skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or pseudo-code.

I can take some pseudo-code and turn it into a working C (or python) implementation to poke at without too much trouble but papers with pure algorithmic notation usually get put in the "I'll look at that later" folder which I never get around to looking at.

Granted, I'm not the intended audience for most of the papers I read since I have no formal CS (or math) education -- though enough information is out on the interwebs depending on how motivated I am to try out whatever shiny-new I'm learning about.
It's not personal, nor is it an attack. As far as consistent - my apologies, I didn't realize this comment was made by the same person that I had replied to earlier.

Perhaps we should grab a beer sometime on me?
Therein lies the harsh business reality. Every product and service you use, somewhere along its production (including basic materials), distribution or marketing has workers earning poverty level wages. And many can only function as a business with low wage workers or automation.

Are these business worth having? If we hope to maintain our quality of life, I believe yes.

And because the choice for these workers is low wages or no wages, then answer is probably yes for them as well.

The only other option for higher wages would be for these businesses to be state-sponsored, which is at least worth consideration.
Thanks for linking - that was really cool!
My teammate a couple years ago was writing a script that needed to clear a working directory, so `rm -rf $path/*`. He ran it during debugging and found one mistake - at some point the $path variable came in empty......
If you're under financial aid thresholds that often doesn't matter. The financial aid formulas (at least when I went to college, overlapping with my sister for 3 out of the 4 years) were that the college figured out an expected family contribution, it was split between the number of kids enrolled that year, and then the college makes up the difference with financial aid. My sister's tuition dropped by half when I entered college.
These are incredible. Thank you for sharing.
>which flagship smartphone of any manufacturer offers a headphone jack in 2020?

There's the builtin assumption that I care about flagships. I don't. I only care about headphone jacks. Thus, my options are limited to devices with headphone jacks.

Regarding flagships, I could get a flagship now, or get a better (than the current flagship) non-flagship phone for much cheaper, by the next generation.

If they hate my money, so be it. I feel no pressure whatsoever to replace my OP3, and once I do, chances are I'm not going to get a flagship, by the look of it.

>In any case, Pixel 4A 5G has a headphone jack – and comes with the same processor as Pixel 5.

Exactly my point.

>it's either water resistance and wireless charging

I don't care about wireless charging. Water resistance, it would of course be nice to have, but I haven't ever accidentally destroyed a device with water before, so it's not like I need the feature, unlike the headphone jack.

Besides latency being a pet peeve of mine, I do play really tight rhythm games on my phone, I have for several years, and this isn't something I'm willing to give up. Both bluetooth and external DAC+Amp devices have higher latency than headphone jacks.
The default branch for newly-created repositories is now main
I have various blogs and outlets for putting up my writing. Only one of those has Google ads on it. It has Google ads not for the revenue (I don't think the ad revenue has even generated enough over the years to cover the hosting cost) but it is for me to understand how Google ads work on a Wordpress website. My experience of ads usually comes from "I need to integrate this SDK and provide these reporting tools so that the people who care about ad revenue can stay away from my desk" not a "I am a small-time content provider using Google ads."

At least, that's the story I tell myself to salve my ego due to not making any money from ads on my personal website :-)
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Ohhh the horror...

:(
Ha yeah and even music samplers came like that occasionally in magazines. In fact when I saw the headline to the thread I thought "Oh someone discovered a Todd Rundgren Easter egg."

EDIT: I just checked the article. It was an Easter egg from a music group, but not Todd Rundgren.
Nice job. What's your commission structure like?
If I recall correctly, DVI had three main variants: -I, -A, and -D. A DVI-to-VGA adapter would have a DVI-A plug. The video card would have either DVI-I or DVI-D. If the card had DVI-D, it only offered digital and the DVI-A plug would not physically fit. If the card had DVI-I, it would offer both analog and digital and both DVI-A and DVI-D would fit. So, if it fits it works!

And yeah, the HDMI thing is of course true, I'll give you that. :-)
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Until languages with a different view completely left it in the dust.
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Same thing with prisoners and rehabilitation. Letting prisoners attend colleges for free is a remarkably good government investment.

The same thing is true about the homeless. Homeless services are expensive. It's cheaper to get them apartments, even if you still offer them all of the support services you were offering before.

But whenever you propose these things, social conservatives seem to come out of the woodwork and argue that it's not fair for prisoners or homeless people to get expensive stuff for free. Why should you get something good for doing a bad thing? Why should the homeless guy get an apartment that you'd paying $1000 a month for? Why should your taxes be buying drugs for that junkie? Even if you have to spend more taxes by not giving them these things, your sense of justice demands it be so.
I've completely stopped my donations to Mozilla until they get rid of her CEO and management. They're completely irresponsible, answer to no one, and have totally screwed up that org by diverting funds to all kinds of nonsense instead of concentrating on delivering a good product. I've also stopped using FF because I've lost confidence in the team managing security of it.
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You are really harping on this one example.

I don't know what processes Google uses for the Android codebase, but in the main code base make_shared has only been available for a little while. Today, "new" is smell that should be caught in code review at Google. When was this committed?
Yes, because people worked on implementing a standard, and we are all better for it.
In some cases yes, in many cases no. As someone who grew up with a small handful of delinquents (in and out of prison etc), they are not the types to be able to hold a regular job like a normal person. Often there is a personality disorder (borderline disorder, antisocial disorder, often a few disorders together) which doesn't magically go away with maturity and opportunity. If they can find a way to treat the underlying disorder (many don't) then maybe...
This sounds incredible! And actually we're starting to look at bacnet integrations so this could be a really great fit :)

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Not to put words into your mouth but the problem comes with when we have to choose what the one true way to do something is that we should all stick to.

Since every language, every pattern, every library is flawed in some way, this is not an easy problem to solve.

It's all trade-offs and you have to choose your poison at some point.
Seconded.

There's a trilogy starting with The Last Policeman with a similar scenario: kilometer-scale asteroid projected to hit in about a year. To a first approximation everyone just says "Well, fuck, guess we're going to die." Thinking about the ways that seemed unrealistic and how I thought it would go instead, Seveneves turned out a lot more like it (though with exciting-story elements injected, and also in Seveneves they're starting from maybe a decade ahead of us in space tech). (The Last Policeman is still interesting in other ways.)

Egan's Diaspora is another good match, with an astrophysical cataclysm instead of a merely planetary one. It happens to a much more advanced future society, though.
I suppose, as a DigitalOcean subscriber for the past five or so years, I should probably send them an angry email about this. I don't know if they'll be particularly threatened by me pulling my $12 a month, but maybe it'd at least get this noticed by some part of the org that isn't keeping up with engineering news...
What are you using these days? Brave? /s
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There's already a privacy-focused coin that isn't a total mess. And no premines. And no mixing hoops to go through. So, why use Ethereum?
It's similar but not a dupe
"Overseas" is kind of useless as a descriptor. When I was living in Melbourne, I knew a lot of kids with German, Italian, Macedonian, and Serbian backgrounds, most spoke their respective languages.

But on the street they were just generic white christian Aussies who were out to slam a few beers and grab a chick parm. Not generic Anglo, but still very white and very western.
Having used an earlier version of this, I highly recommend it if you're carrying a pager in micro-service land, and don't have Brendan Gregg on your team.
We don't really have class-actions in UK but under the Consumer Rights Act (CRA replaced the well known Sale of Goods Act) there's no time limit on when you can get manufacturing defects fixed so warranty repairs should be free (although you might also accept a brand new replacement and pay a little to cover the wear on your original).

In the EU there's an automatic 2 year replacement warranty on electronics too.
I'm not, but we have Lenovo USB-C docks at the office, as we have Lenovo laptops. They're all buggy. I'm still using a traditional dock as mine hasn't been upgraded yet so I still have the port.
Posted it in an other thread [0] but do we really want to go back to the medallion system?
Pre-Uber, either the driver rented the car to a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was selling and financing (most banks won't touch these medallions!) a medallion at a ridiculous interest rate to a driver that planned to use it as his retirement savings (an extremely volatile asset and not very liquid).

The more I spoke to cab drivers the more it seemed their industry was a pyramid scheme aimed at helping established rent-seeker take advantage of often poor new immigrants. Uber brought a breeze of fresh air: Someone could simply buy a car, calculate the depreciation and it's value on the market (since unlike medallions cars are relatively liquid assets!) do rideshare and calculate their profits or loss. They can get out of the game at anytime, and they know exactly how much they are going to get for the car they have should they sell it.

Also, the argument on Uber/Lyft drivers not being contractors since they can't set their own rates and decide which ride they take strikes me as weird since medallion drivers were contractors, had to charge the price set by the city and could only pick-up customers in the (arbitrary) zones covered by their medallions.

And I'm not even touching the usual pain points and often discriminatory practices of medallion drivers (refusing card payments, refusing rides to non-white passengers and to non-white neighborhoods...).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24225648
As an addendum to posting your content on your own website, whenever someone reaches out to me for help, I always direct them to ask the question on the relevant forum, e.g. Unity3D or Artificial Intelligence or some such place, or post it on Stackoverflow, and then email me a link to the very public location. I have the philosophy that I will cheerfully and willingly labour over a lengthy answer and example code that will help out 10,000 people with the same problem. But I won't give the time of day to a single person.
What's also being implied with background checks, even when they say it's relevant like with checking if a pharmacist has drug charges, is that prison does not work. If it reformed people, it wouldn't matter what your history is, because you went through a reforming process and learned to manage the root cause of why you committed a crime, like poor mental health. Instead we just send people to prison for our own sense of "punishment".
It's apparent that you've found in your life that it's been "not that hard" to not break the law.

Have you considered that not every person in the world has had the exact same life experiences as you?
Mozilla provides a really nice example of the importance of your CEO.
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The source is open, and is available on GitHub, how is it not open source?
Why does software have to be free for corporates to exploit (AWS) to be open source?
Photographers and filmmakers also make art in their own style. There is no such thing as a perfect representation of the world on film: they are compressing the dynamic range and adjusting the color/brightness profiles through the film they use, the exposure settings and any added filters on the camera, the development process for the film (chemicals, timing, pushing/pulling), the paper for the print (photography) or the film for the positive print (movies), the dodging/burning of the print, and others.

It's not about correcting the image to match what their eyes see, it's an artistic and creative act because a photograph/movie can never represent what the eyes see, and photographers/filmmakers have to interpret the image to get their message across.
A bunch of people at coinbase apparently
When I read it, the comment sounded like the emphasis was on stereotypes of the culture, not the gender. Maybe you're reading too much into it.
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Every once in a while we get a customer request like this:

"I have not been using your service but I have been billed multiple months for it without having the option to cancel in my account.[1]

How can I proceed with a refund? [2]
At least the last 2 months need to be refunded and also my account closed. I will be using it again when ready. Thanks"

[1] This is not factual, since all users have easy and intuitive access to cancel their accounts via their Account Settings, and our cancellation() is seen working daily...luckily not more than 1-2x per day + it is unit-tested.

[2] We have a 0 Refund Policy. This is stated clearly on our Home page > FAQs, Pricing page, TOS, and Help Wiki, that we do not offer any refunds.
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Having said that, we have been known to make exceptions especially early on in our platform's lifetime when it was not performing as expected. We have improved ten-fold since those early days.

We are open to reconsider our policy.. if there is data that it is better long-term for the business. Also what happens to your Stripe account if you issue a lot of refunds? Can this be an issue?

Any advice would be great. thanks
"everyone who gets out needs a job" - I totally agree. So why a job in tech, or specifically, a software engineering job, and not a job in a different field?
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I for one enjoy these adaptations of old footage.

I suppose these historians would also object to me watching star trek tng on streaming in HD since it was clearly meant to be only ever be seen transmitted over radio waves to a cathode ray tube.
Lighten up. A friend of mine has an Italian partner and she is constantly joking that Italian women are mad and that she'll kill him if he does something wrong.
Wildcard expansion skips filenames beginning with a dot, though.
Apple releases macOS Catalina 10.15.7 with bug fixes after 1 month of 10.15.6
But this is Directly against Github TOS,and could be shutdown by them like tomorrow.
We have this problem with our non- OS project but found that after the initial review (of which most were false-positives) we could permanently suppress them with a comment and fail the build for net-new work without a huge impact on developers.
> You might have millions of people watching an AI-changed film and think that what they are seeing is more accurate than the original, since it transmits more information (detail, color, etc). But if that additional information is made up, it's actually not more accurate, and maybe actually less accurate (i.e. wrong color instead of no color). That nuance is going to be hard for a lot of people to understand.

I can confidently say there is a 100% chance that ML/AI-invented content (colours, fill-ins during upscaling, textures, etc.) already outperforms genuine historical content in every possible way in terms of outreach. Just look at any "today in history" youtube or twitter channel and compare it to any actual museum or historical society's website/channel/social media. Orders of magnitude difference.

On the tweets you see replies commenting about how beautiful and vibrant a [false colour, invented content] image is. Hell, those places will post blatantly totally false content (like.. a comedian) and say it's a historical image: https://time.com/5028121/history-twitter-photo/

They are not there for historical accuracy, or accuracy of any kind, those accounts are 100% purely to farm clicks and likes to spam with later.
Someone should make a Linux distro that installs with a random set of packages.

Pair it with Suicide Linux and you have Roguelike Linux.

Another fun one: Suicide Linux has a Debian package here https://sourceforge.net/projects/suicide-linux/files/
Next to it is an ad for "Other Useful Business Software
". Implying that Suicide Linux is business software is... interesting.
> Being a parent myself, I find it very hard to imagine a couple going: "Oh, we would so love to have a third child if it wasn't for that dang car seat problem..." Not that it's completely inconceivable but, I mean, come on...

Sure in that scenario. But consider other scenarios where the parents are right on the fence with their decision. At that point, even simple pragmatic considerations like number of bedrooms can tip it one way or the other.
Seems like banning credit card reward/loyalty programs would be a net societal good - they encourage overspending and make people feel like they are 'earning' by using credit. Further, the net result of them is to enable more carbon-emitting travel.

Unfortunately the credit lobby is too powerful in this country, so seems politically untenable.
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The problem is, so called "anonymized" data is able to identify you (sometimes with very few data points required. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/researchers-spotlight-the-...). Mozilla advertises Firefox as the browser that doesn't track you, but that's just wrong (since FF has quite a bit of telemetry). And it's on by default, and since people who are new to the privacy mindset may not know about how this telemetry is on, it's sad how Firefox is still recommended.
Me too, but I see Zig as a C alternative and Rust as a C++ alternative. I am not competent enough to judge either way on this. I am currently back to C++ for a project that is written in C++. If it were C, I would try to write small pieces in Zig. I guess Rust could be used, but I am nervous about the scope of work I would be taking on - learning Rust, getting familiar with a C++ codebase, etc.
In physics, at least 20-some years ago when I was in academia, the notation of our common language (math) was simply part of the exposition when teaching new material to students. Maybe I had exceptions as instructors, but I carried their methods of presenting new notation into my classroom when I taught.

Every field develops jargon and writing shorthand. It doesn’t have to be an artificial barrier to entry, and it’s a bit weird to me that this seems to be the case in programming.