skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to remember that HN users aren't a representative subset of software developers world-wide.

Part of that may be the continuing influence of PG: I both learnt Lisp and found HN because of his essays, and I suspect I'm not the only one.

But also, the HN community generally has an academic fondness for new and niche languages, so a language's popularity on HN is a poor proxy for its popularity in the business world.

(A last point: I think the diminished importance of Lisp in the last decades is less due to an inherent flaw of the language and more to what you might call "accidents of history" - particularly its close association with early attempts at AI.)
Because - all the companies I listed above are now bankrupt and gone?
Operations like this should be a fixture. Considering that not only individuals and companies but society as a whole increasingly depends on digital infrastructure we should develop mandatory procedures and frameworks for measuring security and improving it. You can't drive a car without a license but you can grab personal/private data of millions of people and give it away to criminals without consequence.
I've seen plenty comments saying 'everything is political'. I don't doubt that, but not every political issue, important maybe, should be the top priority for every company, there are a lot of NGOs created just for that. A company should notice the importance of politics, but should also not forget the reason of its existence, which is to provide services or produce commodities of some kinds.

As citizens and organizations, we surely deserve our right to engage in politics, but that doesn't mean it should what we discuss about on every nights' dinner table. A large fraction of those conversations will be, as it should, devoted to what's going on in the lives of our own and people around us. It's easy to lose focus in the mountains and seas of all those issues that matter, things just won't change in a blink, but we simply can not afford to let those issues to be the entirety of our lives, no matter how important they are, as much as one hope for otherwise. Call it the downside of democracy, but we just don't yet live in a time where everyone can devote all parts of their lives to discussions on fairness and justice, regardless how beautiful it sounds.
Entire driver space can be scrapped.

Cars with different seat configuration — I would love to sit with my family, friends, not on separate rows.

Smaller cars for one-two passengers, brand it Eco friendly, I would certainly select Firefly over usual car.

https://www.google.com/search?q=driverless+car+interior&tbm=...
What was Othollo's height? Or Hamlet's? Does anyone care? Height isn't very important for 99% of roles.
I hope they use this kind of tech for the Shield TV, too, to make 360p/480p videos look like 1080p/4k in the next few years.

This would drastically set the Shield TV apart from any other "smart" TV or set top box. People would want to buy a Shield just for this feature alone. The DLSS for games is already (over) hyped, but this would make much more sense for videos and TV.
You are missing the iPad and their smartwatch. It is very important for a premium company to have lesser variety, but higher quality. I cannot respond to quality of their Macs, however the tablets, watches and phones are pretty well made compared to their counterparts. The only exception was old Nokia windows phones, but they do not exist anymore.
>> In the near term, 100% of our rides will be fully driverless. We expect our new fully driverless service to be very popular, and we’re thankful to our riders for their patience as we ramp up availability to serve demand. Later this year, after we've finished adding in-vehicle barriers between the front row and the rear passenger cabin for in-vehicle hygiene and safety, we'll also be re-introducing rides with a trained vehicle operator, which will add capacity and allow us to serve a larger geographical area.

I'm struggling to understand what this meas. On the one hand "In the near term, 100% of our rides will be fully driverless", but, on the other hand, "Later this year, ..., we'll also be re-introducing rides with a trained vehicle operator, (...)". So "the near term" is at least next year?

Anyway it's difficult to understand exactly what is changing with this announcement. The (original) title makes it sound like everyone in Phoenix ("...the general public in Phoenix") will be able to hitch a driverless ride, but the text on the announcement makes it sound like only Waymo One members -and their relatives- will be able to do so ("Beginning today, October 8, we’re excited to open up our fully driverless offering to Waymo One riders. Members of the public service can now take friends and family along on their rides and share their experience with the world.").
But the API must be defined in the client library, and that has been released under an open source license.
It would be entirely possible to 'change the world' just by transforming the monetary system though, would it not? Yes, that is in itself a goal with political undercurrents and ultimately would clearly involve political decisions, but they are not at that stage yet and therefore I think it's quite reasonable to want to stay apolitical, where possible.
May be relevant to the discussion: SQLite is also compiled from a single, 220k LOC C file called "the amalgamation".

https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html
Record 16 climate disasters have hit US in 2020 costing more than $1B each
I agree, its something that should be encouraged. I guess its the business world equivalent of tipping someone.
They seem to have a good research division. I learnt a lot form their research on neural hardware during my PhD
>but is it high-margin, high-growth?

They sold trains and bought into oil & gas exploration. If high growth is what they're aiming for I'm not sure they picked the right horse.
In-progress musl fork modified to use Checked C
Being open about something that can land you in jail in some countries is taking a political stand. If I am an Atheist and I keep that to myself, I can travel to places I wouldn't be able to safely go if I were open about my religion.

And before anyone says anything, when religion informs lawmaking, it becomes political.
I would have laughed if employees quickly unionised and 51% had decided to take the exit package.
Nvidia Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls... But only if everybody in the call has a 600$ Nvidia GPU
Is it just me or do the videos no longer look natural? I feel like I see highly non-linear movements (parts of the video moving when they shouldn't, or vice-versa), and facial expressions don't really look quite the same.
Such a mistake. The language doesn’t need any of this complexity. The language doesn’t even need classes.

If people want to program Java they should program Java. Pretending the language is something it isn’t by adding more semantics on top of syntax sugar is a colossal fail to appease the most insecure of developers. Historically, adding new features to a technology solely to appease the least secure of users never results in success even if the demands appear popular in a given moment.

And now I must cry into a pillow.
I have no insight in the compiler, but wouldn't this be optimized away?
You'll have to excuse me, but using Mother Jones as a source isn't exactly convincing. They are about as unbiased as Foxnews.

My point was less around "this is a left wing group!" and more around the lazy journalism that likes to bucket things as simplistically as possible. "Oh, they listen to Jordan Peterson? Must be alt-right! My job is done."

I wouldn't say alt-right groups (what does "alt-right" even mean?) are known for adhering to overthrowing the gov't.
They still do almost all of those things. Look at their yearly report. They are also making huge profits from them.
Always thought the same. By that definition I care much more about LOSS than about FOSS or FLOSS but I don't see that used ever...
We're all deepfakes now, it seems.
I think it will be a win-win situation no matter what. If Google loose, we will see an even bigger shift to FOSS, which is obviously a win for the whole developer community. If Oracle loose well then things stay as they are, we are still moving to FOSS but we don't have an Supreme Court accelerator behind that movement, still fine.
they dont need to be bankrupt to be wannabees. Wordperfect and myspace still exist

(plus yes, a lot of those companies would go bankrupt without their VC funding)
Same here, I was really excited for this. But the FB requirement is stupid, now I’ll wait for other players to catch up.
Profiling asyncio/gevent applications in Python
Hi,

With the newest version of Yappi (1.3.0), profiling of gevent applications(individual greenlets) becomes possible. Profiling asyncio was already possible.

For more details please see:

https://github.com/sumerc/yappi/blob/master/doc/greenlet-profiling.md

https://github.com/sumerc/yappi/blob/master/doc/coroutine-profiling.md
That's like saying that if everything is physical, then nothing is. "Everything," by which we mean many things, is political in the sense that it has political aspects that should be recognised, but those aspects are very different from one thing to another. Political means pertaining to the distribution of power and resources in a society. But what kind of power/resources, which society and what form of distribution vary greatly. That many things have a colour doesn't mean the concept of colour is meaningless, nor that it draws its meaning from things that don't have a colour, because colour is an aspect with many hues. In short, "everything is political" means learning to look at the political aspects of things. The goal is not to distinguish between the political and apolitical, but between the many different shades of the political.
Noting that there is little explanation in the repo, you can visit 1 and 2 if you're unfamiliar with Checked C and its history.

1. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/checked-c/

2. https://github.com/microsoft/checkedc
>what planet are you guys on

Not really a planet, but a stage in life called marriage.

There are certain part of the world where Playstation has to be disguised as a new super fast WiFi Router called Plash Speed ( PS ).
I used noscript before umatrix. Umatrix is def technically superior in my eyes. Also noscript has some pretty shady sht in its history. Exactly what I don’t need from a privacy extension
Ah, so it's not a web app, it's a Chrome app.
Which treadmill browser are you referring to?
I've been on a macOS workstation for 6y, but I miss having a real Linux. I code & live in the terminal, and avoid GUIs. The problem for me is the amazing monitor and trackpad on MacBooks. Are there any latest reviews comparing the trackpad on Linux OSes?
Microsoft were far too quick to abandon it and move on to something else. I suspect it's made a lot of developers wary and sceptical of new technologies coming from them.
It's funny because it's true. I mean the only substantial competitors to facebook are VK, telegram and a bunch of chinese companies, all of which would be considered "security threats"
This phone is still work in progress, but it progresses at a fast pace. The very fact that you can smoothly run desktop Firefox with all plugins on a phone is a huge thing. There is no need to write new applications, just adapt the existing ones. If you want more pictures and videos, look here: https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-5-media-photos-and-videos.

> The Purism Website failed to convince me that this project has even a chance of becoming an enjoyable alternative.

Maybe this could convince you: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
Imagine how forbidden a web browser should be, then.
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There is no neutrality in the face of injustice.

Really. It's that simple.
I mean it’s absolutely appropriate to take a side on certain issues. I've always refused to work on military hardware for example. If my employer started working on military hardware, I’d refuse to contribute and I would try to encourage others to refuse as well. But actually we all have things we would refuse to do. Usually it’s not an issue because both management and the workers feel the same way. Most people wouldn’t want to create a product designed to murder people for example.

The issue comes when some people are uncomfortable with work being done and others aren’t. Those who are uncomfortable are probably going to want to have discussions about it. If I was asked to contribute to a system that put people (any people) in to cages I would refuse. But that’s precisely what ICE is doing in the USA. If such a contract came up you can bet it’s something I’d want to talk about with my coworkers!
Right, but is that feasible in practice? Do people actually successfully do that, on a large scale? Or does it run into:

- Having to create your own mapping for every piece of data of every divergent data source, with a not-insignificant amount of work involved?

- Those mappings inevitably containing mistakes/different interpretations that result in invalid data?

- Some of the data not being amenable to lossless mapping in the first place?

In other words: is "RDF provides a solution for that" not overselling it a bit?
Here, you make an argument is about enforceability that undermines your earlier note about "10 or 20 years". The obvious conclusion of your enforceability argument is that we should not have any form of copyright. That's fine, but it would be a tighter thread if you'd spent a few more minutes to form that argument originally.

The "collective resource" and "communal" concepts above seem to be improvised. If you want to succeed at introducing new concepts, they will need to be well-grounded.
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I think the recency of articles is wrong, maybe only from some sources. I searched for "Netherlands" and this article was fairly high up:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-netherlands-duncan-laurenc... (2 days ago)

One of the results is also just a link to the front page of AlterNet. Searching for other very generic terms (country names for example) leads me to other website's front pages as well.

I also would've appreciated titles over the 2 panes, because as a non-American it took me a while to realize that red is right-wing/conservative (in Europe it's typically the opposite).

Whatever I search for there also seems to be a lot of articles from the same sources (namely thedailybeast and breitbart). Not sure anything can be done about that though.
From my perspective an ancient ARM core is better than 100 MHz Microblaze softcore. ARM core opens lots of new possibilities and I don’t need quirky high level synthesis.
Even if it s true, who here thinks that antimonopoly action is going to work?

Instead i think they should strike their crucial market advantage: the assumption that user-generated content is free. It should not be, in fact users should be getting paid to have their content featured. A law that would prevent the use of user-generated content for ad purposes without compensating the user would help share the wealth.
Stills OK, it would be interesting to see it move. Risk for uncanny valley?

Petapixel is a blog spam site btw. Why not go to the source that is linked in the post?
Unable, maybe. But not from lack of trying. You say social networks come and go but Facebook is still very much the largest network as it was ten years ago. Now is it because of cool innovations and better products or because of copying and stifling competitors, it's debatable.

But what makes this worse is the fact that Facebook hasn't been very vigilant about their privacy practises or political influencing on their platforms. And they haven't really suffered any repercussions from that. Which might embolden them and others to continue to do so unless something is done.
Depends on how big the network is. You can process neural networks on CPU with acceptable speed in certain cases. And nicer smart phones tend to have a decent GPU.
I tried that, but i missed the remote storage. I use Nextcloud and is almost a perfect replacement for dropbox.
Tesla suspensions are made from cheese.
I have been using pipenv only on a couple of projects and for a few months, but it has been an improvement over pip and virtualenv.

Why do you say Pipenv is a nightmare? Have you had bad experiences with it?
> They now have 1 desktop, updated every few years, one laptop, updated every few years.

Not true. They have three desktop form factors — Mac Mini, iMac and Mac Pro — and three laptop form factors — MacBook Air, 13" MacBook Pro and 16" MacBook pro. And each can be variously customised by CPU, memory, storage, etc. Most of these are updated with 1-2 year cadence.

Of course, it's much easier to make any case if you disregard the most basic facts within the first paragraph.
fair, in that they aren't perfect photorealism, but if their comparisons with the regular codecs and techniques are correct, I'd take their modelled faces over the comparable- level of digital artifacts for the same bandwidth.

After all, it doesn't need to be said that when you're on a regular videoconferencing call and bandwidth starts to suffer, the resulting images don't really look anything like a photorealistic person either. I think this is actually a really good use of NN.
Yes but mobile.
This thread is the unfortunate side effect of a highly skilled developer making a simple mistake which can be understood and thus scrutinized by your average web guy. People thinking it is a compiler bug, people who want to milk controversy because some test in some bitcoin library dependency is affected. You are not getting a discussion worth a spit because the topic is extremely trivial and there is no genuine depth in it.
Ah, that was a typo, which I've corrected.

It appears Noto isn't complete (nor is Unifont), which surprised me when I checked it. I can't recall ever seeing text which wasn't rendered by it in the wild.

Unifont itself covers only the BMP. There are a couple of supplements which go past that, which I wasn't aware of.
Last month i installed Windows Home. I had to press Shift-F10 to open command prompt then run ncpa.cpl to disable network adapter before it allowed to create offline account.
Picking a random bit of the API, ContainerOrderFocusTraversalPolicy::getImplicitDownCycleTraversal feels to me more like "the boy who lived", rather than "Introducing Side Character" -- I don't think anyone could reasonably claim you would end up at remotely the same thing, unless you were word-for-word copying thousands of lines of API.
Are you suggesting Nadella will sacrifice the long term vision of Microsoft for personal gain?
Longjmp and Valgrind: Back to the Future
> If you can manage that, though, it'd be very difficult to prove that you were responsible, which is why I think the targeted attack is entirely plausible.

So the only argument you have to suggest it might be an intentionally introduced bug is that it doesn't look like one… I understand the sentiment but this is clearly a ridiculous line of reasoning.
Google does a variant of that for one of my (rarely used) email accounts. On every day I attempt to log in, they throw a coin. Heads they let me in, tails they don't let me in unless I provide a phone number.
Unfortunately not. I've run into so many similar issues lately that I’ve seriously (maybe a little too seriously, if I'm honest) considered temporarily moving to Europe just so I can have access to this.
I don't feel myself confident with flaky hardware. I'm using UPS and ECC, so I can be sure that no bugs are introduced by hardware issues. I would love to use GPU with ECC, but they are ridiculously priced, so I'm out of luck.

That's not a real need, of course, it's just some kind of whim, but if I can pay for it, why not. Just like those crazy overclocker dudes pay for their whims.
Then you might consider buying Librem One services by Purism: https://librem.one.
Still Windows 8 boots faster for me. A clean installation is 2 seconds from bios to login (not hibernated, but "fast startup"), and perhaps 5-6 seconds for windows 10 (also with fast startup enabled, which it is on both on a default install).
I think that a case for having a very lean product line-up can be made from an engineering perspective as well. Having few SKUs and changing them rarely allows to focus on quality. It allows for very efficient manufacturing, since production is all about economies of scale. For already established product types, it enables iterative refinement. But perhaps most importantly it allows to put innovation focus on new kinds of products. The PC, laptop and tablet have all been invented and standardized.

With the AirPods, Apple has again managed to establish themselves as a leading player (in affluent market/segments). They did the same with smartwatches a while back. Their track record is strong. Probably will do the same with... $FutureProductCategory. Of course this is only partly due to engineering and product design - brand building and marketing also vital components.
And I think it is fair to say, that while a strong engineering organization, Apple is not engineering-driven. They consider engineering as a means to deliver good product, not an end in itself.
> Some stations will also insist on prepayment at certain times of the day.

I'm not saying that this doesn't happen but in nearly 20 years of driving around the UK I've yet to encounter it.
Professionals were Apples target a long time ago, but they just switched over to the mainstream and keeping a lot of professionals that was in the earlier segment. Year over year the Mac is dumbed down to protect the user from doing something stupid, but not really thinking about the people that don't want to be cushioned. It's great HW though.
To clarify what I meant. I don’t think the order matters. What would matter is the chapter and section titles... they are the package names and method signatures.
I don't think the "sin" is not knowing who Eno is, but rather, an unwillingness to explore and educate yourself.

"He must be before my time"
"I know I’ve heard of him"

So, you make some research and the best you can come up with is "the producer of U2 and Coldplay"...

"I have no idea what any of his other work is but I don’t think I’d much care for it based on my opinions of those two bands he produced."

It all just reads as wilful ignorance... You obviously care enough to comment and bask in the fact that you're unaware of him. As if being oblivious to a hugely influential figure should be worn like a badge of pride or something
Separate from the merits (or not) of Coinbase's stance, 5% of employees taking a 4-6 month severage package to leave doesn't /seem/ high to me. It's less than what %age churns naturally in 6 months at a tech company historically.
This is just an annoying result of OSS projects squatting on FOSS, re-muddling the waters about what "Free" was supposed to mean (free as in freedom/"libre"). The original dichotomy was just OSS / FOSS. I guess the resulting division is precise (opensource you pay for / opensource and gratis / opensource and free as in freedom), I just find "floss" somewhat gross and just say Free Software.
The thing is you only want to make this trade-off when the bandwidth is actually starting to suffer. It'd be nice if there was a nice way to make this adaptive and use NNs only when throughput is low, but the nonlinearity of the distortions makes me think this would be really hard. [1] I know what I don't want is for a normal conversation in an uncongested network to look unnatural or for facial expressions to get distorted unnecessarily.

Edit: [1] I meant to say doing a mixture of these (with the NN image as the "base", with H.264 to improve accuracy) seems really hard. On the other hand, just a hard switch from H.264 to NN when quality degrades is probably quite practical?