skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two things that weaken Swift’s message here:

1/ There’s no need to call out gender — “be a good little girl and shut up”, referring to “these men”, etc. Not during 2019’s entertainment industry harassment crisis. This is an intellectual property rights issue but it feels like Swift is trying to nudge it in another direction, unfairly.

2/ When your net worth is measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars it seems calculating and disingenuous to try to have your way in the court of public opinion. Asking your fans to directly contact the other party in the legal dispute feels like straight up bullying.
Cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5352108

http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17
How ever much of a dick move it may or may not be from the other party, she’s absolutely guaranteed to drum up more public support for her grievance by framing it as though there was some sort of sexism involved, than she would be otherwise.
Show HN: Chrome Extension – Show Indicators for Post-EV Surfing. (InDev)
Legally its different because sexuality is protected so you may not discriminate based on it. How that list is chosen is somewhat arbitrary however.
Thank you for being fair. I realize you didn't have to be.

I hope you're doing well. Attempting to replicate HN helped me appreciate just how much work you put in each day. Take care.
This is a good example of math being presented in an unnecessarily confusing way.

Values lambda_i(A) are introduced, but then in the formula also values lambda_i(M) are referenced for some M which is not A.

Basically, we have no idea what lambda_i(M) might mean from the statement of the theorem. Is the order lambda_1(M), lambda_2(M) ... related to the order lambda_1(A), lambda_2(A), ... How many lambda_i(M) exist? And so on.

Maybe this is all clear if you deal with minor matrices all the time, but when I see a statement like that I am not even interested in its proof anymore.
"Practicality beats purity"
Filenames need to be treated as binary because of bad designs decades ago. Rust handles this correctly imho, by having a separate type for such strings, OsStr.
>> Leveraging their long-standing relationships with Mark Thimmig and Hunter Decker of Esportz Network and Alex of Pixels Gaming, it allowed them to secure a global partner with strong media coverage and a publishing partner with a large network of over 50,000 streamers.

I suspect this is the primary reason for success.
Does 1Password 7 actually support buying a license instead of a cloud subscription? You mentioned a "free version" using local Dropbox sync –that was definitely not free in 1Password 6 as that's what I'm doing right now. What has changed?
Regulating Technology Firms in the 21st Century
Perhaps a deterrent to ownership is a fear that thieves like electric scooters even more than bikes? I suspect only fleet scooters can be located via cellular.
These ideas aren't permitted because...

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/r/OutOfTheLoop is good for stuff like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/cdx1ve/why_ar...
> If two applicants were the same except that candidate A committed a minor crime 20 years ago, it is rational for me to prefer candidate B.

If you lack any instinct to fight the power, yes. Personally, I would feel dirty, like a bootlicking worm, to collaborate with authorities this way. Especially for a minor crime, that they presumably paid for already.
BigBasket does something similar as well. The cartons they bring vegetables in, they us not to throw them away and give it back during the next delivery.
There are whole paragraphs devoted to how to let these people give their relevant first-hand experience without derailing the conversation or getting ganged up on. That doesn't read to me like not wanting them to voice their opinion.

But yes, a moderator should be concerned when groups with very different needs and motivations interact. Not because it's undesirable but because it can easily devolve into nonproductive and even harmful "discussion". It's the same concern a shop manager has when someone is new to using the table saw or torch or whatever. Except, table saws don't have a mind of their own.
You might prefer the earlier post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21528425

Basically, this allows you to compute eigenvectors from eigenvalues of minor matrices. It is an interesting identity, but speculating on its applications is beyond my expertise.
In now days normal people does not watch TV in real-time. Timeshifting is one of best feature of modern digital television. Just pick what and when to watch with fast forward the ads.
The Early History of Usenet, Part I: The Technological Setting
Wow. This is so great.
Orgzly does it well enough for simple cases but if you try to use it for much more than a basic notes/reminder system you’ll run up against limitations fast since a lot of useful behavior like complex date formats leverage the elisp hole to work.
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Coriander – CUDA for OpenCL
Companies != individuals.

Companies do not (and should not, IMO) fall under the protection of discrimination.
It's actually not recommended to keep your 2FA tokens and passwords at the same place (i.e. your 1Password vault). The whole point of 2FA is the separation (something you _know_ and something you _have_).
It's not sold outside US unfortunately. And the battery is not sufficient as I heard.
Nothing Triggers Me as Much as Stupid Prices for Paintings Triggers Me
This is fantastic. I was just looking at org mode the other day and am planning to start using it. Now with organice, I'll ramp up the effort to adopt orgmode.
This is fantastic, snappy and simple. The arrow buttons are a great idea too.
Terry is being abundantly clear. Why are you trying to correlate indices in two separate product series?
There are definitely advantages to both. Sometimes I don't want to lock up a scooter outside where I'm going or have to bring it in. Maybe you're trying to get home from somewhere you didn't scoot to (or go somewhere you aren't coming directly back from).
Money is simple. Credit is complicated. And if Bitcoin is going to succeed lending Bitcoin will be normal and lead to similar behavior as in the gold standard.
17 years ago, my business partners and I were approached by a porn website looking to get their website redone. (We didn't take the job, but it was an interesting meeting.) He said that his biggest problem was "refunds".

It seems it was a common thing for people to buy his service (access to porn), and then a few days later claim to the credit card company that it was an unauthorized charge.

He told a story of an irate wife calling him on the phone one day and demanding the charge be taken off her husband's credit card bill. She was insistent that there was "no way" her husband would sign up for a porn website. Well of course he did (or was it their son?). But he couldn't admit it to his wife. And so she called the office of the porn website to complain.

I'm sure that hasn't changed 17 years later. Credit card chargebacks must still be a huge problem.

Chargebacks make it a customer service nightmare. One of the highest refund rates that credit cards get, the highest incidence of actual fraud (charges that really weren't authorized), undisclosed recurring charges, etc.

Still, cutting off service to the models seems unfair. But refusing to deal with the websites themselves actually has underlying business reasons other than morality.
What's your point, exactly? My initial comment was that ETH is faster (15tx/s vs 3-5tx/s) than BTC and that layer1 scaling solutions for ETH are probably coming soon.

Everyone that has replied to you is just providing more info than I did.

And your response is "ethereum's transactions per second are comically low right now"?
Congratulations! If i remember it correct, it's written in Delphi, the best desktop development tool for Windows.
To be fair Twitter isn't overwhelmingly better.
iMessage is literally the single most important selling point of iPhones in the US. Apple is never going to do that.
Which automotive connectors do you have in mind?
I think answer is scale.

Why should open source software not be created by one company in a closed way ?

Both software and learning material are extremely elastic.

Once created, they can be used by one person, one million people or hundred million people.

This means allowing collaborative creation of it brings best minds together and creates something that no company can afford to create in-house alone.
People may enjoy this piece on micromobility from Monday Note: https://mondaynote.com/the-micromobility-mirage-a814e6e126be
That sounds terrible. The whole point of a social network is to know what somebody is saying / has said. It isn't about democratising the spread of factual information. If I say x, but somebody else thinks I should have said y, who cares? The point of a social network is to let people know that I said x. If x is wrong, the point of a public encyclopedia (like Wikipedia) is for people to be able to read y. But for a social network, this does not seem like a useful feature at all.
For those curious about applications:

Suppose you have a learning algorithm that requires the eigenvectors/eigenvalues for a large matrix. Suppose new data is streamed in that increase the size of the matrix. well, now you have an algorithm for updating your existing solution instead of needing to compute the entire thing from scratch. (consider updating principal components over time for example).

Suppose you want to accelerate the process of computing eigenvectors for a large matrix. Well, you can now do parallel reduction relatively trivially given the theorem.

*edit: wording.
It should be noted that music label contracts are notoriously one-sided, and artists often make their labels millions without seeing a dime themselves.
> in a deal that’s reportedly worth over $300 million

So if she were to really put the money where her mouth is, she could probably buy the rights to her old records with her reported $360 million of net worth, or find a more friendly recording label willing to do so.
Is this the end of hacker news?
They are getting doxxed already. Howard Stern knew how to use his fan base to deal with Mr. Pig Vomit. This is a similar story but for the social media age. Exerting this kind of pressure on execs works, if you know what you are doing.
Maybe the answer is to create for professionals and adults first.

Once its a success there, schools would follow.
I think there are two things that weaken Swift’s message here

1/ There’s no need to call out gender

If you think that'll weaken her message, you haven't been paying attention to society lately. This will resonate strongly with the people she intends it to resonate with.

Maybe you mean it makes the message less compelling to you personally. I'm not sure Taylor cares about that though...

2/ When your net worth is measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars it seems calculating and disingenuous to try to have your way in the court of public opinion.

Again, I don't think you're thinking things through. Taylor's fans are incredibly loyal. The only people who are likely to think of this as bullying are already not her fans.

If anything, this tells me Taylor should consider politics. It seems like she knows how the game is played these days.
Maybe she can turn herself into a symbol, and fix it that way?
Linux sucks, and there’s nothing you can do about it
We don’t know any context, she may have been on the receiving end of sexism and she hardly said anything egregious
No, GP is surprisingly correct, and I’m actually kinda surprised that HN just jumped right to downvotes. But I guess I shouldn’t be. When you attack someone’s heart they writhe in pain. Calling cigarettes “adult pacifiers” for example will really offend someone who is enslaved by cigarettes, even though it’s true. Pointing out the danger and seriousness of today’s horrible porn epidemic will do nothing in a crowd of people enslaved to unchastity in any of its forms except incite their futile wrath. Which is sad, because it’s supposed to help them realize they’re enslaved. Maybe for some it will, and they’ll ask Jesus to ransom them. I applaud you GP, God bless you.
Likely it will but news also seems to be an intentional focus. As someone who is continuously trying to consume less news, it's a bad fit.
No one wants to spend a ton of energy just to remain in place. I don't understand how software providers are so cavalier about eschewing backwards compatibility.
The Front-End Tooling Survey 2019
Uuuh, look what you made them do
Please don’t give her anymore ideas. She should just take her money and retire peacefully dressing fancy and traveling the world.
You're going to pay for all this formerly free stuff right?
For me, schools and universities are not right place to start.

Start with working professionals and adults. If a solution there is enormously successful, it would work its way backwards into universities and schools.
Robotics in Retail: How Robotics Is Transforming the Future of Retail
The title is a bit misleading. In my experience, people have very different ideas of what being "busy" means. Regardless, an interesting read to invoke an even more interesting ponder on one's own habits.
This is an interesting phenomenon. If your biases prevent you from appreciating that, go on to the next story.
>The lack of physical function keys remains regrettable, and the Touch Bar is still no worthy substitute

If the Touch Bar had been introduced above physical function keys, we'd consider it yet another Apple UI breakthrough, and other companies would imitate it the way every notebook today looks like the 2001 TiBook.

>perhaps this is a sign that Apple is finally interested in listening to feedback from its long-term customer base, even if that feedback conflicts with the design team's desires

I don't think the fact that Jony Ive left the company a few months ago is a coincidence. Basically, Apple finally got notebook keyboards right ... after three years of worldwide embarrassment, and the departure of the company's chief designer!
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.” -- Hunter S Thompson

Sounds like Taylor is discovering the "negative side" at this point.

Be that as it may, though, if she signed a contract and made hundreds of millions of dollars with it, she should abide by the terms of the contract. Don't like it? Don's sign. Or at least don't extend when the time comes to renew.
At the software company where I work, I have seen the defects and half-baked implementations go by for years. Meanwhile, it's new features that development talks about the most. Recently it dawned on me that they profess to use the "agile" methodology. So now I wonder... Where does maintenance fall in the agile methodology? Am I mistaken that the balance of it's focus is squarely on development rather than sound design / correct implementation?
Apparently she doesn’t understand the concept of ownership. Yes, she created the songs.

However, once you sell something to someone else it no longer belongs to you. This includes works of art.
I am flabbergasted every time I see a software project eschew backwards-compatibility.

No one wants to spend energy re-programming to stay in place.

Especially APIs.
> they probably make sure people know it'd be bad for them to exercise it.

The example you cite seems to undermine this claim. If you're doing terribly selling Mary Kay products, you get 90% of your money back and... you can't sell Mary Kay products anymore. Which you couldn't do in the first place; why would you care about being blacklisted?
She actually tried that, but was unsuccessful.
I’m writing Elixir code currently and find the red/blue approach in JavaScript a pain. Never used asyncio beyond trying a few "hello world" and it was just baffling. In Rust async seems not terrible with the newer syntax, typing, and of course, huge speed improvement making it worthwhile. But in a dynamic VM? Just a pain. Julia’s approach with "tasklets" seems intriguing as well.
So you'd like her to be good and shut up?
Weak evidence for my presumption many HN readers come from the US

https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com#over...
So she’s crying a river over being forced to live up to the obligations of contracts she willingly signed. Most of her fans reading this can only dream of having a fraction of the breaks she’s had or the money she’s made. So she won’t have a documentary about her on Netflix. Neither will anyone reading this, but somehow we’re all supposed to feel sorry or outraged for her?
> "iMessage is literally the single most important selling point of iPhones in the US."

Given the lack of emphasis Apple puts on iMessage in their marketing, it seems unlikely it's the single most important selling point. On the opening page for the newest iPhone, it's mentioned in a single sentence in a paragraph on Security down near the bottom of the page, hardly pride of place.

https://www.apple.com/iphone-11-pro/

Granted, I don't see Apple opening iMessage for other platforms for a number of reasons, including product differentiation, but at least Apple seems to think there are many more features to highlight before getting around to iMessage.
Those of us who've been on the net long enough, and have at least dabbled in AI/ML circles, know of him.

He claims to have invented a program that is a mind, originally written in Forth, translated by others to many other languages, etc. He has published the code of this program in a form of "open source", so you can easily find it if you dig enough.

He's widely considered to be a crank. That said, the line between genius and madness can be mighty thin, and what side he lands on is anyone's guess, but most put him well over the line into madness, for whatever its worth.

My own opinion?

Well - looking at his work from purely the modern understanding and research into ML/AI - that is, deep learning and such - his work would be considered pointless, probably worse than Eliza as to its contributions to the field.

But as someone who has read a lot of other works (for for and against) the idea of AGI, artificial consciousness, theory of mind, etc - his work at a certain level has echos with some of that work. Still probably a dead end, but at the same time, there's some interesting concepts within his code and theories (he's self-published a book on it, too - you can find it on Amazon - he also has it for free on his github and it can be found elsewhere).

I guess I still put him in crank territory, but not in the abusive crank arena, more in the "doing his own thing, but being a bit evangelical about it" - relatively harmless.

His work is not as amazing as TempleOS, imho, but there's a similar mind behind it (though comparing it with that operating system is maybe an unfair, possibly orthogonal, comparison).

I won't say or reveal more (but I've written enough for you to figure it out) - he tends to monitor tons of forums and if he thinks he's being "summoned", he'll spam the forum with his writings and theories. It got him "perma-banned" from more than one newsgroup back in the day...
Is it possible to sue pension plans to force them to assume a more realistic rate of return? To do otherwise is to allow a fraud to continue (overinflated return estimates, causing even further insolvency in the future when those returns don't materialize).
Please see my reply here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21542453
You mean the domain called twitter dot com?
Those issues are common when you're having python 2 code that uses unicode datatype and you have a task to migrate it to python 3.

You run your python 2 code on python 3 and it fails, most people at that point will place encode() or decode() in place where you have a failure. When the correct fix would be to place encode/decode at I/O boundary (writing to files (and in python 3 even that is not needed if you open files in text mode), network etc).

Ironically a python 2 code that doesn't use unicode is easier to port.

When you program in python 3 from the start it's very rare to need encode/decode strings. You only do that if you are working on I/O level.

> And the documentation was particularly horrible regarding that, not even the experienced pythoners knew how to deal with it properly.

Because it's not really python specific knowledge. It's really about understanding what the unicode is, what bytes are, and when to use each.

The general practice is to keep everything you do as text, and do the conversion only when doing I/O. You should think of unicode/text as as a representation of a text, as you think of a picture or sound. Similarly to image and audio text can be encoded as bytes. Once it is bytes it can be transmitted over network or written to a file etc. If you're reading the data, you need to decode it back to the text.

This is what Python 3 is doing:

- by default all string is of type str, which is unicode
- bytes are meant for binary data
- you can open files in text and binary mode, if you open in text the encoding is happening for you
- socket communication - here if you need to convert string to bytes and back

Python 2 is a tire fire in this area:

- text is bytes
- text also can be unicode (so two ways to represent the same thing)
- binary data can also be text
- I/O accepts text/bytes, no conversion happening
- a lot (most? all?) stdlib is actually expecting string/bytes as input and output
- cherry on top is that python2 also implicitly converts between unicode and string so you can do crazy thing like my_string.encode().encode() or my_string.decode()

So now you get a python 2 code, where someone wanted to be correct (it is actually quite hard to do it, mainly because of the implicit conversion) so the existing code will have plenty of encode() and decode() because some functions now expect str some unicode.

At different functions you might then have bytes or unicode as a string.

Now you take such code and try to move it to python 3, which no longer has implicit conversion and will throw an error when it expected text and got bytes and vice versa. The str now is unicode, unicode type no longer exists and bytes is now not the same thing as str. So your code now blows up.

Most people see an error so they add encode() or decode() often trying which one works (like what you were removing) when the proper fix would be actually removing encodes() and decodes() in other places of the code.

It's quite difficult task when your code base is big, so this is why Guido put a lot of effort with type annotations, mypy. One of its benefits supposed to help with these issues.
If there's anything Hacker News likes to discuss, it's copyrights of original works.
Presumably she had a lot less power early in her career when she originally recorded those albums.
>but it feels like Swift is trying to nudge it in another direction unfairly

People using social issues to manipulate situations in their favor? Say it isn't so! It's the unintended consequence (intended, to some) that people have been trying to warn the ultra-identity-politics movement about. I had a disagreement with a project collaborator recently, and when I referred to them in the third person, they demanded I use different pronouns for them...different than what they advertise to everyone else publicly. What can you say to that? People are using these social talking points as unassailable offense tactics, because it's cheap and easy power. Nothing new here.
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Are you working, at all?

Stop doing that. It takes up time.
Would be nice if someone could just copy and paste the text here.
I would go so far as to say that modern CPUs are emulators, not even VMs. Something like 20% of the die area is devoted to instruction decoding.

It's the only reason I'm interested in RISC-V or advanced arm stuff. Even there's a metric fuckton more effort going into the latest Intel x86_64 chip, there's a lot of silicon left on the table.