skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People didn't expect better hardware to get 4K.

let me introduce you /r/nintendo lol. I do see your point. Mid-generation upgrades have been done before and they can work. I still don't think it's necessary. Ultimately developers have to target the old hardware still, so it's not like games will change drastically, and it causes confusion for consumers. That's just my opinion of course.
I don't think your story about Twitter banning skepticism about surface cleaning is true. I remember being involved in several long Twitter threads on that topic with no one being banned.
Agreed - dismissing the lab-leak theory early on without conclusive evidence either way was certainly suspicious.

Any scientist worth his/her salt shouldn't dismiss any theory outright without having hard data to back it up.
Interesting. I have quite a few old GSM phones which only recently I started powering up using a power supply - No hope to repair/clone batteries except maybe nimh ones - and in some I had issues recognizing a relatively modern SIM cards. Maybe I need to write a post with them powering up just of the fun of it
You're getting downvotes because you are posting facts. That's a pattern on HN. People don't like your facts, so they downvote to try and get it to disappear.
> 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.

Yes, I'm aware of accreditation and the process. I've served on a department advisory board for about 5 years now and have seen the process via ABET first hand. I hate to disappoint you, but these accreditation agencies are box-checkers and they don't do too much other than publish some guidelines and look at course material. The university could lose the accreditation and teach the same stuff and nothing would really change for students - in a vacuum student outcomes would be exactly the same except that as you mention...

> there's also a reputation effect among employers.

This has not much to do with accreditation. CMU, MIT, Stanford, etc... could lose their accreditation and nothing would change for the university. Their reputation is far stronger than the governing body. The exceptional programs that are there exist without consideration to ABET. It's just not meaningful. If they said "we are no longer complying with ABET" (at least for engineering) it would discredit ABET and not the university. Not all universities transcend this, but I'd say most brand name ones do (Ohio State, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia, etc.). I'd bet a survey of employers and students would show very little knowledge of the existence of many of these accreditation bodies. It's just a battle not worth fighting professors over, and the accreditation bodies don't look too hard because why kill the golden goose? Everybody just winks at each other. I guess think about accreditation bodies as insurance.

Anyway, that's just my take on these accreditation bodies. I'm sure some are better and some are worse.

But my main point was that education itself is decoupled from certification. The employers (as you mentioned) care about certification, but that is the degree from the prestigious university, not whether ABET says that the curriculum meets some standard. You can learn computer science or any other topic to a high degree of proficiency, but employers still care about the certification. So you might as well just get the certification if you care about education as a means to a job.
Works for me on FF 89.0.2 64-bit Win10 20H2.
This 100%. I find myself not buying that much on Switch these days because it just runs so poorly. To the point where I question why I even have a Switch at all.
How An ambitious African cryptocurrency startup failed
Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs
Lol, turn out fine. Health condition is not binary. There are way more nuances between healthy, hospitalised and dead. We are only now getting a better picture of the aftermath.
What, and whom, do you think BS was lampooning? I'd expect a true modern successor to lean pretty far toward the "woke diversity-inclusion drama" side of things.
If you're happy with the command line, using something like pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/) is worth serious consideration rather than rolling your own. It is GPLv2 and has a number of benefits, including the fact that your passwords are stored encrypted in a git repo and if you do "pass edit" it will call out to $EDITOR to do your edits, putting encryption/decryption and git transparently on both sides.
Triple Frontier: The Tri-Border Between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay (2012)
If we play the analogy further: life is suffering, apart from the brief ecstasy of eating sheep. The AI was trying not to suffer, thus chose the boulder.

Did my best to translate the (misguided) fitness function to fiction.
AI measures how much time politicians spend on their phones during debates
This is incorrect, Ada's spec leaves open the possibility for GC, but none is mandated or even used AFAIK. The GNAT runtime is non-GC.
I feel like RDJ would've been cancelled into oblivion if it came out in 2021 and he weren't the posterboy for the entire comic book movie genre.
I don't think Tropic Thunder "would be allowed to be made" when it was made.

I still don't quite get how they managed to get a movie centered around a character in black face made, even though it was obviously a parody.
Yeah it is, but it involves curating a lot of your online experiences and media consumption habits. It may involve losing contact with some of your online friends on social networks if they (re) post news. And with 'rona restrictions,
"offline" alternatives / distractions have been limited.
This is a bigger point than it might sound. While "learning C" doesn't sound like a huge task, learning C well enough not to create disasters when working on a kernel, is a huge undertaking and requires a lot of experience.

Being able to do kernel development in Rust should lower the entry barier into kernel a lot. Because it has more high level constructs and especially for all the safety Rust brings. Any competent programmer should be much more comfortable to start kernel dev with Rust than with C.
Much more relevantly, what evidence is there that this wasn't flu? That is where you need to start. You can't assume your conclusion and demand everyone else disprove you.
There are like 100.000 topics that the overlords are not allowing to be touched. Yet a big portion of them would be very popular to the audience.

After all, cinema is just media and media is part of warfare.
Sure! But it's a bit surprising that they do not use the language-provided linear solver and write simply f=A\b
Strict local gun laws in the United States is a like having a "no peeing" section in a pool.
A standup is the producer/director/writer/actor for the program. An sitcom/romcom has multiple producers/directors/writers/actors involved, so there is a much broader level of editorial. The producers deciding what directors/writers to hire is in and of itself editorial control. The writers agreeing what jokes to use is editorial control. Even the actors will get their say while on set with lines like "i just don't feel this is what my character would say", then you get rewrites onset.

TL;DR: of course a standup's routine is much less scrutanized than any other type of content by the nature of it.
This rant is pretty silly. Nick Lamb's took the time to refute it on that thread; you should acknowledge that before continuing to cite your thread as if nobody had corrected you.
> The generated code is no longer source code. Giving it an appearance of source code and even distributed as source code, is wrong.

Yes, exactly.
I often hear the following invalid argument: "I don't care about code availability, I won't look at it!" to which my response is: "You won't look at it, but other people will, and when they contribute back, you will benefit too."

Saying that the source availability is not important because you won't use it is like saying free speech is not important because you have nothing to say.
You're either a bloody liar, delusional, naïve, or don't have functioning eyes.

- Famine in Yemen. Ongoing.

- Famine in South Sudan. Ongoing.

- Two years of drought in certain countries would push the world into global famine. Climate change weather patterns like Oregon/Canada and the ongoing mega drought in the US west and SW are just previews.

- Millions and millions of homeless in America. I can see the camps and tents in every major city.

- Standard of living decreasing. Real wages declining.

- Mass shootings every day.

- More prisoners per capita than any other country.

- Doing absolutely nothing effective about climate change... which is going to kill us, most species, and the planet.

- The threat of global nuclear war over Taiwan is very, very real.

- Healthcare costs soaring, life expectancies plummeting.

- There is no democracy, it's a plutocracy. The very rich own the majority of Western countries outright.
The similie fails since software tracking in programs you run are agreed to by you when you accepted the license agreement.

Yet another reason to prefer free as in freedom software, which can be forked.
In America you don't need to be rich. Plenty of areas where land is absolutely dirt cheap, as long as you don't mind not really living next to anything and building your own buildings.
> An access restriction order can also require app stores to remove an app from being downloadable by UK users.

Somehow I think that the government won't be satisfied to just have E2EE chat apps removed from app stores, they'll also want them to not be side-loadable onto phones, or installable on laptops.

It's only a matter of time before Apple’s OCSP system and Microsoft's TPM requirements get conscripted into enforcing these restrictions too.
NZ's strategy only makes sense with eventual vaccines. There is no chance that this disease would ever not become endemic. The world is too large, and too many countries don't have the advantages NZ does (comparitavely wealthy, isolated, low population density). They deserve props for keeping their population healthy until this point, but the idea that it can continue indefinitely, or that it was ever feasible for a large proportion of the world to replicate it is pure fantasy.
Yes, good question. One reason is that I haven't found a convenient portable way of modifying Linux keyboard configurations. Another is that sometimes I'm SSH-ing in from a machine that isn't even Linux.

I have used xkbcomp to replace a character I don't need with one I do, but the recipe tends to require maintenance and I don't know how to program dead keys with that approach. Perhaps there's a better way nowadays.
Finding a co-founder isn't easy.

If you're not having any luck, consider MassLight.

MassLight offers software development, and capital (up to $100,000USD) in exchange for equity. A whole team to build your product, they often take CTO roles too.

Take a look at their website: www.masslight.com

REMOTE, USA only.
> Covid-19 only mutates when it has a pool to do so

Have the vaccines shown to prevent infection and transmission, or only reducing the chances of getting sick? If not the case, will variants still develop among a mostly vaccinated population?
> So implicit biais is not just external to the programmer, it's definitely caused by the programmer.

I agree in the case of things like facial recognition, but in the case of search results, Google can’t exactly choose whether websites it indexes present “Black teens” in a poor light and “White teens” in a good light. Perfectly unbiased algorithms trained on data produced by society will always exactly reflect the unfortunate biases of society. (Ironically, attempting to correct for society’s biases in the algorithm would by definition bias the algorithm itself!)

This is (likely) not the case with Amazon drivers, since the training data are (presumably) strictly job performance-related, e.g. fraction of on-time deliveries, or number of times a worker showed up late. And even if these happen to correlate to demographics (e.g. if Black workers lived further from the warehouse than White workers [or vice-versa] and were thus more likely to show up to work late), tracking employees based on their on-time performance is not bias on Amazon’s part, since a White worker who showed up late would be just as likely to be fired as a Black worker who showed up late. The fact that one demographic (by no fault of its own) happens to show up late more often is not bias on the part of Amazon.
> India openly admits putting activists in prison on bogus charges. What a relief, a shining example of democracy in action.

Name five democratic countries which has not done this?
I've never had that problem with the official wii adapter as far as I've noticed.
Hey all!

I recently had some personal stuff which made it necessary for me to cut back on the hourly commitment I could make to work, but found it difficult to find contract, part-time, freelance (anything not full-time) jobs through traditional means, so I built sidequestjobs.

It's an aggregator, so it gets jobs from various sources and curates them into part time, freelance, or contract based positions. I'm hoping to add more sources over the next coming weeks, but I wanted to post it to get some feedback now.

Thanks for checking it out!
Airplane will always be hilarious, fight me.

And Blazing Saddles is the poster child for "could not get made today" arguments.
White Animals in the World Albino Animals in Hindi
One should not simplify the work of a group people at the price of the entire community.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/bbc-tv-licence-v...
Sitcom: a television series that involves a continuing cast of characters in a succession of comedic circumstances [Merriam-Webster].

The Simpsons is most definitely a sitcom, just one that happens to be animated.
Gratias tibi ago. Falsa doctrina oportet projecticius.
Well it’s also because we didn’t see much done with the GPL’d source releases for his engines, just small improvements and standalone mods (The Dark Mod, Xonotic, etc)

No commercial game developer is willing to ship a game with GPL’d code because the license is incompatible with most middleware and console SDKs. We missed out on what could have been a free and open competitor to Unity or Unreal.
Which is not something I want. If I wanted something more complex I would use TeX.
I don't really think the evidence tells us that armed civilians deter tyranny, in fact tyranny can be extremely effective at suppressing an armed populace. There are plenty of examples of this in the world right now and recent history. Chechnya, Syria (in which Assad is still very much in control), Iraq under Saddam, now Myanmar which is rapidly growing an armed resistance that's laudable, but almost certainly completely futile. There are plenty more. India in Kashmir, Pakistan in Baluchistan. More guns? Easy, just pile on more repression. It works. The only way out of that is a full on militarised civil war with armies and everything, but armed civilians on their own just aren't enough.

Personally I'd rather put my trust in democracy.
> It takes 3 to 7 years to see some negative consequences of vaccines

Can you also cite a source for this claim please?
> Airplane! is another movie that "wouldn't be allowed to be made today"

Yes, the kind of comedy it has is very tied to the immediate social context for commercial viability, both as to the what it is lampooning (late-70s disaster films) and how.

The broader template of Airplane! (broad take-it-to-11 parody of recently popular film patterns) because it was itself the pattern for its own flood of films in the 2000s (Scary Movie, Date Movie, Superhero Movie, and several sequels to Scary Movie).
I think the bottleneck you're describing isn't "writing" but creators who will be trusted with a $X0 million budget without excessive oversight.

Sorkin or Tarantino get the leeway to create something without executives second-guessing every little decision, most people, even very talented people won't.

There are tons of talented writers producing things, but in a less expensive medium. The cost to produce a novel is literally 0.1% of a Hollywood movie. There is a lot more freedom to work there than when you're spending tens of millions of dollars.
> Who said that?

Whoever wrote:
> > > but if you want UX improvements to Audacity, there's only so much that can be done without telemetry.

Oh look, seems to have been some guy called "stavros". Anyone you know?
That's a very good point!

Had the Prof been a better teacher, he might have pointed it out, instead of me learning that lesson on HN decades later. 8)

I never worried about the funds, only the portfolio value, since the funds were a zero sum game.
Your comment gives the impression that GPL is a set of restrictions that developers are unfairly enforcing upon others. In fact it is the complete opposite: it is a set of permissions granted by the developer which otherwise would probably be forbidden by law.
Is it technical debt if you don’t know, much less understand the problem?
This is a very relevant point about program synthesis in general, but if we look at an example given here, the linked_list spatial predicate, the specification is at the much lower level of abstraction of pointers and memory addresses. I would guess that a corresponding specification for a hash table would at least preclude candidate solutions that use linear searching - though there are other ways to make hash tables inefficient, such as a poor hashing function or an inefficient way to handle collisions.

The purpose of this article seems to be to introduce us to separation logic for reasoning about programs with pointers, and in particular the separating conjunct, which "restores compositionality of analysis" (which is lost when spatial assertions assert that some particular property holds over the entire heap.) It goes on to explain that "As it turns out, the compositionality and modularity of separation logic means that it can actually be quite easily adapted to fit into a deductive-reasoning-based automated synthesis strategy."

The title, therefore, should not be read as a claim about the future of programming in general.
The XMPP Newsletter June 2021
Consumerism and the Liquefaction of Desire
If you ordered a hit, you ordered a hit. Why don't you just say that?

> Where did you get the notion you need to be pulling the trigger to be morally responsible for someone's death?

"Where" is a weird question since I didn't get that notion in the first place. But "being morally responsible for somebody's death" is a vastly more nebulous notion than homicide.
Not everyone is using a flatrate and thus both crash reporting and telemetry might cost the sender some money (or calculate against their hugh speed quota). Some people seem to expect that data transfers are always free ...

That's one reason (besides privacy) why I have Netguard running as a firewall on our Android phones and set to block traffic by default for each app, unless the app's creator convincingly explains why their app should be allowed to access the net.
Does the 4 year education in college improve that skill better?

Most likely, the self-taught person is also doing some other job, etc as well. So, he is managing a tougher-than-normal schedule, and communication/planning comes into play for sure.
If you ignore the message that says you're fired, you lose the cost of going to work and going home once they fire you in person, plus you might waste a day or two that you could have spent job-hunting.
The method was called 'empowerment'. Two ways to explain it...

From a mathematical perspective, we used Information Theory to model the world as an information theoretic 'loop'. The agent could 'send' a signal to the world by performing an action, which would change the state of the world; the state of the world was what the agent 'received'. This obviously relies on having a model of the world and what your actions will do, but doesn't burden the model with other biases.

Pore more colloquially, the agent could perform actions in the world, and see the resulting state of the world (in my case, that was the location of the agent and of the ghosts). Part of the principle was that changes you cannot observe are not useful to you.
Morality is a lot more subjective than labour law.

Do you want to believe on faith that business owners will act in a way that matches your morals?

I certainly don’t.
There's a clear delimitation between the leader which takes decisions that impact the organisation and a project manager that barely has any skin in the game. In my experience, the one that takes decisions is not the one that manages people.
I thought it was the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople?
I think it's pretty well understood that the Western Roman Empire towards its end was plagued by pandemics, in-fighting, self-interest and loss of centralized control, and the pressures of migrating peoples due to climate change. The weakening of the Imperial power coincided with the rise of the power of the Christian church supplanting the anemic WRE state.
Sounds worse than many places, ie Switzerland which is completely landlocked with diverse neighbors and open borders.

Very few travel restrictions, mostly in spring 2020, just do your part and do the right choices in ie hygiene and travel destinations.
The "village idiots" I'm referring to are family and (fortunately former) coworkers.

And no, I can't get rid of them. I'm tired unto death of that conversation. Trust me, if it was an option, I'd happily ghost all of them, change my name, and move to Europe.
Really? I've given up on TV since too many shows keep getting renewed when they should have been concluded soundly.

There are plenty of old movies I have not seen, so if I'm going to vegetate for two hours, then I'd prefer to take something off the backlog than start some show which will continue nebulously for far too long.
Yes! Exactly - kiting. I didn't know the term but when I explained the behaviour I was seeing to a colleague they told me about this.
Swink | Seattle or REMOTE

https://sw.ink

I'm working on better QR codes. I think current QR codes suck because first of all you don't know what they go to by looking at them, so I embed a link preview into my QR codes' patterns.

I'm also working on creating and embedding apps so instead of just scanning a QR code and getting a PDF of the menu, you could order food, chat with wait staff, join a queue, etc. etc.

I need a more sales/marketing oriented cofounder, it isn't my strong suit.

Email -> rob at sw.ink
That's 1.18 years despite all the countermeasures the US has implemented.
> I often hear the following invalid argument: "I don't care about code availability, I won't look at it!"

Sounds a bit like "I don't care about free speech, I don't want to say anything!".
I’ve seen a video of him giving a talk or a lecture where he discussed this, but the ideas were at an extraordinarily high-level and in part he was going for comedic affect with the audience.