skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> .. don't they have a moral responsibility to try and do something about it?

Is Apple a law enforcing agency with jurisdiction in that region? If the answer to that is no, then the answer to your (rhetorical) question is equally no.

Even more, Apple might very well be the one legally at fault here, for assuming authoritative powers for which it has absolutely no legal mandate or justification.

So, if anything, it is rather Apple that is likely the one braking the law here, despite all the rhetoric about Apple having some kind of moral duty (absolute hogwash).

It isn't so much about meddling, but more about Apple assuming powers it should never have in the first place (legally speaking).
"If you're modifying a buffer in place, you'll still be stuck copying data to replace (longer) escape sequences with their (shorter) final values."

You can pad, no? What comes after the NUL is ignored in C.
Why not? Just because they're a hypocrite doesn't mean they're wrong.

If we applied that logic to the US we'd ignore everything they have to say about camps in Xinjiang (which Chinese nationals with views that are a mirror image of yours usually do).
How Blind People Use Smartphones (2016)
Humans are quite adaptable. We do build both hierarchical and flat cultures. And some situations call for hierarchical structure while others put flat one at advantage.

But, generally, people who are not accountable to anyone often end up not performing well.
The limit exists on some Unixen as well natively (e.g., Solaris), but yes, it's likely most often experienced as an NFS behaviour.
Costco used to have an exclusivity deal with AmEx that prevented other credit cards from being accepted. They did accept debit cards however.

They now have a deal with Visa, along with their own branded Visa card but will accept any bank's Visa card.
I wouldn't even call it abuse. Buying clothes or shoes is in many cases impossible without trying them on. Also, you can't really see and feel the fabric before it's arrived. Hence, many companies have explicit free and easy return policies to encourage people to order a lot of stuff and keep only what they like. Not very eco-friendly, I know.
Even with the fancy foot scans I frequently have to do returns because the shape of my left heel is different than the shape of my right one. The overall length and with of the shoe as well as the height of the foot fits well, but the heel counter shape can cause a lot of trouble. I tend to buy another pair in the same model and size when I find a decent shoe, but obviously this doesn't work across models and brands. Last month I did 3 returns until I found an acceptable model.
I used to have consistent but relatively mild wrist pain from using a standard keyboard all day, but I was able to alleviate that once I switched to a split ergonomic keyboard which I made.

For anyone who also wants to get their feet wet in the world of custom keyboards it certainly isn't as daunting as you might think. You don't have to necessarily go ortholinear, and you certainly don't have to stray from QWERTY. In fact, just learning to properly touch type and making sure the "right" fingers are hitting the right keys goes a long way with a split keyboard.

I found a lot of my own wrist pain was from the unnatural position that your arms and wrists are in to support a non split keyboard + the unnecessary hand/wrist movement to hit keys with the "wrong" fingers. An ortholinear (or at least column linear) keyboard can go a long way in teaching you where your fingers are supposed to go as long as you are willing to spend a weekend or two learning how to type again.

If you are thinking of diving into making your own, I would recommend the following vendors for kits:

https://keyhive.xyz/shop
https://keeb.io/
https://www.littlekeyboards.com/
I think the author underestimates how much this changes things.
Assuming we know for certain there is no free will; the way we treat bad behaviour should change - people who behave badly should simply be retrained.
There should be no punishment; there is no concept of individual guilt or personal accountability; there are only behaviours that need to be modified to conform with a social norm.
There should be no execution of killers; no prison terms, people would be held for as long as it takes (potentially indefinitely) to change unacceptable behaviour.
A lot of popular religious concepts also fly out of the window.
When people learn Colemak, sometimes they unconsciously try to "ground" their fingers on the home position, and that makes typing very strainful indeed when typing on the middle columns.

When typing on the middle column, make sure that your fingers float freely, and the middle and ring fingers should move along with your index finger, e.g. when pressing the 'H' key, the middle finger should be hovering approximately between the 'J' and 'K' QWERTY position.
I see your point. It's been a very long time since I've read the original text, but I don't remember this being my impression of the argument being made, and that would indeed be a very simplistic one. But I might be mixing it up with some of the debates on semantics within linguistics, which is of course a slightly different topic.
A $250 Chinese smartphone can match or exceed the features of an $800 offering from a "flagship" company. It is absolutely a waste of money.
It is no hyperbole to say that Eno is probably the most influential producer of the latter half of the twentieth century. You may know him indirectly via his collaborations with Talking Heads and Bowie. His legacy permeates all electronically produced music today.
> Would a support email address ending in macscan.net be confusing ... ?

No. Not in any way.
No. It's not "at least they get a tax write off", because that implies a benefit, such as when paying profits to a charity you want to support anyway.

With these returned items, the seller just loses money and has a lower income than if they could resell them.

Their tax goes down because of returns, but that's just normal income tax because their income goes down.

If they didn't donate the goods, just threw them away, they would pay exactly the same tax. So there is no tax benefit gained from donating.
Of course marketing isn't evil, and I didn't say that. Marketing can be quite awesome and impressively done. However, you know AI/GPT-3-based writing and helping of marketing copy will lead to lowest common denominator scaling of marketing copy to everyone with tweaks for the specifically targeted person. My opinion is that that's as gross as ML people at Google optimizing for every ad click with slight tweaks to maximize revenue at any cost. Gross.

As to your dig, my conscience is clear; I made a conscious effort to avoid such ends in my professional life, sometimes to my short term detriment. My personal time is mine to do with what I please, even if you consider some of that time to be used in a self righteous or low effort way. It's not self righteous to point out bad things.
Refund can be for orders which they were unable to deliver. Example:- Groceries. I get refund if even 1 out of 30 items is not available, that isn't a return.
Are these 38 in 2020 all returns?
Do you have an understanding of the origins of private property? You do know that private property is a pure construct of the State, that the State was created because there was no other way to enforce private property, and that the State must exist as long private property exists, right?

I'm taking private property to mean any property that you don't actively use, so for example intellectual property, stocks, and capital writ large.

This is why the State has the right to seize property, because they are guarantor of the concept for property to begin with.

Ultimately, it is very valid to disagree with State enforcement of property and for the monopoly of violence, but the only logical conclusion for that is anarchism, in a sense that makes capitalism impossible.
Eh, I mean I understand your comment in general, but I think it's a reasonable hypothesis that the discrepancy could be that Amazon doesn't have a large enough market share in other markets for these issues to have occurred (i.e. EU small sellers have yet to start abusing the marketplace to the extent done in the US). I certainly recognize that I don't have data to indicate either way - but my point is that the lack of problem in UK/EU doesn't necessarily mean Amazon is responding better to competition.
IANAG, but it sounds like it's recorded through a speaker in the room, and the miking wasn't optimal. Now that might be the recording we watch, or the actual output of the plugin; no way to tell. But apart from that, it's quite good, IMO.

(I Am Not A Guitarist)
Where do you order these?
I use a Kinesis and Dvorak. I have no trouble at all switching between the Kinesis and a macbook keyboard (which is also set to Dvorak) but I'd definately be slow to type English (back to normal person typing speed), and writong code in vim would be a nightmare if I was forced to use a random machine and not able to switch the layout.

Luckily, you can switch easily to Dvorak on most systems for the last couple of decades. Something that's less true once you start inventing your own layouts (though I think Colemak, Neo and Workman are decently suppprted).

Also, people who learned to touch type QWERTY suggest you can swap back even after learning a new layout. I never learned qwerty that well but return to standard nerd level of familiarity.
among other things, it has the fugliest syntax ever created in the history of human kind. plus laughable windows and IDE support. that's plenty for me.
Apple says it never asked Telegram to delete Belarusian channels for doxing cop
They do that because they want to keep a history of each transaction. I don't want to keep a history of all the positions of a character in my game.
Ask HN: Why do things that don't scale?
I know it's become conventional wisdom for startups. But I'm not sure why it leads to success. There's plenty of examples of companies that did things that don't scale and are successful, but that's correlation. What's the causation? Why does doing unscalable things work?
When I click through I see a git repo with a descriptive title. Why are we seeing this title in the HN submission?
Don’t know why you are getting downvotes; these are exactly the questions any one with domain knowledge of playing electric guitars would ask.
>> L4 total comp at Google, or E4 salaries at Facebook, is about $260K/year ... Average total comp for a software engineer in Dallas is $110K/year

You're using average (median I hope) salary for Dallas vs. high end salaries for San Jose.

You used indeed.com for the Dallas salaries, if you use them for San Jose you get an average of 150K. Too lazy to run the numbers but obviously that would change the calculation quite a bit.
Telegram has more monthly active users than Twitter (400 million vs 360 million, according to Statista)

Even going by metrics like cultural significance, there are large regional differences. It's a little unfair to call them smaller, even if they don't quite have the same level of political and social clout in the US.
Thank you! Any feedback is appreciated if you get around to trying it out.

If you look at the WaveNetVA repository from Aalto University that my plugin is based on, at least one person affiliated with that project works at Neural DSP. I suspect that the QuadCortex uses something like this (maybe a more advanced neural net) combined with other proprietary techniques and application specific hardware. They claim they can do the rig capture in 3 minutes, whereas the models I trained for the SmartAmp took a few hours on a GPU.
Windows did it first (rundll32.exe)
This really resonates with me and I'm both surprised and relieved that this is coming from someone in such position of power, because I never really gave myself permission to bring it up with my colleagues.
Epic doesn't want to be on the Apple App store. They want their own store on iOS and Android. Intentionally breaking TOS of those stores and subsequently being kicked off both platforms was already part of the plan from start.
This complaint comes up time and time again. "Universities should prepare students better for jobs!" "Teach more real life skills!" "Turn CS uni into trade school!"

But a computer science university program is not about scikit-learn or TensorFlow! It's about long-lasting principles, underlying mathematics, mental models and ways of thinking.

None of my computer science lectures were about how to apply that particular part of CS knowledge in some hot new Python library. It's expected that there will be some amount of time required to adjust to a company's software setup. That's not a big hurdle usually.

I'm not saying it should be only theory, though. University courses often have accompanying assignments or projects. Depending on the country in question, they often offer more hands-on, practical courses ("lab courses") as well, where you do actually go through the steps of making the theory work in real life. I had such courses where we played with microcontrollers and FPGAs to understand CPU instructions, assembly and low-level C concepts (but even there the goal wasn't to learn exactly the thing that you will use on the job. Most CS graduates will never need to program FPGAs in their day job.).

But sure, there is a place for even more data engineering training, but I don't think it's computer science university programs. Where do people like network engineers learn how to configure Cisco routers and use whatever config software they use? Where do sysadmins learn Bash, Unix, backup management etc? Not at university courses. Wherever they learn those skills, that's where data cleaning, parallelization engineering etc aspects of machine learning should be taught as well.
Installing aur packages is as simple as git clone and makepkg. No need for any special package manager for AUR.
If such a device could exist, it would be the part which understood. If the questions were about facts and the person looked up the facts in a book, it wouldn't be the room as a whole that knew the facts. The room as a whole delivers facts, but there's a fairly obvious separation of responsibilities in the implementation...
The author's narration is delightful.

Really nice to hear the voice of the author, the meta commentary on his own writing, and the proud glee he takes in captioning his doodles.
Actually its not the dataset that matters, its the access to unbounded compute. GPT-3 is trained on data scraped from the web...
He proposes changing the syllabus of advanced/graduate-level courses to skip reviewing linear classification and backprop and make that a pre-requisite.
How do these old PowerPC processors relate to the latest POWER10 processors? Is there a recognizable similarity?
Aspect: Lets you draw websites, then publish or download them
"Amazon's" Retail Business is great. They have third parties supply most of the inventory and take most of the risk. And then they collect the metrics and make their own knock-offs of the clear winners.
This is very interesting and sounds like good news. So, by using the machine I may actually improve it's life span. That's pretty interesting. Guess I shouldn't have left it in the box after my move two years ago.
A DIY Audio Induction Loop for the Hard of Hearing
A demo by its creator on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/j8hf0j/i_made_a_web...
Dane here. I have a few more to the list (and surely many I forgot):

- You mentioned Peter Naur, but I must point out that he's the 'N' in BNF

- Per Brinch Hansen (concurrent Pascal, brought us monitors)

- Ole Lehrmann (BETA)

...

I think it's a network effect. Early practitioners in Denmark had a PL focus and fostered the next generation.
> It’s just that there was a time when it actually seemed to be true.

People have mentioned that before, but maybe it's more them just "wanting to believe" and being suckered due to it?
Taking the Sears Time Machine for a Test Drive (2012)
I vote up the push back because having even a good boss is about working and filling in demand for what corporation/company wants.

When you are your own boss you can say "I have enough" and stop making new features, stop getting new customers. One probably still needs to have profitable customer base before saying so but I am working for profitable company as SDE and they look how to grow more all the time.
Well I think this is just survivorship bias. Nobody really feels compelled to post when they are in the mundane majority of people who didn’t have a bad experience.
Come on...

> (to whom?)

Objectively.

> is not description of a sound

It is, as much as "piano" is a description. People are interested in emulating hardware in their audio software, and this emulates a guitar amp, and the price tag claims "it's a decent sound".

> If this emulates a particular amp, the title should say which one

No.

> If it does a good job at emulating a particular amp, where's the side by side comparison? The video demo only shows the plug-in.

Perhaps, but the article is about getting a free plugin.

> There are plethora of guitar amp plugins. What makes this one any different or better?

Nothing per se. It's just a new one. And it's free. It's an announcement.

> What's the significance of deep learning here?

That it's an uncommon way of modeling hardware, with its own merits.
An even better version of your argument is that Apple is the landlord, Telegram is the one renting the space to run a bar, and a few people are in the back corner planning lynchings. Should it be Apple's responsibility to tell their tenant to kick those people out? Or should the authorities be going straight to the tenant?

The worst part is that this isn't even accurate. What this is really like is Apple sells a bunch of residences, the users are buying their homes, but for some reason all utilities/cable/internet/etc. has to go through the real estate company that the house was purchased from as they dictate what you can and cannot do in that house. Even stranger, it is now somehow the real estate company's place and responsibility to tell a telephone company that the real estate company allows to drop conference calls that mention the private information of some third party, whether the phone calls are coming from the houses purchased from them or not.
Actually yeah, I think 2 things never showed up, so they were refunded automatically. So I guess that's 36 returns.
Building Simple Corona Tracker App in React JavaScript
Nothing unreal can be blocked.
This is pretty interesting.
As a guitarist, it is important to understand that any time you tell a guitarist that the sound is digital, the guitarist will scoff and say it doesn't sound like real tube amp, regardless of what they said or thought before knowing it was digital.
Covid-19 death rates are down worldwide but no one knows if it's a blip or trend
“I just woke up one morning and it struck me that I was a murderer. so I quit.”
This doesn't work for me. Left to my own schedule, I go to bed later and later and wake up later and later.

The thing that works for me is waking up (with an alarm) every day at the same time (6 o'clock) including week-ends.

I have a "dawn simulator" clock so most of the time I'm already awake when the alarm rings. But no matter what, when it rings I get out of bed immediately. You snooze you loose!
Stealing millions in casino chips in GTA Online with a zero-day
The video and the letter in the video description were sent to Rockstar Games two days ago. The video doesn't show the pre-requisites for a successful exploitation of the bug.
> This keeps being posted and keeps disappearing

Fwiw, t.me is banned on HN because the vast majority of submissions don't show anything unless you install their app. It seems some posts are also display actual content, but they're rare, and it would require writing some special-case code to whitelist them.
I'm really glad you enjoyed it! I've never done that before, but it just felt like the perfect opportunity.
One of my favorite pieces of his writing was the "Programming Note" he wrote in June of this year, during/after the protests around George Floyd's death, and the Trump photo op in Lafayette Square. It has his usual insight into what really are the rules behind the rules, and what are the true incentives beneath the surface. It has some of that same sense of resignation, and even goes a bit into where that comes from.

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Programming note

I don’t know. Mostly I am dazed and heartbroken all the time, and it
seems trivial and disrespectful to write a column about finance these
days. But this is a financial newsletter, and like a lot of my readers
I like having a mostly safe space for finance, so here we are.

A theme of this column over the past few years has been legal realism,
the idea that “law,” really, is just what officials do about
disputes. Rules, the written laws, the constitution, are all “law”
only insofar as they predict or explain the actions of public
officials, or persuade those officials to do things. “That is all
their importance, except as pretty playthings,” as the great legal
realist Karl Llewellyn put it. If this column sometimes seems cynical,
it is mostly Karl Llewellyn’s fault.

It seems to me that one central argument of the past few days has been
about whether people with power should have to follow rules at
all. America has good rules about freedom of speech and assembly and
religion; it has a president who violently dispersed a peaceful
protest and drove priests from their church so that he could pose for
photographs outside of it. America has good rules against unreasonable
searches and seizures, about the right to a trial by jury and due
process of law; it has a long history of police killing black people
with impunity.

A message of the protests is that the police should have to follow the
same rules as everybody else, that when they break the law they should
face consequences. A message of the response to the protests is: No,
they shouldn’t. Is the law what it says? Or is it the raw fact of what
the people with the guns and the tear gas do? I think I know the
answer and it makes me sad.
>And we do not guess, we know, that we can derive from the laws for the constituents what the whole object does. If you make a claim to the contrary, you are contradicting well-established science. I can’t prevent you from denying scientific evidence, but I can tell you that this way you will never understand how the universe really works."

I mean this is just flat out wrong and actually terrible science. Everyone who has taken a class on complex systems is aware of the phenomenon of emergence. You cannot understand the dynamics of a bird flock by breaking it down to the individual birds, and you cannot understand the dynamics of a hurricane by looking at each individual particle. A steering wheel cannot drive, an exhaust pipe cannot drive and a tire cannot drive, but a car can drive. The human mind is of course another important example. You can pry someone's head open and break the brain down to its constituent parts, but you will not find a mind anywhere in there.

Systems can have properties that are not found in any of its parts, because it's the interaction of the parts, not the parts themselves, that produce those properties. That is why reductionism has never been a successful enterprise, and why we indeed do not have a "unified science" (as some of the logical positivists imagined) which explains the totality of all things in one formal language. (i.e. physics).
Oh the practise I'm aware of, it was more the application of it which surprised me here. I guess it makes more sense (although that's stretching the definition of sense) when you apply it to influencers (a connection I failed to make initially).
At least in the USA this would be a felony (and the USPS has even its own law enforcement division). So this isn't just based on "high trust".
Well, wasn't the 601 a bit different than the 603/604 in instruction sets? I seem to remember there were some difference from the more refined, later chips.