skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire history of Western literature and culture has been shaped by the Bible. Legal systems, literature, ethics, on and on. For nearly two thousand years. Plenty of people that aren't preachers read and study it intensely. It was the impetus for developing the printing press and for literacy in general. Most modern European languages are based on initial translations of the Bible. Its influence is so pervasive that it's virtually impossible to imagine the modern world without it.

Compare that to Mein Kampf, which is a rambling book by a dictator that was only "relevant" in the world for about 25 years. Even then, people didn't really read it. It certainly had zero influence on Nazi legal codes or culture. It was more like the political books that come out today: written mostly to make some money and get one's ideas into the public sphere. Not as a holy document.

As I said, your comment is just deeply, deeply uninformed.
I think it gives you the same answer without having the intuitive picture of your kernel that people like for toy problems.
I expect you are right. But the hostile environment does eventually promote better security and safety practices.
Posits handle this by using the smallest non-zero number where floating point would go to zero. They also use the largest represent able number instead of infinity. These exist for both positive and negative numbers.
At least that's the way I read it.
Regarding this, I strongly believe the correct approach is L3 capability but only expressed through L2 features.

We're not at a point where it's safe for drivers to move their attention from driving, but the technology is mature enough that it can and should intervene wherever possible to avoid collisions and other incidents.

The expectation that drivers can divert their attention from driving to perform other tasks on the expectation that they can resume control at short notice is extremely misguided. This should not prevent similar sensor and software tech that could enable L3 autonomy from enabling more effective accident avoidance technology that intervenes in situations where the driver may drive in a careless or dangerous way.
We're certainly the heroes of our own stories, this demonstrates.
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NNTP is basically dead, maybe abused* for piracy in some corner of the Internet, while Reddit ate half of the web that Facebook didn't eat.

* To be clear, I'm rather ok with piracy. NNTP is just really poorly suited for it.
Maybe generated images don't add much on top of a large collection of stock photos but CV neural nets are very important in the post editing, tweaking and mixing of photos. A bad picture might become a good picture if you have the right tool.

What I'd like to see in generative models is the generation of diagrams, geometry figures, mind-maps, data and algorithm drawings based off text inputs. I want a super boosted imagination power in a box, a tool to model problems.
On Google Docs, there were some CLI tools that today are deprecated.

EDIT: not yet:

https://coderwall.com/p/elfkaq/editing-google-docs-with-vim

The best setup would be:

Wordgrinder/nvi+py3-markdown for Google Docs.

Sc-IM+GNUplot opening Google Sheets.

MagicPoint generating HTML files usable for Google Slides.

Rclone for Drive.
> Still, is your standard 'did enough people complain'? If so, that is a bad standard, and most certainly not how internet was devised, or was intended to work.

No, though obviously it is a factor. I'm pretty sure it's not eBay's standard either. The rights holders, who are extremely familiar with the content, took the view the books are too racist to continue selling; eBay could have chosen to argue the other side and profit from people buying second hand copies at absurd prices to own the libs, but I don't see any particular reason why it should. Frankly categorising spam is at least as prone to disagreement as categorising racism, and I don't think spam has worse consequences. It possible the Seuss Foundation and eBay are excessively prudish about some of the books and certainly eBay's moderation policies are inconsistently applied, but that doesn't imply a website adding a few books to the list of stuff it doesn't want to sell on the grounds of they're bad enough for the publisher to have unpublished is a particularly chilling violation of speech. The internet has been prudish for a long time, as anyone trying to use Big Tech to sell nudes knows, and I really don't see racism as a less sensitive subject than sex.

As for how the internet was imagined to work, I'm pretty sure it's expected to work in exactly the same way as things normally do in Western democracies: people and corporations are generally free to choose who they do business with and what they sell except in very specific circumstances where it is deemed harmful (like refusing to do business with a particular race, or using market power to squeeze a competitor, or being a public utility). It is possible to argue that racism is an intrinsically valuable idea which deserves this sort of special protection which other forms of speech don't, and it's also possible to argue that the risks of curtailing good ideas by restricting any kind of communication is so severe that major retail platforms should be treated like ISPs and not allowed to have any influence on what's distributed by their service at all. But one of those involves explicitly privileging racism and the other throws out the possibility of those platforms attempting even the most cursory moderation, and probably other stuff most people here endorse like centrally-administered spam filters and ad blocking services too. Beyond those arguments we're not discussing speech right principles, we're discussing the details of what's silly [not] to ban.

Some organizations decide [some] ads are too disgusting to host, others decide the same thing about [some] racism. I find the intersection of people on here who believe the former is fantastic and the latter is chilling quite strange. Frankly I'm more uncomfortable about racism than ads, and I use uBlock's list of undesirable content as much as everyone else here.

I do appreciate the civil reply and agree that moderation is not consistent though.
It forces junior engineers to communicate which is great when you're still learning. Also some people really need "microtasks."

IMO: Agile produces worse software but when done correctly with a reasonable boss the work environment it produces is much simpler socially.
I think they were attempting a joke. Hot-road mirage is a common thing that most people that were in a car trip during summer have seen, same principles.
Your comment is pure flame bait, there is no argument either way.
I still think it's wrong to conflate the two, at the very least.

Agile gives you principles as to how to envision developing software. Scrum is just one implementation that tries to follow these principles.

I'm not a fan of Scrum, although I can understand why some of its components could be attractive. Velocity for example is interesting, as it's an attempt to empirically measure how "fast" a team can develop, and base estimations on that instead of just throwing a bunch of hours/days as an estimate when in fact it's hard to do that. I still think it doesn't work well to solve this, but to be fair I don't think there's a single method that solves it.

In the end, I think Agile is beneficial (in my experience!) but more importantly that you need to use and tailor a software development methods to your own needs and context, and stop blindly following existing models but instead see them just as what they are: tools.

As another example since you mentioned it: daily standups can be good, or terrible, it depends what you make of these. I've worked in a company where it was basically a "scheduled waste of time", but I moved to a place where we mixed it with basically a "hey good morning" type of coffee break and it worked rather well in a casual way, chatting up what was coming and that's it. And we keep in mind that if some kind of "ritual" becomes useless, then we skip it altogether as soon as we agree there's no value in it.

That last part feels important to me because that's ultimately where a key aspect lie: when you say it's a "micromanagers' dream", I think it just shows that the software development method can always be twisted and hijacked by some people given enough power/representation/influence.
https://liberamanifesto.com/

I'm an old, and any sense of obligation in the FOSS space, even self-imposed or projected, is bewildering to me.
In fossil fuel use the gas turbine works by internal combustion -- heat is added by a fire inside the device and the exhaust goes out the back.

There are closed cycle gas turbines that put heat in with a heat exchanger and some have been built for non nuclear use but they haven't been competitive with alternatives (e.g. open cycle gas turbine) since they quit using mercury as the working fluid.

Something like that could heat up steam for a bottoming cycle. It's not a matter if it is possible, its a matter if it is practical.

A nuclear reactor can operate at much higher temperatures using coolants other than water, and it has been done (see the british AGR and the American FFTF) but there are a huge number of details that must be perfected to make it routine.
The flood of speculator money definitely hurt: anyone thinking carefully about real problems is going to have trouble getting support or even users in a space full of hucksters yelling about amazing things they can’t deliver.
"The real power these structures espouse is to get us bickering over children's books, rather than devoting our energies towards things that actually matter."

Took a while to find a comment that sees to the heart of the issue.
Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
> I'm pretty sure most people are in agreement that racist caricatures are bad.

I'm pretty sure most people are in agreement that wiping out history and culture is bad.

The question is what is the appropriate tradeoff. Should new editions of these books be published, targeted to children? Probably not. Should they be effectively banned from being sold (used)? At least not without due consideration to the alternatives, like marking them.
I have no knowledge of the attack nor am I familiar with how it happened, but it sounds like the founders could possibly be involved in this.
Pretty incredible people were able to use this device for anything at all; the base version with 1kb of memory barely had enough memory to contain the screen
Show HN: C is for Camera, a 35mm film camera represented in Python objects
Everything is offensive one way or another. It's a personal opinion and there are way too many people in the world. Even Good Morning can be seen as sarcastic or any text in English can be see as colonialist.
I do. I know what you mean but this rhetoric is ridiculous, I don't think that Apple or any manufacturer is obligated to make their product modifiable.

As far as I am free to do whatever I want with the hardware I purchased, no matter how hard it is to do it, I do own it.

Let me put it this way, I can't put diesel in my petrol car in the sense that it wouldn't work because the manufacturer did not develop their engine to run on any fuel. They also made the refuelling hole in different size. This doesn\t mean that I do not own the car, if I feel so I can modify it to work with the fuel I like. Actually, it's widespread to install kits to make the car work with Propane but if I really want to I can convert it to electric or diesel too.

The same goes with any Apple product. Want to make the hardware do something that is not designed to do or actively prevented doing it? Hack your device. You own it. As long as the police doesn't knock on the door due to me fiddling with Apple made device, I do own it.
No I don’t want ROCm I want GPGPU, which is why the entire planet is running CUDA.

Every decision AMD made with ROCm seems to boil down too “i never want to be actually competitive with CUDA”.

Everything from being Linux only and yes that’s is a huge huge huge limitation because most people don’t want ROCm but many would like Photoshop or Premier or Blender being able to use it.
Especially with the OpenCL issues AMD has....

Through them not supporting their own hardware to other mind boggling decisions like the fact that ROCm binaries are hardware specific so you have no guarantee of interoperability and worse no guarantee for future compatibility and in fact it does break.

The point is that I can take a 6 years old CUDA binary and run it today still on everything form an embedded system through a high end server, it would maintain its compatibility across multiple generations of GPU hardware, multi operating systems and multiple CPU architectures.

And if you can’t understand why that is not only valuable but more or less mandatory for every GPGPU application you would ever ship to customers, perhaps you should stick to photoshop.

AMD is a joke in this space and they are very much actively continuing in making themselves one with every decision they make.

It’s not that they’ve abandoned ROCm is that it’s entire existence is telegraphing “Don't take use seriously, because we don’t”.
I am trying to come to grips with this, this looks like this sets up the condition where the whole language compiler stack can change the target architecture and implementation.

This feels like some powerful algebraic property has been satisfied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popek_and_Goldberg_virtualizat...
It wasn't a back door. They modified the smart contract and drained the crypto.

> The hackers implemented a change in the ownership of the smart contract address.
I much prefer a solution, that is not favored in US, which is to add description to the offending work explaining why it is considered inappropriate, instead of banning it, like it never existed. I consider it a reinforcement learning.
Fascinating. From the video, this same effect can even invert the image so that a ship appears to hover upside down: a ghost ship.
I'm not OP but I live in Sweden for almost 6 years now, had a Norwegian girlfriend and have traveled around, so I will tell how I see from my perspective.

The Nordic countries share some common social philosophies, economic models and ways of life but each one leans in different ways in numerous aspects: culturally, economically, socially. The impression I get is that all stem from a common "root" but have diverged quite a bit when you see them from the inside. Bundling them up together is a useful mental model for some approximations, some aspects of the day-to-day life are similar but I believe that's where it stops.

A good extrapolation would be to look at a more extreme version of this phenomena, like with Spain and Portugal, where history and culture are quite intermingled but each can also be quite different to the other. The Nordics are a bit less extreme on their differences but it's a good analogy to lean to, I believe.
One thing I've learned over a long career in software is that a "bad" process that is followed precisely with top to bottom buy-in will always out perform the "best" process with lots of exceptions and lukewarm buy-in.

If you want something like Scrum or agile to work, you must have technical project managers that are independent and, quite frankly, they need to be assholes holding both the tech side and the business side equally accountable.
.NET Debugging in a Single Picture
No, I would not.
Another few hours in the office isn’t worth endangering a child.
That’s selfish and stupid.
Do you think that historians are buying primary source material on ebay?

Given how frequently people reference historians and history in these discussions, I'm surprised that nobody ever seems to ask them their opinions.
How is a story about a dedicated clinic(s) focused on a mysterious new condition fear mongering?

Individuals like yourself that hand wave away COVID do much more harm.
> These are some children's books that contain illustrations that some people find offensive and the publisher (and sellers) are deciding they no longer want to be associated with and sell to children. There are internet forums where the images are available and people can view them without the police knocking your door down, and I'm sure these are available in 2nd hand bookshops.

Here is something from 1981 for your daily dose of irony:
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/opinion-censors-play-...

"The Pico case is only part of a pattern of intense local battles erupting around the country as opposing forces arm themselves for what could become a destructive war over books in America’s schools and school libraries. The insurgents, whose ideological supply lines extend deep into the right wing and its quasi-religious satellites, are well organized; and the advocates of civil liberty in the nation’s schools are reading reports from the front with alarm. “The community of the book,” as Random House vice president Anthony Shulte calls it, is beginning to prepare for a long struggle whose outcome is by no means clear."

...

"Unfortunately for the nation’s authors, their publishers, and readers, the AAP report understates the magnitude of the movement to ban books. Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), calls the proliferating challenges to books “an epidemic of future shock” among individuals who “have little more in common than insecurity and fear of a world they can no longer understand.” Judith Krug, director of the ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee, is alarmed that the number of reported incidents of attempted book censorship in school and public libraries ballooned immediately after the Nov. 4 election of Ronald Reagan, and has continued at a record rate along with the rising fortunes of the new right."

[p.s. I'ts even better than I thought. I missed the sidebar on the above 1981 page on Seuss:

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/the-dr-seuss-contro...]
Irony as Saharan dust returns radiation from French nuclear tests in the 1960s
* It highlights the importance of trustless systems

Not your keys not your coins!
> My comment about "people" actually wasn't the hyperbole part; The "nobody" statements were the hyperbole.

Yes that's clear. I was put off by the "people" comment, and separately by the "hyperbole" (which I still think are just wrong statements but it is fine if we disagree).

> I did a study when I was younger of "readers" of the Bible, and found that, although many people will say that they read it, very few had enough knowledge to make that statement believable (Even on simple questions like "Who baptised who when Jesus met with John the Baptist, and why?" or "Why was Jesus so down on the Pharisees?" - many couldn't even tell me how many gospels there are!). So I find readership statements suspect, and stick to my original assessment that people rarely read the iconic works of the world, but rather rely upon what "everyone knows" about them.

Fair enough, I suppose. Another point of view: https://www.statista.com/statistics/299433/bible-readership-....
If they do the same as with Rust 2018, the actual list of changes in the Rust Edition Guide will be much larger, because they will list all of the major non-breaking changes since 2018 as part of 2021, even though most of them are available in all editions and have been ever since whatever version introduced them. The idea being that the editions guide documents "What is new since the day of release of the previous edition", in addition to documenting the changes specific to the new edition (which are generally breaking changes, or they would be made available to all editions).

But still, the list of breaking changes here is quite small, and mostly some edge cases that will not impact the overwhelming majority of code.
Hard to understand the article because it's written in "art critic" language filled with buzzwords, but the gist is that you can make cool stuff by manipulating the environment and then letting animals and plants interact with it.

Traditional examples are soap bubble models, , desire paths, and agriculture.
In many ways Go is the safer more productive language for C lovers. There are only a couple major differences between the two languages so I think that it is one of the easier places to convince C lovers to move to. I have met a number of strong C proponents and they all seem to be relatively OK with Go, especially compared to C++, Rust and Python.

The major differences in my head are:

- Garbage Collection

- Interfaces

There are some other more minor things like defer and the built-in generic types but many C programmers already had macros to implement similar things.

So sure, Go doesn't solve all of the problem spaces that C does. But if you are in a problem space where you don't need see (or another low-level systems language) Go may be a middle ground to move C programmers to.
Wow, this is super neat. I wish I knew about this a couple years ago, it would've been super useful for a recommendation system I was building in production. I'll have to give this a shot!
That’s interesting. Their website mentions Git integration [1] but I don’t get the impression that their real-time editing is built on Git. Do you have a reference for that?

1: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/how-to/Using_Git_and_GitHub
Serious question: did your workplace also eradicate Mr. and Mrs., which are short for master and mistress?

Folks are renaming git branches, but not these honorifics, and I’m curious about the logic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_honorifics
If you don’t want to be associated with material that might be “objectionable” then don’t position yourself as a platform where arbitrary people can sign up and list whatever they want for sale.

Instead hire buyers to vet the merchandise you’re selling and stand behind it and take responsibility for it. You don’t get to have it both ways.
Quick she's been canceled! Get her a book deal!
This probably isn't the company to produce it, but it does look to me like solid-state lithium batteries are the next step forward in battery technology. Probably hitting mass-market production in at earliest in 2022 as far as I can see.

Longer term, my read is that fluorine-ion batteries are the most promising potential generational leap. But that these are only likely to be viable in solid-state form, as fluorine is more dangerous than lithium.
It can do the wrong thing if the source and destination overlap. Use memmove() instead.
The title should be 'Hovering ship', as it is in the BBC article. There is nothing special about a floating ship.
> Never integrating the parts until the end has nothing to do with not having used "agile". It's just terrible engineering.

I don't disagree with this exactly, but agile is/can be a useful tool to keep engineering on the rails. It's not like if you do agile, you can forget about engineering practices because you've got agile instead. It just reinforces why good engineering is important, and acts as a stick to keep engineering teams on track. A bit like how with good tests, you just can't get away with sloppy code, because having tests necessitates following best practices.
Scrum and sprints is like placing an obstacle in front of a blind person, you trick the developers into thinking it's good for them, while you tricked them they work harder and harder and then you also trick them into OnCall so they also work at nights, give them laptops so they don't stop working from home, give them slack on their mobile so they are fully connected and here you have it .
100 cars is not a production car.
Why though? I left facebook and lost nothing. It brought no value to my life and even if it did I'm certain the feed itself wouldn't.
It is bad idea for one company(whatever it maybe) to be gatekeeper of the web. Thing is in today's world it is more a question of when rather than if. And it seems like there is nothing we can do about it except not be part of it. Even that won't work if everyone is part of it.

We are progressing more towards a dystopian reality where nothing is really in our control.
If only people were so passionate about the damage caused by tobacco...