skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I'm very curious if you have pointers to this! Intuitively I feel like I write better code with a better type system, but that argument makes sense to me :-(

One thing I'm curious about is if there's a slightly different property than "richer type system" that helps. In Rust but not necessarily in other languages with good type systems, you can't leave a struct member uninitialized, so perhaps the easiest way to write this code is actually to use an enum if you know you'll only ever use one or the other. That might be close enough to the "automatic" property?
Qualifier: overlooked today. Historically he was an enormous figure in the sciences, and many things are named after him. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Things_named_aft...
> Why should a country have to borrow money to provide food stamps for people? Just provide the food.

Where does that food come from? Government run farms, hospitals? Those takes money to build and staff.
I imagine they think it will destroy the existing audiobook market eventually, if it becomes good enough.
That's a nice analogy. In a professional setting, spiking on research is time constraint always, and if you start to meandre too much, you will deplete a reputation. But on your own, and with clear goals, as someone here mentioned, by all means dig in as much as you desire if it fulfills you.
If we're going that far, first world nations taking over banks to sustain the nation isn't out of the question. They'll probably just cooperate and work something out though.
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Install NetGuard https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard (no root needed) and block them.

I am also using XPrivacy Lua (you need rooted phone) https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua to give applications fake details like android id, gps coordinates, contacts etc.

For a nice addition, uninstall all google software and use microg instead.
And what gives private banks freedom to operate?
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A company sells audio books and provides its consumers with an app that interprets the speech in the audio books on the fly back into text to show on the screen: publishers claim copyright infringement.

A company sells an app that, given speech in any form by a user, including any audio book format, interprets the speech on the fly back into text to show on the screen: what's the difference? what do publishers claim in that case?

Please, enlighten me.
Me and my children embrace this now.
The point is that access to many platforms has become important enough that private companies should not be the ones calling the shots. This includes access to service and censorship.

I fear that we have opened the pandora box and now the alternatives are those I mentioned.

> There is more to discrimination law, including "gotchas" like adverse impact.

Not in the UK, unless mandated by law in specific industries.
It has nothing to do with the blockchain though, they just used weak cryptography
Unfortunately, this pattern is used a lot now by companies big and small. Here's Adobe:

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html?promoid=NV3KR...

Creative Cloud with all apps is $52.99 per month. If you click "See plan & pricing details", you see that's an "annual plan, paid monthly".
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I wouldn't attribute this to English or English speakers at all. Imagine I am Czech (I am) and my last name is "Gödel" (it is quite similar, and Kurt Gödel was actually born in what is now Czechia). Such a name has at least three pronunciations which are relevant to me -- the way Czechs themselves pronounce it [Ge:dl], the way Germans do [ɡøːdl̩], and the way an English speaker would [ˈɡɜːrdəl].

Can you really say the Czech pronunciation is correct because I am Czech? Or the German one, because it is a last name of German origin? If so, are all the people in my native country mispronouncing my last name? :-)
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Inventing a new type of printing press doesn't give you the right to print copies of books without a copyright license. This is an innovative printing press.

But I'm pretty sure you understood my original point.
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So, apparently they're advertising with having CloudBoost and Stripe as customers.

* CloudBoost is built by the same company/people (HackerBay)

* I doubt Stripe is actually their customer, given it's their only external reference apparently.

This smells like borderline fraud to me.
While some of us in Germany have betriebliche Altersvorsorge (employer old-age savings), it's nothing like an American 401k. Up to a certain limit much lower than a US 401k, I decide how much I want to contribute pre-tax, my employer tells me how it's generally being invested and what minimum rate I can expect, and I can decide at what point between ages 62 and 67 I want to start taking withdrawals (which are only in one lump sum or five tranches), but I have absolutely no control past that.

There are other retirement savings vehicles, but they're pretty much all annuities. Most Germans, including well-earning engineers like my husband, can't imagine receiving post-retirement income in anything other than a monthly pension; perhaps rent on apartments or houses they've managed to buy along the way. Remember that less than half of German adults live in home they own; renting the same apartment for 40 years is not unusual here.

Germans tend to be more skeptical about the stock market than Americans are. To balance this, they are also far more hesitant to borrow for consumption - my husband's family were slightly horrified that I'd financed the full cost of my car, on top of owing student loans. I didn't mention the credit card debt it took me a couple of years to finish off!

(Me: American who grew up watching my parents always make their payments, but pretty much always have a car loan and who took out some of the student loans I paid back because they absolutely had no discretionary savings.

Husband: German who grew up watching his parents buy 3-5 year old cars with bank drafts once their old one started spending too much time at the shop, and then gave him a bunch of their savings as a university graduation present that sat in his bank account until we bought our house 15 years later)
I agree with him.

Read CS books about algorithms and datastructures that use pseudo-code instead of specific languages.

Lambda calculus, denotional semantics, theory of objects, ...

Then try to map how those concepts map to the daily languages that you use.

A very contrived example, a B-Tree doesn't stop being a B-Tree just because you switched languages. It just might require a different way to map the abstract concept "B-Tree" to the actual hardware, using the specific set of language features available.
Not a lawyer, but I imagine that you, as an end user, can do that, so long as you are not selling that text or distributing that text. But Amazon, who is licensed to provide you with an audio book but not a text book, cannot offer you a speech-to-text rendition of that audio book as part of your audiobook purchase. Nor do I imagine them being able to offer you the technology to do it on your own as a "feature", as that would be a rather hideous loophole.
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Every tech company does it as-long-as-they-can / it-goes-public.
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Yes. While diamonds have always been valuable, in the 19th century, DeBeers bought most/all known large mines and exercised their monopoly position to control the market. They also launched massive marketing campaigns touting diamonds as the "best" stone for an engagement ring.
> Pointer validation via hardware memory tagging has everything to do with C, because it is only due to C's shortcommings that millions of research dollars keep being spent to try to make it work.

So, to restate, Solaris does not do it "perfectly fine". Thanks for making my point.

> In what concerns Solaris, and the requirements for future Android with ARM memory tagging, the system allocator is all there is, at least from official support point of view.

That's a pity, because if you're not doing your own allocators then you'll have to accept lock contention, extreme memory overhead (for smaller allocations, say <= 64 bytes), and you'll need to match every little allocation with a deallocation, instead of making e.g. custom pool allocators.

You're just not going to write a large infrastructure (i.e. performance-oriented) system in this way.
Actually Android Q is adding exactly that feature so we may get to see this argument play out: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18528447/google-android-q-...
What gave it away? The little hearts over the i's in "invariant"?
> Altavista, MySpace, and Friendster were never so powerful.

They weren't that "powerful" because the web wasn't used as much. It took a while for us to adopt the digital lifestyle. Ultimately, they're just platforms though. Of course they have a lot of inertia, but user habits can change. Younger users in particular aren't engaging with Facebook that much anymore:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/01/facebook-...

> They felt less like companies and more just like websites, if you know what I mean.

Google certainly has moved beyond being a website by creating many products. However, I feel that a lot of these products are rather crappy and wouldn't be competitive if they weren't given away. How dominant of a player can you really be, if you must give your product away for free?

Most companies aren't in the business of giving away free stuff, so in that sense it is hard to compete. That's not necessarily a bad thing for the consumer though, they get all the free stuff after all.
Here is the original blog post by the french researcher (in english) [1].
In an update, he says the updated system with a 1024-bit key was also compromised, on august the 24th [2].

[1]: https://members.loria.fr/PGaudry/moscow/
[2]: https://golovnev.org/papers/election.pdf
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What is Google's competition like here? Sounds like Google should be worried.
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It is just cheaper for tech companies to do this.
Even if unsupervised learning is not doable, they could hire people and pay them to record their voices for supervised learning.

It is just cheaper for them to do this.
I just wish more ebooks were available through libraries. It seems like 50% of books I want to read aren't. The more I have used ebooks, the more I prefer them (for reading for pleasure).
I wonder if the publishers will also be mad about Android Q's upcoming feature which can transcribe any audio on your phone: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18528447/google-android-q-...
That's an unrelated question isn't it? Of course a country can default on it's debts if they so choose.

I'm just describing the nature of the debt, and pointing out why countries' debts don't "cancel each other out" because it's a common misconception.
My quandary, I have three hundred plus music CDs I ripped years and years ago that I really do not need the physical media. Yet if I give up that media I am likely not legally allowed to keep the ripped versions.

Instead of ripping it would be ever so nice to scan the barcode to gain access to digital versions but I understand the issue, I paid for physical copies and for the production and distribution of those, I did not pay for someone to host and provide for me the means to download the copies.

Now some movies do come with a digital version which you can download separately and never use the physical media.

So I have a dresser drawer filled with CDs I had not used for five if not more years. However I do have to say, I never will lose access to that music nor the physical books I own which is more than I can say for stuff I purchase digitally through Amazon or Apple
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For your personal use? Yes as a practical matter. Probably as a legal one. The publisher/rights holder/distributor of the audio performance has no obligation to provide you with the means to do the conversion though and, to this case, if they don't own the rights probably can't do so as a bonus for the initial purchase.
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Houston (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston) is absolutely not dry in the least. I'm guessing here, but I'd be hard pressed to name a more consistently humid US city.

Obviously, Texas is a single place to people who don't live here, but be aware that at 269K square miles (686K sq km), it's fucking huge. It's almost 800 miles across (ie, the distance between Louisiana and New Mexico).

So there's LOTS of variety in climate. The dry climate you associate with movie-Texas does definitely exist, but mostly in the western half of the state, & especially as you move down towards the Mexican border.

Houston, however, sits on the Gulf Coast. (Houston proper isn't on the water, but the overall metro area includes Galveston, which is an island in the Gulf.) The Gulf Stream curves over us and keeps us warm and wet.

Not for nothing, but our annual rainfall is pretty insanely high (~49 inches).

See more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Houston

Anyway, in a very humid place like this, swamp coolers that depend on evaporation are of limited utility.
> I fear that we have opened the pandora box and now the alternatives are those I mentioned.

I don't know that we've opened the box so much as we've built or otherwise inherited a system that allows for what we have now. No reason we can't legally preclude social-media companies from excluding based on their arbitrary and capricious criteria.

> Not in the UK, unless mandated by law in specific industries.

I was talking about the US, specifically. Honestly a bit weird to group the two together in the first place, being very different countries.
Do you mind sharing what are those recent projects?

When you say "proper development environment configured" - what were the most annoying things?
Can't you just download it here: https://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
There are so many useful use-cases. Like... imagine you want to try out a html snippet, without creating an html-file. "Clearing" the default new-tab-page takes some seconds before you can insert your own stuff via the dev tools.
EXACTLY. That grind held no charm for me.
The disability doesn't have to be impaired hearing.
Maybe you suffer from a reading disability and find the feature useful for practicing reading, or for some reason have trouble focusing on text or audio on its own, but can improve your comprehension by having both simultaneously.
I've got a friend from an era of hand-drawn technical blueprints. He's using that hideous blueprint font for all handwriting.
Government may need to pay money, but a government that is the source of its own fiat money doesn't need to borrow it. That's just a product of systematic play acting based on the desire to pretend that fiat isn't fiat.
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if youre studying perspectives and color theory all day but never paint a picture then whats the point?
Bingo. You think the government will standby and watch the world economy collapse because some investment bank won't cancel their debt, or uphold our end of the deal to mutually cancel debt? Send in military, seize all assets, wipe the records. Yes, it's a dystopia, and there will be sociatal and economic consequences. But the alternative is far worse.

I think that the larger the world economies get, the closer we get to totalitarian policy being the only thing that works to mitigate disaster. Think economic collapse, climate change, viral epidemics. None can be solved by individual initiative, slow moving government policy, etc. They require large scale, immediate, dictorial action by large nation states.
Humboldt's "Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent" is a completely fascinating read... here's this brilliant, neurodiverse individual doing everything he can to... find the headwaters of the Orinoco river, because obviously. The part about how to catch electric eels with a herd of horses is particularly inspired, unless you are a horse or an eel.
"At the same time, it costs nothing now"

Lol.
Well I actually removed this part a very short time after posting (your reply was posted a handful of minutes after mine) because "upset" was the wrong word and sounded confrontational.
Absolutely spot on ... learn assembly language then use to draw 3d graphics as well as impliment io or your favorite data structure ... true eye opener
Where to start as in what direction start building the project? Or something else like "what technologies do I need to do X"?
In the UK there is a list of so-called protected characteristics that originates from EU law. It includes sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion. It is not legal to discriminate based on those. In general it is legal to otherwise refuse service. I suspect the US are similar.

On the other hand, for example in France it is illegal to refuse service unless you have a good reason to.

So in the UK if I walk to a market stall with money in my hand they are free to refuse to sell to me (I suspect the same is true in the US), but in France they would need a 'good reason' to refuse.
Same. I have a nice Oxford, and I haven't touched it in YEARS. I mean, why?
They are ignored because they lost, don't you think the GOP and/or Brexiters would be jumping on top of it if they had lost also?
I think Wordpress is fine if you keep it maintained. I've just seen a ton of sites end up with malware, gaping security holes, etc. because the site owner didn't vet the plugins they were installing.
the same can be said about those who want to find seashells, the beaches after very large storms are fascinating and rewarding.

with regards to ruby, diamond, and other precious gem, mining the part I find enjoyable is most of these places are off the beaten path and a day spent in the country playing in the mud can be rewarding for lack of distractions of everyday life
They made a stink about that a decade ago and Amazon backed down, making the feature publisher/author controlled, ahead of actually getting sued.
Maybe, but there's nothing better right now.
Considering average electricity prices around 0.34€/kWh, that’d be the fastest way to bankruptcy imaginable, beating even the "what’s the fastest way to become a millionaire? be a billionaire and buy an airline" joke.

Most German houses run on "Fernwärme", a district heating system where the cities reuse the leftover heat energy from waste incineration plants or powerplants. Another major heating source is gas. Only a tiny minority in rural regions uses oil, and that’s pretty much it — electricity is pretty much never used at all.
> What can you accomplish with goto that you can't accomplish with try/catch and custom errors?

You can program in C. C doesn't have try/catch...
Are there even proposed experiments to test this?

My layman understanding of the Holographic Principle is an object falling into a blackhole has it's 3D information copied onto a 2D surface/perimeter (event horizon) and that 2D information can tell us everything about the energy that continues to exist within the 3D volume of the blackhole.

Fractal Mathematics suggests it is possible right? In other words we can infinity extend the perimeter of a shape while maintaining the same volume, but what are the proposed experiments, if any, to observe this phenomena in nature for quanta?
All public debt is held by private individuals. Agreeing to cancel debt means seizing assets at a global scale.
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A draft cannot be made practical and fair unless you are going to have an Army of 1945 proportions. Otherwise, you might need one in ten draft-age men, and the business of choosing which becomes even more open to manipulation.
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For someone who claims to be trying to tackle the misinterpretation of Damore, no where in the medium post you linked does it say what you claim it says. It doesn't compare CBP to the Holocaust. It sites the human rights abuses that it is enabling that has lead to the death of 7 people by forcing these people into indefinite detention for what could be, at worst argued, a misdemeanor. They're held enmasse in cages in warehouses which fits the textbook definition of a concentration camp.
It's surely not as bad as the Holocaust (which this petition doesn't claim what you claim it does), but it's not any better.
Isn’t an issue what the words for numbers mean?

Does thousand mean the quantity itself or does it mean the decimal 1000?

In other words thousand = 1000 (dec) and 0x3E8 (hex). Are they both pronounced “thousand”? When someone says mix a thousand liters of glycol with ten kilograms of salt, both 1000 (dec) and 0x3E8 (hex) mean “thousand” each of something.

The only way to get around this is if every whole number on the number line had a unique name and could be represented by any numbering system.
I have an induction stove I cannot tell a difference in speed. If anything when I use the overdrive button thing I boil water with it quicker than on a gas stove.
The last financial crisis had a large sovereign debt element - but only in those countries where a "bailin" of the local banking industry was inconcievable and there was a bailout transfer instead.

If you want to look at debt, look at yields; just the other day we were discussing negative yield bonds in some Western countries. You can't have a sovereign debt crisis and negative yields in the same country at the same time!

The most obvious trigger event for the next global recession is sovereign idiocy. The UK's own prediction documents for no-deal Brexit show 5-10% GDP loss within a year or so. The war in Syria rumbles on. The wave of tit-for-tat tanker seizures could continue. Or the trade war with China could escalate.
mv universe.info /dev/null

i see no issues there
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> So in the UK if I walk to a market stall with money in my hand they are free to refuse to sell to me,

But I do not understand how can this be enforced. If for example you are gay and are refused service, can't you claim that it is due to your sexual orientation? Conversely, if the shop wants to expel you because of illegal reasons, can't they always claim that it is due to some other, ridiculous but valid reason?
Maybe it's my central European perspective that clouds this but the standard setup in Germany/Austria/Switzerland and Northern Italy is three phase power to your house.
The word enterprise is not included in the article, which makes it a generic article about architecture.

Experience and results are better then nothing. Where are the author's results?

Based on which project experience was the article authored? Without knowing such things, we can't distinguish what kind of outcome will the proposed ideas result in. After all, good results can be good on many dimensions.
Learn what you need the machine to do to accomplish a task. In theory, the language shouldn't matter much. In practice, I find syntactical conciseness important.
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