skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But as the founders of this country wisely understood, human error is preferable to systematic error. That is the principle under which juries, wildly fallible, exist.

Human error is preferable, even if it is more frequent than the alternative, when it comes to justice. The more human the better.

Humans can be held accountable.
To my knowledge, only 2 implementations were ever in development simultaneously: Niecza and Rakudo.

Niecza focused on producing a Perl 6 on the .Net infrastructure. Rakudo is based on NQP (Not Quite Perl) and initially ran on Parrot, then also added the JVM as a backend, and then later added MoarVM as a backend.

Niecza sadly stopped being developed as its main developer developer decided it wouldn't be able to come to a full release (around 2012/2013).

So to say that "about 3 implemetations of Perl6 in development simultaneously" is incorrect, and then to name MoarVM, JVM and Rakudo as the three is even more incorrect.

Perl 6 got renamed to Raku in 2019. Since the first release in December 2015, it has become about two orders of magnitude faster.

You can check out the Rakudo Weekly News should you wish to stay up-to-date on developments in the Rakudo world: https://rakudoweekly.blog
IMHO both this and the Android Instant Apps are half assed ideas.

The ultimate goal should be working towards having the ephemeral nature of web apps while maintaining the native app performance. That is, access to raw sensors, running native code rather than JS and working offline. I know it's technically challenging but that should be the direction.
It wasn't the language, it was Numpy. Everything that is built on top of Numpy is what made Python so popular.

And I guess Perl also never had its Django (or Rails).
The good and the bad news is that eventually, when the rest of the land goes infertile from overuse, your method will be worth the money :)
Oh, you 'know where to find them' meaning, you don't actually know of their existence at this point, but if you did care to look, you're sure they'd turn up. How convenient for you to just know things exist without any evidence.

> If we made scientists responsible for hand-holding every crackpot on the internet through the body of research leading to their conclusions

Oh, sure, label people as 'crackpots' when they show you a study that supports their argument while providing none of your own.

My position is "These studies should exist, and don't" and your position is, what exactly?
I suspect so. Never mind that it wouldn't really work – politics is a game where scammers get away with impunity.
Kertish – Distributed File System (Open Source)
Hard drive speed is one of the slowest parts of your computer (after accessing remote systems over the network). It usually becomes the bottleneck after increasing RAM for most users, in my experience. The bus that transfers data from your hard drive to the CPU is much faster than what many spinning disks can actually manage. Address that, and many performance issues go away and you approach the essential limit of your system (bus speeds).

Of course, I say this primarily from the perspective of a developer, where hard drive access is frequent when building systems. But a lot of workloads are similarly HDD dependent, but maybe not to the same extreme.
You can certainly argue that the individuals are just doing their jobs and are not political actors per se, but they are definitely working towards the goals of politically driven organizations.

I get this point, and I can't say I necessarily disagree with it, it just feels like the usual kvetching against "the media" which is such a broad and generalized gripe (even when it is sometimes specifically valid if we could point to specific instances of just terrible coverage of current event n) it feels kind of meaningless?

Like I said, I don't even really disagree it's just: what does one do with such a large and wide-reaching indictment of "the press"? I like solution oriented thinking, but I suppose that's more of a rhetorical question than anything else.
How does this compare with Jamf in your experience?
I did. They weren't identical but the "counterfeit" wasn't flawed enough to say it was definitely made by a different company as opposed to a different printing facility or box vendor.
It won't be the only sign in method unless the point is to only allow _that specific device_ to connect.
The original "warrant proof" evidence was just saying something. Whoever was within 30 feet heard you, but otherwise, it was just gone.
Sounds like nationalist propaganda. I wonder if he was ordered to write it.
There's no reason why a social media platform can't implement its private messaging in a way that is functionally equivalent to email in terms of privacy (but integrated with that platform).
They are making some space for (controlled) breaking changes. It also sends a message that Perl has a clear path going forward. I'll consider it for my next projects, especially the automation ones.
What happens in the instance that one wants to move away from webauthn?
Seconded. I made sure to get an iPhone SE as my work phone instead of the iPhone XR. Love the design and the form factor.
Good point, it's not random. According to GP they are happening on multi-purpose paths not made to accommodate motorized vehicles.
I could really go for a browser plugin that plays elevator music when you drag the scroll bars up and down.
Is it webauthn or is it once again proprietary tech?
Profile Manager works great* * , ask me how I know.

* Until your hidden-from-view postgre SQL db gets corrupted and stops working and all the solutions on the Apple support forums are "couldn't find a fix so just flatten and reinstalled... now moving to Jamf", so every thing in PM is treated like a faberge egg and you're using a kludge of package managers and such to fill in the gaps.

Your 2012 Mac Mini Server in a Sonnet Rackmac needs it's dying 5400rpm HDD switched over to SSDs, which, now you're also using 3rd party hardware + SAS PCIe controllers to connect to a RAID / Tape Drive to keep this thing going.

* Every OS X update is held off because you're trigger shy of the last time it broke OS X Server and your 3rd party SAS controller drivers.

Yet another server to manage on site and/or spend too much $$$ on a boutique "Mac Stadium" data center which is essentially a colo'd Mac Mini.
The concept has been around for years now, it is well understood.
This seems like a nice move from Google, but I do not see how is it any beneficial for users. How were they making any profit from our search history from 2 years ago?
There is no fee (except, rumored, to the issuing bank) to accept Apple Pay for physical world purchases, beyond the normal credit card merchant fees.

You may be thinking of the fees associated with in-app-purchases?
each unit of additional reliability and supportability is probably a bigger impact for google than any given user feature.
AI Can Pass Standardized Tests–But It Would Fail Preschool (2019)
Haskell won't give you high interactivity (on the milliseconds of response time), or C-like performance. It will make it hard to control low level details of your memory and execution path. It will also not bring a lot of gain if you only have homogeneous data (like in machine learning).

If you have a problem where intermediate performance (on the level of Java and .Net, better than Python or JS) is ok and people won't notice 100ms extra here and there, Haskell is viable. If it's not focused on low level IO, and deals with complicated stuff, odds are it's your best option right now.
No, there isn't. Perl 6 got renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). There's a weekly blog post should you want to stay up-to-date: https://rakudoweekly.blog
Lavabit shut its doors to not comply with such requests.
What I was impressed with is the profundity to which he attaches to sitting around and bs’ing with his Chinese buddies. And when we westerners see this, out of the corner of our eye, we think...
'And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer.'

Attributed to Alexander the Great.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/03/19/and-alexander...
why not call it rungcc, like the FSF t-shirt: https://shop.fsf.org/tshirts-hoodies/run-gcc-shirt
are they getting _promoted_ though. successful promo packet for sustaining work would be a very big change.
For interested readers: 1Password does a few more things. For example, you can add 2FA to 1Password logins, so that 1Password replaces Google Authenticator with the immense advantage that you don’t have to setup 2FA again if you get a new device.

Just a happy 1Password user, nut related to them in any way.
Types of Indexes in PostgreSQL
they don't sell it, they use it to profile you
Good luck! ^_^
I'm hoping it works with NFC and not just the lightning one.

Would be nice to have Yubikey replace my password and then allow me to enroll FaceID so I can keep signing back in.
Non-activist tech news source?
I used to read The Verge before they turned, then switched to Techmeme which has recently done the same.

Specifically I'm seeking a source for "hard news" about the tech industry that takes a value-neutral approach a la Reuters.
Show HN: Chromium + Hardware accelerated Ray Tracing
> 1. A simple Python script with two-three dependencies that needs to be run everyday once. Basically I am looking for a crontab in the cloud.

This is possible and a target use-case. We offer cron and you could get rid of the API endpoint.

> 2. A very lightweight script that needs to be run 24/7 and would not consume more than few MBs of RAM ever.

We do not offer long running jobs atm.

Ping me mustafa@deta.sh and happy to onboard you.
In other words, "Automation hasn't increased unemployment in the past, even though some pesky scientists and economists said that it would eventually be a problem. Some of those people were wrong in the past, therefore automation will never increase unemployment, ever."
Islands – Minimalistic Strategy Board Game
So there are at least a few things here:

1) A 'cost calculator' will be a hugely sensitive product, that is absolutely in the domain of sales, it has nothing to do with dev. So many sales issues around that - this will be the primary issue with such a product.

2) Just because some people like it doesn't mean it's worth maintaining. Maybe it is, maybe it's not. Paradoxically, because it was such a marketing/sales focused product, it's possible the Eng. driven culture didn't really understand it's value and thought it was maybe to simple of a product. Arguably, it's hardly a product, more of a marketing feature.

I suspect if sales was pushing hard for it it would have happened.
> Iceland’s three aluminum smelters ... emit more than 1.6 million tons of CO2 a year ... 30 percent of Iceland’s total CO2 emissions

this presumably doesn't include the volcanoes, which globally emit hundreds of millions of tons per year per this

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/06/06/how-...
I've been thinking about this in the context of applied ecology
(Permaculture, et. al.) It's undeniable that modern mechanized mass
agriculture is incredibly efficient and already highly automated. It's
kind of fantastic. (And very challenging to compete against.)

The two main downsides (IMO) are related: fragility and ecological ignorance.

The article touches on this: "soil is a natural resource that will become
endangered if we do not mitigate the severe erosion problems that stem
from single species field that are barren (re: nothing actively growing)
for 30-40% of the calendar year (in North America)."

(Imagine installing millions of acres of solar panels and just switching
them off for 1/3 of the year.)

Broadly speaking, if our agriculture destroys topsoil rather than creating
it we're gonna have a bad time.

An interesting challenge would be to automate food forests. For concreteness, check out what these folks are doing: https://www.youtube.com/user/plantabundance

This is one family working on their home plot in a suburb who have converted it into a really cool food forest with chickens and lots and lots of different crops.

Imagine replicating this across millions of acres, without involving
hundreds of thousands of people (which wouldn't be a bad thing, but it
couldn't compete with mechanized agriculture.) What kind of automation
could help with that?
No, it assumes that power is delivered based on surface area with respect to the sun. Vertical/3d farming can't work more than ~2 plants deep, where "depth" is measured as the number of plants between a given plant and the sun. Sure, build it vertically on the north pole, but it's still gonna be essentially "flat". You can't magically get power deep into a 3D farm when there 20 other plants on every side that would get the light first.
> pretend to be a white person and be extremely amiable

Can you expand on this? Are you saying that foreigners at university need to be more amiable to be accepted than they would otherwise?
I watched the HEY video and I don't get it - the screener feature is not innovation - it's a block list with a different name. Gmail has this. The way Jason hyped up every feature and then you realise it's something that already exists with a special "product name" (Imbox, really?). I can see why people buy into the marketing speak but look a little deeper.
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Knowing basically nothing about either of these, I'm super curious as to if either company will exist in 5 years. I've set myself a reminder and am looking forward to the result.
What if you "forgot"? Do you imprison someone for forgetting their password?
Little-known fact:

As part of the "Android Enterprise Recommended" program, some Android devices (such as rugged devices) receive FIVE years of updates.

Unfortunately they are all very expensive and most of these devices are not standard phones.
Fred Brooks had a similar take, in an opinionated way, with the concept of "lead surgeon". Motivation to re-read the chapter in mythical man-month.
Unfortunately, the volcanoes have thus far resisted public pressure to reform.
I hear you, but I think that there is a significant portion of the "modern" university system (particularly larger schools or systems) that is merely paying lip-service to these values, particularly at the undergrad level.

I had the good fortune of small class sizes and being able to debate professors. (Appeal to authority didn't count lol) I think that some school even prioritize what you mention: St Johns school of the great books (not sure if this is the name) in Santa Fe, for example, makes you learn ancient Greek and Latin. When you learn Geometry, you read Euclid in Latin and argue about his books for weeks on end... It's the opposite of the superficiality the author mentions.
There are costs to this, however, and they spend less focal time on the 20th century, when, arguably, many important events and works occurred.
How is downloading a < 10MB native instant app any worse than downloading a frequently-larger web app?
And thanks for the downvote! Will never again thank anyone with unique insights to take their time and offer perspective on this forum again!
> And finally, just because violence is disproportional, doesn't automatically make it "illegal".

Yes, actually, it does. Specifically, police force that is not “objectively reasonable” in the circumstances in which it is used constitutes an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment [0], and is therefore directly prohibited by that Amendment for the federal government and prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment, which has been held to fully incorporate the search and seizure provisions of the Fourth, for the States. It is, also, when done under color of law a federal crime (in certain cases, a capital crime) under 18 USC § 242 and a federal tort under 42 USC § 1983, both prohibiting deprivation of Constitutionally protected rights under color of law.

> Your problem with this appears to be that police force is, today, legal.

I don't know about the grandparent, but my problem is that federal officials, including law enforcement officers, are committing violations of the federal Constitution which are also federal crimes against people who are merely calling for accountability for what are, among other things, a systematic pattern of similar federal, including capital, crimes and Constitutional violations that federal (and state and local, which have concurrent jurisdiction) law enforcement have been a mixture of actively complicit in and non- and mal-feasant in failing to prosecute.

[0] Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989)
I know you’re getting downvoted because of product placement not adding to a discussion, but I have to say that having food items that are all represented by a drawing doesn’t inspire confidence in me. I’m looking at bread and all I see is a cartoon — I have no way of evaluating it from that page. A photo of bread can tell me a ton about the quality of the bake, and if this is more generic grocery store or is something properly done by an artisan.

In person this becomes even more obvious. I don’t see this being a good way to shop for food by mail.
This article is about the Fifth Amendment, and at least as the article describes them, the different situations and resulting precedents are more nuanced than your comment seems to imply.
All of this presupposes you can create an algorithm that can "check" if something is illegal. That seems impossible if you have to define the algorithm before the crime is comitted, and honestly still pretty difficult even if you know what specificly you are looking for.
>A limit price (or limit pricing) is a price, or pricing strategy, where products are sold by a supplier at a price low enough to make it unprofitable for other players to enter the market.

>It is used by monopolists to discourage entry into a market, and is illegal in many countries.[1] The quantity produced by the incumbent firm to act as a deterrent to entry is usually larger than would be optimal for a monopolist, but might still produce higher economic profits than would be earned under perfect competition.
How does it happen?

Someone passes around a blog. Someone else jokes "wouldn't it be funny if we...". Someone else says "Hey, I'm bored, we have loads of cash & free time, sounds like a fun prank!"

Not hard to lose touch with the reality of what one's doing
I don't understand this "leetcoders produce bad code" meme. Is there something about being good at whiteboard interviews that makes you bad at writing clean code?

Outside Google, I've seen plenty of terrible code by people who would fail FizzBuzz.

Within Google, I've seen way more attention paid to code quality and system design than at any other place I've worked at.
Yes well plugging volcanoes up is a bad idea.
Buy a copy of Farming Simulator.

Agriculture is a brutal, pitiless world of perfect competition, commoditisation, and winner-takes-all consolidation. There’s an old farming joke: “What would you do if you won the lottery? I’d farm until it was all gone”.
Creating a barrier to entry makes it harder for the government to use it for prosecuting frivolous crimes.
Given that I own a Pinephone, you would guess correctly:D

I'm having trouble finding out whether this truly helps though; do either of those have a bootloader/firmware that provides device tree info to the booted OS, or are they still relying on the booted system to have its own device tree to describe the hardware?

EDIT: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/devicetree/usage-mode... implies that u-boot can probably feed a device tree file to Linux at boot time?

EDIT2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_tree says, "As an example, Das U-Boot and kexec can pass a device tree when launching a new operating system.", so yeah it looks like that would work! Sweet:)
From docs and drive? Which stuff?
I think maybe Apple can force them to do it somehow. And for all the other cases like ordering food, renting scooters, bikes, entering the gym for a one off session I think it’s just going to be competition. If lime has an app clip and bird doesn’t I’ll walk the extra 15 minutes. I did ask quite a few ppl since the announcement and most friends said they just dislike the new service signup soooo much they would be willing to do a physical sacrifice.

Edit: definitely not claiming this will be a mass thing but it’s my gut feeling it would be.

+ it’s a less friction conversation of very difficult segment of customers. That might count for something for some companies.
One nice thing about this is that you can use most of these sites in obsolete devices — I have an iPad 3 with a glorious, bright retina screen, entirely bricked by its inability to update to the latest iOS . Every day more and more of the web is breaking on it.

This, though: http://wttr.in, will never break. I'll tape my old iPad to the fridge and use it as a weather screen.
Also a survey of other "Git for data" options from a few months ago: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-03-06-so-you-want-git-for-...
I wonder if the author would have enjoyed a different school or town/region instead. We might simply be addressing culture shock, jet-lag, and a lame school, lol
This has a 10MB limit for app size, while Google Instant Apps are 4MB. It will be interesting to see whether that makes developing for it meaningfully easier.
Can i choose /dev/null as my 5 friends?
"_open a new market_ for advertising, and to gather data for the same."

No, I think they wanted to make money from it directly via Enterprise sales.

MS Office is the #1 source of profit for MS for a long while.

In the 2000's it seemed 'everything was going cloud', naturally Google thought they could leapfrog MS into that space.

But it didn't work out.
Can't the key get stolen if it's on the client?
np.

I've done quite a few out there things on previous projects. Some of the more extreme are:

- I invented a new kind of ML for quant work (day trading bot) that ended up being quite successful. It's not published anywhere for hopefully obvious reasons.

- I've written models that I've productionized to embedded. I also wrote a script that converts between languages, automating the process.

- I reverse engineered google's page rank tech (my first DS job actually) and ended up getting higher accuracy on website classification than a team of experts manually classifying web pages could do.
Reader View in Firefox worked for me
Did you check the expiration dates by any chance?

I'd be highly suspicious that this was, in fact, food counterfeiting in any way. I've never heard of a food brand being counterfeited on Amazon (with actual evidence). Food "counterfeiting" is generally a "legitimate" manufacturer themselves falsely representing their ingredients (e.g. diluting their olive oil with canola oil).

Amazon used to be known for keeping boxed foods for much longer than a grocery store -- so if cereal takes 2 years to expire, at the grocery store you're always buying cereal that was made last month, while from Amazon it might have been made a year and a half ago.

If it wasn't the expiration date, then it was probably kept in a very hot environment for an extended time, which also breaks down flavor and texture. If kept on pallets under plastic in the blazing sun for days, it could cook them like an oven, flavor goodbye. (Might not have even been Amazon, but a wholesaler or similar.)

Everything you've said is far more consistent with time/heat than the notion that you were getting "counterfeit" cereal.
Have you tried? :-) Especially in the JavaScript world, things evolve so quickly, that they become obsolete within single years. If you use node and npm, within months.

To put this in contrast, Perl 5.001 was released on March 13, 1995 — that's more than 25 years ago, and code written in it will largely run fine today.