skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you doing in a spike? If you can't work out after a day the rough complexity of the task (bearing in mind you should be working on a small deliverable) there's something seriously wrong. You're not meant to be doing the work in the spike. If your research spike shows that it could be a can of worms, then the outcome of it should be another ticket for a proof-of-concept for another sprint, but with specific goals (e.g. "get a POC working that does X, Y & Z").
I was born in Hong Kong but don't live there anymore, although I still visit regularly.

That's a very simplistic view. Many people who oppose the Chinese government do not support complete independence. If there's a referendum on this I expect it to fail on a large margin.
Quite a few of this year's candidates are proposing eliminating single-family zoning entirely. It could be on the agenda during the next couple of years.
I think the aspect that is missing for a lot of these hypotheticals is the amount of input we allow the AI to receive.

In the Star Trek model we see the input directly limited to the data in the ship and surrounding visual areas (as far as i'm aware)

In the Wally model we see that the input is limited to a single optic/auditory/ect location.

We have a potential network that input can come from everywhere cameras, phones connected to the internet of everything. I think it really comes down to with how we want to interact with AI and how much input should it have to directly interface with us.

Also it's very hard to know even during deployment how accurate an AI will have a grasp on human want and interaction. A lot of people are worried about the 'non-consenting' information potentially available to the net. Very few people, if any, will ever really be able to address it should an AI be created and deployed.
Backwards "Compatibility". A program might check for those files and folders exist and warn you to complete your backups.
Kali Linux Nethunter Project
Why does the existence of speedrunners playing differently ruin the fun for you? Why sabotage yourself by setting unfun time limit challenges for yourself?

I will never be a chess grandmaster. That doesn't make chess unfun.
nginx is written in C. The new hotness, h2o, is written in C.
But the point of the article is that this isn't sustainable. If the person who wrote it leaves, or if they need to do a similar task later, or another lab is doing similar work, all the effort will be repeated. It would make a lot more sense for the community to invest in more open source tools that generalize to cover more research domains.
The unfortunate truth is that Hong Kong isn't nearly as important to global banking as it once was. China has a done a really great job handicapping them, for this very reason. So that it would be easier to absorb them.
Go and tell the people who earn a dollar per day that their dsily choices ruin the planet.
OpenNIC is still going strong and has alternative TLDs. Of course, the problem is that most people won't be able to resolve your domain.
>That mismatch requires justification.

Only when looking through the lens of fringe ideologies. The overwhelming majority of humans don't subscribe to moral ideologies that ascribe equivalent moral standing to humans and nonhuman animals.
I went into a bit more detail in a parent comment, but perhaps they feel Tesla under Musk has lost its way. Too many features, too much luxury, and a CEO that has a huge second love. Many want to change the world with EVs, not work for a messiah figure or a Hooli.
Well...

If you started with Elm then JS/CSS/HTML+Frameworks|Transpiled-langs et. al. would, I imagine, seem like a massive amount of stuff to learn, eh?

I think the Elm-first programmer would be right to ask, "What's the payoff? What awesome new powers do I gain, impossible with Elm, as reward for all this blood sweat and tears?"

(Elm is wildly easier to debug than the status quo stuff. The compiler is awesome for that. So the hypothetical Elm-first programmer has to learn not just the status quo stack but also how to debug it!)

So, again, it seems to me like it behooves the cost-conscious programmer to carefully examine the cost/benefit ratio of non-Elm-implementable features in light of the availability of Elm.

I am presupposing, like I said above, that you can take pretty much any member of the Sudoku-solving public and train them up in Elm in a few weeks. Even paying them at parity with JS devs, the time and effort savings of Elm vs. JS et. al. would be substantial, I believe.

(Personally, I would want at least two or three people on the team who knew what was going on under the hood.)
Outside of the HN echo chamber you’ll find that distributed and remote work is deeply frowned upon. The worst perpetrators are often big tech cos and startups funded by SV VCs. It’s incredible how resistant tech is to remote work.
The interesting thing about Raptor's Power9 boards is their emphasis on open firmware.

But I'm disappointed that the Blackbird wasn't at a lower price point (such as if IBM heavily subsidized it, to try to get more open source labor supporting their architecture). It's hard to get excited about paying big bucks to volunteer for IBM.

Personally, I'm now more interested in RISC-V boards that are even more open than what Raptor has been doing with Power9. Something like the Raspberry Pi, but RISC-V and more open, would be awesome.
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This is a fantastic point, and will almost certainly be lost in the moralistic uproar. If Apple Retail’s margins were super high, it would indicate that Apple Retail is getting a wildly, probably illegally unfair deal compared to its other retailers (e.g. Target, Best Buy).
I will say that in sfortware you can estimate but because there are many unknown things it's difficult.

Is a bit like "How long it will take to discover the cure for cancer?"
Sorry, but that just isn't how it works. If you perform a service for restaurants and you don't invoice them but eat there instead of getting paid that's two helpings of tax fraud. Whether it is 'for a hobby' or not is irrelevant, someone else who did play by the book and for who it wasn't a hobby probably missed a bunch of sales because your buddy was willing to do this 'on the side' for shit & giggles because he already had an income stream.
Okay, that legit sucks. :(

Were they at least on Wayback Machine?
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I disagree - I think reducing anyone who doesn’t happen to program to being ‘non-technical’, with the implication that they don't know what they're talking about, is insidious.
can this been seen as a initiative to make google robots.txt parser the internet standard? every webmaster will want to be compliant with google corner cases...
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I have read that comment and such before. However it is still a fork. It started off with the same code base, and is being rewritten in guile from the top down.

That rewrite is bring new features, differences, and makes them not compatible with each other. However, as they started off with the same code to me they will always be a fork. While something can evolve to something that is fully independent, it doesn't change it's origin. Also a fork is not bad word. Many successful "forks" become more popular than the original.

To this day guix still uses the nix-daemon code, which is written in C. And they build system they used was hydra, written in perl. In fact http://hydra.gnu.org used to say "download nix package". for everything. Cuirass is very recent, but you can still see that it still looks extremely similar to Nix's hydra.

I think guix still has better porcelain (cli).

Nix has much better discoverability and readability. I was going to show different files, however gnu.org NS servers seem to be down.

Most importantly it isn't a competition. These two products existing only benefit each other as new ideas between them flow both ways.
"dampers, mutes, and hooded executioners".

> He watched on. Now that he had changed sides to the SS, he admired the strength of Fritz and the police man even more. He finally had left the camp of those who were wretched enough to let themselves be bludgeoned like that. He was glad to have made his choice. He did no longer have to fear the suspicion of the masters. He was on the side of good. The beatings the men received hardened his consciousness to embody good. One cannot receive beatings and be right, one cannot be dirty, eat garbage and be right.

and

> They know what they are doing, they know what is done to us.

-- Robert Antelme, "The human race"
Haha, this is amazing! It must have been so much fun to have people enjoy it like that.
Eliminate the “there” and you’ll find that it works. The only two reliable work models are “everyone is in the same room” or “no one is in the same room”. Trouble arises when there’s a mix.
Yes but isolated registry backups make as much sense as a full backup of a modern Linux Desktop's /etc folder. Probably not much. The config's content depends a lot on the things installed and vice-versa, even more so on Windows (unless they changed something fundamentally since 7). At least on Linux and in particular Ubuntu (Desktop) installations I aim for as little manual configuration changes as possible anyways, so updates don't break things...
I had to buy it to try it myself. Awesome work I have to say.
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"For those curious about the performance potential for low-end POWER9 parts compared to the more common high-core/thread count POWER processors we have benchmarked before..."

They are benchmarking a low end 4 core part that sells for $375. They have 24 core Power9 chips. I believe, though, that they all lag current Intel and AMD parts. Their market is mostly mainframes and high-reliability specialty servers.
>Yes if you sacrifice all privacy you can patch over this problem by running a local bot and then using extra software to republish it. I suppose that is a valid, if unsatisfying, answer.

I don't understand, is this referring to running company chats on EFNet or Freenode or something? IRCd can be run locally, on an inside server or other controlled execution environment.
Wasn't there a thing recently were an author just gave away one of his node.js libraries, and then it was used maliciously by the requester to attempt to hijack bitcoin wallets?

Found it:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/hacke...

I don't blame anyone in this scenario because the culture of open source projects and their interplay with enterprise encourages it
I meant to address the second issue you bring up; that you ask if you missed anything during the period.

I might not want a 24/7 archive. Especially not for all the silly things I said in my teens.
I don’t know about that. Magellan’s 1519 circumnavigation around what was then unknown parts is also worthy that title.
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>Man, Mac users are the clumsiest beings on the World. Macs are what? Below 7% market share? And somehow 7%, based on constant whining, trips over their power cords much more than the silent 93% of the population.

Or, you know, Mac users actually use their laptops outside, and in situations where one might trip on the charger cable much more often than PC users with clunky "desktop replacement" behemoths.

Besides, one obviously cares more for a $2000+ laptop going flying off the table than for a $500 POS PC laptop.

See how both sides can play the flame game?
many people hold down two jobs. You don't owe the employer any more then what's in your contract.
They don't care about workers at all

(Full disclosure: I know several people who work at different Koch companies)

From what I've heard and experienced, there is a very different culture between the founded-by-the-Koch-brothers companies and the bought-by-the-Koch-brothers companies, mostly due to the fact that the upper levels of management were retained and kept their old ways- there is a huge difference in mentality between the old managers and bosses and the Koch ones.

When it comes to injuries, Georgia Pacific was quite the beleaguered company before the Kochs bought it, too. [1]

They've funded mike rowe [sic] who goes on tirades against osha [sic]

To be honest, I haven't really heard about Mike Rowe, so I looked him up. A Forbes article from three days ago [2] talks about Mike Rowe and how he's working to change the perception that skilled labor is bad. In my opinion, this is good! Not everyone wants to go to college- it's not necessary to make a living (though it will likely be more physically demanding). Do I think that OSHA is a good idea? Yes. Is Mike Rowe also doing a huge favor to the morale of those who don't want to go to college? Yes. Do I agree with everything Mike Rowe has ever said? Probably not.

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There's only been one case like that, so it's not really useful to say you've never heard of one for the Android. And they eventually did hack in, and the firm that did it offers its services to anyone who can pay. During the whole incident there were quite a few police depts that said they had a lot of phones, both Android and iPhone, that they were hoping to get a ruling allowing them to force the manufacturers to make it easier to access.

Of course they managed to hack in before a ruling came down. If iPhone does become unhackable in the future, we'll get a ruling, and if it's in the government's favor it won't matter how secure your phone is.
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I imagine the Ramp of Lies is so named because nearly every hold is deceptive. Many seemingly decent crimpers are just tricks of light and shadow, the jugs are all remarkably less positive than they look, and even the problem itself seems slabby but is actually on a gravity hill.
The whole point of secession, whether in the US, or Catalonia, or in China[1], is that you have reached a point where you are not able to come to a bilateral compromise on issues that affect you.

If you need bilateral support to exercise your right to self-determination, you don't actually, in practice, have any right to self-determination.

It's like saying that you have the freedom to leave your abusive job, but only as long as your boss lets you quit. That's not freedom, that's slavery.

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I personally think multiplex homes look way better than the rows of snout houses you find in 99% of modern suburban development.
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an interesting fidget it seems to be difficult to get to documentation so i linked the wiki here.

https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/nethunter/build-scripts/kali-ne...
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It's also worth noting that 1) Tesla burns out employees at all levels very quickly with shitty working conditions and 2) Tesla's stock is not doing super well anymore, so total expected comp isn't that great in comparison to other options.

Ex-Tesla employees have flocked to a variety of EV startups (Faraday Future, Elio, Lucid, Rivian, etc.) with varying levels of success for a while now. It's kind of like an incubator for EV engineers.
And all six were written by lobbyists for Verisign.
Presumably less startup time and JIT.
Shameless plug here, but I am creating a programming language that tries to let everyone code in their native language and also 'translates': https://citrine-lang.org/ Might be interesting for people reading this topic. Nobody uses it of course but I like to work on it. ;-)
In my case there is a glitch in the 1903 install where having external drives attached forces a fail as the installer can't determine which is the Windows drive or something (per an error/forum I read at the time). I had coped the ISO from a USB so removing the USB drive resolved the error.

I think it's picky to prevent issues similar to 1809 install. That was a mess and I'm sure MSFT would rather have an error before upgrading than a user missing all their data or something worse.
This will have a few predictable results: The developers that pushed this through will make a fortune. The government taxes will increase immensely as they can now squeeze in more people. The city will generate much more pollution than it did. At what point do you say enough is enough. Exponential growth is unsustainable. The best communities I've ever seen were zoned for minimum size 1 acre single family lots.
>I simply do not accept it is impossible to project a timeline for software.

Well, as you said, you're not a coder.

"Refueling nuclear aircraft carriers" has so fewer fail states and unknowns, it's not even comparable to writing a large piece of software.
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Battle royales aren't arena shooters like Quake.
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