skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or because sequels often add new characters. And the Trump Republicans made themselves ridiculously easy targets...see the Four Seasons Landscaping fiasco, paying off Playboy models and pornstars, suggesting publicly that people inject themselves with bleach or somehow use sunlight internally...

People mock them because they do stupid things. Those are called consequences.
This makes me wonder: is it possible for ML models to be provably correct?

Or is that completely thrown out the window if you use a ML model rather than a procedural algorithm?

Because if the model is a black box and you use it for some safety system in the real world, how do you know there isn’t some wierd combination of inputs that causes the model to exhibit bizzare behaviour?
Coupled in the sense that it’s the university providing the certification as well. Contrast this with certain national school systems where local high schools provide instruction but your final exam papers are graded by a centralized national authority, which is what provides the certification. Alternatively, going to law school but getting certified by passing the bar, which isn’t under the direct control of your law school.
I thought this was overblown complaint until I ran into this issue. It was extremely frustrating.

But let's be honest, you don't buy Nintendo products for high quality gaming, you buy it because you always buy Zelda.
In fairness, back then C++ was a much smaller superset of C than it is now.
Symbian and BeOS are dead. Apple's software is written in C (BSD Kernel+userland), Objective C (not C++) and now Swift.

ARM "operating system" is hardly used extensively.

Arduino's are embedded devices and can be programmed in any language but are hardly applicable across the vast range and scale of Linux deployments.

IBM's primary operating systems that aren't Unix based are written in Assembler or even RPG.
> Project owners should be incentivized to seek consent, by threat of legal action from data protection authorities

Definitely agreed, and I'd want to have some form of strict liability for data breaches, based on what kind of information has been leaked. Currently, a company holding data about me (e.g. name, email address, phone number, credit history) causes a large amount of risk to me, but themselves carry no risk in case of a data breach. They are the ones who can decide to collect less information, keep shorter retention policies, or restrict access to prevent a breach, but they have no incentives to do so.

Yes, this would be a complete up-ending of many business models, but if your business model relies on collecting data without collecting the associated risk, it's a business model that society shouldn't allow to exist.
> Do we spend trillions of dollars a year on safer cars? No, but apparently if we use statistics we should.

Yes, we probably do, if you consider the cumulative cost of better engineering and safety technology on all the cars sold and serviced in a year, plus highway construction standards.

And that's before considering that personal car transport is probably _inherently_ dangerous, and most cities are trying to move to a higher percentage of walking and cycling.
From the article in contrast to what you said;

> Perhaps the true lesson to be learnt here isn’t about helplessness and giving up. It’s about getting up, trying again and again, and staying with the story till the end.

I find the possibility of contrasting interpretations absurd. The problem with using any dead matter for our meaning making needs is it is ultimately a self-referential justification for how we think we should feel, while being equally or even more prone to self deception traps.

AI being the object is irrelevant here, this is nothing different than astrology or divination from tea leaves etc. It is 2000 BC level religious thinking with new toys.
I’m probably the only one who gets Variable Length Arrays and Flexible Length Arrays mixed up.

But if I’m not… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member

FLA is the one where the undefined size array is put at the end of a struct and you carefully access it beyond the size of the struct itself. Usually malloc as you would with a VLA.

1. I’m sure Rust people really hate this idea.

2. I’m just realizing you could be really reckless point a FLA to a VLA used as a buffer, maybe I’ll set that up next time I’m interviewing.
Similarly I've seen A LOT of people posting stories about "chat bot exposed to internet started praising Hitler and became racist/sexist/antisemitic" as a proof that "supreme intellect sees through leftist political correctness and knows that alt-right is correct about everything".
I don’t use handheld mode and can still play BOTW2 - this is good.
Funny enough, this is my current gripe with learning CS in K-12 settings. The mindset I have on it is "we're just teaching it to them at younger age because they can't say no".
> You learn at the same university that gives you the degree.

In the United States, this certification happens at the institutional level. Universities are either accredited by either a regional body (good) or a national body (not so good). The accreditation process requires demonstrating that you have competent faculty, that these faculty have designed a reasonable curriculum from each of your degree programs, that the courses taught as part of that curriculum cover appropriate material, and that students are at least nominally assessed.

In addition to accreditation, there's also a reputation effect among employers. We know which of the universities in our region have strong CS programs, and which ones are not so strong. And there's a reason that employers prefer CS students from places like CMU/MIT/Stanford/Berkley/UIUC/etc. The names aren't just names -- those institutions have exceptional CS programs. I'm sure a student slips through the cracks here or there, but the median student from those institutions is almost certainly going to at least have a good background in CS.

> But we also know for a fact that having them decoupled can cause serious problems as well. For one you end up with brain dumps that study for the cert and not for the subject matter. We see this for MCSE as much as the SAT.

Frankly, I think the decouple-and-test model is substantially worse than the accreditation model. Have you seen the contents of the Computer Science subject area GRE? It's from the 1980s. The AP CS exam and model curricula aren't that much better -- definitely not what I would expect out of a CS 1 student at any decent university. In fact, I can't think of a single formal exam in CS that's actually a decent signal of even basic CS knowledge, let alone engineering skill.
... according to Larry Niven.
Is it feasible to “turn off the news” in 2021? I’m not so sure.
Whether it caused the downfall of the Roman Empire or not, is lead poisoining (used for water pipes and cooking vessels) the oldest example of technical debt?

Edit: just realized technical debt is a software engineering term. I still think it's a great analogy for how large unmaintained codebases rot over time.
From what I've heard (3rd hand :D), Rust has already made it's way into the windows kernel.
Linux has GPL linking exceptions so the full terms of the license do not apply.
It is a story about Fox News creating a weather channel. It is likely they will talk about climate change less than The Weather Channel, but we don't know for sure yet.

We have at least one clue that the political DNA of Fox News will extend to this new channel:

> "Fox Weather will be overseen by Suzanne Scott, the chief executive of Fox News Media, and Sharri Berg, a longtime Fox executive who helped launch Fox News at its inception in 1996."
Near the beginning of the pandemic people were told to sanitize surfaces thoroughly as a way to inhibit the spread of Covid. Many people had doubts about this guidance, but if you tweeted that such measures were ineffective, Twitter would censor you and/or label you as a spreader of misinformation. Months later, a study finally confirmed that the chances of catching covid from a contaminated surface was extremely low. Therefore, sanitizing surfaces was no longer recommended or necessary. But it’s not like Twitter’s trust and safety team is going to go back and unban you in light of this.

The key takeaway is, if you are comfortable with Twitter taking such actions with potential ‘misinformation’ then you must also accept that what is considered correct at any point in time is subject to a potential reversal. The staff at Twitter is just as fallible as the rest of us.
As far as I know, not every original SOC switch has this exploit, just ones from the first year of production or so. There are tools to lookup your serial number and see if you have a valid model. My switch has the homebrew exploit, but none of my friends' switches do, and they're all the first switch model but mine was purchased a few months earlier than the others.
Security health metrics for open source projects
Let Me DuckDuckGo That for You
What evidence do we have that it was anything other than normal flu?
For unreal, I think the first $1 million USD of lifetime gross revenue of the game is royalty-exempt, and then you pay. Then I think it is 5% of revenue. For unity it is free if revenue or funding is less than $100K in the last 12 months.

That is just the basic implication from a cost perspective. I am not a game developer but there is likely a bunch of other considerations, both legal and technical.
> And they always denied those rumors, never saying a thing even hinting in those direction.

Nintendo denies all reports of new products until they're released; regardless of if the rumor is right or not.
> Every couple of days I curl up on the couch at 10pm, scroll through Amazon Prime video, and pick something to see

I think this is big part of the problem. If you rely exclusively on a mainstream subscription service, you're not really going to be satisfied, and it's been that way for a long time now. You will be more successful selecting movies another way and paying for them individually if you need to. Think about the incentives or the selective pressure. Paying for movies individually selects directly for great movies, whereas the movies available on a subscription service just need to be plentiful enough and bearable enough to keep enough people paying for the service.

> To unthinkingly let a wave of content break over you

This is amplified by letting a subscription service choose your content. You can be an active consumer, for example by thinking critically of the movie after you've watched it, and I think that starts with actively choosing your films (or festivals, etc).

> In film, you start with the best and make your way down to the worst.

I think this is an interesting point. But there are so many great films. 819 is not that many, right? And as you watch more, I think you can appreciate more, too. A deep dive into Ozu is likely to be a lot more rewarding for an experienced film enthusiast than for someone who watches a few blockbusters a year. "Learning the tricks" means you can see how the director is playing with them.

I strongly recommend criticker for automatic recommendations. It is independent of a distributor. I've found it really quite accurate, and definitely good enough to skip the movies that will leave you feeling like you wasted your time and suggest movies you might not find otherwise.
Sorry, too late. The WOKE has condemned it already.
Here’s a link for you:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl

Eben Moglen is professor of law and legal history at Columbia University Law School.
Here, I fixed it for you.

"Console DO Track: A proposed unified standard for opting IN for telemetry for TUI/console apps."
Seriously what's up with people touting the ethernet port when it's only added because of the dismally powered wifi chip.It had to be throttled so as not to interfere with the BT joycons.

So, rather than fix the issue they throw in wired so people won't complain?

At this point they need to make a home console and a handheld separately. I love my switch (2.0),but the wireless issues drive me insane. No way in hell will I reward them by buying this version.
it is, generally, yes. But what shapes companies in the long-term is the degree in which they can stem this natural tendency.

I.E. Amazon vs Kodak. Blockbuster vs Best Buy
To use instead of https://lmgtfy.app
Hi, we added CI workshops into the docs in the past year: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/quick_start/ and worked on more learning resources at https://about.gitlab.com/learn/

The new CI/CD pipeline editor also improves the getting started experience, shown in a demo workshop in the GitLab 14 community meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSspEk8efHE

Can you elaborate a bit more on the CI configuration problems you are running into? Thanks!
Some people believe almost nothing is under their control.

These people have external locus-of-control. They don't change the world because they kickback and let life happen to them. Mostly, it's religious types who think like this and say "it's god's plan." Bullshit. They're learned helplessness cowards.
(disclaimer: IANAL)

You have basically just given a justification that crash reporting can be conducted based on legitimate interest instead of consent, and as such does not require opt-in.

Many people mistakenly believe consent is the only possible justification for data processing under GDPR, whereas there are actually 6 possibilities, and you can ask a lawyer which one can apply for a given data processing flow.

Note that whereas I do believe that crash reporting can indeed be considered legitimate interest, I wouldn't consider plain telemetry ("phone home without a technical good reason") to fall under that umbrella...
Need to get me one of these
I just found it interesting how you called them modern, they were probably some of the comedies I would call modern, and then I looked and realized they basically predate the founding of Uber.

Those movies you mention weren't necessarily made to cater to foreign audiences, Hollywood may have always enjoyed making money from foreign audiences but the balance has largely shifted over the last several years to the point where foreign box offices and audiences come first and determine what films get made and their content, that's a big shift in my opinion.
Linux kernel doesn't have clearance for high integrity computing, or being in control of machines responsible for human life's, Ada does.

Ada also has no exception allowed profiles and other mechanisms.

HN is not the place to hold a lecture on Ada features.

It is not a maybe, rather lack of knowledge.
What's new in Bryntum Web Components v4.2.0?
IMHO, Ada missed its chance to shine when it didn't have any satisfactory FLOSS build chain right at the time that paying for a compiler became a thing of the past.
The killer feature of Bitbucket over GitHub was that they hosted Mercurial repositories. Since they stopped doing that and deleted all my Mercurial repos I haven’t seen any reason to use them.
"supply problems" has always been a marketing tactic.

Nintendo is best in class for using psychology tricks.

Edit- I'm not referring to 2021, I'm referring to 2000-2020.
To have autonomy over their own medical decisions.
Same. I don't understand how it's still such a consistent problem for them, even years after the Switch first released. I've had better luck with 3rd party Joy Con-like controllers than the official product.

There are some games that are basically unplayable because the drift will unpredictably fuck things up. Like the new Super Mario Golf game, for example. I tried it with the old Joy Cons and the drift will randomly add curve to your shot and ruin the shot, and some of the challenges in Adventure mode in particular don't leave much room for error.
I wonder if this is on purpose. Like starbucks burning their beans: to ensure a consistent experience across the whole franchise.

`sleep(6)` on every click.
Neat. Is anything needed to disable SIMD in rust libcore? Maybe with this style of feature flag, core can maybe finally start using SIMD properly (conditionally)?
The VCR episode has the marvellous "THIS IS RECORDED ON STICKYTAPE AND RUST" experiment.
It's not surprising from the perspective of an "AI actor". But if you call it a "wolf", most people will assume that it will behave at least roughly like a real-world creature, and the self-preservation instinct is one of the most basic traits of all living beings, so the "AI wolf" not having that is indeed surprising for a layperson.
What others did is not fantasy but possibility. If your leaders cannot deliver that, replace them.
> This seems a bit handwavy to me

The article gives a statistical measure of the sheer impossibility of such a large effect. That is the opposite of handwavy.

> It essentially boils down to "the effect size is too big"

For this type of effect, yes. Again, the article gives a comparison of what a large effect size looks like for comparison, to help grapple with the sheer impossibility.

> but doesn't give alternative explanations.

Alternative explanations aren't a necessary pre-requisite for debunking a theory.

> Calling that a debunking is a stretch.

To the contrary, this article perfectly illustrates what a stretch it is to claim the large negative effect the absence of lunch has on a judge's ruling.
That was just god punishing you for being a nerd
Most people have no idea what "the norm" or "telemetry" even is so I highly doubt this would affect opt-in rates at all.
I liked the Gatsby comment/suggestion a lot better: a tool for automatically setting the do-not-track env flags for all different dev tools.
Thanks for the list! I didn't knew about the 'New' 3DS.

Though, I would still argue a 4K upgrade is a little far fetched. Nintendo hardware has always been less powerful than that of its 'competitors', who only recently started pushing 4K. (whether or not Nintendo actually competes with Sony and Microsoft is a whole other discussion :P).
This website strikes me nothing more than an idea that someone seems to be passing off as a movement. I feel like the negative reactions of the devs of the FOSS projects who got PRs from this person aren't that surprising. To me this doesn't seem to add that much value and I would probably bounce it from my project as well.
IMO, especially for short nouns, using the full name goes a long way towards making something more readable.

Using pronouns can very quickly become confusing. When someone says "it" are they talking about rust, linux, the kernel, linus's temper? Using "rust" instead of "it" completely removes that ambiguity.
From a professional perspective, what do you want to work on?

Web technologies? CI/CD, IT automation, etc.?

Or something more like operating systems, robotics, hardware, drivers?

Or do you want to self-educate for the sake of it, to learn different paradigms and be a better programmer in general? (Everyone wants to do this, but not everyone has the time).

Golang and Python are incredibly popular in the automation/"glue code" space.

Java is popular in enterprise development (think banks).

Systems languages are popular if you're developing... systems.
I just purchased my second switch recently and the only regret is the Lan port! It would have been nice to be there if I wanted to stream without having to buy an adapter to waste a port on.
I have internal statistics that 80% of Switch game instances are in handheld mode.

Docked-only features like DLSS are unnecessary.

Even with DLSS, the CPU heavily limits performance anyway.

Indies are making so much money on Switch that there is a guaranteed pipeline of titles, plus Nintendo 1st-party, to keep the system relevant for about another 3 years, until hopefully we see a Switch 2 with much more powerful CPU and GPU (with basic raytracing), still 720p handheld, with maybe a standalone dock with a DLSS chip for 4k docked.
In https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU Linus talks about BSD licenses at 8:30 (well, somewhere around there).

Its a good watch for the philosophical background on which license Linux is under and Linus's feelings about the GPL v2 and v3.

No, he wouldn't have used the BSD license - it didn't match what he wanted for linux.
You said the UK's violent crime rate is twice that of the US. This is at best misleading. Also, do you have a source?
Google will buy them in a few years and shut it down not long after.
True. But I don't think its only the populations. We have had a few clowns in Singapore who have expressed similar opinions. Yes, many of them have been prosecuted and charged for not complying, but I'm sure there are some who still have weird ideas about covid being a hoax or the vaccines being untrustworthy. (In fact we have had a lot of trouble convincing the older population to vaccinate some of them think the government approved American vaccines are too experimental)

Japan honestly has done a terrible job managing the epidemic if compared with the rest of East Asia. It cannot be clubbed with China. In China we do not actually know the amount of compliance as that data is not available to us. I know of at least one protest held in Wuhan during the lockdown.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-10/wuhan-ren...
It's probably non-trivial, but human time also has a high environmental impact, because we eat and use stuff (think about a parking lot full of shoppers or employee cars). If we are going to pay our environmental human cost anyway, better if our time is not spent doing boring things that we do just because of the money.
I think this might be the winning argument. There may not be any meaningful reason for telemetry to outweigh the bad actors and damage they've done.

For me, i'd love to enable telemetry for some of my more liked, FOSS apps - but even with those my question immediately arises "What are you sending?".

Without someway to monitor, are they sending filenames? Are they sending file contents? How much is it? etcetc

To satisfy my questions i need some sort of router-enabled monitoring of all telemetry specific traffic. So i can individually approve types of info... and that seems difficult. But the days of blanket allowances from me are long gone due to the bad actors.
https://online-go.com/ is the main & best web based server (and open source like lichess as well)
In my scenario travel in both directions would be disallowed for the time period. This also requires neighboring nations to do the same, as well as farther off countries to implement checks at the airport. All this was somewhat done regardless but in a haphazard manner devoid of full international cooperation.

So we suffered the major drawbacks anyway all while reaping a partial reward.
What Should Be a Student’s First Programming Language?
"linux-next" is the experimental branch for the kernel.

"The linux-next tree is the holding area for patches aimed at the next kernel merge window. If you're doing bleeding edge kernel development, you may want to work from that tree rather than Linus Torvalds' mainline tree. "

https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html
~3% of the time for sparring seems very low to me, even for a beginner. 15% to 35% is AFAIK more common among competitors (I practice Thai boxing).

Your first fight matchmaking may have been somewhat imperfect(?), or you are gifted :-)

I'm not an expert but observed that the best way to progress as a fighter, for most, is not by overwhelmingly drilling. Drills are necessary, and may be the main component, however to win bouts sparring becomes more and more determinant as technical flaws become more rare.

AFAIK B. Lee said "A fighter who trains without sparring is like a swimmer who hasn't immersed in the water" and "Remember, actual sparring is the ultimate, and the training is only a means toward this".
...and everyone's too proud(scared?) to admit they could be negatively impacted by environmental concerns.
ha!, you ought to go see what the 4chan mob is doing to the guy that decided to fork this project to undo those changes!