skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to PL everyone strugles. But you can't possibly suggest LaLiga are strugling...

PL is also a far superior product, the a/v is better, there is considerably more drama and the lower league, The Championship is almost on par. Football wise, there is a big debate. Entertainment wise, the PL is far better.
> They think that closed source software is "morally wrong", and therefore "allowing closed and open source to exist side-by-side" is not really their goal.

OK, that's nice but can these people explain to me how I should pay rent?
What would you have them receive?
Including debt from crimes?
BigInt works in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and upcoming Edge at the moment. Safari preview also has at least partial support.
We know we have to keep kids sheltered from people which may have unscrupulous neural networks at play looking for a way to further their own goals at the expense of a child's well being and overall health.

Engagement on the internet is also being driven by neural networks that are learning to adapt to the users brain chemistry to statistically modify behavior for maximum engagement/profit. Perhaps it is time to realize that these services are going to be analogous to a random stranger offering your kid candy for their own twisted goals that are unlikely compatible with a child's well being. If you consider a service like YouTube as an untrusted source of interaction perhaps you'll be as likely to block or monitor it the same as random chat rooms.
Hacker News has always been like this. The site is specifically targeted at people associated with venture-capital-funded startups.

A very large percentage of those people are former FAANG employees, employees of companies trying to get acquired by FAANG, or employees of companies doing exactly the same things that FAANG are getting criticized for. (Some are all three!)

I doubt any of them are getting paid to AstroTurf, but they know what side their bread is getting buttered on.
> You are copying someone else's work without complying with their license. That act, not the fact that it is GPL

Right, so the correct conclusion is to never use, never contribute to and never write GPL-licensed software. Then you comply 100% with GPL, you have no legal risk and you also have money to pay for your Gatorade.

In fact the best solution would just be to completely rid ourselves of GPL?
Air pollution from traffic cause 10x more deaths than all trafficdeaths combined in Sweden. In the same ballpark as deaths caused by depression. But it still is rather few deaths, so I'm not sure.
Populists prefer TV to online news, but are sticking to Facebook as others leave
Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20190614191130/https://www.omnis...
More stable mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190614191130/https://www.omnis...
You are still asking the leetcode question, and no matter how fairly you explain it the candidate who practised those questions will probably do better.
What is Your favorite free/open license to work with?
Thanks, this helps a lot.

I'm pretty shocked all this can go on in the background without permissions. With Apple adopting such a privacy-conscious stance, I really hope this gets their attention so beacon scanning requires explicit permission in the future (and separate from location services -- my weather app needs to know where I am, but certainly doesn't need to scan for beacons).

This is honestly pretty egregious.
But it won't be. And even if it were, let us remember how well the law works to curtail crime among governments and wealthy corporations and individuals. They'll hide it, "repurpose it", lie about it, and engage in years-long legal battles during which time the public loses interest. If it is more profitable to break the law and pay the fine, that is the best business decision.
Still looking for recommendations that are influenced by people's best-self intentions of who they want to be, rather than influenced by their worst-self behaviors.
Strictly speaking, as soon as you looked at the GPL code you are tainted. A developer with a good memory will struggly not to pick up code he read through. After all, if you are looking at others people code, you are looking at the interesting parts - and if you see a cleverly written function - so anything which is longer as a single expression - you are in risk violating the copyrights of the creator. As I am respecting the works of others, I try to keep legally and morally clean and not just "being caught". So, being a professional programmer, I usually avoid looking at GPL code myself.
Just to provide an alternate perspective here, this seems to tilt the incentives towards people that are not working already. I wonder how many folks have time to take a week or more off from their current job to participate in this exercise. I understand this is paid but its still a huge risk that candidates would be taking.
"We made your experience more personal by eliminating people."
I think the author's issue is not that her recommendations are bad, but that other people are getting recommendations for things she disagrees with (ie conspiracy theory videos, child-unsafe content, etc). So I don't think she would view decentralization as a win.
The Zombie Apocalypse is Here: the zombification of the economy since 2008
If you need repeatable installations, wouldn't node be the wrong tool? I mean, you'd have to freeze everything yourself and then those libraries become _your_ problem. Ugh. That's a hell nobody wants.
> One woman in Los Angeles, for example, spent $20,000 on a wacky cosmetic procedure that took stem cells from her belly and injected them into her face. She later grew an extra bone that prevented her from opening her eye and scratched up her eyeball.
And these people would inevitably make some number of mistakes in categorization too, or miss something, or just be unable to quite hit some baseline universal standard that doesn't upset a group. Then YouTube still gets the bad press.
> What capitalists want are stable government

Yes.

> They don’t care if some political dissents are sent to Beijing

Yes, companies and investors care if a Hong Kong dispute can be spirited to a Chinese court if one of the litigants is well-connected in Beijing.
Similarly interesting, it's also interesting to note that even the Office Assistant animation engine and support for text-to-speech and speech-to-text was extremely stripped down and underpowered compared to the Agents engine bundled with Windows. One more of those areas where the Office team needing to support older versions of Windows and other platforms pushed them to use a half-baked fork of the full Windows feature rather than just rely on a Windows feature.

(It's interesting to see even today which Office features are getting UWP treatment and how, with the most interesting part of "how" being how much they are moving to React Native.)
Ukrainian Billionaires Allegedly Laundered Money in the US
Nice! The next step is cyber horoscope, in 10 years machines will believe in flat earth
why is this post flagged?
I saw a thing 10-15 years ago with a business associate building retail. He had average income for everyone driving by, some profession data, all sources from mobile carriers.
As well as those of us that only took out the minimums. Hell my partner took a substantial amount of loans even when a full ride was awarded. We both agree that no one is responsible for the debt but my partner. I had many friends take on excessive debt and buy / live well beyond what they should have.

Also, why should the rest of us bail out expenses because people chose their school over a more reasonably priced in state? There's just too many variables as to why student loan debt is too high. Yes we need a better baseline price for all for schooling, i'm not going to argue there, but to expect those of us that put off luxury to pay off the debts, only for others to get a get out of debt free card. All that does is further build a dependence of the govt will bail me out mentality.
Sure, as if Steve Jobs had nothing to do with it.
It's 3D (but that's really up to your camera and shader settings) but since you've tried Blender... you may want to try Houdini.

Unfortunately it is not free or open source. However it is extremely powerful. It has python and it has a robust API. It has daily builds and top tier support! Also lively communities over at

forums.odforce.net

and

https://www.sidefx.com/forum/

and tons and tons of tutorials.

(source: Me, I've been a huge Houdini fan for 20 years)
The comment they’re replying to said “I don't think it's a viable business model for all of us,” not that it’s not a viable model for any of us.
I generally respect Salman Rushdie (the author of the article), But I really feel he's missed the point. I am far less qualified to criticize literature than he, but I'm going to do it anyways.

SL5 is about one thing. PTSD. PTSD was not a diagnosis when the book was written, but it is at least clear to me, that the book is about a fractured man trying to repair itself by creating a world view that is comforting to it. His becoming unstuck in time is, in my mind, simply a sci-fi flashback, or perhaps, flash-forward in this case?
How about nothing unless every person that has had student loans is given the same amount?
Are we just going in circles now?

Why not just start with a tiny vm and call it a day?
When you first encounter it sure. After you've been writing code for more than a few months I would expect you to have mastered it. If you don't understand the fundamental behavior of a for loop after ten years of professional experience, something is very wrong.
But if it were unstable, the GPL would certainly certainly make it easier/cheaper to fix.
Uber drivers are reportedly colluding to trigger 'surge' prices
"rooted in"

And then they describe the origins as not slavery, and then it touches on the topic of slavery, and then lots of history that doesn't have to do with slavery.

I feel like sometimes there is a historical game to find where a thing touches on something good or bad (depending on if the person likes the thing) and tie it to that. I don't think that necessarily is a reflection on what the thing is today.
So you don't support freedom of expression?
Hopefully not a dumb question...

Are there any apps / options that allow for only connecting / responding to a previously connected unless overridden?
If somebody doesn't care about licensing, then it's trivial to convince them to use open source whether or not they want to tightly integrate with GPL code, so the GPL aspect isn't increasing the amount of open source software.

Your hardware driver example is pretty much the only example I can find where somebody is actually incentivized to release code, and willing to go against other concerns; so I appreciate that example! However it's certainly not universal for all hardware, there's plenty of binary blob drivers out there on Linux unfortunately. GPL doesn't need to universally make all software open source for it to be more successful, so I think it's important to look for the concrete overall results.

Let's contrast GCC and Clang here. For years, advancements in open source tooling was hindered by GCC's refusal to make improvements that could potentially be used by closed source software. Clang comes along, and all of a sudden an entire open source, tinkerable compiler/tooling/editing environment opens up, precisely because both open source and not GPL. People are willing to pay to improve it because they have the freedom to do what they want with their improvements, including the freedom to hold them back.

Despite not having the stick of the GPL, MIT-style license resulted in a better ability to tinker with the code, expand it to more areas, and improve software.

I don't see GPL as a crucial aspect for getting to that world where we have access to the important bits.

My goal is to enable as much as can be done with software that also has source available. There's a different optimization goal, that says "let's make sure that all software out there has the source available." This is a drastically different goal, however, because it can be achieved by creating less software capability overall, and just eliminating all the growth in capability that originates first in proprietary software but then gets reimplemented as code-available software. IMHO, the GPL seems to be aiming for the "any software out there also has source available" goal.
People aren't children needing information withheld from them. Give them the information and let them make up their own minds. This kind of coddling is how we ended up here in the first place.
To be clear, I am not speaking for anybody in this thread but myself.

But I will unapologetically and forthrightedly say that, yes, if we're going to assert that YouTube has certain responsibilities for the nature of the videos that it hosts, and that it turns out that the nature of those responsibilities is such that YouTube can't possible meet them, then, yes, YouTube as we know it should be essentially shut down, at least going forward.

I am NOT going to say we should deliberately craft the responsibilities in such a way that YouTube is deliberately shut down. However, if it turns out that they are incapable of applying even the bare minimum effort that we as a society deem it necessary for them to apply, then, yes, it is absolutely a consequence that YouTube as we know it today may have to be so radically altered as to be a different site entirely.

In the general case, when the law requires certain obligations of you as a business, and you as a business can not meet them, that does not mean that suddenly those obligations are not applied to you. It means that your business is not legally viable, and needs to change until it is. It may be the case that there is no solution to being legally viable and being profitable, in which case, your business will cease to exist. Just as there is, for instance, no solution to being a business built around selling torrent files containing unlicensed commercial content to people. You can't defend yourself by saying you can't afford to get the licenses; your suitable legal remedy was to never have started this business in the first place. There's some concerns around grandfathering here to deal with, certainly, but they can still be affected going forward.

There is no guarantee that there is a solution where a company exerting whatever minimal control they are obligated to assert by society is capable of growing to the size of YouTube. If that is the case, so be it. The solution is not to just let them go because they happened to grow fast first.

(My solution to freedom of expression is an explosion of video sites, where each of them has ways of holding the videos to the societally-mandated minimum standard, and no one site can do it all because they simply can't muster the resources to be The One Site, because as they grow larger they encounter anti-scaling effects. Given how increasingly censorious Silicon Valley is becoming, as we are now into censoring the discussions about censoring discussions like the recent removal of Project Veritas from Twitter for its discussion of Pinterest censoring pro-life films, I expect this to increase the range of expression, not diminish it.)
I, also, have had rice work, albeit not every time (I realize this statement makes it sound like I dunk my phone on a regular basis but honestly I don't). I don't doubt that there are better dessicants out there, but rice is always handy.
>But claiming that there are no consequences to speech

I never said that, in fact I posted the opposite in the post you just replied to, where I demonstrated that some speech does have legitimate physical consequences. Your consistent misrepresentation of the posts in this thread make me think you are either trolling, arguing in bad faith, or genuinely don't understand what is being discussed.
Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (2011)
> I don't think "being comfortable with being exploited" is a component of "being a big person".

In the context of the types of projects I was imagining, a company would likely just rewrite any code that wasn't available via MIT or similar. If I'm not getting anything in return either way, am I being exploited?

Logically, if the outcome is the same for me, there's no reason to make others redo work.
China is a police state. If people go to the streets like in Honk Kong, they would be shot and driven over by a tank a few times so they can be disfigured and swept down the drain -- like at Tienanmen.

The police in China won't concern themselves if the problem or crime they are facing is something that wouldn't be a big deal publicly or would be viewed badly by the people if word got out.
>Almond

>The Open, Privacy-Preserving Virtual Assistant

https://almond.stanford.edu/
Since we are speaking about Apple ecosystem here, most devs live in XCode.

Just like we used to live on MPW and Metrowerks before.

Scripting is perfectly doable from macros and IDE callable scripts.
Digressing slightly, but he mentions the difficulty with trying to clean dried pancake batter...

The trick to cleaning dry pancake batter is to soak the area with water for a few minutes. It'll revert back into a more batter-like texture and will easily wipe off.
Does the BT detection work the same way that WiFi access point scanning works? I know that app developers use this WiFi tech from a client (device) side to determine location, but I am a bit disturbed about the aspect of this being so accurate with BT devices.
I always have this conflict when it comes to tipping.

I want to refuse and try to show that I do not agree with this practice, however if I refrain from tipping I know the only person I'm hurting is the individual I'm not going to tip in that transaction.

I always tip extra generously as that is how I was raised, and when dealing in a small town where you may frequent the same establishment many times eventually you do gain a reputation if you tip well and tend to get better service.

I feel if we really want to change tipping culture we need to start at the root of the issue where employers are allowed to pay their employees such a low wage and expect the clients to pick up the extra.
The only option is to cage your phone in a Faraday bag and only use it when necessary. Trust no company. Trust no government.
This is subtle age discrimination. At some age, lets say 28, there’s a cliff drop-off of people who’d be willing or able to do contract work.

“Man”-up, and fire fte early if needed.
> In general, I think society is extremely blase about possible health hazards - if it doesn't kill you instantly, people basically don't wanna know.

A flip side of this is that if you stopped and considered what is reported to be killing you slowly, you'd go crazy (and arguably a lot of people did, to some extent). Consider e.g. nutritional "advice" in popular press.

Having my attention constantly called to garbage information on what does cause cancer this week by random people, I developed a following rule of thumb: if the actual negative health effect is big enough to even worth spending time thinking about, the product is either already banned by the government or has huge warning labels on it. Otherwise, it's fine in moderate quantities.

EDIT:

> "is there a powerful incentive structure in place to prevent this from invisibly but seriously harming me"? Usually, the answer is "no"

There's another question worth considering: "is there a powerful incentive structure in place to blow up statistical noise out of proportion, in order to create fear around common products?", and the answer is clearly yes - this is one of the ways news portals, lifestyle magazines and small blogs drive their traffic.
This is a great example of how cost cutting doesn't always mean rock bottom wages. Costco and Sam's Club are good comps. Yet they're way different when it comes to their workforce strategy:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2008/06/wage...
1. Pretend it is the 1970s in East Berlin and someone follows you around, noting down every interaction you have with other humans and every bit of media you consume and collects this information in a file somewhere for future use. This is the horrifying and oppressive surveillance machine of a paranoid dictatorship.

2. Use a computer to the the exact thing automatically today. This is just the natural state of the world, nothing to do anything about it, move along.
> can repackage and sell GPL code

Can you give me some detail about how/when this happens? I was under the impression that you can sell support(or other ancillary services) for GPL'd code, but not for the code itself.
I'm making an alternative called epiphany, focusing on tech blogging,

https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=2684bc94f9fcb9ffe637ebfbeba2...

for 1. epiphany is also non-linear, because I'd like to reveal the results and then explain pieces.

for 2. one click to the edit mode.

for 3. epiphany uses vanilla js with some apis to print results and create ui.

for 4. I try to use a plain text format, I also implemented pullrequest and versions like that of github. you could download all your data.
I dunno, I think 0/0 is 1, but I cannot be sure.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=lim+x%2Fx+as+x-%3E0
I never played against good chess players really I once went 8 years without losing while playing every chance I got. Now that I’ve found good players to play against, I'm honestly scared to play because I’m sure to be worse than somebody. I would honestly appreciate some elaboration on how you learned to lose.

I’m not an amazing player at all, just sheltered.
I don't mind. I think with musicians more than most art this kind of context can be interesting and meaningful.

I just wish they had include her name with that context: Nicole 'Nikki' Grace. They deserve the publicity.

Edit: Reading further, I've discovered that she posted this herself and chose to omit her own name from the title.
Stanley Yong, IBM CTO, Departs Big Blue
With my bank card, I can get money from any ATM. Even outside the EU (I've done so in Egypt, for example). I can pay at any Dutch shop that accepts electronic payment[0], and generally also abroad.

> Are things different in Europe for online payments? How does it work other than numbers only for online purchases?

Netherland has a system called iDeal, which is supported by all banks and all webshops that want to do business here (which includes Steam and amazon.de, but not amazon.com, for example). The payment is processed directly through my own bank, with nobody else having to know even what my account number is. The webshop directs me to my bank (or to a page where I select my bank, which then directs me to my bank) with some token with payment details, I authorise the payment through my own bank (which uses 2FA), and the bank redirects me bank to the webshop which knows I've paid.

Basically just like how PayPal does it, except with my own bank in the place of PayPal and with 2FA. Much more secure.

Honestly I'm baffled that this isn't internationally supported. It seems to me to be the only proper way to handle internet payments. Sadly it would involve the whole world agreeing on adopting this system, and Dutch banks just don't have that kind of impact. American credit card companies do.

I also got a credit card (MasterCard) from my bank, but I only use it for online international purchases (mostly the US).

[0] Which is all of them except for my local cheese shop, because the owner is a luddite and considers anything other than cash too expensive. He's got good cheese though, and is really cheap.
Oh that's weird, I missed it when I searched for it.

Thanks for your feedback :)
Yep: https://www.w3.org/wiki/SVG_Security
I think people jump to "the app is listening" because it's the easiest concept to understand. Anyone with a technical background knows why that's extremely unlikely, but it still makes more sense to people as a narrative than the complex web of online trackers and analytics gathering that happens out of sight and contains vastly more information about individuals than could be gleaned by eavesdropping on ambient room noise.