skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. This sounds like the "but every large world state has committed some form of ethnic cleansing or genocide, so XYZ" type argument. Perhaps that's true; and it's certainly true indirectly, in the sense that wars and killings and executions benefit dominant economic entities. But the conclusion isn't to to just ho-hum excuse it.

2. I suspect most regional soft drink makers don't kill people. So, let's buy their stuff.

3. Of course the board won't take that decision. That's what unofficial fixer positions at contractors are for. Or - the decision is taken independently by a Barney-Stinson-type manager:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94PHjdjzvrs

"Provide Legal Exculpation and Sign Everything"
Above you linked projects that you said happened specifically because of webasm. Here you are saying it is nothing new 'since 1961' (what does that mean exactly)?

How have you made CPU workloads run at native speeds across all major browsers before we webasm?

Many people have corrected you on your extreme and bizarre vendetta against webasm. You are the only one saying it is both nothing new and somehow enables new projects that you don't like.
It’s complicated...

I would suspect (not a lawyer) that the main issue will be jurisdiction.

As a consumer in the EU, jurisdiction in matters with commercial entities is the consumer’s place of residence. But HN/YC isn’t in the EU, and I don’t think there are any legal agreements b/w the EU and USA that are relevant here. Free trade agreements tend to include such issues, but TTIP’s well-known fate means this is left to the parties to specify in any contract.

Then, there’s a difference b/w HN and YC. HN’s relationship to users is that of a commercial entity to consumers. But YC investing in your startup isn’t. Consumer protections would not apply even if YC were in the EU.

To summarize: yes, the arbitration clause, at least of YC, would apply to the same extend as if you were a US citizen.
You can remain using older versions then.

But they can't really stay relevant and keep supporting IE.
Please add on-screen controls for tablet (and phone) users
https://www.danceofdeath.de

'A set of links celebrating mortality'

My curated list of things that are in my opinion worthwhile. Also I aim to provide starting points for meandering the web
Very much this. Removing the monopoly universities have on the (fairly questionable) credentials used for employment would go along way toward solving many of these issues. Most of the discussion about the problem with universities seem to dance around the core problem.
I've asked that my number be unable to be changed to a different sim over the phone. So to change it I need to go into a physical store and present proper ID
I study the Irish housing market, and if you're curious, I did a little analysis of this at https://www.reddit.com/r/Dublin/comments/ftjhuk/comparison_o... and
https://www.gaffologist.com/flats.png

Honestly I think airbnb and student housing are scapegoats to an extent, where the bigger problem is a council that tends to oppose new housing they don't control (aka stuff that isn't council flats, which most people don't qualify for), and the political imperative to keep housing expensive means keeping it scarce. Height restrictions in the absolute middle of the city are bizarre, and it's kind of shocking that we still have low-ish density suburban semi-d's next to Grafton Street.

https://goo.gl/maps/MzB5DfXpqCZp9V5V6

Edit: If I may risk a small plug - I was displeased with the UI of Irish housing sites and made www.gaffologist.com to address this.
Not to mention they were visiting prop hospitals.
Elevator screens aren't much better either. The hardware has lots of potential but it is held back by often crappy software.
> We now live in a world where you don't need a secretary, because you can type up documents yourself

Probably because some other kind of unnecessary positions have been created
Run, test and make changes to flutter apps on iOS without owning a Mac yourself
So you will be paying what foreign students always do, without access to cheap loans, or scholarships, the majority of which are restricted to citizens. And they don’t even have a guarantee that they will be allowed to work afterwards even if there is a company who wants to give them a job.
Mobius – .NET runtime running on .NET Core
In this epoch I think that you can trade with high profit margins but also with high losses due to the volatile nature of the markets.
http://agenjudiqq8.eklablog.com/the-sport-of-dominoes-a12786...
No. In CIC I can prove that, say, some property is valid for _any_ natural number. Your "memory is bounded" argument is invalid, as formal proofs can go beyond that.
Modern iron lung designed to address ventilator shortage
China reports no coronavirus deaths for first time
Where independent schools are leading the way, universities are following.

There was an ongoing political debate on some of the news sites before everything got taken over by coronavirus: independent schools have charity status (which includes exemption from business rates tax that goes back to the local area) because historically they were indeed typical examples of charities. For example:

> "Eton College was founded by King Henry VI as a charity school to provide free education to 70 poor boys who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge, founded by the same King in 1441." (Wikipedia)

The debate was whether a school that mainly serves and lives off rich foreigners should still enjoy the benefits of charity status - public opinion seemed to be moving in the direction of "tax it like any other business".

And people were, very cautiously, starting to ask the same of universities. Meanwhile in faculty meetings, I've heard this from many different places, it's an unspoken rule that you don't refer to home students as "second class students" or anything like that but management is finding increasingly creative ways to paraphrase that. Things like "pivot to high-margin students".
In fact all major type systems work this way.
What is wrong with the current concept?

Today it is ego-fueling, shallow, does not push society forward, it only amplifies self-indulgences.

Does a ‘Celebrity’ or ‘Influencer’ really care and need your hard-earned $200 to chat with you for 5-minutes? or is that $ and time better spent talking to a shrink for hours? or perhaps a friend you haven't spoken to in a while over a really nice healthy meal?

Platforms like this breed and nurture mass armies of influencer citizens into dopamine-fueled marketing robots, selling whatever product that pays them the most without 0 consideration of what they are pushing and what the brand’s record is on humanity.

Example: @momnbabydiaries [https://www.instagram.com/momnbabydiaries/]

A middle-class mommy influencer who reposts an ad from good ol’ Nestle with her personal intro:

“Child's Happiness results in Mom's smile .. Isn't it true? And, my child seems happy when he is engaged in some fun activity.

Recently, I came across a fun learning experience for toddlers i.e. Nestle Ceregrow farm experience at #KidZaniaDelhiNCR @KidZania Noida which is designed to propagate and role-play the entire process of toddler cereal making, starting with procuring the right ingredients from farms (harvesting grains, plucking fruits, milking a simulated cow)

“https://www.instagram.com/p/B62ZilWHcpf/

As a parent, this makes me puke.

Does she truly believe that showing her child how mass-process food manufacturing works is better for his little brain than taking him to a real farm and showing the real cycle of life?? What has society come to when little Devon now has to practice milking from a ‘simulated cow’ .. Cows “ the gau matas” are demigods in India... I’m sure they can find a few non-Nestle ones around??

I’m not even getting into the harmful effects of milk on kids:
https://www.livescience.com/49551-should-kids-drink-milk.htm...

Or how 3 out of 4 Indians are lactose intolerant
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Three-out-o...

Is she aware of how this global giant was testing experimental baby formulas on poor pregnant moms in India?
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/legal-limits_nestl%C3%A9-faces-...

Or how Nestle drains the aquifers it controls as much as possible, without any regards to sustainable usage or environmental concerns?

Mmm nope. Momma just wants to get paid, get that logo affiliation, and feel warm inside.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/nestle-company-pollution-...

What they got right?
They galvanizing a “talented” segment of a large culture.
Not easy to do. Bravo. Level unlocked.

What is their X multiplier potential?
What if this popular motley crew of talent could get behind REAL social change and enlightenment in India, which has no shortage of social and humanitarian challenges?

How can this platform provide ‘cleaner fuel’ and incentives for this army of ‘catalyzers’... all the while enabling YC to hit their 100M ARR milestone?
That's an enormous topic and an enormous can of worms. Modern spell checkers all use statistical methods meaning that they are trained on a corpus. That allows them to understand that the sequence of tokens [what, i, would, like to, get into, is, :] is much more probable than [get, what i, would, like, into, is, :]. I.e the latter is grammatically incorrect.

A good start is to learn about Markov models. For more sophisticated stuff, investigate word vectors and language modeling using recurrent neural networks. The Python library NLTK comes with a free book which can teach you the basics.
This is a recounting the story in the book, and the threads the author of the book draws out.

This is not a review. It is terrible. I want to know is the book interesting, is it well written, engaging, well-paced? Critique it!
Can you share the implementation?
Mine is https://davidyat.es

I write about a lot of different things, often technical, sometimes not. Common subjects include technical tutorials and rants, reviews of books and games, and thoughts about different aspects of internet culture.

These are my three most popular posts:

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How to create a dual-headed personal wiki with Vimwiki and Gollum: https://davidyat.es/2017/09/01/vimwiki-plus-gollum/
It's single-threaded because it's a learning tool not a forth you'd ever want to use in an environment where performance would matter. Single-threaded or not, forth interpreters [not compilers] have terrible interaction with branch prediction - they will never perform well on modern CPUs. Virtually every other instruction executed is a jmp that cannot be predicted and thus will collapse the pipeline.
Standard proof is a diagonalization, which depends on infinite sequences.

That said, the Halting problem on physical computers is still of extremely high computational complexity, which can be just as high a barrier as incomputability.
The quality of life of a (cash) cow declines after it is no longer milkable - they usually end up in some sort of stew - which seems to be looming.
erik.itland.no - you might enjoy it if you liked parts of the old Internet, at least that is part of my motivation: to add some genuine, non-slick content.

There is a mix of me fixing stuff, technical content and blogs.

No ads, no third party trackers (I watch the server logs though).

Updated whenever I feel like it, but there is a RSS feed in case you like what you see and want to know when I post something new.
I guess they meant "latter"
Smart toilet recognizes your butt and analyzes poo for diseases
the problem is DNS, as one would guess:

>the default or example Active Directory path was given as “corp,” and many companies apparently adopted this setting without modifying it to include a domain they controlled.

whew boy. whats the right answer here? out of the box AD and DNS coming with default settings that must be changed prior to use?
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The thing about Amazon though, was the luxury of being able to order stuff and have it by my door the next day. This was especially great for products where the traditional brick and mortar retail died out a long time ago for that industry (i.e. electronic components) or stuff that you want / need regularly but isnt carried in stores near you.
Creating an IoT based Flutter app to interact with any home electrical equipment
Chip Childers Appointed Executive Director of Cloud Foundry Foundation
What's your definition of "forgot how to drive"?

In my observation the standard deviation from mean and median speed has definitely increased but the number of discourteous interactions between drivers has sharply decreased. People are driving 60 in a 40 and 40 in a 60, taking exits from the left lane and passing people in the right lane. These would be inappropriate moves if the roads had the usual congestion on them but with the reduction in volume nobody seems to be inconveniencing anybody else (or causing close calls) so I guess it's fine.
That's 100w per cpu.

eg this thing burns 200w continuously when on.

A raspberry pi 3b+ is likely around the same computing power, and burns a small fraction of it.

So, I really, really doubt it.
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com

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In other words - Bad guys buy corp.com so other bad guys can't .
But the core functions of society are no longer working.

Universities provided education that pushed society forward for centuries. In just 30 years of applying growth obsessed capitalism, that has stopped working.

Tech isn't my complaint. Tech helps, yet despite this huge boost, we are going backwards.
Not if the human provides the proofs and the compiler merely checks them (like in Coq, for example).
What made the change for us is libraries dropping support and us having to upgrade those libraries to be in compliance with our security audits. It's a good thing and more libraries need to force the issue.

We were almost forced to find another library or write our own but we were able to find articles where Microsoft had said publicly that they no longer consider IE11 a browser and it shouldn't be used. It saved our hides.
https://deostroll-thoughts.blogspot.com

Old blog. Initially started with evolution, life, evolutionary psychology, mysteries of life...then it has slowly inched into cosmology and mathematics...

Ask yourself questions like "Why sleep?", or "Why music is popular?" or "Why is the basic proportionality theorem always true?"...That's that blog...
My D-Link router had domain.name as the default dhcp domain name, which caused some of my devices connected to it to resolve <whatever.tld>.domain.name when <whatever.tld> fails to resolve and someone have set up ad pages in many .domain.name pages to take advantage of the flaw. I've recently blogged about it(https://harigovind.org/articles/who-is-hijacking-my-nxdomain...). Need to be always careful when configuring things like this especially since we now have hundreds of tlds like .email, .work etc.
Stateful Functions 2.0 – An Event-Driven Database on Apache Flink
Because the thing that tech hasn’t solved yet is misaligned incentives. No amount of advanced technology will counteract an organization or industry thats incentivized to be inefficient.

Especially in the case of universities which are largely “non profit”, as are the majority of hospitals. Without shareholders to push for increased efficiency and price competition, the leadership has little reason to care about that.

It should be no surprise that as a result, college education and healthcare are two of the biggest expenses Americans deal with. Misaligned incentives.
Muse-dl: Download and stitch books from Project MUSE
Out of order... The “branding” that became Obey started in 1989. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_the_Giant_Has_a_Posse
I feel as though we hear about some horrible security flaw from Microsoft every other day.
The (Fake) 'Free Public WiFi' You Always See at Airports (2010)
Have you tried VisualVM [0,1,2]? I've found it pretty easy to use. I'm not sure how helpful it will be for native memory, however (likely not much!).

[0]: https://visualvm.github.io/

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

[2]: https://visualvm.github.io/
Wow, I used to play guild wars! Cool to hear they were so ahead of their time!
Mostly performance. GForth is slow compared to the optimising compilers (I know about gforth-fast already). Also I don't care that much about open source. I'm old enough not to be opposed to the idea of buying compilers.

I ended up with iForth which is well priced, targets 64bit and has a simple license. Here's a feature list http://users.bart.nl/users/mhx/i4faq.html

SwiftForth and VFX are awesome as well but 32bit only and can't justify paying that much at this point.
I feel like there should be fines for using anything other than reserved-by-RFC names. When will it end?
As shown at the start of the thread, with Flash Alchemy, already in 2011.

Those people are the ones with an agenda to spread WebAssembly as above anything else in regards to safety, and the very first attempt to have a bytecode format for C and C++ code, when IBM and Unisys mainframes, CLR, Brew, Tendra, PNaCL, Alchemy have been there first.

My agenda, is only to prove a point that, it isn't that much safer than PNaCL, and the only thing we got from its adoption is a 10 year delay having a general purpose VM in the browser.

Ironically, Chrome is anyway who calls the shots in WebAssembly, as per browser market share.
Nothing inherently wrong with crypto itself, but yeah that project looks really scammy and has little to do with Atari, IMO.
Can confirm; personal site appears to be down.
Looks like you write about the things I'm very much interested in. Will definitely check that.
WeWork hit by rise in unpaid rent
Signs that your development process is Agile only on paper – and how to fix it
Spain is moving to permanently establish universal basic income
Changing Conditions for Neural Network Processing
Agree with you, however bank rules rely that normality law (small loss at the tail will be covered by the entire population). Here we have a typically extreme case event and generalized Pareto law is more illustrative to deacribe what we witness right now. Banks reserve are clearly not enough to cover all the all loss.
So unless a global agreement with every parties ( renters, landlords and Banks) can't see a fair solution popping up.
Sure thing - I’ll do it tomorrow
There's also the issue of websites and applications (hello Electron) wasting insane amounts of resources for things that were done just fine a decade ago with 1/10 of the processing power and memory.

My 12-inch MacBook (bought in 2017, but it's a low-power dual-core CPU) struggles on a lot of websites including YouTube - not for the video decoding but for the page rendering. I remember watching YouTube just fine a decade ago on a machine much less powerful.
Ironically at universities in the UK we seem to have more "professional services" staff than ever.

Part of what they do is really valuable: customer services helpdesk/helpline for students for example, every question they answer is one that doesn't end up taking academics' time.

But then there's also all the "quality control" where you really wonder how we ever managed to run a degree without every decision going through at least three different committees. And you need someone to sit on these committees, because academics will avoid them whenever they can :)
That's right, the US residency is very valuable, people are ready to pay big money to live there.
My pages page is down.
Monster Hunter 4U (and possibly others) has triggered shoutouts (e.g., paraphrasing, "I'm jumping on the monster!" when you jump on the monster, "Oh no, I've been knocked out" when you get knocked out, etc) that show up in each player's own language.

Final Fantasy 14 has a series of dropdown chat menus, and handy tab-completion, that let you say words/vocab (like "White Mage") or phrases ("Let's queue for a dungeon!") that show up in players' own languages
Why? Their plan for bootstrap v5 at the moment is just some cleanup to fix mistakes they made and remove the jquery dependency. I dont see the reason for these goals to not support ie11.

As much as i hate ie11 we have to still support it as its used in many businesses using our softwares
I wonder what kind of effort went into fitting the dialog into just 182 kanji, I suppose a lot of words were in kana that would not otherwise be.
> Thousands of tenant companies halt payments or try to break leases as coronavirus empties offices

> The company has been overwhelmed by the volume of calls and emails from businesses big and small that have moved to preserve their own cash as the coronavirus pandemic brings economic activity to a standstill, according to people involved in the matter.

> The group’s occupancy rate fell to roughly 64 per cent at the start of April, down from 79 per cent at the end of September. One person cautioned that the drop did not yet account for the full economic fallout of the crisis and the surge of cancellations the company was still girded for.

> WeWork has offered rent holidays to keep some clients and renegotiated monthly terms for others in an effort to retain as many of its more than 662,000 members as possible.

> However, many companies have decided against negotiating with WeWork and have either removed their credit card information from its payment system or declined to wire rent for the month, one of the people added, with lost income running into millions of dollars at least.

> Royal Caribbean, the cruise ship operator, was among the companies in recent days to notify WeWork that it would stop paying rent for the space it leases in Miami. The group, which suspended its global fleet in March, told the Financial Times on Monday that it was taking “decisive actions to protect the company’s financial and liquidity positions”.

> One employee said the company had taken its time to process termination requests and was attempting to “fight for every penny” as customers sought to cancel their leases.

> “Adam sold us on changing the world,” the employee said. “Sandeep has turned us into collection agents.”
Well it sure beat using H.323
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Hope my blog encourages you all to embrace learning a little bit more (:

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Well, https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0014.html isn't even that new, and yeah, it's only for service discovery right now, but I'm pretty sure you'd get multicast support in the popular clients, at least for Merkle-Tree (BEP-0030) torrents with e.g. 2^10 piece size.
Hey, I've got an addition to your list, a spanish company called ISEND, makers of EDDYeyes.

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