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>> "Politics will make you depressed. If you are not going to be a politician let things be."

I would suggest a modification: follow newsletters for organizations focused on rights you consider important. I follow the ACLU so I know when politicians try to legislate people I care about out of public life (or life period). The EFF is important for the same reason since digital rights are key to advocacy in the 21st century.

SCOTUSBlog's newsletter is good too. They track cases that made it all the way through to the highest court and have the biggest potential impact.

You either pay attention or find yourself on the boot end because you weren't paying attention as everyone less safe got carted away. Politics can't be avoided, but you can set boundaries on how you stay informed.
Software inside the official F-Droid repository has to be open source. You can however simply add additional repositories to the F-Droid client which everyone can host following its own rules.
"But we have a contract saying that it can't happen" or "but we have a contract saying it's their problem"...

(Which works reasonably well as long as the damages are quantifiable and the other company is actually able to pay them....)
That's interesting. When you order from the Apple website from German region, you can choose e.g. English (US) and English (International). But US region does not allow to choose English (International).

- English (International) layout: https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4668/as-images.apple...

- English (US) layout: https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4668/as-images.apple...

- Russian layout: https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4982/as-images.apple...
Philosophy of mind has little to no understanding of consciousness and the will. Most people who have a considered opinion are 'physicalists' who think that the mind is reducible to the physical activity of the brain, but this belief is not based on an especially compelling neurological research programme but on the ontological expectation that all phenomena are reducible to physical processes. That is, they believe the mind must be of this quality because most everything else studied by natural science is.

What the true nature of the mind is - and it may simply lie beyond human understanding - makes no difference to the phenomenological experience of being a first-person subjectivity, and the struggle to live that we all must lead. Do you confront the world without a predetermined purpose? Yes. Then for the existentialists you are radically free and, inescapably, have to choose who you want to be.
I think this sentiment certainly existed among some of the younger CSAIL professors- in fact I interviewed for a UROP once with an unnamed professor and they asked "what related classes have you taken so far?" And as soon as I said 6.034 (before I could even finish the list) they said "I'm sure that class is fun but so is a cooking class, it isn't relevant here".

But I'd like to think it wasn't the prevailing sentiment in the department. I actually think a little bit of it stemmed from jealousy about the student praise PHW received. Because I know plenty of students that are now doing more "modern" or "hardcore" ML research that praise 6.034 highly.

It's true that 6.034 did not teach enough math to jump right into theory research, and it's true it didn't teach enough modern implementation to go right into an industry application. But it certainly didn't look like a textbook from the 90s! Professor Winston reworked the course a little bit every year. He gave excellent lectures on the concepts behind deep learning and reinforcement learning. He brought in current professors to present their research goals almost every Friday.

It covered plenty of modern topics, just in a more abstract sense. Which is perfect for an intro course, especially one that is taken by not just CS students but those from many departments (even graduate students in architecture, business, etc.). I think it's so helpful to start with understanding these concepts and then work through the details, rather than start in the weeds like many other courses do.

He did also spend time covering older concepts, which are still good to know, especially when presented through the lense of the history of the field (in academia and business). That's just not something available in any other courses that I'm aware of. Same thing with his amazing communication advice and his sharing of interesting biology, psychology, and neuroscience research.

I sincerely hope 6.034 will continue on somehow in the spirit of the original course. It was inspiring to many students, with life/career lessons that are memorable well beyond school. MIT has plenty of good more traditional ML courses, as do many schools. What I haven't heard of elsewhere is something like 6.034. It was one thing that made MIT unique I think.

Anyway, that is rambly, but I just wanted to defend not only the execution, but the philosophy of 034 (or my take on it anyway, can't speak for PHW). And I hope that the minority that dislikes it doesn't try to take over the course now.
Can you provide more info on these new privacy,security rules? Also, have these rules been made by both Apple and Google?
I used Netflix because it was convenient. I don't watch much, so when there were fewer things that I was interested in, there was no point in keeping my subscriptions. I never signed up for any of the other streaming services because they didn't fulfill my requirements of convenient since I'd have to manage multiple accounts. I just watch even less now and spend my time on other, more rewarding, things. No big loss.
Overall, the sentiment is right, but this line seems off:

>Note, he was a software engineer, not QA or a network engineer. But he didn’t let the role definition stop him.

QA is about determining when things are broken, which they weren’t (yet). Network engineering is about making sure all of the packets get to to where they’re supposed to go, and not what’s inside them.

This is about a private protocol between two pieces of software that are both exclusively developed by the same company, and probably the same team; its details fall quite squarely in the purview of software engineering, or at least they would at every company I’ve ever worked for.
How to Use FieldDefaults Annotation with Project Lombok in Java Applications
Yes, excluding the title, the first reference is the sixteenth paragraph.

I suppose I might've guessed from the leading photo, had I not already seen comments here, but I only clicked into the comments assuming it was some centuries/millenia old body/remnants.
> People do this because having more than ~3000$ cash (in Rupees) is illegal

Wait, really?

Do you mean no one is allowed to keep that much money in a safe in their house etc., or what?

Why?
The really big problem with tracing, `@jit` annotations, and similar approaches, is that you're no longer running Python, but something almost-but-not-quite Python – modifying the language's semantics is necessary to get performance.

In deep learning, tweaking some syntax and adding some annotations isn't a big deal, but for the use cases we're interested in we really don't want to rewrite every library to be AD compatible. Zygote is pretty unique (outside of the scientific computing world) in being able to take libraries that were written years before AD existed in Julia, and differentiate them correctly and efficiently.

There are other, more subtle and technical, issues with those approaches, but that's really the Big Deal.
> The poor people (on welfare) are more likely to be trouble - they are on welfare for a reason..

as someone who's family has lived on welfare too, i find that notion insulting.

the reason for people being on welfare most often has nothing to do with people getting in trouble. loosing a job, divorce, natural disasters, illness in the family. there are many reasons someone could need welfare.

i urge you to really meet these people and understand their situation instead of dismissing them like that.
It appears from this comment that you have not read the article.
That’s an excellent, terse description of what I’ve found my role as a senior engineer to be. It’s not in the official job description but it’s what I end up doing day to day.
The odds of another space-faring civilization with roughly the same detection technology of us finding the Voyager probes is infinitesimally small. However, any civilization that has managed to reach our Solar System (or just beyond it) most likely has technology we haven't even dreamed of, and could possibly detect it with Star Trek-esque "sensors".

The bigger issue with the Voyager probe is that even if some other aliens did manage to find it, the odds that they would be able to replicate a phonograph in order to play the record is possibly a bigger hurtle. In the end, it's a neat symbolic touch for humans on the verge of going to space, but the most likely alien race to recover Voyager is us.
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In some OS’s you can specify that certain pages of memory should never be swapped.
Most people care about what music they listen to; Spotify's main mode of function isn't "random" like live TV. Moreover, while you might consider music to be a "random" experience by design, streaming movies/TV doesn't have to be. I was talking about the licensing model, not the consumption model.
It's still a nuclear reactor... You don't just put them into containers and ship them around, or turn them on or off by pressing a switch. They require specialized staff to operate, maintenance, handling of materials, safety and protection precautions and so on. Either you built them big or they are not worth it to operate.
What is the purpose of this dangerous and risky salvage mission? What benefit is yielded as a result of the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent recovering and restoring this antique?
> You should be able to "internalize" the tools that "exist everywhere" in a year or two are most. If you start using vim at the university you would be done internalizing its internal tools when you graduate.

Absolutely not. I have been using vim for almost a decade at this point and still am internalizing new vim skills.
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MS got sued by Sun Microsystems and discontinuing J++ was part of the settlement. I'm not sure that is really voluntary.
Well, she explicitly says that the question of split infinitives leaves her „nonplussed“, which I read as a deliberate play.
If I didn't drop topics this would go on forever. When its clear we're either miscommunicating or there's nothing further to be said I let things go.

I understand that a lot of the community, and especially the developers, wanted package management. I don't contend otherwise. I contend that it being a popular idea didn't make it a good one.
Author is the chief economist at Google.
So the ‘additional stage’ works exactly like a branch then, right?
I guess that at some point Ford though they could have an IP for each car? Out of curiosity I looked at the headers of an email I got from them and sure enough it came from an IP in their allocation! However, the same was not true for emails from Daimler...
It is nice how easy it is with Apple to cancel subscriptions. None of this NYT style, you need to call this number and go thru a couple hoops to do something that should be easy as a button click.
I really wish cities and other regulatory bodies were equally as zealous in their slapdowns of startup behavior. Airbnb, Uber, and the slew of scooter companies come to mind as doing the equivalent of Swarm’s behavior in their respective markets.
We really live in the age of head-in-sand.

How do you do anything about that? Somehow reality has become not just optional and uncertain in our policies, perceptions and opinions, but downright irrelevant. When there's no merit in even trying to be truthful and accurate, well... you get this.
People do refactoring regularly. You start the app once.
This is not entirely true, and the differences between them sometimes matter. If you want an equivalent, go for CTRL-[, which is actually equivalent.

If you’re interested in some of the differences, start in `:help ins-special-keys`.
> In my eyes, Docker is the epitome of crappy development. "Oh we don't care anymore, we just throw all into a container and be done with it."

That's actually the plan. We need to keep it running in legacy mode until the updated and patched version of the app is ready to be deployed. Main org IT don't want EOL and unsupported pieces in its infra anymore unless it can isolate it.

Next version is going to be service based and scalable. A WAMP installation can't do that.

Am I being trolled ? Because I don't see the people bashing docker or glorifying the values of an insecure but simple setup giving alternatives.

What should we do then ?
Privacy concerns me but security & convenience concern me more, especially for credit card data which I’m already giving to a giant entity that resells it.
You don't have to - you can sign IPAs with a developer certificate, but the app will only work for 7 days on a free account (1 year for a 'real' developper account). Having to resign every week is obviously a dealbreaker.
Chrome does have guest profiles: Click your user icon, and there'll be an "Open Guest Window" button.

> "You’re browsing as a Guest"

> "Pages you view in this window won’t appear in the browser history and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on the computer after you close all open Guest windows. Any files you download will be preserved, however."

It's kind of like Incognito, except none of your preferences or extensions are there, either, it's just an entirely new profile that self-destructs when you close it.

The OP's detector considers a guest profile not to be Incognito mode.
A tangent, but,

> “At Match Group, we constantly test new updates and features to offer convenience, control and choice to our users," Justine Sacco, a spokeswoman for Match, wrote in an email.

If that name sounds familiar, it's because she was the IAC PR person who was fired in 2013 after an ill-advised tweet she sent just before getting on a plane. Looks like she rebuilt her life and found a new calling as... PR at IAC.

I'm increasingly convinced that "Internet mobs ruin people's careers" isn't held up by the evidence.
Netflix, Tinder, and other huge apps are safe from being removed. Neither Apple nor Google wants to be missing massive "features" that the other ecosystem has.
i am reading stuff, like HN, and a topic comes along that is considered controversial where i live. i do not want it to show up in my browser history.

so i right-click, open link in private mode, or in a tabgroup.

i am done reading, i close the private window or wipe the group.

with your method i'd have to first start a new browser with that second profile, then copy the link to the new browser to read. that's a lot more work than just selecting an entry from the right-click menu.
Indeed as Eric explaines, this isn't "THE" solution. We will need a portfolio of solutions. Of which mineralization of one of them. And all bigger projects need good guidance.
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I wonder if this is related: https://twitter.com/w84death/status/1152511872001892352?s=20
The war for the soul of open source
Everything is just cause & effect. It’s impossible to make a choice or decision that’s truly one’s own. Nobody can make a choice or decision without being effected by what encompasses them and with all the external forces being inflicted upon them as well.
Even a death like suicide is thus a natural death when it happens because it couldn’t have been different. People assume it could have been different by desiring everything was a choice of our own but in reality we don’t have choice that’s our own.
Those that want or need a public IP can pay for it. I do. As you say, there is no one-size-fits-all.
Birth control can safely be prescribed without a pap test. A pap test is merely a screening for cervical cancer. The fact that a medical provider would require a pap for a birth control prescription when that's not medically necessary is a problem. Overscreening for cervical cancer is also a big problem. Once every year is an inappropriate screening interval for most people.[1]

In some states pharmacists can prescribe birth control pills after a consult.[1]

There's no reason why we can't require insurance to cover birth control pills even if they are OTC. We can still have a pharmacist run it through insurance, you just don't need a doctor's note.

[1] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cervical-cancer/prevention-and...
My .vimrc is fairly simple: https://github.com/jasonincanada/dot-files/blob/master/.vimr...
We are not "back" in a market manipulated by the Fed. The Fed has been THE most important player in the market for at least 30 years, and probably 90...

By market, I assume you mostly mean assets and particularly equities. All of the Fed's moves so far have /arguably/ been against the equities markets.

Considering that, it is quite strange that every time there is "bad" news, the market rallies. But that's probably just a symptom of the very bullish market we've been in. The market usually rallies on "good" news as well...
I worked in a place where my team lead wanted us to vote on a technical decision. I found that unfair because half of the team was at a junior level.
FWIW, these satellites and others like them don’t really pose the threat you are referring to. They are designed to operate in a very low orbit that will decay in a couple of years, causing them to naturally burn up over time rather than remain as space junk.
Dismissing facts as lies is just... something to say. Bolsonaro and his followers know this is true but they simply don't care. Which is a reasonable political stance I reckon.
That’s fair enough, I guess. At this point, I’m happy enough with my workflow despite (or maybe because) I don’t know what most of those things do. Some novelists use fancy purpose-made software and others use old-fashioned yellow legal pads; I guess I lean more towards the latter when it comes to software development.
I'm not up to date on the issue but India had an issue with black money and people hoarding cash without reporting the income. The laws were passed to combat that IIRC.
Dismissing facts as lies is just lying.
It should not be brushed off as an acceptable position.
Hear, hear!

Although I'm a curmudgeon at heart, I'm trying to help my children internalize the fact that "correct" language evolves. Learn the right meaning, syntax, pronunciation, and idioms so you don't sound uneducated, but realize that people may differ in their perception of "correct" or acceptable.

"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." (Comma-splice noted)
Thanks for the feedback! There's indeed many tools that try to solve the issues related to virtual environment management – I also reviewed quite a few before writing my own little tool. Although I mostly used virtualenvwrapper before, Conda seems to be also lacking a feature that I wanted, which is lockfile management. I usually have separate requirements files for different use cases (running tests, building docs, running in production) – freezing these and managing the lockfiles manually has always been a hassle. This is one of the areas which is much simpler with pyorbs. Another feature that I value is the automatic environment activation in new terminal tabs, which saves me some typing every now and then too.
In the podcast Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef) explains why he thinks license change by OSS companies like MongoDB, Cockroach DB were wrong.

He thinks that if AWS indeed decides to offer your OSS software as service, it gives a huge boost to the community around your project which can benefit the bottom line of your company if your execution was good.

It would be interesting to know rest of the Hacker News community's opinion about it.
And yet you can get a wealth of TVs and movies from various streaming services today at around $10/mo each.

If studios all pooled their IP in a single marketplace under a compulsory, fair licensing scheme, the calculation would be about the same, because currently most streaming services don't overlap much (though in some cases you can find movies on both iTunes and Google Play, for example).

What would change is that the current aggregators' revenue would shrink and their ability to have exclusive content would disappear. A company like Netflix would become just another content provider competing for views in a single marketplace.

Perhaps a better analogy is the movie theater business. Movie theaters generally show movies from all rights holders (though I'm sure studios also compete for the best screens for tentpole launches). Theaters share revenue with studios. In principle, anyone can go to any theater to see a movie of their choice, and theaters can show the movies they want as long as they license them. It's not on-demand, but that's pretty irrelevant. Also, I can start a movie theater and start showing movies, as long as I abide by the licensing rules.
I'm a total ignoramus when it comes to particle physics, but what you just described sounds like a particle-based process. Is there an equivalent description if you think of neutrons as waves?
The mind could only be free if independent from what encompasses it. That’s simply impossible and even if our mind had some quantum physics thrown into the equation. Anyhow this all is a difficult subject unless understanding determinism and processing life with the knowledge for awhile. In either case fate decides the outcome but I wish I knew earlier in life. Maybe I’ll live the same life over but the universe will allow that to happen but that would arguably not be my own doing as well because this life made that desire. All nifty cause & effects...
This very much reads like this article since 2018 (and probably others): https://medium.com/@gholemserge/netflix-poor-ui-40e94f56fc0e
What do the EU and USA do? Import more soybeans for their growing livestock industry. No penalties for anything, only rewards.
Lately it seems to be very rewarding in politics. This will only get worse
Those are based on overloading functions to add the new behaviors (computing the forward diff or building the graph within a special variable for the reverse mode) which in Julia is implemented for example in [1], [2], [3] and [4], while the one in OP is based on source analysis and transformation.

And the similarities with Lisp are more than just the parser being written in it, Julia's programming paradigm is based on the CLOS, everything is an expression, hygienic macros and reader macros and code is data. It mostly just lacks sexpr.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaDiff/ForwardDiff.jl

[2] https://github.com/dfdx/Yota.jl

[3] https://github.com/denizyuret/AutoGrad.jl (from the Knet framework)

[4] https://fluxml.ai/Flux.jl/stable/internals/tracker/ (from the Flux framework)
It's all about the "the fuck is this"s per minute it generates.[1]

Lower is better.

[1] https://www.osnews.com/story/19266/wtfsm/
Zero. An object of Voyager's size is much too small to be detected by existing surveys - we can't even track most of passive objects in deep space we ourselves put there (see for example various hardware left in heliocentric orbits from Apollo missions, or more recently, Musk's Tesla).

Even in the unlikely case that it was detected, events would turn out similar to the recent Oumuamua discovery. Some papers would be written on theories of its, most likely natural, origin. A last-second mission to intercept it (much less a sample return) would be considered too costly.

There would have to be extraordinary and overwhelming evidence that it's artificial in origin for things to go differently. For a dead probe drifting through space, that evidence just wouldn't be there.
Demons from Bible match ancient depictions of gods that came from the heavens (space) and taught us the art of war and advanced tech. Potato potatoe.