skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't necessarily have to give equal weights.

Plus the whole reasoning tends to imply old versions are overall better (you don't have just one bug added or removed from time to time, you have to consider the overall bugginess over time, and if the project is well maintained, it will hopefully eventually decrease, especially if your usage scope remains constant)

But the reality is simply: it depends. On the libraries. On the application. On the platform. On the languages. On the tooling. On the maturity of all of that.

And even so, you may want (or be forced) to take an hybrid path (classic example: a program for Windows -- static is reasonable, but not for platform libs, and actually just not even available in this case)
I was originally a proponent of it, but I find these days i prefer Mermaid. It doesnt hurt that there are more Markdown editors/viewers integrated with Mermaid than PlantUML.
Why would they be non-functional with today's technology stack? The whole stack is complex, but everything depends in general on very basic principles (eg: basic information knowledge about parallelism, how a compilation works, etc.. and hardware knowledge : how parallelism is handled, why do we need asynchronous jobs and how they work, etc..). Any complex piece of software can be decomposed into basic principles and very often without a lot of work. The only softwares that require more time to understand are the ones that solve some physical or mathematical problems IMO, as you need to understand the math underlying them. But again, this is not an impossible task
I don't believe that moderating away content and discussion of climate denial would actually result in climate change deniers changing their views. They'd simple disengage with the social networks that institute such moderation and instead seek out alternative mediums. They are plenty of other venues online and offline for climate change denying and other questionable content.

This could even create a business opportunity for new social networks with different moderation policies. That could backfire and create even stronger echo chambers. Imagine a social network that prohibits content in support of prochoice for abortion. The site administrators could simply argue that the issue has been settled and prolife is the only moral stance.
This would be cooler if there were an option to export to pdf and epub
Revenue per square foot is high. Profit, not so much.

The “family room” employees now make up most of the Apple Store staff. One can buy an iPhone anywhere, but same-day service to fix that iPhone is more limited. I mean, where would you go?

The cost of payroll for Geniuses, Technical Specialists, Genius Admins, and Trainers, is quite a bit higher than for sales staff - higher pay and the larger headcount of the department. Because of this, any profit from the sales side is absorbed by the tremendous cost of operating their service business.
Webpack is a highly integrated build system that has very high integration with the language and the compilers it drives. e.g. You don't have an explicit dependency graph, your graph is implicitly defined by your source code imports together with your random magic build level configuration. You also don't have build steps, it's just a big ... thing. Once you start doing things the "webpack way", (e.g. using loaders) you lost all chance of using any other build system (e.g. bazel).

Imho this integration between the build system (webpack) and the compilers (typescript/babel) is bad and accidental. It happened because they were all written in the same language and because it was possible for the build system (webpack) to use the compiler as a library.

I am worried that if we start creating flexible query based compilers for language, it will make sense for the query language to be in the same language and for the build system to be in the same language which will lead to coupling, which will lead to lack of flexibility.

I hope this makes sense.

As an analogy, try to contrast the unix philosophy with a Spark cluster for data processing workflows. You don't need to be a "unix expert" to extend the unix toolkit, but organizations have Spark teams...
Why do you feel like proprietary software monocultures are better than commoditized hardware monocultures? OS vendors selling 100% custom silicon is not the path to diversity and freedom of choice.
Hmm, it's too bad that none of the methods (including the novel one) accurately represent her pupils. In the original image, you can tell which direction she's looking, and see how dilated her pupils are.

What I feel could be a high priority is machine learning for rate distortion. It would be really good to have higher rate on the pupils.
The image resolution on (2) is too low to clearly see everything, but it also looks like they're including more & more (sub-?)industries over the year.

E.g., SEO wasn't included in 2011 but is in 2020.
There was an oped piece on cnn.com from a boomer.

He actually said that lockdown should be continued at any cost just to save people his age - "I don't want to be culled."

That explains some of the inability to develop a coherent policy.
Taking the threat itself down from Facebook in no way violates the public’s “right to know”.
Drugs are currently (mostly) illegal in the US. If the police have good reason to believe that you have illegal drugs in your house they can and will force entry and take the drugs. And arrest you. Sometimes while doing this they end up killing people. Happens all the time.

Why would you expect laws making guns illegal would be any different than the laws we already have making drugs illegal?
The point is the old lamented machine you couldn't not do it right. Pan encrusted with 3 day old spaghetti sauce? Toss it in and it came out clean. Roommate burned rice in a pot? toss that in after. Comes out clean. Wife's pot and dish with dried mac and cheeze? Yeah also come clean.

And yeah if it was just a light wash you could set it to 'low'

Also that machine I installed in 1995 and it finally died in 2006. Friends buy expensive European machines and invariably some plastic part dies after 6-8 years. Low end machines are worse.
I believe in positive reinforcement. As far as I know there are already more black people in the police squads in black neighbourhoods, but it can't hurt to get more in, especially in exposed areas. I don't believe in responding to higher crime rates with less police, however. The only alternative to that, is vigilantism. That will only lead to people buying weapons for personal protection, which will again only lead to more violence... On top of that, the violence due to "self protection" often takes the form of pure vengeance, and thus it is far more often illegitimate. People claim that more guns make people more polite, but why are there also more violence in gang neighbourhoods then? From my own culture, blood vengeance was for a time a necessary part of life due to the complete lack of law enforcement. It doesn't mean that life was "better" in any shape or form in the viking age, however. Far from it! Nay, it was with the advent of well organized local militias and police forces that my society became safe.
- Most industries in the US are largely dominated by oligopolies. I think it's on you to prove that they all, or at least most, arose due to government interference.

- As I said in my answer (are you reading?), I'm not sure that giving control to government is always the answer. Maybe a syndicalist approach, maybe community ownership, more power in the workplace, more accountability in the community, etc. But the current situation is untenable.

- Don't be pedantic. I didn't literally mean that every wealthy person has every possible power. Further, an example of wealth failing in one case doesn't disprove the 10 cases where it succeeded. For example, yes sometimes people lose in elections even when they outspend their opponents. This has no bearing on the fact that billionaires and their interest groups completely succeed at influencing politicians through lobbying, and even writing legislation for them to push.

I'm going to bow out of this conversation now because I don't feel you are engaging charitably and in good faith. I think you are ideologically determined not to recognize how wealth and power function. I would still have engaged for the sake of argument, but I can't do that with someone who's not showing efforts to represent my argument faithfully and charitably. Bye.
Many worlds is experimentally indistinguishable from Copenhagen.
A close alternative right now is to print the page with the right amount of zoom, but yeah that's not a bad idea actually. Print it out on newsprint paper.
Microsoft has caught onto this and added a new service that checks if you disabled the Windows Update service and re-enables it automatically, and sets permissions that initially deny you from tampering with it that then makes this a little more challenging to get around, but still possible to do manually.

Before Windows 10, I knew of only two categories of software would behave so offensively as to actively fight your attempts to control it: malware and DRM (which some would argue could be grouped into the former, but I digress...) Software that "phoned home" with details on what you did with it was also widely criticised and known as "spyware".

It's sad that such tactics have now become the norm, with the excuse of "security" justifying the means.
What's New in Ubuntu Mate 20.04 LTS
+1

This is just the absurdity of constant cheering of American Exceptionalism, something that has been deteriorating for a while and took a nosedive in the last 4 years.

America will be a great lesson for other democracies of how electing a stupid leader can regress the country so rapidly.
I think it's a bit of misleading marketing. Sure, Micronaut (just like Quarkus and Helidon) is ready to be compiled with Graal out-of-the-box. But it doesn't magically make any library you use work with Graal, and it also doesn't mean you cannot get code based on other frameworks like Vert.x or Spring Boot work with Graal (with varying degrees of extra effort).

Also, from all the benchmarks I've seen, GraalVM is not a free lunch. Native images trade peak performance for faster startup times and lower memory usage. It's a worthwhile trade for some people, but not for everyone.

And yes, I know there are features like Profile-guided Optimization that can theoretically bring Graal closer to JIT in terms of peak performance, but these requires a very expensive Enterprise license ($18 per core/month).
I haven't used FB much in the last decade, but I have yet to see any news articles the few times I check my timeline each year. Don't you have to follow sources that provide news articles, including friends that post the articles? Or does FB decide to sprinkle in news articles based on algorithmically ascertained preferences if you regularly engage with the platform?
Years ago I was near a tree that was struck, but did not strike me.

It was like sensory overload, I remember hearing something, but not aware what and I found myself sort of crouched on the ground covered in tinyn (harmless) cuts and the tree bark that hit me.

I remember being aware of noise, but not a specific noise other than a sort of echo of it....and just knowing that a very loud noise had occurred.
Breakthrough Listen: Kepler-160
Rayon is still incredibly toxic to produce because of the process.
> opened stores that my parents could go to and talk to someone if they had a problem

Yes, the Genius Bars are just fantastic! You make an appointment and then you get help from someone knowledgeable, in person, for free. And that person is authorized to accept repairs, etc.

The Big Idea of the Genius Bar is that it's there to help. It's not there to upsell like Geek Squad. It's not hoping you'll go away like typical CS reps. Its mandate really does seem to be "make Apple customers happy."
Ok, I understand what you mean. Thanks for being considerate, I usually don't express my opinion in these discussions, hopefully I didn't come across very rudely.
Nope, especially not the cheap Walmart clothes. Most fabrics are at least 60% polyester
Well, anything that requires jumping (knights) must require at least a third dimension. Now, 3D chess I’ve never learned, but how do pieces move there?
I thought NZXT computer cases was an NZ company lol. Same with KiwiCo
If you live in an authoritarian country that can disappear you for protesting you should turn off your phone or use a burner phone. I am not sure if protesters in places like Hong Kong know that China could be logging BT or WIFI mac addresses and later connect that address with a real owner.
The cache works for me. Graphs are in a PDF linked from that report, which may be found here:

https://f.hubspotusercontent40.net/hubfs/4309344/MW%20Protes...

The protests appear to have been all been majority (70%+) white, assuming we believe this report. This seems to indicate that some of the wording they used in the text is incredibly confusing.
Any idea what they were trying to flag? A Google search didn't seem to bring anything up.
> There may be statistical ways to factor out systemic racism.

This kind of thinking is so prevalent in tech circles. As long as we keep expecting technical solutions to every social problem, we'll stay to be at the mercy of FAANG and their machine learning algorithms. I hope this decision begins a wider movement against racist and sexist ML algorithms that are gradually infecting so many parts of society.
I think that might actually be harder than it sounds though, since Windows is such an integrated system.
As someone that uses Java in my dayjob, I wish annotations were never invented. Debugging problems with them is hell. Why can't we just use method calls?
> an AUR helper to make that transparent is standard kit for anyone using the box as a workstation

Fwiw, I've been using arch as my daily driver continuously for 14 years and haven't ever really felt the strong need for an AUR helper.
Maybe I'm wrong but wouldn't their interpretation of chattel slavery in America be that it wasn't the beginning of systemic racism in this country, but purely oppressive system that was exploited by racists? It seems like an odd distinction to make even if I agree that there exists systematic oppression against many groups in addition to systemic racism.

>In other words, the problem is not that there are racist people in the system, but that we have these systems that give racist individuals the perfect excuse to achieve their nefarious ends.

Even this just doesn't fully explain away systemic oppression that impacts people on a day-to-day basic like Black people not getting job interviews due to their name sounding Black or job offers because the interviewers have unconscious bias.
You're arguing on HN that you have a long-term strategy that can reliably beat the market. Such a strategy would be worth billions of dollars. You probably don't have such a strategy.

Good luck with that though.
Even in the Win9x days, you could always rename a binary that was in use and copy the new one in its place, at which point newly spawned processes will use the new one while old processes continue to be unaffected.

Quite frankly I find the Linux/Unix-style behaviour of being able to delete/overwrite an in-use file a bit disconcerting, but that might just be because I'm more used to the Windows way.
> There is in fact a minimum mass for a black hole. That's called the Plank Mass

This is a speculative hypothesis at this point, since we do not have a good theory of quantum gravity. A lot of physicists think it will turn out to be true once we do have a good theory of quantum gravity, but it's still a speculative hypothesis at this point.

> This is also the maximum mass of an elementary point particle.

This is part of the same speculative hypothesis.
Schmidhuber: Critique of 2018 Turing Award for Drs. Bengio and Hinton and LeCun
Domestic issues are often met with social workers where I'm from. They gain early detection and access, by registering and treating social issues such as poverty, health or mental related issues. A lot of people then have their lives changed for the better, so they never fall into crime. On a whole, this is good for society, since it gets the benefit of less crime and violence, and so society becomes safer. On top of that, our police is trained in peacefully settling most disputes, though they of course retain the monopoly on violence if need be.
Milton Glaser, designer of ‘I ♥ NY’ logo, has died
Fun fact: The PS5 is huger than the Xbox!
If say, a liberal state in the US like California wanted to do a useful study on the subject, the way to do it would be to randomly choose a pair of nearby cities/counties with similar composition, then impose both a basic income stipend and the extra taxes needed to pay for it on one of the counties and not on the other, for a minimum period of 10 years. You could even choose the specific city/county pairs from only those that wanted to take part in the experiment and had voted to that effect in a ballot proposition. Then you could answer important questions regarding effects of the increased taxes as well as that of the payments. I'd be particularly interested in 2nd order effects, for example, if the voters can vote to keep increasing the basic income amount, would the increased taxes eventually drive out those who are taxed most heavily? And would that be net negative (reduced tax revenue to fund the program)? Or net positive (e.g. reducing housing prices?)
Viewpoint: 'I feel like was accidentally hired'
Some slogans tend to detract from their end goals, too. Not sure that comparing it to an unsuccessful republican slogan is really a good look.
I saw nothing wrong with u/dwheeler's comment. I've addressed issues with static linking in more detail up and down this thread, so perhaps you won't tell me to "shut up", but really, it seems all you've got is "shut up". Maybe I could say something clever about comments like yours being representative of all that's wrong with HN, except I don't believe that -- no, I'm glad you get to say "shut up" -unpleasant though it is-, and I'm glad u/dwheeler can express skepticism without going into as much detail as you'd like even though you'll be there telling him to "shut up".
Why food memories are so powerful (2019)
I probably won't run anything besides Firefox for my web browser. But I see the web as broken beyond repair in regards to the way it is.

So I am more interested in moving away from the web. Things like using terminal programs (youtube-dl, rtv etc.), native GUI apps, or complete alternate protocols like Gemini[1].

I see the web being completely out of my control as it is. I see my usage of it as being more of a virtual machine for the things I need it for (government stuff, communication platforms etc.).

I feel like slowly packing up and leaving.

But I will still try and exert some decision making while I have to use it. And I intend to do this by choosing Firefox-based browsers.

[1]: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
It’s uncanny how closely enterprise attitudes to software upgrades mimic the Kübler-Ross five stage model of grief.
There is no reason beyond numerology to believe that any of the Planck units actually mean anything.
This. Locks give you legal protection, not physical protection.
It seems you have anger towards a group of people you have defined as bad. That seems to be clouding your judgement. For example, you somehow have convinced yourself that the use of metal water bottles is bad if used by synthetic fabric hoodie wearers in SF.

First, everyone wears synthetics, not just in SF.

Second, less plastic is less plastic.
You have a hard time escaping the advertising online; you can just leave the store.
I'm afraid this is the end of our meaningful discussion and we'll have to agree to disagree since you seem to have very different definition of what compiler is than I do.

Webpack doesn't "compile" anything in the sense of traditional compiler sense. From webpack documentation:

> Note that webpack will not alter any code other than import and export statements.

So, from my perspective, your example isn't relevant to the topic at all, as webpack is not and does not contain a compiler like LLVM or GCC or Java compiler / JVM or Haskell compiler/runtime or any such system, and has no relevance whatsoever to this discussion of "increased integration in compilers" w.r.t. compile servers and IDEs.
> If you have a signal (up to ~20 khz) and you feed it into an LED and look at the light through your camera phone, you can see the signal as bright and dark rows in the image.

Can you share an example photo?
How are you getting from 500m to 2 miles? Is there any data to support this?
I'm aware, which is why I specifically said that cloud vendor computing models aren't really relevant to the general populace. Google's model in particular is (or at least was) very different from other vendors.
It's optional, click "not now".

Or don't run their javascript.
> Though I will say it's still a decent place to have a debate as long as you are fine with ... going negative, which I am.

Just a hunch, but that might explain a lot of your negative karma.

A lot of people here enjoy civil, friendly debates people who they disagree with completely on a given topic, but "going negative" is a great way to send your karma down.

Stay away from negativity directed at others, use charity in your arguments, and above all, don't be sarcastic, and your karma will rise, regardless of the topic. And to be clear, I'm speaking from my own experience here and on other internet forums or mailing lists.
I mean, I said right in my first comment that it should output a shareable URL.
I believe Sonic uses AT&T fiber, so you actually are getting the same service...
Again, in some places this might happen, but not everywhere. For example, do you really think that it won't be possible to rent a room for less than $10k/year ($813 per month), anywhere in the country?

Secondly, if your net income is currently $0, then it's hard to imagine that price inflation alone could be enough to keep your purchasing power from significantly increasing with UBI.

Thirdly, labor supply might not necessarily be removed; there would be less need for a minimum wage, and fewer cases where eg. disability payments or unemployment payments are an active disincentive against working (get a job and get paid less than you earn on unemployment handouts), so there's a reasonable chance the labor supply would increase for many tasks.
Oh damn, I forgot I need to send files larger than 1GB. Still neat though, I'll check it out! Thanks
Sounds to me like this process is going to lead to a lot of buggy software that even a restart won't be able to fix.
If I had more free time, I’d legitimately start a WISP for my neighborhood.
It's unfortunate because hyphens really should be avoided in URLs.

Why? Due to SEO penalization?
> No, you never can with absolutely certainty, the question is how you distribute the costs of uncertainty. Leading with paramilitary enforcers in nearly all situations has consequences that people are not happy with, hence the defund/dismantle/abolish movement.

> The police are expected to deal with a whole community in a holistic way.

Which they manifestly fail to do effectively, for structural reasons. A paramilitary force with minimal entry education requirements whose training disproportionately focuses on the proper use of force to secure compliance is not a good general purpose community response tool.
Show HN: A Jupyter Kernel for ClickHouse
Sigh. With this news, I wish (the other) Bay Area had a Micro Center. The closest one is in SoCal .

Fry’s is either always going out of business (Palo Alto) or always out of stock of whatever I need.

Now with Microsoft gone, that leaves us Best Buy, Central Computer, Fry’s, the internet, and Apple.