skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BBC More or Less podcast did an investigation on this and found no actual evidence for the claim. It seems to be based on a study on roundabouts in one town in england and then people just assumed that all world soil was suffering the same rough treatment...

This piece is just a reprint of a speech made by a UN official. No science quoted.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08dx986
Unless you want to play online.

Some of the titles on the store allow peer to peer connection multiplayer which doesn’t have any drm checks. But most titles that use servers to simplify matchmaking or connection with other players have a check that validates that gog galaxy is logged into an account that has purchased the game.
Hi, I am the Author of this library.

My Goal is to Create a dead-simple API for state management in React so that even inexperienced people can work confidently on complex state.

I was inspired by immer.js use of proxies and Svelte's reactive state. I also found ways to increse performance and introduce new features like reactive-props, input bindings, always-fresh-state in React

Let me know what you think.
At least the GPU stuff is getting some scrutiny.

Their modem code is a security nightmare and outside Qualcomms modem teams nobody is allowed to see it.
which journalist are you referring to?

also, you see no difference between China and the US? care to explain how you came to such an absurd conclusion?
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Hi,
first of all: thanks for this excellent piece of work. I have a small(ish) NAS server in a basement room and whenever there are issues, I needed to drag a screen and a keyboard over to solve them. TinyPilot helps a lot here!
I have efollowed your instructions and it works, but keyboard input is extremely slow. Do you have any idea what may cause this?
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“Latinx” is particularly common recently, outside of activist contexts. I find it annoying, since its, at best, a linguistically-ignorant gender neutralization of Latino/Latina, and Latino (as both masculine and gender inclusive) and Latina (as feminine) themselves were adopted because they respected the language of the cultures being identified better than the existing English term (Latin), which was already gender neutral.

Latinx neither does that nor is phonetically sensible in English (if you don't know it's origin, it looks like it should be pronounced “la-TINKS”), and further isn't just gender neutral but actively gender-hostile (literally X-ing out part of the identity of the people labelled with it.)
> it's strikingly obvious when you ask deeper questions about a book and they can only respond with basic one sentences you could infer from the synopsis.

When I watch movies with some people they will be "I think I didn't see this one before". And then half way in, they are like "oh I remember this, I did watch it after all". Some people are just forgetful.
But is Assange a journalist?

Does he have any accreditations, or follow journalistic standards for example?
Cantonments need to be abolished, and stricken out from the law. It's a colonial anachronism used int the past to shield British military from the local jurisdiction.

Now they just add to complete jurisdictional—topological clusterf__k.

The same is for governments of other city's subdivisions.

The lion share of Karachi's troubles is from super unclear jurisdiction over much of its function, with each player in local government throwing hot potato problems to the next one in the chain.
A book is a somewhat large time investment. Often it is worth it but often it isn't. The main problem is the sheer amount of books out there. Deciding what to read next is a non-trivial decision problem. Currently I'm basing my decisions on ratings, recommendations from friends and book clubs.

It would be nice if sites like Goodreads kept statistics on ratings for second/third/... reading (maybe they do?). Such information could help readers identify books that are exceptional regarding second/third/... reading.
Manage your SSH connections with nccm
Wow , great job.
Karateka!
Carmen Sandiago!
I think the salient point is this:

> All obvious places already have them

That is, we’re already practically at max capacity for hydro.
Bullshit.

Bullshit.

Bullshit.

Bullshit.

Oh hey, I am more talented than I thought! Now let me write a 4000-words column explaining why you obtuse boors cannot even begin to comprehend the depth of this deceptively simple thought.
> What's next, complaining that the cancer patient gets extra time off so why don't I?

If they brought cancer tumor on themselves, then yes. [You just compared kids and cancer, mate, FYI]
You can only pardon someone who has been convicted, so I don't see what opportunity he has had
i still don't know why a website like Craig Murray's is allowed on these forums.

he's got so many issues it's not even funny.
Janitors at Lyft HQ call out this company for firing union cleaning contractor
Ah, thanks for solving that mystery! I can sleep now
Right wingers who don't wear a mask are not motivated by their friends seeing them without a mask. They are individualists. They do it because they see it as resisting being controlled by anyone or subjugated. They are also heavily anti-vax for the same reason. The amount of pressure there is in public to wear a mask is enough that it selects for individualists as the people not wearing masks.
Might makes right, èh?

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Don't know if you get reply notifications, but I forgot to reply the other day saying thanks for this comment. I'm looking forward to reading more on the subject!
Attacker might flash a tampered BIOS from inside a VM makes total sense. It’s surprising how many SPI ROM there can be in a box, and how basically they’re all waiting there to be exploited.
Show HN: Convert MIDI to CV for controlling VCOs of synthesizers
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Actually they do, it just happens to be WIP on clang and MSVC++.

CppCon 2019: “Lifetime analysis for everyone”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d67kfSnhbpA
Sadly no
>People may not realize how slow these phones are. The single core performance of the top budget phone, the Samsung A50, is comparable to an iPhone 6 which came out in 2015.

Yes. And also.

The single core performance of Entry Level iPhone, iPhone SE; is faster than Flagship Android Phone.

And that is not counting the System and Software efficiency.
Given that Disney made its fortune by adapting public domain stories and then abusing the copyright protection of their adaptation of these stories, I think there are more loopholes to patch than just the expiration date.
> Of course not, but choosing to have children in the first place is.

The choice to have kids isn't like the choice to work out or get good at Starcraft. It's a choice which benefits all of society.

If you're 30, the toddlers of today will be voting and coming into the workforce and voting when you're 50; and will be basically running your country when you're 70. If the next generation isn't raised to take your place, your retirement is going to really stink. And the character and attitude of the toddlers now are going to have a massive impact on your life.

When the harassed parent on your Zoom call apologizes and puts you on mute to spend 30 seconds interacting with their toddler, that's an investment in your own future. Be grateful for them for doing that work.
Yes. I think I haven't noticed such a long form writing style before. I bet it's intentional.

What makes it really difficult for me is my eyes can't seem to anchor anywhere when I read. It's like reading a big phrase, or like speaking without taking a breath.
> Well, they've noticed how GPL is bad for their EEE strategy, so they've grasped the first occasion to fight it: can't do much with the code that is GPLv2, but can hinder the license update.

Can you describe "their EEE strategy" in more detail?

What license update? And hinder it how?
>>> Epic itself cannot do it for less than 12%

What makes you think this? How do you know they cannot do an App Store for less than 12%? Also there is such a thing as economies of scale - the app store probably sells many times more things than the Epic version.

You seem to mistakenly think the cost of selling X items on an App Store has a cost that is "cost of app store per thing" * "number of things sold". This isn't true, the cost of the App Store is fixed and has almost NOTHING to do with number of things sold.

I just think using your market dominance to squeeze developers who provide services for your users is kind of sick. Apple should be providing the App Store for free and thanking developers for selling so many phones, not ripping people off.
EVE requires a subscription (has a limited version though, but many people have multiple accounts, so it evens out I guess), while Call of Duty does not, afaik.

That is a big factor, especially with younger audiences, but ofc it doesn't explain 300k vs 30m.

Also the golden age of classic MMOs is kind of past, look at World of Warcraft numbers 8-13 years ago and compare them today, even when lumping all "fantasy" MMOs together.
I think it's just a misconfiguration from their end.
I'm personally a fan of beerware.
Well that is something that is very strawman like. However you don’t;t need “far leftist thought” to examine this. The academy are well known to have tastes and favour some types of movies over others.

The oscars has consistently ignored SF/F, favoured films about history. To the point that some movie makers directly pander to the academy’s tastes in an attempt to get a Oscar nom.

The academy knows that there taste is out of touch with the American people because the movies that gets Oscar noms are less and less like the movies that American people like. This is a part of their attempt to fix this.
I don't agree with characterization of Mozilla seeking profit over impact.

It's literally being destroyed by Chrome and Chromium derived browsers, with Google now in almost the same position as Microsoft used to be, and Firefox market share falling to single digits. They can barely fund operations because of that.

It seems that FOSS ran by a small foundation cannot compete with open source ran by one of the biggest corporations in the world. Which has nothing to do with it being free software or not.
Yes, silly questions have been raised. Oh look, a judge is married to a life-long politician - and shock horror a Tory Lord has links to a Tory think tank. Shock horror, the UK tends to comply with extradition requests. These questions are just stating perfectly normal facts of life in obtuse and alarmist ways.
Who's "they" that have hindered the Linux license update?
I don't get this desire to rank everything on the same scale. Its like comparing a Wagner opera-cycle to a Robert Johnson song. What measures are you using for this ranking and what is even the purpose?

I think if you care about poetry you would enjoy both Shakespeare and minimalism. Come on, the "crickets" poem is hilarious!

Here is a minimalist poem called "Swans seen through tears" (by S. Grotrian):

0 0
2 0
0 2
0 0

But how do you rank it against say a speech in one of the lesser Shakespeare plays?

(I'm also fond of the minimalist short story genre. Hemingway wrote a famous one in just six words.)
You can already accomplish this by looking at the difference between critic reviews and audience reviews on rotten tomatoes.
Reference verifying above: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-racial-jungle-quote/
I’ve moved many times in my life to improve it.

Everyone sacrifices. If moving is your biggest sacrifice, consider yourself more than blessed.
I normally get this kind of things... but I actually applaud them this time!

One, there is a lot to be said about having written criteria. You can agree or disagree, critique or boycott, but you can’t really do either of those with a woke cancel culture of unwritten rules of correctness.

Two, it is true, how many films show disabled people as part of normal life? Films do present a distorted view of the world. That’s partly why we watch them - we can watch the world as it is for free - but to encourage it to show marginalised groups as part of “normal background” is definitely good. I wonder how I would feel if I were wheelchair bound, say, and all I could see were films where no one like me existed. What, for aesthetic reasons?

And finally, films are generally aspirational (maybe except catastrophe and horror genres). They raise the bar of what we expect financially, socially, romantically etc. Especially so for Hollywood blockbusters. So why shouldn’t they be aspirational in social progress too?

I’m sure sometimes it just won’t be possible. A film about Nazis will definitely show a bunch of white men. But that’s not a typical Hollywood blockbuster.

If we can’t put successful Black lawyers, female leaders, disabled heroes on a fake screen of film, what are our odds with the real life?
> Just as it is wrong to tell someone they can't take care of their child, I'd say it's equally wrong to tell an adult that they can't, for example, get their exercise time, because I would consider that also a human necessity.

I'm a little confused by this argument, because (if you don't have children) the time you had to exercise pre-COVID is still available to you. If you used to get up at 7am, go out for a run for an hour, come back, shower, and start your work day, you... can still do that.

If somehow you are unable to continue this routine during COVID, perhaps because your employer is expecting you (as someone who is childless) to work until 11pm, which makes you too tired to get up to exercise, then shouldn't your ire be directed at your employer for imposing unreasonable work expectations? It seems pretty pointless to get pissed off at parents because of that.

I also do not have kids. I put in 8-10 hours a day, just as I did pre-COVID, and have the same amount of free time as I used to. It's very different free time, and there are mental health implications to that, but none of that in any way has anything to do with my employer showing empathy toward parents and making allowances for them to take care of their kids during the work day.

The big difference between parents and non-parents is that child care is not optional during work hours. If your school or pre-school or day care or whatever has shut down because of COVID, you can't simply opt out of caring for your child because you have to work. COVID has not given non-parents any new non-work responsibilities during work hours. But it has certainly done so for parents.
Thanks for the link. I'd not quite understood the nuanced rejection of JSON. That "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil" equates to how...

> Legally-conscious objectors aren’t betraying their own dastardly motivations; they’re refusing to enter into an ambiguous contract. Put differently: they’re not saying, “I’m an evildoer,” they’re saying, “I don’t understand what you want.”
That makes sense in the analytic case, but you mean in the monte-carlo case? I presume just 4D Newton's method on the final integral over the pdf_X to get the value we're looking for?

It makes sense, I'm just surprised the blog never comes out and says "you have to do a brute force search to get the parameters for the likelihoods A ~ Beta(2,13) and B ~ Beta(3,11) for P(B > A) to have about the right value".
Please forgive me the pretentiousness of what I'm about to share, but this is so great:

"You complain that in your part of the world there is a scant supply of books. But it is quality, rather than quantity, that matters; a limited list of reading benefits; a varied assortment serves only for delight. He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways. What you suggest is not travelling; it is mere tramping." - Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, #45

This is such a powerful idea to me, from about 2000 years ago, that reading everything is like drifting aimlessly never arriving anywhere; it's just so recognizable.
Can you just say something like that and don't even bother to point to a link? It hardly seems fair.
Why do you go to that place? It’s tacky!
Did you reach out to PayPal as well?

Can you ask for chargeback?
Don't even know where to start here. First of all, another fight about Free Software and Open Source. The licenses are the same. There's no point in arguing about why people put code under those licenses, whether because of freedom or practical reasons. For most people it's probably both.

Why is open source dead? Because mozilla layed of a bunch of people? If only their code where open source, so that everyone else could keep working on the projects they were working on. Because github makes money? And is closed source? The writing about that is particularly revealing. "if they believed open source was in principle better, they’d be open source themselves." See, there are two alternatives: Either they really believe in open source, or they see open source is something suckers do that they profit from. But in fact github open sourced plenty of important code, like the ruby git library. Thanks. Maybe it's not a dichotomy, not something that you "really believe in" or not?

It's possible today, both on desktop and on a smartphone, to run a fully open source OS. That's a huge victory by itself, and also makes those still using closed systems freer by putting a limit on what the corportaions running them can get away with.

The author dismisses any kind of open source that isn't on a sacred crusade against closed source software as corporate friendly, lacking idealism. But I think that even if there are several closed systems based on open source competing (like a lot of closed source browsers based on an open source rendering engine) that's much better then having just one closed source browser.

So yes, open source really does make people more free, partly by making it possible for dedicated people to run a fully open source system and browser, partly by increasing competition.
I would love it if a laywer could explain to me how the following is not applying the legal system in a biased way.

From the article:

>The cross-examinations showed the weakness of the thirty minute guillotine adopted by Baraitser, with really interesting defence testimony cut short, and then unlimited time allowed to Lewis for his cross examination. This was particularly pernicious in the evidence of Mark Feldstein. In James Lewis’ extraordinary cross-examination of Feldstein, Lewis spoke between five and ten times as many words as the actual witness. Some of Lewis’s “questions” went on for many minutes, contained huge passages of quote and often were phrased in convoluted double negative. Thrice Feldstein refused to reply on grounds he could not make out where the question lay. With the defence initial statement of the evidence limited to half an hour, Lewis’s cross examination approached two hours, a good 80% of which was Lewis speaking.

>Feldstein was browbeaten by Lewis and plainly believed that when Lewis told him to answer in very brief and concise answers, Lewis had the authority to instruct that. In fact Lewis is not the judge and it was supposed to be Feldstein’s evidence, not Lewis’s. Baraitser failed to protect Feldstein or to explain his right to frame his own answers, when that was very obviously a necessary course for her to take.

>Today we had two expert witnesses, who had both submitted lengthy written testimony relating to one indictment, which was now being examined in relation to a new superseding indictment, exchanged at the last minute, and which neither of them had ever seen. Both specifically stated they had not seen the new indictment. Furthermore this new superseding indictment had been specifically prepared by the prosecution with the benefit of having heard the defence arguments and seen much of the defence evidence, in order to get round the fact that the indictment on which the hearing started was obviously failing.

>On top of which the defence had been refused an adjournment to prepare their defence against the new indictment, which would have enabled these and other witnesses to see the superseding indictment, adjust their evidence accordingly and be prepared to be cross-examined in relation to it.

As a layman (who admittedly knows nothing about the UK legal system) this looks like they are stacking the deck against Assange.
The right and wrong way to set up Python 3 on macOS (2019, updated 2020))
You're assuming that you want to express the integral as an elementary function, or as a member of another narrow class of functions. It's only in that case that the lack of a chain rule is a problem. What you actually want is the ability to evaluate the integral to within epsilon numerically, which is a much more flexible problem.

But then again, it's not clear what the OP meant by "automatic integration" anyway.
Sadly even though a system might have one or more of those features, few programs can assume a specific file system (and many not even a specific OS!). So you'd have code branch into two parts, one where this is managed by the file system, and the other where it is manaed in user code (e.g. write to temp file, rename etc). This is the curse of the lowest common denominator. Even innovation makes it worse (more code, not less).
Just curious what ends you think justify these means? and do you think the US (and other 5 eyes) is achieving those ends?
In my region of Spain, childcares typically have 1 adult per 8 children for under 1 year olds, 1 adult per 13 children for 1 to 2 year olds, and 1 adult per 20 children for 2 to 3 year olds. Some private childcares offer better ratios but not substantially better (they can brag about maybe (6,10,15) instead of (8,13,20), for example).

I don't doubt the professionalism of the people who work there, in fact I have a high opinion of them, but I think it's simply physically impossible to provide the kids with the care and stimulation they need with that kind of adult-to-child ratio. My kid demands an amount of attention that just couldn't be provided by 1/8th of a person before 1 year old or 1/13th of a person now that he's 1.

I suppose the solution ends up being strapping them to some bouncy seat or hypnotizing them with screens. And when it's meal time, just try to give them the food for 5-10 minutes and if they didn't eat much, bad luck. I can't blame the professionals because what can you do if you are alone with that amount of babies/kids? But that's something I don't want for him, I definitely think he's better at home where he can get more attention.

I suppose in Sweden the ratios will be much better, which of course changes everything.
Yeah, that timeline starts towards the end of Sun's life, when investment in Java was at an ebb. Since the acquisition by Oracle, investment in Java has grown.
I was until they saw the score here. They called me back to their Palo Alto office this afternoon, pantsed me, and covered my leased Tesla with Trump 2020 bumper stickers. At Tesla right now getting the dents taken care of along with the window damage.
We all thought he will remain politically independent. He isn't and never was. I was even part of his early campaigns as a youngster who were his main focus at the time.
He is better and many aspects very different, but political system including almost everyone surrounding him are garbage. He is facing the same challenges now for which he use to harshly criticize previous governments. I stopped watching news but the biggest is probably currency being devalued continuously.
I’d feel safer if all applications could only access files tagged with an unique ID for the application.

But then applications will start asking access for all of $HOME and we’re back to square one
Create a new user on a Windows host without being displayed by the “net” utility