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No one objects to people being paid to make software.

What if people were paid through public grants, or paid well through the welfare state; instead of through the legal scarcity provided by intellectual property?
> it's just the review process for getting in has always seemed to be easier for people with the right connections

What is this insinuation based on? Do you have data on how many papers by "people with the right connections" are rejected, for example?
Oh hey man! Sorry to bag on your game. But it did really bum us out, and that's genuine emotion I'm writing there. I could perhaps have been less of a bitch about it.
Sussman means free as in freedom, not free as in beer :) (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software)
Telemetry is Spyware (see their screenshots) now? You might dislike telemetry but finding out if and how software fails is an entirely different thing from watching you to deliberately invade your privacy.
Germany did the same study and came to same results. Those fabric masks are still only 3% - 10% effective, eg pretty useless against the main infections, 1. direct aerosol via the nose, 2. hand to eye, but even those little numbers sum up in the exponential growth scenario.

They help against flyby droplet infections, help a bit against the aerosol load, and they prevent touching your eyes a bit. Removing caughers and washing your hand is still much more effective though.

And btw. the "second wave" will come for certain in the fall, but it will be another uncertain mix of influenza viri. Vaccination is always a gamble, because you never know what will come. 2018 it didn't work out, with the same numbers or worldwide much higher numbers as 2020.
I (and a lot of other people) refuse to buy Stadia games.

Mainly because after spending ~60$ on a game, to keep having access to it, you have to keep paying a subscription. Even if you only play in solo mode.

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Edit: it appears that you "only" need a subscription if you want to play @4K, this is was communicated so badly it stuck in my mind since the lunch.

The point still stands that when google eventually shuts down the platform, your games will evaporate and you don't own anything.
Thank you for the correction, probably my memory got confused over time.
What's up with estonia and serbia?
Ironically Germany removed a significant amount of forest to create those open pit coal mines.
Aha, I guess explains why Wunderground.com was out too.
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To test or not to test. That is the question
"Pre-med" is explicitly outsourced job training. It's in the name.

My university had a College of Nursing - again, job training for nurses.

Oh, and a College of Education which includes training teachers.

Don't be a snob. A 4-year college is only one of many good ways to get an education and an explicit career-path isn't just a "cut-and-dry" education.
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Exactly what I wonder too. Can't the fix be used as an attack vector. At least infer disruptions to trigger timeout events, add execution time variance.

And wouldn't you be able to detect RdRand instruction execution for (for example) key generation. Pinpointing when processes perform sensitive operations.

And, would it be possible to use RdRand execution as a time based exfiltration channel? Run a timing loop in one process on one core. Use RdRand reading with different frequency in a second process to (using morse code or similar) to encode information. The first process use its timing loop to recover the information.
I find the 7/8-approximate algorithm for 3SAT to be simpler.

Given a set of clauses C_1 ^ C_2 ^ ... ^ C_n where each clause is an OR of 3 logical variables, find assignments to each variable to maximize the number of clauses satisfied.

The algorithm is to just assign each variable randomly. For each clause, there are 8 possible assignments, and 7 out of 8 make the clause true. Therefore, randomly assigning them gives you a 7/8-approximation.

What makes this so fascinating to me is that the difference between a (polynomial) algorithm that gets 7/8 right and one that gets 8/8 right is the difference between a child randomly guessing and solving all of the world's most important problems in a single algorithm. It could be worth trillions of dollars. Of course, it's probably impossible and therefore P != NP.
Is there anything like Clarke and Dawe anymore? [1] I'd have thought they'd have a broad chorus started by now.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/ClarkeAndDawe
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Oh, man, this gave me some serious flashbacks to when I used to work with ZIP code data on a regular basis. Besides the issues mentioned here, the following are also true:

* ZIP codes can map to a single building: https://convene.com/catalyst/buildings-new-york-city-own-zip...

* Conversely, the largest ZIP code in the country (89049, coincidentally, also in Nevada) encompasses an area of about 10,000 square miles: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/01/197623129...

* ZIP codes can map to more than one state or county: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/53918/determining-wh...

* ZIP codes can, and do change: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33488.pdf

As a result, ZIP codes are not the most useful method to use when referring to a geographic area, unless, that is, you happen to be a USPS carrier attempting to deliver a letter or package. Unfortunately, like Social Security numbers, ZIP codes have been shoehorned into all sorts of places where they don't really work (e.g. statistical surveys, to give an idea where someone lives).

It's a mess. My advice is that if you're looking to use ZIP codes for pretty much anything besides mailing stuff, don't do it, unless you know what you're doing. Even if you know what you're doing, think really, really hard before using a ZIP code for something it's not actually intended for.
Not sure; I don't see any ads, I used the same query as you did. Haven't seen any ads since the time I've been using DDG. Note I have both uBO and uMatrix installed.
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That is nice and all but I fail to see how it is particular: the situation described here is also what me and most of my colleagues did during this period (except we used instances of these software hosted by our own university). I believe it is the same in most universities.
This seems like a strawman. Is changing a few words in the context of computing going to change our ability to innovate down the road? It sounds highly unlikely.

Also, there's plenty of historical texts that use master/slave that capture why it's problematic to use those terms today. The folks suggesting to update our field's terminology are not saying 'burn all the books that describe the systemic racism present in America' which would be a requirement of the "purging everything we don't like and sweeping it under the rug" mindset.

The point is simple: some terms are associated with terrible sentiments, when clear alternative terms exist. Can we be welcoming enough to accept this?
However it compresses very well on the wire.
One of the simplest "streamed-json" solutions is to have one json per line of input and parse that incrementally.
Not a conspiracy, UWP games that are cracked stop working on windows update. So they are definitely taking over your machine and monitoring whether you are using "unlicensed" software, that was the whole point of forcing an internet connection, so they could forcibly change files/api's and break any software that had been cracked.

You are oblivious, The last 23 years of software since the rise of the internet has been theft on a mass scale which started with PC games in the 90's, there has been a war on software ownership that started with PC games...

Ultima online, everquest, guild wars 1 and world of warcraft were all just regular RPG's reprogrammed client server to deny the public ownership and when the public fell for it because it is computer illiterate, that lead us to STEAM in 2004. Steam, uplay, origin, are all bids to lock down the PC as a platform and remove control of software from the end user.

We used to get level editors in all AAA games, the last 20 years has seen a giant move towards locked down / stolen games.

The entire software industry is celebrating the publics stupidity and update of "software you don't own nor control".

The latest version of trackmania is being pushed as a "subscription to software you never get". AKA they never give you the game files.

The whole thing is a scam and can only exist in a world of people who are gullible and idiotic.

MS and intel and AMD are forcing new versions of CPU's not to work with old versions of windows like windows 7 / 8 via driver starvation. Nvidia's videocards have only drivers for windows 10, no windows 7/8 drivers at all.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/16/10780876/microsoft-window...

Read the industry briefs in the push towards total software lockdown:

https://tifca.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ClienttoCloud_V...
Thanks, but that doesn't explain why Prime doesn't have any released after 87.
They say it uses less supervision, so it's better in a different way.
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I feel the same. For me it was 10 years on May 2nd and if it wasn't for HN, I wouldn't be the person I am today. Not only did I learn ton of things here, being part of the community here shifted my outlook on some things significantly and in a good way.

"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points"

-- Alan Kay

Guess where I learned about that quote;-)
These drawing make them look like Gigantic people, don't hate me but I think they are the one who built the pyramids
RTX Voice uses less than 10% of a 2060 (non-super)

Given how common voice communication is in our world, I am sure Google can build ASICs for this (if not just run it on TPUs), and get the marginal cost of vocal processing to be negligible.

Heck, they probably would just need to divert <5% the resources of Fuschia or any other of their "senior engineer retention" projects.
Once Richard Stallman gave me a GPLv3 sticker. I have been contaminated and I can only write GPLv3 since.
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If we could just get a standard for -? or /? or --? I would be happy already.
There's a quite a few false positives in that list (e.g. a person named "slavek" always using his name in branch names), a few references to the "master/slave" analogy, and browsing the first few pages I keep seeing the same usernames over and over again (mostly from what seem to be non-native English speakers).

So the number seems much lower than 4000, and mostly the result from a very small group of people. I don't know how many branches there are in GitHub, but this seems like a very very small percentage.
You can also solve the “what streaming service” issue by buying the movie on DVD or Blu Ray allowing you to go back to it whenever you want. Additionally if you’re ok with DRM iTunes has most stuff.

Useful tip for finding which streaming service a film is on: google “film name streaming” and google lists the answers in a box at the top of the results.
This is just a rough idea triggered by an observation on how browsers are adapting push notifications to be more user-friendly. See this: https://www.mobiloud.com/blog/google-web-push-notification-p...

We users trust our browsers a lot already. And they've been good stewards so far (such as end-to-end encryption of sync data). This proposal in meant to leverage browser sync and push to replace social logins such as Google, Facebook etc.
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For anyone curious, Beaker is a browser that can download websites over the Hypercore protocol, which is similar to Bittorrent. Bittorrent is just a way to download files, so why not HTML and images? This is cool because anyone can seed a site to keep it up forever. To fork a site, you just download it and rehost it yourself after making whatever changes you want.

Note that Hypercore is different from Bittorrent in that you can actually update your site after you originally create it, although older versions are always available.
Just a reminder that the government of Australia has continued to cut CSIRO funding, the national science agency of Australia that invented/funded SeL4 (amongst WiFi and other things).

https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-risks-brain-drain-...

https://www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2020/seL4-develop...
* the law, the stock market, and their customers*

In that order. We are last. In fact I'm not even a customer anymore, I haven't paid for an update to Windows since Windows 8 was released.
How about rewriting Haiku in Rust, porting it on top of Genode/SeL4 to run it on RISC V?
Poke-what?
What is 'current home tts', is it any kind of TTS model you can run on your computer?

I'm wondering why MacOS which used to have a superior set of TTS voices didn't implement any of the new neural voice engines. It's been years since Tacotron and WaveNet, and still the same crappy system voices.
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> easier to just rename it now than it would be to explain to someone a few months down the road the deep historical context for why this should not offend them

Do you have any examples of such conversations, specifically regarding to the naming of the "master" branch?
Investors will provide the capital, robots/software can be hired.
A somehow-much-less-popular way to come at representation theory is via generalized Fourier transforms. The irreducible representations are basically different "frequencies" which you can use to decompose functions on a group. And in fact, all of the major Fourier theorems carry over perfectly... There's even analogues of the fast Fourier transform, via chains of subgroups.
It aspires to be something the developers enjoy hacking on and using, which is the very reason it exists at all. Why you seem to think it needs to be more than that is puzzling.

I'm sure the developers would love for it to be more than that, but there's a limit to what can be done and it's ASTONISHING what they have done.
Isn’t the subscription only for Stadia Pro, which gets you 4K streaming & some free access to games? I thought you still had access to purchased games (though not 4K) without the subscription.

If indeed this is the case (maybe I’m wrong?) and there’s a “lot of other people” that aren’t interested in Stadia for this reason, that seems like a big failure in communication. The fact that I can’t answer the question with a few minutes of Googling is alarming.
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The people that spend the most in games care more about responsiveness and graphics quality. Both aspects suffer when you stream a game.

If you do a side-to-side comparison between Stadia and a console or PC you can notice some graphics artifacts and there can be input lag.

Then, the reviews have not been favourable enough for people to become interested. Favourable reviews have been always an important factor in games.

I have used Steam Link for streaming games locally, here at home, and it's not the same as playing it directly on my PC. With Stadia perhaps it's similar.
The sharness[1] project originated from the Git project and is a really great and easy way to write tests using shell. Its output is TAP-compatible, so you can use `prove` to verify sharness tests.

[1] https://github.com/chriscool/sharness
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Heterogeneous forests sustain more wildlife, sink more carbon, are healthier for the land and use less resources than would be the case for a farmed forest.

Cutting down trees and 'reforesting' is unlikely to be sustainable over the long term for a variety of reasons (soil depletion, inefficient water use, etc. Forests are their own resource. You can't simply grow them back.
Feels a bit like how people would prefer to watch TV rather than meditate, on a societal scale.
>Academia is an end in itself, not a means to an end.

Sorry my overly idealistic friend, but as long as every job posting "prefers" (i.e. requires) a BS CS, it's fine to see the pursuit of that BS as a means to an end.
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I guess this list of movies applies to people who live in US. Available movies differ substantially between countries. With Netflix it's easy, it doesn't even show the movie you can't watch, with Amazon you have to click through every movie you are interested in to see the screen that says that this movie is not available in your region. There are even series where only one or two episodes are unavailable.
Open source comes with a cost to the developer. There was an interesting discussion about it on HN a couple of months ago.
Show HN: Article on causal inference applications in industry
No hydro or nuclear.
I've worked on my last gig for a startup that did speech-in-noise recognition and there we've used a recurrent neural net approach to separate background noise from speech. This model was trained on many many hours of audio data as well.
Blackboard has some really shady IP practices as well. In 2006 they got a patent essentially for LMS (learning management systems) in general and immediately sued a competitor.

Not only that, I’ve discovered some minor exploits in my time using it. For what it is, it’s horrible software and none of my professors were ever happy to use it.
We demonstrated 1 Tb/s back in 2017 on a high-end dual-socket Broadwell server, and the performance increased steadily since then (thanks to both HW and SW).

It is hard to compare w/o knowing packet sizes (64-bytes? IMIX? 1500-bytes?), CPU type, #cores, workload (L2 patch? L2 switching with MAC-learning and 1M entries? IPv6 forwarding with 500K routes? etc.)

This is why we have the FD.io CSIT project hosted by LinuxFoundation where we can compare lots of interesting, automated, reproducible benchmarking scenario in a controlled environment on various HW platforms: https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/
All grids are connected, for example the UK has several power sharing lines to other countries.
It's a long way from 30%.
the low standard Windows developers and their users seem to consider routine

Compared to just about every SaaS product?
I think you may be conflating Hadoop the mapreduce framework with Hadoop the ecosystem, which includes hdfs, Hive, Spark and others. To the best of my knowledge, former is waning in popularity (supplanted by tools like Spark), but the latter remains in wide use.
The big difference here is that the bloom filter implementation runs entirely client-side. It saves a roudtrip per search.
I really enjoy vscode. It has a pretty shallow learning curve for the amount of tooling it provides.
Contextualizing Python's Asyncio
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23409223

Nit: There is no accoring to wikipedia. It's a perception management platform. Use it to find a source, nothing more.
Fear Based Media. That is why I can’t stand the main stream news.
Won't that just OOM-shield the shell launching chrome and not the chrome process itself?

I think you want "exec path_to_real_chrome".
The problem with recommending that people buy the DVD/Blu-Ray is that the agreed-upon canon of great films stretches into the many hundreds of titles (Ebert’s list at 364 titles is only an abridged canon.) Therefore, for someone seeking a cultural education, buying the physical releases would run into the thousands and thousands of dollars. It would be a challenge even for North Americans or Western Europeans to amass a suitable collection, let alone people in lower-income countries. Consequently, a person can only realistically learn about great cinema by streaming from multiple subscription sites, or torrenting, and people disappointed by the former ought to remember that the latter exists.
if the situation changed substantially, also known as "the brown person isn't there anymore".
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Obviously he is a great (one of the best?) teachers. Having the lecture use free software only, shows he also cares about ethics at his work. I think that makes him a better teacher. Far too few people in CS care about the ethics side as well.
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> If you signed up via Brave, you won't be able to claim that account via Firefox.

I think you might be underestimating the importance of this. I understand push notification servers are maintained by each browser vendor separately. Perhaps browsers should allow the user to route their push notifications to another browser's endpoint?
Love the down votes but not the rebuttals. Stay classy, Reddi-um Hacker News.

EDIT: Apologies to all. This isn't the right attitude for HN and I'll refrain from this kind of behavior in the future.
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Hi to anyone reading this. This is my first attempt at describing applications of causal inference in the context of possible industrial applications.

I started this article because I often find commonly used examples from economics and medical research hard to relate to.

Both my understanding of this topic and my article likely need further work so I would appreciate any constructive criticism!
I don't think it's possible nor prioritized. Decades of artificial flavoring pale in comparison to the real thing, and mass produced cultivars are preferred over odd looking yet tastier heirlooms. The food industry knows they only need to hit close enough because the vast majority of consumers buy the cheapest version possible at the grocery store.

As for the physics of a good burger, a lot of that comes from animal fat, blood, sinew, firm and tender tissues. There are some plant based options that are attempting to replicate the blood component, and ground meat is certaintly a more forgiving medium as far as texture.

Even with the existing meatless market, however, the economics are a tough bet for a lot of people. I tried out a vegan clone of In n out that opened in the neighborhood. At $12, it's 3x the price of a double double, and patty was ok but mostly just tasted like something deep fried. The real sting, and this goes for most vegan and vegetarian food I eat beyond ethnic food, $12 left me feeling hungry. The portions, the taste, and the price all combine into this perfect storm that puts off a lot of meat-eating consumers from taking up vegetarian food more regularly.
> And in many cases, proprietary/commercial software really does outperform the equivalent FOSS/Libre solution

And in most cases, it does not. Why are we teaching people to reach out for the suboptimal tools in these situations?
We hackers can't continue to depend on the life-and-death high-school popularity contests that are electoral politics to fund the development of a better future. We need to find ways to fund public-interest hacking, like the hacking that produced seL4, that don't come from taxes.
Readability, separation of concerns, extensibility, easier merging of pull requests, improved testability, modularity, and less mixing of html and Javascript in a single file.
I think the main problem with this approach is the all-or-nothing problem. When reading official docs is not always clear when you already have everything that you need. Reading the whole doc is usually not a possibility considering most modern tools have easily 100+ pages that go down the rabbit hole.

In short, good official documentation is scarce and time to read is even more so.
> "Sussman means free as in freedom, not free as in beer :) (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software)"

Sure, but conveniently enough, the software listed in the parent article [0] all happens to be "free as in beer".

What examples of "free as in freedom, but we had to pay for it before we could use it" software was used during the course?

[0] https://www.gnu.org/education/teaching-my-mit-classes-with-o...
> I will probably get downvoted a lot

Because this is not relevant with the topic at all?