skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the real point that should never be omitted from TLDR: "As a result, Debian Stable still ships vulnerable Rust versions for some architectures. I expect many enterprise users to have vulnerable versions as well."
Maybe you should put "that bit about absolute numbers" in the proper context instead of wilfully misrepresenting it:

>[After discussing 1.9$/day as a completely inhumane measure; the equivalent of 35 people living with a UK minimum wage, without any gifts, loans, donations, or help of any kind] the story changes quite a bit - and you know it. If we use $7.40 per day, we see a decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but it’s not nearly as dramatic as your rosy narrative would have it. In 1981 a staggering 71% lived in poverty. Today it hovers at 58% (for 2013, the most recent data). Suddenly your grand story of progress seems tepid, mediocre, and – in a world that’s as fabulously rich as ours – completely obscene. There is nothing worth celebrating about a world where inequality is so extreme that 58% of people are in poverty, while a few dozen billionaires have more than all of their wealth combined.

>That’s proportions. Don’t get me wrong: proportions are an important indicator – and we should pay attention to it. But absolute numbers are equally important. In fact, that is the metric that the world’s governments first agreed to target in the Rome Declaration in 1996, the precursor to the Millennial Development Goals. The goalposts were shifted to proportions in the following years, which created the impression of faster progress. But really now it’s a moot point: if the goal is to end poverty, what matters is absolute numbers. Certainly that’s what matters from the perspective of poor people themselves.

>And if we look at absolute numbers, the trend changes completely. The poverty rate has worsened dramatically since 1981, from 3.2 billion to 4.2 billion, according to World Bank data. Six times higher than you would have people believe. That’s not progress in my book – that’s a disgrace. It is a crushing indictment of our global economic system, which is clearly failing the majority of humanity. Your claims about global poverty intentionally skate around this fact. Again, that is not responsible scholarship.

So yeah. Either you didn't read it or you wilfully ignored it, because comments such as "hat matters is that fewer people live on the wrong side of the line today than they did yesterday, and fewer people did yesterday than the day before" are incomprehensible otherwise.
Language is ambiguous like that. They support those of their employees interacting with the open source community at large, through HR support and general guidelines.
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The difference lies in the fact that absolute rigor to assess truths is not as fundamental in theoretical physics as it is in mathematics. Uncertainty is accepted. Physics puts a premium on empirical results and intuition over the more formal treatments common in mathematics (many important results/tools are not mathematically well-defined e.g. Feynman path-integral in d > 1).
Aren't most popular ml libraries declarative, e.g. keras, you aren't exactly specifying how to transform the state (for example all the specific matrix multiplication is hidden), rather you are declaring the logic of the computation (you list out the layers).
For some strange reason, paper with light lines on it is called feint ruled which is the source of my confusion going all the way back to my school days ... but every day is a school day, evidently.
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All aboard the Chrome train.
Here's the list of changes: https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.12
There are also icon and txr. I always liked the icon approach where backtracking is fairly explicit, but still tightly integrated into the language. Txr is more for text analysis.
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I didn't feel this way about the post, but I understand your pov.

To me it was important to know that rust doesn't create perfect code out of the box even with all the beautiful theory and design.

It's good to stay alert in a way
I keep passwords in a text file encrypted using gpg. I also don't write the entire password in the file, just enough digits/alphabets to remind me what the password would be.
The vast majority of gains against poverty have happened in one region: East Asia. As it happens, the economic success of China and the East Asian tigers – as scholars like Ha-Joon Chang and Robert Wade have long pointed out – is due not to the neoliberal markets that you espouse but rather state-led industrial policy, protectionism and regulation (the same measures that Western nations used to such great effect during their own period of industrial consolidation). They liberalized, to be sure – but they did so gradually and on their own terms.

China's trade policy is consistent with neo liberalism. China's economy began its huge expansion in the 70's and 80's after opening up trade with the rest of the world, and especially the U.S. So that example fails. Trump is the one who began the tariff war, not china.
For me, it’s an alternative to snacking. It allows me to have very sweet flavours without consuming overly sugary food, and so abate a craving. I also occasionally (once a month or so?) use 1.5mg nicotine juices for the high.
lol... Train your model with the dataset of "another list" i.e. populate a lookup table. Slap a sigmoid on top of that boolean "presence" result. Perfect precision/recall!
Still waiting for the support enums before seeing my first grandchild, I understand it's a very disruptive feature that may take tens of MIT PhD. graduates and hundreds of millions of dollars of funding, but having an enum in any language is necessary in 21st century, I am not talking of having featureful kind of enums like in Rust, just C-tier enums would be great
Exactly that.

Also, the people (me included) that don't question "why" are the people that would do the same if they had the opportunity.
Of course anyone can create the opportunity for themselves, and of course the income and spendings are relative, but no matter how you slice it, a half a million safety net, or even 1/10th that, is still a pretty big help to take the decision.
I don’t think the origins of the country really matter. Present day Taiwan is a country in literally everything but name.

That is silly in my opinion.
Apple comes closer than most. The most recent unsupported device is the 5C, which was released 5 years ago and discontinued in 2016. Their end of support appears to be mostly in line with major architecture changes and not "too old, too hard, just buy a new one" as appears to be the case with Android.
>As those willing to pay, is exactly those an advertiser want to target.

How does this follow? A user is not just on a scale from "I don't pay for anything" to "I pay for everything." People pay to solve what they perceive as problems. For some people, that problem is online advertising (but they don't use adblock because for instance they think it's unfair to the platforms they use). For others, it might be that they're looking to buy their kid a new toy. People could easily be in both groups, but they're unrelated so let's keep them separate for this example.

An advertiser representing Toys-R-Us for instance would love to advertise to that second group. The first group? Not necessarily.
No it's not. Reddit makes it too easy for people to cross between communities and the result is everything trends toward the lowest common denominator. It's the same problem 4Chan has. No matter what you do you're hanging out in the same neighborhood as a bunch of people you probably don't want to hang out with because at the end of the day you still share a site.
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Wait a minute, how does that go one way but not the other? Why is using $7.4 "doctoring the data" to fit your narrative but $1.9 not?

The author uses arguments such as

>The USDA states that about $6.7/day is necessary for achieving basic nutrition. Peter Edwards argues that people need about $7.40 if they are to achieve normal human life expectancy. The New Economics Foundation concludes that around $8 is necessary to reduce infant mortality by a meaningful margin.

to support his view that 1.9$ is a ridiculous measure promoted only to make the graphs look good and the narrative of "neoliberal progress" work. While on the other hand, the ~7$ figure, which he argues based on those references is the bare minimum, makes it all look rather drab (71%->58% in 40 years...)
probably when not using a JetBrains IDE
My view is that apps will evolve to be more user hostile, and there is no solution in the current internet landscape. Take the most snoopy internet corp, FaceBook - well above half their revenue goes to paying for infrastructure and salaries. Even if they choose not to build the technology (and hardware) that exists merely for user monitoring, a product working at that scale cannot exist without prying on user data and selling their privacy. Same situation with Google, and maybe Reddit eventually.

For a number of apps, a possible alternative is the P2P model - in which infrastructure costs are shared by participants and development is done by enthusiasts (either for free or with lifestyle-business sized incomes).
Reddit has also been supportive of 3rd party apps and those are some of the best apps of Android overall... Let alone for Reddit.
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I think its heavily depends on the subreddit. The only one i know that collects regular user data is /r/ukpol where 90% of users are white males between 18 and 30.
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In Germany there is also the Girocard (formerly EC Card), which largely uses SEPA Debit. Almost all European Countries use some form of SEPA Debit to power their card systems.

I don't think Europe needs to get their shit together, I'd rather if POS terminals would accept more payment systems. Credit Cards are not the world currency.
There are many people for whom the UI is the only reason they continue to use IE, so I wish MS would just take whatever new rendering engine they now have and give it the same UI that IE always had --- they would certainly win back a large portion of the userbase who are irritated by the combination of either the familiar and comfortable UI with sites that don't always work, or sites that work but an annoying dumbed-down UI. Edge was from the beginning looking too much like a horrible Chrome clone (which it is sort of turning into now...) Not happy with the browser situation in general these days...
Well, UWP and WPF are close cousins, so it probably isn't as bad as one would think if they didn't know that. They're both XAML, though they are not quite the same.

The main thing is that with WPF you can use the same Win32-type logic you've always been using. UWP is it's own API entirely. It's not all that different, but it is different. Things are organized better and APIs make more sense in UWP-land to me.

So the gui would probably port over relatively easily. The application logic probably wouldn't.
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Yes, I'm sure it's just not being done yet because there's no funding or not enough smart people working on it.
If you can force phone manifacturers to standrize chargers, same is possible for other issues.
My school was right next to a runway (as in a couple of hundred metres at most) — whenever a Nimrod was taking off, class had to stop and wait for it to do its thing as there was simply no competing with it on volume. Loud buggers!

As with a lot of British war jets from the post War decades, there was something quite beautiful — almost organic — in their lines.
> So, the first thing we need to do is to move to completely carbon emission free technology of energy production. Then we can perhaps produce more than we need (e.g. in the peaks) and can start thinking about catching some CO2 back from the atmosphere to reverse the climate changes.

We should be doing both in parallel. The article talks about this:

"Last year’s I.P.C.C. report noted that it may be impossible to limit warming to 1.5 degrees by 2100 through only a rapid switch to clean energy, electric cars and the like. To preserve a livable environment we may also need to extract CO₂ from the atmosphere. As Wurzbacher put it, “if you take all these numbers from the I.P.C.C., you end up with something like eight to 10 billion tons — gigatons — of CO₂ that need to be removed from the air every year, if we are serious about 1.5 or 2 degrees.” "
Firefox my dude. Has plugin support (uBlock) on mobile.
If I have a Samsung Tab S3, do I need to wait until Samsung releases an update to fix this?

edit: N/M I found the updates on Samsungs page that address these

https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb
Interesting to see this and "A.I. Shows Promise as a Physician Assistant" [0] on the front page at the same time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19140220
Won't they have problems with the low genetic diversity the same way Cavendish bananas seem to be in problem now?
I'm not sure if you're objecting to the name "Datashader", but surely every library needs a name, and this one is accurate in that it allows the sort of shading that one does for 3D rendering to be applied to 2D data plotting. Or are there other buzzwords used in the docs you find objectionable?
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>The trend is the same regardless of which poverty line you pick. Poverty is decreasing, education, literacy and health are rising.

The story changes quite a bit - and you know it. If we use $7.40 per day, we see a decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but it’s not nearly as dramatic as your rosy narrative would have it. In 1981 a staggering 71% lived in poverty. Today it hovers at 58% (for 2013, the most recent data). Suddenly your grand story of progress seems tepid, mediocre, and – in a world that’s as fabulously rich as ours – completely obscene.
Thank you, though I do understand. I’m saying that the article’s repeated mention of DNA is misleading, since it’s not being directly used by humans.
Can you elaborate - what is inaccurate in the CNBC report?
Well... while the BBC are clearly not Infowars, they have a longstanding problem with their current affairs coverage optimising for "controversy", by giving undue prominence to far right views. Latest iteration of this: https://twitter.com/cstross/status/1095279763009220609 / https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/bbc-question-time-inv...

My personal opinion is that the BBC's political coverage was thoroughly kneecapped after the Hutton Inquiry ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry ) at which point they decided to surrender to the government line rather than fight suspected falsehoods.
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The only way it wouldn't is if the money paid for an editorial staff and then you'd be approaching a traditional media setup.
I don’t think any serious bombing of Taiwan would be tolerated by the rest of the world.
I wonder in these cases if an IE-looking/IE-behaving theme for firefox would do the trick; sort of best of both worlds?
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That looks really fun!

How did you end up doing this? (Assuming the poster is the author of the blog, perhaps someone else can answer this question though?)
Perhaps the point of this was to build a database of people who are demonstrably gullible, to be targets of future scams.
I'm pretty sure regulation, protectionism and state intervention in a market economy is the definition of social-democracy.
But the reason they were segmented for period related ads was because they were being treated without discrimination as if they were (to the advertiser) "just a woman".

The parent appears to want to be recognised as "not a woman" (in this respect, at least), which goes against everything I've read from others before.

So, I was curious and wanted to know if the commenter thought this was common, or if they recognised it as peculiar to themselves.

Guess I'll never know because somehow probing peoples overt statements is unwanted here?
That would be a bit drastic, it's just a report.
uMatrix is the best at blocking all sorts of content. One can selectively enable and save preferences per website, and that is helpful since uMatrix tends to break websites using CDNs.
It has happened. The world has warmed by a degree. Insects are dying off. Coral reefs are dying off. Phytoplankton is at risk of dying off, the antarctic ice sheets are collapsing, the arctic thaws out completely almost in the summer time, permafrost is thawing I’m Siberia and Canada what more do you want?
I would much prefer reading a post about quitting to do something off your own, or just about setting up your own thing, without the money angle.

A different post would inspire me to try too. A post like this one makes me sad to be less privileged.

And I'm not saying that to make you feel bad or anything. People have different circumstances and make different choices for themselves, some biased by the circumstances and some not. I'm just saying it as a consumer of a text. Just throwing my opinion with no expectations of anyone catching it.
Some readers seem to be getting thrown by the casual tone of this article. For those struggling to not rage my two takeaways were:

* Automated checking of rusts std lib could improve rusts security

* Don't use unsafe if you don't need it

* Releasing a fix for a security vulnerability should be complemented with a cve if you want people (such as anyone using Debian) to not still be vulnerable two years later

Note: despite the initial slant, the author is very pro rust.
Not 100% agreeable with you. If you are writing a Linux device driver, accessing the registers, memory, IO ports are still considered as low level programming.

But you are right, to be really low level at C, nothing beats writing to the bare metal. There are plenty of guides floating about for this. Here is an example.

http://www.valvers.com/open-software/raspberry-pi/step01-bar...
Clickbait title. He didn't write "not a browser."

The original blog post is pretty reasonable:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/T...
Well, that's not true at all.

Facebook is less popular than VK, but Youtube is very popular, just as many other services be it Twitter or AWS.
Hold up a second (ahem):

"Celia pulled an automatic out of her pocket,...
Ed then whipped out a gun in each hand and cleaned out the cash register. "

If he's got a gun in each hand, how is he cleaning out the cash register?

And they had pocket-sized automatics in 1920? Women's pocket sized?

(I expect the author meant "from under her coat" and she had a tommy gun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_submachine_gun)
The fake news is coming from inside the media.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/08/wikipedia... / http://www.adnews.com.au/news/microsoft-flags-daily-mail-uk-...

There was a big push to regulate the UK media's endemic lack of ethics after the phone hacking scandal, but apart from collapsing "News of the World" no real change was achieved.

(On the other hand, the Hutton Inquiry censured the BBC for reporting that turned out to be accurate, so ...)
Quite, Any browser that doesn't use chromium is the correct choice. Monopolies are bad, and it's hilarious that people are celebrating one of the demise of one most destructive monopolies of the computing age with "just use $new_monpololistic_product, it will be different this time"
If those people are properly residents of Crimea? Yes, I’d imagine so.

I’d have a hard time arguing against it anyway.
Pet peeve here. We don’t need to train AI to decide what to crash into. We need to teach it to try and avoid crashing, and doing so foremost using the brakes. It’s ok if cars crash sometimes. It’s not ok if cars spazz out and veer onto the sidewalk.

We definitely don’t want the car deciding prematurely that it can’t possibly avoid a crash and start choosing what to hit (or even aim for). That will lead to truly dumb Ai.

1) minimize likelihood of crash
2) minimize speed of likely crashes
Not all people of female biological sex have periods, either.

Not wanting to be treated as a person with a period isn't the same as not wanting to be treated as a woman or a female.
One tree is not a forest. A million trees is a forest. Nobody can tell you which single tree delineates the difference. That doesn’t stop us from calling a tree a tree and a forest a forest.

The tech community has this idea that it’s impossible to make laws affecting such concepts that cannot easily be expressed as an algorithm giving boolean answers. But in reality, that’s exactly what jurisprudence does for a living. Otherwise there would be no need for lawyers and judges and juries.

The “I know it when I see it” quote is, obviously, one coined by a judge, and a supreme one at that. It became famous for both being somewhat true, and for leaving us wanting for something better. And even though the definition of pornography has somewhat advanced since then, and become somewhat less relevant, there still is a gray area: some gangbang on pornhub is probably porn. A bag of Doritos is not porn. In between are the image of Kim Phuc, Michelangelo’s David, and many a work of art. But the existence of that gray area does not negate the possibility to definitively say that the bag of Doritos is not porn, as far as the law is concerned.
People who say stuff like this forget that Europe nearly destroyed itself through war twice in just the last hundred years— and followed it up with an arms race that put the entire planet at risk of extinction. It was only the threat of nuclear annihilation that stopped Europeans from murdering each other on an industrial scale.
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Well-fare is insidious and destructive. Look up the origins of communism, those people only destroy.
The cynic answer is that "happiness with life" and a "dignified job" don't make the bosses any money. Numbers on a spreadsheet on the other hand...
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It's really sad the WebKit has won.
We're now back to single vendor.

With Firefox being the only independent rendering engine and that's been on a downwards trajectory.
Of course life has improved since 1820.

My reading of Hinkel was that comparing a farmer to a factory worker is an apples and oranges comparison, because its doesn't take into account the non monetary benefits the farmer has.

I would rather be a farmer on $1 a day than a factory worker on $1 a day, because the factory workers $ has to buy so much more stuff.
Maybe it's a LaRouche-ist.
> wrote in his article published in the Guardian newspaper:

[mansplaining]

...I mean, Hinkel's a dude too and should perhaps avoid the term, but these are men spouting nonsense and telling off more expertised people, so it's not too far off.
> I recently quit my job to travel and "find meaning to my life". Spoiler: I didn't.

Wherever you go, there'll you be.

> I always worry that my lack of degree will/does hurt my career

I doubt it's that holding you back.
And this is where "physician support tools" have always fallen down, and was the give-away I was expecting in the article. There are two type of ways of assisting diagnosis: (a) given this mass of data, what does the patient have? and (b) given this mass of data, does this patient likely have asthma?

It seems to me that all these "expert" A.I. systems are predicated on having a wealth of data already available. To me, the more interesting question is (c) "given this scarcity of data, which steps are likely to lead to the shortest time to diagnosis for this patient?"
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