skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd trust Matthias to know when GTK is ready, and it's a signal to the community that it's definitely time for testing and porting. But he can still make micro bumps. :-)
They can do just anything, once they convinced you it's "because national security". And it seems that people are very easily convinced.
The problem is that if they had opened their market to foreign corporations, their own "shit" like you say, would never have been as great and strong (at least locally) as it is now.

If you open your market too early and don't protect your own elements, they will get crushed and you will be at the mercy of other powers.

Look at the UK, look at Germany, look at the EU... Having to please two superpowers and doing so bending backwards.
It's funny to see people on HN freaking out and, when Gnome moves a preference from one sheet in preferences dialog to another sheet, in the same dialog.

I wonder, if these people even use Gnome, or they just want to join the bashing.

Btw, if you do use Gnome, you can find it in Preferences | <profile> | Colors.
With all due respect, while I know that you didn't mean to come across as such, some may find those comments a bit patronizing. My "fighting tooth and nail" isn't complete when I went from a 3rd World existence to a 1st World existence. I'm very much here to win "in the big leagues". Without trying to sound too much like a Bond villain, I too am seeking to change the world in ways that I think are meaningful, without giving a damn what others think. I too have aspirations of being at the top of the world and molding it into the way that I think that it should be. I find the ideas of people who approach the world with this discontentment, which seems sophomoric to me instead of insightful, to be rather milquetoast. The elite are disillusioned because they're comfy. They convince themselves that they need to derive more meaning and get caught up in the performative nature of their life which is directly a result of their privilege. Most people who actually do change the world, at least in a capitalistic manner, bring an edge and killer instinct, often refusing to accept that they're not the best, or even if they aren't that they are required to act differently in accordance. This whole story came across to me as someone who folded at the first sign of any self-inflected psychological query. Much of the rest of the world would kill to get to Harvard, whether for the pure reasons of seeking knowledge at the world's most renowned college, or to play the game of life to get ahead.

I want to also bring up one more observation that addresses the psychological aspect that the author addressed when he said elite colleges close doors psychologically, by describing manual work as beneath them. I've gotten to know some people who come from the world of the elites, and I've found it farcical and disturbing how often people do performative bullshit like send their kids to work construction jobs in the summers before college to learn about things like "the meaning of hard work". If I was to send my hypothetical children to work in construction, it'd be to learn construction with the view of deriving real world capitalistic value from it, not as some performative mind-body exercise.

John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers, said:

"I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."

This quote illustrates to me perfectly why wealth is typically destroyed in 3 generations, or at least why that stereotype exists. The rigor and knowledge disappears as the elites become more concerned with the optics of what they are doing, instead of the actual work at hand. It's precisely why I brought up my lens of being an immigrant. My future kids will probably never have the hunger and edge with which I work, but I hope to distill in them rigor, and hope that they can bring that intensity that I still lack today.
The issue here is that it's a president arbitrarily destroying a company.

If the Congress (the actual body meant to crate laws) decides to create a reasoned, comprehensive law to level the playing field with Chinese companies, then they should do it.

What shouldn't happen is this kind of impulsive decision making that arguably abuses the emergency powers of the presidency to block an app that allows people to film themselves and post those recordings.

If you claim that this app is a national security threat then any app is.
Well, rocks aren't conscious, and I can't see it in a nematode either. But consciousness isn't on or off. If you've met e.g. Alzheimer patients, you can see it fade away. Scans of such patients show lack of activity associated with consciousness, but it's no proof.
1.30 The Government has announced that the code will apply to Facebook and Google. Accordingly, the Treasurer is expected to make an instrument specifying Facebook Inc. and Google LLC as designated digital platform corporations.

Called out by name as the only two companies the law applies to.
It‘s a question of distribution power. If the power is granted to the executive branch, they can do it. It‘s part of decisions on their own country. I consider it much more questionable to exert power over allied countries to stop extraterritorial infrastructure projects (i.e. Nordstream 2), because the US wants to sell fracking gas to europe. I‘m sure that using such power will lead to losing it long-term and former allies for mutual profit will grow apart.
True, but there are simpler (abstract) machines that also achieve Turing completeness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-instruction_set_computer

> That still doesn't address the parent's confusion (that I share) of how you get Turing-completeness just from addition and multiplication.

I wouldn't say arithmetic circuits are Turing complete since they can only perform bounded computations, but we could say that they're functionally complete. It is known that boolean AND and OR gates are functionally complete, and we can reduce them to multiplication and addition in any finite field:

x and y = x * y
x or y = ¬(¬x and ¬y) = 1 - (1 - x)(1 - y)
Yeah, this seems like the best strategy, especially if you have GPT-3 beta access.
>combined with the fact that it can and will auto-update >without your approval, even if you've told it otherwise

This behavior is easy to rationalize if you think of it as a business decision. Canonical is happy to sell you an "enterprise edition" app store (a so-called "brand store") that restores full control of app updates. See https://core.docs.ubuntu.com/en/guides/go-to-production/adva....
No, you cannot convert an arbitrary Turing machine to a circuit. Not even if you assume a bounded input size. Not even if you assume just one single allowed input, because you might not be able to know if that Turing machine ever terminates on that input.

And loops are not an implementation details. Bounded loop are, one might argue, an implementation detail, but unbounded loops are precisely _the_ problem: in general it is impossible, given an arbitrary Turing machine (or an arbitrary C, Python, whatever Turing-complete language program), to give an upper bound on the number of iterations its loops will require.
I didn’t say you need to ban all tracking, in fact I’d love that Apple is doing this without regulators having to intervene.

The dangers of cars are pretty obvious, the dangers of tracking are not.

And I disagree that these are “low harm”, being forcefully outed is no joke in certain communities. The only thing that is protecting a lot of people right now is a correlation between certain ideologies and low technological know-how.
Apps like TikTok are way less problematic than, like, messengers. If the app is all about publishing things, why is anyone talking about privacy?!
Update Your Password Whenever You Get a Random 2FA Request
Interestingly, it should be 'What before, marital status?!'.

Check out the early Bill Gates resume from the 90s, he listed his weight and marital status and apparently that was like totally normal.
Yes it is a paid piece. The account posts the same link in every HN thread about India.
Made the world's 2nd biggest database to find Tattoo Artists and Studios
That has actually started to become a sign for me.

Sometimes I'm not really stressed before the interview, and that's when I realise I don't care that much about the job and probably shouldn't go further.
> This seems like a risky move for China

After labors with Uigurs it looks, hmm, "normal" for China. But definitely not normal or even shitty for general people in 2020.
I love every Mayflower scene in that movie, even when Minerva just sits on the boardroom table singing "I've Got The Power".
It's nice to see the HN crowd drop their facade of caring about freedom.
They plan to add helicopters and gliders after launch.

Basically the intent behind this release is to support it for at least 10 years.
This is just an example of how gulible Guinness are. The first video games map was a many orders of magnitude larger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!
To Gold or Not to Gold?
The 1994 investigation of Nintendo & Sega for monopoly practices in game distribution which is the closest historical case.
What exactly are you invested in in this discussion? We were originally discussing Nvidia's business practices don't match ARM's business practices. But you seem to just want to take on people's personal views on Nvidia now.

You're now somehow arguing with people that they should stop complaining about Nvidia's business practices. I would agree with that in the sense that Nvidia can do whatever they want: nobody is obliged to buy Nvidia, and Nvidia is not obliged to cater to everyone's needs. It's a free enough market. But even if you don't agree with some/most of the complaints surely you must agree that Nvidia's track record of pissing of both other companies (and people) is problematic for when they take control of a company with an ecosystem driven business model like ARM's?
Given its enormous latency, is that all placebo effect?
I only had good experiences with VMware on the Mac. You should give it a try. I prefer it to Parallels for the listed reasons.
Expert software is not for everyone.
Because Instagram and the likes do/did not have access to the huge mainland Chinese market.
They could any time they wanted to, googlebot respects robots.txt prohibitions. They want google to direct traffic to their websites and they want google to pay for the privilege...
1. You're conflating X and Xorg.

2. Network transparency is still there and I use it everyday. The problem is toolkits (GTK and others) who decided it would be 'simpler' to redo everything themselves in a canvas. Of course the result of not taking advantages of X primitives was a massive slowdown over the network.

3. Wayland sits at an odd place, not having the advantages of being a proper protocol in the sense of X (complete abstraction from the substrate), while at the same time not having the advantages of being a direct API to hardware (simplicity, performance).
This. Your code often becomes easier to read and test as well.
I'm pretty encouraged at how far the Linux kernel's progressed with adding support for current modern MacBook hardware.

Every now and then I boot up a distro that tends to have quite bleeding edge kernel version like a Tails USB to see how complete the hardware compatibility is out of the box.

Apple's hardware like their trackpad remains superior enough that there seems to be enough interest (like you and me) in seeing it work.

https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux
Now people in the US will have to use a VPN to access a Chinese app. Oh how the turntables.
You can get a Thrustmaster TS16000M for less than $50, which is a great joystick to start flying. There are much more complex and true-to-life systems, which can cost several hundred dollars. It all depends on how much realistic you want your experience to be.
I think the point is not to encourage doing research that is pointless or boring, just that if you do try something (and there has to be some interesting or exciting reason you thought it was worth trying), you publish the results even if it fails completely. At the very least this would serve to warn others that the approach you tried didn't work, saving them the effort or allowing them to learn from your mistakes.
The message that would trascend from such an action is that our vision of how a society should work was no better than the one in China. The West always believed their ideals and principles around "democracy" and "freedom" were superior to those of the CCP.

Now the West also needs to ban <X> (in this case, a social media platform) to function and is no better than its rival. If anything, this would prove the CCP was always right when it applied such measures in the past.

This sets a scary -albeit interesting- precedent.
It is definitely worth applying for lots of places at first though, that is if you’re not blessed to have people around you to help steer you. The problem is writing a good CV is hard. Knowing how to present yourself in interviews can be hard for some people too. So applying for a few jobs early on gives you a chance to refine your CV and improve your interviewing skills so that when you start applying for the jobs you actually want you are a stronger candidate.

Of course, if you already have friends or family who work in the industry who can help train you on these skills then you’ve already got an advantage. But there’s a lot of people at the start of their careers who don’t.
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The exact opposite is true. Taxing revenue and salaries affects workers and the overall health of the company. Taxing profits affects mainly just shareholders - especially for larger companies.

There are several papers on this.
This should be a starting point for a tit-for-tat game where for every western company China bans, the West does the same. And for every stolen IP, we do the same
It's a reference from the movie Pulp Fiction
En tant que développeur et Bordelais, je suis très fier de vous les gars. Bravo, et merci pour votre enthousiasme et la qualité de votre travail.

Je serai super intéressé d'avoir un peu de détails sur votre engouement pour l'aviation au fil de ce projet. Je crois avoir lu qu'une grosse partie de l'équipe a passé son PPL ? Comment cette idée est née et quel était le sentiment général de l'équipe quand vous avez entrepris ce challenge ?
Oldie but a goodie

https://youtu.be/EUXnJraKM3k
> you can name columns and use the name in formulas

You can do that in Excel too: whether it's the whole column of a sheet, or a column of a table - syntax for latter is `someTable[someColumnName]`. Mesh will have the latter, albeit with different syntax.

Thank you for the links! I will have a look. There's a deep history.
I don't think passive aggressive is the right description for the name... It's just plain bad. Who wants to think of related sexual fetishists when performing image manipulation?
Glimpse is much better. Is there any chance the name will get officially changed?
Article title is gross overreach, if not outright wrong.

IANAS, but even I know Correlation does not mean Causation. The paper itself only says “associated with”, not “responsible for”. Being an observational study of self-selecting cohorts, even with the authors’ attempts to control the confounders will be massive.

Honestly, this is the standard of reporting I’d expect from yellow-bellied fish wrappers like the Daily Mail. Please do better.
I inevitably read CVs with a cover letter before those without (unless the cover letter looks like a wall of text). All I ask of a cover letter is that it reminds me to think of you as a human, nothing more; reading lists of projects, employers or education achievements is very dry and mechanical otherwise.

A bad cover letter is going to be worse than none, but it really takes very little effort to have something decent and reusable. Many modern CV forms include a small space for it, that's less than ideal but still ok.
How do you plan on taxing something that is free?
Here we go, from the 2017 National Intelligence Law of the People's Republic https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1800/sources/2017_PRC_Natio...

"Article 7
Any organization or citizen shall support, assist and cooperate with the state intelligence work in accordance with the law, and keep the secrets of the national intelligence work known to the public.
The State protects individuals and organizations that support, assist and cooperate with national intelligence work."
GIMP Is a Mediocre Photoshop
>By increasing costs for all companies, you are making products more expensive for all consumers. It's effectively a regressive tax.

Taxing profits has zero impact on costs. The most it would affect is the viability of companies that are on the border of profitable/not profitable because it would detract from their ability to attract capital.

Apple is quite possibly the furthest away from this scenario you could possibly imagine. Taxing their profits will have zero impact on apples costs.

>here's an interesting idea: just tax rich people more

The funny thing is that whenever you try to do that a coterie of economically illiterate paid-to-be-wrong journalists come out telling you how much you're ruining things for everybody else and how little the rich will really be affected.

You can almost measure the actual impact of a tax by the intensity of the screams in the popular press about how much the average joe will get screwed and how little the rich will be affected.

And, of course, taxes that really are like that get branded differently - they're "necessary evils" or simply just ignored.
Given that most Danes below the age of 50 are effectively bilingual they were also made fun of here in Denmark. Also "dong" in danish is ofc. onomatopoeia for the sound that a large bell or gong makes when struck, which in itself was a bit silly even without the english meaning.
Progarchives is a site I have come to appreciate lately.
> Unless you're very careful, it's also easy to end up double-aggregating,

Oh no, never do anything fancy on the client end. yeah thats total trash. Any client that does any kind of aggregating is a massive pain in the arse.

Counters are good enough for 90% of everything you want. You can turn counters into hits per second easily. Plus they are more resistant to time based averaging. If you do your stats correctly, you can even has resetting counters create nice smooth graphs (non negative derivatives are a god send)

> Dropwizard

Yes, this is a library that argues strongly against the use of metrics. From what I recall 1 node of casasndra will output close to 50,000 metrics by default. That is too much.

When a team I worked with were migrating away from splunk to graphite/grafana, they shat out something close to a million metrics. 99.8% were totally useless.

> You need to build and bodge a terrifying pile of stuff to get post-calculated metrics going.

Yes! I think thats my main objection. Its so bloody expensive to do post-hock metrics. you can buy in splunk, but thats horrifically expensive. Or you can use an open source version and loose 4 person years before you even get a graph.
> their hardware works just fine if you use the only driver that they support on the platforms they say they support.

Except that they stop supporting older HW at some point. That, together with occasional crashes learned me not to buy nVidia HW again.
"Works in chrome"
I got a career out of endlessly recompiling X11 and Slackware so I run Gimp.

Seriously it was many months of constantly tinkering Because I couldn’t afford Photoshop.

I had no idea at the time how valuable to my career that was.

I also never want to go through it again.
While it seems quite absurd, most governments make this kinds of decisions.

For instance, France has used similar tactics when rumors of Pepsi buying Danone came to light.
Nice, I’m working on creating a demo video of a product we’re launching soon, will give this a shot!
The post I originally responded to talked about the existence of a demographic that reacts with offense to open-source licenses being violated but is indifferent towards or even advocates for music piracy, and contended that their ethics is "weird". To me, weirdness implies being uncommon, but to the extent that this demographic exists, I do not think that the ethical principles they are applying are uncommon at all: as they see it, the typical GPL violation case is perceived to involve a faceless megacorp benefitting off of the work of one or multiple hobbyist programmers scraping by while making their labour available for free, while music royalties are perceived to primarily benefit very affluent label executives and industry association lawyers. Conditional on this belief, a very commonly held ethical system says it's bad to steal from the former but good to steal from the latter. If the objection is merely that the belief is wrong, though, you can't say that the problem is that some "weird" ethics is involved.
What about them? GP is conveying the scale of just wars, this isn't including natural disasters that have ripped through China. What are some comparable things to happen in europe and the middle east?
No, it's pretty fundamental. If the executor were able to know which side of the branch to execute it would mean the executor knows the value of the conditional.
This medical adherence score [1] is horrifying.

[1] https://www.fico.com/en/resource-download-file/3317
we'll see.

for the moment, most people i know complain about poor performances of linux vms in mac os, particularly when running docker (that gets pretty i/o intensive when dealing with images).

> at least for now, it is announced that Apple Silicon hardware only boots into signed operation systems

this alone already rules out gnu/linux i guess?
The same company issued a long maturity (1000-year) bond, which on the trading floor became known as the Ultra Long Dong, and broke many many trading applications that used 64 bit nanosecond timestamps.
It's certainly not super obvious to setup but there are ways to use PlayCanvas with local setup[1]. I have Redirector[2] rules in my browser and that basically handles it.
So with some tinkering you can have hot module replacement and front-end libraries integrated for a very smooth and web-dev-y modern workflow.

[1] https://github.com/thisredone/coffeescript-playcanvas-templa...
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/ocgpenf...
Skate Warrior 1992, 1999, 2020
Fiction often isn't supposed to be either framed as a retelling of stuff that's already happened or set in the past (often it's set in the future, but explicit use of the future tense is rare). Sometimes it even switches between current period story narration and background/flashbacks though I'm struggling to think of an example that does this really well primarily through tense shifts.

And casual conversation often retells anecdotes in the present tense even when explicitly over a past of time 'so eventually they stop, and I think to myself' because it's sounds more dynamic. Which is probably part of its appeal to new writers. That and it being common in writing that is popular or esteemed now, and absent from old literature of the nineteenth century, much like repetitive chord progressions with modal harmony and the odd chromatic passing tone on top...

Maybe in 100 years time writing in the future tense will be commonplace and microtonality will be the starting point for new composers.
Any one using Kestrel in production?
I am curious about the real life experiences of those who use Kestrel in production.

I developed a microservice using asp.net core kestrel. Each service loads all the records of a category to the memory at startup. All requests are answered by this loaded class. Instead of sending a request to Redis, I use the class I created. Is this solution right for you?