skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That comment describes a real issue that the main post overlooks. But the comment also overlooks the obvious solution. It says:

>While "temporal" variations can easily be hardcoded if you have a short release cycle, "spatial" variations are not so easily hardcoded: you end up maintaining a source branch for each active variant.

But that's not the only way. There's a way that we are all very familiar with for customizing a component for being used in different situations: Passing in different arguments to the constructor.

If you have two places you want to deploy a piece of software, which have different environments and need to, e.g., access resources at different paths, then just have two main() functions, each invoked by one of two different executables. Those different main() functions can then hardcode all the specific details of whatever place you're deploying to, in your normal programming language, without you having to create configuration files or anything.
Do Orchestras Need Conductors? (2012)
I love Firefox. First thing I install on any new computer. Super happy they keep pushing the web forward. Not a fan of the chromium quasi monopoly (not that the folks behind it are bad, just that any monoculture is problematic).

Thanks for pushing the web forward!
Not all types of nerve cells are the same size. Some are several feet long, but some are only millimeters long. I assume this technique must make use of the shorter ones that survive?
>Local files can no longer access other files in the same directory.

What impact will this have on web development without a web server? It sounds like you won't be able to load CSS or JS.
Nobody does; there's no list support: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Just my opinion but the fast.ai source code is very difficult to read.
Hong Kong Protesters Say ‘Dead’ Isn’t Enough for Extradition Bill
https://arazilatop.blogspot.com/2019/07/thadaka-2-full-movie...
Sure. But there's a line somewhere between differentiated pricing and things like prohibiting users to give/sell keys cross regions or lobbying for shutting down exchange platforms where this happens.

To draw on the bakery allegory in another comment, I think we can agree it would b nonsensical for the bakery giving away free leftover bread to homeless people to put controls in place that prohibits them from sharing their bread with others.
Apple Updates MacBook Air Without Scissor Switches
> Are taxes and maintenance costs shared proportionally?

Day-to-day maintenance (replacing lightbulbs, shelf falling down etc) is your responsibility. Plus you get to decorate however you want (at your cost). All other taxes and maintenance costs are shared proportionally.

> Who gets to decide when to call the plumber?

You do. There's a home emergency cover plan in place (costs shared proportionally) so you can get someone round 24/7, 365 days / year.

> If you fail to pay your rent, can they evict you?

Yes, but if you just need a couple of months to get back on your feet, we won't.

> What happens to your share then?

You still own it, but any rent arrears would be netted off.

> Can you sublet?

Not at the moment.

> Can you sell your share on the open market, or only back to the company, at whatever price they decide is fair market value?

The latter, but there is an option to go to the open market together. Price is determined by a regulated independent surveyor, not by Unmortgage.

https://www.unmortgage.com/faqs

https://www.unmortgage.com/how-it-works

source: I am an unmortgage employee.
# you have to use full path to make it work:

cicada> /bin/1

A bare `1` is a math arithmetic, as described in README, which with a higher precedence.
The Nazis were already developing nuclear bombs, Hitler just didn't really put a priority on it. Even if the US had never developed it, when the Soviets and Americans took the Nazi scientists in they would have eventually developed them anyways.
But importantly, the bakery can't charge the poor people price for everyone or they'd bankrupt.

I think many indy artists are like that, that's why they say they'd rather you pirate their games. They could have used more strict DRM instead, if they only cared about money.
No you're right. The UK was also an evil empire.
I recall in some of these earlier conversations, people pointing out that there are game engines where they invert some of their calculations to prevent artifacts caused by loss of significant figures with certain numbers.
You sure you want that last sentence? If that were happening, we would all be commenting on here about how Apple decides who succeeds and who fails by threatening to revoke companies' keys on a whim.
Not since moving to Germany. They don't have bidets here, and the toilets are mounted to the wall, so you don't have access to the water intake line to install one, nor can you install washlets :/
You’re supposed to use Heroku for HTML development.
Design and Evolution of C-Reduce (Part 1)
And now the first imbecile just responded to one of these, kicking off an actual texting storm.
It's linked on the bottom of the post.
> Don't elect bad politicians

Systems which rely on benevolent leaders fail. The solution is systems of checks and balances.
Team Fortress 2 keys used to have a resale value a long way below what Valve actually sold them for. There was speculation that this was because a significant proportion of all keys being bought were actually being paid for with stolen credit cards then flipped on quickly. Whether or not this was actually true I don't know: unfortunately, hardly anyone in journalism (gaming or otherwise) seemed to be interested in investigating this anomaly at all.
The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
>they will just create Microsoft Linux

This sounds like something right out of a dystopian nightmare I might have had in the early 2000s.
I was going to say that CentOS is independent from RedHat, but then I realized I don't know what I'm talking about.

From CentOS wikipedia page:

> In January 2014, CentOS announced the official joining with Red Hat while staying independent from RHEL,[7] under a new CentOS governing board.

So, good question!
You can use software like https://serveo.net to assign a temporary domain to access your local files through a web server.
> IMO it's both counterproductive and futile to keep national markets separated.

And honestly, I think its a shame, because regional pricing makes a lot of sense.

Selling a AAA game at 2 bucks a pop in the US doesn't make sense. You have to get back the 10s of millions of dollars you spent somehow (if the game is good!).

But that locks out underprivileged markets, who can't afford 60 bucks games. They'll likely just pirate it then. Regional pricing is a nice solution to that. Unfortunately then people abuse it.

That's why we can't have nice things.
For the case of credit card fraud, I wonder how hard it would be for developers to band together to provide a service that automates chargebacks against g2a, and maybe offers a discount code for each successful chargeback.

That would rapidly kick G2A off the credit card processing networks, assuming the allegations in the article are true.
Is there any FPGA implementation of his ideas?

One can then solve some ODEs to check how these implementation are performing.

Ofcourse the speed will be far slower but one can get number of instructions.
We may not be that different.

When I was shown that you can break out a function that's only used once, just in order to name it (2005, or so), it was one of the greatest revelations in my career.

It also serves as a way to tell you what that code does, without you having to know details of how it does it, until the rare day when it's important.

But I only do it when that code is genuinely hard to follow, not because my function is "over 10 lines, and that's our policy".
> It's more direct and is consistent across all the gadgets I use.

The problem is that a touchpad is still fundamentally an indirect pointing device, rather than a direct pointing device like a touchscreen. The "consistency" argument relies on the same flawed reasoning that led Microsoft so astray with their Windows 8/Metro UI efforts to unify touchscreen and desktop interfaces.

And ergonomically, it's easier to perform a down scroll on a touchpad with the non-"natural" scroll direction, because your fingers have more room to curl further than to straighten out when they're resting normally on the trackpad.
Just like on large centralized instances.

Someone complains. Someone checks the complaint and acts accordingly.

Chances are if you have a small instance with users you know personally, you will have less issues.
> But, assuming my application is doing non-trivial math, it's probably aware of the above edge cases. Thus, dropping in posits might have lots of weird side effects where I had to work around weird side effects of floats.

Yeah, but posits appear to have fewer weird edge-cases. Plus the people trying out posits are constantly trying to find methods to work around the limitations too.

During this years conference on posit maths Florent de Dinechin had a really nice talk bringing up all current issues with posits and ways that floating point maths had found workarounds over the year, as a kind of challenge to make posits catch up[0][1]. The community took it really well, as far as I can see, and Gustafson in particular seemed delighted because he genuinely wants everyone to start using better numerical methods.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOstJ2IVC4Y8mbgN0IsowKw

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcX2nRCdZvs
> the gamers didn't play the game for that long, meaning they most likely wouldn't have bought it at its full price anyway.

Not necessarily. Many gamers have huge libraries of games that they have never played, or played for a little and then never played again. You could argue that it's silly for those gamers to buy those games, but it happens a lot.
Reading more, I don't think there is any general lesson to learn about the impact of the anti-encryption laws on journalistic freedom.

The relationship between the AFP and journalists in Australia seems pretty adversarial, and this new law has simply been misused facilitate already occurring egregious behaviour. It does not appear to allow any novel violations of journalistic rights.
Why Sports Is a Great Proving Ground for Management Ideas
Yeah, it'll be great. I can't wait until IBM pushes Red Hat customers to migrate from git to IBM Rational ClearCase.
(assuming the story is true), the amount of carbon in the bottle is unchanged. Life has to destroy old structure and recycle materials to build new structure. What certainly needs to be added is energy (from the sun) to power the cycles.

In this comment's grandparent referring to researching viable, man-made, self-sustaining biomes - which should then be robust to changes in external fauna/flora and conditions, I believe the idea is either to have the human become part of the biome (i.e. the carbon in your waste gets recycled) or to add materials when food is removed in some non-intrusive way.
I might highlight that there is significant internal technical barriers to access user data!

And it would be very, very hard to circumvent the protection mechanisms without getting caught!
True - bur that doesn’t make their business any more ethical. Users haven’t knowingly given them all that data for that purpose.
IPv4 addresses can be parsed as host names per RFC 1123 section 2.1; it is merely convention ("SHOULD") that dotted numbers are checked as IP addresses before being passed through DNS.

This is what the parent meant. IPv4 addresses are also syntactically valid host names.
Summation of an array is surprisingly non-trivial. Below a discussion about it with many interesting links (including Kahan summation and pairwise summation) if you want to go down some unexpected rabbit holes.

Somewhere I've seen a little routine (by Stefan Karpinski of Julia fame) that starts with a fixed pre-determined array of numbers, and you give it a desired target number, and it permutes the numbers of the array such that when you sum them up (naively, from left to right) the result is your desired target number [2].

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/accurate-summation-algorit...

EDIT: [2] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/array-ordering-and-naive-s...
Google marketing trying to spread FUD about "ad blocking".

This is a malicious ads blocker, which should be a default feature of it's browser. It's not an ad blocking extension at all.
If Zoom has a web-based client, I haven't seen it. I know that WebEx has a web-only client. I thought you had them like, really confused, y'know?

Turns out there is a Zoom Web Client though and I'm all wet.
It is very likely that a majority of cited researches around the world/internet are in English or have been translated to English to allow for easy accessibility to the wider community[1].

[1] https://www.researchtrends.com/issue-31-november-2012/the-la...
the blank white page is killer. inbetween page loads a bright flash of white.
If its leftover then its lower quality. That's fine.

But in this case its the exact same product. If I'm a bakery owner and I give fresh out of the oven bread for cheaper/free to homeless folks, and I watch them turn around and sell it to my own customers, well, that freagin sucks.
Worse comes to worst it’ll be a toggleable flag, but it is still annoying.
Feeling quite similar and only a little bit younger than you. I just rediscovered LessWrong (because of Pokemon fanfiction) and I think it might be worth for you to have a look at the Hammertime series: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/qRxTKm7DAftSuTGvj

LessWrong has it's problems, like lots of jargon, but this series seems like good tool to clean up life a bit. Especially I recommend having look at the Aversion factoring and Goal factoring, those two seem to be the most useful ones to deal with having lost some kind of "life purpose". Though I have to admit I still haven't found my solution, so take my post with a grain of salt. But at least I feel like I'm working on it in the right direction.
Explain this to me: how is it ethical to price discriminate against Western consumers when it comes to video games, but unethical when it comes to prescription drug costs?

It's a bogus argument - any American struggling to afford the high cost of medication in America will tell you that geography is a very poor predictor of affordability. And anybody who has a sizable Steam library can tell you how the summer and winter sales get very expensive, very quickly.

Healthcare should be relatively cheap. Entertainment should be relatively expensive. Prices should be globally stable.
The Recommended Extensions program will go live on July 11. Extension updates are reviewed by Mozilla employees before they are published.

Two of my extensions are also participating, reviewers took special care in how user data is handled and how accurate the privacy policy is. Overall the program seems to be a positive development that will give us a curated list of safe browser extensions to use.
I can’t help but wonder if your phone service provider is filtering the initial message that contains the actual scam, and all you are seeing are innocent people’s responses.

Or, I don’t know if text message origination numbers can be forged as easily as for voice, but if so perhaps your phone number is the one sending the original scam message and you’re just seeing replies.
Is DevOps that different from Agile? Viktor Farcic doesn't think so
Yep, sorry, meant to put 0.1 ...

Thanks!
I didn't know there was a term for this! My children are just starting to enter the education system and I constantly find myself thinking, "Why are we devoting so many hours to learning this (something like the alphabet) when we could just spend a few minutes on it here and there and in 6 months or a year they'll be able to pick it up with minimal effort?"
The HN markdown is interpreting your asterisks a signals to start/stop italics. You need to escape them with a \ first.
When I say NAT I mean CG-NAT implemented by ISP. You can't bypass it
I usually put it this way: "Name one company that was better after a merger."

I've yet to find any affirmative answer.

It's good to have hope, but it's not good to be unrealistic.
This looks interesting.

With Mastodon there's a gateway that will automatically post your messages to twitter.

Is there a gateway to Instagram for Pixelfed?

PS if you have a large following it could be interesting to publish to Twitter and Instagram only after a delay, encouraging users to go to the source (i.e. your mastodon/pixelfed instance).
It’s probably related to the earthquake light phenomenon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
> It seems like a great big accumulator is a solution that is fairly independent from the floating point format.

It could still be a good idea to mandate a standard version in the spec for consistent behavior.
Here's how Mastodon does it: the owner's account is visible from the homepage of the node, the owner of every node that Mastodon includes on its homepage has agreed to give at least a three-month warning before shutting down, as well as to decentralize the control of the server to at least two individuals: https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

I assume that Pixelfed wants to do something similar, but a little bit further down the line. As far as I'm aware, Pixelfed's current goal is to encourage people to start their own servers instead of relying on the main one. Whenever they feel like the main servers are gaining too much control of the network, they close the registration in order to pivot people to other nodes. Once other nodes start to stand out, Pixelfed will probably have more strict guidelines on which ones to link to.
Snowflake has one answer to every question. Use more compute == Spend more money.
E.g. Q: “This query is 2x slower than Redshift?” A: $
It's also still impossible to switch between the windows of the same app located at different spaces.
How can I completely delete a messenger conversation? Is it even possible? If I’m talking to someone on messenger, and we both decide we want to delete the entire conversation, that should be possible with two button clicks.

I talk to my significant other on messenger. It gives me nightmares that any employee at Facebook could access that conversation at any time in the next thirty years.

It’s going to be really interesting when people from my generation start running for office. It’s conceivable a Facebook employee might think it’s “worth it” to check a candidate’s private messages, since he’s a racist Nazi and deserves it, or whatever.
Tech support is optional. Bandwidth is a possibility, but you'd have to work really hard to lose money that way, given how cheap it is. Sell your game for 10 cents a copy and you'll still make money.
Personally I run busybox httpd on my laptop anyway just because it's convenient for other things.

Still it's not great.
In the paper "Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point" the authors surveys phd student and faculty members from computer science and found out that your observation is true: most people don't know how fp works.

They have the survey online at [1] in case you want to see how much you know about fp behavior.

[1] http://presciencelab.org/float
Usually I find that wall warts falling off is due to the receptacle being "past it's prime" and replacing it takes care of it. I can't think of when I've seen a polarized wall wart, so you can sell place one in the lower outlet facing down, and the upper one has to face up usually because they hang down and interfere with the lower port.

Aside: One regret I have in my kitchen remodel is not replacing all the boxes with dual gang.
It's ironic because the golang authors say that golang is not "OO".

Of course, not that there's anything wrong with properly done OO, it's just that golang's implementation of it is botched.
It's for Linux also. From the article:

"We currently have WebRender enabled in Nightly for:

* Recent Intel and AMD GPUs on Windows 10 desktops

* Linux users on Intel integrated GPUs with Mesa 18.2 or newer with screens smaller than 4K"
So distributing documentation for offline use as a bunch of HTML + CSS files will now run into problems?
> Windows 10 users with AMD graphics cards

It may be worth noting that WebRender was already deployed to Win10/Nvidia users in Firefox 67.
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"Red Hat's business model and open culture isn't changing. We will remain independent "

Oh, man, wouldn't it be pretty to think so?

In all seriousness, this is an INSANELY naive statement. It doesn't matter what IBM says, and it matters less what the Red Hat CEO says. You got bought. They can, and will, do whatever they want, regardless of what lip service they pay to independence or preserving culture or whatever.
The Wrong Router – A Wi-Fi Broadcaster of Digital Art
I do too (albeit they are in the private system not the state system). While mine are/were taught phonics, reading is taught separately to that, and we're lucky enough to have teachers who recognised that they learned better with whole words. As others have said, it's about going with what works for the individual child, not one size fits all.
If it's just a variation of the same problems behind floats, then I'm not that interested. Well, I guess it depends on how small the range is.
All good, but yeah, I didn't know either, sounds like it is yet another one of those "works best in Chrome" clients, I usually use Firefox, and it probably tries to open Zoom. Maybe sometimes people click "open in browser" instead or something? Not sure...

What's worse is WebEx is supposed to be web only supposedly, but I installed 3 things to use it... Totally not HTML5 friendly at all...

For anybody interested in the Zoom web client:

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443
Regional pricing usually means the product is encumbered with region-locking DRM... and honestly it makes sense but I hate region locking DRM.

"What the...? Why am I paying $60 for a game when I can buy the same game in Nigeria for $5!"

vs.

"Aw man, there's a cool Japan-only Fire Emblem game that I can't play because it only works on Japanese consoles..."
I also love the new Firefox Preview on Android, which I believe is the first time that it uses the "Quantum" improvements. I can't really decide if I like the speed or the new design more, though. I like that the private mode can be permanently enabled/disabled with a tap and how tabs are now presented in it. Still looking forward for extensions to be supported.
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>I think and hope they will be wise about handling things and learn from companies like Oracle who are now infamous for obliterating good technology.

That's the problem with your thinking and people like you in this thread: you're entirely banking on faith that IBM won't ruin RH, even when you cite a great example here about Oracle making similar acquisitions and running them into the ground. Seriously, what makes you think IBM is going to be any different?
>> In OS X, you have to press tab a million times until you have reached your desired button and then press space...

What do you mean? If you have a dialog button you just need to click Cmd-"First letter of the command that you need". The system never teaches you, true, but it's there.