skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, I do not really like that Unity has become such a widely used engine as a completely closed platform. Computer games are part of our cultural heritage by now and tying them to a closed source, utterly opaque and unmaintainable runtime environent will probably not help with keeping them alive as artifacts that can be experienced in the future.

I wish they were in a position to actually open up the core runtime source code so that it can be ported and maintained independently in the future. The tools - the commercially important part of the engine - can stay closed for all I care. I wonder if we would see such a move with shareholders crying for quarterly results.
I've worked on lots of nodejs projects with 1-2k transitive dependencies. I've seen plenty of simple projects end up with close to 1 gig of files in node_modules. And almost all of those files are never used at runtime.

I'd be a lot happier with npm if tiny libraries took up less space on disk. Storing a local copy of each dependency's readme file, license file, package.json and test suite is overkill when the module itself is only a few lines long. Its also very common for sloppy package maintainers to accidentally ship binary files in their npm module (image banners for their readme.md, test data, etc.)

Npm should only download the javascript file for small single-file modules. Nodejs itself already supports this - if you have a javascript file in your node_modules directory, require() will pull it in like normal. The license might need to be prepended to the file in a comment block, but this could easily be done automatically.
Thanks for the link. If I'm understanding this correctly, we could say that _actual_ tobacco use by minors has decrease by roughly half in 7 years, with a slight over all increase in nicotine use by minors.

This sounds like an improvement to me. Also, categorization of e-cigarettes as tobacco products, and the way that their use rate in minors is not explicitly reported separately from tobacco seems incoherent if not suspicious to me. If reporting actual rate of e-cigarette use were one's real goal, it would make far more sense to report it _alone_ instead of combined with tobacco.

Tobacco and smoking cessation products are effectively regulated cartels. I quit smoking years ago, using nicotine patches, which I noticed were made by GlaxoSmithKline. Other nicotine delivery vehicles seemed strangely un-competive considering that nicotine is cheap enough to spray as an insecticide. Generics existed, but they were hard to buy and surprisingly inferior. I belive these are regulated medical products and subject to patent; at any rate, I only ever saw generic nic patches at Wal-mart, and they were bad to use, and still pretty expensive. So for practical purposes it cost $100-$200 a month for patches, about the same as a few cartons of cigarettes. These products always had a peculiar way of costing a just a little more then a similar supply of cigarettes, even as the price/tax regime of tobacco changed by an integer factor over time and space. If I recall correctly, GSK turned out to own shares in Altria (might have been the other way around?).

In so far as E-cigarettes are a threat to incumbents, I would expect them to lobby aggressively to have them similarly regulated, taxed, and finally, priced. I suspect this is at least partly behind the sensation and obfuscated statistics surrounding vape use.

I know first hand that nicotine is viciously addictive. One of the reasons I quit is that I knew I was being farmed. Consider that Altria is famed as "dividend aristocrat". I would expect an aggressive campaign to prevent disruption of that market, or fold it into the extant cartel.
> Turns even the largest data into images, accurately

The first image, the image of the USA, seems really mis-representative to me. LA and NYC should be way way way more bright in relation to everything else than the entire area east of the Mississippi.

At least to my eyes that map makes it look like parts of Denver, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, and the San Joaquin Valley are just as dense as Manhattan.

Atlanta's population density 630 per square mile

Manhattan's population density 70826 per square mile

It seems like an accurate data image would have Atlanta's brightness 1/100th of Manhattan's. Basically it looks like they saturated out at around 250 people do anything over 250 people is the same brightness.
You’re happy you lost 90% of your wealth? This kind of religious nonsense is pretty typical in the MLM and ponzi worlds. Nobody should be happy about that.

Plus that’s some seriously classic goalpost moving. Each time the price drops further shift the buy in a date a few months to the left. Yes people who bought in two years ago (basically a tiny fraction of the people who bought in after) are now break even. Classic success.

The S&P has returned 14% since August 2017.
search 'tether scam' and you'll get all the answers you need. the price of bitcoin has been propped up for the entirety of its boom.
Does Chrome or Apple saved passwords work as a workflow for you? I find Apple's integration quite nice.
Have you just not been paying attention or something?
Silver Lake invested 400 million in them two years ago.

As others have noticed, there's been a (coincidental?) increase in their SaaS line of products.
Arguable that it will have better sound quality.

HomePod has exceptional audio positioning and audiophiles have benchmarked it against high end speakers like Klipsch and it's held up very well.

And the benefit for me is Siri. I ask her everyday to read out the BBC News, set timers in the kitchen, set reminders and most importantly play the huge array of content from Apple Music.
I've had glimpses of internal representations. It's hard to explain, and it seems to imply that either one part of the brain is observing another, or there is some form of recurrence at play. No hexagonal grids though.
I spent money on android because the Google rewards program gives it in exchange for me filling out surveys ( I assume to verify their analytics) and I spent zero dollars on iOS.
How do you process the video? On prem in a box or through the cloud? How do you deal with bandwidth concerns of retailers?
Some WordPress hosts were using it
They let you download the app... but they do NOT host the service. That's run by the Ministry of Interior.

EDIT: I had a paragraph below this saying the laws were really the problem and would still exist without the app.. but I forgot one key point: how easy it was to subvert the system before the app existed. I've removed that section. I fully support removing the app from the app stores and forcing SA to go back to the old system.
It claims to cover IAP [1] only, which wouldn't include Amazon nor Uber as those payments go directly to those entities. Also many companies who formerly relied on IAP, like Netflix and Spotify, are starting to bypass it entirely [2].

[1] https://developer.apple.com/in-app-purchase/

[2] https://musically.com/2018/08/22/netflix-joins-spotify-in-by...
I’m not sure that consciousness doesn’t exist, but I wholeheartedly concur and sympathize with your experience with marijuana. I’ve found the same results.
>They might be more focused on consumer facing features than bug fixing than they have been in the past, also.

I’m not sure they have much headroom left to do that!
I can't even figure out what those instructions do - there is no way they get heavy use in common software any time soon.
Physics has always been throwing math at reality and seeing what sticks. So why is it invalid to come up with a more universal mathematical object and seeing how it converges. Sure 10^500 but how how quickly are we throwing away 10^450 after experiments x, y and z? Perhaps they've invented too flexible an object and so it will never settle down, or perhaps they've invented the perfect mathematical object that will slowly but surely settle down on our reality as long as we keep feeding it experiments. A lot of science is discovering what can't be. Whatever is left is the discovery of something new.
I read this and thought, "this can't be right, they must be assuming some things."

According to them, they, sensibly, are indeed assuming some things to be correct without proof: http://sel4.systems/Info/FAQ/proof.pml

This is effectively the same idea behind Rust's `unsafe`. It represents the things you assume to be true. Of course, when compared to seL4, the scales are massively different. :-)
I use the pre-built image from Azeria Labs. It's a Linux VM with QEMU set up for Pi/Raspian out of the box.

https://azeria-labs.com/arm-lab-vm/
Most open source enthusiasts get apps from fdroid which does not support paid apps but it does have a donate button on the page. I only use open source and I have donated to the apps I use most.
I switched to TP-Link Decos a few months ago, 2 with wired backhauls and 1 with just wifi. Seems to work fine, haven't had problems with handoff.
I've been building a game part-time in Godot[0] and I contribute to the code on occasion. For the most part it has been a pleasant experience[1]. It currently does not have the same feature set or stability as Unity and Unreal, but it IS close and it IS getting better every day. And probably more importantly, it is funded and has smart people on its payroll.

If you are a hobbyist or you are making 2D games, Godot is fantastic right now and I highly recommend that you check it out.

If you are a professional game studio or you care about 3D, Godot might work for you right now, but you will probably hit some rough edges. These edges get smoother every day and now is a fantastic time to help Godot reach the next quality bar, either via donating[2] or contributing code[3].

The whole industry will benefit if we have an open-source toolset without licensing terms and fees. Godot seems to be our best bet right now. There are SO many talented developers in this space and right now most of their efforts go into improving ecosystems that they are PAYING to use. If even a small portion of that group redirected their efforts to improving the commons we would have a top tier product in no time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxW4PcX0fa8
[1] The 3D asset pipeline and renderer are my biggest pain points right now. Both of these are being addressed as we speak.
[2] https://www.patreon.com/godotengine
[3] https://github.com/godotengine/godot
New lines only. It's approx half a mil. new lines of code in each recent release.
Fox News continues to be the most embarrassing thing about America next to the president. It’s the mirror to all the ignorant, science denying, under-educated American people. As a news outlet it’s a farce and really a caricature of what a proper news org should be. So this guy’s comments don’t surprise me. He’s just living confirmation bias. He can’t see bacteria so they’re not there. Trump sees a polar vortex and denies global warming. Idiots.

Edit: I’m an American.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks072waMayk
That is basically the core insight behind julia. The really performance sensitive parts of your application are already static just by the nature of that code, so we can extract that static information to make it really fast. We can also make use of the same static information for static error messages or static compilation and get the best of both world (dynamic during development, static when you're done), but the tooling for that is a bit less developed at the moment.
Thanks.

That is certainly a different way to think about threading. My instinct would be to keep a separate JIT cache for each thread, keeping the threads from stealing resources from each other but also keeping them from sharing the JIT effort.

I think your approach is pretty much how /lib/ld-linux.so.2 deals with the PLT. I didn't see an explanation for stub 3, but I guess you mean the part of the JIT output that does the indirect jump. I take it that you believe the speed advantage of a direct jump is not enough to overcome the occasional hit caused by modifying it, with all the invalidations (icache, trace cache, etc.) that it might cause. Being similar to the dynamic linker is probably well-aligned with what Intel is trying to optimize for upcoming chips. OTOH, the spectre problem might limit what Intel does.

Putting the JIT in a separate process would have to add latency. Upon hitting a missing chunk of code, translation can't really wait. The idea is to run modern stuff, such as a recent desktop OS, via the JIT. We do use more than one mapping on Linux, as required to keep SE Linux happy.
How this is patentable is beyond me.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9665881B1/en?oq=9665881

I should revisit the unoriginal crap I've got on my GitHub and try to patent it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4240730/ Misaeng. Provides an interesting view of life in a Korean trading company (not bitcoin). Apparently not too far off reality.

Pretty great series.
Ask HN: Looking for feedback our startup (An online diagramming app)
Been hard at work building a ruby on rails app that allows you to basically do a digital whiteboard with post-it notes. The site is https://cardboardit.com. We also built our marketing site using WordPress. Coming from a developer background, WordPress can be a pain in the ass.

Anyway, in your opinion, what is missing to make he product more useful and to grow?
Money laundering, wash trading, tape painting and drugs. Rampant manipulation. It goes up 10% in minutes then falls back 10% a few days later, just enough time to wreck any leveraged short positions, and then wreck all the new leveraged long positions. The observers call it “barting” because the shape of all trading patterns looks like Bart’s head.
Interesting. And not anecdotical at all to me. Because due to "shrooms" in the night of New Year´s Eve of either 1997,1998 or 1999 I experienced something very similar. Anyways, long story short: The setting wasn't ideal for me, i took them rather reluctantly, and felt rather pressured to be there at all. For about half an hour nothing (that i could percieve)
happened (to me), then i noticed i had some sort of X-ray-vision into my arms and hands, blueish, not to the bone only, but with moving tendons and muscles. Rather funny at the moment. Then something happened. I heard a really high pitched sound, like in the first three seconds of "Cambodia" from Kim Wilde for example combined with the visual (hallucination) of the effect when one turns an old TV off
like shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLdaqWu3mA0
But in REVERSE! It felt like i could suddenly see all around in every direction at the same time from the middle of a sphere onto it's inner side. Which was tiled in hexagonal honeycombs, which i KNEW it was impossible, because i remember remembering something about footballs which need not only hexagons, but pentagons also. So i've been in the "Filmtisch (/ movie cutting table?)" of my whole life, where every single hexagon contained a scene of my past, which i could rewind/forward/skip, view from any point i'd like, and even change a little to see what could have been different.
It was awesome. Really. And where you say undulating i said mirage/shimmering heat because that is like what it looked to me, except when i focused on one, then it became crystal clear. And then it was gone, i felt feverish, thirsty and very groggy.
Anyways, since i'm rather skeptical i tried to remember where my subconsciousness could have gotten the template for
this escherian hexagonally tiled inner sphere, but the only thing i could come up with is the end sequence of a movie called "The Lawnmover Man" from 1992, where a captured AI
tries to break out into the worldwide net from a sphere in which every hexagon represented a link out of it. But it is not really the same, not at all.
Yeah. If I don't expect to make changes to the application and only act as a consumer, then it makes more sense economically for me to pay so I can download it and get updates without having to compile it and load it on my device every time.

Also, isn't it nice to help developers that make nice applications, especially when they offer their apps for a reasonable price?
your info is pretty old
Yes developers install this: https://sensortower.com

And my guess is, similar to polling, that the company predicts from the data they do have.
As of last time I checked a few years ago, NY law was silent on rules for the copyright ownership scenario you describe.

That leaves the federal default in place of "creator keeps the copyright when there is no explicit assignment unless it qualifies as a work for hire." Only work done within the scope of employment would be employer-owned by default, not unrelated spare time projects.

However, indeed NY's legal silence on this point allows contracts to explicitly assign the category of work you describe to the employer, if they include wording to that effect, subject only to any case law that might seem something excessive (not sure what NY courts have said on this topic).

The difference with California in this regard is that they actually prohibit and refuse to enforce contractual assignment of unrelated spare-time projects to the employer. Far stronger than a default.

The attitude to post-employment non-competes is also very different: aside from a very narrow M&A exception, California flat out bans those. NY disfavors them and courts often limit or discard them as unreasonable upon examination, but they're not categorically banned. That has a significant chilling effect.

Note I'm not a lawyer, just a law-geek former law student layman. Pay for qualified legal advice with appropriate licensure if you need that (I do that too despite my legal interests).
I already did calculus and linear algebra, before and during my first semester at University back in 2011-2012. I didn't attend any lecture or put much effort into it, and I got bad grades (although I passed). I don't remember anything about them, and I might have to do them again (I'm not sure if they're transferable).

I have enough savings to pay for university in my home province without taking any loan.
Rsunc solved a complex problem that comes in many nuanced variants. It may seem trivial at the outset, but it is actually not. So I don't think that rsync has many features that are somehow unnecessary or bloat.
It might just mean "synthetic" as in "synthetic biology":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology

As a field, it does seem a lot like scrounging through a parts bin for things that fit what you're looking for.

But that's fine; we know so little about biological systems, and they are so enormously complex. Plus, the documentation is non-existent and nobody can get in touch with the project's maintainer.
My professional opinion is K8s is a hot, steaming mess and using it is more about new widget hype and job security than making system insance management better.
Sure don’t provide any new info. “Wrong” doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in your case.
One analyst's attempts to demystify the types of traffic Google sends publishers
I agree, but I don't see why we shouldn't do both. We should press both Google and Apple to remove the app, as it helps out a horrible practice. What next, a database on female genital mutilation? Both Google and Apple have removed apps for far more trivial reasons.
Yeah, and we still disagree there. Nothing in the doc implies that just calling fsync() again will do anything useful, there is no implication of retryability.
This is a great idea. But outside of this would anyone be interested in meeting up at tech companies and protesting?
I'm the author of http://untether.space, so I'm well aware of that, but it's not clear to me what connection this has to increasing tx volumes?
thatoneyouthrow got flagged for commenting on the hypocrisy of the tech Elite for their support of a government in Saudi Arabia that kills journalists and oppresses females with no apologies - that funds radical Islam throughout the world - in the comments of an article discussing Apple and Google distributing government oppression apps on their stores.

It is odd. The keep from being too meta, I pose this question (since it seems like a controversial stance): Should Google and Apple formally decline to host applications in their stores that actively assist governments in oppressing their population? This isn't a philosophical discussion about how we are already tracked by phones, or how Facebook knows everything. This app literally is built by the government to check women in, so they do not have freedom of travel.
I love my unifi setup at home. Yes some more configuration for sure, but once it's up, it's so rock solid. Compared to the Asus router I had before the wifi reliability is fantastic
It probably is true. If it weren't true, there would be something very peculiar about the universe.
> consider the opposite, 2 years being an adult in the military or apprenticing at a job before college could provide the experience that sheltered children need.

Just my personal opinion, but 20 year olds aren't really adults either.

I think we need another legal category that is more than a minor but less than an adult to cover ages approximately 18-24.
Stripe, Steam, Expedia and Microsoft all stopped accepting BTC last year. What new mainstream merchants replaced them?
It went from 5 major retailers to 3. That’s a 40% drop.
Facebook updates it's interview process description for UI Engineers
Well the article mentions instagram. Facebook is a dating site for many. Many people use all kinds of platforms to hook up. Especially when you look internationally.

Exactly what do you define as 'dating site'? Craigslist has a dating section.

Please, you have suggestions, I'll be glad to reconsider my position in favor of reasonable suggestions that are based on a well thought out position.

Also, please let me know about how we are going to deal with leaks.

Like, when X person's sexuality is leaked and he/she is beaten to death for it or maybe for an infidelity (and you know those things get hacked/leaked), who do we apply for remuneration to? How many people do you think that will be? And why do those people not count vs the 15 kids in 5 years?

I'm truly open to solutions. I don't think they could possibly justify the tiny issue (statistically) that would probably not be fully mitigated by the solution anyway, but... I'm open. The burden is on you, who wishes to make changes, to prove that the change that you wish is preferable than the situation we have.
Agreed. Plausible deniability is maintained but the facts are the same. We, as a society, need to move away from the silly idea that companies should be moral judicators.
Does the word "statistics" not sufficiently describe things anymore?

Not for SEO purposes at any rate.
I still remember the olden days when

XOR AX,AX

was faster than

MOV AX,0

and Abrash'es book was the magnum opus of the pre-P6 era.

I guess I better throw most of those assumptions out for modern microarchitectures.
I did most of those already back in 2011-2012, except discrete mathematics.

It's been a while since I've used algebra and trigonometry, and I suspect I would need to re-do most of these classes, but I imagine it should be easier than the first time.
For what? So Apple removes the app from the store. Does that materially impact Saudi Arabi's institutional oppression of women?
I am aware of the repression of women in SA but I didn't realize they weren't even allowed to leave the country. The addition of real time tracking technology just makes it that much more horrifying. Imagine being a woman trying to escape domestic abuse and being returned to your abuser when you try to flee.
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