skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Claiming you don't clone the repository to your local PC is just false and will probably take more time than it does on GH.

I clone the upstream repository first, if I see a project I want to poke at, I don't instantly fork and clone my fork.

> > Excuse me, WTF?
> This is what I ask every time I see someone saying e-mail is an okay way to do contributions, continuous integration and issue tracking.

I think you forgot this: "It lets FOSS be vendor independent, it allows big projects to exist. Linux, PostgreSQL, *BSD, even git itself, uses email to collaborate. Clearly there is no negative impact as these projects are so successful."

> It negatively affects basically every component of development for everyone not accustomed to the bad tooling.

There is such thing as a good contributor. Some rando that quits on not knowing how to use a bug tracker isn't a good contributor. Somebody who takes time to learn how to use the tooling will be more beneficial to the project, than a bunch of one-time contributors whose contributions just take time to look at from main contributors. I think that having some barrier of entry really helps to conserve the time of the maintainers.

> > Secondly, that puts all of the FOSS projects in one basket

> You are out-of-touch to the possibilities available right now, Gitlab can be self-hosted.

You can build your own Chromium, but that doesn't change the fact that the web engines are getting centralized. "I only need to test on Chrome" and such. The same with hosting. The fact that you can self-host Gitlab doesn't change the fact that if everyone is hosting on Gitlab, you are putting all of the tooling to one vendor. It will devolve into "But it works on Gitlab CI".

> Sending bug reports to those companies using GH/GL has been a way better experience for me.

And would you think of the maintainers? Managing GH/GL bug tracking is difficult, as it lack features. No advanced statuses means that maintainers have to rely on hacky statuses using labels, which can get hairy really quick.

> So what? There's a lot of old and bad "protocols" we've killed.

Oh, like HTTP and FTP? Oh, wait, we're still using those. Maybe IRC? Oh wait, that is still used in development. Should we kill all of those? They are definetly old and have problems. You know what is also old and has problems? Walking by foot. So lets stop walking by foot and use bikes everywhere. Oh, you can't ride a bike in a building? Seems like we'll need to change our buildings too!
UN group urges release of mother and baby from immigration detention
Yes, http://archive.is/3WT8X
We don't have much evidence, but the evidence we do have suggests that there's a positive correlation between video gaming experience and surgical skills acquisition.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20630431
I'm incredibly nervous as well. If a second telescope had to be built for whatever reason would it take as long and cost as much as the first? Or is all the cost and time due to R+D?
> Since Clojure is pervasively built on laziness

Only some of Clonure’s data structures are built on laziness, everything else in the language is strict. If you want something actually built on laziness, you need Haskell.
I'm done using DO.

It's usually a bad sign when a company can't meet current needs/expectations and then decides to try and productize their failures.
Yes. For example the British arranged to cancel all German patents after ww2. This led to eg the development of the Japanese camera industry among many other things.
The problem is you literally can't get all the benefits that a big company can negotiate.
Nice been waiting for something like this. Maybe some ideas can be borrowed from TabletopSimulator eg. Custom cards etc to allow a larger selection of games.
I teach high school physics. Here's my notes/textbook on electricity with simulations and equations rendered in LaTex.

https://landgreen.github.io/physics/notes/circuits/electrici...
OC wasn't comparing voluntarily engaging in employment to slave labor, they were giving an example of something good for the consumer that we don't want as a business model.

My personal opinion on your last statement about removing options being unlikely to benefit, the other way of looking at it is a race to the bottom. If you create a job market segment where employees are being underpaid, but they're accepting it because there aren't better options for them, the overall job market can suffer. Hypothetically, some place like Walmart could see a chance to pay less for their workers, and if they actually went through with it then one of the largest employers would be taking a massive chunk of money out of the working class. They're a good example because they're already a burden on tax payers (about 6.2 billion depending on your source) since so many of their workers are on welfare. The reality is, if you let companies exploit workers, they will, and the workers will be happy to be exploited until it's too late. See: Working conditions in China over the past few decades

I'm not an economist, so maybe someone with more knowledge on the subject can hopefully put it more eloquently, or maybe even give an explanation as to why I might be wrong
U.S. measles cases in 2019 surpass total cases per year for past 25 years
Is that wrong? Maybe we should do something about Fox and Breitbart's link to the current administration then.
Fortunately, they're not influencing gut flora research to make humans treat some species preferentially. This would be way too complex for simple creatures that don't have their own nervous system.
I’m fairly confident there will be lawsuits about this... adding listening devices to your tenants apartments has always been a bad call
This is very cool. How does the chess engine work without some sort of AI?
Other companies and consumers.
Arbitrary grouping should be outlawed. It should be based on their entire pool of business. Law of large numbers means some will always be sick. They should make money by preventing sickness not by directly or indirectly increasing the cost of care.
> This is the same for mechanical inventions

And just like with software patents, people come up with weird workarounds:

> Sun-and-planet motion. The spur-gear to the right, called the planet-gear, is tied to the center of the other, or sun-gear, by an arm which preserves a constant distance between their centers. This was used as a substitute for the crank in a steam engine by James Watt, after the use of the crank had been patented by another party. Each revolution of the planet-gear, which is rigidly attached to the connecting-rod, gives two to the sun-gear, which is keyed to the fly-wheel shaft.

http://507movements.com/mm_039.html

If you look at the animation at the link, you can see it's just a crank with two extra gears attached
Well said. The legal origins of the separation between contractors and employees pre-date computers, not to mention the internet.
There are a lot if algorithms that are patented that stop people doing stuff, eg in cryptography, mp3, erasure codes etc.
I'd love to read this but their paywall is effective. Could someone sum it up?
The presentation you linked concludes that 2mil nominal conformal coating is indeed highly effective...
Apple patents bold new innovation – a paper bag (2016)
Of course, by careful engineering and restrictions (e.g. straight up no dynamic memory allocation). On systems where you can understand and measure the entire execution path from electrical trigger to response. And in any case, they don't wire in blow-up switches when the timing fails.

On the other hand, we have the modern frontend project with its 300 nodes in the dependency tree, of which a handful are written by whoever will be turning this on. Are you sure your i18n library isn't lazy-loading translations and you blow the budget once someone selects not-English?
So changing dietary habits is not just about challenging your reward system, but also starving out the invasor?

Imagine a world where you can buy your food tastes through a yogurt.
Does anyone know how you say "k3s"? I had a look at the docs, but didn't find it.
Maybe not working 40 hours a week and enjoying the world in our prime age?

We spend our best time of the day stuck in an office or someone else's property doing work for them. Losing all the time we have with sunlight.

If we all worked 20 hours a week and maintained our SoL we would even be mentally more stable.
op could've meant Eastern Europe.
> well-proven technology like lithium-ion grid stora

Remember that there is no economically viable way to recycle lithium.

The price of lithium must go up 5-8X.
It's debatable if this is AI but basically it looks at all the moves you can make then all the responses an opponent can make and then what you can do back etc. and attaches scores based on pieces taken and the positions. And then goes with the best score.

Conventional chess programs use a similar algorithm and ones like AlphaZero are similar except they use machine learning and neural nets to judge how good positions are rather than a simple point score system.

I remember trying to write a similar one after seeing the algorithm explained on the TV show Tomorrow's World, around 1980. (Here they are explaining the cutting edge of mobile phones in the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix6TMnj9vY&feature=youtu.be...)
They're NOTHING like each other. Experience says otherwise.

Everyone thinks that until they've done both ship their first SaaS and get an occupancy permit for your first building. I can say that while there are some similarities in managing complex inter dependencies even if you waterfall the code.
By default you get 5 uses of GPS per day, for more than that use in-app purchases. Also try our lootbox for a chance at winning fancy avatars to display near your name!
You're fighting semantics here, that's exactly what they were referring to.
Obviously concerning. Care you provide more details on this? I respect your desire to stay anon, but any details to add some color would be great. For example, did you completely leave Digital Ocean, and if so, where did you go?
> especially among people who don't trust each other all that much

Doesn't that imply it should be of minimum importance in a parent-child relationship?
Have I just become a curmudgeonly old man yelling at kids to stay off my lawn? I mean I don't feel old and out of touch, but something is off?

Is everyone else really out there demanding these types of services and technologies be installed in their homes as a prerequisite to even living there?

If you're one of the people who use these kinds of devices, and you don't mind me asking, why is it you guys like these types of devices and services? And do the privacy issues here concern any of you at all?

As a matter of full disclosure, the privacy issues seem obvious and deal breaking to me, but clearly that's not the consensus view.
...isn't that how Alex Jones got rid of his kids' custody?
Wouldn't malware simply spin up a new VM with a new IP to trivially get around single IP blocks? Wouldn't such blocks also put a lot of strain on the NOC to maintain.
Try Googling the article title and then clicking on the article from there. The Google Referer header should disable the paywall.
You can tell that you're fit after you've attended classes, had talks with parental psychologists etc. There are many ways to confirm, and in most nations these societal "tools" are completely free of charge.

Can you tell if you can drive a car when you've never tried? Maybe you will sit into the car and it will just click. Maybe not - that's why you don't just go but first go to a driver school to learn. And even the notion that driving is more complex than parenting seems absurd, so going to a parenting school should absolutely be required.
There is nothing in the nature of the universe that's contrary to trade agreements among people, of which patents are one example. You could say that some agreements are unenforceable under current conditions or perhaps undesirable or even silly, but unless people agree to violate the laws of physics, the universe is agnostic to human contracts. As I wrote in another comment, patents do not protect some truth -- actually, their entire purpose was to help spread truths -- just applications (and human ones, not natural ones).
I already understood your point. But I disagree that people, even university educated ones, are owed a stress free, lucrative, or personally fulfilling job.

It's a great thing to have, but it's a privilege to have one. And it's privileged thinking to expect one.

Lots of kids have parents who work as hard or harder for less money and respect. Of course people can complain about the treatment of teachers. Just don't be surprised if short order cooks aren't particularly moved.
No. It's supply-driven demand, propped up by advertising.
I was gifted a few of these devices and had to return them. For the bulk of society, they're not seen as invasive listening devices and many willingly pay hefty fees for them and install them.

Unless you're doing your own NLP locally and designed it, I don't really trust it. To be fair, most already have cell phones that can be tapped in similar ways (with additional sensors--it's amazing what you can derive from MEMs alone) but active assistant listening is usually one of the first "features" I disable.
> "Daddy said don't ever trust nobody, they always tryin' to get ya" ... Or else "My father always said to just trust people, and they'll trust you back"

But in fact, both of these are wrong! Our ability to fully develop affective empathy, and thus to intuitively and effectively strive for win-win outcomes in the way that's constantly required of us by any modern society, is critically reliant on a basic foundation of intuitive trust; on the other hand, "just" trusting anyone with no fall-back of any sort simply invites abuse by unscrupulous or even actively malicious (i.e. socially predatory to the point of dysfunction, without even the most cursory interest in - or for that matter, the understanding of - the wellbeing of those they interact with!) actors, and might even leave us utterly unable to effectively counter such abuse even when we can acknowledge that trust has, in fact, failed. The one effective policy is "trust but verify", and with the right attitude it can work in a wide range of communities!
So, in your opinion, Microsoft is a bad company because they have a better product and they're using it to make money from other corporations?

Wow, that's pretty damning!
This seems like a distinction without a difference.

Being granted exclusive access to put a fact to productive use (or any use) seems roughly equivalent to "owning the truth" to me.
I live in Barcelona, most of our days are sunny. I don't think they will have that much outage, only in spring time (rain season) is more or less cloudy, but in general you have really great weather.
It uses a variant of minimax game-tree search, which is a pretty classical approach to game AI. The particular one it uses is MTD-bi, which is in the MTD family of search algorithms, related to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTD-f
> But I never heard that quick sort was ever patented. Why is that?

Quick sort is from a time before the USA decided that algorithms could be patented. In fact, most foundational algorithms of computer science are from that time. IMO, the development of computer science would have been hampered for a couple of decades had it been possible to patent algorithms back then; we're very lucky that this wasn't the case.
I think most would agree that ‘surveillance’ for increasing odds of healthy outcomes is significantly different than surveillance used to make a buck.

Would you object to blood pressure and heart surveillance if you were in the hospital?
A new credit bubble gets ready to burst
>> and we take every effort to get customers back online as quickly as possible. In this particular scenario, we were slow to respond and had missteps in handling the false positive.

You clearly don't make every effort, and did not -- so why waste the extra verbiage and switch from active to passive voice?

Based on your cliche response I have zero confidence that DO will do anything substantial to address the root causes of the issue.
I’m in the same boat as you, but a bunch of my friends have smart speakers. For them it’s a convenience thing + not caring overly much about privacy. The ability to query google, set timers, and play music hands free outweighs the creepy factor.
I think this snippet sums it up:

> Amazon’s Alexa Smart Properties team, a little known part
of its Alexa division, is working on partnerships with
homebuilders, property managers and hoteliers to push
millions of Alexa smart speakers into domiciles all
across the U.S. Amazon is hoping to find a new way to build market share by offering discounted hardware, customized software and new ways for property managers to harvest and use data.
Phoneawesome – Build Phone Display on HTML
Offshore tax evasion is highly concentrated among the rich
I find Haskell less of a “needs” a hoogle, and more of a “nothing else has this, this is so useful”.

The number of times I have wished for something like Hoogle when writing Python...
Heroku is expensive but fantastic. Unless you have complicated needs and the price point doesn’t shock you, it’s a fantastic way to use AWS while sparing yourself a lot of headaches.
No fair, Ted Bundy gets Tallahassee AND Salt Lake City?
Click on the "web" link, which is a link to the Google search already filled in for you.
For a second I thought they were moving into real estate/housing as the next market to disrupt. That would've been fun.
Microsoft != Windows. Windows isn't its own division anymore. There is a lot more to MS than Windows. Do we judge other companies as a whole based on one product or service they offer rather than looking at the whole?

The "spyware and adware" is added by those who sell the computers (i.e. the hardware manufacturers) rather than by Microsoft. It's been a way for them to make money with the slimming of the profit margins from the hardware. This isn't on Microsoft.

I find MS to be more trustworthy because of their income models. They are far less reliant on surveillance. Their market share isn't as dominant. And, they aim to be a platform rather than an aggregator (see the Bill Gates line).
It would piss me off to no end to have this shit in my home.

Electrical mosquito zappers (those battery powered tennis rackets) are very effective in killing silicon without visible external damage.

If someone bugged my apartment like that, I'd give em the high voltage treatment. "Maybe it was a lighting strike?"
Does this imply that the PageRank algorithm I wrote for a uni assignment is actually illegal? Or does this fall under "studying it"? Note that I'm from Europe.
I fail to see the parallels between Germany after World War II and China in 2019. China's patent situation is much closer to Germany in the late 19th century and the British didn't throw away their patent system in the 19th century just because Germany patented more.
Yahoo's directory and dmoz seem orthogonal to Google. Not even in 1994, long before Google and when aptly-named WebCrawler was all the rage, would one turn to Yahoo (dmoz did not exist at the time) to find what they were looking for if they had something specific to look for. Yahoo served as a place to go when you weren't looking for anything in particular and wanted to simply explore the web.

There was a time when Yahoo also tried to get into the indexed search space, but never seemed to be a viable competitor against other players in the market. Once Google established their dominance, all bets were completely off.
That never works for me for WSJ, I think they disabled that.
But it is not equivalent. The fear was that without patents people won't be able to teach and spread truths because they wouldn't know them. Patents exchange the ability to study and spread truths for protecting their profitable applications. You may be against that compromise because you think it does not achieve its goals or object to such compromises on principle, but it is a very real compromise between very real alternatives -- at least alternatives envisioned by the creators of the patent systems. Denying that alternatives that people have actually been choosing between for centuries [1], and so ignoring the distinction between keeping some truth as a trade secret and making it public but obtaining a time-limited protection on applications -- both are "owning the truth" (if that's what you want to call it) but in different ways -- is completely missing the entire issue, namely which form of ownership is preferable to the other.

One could argue about effectiveness, but it is a common historical intepretation that the choice between different kinds of IP has had a real impact[2], so the distinction is very much one with a difference.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law

[2]: https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?h...
Kubes.
"For Amazon, the appeal is obvious: Adding millions of new users to its services and gaining access to data like their voice-based wish lists and Alexa-powered shopping habits..."

It's okay folks. There are no privacy concerns here as they only want your voice-based wish lists and shopping habits data. Once again people just love exaggerating on these topics. /s
I used to use Airbnb a lot. Now I don't so much because I have to write the host beforehand and verify there are no cameras or listening devices in the space. This is where we are now.
Link without paywall: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazons-plan-to-move-in-to-your...
Does Tim Cook have a Plan B in China?
For example, here's a reference to the Google Landmark Recognition 2019 dataset https://www.kaggle.com/c/landmark-recognition-2019/data
this statement is downright offensive and something i wouldn't expect to read here.

fluency is a high barrier to clear. it took me 5 years of speaking/reading/writing english daily to come even close to "fluency".

before that, i had a really good advanced english, but i wasn't fluent. and it didn't mean i was "illiterate".
Voluntarily doesn't disqualify something from being slavery. Historically, if you look at indentured servitude you'll see this very trend and indentured servitude is classified as a form of slavery (albeit, arguably, not as bad).

Interestingly, if you want to look at a modern parallel, it's not too far off from how H1Bs are used. There are of course more modern rights that allow individuals to quickly terminate these responsibilities but essentially contracts hold needs (income, assets) and desires (citizenship) hostage as the bargaining mechanisms, not too far from what many indentured servants entered into. To be fair, working conditions and treatment have also of course increased drastically.
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) - used in Inforation Retrieval systems - is one example of a patented algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
Of course it does, and your point is?