skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's novel, but not reliable.

Isn't that really the best we can hope for? It's an NP-complete problem, but we can still realistically hope that researchers might discover efficient algorithms for solving subsets of the problem space, hopefully broad subsets.

If we get to the point that 90% of travelling salesman problems can be solved quickly, and the remaining 10% can quickly be approximately solved (to within 5% percent of the optimum solution, say), that would be pretty great, even if we never 'really' crack NP-complete problems. (Which, of course, might not even be possible.)

As an example, a smart TSP algorithm should be able to very quickly solve problems where all nodes fall on points in a circle.

(Disclaimer: this stuff isn't my wheelhouse, corrections welcome.)
This is an scientific take and most of the casual folks don’t see it this way.
Interoperability is not limited to executable-interop: it includes developer knowledge, libraries and tooling - which are exactly the reasons Google chose to use Java (the language). Dalvik checked all those boxes, without being bytecode-compatible with the JVM
I have definitely been seeing a decrease in some FAANG spots. Things may have started to ramp back up, but I believe there were several companies who put blanket freezes hiring for certain levels.
IBM's stock is down 30% since 2013 and is only up 10% from its post-dotcom crash 2000 number. They pay decent dividends so it's been an okay place to park some money, but it's the opposite of soaring.
Just don't take 101 S bound near the 85 S on ramp on your way home and you might live to do it again
Seriously?

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/kolumnister/a/dO3ddB/en-pa...

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/GGk664/de-nast-intill-av...

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/4q9V1g/kritiken-mot-aldr...

https://www.dagensmedicin.se/artiklar/2020/06/15/palliativ-v...

https://www.expressen.se/debatt/min-pappas-dod-i-covid-19-bl...

https://www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/Ln0r9Q/morfin-istallet-f...

https://www.exakt24.se/lakare-upprord-efter-lackt-journalant...

https://www.exakt24.se/lakare-forskrackt-dodshjalp-istallet-...

https://lakartidningen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2020/05/geriatrik...

https://www.varldenidag.se/nyheter/lakare-kraver-syrgas-till...

https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/skriftli...

If you have not heard of this it is because you're following the wrong media, clear and simple. Even Aftonbladet published on this, there was an open letter in Läkartidningen (doctor's journal), Dagens Medicin wrote on it, the 'alternative' media were all over this, questions were asked in Riksdagen.

Why did you not know? Also, why did you not simply search around a bit to verify the statement before posting your reply?
I hated the behavior then, I hate it now, and will continue to despise it in the future. I am not being hyperbolic in my adjective choice. I have seen real work drama over this sort of thing, because people misinterpret the 'is-typing' as 'is-paying-attention-to-me', and the inevitable long delays, short replies, forced focusing on waiting for someone to finish... It is an anti-social antipattern from beginning to end.
Maybe not, but are at least 5% able to do that?
Remind me, which party does the target of their kidnapping plot belong to?
> able to subtract 0.2 billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a percent

...

> “This is a result I have wanted all my career,” said David Williamson of Cornell University, who has been studying the traveling salesperson problem since the 1980s

I love this. Oh to be a theoretician.

Here's hoping for a flood of further improvements.
Remember when James Comey and then Bill Barr were going to single handedly overthrow Trump before becoming "disgraced" for following the law.
> Police don't need to be in militias.

Well, perhaps they tend not to be in non-state-run organized militias; they tend to be part of the universal militia as defined in law, and perhaps somewhat more frequently than the population in general are part of the state-organized portion of the militia (National Guard or formal state militia [e.g., the California State Guard]).

But, actually, there's quite a lot of recent information about right-wing non-government militia groups infiltrating law enforcement significantly, so its quite possibly the case that they are also more likely than the general population to be involved in that kind of militia.
"The constitution is an anarchist document." That has precious little to do with actual anarchist thought. Homeboy was not reading Kroptokin or Murray Bookchin.
> And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs

> I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!!

On my nth read, I think "5.89824e37" is the funniest part of the joke.
The difference they talked about is it is now uniform latency instead of split into two blocks of 16MB accessible at different latencies depending on which group of four cores you are on.
I don’t think that would work as it could be construed as a derivative work
Homeland Threat Assessment - October 2020

The Terrorist Threat to the Homeland

Violent Extremism in the United States

The primary terrorist threat inside the United States will stem from lone offenders and small cells of individuals, including Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) and foreign terrorist-inspired Homegrown Violent Extremists.

[...]

Among DVEs, racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists—specifically white supremacist extremists (WSEs)—will remain the most persistent and lethal threat in the Homeland. Spikes in other DVE threats probably will depend on political or social issues that often mobilize other ideological actors to violence, such as immigration, environmental, and police-related policy issues.

WSEs have demonstrated longstanding intent to target racial and religious minorities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, politicians, and those they believe promote multi-culturalism and globalization at the expense of the WSE identity. Since 2018, they have conducted more lethal attacks in the United States than any other DVE movement.

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/2020_10...
Wine allows running windows applications without windows lincense, directly taking revenue from Microsoft who arguably invested a ton in making documentation and developer tools to make those applications.

It seems you are arguing mainly because the user base is so much smaller it does not count. The law does not work that way.

Windows SDK contains tens of thousands of lines in header files for those DLLs Wine implements.
Not saying Wine copied them outright, but the opportunity is clearly there.
This actually seems to me like a much easier problem to solve than scaling a two-sided marketplace in a lot of places. This is purely a capital + regulation problem and Google has a lot of capital and regulation will catch up as soon as first cities show promise.
It's not really surprising that the 2nd amendment lot who've been talking up the right to violently overthrow the government for as long as I've been on the Internet might eventually try it.
There have never been disinformation campaigns in the name of social equality? Hmm, I'm skeptical, not least because I've seen a few, albeit on really controversial issues.
A NASA mission is about to capture carbon-rich dust from a former water world
This has been explicitly contradicted by several of their communications, including the one which launched this thread.
Because investors hope that companies like Amazon will get a global monopoly on an entire giant segment of the economy, probably an "economic moat" reinforced by bogus patents or copyright or trademark claims (like Oracle vs. Google).

Think how the advertising business was formerly divided in thousands of small actors in each country (publishers) and now it's dominated by a handful of global internet companies.
Why are you posting a twitter link to a dude who's worn a dunce cap his entire life here?
With IBM Cloud, this is more a Cortés-like point of no return, sink the ships (not burned like popularly thought), only move forward from here, do-or-die type of move.

The other comment threads here are correct: IBM Cloud is struggling for relevance. There are some interesting ideas percolating around, but productionalized operations leaves a lot to be desired compared to AWS. They're in a very distant fourth or fifth place with the likes of Oracle Cloud. I'd possibly place IBM Cloud even behind Alibaba Cloud.

The general idea is that once IBM Cloud sheds the chains of Legacy IBM, IBM Cloud will really take off, since it is finally rid of that pesky, low-margin cruft dragging it down. That "cruft" is why IBM Cloud is even getting warm introductions and walking through the door at all, powered by high-levered sales spiffs to bundle IBM Cloud.

Post-split, IBM Cloud is going to spend massive amounts of time and money trying to get their foot in the door, to get back to status quo ante of easy introductions, swimming upstream against AWS, Azure, and GCP once they separate from IBM-not-IBM. IBM Cloud will also get dragged into brutal discounting wars against Oracle Cloud and everyone else's Me-Too Cloud. IBM-not-IBM will initially proclaim a "close partnership" with IBM Cloud, but once freed from on-high diktats to always use and shoehorn in IBM Cloud, they'll gravitate in a few years to a vendor-agnostic-but-really-only-top-2-or-3 partnerships. If vendor-agnostic cloud even becomes realistic in a revenue-impacting way by then.

I expect IBM Cloud will hold onto RedHat post-split, and will likely try to use RedHat as their warm introduction channel. I hope IBM Cloud surprises all of us with something good.
For fixed-blade knives, Morakniv is extremely popular. They don't use the fanciest steels, and the design is outright boring... but it works really well, it's very cheap for what it is, and scandi grind is the easiest one to maintain.
Its russiagate for the right
If it is a political view, then it is such a common political view as to be banal.

A whole lot of people in the world are actively indifferent to politics.

Those apolitical people vastly outnumber all the hyper political "your with us or against us" group.
How to Change Password on the New Facebook Web App 2020
Possibly by observing the actual changes implemented and interpreting them in their own context (i.e. IRS changes tax forms, but all the numbers stay the same when filling it out). Not being convinced that their fundamental right to attempt existence is threatened by imaginary what-ifs.
So, if the government bans crypto, does Coinbase remain apolitical?

It's not a hypothetical. Satoshi created Bitcoin as a (particularly ineffective) act of insurrection, and the only reason why governments haven't responded to it like so is a matter of political and judicial economy. Existing money-laundering and securities laws likely already ban Bitcoin, we just haven't seen them fully enforced. Using Bitcoin is inherently a political statement (which I don't entirely agree with); the apolitical choice would be to wind down Coinbase as an ongoing concern.
Who is suggesting 100% of the population be under close quarantine? We haven’t seen anything like that since April.
How about Opinel?
To me it seems like a covid
infection is inevitable. You can delay it, but if you look at the state-by-state figures: states that successfully delayed for a while eventually got hit, states that got hit did not get additional infections.

I get the idea of flatten the curve but states that already got hit hard don't really have any reason to impose additional restrictions they wouldn't do anything.
We won’t:

Debate causes or political candidates internally that are unrelated to work

Why limit yourself to the 40-50h you spend at work. Let's just ban political debate everywhere. It's so divisive! At maximum, you should debate causes or political candidates with people who think exactly like you. But even this may lead to unexpected frustration, it's much better to just rest assured that everybody thinks exactly like you.
As often, xkcd nailed it: https://xkcd.com/1886/
Me too. I can't see why staying in my comfort zone is regarded as political. One solution is to just get comfy. No politics involved, just plain survivalism, nothing wrong.
Maybe, but imagine the original cookbook as a website with hundreds of pages of recipe titles and descriptions, each with a link to the body of the recipe. Someone clones those hundreds of pages, replacing only the domain name in the links. Now is it copyright infringement?

Can designing an API be a different job from implementing a design? If so, then maybe the work product of the designer is copyrightable on its own.
Doubt it. But since I don't have millions of dollars or a need to litigate this in court at the moment, neither of us will know any time soon.
The RX 570 is definitely a budget level GPU, an upgrade to that would certainly give you what you need to run those games on an I5 properly.
... and std channels still contain data races:

cat src/main.rs

fn main() {
let (tx1, rx1) = std::sync::mpsc::sync_channel::<std::sync::mpsc::Receiver<_>>(0);
let (tx2, rx2) = std::sync::mpsc::sync_channel::<std::sync::mpsc::Sender<_>>(0);

std::thread::spawn(move || {
for rx in rx1 {
let _ = rx.recv_timeout(std::time::Duration::new(0, 0));
}
});
std::thread::spawn(move || {
for tx in rx2 {
let _ = tx.clone();
}
});

loop {
let (tx, rx) = std::sync::mpsc::channel::<String>();
tx1.send(rx).unwrap();
tx2.send(tx).unwrap();
}
}

RUSTFLAGS=-Zsanitizer=thread cargo run -Z build-std --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
==================
WARNING: ThreadSanitizer: data race
...
SUMMARY: ThreadSanitizer: data race in std::sync::mpsc::shared::Packet$LT$T$GT$::drop_port::hb1e2c47df4539855
Have there ever been government interventions that have managed to improve anything in a situation like this? It seems to me like every new technology has its detractors trying to ban it or limit it in some way.

People thought reading and writing would rot our memories (don't have to remember things anymore), radio would kill reading, TV would atrophy our brains (it was called 'the idiot box' while I was growing up), video games would lead to violence, and so on. All of the dangers were vastly exaggerated.
> I think the parent meant that (almost) every endeavor will have some element of politics in it

This is textbook pedantry. Obviously "don't discuss politics in the workplace" means "don't discuss divisive topics, especially when they're not particularly relevant to your work".

Of course everything is "technically political", but that's not how anyone uses "political" except when they're trying to argue in bad faith (specifically engaging in tautology).
It was 2017 that the last MP3 patents expired, which is pretty recent, IMO. It was patented on the encode side about 10 years longer than on the decode side.
It makes you feel like once you start typing something, you have to at least send something, even if you change your mind about replying.

And I’m always skeptical of these “I invented it” type posts. The talk command on Unix actually allowed you to see what the other person was typing in real time, letter by letter.
> I gave more weight to a remand than SCOTUS upholding the trial verdict itself primarily because the court is currently shorthanded.

I think you are correct that it is more likely for that reason than it would otherwise be, though I still think its less likely than a more permanent punt on the case (that would still leave the issue live for a future case.)

But that's just my intuition.
Getting involved in politics makes your life more unstable, which is why mostly privileged people engage in it. For example extremely few people from below median homes are politically active in USA, while home owners are among the most active. Ergo people are mostly politically active to defend their privileges and not to fix injustices.

I'm not sure how anyone can think that being politically active would make your life more stable.

Edit: An example of this is that black people are much less likely to vote than white people. Is this because black people support the status quo while white people want to change things? No, it is because black people don't have the time and energy to spare to vote. And no, this isn't about voting disenfranchisement, black people are less likely to vote even in very blue states.
I think the CEO of Sun knew this..

"Google's lawyer, Robert van Nest, asked Schwartz whether, during his tenure at Sun, Java APIs were considered proprietary or protected by Sun."

"'No,' Schwartz said in explaining the nature of open software. 'These are open APIs, and we wanted to bring in more people...we wanted to build the biggest tent and invite as many people as possible.'"

https://www.cnet.com/news/former-sun-ceo-says-googles-androi...
I misunderstood you, but I probably read it wrong. Super tired today. Thank you for clarifying.
If the House of Saud tried to impose Obamacare there would be a revolt.
ResEdit was a cool tool. I especially liked its built-in pixel editor. I remember my first "hacking" experiences as a kid replacing sprites in Ambrosia Software games.

Tangent: there was a more feature-packed resource fork editor called Resorcerer, which I thought was clever and used as naming inspiration for my system-wide cursor hider tool, Cursorcerer: http://doomlaser.com/cursorcerer
Yeah, they’re two side-by-side streams. I can see how that can make it confusing. I initially had the rows take up only as much space as the words, but ran into problems further down with positioning the common Show More button where one stream would run longer than the other because I currently load a fixed number of rows per stream. I then would have to detect how many rows are needed to fill up each stream and load the appropriate number. Got lazy and decided to skip the complexity for a weekend project!
Does anyone have any idea, if Oracle wins, what the ramifications for Google/Android will be?

Because Android is so entrenched, there's no "going back". Google merely paying a fine doesn't change the fact it's still using Java API's moving forwards. Google would have to license the Java API from Oracle... but then who sets the price? Oracle could set something absurdly 1000x higher than reasonable by holding the entire Android ecosystem hostage, no? Would the court decide not just penalties for past usage, but a negotiation for future usage? How would they determine that? (And if they did, couldn't that create a moral hazard? Companies steal IP from someone who refuses to sell, get "too big to fail", and get to keep the stolen IP in the end.)

I'm not familiar with how the law relates to ongoing conflicts that are so massive they can't be undone without great harm to individuals and businesses far beyond the actual parties in dispute.
Well, what's going on in America is being pushed down the throats of everyone in the world. You can hardly read an article without someone mentioning Trump and US politics in general. We may as well join in too!
Why "militia members" and not "terrorists?"
Well 20% of NYC had COVID and we are currently seeing outbreaks in communities that have relaxed social distancing measures, so it seems obvious that her calculations are incorrect.
Iranians Gitlab accounts are getting blocked without notice
> They produced a better product, and the market rewarded them for that.

You could make that same argument about patents in general, couldn't you? If you invent something, say, a new battery, and somebody else copies it, doesn't have your R&D-costs invested and prices it accordingly lower than you, the market will "reward them" by buying from them instead of you, they're getting the same thing after all.

We do want some stability though, if you invest money to create something and somebody immediately copies it, you're not going to invest money again. We want you to invest money to advance humanity with new technology and knowledge though.

Since there's no re-implementation without looking at the original, it feels sufficiently close to taking your buddy's homework and saying "no worries, I will change it a bit" and you'll have Math.add(a, b) and while they wrote return a + b;, you'll write return b + a;, you're not copying after all.
The business lines you offered as examples are low margin commodities or stuff GE really sucked at. Trains seems like a reasonable high margin line of business for a company that is actually good at industrial engineering.
Because they were too arrogant to do so? Note that Microsoft was eventually forced to make peace with Sun over Java after a long lawsuit.
Skype's "cat is typing" animation when a bunch of keys are held down was cute, though. Who did that one?
Quite interesting claim as Nokia was still an EU company back then and software "as such" can't be patented to this day in the EU. (That's sadly not true in practice any more for some time by now as more and more software patents are granted under the notion beeing "computer aided inventions". This also overlaps with strong political will to finally lift the general ban on software patents. Thankfully some people are fighting this nonsense though[1]).

[1] https://fsfe.org/activities/swpat/swpat.en.html
`ex` (i.e. vi's ex mode) is a better comparison than `ed`.

Original `vi` also has ‘open mode’ for printing terminals and glass ttys — like a series of one-line windows, where every vertical motion starts a new line. None of the popular clones implement it.
Even assuming all of those accounts are still active (and none of them are duplicates), that still leaves around 7 billion people without a Facebook account. Personally, I do have a Facebook account, but I only use it on my private desktop PC, not on my work laptop and also not on my phone.
I feel this. As someone who grew up in the 4chan hey-day, the internet I fell in love with was extremely inappropriate and anarchic. Shooting the shit about whatever inane thing 4chan was going on about were the source of hilarious and open conversations we used to have amongst friends. Don't get me wrong, 4chan is wrong, messed up, socially deviant and not something to look up to. But all the people I know who used to browse that crazy site ended up being normal, well adjusted people. The social climate is so tense nowadays I would never think to talk about good old 4chan openly.
My Experience Partnering with AppSumo
Recently I've partnered with AppSumo to offer my E-Book "Start With A Side-Project" [1] on their marketplace, after the success it had on Gumroad.

Thus far I've made just a few sales (on AppSumo platform) but with minimum marketing efforts and while it's still early to say, it seems to me that AppSumo was the right choice for growth for my E-Book.

I'm looking forward to get some Sumo-lings reviews and respond to my readers!

What are your thoughts/experiences on AppSumo?

[1] - https://appsumo.com/marketplace-start-with-a-side-project
This must be a software issue in Linux, I don't have anything close to these problems in Windows. Perfectly fluid with 2 external 2160p60 screens connected.

WSL2 is amazing btw.
Looking for golang role with ownership/ high impact culture. My last big role was as a platform team lead where I leveraged Go and AWS to develop a stream processing data pipeline that became the base for the IoT platform for one of the largest international insurance providers.

Location: Austin, TX
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: to Seattle, WA or CO
Technologies: Go, AWS
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like all the other parasitic remnants of industry (Oracle, Yahoo, arguably Apple, etc)

Would you mind sketching the case for Apple as an example?