skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upvoted you to counter the downvotes since this actually does add to the discussion.

It's important to remember that the power of Mein Kampf lies in its status as a symbol, not its actual contents. Nobody actually reads Mein Kampf, nor have they ever (just like nobody actually reads the Bible unless they're actual preachers). It was (and still is) about the personality cult of a strong man and his message of power via blaming and oppression of minority groups, not the actual words themselves. People remember only simple things, and like simple reasoning and solutions, which is what made him popular in the first place.

So the banning of this book was an attack on the symbol (and only incidentally on the literature), and the banning of the symbol is of questionable value since it basically causes a Streisand effect. Banning a symbol only adds to its power. It might have been better to just ignore it, and instead focus on prosecuting the actual hate crimes themselves.
Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees? (2009)
I agree that the discussion in this thread does not lead anywhere, and I regret scrolling down all the way down here.

But being an "information libertarian" was part of the hacker spirit for me, to borrow a word from the sibling poster. I find it useful to see these headlines on HN to keep track of where tech companies stand. A recruiter tried to get me into an eBay subsidiary just a month ago! Glad I didn't have time.
Mmmmm, website has dark color background, dark color text.

Must be something to do with my Apple iOS Firefox system default which follows white-dark during the daytime and dark-white while at night.
Most notably this section about consumer having the right to

> have their personal data transmitted from one controller to another controller.
Until they find a pair of solar-powered speakers blasting "Africa" on repeat, in the middle of a desert.
OK thanks. Good to hear that the problem went away in your case.

I was interested since I believe we need the sort of quality-control that these review websites offer - the problem is the corruption of the review process that often (always?) takes place, and the crudeness of the review parameters. Google Pagerank (or whatever it is called nowadays) is not a satisfactory quality sifting tool.
They all provoke the immune system to generate antibodies (and T cell responses and other responses) that recognize active infections, but those go into action only when that infection is actually recognized (which can be a false positive with disastrous results - see the 2015 science article about pandemrix)

They have no known mechanism of action when there are no recognized antigens. If they do, that’s new science, and applying Sagan’s Criterion: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
There's some interesting threads here. I do understand the conversation around free speech and censorship has been top of mind lately, but IMO a lot of the comments here are getting carried away and missing a point that is crucial in this instance: these are children's books.

As much as I disagree with book-burning and support not only free speech, but also the healthy debate around what it constitutes, I think all of that is rather unrelated to this specific article.

Children don't have the same context or critical capacity to decide if a view is good or not. If a child encounters some sexist commentary, the child will absorb and imitate it.

There's already a lot of institutionalized control over what children consume for this reason— from toys designed to stimulate their development and TV designed around safety and positive lessons, to school, where the curriculum is designed not only to develop mental ability but also healthy social skills. These are decisions institutions make, be it PBS, Hasbro, Scholastic, some bureau of education, etc.

Let's make sure we don't end up in a Fahrenheit 451 situation, sure. These books are still going to exist, nobody is burning them or punishing whomever reads them— let's keep it that way. But when it comes to content that's widely available for children, I think the already established approach of constantly revising and improving what is easy to consume is a good one, and we should keep doing it.
ISIS captured large territories in Syria and Iraq, that doesn't legitimise it as a politically unified nation.

This definition works for countries like in Europe who have very little of their pagan roots left. Further more Europe is divided mostly on linguistic and on catholic/protestant divide (with exceptions and then there is Switzerland or Belgium).

India is a civilisational state, it has long established cultural interoperability. Indian epics, temples and traditions are 1000s of years old and still maintain deep roots.

For Indians, the recent notions of a nation state is irrelevant.

If that is the case then perhaps like China you may find more than 60% of its territory held together by force, with Hanification and reeducation camps.
Slightly off-topic but there should really be a "no-scrum"-hiring website, which displays companies that are NOT following scrum.
Well memcpy_s is a Microsoft initiative and so Unix devs will reject it on principle.
The reverse, a vertical axis wind turbine, example being the McDonnell Aircraft Giromill. http://www.wind-works.org/cms/index.php?id=503
The weapon is censorship. Dictatorial governments supported by control over information have killed far more people than H-bombs.
I politely disagree.

I've read the book "Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time" by Jeff Sutherland and J.J. Sutherland which goes into the history of how Scrum was invented, and the ideas and philosophy behind it - and neither that quote of yours, nor anything similar to it, is represented in that book.

I've also read "Essential Scrum" by Kenneth S. Rubin, which many consider the best book to read on Scrum, and that does not endorse anything like your quote either. That book definitely is more on the "all-you-can-eat buffet" side of things.

Both books clearly state in some form or other, that ALL processes cause overhead - and that does include the processes suggested/recommended by Scrum. And that's why you should always use as little processes as possible. Sadly you can't work without any processes at all - if you try that, some informal processes will just emerge on their own. It just doesn't work without - unless you are a tiny team of friends.

Scrum has become a big commercial enterprise, that wants to sell courses and trainings and scrum master certificates. They have a financial incentive to churn out rules to follow, because that's how they earn money. But that's surely not what is best for teams and work motivation. I really don't think that Scrum originally was about rules at all - it was (and should be) about what is best for teams and work motivation. Just my 2 cents.
Yeah, flutter.io is the same. Given Google acquired the Flutter (AR) team, I assume it was just easy for them to reuse the domains when they launched Flutter (framework).
Does this perhaps have some relation to Monte Carlo methods where the qualities of the noise (white, pink blue etc) and/or stratification that you use - can strongly affect the qualities of the integral that results? Could be analogous to the local instabilities in the section you quoted?
(reminds me a lot of how information moves around in a reaction-diffusion simulation too)
I don't find SPARQL terrible, and have used it in commercial projects.

But RDF can't claim the "standardization" argument in good faith when RDF/SemWeb overshadowed Datalog/Prolog (based on a true ISO and community standard) for such a long time. SemWeb, like XHTML, SOAP/WS-* and other W3C stuff, failed on the web to become an enterprise-y thing instead, W3C being a pay-as-you-go org.
There will never be one solitary erg of commercially viable energy from Tokamak fusion. Costs are already known to be sky-high, many many times that of e.g. current nuke, which has always been quite a lot more expensive than all the alternatives.

Current government-funded fusion research is a jobs program for hot-neutron physicists to maintain a population to draw on for weapons work. It actually steals all the funding from what could be viable projects.
I see, so anything opposing your opinion should be banned? My point was about the biased language that the article uses without factual citations.
I don’t think the intuition you get from Rust’s ownership or general RAII semantics will serve you well for understanding acquire and release semantics. Fundamentally they are about memory accesses other than the atomic operation they are applied to. And the scope of this relationship is not directly specified: it’s “all stores before this point” or “all loads after this point”. I don’t see what the analogue in RAII would be; RAII refers to a single object.
Yes, there is. There is quite a bit of “long covid reporting” but I haven’t found one with reasonable healthy or comparable e.g. flu controls.
Jetson Nano: 1.4 TOPS/W, Coral TPU: 2 TOPS/W ?

Of course it doesn't really help that Google refuses to release a more powerful TPU that can compete with e.g. Xavier NX or a V100 or RTX3080 so for lots of applications there isn't much of a choice but to use NVIDIA.
I think scrum is a tool for middle management that invented ceremony to give their role "meaning". At the same time it allows them to avoid the difficult questions of product management (e.g. "is this really an orthogonal feature or does it interfere somewhere?") It also tends to be awfully childish sometimes (this management style was allegedly invented by pedagogists).

Regardless, several techniques are actually worthwhile: Retrospectives for things that happen regularly (they aren't useful for things that happen very seldom). Daily standup as a sync for developers that collaborate the same task.
If I add either lite or html search engine to FireFox, any search will result in page that only says "forbidden". Anyone else seeing this?
I had the privilege to be able to leave the country this year, the lack of freedom inside India had become personally stifling.

I went from lax Covid policies to a locked down city, and I feel freer.
I'd look at it from another perspective. Committing to learning an entirely new language is a big undertaking, so ideally you want to make sure that the resources you're using are of high quality. In that sense, it costing money is actually a good thing, since it signals that this is premium quality content and worth spending your time on. Of course this needs to be clearly communicated as such, like Brilliant.org for example (at least their marketing communication focuses on the quality).
So there are people thinking that the show is not scripted? :O
memmove() isn't on the list, so presumably the recommendation is to replace uses of memcpy() with memmove() due to its well-defined behaviour when source and destination overlap.

(Or with the Annex K variants -- memcpy_s(), memmove_s() -- if that floats your boat, and as this is Microsoft it surely does.)
Thank you for that insight. Other than the startup time, were there any other performance problems with PySide? Honestly, I think that a 100ms slower startup time is a good tradeoff!
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Dear battery technology claimant,

Thank you for your submission of proposed new revolutionary
battery technology. Your new technology claims to be superior to existing lithium-ion technology is is just around the corner from taking over the world. Unfortunately your technology will likely fail, because:

[ ] it is impractical to manufacture at scale.

[x] it will be too expensive for users.

[ ] it suffers from too few recharge cycles.

[ ] it is incapable of delivering current at sufficient levels.

[ ] it lacks thermal stability at low or high temperatures.

[x] it lacks the energy density to make it sufficiently portable.

[ ] it has too short of a lifetime.

[ ] its charge rate is too slow.

[ ] its materials are too toxic.

[ ] it is too likely to catch fire or explode.

[ ] it is too minimal of a step forward for anybody to care.

[ ] this was already done 20 years ago and didn't work then.

[x] by this time it ships li-ion advances will match it.

[ ] your claims are lies.

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Using the word "denigrate" would be a reason to cancel you for some very conscientious minds. It sounds too similar to, ya know. And you aren't even talking Chinese [1]

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-sus...
Open source PDF editor with the first roadmap
The subtext for this article is the general pessimism about post-Brexit Europe these days:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/28/i-hate-to-s...

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-puzzle-of-eur...
My opinion that they should, and the guidelines used to censor posts are reasonable. All the censorship I have seen has been to stop flamebait. I have had comments removed and in hindsight, respect the reason. I reserve the right to change my mind in the future.

Similarly, I think that eBay's actions are paternalistic, heavy handed, and part of a trend I do not support. I would encourage others who feel this way to let ebay know.
Wait, what?
Maybe eBay should first ban these?
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=germany+3rd+reich
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=ussr+flag
>YipYipYip...

Is this a Sesame Street reference?

https://youtu.be/KTc3PsW5ghQ?t=97
This assumes a lot about the correctness of people's perceptions of their own driving skills. My experience is 99% of drivers think they're above average, and that obviously can't be true.
Cisco uses the _s variants heavily in IOS-XR. I wasn’t aware that this family of functions was part of a specific addition to the C standard.
My eyes are straight, and I'm keeping myself proud on being helpful to others.
No one has successfully contained molten salt, although they have tried.
I've found the opposite. Retrospectives consist of a bunch of bland statements with any actionable items getting discarded immediately after.

It doesn't help that few people take it seriously. And there's always one or two people that talk out the entire meeting, ruining any chance of it working for the rest.
I mean I wouldn't worry too much about it, I think if something big like PyTorch supports it AMD might rethink their strategy here. They have a lot to gain by entering the compute market.
How long do you think it will be before Amazon follows suit?

Relegating books to a market outside of the largest sellers basically amounts to erasing them. Sure, in this case people could still find them, because they are from a famous author. But what about unknown writers, with views that don't align with what is approved by the PC crowd?

For the record, I have never read a Dr. Seuss book and don't encourage racial stereotyping, but there are other edgy subjects (like the legalization of certain substances) that I can imagine becoming less fashionable at some point in time. I don't want to see books supporting this idea suppressed at some point in the future.

We should be very careful with this new self regulating market, that follows the loudest outcry to determine what they allow to be sold.
> eBay choosing not to facilitate the sale of books containing racist caricatures is not in the same ballpark as a government suppressing ideas.

The problem is that over time companies are consolidating into a few monopolies which are entirely out of public control, and these companies effectively control almost all distribution.

It depends what “power controlling entity” you see being the risk - is it the elected government or is it large powerful corporations with unelected leadership?

It is the same core sport, just a different team playing with less rules.
Germany here, we banned Mein Kampf from being sold

Not as such. Rather, the owner of the copyright - the state of Bavaria, where Hitler had his formal residence - decided not to allow reprints. The copyright expired in 2016, and a new, commented edition has been published which Germans can freely buy for 60€ in bookstores of their choice, including Amazon.

However, distribution for reasons other than educational purposes is potentially 'Volksverhetzung' and hence can be illegal depending on circumstances. But again, this is not a blanket ban on sale (except in case of minors as it's considered 'harmful to young persons'). This had already been tested in court in 1979, when the Bundesgerichtshof ruled you could legally own and sell historical copies of the book.
So your solution to these iniquities is to punish potential success by sex through the denial of equal treatment in child-related leave? Leave alone the fact that this would be illegal discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, how would this work for non-heterosexual relationships? Wouldn't non-childbearing lesbian professors also have this advantage while their SO is nursing their newborn? Ultimately, your solution seems more pro-natalist to a fault rather than "pro-equity".
Unfortunately I can't see that index because of paywall.
Unfortunately my personal experience here is while I do see innovation here, when it comes to making the money all the companies run to America where the capital is or at best Germany where manufacturing is.
It's better and cheaper to use locally, but unless you find a plant that is unable to sell capacity, you're taking it from something else.

True, it doesn't make sense to move the power all the way around the world, but that's also not really how things like the synchronous grid of Continental Europe works, where power is traded across 24 countries on a single grid.

If your have cheap renewable energy, when you start selling, excess non-renewable capacity and more expensive plants in general powers down in nearby areas and countries.

Any power taken from a renewable plant there when power price is positive means increased non-renewable output.
>> The Indian middle class has never been more prosperous under any other government

Have you looked at the interest rates ? The government is crushing the very same middle class savers/pensioners who have supported them ardently. And the funny thing is they still continue to do so.

This irony is lost on everybody.
You're citing freedomhouse which is a dumpster fire of unsubstantiated content. Do you have a better source to cite?
Annex K never really got buy-in from the open source C stdlib developers—Glibc, Musl, etc.

I don’t think it’s an issue of whether it was rejected on principle, or because of its origin, I think that there just wasn’t enough interest in it. My feeling is that Annex K is not as useful without the right set of code review practices and static analysis tools. Many of the secure variants just take an extra size parameter—you would need some kind of assurance that the extra size parameter is somehow correct; without this assurance, the Annex K functions aren’t very useful. There’s not a great way to get that assurance without static analysis tools, as far as I know, because there are tons of unsafe ways to use the Annex K functions, like this:

// Don’t do this.
err = memcpy_s(dest, n, src, n);

If you’re just duplicating the “count” argument and pasting it in “destsz”, it will work but it won’t catch any of the errors that memcpy_s is designed to catch.
The main advantage of Agile is for project managers, who can change requirements on the fly.
I generally agree with you (especially on the update java guides), though I think it is important to teach C/C++ after some experience with a higher level language, if for nothing else, the large amount of already existing code bases.

I also like the newfound interest in some FP languages, I for example had a mandatory Haskell course in first year — we did not take Monads in this course yet, but I think it is a great introduction for students for a different take from the more imperative world.
Finite-state machines made easy
Isn't sugar a suitable substitute for crack?
This article from PG from a very long time ago called "Keep your identity small" seems very relevant whenever issues like "capitol hill", "indian democracy", "muslim religion", "trump", etc are posted here for discussion.

You can't change other people's opinion about their nation, religion, politics, etc even if you believe you have all the facts and most of the time it just devolves into a flamewar (1)

(1) http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
Image search is what I have been waiting for too.
If you have the time to spare and the mental energy to talk to random strangers about their problems every Friday afternoon, good for you.

But get right out of here with that “should” nonsense. OSS maintainers are already donating time and effort for the common good. You’d have to be a complete jerkwad to insist they need to do more.
Because contrary to what you believe, M1 simply is not performant enough to be used to "prototype" your network. NNs can't be simply scaled up and down. It is *NOT* like those web apps which you can run on potatoes just fine as long as nobody are hitting them heavily.
Should we erase the past?
In my state there was USAC funding that went unawarded year over year, and for all I know still is. Carriers just don’t find it worth their while in many cases especially if they don’t need to worry about any threats to the captive markets they already serve.
How?

So far, the big platforms seem to be digging the hole of censorship deeper, and small platforms like Parler are deplatformed.

Unless we find a way to circumvent the tight control that smartphone manufacturers have over devices they sell, the only possible haven of free speech would be web on a Windows PC with some specific browsers. Because Google adding you to a list of dirty webs means that people using Chrome won't get to your website.
The title on HN is a bit misleading since the Bloomberg link has the title 'South Korea Leads World in Innovation as U.S. Exits Top Ten'...
Brave is working on their own (eventually paid) search engine
https://brave.com/brave-search/
Mein Kampf isn't a children book though. In addition to the be fact that the books are annotated, those who are going to read it will be of enough to get the context surrounding this book
How can I take seriously a piece that opens comparing China and Italy? It’s like comparing the US with San Marino, or Russia with Minnesota.

It’s not 1955 anymore, it’s time to compare (continental superpower) apples to (continental superpower) apples.
I fear you grossly overestimate how detailed the kernel's testing is.

(Do please note that the word "detailed" above was carefully chosen.)
Can you provide some citations for locative prepositions appearing before their nouns? I am not widely read in classical Chinese, but all the examples I've turned up have used the normal order.

e.g. 孟子 1A/3 河內凶，則移其民於河東，移其粟於河內 (strongly suggesting that the current naming practices were also current 2200 years ago); 庄子 秋水 13 我知之濠上也 (ordinary positioning).
That is the danger china posted to the world. Totalitarian pays. Let us have more of it. Suppressed minority right is ok. Let us do more of it. With the largest two or 1/2 humanity ... whatever we think about human rights will be overtaken by this crazy reality. Power is might. Prosperity is what counts.

Sigh. And the top judge is either a joke as in china or ask the rapist to continue raping the kids he raped (by marrying her).

Sigh. Can we have hope.
Narrator: at least two were obese.
... but remarkably good humoured! (Or are those teeth gritted?:-)
> memory is not a problem and the goal is safety.

People keep repeating this. What about embedded systems? For instance, I have to know how an object is structured and how is allocated, exactly and without surprises. The behavior has to be predictable and as simple and fast as possible. You can (likely) achieve that with C.