skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think a significant portion of programmers are very smart people who work hard at producing good, generalizable, understandable effective code.

To be clear, I don't disagree with this, but it's not relevant. You wouldn't expect a typical mechanical engineer to have research-level mastery of theoretical physics, even if they can build impressive, reliable machines. It's not an insult to the engineer.
> Assange is a Russian asset

Do you have anything concrete to back that up? Wikileaks has been foolhardedly devoted to exposing uncomfortable truths about institutions across the political spectrum. Some people are maybe upset that this probably lead to Trump's election.

> who convinced people to ignore a woman’s story of sexual assault

The preliminary investigation into that case has been dropped. As far as I'm aware, he made no effort to convince people to ignore the story, but he did strongly deny the allegations. This says nothing either way of his innocence or criminality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...

Edit:

RE: Anyone questioning Assange's ties to Russia, there's the following article. Assange was purportedly contacted about a pardon in 2017 in exchange for denying Russian involvement into leaking Clinton's emails (which Julian declined)

> Lawyers representing the United States at Julian Assange’s extradition trial in Britain have accepted the claim that the WikiLeaks founder was offered a presidential pardon by a congressman on the condition that he would help cover up Russia’s involvement in hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee.

Coverage about that here: https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-admits-that-putins-favorite...
> Examples: Pocket

Wait, pocket is a Mozilla thing? When that first popped up in Firefox, I just assumed they partnered with some business and sold out a little chunk of my data.

Now that I'm reading up on it, I see that it's more complicated. Apparently, Mozilla Corp _bought_ Pocket, which used to be Read It Later. Which I had been using at some point before. Wow. Some better communication around all that from Mozilla's side, and I might have given Pocket a chance when they rolled it out.
Virtual Event Starter Kit – Vercel
To manage different layouts: https://github.com/klaxalk/i3-layout-manager.

Workflow:

1. Arrange your windows how you like

2. Save the layout

3. Open the windows

4. Load the layout

Repeat 3 and 4.

Nicely done with rofi/dmenu.
Also none of them are solving real problems, but ETH has the capability to become that with DApps…

The problem Bitcoin solves is creating a non-sovereign store of value that can't be manipulated/inflated by governments and central banks. That's a problem worth solving.

Bitcoin started with smart contracts on day one, but the focus has been on robustness. However, there's plenty of work going on with layer 2 and side chains to for DApps, etc.

https://blockstream.com/2020/10/22/en-blockstream-amp-issue-...
Surprisingly portable, and a fun idea because it treats everything is a game as an image. I love the concept.
Back in the old days, each of those developers would just use telnet and X Window sessions on the same UNIX box, which the cloud is nothing else than the same stack in new clothing.
Nobody is as big and widespread as Google. They dominate programmatic too. The open market is secondary and highly influenced by whatever runs through Google's network.
I don't think there should be much of a difference at all between the punishments for attempted murder and murder. Just enough to keep someone from trying to finish the job if they feel that they might need to kill someone to reduce the likelihood of going to jail for attempted murder.
Because the academic standard for research, and the original motivation for tenure, allows for researchers to criticize anyone, including their own institution, as long as it's done and presented as the proper product of research. In other words, if a researcher is doing their research properly, it shouldn't matter if they're attacking their own institution or even colleagues, because it passes scientific muster and the quality of the research is what justifies it.

When companies like Google or IBM employee researchers, they're positioning themselves as supporting that model of inquiry, and the benefit for them is the credibility that comes from participation in scientific inquiry. Gebru attacking Google's AI practices actually lends Google credibility for disinterestedly supporting basic research and taking its results seriously.

A company that employs an ethicist and takes that ethicist's output seriously even when it challenges the company is a company that genuinely cares about the academic standard in that field. A company that hires an ethicist and then fires them when they point out the company's wrongdoing is sounding an alarm about their own unethical conduct.

The part I struggle to understand here is how Google could be so stupid. Who cares, from a commercial perspective, if an academic they employ drags them? Keeping Gebru on payroll was straightforwardly purchased ethical credibility; firing her is a PR disaster and an open statement that their ethics AI group is a propaganda unit rather than a genuine research entity. It would have been trivial, even beneficial, to air the academic dispute. They gained nothing by retracting her paper and then firing her.
Actually, retail workers and cashiers have similar murder rates as cops do[1].

[1] https://www.vox.com/2014/12/2/7313827/workplace-homicide-mur...
On Windows Docker uses Windows containers for Windows images and WSL for Linux images, so whatever is the best host depends on the images.
Go2cpp: A Converter from Go to C++
I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump. We’re Being Hacked
He is saying it's inevitable, not that it's there yet.
17 USC 1201, DMCA Exemptions and Software Freedom
The head of government knew exactly how dangerous the virus was in early February, but chose not to do anything about it.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6510/1409

One cannot be certain why, but perhaps it is due to the fact that the prior qualifications of this individual were:

1. Operating some mixed-use buildings in New York, and casinos in Atlantic City purchased through extensive family loans
2. Owning and operating a few golf courses
3. Licensing their name to some adult learning courses that were later revealed to be scams
4. Being the star of a reality TV show

Without passing any sort of judgement on this person, they were completely unqualified to orchestrate anything anywhere near the complexity of the Manhattan Project or Space Race.

They were unable to even prioritize and orchestrate the allocation of adequate PPE to healthcare facilities, as well as adequate testing capacity for 50% of Americans to be tested on a monthly basis let-alone daily.

Again, no judgement on this individual, but they were totally unprepared and unwilling to manage the crisis and their failure to act likely hamstrung any meaningful attempt to coordinate the type of effort you are describing, which would have required federal buy-in.
Google expands languages push in India to serve non-English speakers
Thank you for this. I will try it.
Why should the focus of this case against Google all of a sudden be hijacked for this complete tangent? 10 states are listed as Plaintiffs and Texas is but one of them.
> the opening has a clear advantage

not exactly if the person can't use the slight advantage for their benefit. They only have window of 2-3 moves at max to exploit less developed pieces else the advantage fades away(assuming non point positional advantage). It is hard for 1700s to exploit very minor advantage and most of the time the win is due to a blunder by opponent.
Yes, but Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor, WSL runs alongside Windows, not on top of it.

Plus Windows also has containers, Docker is only using WSL for Linux images, Windows containers are used for Windows images.

And on Windows Server the containers can run directly on top of Hyper-V as well.
First of all, comparing 2 things doesn't insinuate that they are the same.

Second of all, just because US classifies bitcoin as an asset, doesn't mean the rest of the world has to agree with that. My country doesn't.

And from the wikipedia page of bitcoin: "It is a decentralized digital currency"
Equifax isn't just "still around". Their stock price is up nearly 50% from the day before their data breach crash.
The Framers of the Constitution believed that they could thwart the rise of political parties by having a President and legislature who were elected completely separately and would be locked in a power struggle against each other. The pardon power is to prevent legislative overreach -- if the legislature made jaywalking a federal crime with a 10 year jail sentence, the President (or the jury) could simply refuse to allow this law to be enforced.

Despite the high profile political cases, the majority of presidential pardons are given to people who have sat in jail for a long time on crimes that are not at the highest level of turpitude such as murder/rape/kidnapping.
the primary motivation for funding ethical AI work is _public relations_

Exactly. The secondary motivation is the possibility of benefiting from some basic research. It's ultimately a credibility play, which makes their handling of the whole affair so mind-bogglingly dumb. There would have been no problem at all for Gebru to have presented her supposedly anti-Google paper; zero practical consequence for Google.
Real-time 3D ray tracing on the SNES
The engineer is responsible for it. The CEO is accountable for it.
I'm fully on Team Hook, and convert class-based components whenever I touch them. Still, I feel that there are some serious compromises in the hooks approach and wonder if there wasn't some other potential future we missed out on.

What would it have looked like if class-based components got a v2 rev instead? I feel like a lot of the crazy with class-based components came from the myriad low-level callbacks. useEffect() is a better abstraction, but it seems like some sort of class-based analogue could have been created (perhaps registering effects in the constructor).

The other nice thing about hooks is composability. I haven't given it a ton of thought but maybe that could have been addressed somehow too? Dunno.

I would be willing to accept some extra verbosity if it meant we could relax or eliminate some of the rules of hooks. The conditional rendering problem sucks.
> Beliefs of humans are path-dependent.

Thats such simple yet profound statement to me. Thank you for the response, it has definitely given me something to ponder. Ugg. Now I'm imagine companies/govs doing path dependent profiling of people for their minority report-esque systems.
Australian Open confirmed to start on February 8
Response from the hot rod magazines has been slow. One editor told me that is because I didn't use anything they advertise.

In case anyone didn't already know what gets ink in trade press.
Got proof? What are your sources?
Thanks for threadshitting!
Tesla announces new CCS charging adapter but North America launch still unclear
Strongly disagree, the USD is still the main flight to safety in the world. I don’t see that changing any time soon.

That was before a global pandemic and the printing of many trillions of dollars this year, with no end in sight. Why do you think Saylor [1] put his corporate treasury of $425 million into BTC? And then issued bonds to buy even more? Because keeping his company treasury in cash and cash equivalents would mean losing 5-20% each year, since interest rates are zero and inflation is increasing.

[1] https://www.microstrategy.com/en/bitcoin

[2] "The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System"—https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
There is also Chicanx [..] Chicano or Chicana is a chosen identity for Mexican Americans in the United States. The identity has also evolved into Xicano or Xicana and, more recently, Xicanx. Chicano/a is sometimes used interchangeably with Mexican American, although the terms have different meanings.[..]

I would think Latino/a applied more to Europe than in the Americas. When I first came to the States, I was surprised that Mexican-Americans were called Latino/a. Hispanic seemed more apt/correct than Latin. I had always associated it with Rome, not Spain.

The Latins https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latins [..] The Latins were originally an Italic tribe in ancient central Italy from Latium. As Roman power and colonization spread Latin culture, during the Roman Empire, Latins came to mean mostly unified Italic Latin-speaking people and the Latin-speaking people of Dacia, Iberia, Illyria, and Gaul whose land was settled by Roman colonists (see Latin peoples). Today, Latin people are those whose languages are derived from Latin; Italians, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanians, etc.

In the late 15th–16th centuries, a millennium after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Portugal and Spain began to create world empires. In consequence, by the mid-19th century, the former American colonies of these nations became known as Latin America and this region's inhabitants as Latin Americans.[..]
Rocky is going to be tough to maintain. With CentOS being an internal part of Red Hat, it really helped for them being able to tap engineers for information about nasty CVEs getting fixed upsream in RHEL and numberous other headaches (build failures etc).
I like that this is in the form of open-ended inquiry.
> This is what bugs me the most about the corporate landscape.

It's not just n the Corporate World, either: the failing up method of success is prevalent in government, too. Which often has a revolving door into certain Industries for some reason...

I think this has more to do with widespread corruption within certain set class of people in Society than it does as a single isolated issue of incompetent individuals. The goals shouldn't be to get those standards to apply to a c-level and below employee, it should be to phase away with those incentives completely.

Elon mentioned the over MBA-ization ruining US business culture and innovation, which is no doubt a factor; but to be honest the lack of accountability and that actual punitive punishments for their mistakes seem to often be non-existent are for me way more systemic and a greater drag on overall progress, since the wrong incentives (like this) are already baked in to the process of a 'successful career' by default.
It was, yes. Public statements she made before getting fired include:

> A Black woman can't survive around here doing any type of research let alone research thats designed to make those in the majority uncomfortable. And guess who can apparently unilaterally order you to do things without even thinking you're someone they should converse with. (https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1331757629996109824)

> [The VPs in her org] are very useful for gaslighting and marginalizing Black women to eternity. They're very useful for blocking any upstream work that needs to be done to change the status quo. (https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1331772727615602690)
To me that phrase of Wirth certainly opened new lines of thought. Notation is clearly a tool. One can be better than another, but there's no reason to become fascinated with the notation itself and strive to perfect the expression (e.g. to write "pythonic" code). If the notation doesn't fit the task, it's the notation that should change. And so on.
Turning the Raspberry Pi into an FM Transmitter
IBM had nothing to do with it.
> That's irrelevant right? The point is that it's reproducible.

It's not reproducible if it's not a value. The point of a pure function is that you can replace it with the value that it evaluates to.

If you include nontermination as a value in your language then your language becomes almost impossible to reason about as you break almost every equivalence property you could think of. E.g. you can no longer say x * 0 = 0.

> Lack of side effects matters in the context of configuration, non-termination does not (and see the thread you're replying to for an argument as to why that is).

I don't find "but terminating code may still take a long time" to be a convincing argument that nontermination isn't important; rather it's an argument that code taking a long time might also be important (at least to the extent that it actually comes up in practice, which I'm not convinced of).
A tiny startup fixed the future of TV
I'd rather wait for something like the holodeck,
instead of various head-mounted gadgets simulating dynamic 3D scenes. "VR" has limited appeal if you know its just
a fancy display technology tracking head movement.
Very economist argument. Removing Child-safety law may increase child mortality.
Raycast (YC W20) Is Hiring Fullstack Software Engineers (Remote, UTC ± 3 Hours)
Qualcomm promises three years of Android updates for its entire SoC lineup
Do you feel the evidence suggests he did not actually intend to commit the murder-for-hire?
I've spent a lot of time in higher-order component and render prop hell — so many layers of indirection. The declarative behavior that HOCs and render props enable is one of the best parts of React, used in libraries like react-motion. But man, debugging layers of render props makes me itch.

Hooks have been a savior for me. I agree that there are a lot of sharp edges with hooks, but they're not magic. They're powerful and they compose really well. If you're doing anything behaviorally complicated on a React app, it's easy to build whatever abstraction is appropriate to your project.
And here is the disconnect. While your claim is pedantically correct the reality is that most practical programming activites are engineering not mathematically science.

Like the architect, steel worker, joiner, bricklayer and so on we use many materials and techniques that can be explained and proved with science but we do so while be broadly ignorant of it all. And that's totally fine.

The problem if you disappear down the rabbit hole of academic self indulgence you may forget you were suppose to actually build something.
On the contrary: The research paper is evidence of knowingly committing later wrongdoings.
I would rather pick ESP32, it is more powerful than the MS-DOS PCs / Amiga that I used to have access to, so it has plenty of programming power.
There's probably better protection against random terminations on average in Europe than in America.
Psychedelics, Peak Solar Cell Efficiency, Gene Therapy and Super Soldiers
I love the fact that in the 2010s, and for someone as technical as Ulbricht, that writing in a journal about criminal conspiracies did NOT sound any kind of alerts. Of all of the hoops he was jumping through to stay undetected, all of the OpSec he had to have practiced, yet he kept a detailed journal. Oops? Just don't know how to respond
> Ironically, by getting acquired by a giant company, Quest development was set back by that many years.

What does this mean? We likely wouldnt even have a Quest (or really even a 3rd headset imo) from Oculus if not for Facebook. The Oculus founders were all almost completely about building high end enthusiast hardware, which wouldve almost surely made the market die off again.
Thank you, I knew there was a separate phrase to describe this, but I forgot what it was.
Changing languages is not a magic bullet. Browsers written in C++ can be just as safe and maintainable -- especially with the resources of large companies behind them, with tons of engineers and testers etc.
Oh, I forgot, when looking at percentage of population over 65 both Sweden and Denmark clock in at ~20%, whereas the population density of Sweden is ~25 people/km^2 and Denmark has one of ~135 people/km^2.

In other words I will argue, that one would expect Denmark to have been hit harder, but there is one fifth the deaths per capita.

And I’m sorry that I am ranting, but this disease has caused so much dead and suffering, when it could have been stopped if we took it seriously - this upsets me. I was talking with a friend living in Taiwan and they’ve had ~750 cases in total with aggressive tracing and isolation tactics, so we know it is possible.
My armchair analysis: Snowden would not make an effective puppet (because patriot) and is good enough to host as an FU to the US.
Don't forget somehow Kirk manages to go up 6 ranks overnight, from an Cadet at the Academy (about to get drummed out!), all the way to Captain. Including jumping over a number of people on the way, such as Spock.

And I do realize the commanding officer of a ship is called Captain regardless of rank, the previous Captain was promoted to Admiral, implying that he held the rank of Captin.
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We're living in a snowflake society. Everyone gets offended by everything and nothing.
They should hire Pedro Domingos to clean house and rebuild the group.

This talk by him on AI ethics has a lot of maturity and insight on the topic:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIRL4xtmXE4
James Comey KNEW the Russian story was bullshit. He was IN on it. Our intelligence community is CORRUPT. John Brennan's note to Obama proves it. They knew it was FICTION. And they RAN WITH IT. They sought to impeach a duly elected, democratically elected president on the basis of a LIE. And then they turn around and investigate people with impunity and if they dare slip up after 30 hours of interrogation, they toss them in prison for perjury. Fuck these guys. Free Assange, Free Snowden, and put Comey and Brennan in prison where they belong.
If you have $4000 to spend, you can get the new Varjo VR-3. It has a 27° by 27° display with 71 pixels-per-degree resolution embedded in a 115° wide display at 30 PPD. 20/20 vision is ~60 PPD for ~210°.

https://www.roadtovr.com/varjo-xr-3-vr-3-announcement-specs-...
Outside of the edit window for the above comment, but Mint needs to go in the list of distributions that are moving the desktop forward.
Data checks in, but doesn't check out.
The techAltar youtube channel might have some useful content on the subject.
That was kinda the article I was expecting to read, so I was very confused when it didn't actually go there.
People with CF are probably ridiculously careful and likely almost totally isolating themselves right now.

Someone with Downs isn't necessarily as able to make accurate risk calculations and may find themselves engaging in riskier behavior.

Add to that the fact that many adults with Downs may live in community group homes alongside others with mental health concerns (staff coming in and out - vector of infection), whereas those with CF may be less likely to do so, as (unfortunately in a human sense, fortunately in the sense of comparing with prior decades and the progress of treatment) their average life expectancy in the United States is under 40 y/o and they may be able to isolate with retired adult parents or work from home.