it was a compulsion, like staying up until 4am re-queuing in Dota. Or grinding some armor piece.

But I don't look back with regret on any of my time spent reading. I think most people here know what I'm talking about. Why is that?

I can think of a few guesses. Books aren't in the same category of quick dopamine releases as most (not all) games. There's an element of imagination and mental world construction in the book with even the cheapest entertainment. You're exposed to different interpretations of the world, possibly integrating the thoughts of others against your own. It also helped me write and spell.

I'd certainly categorically rank books higher than games if I had to. Though I know if you told this to my 14-year-old self, I would've made you think I only played MathBlaster and games from The Learning Company all day. "What, you think learning is bad?!"

I'm reminded of when I was at my friend's house when he kicked his son off Youtube to go outside. He thought it was the most unfair thing in the world, happy to let you know how many good educational videos there were on Youtube even though he'd just done a four hour binge of screaming Minecraft vids.

I chuckled and thought of myself at about that age. At one point I spited my mother by bringing paper and pencils outside to draw instead of playing in the street. That'll show her! Well, I now have a drawing hobby that I still practice weekly in my 30s. :)
> more interesting experiment to fund just 100 people for life

Are there any good natural experiments like this?

Some lottery winners take the annuity, maybe that is close? (Although they are selected both to play the lottery, and to have the sense not to immediately buy a ferrari.)

Some places have pretty generous disability pay, I wonder if people who just got it or just didn't might be a useful experiment?
Because they already died? So add survivorship bias into the mix along with the role of the holocaust as a kind of hellish crucible for fitness?
Or perhaps more directly, that 411 (phone number lookup) is offered by some telcos.
True that. That explains why cannabis is further along in “legalization” than psilocybin.
This. I cannot agree more. I grew up in China when there were no video games. I loved reading fiction books but my teacher strictly forbade it for the similar reason we forbid our kids to watch youtube these days.

Now in Canada, my son's English class requires reading of many novels ...
This stuff must be real, a conversation with a Microsoft assistant happened and there is no way someone modified the chat messages via "Inspect element"

Obvious /s of course
They call them "Sundays".
I want to upvote this for solid info, but I want to flag it so fewer people have to know about CMake. It blows my mind that experienced software developers would develop yet another pseudo-language DSL vs creating a portable library (python, java, go, whatever) that has a sensible interface.
HTML is and always was a compilation target – can we deal with this?
This would be huge, and Cadillac has already deployed this in some of their models. The basic idea is simple: your car broadcasts its position and velocity vector multiple times per second (and your "car id" is periodically randomized for security), and the signal can be detected by any receiver within 500-1000 meters.

The simplest receiver could then trigger a flashing red "collision imminent" light if things look dicey. A complex receiver could employ active controls to "platoon" a set of vehicles, co-ordinate lane changes, or negotiate intersections.

The missing links, I think, are the need for
a) 1-2 meter position accuracy for platooning, and
b) 100-200 cm accuracy for lane-keeping/lane changing.

You'd still need to be an active, engaged driver: more "auto-pilot" than autonomous.
I love the fact that I'm seeing how stuff works. Before theory, people built huge buildings, cars, airplanes, magical electrical circuits etc.

Neural networks are the same thing. Bunch of heuristics that will later be proven in theory. Yet still work incredibly well. Like cathedrals did without any mathematics.

Says a lot about how tinkering with heuristics is powerful.
Nannayi varatte :)
There was a recent story about how the inmates in the camps received the best healthcare available in German society at the time. That would certainly explain why so many years later we still hear about "new" survivors.
Dunno about other places, but in New Zealand commercial trucks mostly have voluntary GPS tracking/logging to estimate their road mileage for road levies. (IIRC because they can subtract mileage travelled on private roads, but the per-km rate might be lower too.)

For most purposes though, a few linked to odometer reading, measured at mandatory "car health check-up" time and maybe amortised over the intervening period would be just fine, and require no new tech or tracking. Maybe tie it to insurance somehow?
Does this line not cause the above stacktrace?
> well, in that sense the op was saying disregard the real factors of complex numbers, use only 1 and i.

This is incorrect. The quantum mechanics of discrete systems still requires the use of the continuous field of complex numbers for the amplitudes of different configurations (not just the fourth roots of unity or anything like that). The "discrete" refers to the discreteness of the configuration space (e.g., the discrete spin of an electron, in contrast to the continuous position x of a particle).

Very analogously, one can do classical probability theory for discrete (e.g., binary) outcomes or continuous ones, but either way you need to use the continuous interval between 0 and 1 to represent probabilities for those outcomes. Restricting to binary probabilities (i.e., true or false) would be classical logic, a subset of probability theory.

(It's possible to work with an equivalent formulation of quantum mechanics with only real numbers, rather than complex amplitudes, but these numbers must still be continuous and allowed to go negative. The Wigner representation is an example.)

Incidentally, mixing up the continuity of the amplitude with the continuity of configurations is exactly the sort of mistake it's easy to make when these things are introduced simultaneously! So your misconception is exceedingly reasonable.
For my high school senior theology project, we were instructed to select a modern news event, categorize it into one (or more) of the seven deadly sins, and then give a class presentation. I miraculously convinced my group to choose the Microsoft antitrust case since I had just read the Wired cover story on it. Throughout the year, I sat in the back of the room and had a fake bible cover over my Flash 5 Bible and was reading about actionscript instead of paying attention to a topic I had no interest in. For the project, I made a fully interactive Windows 2000 desktop and functioning start menu that would launch “programs” that were the visual components of the presentation. We had the teacher move class to the computer lab where I loaded the flash executable onto each computer so the students could play with it while we gave the oral presentation. It was pretty awesome and we ended up with the only A in the entire grade!
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I would actually start with a closed source backend-as-a-service:
Firebase.

Then you can concentrate on getting your front end. Once you have a great UI add multiple backend support, maybe on ipfs or something super open.

Tiddlywiki might be interesting to you as well
Ahh, yes, you're right. The clause was there. But Sun, in practice, applied it to things that most people would call "embedded". Oracle used a broader definition that included PC hardware in many situations.

Not sure I understand the whole funding argument. Swift, golang, v8, typescript, etc, seem to be fine as open source.
Would a too extreme diet do permanent harm, or is our body used to bouts of near starvation?

The survivor bias makes sense, those that would have died at 65-75 years maybe died then when tested by the hardships.
Commercial is the wrong qualifier for two reasons.

The first is that you're going to have investment banks declaring their employees cars as commercial.

The second is that you don't have to be a business to take a job taking care of a planter (or whatever). You probably are, but it's not required.

I agree with the principal that "nobody needs to commute in a personal vehicle", but I find it hard to codify it into a reliable law.

Edit: Actually I like Nihonde's own modification: “small trucks/vans on demonstrable business”, I'd add "involving transporting stuff for use in the city".

It will probably still be gamed, but the ambiguity of the wording allows selective enforcement to fight the worst of that.

Edit 2: Actually I don't, considering the other discussions in this thread about police abusing their authority giving them more ambiguous laws seems like a bad idea.

Also - This is a perfect example of why I try to avoid advocating for/against policies on the internet unless it's abundantly clear that they are good/bad.
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