skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see rights being of intrinsic value how much a country, both its culture and regulators, protect them can be directly scored. you can argue what exactly those rights should be, and you can argue that a society can still be happy and productive without those rights, but you cannot argue that people have their rights when the gov't and their proxies in the business world suppresses them.

all that being said, I suspect there is less policing of speech on twitter in India then what twitter does to discourse in the states.
Using the loss aversion bias to get more users
Slackware is so OLD that it could not play MP3. You had to SOX into them into WAV first. This experience may vary, depending on your machine. 20 MHz machine could not play, 50 Mhz could. Another remarkable point in history was at 300 Mhz, when you could play VHS-quality video.
Yes, and many of them were involved. Would it make the downvoters less upset if I wrote "Western European" instead?
I visited the US twice, in 2014 and in 2016. So are you saying it was even worse 10 years ago? The most surprising thing I remember about US McDonalds is that a "small" drink was something like 500 ml. This is madness.
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There's ZenCad: https://mirmik.github.io/zencad/en/

I'm extremely impressed by what it tries to be, although I found it to be rather hit-and-miss stability-wise. Seems to be the work of a single gifted developer. I would love to see this tool mature because it's pretty much exactly what I want.

For programmatic mesh-based modeling - which is popular in the 3d-printing world but basically a non-starter for "real" CAD - Blender is starting to look quite promising. Blender's Python API is actually very nice for dealing with different coordinate systems (albeit a bit baroque when it comes to interacting with blender's knobs and buttons - although it's very discoverable thanks to the helpful API reference in the tooltips).
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it took me time to get that. very clever.
Sorry, is what automated? The machine doesn't call for a service technician automatically if that's what you meant.
Explaining changes in real-world data
It's the logical conclusion to neoliberalism though. We're already coerced to view our personal time as a finite resource we "spend" on activities and to constantly consider our return on investment, to optimize our leisure time for maximum enjoyment and recovery. Even friendships and relationships are thought of as transactional and talked about in terms of how much you get out for what you put in. And anyway how is your side hustle going? Do you really need to binge another show on Netflix when you could be writing that pitch deck?

Yes, not everybody does that and not everybody does that to the fullest extent, but it's the same ideology just applied to every last facet of interaction.

Of course this isn't how the web started. The Internet was built on military technology and first settled by scientists, amateurs and aspiring tech nerds. Everything was free because it seemed obvious that "information wants to be free", which really just meant charging for bytes more than it cost to generate, store and transfer them (i.e. deriving "surplus value" or "profit" if you want) seemed like a rip-off even when commercial BBSes started popping up. If you wanted to put an edge on it, you could even call the early web a form of "primitive communism".

But there's no reason to bring politics into discussions of technology of course. Running websites costs money and how else are people supposed to turn a profit on providing a service if we don't find better ways for them to charge visitors for access?
> Nothing wrong with that

There are many things wrong with that. Ethically, it's crap: denying people access to a pretty critical public good (and yeah, I wish car operation wasn't as critical and mass transit was a much more viable alternative and want to make that happen, but we are nowhere near there yet) due to circumstances--"unproductivity" in your words--that are overwhelmingly shown to be outside of their control is inequitable and cruel.

From a utilitarian perspective it's also super wrong: poor people generally outnumber nonpoor people (arguably an expected behavior of capitalism), and car autonomy is pretty critical if you want to increase your income; it opens up a lot more job prospects since, at least until robots rub everything, exclusively desk-work remote-capable jobs will be dwarfed in quantity by jobs that want you there in person.

Hell, even from an elitist/aristocratic perspective that's wrong: most poor workers are employed by service industries which provide services to the nonpoor, and increasing the cost of vehicle operatorship would reduce there quality (labor shortage) or increase the cost of those services.

But really, if the argument-from-ethics does not reach you, this is probably a waste of words.
I am actually a tad concerned that this article made it past 100 upvotes. It was my own treshold for giving an entry some attention, and I think it is time to give it a bump. I used to regard HN as collaborative filter for a wide stream of tech news, announces, tutorials etc, but recently an average quality of that filtered data became a bit disappointing. Or maybe it's just my own standard got higher?
This type of "creative games" lets users combine basic building blocks in the same way a word processor application allows to write entire books by combining a a limited set of characters. The limitations of strictly linear games like Last of Us are not because of technological restrictions but because it's hard to tell a cinematic story while still giving the user complete freedom.
That worked for awhile. But even Reddit has been overrun with coordinated marketing efforts to make sure you can't really get an honest review without checking every comments post history.
Exactly. Kubler-Ross, the author of the original "stages of grief" paper, has since tried to clarify her horribly misunderstood idea: the "stages" are neither essential nor sequential, but are merely some of the many ways in which people react to grief.
It would be cool if the signs could have a low density error correcting code on them (maybe even only using a paint that can be seen in infrared) that would let the computers have more confidence in what they're seeing.
The DoubleClick acquisition was the inflection point, even obviously at the time. Before that AdWords was reasonably in-line with Google's standards and culture.
Arxiv link (presumably not final version): https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09011
I only go to Allrecipes now for exactly this reason. It’s funny, people used to mock that site for the stupid reviews, but what matters can quickly change...
Certainly disgraceful, but I had to laugh because it read like one of those logic puzzles https://riddles.guru/riddles/einstein-zebra-puzzle/203/
it probably still a lot faster then a volkswagen golf. More like a wild spin on New Years'...
That’s a bit of a false dichotomy though. Although the original AdWords also made them an adverting based search engine, it made them massively profitable without violating anyone’s privacy.

It was the need to make even more billions that led them down the slippery slope of mass surveillance that makes everyone uneasy now.
I think a lot of those issues are more related to how bad C++ s rather than how amazing Rust is. I abandoned C++ several years ago for D and I can't imagine ever going back to C++. Similar issues, header files, no package management.
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This is the day that Microsoft releases a product using FreeRDP, the reverse engineered implementation of their own RDP protocol...
Many years ago I read an article where someone used a regular DSLR and a barn door tracker to detect exoplanets (ie planets that orbit a different star). This is what got me into astrophotography.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/diy-exoplanet-d...
Yes, you can have a legal right to manufacture it - which is to say the legal right to try without being sued or breaking a law. That's not the same thing as the legal right to manufacture it successfully, which is what the distinction would be.

The article is blurring the right to attempt to manufacture without legal restriction, and the ability to successfully replicate the formulation. This blurring makes sense from some points of view (especially from Jacobin's POV, and from an argument of immediate justice for the most people), but obviously falls apart from other POVs.
I only mean “marginally” insofar as living in a cabin with no electricity and growing your own food would use even less. We are all living very high energy lifestyles. The difference, as always, is on the margin. Modern conveniences and comforts come at a price, both ecologically and economically. It’s just a question of whether that price is worth it.
I think part of this is that recipes themselves are not protected under copyright. They fall under the provision of factual information.

1 cup of flour, 2 eggs, 1 cup of milk, 2 tbsp of sugar, mix until smooth is a shitty pancake recipe (I think, it's close), but there aren't many ways to say that that makes it novel. Recipes are essentially instruction on how to build food.

Where copyright comes into play for cookbooks and recipe sites are presentation. And that includes the stories. So while the recipe itself doesn't enjoy copyright protection, writing "In the early autumn morning, my grandmother enjoyed making the family the most delicious pancakes, she started by going out to the chicken coop and sticking her whole hand up a chicken's ass to get only the freshest eggs possible..."
H266 VVC looks impressive. Waiting to get my hands on fpga codec for testing.
Use case, State Machine, Sequence, ER.
I really like the expression "metadata analysis". It's very succinct, describes very much what AI/ML often boils down to in 2 (rather) simple words. I will try to remember this. The marketing guys in cooperation with journalists won the battle for now but words will be replaced by others again and again and even change their meaning, so maybe next time the shiny new technology will get more adequate wording? (well, maybe not in these times where clickbait wins it all)
Apparently the secret menu gives better error codes / feedback so that users are more informed and know how to avoid problems like "putting too much mix in the tank". Rather than being a means of just faking the parameters.
Technically they held true to this sentiment. Google Scholar doesn’t seem to have ads.
There are a bunch of these all templated exactly the same way. It’s fascinating.
I remember the moment when lag killed my hard core Diablo2 paladin.

Every game seemed more interesting when you had everything to lose. I found it interesting that this isn’t true for the general public, and all games started going easy mode to appease the masses (who wanted to experience games more like movies).
I think we’re up to 3.0 at least (perceptron, rules, shallow NNs)
I also have good experience with thespruceeats.com regarding in-depth explanations of food. I have to add that I'm using adblockers pretty heavily so I have no clue how bearable these sites are without it.

Anyway, it's pretty easy to turn this into a keyworded bookmark on Firefox for some quick searching:

https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=%s+(site%3Aseriouseats.com+%7C%7C+site%3Agreatbritishchefs.com+
%7C%7C+site%3Agreatbritishchefs.com+%7C%7C+site%3Athespruceeats.com+%7C%7C+site%3Abbcgoodfood.com)
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It was more the utter contempt he had for the poor. The assertion that poor people making use of resources is a "waste" is just wrong however you look at it - factually, socially, morally, economically.

Honestly surprised to see someone unapologetically make a statement like this, let alone have someone else back it up as an "uncomfortable truth". I'm not even trying to be PC or "woke" or anything. It was just genuinely that shocking to read.
It's a good 10-minute story, but it was needlessly stretched to 30. It was so long and repetitive that he didn't even have enough stock footage to fill everything and had to repeat each shot 3+ times.
I should perhaps noted that I was speaking from an EU perspective. The US seems to be doing great, I wish I could say that we are as well.
> What's the argument for building in debug mode

Sometimes optimized binaries are just a nightmare to debug. Symbols do not help.
It's time to start wearing masks inside homes to prevent Covid-19 – Indian govt
On the up side, the patented technique, including even the "withheld" parts, ought to be worthless by the time it expires, anyway.

We need legislation to eliminate withholding essential parts of what is patented.
I wonder this too. If so, and just turning it on didn't work after the 5 years, then the static discharge explanation for this button sequence sounds bogus.
The video covers this. All franchises for all companies typically do this overnight.
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> If it is part of the API of foo that `ptr` may be null, then foo must not dereference `ptr` without verifying that it is non-null. So the body of foo must be something like:

foo(int* ptr) {
if (ptr != NULL) {
...
}
}

then what ?

foo(int* ptr) {
if (ptr != NULL) {
*ptr += 1; // optional<T>::operator* would introduce a branch here ?
*ptr = *ptr / 2 ; // same
if(*ptr > some_constant) // same
{ ... } // etc etc
}
}

and compiler optimizations can't always be assumed, for instance debug mode (-O0) performance does matter
> Even this simple transformation looks less like spaghetti to me. Calls to this 'main function' now have much more context, compared to "top level" calls to itself.

That's backwards IMO. The first example is structured, hierarchical, organised. The second example is spaghetti because there's no difference between returning and calling, so all you see is a bunch of functions connected to a bunch of other functions.

> Hence we can avoid special-cases and handler-specific checks migrating their way into the 'main function'; even if we want such things, we don't need to pollute the 'main function' itself (or defunctionalised intermediate data) with such cruft;

It's the opposite of cruft; the whole point of defunctionalising is that you replace invisible control flow with a reified datastructure that you can actually inspect and understand. You can properly separate the concerns of "figure out what state we're in" and "actually execute the things that need to happen now" rather than sprinkling in special-case tests at random points in your execution.
As I read the comments (not watched the video yet) where people are discussing the misaligned incentives of both the ice cream machine vendor (Taylor makes money on maintenance) and the McD franchisee (ice cream is a loss leader), I was reminded that a convenience store chain here in Utah has a self-serve shake machine (I forget the brand name) that has always been broken when I thought I'd try it out.

I asked my wife, who goes to Maverick every day, if my perception that the shake machine is always broken was accurate and she said "yes. I've never seen it working. I've always wondered why they keep them because they just take up space."

Fwiw
I thought it wouldnt be suprising, especially that we're on news hacker out of all places
> the machine throws obscure error codes (too viscous, failure to heat to proper temps, etc)

Clearly they just need to adopt the modern computing style of error codes and just display a frowny face emoticon.
> even Reddit

no, reddit? i'm shocked /s

your implication seems to be that reddit should somehow be resistant to parasitic capitalism. reddit has been compromised and on the side of the advertisers since the beginning.
I said 50% not 100% :) At 2.5% in 16 years $100 is $148.45
Scripts where startup time matters.

Situations where you don't want the heavy-weight and complex JVM.

Cases where you need to interact with C/C++ code a lot (ML, etc.).

Companies where python is the norm and introducing another language adds a lot of overhead.
This article tries to be be even handed, and clearly points its claws at both companies but seems deferential to the issue of spying on users. Perhaps that’s the newspaper business’s perspective?
But the deal hasn't really changed, companies get protection for the things they reveal in the patent. The thing that has changed is that companies have recognized that they do not need protection/exclusivity, so they do not apply for it. This is presumably in part because they judge successful reverse-engineering to be sufficiently difficult to function as deterrence.
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I believe this way of understanding AI and its implications is quite sound, and it reminds me of Rodney Brooks' Productivity Gain[0] article, where he argues that we should focus on talking about "digitalization", instead of trendier buzz terms like AI or whatever is in vogue at the moment (the toll taker's job on the highway has not been replaced by a sophisticated robot, but rather by a transponder, along with the digital networking backbone it must rely upon).

[0] https://rodneybrooks.com/the-productivity-gain-where-is-it-c...
This would be a good argument if the road network was sized for transporting goods primarily. As it stands, road networks in population centres are largely sized to accommodate private motoring.
The same Mike Acton that now is an Unity employee, being one of the team leads on Burst compiler for HPC#, and not a big C++ fan anyway.
Because it makes for good PR for very little cost?
Honestly I hadn't looked into NZ, I centered my attention mostly to NA, Europe and China. It looks pretty good, and in the same level of coverage as France. That's a wonderful surprise! I'll keep that in mind if I ever go back to this subject.
> Voice recognition on the other hand keeps getting better because there's no tangible benefit for someone to game it.

Knock on wood! It is creepy to imagine a world where computers have the upper hand on vocal inputs but I already sometimes feel this way with text and autocorrect...
I suppose one might argue that if someone did not wish to consent to a feud or to owe weregild, that someone should have thought better than to perform whatever act incurred the penalty.
It's only an issue when you have a C callback that calls a Python code, because you have C code in the middle of your stack thus you can not move the stack frames back and forth (because the C code can reference stack addresses).

I may be wrong but most of the C calls in Python do not have callbacks and
you can pin the coroutine to the kernel thread if there is a callback.
When I tried this two months ago it was great:

https://www.JustTheRecipe.app

This recipe:
https://wildwildwhisk.com/basic-buttermilk-scones/

Turns into this:
https://www.justtherecipe.app/?url=https://wildwildwhisk.com...

I think there are Firefox and Chrome add-ons/extensions that do similar things.
Silent Hill 2 vs HD remake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GKtsHcJOMI
People are talking about debugging because debugging needs to be possible.

If you blow the stack in a debug build, your application fucking crashes. That makes debug builds useless and can make debugging some problems very difficult. Therefore we need a mechanism that guarantees the code doesn't blow the stack in debug builds either. "Only optimized production builds are executable" is not the path you want to go if it's avoidable.

If you don't have markup to enforce TCO in every build, some build will be broken or needs to use a different code path altogether to avoid such breakage.
They hired Eric Schmidt as CEO. That’s how it happened. Larry and Sergei were still in “don’t be evil” mode. But you have to be a little evil when this much money is involved, so they hired Schmidt to be evil for them. They then learned how to be evil under his tutelage. Schmidt is absolutely an ethical nihilist, just listen to any of his speeches on privacy and security.
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> Google page ranking depends on how long people spend on the webpage, so if you have to wade through longform text, it mistakenly assumes that the content is quality.

Is this true? I have a hard time believing it because it's a pretty naive assumption. A site that lets me get what I'm after quickly is generally going to be what I want.
How can we design inclusive and accessible curricula for computer science?
it is an important metric if it has substance, but according to the above it has very little variance. Knowing how many pregnancies failed versus how many failed prior to the event could give us a better indicator of the damage caused.
Yeah that's really interesting but information is exactly equivalent to energy and matter, with conservation relations and everything.

Information which is not present in spacetime literally does not exist.

That said, I invite you to communicate some of this other kind of information which exists outside of spacetime to me to demonstrate otherwise.

I'd be waiting here, but alas, without time and space...
There is another bit in the vid I watched there was a dongle they could buy for awhile. It was telling them exactly what they did wrong and how to fix it. Basically taking the obscure error code and turning it into human with pictures. The franchise dudes were extremely excited for it.

That lends a decent amount of credence to a 'process' issue. If that many people are messing it up. Then something is wrong either in the physical or training realm or both. I usually have to have this conversation every few years when someone says 'oh we will just train the users'. Then I go 'dude I know how this should work and I am totally lost, do you expect someone who does not give much of a crap about it to pick it up?'.

One thing the vid misses though is the lockout rate could be coming from mcdonalds itself in a different way. They do not want to end up on the wrong side of a lawsuit and bad publicity. Remember the lady who spilt coffee on herself, and got 2nd/3rd degree burns. That cost them a lot of time, money and bad press. So they may have set the machines to be oversensitive.
What happened to the freedom to have your money without it losing value without having to resort to risky alternatives to prevent it from happening?
For example, the Postgres interactive client, psql:

-?, —-help -> help info
-h -> set the host you are connecting