skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not actually as worried about this sort of direct copy-paste plagiarism as I am about a related issue.

What I'm worried about is the appearance of authority when there is none, something that I guess Raval is also accused of. But what I'm looking at is a bit more subtle than pretending to have written a paper.

In several fields, you get someone popularizing certain topics and observations. Some guy will write a book about economics or psychology with some compelling storytelling, and many articles will be written reviewing the books. But actually nothing new has been added. It's simply a rehash of a few well worn ideas from an area. Importantly what can also happen is something that was considered marginal is brought up (Marxist/Austrian economics) as accepted mainstream. Or something with weak reproducibility (Marshmallow) is brought up as the accepted truth. Nothing that's a complete lie, but you get a picture of a field that is quite different to what the experts see it as.

The fact that they aren't making up complete lies is what makes them hard to critique. If someone comes up with a list of studies that seem to support some tenuous case, it becomes quite hard to rebut them without seeming quite pedantic. For instance you might need to dive into the methodology of some survey to understand the critique, but the soundbite culture of our times does not permit that.

Often the person writing these books is portrayed as someone very authoritative, and certainly that makes sense for the publisher. They get in the news, they give commentary on relevant news items, and the circus continues. They never really have to defend their positions, because they're always a sort of conduit for some other historical authority figure. But the total mix of what they're saying doesn't add up.
You keep calling it a conspiracy theory without providing any evidence that it is. It's a known fact that Obama was praised for targeted political advertising:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-...

It's also a fact that these very left leaning platforms are now removing the ability to do exactly what Obama was praised for.

You've not disputed either of those, just called the people pointing them out childish conspiracy theorists.
The weird thing about textbook pricing is, to listen to debates on the internet, textbooks simultaneously cost $$ AND don't make the author any money AND the main market is people who've already paid $$$$ for an in-person college course.
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I'm not sure if you're wrong, but it's not at all clear that you're right.

By having a real used market, there are two opposite effects on the new market:

1) Obviously, having more choices (viz purchase of a used copy) tends to pull prices down.

2) But less obviously, the knowledge that one can sell the game when complete means that a buyer would be willing to pay more up front. That is, today they pay $X new, and that represents the total investment. But with resale, they pay $X' up front, but later recover $Y later when they sell it.

The question is what is the equilibrium between these two countervailing forces?
The Linux approach reflects the social structure this project has been developed in.

The Linux project needs to be able to evolve independently of other projects, so they do just that.

This is a classic case of technical architectures following most of the time social structures.

> Systems calls form an API and it needs to be stable and managed.

In some cases (e.g; nearly all the other oses...) system calls form an internal API, and they don't need to be stable, and they actually even don't need to be accessible except to intermediate layers provided in a coordinated way.
This is not trure.

Provincial powers are not delegated by the federal government. The canadian constitution lists certain powers the provinces have and certain powers the federal gov has, with basically anything unmentioned being federal. The federal government doesnt just decide willy nilly what is being delegated to the provinces.

The lieutenant governor doesnt serve under the governor general-they just have different spheres of influence . In provincial matters the lieutenant-governor represents the queen, not the governor general.
They were created "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." Allowing creators to monetize their work is a means towards getting more creative work produced, not an end in itself.
It’s mainly for use in stronger isolation (ie. VMs instead of just containers). In a container, the kernel is already up and the application just has to start. In a VM, that’s not the case. By making the application “the kernel”, very fast startup times are possible.
>Yes, it's 100% the case that the FTC reviews all M&A of sizes substantially smaller than $20B in revenue.

Maybe so, but it is not the case that mergers get blocked purely based on the size of the companies involved. It's simply not lawful for the FTC (or other regulators) to do so.

>The FTC probably should allow most mergers to go through.

That is the status quo and it is clearly unsatisfactory in some areas.

>I suggest deference should be given to the liberal side of the equation, with regulation affecting only within certain constraints.

I completely understand why you are saying that, and it has always been my preference as well.

But the problem is that these constraints have become so difficult to specify that the likelihood of ineffective, counterproductive or abusive regulation has risen dramatically.

That's why I'm wondering whether it wouldn't be better to accept that size itself invevitably creates problems that no case by case game of what-a-mole will ever solve.

We need simpler rules that can be consistently enforced.

I'm far from convinced that my particular idea is any good. I'm just putting it out there as an example for the kind of simplicity that I think we need.
This is great advice and would be even better, if our industry was not that hype driven. Tell someone, you are a JavaScript expert and you had great success in the past with jQuery and knockoutjs. People will reject you, you won't have a job and no money.

And if you are one of these poor fools, who depend on work for income, than good luck not at least partially follow up on trends, them being silly or not.
This isn't entirely true. Kik had their own app store for years: https://dev.kik.com/#/home

It just wasn't very popular, it seems...
> You keep calling it a conspiracy theory without providing any evidence that it is

That's not how it works. You need to provide actual evidence to back up your conspiracy, other than "Obama did it once" and "I have a gut feeling".

How does Obama being praised for his campaign have ANYTHING to do with the motivations of staff and employees at these companies making these decisions today?

> ability to do exactly what Obama was praised for

Cambridge Analytica?
If you don't know who Maslow was, his work, or Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, I strongly recommend discovering these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow

The broader point is that though a phone is a means to survival needs (air, water, food, clothing, shelter), it is not a substitute for them. "The ability to securely communicate with anyone around the world instantaneously, take pictures and video, and access almost all information online is pretty valuable" does little if you're thirsty, starving, naked, and exposed.
Mans Search For Meaning affected me in a way that very few books ever have. You grow up knowing about the holocaust, you see the imagery, but it's all impersonal. You understand why it's a horrific deed, why hitler was a horrible human being, and why we as a society should never allow that to happen again.

But there's just something about Frankl's descriptions, at least for me. It personalized it in a way I had never really experienced before. That book horrified me in a way that none of the other material on the holocaust ever had.
Community should certainly not come from food sources that have a long history of slowly killing said members of community.

And an article that could have very well been sponsored by said "community builder" is not proof of being such.

Anecdotes are not validation of a pattern.
What you should get for the gamer who has everything
This sounds very bad for single player story based games. Which are my favorite type of games to play.

Digital games would be very easy to resell and a game can be easily bought once and resold tens/hundreds of times.

Plus any kind of discount would probably mean that you devalued your game forever.
Controversy around a Christian bestseller tore a family apart
"Opens opportunities" != "substitutes for necessities".

The usual form of the fallacy, and the one made by @lotsofpulp here, is that the capabilities of infotech toys are intrinsically valuable and sufficient.

They're not.
Did you try search “rx pixel”? Rx is a cool name, and easy to remember. I always have troubles remembering the exact spelling of aseprite and pyxel edit, for example.
It all depends on plastic. Most important if you can build safe enough boat for the masses for 10th of a cost - that would destroy rest of manufacturers wasting money on manual labour.

Racers will keep using carbon fibre.
I'm guessing that the reason was simply ease of porting 32-bit x86 assembly code to 64-bit.
I was trying to cite a typical full L1 hit latency... I thought store-load fw simply avoid having to flush the complete write buffer before the access is even possible, which risk to take far more than ~3 cycles. Now maybe it can be faster in some cases than an L1 hit, I don't know.

Edit: it seems that store-load forwarding is actually slightly slower than L1: https://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=854#854
Go to bed early, wake up early. Go to gym before "work" early morning.

This way your mind and body will be full of energy, sharp and fresh
Why not use torrents over wireguard? From an engineering perspective I'd personally be hard pressed to come up with a more optimal solution for private big data transfer.

If Aspera is as good as the parent suggests it's probably because they are operating a bittorrent-like network of geo-distributed peers. It would be very cheap to emulate that using cloud computing providers, especially if you are discarding the data after transfer.
People are downvoting the people not in agreement with the sentiment of the article.

Without downvoting can someone explain to me how we are sure this article is not sponsored by McDonalds?

Why are we all of a sudden being so positive about a food chain that has a long history of making things more difficult for non-industrialized food sources that were a source of income for poor communities before McDs expanded everywhere?

These are genuine intellectual questions, and non-emotional responses would be appreciated.
Questions are phrased in a strange new way in the English language for some time now?

Or is it just me (a non-native-English-speaker)?
Totally anecdotal here, but we bought several physical books for our nieces and nephews this Christmas. These were all requested by them, too. Totally didn't expect that.
I spent time going to college but never graduated. I finished all the required CS courses and a bunch of optional ones plus a few grad level CS courses then left to migrate a Fortune 500 bank off of COBOL. My resume after that was a who’s who of fortune 500s and deeply technical positions but google said no degree, no job. I believe that was the founders attitude towards hiring which has since changed
I have read that, if you do the computation correctly, averaging 3 mechanical watches can give the accuracy of a quartz based watch.
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Actually in real hard black swan events debts are easy to escape...

Land is also easy to take or can be worthless. What are you going to do with it, farm it? Live in the middle of nowhere with no amenities and no preparation?

Assets are easy to steal, and are only useful short term, besides something like living space or private transportation to get away.

Most useful are connections, as always. Then means of production, especially of necessities. And finally, just having the right kind of canny thinking.

Something like BTC is even impossible to cash in without an internet, working like a glorified IOU.
My mistake. It has the most torque when it first starts spinning.
I’ve said for years that one of the 20th century’s large problems was humans having to learn to live in a world of unlimited sugar, fat and salt.

One of the 21st century’s large problems is humans having to learn to live in a world of unlimited information.

Both problems involve overcoming our evolutionary programming to scarf up as much of what used be a limited resource as possible.
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>You think I couldn't diagnose that cold

I think you'd get the 90% case due simply to the preponderance of people who have a cold instead of some other, more rare condition with similar symptoms. Problem is you'd cause harm to everyone who doesn't have a simple cold because you have no idea what you're doing.

Comparing the knowledge needed to be a good doctor to what is required to throw up some bloated SPA? C'mon, get over yourself.
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This is canada we are talking about not britian or anywhere else. There is a written constitution (there are also unwritten parts of the constitution but that is beside the point). The written constitution lays out the powers of different levels of government.

https://www.canada.ca/en/intergovernmental-affairs/services/...

Inparticular to quote the gov of canada website:

>"For example, the federal Trade and Commerce power (s. 91(2)) has been interpreted to mean that Parliament can regulate trade generally in Canada, as well as the flow of trade across provincial or international borders, but cannot regulate the operation of particular industries, businesses or professions within provinces. The provincial power over Property and civil rights (s. 92(13)) gives provinces the authority to regulate trade and commerce within their respective territory."
Same here, my wife and a few of our friends are gluten sensitive (not celiac) and they have no reactions to the einkorn.
I separate my “learning” into deep and broad. At work, I’ll take on new categories of assignments (broad) while maintaining a portfolio of profitable, hard problems in my domain (deep).

Personally, I’ll study new languages or cultures or technologies or games. But I’ll also develop—and necessarily, ditch—ones I’ve previously learned.

It’s easy to get caught up in learning lots of basics. Right after the basics is the hard part of integration, which leads to deeper understanding. It’s also easy to do the same thing every day, tricking yourself into the illusion of mastery, and risking becoming the best in a dying field.
I had this idea before that all feeds / suggestions etc. are evil (time waste) on the Internet. Only active search should be allowed. I hope someone makes a browser extension for that.
Doctors have physician assistants and registered nurses along with EHR medical databases the hospitals subscribe to for aiding in their patient diagnosis and medical workup via always up-to-date medical coding insurance industry practices (for billing patient health insurance $$$). Any exotic infections/diseases or surgery are farmed out to specialist doctors who are also following medical billing guidelines and a narrow workup to diagnose patients within their specialty.

Lawyers have paralegals that dig through the case studies and case law for them along with law databases like LexisNexis.
The amount of derisive comments here show just how out of touch the majority of you people are with the poor human garbage that live in a world totally different from yours.
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From the HN guidelines for commenting (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

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Disagree with "That won't look good on a resume".

Quite an opposite.

Lots of good reasons why professional could get back to previous place: more interesting project, being valued, maintained good relationshiops, etc...
Most [0] the time you can swap ffmpeg for ffplay to get a preview window. So you could do something like the suggestion here [1] to get the preview window, and then use GTK to embed the window wherever you wanted it.

[0] But not all

[1] https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/issues/190
For some reason it become socially acceptable to bash folks who do system administration for a living.

Seems that you are really frustrated because you had a bad experience while working with a sysadmin and I don't think it is fair to despise people who do system administration just because of that.

This is toxic, and is _not_ ok.

Sysadmins are busy people, with their own reponsibilities, tasks, etc. They are always willing to help, assuming that you know how to communicate nicelly, tell about what you want to achieve, being a humble, honest human being.

Assuming that the sysadmin profession entails helping people all the time is plain wrong. Don't abuse.

Though, even if you ask for help several times about a specific subject is very likelly you will receive useful links, docs etc to get you "unblocked".

You still have to read and try to help yourself with the new piece of knowledge that you received.

_Demanding_ to help all the time is _not_ ok.

Peace!
I think "appetite stimulant" is due to the fact that they don't provide a balanced nutrition. Somehow your body feels this and asks for more in order to fill up also on the elements that are almost missing. The problem is that you now have too much of the elements that are already abundant.

This is how I fell about most foods that are grown in an intensive way. "Intensive" means they grow using easy to find elements that are not that valuable from a nutritional point of view.
If the staff of these companies was actually concerned about this issue, they wouldn't have allowed Obama to do this. It's clearly not an issue with the technique, but who is employing it.

> Have you been living under a rock? Cambridge Analytica?

Like I said, Obama did exactly that (from the article I posted):

> "Consciously or otherwise, the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page – home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends – directly into the central Obama database."
Seconding this, though I'm not sure if it's what the OP is asking for as he mentions automation. I've been using roam and while I wasn't planning to use it for daily logging I'm realizing the daily log can serve as an 'inbox' for random thoughts and things I read that aren't quite worthy of writing a separate page for.

I haven't quite figured out if I'll make it my todo-list/gtd solution yet, for that I'm fairly entrenched in kanban/issue-tracker apps like trello. Also wondering how to use it alongside bookmarking tools like pinboard (or if the longer goal is to have better bookmark features).

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From the OP:

"download a csv of transactions from my bank and integrate purchases into the log"

- Depending on how much time you have, you may want to check out the beancount community / https://plaintextaccounting.org/ . I don't recommend it to people short on time to go through the learning curve, in those cases just use an existing financial app (moneydance, quicken, gnucash, etc.).

"entries for emails sent, phone calls made"

Roam could work for these use cases, see Conor's recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcNW-eidDJk
> Because it's not a problem. So everybody does the same. And is not about the programming language, is about the programmer's choice. If it wants debug info inside a production program, the language let it happens. In today's age size of your executable is a non-issue. The only issue should be your performance.

No.
> But it's not uncommon for authors of textbooks to recycle the book into a slideset, play the slides on video at the same time as reading the book into the audio track.

Examples? What you’re describing does not jibe with my experience doing MOOCs. Even the better ones cover a lot less ground than a textbook on the same topic, for the same reason a lecture course does.
Yes, for example in Azure deployments.
Hmm, not sure I agree, the jokes tend to be at the expense of characters with social development issues but even if you put that aside - watch it without a laugh track, it just isn't funny.

As an aside I've never thought Friends was funny nor deserved the accolades it got.

I wouldn't say I lack a sense of humour either, I'm not overly offended by either of these shows, I just find them genuinely unamusing.
You are right, I got that wrong, too late to edit now.
A bit of a tangent: Ruby remains the most _pleasant_ programming language I've ever used, and I've come to the conclusion that it's in no small part due to blocks (and to a lesser extent due to the ease of metaprogramming, which ironically is also my biggest headache concerning Ruby).
Xamarin. C# is close enough to Java that you won't need to re-learn anything. Perfect for back-end devs trying to do Mobile and very friendly development environment.
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It seems Clio targets an AWS Lambda-style serverless infrastructure, having a network of short-lived, auto-scaling single-function instances, ideally leading to optimal resource utilization, hands-free administration, unlimited scalability, etc... but trading some performance.
Once you look to the used market, computers are ... often free for the taking (though utility may be limited).

It's hard to sort through the misclassified cruft, but $20 desktop and laptop systems can be found on Craigslist in San Francico. (I've specified a minimum $20 price just to clear the more egrigious cruft, I'm certain you'll find full systems for less than this. Hell, RaPi would qualify under most defintions.)

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sys?query=%28laptop%7Cde...
In my neighbourhood in Canada, the local Tim Horton's (a sandwich/donut/coffee fast-food chain) fills up with elderly people chatting and gossiping every morning. I see the same folks through the window, day after day.

My mom goes to her local Tim Horton's every week to meet up with some of her friends. It's an informal drop-in social event, basically.

They sure aren't going because the coffee's good. It's because that's where their friends are.
Indeed, I got that wrong.
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> SDL - can it drive 4K displays?

What is this FUD nonsense?
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