skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dev team has authority to set internal processes, and in any case nothing prevents it, like nothing prevents a dev from trying to clarify a spec.

Issues can go beyond the dev team of course, but they cannot escape their responsibility.
It booted in ~10 seconds on my Pentium II 266 system, which was a VERY BIG DEAL back then.
Normally, citrus trees are killed by even brief freezes. The article discusses a number of methods used by the Soviet Union to grow 200,000 tonnes of citrus fruit per year, in places where winter temperatures dropped to -30 C and the ground froze 50 cm (20 inches). They developed some interesting new plant varieties and cultivation methods (some very labor intensive).
I think most universities (MIT included, and certainly mine) went directly to Zoom or something like it. GJS wanted to show you can do this with FOSS.
CaaS Kit Integration and Development Experience
Also let's not forget that automation still means someone needs to write some code, which needs to be written, maintained, updated, synced with other projects etc. The act itself creates new jobs already.

For instance: In IT we also have this. Dev is the typical product development team, Ops is the team that takes care of keeping the lights on. Now with all the automation we have a new job called Devops which is somewhat in the middle betwen both Dev and Ops. We thought both groups would move to the middle and form this new Devops group. But what most companies did is completely hire from zero for their Devops teams.

Now what we see is that Devops is growing, while Dev and Ops are shrinking. But the sum of both shrinking groups is smaller than the sum of new Devops jobs.
Something about journeying to the deep ocean seems so much more terrifying than space. Perhaps it’s that one cannot “fall” home whenever one wants to, when you are already at the bottom of the sea?

That’s hardly rational though. After all, if anything goes wrong in the ocean, your buddies can just pull you up. If something goes wrong in space you drift into oblivion. If you are tethered in space and the safety rope breaks its game over. Just as if one was deep in the ocean without positive buoyancy.

And then space itself is all fun and games when in orbit around Earth. If, when facing the planet, you are feeling existentially terrified by there being simultaneously nothing and half of all of the Universe behind you then you can just turn around and have the safety of Earth at your back, at least.

But go deeper into space and that feeling of safety is gone forever. The same universal nothingness and everything-ness is in all directions. Space psychiatrists of the future may recommend we install permanent curtains to deal with this. Only those forced to work outside need experience the terror of the void.

At least you can see past the end of your nose in space. In the deep ocean it’s truly pitch black. Until the squids come.
But, I mean, is it amazing? You can game on AWS with vanilla software if you really want to.
Status of Stadia? Well, you still have a little over 3 years to try it out... http://stadiacountdown.com/
The Greek graffiti are legitimately more interesting then the hieroglyphs.
Meta, but clicking on the article brings me to a page where I can’t read anything on the ledger iPhone — the top half is logo, ad and white space. The bottom half is covered by a huge cookie popup. And the bottom line is a floating chat button ️
Why do you feel like a novel has suspense, when the ending is sitting right there in front of you, already written, in the pages that you haven't read yet?

Determinism or not, you have to wait to find out what tomorrow will bring. And tomorrow still depends on what you do today -- even if what you do today is fully determined by yesterday.

If losing the illusion of free will means you'll sit there on your sofa letting time pass, because why make any effort if the future is already written, then you're just misunderstanding determinism. I believe the future is already written, but I'm still going to work as hard as I can to make sure that it turns out to be as good a future as possible. Once you've internalized a deterministic worldview, this is not a contradiction.

(If you're familiar with Newcomb's problem, I'd choose one box). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27s_paradox
You cannot have perpetual access (that is "keep having access to it") on a platform that doesn't give you the games directly but you can only access via what is essentially a glorified terminal. I do not think there is any communication failure there: if you cannot download the game and keep it on your collection without having to bother with Google's servers then you cannot have perpetual access by design.

(usually people bring up Steam here, but with Steam you do get to download the game and while often it is tied on Steam, most of the time it is trivial to remove that dependency and many games do not even have it - though Steam isn't the only place to get games, personally i buy all my new games from GOG where i have about 660 games and all of them are stored on my own external HDD... which btw also contains games from services that are now defunct)
You still don't own anything you purchase, so that's already a no for me. I'd be willing to let it slide though, were it not for Google's history with discontinuing products.
How do you mean? I never touch the actual containers, I always just let Dokku take care of those, I just push the code with the Buildpack and Dokku handles the rest.
The tragedy of Roger Ebert is that, although he had a vast knowledge of great cinema, he established a niche where he was expected to mainly write about ephemeral popular films. His time was mostly spent on Hollywood blockbusters and popcorn, and he was appearing in media where he could not go into any great depth due to space limitations, or because that would be a turnoff for his mass audience.

So, only in a few Ebert productions like his "Great Movies" books can one get a sense of the films that really mattered to the man and to art. Compare this to a critic like Richard Brody, who in his career has been fortunate to focus entirely on art cinema (though of course Brody’s net worth is probably an order of magnitude less than Ebert’s was).
Re tax rate, how does that work? What are you writing off to get a ridiculously low tax rate?

I was under the impression that overall tax is usually ~10% higher for contractors in the US.
The games I’d play are not on stadia
Titan Has Had *Enough* of Saturn, Leaving the Planet 100X Faster Than Expected
What's worse is that, a lot of the time, that last 10% of implementation can require the majority of the development time. Not always, but often. Definitely with tech like video game streaming, I can see the last mile being the most difficult.
I'm a big fan of Zola. When I need more features, I'd reach for Hugo before Jekyll. But for most simple static sites, Zola is my favorite.
At least for their adoption in places like burger king et al, it's a great way to expand an already massive market. Without that burger, those chains would just have fries and coke for vegetarians, and for many, road trips might today consist of planning stops around the next taco bell for a sure source of black beans.
Pinterest hitting all of its websites in background from dormant mobile apps
I think it’s reasonable to let the user decide.
Steam in home streaming is my new favorite thing. I use it to play PC games on my Nintendo Switch (with homebrew Android), on my phone, and even on my TV. As long as it's not something that requires mouse input the latency is unnoticeable for me.

The best part is that it just works. I can, simultaneously, stream the game to my TV, and stream input from my Bluetooth connected Dualshock 4 from my phone to the PC, running a game through Proton/Wine. There are so many moving parts at play and yet they all work perfectly, with zero fiddling.
The subsidies used in the UK are primarily Contracts for Difference. A Contract for Difference works by assuring the power plant they will always get paid a fixed price regardless. When the actual price paid for power is higher, the government gets the difference, when it's lower the government pays a subsidy. This is effective because it provides investors with certainty - if the power plant they're paying to build makes 100MWh of electricity at CfD strike price of £60/MWh they definitely get paid £6000.

As well as storage there are interconnects. Most of the time we buy French power, they have a lot of Nukes, but Wind is cheaper even than the French Nukes, so when we have lots of wind we do not buy French nuclear power. The interconnects have the effect of somewhat smearing European weather effects across the continent as far as power is concerned.
Putting /var/log/ somewhere else mitigates this.
Not that it changes the situation, but in case anyone's not aware that's due to government regulations[0].

You need the same licenses if you want to sign up for AWS's Chinese regions as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license
I bought and played FFXV for 20€ (discounted) and I don't have to pay any subscription fees. Graphic quality is sometimes bit disappointing (video compression artifacts and less details), but it's always smooth. I'm happy with it, much less hassle than trying to run it on my Linux. Games start very quickly without installing and don't need GBs of local storage.
Why it is smart to build dumb chatbots
When people say things like:

> The only strange word is schuleþ itself

it makes me think Middle English is not easy at all. Out of the entire sentence I unambiguously recognize "to," "that/þat" and "men", and I can guess but can't be sure that "alle" means "all" by recognizing that "alles" is German for all and supposing that English lost the trailing e recently. None of these words have high semantic meaning and I am unable to make a guess at any of the remaining words in the sentence based on context, since I have no context.

I'm not a dumb man, nor do I have a small vocabulary. I probably know more about linguistics and especially historical linguistics than the vast majority of the population due to my interest in conlanging. But the fact that some people think that the meaning of the rest of the words in the sentence is so obvious as to serve as an example for how obvious Middle English is, is probably the reason why I've failed or nearly failed every English class where we've had to read Shakespeare, and never garnered any sympathy from teachers who are so certain that "trybut" is obviously "tribute" as anyone can plainly see.
It would have a similar composition as ground beef. I guess refrain from excess like any red meat.
It is the job of university to participate in what our future will be. In that sense, I'm all for universities to push student in a direction or in another (provided that direction doesn't put them in difficulty later in their live).

IMHO, you don't advertise free software. Because free software is not commercial per se. Advertisement is for commercial products (and with a bit of sarcasm, I'd say that most commercial software need advertisement either because they don't have enough value either because they just want to be bigger than the other; in both case, the mankind is not well served).

>>> the taxpayers paid money to have their children advertised to

spot on.
I don’t believe anything I read in the media so I rarely bother anymore. Plus is it really all that interesting?

A virus that will kill <1% of people (mostly the elderly; still sad but not as sad as child mortality...)? No, not particularly interesting. The world has seen far worse. Nationwide protests over police brutality? Also sad but not that interesting compared to what else is out there to read about. Most minorities who are killed by other people aren’t killed by cops. I’ll become more engaged when society starts caring about the other 99% of homicides.

I’d rather live in the past and the future.
set -o vi

Starts you in insert mode. To go back to the usual command-line editing,

set -o emacs
You might not have to worry about it, but a good portion of programmers don't really do anything creative.

It's like how in the 'old days'(2000ish), there were a lot more embedded operating systems. I spent a lot of time just rewriting things that existed on other platforms, but didn't exist on the one the customer chose. Now people generally use Linux, or some Posix compliant OS that makes porting easier. A lot of those dumb, yet high paying jobs went away. When cheap ARM systems emerged that could run Android, you no longer even needed to know C/C++ to make an embedded system.

Now, just like the change that happened back then, this isn't going to eliminate all of us, but it may eliminate certain classes of work. Over 20+ years I've noticed the problems we're trying to solve generally getting more difficult, and requiring more of a CS/algorithmic background. The low level shit work is slowly going away. It's fine if you can keep up with the times. Software and systems design is still difficult. This isn't going to change that.
The image in the 'The road ahead' section seems to be using Azure's icons. For example:

Azure Event Hubs icon - https://images.app.goo.gl/NLu8jSKWYPwMyTtD9

Azure Marketplace icon - https://images.app.goo.gl/X9vZeWWAR2TDsawe8

Azure Service Health icon - https://images.app.goo.gl/fJcUZqwUWbzK7tC99

They probably should change that...
Agreed, but I think this is too long for HN.
How to add music to your Facebook story using the mobile app in 2 ways
I use to find writing hard. Then i read that is easy to write about things you hate than write about things you like or are neutral too. So now when i have to write, i start with things i hate that i want to say. Then reword it. This works for blog posts. For technical docs, i start by putting down enough info so that people will not bother me. Then i reword
It's not a strawman, we are talking about the issue at hand--master branch. Why are you talking about master/slave terminology, which has nothing to do with the master branch terminology?

I don't think it's worth completely changing terminology and disregarding history because some newcomers don't understand the meaning of an innocuous term. I think that it is more valuable to preserve it than to change it just because there are a few people who do not understand it.

I believe in changing terminology that actually is rooted in oppression. It's a good rule of thumb which allows change while also not forcing everything little thing to have to change. Master branch is not rooted in oppression.

Welcoming to me does not mean walking on eggshells and avoiding saying perfectly accepted industry terms that someone just may find offensive because they don't understand it. Welcoming is mentoring, teaching, and kindness.

I think your logic leads down a slippery authoritarian slope. Should I not say rule of thumb because a few people misunderstand the origin? https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-04-17-19981070...

I'm going to keep saying it.
If women are equal then it's not notable to be the first woman to do anything.
Why would they pay to promote when they own YouTube anyway?
It's because people find wearing a headset or holding a microphone too onerous.

Better for them to just point their laptop microphone at the whole room and let the poor saps at the other end suffer.
There's no mandatory subscription. Once you by a game, you can play it until whole service shuts down without any further fees. It is the same as with most Steam games - you also don't legally own them and they only start with internet connection due to drm. Indeed it's very different from GOG that gives you full ownership and perpetual offline access.
I searched it up, and apparently "$@" and expands to "foo" "bar" while "$*" expands to "foo bar", and the latter is what we want. From a quick test on my machine, that replacement in in your function definition seems to fix it :).
Despite Fermat's brilliance, it's barely feasible that such a proof exists after 300 years of attempts by professionals and amateurs alike.

Ironically though, the tantalising idea of the existence of a simple proof - motivated by that infamous quote - contributed massively (along with the simplicity of the conjecture itself) to the theorem's notoriety and the myriad attempts to solve it.
What Is Effort?
I think an example might be in order, because the case you mentioned sound like a quite unlikely case. Python 3.6 had some of the most frequently code affecting changes of how one writes code in Python, while 3.8 did not have that much of frequently code affecting changes in my experience. Although I have not used async much yet. I am using Python almost every day at the job and have no issue with 3.8 at all and also did not have to port anything, although writing for 3.6 before. I think they are doing a great job of avoiding incompatibilities.

For the case of numpy, some pretty obscure functions must have been used then. Usually there will be deprecation warnings ahead of time and a bit ofsearching will clear up, what you should use instead, going with later versions. Also they don't simply remove the dot product or something.

So that's why I think an example would help your post and make people understand that specific case.
It's working perfect for me. I bought some games and a I can play them without paying the subscription.
So it is like a free cloud console if you buy the games.
If I lean too heavily on beans I end up with devastating effects once I pass the meal due to all that fiber. Any supplement that can counter this?
Watching less experienced students navigate Linux while teaching a networking introduction has also led me to a bias against hyphenated commands. I was surprised at how often newcomers will add a space into these two part commands.

Extra annoyance points if the second part of the command forms a valid sequence of options. I'm looking at you `netstat-nat`.
Long before this article appeared, I was already renaming ‘master’ to ‘default’. The term ‘master’ has always felt out of place and unnecessary to me.

If anything, the article affirms my gut feeling when I first started using version control back in the day. It didn't occur to me someone else might feel similarly.

When creating a new repo using Mercurial, the default branch is called default, which always made more sense to me.

Interestingly enough, both Mercurial and Git were created by Linux kernel hackers to handle the Linux kernel source code after the Linux project could no longer use Bitkeeper. They were released 12 days apart in April 2005.

Just pointing out that certain things, even seemingly small things, are often assumed to be okay. And especially in team settings, people don't always feel comfortable speaking up or being that person.

Reminds me of the aphorism: There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Hmm... If consciousness is caused by interacting quantum fluctuations, I'd think a watermelon has just as much chance of being conscious as a human brain does. The level of complexity and interaction across many scales is no different in a brain than in a watermelon.

But if you think a brain is more likely to be conscious than a watermelon, then it's most likely the consciousness comes from one of the properties specific to the brain -- like its computational structure that couples sensory inputs, prediction, world modeling, hypotheticals, and modeling itself and other agents. These are probably software-like things that are classical in nature.
Explore connected papers in a visual graph
What convenient timing to publish this now!
Is there a significant difference between this and https://wtfutil.com/ ?
I disabled the default system Win+S:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"DisabledHotkeys"="S" ; Write out EI to disable the shortcut Win+E and Win+I.

then after a restart set Win+S in Everything.
Visualizing Layoffs at Prominent Startups
The translation of the name is likely:

{Mountain, Water}
Two different teams. The money largely stays within Google but each team's accounting is taken care of.
Learning about distributed systems: where to start?
I have no idea why people have a hard time comprehending that facts are always seen through opinions and worldviews from people who are all unique and have unique interpretations of what they observe. Everything is bias and eye witnesses of one event will have different descriptions of what is happening.

Also why do people struggle with basics like primary, secondary and tertiary sources? They expect all three to be one and the same.
Germans are about the only people I trust to dismantle a nuclear reactor due to long term concerns.
> Vim; modal editing and vi-like navigation can blow open your mind. Explore the existing plugins to accomplish everything you want to be able to do. It's all there.

The reason I end up ditching Vim after a few weeks every time I try it (4 serious attempts now) and go back to IntelliJ (which I’ve used for two decades) is that I never found a solution to the following trivial issue:

Imagine you have a large Java codebase and you want to refactor all occurrences of a method called “doFoo()” to give it a better name - how do you do this in Vim?

This is a single keypress in IntelliJ and I use this function very frequently but I never found a way to do it in Vim.

Note: I only want to change THIS doFoo() method, not the hundred other doFoo() methods in the codebase.

Also note: yea, this includes all implementations of the interface, all abstract classes, all classes that extend a a class that implements the interface and all other funky polymorphic things, and NO unrelated code. And do it all in one keypress, don’t have me manually go through line by line.

Any ideas if this is possible now?
You can't compare the scales directly across different papers because it's a subjective Mean Opinion Score (MOS) in 0.5 increments, usually taken from a different Mechanical Turk sample. It's a shame that the EATS paper didn't do their own MOS for many of the standard models. However, as pointed out in the paper the real benefits here are in reduced inference/training time and improved attention learning which many of the current models struggle with.
Improving the IDE for Rust/WinRT
It is obviously not the case that women are equal in our society. Additionally, then, my town shouldn't have a big placard that says "home of Olympic gold medalist [some person]" since obviously being from my town is equal to being from the one over. But we do typically care about these sorts of things, and we care about the oldest person to be president, the youngest, the first gay, Catholic, whatever, black president. We care about coincidences, streaks, and firsts of all manner and no one has to point out that that it doesn't matter "X will be the first foreign-born CEO" or whatever it is. To assert that being a woman specifically is not notable feels like it just serves to downplay people's accomplishments when those accomplishments are made by women.
Nice test, it could be cool to have people repeating it to see how much the "silicon lotery" influences the temps.

Also there a few model of cases on ebay/aliexpress that would be interesting to test such as https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4000509636456.html (with a heatsink added)
Dinosaurs never evolved bipedal locomotion, they evolved from older, bipedal animals and later some of them reverted to quadrupedal locomotion.
Right, but in the case of Stadia, the "console" is cloud-based. So you need very good internet connectivity to have a decent gaming experience.
This is exactly how it's meant in the article btw!