skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. The world is crumbling around us because we are more and more encroached by the dystopian nightmare that big tech is building. The FSF is one of the last beacons of sanity (regardless of who leads it), for they are amongst the few to have an uncompromising stance for the right to read [0] and for general-purpose computing [1]. Now the FSF is being attacked by a Microsoft-led mob (via Sarah Mei, from Salesforce in partnership with Microsoft), and they write damning "open letters" that are hosted by Microsoft. They are opportunistically joined by people from the Open Source Initiative, and also by well-intentioned people like jordigh who are legitimately concerned by the FSF leadership, but in my opinion have chosen the worst moment to act. I'm really sad and embarrassed by all this. I just want to keep hacking but I'm full of gloom and doom instead.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Com...
Great explanation of something that has caught me out multiple times (I occasionally dabble in JS).

Having spent my career in languages with pass by reference it feels unnatural not to have it. I suspect if I started with JS this wouldn't be such a problem.
We aren't talking about the relation between IQ and academic performance (although that is also clearly established to be significant). We're talking about the relationship between IQ and ACT/SAT scores.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963451/

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/ps/Frey.pdf

I certainly don't "need" it to be true - things are either true or they aren't, and needing or wanting differently doesn't change that.

"That correlation is better than a random guess but isn’t anything close to alignment."

Do you want to make a more specific claim? Again, the original claim you're attempting to rebut is "Many test scores (e.g. ACT) are heavily IQ/g-predictive." How strong does the effect need to be? Since, again, nobody is claiming that it's 100% predictive, merely a significant factor. Do you want to give me an effect size? Keep in mind the typical social psychology effect size comes out to r usually between 0.15 and 0.3:

https://psyarxiv.com/2epc4/

https://jenni.uchicago.edu/Spencer_Conference/Representative...
> You can use third person singular verb conjugation for third person plural subjects, but only if the subject is non-living.

This does seem likely to be a relic of something in the past, since nearly the same thing is true in classical Greek - neuter plural subjects agree with singular verbs, not plural verbs. (You weren't clear about whether singular conjugation is required for nonliving subjects in Farsi. I believe singular agreement for neuter plural subjects is mandatory in Greek.)
How would that work in terms of taxes? The UK doesn't have taxes based on location like the US?
Flagged. What a bullshit article.
On Android phones, if you enable "developer" in settings, the app "fake GPS settings" can do that.

Caveat: It's been almost 4 or 5 years since I used it. I used to prank colleagues on Facebook by posting from a local prison or other weird places. Have had no use for it since I deleted my fb account. So I don't know if it can still do what you want.
A mix of both home-office and going to the actual office is probably the way to go for most companies. Sometimes being in the office just isn't necessary and colleague interaction can be done by phone or chat/video apps.

However, going into full time home-office mode isn't great either since you would miss out on the random meetings/talks when you run into each other in the office.
According to the GOP, these aren't cancellations, but matters of spiritual and moral clarity.

Before one rushes to the aid of those who are powerful, one might first observe those who live underfoot. It is reasonable to say that in the lifetime of your children, it will still be a Constitutional right for Christian businesses and employees to deny gay employees or customers.
What’s Accenture? (And why is it worth $140B?)
Go is a little low-level/obtuse for business logic and UI stuff. We use it for many of the gRPC services that our web apps consume. The more systems-y the service, the better the fit.
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People with friends and family can't gauge how bad of a toll this has taken on lonely single guys like me. For most of them WFH been a Godsend. I really wish this ends or at least there remains enough places which require working from the office.
The idea makes sense, but Databricks exposes the complete Spark API, is that true for this project as well? Spark is a lot more than Spark SQL.
I _actually_ want a linux phone. I want to be able to run some of the applications from my linux desktop on my phone.
Its in the article itself.

"As the pandemic spread out from its Asian epicentre, countries implemented lockdowns, halting economic movements and production. Many factories closed temporarily, causing large numbers of containers to be stopped at ports"
As mentioned by others, Bach is a master of counterpoints - that's what made me listen to his pieces over and over.

I guess his slow chorales are played the most in churches and ads. but he composed so much more. Some of my favorites are The Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations, and English/Italian Suites.
I don't think they're saying work anywhere in the world. They're saying work anywhere within the UK, including HQ, local high street branches, at home, or a mixture of the above.
This reminds me of companies who have “unlimited” vacation days. If I can’t take the next 40 years off at full pay it’s not “unlimited”.

A more accurate description is probably “vacation days determined by whether your manager likes you”.
How big is the "very qualified Googlers take all the interesting positions" issue?
It's something that has always put me off those huge companies, you apply for a chance to work with them, not to work on something specific. And it seems very likely that, as a newcomer, you won't be assigned to the cool projects, but to the things no one else want to do.
Looking at the picture I would say that the ship is narrower in the front then it is in the other 23 rows.

If I am counting correctly, you can see about 209 +2423*9 = 5148 containers.

Still, I am unable to see how 12000 containers would fit the ship.

Edit: I am correct, as you can see in this picture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeciras-class_container_ship...
I think it's a pretty neat idea. I would think about how you could integrate with Bandcamp, as the bands you'll attract are a huge part of their band user base: bands whose fan base is small enough that a group pooling their money could influence the tour route, but who are rabid enough about supporting the band that they'll actually try to organize something.

I'm not totally sure how you handle the venue choice, but a crowdsourced database of venues to play at could be useful. If I'm acting as the booking agent, get me to add venue details (capacity, age restrictions, photos, contact info) to a public directory that other users could tap for their own booking. Maybe get small venue owners or booking agents to add/claim/curate their own entries.

This is kinda random, but I also think it would be a cool and unique gesture if the organizer could be given a way to arrange to "feed the band." This is just a very band-centric touch based on the fact that a touring band is always gonna be happy to be given a meal, but if the organizer had a checkbox that, for a fixed additional overhead cost, they could arrange to have a meal delivered, I suspect both bands and fans would think that was awesome. Even if it's just a big pile of big burritos.
you forgot to mention the time it takes hunting for your 'obscure teenage years' CDs on eBay, setting up search alerts for each CD to appear for ~$1 with cheap shipping, waiting three weeks for them to arrive from Lithuania, alcohol-rubbing the dozen sale stickers off the jewel case, cleaning the CDs with lint-free holy water, ripping the audio losslessly at superfast 52x, physically scanning with a scanner and optimizing the album artwork, categorizing, metadata'ing, updating and maintaining your Frankenstein music database, updating the online database for prospective fake internet points, and relisting each CD at $2
I'm even more interested in the fact that Latin tree names are second declension feminine. Pinus, quercus, etc. How did that work out?
Was it grandparent comment's explicit mention of it that reminded you?
By anywhere, I expect it means anywhere in the UK. The UK doesn’t have “state” taxes like the US, so it won’t matter where they are
> JSX is not "Just Javascript"

It's very thin syntactic sugar over a function call. It has a very simple 1:1 mapping to the output code, as opposed to "magically reactive `foo = bar`.

> I'm sure not many people would be willing to argue that throwing promises (as react suspense supposedly does) is a holy grail of frontend development, even though it is "just javascript".

I'll give you that hooks and suspense are straying further from normal js because they don't behave like normal functions do and have special rules for being called; hooks are a DSL for encoding incremental computations into js, and suspense is just the react team fawning over algebraic effects/delimited continuations and trying to reproduce them in js.

But then again, all of these can be defined in normal JS code as opposed to a DSL which compiles to who knows what, so all the rules applying to normal JS and its tooling apply to them.
Debt is what makes deflation hazardous to people. A non-indebted baker may have to sell his bread for pennies, but the things he then needs to buy would also cost pennies so he'd end up in a similar position.

However if the baker is paid in pennies, has cost-of-living in pennies, but owes the banker £1000000 for his bakery shop, this causes problems. Same with back taxes etc.

On the other side, inflation is hazardous to creditors: the lender gets back less than they originally gave out (creditors also include those holding bank deposits)
> Do I trust Microsoft more to protect my long-term interest than some unknown group of open source maintainers?

Do you? I don't. Microsoft is exclusively profit-oriented, they'll sell all your information in a heartbeat if they believe to have a legal way to do it and that it won't kill them in the next 5 years.

A group of open source maintainers (the more radical the better) will not. They will (usually) not polish the product as well, and they might be difficult to deal with if you found an issue (but you _can_ talk to them, unlike Microsoft).

I definitely trust open source people more, because they do their thing for ideological reasons and based on principles, not to maximize engagement and ad-spend and their yearly bonus.
I guess what people mean by a Linux phone is a GNU/Linux phone.

The term isn't that accurate because the userspace might not be glibc and GNU coreutils etc. But I guess that's what people mean: a phone running X11 or Wayland, and the entire stack that comes with it, as opposed to the Android userspace (which does not use X11, and has a pretty different userspace structure).
I still suspect machine learning would be efficient enough at deciphering this kind of thing.
They are from vesselfinder [1].

[1]: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000
I think the point of the OP is that both definitions of freedom and liberty are going to be understood to mean different things depending on what people you are addressing.

You go ask the Kashmir people what they think liberty and freedom are, and I bet they will define it in terms of Islam and Hinduism.

Those particular definitions that you take for granted are a product of America being an immigrant nation populated by people who had at the time, little shared identity.

Now to your credit I will say, the Americans are probably the most far ahead in this domain. Most of the rest of the world are still stuck with a freedom-with-exceptions mentality.
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Understanding the runes of Perl and the difference between a "$" and a "@" etc are a lot more exotic than "ADD A TO B GIVING C." or "IDENTIFICATION DIVISION."

I think it's interesting you compare it to a punchcard, given that the 80 column limits and the fixed width layouts of COBOL (and FORTRAN) are entirely driven by punchcard layout.
The nerd in me finds brain interface research super-exciting and even participated in studies in the past.
The human is scared shitless at times. What if these things eventually work? I cannot imagine a world in which "mind reading" is not going to be terribly abused (and I am a rather nice and reasonable guy in general).

And the things that scare me are just the few things that we can easily reason about already, not even the things that we do not yet know being possible with it. Surveillance states turned up to eleven, psychological violence up to eleven, interrogation, torture, ethically challenged tech bros going full-Zck on people's minds. Could maybe one mind invade another brain and use it to enhance its capabilities (suppressing the mind that resided there so far)? A few brains interacting so closely that they create an a lot more intelligent thing - outpacing everyone who is not willing to subject themself to that (what would that do to society?)? What happens when the interface fails biologically (for invasive methods of interfacing), like developing inflammation, bleedings, scar tissue? Technically failures like the interface device dying, broken or unreliable connections or even just batteries running low? Before you dismiss the latter, imagine how you feel when you involuntarily cannot use your phone and scale that up by a lot - as you would not be losing a tool but a part of yourself.

Enough anxiety about the future for now - have a nice day instead ;)
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> In short, -a does not mean feminine.

Weeeellll... Latin doesn't distinguish nounal case endings from adjectival case endings. (I believe Russian does, which makes resolving certain grammatical questions much easier.)

But the gender of a noun is defined by the gender of an adjective that agrees with the noun. So quercus alta, a tall oak tree, is unambiguously feminine, despite ending in -us, because we can see that the adjective agreeing with it is feminine.

How do we know the adjective is feminine? That's easy, it ends in -a, and -a means feminine.

This tends not to support the theory that "-a does not mean feminine". :-/
I used Go to create different web apps. One example would be https://namesmith.io (shameless plug), which I created with the Revel framework.

Revel is often seen as anti-idiomatic because it's a whole framework but it is nice to get a web app going pretty fast (with Go). These days I have a lot more experience and I probably would choose echo or something similar. Not because I think that Revel is bad but because I have a lot more freedom with those.

For editing I mostly use Vim.

Generally I would say if you create web apps maybe choose something different from Go. It certainly can be easier/more comfortable. For APIs it's still great and one of the best choices IMO.
This isn't quite true - Scotland's income tax rates are slightly different from the rest of the UK's, so residence inside or outside Scotland is relevant.
Because she wanted to make a point by killing someone. I don’t think that’s plaque worthy
Happy long-term user here. I switched to DeaDBeeF from foobar2k shortly after I made the move to desktop Linux a good decade ago, since fb2k only ran very awkwardly in Wine at the time.

One advantage of DB is how simple and elegant its plugin API is. I remember fb2k's being the worst of the early-2000s high corporate C++ style (with a thicket of templated factory classes that were completely opaque to debuggers and IDEs); in comparison, DB's is a straightforward plain C interface with nary an unnecessary moving part.
For me Svelte is between React and Elm. It has some of its own syntax and operator for some benefits. It is better than React in some sense (obviously not in maturity) yet it is worse than Elm (no ML features). If I need to learn some new syntax it is better worth it (no run time exceptions). I am not sure what is the long term plan for Svelte. Is there any plan to address the shortcomings of JS (for example: undefined is a not a function)?
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Being home alone in a tiny apartment, the desk placed next to my bed - that's not the home office I want to spend all my time in.

With family and house, sure. But I literally don't have the real estate to make a nice home office.

Mixed mode works very well tough, I can go to the office if I want and stay home if I want, so I mostly spend 4 days in the office, 1 at home.
When people are at home and getting on with working you won’t get to run into them at the office.
Yes, last year the wheat crop in the UK was down by 40%. It barely got a mention in the UK press because there is a global market for it.
i'm optimistic here; you're not the only one and society will adapt to this new void if WFH persists. we are after all social and want to spend time with other people.

covid is still very much among us so don't expect much socializing until people feel safe to leave their basements.
Lindows came out in August 2001.

There's also ReactOS, though admittedly it's a non-Linux open source OS.
Obviously there are also numerous negative effects. That‘s why I qualified my statement like this.

To respond to the point you made: I am a young single guy loving on his own. Still, I do not mind the lockdown so much. Granted, I may not be very representative, but just another data point.
I'm don't have the number but unless there is a specific cause I think that content sites are not seeing donations as a good revenue stream.
Maybe Substack and such tools will be able to be a more sustainable solution.
But that’s the same now. Work in Carlisle and live in Dumfries and you get a Scottish tax code. Work in Dumfries and live in Carlisle and you get an English one.
> I've always learned of Simpson's paradox as relating more to different sample sizes when partitioning data

When you look at proportions based on binary outcomes it may be related to imbalanced groups but it's more general than that.

In the context discussed here of correlations between continous variables the groups can be of similar size.

See for example the chart here: https://towardsdatascience.com/simpsons-paradox-d2f4d8f08d42
This is literally the opposite to me. Running apt update/upgrade never breaks anything except a long time ago when I ran out of disk space during an update. This could have been handled better, but it isn't a usual scenario for me.
Wasn't the 32gb Macbook Pro infeasible (for battery life) initially because Intel kept on recycling their memory controller and it wasn't until the 8th gen processors where LPDDR4 was officially supported [1]. It appears that Apple gave up trying to do LPDDR4 on the 15/16inch [2] and released it with DDR4, while on the 13 inch they released a 32gb version using 3733MHz LPDDR4X [3].

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/05/17/intels-first-10nm...

[2] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/07/12/apple-refreshes-m...

[3] https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/13-inch-space...
Which makes my point even stronger and these politicians almost criminally liable for what they did. Telling people to go on the subway? Go to festivals? Unbelievable.
Is all of that loneliness from WFH or can some be attributed to National lockdowns and limits on social interaction outside your household?

In a post Covid world, WFH could involve coworking spaces and cafes. I expect that industry will grow massively over the coming years as we migrate into a more distributed working style. It’s a new way of doing things things and it’s going to take time to adapt and replace the social side of the office.
It amazes me people pretend this is something unexpected. Going to the office has always been undesirable and pointless for a lot of people. It’s only been employers blocking the progress due to their own insecurities.
The Wikipedia article about it mentions using Article V against itself, slowly erroding it and the Constitution.
That doesn't seem like the loophole Godel might be concerned about.
if he did find something more concerning then given his skills this looks like nearly perfect security by obscurity.
Reading this reminding me of Modern Digital Publishing and Layout still largely ignores vertical text. [1], and that is especially true on the Web.

[1] https://atadistance.net/2019/10/20/japanese-text-layout-for-...
Blind followers of ideologies don't need to get paid - they do it for the same reason that certain religious organisations do conversion drives.

You don't need logic if you're a believer working tirelessly against the unbelievers.
Living up to the name.
> In Latin, those nouns are grammatically feminine and would be referred to with feminine pronouns and modified with feminine adjectives.

This is not correct; dnautics mentioned a set of nouns which are common and always masculine. Textbooks generally cover this set specifically. Wheelock provides a list and the acronymic mnemonic UNUS NAUTA, which -- it points out -- doubles as a way to emphasize that nauta is masculine, not feminine.
The FSF still exists, you know. I just renewed my membership to show them some love.
Yes. Most of the simple stages just invoke the Spark Scala API - for example MLTransform invokes a pretrained SparkML model against a dataframe and returns a new one. You can see the standard Spark ML call: https://github.com/tripl-ai/arc/blob/master/src/main/scala/a.... You can add any plugin you want via the interface: https://arc.tripl.ai/plugins/

This is really defining a dialect that is more simple for Technical Business Analysts to consume that is safer than code and a notebook environment to interactively build with.
There's more out there:

https://itsfoss.com/macos-like-linux-distros/
I've turned offers down over that. I will not work for a company that claims "unlimited" vacation, unless they're at least prepared to specify a contractual floor.
> Is this a solution to the mythical funding balance the industry is failing to achieve?

For single projects this is definitely possible, at least theoretically. But I can't imagine it working for large ecosystems.
For the higher layers, Linux is an implementation detail of Android. If you write an app for Android, you write it against Android APIs and get little-to-no access to the Linux part, the graphics stack is quite different, ...
Just like taxation regimes have scrambled to keep up with the fact that you can order something from abroad and have ambiguity of where the sales tax will be applied - this is the next big thing about to happen:

High skilled, (comparatively) rich, healthy knowledge workers will leave the place they reside, move somewhere like Dubai (no tax, few free public services - doesn't matter they're not going to need them) to work for a company based - on paper, somewhere similarly - meanwhile the sick, aging and destitute back in the old country depend on tax-funded public services that have lost their tax base.

I don't know what the solution is - but it's something I think needs to be considered. Conversely, people might want to move the other way (say to the nordics), but, I'd wager it being heavily skewed in the first direction.