skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have often wondered whether there are any objective criteria for judging intelligence at all, or whether it is all subjective. It must be the case that the success of accurately modeling the world around you, predicting the future of the world around you based on your model, and taking action to achieve an outcome is one way to evaluate intelligence. If we have two minds, and one is better at modeling and taking action and achieving its own desired outcomes, then it must be considered more intelligent, right? But here's the rub! Effective modeling cannot be done with garbage (or no) data. Literally choosing to have bad data cannot possibly lead to better decision-making, as the model is less and less accurate.

In other words, garbage in, garbage out. "Lalalala I can't hear you, you can't see me, we aren't dying" is an objectively stupid strategy. And it's leading to objectively bad results. Let me just say it bluntly. This is stupid. Please can we use that word again? Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

Infuriating.
Isn't there still a key difference there? Inserting the latter snippet in your Golang function does not require you to change anything about the function's definition or calling conventions. From the outside, it continues looking and behaving exactly as any other (synchronous) Golang function. On the other hand, if your JS function contains an await, then it must be made async and every invocation of it must be made prefixed with await or some other async-wrangling boilerplate, you lose access to language features such as exceptions et cetera.

Golang functions only have one colour. This colour may be closer to "red" than "blue", but at least you never need to concern yourself with this as the consumer of an API, and you can count on the rest of the language having been designed around what is possible with these "purple" functions, as opposed to JS where the situation is that the language provides you with plenty of nice features to structure your code on paper but the design of existing code you need to interface with prevents you from effectively using them.
I really like you
Yeah, I'd hate to be the one enlisted guy (he actually did an AMA on reddit a few days ago)
I discovered this for myself when I realized that while on 4 hours of sleep, I could power through stuff with the aid of enough caffeine and feel at least marginally productive...

...but I started leaving typos in everything.

That really doesn't sound like much, right? Honestly, though, it genuinely freaked me out a little, existentially, the first time I noticed. I was one of those nerds who got to a state spelling bee as a kid, and I've always been a voracious reader. I've had spell-check turned off since forever because it would inevitably be the spell-check that was wrong about niche terms.

But without enough sleep, all of that competence that I usually just take for granted vanishes. I end up with 'good moerning' and 'how are yoiu' and 'paass the salt', and I don't even notice I'm doing it until I look back at what I've written and double-take.

And that's just with casual writing, probably one of the lowest-overhead mental tasks possible for many people. God only knows what kind of disaster would result from me trying to drive or operate heavy machinery in that state.
Just because OSX has a very outdated BSD-derived userland does not make it a BSD. The OSX kernel a mach microkernel and shares no code from the BSD projects. This is a farcry from the *BSDs which can directly trace all of their code and history all the way back to 4.4BSD
Better UX mainly.

They were looking to deploy those IOT beacons that can give granular and real-time data on asset availability. A lot of the refunds stem from currently inefficient processes.
Who's going to make food?
AntennaPod[1] (my favorite and only) is open source and distributed through F-Droid, so it can't be arbitrily removed by Google. (And if for some reason it were to be removed from F-Froid, you can compile and install it yourself.)

[1] https://f-droid.org/app/de.danoeh.antennapod
I would be quite happy for Google to disappear. I'm beginning to think that anyone who works for it should consult their conscience.

Podcast Addict is not only the best podcast client but one of the best apps available.

Sorry I don't have anything substantive to add to the conversation, just wanted to add my vote for Podcast Addict.
I'm showing my bias but my good friend Andrew runs Blender Guru on YouTube. Admittedly he covers everything from beginner to advanced so I don't know where your skill level sits, but Andrew has a lot of content.
I appreciate how hard it is to get buy-in from all parties involved, and NDC was initially launched in 2012, but is XML still a good fit for this solution? Are there better alternatives now?
Startup hook pattern (Erlang)
The pain of COVID-19 is being felt across the ride-hailing industry. Lyft, Uber’s main rival, recently announced that it would be laying off nearly 1,000 employees, or about 17 percent of its workforce. Careem, Uber’s Middle Eastern subsidiary, slashed headcount by more than 30 percent and suspended its bus transport app.
Because serious opposition is criminalized. You are not free.
I am! And for better or worse, one of the first things investors insisted on was bringing in Schmidt as "adult supervision".
“Disagree” and “hate” are not synonyms. They’re related terms but they don’t mean the same thing and are intended to express different extremes of sentiment.

“Deliberate” and “malicious” is another example of related but terms that are not synonyms.

Whereas “mindless” was entirely fabricated by you.

You can’t just swap out words for more emotive terms and assume that was the writers original intent. Especially when you then go on to use those new, more highly charged words, as part of your complaint against the original comment.

I can also see for your post history ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23229973) that you don’t like it when you feel misquoted yourself, so why do the same to others?
Python is slow – it doesn't have to be
The line between deciding that a particular level of harm is acceptable, and accepting it by default, is blurry. And yet allowing, through inaction, a human being to come to harm is not functionally or morally different than deliberately harming them. And so we wash our hands of responsibility by telling ourselves we didn't do anything. But who are we fooling?
Ah, “the parts that work are faster but a lot of it is broken” does seem like it suggests the benign explanation
Turns out it's done by a lot of hard work rather than passively collecting rent:

"Partnerships with large OEMs operate as signals that also generate barriers to imitation. As pointed out by one of our informants: “If a company like Samsung or TI is licensing from us, this means it may be difficult to develop our technology.” Multiple licenses create a psychological barrier to entry. In addition, the IP that is licensed needs to be complemented by ARM’s customer services and considerable expertise"

from p22 of here https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/uploads/Research/CTM/working_p...

So I suppose somebody could make an ARM clone but they'd have to actually do it.

An actual licensee would surely be prohibited by the license though.
Isn't that a kind of state failure?
Meta: It's a solvable problem that something like Pacer isnt open. Running stats on the law and how it's applied could be easier.
FBI successfully broke into gunman’s iPhone but it’s still angry at Apple
TAI64, TAI64N, and TAI64NA
Try one of those wake-up lights if you can. Bright light in the morning can really help with waking up smoothly, or at least getting you into a relaxed half-awake state that makes an alarm less jarring.

Anecdotal source: Having a (tiny but well-angled) skylight does wonders for me in the summer months.
Because there are no laws on the books that punish legislators and the executive for lying to you.

The voters are supposed to punish them, but voters in Florida don't care as long as they have an (R) next to their name on the ballot.
Sinclair is the same broadcasting station featured in the terror-inducing "This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy" video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE&disable_polymer=...
Compared to what? Taking rand()%n? Of course they're usually slower than that, because they provide better quality distribution of random numbers.
From The Epoch Times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times
>“ Things have really changed since I began learning, and rightly so. Instead of coding in plain HTML, CSS and JS, I'm now using endless frameworks, modules and libraries to build increasingly more complex web and mobile applications. It's great, if I didn't use these tools my code would be an unmaintainable mess.”

How sad that this has become the widely accepted narrative.
There’s a lot of value right now in NOT building things that way.
Last week I had to deal with fixing another dev’s mess on a stuck project.
Big company website, but nothing fancy at all. Purely a marketing window. The amount of complexity he put into it by using Vue.js was insane for the scope of the project. INSANE.
To do something as easy as changing the pages <title> tag we had to write an unjustified amount of lines of code.
Framework-itis really is a bad disease, it not only affects your work, but it definitely clouds the simplest form of judgement, it appears.
Then we have exactly this: someone who got a hammer and spent years treating everything like a nail comes to a reckoning, usually framed as a longing for the good old days when things used to be simple.
Well, you know, things can still be simple, if you don’t offload to unjustifiably complex frameworks the duty of understanding what’s going on in your project.
To be clear, I’m not at all against frameworks. I love and use some of them, but they’re like a closet. If you are a tidy and organized person, your closet will be full of neatly folded clothes; if you’re a messy person, it will still be a repository for heaps of displaced garments, ready to fall out as soon as you open the door.
That piece is spot on. The common theme is that a distributed value system based on personal gain is absolutely and totally at odds with preempting a pandemic. The economic interests of business owners and investors is directly at odds with the health and safety of the public. The market won't fix this. It will just price death in. And guess what? They're busy pushing that cost to zero through their corrupt influence on politicians.
I spent one of the hottest summers on record couchsurfing around Europe. The heat and the casual accommodations both truncated my sleep significantly. I thought I'd cool off by going mountain biking in the Alps.

I didn't realize how tired I was until I got to the top of the lift. It was fucking terrifying!

Doing regular vacation stuff like eating and talking to people was totally fine - I hadn't even noticed I'd accumulated a sleep deficit. But the attention and the quick reflexes extreme sports require are another matter entirely.
I almost agree that most cops are potentially not bad cops, except that most of them participate in the blue wall of silence and covers for the bad cops. That makes all of them complicit and the whole system corrupt.
Clipboard managers are probably the thing I miss the most on Wayland.
I suppose that was(is) the dream of the mobile web. Where web technology is good enough to deliver an app experience via a website.

No approval process, no banned from App Store.
> There is no reason to discuss legal obligations because that part is covered by licenses.

Correct, I think we agree on that.

> The entire discussion is at the level of social expectations.

No, this statement:

> No, there is no obligation. But there’s a thing called courtesy.

Is actually “No, there is no legal obligation. But there’s a thing called courtesy.“ And here the contradiction falls away and the discussion turns to whether there is a social expectation to be courteous. On that point my (and the above commenter, I suspect) would say that yes, of course there is an expectation of social courtesy. There’s one in every other setting too, so why not here?
Because total = increase - decrease.

If the decrease is bigger than the increase, you will see the total drop.
>both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, two of the most successful men in history, are both seemingly dedicated to their families.

So the richest (for most part of time) and second richest man have privilege to spend time with family? What a surprise

>Success is also a subjective term

Let's not play the word game, if you made a billion dollar last year. You are successful, this is pretty much the normal definition of it. Don't change it to fit something like family matters, community matters or noble purposes imho
How Distortion Works in Music
It's really poorly phrased in the article but I assume what they meant is that LHR is in a time zone that sometimes observes GMT, and otherwise observes BST (British Summer Time) in the summer which is 8 hours ahead.

It's not exactly correct that SFO is 7 hours behind GMT because this isn't true for around half the year. It also isn't exactly true that LHR is in GMT.

Most of the year, SFO is actually 8 hours behind LHR. A few weeks are off due to different DST dates.
QNAP Pre-Auth Root RCE Affecting ~450K Devices on the Internet
Modern Touch-Friendly Design
I guess it's that rare time where the stopped clock that is Rand Paul is correct again.
GMT doesn't observe summertime, but LHR does. So LHR (and the rest of Britain) is only in the GMT time zone for half the year.
Why am I not surprised? 共匪 have far too much influence.
A Georgia shopping center tries to come back to life after coronavirus lockdown
> If a browser does include "recommended sites" the landing pages of those sites best keep to Google's and Apples rules.

You mean sites like the BBC? That's where all the COVID-19 related content I have listened to with Podcast Addict came from. Is the BBC supposed to kowtow to Google's self serving rules and propaganda?
As an EU citizen, the US response to COVID-19 really is laughable. It's just that a lot of people die due to this ideological "but muh freedom" mentality.
I used to maintain a zero inbox, until I read an article by the author of the technique (apologies for not remembering the source) that my mailbox is a TODO list that anyone can put an item on that. Since then I'm okay with with unread mail.
... and was willing to listen to someone who was obviously more intelligent than him.

Idiocracy has its flaws, but I have never thought it would become an accurate description of reality :/
A comment from a non-American on the sidelines, who is generally appalled at Trump's sheer incompetence/myopia but otherwise not hugely invested in this:

Reading the New York Times recently, I've been struck not only by the amount of sheer bile directed at Trump and Republicans (which I can understand), but a consistent thread of seemingly wanting to make the COVID crisis seem as bad as possible, casting even positive developments in the US in a negative light ("Cases are going down in city X... but how many are not being measured in city Y!?!"). In particular, the necessity of locking down everything forever (and, by extension, loosening lockdown being an unforgivable sin) is starting to take on religious tones, instead of being an extreme but temporary measure grounded in science. Which sounds uncomfortably like a mirror image of what Republicans and the right-wing press are doing ("freedom good, lockdown bad!").
Even running updatedb (except the initial run) and then running locate might be faster than running a recursive grep from the root directory. Definitely if you run that grep more than once.
Please don't take HN threads into brain-dead partisan flamewar. It's always the same, and it's not why we're here.

(No, this is not because I'm supporting Republicans. I'm supporting HN.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23231556.
It's funny how this perfectly reasonable argument is always downvoted.
That is the right decision...the officers should not be sued for the alleged theft because they were seizing property pursuant to a warrant.

The police department or city should be sued for it, if the warrant were unlawfully obtainedor if items seized during the search allegedly went missing. And they were sued.

The ruling you are complaining about was specifically about removing the officers as individual defendants from the civil case. The city of Fresno is still a defendant in the case. It is simply the individual officers that are not.

On another note--the difference in values in that case is due to how the police recorded the coins into evidence. When physical money is taken into evidence, they record the stated value of the money (i.e., a quarter is recorded as a quarter...even if it is a rare quarter worth $1million on the collectibles market, since it's not the police's job to get an appraisal for items taken into evidence). The plaintiffs valued the collectibles at their alleged market values.
I have similar setup (infinite history, remember directory, shell session, ...), and then ctrl-r runs fzf that find the command first in this session, then in the same directory, then in the rest. I already hinted about that setup here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22504950

Note, that just logging your directory, time and command in text file is great help, since if you don't remember something, you can just open the file and find what you need.
What do you mean by spoofing the from header? I do not know much about mail spoofing.
The outer post was talking about helping family members with their computers. They're gonna be dragging files around in the Linux equivalent of Explorer, not extracting stuff to tmp and manually applying diffs. So doing a 1:1 comparison on that basis, the Registry has the standard tools of the trade on Linux beat. There's certainly no particular reason you couldn't send someone a .sh file that manually applies your diffs to grandma's config file, I guess...

FWIW I've had Ubuntu system updates blow away entire config files (helpfully setting the old one aside, at least) instead of applying diffs, but maybe that was the package maintainers being naughty.
Bubonic plague, tuberculosis and polio still exist outside the West, but they don't cause much inefficiency here. I doubt doing some ongoing testing for SARS now that it's been mostly eliminated in Asia will permanently cripple Asia's economies. The inefficiencies of continued outbreaks on less well organized nations are harder to predict but possibly much larger.
It's a nice sentiment to have, but it's mostly just halo effect. Democracy is nice, but not that nice. In fact, it's completely orthogonal to "firing disagreeable public servants, censoring information, blatantly lying" - these issues happen in democracies as much as everywhere else.
This seems like terrible advice and a terrible clickbait title.

His conclusion is even this:

> Coming full circle, I must admit, the DRY principle is a pretty important piece of advice after all

So DRY is fine. Just be sure you're deduplicating for the right reasons. Like every other "rule" we have out there for programming, there are caveats and you shouldn't be blindly applying rules.

I hate people like this.
> So I'm in the process of setting up a workflow

There shouldn't be a need to setup a process. This functionality exists in many places.

For example, I use Joplin to save articles in Markdown format. It's the best web to markdown conversion tool I have found. Then at some point later, I'll pick what's still interesting to me and export from Joplin to PDF if I like.

Insapaper is $3 / month and is a save for later tool. You can then export all your articles in Epub and other formats.

I'm sure there are loads others.
If We're Not Careful, Tech Could Hurt the Fight Against Covid-19
not that we've seen. We weren't really looking at that aspect.
I think for non-techie users these things are equivalently difficult.

For me, I hate installing stuff, last time I installed Apache must have been before 2004, and I would like to not have to go back.
Maybe it’s just a dry run for their censorship implementation that they plan to use in China mostly (and wherever else China needs it).
> I'll give Google that benefit of the doubt if they reinstate PcA immediately and apologise for their cock-up.

Why? It's not as if no one in Google knew that this would happen. I don't think Grace Hopper's 'Better to ask forgiveness than permission' applies here. Google knew what they were doing when they instituted the rule and their behaviour suggests malice aforethought.
Why aren't there easily available statistics for this well-defined social function? I can get medical malpractice statistics very easily, why not law enforcement malpractice?
When a principal is made a middle-school science teacher, that’s also not a firing.
> How come they are banned on CCP’s biggest nemesis?

You'd be surprised to what lengths Western companies go just to either gain or not lose access to over 1 billion consumers.
Imho, the main advantage of Parallel is that it can execute the tasks on multiple hosts, straight from the man page:

> GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list of URLs, or a list of tables.
UK Court Settles Trial via Zoom – But Is This the Future We Want?
I understand the frustration of advocating a minority/contrarian view on HN, but please don't do rage-deletes. You're depriving readers who want to know what you had to say. Some of those would have been genuinely interested, despite the downvotes from others.

Anyone who wants to read a downvoted comment, btw, can do so more easily by clicking on its timestamp. That should take you to a page where it's more readable—assuming of course that there is content left to read.
It’s funny how quickly people forgot how none of the mainstream republicans wanted anything to do with Trump... until he was the only option left and they went with their only viable option to win (sounds familiar to this year’s democrat primaries doesn’t it? Although with even less internal resistance to the winning is more important than quality idea.)

What we’re witnessing in Congress and elsewhere is political survival. Politicians are masters at compromise and self survival. And power blocks have a way of closing ranks while their power remains, but the second it slips no one will care and they’ll eat him alive (just like how Bush was persona non grata for almost a decade, until his recent image revival by cynical democrats).

A recent poll of Americans using words to describe the president and one of the most popular words by right leaning Americans was ‘jerk’.

So many people draw huge conclusions simply because he was seen a least bad option in the minds of less than half the voting public, when the Democrat option was deeply unpopular (including judging by her prior repeated failed campaigns) and seen as untrustworthy.

The fact the next election is not a cake walk for democrats also says everything you need to know about the quality of the competition they managed to pull together against what should be the easiest adversary in modern history, with wall-to-wall negative coverage by the global press and endless attacks across social media... just like last time. But I guess it’s easier to make partisan platitudes than have nuance.