skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has over the years participated in and released many an open source project, and still maintains one, I don't like the framing in some of these HN comments of the Octotree maintainer as The Bad Guy.

Obviously, it is unethical and most likely illegal to unilaterally, summarily claim copyright or relicense other people's contributions, and I appreciate the matter-of-fact tone taken by the issue opener and the other commenter.

However, I think it's obvious this isn't a scammer using open source as some kind of get-rich-quick scheme, putting in minimal effort into a fake open source project to attract highly valuable contributions in order to relicense them and make money off of other people's hard work. This someone who in all likelihood put blood, sweat, and tears into their project, gave it away for free on GitHub, accepted code contributions from people who in all likelihood were deriving a lot of value from Octotree (or else they wouldn't have had a pet issue they needed fixed in the first place), and has since grown frustrated by the time and effort costs, and the comparatively paltry returns.

Is their frustration causing them to lash out in a damaging and unproductive way? Certainly. Is it okay to renege on the implicit agreement with contributors that their contributions be under the terms of the AGPL license, and act as if those contributions were of negligible value? Certainly not. Is the maintainer right in their feeling that the value of those contributions is most likely less than the value given away for free to those contributors? I mean...probably.

I must really commend the noncombative, factual tone taken by the issue opener. And I hope the maintainer comes to their senses and deals with this problem the right way, by simply asking people nicely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24954772
In chemistry "then", and I assume still "now", a MS is viewed as a "failed to complete the PhD" degree unless it comes from a smaller school lacking a PhD program. Or, "wanted to go to Med or Law school and didn't get in". When hiring, BS/MS chemists are seen as a pair-of-hands/technicians. There's a noticeable rank difference in how they enter Pharma - BS/MS with several promotions end up where PhD's walk in the door. Is this right or fair? Probably not, but PhD's are seen as somebody who can work (more) independently than a technician. Ironically, a significant fraction of the lab work is done by the BS/MS as PhD's graduate out of the lab if they learn medchem properly. So the best lab hands have the lowest status to outsiders.

It might be different in Process Chemistry, which is where the best lab work is work. Perhaps those who have the magic in scaling up a reaction into production are like those who can debug anything? I've never worked with those groups or with the Analytical chemists in Development.

Disclaimer: I have a PhD, but never wished to go into academia due to the politics. And yeah, it's a union card.
This is an interesting direction. But what is the critical attribute of a swarm that would give rise to strong AI?

The argentine ant supercolony is an enormous swarm, but we don't really expect to be able to have a conversation with it, or see it deal with abstract concepts, but they can solve lots of local approximate optimization problems.

Slime molds are single cells but you might think of them as a swarm of nuclei and organelles that can solve hard optimization problems when in the right form, but again they don't seem like a general intelligence.

Is the missing piece that swarms must be of agents with certain properties? Or that the interactions between the members of a swarm need to have some specific properties?
Thank you very much for sharing. I'll definitely need to give the decision to take the drug more consideration before I go through with it.
Regulated doesn't mean safe. It means a little, but not a lot, compared to the internal practices of the companies under regulation.

And regulation in no way - in no way - addresses the fact that medicine isn't close to 100% safe before adoption, and neither should self-driving cars be. As long as they are safer than humans, that's enough. Any other conclusion will cost lives.
Case in point, after coming to the conclusion that XML + XSLT wouldn't last for my web site, I went to search for something else, and wasn't that happy with my ISP alternatives (PHP + CGI/Perl).

However, after a couple of trials with other stacks, I ended up going with PHP, it does the job, was already on the ISP without me having the hassle of being a special snowflake, I was anyway the only one coding it and now get to enjoy a JIT compiler that Python and Ruby communities are still not fully embracing on their reference implementations.

And although I do mostly Java/.NET Web related projects, I do occasional PHP projects, because after I am done, I am sure that the customer is going to have an easy time finding someone else to take care of their issues, as I don't want to make a living out of it.
This was my take as well. Over 850% growth is huge and I couldn’t find clear data, then other data they’re presenting doesn’t seem very high quality either.
HN Office Hours (2010)
just a tool

That pretty much misses the character of human experience as humans experience it. There’s no mereness of tools in the fabric of our psychological existence. In particular abstractions on the scale of science in our conscious processes.

The “just” is how we rationalize removing half a chimp skull to sell electric cars. It’s how we excuse the inexcusable as ordinary.
Whatever it is, it’s been paid for, so you don’t just pull it from under my feet.

The price was decided upon purchase and unless it specifies limits it’s “lifetime”
In youtube...

Eh, yes. Sure.
But humans too have life-threatening bugs, especially when combined with an automobile. Car+driver combinations have blind spots, for example. Human drivers get drunk, get distracted, and spill coffee in their laps. I think autonomous cars will kill people, and they will kill people in situations where human drivers would not. But I'm finding it increasingly easy to imagine that autonomous driving will save lives overall.
This is the first time I've heard of this change to Fusion360, and my initial reaction was to lower my opinion of Autodesk. But on second thought it seems like a good compromise: hobby users still get the functionality for free, but it dissuades use of the free version in commercial manufacturing.
"Unlike Ancestry.com and 23andMe, which do not permit police to search their databases, GEDmatch had, at the time, no clear rules on how investigators might use it. Moore believed she could solve murders. But she resisted the urge to probe the community database in secret. “On those nights, I couldn’t sleep because I wanted to do this so badly. If I was just anybody, I could have done it behind the scenes,” she says. “But I have been a community leader for years, and I am responsible for thousands, maybe tens of thousands, [of uploads] to GEDmatch.”

"Then, in April 2018, California police said they’d arrested the Golden States suspect. Prosecutors, in their news conference, indicated that “advanced” methods had been used. In fact, police had created a DNA profile and uploaded it to GEDmatch, exactly as Moore had imagined.

"Debate erupted in the small community of genetic genealogists. Some could see nothing wrong with finding a killer. Others were alarmed that police had surreptitiously searched through a million of DNA profiles. To Moore, the wide publicity around the case was a green light. The secret was out. Those who objected could delete their profiles."

"Those who objected could delete their profiles."
oops, brainfart :)
Blackbird. Pixar. iPhone
Tempted to claim that there were actually three independent supply chains:

Soviet, western (metric) and western (wtf).
> I still have extremely severe diarrhea when I resume eating.

Try resuming with an at least slightly green banana. It's a really effective tool vs. diarrhea in general, but I've found it to also be a great restart after fasting.
> The absolute worst is Amalgamated Bank, as soon as they found out I couldn't hear they closed my account and sent me my funds via cashiers check - two months days later.

That's terrible. They wouldn't get away with that here in the UK. Discrimination against those with disabilities is illegal. If they tried that the banking ombudsman and the courts would come down on them like a ton of bricks.
I love it, he plays an immortal being born in Egypt yet has a Spanish name and speaks with a Scottish accent. Though I guess it's easier to wrap your head around those bits since he's immortal and has had time to live different lives than explaining why a Soviet submarine commander speaks with a Scottish accent.
I respect and admire your class in response to these events. The temptation to get vindictive must be enormous, as must be the temptation to demand a groveling apology.

I noted your support for diversity and inclusion initiatives —- with which I sympathize —- but I’m also increasingly uneasy about the pressure from certain interest groups to “judicialize” organizations. I’ve noticed a tendency for many (though certainly not all) CoC-enforcement bodies to devolve into witch hunts, and this appears to be part of what happened in the present case. If this is something you’re interested in discussing publicly, I’d be interested in your thoughts on the matter. I can also understand if you’d prefer to stay away from that discussion.

In any case, please let me reiterate: I admire how you handled this.
IANAL but have her email them and ask for all the data they have on her. They should be obliged to comply according to GDPR laws?
> pretty much just like the world we're living in now, except perhaps less annoying.

Compare Mapquest vs Google Maps to know why Javascript is important

If you don't know what Mapquest was, there's your answer
Programming is like building Lego blocks
As a catalan myself I’m well aware of the spelling, but good luck trying to explain that to a search engine.

I get regular hits while looking up Rust just because there’s a game with the same name.
Do you really want to depend on another country for your power? Like maybe a little (we do this), but a significant portion? Honestly this seems like a disastrous idea. This is a huge security risk and pretty much puts your entire economy and social well being in the hands of another country. Idk about you, but I'll pay more money for this security.
Here an example. I’m on the freeway in my Tesla and instead of staying behind a car, at a safe following distance as predicted, I change lanes and speed past. Was it because, 1) the car was doing something I perceived as dangerous and I moved to a safer position, 2) I’m in a freaking Tesla and I can
We have some for chip pre-production: testing the software before the hardware design is complete and comes back from the factory.
That's why I think as long as you have documented and defined your methods (i.e. business logic) well, and your data is portable, you shouldn't worry much about vendor lock-in in the long run.

That's a huge big IF. In many if not most cases the only reliable documentation of a system is the running code itself.
Most people prefer light themes which is why almost everything popular is light theme by default. For example HN, facebook, reddit, google, facebook, youtube, microsoft office, windows, iOS etc etc.

Everyone preferring dark themes is a meme and not a fact.
What is dark with backlight down? I'll try the lumen sensor when back at a computer. Where do you see the values?

And my hypothesis was more that the bright parts are still bright. It is obviously less overall, but the small things are still hitting your eyes. Potentially worse, as your eyes aren't dilated correctly for the brightness.
Roberto is essentially correct, even by your own data. Russia has been 'behind' for literally centuries, even to this day.

In 1910 'Russian Empire' was 170 Million people, the US was 100 Million people. We're talking about 10x GDP per capita.

That would be like the US vs. Morocco today.

Today GDP per capita is $66K US vs. $12K Russia which is substantial.

Russia has, for a long time, hard 'fairly large, inefficient economic base'.

They have power mostly because of their size, and their 'acute' ability to produce things (they have very smart people), and of course their aggressive Imperial view of things.
Type-Casting in Python
Well he does not need a complete rewrite. He needs to remove the contributions of the third parties, which may or may not be substantial.

From your link the contributions do not look huge so it seems that removing them is quite doable.
Memory Wars and Other Battles
As an avowed skeptic of all things deep learning, I do wonder if there is a role for AI generated native code from some form of psuedocode.

I know that a lot of old school code used very little memory due to everything sharing one set of libraries. I wonder if in the future, “installing an application” could be flipping a bit in a registry and your device being delivered a highly optimized monolithic system image.
You're right, of course. Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking particularly of the comment about the behavior with arbitrary initial numbers. Start with 1, 5000, and it still converges quickly to the golden ratio, as the parent comment mentioned. I enjoy watching the initial constants disappear.
Wait till you see the videos of humans doing crazy stuff on roads in cars!
How far is it? The article doesn't say.
If 20 years ago you asked someone to give their "social life" to a private company who could and would lock you out if they didn't like you I doubt anyone would have agreed to it. Nothing has changed expect social norms.

Maybe we need to re-teach out kids that corporations DO NOT have their best interest at heart. Why anyone thinks FB is beneficent is beyond me.
They are science, but they're not good evidence. A well run meta analysis of well run RCTs would be best, followed by well run RCTs.

Anything else is science but weak evidence.
I switched to decaf from regular because regular made me too anxious. I can't tell the difference in terms of taste. Both taste great to me.
What happens if the domain is gone tomorrow?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21700139 for example.
Show HN: Python implementation of FP Growth algorithm in data mining
It means bad design. It address claims like "PHP improved in last decade".

I've checked and feel misguided. "Fractal of bad design" is still applicable

strpos ( string $haystack , mixed $needle [, int $offset = 0 ] ) : int
str_replace ( mixed $search , mixed $replace , mixed $subject [, int &$count ] ) : mixed

It is not possible to use language without documentation, should name include underscore? Where to put string? I've switched to ruby, it is predictable.

Mixed baggage of C, Perl, Java influences, no design. PHP 4 had design, PHP 5 made it total mess.

Borne shell good in gluing UNIX tools, AWK good in simple columnar data, PHP good in one page scripts.

You've described PHP as "useful" language.
I just want to know one thing: What percentage of the world population actually uses Bitcoin?
Discord attachments are deleted (almost) immediately from the CDN when you delete the message that included them, so these links aren't very stable. I tried archiving them through Wayback Machine but you can't archive image links, so I uploaded them to Imgur as well.

Thread mirror: (contained in the archived GitHub issue) https://i.imgur.com/mo8ZJkd.png

Last additional comment: (missing from the archive) https://i.imgur.com/Kq2IEfN.png
Yes there are lots of parallels to Germany, which also took a very state-driven development line in general, and this intensified during the war. I think Lenin's model was explicitly that of WWI germany. Of course the Prussian PR machine didn't sound much like the soviet one, but they were hardly polar opposites.

And the people eating the 1913 harvest didn't start a revolution. The empire fell apart after years of war (as did the Austrians, and the Turks) and then many factions duked it out. And then reconquered all the hungry people who hoped they'd seen the last of guys from Moscow, with guns.
> I think there are good reasons to be bullish about battery storage.

That's not my issue. My issue is that we currently have working nuclear technology. That we can build and deploy now. Bullish means we're relying on future inventions. With the potential catastrophe we have ahead of us I don't think it is a good idea to put all our eggs in one basket. It may not pan out. It may not pan out in the timeframe we need it to. Nuclear is a relatively cheap risk reduction strategy. Be bullish on battery, but have a backup because in the mean time we're still using coal/oil/gas.
Rocket Lake Flaunts Up to 18% Higher Single-Core Performance Than Core I9-10900K
For those who apparently can't be bothered to look before criticizing: Ethics is in fact in the course.
Let's be realistic. The application for bitcoins is buying drugs in the darknet, extortion and money laundering. Not more, not less.
In the video I have linked below, in third lecture Jonathan Parshall compares industrial doctrines of tank manufacturing by Nazi Germamy, Soviet Union and USA during WW2. Very enlightening.

Three different systems, three different manufacturing philosophies.

- Germany - pre-industrial artisan manufacture (250 modifications during 2-year production run of 1347 units, 300 thousand man-hours per tank vs American 10 thousand man-hours)

- USA - Detroit style horizontal mass production (US scaled down tanks production in 1944 due to overproduction in 1943)

- Soviet Union - cost-optimized, vertical mass production (the average tank lasted only 14 hours in battle anyway)

https://youtu.be/N6xLMUifbxQ?t=2875

Tank Production: A Comparative Study of output in Germany, the US, and the USSR Jonathan Parshall.
FWIW I've interpreted your posts in the same way as the other person. They come across as deliberately inflammatory.
1. Buy a oculus or portal product
2. Use the online help to unlock the account

Sad to say, that's the only way other than knowing someone who works for these companies :(
No it does not. The Duck curve refers to the sinusoidal production of solar power (and wind power, to a lesser extent) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve. The duck curve refers to the problem of the fact that energy consumption is mostly flat, but solar solar produces a big curve from dawn to dusk. This is why renewables need so much storage, to take overproduction during peak hours and use that excess energy during the off-hours. Matching a flat source of energy generation to a mostly flat demand curve is much easier than adapting a sinusoidal source of energy generation to a flat demand.

The disparity between peak energy load and minimal energy load is only ~25%. Excess energy is an easy problem to solve. Nuclear power plants' thermal output is largely fixed, but their electrical output can be modulated by more aggressive cooling. Basically, deliberately produce more waste heat. If this nuclear plant is on the coast it can use this waste heat for desalination - the waste heat gives you freshwater as a bonus.
Some folks say the science education system is similar to the Medieval Guild systems: apprentices (grad students), journeymen (postdocs) and various levels of master craftsmen (professors). These are intended as ranks not genders, so s/men/people/g if desired.
"Joshua Calvert: Pernicious propaganda. Sick lies from beginning to end. Aubrey Clayton, your mouth is festering with maggots."
It might have been a Diavox(https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/history/products/the-te...) clone actually, but it was mainly the Cyrillic markings on the back of it...
Neuroscientist Explains the 2-Step Process to Learn Anything
I mean, I even said "people should wear masks, masks may help".

But when we're trying to persuade as many people to wear masks as possible it's really unhelpful for people to make dishonest or misleading claims about the effectiveness of masks.

A message of "we think masks work, and here's why" is more persuasive than "masks definitely work and you're an idiot if you think otherwise" because it's very easy to find good quality studies that don't show a benefit to mask wearing.
Typically you sell it or you reduce output (yes, you can reduce output).
“I had an old ASN laying around that I was able to use for this project.”

Ah, yes, like you do.
It's a planet somewhere else in the galaxy. There are still people alive today who were born into a world where we thought there was just one galaxy, and only nine planets anywhere.

We are like ants floating on a stick in the pacific, inferring New York's street plan from air currents.

This shit is awesome.

I don't believe you really are bored by this. Try affecting interest and enthusiasm - it generally works a lot better in life.
It's not like those articles are locked down and written by partisans...

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/newly-de...

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/fisa-investigation

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/453384-fbis-spreadsh...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/16/fbi-declass...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/us/politics/carter-page-f...

Each new release like the FBI spreadsheet on the dossier gets more and more to the point that it was a knowing hit piece.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-declassifies-steele-dos...

Even the investigating agents themselves were buying liability insurance and saying it was a BS hit job:

> “[D]oing all this election research – I think some of these guys want a [C]linton presidency,”

> “[T]he new AG might have some questions….then yada yada yada…we all get screwed,”

> “I’m tellying [sic] man, if this thing ever gets FOIA’d, there are going to be some tough questions asked,” one agent wrote. “[A]nd a great deal of those will be related to Brian having a scope way outside the boundaries of logic[.]”

> “[J]esus,” an agent wrote back. “[T]rump was right. [S]till not put together….why do we do this to ourselves. [W]hat is wrong with these people[?]?

https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/24/trump-was-right-explosi...

As to the inevitable "partisan sources", I'd love to offer something from a "neutral" or left-leaning source, but they censor all the things instead.
>Discord attachments are deleted (almost) immediately from the CDN when you delete the message that included them, so these links aren't very stable.

That's like saying that imgur images are deleted when you delete them.
It's either a cop-out by HR departments, or a false claim that HR departments do this. Knowing the cultures in large Bay Area companies, it's hard to imagine someone going to HR to complain about discrimination or harrassment, and HR saying: "Go away, you are not in a protected class".
Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React
Hi guys, I have also wrotten a post to provide an in-depth explanation and a walkthrough of the code,

Please check out:
https://towardsdatascience.com/fp-growth-frequent-pattern-ge...
A great quote I've carried with me a while. Still, I'd have to think even Solzhenitsyn would recommend we not let the Gulags rise again if we can help it. His description of the laws and culture that led to the Gulags are eye opening.
War aside, what’s an example of innocent lives being sacrificed for some sort of greater good that got omitted from official history?
It reads zero from eye distance when dark with the backlight down. Here are readings from contact distance:

Dark 100%: 5 lux

Light 100%: 103 lux

Dark 0%: 0 lux

Light 0%: 14 lux