skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said it was the government, in fact I even specifically stated unwritten social norms. It's interesting that a straw-man is being used to attack the argument.

Society is a complex system. The west has soft censorship via control systems.

If you can't see any now, that is fine. But we can deduct they exist from logic.

Here's an example:
We can recognize the old ones. US newspapers and schools had effective censorship of, for example, the struggle of gay people in the US. The struggle was there, but it wasn't talked about. No matter the mechanisms to achieve this, it is effective soft censoring. While this doesn't exist anymore, it would be unreasonable to think we don't have similar blind sides now (I see plenty, but... that is neither here nor there, I'm going off logic)
How are these gaps not captured early on in Amazon and similarly on Facebook. It’s like people creating these systems have no clue about the wider world.
Sounds quite interesting. What's the best way to roll it out on bare metal? Is it possible to install/boot over PXE?
Which is really pathetic if you think about it. Cutting way down or eliminating meat is actually extremely easy, especially anywhere in the US. But people value Instagramming their bacon too much.

As a species we have a very heavy karmic payback coming and these kinds of attitudes are a big part of the reason.

Also you don't need tempeh. Beans are available everywhere, just as nutritious, and dirt cheap.
> “Anytime someone is collecting where you are, that means it could go to someone else who could find you when you don’t want to be found,”

How is this different than Amazon literally shipping packages to someone's home address and having their billing information?
Perhaps I don't want to install several GBs of invasive, hard to manage, and vulnerable linux dependencies to run a package manager unrelated to linux?
The best part is that 1/3 of it is simply quotes from a WSJ piece published a few weeks prior.
i approach it the same way

or mark as "delegated" if someone else of my team is handling it and i might want to keep track
> How does the dependency model work?

Currently dependencies are keyed by namespace, name and version. There is a global namespace that has restricted access. WAPM does not do any dynamic linking of WebAssembly and currently only resolves dependencies one node deep. This will likely change in the future as the story on WebAssembly libraries and dynamic linking becomes more concrete.

> Can I safely install parallel streams of software?

WAPM operates synchronously at the moment, but there is no reason why WAPM should not be able to install dependencies concurrently.

> Does it support unprivileged installation?
WAPM installs packages into a "wapm_packages" directory in the current directory. WAPM will probably support global installs in the future. WASI enables a "capability-oriented system", but this is a concern of wasm runtimes, and not WAPM. WAPM only manages wasm binaries.

> Is the installation stateless (no scriptlets/lifecycle scripts)?

WAPM installs with a single command and there are no lifecycle scripts. Ideally, one would install their wasm packages with wapm-cli and not require any intervention from other tools. It was designed to be unobtrusive.
Well, in the US, you get a invoice sent to your home with the fine. So, the govt has all the required information already. (Just like how people justify using Google products, some might even consider it convenient if things got automatically deducted.)
The best approach is to timebox yourself to 2 hours, and then spend 15 minutes sending it to them and letting them know the next several issues you'd address, along with rough estimates for each.
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I don't know if I fully agree with that, particularly the memory part of it. Certain people just have those types of memories that are not necessarily tied to flow states/moments. (see Lebron[1], see Sean McVay[2]). I don't think you're wrong in the way you describe how the game slows down, targets get larger, and decisions get easier to make. I think where we differ is your use of "the information they need is simply hyper available" vs. my take that this information resides in the subconscious and our natural feeling to analyze our actions/strategy in-game actually gets in the way of letting our subconscious take over. Perhaps we're arguing semantics here?

[1] https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/05/lebron-james-photographic-m...
[2] https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/09/12/rams-sean-mcvay-remembers-...
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The article is confusing about the details.

"Last Impact" never got a takedown notice and PC Gamer even wrote an article about it (as well as Nintendo clearly being aware of Kaze).

As I said, there is a lack of aggression against SM64 hacks and it has never really been explained--but yes, they do hate copies or extensions to their engines that are essentially their own game, but better. SM64 online definitely qualifies. But again, this isn't correlated to how popular or how much of an online footprint the games have.

(Article here https://www.pcgamer.com/super-mario-64-rom-hack-last-impact-... )
Ford has its own auto financing division called Ford Motor Credit. This division has about 80b of long term debt in the form of consumer auto loans for the purchase of Ford vehicles.
Moodys downgraded this debt last fall.
I'm curious if they actually repaired the keyboard or just cleaned things out. How often will you have to return it to the store?
That wouldn't matter if the KPI (worker performance) being predicted, which is inherently biased as well, was distributed differently among the balanced pool of applicants.
You think its normally bigger or smaller?

My guess with pay in the open is the gap is smaller, as more info favors those making the least.
Maybe to rub it in that they were letting a good candidate slip out between their fingers?
Thank you. It seems this is common knowledge in some circles. I know for a fact it isn't in others.

My post was just a question as to the overall percentage. Not whether there were any Americans who knew about the experiments.

Apparently asking questions and being inquisitive is bad now.
Friend of mine interviewed for a role where they explained a problem and asked how he would solve it. He spent 90 minutes explaining possible solutions while they made notes. It's a pretty specialist domain so he knew others who were interviewing. After the interviews they pulled the position - I suppose no one will ever know for sure, but after putting their heads together and doing some digging they figured the whole set of interviews was put together to solve a problem the business was having, and it was just an easy way to get a bunch of solutions from very specialist / expensive people.
there were a lot of different tools when i wrote this post
several other inbetween

main reason i never switched (even with all compromises) is that i didn't want to be forced to switch back if i pick the unlucky one (eg google inbox)
>Correlation does not imply causation.

i think we should stop trotting out this tired nugget without understanding how sparse the alternative is. Even within the academic stats community, there’s a fair amount of handwringing that rho is honestly all we have. fpci is one of the most dispiriting theorems in statistics. we get by with rubin models & sem, but these are pretty hokey and outside of social sciences you get laughed at if you say ran an sem. you can regress student score on study time & get a positive coefficient, but then you are setting yourself up - why did you get that positive coefficient ? well it means if he studied longer he would have scored higher. yeah but then why did he not study longer ? the fuck i know! oh wait a minute let’s do sem! ok we can’t observe depression so that’s a latent. and we can’t observe teenage angst so another latent. soon your friendly neighborhood psychologist thinks up half a dozen latent causes. put the whole thing into the sem mixer grinder with score as response. yay sem software gave me significance! ok so depressed teenagers will score poorly on test because they won’t study for it...but wait a minute why are they depressed- oh lets do another sem throw it divorce rate & obesity & lack of religious attendance & regress again....this is when the statistician gets up & says fuck all you assholes you don’t have anything to establish any of these things, you are just grossly misusing linear regression. then the social scientists respond well we don’t need your math kind anyways, we have sem software, its latent turtles all the way down. so what if beta hat is xprime x inverse xprime y? can’t publish a psych paper with just that. gotta have my latent goodies. causal inference ftw!

god sometimes this whole field makes me hurl.
No sympathy. The way this came down to this guy was abusive. It may have been abusive without malice, but it was still abusive.
What decides if it's an airship or not is not whether it has wings, but whether it's lighter than air. This thing is lighter than air, thus it is an airship.

Yet more terrible writing by the BBC.
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I'm decently sure that voiding the warranty for off-road usage would violate US law? I really don't think there's a whole lot you can do to void a vehicle's warranty in the US -- outside of intentional / malicious / collision damage.
Any damage caused by off-road usage may sometimes fall under collision damage, but generally I don't think that usage which is legal and non-negligent would void a warranty in the US. I'm not even sure if negligent usage would invalidate a warranty claim, though likely depends on the circumstances.

Note that IANAL -- just a consumer who often sees very clearly wrong "voids your warranty" statements far too often. I don't claim to know the precise hypotheticals here either, but I am confident that it's truly difficult to void your entire warranty (at least in the US).

Sure, pulling your touchscreen out and damaging it in the process = no warranty for the touchscreen. But if an axle subsequently snaps, the manufacturer cannot legally (in the US) deny your warranty claim based on other unrelated vehicle modifications.
Monorepo are used because of internal dependencies, but there are already very good solutions for that. We have as an org a lot of projects (50+) but also split out common functionality (as it makes sense) into components which are shared between projects. How do we share those? In our case (.NET) we have an internal NuGet source which contains the components in question. Each project can upgrade to the later version of an component at its own schedule, just like 3rd party dependencies are updated when necessary.

It does not have to be complicated.
"good candidates" are those who meet two conditions: 1) competent and 2) suckers, in the sense that they'll put in a lot more work than they'll get in compensation.

The process successfully selects for good candidates.
(1) It simplifies the programming model. There is no way to serialize a state of the call stack through a library in most programming languages. You mentioned that Cadence is similar to C# wait/async. The SWF Flow library is. But the Cadence workflow code is fully synchronous, not requiring callbacks unless needed by the business logic. Applying new events to the cached workfow is also more efficient for large states.

(2) It depends. Nothing prevents a workflow writer from checkpointing the state explicitly (by calling continue as new). Infinitely running workflows do it periodically. But having the events history is awesome for rollbacks. For example in Cadence it is possible to rollback a bad change and automatically rollback the state of all your workflows to the good state. In database world a change that corrupted the state is much harder to deal with.

(3) The experience shows that the determinism requirement while requires some learning is not that hard to deal with. But the superior programming model it allows is liked by users.
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Perhaps most telling then, where things go when you allow wealth inequality to become too extreme.
> Which is really pathetic if you think about it.

Blaming individuals for a demographic problem is not productive. It doesn't seem like you read that part though...
There is no pig pandemic in china. And for anyone who says there is: -1000 social credit points. No more fast trains for you.
That's a great doc page. In the "Supported Code Changes" for C++ and C# it has a helpful list of what isn't supported too. Java also has the feature in the JVM (IDEs / mvn-hotswap plugin can hook into it), but it's similarly limited. There's a proprietary java agent called JRebel that significantly expands the support (https://jrebel.com/software/jrebel/features/comparison-matri...), and a couple open source versions I haven't tried, but it's still got some limitations.

It's worth a comparison to Common Lisp which thought about this feature a lot more and built it into the language rather than having it hacked in by external tools... e.g. if you redefine a class definition in Java say to add a new storage field, well you can't using default hotswap but with JRebel you can, but still any existing objects will continue to point to the "old class"'s code and the new field won't be available... Common Lisp defines a generic function 'update-instance-for-redefined-class that you extend before you do the class edit, and now your existing objects will work with the new code.
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I’r rather be able to change the cord as I see fit and use any spec compliant charger than be tied to MagSafe chargers that get chewed on by the cat and have the cord get shorter and shorter as I cut and solder a new section.

To each his own. (BTW you can get MagSafe clips for USB-C, which is a testament to this standard’s modularity)
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Will they also turn their office into large faraday cages so that they can block the obvious next step of employees using their smartphones to email to/from outside the company?
Like this perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziw4yd5R0QI

(Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place)
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My biggest issue with EFF is that they often take pro-corporate positions and is lead by many actual executives and former executives (see board of directors https://www.eff.org/about/board), while the ACM comes more from an academic or tech worker strain (see https://www.acm.org/about-acm/officer-bios).

So while I agree with the EFF on many policies, their corporate leanings are a turn-off and isn't, imo, a solid ground for people doing day to day work in computing.
"which is downright awful" just because you say so, and yet apparently better than anything else you know-of.

> you can see that no Java result is under 2 seconds

That's because the workloads were chosen to push Java results above a couple of seconds.

> as the game does not perform warmup, and includes Java's compilation time

How many 1/10ths of a second do you imagine that takes?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Another missing piece of information (that confused me), is that immigration judges are direct employees of the DoJ and thus part of the executive branch. They preside over administrative proceedings conducted by the DoJ, rather than judicial cases in an independent court, with the DoJ as plaintiff / prosecutor, as is more conventional.
As far as I have seen, every time a project uses C, they end up transforming it in some subset and if you want to contribute, you must learn that C subset. It’s almost like DSLs.

I think that’s expected, and cool, given that C is a general purpose language and very flexible.
I didn't know this was a thing! I'm honestly shocked there aren't any. Did they sign a contract with CompuB or something?
I used to run one named ArtGrounds.com between 2005 and 2012. It was one of those small and cozy Internet communities. Three things killed it:

1. I kept twisting knobs to make it grow faster until people got fed up and left.

2. Internet art communities were dying in general.

3. Sketcher, the Java applet I had developed for multi-user real-time collaborative digital painting using pressure sensitive Wacom digitisers — the main draw of the site — was rapidly getting outdated as the Web began to reject Java. HTML5 was still a few years away, making it impossible to implement high-performance graphics apps in the browser. By the time WebGL made the kind of rendering I needed viable in a browser, the site was long gone.

That era of web development was a frustrating time for me. Java in the browser was abandoned without offering a full replacement for its number crunching, graphics and media capabilities. My strong suite was the kind of software you typically write in C/C++ and the web ecosystem just wasn't able to do that kind of thing at the time. I basically sat there and wanted WASM and WebGL and all these other rich web technologies to exist, but they just didn't.
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> 1. We have to criticise the tools we use. That is the only way we improve. If people had that mentality of not criticising a tool because of how popular it is, we would be stuck with cobol for life

Your comment wasn't constructive criticism, it was kvetching.

And we are stuck with COBOL for life. I guarantee you that every financial transaction you make gets touched by some COBOL somewhere. One takeaway from this might be, "the horrors! Organizations should be spending more money rewriting things in the latest technologies!" Another takeaway from this might be, "COBOL was so revolutionary for its time that it enjoyed massive adoption three decades ago, and it's still good enough that it isn't worth the cost to replace it in many cases."

You may not enjoy working with it. I've worked with it, I didn't love it either. But it is really, really good at what it does and it doesn't suffer any of the issues plaguing software development in more modern technologies.

> Amount of code release has extremely little to do with a language being good or bad, just with its popularity.

The empirical view would be that truly crappy things don't tend to get both the adoption and staying power of something like PHP.

> if for any reason you have to touch the code base, being for security upgrade, refactor or feature implementation, there is a potential for a lot of grief just because of the tool someone decided to use for the job.

And this is unique to PHP? I've worked in so many different languages and architectures I actually can't ever remember all of them off the top of my head. They all have warts. It's possible to build fragile, incomprehensible code in all of them.

PHP's greatest issue is its accessibility. It is so easy to get started with PHP that for over a decade it was the first language for most web developers. That has led to a lot of really awful code being published, coupled with a lot of really awful, stale documentation scattered around the web.

> 3. What was really that about hipster programmer? It has been a while since PHP stopped being the mainstream language for backend web development so that really makes little sense.

If you measure by "technologies mentioned in HN headlines", maybe. Other sources find that PHP is still used by around 79% of the web (https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all). The yearly usage statistics graph is hilarious: https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/programmin...

There are intelligent, reasoned criticisms of PHP from smart people and I enjoy reading those. Same as similar criticisms of Python, or Node.js, or Elegant Pootwaddle. But most of the time, "PHP is bad" is just a low-effort comment people make hoping to get a few nods from the internet.

Conjecture: the average Wordpress site is longer-lived than 50% of the startups launched through YC.
If you're hiring, and you do this kind of thing, you're only going to get people who are desperate, which tends to not be the top talent. Top talent usually has options, and won't put up with this kind of garbage. So if you're doing this, you're filtering to get lesser talent that will put up with being abused. Is that really the hiring filter you want?
two issues with thinkpads

1. they’re crazy thick. i travel a lot, and i need good cpu and ram and very light, very thin laptops. something like the huawei, or any of the macbook pros.

2. macos. because linux is still a drag.
Well, at this point it'd be pressed dual layer blu rays though, i downloaded the entire version and just the amd64 directories are around 45GB in size. I do not understand why they feel the need to associate OS versions with 3rd party packages though, why have an OpenBSD 6.5 version of -say- the 0ad game instead of an OpenBSD version of it that you say it needs at least OpenBSD 6.5 (or whatever) version to run?

(same question about Linux distros in general, FWIW... i just do not see the point of packaging so much stuff for a single OS version, it is like if Windows did the same thing - ignoring licensing - Windows 10 would include Photoshop, Steam, DOOM, Visual Studio, Maya, 3ds max and pretty much every other program with a bit of popularity ever made)

Well, at least a single arch version still fits on a single disk medium, last time i checked Debian needed several DL BDs (although perhaps a single BDXL disk, once they become available, will work... assuming we also ever burners for those).
I know you're joking, but do the social credit points apply on foreigners? People who might want to visit China in the future?
See also Trevor Darrell's group's work on neural module networks:

https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/06/20/learning-to-reason...
Fundamentally, there's no narrative, in the sense of a story or an emotional journey, without conflict. Luke may blow up the Death Star, but Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru got BBQ'd, Obi Wan died, and a lot of friendly pilots were vaporized along the way. And that's a relatively happy movie.

Moreover, to the extent that art is to help us grapple with difficult things, well... happiness isn't that difficult. Now, good circumstances but unhappy anyway? Then you've got something to build a story on.
People should reconsider keeping an always-on microphone operated by strangers in their home.
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uh, I can write an endpoint that does that in about 15-30 minutes in node with aws amplify if I'm doing queries with no parameters are other funny stuff. The most time consuming part would be getting the project set up.
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Apple doesn't sell a single computer today that isn't crippled by serious hardware limitations and pointless compromises. I've been a Mac user since the late 1980s, but Apple no longer makes anything I actually want to buy.
On the other hand, I'd be tempted to say The Final Cut was a flop precisely because it was so relentlessly bleak. It's not even sad so much as hopeless, like The Wall with all the angry and optimistic parts distilled away. Two Suns in the Sunset is so desolate that it's tough to follow with any other music at all. The mood where that's relatable is way out past sad, which does it no favors selling copies or landing on playlists

I agree that it's not really a generational thing, though. Timbuk3 landed one big hit (The Future's So Bright), and it was a sarcastic song about nuclear war that landed unironic play on graduation playlists. Their other, overtly depressing stuff got no traction at all. Rap, punk, and most any other genre has similarly hopeless, unromantic sad songs - they're just not approachable enough to top charts or endure in people's memories.