skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You observed the background cycles of insect population variation.

They openly described their statement as an anecdote.

Meanwhile, you're making a pretty conclusive statement here, without any apparent evidence for it. How do you know their observed reduction in insect population is "background cycle" and not the global reductions scientists have been empirically observing?
I’m a lifelong patron and there’s really no hiding it: the food is not good. The grits are glue, the waffles are corn syrupy, the actual syrup is also corn syrupy, and the meat - well I no longer eat the meat.

But as an operation and an experience, it’s a treasure.
These aren’t really the kind of complaints that Stallman has, though.
>Is there anything about this on the internet that supports this thesis? Any studies?

Not exactly, but near enough:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120305-youll-catch-a-cold-...

http://fampra.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/6/608.short

>Conclusion. Acute chilling of the feet causes the onset of common cold symptoms in around 10% of subjects who are chilled. Further studies are needed to determine the relationship of symptom generation to any respiratory infection.
No One Asks the Top CEOs Where They Went to College
> 1. Do they limit the freedom of the developer to keep source code private?

The (A)GPL aim is to retain the freedom of the user to view, modify, compile, and redistribute their changes. They explicitly limit the freedom of the developer to close their source would that the user has those freedoms.

To use an extreme example that I'm not using as an example for moral equivalence, but as a procedural one: laws against any (e.g. theft, murder, trespassing, &c) limit the abilities of one party for the benefit of another.

Licenses like the MIT and bsd license take the opposite approach: they give the developer the freedom to use the code as they want, including closing it from inspection and modification by the end user.

Both allow someone to be constrained in some way. It's just a matter of who.

> 2. Do they make it harder to sustain a living wage through the labor of writing software?

I mean, RedHat seems to be doing OK? The recent kerfuffle about mongo and elastic search seem to be because they chose more permissive license at the start, and not a copyleft.

So, who knows? Business is hard and no one factor makes or breaks your chances?
This isn't a fun answer, but you basically can't without substantial background in undergrad mathematics. The subject has some of the highest prerequisites of any upper undergrad/lower grad level math course, as it touches on (and uses) just about everything you'd learn through an undergrad math degree.

I don't want to discourage you, I'm just being realistic. If you want to work towards algebraic geometry, you can certainly do that. You'll need to first master linear algebra and abstract algebra. You should have a strong understanding of fields, groups, rings, vector spaces and modules. Someone else mentioned commutative algebra - that is more of a circular dependency with algebraic geometry than a hard one. It's good to have walking in, but realistically you can't master the subject without knowing algebraic geometry.

You'll also need analysis, in particular complex analysis for curves. Real analysis and topology should also be covered but I suppose with tenacity you could get by without them.

To translate these into concrete suggestions, in your position I'd try to work through the following, in order:

1. Linear Algebra Done Right (Axler)

2. Abstract Algebra (Dummit & Foot)

3. Complex Analysis (Ahlfors)

4. Algebraic Curves (Fulton)

The last one is a standard upper undergraduate introduction to the subject.

If possible you should organize a study group or take a class though, because trying to learn math on your own from a textbook is rough.
Thanks for that comment. I still have a Galaxy 4 and last week I pulled it out of the drawer and charged it. I looked at LieageOS but was concerned about the time spent installing it. Also, my Galaxy 4 no longer has a SIM card; do you know what the LineageOS experience would be like WiFi only?
If James may is to be believed, there were only two of that Porsche in the UK (And Jeremy was insisting on a(?) 928)
Especially considering HTTP 2 is an entirely different beast, which means it's more or less another library.
Does Apple prohibit sending them the source code so that they can compile and load it through Xcode?

I realize that requires a MacOS computer, which costs money, but the “free” in free software principles is about the freedom to share the code, not the price of the code. Free software is allowed to be sold.

Increasingly, it is also possible to run Swift code on Linux without Xcode or MacOS (recognizing the GUI would need to be rewritten).
Thank you!

> but I don’t know if I could do once a day email.

Maybe you’d be surprised? There is a notification you can get if you get anything in our daily delivery, so you don’t completely forget about it.
And a few good reasons to choose Apple:

My new iPhone XR needs to be charged only once or twice per week.

For development, I get a certified UNIX machine with an excellent user interface, best of both worlds for the vast majority of tasks we need using computers.

Apple makes money off me because I buy their products. I am myself not the product, their hardware is. This has so many natural side effects that benefit users, that it scares me to go in the direction of android.

The iPad is truly a revolutionary best in class device, I’ve not seen anything else that comes anywhere close to its quality for what it does.
The classic series of top gear (mid 2000s) are brilliant, organic and only scripted in terms of set pieces (No dialogue)
Apple knows which is how they can display every devices location on icloud.com including "last known location" which means the location was previously sent to Apple.
That's right.

Nowadays many linux CDs/DVDs/USB sticks start by booting into a live system, and then offer you to install it.

Back in the days when Knoppix was popular, the major distros only had normal installers, so you needed a free partition for installation (or resize an existing windows partition to make room, which was very risky).
Ya but I have to leak you my diagrams. Websequencediagram already does this. Plantuml allows a local renderer.
I have said this before: the reason why people find a hidden camera much worse than a visible camera is simple. People aren’t dumb, they make trade-off choices. Of course they could spy on you with a visible camera, too. But either you know and don’t care and still buy the damn thing or you don’t. Knowing means in this case being able to make an informed decision. Not informing customers about a camera inside a home device feels like they don’t want you to consider this fact in your decision making...
More effort probably, most of the downforce is from the floor AFAIK
The list is updated continuously. The last element in the censorship section is from December of last year, which is pretty recent.
The problem I have with Stallman is that he’s usually right, but he is remarkably horrible at coming across as someone with valid opinions. It is disingenuous to come to the table with clearly cherry-picked evidence, and calling companies and their products with stupid names is just childish. There are a lot of problems with companies, and Stallman is very good at recognizing them, but he’s just pretty bad at getting people to not consider him as somewhat crazy :/
Because most high school graduates don't have the soft skills (or the hard skills) to work in a corporate environment.

I've worked with people with previous job experience that have gone through 10-week coding programs. And it shows. They might've been taught a framework or a language, but their computer science skills aren't nearly as developed. Some things take years to click, and growth occurs from years of writing bad code.
>I almost feel stupid but I never realized they take the corners THAT fast. Holy shit. Respect. That's insane.

The camera angles Rarely do the cars justice in protraying their speed (though its gotten better). There's a great vid on HN with a Porsche 919 sportscar at the Nurbugring that portays the quick factor fairly realistically (you can quibble about the various diffrences between a Sportscar and an F1 car in terms of capabilities--both are other worldy quick, and fast). I like to post that vid when talk here turns to self-driving cars, but I digress; F1 pilots are simply amazing. The cars are too.

"https://youtu.be/PQmSUHhP3ug"
Exactly. I've had the same experience as you. I've exercised a ton over the years -- weight lifting, marathon running, mountain climbing -- but haven't lost the fat I wanted to.

Calorie counting isn't magic but it's helped me "price" my meals. If the little cajun fries at Five Guys are really 600 calories, maybe I can pass on those and get a bag of 90 calorie chips instead.

Now I'm no longer surprised when I step on the scale each week, I know from my weekly calorie total if I've lost weight or not.

It's like as humans we all have eating amnesia, the minute we consume something it's forgotten about -- then later we wonder why we haven't lost weight. This article is a little silly in pretending that the math of calories in/calories out isn't as viable a method as just eating whole foods.
Chris Harris is a legend. The segments of him racing would've been impossible with the old lot
I've never seen a language being used or not used because it reused some other ecosystem.

It might have worked for Clojure and Scala, but didn't get tons of other JVM targeting languages very far.

And inversely, C, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Go, Rust etc succeeded by themselves.
The problem is, in Atlanta anyway, there will literally be two Waffle House's on the corners of an interstate exit. I'm thinking in particular a Jonesboro exit I used to live near, but it wasn't necessarily unique.

It always amused me when I was younger that you could go to either one at 2am and it would be filled with both kids like me getting some food after a party and truckers stopping for a break. Filled!
Huawei's Dongguan Campus Replicates 12 European Cities
Object-Oriented Programming is Bad (2016) [video]
Nice I like the scruffy mode, something about it captures the eye more than a clean cut shape you can put together on PowerPoint.
They could, but they get audited a lot.

The fines for cheating (unless you are Ferrari, usually) are catastrophic (for a non-works team): Lots of money and probable disqualification from the WCC
If nobody from my school could do the job, those connections would dry up and the companies would higher and fill internship positions from elsewhere.
And then I could install a Verizon SIM card myself? Sounds much better. I am stuck with Verizon because they have the best coverage in the mountains of Central Arizona.
> The point of this is that none of this has anything to do with signaling, but it also has very little to do with the quality of education received.

Ability. You’re talking about ability. Caplan estimates that on average the return from education is ~70% signalling and ability, 30% changes in human capital if I remember right.
This happens a lot but usually picking the supporting extrinsic rewarding parts of game design like achievements and levelling rather than thinking about how game design can make activities intrinsically more rewarding.

Also I think that for a lot of people videogames really do have positive effects which enrich humanity.
>Pay toilets are nasty

Usually they're pretty nice compared to the free toilets.
Since the OP is moving to Sweden, there's no point in making a recommendation, is there?

It's hard to know what the OP is asking about.

The housing problem outside the big cities is much less of a problem. Even negative in some places. For all we know, the OP could be moving to Skurup.

FWIW, we moved to Trollhättan because the housing situation in Göteborg was untenable. It only took a few months to find a place here. To be fair, we also had good timing, but my point is that there is more to Sweden than the big cities.

It's hard to recommend Silicon Valley as well, but people keep moving there. ("No one goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/ ).

Is there anywhere like it was ten years ago?
As an example, here is the source code for Firefox on iOS along with build and install instructions.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/blob/master/RE...
And Krystal's. I don't care what anyone says. That's foods good! I have fond memories of my grandfather randomly saying, "Let's go get some Krystal's!" 15 minutes and probably $5 later we'd have dinner for me, him and my grandmother.
I think Apple takes privacy more seriously than anyone. They don't need to spy on people to make money, unlike many tech companies.

Content control is different from political censorship. Every company has the right to policy their content and choose their customers. It sucks, but it isn't evil.

Those are pretty old arguments, because Apple does allow Bitcoin related apps now, and has been for many years.
The scientists keeping a global watch for nuclear explosions (2018)
The script sounds like it was written by an AI trained on a combination of old top gear and an American dictionary (i.e. why is Clarkson giving temperatures in Fahrenheit when he used to shun all things American etc.)
Agreed. It's like when he writes about Facebook and calls people "useds" instead of "users." Many of his opinions could be (or are) compelling and well-defended, but many of them are tangled up with his hostile (and sometimes childish) style of argumentation.

I wish he would tone it down sometimes, for lack of a better phrase. He doesn't have to compromise on his ideology to polish up his essays with less polarizing style. His arguments are already controversial, and he doesn't convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him by insisting on writing this way.

EDIT: Well apparently this is a controversial comment...the score just keeps going up and down.
I didn’t flag this, but I don’t see why this nonsense derserves special protection. If the flagging mechanism quickly moves trolls like this off the front page I think it’s working.
Tons of non-classical folk musics, people have listened to for millennia in total observance (from ragas to folk chinese music, all the way to ancient greek lute and flute scores), are not tied to "physical expression of emotion", and plain folk people listened (and listen) to them just fine.

The idea that one must jump, dance, and prance around as of paramount importance is more tied with teenagers setting the agenda of "popular music" since the 50s or so, than some inherent human need.
Here's another:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cNqaPSHv0
Something has to pay for a cleaner to clean the piss and shit from the floor, walls and ceiling.
SQLite files can't easily be merged. Putting one database in another database doesn't allow you to take advantage of the best features of either one.

Text files are a good idea, and I've done that for many of my own projects. You just need to figure out a filename scheme, and a file format (JSON? YAML?). It's great to be able to atomically commit a fix to the source code, and also close the bug report.

I'm not sure how well it would scale. (Mozilla has 1.5M bug reports in their Bugzilla!) At the least, you'd need a local client that could index the text files into a format more suitable for sorting/searching. It would only need to download the diffs, though.
That's more or less what I had in mind. Thanks for the detailed write-up, I think I'll need foot on the ground approach, and get in touch with them directly.
It works fine without cellular. In the hands of someone who can install Linux, it shouldn’t take more than an hour (if you have a not-dialup internet connection).

First, apt install adb heimdall-flash. These are the basic tools for interacting with Samsung phones and Android devices in general from a Linux machine.

From there, follow the instructions I linked below, which basically amounts to getting root and unlocking the boot loader using Heimdall, then flashing TWRP, which is a recovery program, then flashing LineageOS from within TWRP. It’s not hard, but be sure to follow the right set of instructions, because the files for the Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint phones are not compatible.

Assuming you have the Verizon model: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/jfltevzw/install
I remember this phenomenon as far back as Mario Kart on Nintendo 64.
He was also the crew-cut guy running demos in film loops I saw in school when I was a kid in the '60s and '70s.
> Most of the value of assignments is in simply doing them; that forces you to review the necessary material.

Preach it. The same is true of past or specimen exam papers or textbook questions. Writing, like debating, exposes your own ignorance to you and allows you to remedy it.
I find the same, but there are rare gems out there.

Frustratingly I saw a fun-looking language posted here before, which was a virtual-machine based system. It was small, clear, and had a good range of libraries and I'm damned if I can find it again!
The problem is when you get high on your own genious- and create something that seems to improve performance, and breaks the architecture- then you return years later- and the optimization has become the limitation for all after you. Yet nobody wants to rip it out, because - its beautifull.

Stick to the plan Stan. Even when it could be better steven.
> but like all philosophies, his philosophy is inconsistent

All philosophies are inconsistent?

> (See the paradox of closed source microwaves)

That's not a paradox. Binary blobs are okay if, and only if, there is no way to update them anyway. This means there is no way for the copyright holder of the software to force a user to cede their software freedom, so the point is moot.

> software should be libre because libre software provides the most value to the most people due to the 0 marginal cost of software

Software should be libre because it allows users to not be beholden to anything but their own interests. Value and cost are very secondary considerations.

> even if it's less profitable to the creators

That's not a criterium.

> due to the security benefits of closed platforms

Citation very much needed.

> Stallman formed his views when he was working at MIT, with his material support from donations

No. He was working, at MIT, you just stated that.

> The economics of his philosophy are tainted by that foundational flaw.

I think you might want to get better acquainted with "his philosophy", the economics of it, before diving head first into an argument based on nothing but ad-hoc analysis of shaky assertions.
I think youre using toilets wrong.
All you have to do is look at it to see it's not the real deal. There is no 50 gallon pot on a burner boiling pork bones for 72 hours. There is just a stand selling re-heated packages of soup.
Isn't that just data?
It is worth noting that adb also allows the user to remove unwanted software in the event his/her device can't be rooted, which is the case of one of my tablet which resisted any attempts so far. I'm not going to get a new one because it sits on a bench 24/7 and is needed for that abomination called Whatsapp some people is forcing me to use, and beyond that it has zero value to me, but the level of crapware preinstalled made it next to unusable, so I welcomed the day I discovered that adb remove can be used also on unrooted devices to delete vendor installed "system" crapware or other unneded stuff. Just search for "adb uninstall"
Correction: the slogan is "When in Europe, don't miss Skurup", not "visit Skurup".
I am not sure how the mobile operators work in the US, but I was able to install a local SIM card in every country I have been to for more than a few days, which saved me hundreds in mobile data fees across the world.
Again, you're assuming the only two options are roll over or quit. There are plenty of ways to fight something like this without just storming out.
Does this mean that talking about non-harmful voluntary pedophilia is somehow a bad way to market yourself and your ideas? And that people are less receptive to your ideas when you present them like a raving vegan in a sketch?
I'm not using them wrong, but it seems that literally every other person to ever gone a public toilet is using them wrong.
The first issue is that JS has evolved every few years. For example, we went from callbacks to promises and now to async/await. Or look at how modules have evolved. Or the use of const and let vs. var.

The other issue is that there are layers of other skills that also evolve every few years.

So to create a "bar exam" for a front-end web engineer, for example, you would need a completely different version every two years or so.

But then probably a bigger problem is that software engineering requires certain types of problem solving and to get a realistic idea of problem solving abilities of a person at large enough scale problems you would need a huge investment into the testing infrastructure and varied content. You would need sophisticated programs to test the applicants programs. And people to review code. And those tests would quickly go out of date.

Then the other thing is that there is so much variation in the types of languages or frameworks or tools used, it is questionable whether it is meaningful to test on some lowest-common-denominator set of tools at all, if you could find enough agreement on such a thing (e.g. Angular vs React, React vs Vue).
Symbolic as in "symbolic algebra systems", "symbolic AI", etc [1]. Not as in having some symbols in the code for a NN.

A NN doesn't work with the domain objects directly and abstractly (e.g. considering a face, facial features, smiles, etc as first class things and doing some kind of symbolic manipulation at that level).

It crunches numbers that encode patterns capturing those things, but its logic is all about numbers, links between one layer and another, and so on -- it's not a program dealing with high level abstract entities.

To put it in another way, it's the difference between teaching, say, Prolog to identify some concept and a NN to do the same.

E.g. from the link "The most successful form of symbolic AI is expert systems, which use a network of production rules. Production rules connect symbols in a relationship similar to an If-Then statement. The expert system processes the rules to make deductions and to determine what additional information it needs, i.e. what questions to ask, using human-readable symbols."

A NN does nothing like that (not in any immediate, first class, way, where the rules are expressed as plain rules given by the programmer, like "foo is X", "bar has the Y property", etc).

Here's another way to see it: how you'd solve a linear equation with regular algebra (the steps and transformation etc), and how a NN would encode the same.

A symbolic algebra system will let you express an equation in symbolic form (more or less like a mathematician would write it), and even show you all the intermediate steps you'd take until the solution.

A NN trained to solve the same type of equations doesn't do that (and can't). It just tells you the answer (or an approximation thereof).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intelligen...
No, hence the preview.
It may be true that Google no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt. The hyperbolic “every product” doesn’t help your case, though. Claiming that they engage in misleading behavior with every product, especially with no supporting evidence or examples, makes it look like you just have an axe to grind.
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Plus if you know about it you can cover it over etc.

And get to question why they even need a camera to start with, before buying the product.
Or even put into the comments section of your code... great tool!
Development got really slow. Developer was tangled up in some small personal issues.