skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is awesome.

Does the Google speech-to-text API work well for your needs? How often do you use it?
You're right, I apologize.
If you want to get elected, you don't propose to expel the students who are performing below average. They have parents who vote and/or cry on the TV news.

It was funny and sad to see standards getting set, then reduced. We know what is required. Various states set graduation requirements at that, with a test to be passed, and then backed off when they realized that many would not graduate. Since it isn't politically acceptable to deny graduation to anybody, we have no standards.
People keep parroting this urban myth, but I just don't see it. The best engineers I've worked with (by far) have been US-educated. Yes, mostly from the upper strata of academia (Stanford/Berkeley/UCLA/MIT/Caltech/etc.) but I'd say that the "average" US developer is significantly more capable than the average off-shore developer.

I mean, the great majority of the main technological advances of the past 20 years have generated by American companies (and more often than not by US-educated entrepreneurs).

Anti-intellectualism might indeed be a problem (maybe?) but to say that tech has been adversely affected is, imo, untrue.
It’s a educational quality distribution problem. States/regions with good education rival the best in the world, but that’s balanced against states/regions that have middling and poor education. The US is a big country, and it has a shaky history when it comes to providing high quality education for ALL citizens.
I pay US$55 a month for unlimited data @ 50Mbit on my fibre/copper line, and US$100 per year for 80GB per year on my 4G mobile (there are other options up to about US$70/m for 150GB/m but no unshaped & unlimited data option.)

I suspect that part of the reason that 4G is so good in Australia is that data allowances are relatively small which limits congestion.
Id like a baseball cap, painted with vanta black, but with a cheese-cloth style net also painted with vanta black, which can be worn down like a bee-keepers hat, such that facial recognition cant be used against me.

Also, i am anouncing right now my freedom to destroy any facial recognition cameras i come across. Its my fist amendment right to not be supressed with facial recognition because i am free to say anything i want, and using facial recognition is a violation of my first amendment rights.
I can’t imagine Apple and Google would work together to integrate Google Assistant in Apple’s systems in a way that meets Apple’s privacy standards.

I think if Siri got direct web answers working reliably (currently being tested in Spotlight search) then the two assistants would be comparably useful.
Fiber would never be available in every home, it would have always been limited to new estates and inner city areas, which funnily enough is no change over how things were before the nbn. Before the nbn, new estates were supplied with private fiber. Now they get nbn, which will be sold in the future and be private again.... all that changed was billions of dollars were stolen by the political class.
This sounds like something someone would say to curtail responsibility.

You realize it all comes back to capitalism right, whether it's a communist dictatorship giving your company permission to pump shit into the atmosphere, or the bastian of democracy, the US, giving companies permission to sell bombs to dictators, and so on.

It still comes back to the companies themselves. And if the communist state(aka state-capitalism), or the representative democracy refuses to give them permission they will move to another place and try again, or turn to aggressive lobbying, because capitalism.

In case you've forgotten, capitalism is when you reward the investors over the workers with the surplus value the workers created, moreover, the investors control the company. The capitalist gets their investment back, and then they continue to get a chunk of the surplus created at the expense of the people who actually created said surplus, who instead get a wage. Oh yeah, and they control how the surplus is spent. What is the alternative? A co-op. In a co-op the workers do not get a wage, they get profits from the value they were responsible for, minus funding needed to purchase the next round of raw materials. In a co-op the company functions as a direct-democracy. The workers literally control the surplus and the way it is re-invested into the company.

In case you weren't aware, the majority of companies responsible for large chunks of the climate change pie, are/were driven by investors (and/or states) looking for profits without regards to the health and future of the people who produce said profits, the health of the locales in which they operate, or the health of the planet. The worker/citizen does not get a say, because they are kept on a wage, and because they literally have no say. This is why state-owned collectives are also the worst kind of capitalism. It's as if there is one company who holds the monopoly (the state) and the state is not 'the people' but a small number of, again, psychopaths who have nothing but quotas and profits to fulfill and positions to maintain.

A large portion of climate change is driven by a psychopathic disregard for both the worker and their environment.
And here I am in the Pacific Northwest, remembering how insanely fast LTE felt like a few years back, but now it’s awful in my area (used to consistently get >50mbps). Now LTE often means that my phone has a connection of ~3mbps... Is it just T-mobile, or is this just normal levels of congestion?
I agree, I don't think these generalizations are accurate. If anything the opposite has social encouragement.

It sounds like the author was engaged to a person who is more emotionally distant than average. But I also wonder how she would've responded to the opposite.

In this case, he didn't fawn over her by telling her how beautiful she looked in her dress, for example. At the same time, that sort of aloofness might have contributed something to her interest in him. If he were the type to overly fawn over her, she might not have considered him as high status, and might never have tried to marry him.
I expect CSAIL is bristling with non-neurotypical people who didn't take this as a good time to come to the defense of Marvin Minksy in such a frankly bizarre way. It's one thing to say I don't think he did it, but to say "if he did it, it would not have been bad, and in this essay I will-" and to then distribute that to the entire CSAIL mailing list!

I'll grant that some of the headlines about what RMS wrote were overblown, but still. You don't have to look outside the four corners of what he wrote to see why it wasn't an excusable thing to blast out to a departmental email. Once you expand from those four corners to his prior comments on pedophilia it gets way worse.

At a certain point, if you have lived as long as RMS has, you should have some knowledge of your own limitations. It would take an absolute master of rhetoric to make his argument and not have it taken badly. He is not one, and he should (at this point) have the barest humility to not subject the entire CSAIL mailing list to his half-baked ideas on how Minsky might be exonerated.
Indeed. But ads shouldn't be the reason you write software or write about software development.
I'm guessing someone at apple internally distributed a dockerfile that pulls that down.
> makes 16 million new IPv4 addresses available

How is IPv4 address availability up to the Linux kernel?
> "Free Software ushering in lynch flash mobs"

How did Free Software do that? I don't see how the Free Software movement in practice or in theory has any share of the blame for this social phenomenon.
Stallman Has Resigned from Csail
> Amongst my real-life friendship groups this sort of "hate mob" type stuff just doesn't exist

You have great friendship groups. Do you remember, by any chance how this topic was handled in your discussions (I am genuinely curios)

"...

Brendan Eich is gone. The creator of JavaScript and co-founder of mozilla.org has quit as Mozilla’s CEO,

forced out by the uproar over a donation he made six years ago to a ballot measure against gay marriage.

There’s no record of Eich discriminating against gay employees—“I never saw any kind of behavior or attitude from him that was not in line with Mozilla’s values of inclusiveness,” says the company’s chairwoman,

..."
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[1](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/04/brendan-eich-qui... )
> Edit: in my defence, is op defending Stallman, or Epstein? Honestly, I don't know how Epstein and Stallman are related. I don't follow Stallman's every statement he makes. I simply asked for some context and enlightenment in this headline and op's comment.

Am I the OP in this context?

I think this is exactly what I'm talking about? I've made a comment explaining how this environment baffles me, and you think my comment must be somehow tribal in nature.
I'm a small time trader for my own account (ridiculously small time compared to JPMC or similar). It's quite common for me to have orders in on both sides of the market and in those cases, I'm genuinely happy to have either side of the trade execute.

I don't believe that's spoofing. (And if it is, I'm going to be damned easy to catch...)
I was surprised nobody told me about (spoiler) the quite sincere same-sex interracial marriage early in the book, in which the one groom gives half of his worldly wealth to the other, and then they sleep together. Even if it isn't about sex, I'd think that scene would be better known if more than a few nerds like me read the book. It's in one of the greatest American novels, we've just gone through a great debate around marriage freedom, but actually reading it was the first time I came across it.
I only takes a handful of people to escalate an abstract discussion into a direct personal attack, by claiming that the speaker's abstract discussion hurt their feelings. It's basically a weaponization of empathy, that gathers momentum by preying on a human bias to support others when they claim to have been wronged.
Easy, no. Necessary, yes. Imagine a world where regulations only grow on the whole. How far out do you have to extrapolate that system for it to implode under its own weight? That can happen to nation states too...
Echoing sibling comments: camera, camera, camera.

Anecdata as to whether it's really necessary to have a very good camera backed by powerful hard/software -- for me personally, camera quality became my #1 priority after having a baby, & exact same with everyone I know in similar position. But regardless of whether they have family or not, peeps seem to like being able to take good looking photos and videos, and the current manufacturer war over cameras means if you can afford to spend a bit more then the market is fantastic.

Edit: also, acquisition of powerful status symbols via a monthly fee that is only slightly higher than the monthly fee for less powerful status symbols.
You're a bigot
Your comment is kind of confusing and ambiguous. Could you give an example of what you're referring to? I think any downvotes are probably more due to the crypticness than anything else.
To farther your point, Jordan Peterson mentions studies in Scandinavia that show that the more equality is given to both genders to pursue their interests, the farther apart they drift. Women tended to go into fields such as nursing, teaching, more people oriented fields, whereas men ended up going into more traditional male fields like STEM.

Far leftists and neo-feminists don't like this of course because it doesn't sit with their narrative that "the patriarchy" is the cause of everything today they don't agree with.
I don't believe he was. He's listed as a "visiting scientist": https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/richard-stallman

I think that just means that some faculty member is sponsoring you to have building access and a login account, more or less. (And the implications of affiliation of course.)
“Every time” until they are asked to build a product that requires a deep specialized skill set.

I am a generalist full stack developer who has built a SaaS business very similar to the way OP has. No team of me’s could’ve produced, say, TensorFlow.

Great teams and companies have generalists and specialists.
Another great sea story: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk.
Can't see the flagged comment that this is a response to but what you've said looks entirely reasonable with one, pretty minor, caveat.

I've not yet met the academic securing grants and funding who would not have preferred it if exactly none of their time was required to do that. However wealthy the institution. Maybe some enjoy it and prefer it to research? Being the big, important, person hobnobbing with the rich and powerful?
It definitely is common with generics, it happens all the time. Here's some production code I've worked on recently:

new TypeReference<FooResponseCollectionResource<MemberUpdate>>(){})

I like generics, but I don't love this sort of thing and it's not even a mis-use of them
Fightcade – Network Gaming Platform Based on GGPO
I'm certain there's going to be an immensely interesting biopic about Stallman's life one day. I can think of few people whose bad qualities are contrasted so strongly with their good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBuilder
Ldraw: Lego Modeling in Rust
Great game! Recently tried it again after some years.
https://github.com/segfault87/ldraw.rs
Do you have the impression that the negative response toward Stallman's recent comments have anything to do with the general concept of "defending" anyone whatsoever? I certainly don't have that impression. I think people were upset over the specifics of his comments, not merely the fact that his comments might qualify as a "defense" of another person.
MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library
When would my hand accidentally touch the touch bar that sits above the keyboard? I literally don't think this has ever happened to me, I'm being honest
Every Victorian's drivers licence to be uploaded to Australian national database
Not OP, but for me it's a longevity thing. With a user-replacable battery, about 2 years after purchase I can simply order a compatible battery, pop it in the phone in a one-minute procedure, and carry on for another 2+ years. The battery will wear out, there's just no getting around that, but today's phones are so powerful that the rest of it isn't necessarily obsolete by that point. Especially not on Android, and especially if you aren't using your phone to do heavy tasks like gaming and media constantly.

It's not impossible to get by without one, but personally I don't have the soldering skills to replace a modern battery (parts are just a bit smaller than I trust myself with) so that's going to be a repair charge when my current phone's battery wears down in a year or so. No reason to replace the whole phone at that point, it still runs great and does everything I need it to do. Why waste the money?
I believe the thought behind MM is "a thousand thousand", using the roman numeral as if it were a positional digit.

Not sure how someone got the idea to do that...
And who or what drove those policies?

Are you arguing that the fossil fuel industry was resisting those subsidies, incentives, privileges, free money, and tax incentives with every fibre of their being?
I’d like to discuss! Email in my profile
I mean dongle hell is pretty annoying but I do see the argument against having a bunch of ports when there’s an “everything if you wire the pins right” port.
I think Stallman is tactless, and I've thought that for years. That email didn't change anything I thought about him.

I also think that being tactless is not a moral crime. It's aesthetically offensive and counterproductive from a leadership perspective, but being a bad leader doesn't make somebody a bad person.
Pardon the pun but to be frank there is a point at least in the case of the French. I know the term best in the context of Bruno Latour's dribble. Given the sheer nationalism draped for why he was supported it seemed to be motivated reasoning as a desperate cling to superiority like their language board trying desperately to avoid loanwords, and insistence upon very narrow culinary definitions. There seems to be an isolationist complex about not wanting to have to compete. (Which as a national neurosis is not unique - see American exceptionalism.)

That aside Latour was infamously an originator of the "Post Truth" and his support for utter nonsense. It is true that social aspects affecting what science is considered, achieves mindahare, is funded, and catches on and progresses. It is undeniable as seen by the derth of statistics and genetics papers from the USSR when both were declared bourgeoisie pseudosciences. It affecting what is actually right? Hell no. Although at least to his credit he realized what a monster he had created.

Philosophy isn't neccessarily bad but it isn't neccessarily good either. Given that it is often defined via its independence from the real world there are many spaces to explore. Which includes the potential to be absolute pseudouintellectual or antiintellectual nonsense. That makes it different from the other examples - they are verifiable and it is possible to call bullshit and outright prove them wrong.

"Celebrity philisopher" may just mean that it flatters preconceptions without the ability to be countered via hard proof that "no the moon is not and cannot be made of cheese".
> What happens?

What happens if you do that without enough market share is that the browser gets detected and banned/redirected with a message about it being hostile to the people making the content. To some degree, they would be correct.

If chrome, Firefox and Safari all did that all at once, many web properties would go under before the dust settled. It would probably cause a recession with how many people it affected, if not an outright depression, as it reverberated throughout the economy.

There's a reason some things happen slowly, and why puahback against the better future isn't always a bad thing. Too much change all at once is far more destructive overall than if spread out over time (for the exact same reason having two cars need major repairs the same month can put a family in dire straits).
For what it's worth, RMS' statements on the matter don't appear to concern what is "right", "wrong", or "acceptable" - they appear to concern only the available evidence.

Then again, I've only seen the two quotes appearing in the HN threads.
Surely there’s an even better descriptive name than “under-dosed”, I just meant it as an example of a more descriptive name.

Pseudo-addiction is a bad bad term. I get my brain into an inception-level loop if I try to contrast pseudo-addiction to addicting, even clearly knowing the definitions.
Are you me? I am constantly being gutchecked that a startup mentality does not fly when you have several hundred million in the bank. That said, my enterprise and upper management butt kissing experience from the 00s don’t seem to matter either. I can stay heads down in code and I’m not in fear over being downsized. The hard part is teaching these young kids how to scope.
iOS development in particular seems to be a huge contributor to this.

Where, 15 years ago, I entered the software industry, Macs were virtually non existent in the workplace, I now use one - along with about 25 other people on my floor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format-preserving_encryption

It is possible.
What a sweet reminder of a simpler and more open time on the net. Makes me miss MUDs which were the right combination of social interaction without leaving embarrassing footprints for future employers to find twenty years on.
Absolutely, but a great idea when combined with other defensive tactics. Obscurity is why armies use camouflage.
Except that the pseudoaddiction isn't the misdiagnosis. The pseudoaddiction is the collection of behaviors that have been misdiagnosed. Someone else in this thread said 'underdosing,' and I think that gets at the idea better.
Never came up.

If you're after my personal opinion - I think that the whole debate about gay marriage gets muddled because there's basically this interplay between the state and religion.

So you end up in this weird place where - those who really believe in the religious aspects of marriage have to be against gay marriage because it's literally "against the rules", it doesn't compile.

But then in the real world, we have a state that confers benefits based on marriage - and even in places where civil partnerships are wholly equal in the law, you still have the weird 'status' style thing whereby they're sort of seen as being lesser.

To me it's almost completely a nomenclature thing. If we didn't have marriages or civil partnerships, and instead we asked whether two people (of arbitrary sex) should be allowed to cohabit and/or enter a contract with each other to share assets, I think it'd be way simpler.

I mean there'd still be the stalwart homophobes that just think it's capital-W Wrong or think that religiously they need to at least publically claim it as being wrong, but what I wrote up there I think is a big part of it.
Oracle Cloud New Always Free Services
It's also possible it's part of a docker build step or similar. Even if they're aren't downloading models at run time they may be loading s3 if their pytorch-transformers lib docker cache gets invalidated frequently.
I think if every company wrote a "plain english terms of service" in the same vein of brutal honesty as this one, most of them would come off as pretty unprofessional.

> "We will terminate your account for any reason at all. We'll terminate it if its associated with another account that's been terminated. Often, there won't be a reason; our systems just autonomously decided that your account had to go. None of that matters to us. We don't care, because this is just a side-project to us. We have no customer support. There are no humans you can call. There is no appeal process." - Google Play

Maybe Professionalism is a series of lies and obfuscations we tell one-another to hide our true intentions and actions. But, maybe, we should strive to be more open and honest; even if its harder to hear.
You are 100% right.

However I was trying to respond to the parent commenter’s point about mediocrity. I was trying to craft a simple metric which would speak to mediocrity. It’s an imperfect metric for sure.
I think the numbers would be staggering if they could be accurately measured.

I know so many people that live in SF/Bay Area saving up to move away ASAP.
+1!

I studied under Terry Belanger there as an undergrad and it was one of the most rewarding experiences of my time in university.
Why are people down voting this? ceejayoz cited specific quotes with references.

Seems sort of hypocritical to me that people who seem to be arguing for the freedom of intellectual debate do the exact opposite if facts don't line up in their favor.
Yes, and note that the tax is .5% -- that's more of a pittance than a serious boundary.