skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of thing is extremely difficult on X, but very doable on Wayland. I've been thinking about putting broadcast/streaming functionality directly into a compositor, so that your presentations/scenes could be composited separately from your actual windows. Think OBS, but the components/layers of the presentation are Wayland surfaces, and vice-versa, the windows are layers of the presentation. In this sort of system, the compositing can easily happen on the GPU, and can be accelerated like any desktop compositing.
Garrett Smith advocates for tiny functions; here are his blog posts about Python[1] and Erlang[2].

Admittedly Erlang's powerful pattern matching makes it easier, but it definitely can be applied to multiple languages. The biggest problems I've found trying to apply it are the lack of pattern matching in most languages, and the problem of naming.

1: http://www.gar1t.com/blog/more-embarrassingly-obvious-proble...

2: http://www.gar1t.com/blog/solving-embarrassingly-obvious-pro...
> Nobody is going to Apple Insider for balanced information about tech trends.

Many people are going to click on an HN link and assume it's a reasonably objective technical source. I didn't realize it was an Apple fan blog until I was well into the article.
Hi HN,

I made a simple game about my favorite meme "Press F to Pay Respects".

There is a big "F" button that you can press (via mouse or keyboard) and it gives you respect score.
You can share you best score to leaderboard.

Press Upvote to Pay Respect :).
I'll save that for verse 2, when I work out how to fit rule 34 in...
I think the difference is that an oscillator requires a continual driving force to stay periodic. Stop applying energy and it winds down. A time crystal, once it gets going maintains its periodicity.

Mapping it to spatial terms, I think: You could take a bag of beans and lay them out in a nice repeating grid pattern if you want, giving them spatial symmetry. But you have to keep making the grid yourself. The "bean crystal" does not naturally spread on its own. When a real crystal cools, the entire substance aligns into a regular repeating pattern on its own without any external force needed.
because imgur is a tech company, and one of the largest image hosts on the internet?
It seems that Oracle was prepared to have two co-CEOs at the same time. When an emergency like this happens, the other co-CEO can take over any any time.
An issue with that is how to deal with things that want random numbers before the disk is writable. If you read the seed while the disk is read-only, and then something uses random numbers based on that seed, and then something causes the boot to abort before the on-disk seed is updated, then the next boot attempt will reuse the same on-disk seed.

Depending on what random numbers are used for between seeding and writing the updated seed, that could range from harmless to disastrous.

With some care in how things are ordered during system startup, it could probably be made safe.
>Metal is racing against Vulkin as well, because Apple needed to have their own standard they owned.

Wait? What?

I'm pretty sure Metal was around long before Vulkan?

I think it would be more accurate to say that Apple and MS should switch to Vulkan.
Philosophically speaking, poof in an instant all those things that he accomplished didn’t matter when he died. He is at the same place as any random joe who died at his hospital.
I'd say it's fairly certain given a capitalist society and human nature. Remember pre-existing conditions and insurance denials pre-Obamacare? Yeah, insurance companies would love to get their hands on your genetic data and tailor rates to your likelihood of future healthcare cost. At the same time, rich parents pretty much always pursue any advantage they can for their children - that's why private schools and homes in good school districts are so expensive. Add in the fact that we already have massive inequality and dropping social mobility in the US, and a Gattaca-like future starts looking pretty damn likely.
Given the hefty price of the new Mac Pro, the lack of dense, rackable hardware setups, I don't see how it could make any significant dent in the 3D market.
We know that most of his performance was done using meantone systems, like the rest of his contemporaries. They are are quite precisely known. What his well tempering might have been is a matter of conjecture and many fascinating proposals have been put forward. I had a great time playing in the orchestra for the Bach 4 harpsichord concerto trying out one particularly wild experiment.
Isn't Vulkan the open-source specification they're ignoring in favor of their own?
SHA-1 was already broken (Feb 2005) when git was first published (April 2005). But Linus decided that git doesn't need a collision resistant hash function. https://marc.info/?l=git&m=115678778717621
Reminder that the latter option is significantly propped up by modern-day slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Qatar#Slavery

Being sustainably poor might also wind up being better than a collapsing state after oil revenues run out.
Django's development mode aka "runserver" behaves a lot like this (as does a ton of different Node/JavaScript systems, many of which are much more precise on what sub-components to actually re-load). It's a big win for development pacing.

Being able to loop a specific segment of code looks like a great tool for my toolbox when writing data processing code, particularly for spatial data. I will have an input dataset and be iterating on the algorithm(s) as I watch the output (often rendered in QGIS) update dynamically but requiring me to re-run the test script.
404 showing now.
python.org
I'm impressed. Being able to search for functionality by the function signature seems incredibly useful. In the "Verb-Noun vs Noun-Verb" thread from a couple days ago [0], people were saying that OO languages make autocomplete much easier because you start with the parameter you're operating on. But, autocomplete (at least in IntelliJ) only lets you search by method name. There have been lots of times where I want to search by return type or param type instead.

When you're looking for functions, do you generally use Hoogle, or do you have a local autocomplete-like feature hooked in to your editor? I really want to be able to use this while writing code.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21271212
Malleability of certain display characteristics is an important feature (largely for accessibility reasons), eye-candy is just marketing and signaling.
Re: the Sun article on the helical NASA engine, there is a correction on why this will not work.
Please see:
https://www.universetoday.com/143741/nasa-engineer-has-a-gre...
But relativity still obeys Newton’s third law, so the idea doesn’t work in the real world. Burns is right that there’s an error in his paper, but it’s a subtle one.

His design only accelerates the circular motion of the particles, so he assumes their speed forward and backward along the axis of the rocket should remain constant. But in relativity, as the mass of the particles increase, their speed along the axis would slow down. This is due to the relativistic effects of time dilation and length contraction. As a result, the particles give the rocket an equal push at both ends. Einstein’s theories don’t let you get around Newton.

In fairness, Burns knew his idea was a long shot, which is why he put it out there for others to review. That’s what science is all about. That’s also why it’s worth getting just a little excited when ideas like this are put forward. Most of them will fail, but someday one just might work. We could get to the stars after all, but only if we’re willing to keep testing new ideas.
In fact there is a running gag that imgurians are like a tiny world populated by a people that is oblivious of the fact that there exists an outside world (Reddit) and that they are constantly being observed by people in said outside world.
I’ve noticed they’re intentionally reducing image quality on mobile with ad blockers lately as well.
The link is missing an 'n' in "announcement". The link as is does work after a minute, though.
It might be an attempt to play on the word “Oracle”, but I don’t think death announcements are a good time to play with words... so, not sure.
It's obviously not against the rules, as you can see from the search bar of 'dang comments on WSJ stories. If you can find a better story, it can get swapped in for this one; suggest it. Otherwise: complaining about paywalls actually is against the rules.
I usually opt-out of all marketing emails whenever I can, but my pet peeve is when e.g. my bank tells me about a new feature in their mobile app or something otherwise trivial, and claims it's a "important account-related" email that I can't opt out of.

To me, important is "We saw $5000 charges to your account from Elbonia, can you verify?". "Download our new app with new redesigned UI!" is not.
It’s probably good for reddi
Never underestimate captive animals (or humans). They have nothing but time to observe your patterns of behavior and learn from them...
Beyond cProfile: Sampling profilers and logging for performance optimization
Cause it's easy to get the estimate of a man by the woman they date/marry.
I think it does for stuff like storage, but transactional and heavy data processing are still cheaper to do on-prem from what I've seen.
Isn’t tax filing complicated because of the tax system? If your income is low enough it is free. Below $66000. You just have to say no to add ons. State filing can be free if you shop around.

Free File: Do Your Federal Taxes for Free
https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...
I think we should just rewrite the entire stack in Rust. It will make us safer, right?
For some, the word has indeed been given meaning, and was used to bully and demean them. There are plenty of other words to use, so that they don't have to hear it
Vulkan (MoltenVK) does seem to be a valid option for those heavily invested or interested in porting existing OpenGL projects (I plan on evaluating it):
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK
I hear this a lot from people, and I think much of it is due to the milquetoast performance practice for Baroque music that was until recently widespread outside musicological circles. I remember how I was taught to play Bach orchestral suites or Corelli sonatas when I was young, and it was mind numbing and dull. Fortunately my father was also playing me Christopher Hogwood and company at home so I knew something was up.
Without knowing the cause of death, I think it's premature to say that he worked himself to death. It was probably some kind of cancer that probably would have happened anyway. The bigger question I think is, if he could do it over again, would he have tried to spend more of his short time on earth with his family and relaxing/enjoying life rather than working? And even that is not so clear cut-- it may well be that what gave him the most satisfaction in life was the feeling of accomplishment from doing an important job well.
Of course, there are factory farms in Europe. Less than in the US, but on the rise and only getting worse https://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issues/nature-food/1923/f...

Especially for things like chickens and pork, they are prevalent, but also for cows.

Of course, a large portion of European cattle is fed grain rations. Europe is literally covered with feed crops.

This argument that you hear a lot online as "it's a thing of the US" is just not true.
Mirantis takes over the OpenStack administrator certification
They accept founders with a cornucopia of backgrounds. From people with barely an idea to people with running businesses.

I would presume the farther along your business is and the more stuck you are on that particular model the more the evaluation leans toward the business growth metrics.

When we did YC we were accepted with an idea, a landing page with some email signups, and almost a customer. They asked hard hitting questions in the interview. We did have industry connections, some unique insights, and previous startup experience.

After being "inside" (as a company founder at least) and seeing everything they write about on the "outside", I take what YC says at face value. They earned trust.
Code written under contract for a port of QuickTime to Windows later showed up in Microsoft's Video for Windows product.

>The lawsuit, filed on December 6, 1994, alleged that the San Francisco Canyon used some of the code developed under contract to Apple, in their additions to Video for Windows. Apple expanded the lawsuit to include Intel and Microsoft on February 10, 1995, alleging that Microsoft and Intel knowingly used the software company to aid them in stealing several thousand lines of Apple's QuickTime code in their effort to improve the performance of Video for Windows.

On March 3, 1995, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order that prohibited Microsoft from distributing its current version of Video for Windows.[1] Microsoft subsequently released version 1.1e of Video for Windows, that removed all of the code contributed by San Francisco Canyon, stating in the release notes "does not include the low-level driver code that was licensed from Intel Corporation." Later testimony in the Microsoft anti-trust trial revealed that, at the time, Apple was threatening Microsoft with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over the allegedly stolen code, and in return Bill Gates was threatening with the cancellation of Office for the Mac.[2]

https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Apple_v._San_Francisco_Canyon

Microsoft and Apple eventually settled and cross licensed their patent portfolios.
"although Intel certainly knew that Canyon [Co.] had developed key parts of the code for Apple, it did not specify that this must be undertaken in a clean room[...]A month later, Canyon delivered the program to Intel containing code that was an exact copy of the code that it had previously delivered to Apple. Intel gave this code to Microsoft as part of a joint development program called Display Control Interface. Canyon admitted that it had copied to Intel code developed for and assigned to Apple. In September 1994, Apple's software was distributed by Microsoft in its developer kits, and in Microsoft's Video for Windows version 1.1d. Apple noticed a suspicious improvement in the performance of Microsoft's video driver"

"Following a bizarre intervention that took the form of a late-night telephone call to Microsoft head-lawyer Bill Neukom by Ann Bingaman, the head of the DoJ's antitrust division, in response to a request from Edward Stead, then Apple's general counsel, this was at last supplied. The next day, Apple added Microsoft to the list of defendants in the San Jose court case. The sub-text of the dispute also began to emerge: 'Apple is also claiming that Microsoft has been using the code in question to mess up [Apple's] attempts to make QuickTime a standard.'"

Ty folks.
A lot of times headlines use quotes to indicate that someone other than than the news org said it. But I wonder how many readers are barely literate and don't realize this.

In this case the headline could be;

Orace Co-CEO Mark Hurd 'has died'
Content Writing
The Mozilla Museum (1999)
The name of the site "Apple Insider" didn't give it away?
Relating to this I had an experience recently in speaking with an autistic person who was functional and could almost pass as normal without people noticing. As I spoke with him more, it seemed something was off with him as if he wasn't aware of things, it was like he was stuck inside his head but could still reproduce responses. It was a feeling as if he was only partially there, must less so than a "normal" person in terms of awareness. It is that intangible definition or "thereness" in the eyes that seems elusive to define at least for me but if feels like AI is more like that 100% than what we consider human consciousness IMO.
If you did write that, it's absolutely brilliant, and I hope to read more from you!
Polysemy still appears mysterious to me.

I would absolutely love an article that translates the “Designing Testable Components”[1] part of this article into its Polysemy equivalent.

[1] http://felixmulder.com/writing/2019/10/05/Designing-testable...
Ha. I don't mind the downvotes (because I'm right). The "shift to the right" is pretty well documented.

The fact that "liberal" is considered a pejorative today is testament to that.

I welcome proof otherwise.

Edit: example #1 of "neutral bias": The war on drugs is reported on in a matter of fact manner, and I've heard ZERO editorial comments that point out the insanity and wrongfulness of it. Same thing with the wars, etc.
D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way
The thing is, there are very different kinds of responsibilities. One person's responsibilities are to perform some assembly line step in a factory. Another person's responsibilities consist of being a representative of an organization.

If a person has responsibilities as a representative, then there isn't a clear cut separation between their private conduct and that representation, and they have to be aware of that and accept it, however reluctantly that may be. Anything that leader says and does may be interpreted by the public, rightly or wrongly, as being part of the representation.
This is the best case for users I can think of if social media were forced to allow APIs:

Different products/companies exist to fulfill each of these roles:

- host the firehose of tweets/posts/snaps/grams. Likely the husks of Facebook/Twitter/SnapChat/Instagram.

- filter/sort firehose for user given their preferences time/popularity/relevance etc.

- GUI to display posts to user by Web/Mobile/VR/SMS/Postcard etc. Aggregate social media readers do (did) this.

- GUI to (re)post/comment on/react to/edit/delete user content to the firehose. These already exist: HootSuite/Buffer

- firehose analysis for marketing, etc.

- firehose-level moderation/flagging/censorship/tagging

The problem is there is far more user value in vertically integrating some or all of these functions than there is in keeping them decentralized. Most users will prefer one product that filter/sorts AND displays posts to two products where one filter/sorts and the other displays.
I've never heard of such a law. Could you cite it?
Why You Keep Dreaming About Being Naked(2015)
Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, Has Died
It’ll be interesting to see how cooperative Reddit’s user base (and moderator base) will be with this. Of course they mark certain subs NSFW by default, but I’ve come across a fair bit of content on non-NSFW subs that’s definitely NSFW; usually somebody points that out, OP tags it, and that’s that. However, if NSFW links don’t work on Imgur and uploaders just stop tagging content as NSFW to circumvent that, will Imgur have to have moderators review content as well? One thing that a lot of people miss about crowd-sourced censorship is that the majority of the crowd has to be on board with it or it doesn’t work.
I think the truth is, most people don't care. They just go to the supermarket and throw in their shopping cart the cheapest option, and that's about it.

Its too much work and unrealistic to think people will be that aware, read labels, compare options, etc. It needs to come from the law.
The title is a quote from the second sentence in the article. The original title of the post is about the immediate change, but Mozilla is still planning to deprecate OpenSearch.

Firefox definitely has supported OpenSearch. When you arrive at a page that has an OpenSearch description document, there is a button in the address bar triple-dot menu to add the site's search engine to firefox. On mobile, you could long press on an input field to do the same.
That sounds a bit weird. That would imply the term 'has died' was somehow facetious or metaphorical.
How does this relate to the linked article?
That's troubling. Thanks for taking the time to find that article. I guess the discussion is actually a two-parter:

* Does moderation imply responsibility?

* Does moderation require neutrality?

From the Wired article, it seems like #1 here was a fulcrum in the case. I think this protection is slowly being eroded, sadly, with those new laws.

#2 is kind of the topic-du-jour, where I'm seeing a lot of unfounded claims that it's true. It would surprise me incredibly if it were, but given how the law was twisted in case #1, wouldn't entirely be a shock to discover the same going on.

I guess we'll have to wait for case law to really say for certain, but I still feel pretty confident that the government can't compel a platform to neutrally apply moderation/carry all speech - even though their actions in doing so may reveal their intentions in an ancillary case, e.g. the one you linked.
Europe's largest meteorite crater home to deep ancient life
I've been on the net long enough to not fall for the "spend hours digging up raw science or I won't believe you" gambit. Those guys will never change their mind even if you do devote your weekend to doing research for them.

I gave you a Pinker book to read and a well footnoted Wikipedia article on the science. I've spent enough work trying to educate someone who gives all the signs of just not wanting to change their mind.

> Okay, what do personality tests have to do with cultural sex or race discrimination?

Nothing, and I never claimed it had.

> Personality tests are pseudoscientific

The big five is the established scientific fact of 2019. Denying science because it doesn't fit with your ideology doesn't put you in great company.
UYK-7 maintenance... fault code lists and swap cards... love those days underway.
I myself have been wondering why no one has made something like a complete software A/V router for this. Plug the output of any application through filters, splitters, muxers, duplicators, whatever, and ultimately out via your chosen sinks. Represent the whole thing in a 2d flowchart like QjackCtl or something.
Those weren't my words at all.
Alexander the Great found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave."
His relationship with Fisher was not inconsequential: https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-hurd-jodie-fisher-hp-20...
Can you point me to any resources for this? I'm somewhat of a beginner. I tried using Gatsby+ReactJS but realized I didn't understand React that well, and my GraphQL stuff didn't work. Thanks. matthewnewton (dot) info was the site.
If you are doing serious training with on-demand instances you are doing it wrong.

If your training takes more than an hour, you really need to checkpoint it periodically. If you have periodic checkpoints you can use spot instances and pay 10% or less of what on-demand would cost.
I didn't dismiss sequestration. I expressed doubt that purchasing carbon offsets actually accomplishes what is being advertised (who is actually doing sequestration?). Meanwhile, people are led to believe that it does no harm to fly (or whatever), because they bought offsets.
Halfway There: Our Startup Road to $1M ARR
That comment is incredibly demeaning to women
I was a MacStadium customer for years, and I really liked the products, but they are very expensive.
Worse thing is: China always blames others for having 'cold war' mentality when in reality they are the one with hardcore cold war tactics all along.
Competition is generally good, but competing standards are bad, especially when they have no real advantages over each other. Imagine if every platform had its own incompatible version of C (ok, yes there are incompatibilities but they are not there by intention).

If you want to win me over as a developer, do it the right way. Provider superior tooling and win a customer base with superior implementation.