skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many companies that did not have a sanctioned monopoly used to have significant investments in research labs; those investments have been scaled back drastically.
While true, samizdat was already a threat to the regime and I’m sure the wide availability of photocopiers would have made that a much bigger headache for the Soviet government. They already resorted to registering typewriters because that’s how samizdat was typically produced and copied.
What a great writeup, thank you! I think I followed all that . Two things leap out at me:

- I can see arenas for a compiler, but I'm not so sure for an interpreter. While most of the memory allocated in Dark will be done within a single HTTP call (and so an arena might actually be appropriate), there are contexts where a GC cycle or two to cleanup might be appropriate. I'm guessing that arena's are an all-or-nothing approach?

- I'm using `im`, which I think also gets in the way of my nice pattern matching, right? Any solutions to that?
Yeltsin certainly began the process, but it's hard to argue that Putin hasn't acted very aggressively to consolidate power. The idea that just because it was a process that started under a previous ruler, the currently ruler shouldn't be blamed for embracing and expanding the corrupt policies makes no sense.

Also, what is the encroachment you are talking about against Russia? Are you talking about allowing the people of the former Soviet Union to choose to move away from Russia toward the West and enter into a defensive military alliance? Because that's not encroachment. That's helping those people get out from under Russian encroachment. Russia does not get to play the victim card because we're letting people outside of Russia choose to move away from them. That's not how reality works. Just because Russia neighbors the Baltics, Georgia, and Ukraine does not give them any right to demand they follow specific domestic policies. But that is exactly what Putin is trying to assert.
Raja Koduri and Intel's path to 50x Transistor Density improvements
Money does buy happiness, though, from all the time I have spent observing rich people. Clearly rich people do find ways to become unhappy but it seems like a struggle compared to the rest of us. It's not hard to coach when the largest barrier in human life is stripped away from your clients (well, excepting disabilities).
It's shocking how shortsighted and out of touch with reality the CA government is.
Adam Wathan's beliefs about making a living as an indie maker
It sounds really deep, but there doesn't seem to be any truth to it? Wikipedia mentions internal problems and conquest by a neighboring kingdom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush

I don't understand why make up stories when there are more than enough material with the colonial history.
Why do they get nothing? If you find value in their one-off videos, throw them a couple bucks. If they don't have a Paypal, Patreon, Liberapay, etc -- just watch a video of theirs with adblock temporarily disabled.
Nothing is calling home when you run a new executable. You're not understanding how gatekeeper works. It works entirely offline without network access.
Every time one of these articles comes along we hear about fast I/O and how other hardware can't handle the volume. Why not? What makes mainframe hardware so special that it can't be duplicated in other architectures?
Yeah, but how does Apple/Google determine if an app developer has the capability to do it and verify that they're consistently doing it? Or are we saying that only big companies with verified and known payment platforms can use their own payment system?

And then, how many bad experiences for these types of purchases (or articles about bad experiences) will customers tolerate before they stop trusting in-app or third party purchases? One? A hundred?
> However, it was already known from previous laboratory experiments that a small proportion of about three to four percent of OX513A descendants can reach adulthood;

It was flawed from the beginning. The attempt got basically the exact result one would expect, and was reasonably successful in reducing the mosquito population. It was just not good enough.
The experience stinks because Youtube makes it stink. NewPipe handles video resuming, downloading, subscriptions, RSS feeds, pulling multiple videos from different services into the same viewer/manager, and they're currently looking into options to do syncing between devices/clients by doing automatic data exports and imports and pushing them into Syncthing.

All while being (imo) easier to use and (objectively) less resource intensive than the official Youtube client.

It is possible to build good video clients/services without sacrificing people's privacy. The reason Google's tracking is essential for stuff like video resume is because Google integrated those features into their tracking systems from day one, and now they don't know how to separate them.

Another example here -- if I turn off search & web tracking in my Google account, Google loses the ability to save locations in Google maps on my phone. They never considered that they could just save my locations locally and not send them to the cloud.

Google is being honest when they say they can't do stuff like auto-resume without tracking me, but they're being dishonest when they give the reason they can't do it. It's not because privacy and convenience are so impossible to reconcile, it's because (being charitable) Google engineers and managers don't have the first clue how to build a service that even tries to reconcile those ideas.

The less charitable possibility is that Google deliberately makes their services terrible when privacy options are enabled to reinforce the idea in people's minds that it's impossible to have both privacy and convenience. But while I don't assume the best of Google, I still lean towards blaming incompetence over maliciousness.
Couldn't it be causal, as the article suggests?
The author is one condescending shitcoder lmao
Half of the top ten in that list cannot be called "extremely liberal" (or for some, even moderately liberal) -- Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Florida, and Arizona; even fewer in the next ten.

I don't disagree with you vis-a-vis the anti-tax sentiment, but you're making a strong claim that extremely liberal state government policies drive economies, and that's a reach.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic but it's surely a lot easier to keep a large passenger plane on a steady course.
I have a lot of questions and doubts, but I guess this would not be the best place to ask them.

Anyway, congrats on the product. It feels awesome.
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Deep Learning with Scikit-Learn
> Saudi Arabia doesn't try to interfere with any western European country, neither militarily nor in their politics...

O_O you are so wrong, it is one the biggest foreign lobbying power in America, and Europe.

But this is not the point of this conversation.
What are the vectors on android?
Because it makes a lot of money, Apple doesn't have the right to engage in such a self-sabotaging move because they are bound to their investors, who would be mad at them willingly destroying such a revenue stream. So debates about commons aside, the question is somewhat ludicrous because it's about as fanciful and applicable as "What if Microsoft released the Windows source code?"
Agreed that GPT-3 is a tool, and it isn't going to write entire stories for you, at least, not good ones. But it can be a valuable part of a writer's toolkit, similar to Google or other forms of research.

The comparison to Photoshop is right: GPT-3 is in some ways like content aware fill. I believe in a few years, Word will have something like this integrated, albeit, probably set at a low temperature or for specific types of boilerplate writing.

However, I don't think GPT-3 it's reached the level of hype as self-driving cars.
This comment undersells the article, imho, which is quite cool. I would have thought it’s some culture war overcorrection but it actually only has one reference to prejudice (about an Egyptologist from the early 1900s) and is mostly about how the Kush kingdoms were actually more than just some Egyptian colony.

Title is clickbaity though of you interpret it literally. Article does not answer “why” it was forgotten.
> Does anyone disagree that Apple and Google have the right to just go "this app store business is just not worth the headaches, we're gonna shut it all down."

There might be legal issues with drastically reducing the functionality of devices after they've been sold, but I would imagine they could do this for new devices going forward. I think this points out a subtlety in the arguments of most people who take Epic's side in this struggle: it appears that Apple could avoid these allegations of anticompetitive behavior by either increasing or decreasing the restrictions placed on third-party software distribution. That's a little bizarre, but it surely must be the case, unless the argument is that all electronics manufacturers must provide an easy way to owners to run third-party software (think game console, GPS devices, stereo receivers, car infotainment systems, the microcontroller in every switching power supply, etc.). Presumably the response to this subtlety is that "iPhones are general-purpose computers, but game consoles, etc. aren't," but I disagree with that both in theory and in practice based on what buyers of these devices expect to be able to do with the devices.
Are there any products that people really did want, for people who had the willingness and ability to pay for them, which are not in the market because of startup blunders? Put another way, other than being illegal, is there a problem that growth has not solved?
There is a scrpt that used to work using Xvfb and mozilla: https://linuxwiki.de/BildschirmFoto
There is an easy trick to it: pretend it’s impossible to no go to war and any action that improves the life of a foreigner is reason to spend! Otherwise a gap might develop, and we can’t have that!
I like the app and use it due to it being offline + a smooth UI. No clunky like the rest, even though they are great too.

Your choice. It was an endorsement.
Disappointed this is just a list, with no information, ranking or anything else. I'm always on the hunt for good sci-fi, but unfortunately this isn't helpful.
I think you're bringing the "Will GPT-3 change life as we know it?" debate to a place where it's entirely unnecessary.

An author made a cool sci-fi story with a cool AI model's help. That's exactly "photoshop brush for the mind", like you say.
People all up and down healthcare earn far higher pay in the US than anywhere else.

Discussions about other causes for US taxes to be so high can get very political very quick because the myriad tax deductions available to the asset owning class, as well as the unaccounted for defined benefit / retiree healthcare debt that US governments have at all levels, and then you can get into military spending and so on and so forth.
If I'm interested in tinkering with this, how do I get started?
Exactly, and at that time my wife and I were wearing masks (that we already had from before the pandemic!) going in stores and people gave us looks, made comments, etc. That is what happens when our leaders are irresponsible, ineffective and plain stupid.
"Diffusionism refers to the diffusion or transmission of cultural characteristics or traits from the common society to all other societies."
This seems like it's really narrowly focused on the software developers' part of an agile project's lifecycle. And I agree, within that scope, you should absolutely shut up and plan the sprint.

Product strategists, though, can't afford to be so shortsighted. And most companies don't (and maybe shouldn't) have such a clear separation of roles.

I've found that, when your job involves wearing multiple hats, the trick is to pay attention to what hat you're wearing at any given moment. Don't let them all get muddled up. When it all blends together, then the smallest unit available to you to boil is the whole ocean.
Thanks!
I'm neck-deep in a webpack4 project right now. Any idea when 5 will exit beta?
The 100-step rule in neuroscience, that states that no primary brain operation (e.g., face recognition) can take more than 100 neuron firing “steps.” (Feldman & Ballard, 1982)
Except the loan was paid including all interest for the lifetime of the loan. If you prepaid your mortgage that way, even on purpose, your bank would owe you a good portion of your money back.
That's just wrong. The “Eg” is associated with the wrong context, etc..
Since the old, crufty, established incumbents aren’t agile enough to meet the new requirements, seems like there’s a hole in the market for a disrupter.
Does anyone know if Uber/Lyft is actually profitable in California currently due to Covid? That is to say, is there a minimum volume threshold, such that below which ride-share is not profitable?
Now add $300/month for a parking space in an apartment building, $10/day for parking in a garage downtown near your office, plus your car payment/depreciation of the car you're driving.

Also not all public transit trips take twice as long as a car. In many urban places (which is where any of this scenario makes sense) at rush hour a trip on public transit is often about equivalent to driving if not shorter.
"Someone put a mask on that child please"! "Why doesn't the parents put a mask on that child"?
This Atlantic article [0] goes in to that subject a bit. It is less focused on "why do people defend/enforce the power of evil people?" and more on comparing people who collaborate vs those who do not. But still a good read.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-...
Note the very different tone here between this discussion about russia and previous discussions about china. Strangely calmer and less troll-swamped, this.
It sorts by UTF-16 code unit.
Driving jobs already exist if that’s what they wanted. Turning ridesharing into full-time employment doesn't solve anything other than removing the freelance opportunity for many who find it fits their situation best.
Right- which I would expect Google or any half decent service to be able to withstand easily. Its not a sudden spike that happens under a few minutes to several orders of magnitude above the average weekly peak, this is a fairly gentle sloping upward.

And if this happened last year too, you would think this would be on top of the list of things to watch for next year and add capacity for. Amazon and Walmart start planning and drilling now for their holiday season.
I've heard marketing used with this definition. It's actually really common - most marketing textbooks and classes will start from the premise that the goal of marketing is to identify a market and better serve it, and then work forward from it.

That said - I don't think marketing is a good goal for a startup, for the reasons enumerated here [1]. Basically, you can visualize the roles in a company like this:

Concrete | Abstract
-----------------------------------------
Tech | Programming | Architecture
Customers | Sales | Marketing
Employees | Managers | HR

And in a startup, you don't want anything to be abstract, because there's too much room for error just getting the concrete stuff right. Everything in the right-hand column belongs in a big company, with millions of users and thousands of employees, because they deal with emergent phenomena that happens when you're huge. If you're thinking in those terms you'll get crushed by the big companies that actually do have all those resources, so startups need to focus on small niches that can grow.

[1] https://genius.com/Jessica-livingston-why-startups-need-to-f...
Confidence in your own bullshit filters is a strong indicator that you are the bullshitter, and you’re rationalizing away how you can disengage from people who actually have a point.
You're asking a lot of questions that can be answered with Google.

With regards to my experiences- I've spent years as an independent contractor. My linkedin is in my profile, feel free to confirm. I know the pros and cons of being an independent contractor and have followed the changes in the law both on the federal and local level. I'd say I'm fairly well versed in it.

Your argument about how "employee == full time" is just a straw man. No one is requiring people to be full time. In fact "flexibility"- which in most survays done on drivers is one of their top concerns- is preserved with the legal cases and subsequent AB5 legislation. The only difference is that as employees drivers would also get paid for idle time while waiting for rides, would have the option of benefits, and Uber would be responsible for paying unemployment taxes for when those riders lose their jobs (like when a pandemic hits).
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That's what I like about some of the Android phones. Some lets you disable the boot security and run whatever you want to. That being said, obviously the situation isn't perfect because most vendors only make the binary blobs available for android kernels and userspace...

We're a long way from a flagship class phone that you can install distros as freely as you can on a PC. I'm well aware of the Pine Phone and Librem, but they're both rather slow compared to a 2019 or 2020 smartphone.
Yes,

at the same time: Imagine if in the US: there was a new poisonous snake that killed 400 000 people.

Someone said: Let's exterminate that type of snake.

Then, do you think someone from the US/Europe/Australia would have replied "but maybe the snake is an important part of the ecosystem" ?

Would that have been a bit like not putting out a fire burning down a city,

because maybe the fire might cause certain unknown nuts to grow into plants and trees, the following years, and maybe maybe those trees were important somehow?
fun tip - apparently there's enough Harry Potter fanfiction out there that GPT-2/3 is quite good at understanding that universe.

So if you go into AI Dungeon and pick "custom story", and give it a prompt that indicates you are at Hogwarts, it will pretty much adapt all the rules of the HP universe.

The downside is, when you do this, GPT's intelligence drops to about the level of a Harry Potter fanfic writer.
Self-proclaimed “Antiracist” groups seem to be consistently putting out some of the most racist, divisive content there is. It’s a shame that there is an industry coming out of it, as this creates a financial dependency on pushing this narrative.

It’s such a grift and things are only getting worse. I don’t know how people get guilted into falling for the BS put out by people like Robin DiAngelo. Jack Dorsey is unbelievably naive.

The fact that it’s called the “center for antiracist research” basically guarantees that it can only ever find a specific outcome. It’s not like this is open-ended scientific inquiry.
Good behavior on an iOS device is not enforced by the app store, but by the OS. Background processing is limited on a timer, the OS throttles processes that use too much background processing & networking depending on context, etc.

The OS also suspends background apps fairly aggressively compared to the foreground app. Mobile apps also give you more tracking variables to do fingerprinting with than browsers do and it's pretty much impossible to practically add a local firewall to iOS devices to block ads. Adblocking isn't a practical thing on mobile apps.

Similarly, managing bad 'tabs' is really the browser's responsibility.
I think most binaries go through the linker, and since everyone will have the same linker version from the start it shouldn't be a problem.

They also say >enable the system to better detect code modifications.

So that part doesn't require any central authority and can be handled locally. (But I'm guessing there are more parts)
The problem is that many drivers prefer having the flexibility to work 5 hours one week and then 50 hours the next. With the new rules, this would not be possible. By taking away this option, you are telling drivers they need to commit to Uber as a legit job. Considering the vast majority of Uber drivers I've ever spoken to use it as a side gig to earn extra cash, I will bet they side with Uber on this one.

The idea that someone can clock-in, work 2-3 hours, clock-out and then clock in again in 2 weeks tells me this isn't a real job. We need another classification.

And the problem here isn't that Uber's model doesn't work. Uber can transition to this new classification and adjust their business model to make it work, the bigger problem is that the drivers don't want it to work this way. The service works because it can respond to minute-by-minute demand. That's not possible with the new rules.
>[...] it takes me ages to convince myself this implementation is correct.

Is that supposed to be difficult?

Not trying to be snarky, I'm honestly surprised, do people actually struggle with this? Googlers in particular?
Well, this question is similar to foreigners cannot understand how any Americans can support racist/sexist/amoral Trump. For Putin’s supporters , his is the only person who can make Russia great
Many performance-critical C++ programmers treat std with suspicion. One thing to keep in mind is that the interface is standard, but the implementations are not, and can foil you on cross-platform development. Another is that you might not need everything that a std container provides, and you can get away with a streamlined data structure that doesn't support those unnecessary operations.

But as a sibling commenter notes... this isn't relevant for min/max.
FWIW, very often the answer in those "returning from a function" situations (in Rust anyway) is to allocate further up the stack, or clone, rather than use a smart pointer. In fact, you can nearly always do this, as long as you control enough of the involved code. Use of Rc is intended not only for data that outlives the function in which it's currently defined (because in general, you can define stuff wherever you want), but for data whose lifetime is unpredictable--there either isn't a safe point in your program where you can definitively drop it (this usually more applies to Arc, if it's holding data pointed at by two independent threads), or there is a known safe point but it is too imprecise to be useful to you.

But the latter is pretty subjective; for instance, if you know it's safe to drop something when the program ends, but it might be safe to drop much earlier, in some contexts it still might be worth dropping at the end rather than dealing with the significant overhead of something like Rc or Arc. The reason I recommended arenas is that I find in compilers, often you have cases where you just need to define a scope at some point in your program way higher than when you create the value, and that's what they excel at--letting you initialize stuff with whatever parent scope you want, not arbitrarily restricting you to the function boundary.
Do you subscribe for paying for content? Cause with Youtube Premium you don't get ads, and the creators you watch get paid.

The only thing people like to complain more then ads is for paywalls, but content creators need to be paid somehow to be able to make a living.