skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
def free_will:

return QuantumRNG.random() > 0.5

Unpredictability doesn't infer free will.
Another Scottish connection being the use of Culture ship names - Iain Banks was from Scotland.

https://fivedeeps.com/home/technology/names/
You don't need to choose between Intellj and Vim, because you can use Vim keybindings within Intellj.

So you get all the powerful IDE commands and the high speed of Vim commands at the same time.

It's easy to set up !
During the last crash, in 2008, my employer at the time, Aspera (since bought out by IBM), boomed as customers moved to cut costs.

The customers replaced shipping disk drives (or, in DoD's case, boxes of analog videotapes!) with transferring files over fiber and satellite links. NYT switched from reading stories aloud over bad phone connections to transferring files via satphone.

This displaced fedex package handlers and mailroom personnel, and stenographers.

In DoD's case, a physical library of surveillance drone videotapes, and everybody schlepping tape cartridges, was replaced with a remote-accessible video library. Nowadays digital video is streamed to Nevada and Utah in real time, and copied off there.

Similar stories apply for numerous other customer industries. These were all permanent changes. Aspera grew to a hundred-some employees in 2014, but must have displaced thousands.

Does this count as automation?
English translation:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

tl;dr: Tidal has denied being suspected for anything, but the Norwegian Supreme Court just confirmed that the company has been under suspicion since June of last year.

The confirmation was part of a decision to allow the Norwegian police to seize documents relating to Tidal's power platform and business model, despite the fact that the documents contain business and operating secrets.
Has the Shitter mob ever actually achieved anything when it comes to taking down companies?

There are scummy companies all over the place (telecoms providers, Uber, etc) and despite the consistent bad press and dissatisfaction they're attracting I don't see them suffering much.
It is curious that the author suggests Goodreads is a place for people to move to from r/books, when recent press coverage of Goodsreads tends to focus on how that site’s time has come and gone. Activity on Goodreads is down, and spammer accounts choke real activity like the place has gone to the weeds. Goodreads’ owner Amazon is reportedly no longer investing in the development of the site, so GR strikes young people today as an antiquated grandpa-era design and longstanding bugs have never been fixed.

Maybe there really isn’t any business case any more for a standalone community for book lovers, and so I wonder how many of his other examples are not sound.
I research particle accelerators. Even over just the past five years that I have been attending international conferences, there has been a broad feeling that the US is no longer the best place in the world for what I study.

In particular, China's budget for accelerator R&D literally has another zero at the end of it compared to the US. They are building their own competing facilities to the ones in the US such as x-ray free electron lasers, synchrotron light sources, and ion colliders. In my own speciality, china has probably one of the top three groups in the world for ultrafast electron diffraction.

I have also seen researchers who came to the US from china return to their home country to take advantage of the better funding situation. Interestingly, we in the US are prohibited from collaborating with them because accelerators are considered advanced technology related to national defense. With how fast they are growing, I absolutely believe that they could become the center of scientific research for the next few decades.

Plus, outside of China, the US is competing with top groups across Europe. Speaking with some of those researchers, people just are not incentivized to make the trip to the US and set up their research here anymore.
Olof Palme murder: Sweden identifies man who killed PM in 1986
>whilst simultaneously portraying it as somehow morally superior

Free software is morally superior, see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-impor.... It provides specific rights to the user so that the user is in control of their computing and not the developers.

> Is this a sustainable approach? Does it promote "choosing the right tool for the job", or does it promote blind idealism ("free is better")?

How to decide what is "blind idealism" and what is "normal idealism"?
Everything is awesome for file name searching.

How do people search inside files on Windows?

I use ripgrep on the CLI, as Windows Explorer's in-built search has a cumbersome syntax.

Sometimes though, a GUI is easier.
Did anyone try to use IndexedDB instead of a big load of json with a separated json approach?
I mean a bunch of static json files, that are only loaded if not already in indexeddb... like patches?

https://gist.github.com/inexorabletash/a279f03ab5610817c0540...
My point is that almost any effort is several order of magnitudes smaller than that of relocating humanity to another planet. Especially when the effort risks of being completely vane because you risk bringing the problem with yourself. And it's pretty strange that from inside the multi-dimensional room built by humans of the far future there's the data you need to relocate humanity but not that needed to kill a humble parasite.

Now, the blight is just a McGuffin: an unimportant device to ignite the plot without really taking part in it, and it can be easily forgotten- like the fact that people are used as batteries in The Matrix, or the storm on Mars at the beginning of The Martian. Maybe it's also metaphorical of the plague of ignorance and anti-scientific thought. Still, it's a bit disappointing that not more thought was put into it- you can imagine Nolan putting infinite hours into getting the picture of a believable black hole, and yet the framework of the story is sloppy. (One also wonders why he didn't use climate change instead of the blight- political reasons?).

The rest of the plot is similarly sloppy: a secretive remnant of NASA is building a giant rocket without external support- and I find the idea that such endeavours can be taken in isolation, outiside of a thriving scientific and engineering environment, profoundly anti-scientific. Someone without specific training is recruited on the spot (despite not having even been contacted before). The rocket leaves from the hall of the office and building area (which might double as a silo, still the offices are directly looking into it). Once in space people happily take off and land from planets without issues of fuel and rockets. The various planets they visit on the way add nothing to the plot: they are just the "they have several adventures and difficulties" part, and could be repaced with different ones without effect. Finally the Hero sacrifices his life, gets the mysterious key to saving humanity, and is granted survival and a new hot lady waiting for him (I have a bit of doubts here as after all those passages near and within black holes, they might be living in two completely different timeframes, where 10 or 20 years are just a rounding error).

Science fiction is a tough genre, because good SF is philosophical, logical, and scientific- stuff that doesn't really appeal a large part of the population. Space travel is even harder, because its reality and glacial pace are so different from what we consider exciting. For its mechanics, 2001 has already said almost everything that could be said for the next 100 years without going into total fantasy.
> but there's a solid amount of type magic there which I'm not sure is portable to every language.

It is, but I've just been too lazy so far to actually do it.
Self-promotion: A number of years ago I made a little website which links you to a random review written by Roger Ebert. It isn't the cleanest of implementations, but it did what I needed it to do when I built it.

http://randomebert.com/
Wikipedia became a battleground for racial justice
Do you have a source for poorer cities spending more on education? I’d like to read up on that
Where are all the ads in Windows? I have Windows on most my computers and Ubuntu on one. The only place I see ads are in Ubuntu when connecting through ssh. Right now there are ads for MicroK8s and Canonical Livepatch.
When 9 people can do the work of 10, the 10th person often finds themselves out of a job. It’s little different if your job type completely disappears or if the economy only needs half as many people doing your job, either way many people need a new type of job.
The old CoC ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200108075747/https://www.freeb... ) mentions sexual orientation three times over 12 items in the first paragraph. Wonder who wrote it.

> Comments that reinforce systemic oppression related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
The flirc case is a giant heat capacitor, not a heat sink.

Notice that it has the only temperature curve where the temperature does not go back to baseline after the stress test. It needs a lot longer to get to equilibrium, and the final temperature is almost certainly hotter than what's shown on the graph.
You seem to fail to grasp the difference between "free as in beer" (gratis) and "free as in freedom" (libre).

Your coffee-response is all wrong: this is not about "free" coffee, about (not) having to pay for coffee, but about a moral stance on coffee: e.g. demanding the cafetaria only serves Fair Trade coffee, regardless of the price.

This is not about "having to pay for it" at all. The opposite really: running your own jitsi or BigBlueButton is probably more expensive than using the free tier of Teams, Zoom or Hangouts.

I run a large-ish jitsi instance: approx €50/month just for the VPS, my hours probably add another €2000/month to that.
Awesome input! That's that I was thinking. Out product will have freemium and premium subscription. Premium subscription would remove ads and give you the access to premium features. So, I was wondering if I could leverage that over getting backed up by the crowd?
I suppose, pedantically, if you're talking about Culture ship names, he should be referred to as Iain M. Banks?
> You meanwhile have provided none.

When I say you cherrypick, I am talking about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/g4tqvk/dutch_antib...

And so, so mare which I don’t have time to find one by one right now. Like the study from Finland, or other places.

I don’t have anything to add to this discussion, since this clearly shows you are incapable of research. One other point is there is non negligible amount of people who does not develop antibodies therefore they are not detected in serological tests. I would expect IFR go down.

(You could have find in other publications too:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033357v...

The only required skill required is googling and having open mind.)

“ Iceland, (1st May) reports ten deaths in 1798 patients, CFR. 0.56%. If we assumed 1% of the population (364,000) is infected, then the corresponding IFR would be 10/3640 = 0.3%. Iceland’s test and quarantine measures may have shielded the elderly group, and deaths may still go up as they lag infection by about two weeks.

Iceland’s higher rates of testing, the smaller population, and their ability to ascertain all those with Sars-CoV-2 means they can obtain. an accurate estimate of the CFR and the IFR during the pandemic (most countries will only be able to do this after the pandemic).

Current data from Iceland suggests their IFR is somewhere between 0.3% and 0.56%.”
-CEBM

P.S. FYI Iceland has done more test than anybody I think (ratiowise).

I have a suggestion for you: READ MORE!
Just exchanged the charger .. the hanging still occurs.
There will always be competition, innovation, and new markets. New needs will arise in consumers, driving new product and service needs. We may automate more low-level legal tasks, but more money will be spent on massages, or therapy, or art. It's unlikely there will be mass automation any time soon.
It's kinda relevant: I imagine sending kids an assignment 3 years old and make them run with current software versions... A lot of them would be disgusted by this back-and-forth installing, tweaking, re-installing, virtual envs, all of that, and will only uses windows let's say, which hides almost everything from the user these days.
I typed "python" on windows the other day and it open the MS-Store, asked me to install Python3.8.3. I said OK. Then: where did it put it? The folder is like a crazy sequence of numbers somewhere in the structure. Is this right? For users, maybe, for developers, a nightmare.
Satellite images from China show Coronavirus outbreak happened in August 2019
Masks alone are probably not enough. But they do seem to help when combined with other preventative measures.

My impression in the US is that people continue not to take this seriously, which causes us to be lax in the basic measures that could get this under control. Very frustrating.

On the positive side, looks like the R1 for most US states is below 1 - https://rt.live/
Space is empty. The deep ocean has things. Old, blind things with little lights and teeth and tentacles.
Testing the Automation Revolution Hypothesis
Sometimes you can partition large sets into multiple ones. If you add this extra level of indirection, you don't need to retrieve all data, just the data that is being used, which should be small fraction for some problems that work well with it. But many problems can't be solved by this approach.
Equity for funding is not the same as a loan or debt on the capital structure, though it does have some overlap because if equity stake has no preferences in the event of compelete loss, it will be as worthless as uncollateralized debt, but, VC funding is far from the notional value of the uncollaterized debt that is allocated to relatively few endeavors out there today…

Perhaps if VC's funded many more things to the same notional as the uncollaterized debt extended globally (not "valuations", not re extending to the same companies after previous funding from the same one), I would agree to degree , if they faced 100% loss of value extended if the endeavors they funded didn't pan out (not considering firesales of assets that may have been used in such endeavors during the bankruptcy/liquidation process).
Given how much that looks like a bird, that strongly suggests we would also recognize avian dinosaurs as birds, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering#Criticism
GoLand extract methods very well, and I don't remember refactoring names ever being a problem. It works far far better than vscode go ever worked.
TAP is fantastic for testing your Postgres database (indexes, views, functions, triggers, etc.) without depending on any specific client language: https://pgtap.org/
The impact of having a site work without JS depends on who your site targets - if your site is mostly focused on young US professionals in cities using Macbooks and iPhones, bandwidth and browser support is going to be good enough with or without JS; you might lose out on some market share from accessibility if your site is poorly accessible, but it’s unlikely to be make or break for your site.

If your site is supporting elderly people in developing nations on low-specced computers/phones, probably a website isn’t even the best vehicle for your product, but supporting no-JS might be more significant for accessibility and bandwidth reasons.

I suspect the vast majority of products people work on here would not gain much by working without JS, although some passionate and outspoken people make it seem otherwise.
Your mention of Minority Report evoked an image in my mind. A sort of thought experiment.

Imagine you run the government along with law enforcement. Say that one day someone on Hacker News announced that they figured out how to predict a person’s future behavior with a resolution of about one day, simply by running some terminal command along with that person’s social media profiles.

As the authority, it becomes imperative for you to use this information. The choice becomes: are people still at fault for their future crimes even if they never commit them? If they are morally bad, then you are justified in executing some people for future crimes, if you believe that they are not responsible for crimes uncommitted, then you might take a more humane approach.

A person, P, will commit crime X at place Y at time Z. So you pour resources into changing Y and Z for future crimes, because you realize that outcomes are a product of P, X, Y and Z. In this equation, it makes no sense to speak of “punishing” the environment, of a time on the clock being “bad”. In exactly the same way, it no longer makes sense that a person is “bad”. What makes sense is: change, influence, separate, nudge the variables to get the outcome you want.

This is an exaggerated version of what happens to an individual once they accept hard determinism. They realize that people can’t be morally at fault because they are simply a small part of the equation, an equation that includes all moments that preceded it.

Personally, to me, this information is liberating. I feel I have more control now because each event is comprised of an equation. Humans are not black boxes, and neither is my mind. There is some semblance of logic to the system, no matter how obscure or opaque it may be, which means there is some possibility for me to influence the world to move toward a more desirable state.

I hope this thought makes some sense to you considering your deeper dives into determinism. I would love to read your writing!
> promotes drinking "free coffee", whilst simultaneously portraying it as somehow morally superior to "coffee one has to pay for" to consume.

The price does not enter into Sussman's argument. Maybe it could, given how students tend to be short on money and abhor paying for expensive textbooks, but it doesn't.

> Growing and selling coffee takes time, labour and effort - yet none of that is being reflected or accounted for when we choose to not pay for the coffee we consume.

In my coffee analogy, the promotion of the fair-trade alternative would be based on the fair-trade mechanism for ensuring the lower levels of the production chain receive a fairer share of the income. Whether or not the author pays less or more at the store is irrelevant to the argument.

> Is this a sustainable approach?

For this class? Almost surely!

For some people (e.g. me)? To a large extent (things aren't black and white). Apart from (the admittedly large chunk of) non-free Javascript run by the websites I visit, and some firmware, my computing world runs entirely on FOSS.

For absolutely everyone in every situation? Surely not. That's OK.

Really, the only point that matters a lot here is the first one.

> Does it promote "choosing the right tool for the job", or does it promote blind idealism ("free is better")?

It seems to me to also promote the fact that FOSS is far more compatible with academic culture and behavior. While indeed you may have to pay publishers for access to articles (luckily a practice that's on decline!), you certainly have complete freedoms to build on the work presented in those articles for your own research!

I'd go so far as to say that no closed tool can ever be "right for the job" in an academic research setting! (Although one sometimes does have to compromise when no adequate alternatives exist, especially when it comes to lab equipment – but in the CS world things are a lot better.)

> And why does a university, which takes exorbitant tuition fees, not prioritize the best software for the course (over the one that's merely free)?

I don't understand what MIT's tuition fees have to do with this.
It would be interesting to test this and if they really don't rely on rules, which I would suspect for memset as well as sizeof.
Daily Crunch: IBM is getting out of facial recognition
+1 to this. I've never been a fan of how <ctrl r> works in bash, and fzf makes it soooo much better.
Same motivation as JUnit, I guess: it's a common protocol that different testing tools can all agree to speak/understand.
If we want to be that pedantic then we could always use his own Culture name: "Sun-Earther Iain El-Bonko Banks of North Queensferry" ;-)

Edit: Apparently his name really was just "Iain Banks":

"Menzies was supposed to be his middle name, but his father got it wrong on the birth certificate."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/iain-bank...
That's really oversimplifying. EVERY tech has learning cost, and so a return on investment. K8s has been so hyped that many developers think it's a mandatory skill. It's not. I've seen talented app developers not getting through successfully deploying an app on K8s. For many, Heroku or Cloud Foundry is good enough.

Even in their case, it looks like they took a conscious decision and documented it. I'd wish more teams would do that. You are free to use K8, and I'm sure right now it's still not a controversial choice that will run against walls.
eBook piracy is out of control and the authors guild is MAD
exactly. For passive heat sinks, you need big surface areas. The FLIR case doesn’t do that and is arguably one of the worst options esp considering its price.
Considering that most people in the UK get up late and prefer to queue up around noon or in the evening/afternoon you don't need any maths to figure out that you just need to go when the store opens. So far going between 6am and 8am has been successful for me.
I have been running one for a few months, and it does get consistently warm, but does not throttle the CPU (at least for my workloads). Will be setting up a second one as a “workstation” soon.