skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPL does not exclude a community of developers who need to earn a living to work. Linux, GCC and MySQL do not exclude people who are trying to earn a living from their sweat and toil. The GPL even says they can't impose any reason why people want to use the code whether it's in missile guidance systems, teledildonics, or ad networks.

>That being said, the free software purists aren’t a particularly tolerant community.

Sure the zealots of $BELIEF believe in $BELIEF and want others to do so as well. It's not a surprise.
This still requires the adversary to coerce your friends/family members into snitching on you - it involves effort and risk for them and doesn't scale.

Compromising a telemetry server is a one-off operation, would work at scale and is much less risky as the targets have no way to detect it.
“it also fulfills the objective of ensuring your content is maximally reusable”

This is a bit of a trap when it comes to teams chasing the goal of modular documentation.

AsciiDoc let’s you include other AsciiDoc files, so teams modularize content with the idea that all these modules are potentially reusable.

But unlike code which, say, might use a method that is available bc another file has been included/imported, an AsciiDoc include doesn’t reveal any of its content. It’s just a file name that will be replaced with the content of that file upon render.

This means you literally cannot read modularized content from source - you need to open up every included file and read each out of context.

Available tooling also presents previewed/rendered includes as if they are part of the parent document, which removes the ability to identify modularized content from the output.

In my experience this results in documentation that is modularized by diktat - usually after being authored in a Google Doc. Reuse never happens, in fact nobody but the author really knows what content was modularized in the first place.
As if MS isn't a heavyweight itself. Yes, if they wanted to, they absolutely could do this.
eh. in india the government sets the boogeyman and the national media as well as the government troll factory just lap it up.

read these posts. india government calls anything critical of its actions on social media as "misuse" because it breaks the image of "worlds largest democracy".

Twitter is being assholes. they should just patch up like facebook which fully complies with government meaning facebook becomes the best monitoring and investigation portal for them. like the last time facebook had found some political influence on their software but once they found the ruling party was involved, they dropped the investigation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/15/facebook-...

https://scroll.in/article/954711/in-kashmir-a-spree-of-arres...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...
Ha - the production setup includes Xbox Kinect components - right when the employee says "3d cameras" at 2:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE&t=147s
If you already think road cycling is boring then no one will convince you otherwise but...

Road cycling is a beautiful thing if you understand some of what's going on in a multi-stage race.

Cycling is a team sport because you can save between 16% to 50% of the energy required for movement by drafting other riders.

Other forms of bike racing lack that aspect, they're effectively individual day efforts.

It gives a huge number of tactical permutations and competitions within competitions going on all the time. The multiple stories unfold and resolve over the 3 weeks of the race.

Take yesterday's mountain stage. Ignore the main GC (Yellow jersey) competition. Ignore the race to actually win the stage. Instead just look at the battle for the Green jersey (aka the points or sprinters' competition).

Cavendish is in the lead right now but he's not a climber. To win the jersey he still needs to complete the race and not be eliminated by arbitrary daily time window.

Other teams like Team BikeExchange are maybe less strong in flat stage sprints but they can do other things to attack his position. Like compete for intermediate sprint points during the day.

The race organisers can grow or shrink the rolling time window. That's usually done to keep the bulk of non-climbers, the "autobus", in the race. BikeExchange could have their riders work hard on the front of the autobus to move it faster.

Then Cavendish would have to not only keep up with the climbers contesting the stage and the climbers contesting the overall GC but also the autobus itself. If he trails that and is outside the elimination window then he'll be out and the next place rider in the Green jersey completion becomes the leader.

That's just one thing we're watching for. There's loads of other stories going on like the battle between breakaway riders and the Peloton on the flatter days. They could be all be from different teams but on a day where they don't have to work for their team leader. Will they work together to escape the faster main group knowing that one in the breakaway will be stronger than the others?

There's so much more going on each day if look into it and that's why we love it.
There is also the context that Twitter refused to remove blatantly false and deliberately incendiary tweets during the farmers' protests in which the Red Fort was breached similar to the Capitol Hill riots.

Also, more recently, Twitter has refused to remove clearly manipulated media intended to inflame Hindu-Muslim communal riots.
It's the agile consultant's way of saying "I plan to be spontaneous tomorrow."
Getting some DUAL_EC prng vibes.

Insert Kaspersky owned by Russia intelligence conspiracy here...
Where do you think the US, or significant parts of it with high gun violence rates should be compared to?
I see skill learning as a combination of understanding and fluency.

Understanding requires time to play and explore something. It enables slow but powerful problem solving into new territory.

But fluency requires practice. And it’s benefit is quick and accurate automatic responses, freeing up the brain to tackle novel things much faster.

Together they work really well. and the repetition in obtaining fluency can also push understanding deep into stable memory where it will remain accessible years later.

I have seen a lot of education where only one side was emphasized. When kids are pushed for time, neither side gets done well.

I don’t think anyone learning anything should move on to more difficult tasks until they both really understand and become fluent at the prerequisites.

But that would take education off it’s cohort centered time schedules. That system is so ingrained in most of our non-online education systems.
Cool idea, my first impression is that there should be some kind of mini-arcs or long phrases that make the content more digestible.
What I mean is that now the speaker goes on and on, and the subtitles are abruptly changed to another set of words.
As a learner, I would like to have better sense when the words will disappear.
I noticed it's arbitrary Youtube content so it's hard..
A simple testable solution for arbitrary content: option to _automatically_ pause/slow down the video just a for second before changing to the next set of text.
Another simple and stupid idea would be to show previous words below the the current context.

In the long run usage of a particular user, maybe the app should not highlight words that it knows you have encountered in previous videos many times or if the system knows you have mastered that word -- in case the system is testing user, did not notice if it does.

Btw. Not sure what is the difference between green and black colored words. (Don't know Spanish so hard to guess.)

Also there's some typos at the landing page, at least these: "Activley", "wont be"

Seems like a great concept, good luck :) (I don't find Duolingo that effective either.)
Defining best is a biased process. Is cost or quality more important? There is no objective criteria for such judgments it’s all based on personal bias.

So Google favoring low latency responses is saying latency (cost) matters when people browsing may not care.
The point is to not have abstraction power. The goal is to make the DSL be a direct expression of the intended thought, which usually means cutting it down to the point where it's reduced almost everything to preset categories. At that point, you don't need much of a language to build it in, so it ends up porting well to all of them.
"Bats being bats..."

What about the undeniable fact that China (the government) is blocking all international research into the origin of Covid.

Is that only China being China?
Console Do Not Track – Proposal for a standard environment variable
Interview with one of the first Software Engineers at Miro
After using Windows 11 for the past week on a device with touch support, I would really like to see what a modern Microsoft mobile OS would look like. They seemed to have learned a lot from their past failures. Of course I know that won’t happen, but it would be great to see new mobile systems.
The authors of the original Lancet letter (Daszak included) just came out with a similarly-toned new one in the same publication - with 3 of their co-signers from last year now having dropped out of it:
https://twitter.com/franciscodeasis/status/14122249205375139...
I know nothing about road-cycling and your comment is fascinating. Any recommendations for learning more about it?
You are relatively correct. The 10k "rule" and other general guidelines are just that --- guidelines for something that often bucks guidelines and is better for it.

3 things an artist make:

1. Finishing and finishing often. You should not be making the same thing all the time, but you should be consciously iterating in any direction you like as long as you are still finishing. Great painters, writers, musicians, are constantly making stuff, you only see the polished stuff that ends up through the filter.

2. Studying the great works in whatever your chosen field/style/genre. Know the "rules", the normal directions on the map, before you break them and decide on a shortcut or to buck convention all together. All great artists, even the enfant-terrible avant-garde artists, are extremely knowledgeable in art-history in their chosen field and can explain extremely precise opinions on the merits of one artist or movement. Most postures of naiveté are just that: posturing. Great artists know their stuff.

3. Surrounding yourself with other artists. You need people who will look at whatever you finish and tell you about it. Hopefully, these people should be as interested in good art as you, and as well versed or more well versed in art history as you. Engaging in communities of artists will make your imagination and creativity soar.

You absolutely need 1 and 2. You can get by without 3, but you will likely never achieve true greatness without it.

Everything else after that is luck.
Lack of specialist equipment required. You can absolutely become a self-taught physicist, although IMO physics much more difficult than CS.
In Finland you can usually complete first year of the bachelors studies without enrolling to the university. Some of the courses, like first programming courses in CS, are free. Others cost a small fee, around 75€ per course. If you decide to enroll in the uni later, those will be acknowledged as well. They also have Digital Education For All program that has all of the first year studies for free.

I personally did complete about six months worth of studies while still in the secondary education.
Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan
You're only going to compare with 2020?

The year we were all in lockdowns and quarantining?

You don't think that'll skew things?

Trends occur over many years, not just two.
Thank you for this data. I'm no machine learning engineer, but learning some NLP and was wondering what kind of computer would get to run state-at-the-art models.

I assume the hardware requirements for training are massive and impractical for home-use, isn't it?
In my experience, one does not need to go to some FANG or other big company to learn, that one has still lots to learn and find areas to improve in. I personally got that from mailing lists, particularly in the free software communities, where sometimes people write stuff, that is waaay over my head and that I have never dealt with, even though I am a professional software developer. I even think, that some of the more theoretical stuff goes beyond most things a normal engineer will hit working for a big company. So at least that bit is available for anyone out there, no need to work for an, in terms of ethics, questionably acting company.

The bit about finding ones "tribe". Yes, it happens for us engineers, when there are many smart people in "the room". I would not value it over finding purpose though. Purpose in technical perspective, as well as ethical perspective. There is a lot of feeling alone for many of us, because most of us cannot be around similar minded people a lot. What makes me feel more alone though is, when I meet bright people, who do not care about the ethical aspects of their work or hobbies. So personally, I do not think I would "find my tribe" in a FANG or similar company. I highly doubt it even, no matter how smart people there are.
Worth noting: Ocado is fighting a legal battle against AutoStore over this technology: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-17/ocado-los...

The warehouse system in the video is basically a copy of AutoStore.
Contributing to Open Source without being a developer
> Edit: wow, you've made some pretty bold edits.

If the shoe fits and all. I'd love to get lectured about how crime works by somebody in an area with a $2695 median rent.

Would you like me to tell you what it's like to be a child growing up in a neighborhood dying of crack addiction and AIDS?

And while I'm being extroadinarily harsh, this is how tonedeaf big-city liberals come off telling us how they're gonna fix our neighborhoods.
I'm afraid I still don't agree with you; algorithms existed (and were named) long before The Halting Problem was stated. This "proof of correctness" claim doesn't wash with me.

Can you cite? (Wikipedia's explanation of what an algorithm is doesn't mention that). I'm open to being corrected, but not baldly contradicted.
Thank you, that's what I tried to say.
Datalore enterprise – Jupyter environment for data science teams
It is in other countries too. What was your point?
If I remember it correctly the origin story is „Docbook as non-XML syntax“, so it really fell from the XML tree.
Twitter is the complete opposite of "the free press".

Twitter's admins arbitrarily remove content that they disagree with, while allowing content they do agree with, regardless of whether said content is illegal or not.
Not just companies. Reversion to the mean is ubiquitous.
Vietnam’s PM Mandates Central Bank to Study Crypto Implementation
Vietnam’s prime minister mandated its Central Bank to study and pilot crypto implementation.
Kaspersky's Advanced School of KGB graduation photos:

https://cs6.pikabu.ru/post_img/big/2017/07/04/11/14991974131...
I think it's clear from the context that OP was referring to manipulation based on ideological biases tainting search results, versus, mnipulation (ranking) based on relavence of search.
Stop complaining about the hot weather please and focus on more pressing global issues. Karachi has had 44 C before like many other places.

In fact, mean temp of Karachi is 32 C in June - which is not Low at all.

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/pakistan/karachi/climate

and 68% percentile high temp is 35 C.

The highest temp on record for Karachi was nearly 48 C - in 1938.

For sure 44 C is not Cool - but also not worth a Guardian article for a place that has a mean temperature of 32 and many days a year above 40 C.

From a personal note - I am writing this as I sit @ 42C and I am not dying. Heck - my laptop probably does though...
> Would you like me to tell you what it's like to be a child growing up in a neighborhood dying of crack addiction and AIDS?

Yes.
Fuck you for planning to partially brick other people’s iPhones. Do you also like to leave USB sticks around that brick computers for ’mischief’ too?
"Be careful out there, Houston. Atmospheric lead is up 20% this week. Take your umbrella, and your body armor."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/12/us/austin-texas-shooting-down...
Interestingly there are laws to prevent this with automobiles - OEMs must produce parts for x years after the vehicle is sold.

I wonder if we need similar laws for electronic hardware?
Unfortunately, this seems to be the new norm.

Even in Canada, we are breaking records for heat. Temperatures have reached 49 C / 120 F

Despite that, I believe Canada will be a major recipient of these climate refugees when places just get too hot to live in.

That'll also be an option reserved for the privileged.
"problem" complying with "regulations"
I used to work with a guy who dropped out of a gamedev course at a second-tier university.
Graduate SWE at a respectable/selective company and all.

Admittedly, this was at a company with about 500 employees and 1 part-time HR person (who quit 6 months later and wasn't replaced).
Twitter is neither a news website nor a search engine.

The only sinister thing here is that, as the article mentions, the Government wants Twitter to reveal the IP addresses of specific users and Twitter is refusing to do so. Also Twitter is marking fake news spread by Government ministers and functionaries as manipulated media.

Another issue that the article doesn't mention is that the Government is pushing users towards Koo, a private alternative to Twitter that is by all accounts extremely aligned with the Government's political and religious views.

It's another step towards replicating the Great Firewall.

Edit: corrected "fake users" to "fake news"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26859275/

That's an incredibly weak straw man that you've built there.

Toxoplasmosis has been shown to alter the behaviour of prey species in such a way that they become attracted to the urine of members of predator species - and this attraction significantly improves toxoplasmosis' chance of reproduction.

The "mind control" is very limited - but when a sick animal pretty much ends up programmed to dive into a predator's mouth "THIS IS NORMAL" could not be further from the truth.
> Although 5 hours is quite a bit longer than what I expected.

I thought the opposite - even in a warehouse that huge, there are items where they only keep five hours worth of stock? To me that seems incredibly lean.

Of course, that probably only applies to really short life products, like packaged sushi.
Things like controlling the robot arm that takes individual items from the boxes require state of art computer vision/AI techniques and can't really be done with classical approaches.

Optimization of the robot movement across the grid might be done in various ways with different tradeoffs, but in general the study of algorithms for multi-stage planning is also a subfield of AI.
>Where are all the #4s?

Everywhere! What is missing from the #4 sentence is "... and brave or reckless enough to actually discuss any of those things in public when 'wrong-think' can possibly lose you your job, social connections, and who knows what else going forward, since everything on the Internet is permanent now".
i have to ask. the "community" like the user i was of audacity is not interested in "Accelerated development" by corporations which have their proprietary interests at heart.

Look at libreoffice. it is not as good as office or google docs or something else but beyond the 7.0 naming thing, the users are happy with its gradual improvements. i don't care about getting the latest and greatest. I can go to apple for that and pay a bag of cash for it. Instead i commit my time in solving bugs, much like the rest of developers. i am happy with that pace.
same for audacity. the software has been going for years at the same pace. as a user, i find that pace perfectly acceptable so when this company takes over the management and wants to run it in their idea of telemetry and not allowing children to use it and "cloud features", i suppose that calls for a fork
I wonder how much (if at all) the new Windows 11 security features would protect against this sort of thing.

Given the fairly vocal resistance to the TPM 2.0 requirement, if the answer is nothing, then I wonder why it is even necessary.

As a Mac/Linux user, I’m out of the information flow on this topic except for a surface level understanding, so please person my ignorance, as I’m genuinely curious.
I feel like the discussion about uniform password generation and PRNG, while interesting, is relatively irrelevant here. Even a garbo xorshift-based non uniform PRNG is almost certainly good enough to generate strong random passwords, as long as it's seeded correctly. An attacker is unlikely to gather enough output (generated passwords) to predict other ones, and the passwords are unlikely to be all generated within the same session so the PRNG state probably wouldn't carry over anyway. It's shoddy craftsmanship for sure and it doesn't inspire confidence in the product, but I'm not sure that it could be meaningfully exploited on its own.

Seeding with the current time is the real sin here.
Exactly. That page full of A's, whether they "cheat" it or not, will teach the kids how to draw all lines that make an A. Repeat that with other letters, and then throw combination of different letters into the mix, which will force kids to draw one letter at a time, after they've already mastered all the component movements in isolation.
But that's the thing, AAVE is not "just bad English", or a localism. (unlike Australian English, which really is just bad English, and a localism)

You really ought to get off your high horse, watch the video. You might learn something.
Is it actually a deterrent in the USA though? Do you see signs of a heavily armed populace actually deterring lethal shootings and paramilitary action by the police in the US?

If anything it seems to me that what is happening in the US is a cycle of increasing armed escalation. Mass shootings lead to people getting guns for home defence and personal carry. An increasingly armed populace leads police officers to be more prepared for gun violence and more willing to shoot where there is a perceived threat or risk. Increasing police shootings lead to violent protests and 'reprisal' attacks against police. More guns generally means unstable personalities are more likely to have access to powerful weapons, so more mass shootings. And so it goes on.

An armed society is a polite society? Really?
I use Bitwarden and it's open source. Switched over from LastPass and haven't regretted it since
Link to the new letter in the lancet:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...