skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not especially weird that you got lucky with your 2017 model for a year.

There are people who didn't have issues with the Samsung Note 7, but I think we all agree that there was a problem.
This usage of "grandma" is sexist as well -- it's much more common than "grandpa".
Oh I really agree. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I was just saying the headline sounds like old news when it’s not.
https://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt

The short version: RMS worked at AI lab who had a laser printer. It jammed a lot so he wanted to fix the code, but he could not because the code was non-free. His inability to fix the printer, despite having programming skill to do so, was stymied because Xerox wouldn't let the AI lab have the source code. To add injury to insult, the person at Xerox that told him no was a previous student at the same university, who basically said that he could not give them a copy because he had signed a NDA.

That is the original motivations and reasoning behind the GPL. To prevent that situation from happening and allow the programmer to fix the bug in the code.
The author mentions this engine in the article and there is a neat video of the behemoth engine. Pure mechanical engineering excellence ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CytG5M5Jcs
...in which we learn that the previous developers hated everyone.
The precise statement was that at that size it was confusing and hard to read, which I think is a fair statement.
> I can give you hundreds of examples of people being accused of being a white nationalist without any merit to it.

Feel free to do so whenever. Be sure to indicate when that has resulted in serious consequences for the "victim".

> Tim Pool for example was already accused.

TBF Tim Pool pulled the whole "I'm so neutral" act when dealing with a bunch of actual white supremacists. What "dissent" was unwelcome there? That he was pretending like these were totally fine people who just happened to think that genocide was okay?
It's important to keep in mind that FaceBook is an enterprise founded by an individual who appears to have many of the traits of sociopathy, and that an overwhelming amount of shady, anti-privacy, socially-destructive, and downright exploitative behavior has been credibly attributed to them over the years. The second sentence of TFA claims that the HUD's opinion of FaceBook is that the company "...enables and encourages discrimination based on things like race and religion, as well as sex, by restricting who can see housing-related ads on its platforms and across the Internet." This should come as no surprise from a company with the kind of track record that FaceBook has; the company's founding purpose was, after all, to judge people based on superficial traits.

Rot of this kind, when located in the head of an organization or creature, does not go away easily. It has been obvious for some time now that the culture in the leadership echelons of FaceBook is deeply amoral and disinterested in societal health. Although it's a very touchy subject (especially around tech sites), I think there's a strong justification to start really questioning whether or not a person who is interested in the health of society can continue working for FaceBook.
What does it matter how easy it is for the rich to do anything? How is that relevant to the applicability of a Stoic mindset?
Germany and the US are constitutional republics with independent judiciaries who adjudicates these things.

At FB, Twitter, Snapchat etc, whoever happens to work in the subject banning division arbitrarily makes these decisions, unless overridden by top management.
> the censorship problem also exists for leftists outlets that are left of the neoliberal centrist view of the D.C. Democratic Party.

Which ones, specifically?
https://github.com/aahung/Unshaky may help you - as a software debouncer, it's far from perfect but should be a quality of life improvement.
"Millenials" described to a tee. Socrates quote was also pretty much right on. "Millenial" might be the most ingenious modern scam amongst software vendors, marketing, and every other person hangle their shingle and selling the millenials-are-unique nonsense.

Ive ranted before about this but as the learned ancients have already spoken about it then it should be obvious to all by now - each generation is more lenient in its upbringing of the next generation, sees problems arise from that, and then tries to explain it away by any means other than accepting blame for the trouble self-inflicted.

Im old enough to have seen this repeated 3x in my own lifetime and a small amount of reading can show to anybody else that this has been the case for over 2000 years. Neither Tim, Jeff, Satya, Richard or (name your fav 'modern' CEO here) can solve this. Its a human psychology problem which we have been happily creating, recognising, refusing blame for, and buying snake-oil solutions for, for as long as the world has had the written word.

Wake up people.

For the record:
Im huge fan of freepascal but write most of my own code in python out of laziness(batteries included is powerful motivator for me). Sometimes dabble in C#, now learning ecmascript(again), and next trying again to learn nim and C.
Father, product manager.
I quite like VLC on my cheap Android, and I'm glad the development experience has been reasonable! It's just the thing for my SD card full of ogg vorbis files.
Also in 9-5 China time most western people are not online. But in the Chinese evening Europe wakes up and then slowly also the US comes online leaking into the Chinese morning.
I am not sure I understand the way Fair Housing Act is enforced. Facebook allows ads targeting. This is how it earns money. Apparently some people decided that they want to advertise houses to white Christians population, which is illegal in the USA - shouldn't be HUD after those who configured such criteria, not Facebook?

Facebook provided only a tool. Nobody is after hardware store because a hammer bought there was used to kill someone.
So I didn't know what dabbing was. First google result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN6FsToW2w4
Women deserve equality in H-1B lottery
Scroll Anchoring in Firefox 66
Why is it okay sometimes but not all the time? If there are predatory ads for mortgages, there will be predatory ads for snacks and video games as well.

The goal of most advertising is to change your consumer behaviors regardless of what best for the consumer. In my opinion it's a huge net negative on society.
Yes, exactly my point. How can this happen? Maybe nobody cares.
Artificial Gravity [video]
Comment on training, comparing 80s and now, rings so true. Shame on Boeing.
Sorry if it isn't obvious and I come off as clueless for asking, but is this to gauge bureaucracy?
Is it really that bad to do financial things on one’s phone? I would be pretty annoyed if I had to fire up a browser tab on my desktop/laptop any time I wanted to look over the transactions on my CCs and bank account.
Hopefully this isn't made into a problem that doesn't really exist ala elastic, redis, etc. To me this is a real opensource success story -- openresty / the lua bits of nginx that came out of taobao really upped the level of what you could do with nginx. Kong is a huge, nontrivial addition that builds on top of that work, the result of carving out a product focus area and really iterating on what businesses / enterprises need. This is really the best of open source, IMO.
...and yet white nationalists are still free to set their own social network up or use networks that don't care, like Voat for example.

That's called freedom of association: the right for an organization or individual to not wish to associate with someone.
True, but there are still no lives on the line. And no personal liability (beyond maybe losing your job) for mistakes you make.
Yes, seems fine now.

dig +norecurse +nocmd +noall +answer @ns1.hover.com www.humanreadablemag.com

Or, if you like, https://zonemaster.net/
Since the 1980s, the Iroise coast in Brittany has received a supply of bright orange landline novelty phones shaped like the famous cartoon cat.

...

Climbing down the slippery rocks to the cave, the team spotted remnants of a destroyed shipping container - and soon, between the rocks, Garfield phones - in a more complete condition than any found before them.
I've had the entire bottom half of my Macbook replaced twice and a total replacement in the last few years. And the user experience of typing on it is absolutely disgusting.

I'll never buy another Apple machine with the butterfly keyboard. MacOS isn't worth it. And the lack of synergy means I'd probably drop my desktop Mac too. I could finally get something with some graphics grunt.

I really hope Apple realises this keyboard design has to go. Now.
It's mind-numbing "code-to-spec" work. You aren't involved in the design or architecture (that is done several levels above you by "System Engineers"), you are given a highly detailed spec (sometimes so detailed it amounts to pseudo-code) that really doesn't allow any room for creative problem solving. The last aerospace job I had basically consisted of translating matlab script written by the scientists into Ada code (and God forbid you find a problem with one of the formulas a self-important PhD came up with).

You are treated as an interchangeable cog.

Most people who work outside the industry hear "I wrote a simulation model for a spacecraft attitude determination & control system" and think I was doing some really cool, challenging stuff. But as a software engineer, you really don't get to use your brain.
Did people risk death to escape the US?
I'm curious what you mean by "the JIT bit plays well into macro expansion" since most lisps will expand macros AOT rather than JIT.
> There aren't that many public platforms with any reach

Okay? Private organizations are under no obligation to provide you with a platform to spread your message.

If you want, you can start your own social network or host your own blog.
By the way, I recommend reading about Futamura projections, as they provide some terminology, and a more generic way to view the problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_pr...
"Less mushy" is how I describe what I like about them better as well. I didn't really notice it until I found myself typing on an older model a few weeks after I got the 2016 MBP.

I think the keys are slightly bigger and more square, too. Or there's less gap between them, or something.
Unless they sell access to it reasonably.
I have a mid-2014 and don't find the keys to be mushy. I have a Lenovo P series for work and I can push down in the middle of the keyboard and there is a few mm of flex. I really don't understand how Apple can make a keyboard that doesn't flex and the entire rest of the industry cannot.[0]

[0] On the occasions I go to BestBuy, I walk around the laptops pushing down on the center of the keyboards. Yep, all flex.
W3W suffers horribly from "call for price". You won't catch Google or Amazon making you call and talk to a human being (on GMT time no less) before figuring out if you can afford their service.

I'm preparing my own version, truly open source (though with a premium component), with the following improvements over W3W:

•Length-optimized. If one character sufficiently describes your location, you don't need to tack on extras. A 12-character code with the last two lopped off will be imperceptibly close to the original.

•Precision optimized. Every additional character, no matter the value, will result in a location not identical to the absence of that character.

•Precision-focused. When a location is precise to the nearest 100km, km, m, or µm, the browser tools make that clear.

•Logic-optimized. With pencil and paper, you'll be able to figure out how to go N, E, S, W by X distance by adjusting a particular character.

•Spheroid-optimized. The Mercator projection is often held to be an imperialist distortion of the globe, and that's what traditional latitudes and longitudes use. Half the "namespace" of nearly every coordinate system is biased toward the poles. The distance between 89° N, 10°W, and 89°N, 10°E is 38km, but at 1°N, it's 2226km. My system has a simple and clever way to equally represent the dense equatorial regions and the sparse arctic and antarctic regions, and that equals shorter codes.

Watch this space.
7 billion humans aren't in poverty though. The OP also doesn't say its enough money to get everyone out of poverty - the point is, it's an incredible sum of money that could make a huge, positive difference, if it wasn't being used to kill people.
It raises through animosity mostly. It had been on the net for years without any significant effect. Rumors have it they tried to recruit some weeaboos, but they were too smart.

The poster is pretty much correct.
Oh yeah, for sure. I guess I heard a lot about the issue when it was being discussed the first time round, and I figured it was a bit overblown because I hadn't experienced anything – then within a couple of months of owning one of the newer, better models, it's happened a couple of times. It's obviously just luck :)
Still gets violated all the time too. When my parents bought a house outside New Orleans the realtor flat out told them which neighborhoods would be acceptable for them to look in.
No one cares. Proper techies don't use hardware for consumerist monkeys. Apple NPCs will defend Apple rubbish anyway.
It wouldn't in the BBC's specific case, but in general the behaviour sending users to the site where they would likely be exposed to more advertising (probably by Google) would be the more profitable scenario.
I guess that's exactly what they are after: funny (or otherwise "engaging") three word combinations that are: (a) easy to remember, and (b) promote their service. - the default square when looking up the town i live in is leber.abhilfe.schnell (german), translated "liver, relief, quick", so maybe that's what their algorithm is optimized for?

Either way, the whole system seems pretty stupid: why 3x3m (way to high res for normal street addresses, much to coarse for anything else)? what is the problem supposed to be that W3W wants to solve? I sure dont see it...

location data is usually not shared verbally but sent via some kind of text medium - you just send GPS-coordinates from another (map-)app directly through your email/messaging-app. seems simple enough.
The current generation of executives seem to be willing to gamble in this way. They know that as long as they have money, they won't see much (if any) prison and the chances of even getting to a trial will be minimal.

I don't think that good whistleblower protection would help any. The justice system needs an overhaul to be blind to someone's wealth and color.
In addition aerospace, like most other traditional engineering fields, is heavily biased towards seniority. Years of experience actually matter[1], and more junior engineers often have an uphill battle trying to convince more senior engineers of errors. In aerospace in particular it's a side effect of having systems so complex that first impressions of a subsystem can give you intuitions that are wrong in the context of the larger system, even though they may seem right in isolation.

[1] More than they should, in my opinion.
Right. It wasn't supposed to be multi-role, the original was a beautiful thing to behold before they started hanging all kinds of crap off of it.
Barring "require", but I'm betting
you're just exaggerating there.

Imagine a delivery company where drivers are given a schedule based on average traffic conditions; and to reward hustle and punish laziness, drivers are fired if they're late too often. It's official policy that drivers should not speed. Sounds reasonable enough, right?

Now imagine a driver for that company who has just been delayed by worse-than-average traffic. Not their fault, a crash caused a tailback. They can speed to get back on schedule, otherwise they'll be fired.

Would you consider it an exaggeration to say the driver had been required to break the law?
I have a few more points but yours are a good start.

It's software work run by hardware companies. They don't schedule or budget or staff correctly. They often put engineers (of any sort) into decision making positions that should belong to computer scientists (or at least those trained in programming). Writing software is often treated as "just typing" when it's really an engineering and design activity.

Waterfall is also pervasive as a project management methodology. Even "modified Waterfall" (Vee model and others) are still subpar. What's frustrating is that, on the physical engineering side, they actually get the idea and value of prototypes and iterative development/design. But back to my first point, they still view software writing as a manufacturing activity, and not a design activity. So software shops get compared to the production line and not the engineering offices.

Regarding 2: Oh man, yeah. We've got people straight of school stuck on projects written in JOVIAL. Literally put them into a dead-end job straight out of school, we can't retain them. And we don't have the money (from customers) to hire the old timers, they're enjoying retirement too much.
I'd be fairly surprised if the metrics resulted in any measurable difference there tbh.
The radar module in Teslas uses the same filtering strategy as most adaptive cruise control radar modules, which is "if relative velocity to object is nearly the opposite of the car's velocity, throw it out."

It works pretty much as designed.
Apps need my permission to access external storage even today. I don't see how a convoluted UI helps here.

Although it may not be international (I think intentions are good), this change will devalue internal device storage to such an extent that people will see themselves forced to store even more data in cloud services of dubious reputation. Technically, they don't have to, but it will likely be easier for the masses.
Using your analogy, this is probably more akin to somebody going after a hardware store specializing in hammers to kill people. Sure, the government could spend the time trying to track down each individual patron and bring individual charges against each of them, but it's probably easier to go after the supplier and cut everyone off.
"you could infer that 1234 W Something Rd is nearby 1238 W Something Rd."

Don't overestimate that. There are nasty exceptions where the street disappears and continues elsewhere without a significant gap in house numbers, especially in cities with a long history.
YC is still requiring accepted founders to be in California during the in-person program. But yes, they don't have to deal with the US visa process for the Bangalore interviews, which is an improvement.
How dare you leave out electrical engineering!
I don't think the difficulty is due to anything inherent to real analysis. I think it's due to the fact that most of the professors in the pure math department participate in the development of the math contests for CEMC [1]. Thus they tend to love creating extremely complicated and challenging homework problems.

If you have time, click around on that page and check out some past Euclid (grade 12) math contests. Even if you've come through real analysis I bet some of the later problems in those Euclids will give you trouble.

[1] https://www.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/contests/contests.html
The likelihood is modulated by the level of dust and Cheetos in the operating environment.
> Really? How about plain nationalists? How about communists? How about separatists? How about traditionalists? How about "Occupy Wall Street"? How about "nationalists" in e.g Iceland, a country where nationalists would be predominantly if not exclusively white in the first place?

Are they talking about racial genocide? No? Then they're a-okay.

I don't know why this is such a difficult concept for people to understand: If you're advocating genocide or violence against a people, you're gonna get banned. Pure and simple.
There’s ample SLP research and documentation on all of this and I think you’re battling a straw man.

Edit: also your edit is just plain offensive. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Certain delegated systems engineers are 'responsible' for the system and they would work for Boeing or the FAA.

In a field like Aerospace, you don't have 'software developers' per se. You have systems specialists who write software. You don't move fast and break things, you run simulations of the software over and over again while varying inputs and fixing edge cases, and then you do real world testing.
"Compared to the number of iPhones we sold this year, a small number of MacBook Pro users have bad keyboards"
It's weird that I'd never heard of this before, but there seems to be a vibrant community of parodies.
I suppose with the monarchy the argument would be that it's technically the Crown's money anyway, and Parliament just gets to administer it with her consent.
Personally I've wanted a good podcast app on Android and the Google app ticked all the boxes. Maybe Google is successful because of good product design in this case. However, I do agree the overall size of Google's influence is of concern.
> bunch of actual white supremacists

just out of interest... such as? You could be really helpful here, sugar.
I love how people have downvoted you with no response when you're right.
No. If a system MUST work, then there have to be no bugs at all. Removing a class is useless. You have to remove all bugs.

You are talking about systems that SHOULD work, but aren’t required to always work. Typically, safety-critical software is the latter, the rest of software is the former. But the latter are entirely different beasts, and is what we were discussing.

By the way, Rust does not eliminate all race conditions; and memory safe languages may still have undefined behavior unrelated to memory (e.g. Rust)
Israel is not complaining AFAIK and their pilots are pretty much experienced since they're flying real missions right now.
I looked up my old apartment on what3fucks - "dickhead pollock cheeky gayass" - which is surprisingly fitting
It's not a judgement on my part, I was finding it humorous that their ads for OkCupid were basically calling Tinder cheap and shallow just as a marketing ploy to get the users on their side while sharing the same owner, a bit like finding out a vegan restaurant that markets itself by calling meat foods unhealthy actually has the same owner as burger king.
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So your solution won't result in "coordinates" easily memorized by humans or easily translated to the very vast majority of map implementations?
I don't work in that area but could image it's much more layered. In consumer/webapp type software a lot of developers are more or less "full stack." In aerospace I could see it being much more rigorous and more like waterfall so by the time the specification gets to the programmer it's already been designed, reviewed, and signed off by several other engineers and the actual programming is a rather rote task.

Or I could be totally wrong.
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Why are they not just subpoening Facebook to go after the people that actually did the ad targeting? It is probably happening but it would make more sense, and Facebook would understand the stance of the enforcement agency. Since HUD or a private citizen already is doing this, Facebook probably offered non-answers or something cocky and then got slapped with this.