skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Playing TT the first time, was the second time of my life I've ever done an all-nighter. I think I must've been 13 or 14 at the time. I'd only realized how much time had passed when my mom walked into the room at 6AM in the morning.

Then I was lucky to find TTD on some abandonware sites, shortly thereafter, the first TTD-Patch became available, and a few years later OpenTTD development started. I still remember playing it on a Nokia 5530 XM, they had actually ported it to the Symbian OS.

A few years ago, I learned that Chris Sawyer had programmed the entire thing in Assembly. It ran super-smooth on almost anything.
It depends a lot on the context. I wouldn’t want to work on a project with a pedophile. But if someone was having a conversation about early Islam and trying to understand the cultures of that time, etc then that’s an example where your statement wouldn’t be ban worthy. I just don’t think there’s a clear set of bad things that can’t be said.

Programmers I know are frequently doing thought exercises so even something like “what if murder were legal” would need to be taken in the context of the conversation to even understand what the author was advocating.
That is naive. Organizations and people depend on specific software and there is not replacement for any kind of app that is spying on you.
Vinyl Is Poised to Outsell CDs for the First Time Since 1986
Making music streaming more fair
There's not much reasoning going on in those samples. It can stick a subject input you provide it into a sentence which is sometimes serendiptously funny (and usually grammatically correct tbf, although it looks like that's mostly because it heavily reuses direct quotes from its source material), but it can't handle the basics of game construction like responding properly to a request to go north after telling you there's a path to the north
Should we allow chemical companies, oil companies, and power plants to regulate themselves? What about drug companies?
Neither of my parents are particularly "bright" and today I work as a computer programmer. I'm skeptical of this premise.
This mindset is the reason age discrimination exists and always will.
The salient point is that free software is a movement consisting of many individuals with their own viewpoints. If you want to support free software without endorsing the behavior of this man then donate your time, money, attention, to a different free software organization. There are a lot of them [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_s...
People who run away from something when their feelings get hurt are no great loss to whatever "movement" they're too weak to contribute to. Free Software has much bigger problems than these losers.
Once upon a time public opinion was manipulated by TV and the big newspapers; now it is manipulated by new media companies. My stupid question is: where is the big difference?
Costco multivitamins cost 2 cents per pill. I don't think saving money is a good reason to try to get all your minerals from whole foods.
I've noticed that over the last 15 years, the teen supernatural romance section has grown from a shelf to rack to a row.
Warning. Regulation almost always favors incumbents.
You say, "No defense for RMS' statement" and yet here you are.

RMS is using his position as a free software spokesman and leader to minimize sex trafficking and defend rapists and you are talking about "cancel culture".

This is a horrific response to this article.
And what? Use ‘Linux desktop’? No thank you.
you might be right to an extent. maybe working on "great" projects does require a pretty extreme grind. but most people don't actually work on anything so important that they need to totally abandon any sense of work/life balance. if they want to work this hard anyway, that's fine! the point is that most people shouldn't feel like they need to. the world will be fine if your software ships a month late; it lasted this long without it.
France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra
We get daily notifications of certificates from https://sslmate.com/certspotter/
I've been doing it progressively over the past 10 years. I don't carry a smart phone (I'm looking at Linux ones now though). My wife and I use Linux on our laptops. I'm learning more every year about how to control it.

It's not naive, it's just difficult. But it's worth doing.

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What worth do I get? I get expertise. I get knowledge. I'm a programmer. I don't have a OS sending my information to Microsoft. I don't have to worry nearly as much about malicious software. I don't have to run an Antivirus (AV) and AV scans constantly to feel confident in my computer's security. I get access to powerful open-source software. I get to keep learning about even more powerful software - repeatable environments and builds, that give me even more confidence in my ability to create value for myself and others. I get a lot of value for it.
Or Medicare prices rise to be closer to real costs, instead of forcing them to be subsidized by the uninsured.
Ask HN: Got acquired now have some problems
Hello,
Im one of first employees and still working in the company.
We was acquired by one of NASDAQ companies for quite good money 2 years ago with kind of standart scheme like:
Some money right now on the table and for the rest you have an option.

I own less then 1% of the company and never seen any papers except some documents regards first money trance and some SEC fillings regards our deal where was some notes regards that: company A acquired 80% of the company B, remaining 20% we have in option.

1 year ago i executed half of my stocks with option rights and got a money everything was just fine.

Now im trying to leave the company and sell my remaining stocks but the company offering me 3 times less the money and telling me sell or keep this stocks to yourself.

What can i do?
Then Medicare needs to pay a little more for those specialists.
Because newspapers and TV at least had somebody in the country. Facebook et al make it available to foreigners and despite what you may think, Western democracies are still a lot better than dictatorships or authoritarian leaders.
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People have literally talked about how they left the field because of RMS's behaviour. This isn't a case where we're randomly guessing that he discourages participation, we know he does.
In fact the skin reaction is utilized for allergy testing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_allergy_test
The nature of the stock market demands that they never self regulate. Companies are incentivized to meet the demands of shareholders, which means more revenue streams, regardless of the effects on consumers.
Which - to the best of my knowledge - Stallman has never defended.
If this is your posture, I am assuming you don't use Android, ChromeOS, iOS, MacOS, Fire OS, or even some no paid OSes like Ubuntu.
Microsoft President: Congress, please dig me the deepest, widest moat possible.
Judging by the front-runners we have now, 35 is way too young.
So he uses his own brain to advocate for the "elite" and that's somehow admirable.
I went to school with someone that was dating someone with nut allergies. She mentioned if she ate nuts at all during the day and kissed him at the end of the day he'd start having a reaction and swell up. She couldn't eat nuts for the day if she was going to see him.
To imagine a scenario, sure. I can imagine plenty of scenarios.

Epstein liked to film his visitors and use the material to blackmail them. Knowing that, it's not unreasonable to assume that he ordered his slaves to behave nice and inviting.

You should be very careful about drawing lines between what you can and can't think. Once you do that, it doesn't really matter if you call it Religion or Science; you're still hosed.
And what ‘worth’, may I ask, did you get?
I do the above, but I think it might be vanity.
It’s not clear I shouldn’t spread risk via ETFs.
For me it was The Defining Decade.

After years of drug and alcohol abuse it really put into perspective how I was wasting my life. I would say it’s largely the reason I went back to school in my late 20s. My life has done a complete 180 in the last half decade.
minimaxir's gpt-2-simple is a very nice work to get anyone start with Text Generation from the models released by OpenAI. I often wonder how can one keep up so much with the fast-paced NLP and produce things that abstracts the pain and exposes simple functions for developers to on it.

Hugging Face is another such company making massive impact among non-NLP developers to use such resources.

Kudos to these guys!
So basically, just put up with it and do nothing consequential?

RMS isn't some random asshole who made a slightly off-color remark, he's a leader whose influence and cult of personality have shaped the culture around F/OSS development and programming for decades, who appears to have troubling issues around the concept of sex and consent with minors. He's also a man known for his intransigence, so the chances of him "learning his lesson" seem low.

To say that he doesn't deserve to be inconvenienced by the social consequences of opinions that would ostracize anyone else isn't proportionate, it's elitist.
No need to wipe anything if you build it yourself. Plenty of online guides show you how with cheap Chinese parts. This is for a racing drone, but you get the idea:

https://rotorbuilds.com/build/8778
I personally know high quality developers who refuse to work on free software projects because of Stallman. It's not a matter of weakness, it's a matter of principle.
I didn't read this as RMS minimizing sex trafficking or defending rapists. I read it as him making an inappropriate argument about semantics in entirely the wrong place. These are very different things, and it seems like many people, including the author of that Medium article, really want it to be the first instead of the second.
تحميل واتس اب بلس الجديد نسخة شغالة باخر اصدار ضد الحظر WhatsApp Plus Anti-Ban
That sounds very unlikely to me, and would need to be backed up by solid proof.

I think you need to take a chill pill and figure out where all the hate is coming from.
You could probably use machine learning for fine-tuning the parameters of whatever fast approximation comes out of that though.

(having a plausible first-principles model and then automatically tuning the knobs until the error with a ground truth is minimised is a form of machine learning, right?)
Lead is one of the most toxic materials that children can be exposed to and the effects last a lifetime.
My concern over lead exposure with young children has led to me buying almost nothing from China any more -- the supply chain and manufacturing process there is riddled with examples of lead, formaldehyde, and other toxic materials being used as cheap substitutes. What one of the mayors says in the article is probably true, that some of the lead hot spots around Paris were not caused by the fire but exist from other sources.
If they pass a law requiring platforms to be responsible for content their users post, it'll be easy for big incumbents like Facebook to fall in line.

It will be much harder, however, for new platforms with less resources to comply. They may have to shut down instead.
Yes I used some old super glue lying around the house. I was worried at first because even though I pinched it together, a large amount of glue went into the gash and so I was left with a hard shell over the wound and a clump of glue in the gash. But after 4-5 day the shell peeled off and the clump of glue fell out and even though the cut was completely through the skin, it healed perfectly. It was like the skin bitter together under the lump of glue until the clump was pushed out. I’m no doctor and only know about the glue because my mechanic brother in law uses it for every cut and gash he’s ever had.
UK sets aside £400M for fast charging infrastructure
Thanks for the mention @timothycrosley! I feel honored :)
This argument is always repeated within the first ten minutes of these discussions, but I don't really understand why anyone assumes that competition is somehow the panacea to every problem on the planet.

I don't want ten unregulated facebooks who all leak my data, I want one facebook that plays by reasonable rules. The dynamics of social networks which don't deliver value if they're fragmented has made the competition focus obsolete. When Zuckerberg makes this point he is obviously speaking in his self-interest but he is absolutely right and the dominance of his platform proves it.

The world isn't better off if half of the information is on bing and half of the information is on google, the world is better off if those large companies which do deliver benefits to end consumers by virtue of their centralisation are bound by law to implement reasonable standards.
Lead is far more dangerous for children than adults. The 'think of the children' mentality actually does fit here.
It only really works if you can keep it up, because once the curtain drops you could be looking at a level of deceit or betrayal that becomes incredibly difficult to reconcile as the lie becomes more complicated.

I don't think you can call it a burden in that sense if the other person is totally oblivious to it. That's purely a burden of your own creation, because they had no say in it, and you're basically deciding that you don't like the truth, so they won't either, where in reality it could be quite liberating.

In that sense, I don't feel that's quite as compassionate as giving someone the truth and then supporting them through that if they need it; carrying that burden together if indeed it is a burden to them. It might not be.
Real world example of Zerg rush strategy. It will require whole new types of air defense.

Military strategists are actively thinking through this and some high risk private or public sector industrial targets are as well.

Statements like, "Just use EMP or signal jammers." do not take into account the collateral damage and impacts EMP or broad wavelength frequency jamming have either short or long term on the defenders.
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I don't believe that the public as such hate tech. A bit more weary about Facebook, perhaps, but not much more than. The rest is just obsolete media hating tech for being better than them.

We are nerds, we should be able to spot bullies and their tactics well by now. As a minimum we should not allow them to bully us.
High heritability does not mean that there's a formula that you can apply to predict what a child "inherits". It's about probabilities in great numbers, not about individuals, hence the advice from ZhuanXia on what to do to increase the odds and then roll the dice a lot (have a lot of children) to increase the odds for a perfect roll in one of them.
If you want a taste of her style check out her rb-spy presentation it’s a great watch. https://youtu.be/o6wWSPxYueU
What am I even reading in this thread?

> The perpetrator is a victim, there's no doubt about that. Psychopaths aren't born, they are created through trauma in a society that doesn't give a crap about humans.

> This is cancel culture taken to the extreme.

> I grow more and more tired of these discussions. Talks of banishing people because they’re ignorant, rude, sexist.

Stallman is, and has, defending child sex trafficking and rape.
Should have done his research.

It's not hard to look up a company. And being laser focused on equity as a promised future benefit is something everyone banking on banking it ought do.
Yeah, I ragged on Microsoft on this site for the tracking they built into Windows 10, and somebody posted a detailed list of references about the ways OSX was doing almost the same things. It was disappointing, and deflating.
“ I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily [sic] pedophilia harms children.”

https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#05%20June%20...
You can ask for a blood test that measures your lead level in your blood.
The system is broken, yes. But I think the point being made is that Trump received many millions of votes in spite of all Democrat and Republican contenders against him because of a 'populist backlash' against the status quo.
Looks like Taso went on a podcast to talk about it https://mixergy.com/interviews/toptal-with-taso-du-val/
I disagree. Lead exposure in children is horiffic, and will lead to developmental disability that will plauge these children for their entire lives. This article is showing how the French officals failed to disclose that schools and daycare centers, where the most at risk part of the population resides, for weeks after they knew. It's not a cash grab, it's good journalism, exposing the governments utter failure to protect our children from a potent neurotoxin.
Easy solution for hiding yourself from most scanners (Shodan, Censys) - only allow requests with proper SNI, don't serve your server's cert by-default. Firewall is also nice, but you could make a mistake at some point.
The people who used to be able to manipulate public opinion are really, really pissed off that others are doing it and they’re even more pissed off that manipulating public opinion has become more difficult and people who aren’t respectable members of the elite are being listened to by the public.

Before the internet Sanders, Trump, AOC, Yang, they would never have gotten anywhere. The ruling class is pissed off that people aren’t doing what they’re told and they want to stuff the communications revolution genie back in its bottle.
When, in the history of anything, have companies self regulated properly? It always ends up at the October 1929 stock market or worse.
It was a poor assumption to think everyone would know that term outside of America, my apologies. Almost every major university in America has a men's basketball program so it would be hard not to come upon the term while at 4 year college here in the states.
Speak to a supermarket owner/manager. You would not believe how much packaging exists for a simple apple or similar. You would see an unpackaged apple at the end of the process and be none the less aware about the plastics involved.

Make sellers take back waste as a condition to sell. Boom. Problem solved.
That’s why I said “the beginning”

the first step is forming a representation of thought, so things like the embedding matrix inside word2vec form “thought vectors” - self organised representations of high level conceptual ideas, generalised to all knowledge.

And it turns out these vectors work under linear algebra (e.g.
They are commutative) I think these will form the basis of machine reasoning in future
What is the economic rationale for regulating “big tech?” What market failure would be addressed by such regulations?
It sounds like he wants to require tech companies to ban speech that the US is constitutionally forbidden from banning itself.
There is a lot of way to accelerate an existing line: pendulation, remove curves, add more railways along the existing line, remove stops, on a straight railway any train can go at more than 200km/h. As for the transfer, underground/raised metro lines from the centre to the railway station in the suburbs ? Most of the new TGV station are now done outside city centre in France (for the same reason than here, surface is expensive near city centre).
Jesus Christ, HN.

I read this article and my reaction was: damn, I knew RMS was weird and opinionated, but I didn’t know he was evil.

I come here to see how others react to this revelation and what do I find? “By golly, what is the world coming to when you can’t even defend child rape without someone calling for your removal from leadership?”

Y’all motherfuckers need
Jesus.
Obama promised Change but it was the same old machine. Trump is actually delivering Change (whether you see it as good or bad).
Sounds like when chatting to the sillybean Chatbot on google home.
So... You throw 90% of CVs away because... you do?
There actually has been a natural-born US President whose first language wasn't English. Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the US, was from the Dutch minority of New York and spoke only Dutch as a child.
One thing I've noticed in a lot of schools abroad, including US, is that one can apply for as many schools as you please. Where I live, you can only apply for 5 schools / programs, and that's it.

I feel that with unlimited applications, you heavily inflate the rejection rate - anyone can apply to Harvard just for the sake of it, even though it's completely unrealistic.

For schools, it's a great PR tool - as rejection rate is directly tied to the elite and prestige of a school; But only in context, of course.

Many cashier jobs get something like 10 times more applicants pr position than the most prestigious college spots or professional jobs, but you rarely hear anything about that.

In fact, when I studied at a top university, they were conducting a internal study on whether good math grades from HS worked as a good predictor of success in college - and there turned out to be a relationship. Later on, one proposal was to put more weight on specific grades like that, and then be more lax on overall GPA - but this was quickly shot down because the "perceived prestige" of said school could get hurt, if employers learned that future students with lower overall GPA would get admitted, even though they had stellar grades in the classes that mattered most.

But with that said, I can understand why prestigious companies want to hire people from top schools and with top grades: It signals that the students are willing to do anything for success, and are willing to work around the clock to achieve something. After all, many have been doing this since they were teenagers.

If you look at consulting, banking, law, etc. junior programs are basically set up so that the workers will forego their private lives, and work 100 hour weeks if needed. And they will do that, if you also entice them with a nice bonus and attractive exit prospects.

Almost every investment banking analyst I've ever known, went into the analyst program because of exit options (good business school, hedge funds and private equity firms, etc.) .
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-sci... has a redacted email thread.
How old is this man?

He's not stupid. He knows what he's doing.

What a cop out to say "no he was just really hung up about grammar. "
>> This is a huge violation of the explicit covenant of startups: “we all lose a decade of our lives trying, or we get fabulously rich together.”

There is no such covenant and it's great that the Toptal CEO is there to remind everyone.
If you work for a startup and are not getting real shares (options and other complex instruments don't count) then you will be screwed. The Toptal case is not special; it's the norm in most places.

The Toptal CEO may have screwed over a handful of his employees, but in doing so, he sent a clear message which may save a million other engineers from a similar fate.

If the employees are really upset about this, they can work together to bring down his company from underneath him. If they're too weak to do this, then they deserve nothing.