skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, from their point of view they aren't evil; they are "making the web faster", they say (and they're not wrong) that most sites are so full of crap like trackers and adverts that it negatively impacts your browsing experience.

This Twitter post costs me 1.6MB of bandwidth and it keeps pinging for more stuff, and that's with an ad blocker enabled. While we're talking just bytes in terms of the main message.

Google is selling it as an improvement to the web, but that also says a lot about websites.

But this has been Google's strategy for a while now; they push technology that make the web faster and accessible to more people (like Chrome, HTTP/2 and 3, webp/webm, google DNS, google fiber (discontinued), Android, etc) and score goodwill, but at the same time they know if people can browse faster they will run into Google ads more often, earning them more money.

AMP is no different; if a site that doesn't even have google ads takes 10 seconds to load, they earn nothing. If the same content takes <1 second to load, WITH google ads, they earn money. And they earn money more often because people can consume more content instead of wait for things to load.
Because the government closed something that acted exactly like it before?

Aka chilling effect.
Google Toilet must become real.
How involved is it to get the training for doing some of these technical diver jobs?
That's nice to hear. I am Danish, and it is exactly the missing Danish national characters (Æ, Ø and Å) that prevents me from using the font, although having at least Latin-1 would be better.

I don't own a tv, but I often read news headlines from webified teletext at https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttx1.exe/110 and so I have sometimes contemplated having a personal website in the style of teletext.
AMP might be faster if you browse the net with javascript enabled by default and with no content blockers enabled. But if you don't do those things, AMP is a clear net-negative.
I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment, but of all the dreams to pin your critique on, I’d recommend not using travel or public service. While there is definitely consumerist travel of the Instagram variety and plenty of misguided philanthropy, there’s a beautiful baby in that bathwater.
Of course he's afraid of people voting: he and his party are only in power because people don't vote.
The best way to opt-out is to switch to another search provider like DuckDuckGo.
Americans, it turns out, would rather visit a store than buy food online
Yes I understand how quotations work. Not sure why it coming from someone who hasn't been involved in the project for 18 years is supposed to carry any more weight than usual Breitbart garbage.
If he's (reasonably!) not happy with Lenovo's build quality, he's absolutely not going to be happy with Clevo.
I don't think Slack has the same telephony integration capabilities (eg. Cisco iOS)
I see a lot of hate for AMP, and rightly so.
I've been able to get rid of it completely on my Android device with two tricks:

- Changed my browser for Kiwi browser : very close to Chrome but with some neat features, one of them being to automatically redirect AMP links to original links

- deAMPify is a way to redirect AMP links from any other app than the browser

I really wish there was a way to opt-out of AMP as on iOS you're definitely SOL
I had the same opinion you did until I went to a Go meetup and everyone else was a C programmer. Coming from Ruby, Go wasn't expressive or forgiving. But everyone coming from C thought it was wonderful.

Personally, I feel you with respect to casting integer types. I'll code away with int's until something suddenly needs an int64 to use a package and I have to cast everything or refactor everything to int64. I once commented in a thread where people were asked, "In hindsight what feature would you like in Go?" I said that int should just be an alias for int64 (and float == float64), since these were the defaults in the stdlib. I was downvoted into oblivion in a thread on hypotheticals. I understand the historical machine dependent 32/64 difference, but since the stdlib made a choice, the default should line up nicely. That said, I mostly run into this in Project Euler problems, so not in my day to day work.
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> Vitamin D deficiency is a strong factor, not for getting Covid-19, but for bad outcomes.

It might be a strong factor - this isn't yet demonstrated conclusively by enough peer reviewed studies yet, so it shouldnt be described as conclusive. Thankfully, there a long history of vitamin D supplementation, so unlike hydroxychloroquine, it isn't likely to increase death rates. At worst it might just do nothing.

Also, a number of common foods contain or are supplemented with vitamin D. Assuming that somebody has no fundamental issues with vitamin D absorption from food, a typical healthy diet that includes some of those foods should be sufficient to keep a person out of vitamin D deficiency, with no pill-based supplement needed.
another issue I don't see brought up in generalist areas is electronic voting machines. closed source / unaudited / unauditable software in voting machines - what % of fraud exists in those, and how would we even tell? lots of posturing about 'mail in' stuff right now, but compared to electronic machines used in many districts, I'd still prefer mail-in paper ballots.
Any cite for your claim placebo can’t prevent a covid death? That seems unlikely given how powerful and common the placebo effect seems to be.
So "dark patterns" are ok?
I do use an adblocker on my iPhone.
You have to think this type of squeeze will push people away from the platform
I just had a MBP fixed (it was quick!) due to it swollen up one day. It would not lie down flat on a table and the trackpad was useless. Obviously could not close the screen either. How common is this?
> Twitter has now shown that everything we have been saying about them (and their other compatriots) is correct. Big action to follow!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12656495454107443...

$TWTR already down 5%.
I don't think so. I personally don't use sites that don't have HTTPS. I don't have any interest whatsoever in making it easy for third parties to see my traffic.
The content is essentially the same in both places: they're both just aggregating content from news providers. So you go with the one that has a non-awful UX. Apple news also lets you access paywalled content through a single subscription (News+), which is nice if that's your thing.
It never gets old, seeing people assume I must necessarily use the same monopolistic platforms I despise for their constant encroachment upon and enclosure of what were once cultural commons, or that uncoordinated individual action can possibly suffice to counterbalance such concentrations of power.

As long as it remains useful to preserve the appearance of competition in the streaming audio market, Napster will continue to exist. Enjoy it while it lasts.
>You have a good case against the other party for extortion

Doesn't really help when the other party is clearly a child with no money.
> brags about raping women

by what definition of "rape"?
In Europe the based model 3 is still €47k. So about $50k. And that's the starting price :(

That's an almost 33% higher price than the US version.
Firefox Android doesn't do AMP so that's the mobile fix.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Absolutely nothing wrong with that kind of talk and recruiters and interviewers will be familiar with it and shouldn't bat an eye when you phrase it that way.
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So combined Volkswagen, Audi, ŠKODA, SEAT and Porsche have outsold Tesla? Doesn't really sound like an achievement, except if you're in charge of mergers and acquisitions.
I have thought the same for year and finally just switched to iOS.
Perhaps certain sites became prolific due in part to the moderation decisions they make for their platforms.

For instance, there are other sites that take a very different moderation strategy (4chan comes to mind.) If Twitter developed a moderation strategy like Voat or 4chan, likely people would leave for a company that utilized a different moderation style. Then you'd be wondering why there isn't "free speech" on that platform.

This gets to the root of the issue, the crux of the argument isn't whether one is entitled to have a public space to spread ideas, but whether one is entitled to a platform by which their ideas can be spread. A platform whose ubiquity is paradoxically dependent on that platform's ability to moderate what type of discourse is permitted.
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Well, here's the funny bit: Twitter doesn't need to decide. If someone in a major power, such as a G20 member country, is in a government position, they are a world leader. And because things are always contested, that same category can be extended to high-ranking members of opposition.

I'm going to take you at your word and accept that world leaders rarely tell the truth: so they should ALL get the same treatment then. But instead of stamping their output with just "fact-check this", why not unilaterally label all of it with: "may contain lies, omissions and half-truths"?
Problem here is twofold. First Google being anticompetitive. Second being companies thinking they need Google for their income.
That question presumes that crashing is the only axis upon which computer users experience pain.

Linux users said the same thing in 1996. It didn’t work then, either.

Anyone working on desktop Linux should know they’ve hit saturation with their current approach. What‘s missing or broken that’s causing Mac users to prefer a system that crashes once a day?
If you're talking about GPL, you are not talking about Qt.

I'm not sure where you're going with this.
Right, that's the literal translation, but is that the legal term for a purchase done over the phone or internet like it is in Dutch?

Edit: Via nl.wikipedia "wet koop op afstand" -> refers to the European law this implements -> https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/NL/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A... -> English -> it's called a "distance contract". Not quite as descriptive as the Dutch term for it, not sure that's going to be very useful in common conversation.
I love initiatives like this, but IMO if you're doing a self-study "degree" aimed at practical AI knowledge, I would:

* Drop the compilers and database courses.

* Add an intro to statistics course.

* Pick one domain, since you'll need deep, proven domain expertise in one area to get hired without a real degree. So doing both NLP and CV, for instance, is probably a bad choice if this is your endgame.

* If you choose CV, add a traditional image processing course. I don't recommend to rely on whatever happens to be included in the DL for CV course. You might also want to add a good general purpose DSP course.

* Substitute exams for projects. Exams are adversarial so they don't make sense to give to yourself. You'll learn more more doing a project than you would cramming for a fake exam.

* Try to finish the whole thing in 1.5 years, not 4. Spending 4 years on a practical curriculum that doesn't yield an actual degree is a huge waste of time. Try to get the theory out the way in a year and a half so you can jump into real life projects/research. With dedication and without a rigid university schedule that forces slow progress, this is completely doable.
Sure, but such bullying is rather dangerous.

Normally such threads come from people which are somewhat in the process or trying to de-mantel a democracy. So a US president saying something like that is quite worrying even if his intentions are not to undermine the US democracy.
Robin Hanson is an awful human being and also has absolutely no useful knowledge to add to this discussion.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Robin_Hanson
That is one of the reasons to stop using the front page of sites like HN (and lobste.rs and other similar 'popularity-driven' sites) and access the site through the RSS feed. This way you get to see all posts, popularity be damned. On news sites it sometimes gives an interesting insight in the editing process where they first rush out with articles with descriptive titles only to change the title (and, often, the article) to something less descriptive but more 'correct'.
>The kinds of routine maintenance and repair items you typically don’t want to take your car to a dealer for aren’t much of a thing on a Tesla.

They're still cars. Give it 10yr and you'll still need all the same suspension and steering related service that every other car needs. Nobody wants to pay a dealer to do something trivial like CV boots or wheel bearings.
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It is an interesting solution if nothing else. What about capping the number of users or followers to 100 or 1000 other people? That is closer to how humans interacted for the vast majority of history since the development of language. If you think about it, it's extremely unnatural for single people to have direct communication to millions of people. Information can still spread from social group to social group. I don't endorse the idea, but I would be interested to see how it might work and how information would spread and ideas change.
That is not what I said. That is what you understood.

In any case my experience up to now is being rejected with no good reasons (at least IMO) relatively far in the game. If you are looking for reasons to reject someone it is easy to find them as you surely know.

From other sources I learned that my (older) age is working against me in this game. How much so I do not know. Thus my questions.
I never really though of that, but that's pretty true. I guess that using a compiler is generally a lot simpler than using a database. When using a compiler, the majority of the time you're doing something really simple compilation, or you have a build system take care of the entire thing, where as the database requires design considerations. That would be my guess at least.

But I do agree that a database implementation course would be fantastic. It's one of the most important categories of software today for sure, up there with operating systems and compilers. My Uni was going to offer a course this Fall, but COVID has led to it being delayed. Here's to hoping it's offered in the Spring.
Hi there,
Author of the paper here. Thanks for your question. I have actually already addressed this question on our reddit post, please see it: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/gqvnpv/p_s...
The title was "Launcher wipes entire SSD when uninstalling" when this was posted.

They updated it since then: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCL-14107#changehistorydetail...
But my point is that most people don’t care. Certainly the ones who buy a Tesla don’t.

This is like arguing that the iPhone is a bad phone because it doesn’t have a removable battery. For some, that’s a real issue. It may have been somewhat controversial in the beginning. These days no one cares because it hasn’t turned out to be a major issue for most.

A bunch of manufacturers find ways to get owners back to the dealership. Sure, Tesla has more lock in than most, but try taking any other electric car to an independent mechanic. Or a high end import.
I get that you dont want to fly a giant rocket full of liquid oxygen and other explosives into a thunderstorm or hurricane, but what are some practical reasons for postponing a launch due to weather. As I (hardly) understand once you get high up in the atmosphere there is high wind even on a clear day, does rain matter that much?
Partially correct. He’s in power because the left didn’t vote as much as they could’ve, but he’s also in power because his party’s constituents overwhelmingly supported him and went out in droves to vote for him. Hillary thought she had a sure win, so she didn’t campaign in some states; Trump seized those opportunities and won more support.
I think a lot of what gets seen as ageism is push back against the explosion of "software developers" (i use this term very loosly) that cropped up during the dot com boom. Especially in industries that aren't purely tech (finance, healthcare) a lot of really terrible developers have found lasting success just riding on percieved experience. After enough time interviewing these sorts of folks it takes effort not to form biases or let them precolor your experience with new candidates. Believing the that experience implies wisdom can be a trap. It's very possible to have been coding 30+ years (and even find career success) now and still have a host of bad habits further amplified by an entitlement now fueled by a career of false assumptions of self competence.

In my experience the distribution of talented developers tends to be bimodal at all ages it's just the older ones stand out more because they should know better. Also as mentioned else where in the thread, the best developers build up network so they tend to self select out of bad deal start ups and the normal hiring processes so you're not even sampling randomly from the population if you're just doing open hiring.
Propaganda machine at work. Americans will always believe it is the best and most moral country in the world even if it the exact opposite.
They're pushing out the upgrade to everyone soon, and it only supports certain, whitelisted extensions. https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-android-new-feature...
I had the exact same issue with a 2017 13” MBP. Switching from one of those tiny usb c hubs to a full fledged dock with external power solved it.
FWIW I've ran into this too with a new 16" MBP and what largely fixed it for me (happened once in two weeks vs. every time the computer went to sleep) was to disable "Power Nap while plugged into a power adaptor" in the "Energy Saver" system preferences.

(I'm aware that this might not be applicable to your situation, since you might not even use a power adaptor when the crashes happen, just wanted to point this out in case it helps someone else)
Average Qt (widgets) apps look much nicer than most modern whitespace-vomit webapp monstrosities
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Bootcamp drivers are in a sorry state. Expect battery life, performance, trackpad, display to all tank.
Because the so-called "AI" is only good for solving classification problems. Classification problems are great for art, but useless for business.

Business needs to solve the prediction (i.e., regression) problem, which is a completely different kettle of fish.

P.S. Of course by "AI" I mean the 2020 definition of "multilayered neural network".
It does mean that buying the alternative will usually be a "crappy" choice. Leaving the incumbent with the ability to charge a margin and hire better devs. There will be other players who are competitive locally, or provide "good enough" solutions for some customers.

* Assuming any player finds a viable business model, and that our current understanding of ML, Computer Vision, and control systems is sufficient to produce a commercially viable product.
How would anyone know what number of votes constitutes that difference until Nov 3?
Not to forget some possible (super)volcanic burps, leading to events like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer and similar, listed there.

edit: Don't get this the wrong way! I'm not for dismissing any environmental concerns, the opposite. Just understanding them better.
Meh. It wouldn't surprise me if these trials are being run by the makers of Remdesivir or some other drug, and they're purposely killing folks to make their treatment look more effective. It's a pretty common tactic in the pharma industry for drug makers to do trials with enormous doses of their competitors products to make them look more dangerous by comparison, and given that this whole thing has turned into a multi-billion dollar cash grab I would assume that that's what's happening here unless proven otherwise.

It's the same thing with famatodine, where someone observed that folks taking it for heartburn have a lower risk of death. So rather than doing an RCT with giving folks 10mg orally (a normal dose), someone started doing an RCT with like 140mg injected.

Just thinking about it logically, why would you ever give someone a drug that ostensibly works by blocking viral replication when they've already had the virus for multiple weeks? It makes zero sense, which tells you there is something shady going on.
Hi there,
Author of the paper here! We chose Surfboard because 1) it's a fun name and 2) surfers ride waves, and Surfboard works with WAVEforms. That's it really :D
WHO membership given to countries that are members of the United Nations AND countries whose applications are approved by the World Health Assembly. WHA has stopped inviting Taiwan to WHO meetings.

A travel ban to China and Hong Kong was certainly far less of a political issue in Taiwan than it was in the US or Canada for instance.
I have been using Pharo as the backend for my turn-based game. It is such a relief to have the always ready live environment. Together with Flutter (another live env) I can create new backend services in a matter of minutes. For example: in Pharo I just add new field to the response. In Flutter app, without any restarts, I debug the REST call, check the response, modify my inner objects to accept this new field and boom, client and server can talk to each other again! Plus in Inspector I can watch the data changes after each REST calls. I do not have to issue an sql query or stop server in debug mode and recall the REST in order to catch breakpoint. The Inspector window is always there!

All this is done without any restarts of the server/client app. I have even created a smalltalk-to-dart code generator:

https://github.com/gladimdim/smalltalk-to-dart. It serializes Pharo objects into the Dart class definitions with all fields and even with the fromJson methods!
> Yes, of course it is. Most people will all of a sudden ignore someone's message.

Because Twitter adds an annotion to a statement? An annotation that leads to facts/more information?

Why?

> When has it become unacceptable to lie?

If a world leader does that, it needs to be addressed. Would you accept all the information that comes out of other countries, for example North Korea?
At least a couple of forty-something dads on my street have broken out the electric razors in the last fortnight. With barber shops closed, this is a fine time to try out the look.
Yes, words and symbolic acts alone can be malicious regardless if the practical effect is negligible. Since the parent post talked about running coding events, Guido public stance is an example of what to not do in such events.

I have participated in events for gifted children, including teaching python. One such child already had before they came to the event written up the whole game design, painted the different rooms and enemies, created most of the game logic and now needed help with hit detection in pygames. Hit detection is quite a bit beyond the tutorial part of pygames, but in the end we mostly accomplished the goal and they left quite happy. Did I care about their gender or even asked about it? Of course not. Here was a person who needed my help.

Maybe no immedient harm would have happened if I had rejected that child based on their gender or treated them as part of a homogenic group with unchangeable inherent traits. There is always other people, other resources, and they clearly demonstrated the ability to self learn. But what kind of person would I be if I did that?
That just makes it even worse!

Look how much better the Pixel is doing on accuracy too. It's almost flawless while the iPhone, despite the advantage of offline processing, is getting maybe 10% wrong and writing complete nonsense words in there. Who is the hell is "Poor Michael Geer"?

(for clarity, I'm an iPhone user and won't be switching because privacy, but this makes me jealous)
Have a look at svelte
"It's important for us to be trained to think about these things."

This doesn't seem self evident to me.
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