skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to article it costs half a million annually. That doesn't seem low cost to me.
> If anything, we've only learned to squander all available memory.

If I've learned anything in my computer career, it is that this is an evergreen comment. I remember reading Q-Link posts from Commodore 64 users with this complaint when the wasteful C128 came out.
I wouldn't expect that working on your own time is automatically considered to be your employer's property anywhere. But some (Fortune 500) companies absolutely do require everyone to sign an agreement that everything you create 24 hrs a day until you leave the job, belongs to them.
> Not everyone interprets the scale the same way...

That's the exact point the author was making with this example. A doctor cannot normalize pain ratings across patients, and has to rely on each patient scoring their own pain relative to their own experiences. Your 2/10 could be 7/10 for someone else - all that matters is that you have a measurement stick to compare pain for yourself, so that medical staff know that your 3/10 is more than your 2/10.
I compiled my own. I'm not sure what this genre of music is but it's amazing. It's like downtempo ambience with no audible base.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5KmEKavq5Ux0IxY2d5VfyI?si=...
If companies truly value diversity, just pay women more then men.
I'd argue it's more complicated by way of how much confusion I see with newbies. The old class-based lifecycle+methods was pretty straightforward - it only looked complicated at a glance. Hooks on the other hand do enough magic in the background that each one seems to come with its own set of misconceptions that have to be corrected.
You have created a perverse-sounding design.
Is that better than using them to pay off the victims of pedophile priests?
If they want to listen to me fap, then I hope they get thoroughly traumatized.
Lab grown meat cannot come quickly enough.
> Forcing specific software implementations to cripple-ware the product is compelled speech.

How is it so, in a way that complying with other warrants isn't? (I'm very much not sympathetic to the government's assertion of its rights here, but I'm not yet convinced by this argument against it.)
Ah, so you are in an environment with “not very challenging problems” and you assume all work environments are like that.

Now it makes sense.
Now I know why I see so many mattresses for sale on Craigslist.
A 43k year old flute! I never knew. That is amazing indeed!
The Turing Test has nothing to do with chess or any other game. It's a conversational test between two parties. It doesn't refer to human-level performance on any specific task. Please check Wikipedia.

> Sure; all the parts haven't been completely connected to make self driving cars, general game playing AIs or conversation bots.

This implies that connecting these systems is just a detail to be worked out. But the systems have nothing in common ontologically---they share no inputs, outputs, or intermediate concepts. The fact that they both use neurons doesn't mean much. You may as well say we can connect snails and dogs.
Nobody ever thought that, and mindlessly repeating just means we don't learn anything.
After 15 years you get 26 days.
I'm replying to myself because I just managed to get a IONOS instance running in Kansas City (same distance from east/west-coasts) for low-and-behold 1€/month with unlimited data (18GB SSD and 512MB RAM). How is AWS/GCE going to compete with that?

One gotcha is that if you come from the EU you need to register via ionos.eu and there is a registration fee of 10€ for each instance!

Also looking at VPS in china now, Shanghai is pretty well placed in the Asia region: Edit: VPS is crazy expensive in China (10x-30x more expensive than IONOS and that is without data which also is 20x more expensive!), I suggest using AWS as backup to GCE over there, probably want to stay outside of the firewall in Asia if you use port 80, atleast if your other Asian customers are more important than your China customers to begin with.

Something is off with the prices globally right now, the US is like on a permanent firesale when it comes to non essential goods, but to live there is impossible!?
Also, if you have a family, you're a lot less likely to move to another state for a big raise if you're underpaid.
In what way is Trump "authoritarian"?
I thought that Cory Doctorow's YA book "Little Brother" did a very good job of illustrating this kind of scenario, and making the injustice feel viscerally real.
5 years old? Are you joking?

The Dot Net bubble in the 90s was arguably the biggest news story of the decade. Everyone knew there was tons of money to be had in tech, and stories of people landing jobs at startups after learning a little bit of HTML.
The IndieWeb ecosystem is already doing this with microformats2 + webmention to support decentralized replies, likes, reposts, etc. with HTML blogs.

See https://aaronparecki.com for an example and https://indieweb.org/friendly and https://indieweb.org/Webmention
I would probably use the term "data-driven machine hallucination" - which is pretty awesome. Though, I can see why radiologists would be wary of such an approach.
Yes, and this trend in the Clojure ecosystem unfortunately works against widespread adoption. Works-for-me, everything-is-a-snowflake reinforces the image of Lisps being creative tools for individual artisans rather than rapid development tools for teams.
I mean what are the relative sizes of those two groups, maybe worded it awkwardly.
In a C compiler (cc command), there are only compilation units (.c -> .o). Headers (.h) were bolted-on (cpp command) to deduplicate interfaces (forward declarations).

This header-only containing implementations adds its code to every compilation unit and the linker has to be smart enough to deduplicate identical symbols across many compilation units. Linkers (ld command) are provided either by the platform vendor or the compiler vendor, so they may or may not be able to do this. Binutils on Linux is able to do so IIRC.

It's a terrible practice that promotes cowboy coding. It should just use two files, which would cause less problems in the real world.

You can also write C without headers or newlines. IOCCC may welcome it but why would you ship it or encourage people to use it?
Love or hate Trump, doesn’t matter. Americans have been able to peek behind the curtain if you will, and see how these secret courts are operating, and it doesn’t inspire an incredible amount of confidence.

Seeing as they knew what buttons to push and strings to pull to obtain these warrants, one has to wonder how many other times this script has been played.
Congratulations, would you mind sharing how many free users you had before you decided to make this transition?
Yeah but if you work for the government you are complicit in all of the evil things they do. I’d rather work for an SV company because they cannot be more evil than what our government has done for the past 50 years or so.
Stuff like this makes me feel so dumb and grateful that I have a job. lol
Igor Ashmanov (the guy who hired Sysoev, and was a COO at the Rambler at the time) said that the Ngnix (under different name) was indeed a side project started before Sysoev joined Rambler. Moreover this was properly disclosed, and green lighted by Rambler executives at the time.

Source: https://roem.ru/12-12-2019/281134/rambler-nginx/#comment-292... (Russian)
On May 24, 1998, timeanddate.com came online
The Icon Kaleidoscope
What do you consider interesting about it?
I agree. I only have ever had one person correct me on this, who was, incidentally, Canadian. It's rather infuriating because the Latin name is literally 'from Canada'...which we already have a term for(Canadian). If anything, it feels like Canada Goose is a bad translation that people stick to.
Study: Sleeping more than 9 hours raises risk of stroke
It's much easier to maintain a living space in international waters than on Mars.
How Asia works, by Joe studwell. A really good introduction to how certain Asia countries industrialized and why others failed to do so.

Something incredibly wonderful happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up by K.C. Cole. I just started this one but it's really fascinating and engrossing. I found it on Patrick Collison's bookshelf which looks like it has a lot of other really great recommendations - https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa: another one that I'm still currently reading. a very sad book but so well written and thought provoking that I only read 5 or 10 pages at a time and then spend any equal amount of time pondering. Unlike anything I've ever read
Bill Atkinson: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of my joining Apple
That might describe every rpi running off SD.
You know the saying about how no Excel user uses more than 10% of its features? But everyone uses a different 10%, so ~100% matters? I defy you to find me a business, or probably even a human, more than 2 years old (using computers for more than 2 years) and not using any "legacy" applications. We maintain compatibility for everyone, because everyone uses it.
Is it really a time sink? You have to have a build system anyway to link together your project itself, assuming it's bigger than a single-file hello world. One extra line in your build system should be the least time consuming part of adding a new foreign dependency--you still have to vet the code for security and figure out how to use it.

Unless you're using C++20 modules, you also have to deal with possibly including the header multiple times (slowing down builds), namespacing, macros potentially defined by the header, or a bunch of external/internal linkage edge cases. You only ever find out about these problems once it's too late to remove that library for a different one.
Not only do some companies require you to sign those agreements, I worked for one where they gave one to you after years of employment* and you had to sign if you wanted to continue to be employed. Lawsuits are spectacularly beside the point. You don't say to your spouse and kids "they fired me today, but I'm sure in ten years or so we'll win the lawsuit!"

*if this sounds implausible, it might have been at the time that a spinoff was happening and employees were being "technically" rehired by the new entity. I don't remember for sure.
I believe if you’ve turned off the phone radio (airplane mode), that should not be the case.
I use Fastmail myself, but I just automatically delete everything that doesn't come from a whitelisted address.
All the hate for government work here is pretty out of place. Look, there’s something like 5 cities benefitting from the tech work this site revolves around by the vast majority. There’s an entire country of hundreds of cities and even more towns and localities not benefiting from SV venture capital. From what I read here, lots of our current greatest minds spend their time creating really creative marketing. If you want to shrug off governments place in employing society then get out there and make work that really will employ numbers similar to the government and with its pay and benefits. The FAANGs clearly can’t.
I find it nice society can make advances without needing everyone to agree about everything first.

As for why food will probably be one of the last things fixed: no animal ever needed to kick a puppy to make it to the next day yet the vast majority have needed to kill something to do the same. Having too much food is a relatively recent problem (if a problem at all) for society and for those that do it's relatively far removed while the "closer to home" issues you've mentioned get sight daily. Sad, probably - so is most of existence when you really think about it - but it's not exactly a great conundrum why it has been treated differently.

It's more likely artificial meat becomes cheaper/better quicker than society fixes enough problems for this to make it to the spotlight of top issues.
Let me put it another way: there are many things we choose to do which generate data and provide that data to various entities. We have to decide which data we're willing to share with whom and for what benefits.

I know some people who, at least as of a couple of years ago, had dumbphones from which they'd remove the batteries when not in use so that their location couldn't be tracked.

I have an iPhone. I've got Comcast internet at home and don't use a VPN. I have a Facebook account (which I access in Firefox only using the facebook container). I don't use gmail, and my primary browser isn't logged into Google and has various bits of tracking protection.

So it's a pretty conscious choice. Maybe it's misguided, but I just think the data Facebook is getting from my Oculus Quest is pretty low value. Lower value than Likes, for example.
Perhaps they could get a grant from OpenAI or some similar AI research firm; someday, when the technology arrives, the Internet Archive will be the ultimate corpus.
No!! To that I say fuck off and freedom is more important. We must not compromise on this.
There are also business reasons. Many hotels sell alcohol, usually at associated restaurants/bars. It is well known that having police in sight, or even just their car out front, causes people to drink less.
Won't the cops just track you by your feature phone location?
Obligatory: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/comp.lang.java/aSPAJ...
Open Source has generated $Trillions in value creation over the last few decades.

Twitter is fighting to stay relevant, they dropped to Top 35 website from Top 14 in last several months.

This is an opportunity for them to become a global standard, and that is worth it.

The most important piece is that they can scale when they pull it off. I've been working on decentralized tech for a while (I run https://github.com/amark/gun) and can say it takes a lot of attention that most projects (dare I say "blockchains") have no scaling abilities at all.
npm for C is apt/brew
I think different people will have different answers. The biggest complaint is that this slows down builds, of course, but it also requires hacks to avoid re-including the same header twice when you have complex header hierarchies [1][2], bleed-trough of macros and pragmas, and of course you have to write forward declarations for everything you intend to publicly expose, as opposed to using a "public" keyword.

Honestly I dislike them because they're a redundant pain in the ass. I tried other solutions before (at one job I had 15 years ago we had automatic header code generation, ooof), and although modules are not that ready for primetime [3] (dependency resolution need to be done by an external program), I think they'll be the bees knees.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Include_guard

[2] (some people will be quick to note that can be solved by pragmas)

[3] https://vector-of-bool.github.io/2019/01/27/modules-doa.html (but he wrote a follow up: https://vector-of-bool.github.io/2019/03/04/modules-doa-2.ht... )
The usedness of the mattress is masked by the niceness of the room. Used mattresses, when they are sold on Craigslist or otherwise, tend to generally not be in the most pleasant of surroundings.

I bet you can move a lot of used mattresses if you dress them up like a fancy hotel room.
We don't really know what they'd be capable of. Not having opposable thumbs is a pretty massive handicap compared to primates.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21769793
Because the idea of encryption as “arms” is ridiculous. Just because it’s used in warfare doesn’t make it “arms” protected by the Second Amendment. Food and fuel are used in warfare too.
> But it can be recreated with Unix domain sockets and what have you

Or, heck, they could port the IPC and anything else worth keeping. Even just building a private fork of FreeBSD with the Darwin personality grafted on top would be viable.
How many people made most of the tech innovations we enjoy now? Depends on who those five people are. Could be the next Bill Gates, Woz, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, and Bezos on the team.
Physically, perhaps...
you are drinking mouthwash?
The point is "add header, done". If you're going to be using libraries then there are better options to choose from already.
Fair question.

Warrants are mostly pertaining to searches as I understand it.

I don’t think there is instances of warrants in the US that has resulted in compelled speech?

To be clear gag orders and injunctions don’t count as compelled speech. That’s an order of absence of speech.
Introduction to Operating System Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (2007) [pdf]
Run by one person doesn't mean developed by one person.
> One extra line in your build system should be the least time consuming part of adding a new foreign dependency

Could, should. IRL Docker became a thing mostly because of the hassle it is to do so in C.
By 2016 we had figured out how to take very high resolution microCT scans of things with ink on them and "unroll" them virtually. This was successfully used to read text from a scroll that had been turned into a column of charcoal in a fire. The ink is different enough from the parchment, even when both are partially combusted, to make the technique work.

Figure 1 is ... striking:

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/9/e1601247

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/en-gedi-scroll-deciphere...
> In 2005, conservators received the scroll in a Parker Pen box on a bed of cotton.

Surprisingly light on details of its origin. Part of the US war loot from Peshawar perhaps?
Sweet potato can warn neighbors of insect attacks
So the moisture made it flexible enough to unravel? It looks amazing I can hardly tell it is so old. Like in old paintings where you can see the brushwork and feel some connection to the artist long after they have passed away, I think there is something similar here with the characters plus the doodle in the center.
The Rats of NIMH is a series of children's books about a colony of uplifted rats that escaped from a NIMH facility.
I seriously doubt that's the reason, especially compared to hardware support and the usual hurdle of "not installed by default".
Netflix sends journalists on pricey trips
WeWork is shutting down a restaurant coworking startup it acquired 4 months ago
The Mathematics of Good Will Hunting, with Solutions
In the United States, medicine and law have something that most professions in STEM do not: licensing boards and professional school admission committees that strictly control the flow of new employees into their respective fields.

Is it possible that women are better at seeing how poorly a lot of employees in STEM are treated (especially in those disciplines that have been flooded by H1-B applicants) and realizing that better opportunities lie elsewhere?
Really? When did that change? I thought they had some sort of in-perpetuity cross licensing agreement going back to when AMD was a second source for x86 for Intel with Government contracts.
Google turned up https://www.humanesociety.org/liberiasanctuary
I am sad for us all that they're not around.

I can't even imagine the impact they would have had on the evolution of our culture and religions if they'd stuck around. The "winning" religions hinge on humans having dominion over all other animals in clear-cut ways.

Might belief systems like Buddhism or Jainism be more hegemonic if there had been a bridge species to tell us we're not so clearly special. And if they'd stuck around, would we still be having such a nail-biting time threading the needle on this extinction event that's predicated on our dominant cultures seeing nature as "other.
I don't see how vim can be hindering progress when it, along with emacs, is more powerful than the editors that 99% of other people are using.
> From what I read here, lots of our current greatest minds spend their time creating really creative marketing.

Heh, yeah, how to store or transfer bits efficiently so that shop selling Chinese-made shit doesn't go down on Black Friday, or so people can get their crisp Marvel movie on their 4K TV. Or so some bikini-clad girl can optimally promote that "detox drink" to her "followers"...
There's an implicit moral obligation, surely.
While I don't eat meat, I don't immediately say it's for whale-hugging reasons at the top of the list because most people are callous and unmoved by animal abuse that they condone with their silence and continued addiction to an unsustainable food source.

It's difficult to get a man to stop eating meat when his enjoyment depends on his not understanding its consequences. - adapted from Upton Sinclair

In case you were wondering, the following list of reasons speaks more to people's self-preservation than their empathy (which they lack):

1. Pandemic risk to people from zoonotic evolution of viruses, bacteria and fungi by having tens of thousands of animals crammed next to each other and people getting in and cleaning up after them. Like a college dorm, diseases spread rapidly in factory farms.

2. Antibiotic resistance evolution. Animals are given antibiotics to grow faster, and like overprescribing, they become less effective on the animals and on people too.

3. About 1/3 of human-caused CO2 and methane emissions (GHG). Eating meat is playing very delayed Russian roulette.

4. Factory farms pollute air, water and soil widely around, downstream and into the oceans. Hog farms have lakes of liquid shit that is sprayed into the air.

Distant 5. Animal cruelty.
What if he wins? A common thread among gambling addicts is a large win at a young age. It’s not that unlikely that he will beat the market during his most formative years and you will have taught him the opposite of what you intended.
Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering [pdf]
Russia pursues producing pet food with insect protein
The real question isn't if Intel will fight back but how. They've been known to innovate shady marketing tactics just as much as their CPU architecture.
Their advantage this time isn't the ISA. There's no "cross licensing" for the silicon design, fab choice, etc.
Uni started life as a replacement to that plugin (note how how the output is similar) as I got tired of opening Vim all the time :-)
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