skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because some forks of a project aren’t free, doesn’t mean that the project itself isn’t free. Especially if the project, like much of the e.g. MIT-licensed code in the world, is “done” for all intents and purposes and there is no reason at all to fork, proprietary or otherwise. (This comes up in the context of pure algorithms code a lot.)

Also, even if a project is copylefted, people can still just do... exactly what they did here. Which, while different in the weak sense of “avoiding copyright” or maybe “avoiding patents”, in the context of systems code like this almost always results in the same code on both sides anyway. If the choice is between either giving the proprietary developers your code to use, or making them re-implement exactly what you wrote without your copy for reference—with no option for “they don’t implement it at all”—then exactly what is the point of choosing the latter over the former?
Yeah well that's TechCrunch.
Sure, and this may be regarded as good first-approximation evidence of your initial claim, that criticism of Israel is disproportionate to criticism of other countries; but I don't think it is good evidence of the claim that few people call for boycotts of China, Russia, and Turkey, which was the specific claim to which I was responding.

Anyway, as far as using Google results to measure societal trends goes, "boycott Microsoft" yields 3.83m results, and I don't think it's fair to conclude that criticism of Microsoft is disproportionate compared to that of all the countries you listed.
you left out the possibility that the bay has gotten worse.
> Luckily for everyone in my company, it's my job to set them straight.

I'm sure they love being told they're wrong because they're young and vain.

I'm aware styleguides recommend semis but I'm more referring to people who have strong opinions about what is a minor semantic. For my part it's simple: the effort involved using semicolons correctly (and in my experience many devs who like semis use them inconsistently) is significantly greater than the effort to fix/prevent ASI bugs. The only possible caveat to this is if you're using a code-formatter like Prettier to handle semis for you -- but then Prettier will catch and fix ASI bugs for you even if you don't.
While I agree with your point on this, just to play devil's advocate I have to point out that a lot has changed since the 1960's. We have designed more efficient rockets, we have much better computer guidance systems, we have much lighter-weight synthetic materials that could save on fuel, etc. Conceivably if we were to go to the Moon today, it would be substantially cheaper.

That said, I did feel like this project was overly ambitious. Even with my previous points, rockets are expensive, and space R&D is pricey.
They're only useful if you've got Phillips Hue lights installed. Other than that, smart speakers like Alexa and Google Home suck.

This is coming from a former enthusiast who quit his job to build a cross-platform framework and SaaS for those things, and owned them in his home for years. I really wanted to like them.

Trust is a big issue with these companies, but putting any conspiracy theories aside, they're just not very smart or useful. Under the hood, it's a glorified command-line that's voice activated, which is why spoken commands are often very inflexible; if you have to learn exactly what to say to it, then it's not much of an assistant or better than simply pressing buttons. They are also a form of vendor lock-in, as there's really no standard for writing VUIs(voice user interfaces) like there is for writing web applications. As a developer, you're stuck working with their crippled APIs, and everything has to go through their servers.

Recent news around Google has convinced me to leave those devices unplugged for good. It was fun trying to "program" them, but after years both professionally and privately trying to come up with ways to make them useful, I always came up empty handed. If it weren't for the fact that they can control lights really well, I'd say they belong in a garbage can. Either way, they are a gateway to more of the surveillance economy.

EDIT: Being able to play Amazon Music or Spotify on them would be useful if those VUIs, years later, still weren't a complete joke. It's nifty being able to ask smart speakers to play music until you've experienced enough times of it not recognizing particular bands or not finding songs/albums that are clearly in the mobile app. They suck.
Google Public DNS64
thatoneyouthrow got flagged for his personal attacks on people.

The quote "None of these men care about women or LGBT unless it's legally enforced." is clearly untrue, and simply doesn't address what is a multi-faceted issue.

It's worth noting that if citizens of the US are concerned about this, then the citizens have the power - via government - to fix this by imposing trade sanctions.
Android phones can be hacked remotely by viewing malicious PNG image
If CEO's don't care about women in Saudi Arabia do you think they care about women in the USA? We have to start somewhere.
It doesn't say if Tencent gets a board seat or not. Without a board seat the impact should be less...
That link just sent me into a 2 hour web hole that was insanely productive.

After reading some more of the original authors work, I was linked out to the ebook Breaking the Time Barrier [0] (by the CEO of Freshbooks which I'd never heard of) which instantly helped me reframe my approach to consulting.

And this is why Hacker News is addictive; Occasional and random large rewards.

[0] https://www.freshbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/breaki...
A small handful of people made a lot of money at the expense of a huge pile of people who came after them but only the winners yell about it, FTFY :)
Wow, yes, good point.
Begun, this cold war has.
Kind of wish they hadn't released a teaser for something so heavily anticipated and with so few public updates. Really sets the bar higher than it needs to be.
Funny I confused it with Unity Biotechnology, which also raised $300M recently and is on the upswing.

Would be interesting if both go IPO around the same time and confuse the heck out of everyone:

- "Did you hear Unity went IPO?"

- "Unity? the Technologies or the Biotechnology?"
LinkedIn finally rolls out video livestreaming service LinkedIn Live
Have you ever implemented optimized microcode for a pipelined, branch-predicting processor that you also had to build? MICMAC is the architecture we used once upon a time. I won all of the course's extra credit for both smallest microcode program and fastest (fewest micro ops) because I Huffman-encoded the macro ops of the test programs and used progressive decoding.

How about a Java to MIPS compiler? In C++ and then again in Java just to be self-hosting.

Or an all software OpenGL-compatible pipeline with painter-algorithm Z-buffering and trapezoid engine? Quaternions and all that state... fun-fun.

Another mandatory project in college was a non-pre-fork()ed select() caching HTTP/1.0 proxy in POSIX C89. IPC was a PITA back then.

There are still bigger fish, but one can be that much less of dilettante by digging deeper and mastering the why, not the what or the current fashion.
I was referring more to your faux astonishment that it is going on.

Did you know that genital mutilation is still common in parts of the world?

There's global slave traffic.

Etc., etc., etc.

Of course we are doing a lot better than history if you look at things in a statistical sense, but it takes a pretty insular world view to act astonished that there's shitty stuff going on.
I’m done with Reddit. It was a nice ride, but now it’s officially over. They’ve been trying to turn reddit into Facebook, a personal data vacuum, but now it’s going to get ugly.

Considering the valuation, remaining as an unpaid moderator for a reddit sub, is absolutely crazy. Hopefully all the mods up and leave, nothing like letting others get rich from your free efforts.
Don't listen to what they say, look at what they do...
> Just because some forks of a project aren’t free, doesn’t mean that the project itself isn’t free

We aren't talking about non-free, we're talking about less-free.

> Just because some forks of a project aren’t free, doesn’t mean that the project itself isn’t free

No. The fact that there can be forks of the project that aren't open is what means that the project itself is less free than a project where all forks must be open.

> Especially if the project, like much of the e.g. MIT-licensed code in the world, is “done”

I don't consider this relevant to the argument at hand.

> then exactly what is the point of choosing the latter over the former?

Are you asking me what the point is of making something you don't want people to do hard for them vs making it easy?
How did I not see this coming
The only entitlement here comes from you.

If pypy wants to support 2, they can. If developers want to take advantage of that, they can. If library maintainers want to drop 2 support, they can. If others want to fork the libraries to provide security for the 2.x fork, they can.

What is not acceptable is trying to dictate what technology others choose to use to suit your personal preference.
I'm not talking about an innate drive to eat fruit. Many/most western people have been convinced, through things like the food guide pyramid, that fruit is "good for you" and a "healthy choice".

This isn't a case where your body is craving a vitamin, and urging you to eat an orange. Your mind is saying "this is the right thing to do!", when in actuality, it's spiking your glucose.
If you look at the operational emissions, this is true. Infrastructure does however play a role. Planes have high operational emissions but require little infrastructure. Trains have little emissions but require enormous infrastructure.

It's however completely unclear to me which CO2-calculators account the infrastructure, and which do not.
What is Google Wifi? I've never heard of it until this comment...
Is this another backdoor or am I being paranoid again cause this type of exploit is like those who see in the movies, we start laughing ironically and we are like "cmon now, that's insane...hack every phone using an image, not in a billion"
You make good arguments for the Beats acquisition, perhaps I am being a bit short sighted. Just does not seem as transformative as some of Amazon's big acquisitions (Ring, PillPack, Whole Foods, Twitch).
Very cool! Has anyone seen a Rust equivalent of something like this?
If they don’t get a Board seat it would be the dumbest $300m ever spent, but if they don’t get a Board seat it means their interests are already protected and represented.
Actually, foreign nationals on work visas can't exit even with a valid passport if they don't have an exit permit:

https://www.justlanded.com/english/Saudi-Arabia/Articles/Vis...
I posit that there are two issues here: profit and rights for women. Now it seems to me that the real issue is profits over the rights of women. But please educate me on how this is a "multi-faceted" issue if I have left something out.

Maybe Apple and Google are entitled to make money from Saudi Arabia's oppression of women? Once again, please make your case.
And HN just turned into reddit.

The jews and their magic money, right?

AIPAC spent 3.5 million on lobbying in 2018. Do you have any idea how infinitesimal that is?

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00004696...

There was $5.7 billion dollars spent on lobbying during the mid term elections.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/02/cost-of-2018-electi...

In 2018, Google spent $21 million

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYe...

The Healthcare industry spent $556 million

The Mexican government spent 2.3 million

https://www.opensecrets.org/fara/countries/87

But AIPAC is by far and away the real problem.
Yes, I'm assuming once code is JIT'ed, it will take a while before being JIT'ed again. But in the meantime the caches will cover some of the trampoline costs.

With regards to latency, if you have a dedicated JIT thread, you can read ahead and JIT the start of all the jump/calls up to the next current ret in parallel to executing the first chunk. Like a super fancy prefetch. Heuristically, I think it's safe to assume that most code is local but I could be wrong.

Also, if you load hwloc on x86-64, you can read your CPU topology at initialization time. If hyperthreading is present (which is somewhat common), you can set affinity for JIT threads to be on the same core as the emulated CPUs. This will minimize read concurrency overhead since you'll be reading/writing to the physical core's L1 almost every time. (This part is crazy, but you might even be able to get away without using atomics due to how cache-associativity works, but I've never tried it and it might not be guaranteed into the future.)
Obviously not. I've only worked on two different compilers/languages which do provide all three safeties, while you probably wouldn't even be able to name a single one. It's embarrassing.

It's a nice language, and safer than C/C++ but for sure not a safe one, even if thousands of newbies will repeat it constantly.
It implies he thinks it's less of a thing there than in New York.
This is a hilariously petulant article.
No, because you declare it as a dependency.
Oh I get that.

But it was lacking any depth.

It seemed one sided. But I can't even call it that. It didn't even give a side. It was more like... hearsay with a single interview, probably on the phone, with 1 person on the ground. Even then, they could have published the interview for some depth. But not even that. Hell, probably browsing local facebook groups/reddits or calling their local municipality/college associations you could find more information with a few hours of free time. It's... surreal in terms of how shallow it was.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd fully expect a tabloid to publish trash rag stuff, but... I'm seeing it more now in major publications, and even oddly shared on sites like this.

I'm just... I just find it odd.
There are „lower level“ explanations for these visual hallucinations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene#Mechanical_stimula...
Maybe a cap on how big and diversified in its portfolio a company can be. I don’t so much buy the idea of taxing people excessively more just because they have more.
You and I both know that's not going to happen. There's no shortage of people willing to moderate subs.
I also decided it's as good a time as any to rip reddit out of my daily life, after using it for the better part of the last 10 years.

Between the crushing "download our tracking riddled app" / "switch to our shitty new redesign" push recently and massive amount of engineered sponsored content, instead of paid-for advertisement, there's nothing there keeping me interested. This most recent funding round is just icing on the cake.

It's only a matter of time before they go down the twitter path and outright ban third party apps.
Anthropocentrism isn't big on humility, but is on being "first" or whatever-est, as if that changed anything. I guess it's purely a game.
I really really like this idea. Often I am wondering if something I am doing simply works by chance or if its an actual supported feature and as a developer I wonder if I can change something because someone might be depending on it.

But I am left wondering something. How can you easily let people find out if their use case is included in the tests without having them read 20,000 tests.
The CEO only said their product is positioned as a premium product. The interviewer was the one mentioning Amazon and Google being in your home.

The CEO’s reply was pretty neutral in that regard.
Evaluation and accurate diagnoses of pediatric diseases using A.I
I'm currently attending Portland State University and it's about $3k-$4k / term (tuition + materials), paid out of pocket.

I also know lots of folks who went all over the country from my high school - a significant number of them will end up in high paying jobs and/or have decently large scholarships so perhaps that's worthwhile for them. I also know of a decent number of them who are going to fairly expensive places (especially with private schools) without scholarships and who aren't targeting fields with a low E(x) in terms of pay. I do wonder how they will fare in the coming years.
Scientists Are Rethinking Animal Cognition
I don't need all those things anymore (and never did). I've visualized not being able to pull this off. That was very important for me to take the plunge.
NYC tunnels finally have GPS service
That’s assuming the customer is capable of sustaining what they bought, which is almost never the case with consumer products like in this case.
I mean there’s only two answers and after that really only one. Deficit and taxes. And then even more taxes for the current expenses and all the interest too.

And if we simply print the money to pay for it, then increased inflation to boot.
> Routers can't see URLs now that everything is HTTPS

that is not true... at least not currently.
I've seen Reddit degrade painfully over last 8-10 years. It was full of intelligent comments, insight and unique perspective from people all over the world. Browsing the front page and reading the comments makes me sad that instead of intellectual discourse, we have a 3 billion dollar meme making machine.

I wish to keep HN away from the masses as much as I'd like a broader perspective in the light of how things go with typical social networks. There is no lack of funny things on the internet. Even witty jokes have no place here because slowly and surely it will erode away why HN is a gem of the internet.
Yeah, I'm stuck with the same thoughts now. Eero was what I was going to use since they were independent. It's just that Airport is still currently good enough for my needs. There's Ubiquiti but it seems like configuration overkill.
Maybe if they get another $300M round they will be able to afford some designers to fix the abomination that the current design is.
Superglue / cyanoacrylate wasn't discovered until the 1940s. They were trying to create clear gun sights when they discovered the fact that it sticks to everything. My understanding is that it wasn't used in the field to close wounds until the Vietnam war.
I'm totally fine not getting back the same compensation, level, company, etc, if I had to get a job again. I'm relying on being able to find a job that covers my expenses though, which I'm reasonably confident in.
> And if we simply print the money to pay for it, then increased inflation to boot.

This logically makes sense, but it doesn't really follow the evidence. We've been running a budget deficit for many years, growing larger and larger, yet interest rates are historically low.
Where does the CO2 cost of the infrastructure come in? Is that just in construction or do rails somehow emit CO2? Or are you just saying that rails take up space and that's an environmental impact too?

I feel like I'm missing something.
The median income in South Korea is typically around $1,250 to $1,500 per month.

To be entirely free to burn $1,000 per month in that style, you would want an income at least four times higher than that median. That's a considerable salary in South Korea. At $1,500 you're going to roughly be at break-even on living costs.
Yeah. If your food and rent is covered by your parents, any job will give you the ability to spend $1000 on whatever you want.
An IPO is almost always a bit worrying, but I'm feeling very optimistic about the direction Unity is going in general.

I've just started work on a new game using their new ECS system. It's not ready for anyone who's not either a very seasoned programmer or very patient, but so far I like it much better than the standard MonoBehaviour workflow.
I came across this [1] a while ago. I haven't spent any time reading it yet so I can't exactly recommend it, but it seems pretty good.

[1] https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-raspi3-OS-tutorials
Sorry that I don't know the details. But here is a list of the private institutions of higher education (private Hochschulen; note that the term "Hochschulen" is hard to translate into English since the term "Hochschule" also includes "Fachhochschulen" - a very German kind of higher education):

> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liste_privater_Ho...

You are probably mostly interested in the private institutions of higher education with a right to award doctorates:

> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liste_privater_Ho...

For example for Bucerius Law School, you can find:

> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bucerius_Law_Scho...

"Die Hochschule bietet einen umgekehrten Generationenvertrag (UGV) an, der es Studierenden ermöglicht, zunächst ohne Gebühren zu studieren, wenn sie sich verpflichten, nach dem Eintritt in das Berufsleben 10 Jahre lang jährlich 9 % des Einkommens an die Hochschule zu zahlen, maximal das Doppelte der regulären Studiengebühren plus Basiszinssatz."

"The institution of higher education offers an reverse inter-generational contract which enables students initially to study without tuition fees if they pledge themselves after entering the workforce for 10 years yearly 9% of their income [the clause order in German is much more free than in English; if I translated it into proper English, it would be incomprehensible] to the institution of higher education; at a maximum double the regular tuition fees plus basic rate of interest".

German Wikipedia page for "Umgekehrter Generationenvertrag (UGV)" (reverse inter-generational contract):

> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Umgekehrter_Gener...

Also Universität Witten/Herdecke offers a reverse inter-generational contract:

> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universit%C3%A4t_...

"Als private Universität finanziert sich die Hochschule aus Studienbeiträgen, Spenden und Fördermitteln.[31] Die StudierendenGesellschaft Witten/Herdecke, ein von Studierenden geführter, gemeinnütziger Verein, organisiert seit 1995 die elternunabhängige und sozialverträgliche Finanzierung des Studiums anhand des Umgekehrten Generationenvertrags." (I will not translate this, since it is just the relevant quote for what I wrote in English).

Also WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management makes such an offer:

> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WHU_%E2%80%93_Ott...

> https://www.whu.edu/de/programme/bachelor-programm/gebuehren...
> faux astonishment

> insular world view

Is it cold up there on your high horse? I've lived in five countries on three continents. I don't follow Saudi Arabian social issues and was outraged by this particular bit of news. Nothing faux about it. I am aware that sometimes bad things happen to good people. Next time I'll be more jaded and condescending so everyone on the internet will know how worldly I am.
Yes. We should all support a green revolution. De-fund middle eastern dictators that abuse people.
Tim Cook is leading the charge on that one. A gay man that supports a regime that executes homosexuals. It sounds like fake news and yet it's true.
Yeah to be honest, even RoR/Django/whatever is often more than is necessary. Sometimes static HTML/CSS is what's necessary. A lot of the time, really. I wonder what percentage of React websites could be well served with static HTML and at least one employee who knows HTML.
Sweden's Cashless Experiment: Is It Too Much Too Fast?
Its hard for Google to point to some TOS violation when roughly half the app ecosystem revolves around tracking people in order to manipulate their behaviour (ads, gambling, etc). Their app is doing what most mobile apps are designed to do. Its just more successful than usual since the creator is a nation state.
i think I am actually going to switch to Lyft after reading this
K9S- Kubernetes CLI to Manage Your Clusters in Style
Exactly. Leave what works. The emperor doesn't need new clothes and we don't need the pain of fashionable, consumerist, job-security churn.