skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WHAT that shocks me!! John, i always had a soft spot for you...and thanks for protecting my w2k installations, rest in peace.
You got the continent wrong.

I don't have much of an opinion about McAfee, but it bugs me a bit when people who know less than I do have stronger opinions.
Yeah, I know I can recover, that's why I said they are equivalent of C++ exceptions (which can be caught as well). But this is not a recommended idiomatic way of handling expected errors, e.g. input errors, improper configuration, I/O errors etc.
Freedom to choose one's gender is a libertarian value. Would you rather the government pick one for you?
https://github.com/geekprojects/nuTensor
This second sentence is a bit too confident to be coming from just some random internet commenter. Feels very astroturfy. Do you have some sort of connection to "BMG"?
Yes, I generally agree with this. Fertile soil may abound for countless years before just the right seed takes hold. The presence of fertile soil should not eclipse what the seed becomes, but neither should "what it becomes" be seen as independent from that fertile soil.

If there is a "myth of the myth", it is only that the concept of "lone genius" focuses too much on the achievements of the seed, while the "myth of the lone genius" focuses too much on the fertile soil. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
The halting problem is to analyze a program and decide whether it will halt after a finite number of steps, or run forever. Your program is trivial to analyze. https://cs.wellesley.edu/~cs251/f20/notes/halt.html#the-halt...
What I like about C is that it can teach people the fundamentals of programming without imposing a lot of implicit structure on learners.

A lot of courses start with Java and I think that makes it really hard for students later to untangle the concepts of programming from the OO ones Java imposes on people.
Very strange that you are being down voted.
He wasn’t “found guilty,” it was a default judgement.
A backup vendor once pointed out that backup was the most misnamed product/function in all of computerdom. He argued it should really be referred to as restore, since when the chips are down that's what you really, really care about. That really resonated with the young sysadmin I was at the time.

Very similar to the story about the planes with holes coming back in WWII and the initial analysis of adding more armor to where the holes were, when someone flipped it and pointed out that armor was needed where the holes weren't since planes with holes in those spots weren't the ones coming back.
On the contrary my dear, Ada has been usable for 30 years before SPARK came to be, SPARK only makes it better by adding features that usually are only found in languages like Idris and Coq.
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/educational-pluralism-in...

"In reality, the U.S. is an outlier. Educational pluralism—a school system in which the government funds and regulates, but does not necessarily provide, public education—is the democratic norm around the world. The list of educationally plural systems is long, and it includes the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Belgium, Denmark, Indonesia, Israel, Sweden, and France."
John McAfee, se suicida en una prisión de Barcelona
Reliable (and potentially even publicly accessible) surveillance. Just livestream every moment of your life and keep logs in multiple locations.
But is that a world you want to live in? Where your wife or girlfriend is sleeping with her boss to ensure she gets a favorable raise and that's just considered part of being a woman?
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609027
Ok, so as someone new-ish to web programming, how should I understand the current relevance of 2012's Extensible Web Manifesto, and the dissatisfaction you're expressing about <datalist> and about Web Components?

I'm sure it's due to a failure of imagination, maybe my own or maybe more widespread, but I don't actually know what you'd rather have, since it seems that there is still no concrete (even experimental) prototypes for kind of custom elements that you're envisioning. What am I missing?
McAfee is not dead, just uninstalled.
> I mean, sure he built some antivirus software a few decades ago, but I don't think he deserves the eulogies he's getting here.

Surely having built an antivirus us corroborating evidence of evil intent?

I find it unlikely that the product he created less damage to computers and user productivity than what it protected them from, especially in the last 15 years or do.
The exponential backoff existed in iOS 5, IIRC.
I wouldn't call the latter an entirely new concept, it seems to have supplanted the concept of 'fighting words' - though that was speech that necessitated violence, the place it held in society was largely the same.
I feel like pretending to listen, which is what he is doing, is worse than saying "go fuck yourself" because then it would be honest. I find it bizarre you find his feedback genuine, as to me it's the same thing as "go fuck yourself" but neatly wrapped up in a "I pretend to care what you say" format.

If he came straight out and said "I don't care about your opinion and here's why" I would respect him. Instead he just talks over the people he's pretending to listen to.

His job should be to solicit feedback, not dictate it. And if he's going to dictate it I wish he would at least be upfront about it.
John McAfee is to Terry Davis what Jim Carry is to Adam Sandler
Aristotle is pretty clearly not a lone genius -- his philosophy is a direct descendant of Plato's (who was his teacher). He even (reputedely) began by writing dialogues (like Plato. These are now lost). And though he has been the perhaps the most influential (entirely because of his adoption by Islamic and then Christian scholastics in the middle ages), he had numerous contemporaries (Diogenes and Xenophon are standouts here). But those thinkers work is simply lost to us, or was never written down (Socrates for example never wrote down his teaching and it was controverial of Plato to do so).

Aristotle is one of the worst examples to give for evidence of the "lone genius", in any case. His work is clearly the output of constant dialogue with his students and with his contemporaries. It primarily consists of considering the various pre-Socratic, Platonic, Sophist, and other philosophical views of his time, and showing how they don't solve pressing philosophical problems (the aporia) then forming an argument which adopts parts of their thinking and rejects others so that the philosophical impasse can be overcome. If anything he's a synthetic thinker, a unifier of the whole of Greek thought (that is his particular genius). He's nothing without his contemporaries.
>> "and well-meaning attempts at gender reassignment surgery for them"

This isn't actually a thing. Certain factions who would prefer trans people cease to exist push this idea that kids are on this hot new meme of getting their bits flipped before reaching the age of consent, but it is simply not a thing. No top surgery, either.

It just isn't a thing. It's a wild fantasy. The only thing kids can go on are puberty blockers. These are well-tested and their effects known and understood through their use for other medical concerns.
> Nostalgia is the antagonist of new voices, not the friend.

There are negatives to nostalgia - but this isn't necessarily one of them. I would use vaporwave as a counterpoint. (Or any resurgence of a genre.) The nostalgic element is the familiar part; the artist might then be unfamiliar. I personally discover new artists all the time in these nostalgic genres.

Not arguing against your general points about writing vs fashion. (And you make a lot of fun points!) But I don't think a rebirth of hypertext styling is dead in the water. Podcasts were originally seen as just the rebirth of AM radio. And they were - but it turned out to be time for that - and enough innovation transpired that they stuck.
I can't tell if you're joking, but if not I use it because it's a reliable, free git server.
Difference is it is fairly clear cut to say that the state does not need to murder people already in custody.

It is harder to get a clear consensus on how to handle crime and imprisonment in general. It's a problem without a single good solution.

Whereas the solution to police brutality incidents like George Floyd should be pretty simple in comparison.
A lot of down voting of perfectly reasonable comments in this thread...
GitHub issues should not be used by non-technical contributors though (imo)
"Likely" != "in my opinion"
I wasn't sure whether to post my edit as a separate comment or not, but I significantly expanded my comment just now, that helps explain my position.

I'd be very interested in your thoughts on that position, because if it's mistaken, I shouldn't be saying it. It represents whatever small contribution I can make to fellow new ML researchers, which is roughly: "watch out."

In short, for two years, I kept trying to implement stated claims -- to reproduce them in exactly the way you say here -- and they simply didn't work as stated.

It might sound confusing that the claims were "simply wrong" or "didn't work." But every time I tried, achieving anything remotely close to "success" was the exception, not the norm.

And I don't think it was because I failed to implement what they were saying in the paper. I agree that that's the most likely thing. But I was careful. It's very easy to make mistakes, and I tried to make none, as both someone with over a decade of experience (https://shawnpresser.blogspot.com/) and someone who cares deeply about the things I'm talking about here.

It takes hard work to reproduce the technique the way you're saying. I put all my heart and soul into trying to. And I kept getting dismayed, because people kept trying to convince me of things that either I couldn't verify (because verification is extremely hard, as you well know) or were simply wrong.

So if I sound entitled, I agree. When I got into this job, as an ML researcher, I thought I was entitled to the scientific method. Or anything vaguely resembling "careful, distilled, correct knowledge that I can build on."
I have hard time believing this, either that he died or his motive. Tax evasion has one of the most lenient punishments of white collar crimes.
Truly the latter. He was not a well-adjusted, grounded individual.

Also, what benefit is there to the US to kill him? They already won. Being able to kill people you have custody of is a weak message compared to "nowhere is safe from us".
U.S. Software Mogul John McAfee Dies by Hanging in Spanish Prison
The counter argument to this is that African Americans are more likely to commit crimes because they are, on average, more poor because of systemic racism, not because they are biologically predisposed to committing crimes.
This reminds me of Northeastern's CS undergrad curriculum. First semester we learned Racket (a basic functional Lisp language). Then second semester we learned Java, but in a strange functional way (kind of like writing Java "as if" it was Racket, often using one-line functions and recursion). Afterwards you learn more traditional Object-Oriented development and algorithms, then branch off into (optional) web-dev, distributed systems, embedded systems, ML, etc. or go back into higher-level functional / OOD-style classes.

At least from my understanding, this doesn't seem to affect students when they gradate, e.g. they aren't programming any different then any other college. Although, Northeastern grads are supposedly known for being good developers. Maybe that's just the rigorousness of the curriculum itself.
No it is not the time, we are post hype now
> Things like gender identity, women in tech, genetic differences, etc are all wonderful smokescreens to allow us to post politically but maintain a solid veneer of simply having an intellectual discussion on a topic of general interest.

Especially when it comes to these topics, I imagine it's very easy for people who aren't affected by these issues to "debate" them *because* they aren't the ones directly affected by it.
Thanks! I spend a lot of time tweaking the UX. Its not easy to build a fluid and fast experience (especially on mobile).

The user base is still small, which is fine, as there are still many small issues to fix. I'm having a lot of fun developing this and hearing the feedback of users.

I started the project mostly for myself, to have a more integrated topic exploration tool, but things grew to also be of use to others. I think the main use case is just learning about topics of personal interest. I would like to experiment with some social features in the future (eg. ephemeral audio chat for topics).

Anything you would like to see?
On Stoicism: I suggest to avoid poor remixes (e.g. Ryan Holiday) and pop-Stoicim videos like the plague and seriously engage with the originals for at least two years (yes). See my other comment here[1] for suggestions on robust English translations.

Also, Marcus Aurelius is overtaken by macho guys and business people. Why not? It's nice to associate yourself with a Roman emperor (hence the book titles like "How to think like a Roman emperor" -- avoid this). How about associating with a crippled ex Greek slave, Epictetus, who had a profound influence on Marcus? Doesn't have the same ring to it.

Further, many people don't know that Marcus was a deeply melancholic man. I don't recommend at all to start with his work. I'm saying this after I've read a few translations and a scholarly treatise on his work. (If you wonder where to start, might want to have a gander at this[1].)

And here's the cherry on top from science: the celebrated neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky in Behave (and Joshua Greene in Moral Tribes) talk about experimental evidence on how "virtue ethics (Stoicism is an example of it) is on to something", in a cheerful sense.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22990579
He has lived a very interesting life, to say it mildly. I can think of worse lives to have lived, especially considering how rich he was, how salacious a life he lead with his drug-and-sex filled decades and even killing someone. Ending it via suicide in a Spanish prison seems just about par for the course given the rest of his life.
The statement has a lot to do with current tropes: that's exactly what "product of the times" means.

Cf. a "sign of the times": something that shows the kinds of things that are happening, popular, important, etc., in a culture at a particular period in history.
Institutional changes take time. Even with all that additional funding, it's still the same teachers teaching the same kids in the same schools. If the level of funding remains stable and the society gives the schools and the teachers sufficient autonomy, you may expect results in 20-30 years.
>Surprised this wasn't implemented as whole filesystem encryption and then just overwriting the secret key in the SE instead of dealing with the time/battery cost of an incomplete wiping of "passcode-protected data."

It is; it zeroizes the KEK. Nothing is slowly wiped from end to end.
The restaurant is in a much better position to make that decision though. Uber might have high fees and it still might make for phenomenal business. But you would judge the high fees and go somewhere else thus harming the business.

Capitalism isn’t perfect but this is pretty elementary stuff. Information asymmetries are why price is so important: it encapsulates everything.
Oh, the silent downvoting, I noticed it once than more.

And on two occassions, it seemed as if somebody was so vindictive as to visit my comment history and downvote tens of older comments from threads that were a few days old. At least I cannot explain the unexpected loss of precisely 1 karma point from multiple comments in multiple threads at once.

I wonder how such people look into the mirror without feeling even a slight pang of doubt about themselves.
Just to be clear: We're saying it's admirable to kill yourself rather than face the consequences of your illegal behavior? That's what we're respecting in this thread?

The man was believed to have committed a litany of offenses including attacking other humans but "he was so respectable because he never let them convict him"?

"Bad rich guy kills himself in pathetic attempt to avoid justice" would be my preferred headline personally.
It worked for Al Capone.
I will leave it as an exercise to you to describe the difference between calling someone by their preferred pronouns and treating them like royalty.
Was he convincted of murder, or are you acting as the judge and jury based on third hand media reports?
> In some sense, I know it's my fault: I'm basically telling them that their bloodline ends here, I hope they enjoyed their transient acknowledgement on this earth while it lasts. That's a tough pill to swallow for a generation that's all about making the idyllic "50s family" a reality.

That is an uncommonly insightful and empathetic characterization.
It's not a tax drain though. It funds things like higher education and healthcare. Things that most Americans have to pay out of pocket if they want which entrenches the lack of class mobility in this country. Imo the european system is better.
Really interesting read. Wish I had read this before I built my Django app. Oh well, we learn. Thanks for the awesome info.
China Deleted Covid-19 Data, Seattle Scientist Recovers Some of the Data
If it doesn't go under and one finds themselves like in great depression.
My understanding is that mapbox-gl-native dropped node binding support prior to the fork; the code is still there but the build system can’t build it. I’m hoping to help maplibre bring it back up to a working state.
Wow. This is amazing. Well done
Anyone can sell a proof of ownership of the Mona Lisa, too. That doesn't mean that the proof of ownership in the Louvre is worthless.
McAfee was an obviously unhinged lunatic peddling fringe nonsense. You can make an argument that cryptocurrency poses a threat to the state, but a 75 year old man who spends 16 hours a day rambling on twitter about fringe stuff does not. The available evidence points strongly to a deeply mentally ill guy facing life in prison and killing himself.
Pronouns are defacto and typically dejure certifications.

Do you think previously male transgender women should be permitted to enter women's athletic competition?

Do you think it is trans-phobic to say you wouldn't date someone who was transgender?

Do you think misgendering a transgender individual should be a "hatecrime"?
Virtually none. In fact trans people are vastly more likely to be victims of the sorts of things that the people pushing those policies argue those bills are meant to prevent.
Do you realize you are ditching a conspiracy with a conspiracy?
> There's a line in there somewhere, and it's the court's duty to draw it.

No, not really. The courts often make an effort to narrowly define their rulings.

Every last circumstance, and every last exception, does not need to be ruled on, immediately. Those can be addressed, as they come up.
Anti-virus in all respects, I guess.
Of course they do. If I order a huge meal, they will use more electricity and gas (no matter how incrementally small).

But the question remains: who cares? Their payment processor will charge by value. Do you demand to know who their payment provider is and what their terms are?
RIP John
I think many times coming out is about reconciling expectations with reality. If people assume one thing about you but that is not the case, coming out can be a way to correct assumptions. In a sense, not coming out can feel like lying to those close to you.

It can also have the effect of making a relationship more close...sharing something intimate with someone can strengthen a friendship (or, obviously, break it in some cases).
Where or when can we get these chips/boards?
I don't believe anyone here was holding off discussing any particular topic until we got the go-ahead from oofbaz. You don't get to decide what we discuss. If you don't want to discuss it you can close the tab and move on.
You'd group the repos together in an organizational project and open the issue there.

https://docs.github.com/en/issues/organizing-your-work-with-...
Those really aren't good questions at all.

He was imprisoned awaiting extradition for tax evasion charges, so guilt wasn't really determined yet. He did flee the US to avoid these charges and has since racked up a considerable trail of charges from foreign governments.

We'll probably never see direct evidence of his death. But suicide is plausible, given his history, I'd certainly believe he'd contemplate suicide when faced with a life in prison.
or he was mentally unstable and not being treated for that...
I mean, I haven't done the analysis myself but "I'll tell this story so that if I take the cowardly way out my reputation will still be protected and the conspiracy theorists will keep my legend alive forever" has a > 0% chance of being the motivator here.
An easy way to run “classic” Mac OS applications under macOS
> predatory trans women

How about predatory men pretending to be trans-women?
>Aren't you being the "authoritarian" by insisting on calling people by the wrong nicknames (gender) ...

Of course not. I'm perhaps being an asshole, but authoritarianism is a concept applied to policymaking, not manners. It roughly translates to the belief that institutions should have more power over individuals. Calling people the wrong name, no matter how mean-spirited, is expressing no such belief.

The point is that certain things -- bad though they may be -- are not to be legislated. You may disagree with this premise, and you may even be correct, and that would definitionally make you lean towards authoritarianism.

To reiterate, many people -- myself included -- agree with you that it is unkind to call trans people the wrong name. Where you seem to disagree with us is that we find the prospect of things like compelled speech to be terrifying and fundamentally at odds with the principles of liberal government.
I dunno. From a UXR perspective, issue tracking is frigging amazing.

You can learn so much about what the user experience is from just having them tell you what's wrong. It's a real bummer though: most of the people responding are about as far removed from UX researchers as you get: almost no ability to put themselves in the shoes of others.
The new URL is not available from EU
> It places cis-women in a very uncomfortable position of having to birth and raise a child created from sexual assault or have an abortion.

I want to be very clear: I do not want this to happen. I don't want any woman to be raped, especially not impregnated as well. But my point still stands: this does not happen on any sort of regular basis. I do not think you're arguing in bad faith here, and I hope you see that I'm not either. Segregating trans women from cis women does nothing to protect cis women. Implementing this segregation across the prison system would not impact the occurrence of prison rape by half a percent. But by insisting that trans women are a threat to cis women, you are hurting trans women. You are playing into and amplifying a very popular narrative in our society that trans women are deceptive, dangerous predators. And this leads to legislation that harms the whole trans community.
South African here, I’m also wondering how they acquired so much Bitcoin.

The figure is slightly inflated as it’s the value at Bitcoin’s high earlier this year, but it’s still a lot.

My theory is lots of international customers as I don’t see our market being big enough, thumb sucking, but I reckon 2/3 of our country earns less than 500USD a month. Maybe their customers are from other African countries, but it feels unlikely to be enough.

Perhaps they had some “whale” clientele from several different countries.

I wouldn’t personally think the “Afri” in their name is particularly meaningful, it’s just a naming thing, but maybe some people treat it differently.
In general yes, but it takes on a different form when the person is an eccentric that has very publicly challenged powerful authorities and has been both the source and target of disinformation campaigns.