skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with this. It was a misuse of terminology on my part, my broader point has absolutely nothing to do with the mathematical details of neural networks.
Oh, cool. That's good news!
Is this achieving the goals of getting computing power into hands of kids ? I know they gave away a million a year or two ago, but my kids were more interested in raspberry pi as a platform - the micro-bit just kind of did not have the ... marketing ? appeal ? obvious way in ?

I like the idea - I can see some kind of path to free/open IoT devices and some standardisation. But ... is tehre some call home feature that says 'I have been turned on 5 times'?

Is this effective ?

I know I sound like an old moaner - it just is an important area - how do we measure if we are succeeding?
Absolutely, "Affero" MPL or "Affero" EPL license would be a great step to remain enterprise-friendly while enforcing copyleft terms even for SaaS products.
Ask HN: Why do people complain about GDPR blocks on HN stories?
A question for the Europeans on the board. If you click a link on HN and the site blocks your visit due to GDPR, why do you complain in the comments? Do you believe you have an inherent right to enforce legal measures outside of the EU? I'm not judging just curious and I imagine many others are curious too.
GitHub Commit Injection
Benefits of Advanced WMS for Your Warehouse Operations
Thanks - either I'm going blind or I scrolled straight past that section on my phone (twice!).
I'm not sure of your number or the actual impact, but yes, it's going to cost something whether you do it or not.
So I can’t delete comment spam on my public blog as that would violate “free speech”?

I also don’t need a Facebook account in order to post content and consume it?

You are missing the point about Marsh v Alabama: unrestricted public accessibility vs the private club with authentication and exclusion built into its very core.

Rockefeller center, though a “public” space closes and excludes the public for around 5 minutes annually to prove that it is not a truly public space and so they can kick anyone out at any time for any reason. Facebook’s registration and authentication does the same. You publish at their pleasure.

In marsh, the equivalent would be a velvet rope around the sidewalk where only approved and registered people could enter, view and express their opinions. Facebook is emphatically not the public sphere, as much as y’all want it to be: it is allowed exclusion of anyone according to its own choosing. That it can ban someone and delete their account makes Facebook not a public sphere.

Same as my blog: your comment stays up if I want it to, no implication on the right to free speech.
My rule of thumb:
flex
A few months ago I wrote a post called "Systems design for advanced beginners" that a lot of people seem to have found helpful.

Link: https://robertheaton.com/2020/04/06/systems-design-for-advan...
HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23904000
That's the "spooky action at a distance" (in the case of the entangled particles, obviously; with the two balls it's not so spooky). Spooky.
If you are European you can report them for this as it goes against the GDPR[0]. You can also just send an angry email to their data officer which they have to reply to by law, and enjoy the template reaction of "we are currently too busy" followed by dismissal a few months later.

If you are not European you can probably still use their mechanisms for complying with the GDPR to fix this as they cant really tell who is a European citizen and who is not.

[0] https://gdpr.eu/email-encryption/
Great. One other thing I think you could add if not already is not cover all the topics yourself but also create a kind of roadmap of high quality resources with some order of steps to take the resources in.

As there exists lots of material already for TCP/UDP, Rust etc.
Dish-O-TRON – AI to detect dirty dishes in the sink
There are some things that grids aren't optimized for, one example that comes to mind is `justify/space-between` where you don't really need to think about the layout (by adjusting cols spans).

But yeah, for structural layouts grids are better.
True random data is just as incompressible as cipher text so you can either save both or neither for later analysis. For searches one can derive walks and repeat them. In any case, the adversary needs to store more and more data to derive an unimproved analysis and the costs ruin their offerings.
Only if AGPL is combined with some kind of contributor agreement system.
How is this different from saying that a brain is "just" a bunch of atoms, which individually are quite simple? It's when you put the individually simple pieces together and run an optimiser that you get something clever. The result of that optimiser is a complex and very large array of weights.
Will be interesting when Biden is elected and pulls back on all this anti-China stuff.
I think a rough TLDR is: Stereotypes.

> Still, even with the introduction of men, programming was often conflated with low-level clerical work commonly performed by women like typing or filing, writes Nathan Ensmenger, a professor of informatics and computing at Indiana University.

[...]

> Jane Margolis, a senior researcher at the University of California-Los Angeles and author of Unlocking the Clubhouse, cites the introduction of the home computer as a “boys toy” in the 1980s as a factor that pushed more men than women into computer science. Radio Shack ran ads showing that personal computers were great for nerdy (white) boys and sporty boys because they could use it to do homework and play video games. Another 1985 Apple ad showed how much a computer could help a boy named Brian Scott, while also demonstrating what fun he could have teasing a girl who was trying to use a computer.

I do think that we under-appreciate the effect that stereotypes have on forming peoples' career choices. Teens are particularly susceptible to these things, and that's unfortunate because that's the age where they are expected to start choosing their career path.
Good ponits you guys. I think it would be fair to say that "AI" is nothing but algebra ran by an automata. The rest is a mix of hype and nerds taking advantage to manipulate people that has this concept out of their intellectual reach. Depending on the case, this can enable evil at global scale. As always with humanity, ideology is always a problem.
Demand and supply. Much like DeBeers is stock piling low grade dimonds to not ruin market prices.
Oslo police seize tuned electric scooter with 36mph top speed
Wind was growing sharply before the current administration axed it. It's still the leading renewable energy source here though - both in capacity and GWh delivered.

Recently various cronies came out of the woodwork, so there's a chance we will have some weirdly expensive (even for this source) offshore farms.

But it's likely that some of our national parks will be turned into biomass for coal plants sooner - that's something currently in the works at least.
> Grid is great for 2D layouts especially if you're going to shift stuff around (e.g. responsive versions of the layout).

Exactly!
> they're just taking sides because they share characteristics with what they perceive to be the slighted party here

Once again, this is a popular accusation but one of the most uncharitable accusations on tap today in discourse.

I totally agree with their point about the double standard about bros and hos. Their gender is irrelevant.

Edit: for the record, I think we should be able to use flippant and juvenile language in our blog titles (at risk of seeming juvenile), but I’ve been in tech long enough to catch the increasing wind of the “men can handle words like techbro but women can’t” implication. Using cute gendered language for women isn’t quite as savory today.
The Polyform Project has some source-available licenses that might suit your needs, particularly Internal Use, Perimeter, and Shield.

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/
I didn't mean to present it as if it's immoral to choose a license that excludes Googlers. The maintainer should be free to choose whatever license meets their goals.

Out of personal self-interest, I want to maximize the number of people who are eligible to contribute to my project. If it's unlikely for anyone to use my code to compete against me or form a different business without compensating me, I default to a permissive license because it allows more people to contribute.
who's we?
> For example, how it affects previous versions?

It does not affect older veraions - unless the previous license has a provision for this (and I doubt many people would be willing to use software with such a license).

> Can the copyright owner switch licenses at anytime?

Yes, but many open source projects are made up of many copyright holders due to external contributors.
Probably the most widely known Cockney rhyming phrase is "blowing a raspberry", which comes from "raspberry tart"...
Show HN: Facemorph – Dead simple animated GIF creator of morphing faces
I haven't seen a viable commercial programming library in decades, but that may just because I'm not doing corporate-centric platforms like C++ / .NET / Java . Beyond that, if there is an open source library, I don't see how a corporation steals that and sells it, as developers would just find the open source one and use that. It's also very difficult / impossible to not have the source available if the library is written in a scripting language.
if this is Comcast, you can also just buy your own modem/router
This is historically inaccurate and reads as very dismissive/patronizing towards women computers (in the historical sense of the term). These were people that did sophisticated calculations, not just simple arithmetic.

While there was a decline during the initial decades of computing, that trend reversed. The fraction of women in computing peaked in the early 80s just before the PC era took off. This is fairly well known stuff you can google for sources on easily (example: https://www.computerscience.org/resources/women-in-computer-...).

There's no simple single factor explanation of this, but it is very clear something changed significantly during the PC era. The socialization of boys and girls surrounding home computers does appear to be one of the big factors, and it likely echoed forward by creating hostile educational environments as this cohort aged. This isn't enough to explain the current situation completely however.
Flagged because a post about a "Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster" should at least pay lip service to running Plan 9 or setting up a cluster.
For added context about the shift from the The Paper of Record to The Paper of Rags, read Barry Weiss' resignation letter https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
Why the author thinks we are interested in when he first saw the film? Is it possible that this is just about pure snob-ism?
We will never know.

On a side note: John Ford is great and you should watch his films.
Yes, that is in fact one of the practical ways to do quantum key distribution.
A CI pipeline to analyze each commit and to continuously monitor code quality
What good does it if we discuss such a sensitive issue without solid proof? There are thousands of other theories that have no supporting evidence. Some of them may even be true but most are just BS that takes up time. So let's wait with this discussion until there really is solid evidence for a theory.
A group of devs from the demo scene legends Farbrausch made a 3D FPS game in 96KB years ago that was seriously impressive. 3D games with procedural textures and shaders can compress very well indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger (gameplay video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBG-sKFaB0)
It feels a lot like 2017. Some useful reminders and advice for newbies
The article is confusing.

There are private intelligence agencies like google and facebook that make money from extracting all the information they can of individuals in the society.

There is a huge interest on their part on ending privacy restrictions, of course. There is lots of money too, and people in charge in governments that are interested in using private security agencies like public security agencies because the private sector is usually way more efficient than the public one. That also applies to spies.

This is prone for abuses, and society should react to protect themselves. You can easily create a "dictatorship in practice" from a democracy with it.

Now, AI is just the technology that makes global surveillance possible, machines are cheap and easy to control. The alternative humans are expensive and prone to whistle blowers denouncing your abuses.

But AI is not an ideology, it is just a technique set, and you can use it for very good things, like counting blood cells, driving cars or watch your house while you are away.

It is a good thing that exist, only that it must be controlled by the users and not be the controller itself.
See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/podcasts-on-floppy-disk/ for a recent experiment in how far you can intelligibly compress voice these days
Just one example among many kinds of products that we reach for, https://www.telerik.com/

As for scripting languages, encrypted custom loaders are relatively common.
SIGGRAPH's “The Story of Computer Graphics” Documentary from 1999
> I asked around for advice and eventually just chose GPL over AGPL because a lot of legal teams seemed allergic to AGPL and some companies even had a blanket ban on it.

So, in other words, you succumbed to F.U.D. (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt).
Well, it's not common sense because it isn't necessarily a consistent position. Just because you don't like people taking your code and bundling it into a proprietary product doesn't mean you're necessarily also okay with using the legal system to enforce that preference.

For example, I release my code into the public domain to the extent possible. But I am also very strongly opposed to plagiarism. Yet putting code into the public domain means people can legally plagiarize my work.
I was just wondering now that net neutrality has been killed in the US for a few years, has anyone compiled a list of the tangible negative effects?
>For AGPL, anything it links to must also be AGPL licensed.

Not a lawyer, but with internal usage, anything goes as far as the AGPL license is concerned. The restrictions only kick in if they plan to distribute the software, or publish a remotely accessible interface to the software. I'm inspired by two particular resources regarding this [0][1]

[0] https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1399/can-gpl-...

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePos...
> How is it any different than email phishing?

A Google URL is more trusted.
I get the impression from reading this article that the proposed legislation would require websites to pay for bandwidth. Is this true? Because if so, it's absolutely insane - it would make DDoS attacks so much more effective by directly draining money from the target.
FWIW, I was quoting my grandfather.

I have heard the name Voltaire before but did not know who he was until I just looked it up -- and I'd wager my grandfather didn't know who he was either.

Thus, there's the issue of intent (or lack thereof). I suppose Voltaire can terminate my license if he wishes. However: a.) I have a feeling that (after being dead for 242 years) he doesn't care and b.) I very much look forward to receiving a letter from his lawyer informing me of such.
The link was the first google result I got. I havent verified it as a valid source.

Having said that, 8000 years ago seems reasonable in the timeline for proto writing..maybe even cuneiform or runic etches. They could have independently emerged at the same time in different parts of the world.

What is your definition of pseudo science? Are you using the Popperian criteria?
What are you asking for here? Take a headshot? You can disable someone with leg shots, it takes time as per your own evidence. Depending on how the armored perp is standing there may not be a gap. Then trying to hit such a small target with any kind of range will be very difficult for most. And you best believe if a SWAT officer had a lethal shot with an AR they would’ve taken it. So what makes you think the unarmored opportunity presented itself prior to the it did moment?

Also why are you questioning police owning an APC but it civilians owning body armor, which is most definitely legal.
This is a reasonably good argument (upvoted), but I don't agree with it. Tariffs are absolutely not to force up domestic savings; it is to prevent the looting of your industrial base. Saying otherwise is the sheerest ideological nonsense. If the US had 1000% tariffs on, say, greetings cards, it would do jack shit for savings: but all the greetings cards in the US would be made in the US.

Rich and poor have nothing to do with why there is an excess of savings from China and Germany: the average Americano is richer than the average from either country. The trade deficits, of course, are the real reason. You have trade deficits in part because of low labor costs overseas, and you have lower labor costs overseas, in part, because both China and Germany engage in currency manipulations which keep the labor costs low. The correct response, again, is tariffs.

I want the US to look more like Switzerland (in every way) and less like Argentina in 1900 (aka rich country on its way down the toilet from bad policy). Some people's opinions differ apparently!

Great handle, BTW. One of my favorite planes.
My rule: grid by default

body,
nav,
header,
article,
section,
figure,
form,
div,
header,
footer,
button,
.button {
display: grid;
}

.button is gross but included as older Chrome/Edgium have issues using grid/flex on proper buttons.
Look up ultrasonic aging if you want to learn more about this technology - basically when you age a spirit, compounds from the aging barrel slowly migrate into it; but if you shake the whole thing at high frequency this process happens dramatically faster. It doesn't even require especially impressive equipment: you can achieve pretty good results with a low end ultrasonic jewelry cleaner.
The book is fantastic! If you want to get a feel for the book before diving in (it's quite long), I've written a summary/review:

https://henrikwarne.com/2019/07/27/book-review-designing-dat...
That's kind of interesting. I grew up in a heavily dutch town (lineage only) in the US and we always organized last names with "van" in the V's.
I've recently been re-reading Daemon, and I find that it's very dated to the Windows XP era. As for Freedom(TM), I think it goes too far with its extrapolations from then-current technology. To name just one example, speech recognition and human-sounding speech synthesis were nowhere near as good as they were portrayed in that book.
The article does a good job identifying the problem with over-reliance on mocks (a problem I'm all too familiar with), but overlooks one important point. One of the most important kinds of testing is in the face of errors. With mocks, testing an error case is no different than testing a non-error case. With a fake, you need to add explicit error injection to get the same kind of coverage. It's no big deal, it's not usually hard to do, but the article's focus on only "happy path" testing makes it much weaker than it could have been.
Grid Computing with Plan 9 Ants
Interesting Ideas from the Future Data Conf
I was already running the beta and this version looks really solid.
> You can use the const keyword for this in C++.

Oooh thank you
Both CSS Grid and Flexbox are powerful in their ways. Before deciding which to choose, understand the complexity, the structure and the content of the site you are to build.
Joplin https://joplinapp.org/

Pros:
- markdown with a lot of extensions
- full-text search across all notes
- browser extension to clip a page into markdown (or full html)
- vim mode
- can open externally in vim
- syncs into folder (with syncthing can even sync across devices while not connected to the internet)

Cons:
- very bad, almost unusable android app
- "proprietary" hashed markdown filenames instead of standard file layout
It most likely depends on the company, too. Big and immensely popular companies might have that as a criteria to filter out all but the very best talent, but smaller yet still great companies might give you a chance if you present yourself as a talented and problem solving type of developer.
From the vhs tape label: "ACM SIGGRAPH'S HDTV DOCUMENTARY premiered at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium on August 8, 1999. "The Story of Computer Graphics" chronicles the history of the industry, its impact on society, and the excitement of future possibilities. As an official SIGGRAPH history project, great care was taken to produce a lasting document that will inform and inspire generations to come, including educating the general public about computer graphics. Segments in the film discuss display issues like vector vs. raster, color and frame buffers, and the early SAGE years."

Dating all the way to the beginning in the early 1950s. Features early pioneers such as Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, George Lucas. And narrated by Leonard Nimoy ;)
> Unfortunately there are lots of companies with Zero AGPL policy.

That's extremely their problem.
While this is a real and interesting current effect, it doesn't explain things in the USSR at that time. The sibling comment about how nearly an entire generation of young men was lost in WW2 is closer to the mark.
I think the conversation here is getting a little sidetracked :)

(not indicating Aeolun specifically, just replied to the lowest level)
I don't think the anti-China stuff is going away regardless of the election. Maybe some of the more egregious footgun stuff and the more petty sanctions and goading that are mainly for show, but the fact is there have been brewing disputes with China for a long time and Trump has brought them to a head.

However beating down on China over their behaviour only achieves anything if it changes that behaviour, otherwise what the heck are we doing? I don't think Trump has it in him to actually solve those problems. I'm not entirely sure Biden does either, but even if he doesn't at least there's a chance he might listen to people who do.
Actually IE11 has some support for grid layouts.
Depending on your use case it might just be enough.

https://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/11/26/should-i-...
Wrong title: "Legislation about hi-vis clothing for cyclists does not reduce number of crashes".

I didn't see quoted any stats about the wearing of hi-vis clothing. Just the assumption that legislation would lead to increased use.

The study was done by a psychologist. Maybe that explains it.
I think you're spot on. I don't work in this area, mine is even easier to write proposals for. I still turn down projects that don't just pay by the hour, and don't involve at least a few hours...

I hate writing proposals without getting paid. I hate donating my time in order to do endless negotiating. I hate spending unpaid hours nit picking over contracts. I hate dealing with startup founders who think they deserve to own everything in my head for a project that costs a few thousand dollars. It's too much work for a low likelihood small reward.

I wish I could afford to help pro bono, and do when I can, but millennials I guess don't deserve financial security since how else would landlords pay their bills...
The last part of the article hit on an interesting point, and one I think needs to be more widely recognised.

As long as fossil fuels are cheap, innovation won't happen quickly in this area.

If fossil fuels were taxed to their true cost, the "prize" for green technologies would be so great it would encourage huge investment, and likely rapid progress.

https://concretecuts.xyz/articles/market-driven-green-techno...