skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swedish drivers are indeed obedient. Overly so, at times.
I live in a heavily touristed part of Denmark - we get a lot of Swedish and German cars in the summerish half of the year. And I have long since learned to stay well clear of the Swedes whenever possible. They're too often going that extra bit too slow, adhering slightly too rigorously to every rule, not getting into the flow, too often being front Volvo going 70, the rest of us lined up behind, wanting to go home at 80 like the sign says.
Which raises a rather obvious question ...
Yes, but we're talking about disabling a button instead of persistent tracking used for advertising purposes.
So it’s trying to create for at-risk students some part of the support networks that other students get from their peers or family?

Makes sense.
I don't find that particularly surprising. Engineering students want to learn how to build machines to find solutions to everything, so it's intuitive that they would place a high confidence in a solution provided by a machine.
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You hit the nail on the head with this.
Let's expand the plans a bit:
1) open a store for online goods
2) take reviews seriously
3) profit, for a while
4) get bought out by amazon or someone else who will then proceed to kill "2"
5) if resisted, be a target of coordinated media smear campaign and/or hacking attempts, each totally not ordered and covertly backed by amazon or another player whose piece of a pie you are eating
6) crack under pressure and just give up
Yeah, Mozilla is wasting a ton of money, but they wont admit it unless Google stops funding them and they run out of ad cash. Even then i have a fear their marketdroids will start selling out their users (see Mr.Robot debacle) as a grasping to avoid losing their parasitic jobs, before giving up (and it wont be they who will lose).

All they need is programmers to write the code for the browser and someone to manage the servers where the code, bugtracker, wiki and website are hosted, anything else is unnecessary and frivolous waste of resources. Get rid of the parasites.
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> In fact, it's mostly thinking about the requirements that is important. The actual encoding of the computer instructions is (hopefully!) not that difficult.

Jesus please don't draw conclusions about things you have no idea about. Would you say that designing and developing machines that replace humans bit by bit is not difficult (hopefully!).
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No, not rude at all. Go for it. The LI system is one of the best ways to facilitate asking for them and collecting them. An extra vote of confidence needed by third parties if you choose people who can genuinely speak to your skills.
How much should a small local news organization in Louisville, KY be expected to pay to comply with laws on random other continents? I think they made the right choice here.
I think the problem is not meritocracy but an idea that you can assign each person a number that is sum of their contributions to the world and that number can be roughly estimated. Then what follows is simplistic view that worth is a one dimensional thing and you can use < operator to compare people's worth. And this is childish, unnecessary and harmful.
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The top 1% of India is about 13 million people so it isn’t necessarily crazy for apple to only target a small proportion of the population.
Most people are very busy. It helps to remind yourself in these situations that you don't matter (and I mean that respectfully and empathetically). Often it will take my clients 1-2 weeks to come back to me even though they say "they need my services right away".

Steli from close.io talks about making SaaS cold calls/emails for 5-7 times until he gets a positive reaction, unless told to F.O. People are busy.
I live in Germany. And what you’re saying is (a) wrong, and (b) not even incompatible what I said.
I like that he chose to do this within the public school system instead of through a charter. I also understand and appreciate that the improvement results are gradual. I am always very suspicious of drastic turnarounds in education outcomes. Gradual and continuous improvements are sustainable. Thank you to LeBron James for your support of the community.
> And you want to tell me with a straight face that users will do their own crypto foo instead and validate hashes?

Your Keybase client (for whichever platform) will perform the verification for users you follow. There is no need for any manual action and the verification has to happen when you follow someone (by following someone you're attesting that your client performed the verification).
You place aluminium plants where the energy is cheap e.g. Iceland, it is often cheap because it's hard to export energy.
The problem with this kind of consequentialist ethics is that thinking the end justifies the means generally makes you very vulnerable to manipulation by others who tell you what the ends will be and then ask you to do the means.

Remember, Guantanamo also had taxi drivers and aid workers in it. How many of them are you willing to torture in order to find the terrorist you've captured and maybe get some information that might help stop a future terrorist plot? The hypothetical of capturing a top general with a tight deadline provides a terrible intuition when it comes to torture.

But that is exactly the kind of intuition Rumsfeld et al wanted people to be thinking about, in order to justify torture^W enhanced interrogation techniques.
People seem to have some terrible difficulty of understanding the difference b/w “Most people don’t do <x>”, and “It’s theoretically possible to do <x>”.
Release notes are a bit weird. It's like an author is shy of actual major changes: NAMESPACES and hides them behind mentions of c99 compliance and test infrastructure :-/
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My gut tells me that you should just gravitate towards the area of less cars. If the road ahead is clear or clearer, higher acceleration is better for everyone. If the road ahead is saturated but clearer behind, lower acceleration is better. If it's saturated in front and behind, good luck.
> You seem to believe that not doing anything is a good thing, and the API is already ideal

Not really. I've submitted a request for an enhancement myself (ability to auto-redirect to the canonical URL - to avoid the bullshit of AMP pages) but what you've suggested just don't seem like worthwhile or positive changes IMO.

My argument wasn't "zero change is good" my argument is that it doesn't need much change and a stable API is hardly "abandonment".
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Hopefully, sane-priced iPhones in India I guess. I'm interested now.
Usually, H1-Bs aren’t supposed to work on core pieces like aircraft design software and such. This stuff is sensitive and subject to US laws. I know this because I interned at a similar defense company and most H1-Bs were limited to back-office IT apps and such.
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I am no mechanic so I don't make money from selling you new brake rotors, but I think coming to a complete stop a few times each drive should be more than enough to brush any rust away.
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On the other hand, you can only argue about the estimate if there is even a channel to argue about it. I have seen several cases of (1) people being told about a deadline through various proxies, so there was no point in time where they could even question the imposed deadline, (2) people not being told about the deadline at all until it was missed, so they could not argue against it, (3) people not being told about the task that has a deadline until after that deadline was missed.

All involved engineers actually had the backbone to say it was impossible, but no chance to say it. Obviously, projects did not go well at that place.
Unfortunately it's difficult to tell what Google etc are doing with their AI systems, but I get the feeling that Google and Facebook in particular have a culture of focusing on end-to-end statistical machine learning to the exclusion of everything else. I base this intuition on the way google translate is trained end-to-end and without any attempt to integrate grammatical or other background knowledge (which causes it to make mistakes that a rule-based system would easily avoid, e.g. getting the gender of nouns wrong when translating between two languages that have gendered nouns via English, that doesn't, etc).

I think these two companies in particular would be very unwilling to design and build a system like Watson, integrating symbolic techniques alongside statistical ones. They probably recruit so much for statistical machine learning skills that they don't have the know-how to do it anyway.

The funny thing is that, like many large corporations, they probably have ad-hoc expert systems except they don't call them that. Pretty much any sufficiently large and complex system that encodes "business rules" is essentially an expert system. But, because "expert systems failed" companies and engineers will not use the knowledge that came out of expert system research to make their systems better.

That AI winder really got us good.
I would rather say “who asked for namespaces in awk”?

Who needs that and what’s the point? Any compatibility breakage in awk should start wit “negative points” so what are the positive ones to even qualify it as desired?
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As a Russian, I hope that nuclear weapons still provide enough deterrence to avoid large-scale war between superpowers.

However, this might not be the case, as said superpowers can just decide to avoid nuclear confrontation (because of immediate counterstrike) and still fight conventionally — just like chemical weapons weren’t used on large scale in WW2, compared to WW1.
Bring it on, mate. Fucked is fucked, after a point all relativities are pretty meaningless. It would be worth it to see Teslas being reposessed and vacancies in SF high rises.
I'd replace "they are hired for their knowledge" with "professionals are hired for their judgement". Judgement usually depends upon knowledge, but its the exercise of judgement that is more key to emphasise.
Does it better than https://github.com/smooth-code/svgr ?
I think you're half right. adding an error band to a far out estimate won't give you a better estimate, but it might help tell you how much you _don't know_ about what you're facing.

Cumulative error is _hard_. see weather prediction.
Because the copyright holders have new games that they would rather you gave them money for, instead of you playing old games without paying them.
But modern firepower between two nuclear nations only requires a few nuclear facilities, not the sort of industrial complex that made the difference in ww2. Good intentions of not using nukes don't really matter, as the conflict would invariably escalate as one of the parties takes over. Which is why this noise of direct war between US and Russia or US and China isn't really credible.

A supply chain war is more credible, China refusing to ship certain products to the US in a conflict. But it is self-destructing too. The world pulling its supply chain out of China would be the end of the Chinese economy.
I always think of project tasks as flow charts, where every item either takes 1 day, or 1 week. There's no way of really knowing in advance. Complications happen.

It makes it really hard to calculate the "expected value" of 5-10 tasks.
Uber for astrology sounds like a great business to me, fwiw.

There's a longstanding market for it. Customers are willing to pay. It has been successful in all sorts of mediums in the past, phones , cable tv, magazines... An app can get you closer to the experience of the original in-person visit.

Hell, $2.1bn is probably a massive underestimate. Astrology is just one flavour. Traditional healing is bigger than medicine in many place, and has some presence everywhere. There are several lonstanding american flavours, for eg.

If you define the market widely then the market is religion, and that's a many-trillion-$ market.

The path from astrology app to religion app is farely straightforward too. A lot of politicians, CEOs and such have personal religious advisors.

I kinda want in. Sounds fun.
> random other continents

Europe.... its not Antarctica.
What was wrong with the perl5 community? I never really interacted with it.
Well a decades-long oligopoly of two companies is similar to central planning in many aspects and his story indeed rings a lot of bells.
It seems to have some breaking changes and non-user facing improvements though. I'm not sure major changes are needed but it should allow them more easily now.
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It sounded more like its a necessirty in some developing economies.
I have an actual real-world use case for this :)

Shader-cross-compilation for 3D frameworks:

https://floooh.github.io/2017/05/15/oryol-spirv.html

I'm hooking python scripts as custom-build-jobs into C/C++ projects which (for instance) takes care of compiling GLSL shader code into HLSL (D3D), MSL (Metal) and various GLSL versions (for GLES2, GLES3 and desktop GL).

Khronos provides C++ projects which help with this stuff:

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross

So I'm using Python to hook my custom build jobs into the C/C++ build system (via cmake), but I still need to invoke native command line tools (or DLLs) which wrap around those Khronos libraries. Currently this means building (at least) 3 executables for Windows, macOS and Linux, and "distribute" those precompiled exes with my python code.

It looks like with this python+wasmer solution, I can instead compile the Khronos libraries into WASM modules, and the result runs "anywhere" where wasmer runs (e.g. also Raspberry Pi, BSDs etc...).

That's really cool stuff :)
If you are going to rely on a 3rd party host why switch Blogger (which handles everything for you) with GitLab/GitHub (which requires a bit of extra maintenance from your side)?
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~2 gram per byte.
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If it will help to reduce apple prices It will be great.
But probably it will cause all the phones industry to lower their prices and Apple will be the only company that their price remains the same... That's the problem with status quo
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A photon does not switch from particle behavior to wave behavior. Physicists do. These are two different models for the same thing.

In some ballistics problems, you'll consider a flat earth (baseball problems) in some others a spherical one (spaceflight). It is about which model makes the math simpler.
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I think the most important issue why projects take longer is not because the time it takes to complete a task is uncertain, but because at the start it will always be unknown which tasks will prove critical.
The further you get, the more tasks will reveal itself that were not part of the original scope, but critical nonetheless.
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I kinda want to grab you by the lapels and re-enact that part from Clear and Present Danger. It doesn't matter what's true, it matters what i can prove!

Unfortunately, the phrasing would be more like, It doesn't matter what's true, it matters what i can sell to management.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, i think i'm ready to take a side close to yours. It's useful to expand error bars exponentially as you move away from the time of the estimate, but there's nothing special about fibonacci.
Could've been worse. One of last year's nominees was an outright conspiracy theory involving Russian mind control chemicals and pretending that an obscure minor player in the Litvinenko investigation broke the case open to turn his apparent suicide into a Russian assassination.
I always wonder why few people here acknowledge Telegram, is it little know or is it not considered secure enough?
How would this influence popular types of one-liners?

As an example, if I run:

perl -pi.bak -e "s/;/,/g" mycsv.csv

Would there be any difference?
Congratulations and thank you! Namespaces are a big help for me personally.

From the GNU Awk 5 manual: A qualified name consists of a two simple identifiers joined by a double colon (::). The left-hand identifier represents the namespace and the right-hand identifier is the variable within it.

Namespaces are a big help for writing libraries, especially for clients with systems (e.g. banking, government, education, medical) where awk code is fine yet other kinds of languages (e.g. python, go, perl) are not available and/or require management audit practices.
How would this make it at all harder to build a profile or change anything? Correct me if im wrong:

Google, or whatever ad tech, gets data from an app which sends an email or oauth data to the IDFA. The email or oauth data stays the same even if the ad uuid changes month to month. Over many many apps.

I personally would actually rather have Apple control this and start competing with FB as a mobile ad network. I think they could present a solution which fits with their privacy appeal while also cleaning up fraud and dictating better ads formats / rules

I would like to think that space isn't totally won yet.
Arnold Robbins is a busy dude. He maintains awk, bash, gnu grep and several other must have packages.

A little slack would be nice.
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In my opinion, the reason that software projects take longer than we think and estimate is due to the fact that companies don't know how to handle Underemployment properly...
"which ultimately seems like something someone would do out of feelings of inadequacy."

Given that those who counted LoC ultimately had the correct view -- that the initial viral story was not accurate -- perhaps they deserve a little more credit than that. It's kind of a 'low blow' to suggest the critics could only care because they don't 'measure up' -- if you know what I mean. You seem to have a rather ironic notion of the source of virtue, given the present controversy.

I agree though, that LoC is a lousy metric. This is a case where a concise algorithm might still have been essential.
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The software fixes as described sound sensible and it's hard to believe they were not in the original design. Unfortunately I don't see how these changes will allow them to keep a common type rating with the 737 NG. After the updated MCAS has made its one shot trim adjustment you will now be flying an aircraft with different handling characteristics if you keep increasing the angle of attack into the stall. Surely the FAA can't sign off on the common type rating and half hour of video training ??
> -transcribe voice messages to enable search among them.

> -[..] video [..] calls

> -ability to record the calls, and have their transcribed texts easily searchable.

> -ability to ignore certain kind of messages from certain people such as 'allow text messages only, no calls, no pictures, no videos.' etc.

Apart from these I believe Telegram offers already the other features (voice desktop calls are a bit unreliable often)
How so? It is actually one of the very first things mentioned:

> This is a major new release, with new or improved features, including namespaces. The relevant part of the NEWS file is appended below.

So you would be happier to have the item as number 1 rather than 11 in the list further down?

> 11. Namespaces have been implemented! See the manual. One consequence of this is that files included with -i, read with -f, and command line programsegments must all be self-contained syntactic units. E.g., you can no longer do something like this:

gawk -e 'BEGIN {' -e 'print "hello" }'

I found the announcement rather concise and to the point.

Apart from that it would have been nice with a reference to what section of the manual to look at. Especially as https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ still references 4.2 (will probably be updated soon).
That’s a very abstract comment. Such policies seem completely measurable to me. Can you elaborate?
Nice looking roads are more important than the internet?
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From around here that's everyone's experience of tradespeople in every non-emergency task.

"Sure I can do this in 3 weeks."

Then shows up once every two weeks and finishes around the four month mark.
Major cloud companies == energy consumption.
Most of the time cloud users would be able to 'just' rent the entire machines and not have to bother with 'untrusted' code.
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143 images; and within 95%. I need to read more to work out which 5% is wrong, and what the 95% really means of course. I feel that calling this Pathologist level could be a stronger claim that I would make. I am hesitant to word things more strongly, but I feel dismay about the kind of claims of performance that are often made in these contexts.
EDIT: it does influence functionality a lot.[1] Now that I think of it I did know this but I have always used < Perl 5.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6#Major_changes_from_Perl...
But we do. Look at SpaceX. Landing Rockets, crew dragon going to be half the cost of starliner.

It’s just that LargeCorp eventually has the profit motive as the overriding goal and stops being innovative.
It’s schumpters creative destruction in reality
It would cost less to just ignore the foreign law than to "comply" by blocking foreign users.
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Funny to see how hard physical reality hits the Valley types, which is saddening because G has very smart people, it'd be wonderful for them to continue working on real world problems maybe it'd change their culture a little bit as well. Their surpluses have to go somewhere, and the FANGs are sitting on a lot of cash they might be able to put to better use than simply by managing it like a hedge fund.
Yes, but I did not use that one as I don't like that visualization. My reptilian brain made that sound way bigger than it actually is. As the horizon is only 5-10km away, I cannot really estimate a distance of 500km. I can see the problem of measuring 5 atoms height at arms length though, even when I cannot imagine the size of an atom.

Black holes are small things. They're just very heavy.
Sales might even reduce, because some people might not consider them luxury enough anymore.
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One thing that I hope is a priority for "fixing" would be interaction with libraries. In 3rd year/Honours I had to code in Perl and I remember abandoning using some of them.
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Here's a real world example of a traffic wave due to one person's sudden break

https://i.imgur.com/fLNs3k0.gifv
> With Twitter you go on and you @ your friends / etc and you're done. With Mastodon you have to figure out where they are and if they're not all in the same place it becomes a nightmare to try and manage.

Nope, that's actually not the problem with Mastodon UX. On Twitter you still have to ask if your friend is @Johnny or @John1256 or @JDoe or depend on visual cues (avatar).

The problem with Mastodon UX (and Fediverse in general) is the friction of "remote follow" buttons instead of one-click Follow (the same goes for reply/like etc.)
Misleading and fooling people has been a great tool for good ROI throughout human history.