skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but I think his comment was sarcastic as that's an actual argument I have heard people make against homeschooling: "Bullying is no reason to homeschool. In public school your student will be bullied and learn how to deal with it. This is important life experience because it's how the real workplace is. Homeschooled students can not function in the workplace because they never learned how to handle the bullying." In other worlds the world is abusive, so there is a moral obligation to abuse our children so they learn to get used to it. Homeschooling parents are thus cast as abusing their children by not subjecting them to the constant abuse that describes the life long personal experiences of the anti-homeschooling advocate, who can't imagine any other world beyond daily abuse, belittling, nagging and worse, all seen as good for you as it makes you tough. Similar to the philosophy of the ancient Spartans who threw their babies off of cliffs and those who survived were strong enough to be Spartans.
Well the UK lacks in finding this 'talent' so much that they resort into extreme measures such as using horrible tools like this.

If that wasn't enough, this AI is by a company called Hirevue. If any company states they are 'diverse' and use this atrocious software to find the 'best candidates', they risk introducing applicant bias based on certain characteristics (race, gender, ethnicity, etc). Best part is? The AI can't even explain itself or its decision!

Stay far away from companies that use this.
Leukaemia survivor here... It might be a stupid question and everyone is different, but have you tried fresh fruit and ginger ale?

I went through six months where that was all I could eat/drink. Another patient in the ward suggested ginger ale and it was a surprise (had never drank it before... or since).

Nausea got so bad that even thinking about it (for example when a doctor asked) would trigger throwing up so I get what you mean about PTSD.

All my best wishes for you both.
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With high density monitors on the rise we should get rid of LCD (RGB rainbows) anti alias as its really just a hack.
If I had a penny for every time a 'Gold level' supported program simply failed to work properly or required some nearly undocumented workaround* , I'd be rich.

* No, I don't consider having to search bugzilla 'documentation'.

Edit: Note that I'm talking about Wine here. When wine is wrapped by people who know what they're doing it works well - Crossweavers/Proton etc. - for the specific subset of programs they're tuned for. Otherwise you have all the wine-typical issues outside that subset.
I remember removing roughly 10,000 tweets once using a similar tool and it broke Twitter for me. Every time I tweeted, it didn't appear in my timeline. Oddly an old tweet from a previous account (with the same handle as mine) showed up too, as if I owned it, but I didn't; I merely reclaimed the handle.
"ImageNet for Code" is not a good title, I think, because I was mostly thinking of ImageNet of a dataset, not as an ongoing contest. Removing the "challenge" from the original title was not useful IMHO.
It seems to me MS customer support is incapable of doing anything meaningful with your account, except making it easier to be hacked via social engineering.

My MS account had my desktop's Win 10 Pro N (the one with less crap) license attached to it. When I bought a new laptop with Win 10 Pro (regular, non-N), my desktop would suddenly claim that its license was invalid. Great. Called support, but nothing they could do except recommending to reinstall Windows. No guarantee the other system would then not go into that "your license is invalid state" if I use the N license again. Solution: Screw them, I'll install kmspico.

I'm probably lucky I use that sh*tshow of an OS only for gaming, and Linux for everything else (including work - we're essentially a Linux company even though most of our customers (embedded devs) still use windows.
Most of 1) and 2) works, check https://www.protondb.com/

If you're into those things 3) is an issue due to various anticheat systems that don't yet run great on wine.
Mozilla Disables TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Firefox Nightly
How do SAT problems compare to constraint satisfaction problems? Is the latter a subset of the former (with the right modeling)?
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Why are people stating this ? You can not do basic things like zooming the page for a preset factor in Safari.
Ohhh this is amazing, thank you!
What "freedom" are you talking about? Most people can't even afford the luxury of knowing basic facts about their world. Like a fish which doesn't know it is in the water, they don't know that they are immersed in the propaganda bubble.

How many people do you think control all of the media? Do you think the goals of these 0.00001% are aligned with ours?
SV will be SV, the real question is what is the NHTSA doing. The US wants to deregulate itself into chaos apparently.
Website wants to use diskspace > 10MB just to read this article.
Does ClassDojo provide supporting material with a didactic foundation on how to effectively use the app? Do schools or teacher associations provide such material? IMHO, without such guidance, it is irresponsible to use these apps.
For the color example they say "here's what they look like in Chrome and safari"... and show some horrible mess, yet I'm on Chrome and that isn't what I see at all?

The text I see looks fine, although the font is different.

https://imgur.com/a/5JZVZCB
Website requests to use diskspace wanting >10MB just to be allowed to read the article.
If it weren't for Windows, we could move on from TrueType outlines (.ttf) to CFF outlines (.otf). .otf works nicely on non-Microsoft rasterizers. It was terrible on XP. Now on Windows 10 it’s less terrible, but .otf fonts on Windows 10 using DirectWrite look bolder and blurrier than using FreeType, Apple, or Adobe rasterizers.

If Microsoft adopted the Mac font rendering aesthetic and fixed their CFF rasterizer, we wouldn't need to worry about TrueType hinting anymore. But now, since your PDFs and Web fonts get viewed on Windows, you need to use TrueType outlines with Windows-friendly hinting even if you aren't using Windows yourself.
Predicting how home users will benefit from QC is like predicting the iPhone on the day when Edison made an electronic tube. I am a researcher in the field and have no idea how it would be useful in a smartphone.

However, here are the breakthroughs necessary for scalable QC: make the quantum operations about 10 times more precise and the qubits about 10 times more long lived (currently the information stored in the qubits decays a bit too fast). Then make it possible to manufacture not just 50, but a couple of thousand of the qubits. At that point you will be able to simulate important chemistry (for drug discovery and material design) and important field theories (for high energy physics and cosmology).

Breaking RSA will be possible later on when we get to millions of qubits, but it is not that big of a deal as we can switch to other crypto schemes (but recordings of important messages will be decrypted).

To your other question about signal processing: quantum computing is providing technologies that would be very useful in metrology and the creation of crazy sensitive sensors (sensing various fields or displacements or taking pictures at crazy resolutions and signal to noise ratios).
It is defined by whatever country you are in. Richard Stallman does not get to rewrite sovereignty because his buddy did something fucking stupid. The moral reason is that sovereign nations get to set their own rules around the welfare of children. When you freely choose to enter a country, you agree to abide by their laws and not sexually abuse their definition of a child. If you have difficulty with that, please reflect upon your own moral compass, specifically in regards to child welfare.

Or here is another one. A 73 year old had sex with someone 56 years younger than him. This 73 year old is an educator at one of the top Universities in the world yet he still chose to engage without absolutely ensuring that she consented. The moral path is to look around, realize there is something seriously wrong with Epstein and his harem (Stallman’s word) and stay the hell away.
I tried to suppress the urge to release my frustration, but seeing that the only slightly critical comment in this thread is the downvoted one let me forget my good intentions. WTF. 10s of thousands of line of code, > 10K lines in include files (yay compile times!) for a task that should be only a side concern and should be straightforward to implement. JSON has how many? 2? data types, and writing super efficient parser primitives for it must be easily possible to do in <1K lines of implementation and <50 lines of headers. If there are special requirements in performance or type safety / structural integrity, JSON is far from the ideal choice. And even if one is required to use it under such circumstances due to political issues (in which case, sorry), that doesn't mean that all the other >99% of applications call for a massively oversized library like this. (Update, upon closer inspection I'm not even sure that speed is the main concern of this library. It really looks like it tries hard to be "Modern C++" by implementing all sorts of compile time insanity, bells and whistles (which will never fit 100% with clients and will be impossible to adapt)).
How does capitalism provide freedom?

The American laissez faire system seems to be falling apart at the seams. Power and wealth is becoming more concentrated while seeking to solidify that position through limiting the freedoms of the lower classes.

Regular people are burdened with student debt and health care costs all within a back drop of little to no social support. Unions striking for better working conditions have their corporate controlled health insurance stripped away. Banks write balance sheets as they see fit, devaluing your wealth and causing financial crises. The list goes on.

Being forced in to wage slavery to survive in this system doesn't sound particularly free.
However, OP is not talking about a mobile device, but a PC. The PC is in the same device bracket as Macs. And Apple does not provide Macs "as computer as a service". Everything works with a local account. I don't even need to have an Apple ID. The OS also remembers your choice of disabling telemetry, without resetting it after the next update.

Apple provides managed and unmanaged. Microsoft appears not to provide unmanaged in the near future. This would remove the entire Windows PC bracket from the list of unmanaged options. That would be an enormous loss, and not just for some "folks who prefer DIY".
Is this still actively mantained?

I still use Windows and sometimes the machines I'm working on don't have dev environment to build SBCL.
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Some things are indeed way harder than they seem. Some others I came across:

- time

- indoor positioning
Django, Python 2.7, Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, uWSGI, Nginx, Celery, RabbitMQ, Ubuntu, GitHub, ELK for logging, Bootstrap CSS, Fabric Scripts and AWS:- EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, S3, RDS, KMS, Glacier, Elasticsearch, etc.

Effects:- This tech is mature now and comes with steroids in its own, hence we never faced major difficulties wrt to tech stack and that's always a good place to be in. (Good read on the same topic:- https://www.intercom.com/blog/run-less-software/)

And we're hiring http://www.squadvoice.co/careers-us/
> I don't need programmers.

But lots of people do need programmers.

These "is college necessary" posts suffer the same problem as "why are programmers making 200K right out of school" posts. The job title covers everything from hacking out WordPress plugins, to leading a team building an MVP, to building large distributes systems, to designing the software that goes into medical devices and autonomous vehicles.

Some programmers really do need a CS degree with at least a few years of math and a couple years of physics. Sometimes programmers need to know a minimal amount of PHP and JavaScript. The job title captures a huge range of actual jobs.
> in particular, they can't run Shor's algorithm to factorize numbers and break a big part of encryption methods

Given a sufficient time horizon, large swathes of crypto will be broken by such a computer and has many people worried. NIST is working on algorithms resistant to quantum attacks, but we're still far off.
US income inequality jumps to highest level ever recorded
But also:

"The man of the most perfect virtue, the man whom we naturally love and revere the most, is he who joins, to the most perfect command of his own original and selfish feelings, the most exquisite sensibility both to the original and sympathetic feelings of others."

Self-interest, yes, but in a system regulated just as much by the church and the aristocracy as by the flow of capital. Pure monetary greed without regard for doing what is right is nothing Smith would ever have advocated.
I'd like to hear more about not designing around edge cases and what that means. Edge cases have to be accounted for, and accounting for them at design time seems important.
I miss my amber Hercules screen
This is not a Boolean thing. If I spend a "long" time in processing the data in my business logic the time spent to load the data or storing the result can be neglectable.

If reading/writing is the hot path things are different, though.
GoodRx has well-connected Silicon Valley founders and a good PR team. We now see lots of this sort of submarine PR from tech companies.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
In the first case, I believe that it's normally referred to as "subpixel antialiasing". And in the second case, "subpixel positioning".
> arbitrary sequence of nearest-neighbor 2-qubit gates

The classical equivalent is (very handwavily) a processor that can perform all the ops from a reasonable small ISA, but each op has 1% chance of failing silently.

Hence, any quantum algorithm can be put on this device in principle, but you are limited to stuff that uses only 50 qubits and does not mind the 1% error. There are not really any useful things you can do in the presence of (accumulating) 1% errors, beside proof of concept contrived problems.
Good question. I agree that endless muddling has shown remarkable mileage.

liballocs is not quite there yet, but is progressing (er, when I get time, which is not often enough). Beyond that, adoption is cultural. We need to build a killer "added value" in one environment which makes enough waves that everyone else wants it. We're creeping closer... with Guillaume Bertholon we have made an initial "FFI-less" for CPython which I think could be the beginnings of that kind of killer addition. You might like to read our workshop paper about that, which I've just made available: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/srk21/#vmil19
I think that’s the point you missed in the entire conversation.

No one said it’s viable today. The entire point is to do the research so that someday it is viable.
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Note that this library basically requires exceptions to be enabled, which may or may not be the case in your environment.

(It is actually possible to use without, but then exceptions become aborts, and you have to dance around that.)
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Producer here as well. I currently dual boot.

I've considered bitwig for Linux production but a big issue is you end up losing a lot of VSTs that aren't native to Linux (Serum and Massive, both wavetable synths, are a good example).
Infrastructure seems to be your main point to say one place is more modern than the other.

I would partially agree but it's more nuanced than that.

The high speed trains in China are impressive projects but could also be used as form of control over people who live outside the cities.

Also going cashless is not necessarily a good thing. There is a loss of anonymity in having every transaction be digitally handled. Also, another form of control.

My apologies for my dystopian view. But not all modern advances are necessarily good.
Because you can say things in mathematics that are hard to say in English. The stories are clearer when expressed in mathematical form. It's harder to bullshit your way through.

Before the 70s/80s, everyone was somewhat confused about what they were arguing, particularly in macroeconomics. Now it's much clearer the kinds of claims we are making about the world.
ASP required a license. That alone made PHP superior for many people.
How was the latency?

I'd like to achieve sub 10ms latency and I feel running in a VM would make that very difficult?

Did USB passthrough for MIDI devices work well?
Lucida Sans.
Don't use Windows, but I love the name.
>But should we realize in a couple years that this was overhyped and desktop OS and apps won't go away, everyone will have migrated to OSX or Linux if Windows quality continues to decline at that rate.

Windows still claims nearly 80% of desktop market share, while OS X has less than 15%. Linux is around 2%.

Assuming people in any significant number care about having to use an online account is naive. Apple requires it. Google requires it. Amazon requires it. Xbox Live requires it. Facebook requires it. Sony requires it. People are used to this. If you think this will affect Windows in any way, you probably read too much HN.
Right, and in response to the parent, a more interesting bet may be whether crewed Dragon flies first or a crewed starship flies first.
A few classics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w54uNAuqE1Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJosZfm560Q
I am not surprised, given the poor SVG support of Firefox (and browsers in general). Also there are gradient types that PDF supports but SVG doesn't. I am also not sure why they would need to go through SVG for printing.
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Windows 10 is an absolute clusterfuck in video walls/advertising screens/embedded or anything of the sort.

Watch windows 10 try to force an update during a live streamed esports match https://clips.twitch.tv/BadPlumpStarLitFam
Exactly twice as much energy. √2 as much velocity.
Just a small correction:

>on Windows you need to download and update it manually

you don't need to update it manually, it will show a popup that an update is available and will update itself once approved.
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I’m impressed by all this. I was apprehensive about the direction NASA took after they EOL’d their shuttles. I’ve also been suspicious of Musk’s Tesla being able to enter the automotive industry. But it seems like we can see the light at the end of this transition to commercial space flight.
I think there is some truth in both what you and GP are saying.

Speaking from personal experience, my team has hired college dropouts who have turned out to be some of the best learners and problem solvers we've got. I have also interviewed candidates who seemed to be under the impression that their Ivy League degree entitled them to the position despite having no experience working on "real-life" projects to speak of. Candidates should never be discounted on the basis of not having a college degree. If they've got a strong application, the interviewer should be able to determine the rest of these more qualitative things over the course of a conversation.

On the other hand, if done right, college can be a place where some very intense, sustained personal growth can take place at a level which cannot be rivaled by supplanting it with e.g., taking a series of online courses. Taking advantage of the resources around you (seeking mentorship, research experience, forming study groups with colleagues, doing co-ops, etc.) can help put you far ahead of a person who pursued a self-study route in the same period of time. I agree that it is unfortunate that college is financially unviable for a lot of people who have a lot of potential. However, I don't necessarily agree with the people who allege that college is nothing more than paying for a piece of paper so that you can get a job.
But but Microsoft is goood! Look GitHub! Linux! Open Souwce!
I only use Windows because software I need doesn't work on Linux.
That's not an article, that's an ad for AWS. As most ads, if taken as advice, it's extremely bad advice.
Pretty much all of their brand recognition comes from people who buy a computer that starts up to the Windows logo, or arrive at their office to find a machine that runs Windows. The Backoffice-centric ecosystem will remain where it is out of mostly inertia, but its future is as cloud hosted services.
I worked in a Cambridge MA based DESCo company 1997-2000 and I have to say the caliber of talent across the company (all roles/levels, our receptionist had a PhD IIRC) was the highest I’ve ever seen. I loved it and suspect/wonder if it was the 1990s fintech version of BellLabs.

Can confirm there was a well known, published policy on going into David’s office and we got a half page memo from David detailing the importance and exactly how to white space D. E. Shaw & Co.

The company ran with excellence as the goal in everything. Even with that, there was a bit of riches to ashes to riches trajectory. I loved my time there, still work with several talented colleagues I met there, and think highly of David Shaw and what he’s created.
True that the CLR is not mentioned by name, but it is covered. I invite you to read the text again, and especially the following bit.

"Specifically, we should aspire to package language implementations in a way that renounces ‘one true VM’, instead allowing first-class interoperability with the host environment (perhaps at modest drop in performance), the same interoperability with other VMs past and present, and tool support which ‘sees across’ these boundaries."

The CLR simply doesn't do these things, as witnessed by the debacle of "Managed C++" and the usual FFI wrapper tedium of "explicit P/Invoke". It is a classic "one true VM", albeit more language-inclusive than a single-language VMs.
The nail for me was when OS updated were forced through their Apple Store.

They have moved away from that now, updates are managed through preferences again.
It’s just not. How does it tell when the other car is waiting for them to move? What does it do when two people go into an alley at opposite directions and one has to back out? What happens when there aren’t any markings in the lot, or when people ignored the markings and parked in a different pattern? And so on.

These aren’t “edge cases” that “data” will sort out. These are common everyday occurrences in parking lots that require something like consciousness to navigate and involve subtle communication with other participants.
> * How does it know if the antenna broadcasting is the official one or one replaying the official at 2 miles south of the normal glideslope?*

With multipole antennas, one can use MLat to determine where the signal came from:

* http://www.multilateration.com/surveillance/multilateration....

* http://www.navcanada.ca/EN/products-and-services/Pages/on-bo...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateration

If the signal was received on the antenna pointing forward, then the signal probably came from where you're headed; if it came from an antenna off to the side, then someone may be spoofing.
It was a freaking typo guys, Jesus Christ. iPads suck to type from some times.
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China unveils 500 megapixel camera that can identify every face in a crowd
Simple Is Complex
I think as far as other languages are concerned, the best JSON handling gives youn Serde in Rust and F#, from what I read. If only C++ metaprogramming was easier without crazy complexity, Json library would be made to be much smaller and more efficient with less work.