skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At age eight I was persuaded into taking a job as a newspaper carrier, which I kept until I was 16. I regularly wonder how much those few hours, six days per week, to let my mind wander during those formative years, gave me, me.
MIT, FreeBSD will also do.
What do you know about this?
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Putting your users interest first needs to be balanced with remaining profitable so you can keep existing. It's hard to put your user interest first when you don't exist anymore.

This is why Firefox decided for example to support non-free mp4 or EME (DRM), even though it goes against their mission of supporting the open web. They decided that not supporting these features would kill their market share, relevance and revenue making it hard to support their users in the future.

When Brave made the decision to insert affiliate, they saw it as a way to help with their revenue which helps their mission without hurting privacy too much (they still block more trackers than any other browser in the market including firefox). Still, they rectified this quickly showing that they are not stubborn and are ready to sacrifice revenue for their users. Anyway, it's not easy to balance all this and you will be hard put to find saints that do it all perfectly out there, good luck finding one though.
New Mac ransomware is even more sinister than it appears
That's not true though is it? The more people get involved, the more opinions you need to weigh and the more consensus you need to get to even 1 stance.

Getting 10 people to agree a stance on the 10 issues facing you is much much easier than getting 7bn people to agree on the billions of possible issues in the known universe.

That's sort of my whole point: eithe limit the issues you have to take a stance on, or watch the amount of time taken up with stances grown exponentially.
HN profile points to a blog, which points to a linkedin page for Sunny R Gupta. Twitter user Sunny R Gupta is the only follower of the website's account. Also an author on the website https://eachlist.com/members/sunny_r_gupta/ Meanwhile the author of the article Stella Dankworth uses a profile image that I can find as stock photo on hundreds of websites. What I'm trying to say is the title is likely not a surprise to the user.
They aren't particularly, but there was a fairly large one last year, and grid stability is become harder as more and more of its energy comes from renewables (as the article mentions, the grid is favoring fossil fuel power sometimes in order to keep things stable).
It's probably not the most idiomatic thing, but in Rust you can write:

let foo = match () {
_ if x <= 0 => 0,
_ if something_else > 50 => 9000,
_ => 42,
};
I solemnly welcome my Zig Software Foundation Community VP overlord.
It's the price of that ancient 28nm manufacturing.
Judging by yesterday’s race, the real key is just having your car finish the race (said in jest but there were nine DNFs in yesterday’s Austria Grand Prix and close to having a few more with Mercedes gearbox issues).

There is a ton of cool engineering in F1. If you are bored poke around https://www.f1technical.net/
Digicert’s reply is called out by the original poster as being particularly high quality: https://www.mail-archive.com/dev-security-policy@lists.mozil...
I think https://freshremote.work hasn't been mentioned here yet.
It's a bit of a newer site, but covers all kinds of remote positions worldwide with a clean and fast interface. Also provides keyword, category and region filters to narrow down a job search.
The 416 quadrillion reasons why Japan’s supercomputer is number 1
As others mentioned, VP8, VP9 and AV1 all are patent encumbered - they just happen to have licenses that are royalty-free and as someone mentioned, include retaliation clauses which help fighting off submarine patents - but that's essentially a possibly high-stakes game of chicken.
Framing a flywheel as a "simulation of a turbine" is really bizarre, unless there's something quite weird about this particular flywheel that the article fails to make clear.
>*"If only Anders/Borland had designed Delphi as a VM."

That would've been enough reason for me not to use it. Targeting whatever VM as yet another platform to compile to would be fine I think. It was actually done for Java and .NET but hardly used. I guess it has no benefits compared to native.
So giving someone a paper cut is worse than burning down someone's store in which their life savings were invested? Come on, these issues aren't covered by such trivial sound bites.
Basically, unlike copyright, you don't even have to know that someone else patented something in order to infringe on a patent and have them come out of the woodwork later. It's just even more expensive if you do know.

The patent system was not designed to have every tiny little technique patented, and this is its failure mode.
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There is at least one compelling argument for making new languages easy for machines to parse: it makes it easier to write good supporting tools.

We don’t just use a compiler or interpreter any more. We also use editors and refactoring tools and debuggers and profilers and style checkers and source formatters and static safety analysers and diff tools and… If the developers of these tools don’t have to worry so much about the mechanics of parsing the source, that leaves more resources to spend on making each tool useful.

To some extent you could achieve the same benefit by making a library available to parse the source and return some sort of annotated AST or similar data structure. However, unless you can provide an easy way to call that library from every language someone might want to use to write a tool, avoiding unnecessarily complicated parsing still seems advantageous.
This is usually how gang initiations are executed.
So how does it achieve this compression from a laypersons perspective?
After a second-stage failure, Rocket Lab loses seven satellites
It's my pleasure to welcome Loris to the Zig Software Foundation. He has already demonstrated talent, dedication, and cunning, and I'm excited to see what he can accomplish in the non-profit sector.
I think a lot of publishers preferred short term gains over a long term position... For some it was a conscious decision (as a strategy, or out of need), others thought of it as an easy cash grab.

Google, Facebook, they all gave credits/financed publishers to give them a perception of more reach, but the end result was the dilution of publisher brands and gradually lost their leverage.

Maybe Google, Facebook and Amazon were always going to be unstoppable forces in the market... but maybe, just maybe, if publishers stood their ground we would have a different narrative. Probably the cost would be too big, and many would fall... Who knows.

I guess it was just too easy and too good, free money, a way to convert inventory automatically without the need for sales teams and the pressure to have it maximized.
You said it, "more or less".
Stop using utcnow and utcfromtimestamp (2019)
Nvidia's NVENC doesn't support CRF, one of the more popular methods of rate control during encoding.
> The problem with that approach is that anyone can create a certificate for any domain; so if I go to "example.com" then it's kinda hard for me to detect if my connection is being MITM'd, especially if this is the first time I'm visiting example.com.

You misunderstand what I mean: I advocate that the owner of .com be permitted to mint certificates for foo.com, bar.com, since right now the owner of .com and can point those subdomains to any host he wishes, and then generate a certificate using ACME (because he actually controls every subdomain of .com).
Instead of a video file or stream, that would be more like shipping a program that recreates the video. It might be cool, but it's not really feasible to play back that kind of thing on normal TV hardware.
It really does live up to it's name in my opinion. Been using it for over a decade, originally in Windows but now macOS
Big plus of this software is that it runs without any configuration effort.

Usually these flashy Hollywood-OS terminals require a bunch of work before they look even slightly like the example image used by the developer.

I can't see myself using this for actual work, but it does look pretty. Maybe I could use it during a presentation :)
Bool can be either true or false. So your statement that there is no way to communicate to Go compiler that a `state` can be either `on` or `off` but not anything else is "bool false".
well, assuming scotland doesn't leave...
Morricone himself addresses this in an old interview (https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2016/12/11/morricone-interview...)

Your first big film success was A Fist Full of Dollars, whose score is very different from that of the Hollywood Westerns. Your cul­tural perspective is obviously different. What were the stimuli?

The stimulus was the film itself. Leone had made an ironic and, in a certain sense, a grotesque film in that it was funny, a caricature. It was necessary to respect the clarity that Leone wanted for his charac­ters. Besides, I was not, and am not, a specialist in American folk music, so what sense was there in my treating the characters like Americans? If that is required, use an American composer.
So, I treated Leone’s characters by attempting to re-invent, in my way, American folk, bearing in mind certain musical and technical data. And then the caricatured treatment of the characters encouraged me to introduce strange sounds into the score so that the character would have the charisma Leone wanted.

Not that I know much about it, but I find music in some old japanese movies very interesting, like Woman In The Dunes (https://youtu.be/UFbJ9iDeZgg) or Kwaidan (https://youtu.be/v_OFoOwzPZY)
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I'm learning several Python libraries for data analysis purposes, namely pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, and indirectly Numpy. I'm not interested in machine learning / AI yet.

Is there a good site to view 'best practice' / 'well-put-together' sample Jupyter notebooks that cover pandas, Matplotlib, and perhaps Seaborn? Notebooks that conduct an actual data analysis and do not attempt to teach directly. I'd like to study those notebooks on the side while I learn from my own study materials.
There are multiple Reddit apps on F-Droid too.
I've been using `alias diff=colordiff` for maybe twenty years. Looks like icdiff can highlight small changes without needing to call out the whole line. Is there anything else new this one brings?
R makes a comeback but there's debate about its rise
I've also been keeping an eye on Braver. There was an initial flurry of work that seemed to have gotten it to a decent point but no activity since.
Various DIY approaches, if you're open to some research: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/firmware?v...
I stopped reading after seeing `npm install` ;-(
Yes, versioning was introduced much later.

Which results in funky situations where 22 year old binaries run, but a binary that is less than 4 year old can't - because unless you do extra work, you will get versioned symbols linked and you might be unlucky enough to fall out of the window of supported versions quicker than you think (Happened to me ~2013 when dealing with GHC at university, made for some really annoying weekend fixing binaries around)
I think Europe does allow software patents of a sort: See https://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/guidelines... Or you might have a particular definition of the term in mind that excludes these, but I think when most folks here the term, they'd include what the EPO permits.
Wow, I had no idea Chase added that perk, and I just started using DashPash this month! I switched from my Amex to the Chase card just now, you just saved me a bunch of money, thank you!
This is a consequence of the UK having little capacity for pumped-storage, i.e. hydro-electric. We don't really have the height, and we have "areas of outstanding natural beauty" that cannot be built in easily, so we need alternatives to store the energy.

The rest of the world just builds a dam, creates a new lake, and moves on.
namedtuple could be implemented without exec/eval, and nowadays, it almost is.

This is the only part left that uses it, to create the constructor: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/collection...

Even there it's not strictly necessary. You could accomplish the same thing with a variadic function that does its own argument parsing, it'd just be slower and not play as well with reflection. So you could port it to a Python implementation without eval().
One more benefit of the brexit for mainland Europe! I didn't know about using the WTO to dispute invalide patents. I guess a WTO dispute can make sense for a Boeing software patent used by Airbus. I wonder whether the WTO would care about an independent developer. It's not very good press, but perhaps it's fine for them.
The best argument for the usefulness/profitability of deep tracking is simple statistical inference.

As in if there are 10000 people that with browsing patterns similar to yours and non-trivial fraction of them one day show interest in a discount/service/trip then you are also likely to be interested.

It is the official explanation of how facebook/google can magically listen to conversation IRL that they were not supposed to hear: we simply are not as unique/unpredictable as we would like to think.
The quote literally says that... how is that a strawman?
We give off all kinds of signals in our behaviour, from how we dress to how we breathe to how we show up.

A lot of the signals are cold, aloof, passive aggressive, disgruntled, dismissive, insincere, immodest, fake, insecure, uncultured, ignorant, insensitive, etc. That's just the human condition. Even if we don't mean them as such they can be interpreted as such by other insecure, insincere, imposter syndrome types.

Put a bunch of people in a room and the signals get amplified, it's the basis of reality television.

Combined, the signals whisper "you don't belong here."

Your manager is giving you a signal by wearing running shoes to your 1:1. What does it mean? How can you interpret it?

Your founder is giving a signal by walking in with a coffee. Again what does it mean?

Your VC is giving a signal by his haircut. Your project manager is giving a signal by her exposed skin. Your developers are giving signals through their man boobs.

All of these signals are wretched and don't entice quality people to stick around because they stink of belligerence.

In an honest open and transparent environment the signals align with the values and people don't need to wallow in cognitive dissonance until their minds crack under the pressure to conform, because fundamentally people will do almost anything to be accepted by a group, and when your job depends on fitting in the company has a lot of leverage over you to essentially milk you for your efforts in exchange for keeping you around.

Downvote if you are triggered by man boobs.
Same here.

I've found many tricks that help. For example, erasing some urls from autocompletion (fn mayus backspace for chrome in mac) helps fight against the muscle memory, when you have to type the whole thing. There are also extensions like stayfocusd that help. In a smartphone, switching the icons (for example putting ibooks or spottify in place of the broweser) helps.

It's basically a reverse UX problem: you try to create as much friction as possible.

My problem is that it works for a few weeks or so. Then for whatever reason I get to a point where reddit is super useful (like buying a specialized products, where the communities can help get somewhat unbiased opinions and reviews) and I'm back to square one.

This site produces the same effect btw. It's just that the content is at least somewhat limited to a point where checking more than once or twice a day isn't worth it.
You are confusing coroutines with anonymous functions / lambdas.
> and when folks read the scriptures as a series of disconnected logical propositions all sorts of wackiness ensues.

Most people reading the bible don't do this. This would be very very odd.
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> Technological developments (e.g. this year, one of the teams has a steering wheel they pull toward/push away themselves to change the geometry of the front wheels)

I’ve fallen out of love with F1 over recent years. Could you kindly expand on this tech? Does the push/pull change the toe or camber of front wheels, or something else?
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I agree with you. But until drivers can handle cyclist in the middle of the lane without road rage and dangerous behaviour, and that we stop considering vehicle manslaughter has "accident", then I'm all for it.
Couldn’t you say same thing about right to lawyer or a trial?
No, people are paying attention to some injustice. They don't give a damn about other injustices unless they can wrap those back into one of their causes. They'll visit Native Americans when its something about environment, but ignore them when it comes to police violence.
> The situation with AV1 is "we are in middle of minefield and nobody got mine-clearing gear".

That's true of every new video codec. It didn't stop the use of H.264 or VP9 or even HEVC.

Multiple companies have now rolled out AV1 into production. We'll see what happens.
It totally makes sense that just “dumb” targeting (show people adverts related to the content on the page they are currently looking at, which requires no tracking) might actually work better than all the black magic products companies promote.

This is exactly kind of "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" that turns me off about AI/ML community.
treadmill solutions seems to be the way the industry is going. The Kat Walk C is a kickstarter project that actually works pretty well, and relatively small:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqchs9xMLCw
So because black people commit disproportionate amounts of crime it's somehow discriminatory to ask for criminal records?

The answer here is for individuals to stop committing crime, regardless of race.

Personal responsibility matters, but people who are obsessed with racialized thinking don't see people as individuals and that in itself is problematic and racist.
Ha! Had it installed just to play around with (I imagine that is what this is for). My laptops fan wouldn't stop running below 4000rpm as long as this was in the foreground.

Edit: But I do agree that the configuration was pretty easy. If you wanted to move stuff around and make it look a certain other way, it was really simple to do that.
Infographic: Use of Social Media in the EU
Following this reasoning, justice also should not be a right either, because the same applies (I don't have a right to a police officer's time, I don't have a right to a judge's time, and so on). Obviously everyone should be paid, and everyone deserves to be rewarded for the job they do, it was not what I meant. I think everyone should have the right to access the health care they need without fearing for their financial security or their future. I think it is not unreasonable to call this a basic human right.
Lenovo improves ThinkPads running Linux but issues with problem machines remain
> Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust https://www.mail-archive.com/dev-security-policy@lists.mozil... because its certificate issuer is unknown, the certificate is self-signed, or the server is not sending the correct intermediate certificates.
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I think this is a main reason that journal clubs exist in grad school: to refine the ability of PhDs to separate the bullshit from the real. I was shocked at how easy it was to "take down" a paper based on straightforward errors in the methods or analysis.
WTO doesn't care, WTO serves as a forum to get it through.

The question is, does a "practicing entity" holding the patent cares enough to go through the hardest route to get the patent executed using WTO as a forum? One needs to compare costs and benefits. It's why patent trolling involved pretty much few counties in Texas, because that's where the costs were lowest compared to benefits.
It is to mimic the spinning turbine generators, which themselves act as flywheels, but in this case without the turbine part. The rotational inertia gives stability in that the frequency cannot suddenly change. I thought that was quite clear from the article?
I would go further and state that there is no "diversity" problem, whatever that should mean. There is an a priori assumption that it should be 50/50 and only then a field is just. Why CS though? There are countless other occupations where that is not given. The problems with PhD and pregnancy is a university problem. So I still think it is heavily biased.
Just a tiny piece of extra information for your example: there's also a town called Paris in Ontario within ~100km of London (roughly on the path between London and Toronto) that has a picturesque appeal, so it's not a totally unlikely local car tourist destination.

And sitting here in Toronto, with an available-to-google frequent travel history to London, Ontario, searching "london ON to paris ON" is not enough for google to know what I mean.

This stuff is hard.
Oh man, I ran into that when I made my first contribution to our internal Airflow project and was just like wtf is happening.
Thanks for sharing. I was curious and checked the trend too:

Comments: May 2018 (1,199), 2019 (1,018), 2020 (697)

Comments: June 2018 (911), 2019 (799), 2020 (671)

Comments: July 2018 (857), 2019 (912), 2020 (622)

The hiring environment is a mess.

For example, big tech (FANG etc) is vacuuming up folks everywhere from startups to those hit hard like Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb.

The top career priority in times of uncertainty is stability. So you have not just those laid off from the those companies, but those still employed and nervous, who are eyeing and applying to big tech. Startups that survive and grow now and after will have the advantage of less business competition, but will see a drop in candidates who will need more time to re-adjust to risk.
Why don't the patents apply to them?
The European patent office is not an official thing. It's an independent private organization that will gladly take your money to submit patents.
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While they are patent-encumbered in the strictest sense of the word, they are not as aggressively licensed as H.266 -- which is what GP was lamenting. Licensing H.266 under the GPL(v3) wouldn't erase the existence of the patents and it would still be "patent-encumbered" in the same sense that VP8/9 and AV1 are.

And retaliation clauses are present in basically every free software license that has clauses dealing with patents (including Apache-2.0).
It's perhaps clear now, but pre-AWS, Amazon was a money losing company with no path to profitability. I went all in on amazon stock 5-6 years ago when the large tech company I worked for decided they were moving their large and very expensive cloud to amazon, and everyone else I knew at every tech company big and small was doing the same.

At the time, amazon stock was $400 a share - it wasn't reliably returning profits. AWS wasn't a significant proportion of their business. A lot of people still thought of amazon as a money losing retail company and a vestige of the original dot-com era. I told everyone I knew to invest in amazon because of AWS and it was very difficult to explain to people why it was going to beat the market. The fact that I found it difficult to convince people outside of tech that it was a good buy made me invest _more_ because I realized that 'the market' didn't fully understand the value of the company.
This is also something I've done, just fill a text file, copy it over and over, eventually look for the old files, it's gone, good enough. It sucks laptops dont come with FDE by default.
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I am reposting this question again as I didn't get much traction last time.