skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but those are backdoored apps whose signatures has been identified and stored in some AV database. The solution is (provably) impossible to generalize with static analysis. Clearly, it's also reactive (people need to report the backdoored application before you know its signature). There are also fairly well-documented ways to get around this signature-approach to AV (polymorphism comes to mind).
Uhhh, *there.
To be clear, this only applies to television that is paid for by the license (BBC etc, including streaming via iPlayer). I have a television and use it only to watch Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, and am thus not required to pay the license. Which goes to show how ridiculous these vans are, since they can't tell where you're getting the content you're watching.
That's fine, a well funded public broadcaster is a great idea. The question is why in the world is it done as a license fee instead of as a much simpler to implement tax or a subscription where the OTA broadcasts are encrypted and a fee is paid to maintain the ability to decrypt.
I'd say the common connotations of the word 'churn' better fit the patterns in the parent 'Advice...' article. What you're describing deserves another name, something more like 'grind' or 'yoke' or 'rat-race'.
Went to their repair center with 2 phones. 1 hour later went home with 2 fresh phones. Amazing experience, but heard, it’s not that good in big cities.
I believe when you buy a TV retailers are required to take down your address

I bought one once and evidently they managed to typo the house number, so our neighbour down the street who didn't have a TV kept getting the 'we know you have a TV but no license threatening letters
There is real demand, I'm building a Zen 2 based system for a co-worker and I had to try three different places (online) to get my hands on a 3600 the other day.

Damn thing is faster than my 2700X (which I'll be upgrading to a 3900X when I get back from holiday).

AMD is straight killing it at the moment.
Why it's horrible?

Technically, version control lends itself naturally as part of the now well-accepted infrastructure-as-code mantra.

Operationally, version control is the one that developers interfacing most primarily, shifting the interactions to that interface would be benefitical to users.

Of course, DevOps as a skill set is becoming less and less relevant, given the increasingly integrated toolings that interfacing directly with developers, that's for sure.
Using ADLS Gen2 to Build ML Models
I work on game performance (or rather, I work on the underlying engines with an eye on performance) and that is the biggest reason why my computer has an Intel CPU. I would love the killing power of an Zen 2 machine, the compile time improvement alone would make ith worth every cent. Unfortunately I use VTune a lot for work and there just isn’t any alternative, so I’m stuck with whatever Intel gives me. Which is doubly sad, because I end up optimizing for Intel’s microarchitecture and can only hope that it runs decent enough on AMDs CPUs.

On the GPU side though, at least with the modern APIs (Vulkan, D3D12 and Metal), AMD isn’t too far behind Nvidia. I actually prefer RenderDoc to Nvidias Nsight because I can capture multiple frames instead of pausing the application to look at one frame at a time. That being said though, the OpenGL tooling for AMD is abysmal and so is their OpenGL driver. All things being equal, just swapping an Nvidia card for an AMD card gives around 40-50% speed up when running OpenGL purely by getting rid of the driver overhead. Although with Vulkan AMD and Nvidia are actually on par, so at least that’s solving itself for us.
Your asking the beginning meditation student to sit in an all-day eight hour session of silence. Let's start them out with a quickie ten-minute guided meditation session with soothing voice in their headphones, eh?

Drastically curtailing airline flights and eating less meat is a considerable step for most Americans who aren't already doing so. Let 'em start with that, maybe they'll make the next step to riding the bicycle to work a few times a week, maybe they'll find they can just cut meat altogether. Next thing you know, they're washing their hemp clothes in their water-saving washer less often.

Because let me tell you what voting green has gotten me over the last thirty years...
Remember the last time you were supposed to fix a bug, but the code was so "bad" that you rewrote the entire application?

IMO this is why churn is not going away. It's much easier to achieve flow-state from zero than working up to it in a codebase that you're unfamiliar with.
No baby in history has made an informed decision about which country to be born in.
Among the Barbarians: V. S. Naipaul and His Critics
Then there’s the issue of the cost to enforce licensing.
Yes. Do not time the market as an whole. However, if the biggest private shareholder start dumping, it is the top for a specific company.
No, it sounds like a telescope focusing onto a single pixel (i.e. just the back of the curtains), and then using the output from this pixel with a lock-in amplifier tied to the broadcast signal. The sensitivity would be enormous due to the lock-in.

With a CRT you would be able to do this with <microsecond resolution as the scan lines went across.

In today's LCD world, I guess something similar could be done for a whole pixel-average of a whole frame, and then look at the time-series of that to correct for lag in digital television / internet etc..
In Switzerland, you have to pay the tax if you could possibly watch TV at home, so just having a TV or even no TV and an internet connection makes the tax mandatory, even if you don’t French/German/or Italian.

The inspector got me at my apartment once and was certain that I needed to pay the tax. I invited him into my apartment and he saw I had no TV, radio, or Internet, and left very disappointed.
While that is certainly useful, what about local hospitals, police departments, when someone borrows someone else's phone you call you etc.

IIRC iOS also has a feature which allows through someone who rings multiple times in quick-ish succession?
It's called "USB 4" now. And yeah, a few years away at best.
The United States has "open borders" arround the states, because it is the _United_ States. For th emost part, most of the EU has "open borders" arround their member countries. (Sometime that flexes since it's not united)

As far as the diversity in culture, I would not agree with that amongst states. Not in a way of comparing say Costa Rica to Panama or the UK to France.
KevinNTH could you give us a showcase of how you use it? When I look at your demo GIFs I'm noticing that I'm journalling in a seemingly very different way.

I journal once in the morning or twice (morning and evening). My journal is mostly a list of likert-scale type questions on which I want data.

It also has a qualitative section on the lower end if I feel the need to be qualitative, but I don't feel the need to do that every day.
All true, though I'm optimistic about what SYCL can do for better ecosystem interop on the GPGPU side.
I hereby grant stcredzero permission to cite me and affirm the claims made in his above post are factually accurate.
What's up with that Easy Bake Oven?

It's not like I remember them! You'd think it would at least look like "an oven". That looks like a clock radio from 1995!
Swedish public service transitioned from a per-household fee (for households that held devices capable of showing RF broadcast TV) to a per citizen tax January 1st this year. Of course, they go to great lengths to avoid calling it a tax, but... well, it is a tax.

I don't really like it. There's no opt-out any longer. And the content is predictably all-consuming leftist.
Then... APL perhaps? https://tryapl.org/
HN's policy on paywalls is outlined in the FAQ [1]. Private Browsing mode is generally a good workaround:

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

The rationale explained by dang in a 2015 post [2] makes sense:

> Publications like NYT, WSJ, the Economist, and the New Yorker have paywalls that leave ways for readers to work around them. Such stories are OK to post to Hacker News. Yes, this sucks, but the loss of many substantive articles would suck worse.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13434938
Or

jq . foo.json
To me "exactly" means the same as "literal". (I understand here its a full pattern match)
The problem is, social reciprocity is /expensive/ ... and like anything else expensive, it's been eliminated in today's society.

Say what you want about Wal-Mart, but Sam Walton wanted his stores to have a more 'neighborhood' feel, so he employed greeters to stand at the front of the store to say hello to shoppers as they entered. A small gesture, but eliminated in the name of 'cost savings'.

For most businesses these days, labor is one of your largest - if not your largest - direct cost. So it is a natural target when thinking how to increase profitability.

That's just talking about direct $$ cost... I think this article also touches on the fact that 'expensive' is also measured in attention. It's a lot easier to get a dopamine hit by checking your phone rather than a spontaneous interaction with another human being. You know what that little badge on the phone means, the outcome from a random conversation with another human ... is a little less certain.
I know folks are supposed to have reasons for open sourcing things and I might a bit naive here, but the best answer I can give you is: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I like open source. I couldn't find any strong reasons why it couldn't be open source.

But what I think happens to a lot of open source consumer products is that they're primary feature is being open source. Outside of Hacker News, we don't tell advertise that we're open source. It's not important.

For most people, we're a really good CBT app, not an open source CBT app. Our competitive advantage to the average person is that we're good, not that we're open source.

That said, I think there's advantages for customers. You can be reasonably certain we're protecting your data well. If you don't like something, you can suggest a change. If you want to use Quirk in your research, we're, in general, the most open about things.

To be clear, we're not 100% open source, there's a small closed-source API that quirk uses to do some of it's features.
Sounds like they are analysing the dynamics of whole-frame integrated brightness change. You don't really need any spacial resolution for that, just enough for separating houses/flats. A single-pixel camera with sufficient aiming, anything beyond that just requires mow processing. I don't know the specific legislation but I'd expect them to be safe.
This is acceptable?

Honestly, we should stop Apple-ogizing[0]. They are getting very user hostile. They should acknowledge and support end users right to repair.

[0] Groan.
Campaigning is not going to cut it, private car use will need to be regulated with clear YoY reduction targets and big enough incentives to reach them (eg high gas taxes, supplemented with income transfers if social fairness is desired by voters).

I agree that perfect is the enemy of good, but I think EV production is net harmful and your numbers overoptimistic, so the argument does not apply in my view.

The only pro ev argument that still has legs IMO is that since we'll have to stop the remaining oil and coal from being exctracted and burned in any case, EV availability can provide popular support for it. But it's much better if we can just rein in car dependency.
Poor Americans are not suffering because of immigration, undocumented or otherwise.

Undocumented immigration does not suppress wages.

Undocumented immigrants would be able to climb out of poverty if they weren't being persecuted by the federal government, so the fact that they can't use services they pay for is a problem, not a solution, as these services are intended to push people up and out of poverty (to the extent that they work, admittedly).

And yes, you did actually say you prefer American people over not Americans, and yes, the viewpoint you are expressing is not only xenophobic, but also not grounded in the many many facts I've provided.

What is it really? Do you fear things different from you? Do you think of "your team" as the one that hates immigration, so you feel the need to support that view? Do you think you and your kind are superior than the people who want to live here? What is the actual reason? Trying to cherry pick statistics won't get that true reason out there so maybe just say it.

Dang doesn't like it when these conversations get combative and protracted, so I'm going to stop replying. I do wish we could continue, and I think you should summarize your position in your final reply, because it's important to get this stuff out there, and honestly I think at this point the only really "wrong" thing you've done is not fully consider the consequences of your position.
San Francisco's Bureaucracy, Unions Stifle Modular Housing for Homeless (2016)
Visual Studio Code July 2019 Update
It's like different parts of the world had different habits regarding hitchhiking. Intriguing!

Here in northern Mexico, I hitchhiked a couple of times in the early 90s, when I was a poor student and didn't have enough money to travel 100 Km. When I had my own car, I picked up people on the same road if I was riding alone, to pay it forward. That wouldn't fly now, because that region is rife with thievery thanks to government inaction.

I guess now that I'm older, I wouldn't pick hitchhikers even if there was no crime, because while most are just regular people having a hard time, a few were frankly scary.
That's fine if you actually want to fork, but it's pretty awful if your real goal is to immediately exec. What I would suggest in that case (with MMU) is a limit on how many pages the new process can dirty before it execs. Then you only need enough memory to provide that limit. And it shouldn't be too hard to statically prove that the limit is sufficient. (The parent process would be suspended in the meantime so it can't cause any pages to be duplicated.)
> The most common suggested method was the detection of a signal from the TV's local oscillator.

See: superheterodyne receiver. Most modern radio receivers generate high-frequency signal for tuning, which leaks as radio signal (receiver becomes in some way a transmitter). However, it's not confirmed if these vans had working detectors, or were just for intimidation.

There were also stories about:

- Radar detector detectors (in places where radar detection devices in cars were illegal)

- Broadcast radio receivers detectors installed near roads to measure popularity of radio stations among drivers
Is it just me or does everyone need to enable JS and allow cookies to see anything at all?

Not very privacy-focused.
Better title: "I don't know what to do with my life"
I saw parent commenter as making an epistemological argument rather than a moral one.

There are two fundamentally different sources of truth: ethical consensus and physical data.

They are ultimately incompatible, in that only a single option can be your ultimate source of truth. Albeit other(s) can be valued to some degree.

The issue they took, and I would take too, with that portion of the New Yorker article is that it attacks the idea of physical data as a valid, supreme source of truth.

Consequently, the rhetorical paraphrasing of the passage into the comment dismissing nerds seems on point.

Objectively, the humanities has a poor track record of getting pissy and taking cheap shots at science as a viable supreme source of knowledge.
Cool looking interface. Are you monetizing in any way? I've been using https://jsonformatter.org/ for quite some time and have gotten used to their features (minifying & beautifying) but it's ad-based.
It does have really fast internet though. There is a dedicated submarine fiber cable servicing a population of only a couple of thousand people. https://submarine-cable-map-2018.telegeography.com/
I wish Apple weren't so schizophrenic.

Odd-numbered days: PRIVACY DAY - we love our users!

Even-numbered days: HARDWARE DAY - we hate our users!

Pick one and stick with it, guys.
Does anyone has information about that issue that Apple had with their OS diminishing the power of the batteries? I think they're still on trial for that.
That isn't the freedom that people refer to with respect to the US, and I would argue that this sense of freedom is far less self-evident and is reliant on more social conventions.

In short, it's freedom from a government, which isn't too surprising considering the places in which "free" is used and the history behind the formation of the country.

It should be fairly clear, then, when you consider that the freedom refers to lower government intervention in the actions of people, and sometimes a hostility towards this intervention.

This concept isn't really unique to the US, though other developed countries tend to have a less extreme approach in most practical areas. Switzerland, for instance, is usually an exception compared to its neighbors when it comes to privatization, healthcare, parental leave, etc. and a similar justification of reduced government intervention and more freedom of choice is often used here.
>The main other benefit I commonly see from people using Clojure or ClojureScript is live development.

I'm still learning about Scheme/Lisp, but doesn't hot-loading have to do with the size of "compilation units?" Isn't a single s-expression treated as a compilation unit whereas in a language like Java, the compilation unit is an entire Class?

Rich Hickey touched on this in a comment here on HN (2nd paragraph): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467809
Yup, and a common modern use case of make is to call in to other language specific build systems.
Lots of comments here about what this means for CircleCI. Found it interesting that CircleCI's CEO has a testimonial in the "What our community is saying" at https://github.com/features/actions:

“CircleCI has been building a CI/CD platform since 2011, and GitHub has been a great partner. GitHub Actions is further validation that CI/CD is critical for the success of every software team. We believe that developers thrive in open, connected ecosystems, and we look forward to working with GitHub to lead the evolution of CI/CD.”
Jim Rose
CEO of CircleCI
Honestly, I think it's a good thing in general. Like you've said, being able to just do things here and cut out all of that wasted time spent connecting disparate services... I mean assuming they pull this off well, it will absolutely make things better for me personally.

That all being said, I'm not sure how the long run comes into play here? It's bad if we extrapolate a long run prediction where no one else innovates or creates something in this space. But in reality, someone's going to be annoyed by it, someone's going to start up a different solution, and whether it works or not...it'll be there. Whether it's a small startup or a big enterprise challenging - if there's market gains to be had from adding this, it'll get added.

Don't get me wrong, you're on point with a lot of things in tech. Monoculture and monopolies are becoming super "in-your-face" considering just how much control the FAANG companies have in influencing tech and the like. However, I do find it odd that a single feature release by a larger company results, more often in not, in much of HN community losing their minds over prospective world domination. (not you op, but just in general...granted similar outrage happens to small open source stuff just as much so maybe this point is moot).

As John Maynard Keynes put it, "In the long run we are all dead." But in the short run, this just seems like a super useful feature added to a super useful product that will just make things easier for all developers.
I'm not a sublime user, so I can't say why, but a couple of JS devs in my office switched from sublime to VS Code. I'm a little surprised by this to be honest, and I haven't interrogated them too thoroughly about why, since I'm not especially interested in either; you might want to give it a try, however.
Looks like that form factor appeared in 2011, with the darker colour scheme coming in 2013. See:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/the-magical-evolutio...
How are you able to make those assumptions using just the median? Did you assume a normal distribution with some arbitrary variance?

>It has about 100k employees. That means 50% make more than that which is about 50k people.

No it doesn't, a typical business has far more people making minimum wage than it does making millions.
"I can't think of a single feature of ClojureScript that's inherently better than JavaScript"

Persistent data structures, multi arity functions, multi methods, transducers, data oriented design, spec, repl driven, better live reloading, meta data, protocols, core async go channels, atoms, Datoms

There are breakthroughs in Clojure/Script that literally do not exist in any other language, let alone JS

Datomic, Fulcro, Crux, garden, hiccup, honeySQL, rebl etc just straight up don't have equivalents in other languages

Your statement blows my mind, sure you don't need s-expressions to do most the above but you can just turn on parinfer and treat it like python whilst still being able to dynamically rewrite source code using data manipulation
> so long as you do not watch any TV programmes live.

Law was changed in the last few years to make this applicable to on-demand content too from BBC iPlayer
That’s not true. They may replace the phone sometimes but I’ve only ever had them replace the battery.
To be fair, I've seen people here regard "mainstream" non-tech culture with bemusement (and plenty of contempt) fairly often.
What's the dominant source of dust on the road? Would expect a large amount of that to be tire/brake wear.
And these undesirable places are ... ?
Quite a few of what you can see in this list [1].

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/320/Microsoft-Office.html...
Why should Payne have been a coauthor of Russell's paper?

It was (so far as I can tell) entirely independent work on the same question. She deserved a citation (which she got) and acknowledgement that she had got numbers very similar to his (which she got), but you don't make someone a coauthor just because you and they are working on the same problem.
Sounded like they do have technology to tell what content you are watching, which is even more ridiculous.
DevSecOps: From Theory to Practice
Scientists discover why two shark species emit green glow
What sets me off is if you replace your battery with a genuine apple battery. I can certainly understand if it's a 3rd party battery missing some feature the phone needs to assess battery information. This just flies in the face of the whole right to repair movement and for no other reason than pure greed.
It does, and it's every bit as ridiculous as it sounds, but I suspect it'll be discontinued within the next decade or so and the BBC will become something sane like a normal subscription channel.

Anecdotally I've noticed a sea change in general-topic UK discussion fora over the past five years or so. It used to be the case that anyone criticizing the BBC was downvoted to oblivion, but the old reverence for it as an institution is very much a minority view now.

EDIT: it's not just us, by the way; the US is actually in a small minority of countries who've never had a TV tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence
Or compare Los Angeles to Beverly Hills. These two cities share a border. Median incomes are way, way higher in Beverly Hills. And LA's poor millions are free to crowd right into to Beverly Hills and just start grabbing up some of that wealth. But it barely happens at all. The two populations are not merging nearly as much as the shared border would predict.