skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They had an interesting search engine once. I believe Yahoo! used to use it.

https://www.opentext.com/about/history/1991-1994-the-pre-web...
I don’t think I hear anybody from those countries talk about sueing nearly as much as any US citizen.

What is your source for that?
It is perfectly fine to be idle and bored; lay on grass and watch clouds or just do fishing...
Not everyone comes from puritan american culture.
> The opposite is idleness, which we also do not particularly enjoy and will make ourselves play to avoid [...] It's a spectrum. Too busy or too idle for too long and we break.

Nope, there's a hidden axis you're implicitly ignoring. It's possible to be active and "in flow" doing something without feeling "busy". So it's not just a 1-dimensional spectrum of whether one is idle or doing things, but also the psyche/attitude experienced when doing those things. The corresponding analogue to idleness is "leisure", where it is possible to enjoy idling or acting without coherent purpose.

It takes a particular kind of anemic perspective to ignore the experiential axis, and just consider the axis corresponding to "things done" or "output produced".

For a more detailed exposition on what goes into achieving a "flow" state, I recommend checking out Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi's book titled Flow. For more on "leisure", I recommend Bertrand Russell's essay In praise of idleness.
China Resurrects Great Cannon for DDoS Attacks on Hong Kong Forum
> We could regard memory safety as a great success in this area that programmers can easily appreciate.

No one wants the overhead on current hardware but C can be made memory safe with bounds checked pointers (although not particularly type safe without introducing a lot of code incompatibilities).

It's important to distinguish actual language advantages from indulging the common fetish of wouldn't-it-all-be-better-if-we-rewrote-it.

There has been fairly little rigorous study of programming factors leading to more reliable software (esp in the kinds of environment most software we use is created and used in, as opposed to say aerospace).

Wouldn't it be sad if enormous amounts of effort were spent rewriting everything in a new language only to later discover that other properties of that language, such as higher levels of abstraction or 'package ecosystems' that cause importing impossible to audit millions of lines of code to get trivial features, lead to lower reliability than something silly like using C on hardware with fast bounds/type checked pointers?
Jumia Closes Down Business in Tanzania, Here's Is Why
The extremely adversarial approach to "justice" is an issue specific to the US (and probably some other countries), and is not universal.

Do definitely have a lawyer present, but whether or not to talk to the police varies a lot per country. Personally, I think that not talking to the police being such vital advice in the US, is a strong condemnation of how the American system works. People should be able to trust the police, and the police and prosecutors should be working to do justice, not merely to lock up as many people as possible. Every innocent person behind bars is a failure of the system.
Hook it up to a RetroTINK-2X in passthrough mode and you'll get lag-free composite and s-video too!
The domain got transfered to The Verden Public Prosecutor's Office.

Evidently law enforcement was involved in some capacity.
Google’s Founders Slowly Stepped Away from Their Company
Personally I hate Tex/LaTeX and I think it should be replacted by something else long time ago. First of all syntax is horrible, if you don't work with it on daily basis try to figure out what macro you wrote one year ago is doing. Each time you have to jump to manual and learn almost everythig from very beginning. Next thing is lack of utf-8 and TrueType fonts supports (I know there is XeTeX and LuaTeX) but today such features such be in very core of text system no in some software branch. Extensibility is next thing and here again it is very poor unless you use something modern like LuaTeX or you are an expert in TeX macros. Packages dependency hell is next thing side by side with stupid compilation process with meaningless error messages. Am I the only one who think this way?
Hypothesis (property based testing in Python)
> Aside: I'm really frustrated by the advice to validate all input. That's not useful advice and people should stop teaching it.

Do you realise this reads as "don't bother validating your inputs"? Surely that's not what you meant?

> It begs the question: validate for what?

All inputs necessarily follow some protocol. Command line options and configuration files have syntax. Network packets have sizes & fields. Binary files have some format. So you just make sure your input correctly follows the protocol, and reject anything that doesn't.

Now the protocol itself should also be designed such that implementations are easily correct and secure. In practice, this generally means your protocol must be as simple as possible.

And it's probably a good idea to make sure your parser is cleanly separated from the rest of your program, either by the OS (qmail splits itself in several processes), or by the programming language itself (with type/memory safety).
The Python, R, and MATLAB package ecosystem is weak in a lot of areas which Julia has strengths (dynamical systems, structured numerical linear algebra, random matrix theory, etc.), which is why it has taken hold in a lot of disciplines that need these features. Because of that, I don't see it going away any time soon because there are not equivalents in these other languages for people to migrate to.

What you see from that though is that there is a growing set of scientific fields (systems biology, some areas of particle physics, numerical analysis research, etc.) that are really embracing Julia in a big way. Those fields are not as big as machine learning, so some metrics may see that as a loss, but in reality, having a strong core of dedicated users who happen to develop the core packages for their smaller fields is not a bad place to be. At the end of the day, scientists will use whatever language has the packages developed for them. That's why MATLAB and Mathematica are still mainstays: high level open source software ecosystems never really reviled the support actual mathematical languages have in areas like differential equations (here's a benchmark that shows MATLAB is still orders of magnitude ahead of things like SciPy: https://benchmarks.juliadiffeq.org/html/MultiLanguage/wrappe... ). Julia seems to be the first language with package developers taking the "(non machine learning + non data scientist) technical computing scientist who stayed on MATLAB+Fortran because of scientific tooling" seriously, and the ability to be fast enough to write those codes in Julia is the key that binds that all together.

There are still enough web developers in the world that even if a language gets every scientist to use it, then it will still not make more than a blip in the ratings. However, scientists and mathematicians are loyal to their tools, loyal enough to still be majority MATLAB and Fortran, so any inroads means staying power for many many years.
I guess not everyone read books about Steve Jobs.

It was Steve's idea that Intel had the best chip and Fab, and he wanted the best in iPhone. He was willing to wait for Intel to give him what he demands, the price he asked for was way lower than Intel's usual margin but very high for Apple's BOM Cost.

Ultimately one of this Top Engineers put his name badge on the table and said if Steve insist on Intel he will quit. Steve Jobs ultimately backed off. They than bought P.A. Semi and the rest is history.

Intel's failure to capture the iPhone SoC opportunity was described by Paul Otellini, Intel CEO at the time as the biggest missed opportunity / failure of his life. ( And I am still quite pissed they forced out Pat Gelsinger )

If Steve had persisted he would have repeated the same Apple Lisa mistake. And the world might not be quite the same.

*Makes me rather sentimental while typing this. I miss Steve Jobs.
Podcasts and Travel Apps? Facebook Is Working on Those
Whatever you or I might think of DRM, it's not a "major failure" to offer products with it. Other provisions apply, but not that one.
In a world where the median per capita income is $2,920 per year this just pushes us closer to the plot of Elysium.

(Gallup 2013)
Drifting convergence is usually caused by failing (if old) or poor-quality (if new) capacitors.
I understand your criticism of whataboutism. I dislike whataboutism myself.

However the issue here is that I wish that the nations I am part of would conduct themselves in a manner that gives them the moral authority to speak up on issues of freedom and democracy. And this — quite frankly — currently isn’t the case. It isn’t the case because the post 9-11 paranoia lead elements of our society to feel so threatened, they threw defining rights and freedoms overboard (and this is the favourable reading of events).

You cannot topple governments, install dictators, kidnap and torture people and keep them locked up without trial for years, cover up war crimes, go after those who blow the whistle on said war crimes, spy on your allies and on your own people and still expect other nations to see you as a beacon of freedom and democracy. A lot of the behaviour of the US is only justified by: “Yeah but we are the good ones” and this is an argument my one Nazi Grandfather also used: “Sure there were bad things, but they built the streets and everybody had a job.”

A free society isn’t measured by how it treats its wealthiest and most powerful members — it is measured by how it treats its enemies.

Hard to demand someone to respect human rights, if you don’t give a damn about it yourself, when it just hits the people you dislike.

That beeing said, China is still worse. But this is not a contest and I like to change the nations I live in first.
Right for the Wrong Reasons: Diagnosing Syntactic Heuristics in NL Inference
Antidepressants are a belief system, and like most religions, have both their detractors and promoters. And, like most religions, there is money to be made ... Lots and lots of money.

Antidepressants have the same efficacy as placebo.

Whether or not you believe this depends on if you have a prescription, and/or have understood the studies which point this out.
Often it's just a case of tweaking the focus knob on the flyback.
For IO, the monad is a "box" you put the entire mutable universe in so you can pretend the rest of your program is stateless.
Is it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO7z4cHrcuY

It's from last year, and the description suggests it's not like you are saying. (I haven't watched it; it's an hour and a half long.)
You've changed your comment while I was typing: youu mentioned a delta between CEOs and average workers. But we're likely to share common ground. Your new comment regarding revolutions. Not so fast!

The Chinese sufffered the same problems of inequallity and the plebs made the same comparisons - for centuries.

So a delta is to be expected, the magnatude I'm not sure if that matters as CEOs are outliers. I think the point you are leaning to is:

despite working full time, the average US resident cannot afford what we perceive to be a 'good quality of life' (many people from developing countries will find that statement hard to believe). This is subjective, and not likely an issue of labour being exploitative.

It is a question on what type of a society Americans want (and vote for), which is an entirely different discussion covering taxation, education, health care, corpotate political donations/lobbying etc.

From a market perspective the delta represents supply and demand.
Why the Great Auk Is Gone for Good
As a former customer, it’s that the quality of service and the overall understanding of the products disappeared once they became OpenText property.

Never had an issue with the original vendors but OpenText made the decision to not renew easier.
Why Choosing to Have Children Is an Ethical Issue
Polarized HD Video Recording Camera Sunglasses
Apps Will Improve the Life of Your Employees
I am a contractor living in London, UK. Here contracts in IT/development are always based on daily rates. Time put in by contractors is not being verified other than number of days you put into the timesheet matches number of days you were in the office (so people don't bill for days off etc).

It's basically based on trust just like with regular employees. If you are not performing well, your contract probably won't be extended. Plus as a contractor you can just be let go with a week of notice.
Why? If I sign a package, that's proof I endorse the contents... but how do you know I'm not a malware author?
Firebird 3 Pascal Interface
My problem with understanding monads was as follows: I had no problem with understanding the mathematical definition, it was easy to check that a given monad verifies the axioms.

No, my problem was this one: everyone was saying "hey, you know if you have a purely functional language, it would be impossible to have IO, since e.g. a read function would have different outputs every time. We solve that with monads."

But that didn't feel like an explanation. I couldn't draw a line from the monad axioms to dissolving that impossibility. It was like saying "Einstein says we can't do FTL, but we can solve that with monads".
That's less GoG and more the company publishing with them, if I understand the process correctly.

Game companies aren't great at making sure they've added artifacts for all platforms, across all the publishing platforms. Even on Steam different platforms often lag behind each other, and they make the process dead simple.
Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019
Sounds more like an index of beginner languages.

"The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google."
Atari's early arcade cabinets used gutted consumer TVs around the same time.
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Not sure about a new video of James Duane, but there’s a relatively recent write-up[0].

His advice generally stands, but with caveats:

— To prevent invoking the 5th from seeming as admission of guilt to jurors and to the public, it may be safer to invoke the right to counsel instead and refuse to talk without your lawyer present.

— In case of traffic stops invoking the 5th may be overkill and polite talk may be productive, unless body or car search (or canine sniffing) is involved.

[0] https://www.wglt.org/post/when-not-talk-police
It's probably the place where you'll find the highest concentration of people who had to deal with a lawyer!

Perhaps the sample is biased towards people who dealt with a bad lawyer, though.
What is the role of zoos today? The captivity vs. conservation debate
Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth (2009)
Hugo is great choice.

I host my hugo sites on Azure Blob Storage for few cents (literally) per month.
In case you’re looking for a cheaper copy (or that sells out) I think that’s just a hardback version of https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0500021740
That's nasty. Why not just use a templating language and pump in the values you need?

https://twig.symfony.com/
In unrelated news, some of world's billionaires move to LEO.
> Am I the only one who think this way?

No. But redoing it all from scratch and getting mindshare is difficult.

Substance.io is one project I've followed for years who aim to do this, and the time, false starts etc show just how tricky it is. https://twitter.com/_mql/status/1202200085288935430

One could argue that Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress et al are the replacement. They have the typesetting and layout capabilities that common software lacks.
‘The Man Without Qualities’ Acquires a New Volume
>because video games do not make money

Fortnite made $300 million per month.
Virtue Signaling and Vice Signaling
We shouldn't use China as an excuse not to do anything. But we also shouldn't dismiss the fact that China is emitting more CO2 per year than the U.S. They emit nearly double: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emi...

The closer you get to the present day, the closer you are to the time on the historical timeline where climate change is understood to be a threat, and the more moral urgency there is to reign in emissions. It also makes more sense to consider what should be done differently about emissions last year, this year, and next year than emissions from decades ago.
I run it on a single node to run LXC guests for all sorts of non-production workloads. That it takes care of all the networking, storage, OS templates, backups, KVM access and has a comprehensive web UI is all very useful to me.

What else is there to take its place? oVirt can't do LXC.
The metaphor of the "invisible hand" from Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is among the most musunderstood and misrepresented concepts in the social sciences, and certainly economics.

Gavin Kennedy, a professor of economics at Strathclyde, Heriot-Watt, and Edinburgh, tackled this interpretation in his writings, most notably in this paper and at his blog, "Adam Smith's Lost Legacy": https://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com

I'm saddened though not entirely surprised to discover his passing, this past April, announced by his daughter in late June.

A particularly good rememberance and biography here:

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/05/09/remembering-gavin-k...

Also:

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17619442.obituary-professo...
Unvaccinated Samoans should identify themselves with red flags, officials say
I'd disagree entirely.
If you want an extremely easy to use gui that gives you access to KVM and LXC virtualisations, along with easy access web remote consoles, snapshots and backups, then Proxmox has been a fantastic go-to for over 6 years.

My only objection is that it's a 'full-fat' linux distro that needs to run off a real disk (unlike ESXi), however on every other level it's far superior.
We need to kill the cliche that language/framework doesn't matter but we also need to understand, it still won't solve all problems.

I wrote about a similar topic from a web application security point of view: Why Framework Choice Matters in Web Application Security* ( https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/why-framework-c... )

Also today there is enough data in the industry to prove this argument beyond any doubt for web applications.

* original article is written about 11 years ago or something this is a republished version
IoT is a thing .. that Intel failed to get into. They don't have anything that scales down that well. That market is dominated by ARM, implemented by all sorts of lower tier vendors like MediaTek.

FPGAs really need a tooling unlock to take off so they can be useful to people who haven't been on the ASIC design course.

> It won't make sense for anyone else in the US to compete

TSMC?
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I kept having this sense of deja-vu as I read the article. This is essentially how the persistent store of the Apple Newton worked. Pretty neat.

Our stuff supported vanilla battery-backed RAM, and we also supported memory-mapped flash (which has implications for how you represent the object state, since you can only flip bits in one direction without an expensive and destructive erase operation).

Recovery after a crash was essentially a read pass of the whole device, which was fine for the storage capacities of the day, at memory-bus speeds.
As far as I can tell the chain of events was:

1. shadowserver had an oopsie (i.e. added a false entry to their list)

2. that list was taken by the prosecutor's office to without further checks and by the authority of the prosecutor's office (i.e. state attorneys) of Niedersachsen in Germany and contacted the registrar in India.

3. The registrar transferred the domain

Between each of these steps, there are so many things that went wrong, on so many levels.

Between 1 and 2: Why is the word of some rando org taken as gospel? Without being independently investigated by the office, which sole raison d'être is (independent) investigation of the claims brought to it.

Between 2 and 3: A German prosecutor's office has no authority outside the EU; and even if it did, it could not tell anyone anything to take enforcing actions without a proper court order, even if it's an international request.

Also in the grand scheme of things, considering this was all done to "take down a botnet", this is a path to hell paved with good intentions. How about creating incentive that software and hardware manufacturers get their shit together and secure their shit?
some of these can really use a load screen. I know they suck, but it guarantees the content will be displayed properly, after all the assets are loaded.

Nice work, I'm still looking at them.
Author here. I would add to what the sibling comments have mentioned by saying that SotA results should be taken with a grain of salt. Our engine is capable of streaming (processing the audio as it's being recorded), which is not doable with architectures that have bidirectional decoders or attention mechanisms that require the whole encoder input ahead of time.

For real world applications, this is absolutely crucial, users want latency numbers on the order of milliseconds, not seconds. This is why, if you run a standard test set like LibriSpeech on, say, a commercial offering from Google, it will perform considerably worse than state of the art according to Google papers.

This repository [0] has a benchmark of some commercial offerings. Our model beats all of those on Librispeech clean and other (except for Speechmatics on Librispeech clean), as well as on Common Voice. But note that the Common Voice corpus used in that benchmark is very old.

In sum, I would compare this against solutions that go for the same space: fast, client-side ASR, rather than state of the art.

[0] https://github.com/Franck-Dernoncourt/ASR_benchmark#benchmar...
Immersive Web
fman author here, thank you for the mention! For a trip down memory lane and Norton Commander see https://fman.io/blog/dual-pane-file-manager-history/.
New machine translation system has significantly increased international trade
> Next thing is lack of utf-8 and TrueType fonts supports (I know there is XeTeX and LuaTeX)

The two halves of that sentence seem to be in conflict. Could you say more?
Background: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-immersive-web/20...