skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, being able to have some protection over that (though likely not for long) seems reasonable to me.

The challenge (to me) comes down to all of the weird edge cases that come up when you try to actually implement that protection.

- Keeping some portion of harvested product to plant next year is how we've farmed since we started farming. Is that now illegal? Does it require a licensing fee?

- Some seeds blow in the wind, now the northern 10% of your neighbours plot has the fancy seed you paid for and they didn't. Are they "breaking the law"? What happens if they save some % of that seed for next year, is that doubly illegal?

- If a consumer of the produce saves the seeds, then plants them in their own garden, are they breaking the law?

These things all get really ugly really fast. The fact that the IP owner is usually Goliath, and the farmer David certainly doesn't help the IP owner's case in the minds of the public.

So while I am in theory a fan of recognizing the effort that went into your onion, I find a lot of the repercussions of trying to protect your IP so distasteful I might not be willing to accept them.
I’ve done online courses myself and found them immensely useful.

Unfortunately, I think that to some extent, it signals that “I’m interested, but not committed enough to get a full degree.”

Your nanodegree realistically will never come close to competing with a formal CS degree. So don’t bother with listing it. List your github projects and apps you’ve released. Get the interview. “Oh and by the way, in my spare time, I’ve self-studied XYZ.”

That’ll impress me.
I can't be the only one noticing so much noise about China in American media.

Is America really so scared of being number 2?
IMHO the only reason that hasn't been tried in court is because we can't clone humans from skin cells left in public.

Once we can, I'm sure someone's going to try to make a Michael Phelps or Barry Bonds.
AWS Console Is Down
Over on the east coast, I think the aws console is out.
> On April 4th, Snap announced a programmatic offering called Audience Network, which copies Facebook’s strategy of selling user data for third-party ads across multiple applications

This is incorrect, and makes me wonder if the rest of the article is accurate. Both Snap and Facebook's Audience Network is similar to Google's AdSense (running ads on a website) or AdMob (running ads on mobile). Google, Snap, and Facebook don't sell user data (from the aforementioned products, at least).
Also to tack onto this, when I was at my first job a PhD related the following story to me:

When he was getting his doctorate his advisor was investigating several proteins that might do fun brain things and handed the specific testing of each off to a different doctoral candidate, one of those proteins ended up being super interesting and netting the candidate a good deal of clout and a foot in the door for high funded research - it was not his.

So rent-seeking compensation for innovations will over-compensate the winners, but the losers who sunk just as much time into research will be deprived of any compensation.
Thank you for the downvotes - but winning the (down)voting game doesn't make you right.

> They consider Commons Clause to be harmful for good reasons.

Your quote only tells that they consider the license non-free. Which is true, if you subscribe to their definition of "freedom" [0] (which I don't - YMMV). Harmful though? I don't think so.

Have you looked around lately? Has opensource software won? Where it did, it did because it helped big tech companies to "commoditize their complements". Where it didn't, it is because by itself it doesn't provide hobby developers with any incentive to keep working once the maintaining stops being fun.

> RMS and FSF's stance on software freedom is ultimately straightforward: they want to protect end user's freedoms, and protecting this involves removing the ability for anyone in between to take away end user's freedoms.

Exactly. What they are missing however is that without developers' engagement you get the situation that we have now. And that some of the freedoms are more important than others - like freedom to repair, to run for every purpose, and... to actually have a polished piece of software. Do you still think opensource "won"?

In the end it's a free world, or it should be. Also free to decide which license to use. And free from hordes of preachers falling on every mention of Commons Clause.</rant>

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition#T...
Hence the rush to "investing" in gimmicks
Socis – Summer of Code in Space
Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
With all repeated issues the company is suffering with their product strategy, software quality, privacy issues, executive retention, etc., why are people still eager to join the company?
Oh, and what do they use today?

> I guess security is not relevant as infrastructure work.

...
> I feel like if you leave it off your resume, you probably wouldn't be able to land the interview to begin with.

The nanodegree is step zero in teaching yourself to program and definitely isn't necessary. Demonstrating what you can do is several orders of magnitude more important, and is the real end goal. Most competent self-taught programmers understand this, and understand how trivial a nanodegree actually is as a signal of being able to build good software as part of a team. I typically invite about half of self-taught people with a coding portfolio for an interview, mainly because about half have one that demonstrates the kind of back-end work we do. I invite literally everyone who has launched a product, no matter how small or in what domain, for an interview. I have never invited someone to interview on the basis of a nano-degree. Granted, every application I see is filtered through the sausage grinder of HR, so that's maybe a consideration.
To be fair, this is projecting power in Asia but the US projects power globally. That said, I'm no fan of this military budget.
Note that this is almost "as expected". If you have only one xenon atom in a box, to see that it decayed you should wait a "1.8 x 10^22 years—or about a trillion times the age of the Universe".

If you have two atoms in a box, you must wait approximately half of the time to see the decay.

They have 2 tons of xenon. I'm not sure if 1 ton = 1000kg or 907 kg, but it doesn't change the result too much. With 2 tons you have 2 x 907 * 1000 / 131 x 6.02x10^23 = 8E28 xenon atoms, so you expect to have a few decays per hour (if I did the calculations correctly).

I'm not sure if they can detect the 100% of the decays and the noise level, so it probably takes a longer time to detect a good signal.
Do you have proof??
Trying to copyright organic life is tricky because as Jurassic Park taught us, stuff tends to get out.

So did the farmers "steal" the potatoes used for lays chips, or did they have no choice in their selection due to factors?

Monsanto's sterile "terminator seeds" technology are a great example of this same issue.
Actually, this is what my PhD thesis is about. See doi.13376942/8008135.2006/foo
I work for a mid-size manufacturing company, and we fire (or they quit) way, way more people than we keep
> Better than bloody GMail arbitrarily deciding that subscriptions and emails I've long-since received from various sources being suddenly spam... .

That's in fact my exact issue. The newsletter from the mayor of Seattle regularly gets tagged, for example.
So what would be a better alternative to make your resume stand out to get a job that doesn't include doing a full degree?
What is it that you’re looking for your tool to do about this?
Not sure this is their thinking, but here's one way to square those concepts:

A person can have stellar past performance, but turn out to be a poor fit for the particular culture, workgroup, or work of the new employer.
Yes, causality is one of the ways of defining Time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time
I think you've missed the point.

OP is arguing that a perfect codebase is not possible, therefore it's a bit unfair to complain that the status pages do not work perfectly. Hence the chicken and egg problem of "if I could write a perfect status page, I would have skills such that the status page would not be necessary".
Americans Are Among the Most Stressed People in the World, Poll Finds
So there is at least one intelligent Instagram user out there.
>apodicticly .. first time I'm encountering this word. Really cool.

From wiki, "Apodictic" or "apodeictic" (Ancient Greek: ἀποδεικτικός, "capable of demonstration") is an adjectival expression from Aristotelean logic that refers to propositions that are demonstrably, necessarily or self-evidently the case.
I’m not sure if this is serious not. The best evidence is of such embarrassing quality that it serves as a master class in human cognitive bias and logical fallacies.

It’s at the same level as the evidence for paranormal hauntings, parapsychology, and cryptozoology.

At least Bigfoot has a higher existential prior probability, since you don’t have to posit that an alien intelligence randomly stumbled upon Earth or was sufficiently close that it immediately ventured forth upon detecting our EM radiation.
Exactly, and I see people that will say you can do X with html/css and js but when you look at that example is full of bugs(for corner cases), missing features(like missing essential events), are not efficient etc.

If you look at a mature GUI library advanced widget you will see how many events and thing supports and how many bugs were reported because there are many corner cases that need handling.

I worked a lot with Flex4 I loved the fact that the widgets were optimized, you could have a list or tables with 1 million items and it would not affect performance. In Web I see the pattern where you use a lot of pages, you show like 12 results and you have the user hit Next and Next when you could have fitter a lot or even all the results on a large page, especially if is all text
If you want to employ the cops to protect all your hard work, work on something that is patentable, copyrightable, or trademarkable.

Selective breeding is not patentable. Literally millennia of prior art. So instead build a brand based around a 10# onion, and protect the trademark rather than the biological variety. When customers demand "Bowling Bulb" branded 10# onions, produce managers will buy yours instead of the generic knockoff, or charge and pay extra for the onions with your logo stickered on them.

Or pull a dirty trick, such that there is an external factor to the onion growth, aside from the onion's own DNA, such as saturating the test and production plots with a chemical not normally required for onions, and breeding in dependence on supplementary fertilization, or breed in dependence on a specific pollinator. You have no choice but to sell the onion as is. You don't have to tell anyone else how to successfully grow it, or let them rent your species of onion-pollinating bee.
But the bullshitters are proven to be bullshitting the survey...
To add to this, I have a 6 year old iPad. There are no issues with it except the operating system itself. Hulu won't install since it needs iOS 11 for some reason. iOS won't update to 11 because it's too old. Netflix works and updates just fine.

The iPad is in perfect condition with no hardware issues. It's the software that will make it an ewaste soon.

My Android phone updates all the apps (even many OS services) without any problem.
Given the prodigious use of sticky notes involved in Agile transformation, and the apparent commitment to 3M’s bottom line, perhaps this is a leading indicator that agile consulting is in decline? /s
I don't know what you mean? Google has many large ad customers who use the web UI to manage their campaigns.

Common Lisp was rarely used at Google when I was there, though it's a big company and you do see a little of everything, sometimes due to acquisitions. You might be thinking of ITA software, which is (was?) used for airline reservations.
> or an exploding Frisbee game

I'm intrigued.
> they're tools for aiding code comprehension by increasing the locality of code that has no business being distributed into completely different classes

That's true for some kinds of code but not others. This is the classic Expression Problem [0]. For some things, it makes sense to keep all of the code for a single operation together. For others, it makes more sense to keep all of the code for a single datatype together. ML-style languages optimize for the former, and object-oriented languages optimize for the latter.

In practice, for the kinds of code Dart is designed for, the latter is a better fit most of the time. There's a reason OO and UI have been married together for decades.

Ideally, a language provides both styles so you can choose the one that fits your problem best. You see that now with languages like Scala. I hope we get there with Dart too.

I don't think it's fair to say that subclassing and method dispatch is objectively wrong just because it's a bad fit for some kinds of code. (Though, naturally, if it's a bad fit for the kind of code you need to write, then an OO language might be an objectively bad choice for you.) Class-based method dispatch is annoying for some things (God knows I've written enough Visitor pattern implementations over object-oriented AST class hierarchies), but it's really beautiful for others.

Being able to define a new widget class that bundles its rendering and interaction behavior together and can seamlessly extend a UI framework is something so natural that we take it for granted, but is very difficult to express in a language like SML. In fact, in order to do it, you'll probably end up doing a "design pattern" that reimplements something like v-tables at the application level.

[0]: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/10/01/solving-the-exp...
Good for the founders, though with the purchase by Mongo, I will mourn when the Realm database system stops being open source.
>mature legal frameworks where the rule of law exists (US-

whaaaaaa

How is 'recording everything, decrypting everything, targeting persons of interest without warrant or record, extensive networks of informants and agents in all branches of politics, art, and business while bombing people based on their cell phone ping location globally without oversight or any attempt at legal justification'

The United States is 0 privacy, 0 honesty about the actual laws in place, 'fusion centers' completely removing any sane separation of national and regional power or separation of police from military, and 50 TLA's arguing over how best to harass political activists or run criminal gangs themselves. And an entire other spy agency of a different country on the other side of the world allowed to do basically whatever they want in our borders and harvest every ounce of the data of our lives.

That's not a 'mature framework', that is reverting 'civilization' to before the magna carta, much less the geneva conventions.

And since in no case where it was revealed how the government is breaking its own laws and using technology to make an illegal monstrosity out of the internet has the government ever meaningfully been held to account of actually changed, behold what rules you.

Stop pretending something is worth your trust just because there are flags and rotundas and people in suits on the news 24 hours a day and a cultish military junta hasn't completely taken completely over yet, visibly. edit: ...in the united states.
There is a Ted talk about an “Interspecies Internet:” https://www.ted.com/talks/the_interspecies_internet_an_idea_...
Firstly, I’m a fan of Hard sci fi like Altered Carbon.

What a great show!

I don’t think we will see human consciousness slipping from body to body in our foreseeable future.

If so, it surely would add yet another dimension to unbalanced wealth accumulation.

But I think we are fast approaching a time where an extra 5-10 years of high quality life are within the reach of the affluent and wealthy.

Perhaps starting with not so much longer life, but better life before an inevitable physiological/cognitive decline.
The article seems to be catching overconfidence (a human bias) as opposed to BS (a disregard for truth). Or am I missing it?
Patentable crops are a recent aberration, selective breeding has worked quite well without patents for millenniums.
Targeting the poor who are breaking the law and intending to profit from it. It's not like there are no other potato varieties in the world. In fact I'm sure regular potato seeds are cheaper than Lay potato seeds.
Webinar: Tactics to Nail PR for Crypto and Blockchain
“China Is Most Significant Existential Threat the US Has Ever Faced”
Yes, but for any given job at Netflix, you go in knowing other most gigs are going to pay at least 30% less for the same work.

Amazon isn't paying their warehouse employees a premium rate to offset the risk of falling in the bottom 10%.
I don't know about "defying the laws of physics" (since if it could truly defy the laws of the physics that would be whack) but plenty of stealth bombers were reported as "mysterious UFOs" before they were officially revealed in any capacity - and I'm sure there is no shortage of experimental craft that never made the cut.

Hell, even if someone saw a B-2 today they'd probably think it's alien.
There are also questions that are only designed to humiliate the one being questioned. They are performative acts, not genuine questions.
"Remember that most women apply to positions only where they 100% fit the requirements."

Errm....citation required please? otherwise I may take offence.
We'll be playing generated MIDI without human filtering or manipulation today (though playing them synthetically of course)! If you know of an orchestra looking for some music, we could do the rest of what you describe :).
How many of those books weren't about the mainstream GUI toolkits (Qt, GTK, MFC, Cocoa, Swing…)? Has even one of those books described something that resemble "let's redraw everything every frame"? If so, how that technique was called?

> what books could I have bought but didn't?

Possibly none at all. Immediate mode anything is mostly a game dev thing, and what happens in game dev tends to stay in game dev. They don't seem to document their practices as much as other fields do.

Hence my suspicion that the authors of your books didn't even know about IMGUI. They just knew about "the" way to do GUI, which happens to involved retained state.
When cooking your rhubarb, try adding some ginger. Or grated orange zest. (Perhaps even both.)
Deterministic means that given the same input, the system gives the same output. Computers would be useless if they were not deterministic. Hooking up random input to a deterministic process will give random output. Garbage in, garbage out.

What you're asking is for computers to be rational. That given garbage input, it will produce intelligible output. Computers cannot do this unless you program them to.

Human minds are non-deterministic in many, many, many ways. Hand the same input to the same mind and you'll get a different output every single time, unless the mind willed itself to act rationally. But they are deterministic enough that you can study their behavior. Other brains are not as non-deterministic, so their behavior is easier to study.

Look at it from a thermodynamic standpoint. Biological systems arose to conserve order against entropy. A fully-deterministic system will shed order, it's only through non-deterministic means that biological systems can conserve order.

The mind is the most complex system nature has devised that can not only slow the aggregation of entropy, but also create order! It's not breaking the laws of physics, but yet it can create all kinds of order.

Conway's Game of Life is an excellent illustration of the concept. You have to work hard and study the domain in order to find stable systems. Otherwise they just drop to equilibrium fast.
Aka 16% of the total budget.
I really wish more sites did this... I know that for sites that don't get, say 1M views a month, it would be difficult to match the ad networks... but for even a million views a month, it's probably better to get dedicated/approved ad support and building relationships with vendors than to try to poison your own site with ad networks, often blocked.
P-values and power in statistical tests
Has anyone here done interviews with interviewing.io? How was it, did it lead to a job?
The article is interesting, but I found this short statement much more persuasive: "Economist James K. Galbraith disputes these claims of the benefit of comparative advantage. He states that "[...] none of the world's most successful trading regions, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and now mainland China, reached their current status by adopting neoliberal trading rules."", from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage#Criticis...
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I mean really it shouldn't be surprising, they pay really well.
It's about being in control, not ads. My network belongs to me. I get to say what data leaves my network. I get to choose who I support by leaving ads on. I get to choose who gets blacklisted because they take advantage.
What I couldn't quite grasp from the rules is how the center-gate works. Do you have to pass or kick the ball through the center gate to get to the other side or are you allowed to go around the center gate? Also, does the ball have to be kicked through the end gates on the ground or can you punt it right over? Seems like it might be hard to judge whether a goal was made since you can come at it from so many angles, if you're allowed to kick as high as you want.

Reminds me more of Aussie Rules Football than Rugby, to be honest, but sans tackling.
Developers assuming that all users have hardware and internet speeds anywhere close to as good as their own is a huge problem.

Not only is there a huge chunk of people who are using low-to-midrange laptops ranging anywhere between old and ancient, but manufacturers are still selling brand new machines with CPU power and RAM roughly on par with the average laptop from 2007 (C2D class CPU, 2-4GB RAM, 5400RPM HD). Those users aren’t going away any time soon, and by casting resource consumption aside as a total non-issue, developers are also casting these users aside.
Weaponized PDFs on the Rise
Has anyone had any luck adding API tests to Gilab's CI/CD pipeline? For some reason I'm able to build Docker images and run them as containers with dind as part of a testing pipeline but I haven't had any luck getting the API test scripts to establish any connection with the containerized service.
Voting with your wallet doesn't apply here since Fortnite is free to play.
At 32 seconds into the video, you can see a few frames of a Google Sheet where one column is the name of the sport (you can see "Quidditch" quite a few times) and a second column is a rule, like "The Chasers are there to try and keep posession of the Quaffle...". Looks like one row per rule. Teh filename is "AKQA AI SPORT".

No idea if that's what they used for the actual training, though.
This can be done one action at a time. Every time someone claimed expertise in something I know, I ask about it. If someone uses a buzzword I don’t know, I ask them to explain it in plain English. And I ask again if they define one buzzword with another. And if they namedrop a mutual friend, I ask the connection their opinion.

BS is a cancer. Unless you’re drinking with friends, in which case it’s entertainment.
Per the embedded video (also used on the official site), they used textgenrnn (https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn) to train the text-generating AI, which I made. Although I really wish they said that explicitly: not as a means of attribution, but to make the text generation more accessible/transparent which is why I made textgenrnn in the first place.

GPT-2 would likely have much more interesting results on such longer input text. If anyone from AKQA reads this, I'm open to help setting that up.
I am interested if you start selling onions or tomatoes on the internet. /s