skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I could easily believe that Amazon Music has some "anti-piracy" mechanism that reaches deep into the system's internals and starts monitoring or controlling other applications, in the same way that certain kinds of malware do, and that Apple's software raised alarms at this... but I'd like to know.
You can do this in any language, functional or not. Every language has recursion, every language has a simple one liner way to do reduce.

They have generally had them for over a decade now.

I don't know if it's the case any more as I mainly work alone, but I often saw new programmers had been taught about recursion, but didn't actually understand it. So they never used the concept until you pointed it out, even if it could vastly simplify their code.
This definitely resonates. We’re building a product management/issue tracker and it sometimes happy that we have very satisfied users who are then forced into using Jira or something else because of company-wide mandates.
How are Vimeo and Slack Magento or Wordpress businesses? Etsy also most certainly does not primarily use those.
There are technically feasible solutions to the intermittency problem, but - as the paper discusses - it's very difficult to scale them up to provide utility-scale backup for 12 or 24 hours without sun or wind. (This is presumably why they are rarely put in place.) So there are hidden challenges here: financial costs of building energy storage systems; land requirements; mineral demands; and environmental impacts of each option.

We recommend you read the full paper to consider our discussion of such issues.
Most, if not essentially all, cars in that category have emergency automatic braking, so the Model S still isn't the best choice.
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Farewell, Mr. Connery. Thanks for being such a great actor and filling all these roles so we'll!
A deleted comment in the github issue was a contributor stating that they didn't know but didn't care.

It's fair for people to not like this because the contributors were not made aware of this. Thus the only people who were wronged did not even know of it.
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On what basis do you say that probability has "morphed into an algebra"? Consider all of the popular research topics today: the KPZ equation, Schramm-Loewner evolution, spin glasses, percolation and critical phenomena, rigorous statistical mechanics in general [1], random matrix theory, large deviations, stochastic analysis and (P)SDEs.

Obviously, I'm forgetting some, but none of these are primarily algebraic. Some algebraic methods are used (orthogonal polynomials in random matrix theory, and determinants and a whole host of other things to study integrable models in the KPZ universality class, etc.), but clearly groups/rings/fields are not playing a major role.

For a more systematic approach you could look at recent issues of Annals of Probability, Annals of Applied Probability, and similar journals. There's not going to be a lot of "modern algebra" (of the flavor you see in algebraic geometry) there.

The same comments apply to PDE and analytic number theory. Both are obviously mature fields (worked on for a long time by many people, with a lot of great discoveries), but again algebra does not play a central role in either. In particular I am not aware of any PDE specialists whose research agenda consists of "trying to turn it into algebra."

[1]: https://www.unige.ch/math/folks/velenik/smbook/
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For things that don’t transport well, or need to be super fresh and in smaller qty, I think indoor farming is great. Growing a million kg of cauliflower? Use a field.
But compare this very recent submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24921657

which presents threads as the solution to the pain of using futures.
You too can start a telco and do this. Like I said it was just $1k to get on the list.
> No-one in their day-to-day usage of dollars (or gold) directly cares how many currency units exist.

I do. Because it affects its value. Why do you think USD is falling against the EUR?

Look at Venezuelan Bolivar or Zimbabwean dollar if you want to see how bad inflation can be.
> It's database access was shaky at best and downright dangerous at worst.

Lol. It literally offers you ‘one’ function to access the database. Any insecurity is your own fault.
I have to downplay part of your threats, at the risk of sounding sheelplishly naive: but access to water and electricity is already under the control of "the administrators", and has pretty much forever. Even in the case it's delivered as a "public" service, the "administrators" were somehow expecting you to pay some sort of bills.

However, although I know some people get their water and electricity shut down, that's still regarded as extreme, and law tends to make it harder and harder over time.

The Internet itself (once a luxury, less than two decades ago) is slowly becoming considered as a "necessity" that should not be shut down. [1]

I understand your point that software is increasingly making dystopia technologically possible, and that geeks should beware how they use their skill - but I wonder how surprising and underrated law and social norms can be as counter-forces.

(Also, it made me smile to see UBI in the list of "evils" that are now "fashionable" to bash on HN. ;) )

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access#Ensur...
I transfered a few milions within EU banks with zero fees. As long as it’s in EUR and you use IBAN...
Just watch out for left-hand exits like the HOV lanes at the Hwy 85 split going southbound.

Let's start "Falsehoods self-driving programmers believe about roads:"

All highway exits are to the right from the right-hand lane. If the left lane line curves away, the road is curving and you should follow it.
First, it's far from clear to me he's lied (which is not equivalent to saying he didn't). So far as I see, it may well have been that (a) he honestly forgot there were some old lines still remaining that they didn't rewrite, (b) or he did know that, but he felt any vestiges of old code were insignificant and not enough to justify changing the sentence. If he rewrote like ~99% of the code, you might disagree about whether the remaining <1% was insignificant or not to justify calling it a "complete" rewrite, but surely you can also understand this might not be an instance of bad faith, but rather an instance of merely having a different threshold for "complete" than you?

Second, let's just assume he had bad faith and lied about it being a complete rewrite; I don't know, but for all I know he might have. It's possible he's been trolled a lot by other people recently (sounds like he has, though I haven't checked the history) and he thought lying would get people to stop. Or maybe he's an awful guy. I have no idea. In any case, unless they had a dependency with a viral license, have distributed something based on that dependency, and that dependency's license required them to provide source code with it... they simply don't have any obligation to provide you with any source code, in which case you still wouldn't get anywhere, right? Are there such grounds for you being entitled to the source code at all? If there are, it seems this should be mentioned explicitly in the beginning so he understands he has an actual obligation he's not already fulfilling?

> 2. Do you mean me (Christian Bundy)? I asked a question because I was unhappy seeing the maintainer lie to one of my friends about the "complete rewrite". Lies bad, truth good.

In (2) you're referring to (b) in my post, right? I actually didn't mean you (I meant everyone else on the internet who just piled onto your post afterward), because I didn't think that's something you had control over, but now I'm seeing you're the one who specifically went out of your say to submit the post on HN too... which is begging for people to pile on and cancel this guy because you (or I guess your friend) didn't get the source code you wanted. All because you (who apparently aren't even the person who was wronged?) are upset because you think he lied to one of your friends, and you think contributors who might be ones to have a stake in this might also be on your side and might want you (whom they don't even know) to seek vigilante justice on their behalf? Isn't this how Twitter justice works...? Do we really need this on HN? Is this kind of public cancellation really making the world a better place?
Is there a way to unflag it like "counter flag" or something?

Is Glen Greenwald really that controversial on HackerNews? I thought that this crowd would be most receptive to him after he helped Snowden expose the egregious misconduct of the U.S government. What is going on with this community?
This is of course highly controversial, but deaths in revolutions or shortly after that led to eventually much better living conditions might be considered, depending on your political views, to be such a case.
I see it fine. Enable showdead in your account preferences.
Maybe it's a desirable solution to reduce farm space and rekindle pristine wildlife.
And here's Windows 2000 in a browser:

https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&gr...

And Windows 95 in a browser:

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows95

And Windows 3.1 in a browser:

https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10/
I feel like billionaires can't win, whatever they do.
I made https://simplespectrogram.app/ which y’all may also enjoy. With the web audio API I was able to do it in less than 100 LoC - take a look at source
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Eh, the Lightning Network has been a thing long enough that the appropriate question is no longer "when will it be ready?" but "how much is it being used and for what?" and if the answer is "not much for anything", "why?".
It's not either-or, it's all of the above. Military, commercial surveillance ("adtech"), finance, healthcare, legal, institutional administration. None of these things are entirely useless, but are still mostly zero-sum or redundant waste. Technological progress is continually making us more productive, but instead of realizing the gains (eg full time employment being under 10 hours per week by now), our economy is structured to keep creating endless make-work jobs. We're trapped in a paperclip maximizer for human labor.
This is the reason I don't accept pull requests for my projects. I don't want to lose control over them.
Watch this - mask whistleblowers tell all:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/nKU8JO1YPL6m/
Anywhere we can find the videos? I think they'll worth their length in gold.
That's interesting, thank you. As a quick calculation, the bitcoin blockchain recently[0] reached 300 GB which, spread over a day, would require a download speed of 27.8 MBit/s.

For comparison, "the global average download speed on fixed broadband is 85.73 Mbps as of September 2020"[1] so even if block sizes were triple their historic values it would still be possible for average global users to wait less than a day to complete the initial download.

[0] https://decrypt.co/42427/bitcoin-blockchain-grows-to-300-gig...

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/internet-...
In the comments he says it was scrapped...
Is there a symbol for fascism?
I’m not confused, thanks. I’m saying a small population can easily oppress a larger population, especially with consent and cooperation from other populations.

Numbers from here or wikipedia
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1001016/india-population...
You could short Tesla stock. It is well proven that the free market will correct mistakes like this. /s
I think it's more likely that we "cure" aging and senescence than invent FTL.

If you can live for 10,000 or 100,000 years then being limited to lightspeed isn't such a bummer. You can visit interesting places.
My experience mirrors your somewhat. I bought a refurb Galaxy S5 back in 2015, and have been using it since.

Today, when shopping for devices at a comparable price, their specs are usually worse than S5, a phone that's 6 years old at this point.

Many of the new budget phones today come with 2GB RAM (Laughable), and a less than 1080p screen (Usually some weird resolution like 1520x720?). For me to get the same performance/screen quality as the S5, I would now have to spend around $400-500, not $225 like I did 5 years ago. Mid range now seems to mean $500-700 phones, an amount that wouldn't be out of place for a desktop PC, and way more than I'm willing to spend on a phone.

What was it about tech getting cheaper again? Doesn't hold in my experience.
You're rewriting it outside of the concept of reformation. So no, they're not compatible retellings. Your tl;dr is basically the same post with 'reform' taken out of it. Even without that, it's patronising to assume I didn't read what you had to say such that you had to reword it while also being sarcastic about it.

I don't feel that you're responding to me in good faith. More to that, I still feel like you're responding to your imagined version of my response, and not the actual one. It feels to me like you're creating an argument when I was merely disagreeing and presenting my reason why. I don't really understand how the tone of this chat became so aggressive through you.

Our peers here on HN can decide that, one way or another.
This is not actually the part of _Thursday_ that Orwell meant by his statement. He is referring to the overall structure in which paranoia and espionage give way to an allegorical / supernatural end (which occurs after everyone heads off to chase after Sunday himself).
You mix the Fraktur and Roman letters in the same mathematical manuscript, the way you mix Greek and Roman letters in the same mathematical manuscript.
Yes, me too. It's my favourite movie with Connery.
>>that were able to escape the influence of that star.

>What's the mechanism here? Is it something with greater mass that pulled it into an escape?

I'm a layman. Take what I say with skepticism, but I think in this case the parent poster was referring to any mechanism that ends up with a planet getting out of the orbit of the star. One such potential mechanism is gravitational slingshotting.

Let's imagine you have a planet orbiting a star. A satellite flies in towards the planet. As the spacecraft passes by the planet, it gets some of the momentum of the planet as the planet is moving around the star. The planet loses that momentum. This increases the satellite's velocity in relation to the sun. The satellite can reach escape velocity and escape the influence of the star.

Edit: alternatively to reading my explanation, you could read Wikipedia's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist#Explanation

There's an amazing gif of Voyager 2's slingshots. Pay attention to the velocity as it passes planets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist#/media/File:Ani...

I don't see why a similar thing couldn't happen to planets.
Someone posted an article above [1], but citing from it, there is a function called mysql_real_escape_string. Although early JS also has quite odd language choices, it follows a consistent philosophy. To me it boils down to LISP in C syntax with weak typing. Past PHP feels more like a collection of stuff. But I assume modern PHP can be a viable choice if used with a modern framework, linter etc.

[1] https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
IANAL, but my understanding is that simply reverting the contributions by these folks, and then independently reimplementing them should make the full copyright to be owned by the original author.

Could anyone comment here? What's the threshold for this?
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> trait

Just want to mention this mistake. We are talking about a gene variant, not a trait. Phenotype inheritance is much more complicated than genotype inheritance.
He/she said there isn’t evidence for what I was claiming, I told them where I got the info & where they can find it themselves. Couldn’t be a more straightforward interaction.
By that time the US companies will have technology with a track record of real world use. The EU companies will have an easier time buying that tech than building their own.

This is analogous to banning airplanes until they can be proven safe to fly in. The countries that don’t ban them will lose more lives early on, but they’ll have a technological advantage. The place where this analogy breaks down is that hundreds of people are killed by human driven cars every day. Every year cars kill 120,000 people in the US & Europe. If we can develop and deploy this technology a year sooner, we can save tens of thousands of lives.
Composer has changed my life as well, so incredibly powerful.

I love the patches package that can be combined with it, allows me to patch contrib modules or Drupal core in a controlled and transparent manner. This alone has changed my developer life.
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For the majority of time humanity existed, clocks didn't. Everyone having access to highly accurate clocks synchronized to the same time and using them to coordinate activities all around the world is quite new.

I expect less rigid working styles to increase in popularity for some professions, but there will always be situations where people want to do things at the same time, which is substantially easier if they can agree about what time it is.
How did we get from two chip modules to multi chip modules? Was the upper address decoding logic its own chip, just part of one of the chips or replicated in each chip?
How to be a successful freelance introvert:
(1) Spend 99% of your time on marketing
(2) Don't be an introvert.

Thanks for more evidence to prove:
(1) Tech has been usurped by extroverts.
(2) Nerds are not welcome in tech.
(3) Hacker News is not a tech site.
(4) Hacker News is a marketing site.
Could not find examples of a "Covid-19 cough" on the WWW! Every link I clicked on was spammed to death and I couldn't find any sound files.

Does anyone have a link to a sound file that is a good example of a "Covid-19 cough"? I would appreciate it!
The only thing I actively did that coincided with getting better was that I started lifting weights. I had a shoulder injury at the time too, and just... tried to take a holistic and engaged approach to building my health.

I don’t like to encourage people with back problems to do what I did because it just as easily could have gone south. All I knew was that when I did deadlifts or squats I would get this fleeting relief from the pain and I’d gain mobility back for hours.

I also reduced my running. I ran a lot at the time. I had sciatic pain before the running too, but it seems running never helped it. Perhaps only made it worse.

I also tried to do more yoga. Yoga was hard because it was never rewarding, always excruciating. However I had a sense in the moment that I wasn’t harming myself and that the pain was the gain variety. It was just intuition.

I really believe movement is healing, or trying to strengthen yourself. Something I wish I’d done at the time was stop drinking. I don’t think alcohol helps any. It’s appealing though because anything to take the edge off is hard to resist... I actually drank quite a bit through that pain. Maybe not by some standards, but by mine, far too much. When you have an inflammation problem though I think alcohol is the last thing you need to add to your diet.

Anyway, if you can handle it, maybe some light compound weight lifting is worth investigating. Or yoga. Look into sitting bends and twists - they’re very easy to learn and ease into, and very unlikely to harm you. Throw on a podcast and commit to a few weeks of trying maybe.

It’s such a hard problem to navigate and find solutions for. In any case, I wish you luck. I really wish I had good advice for you.
Yeah, that's what I quickly realized by searching around. Best bet is to try and find used copies on eBay or something.
I'm far from an expert on this, but the reason could be that back then, "democracy" and free market without State intervention were presented as inseparable parts of the same package.
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> You can do this in any language, functional or not.

No, not in practice. For example, in an average imperative language, you'd have no tail-call optimisation, and so would run out of stack space pretty quickly. There'd also be no persistent collections, meaning you'd have to keep copying any sets of values for every recursive call with absymal complexity. And so on...
This HN post inspired me to pick up and work through "The AWK Programming Language", so I have been doing that for the past two days. I'm currently at the beginning of chapter 5 (of 8).

That quote is definitely ridiculous. He may have been referring to just chapter 2, in which the "whole language" is outlined. But later chapters also take time, there even is an exercise about writing an assembler in AWK as well as implementing multiple algorithms.

Some stuff was already somewhat familiar to me from studying/practicing C earlier this year.

Overall a 10/10 book so far, but takes time and patience for sure!
The US government has an absurd amount of debt but neither major party cares and both have plans to explode it even further. As the global reserve currency the US has the ability to debase the value of it far more than any other country before serious pain occurs. But if you want a hedge against runaway inflation, plus the chance bitcoin replaces or at least eats some of the market share of gold, making bitcoin a small percentage of your retirement portfolio makes sense. It may wind up being an outsized portion of your wealth when you retire.
Off the top of my head, my recommendation for people who feel this way is go ahead and set your alarm clock an hour earlier during DST to simulate it. You can get the benefits of the schedule change you want without affecting people whose sleep schedules are destroyed for months due to DST. (I’m in this party and biased as a result.)
The way this is sometimes done in industry, when the copyright owner is known to be litigious, is for developer A to read the code and write a spec. Developer B writes the new implementation based on the spec. If B has any questions, she cannot take to A directly, the questions are routed through a lawyer to make sure that nothing copyrighted is exchanged. (that last part might be overkill, but if the other party is Oracle you might want to use it).

If the developer who does the rewrite uses the original as a reference, it will be likely that enough of the structure will creep through that the project will be at legal risk.
Still using youtube-dl but will probably be using youtube-dlc in the not too distant future.
> With so many analog clocks this is not going to be a realistic option.

And you'd get back the same confusion regarding public transport timetables that was the reason for creating time zones in the first place.
It's been established that they have third party contributions under AGPL, so we're past the points you mention.
That's not what they said. They said "nothing is cool about a tutorial on creation of threads", and that the cool thing is "achieving concurrency without threads/race conditions/shared memory" which ironically is only enabled by all the engineers who spend their time working on and maintaining those "uncool" things.

If they don't need to use threads, then good for them. But to dismiss threads and learning material about threads as "uncool" is just silly. The thing that enables that misunderstanding is all the work that's done on them in the first place.
I haven't heard of this sort of proof of work before. Do you have a reference to it?

If you're referring to memory-hard hashing algorithms, I believe those are just resilient to ASICs/GPUs, but still require significant CPU energy. I'm not convinced those would be better for the environment, so if you're referring to those, do you also have an explanation for why they'd draw relatively less power?