skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aside, rebinding local references can be viewed as a form of mutability.
Well, yes, if no country had a military then no country would need a military. But that’s a rather moot point isn’t it? World peace would be nice but it doesn’t look to be achievable in our lifetimes, and arguably goes against human nature.

It’s also worth noting that the military does a lot more than perpetuate violence. It’s really a jobs program more than anything. And soldiers are often on the front lines of humanitarian disasters, as well. Just look at the hospital they built in New York for one recent example.
I'm using this next time I'm building something from scratch. Thanks.
They long since closed in Mountain View (we used to eat there on Sundays after volleyball) and are now in better digs on Stevens Creek Blvd near Winchester.
A friend of mine had to put his PhD on hold when his company was acquired by Oracle, who tried to force him into signing "their standard employment contract" which effectively granted them ownership to everything he thought while employed by them.

It took 3 or 4 months and 5 or 6 levels of management above his new boss before getting "an extraordinary one-off exemption" to allow him to finish thinking/writing his thesis and allow the university to publish it (as required by the terms of completing the PhD...)

Everyone was _pretty_ sure that would have been unenforceable here in Australia - but that there's a serious practical difference between what is and isn't enforceable in contracts, and going up against Oracle's legal team even when they're on the wrong side of the law. So he just "stopped thinking" for several months until he (temporarily) had written permission to think non-Oracle thoughts...
> Can't imagine the WHO is going to be caught in a second amateur hour with similar embarrassing proportions.

I can imagine it, especially when a certain someone is trying to defund them to shift blame.
Neither are hard drives: if you really care about it, you need multiple copies which are regularly accessed. Putting a box on the shelf for years is playing with fire.
Some of the services Patreon offers bring them dangerously close to being regulated as a lender, or even a bank. Wouldn't surprise me if some number of their staff are retained to meet any such compliance needs.
Now there are slogans like "Drive. Text. Die." They still haven't found a slogan/campaing to get people to put their phones down that has been as effective as "Don't Mess With Texas". Sometimes, no matter how much you wish it so, a slogan just won't take off.
I wonder if this explains why a a couple of brand new Red drives have brought down an 8-drive ZFS array for me.

Oh, well. i'll return them and keep returning them until they work right.
That’s not the question. The question is, why would opening source to the NSA cause you to lose trust in the quality of work.

You seem to have answered the question, “Why is privacy good?” Your answer, at least to me, seems valid, but if you are answering other questions, I would ask, “Can you imagine situations in which individual liberties are trumped by physical safety of a large number of folks?” How have you reacted to CoVID-19 restrictions? Are those two things really so different?
Certainly evokes a lot of nostalgia. The tactile feel of 3D buttons can be mesmerizing at times, a lot of experience has been lost in the race to flat, in addition to lowered affordability of modern UIs.

One bug: Firefox on Linux introduces an extra dotted rectangle on focused buttons (so they end up with two oddly overlapping focus indicators)
Facebook to Invest $5.7B in Ambani’s Jio Platforms
> It was very operational, you calculate, you manipulate concrete data. In French books it's all theorems and concepts.

"¿Por qué no los dos?" as they say? One can also detail how to "calculate" and "manipulate concrete data" in a rigorously correct way, involving precise concepts and perhaps some theorems. (Though an overemphasis on theorems is not necessarily good, either. Sometimes it can even signal a lack of attention to the actual "rules of the game" one is ultimately supposed to be studying, while a focus on direct manipulation would perhaps tend to avoid this. A good balance of the two styles is perhaps best.)
I've been beating this drum about self-driving cars for a while. All these rosy predictions of traffic being better neglect the fact that usage will go way up.
Hmmm I just noticed that too.
> Funny, because Canada (and other countries) likely wouldn’t be able to get away with having such a small army if it were not for the protection afforded by US power projection.

Not true in the Canadian case. Over 90% of the Canadian population is within 100 miles of the US border and they'd have no chance in a conflict with the US. They could just straight up abolish their military like Costa Rica and it would have almost no effect on their security situation. Having an ocean between you and any potential enemies that you can actually defend against is different from genuine free riders like Germany.
Reassignment is mutation. It's really not... on a spectrum of mutability. JavaScript const objects allowing mutation of internal data is vaguely on that spectrum, even though it's misleading and confusing. Literally reassigning a variable isn't even up for debate.
Yeah, also the iCloud client
$2400/month is the amount on top of your unemployment pay. Maximum in WA state puts you at $55k/year with the bonus amount.
I ain't seeing it. I saw significantly more patron contributions. I guess maybe there's a danger I am just that awesome? ;P the general sense I get is people tend to rally around their creators, and I would imagine that happens across the board, and not just in special cases.
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Why is this weird? The DoTs are the ones responsible for the roadways. They own the land where the majority of the litter is originating. And as you said, it easily migrates from there to waterways.
I recall my friends in college praising it at the time. To them, the biggest downside of joining the military (besides, obviously, getting killed) was that your individuality would be beaten out of you. This marketing campaign tried to show that wasn’t necessarily the case.
How is the nonce not an association?

We have two possible options here:

1. Client sends mouse-data + card info to a server, server checks the mouse data, turns it into a fraudPercent, and only stores that percent. That seems to be what they're doing now.

2. Client sends mouse data, gets back a unique nonce, and then sends that nonce to the server with card info. The server could have either stored or discarded the mouse info. It's perfectly possible the nonce was stored with the mouse info.

Those two things seem totally identical. The nonce by necessity must be unique (or else one person could wiggle their mouse, and then use that one nonce to try 1000 cards at once), and you can't know that they don't store the full mouse movement info with the nonce.

You gain nothing by adding that extra step other than some illusion of security.

Note, cloudflare + tor has a similar problem that they tried to solve with blind signatures (see https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/), but that hasn't gone anywhere and requires a browser plugin anyway. It's not a viable solution yet.
Whenever this comes up, the question I have to ask is this: Has there even been a case in California where a jury decided that an employer owned the open source (or other software) an employee developed in their own free time? Has a company in California successfully litigated to take ownership and taken down an open source project because it was an employee’s side project?

To protect myself, I have done the following:

• I make sure, before signing an “inventions” clause, to put all of my open source on GitHub a date stamp before the date when I signed the inventions clause. This way, any and all of my own open source I use on the job (usually, a password generator, but I was once at a company with DNS so broken I had to run MaraDNS locally to have a usable Internet) is stuff I did not develop while working for the company.

• I list all of my GitHub projects, state that none of them are related to what the company develops, and that any and all development is done on my own time, using my own computer.
"100%" only qualifies "testable".
Soviet/Russia never considered human as something important.
Russian management way sharper in moves and less humane.
Soviets proved to people that thousands can be killed - rich, clever, creative, dissidents or you were just unlucky. They showed life doesn't worth anything. But Communist Party and ideology is important.
Who cares how hard is it for you to study, Communist Party decides who can publish, which books you can read. You didn't decide anything.
This system is still alive and works. It just slightly changed outside to pretend to be democracy.
That someone is the entire US military. Operation Enduring Freedom.

As for the patriot act, from justice department:

> the Patriot Act has played a key part - and often the leading role - in a number of successful operations to protect innocent Americans from the deadly plans of terrorists dedicated to destroying America and our way of life.
I agree with Zelphyr's statement and would add that Facebook should also be avoided for support for exactly the same reasons.
Which is a bizarre statement, all ports development happens on the OpenBSD -current branch, which is effectively a rolling release for developers/users running snapshots.

All of those projects that switched were simply expecting LibreSSL/OpenBSD to upstream support, when it hasn't got nearly the same numbers of developers.

Also, there were other problems with updating Qt on OpenBSD, but that was resolved. It is maintained by a single developer.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=158411843726544&w=2
I remember when my Sparcstation was replaced with the Sparcstation IPC. "How in the hell is my monitor going to fit on top of that?"
I think its more related to "commoditizing" than just aggregating.

E.g. if you can commoditize the demand size to a single standard unit (and then have demand to back it up) that's miles stronger than commoditizing the supply side.

In this example it seems to refer to GM having the supply ready, but absolutely failing to find the commodity standard and demand base to grow forward.
Thank you, I had no idea that's why these links haven't been loading. Just switched back to google's resolver (8.8.8.8).
For those not aware, car sharing in general has been on the decline recently. This is after GM scaled back Maven significantly last year following bad financials in cities where it was active [1]. It turns out that different mobility options like car sharing and scooters have wildly different demand curves and expected profitability figures depending on where they're deployed due to a combination of things like culture, infrastructure, alternatives, weather, and price sensitivity.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/20/gms-car-sharing-service-ma...
What if you hire a 3rd party security contractor (also common)? i.e. rent-a-cop

In this case Stripe does tell store owners what they're doing if they would have done due diligence and examined the service more.

Either way, not sure why everyone's coming after Stripe instead of the stores that decided to use it
New Math was very far from Common Core. New Math included generous coursework on abstract algebra and discrete mathematics, both of which are almost entirely ignored in Common Core. Common Core is carefully considered, but pretty traditional.

Common Core is still a good curriculum for the minimal level of math US society wants primary and secondary students to learn. But it's not nearly expansive and innovative as New Math was.
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The rote learner learned nothing more than the ability to regurgitate a mechanical process while the academic learner learned understanding, in my view. You have to work through some examples to solidify it but that should be totally secondary to understanding the meaning and concepts. Like a physics teacher of mine put it, rote math learning is like teaching sea lions to honk horns for fish - students give the right memorized answer and get the grades without really learning anything.
I think it really depends on the time period. During the beginning of decline (past 70s until collapse) very few people really believed in Soviet ideologies and corruption was pretty much at the core of soviet lifestyle.

Though before that I could definitely see any sort of doping would be very un-Soviet.
Haha. I remember phone charges for stuff like that. *69 to see who called you was 50 cents. So many nickel and dime charges. Of course, back then, monthly phone bills weren’t equal to a healthy percentage of a car payment.
I remember this news item clearly. When it hit /r/politics afterwards, I wrote that I wish I had known in advance, as I live close by and firebombing McNealy's parking lot with Molotov cocktails (since Trump loves Russia so much) would have made for an enjoyable evening. I got banned for six months for suggesting violence. (I sorta was, but not against people! Just their cars...). It was worth it.
I’m observing this extra outline on Firefox Nightly on Windows. I can’t discern what’s making it, and suspect it may be a Firefox bug, somehow.
It's somewhat expected. You have three liberal judges and two that are very pro-civil liberties (Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, plus Thomas who wasn't mentioned in that lineup).

Kagan on the dissent side is the only interesting thing for me; I would have liked to hear her thoughts, but she just joined Alito.

This is why the "conservative" vs. "liberal" wing of the court is a bit of a red herring in a lot of cases. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are both very "liberal" when it comes to individual liberties of people being infringed on by the government.
Always interesting to see logic programming applied to music, it is in my experience a good fit for the musical problem space. I spent some time exploring the analysis of chords using answer set programming. On the surface ASP programs look very similar to Prolog but the semantics differ; you query Prolog to answer a question or series of questions related to your program, whereas ASP produces complete "stable models" of your program (it answers "all questions").

The first version of my analysis program would most likely have been a valid Prolog program, and furthermore the program was completely positive (contained no negation). After several weeks of rewrites, I ended up with a much smaller program that also took advantage of ASP "choice" and "optimization" rules. Much of the complexity was reduced by one fundamental improvement in the representation of internal facts and adjusting the rules to accommodate. In hindsight, the original version used a rather foolish approach, but like many things it took some effort to realize why and how to do better.

This process of rewriting and incremental improvement (and initially struggling in a less-familiar programming paradigm) gave me a great appreciation for logic systems, and also a desire to use them more often. There is something very beautiful in reducing a problem into logical relationships, and instead of focusing on algorithms just focusing on the problem space and how different pieces interrelate. It does take practice and experimentation to produce an elegant solution to a problem, but with experience it gets easier. I have no doubt the author of this article could make it feasible to discover chords and tunings as he describes in the Future Work section. Though I would recommend starting over with this goal in mind; even a naive but viable solution might reveal some property of the system that would transfer over to the original program and increase its versatility.
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Yeah, I subbed to a couple new people after seeing them talk about losing other work. Obviously, anecdotal, but hoped others followed suit.
Wish you had posted this yesterday! I could have used it this morning. I bought a copy so I could use it for a presentation on Friday. Thank you for making it!

Suggestion: Make the diameter of the cursor highlight an option I can tweak.
"popular"
Honestly, your friend was just an idiot teenager. No slogan will ever reduce the number of idiots. I'd be willing to say that the number of people knocking over trash cans just to defy a slogan is pretty low. There's a difference between being in opposition to overzealous authority. However, knocking over trash cans is pretty much just dumb.
I remember my dad telling me about google and me telling him metacrawler.com FTW. This is the same guy who showed me the WWW on a lynx browser, and I scoffed that FTP was where it’s at.
Prediction: Lambda will be out of business within 12 months.
We use TeamCity and can't say I have any complaints. We utilize the tagging feature pretty heavily in our deployments and source all artifacts from TeamCity builds. The builds also post success or failure to Gerrit.
Yeah, you can find more information on this standoff here:

https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680

There's some HN posts about it as well.
Well, in a hypothetical ideal ranking system that is stable and not easily gamed, a lower ranked university would need to actually improve the quality of its education (and whatever other characteristics the ranking system measures) in order to move up the ranks. But that would likely to take multiple years or decades of committed effort and investment. It’s sadly rare to see such long term action in our world of instant gratification, whether we’re talking about education, business, government, entertainment, relationships, individual behavior...
No. LibreSSL fork predates the issue, and has its own TLS 1.3 implementation. I'd expect the situation to be similar with Google's BoringSSL, but I don't how closely they track OpenSSL, if at all.
It’s still amazing how uneconomical it is to me not owning a car outside of any highly dense metropolitan are (where you can walk to get most daily supplies and parking is expensive).

I mean, even a quick drive to the store to get milk is a $20 fee without a car. Doing even just a single unplanned trip a week and the economics are way out of wack.
I was comparing my math books (from Soviet university, Physics and Applied Math) and my son's from Canadian university (CS).

Huge difference to be honest. Canadian ones (same as in US I think) were more like belletristic texts written with the goal to give basics without too much thought needed by the reader.

In contrast you cannot approach Soviet text math book without serious thinking effort. You need to overcome some mental barrier to get into. If you cannot do that then this is not yours - choose something else.

I believe that is because of different motivations of high-school systems. University on the West gets its money directly from students so they motivated to attract and keep as many students as possible - so books are entry level to do not scare students. Barrier here is established from "paying user" side.

In USSR universities were getting money from state/society as education was free so they must maintain those barriers so only those who went through were there. Barrier here is from "service provider" side.
Mais de rien :)
Harvard says to keep stimulus grant after Trump vows it will be returned
Jio is EVERYWHERE in India. This is a really smart move for their India play.
This is well and good, but our apartment which is great to live in is not large enough for two work spaces. Nor can we afford to lose the space for as many monitors. And it's not like we can suddenly move in the middle of pandemic quarantine to a new place with more room. When we weren't working at home we did not plan for our living arrangement to also be our working arrangement.

Your advice is great, but only if you can arrange your home around being one or more offices in addition.
Not surprised. I had the worst experience multiple times with Maven, having my car reservation cancelled minutes before picking the car up.
This is fantastic. I looked for a CSS library like this some years ago and couldn’t find one. I didn’t have the courage to try to make it myself.
I would actually think the opposite.

For the last few years, we've been fine with occasional rentals, but I do wish we had one now. Would have been easier to buy food in bulk when this started, and we could drive out of our dense neighborhood and walk around somewhere where social distancing is easier.
I would argue there is a wide gulf between the two.
Exactly this. If people are selling merch with that slogan, then the DoT should get a cut. I know "Don't Mess With Texas" merch exists, but I don't know if any of it was official from the DoT. If it did, the other merch would interfere with it's ability to monetize its trademark.

I'm sure a simple online search would show you examples of merch that, while funny, clearly isn't something a state level agency would release.
Saying this as a Cloudflare investor, CF is in the wrong here and not spec compliant.
Agreed. There is a severe lack of mindfulness and focus in modern education, and strenuous physical exercise like chopping wood can be a real mindfulness-workout.
Something like 350 of the top 1000 creators have their financials public. There are several in that list that likely bring in less than $100 per month for Patreon. That tail has to be pretty long and flat to justify 230 employees and any hope of the type of growth that many investors demand.
Second the 675. Best Buy had it in-store for $199 so I got one before my state's stay-at-home order and love it.

It's not the smartest Roomba ever (it bumps around a lot to learn its environment--I don't think its sensor suite is that advanced) but it does the job just fine. I just let it run while I'm working.

There's a psychological benefit to having clean floors, especially when one is home a lot these days.
How low is super low and what's the picture quality like? Could it be they're trying to save bandwidth?
Often?
The real question should be is why are US textbooks so hard when most people never need HS math after finishing school, and lack so many other skills that are never taught.
I think that when you're close enough to resolve a meter-sized (car-sized) object, the ring would look like a straight band to you. From where you can see the rings curved, you must see them as "solid".
My 3rd grade Ukrainian math education carried me through 10th grade ("Accelerated" classes in a 36/36 school district). An anecdote, but basically I fell behind my Ukrainian peers very early. I remember coming back and a friend who was younger than me was already doing calculus when we weren't.
seeing news like this really brings me down, no matter what i hate when employees take the hit and i sure hope they can find another job sooner rather than later.
This looks great, congrats.

Would love to see this on the iPad as well, know of a few corporate users looking for it. Happy to chat offline.
My guess is that Prolog was more of an AI thing back when people were doing symbolic AI (including Lisp), instead of the statistical shotgun it's latterly become. Prolog is very good at NLP programming, and BNF grammars, and those things were important to an earlier approach to AI.
Forget seeing random nudity, I don't even want to see a video of my husband's or kids' face on my phone unexpectedly.

Why should my phone be displaying something chosen by someone else unless I explicitly opted to engage with them (in this case by answering a video call)?

Plus, even if I did have contacts with a dick pic sense of humor, I'd much rather see a dick from them after I opt in to the call (so that I make sure I'm in an appropriate setting). Getting one randomly is insane.

Imagine if your husband or wife called you for some phone sex (say you are on a long trip) but you happen to be in the elevator with strangers on the way to your room. Brrring! No thanks.