skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>He left it to Republicans in Congress to do the right thing but they failed to do so.

This is the fallback excuse Democrats always play when they either don't really want to implement something (such as a $15 minimum wage) or they know they don't really have a leg to stand on - blame the Republicans. Same excuse made by Obama and the same excuse now being made by Biden.

When you have decades of experience dealing with a political opponent that has proven time and time again to be acting in bad faith, defering to their sense of decorem and morality is being complicit in their actions in my eyes.

And no, it did not exonerate Trump. He's obviously corrupt to the bone but the specific angle was significant Russian interference and Mueller completely failed to substantiate it. It's also worth noting that despite the media making a big song and dance around Trump meetings with Putin, the actual policies during his administration were significantly more adversarial towards Russian economic interests than Biden's administration has been so far.
How secure is it compared to ProtonMail?
This is one of my biggest fears.

As a result I use the supposedly not ok, security by obsecurity. (Along with other normal precautions)

I don't tell people which Bitcoin wallet I recommend, I simply say "I don't tell people where I hide gold".

Although not sure if I could survive devil's breath.
These are excellent points and can be summarized into: Why are you here and how did you get here? Where are you going? How do you plan to get there? - With that in mind, of all of the points they make, the most important one IMO is point #4.

Point #4 is so important, and I feel like a lot of people lose because of this one. Sometimes you'll say something in the "how do you plan to get there part", and then you'll really want to delve down into why, this smart cool thing you've figured out. You don't need to. If they ask why, tell them, if they don't, just tell the story. If they ask why, do not get into crazy detail or operations stuff, partly because you're probably wrong, partly because to some degree you'll be held to it, partly because there is a high chance you'll introduce confusion/disagreement. I cannot say this enough, do whatever you can to stay out of the weeds, if you're pushed, tell them you'll email them later with the details, make a note, email them later with the details.
> Fair use is an exception to copyright itself.

And copyright itself is an exception to the normal state of things : the public domain, copyright being only a temporary monopoly.
It's fine because a search engine is a generic tool the main purpose of which is not to replicate the code verbatim to be used as code.
Replace exams with vivas and see how far the cheats can get. At least make a viva voce a large proportion of the final score.
Does anyone in academia know if tests are designed on a curve? You can give a test that everyone gets 100% on (assuming they show up) and you can give a test that everyone fails. Is part of creating a test thinking about how many students in your class are capable of scoring A’s, etc or is it just a side effect
> Nobody is particularly happy about having to edit the XML directly but it's the best option right now until the new tools stabilize.

You are proving GP's point for him:

> So I rather waste my time on Earth on platforms that value good UI/UX tooling.

The fact that that Glade was deprecated without a replacement being ready means exactly that GNOME does not "value good UI/UX tooling".
Texas A&M professors might be keeping more than even a UCLA prof! College Station is a tiny town.
Honestly I wouldn't put too much trust into a SEO blog article.

A better title would be. "If you get drugged and use Casa, you will be able to save your money"
you mean like a woolen jumper?
I don't like Graal. Java used to be free without any performance restrictions, you can pay for support and that's about it. There were niche JVMs like Azul. Hopefully Graal will not overshadow OpenJDK, but the fact that both implementations are from one company makes that worrisome.
I can't begin to count the number of books I am partway through when left to my own motivation.

Signing up for a class with a hurdle at the end I need to jump over is exactly what I need. Free online classes are like gym memberships, but even cheaper. Most people won't stick to it.
You're citing a study done by Github on their own product, on something that has generated lots of backlash over the last week. I would take it seriously if it was an independant study, but right now it's hard to believe it.
I think you're side-stepping the point: It is valid to point out her self-contradiction of her ideals.

I can even understand her anger: she's been harassed with lawsuits in multiple countries and companies have probably had her personally investigated in those efforts. Paranoia isn't really even the appropriate word in that case.

But it's still an extreme overreaction and contradiction of her ideals to block an entire country over one person's insult.
That was dealer price, not retail price. A C64 system having the monitor and floppy drive retailed for $1,000. It was the highest-selling computer at the time (technically of all time) and yes, Jobs was obsessed with it. Jobs believed taking the C64 with its serial expansion bus, and adding in a mouse and a GUI would make a computer "for the rest of us." Also, that price you quoted is after the release of the Mac, which subdued C64 sales.
Julia Reda did weigh in: https://juliareda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin...
The last tool for react developers on earth 2021
https://youtu.be/8O7xX2E2sEg
The Tagesspiegel has a newer article [0] (German):

* They asked for 5 chemical tanks, got 2 permitted, built 5 anyway.

* There will be an inspection of the whole construction site to make sure they didn’t build more than allowed in other areas as well.

* This is the third time Tesla ignored where/what/when they are allowed to do something.

* An unspecified insider said that a lot of things are going haywire at the site.

[0]: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/gesamte-baustelle-unter-d...
Syncing All the Things
Didn’t this comment make you a potential target?
The move towards mobile, music, thinner seems an inevitable progression in this vein of technology - analogous to transistor miniaturization that occurs no matter who the players are.

The build quality is something we have to credit Apple for though, not to be taken for granted.

It does seem like there's a sweet spot in a balance towards Woz's vision of hackability.
It is called Revolution. No amount of reform will unseat the reigning oligarchy. The system is too corrupt to be reformed from within. Fairly certain these statements hold true for every country.
Related (though no Tinder involvement in this one):

https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/victim-describes-his-...
That's why you should have inflation every year instead of concentrating 20 years of inflation into one. (what you get when you do the deflation thing)

In practice rates will be raised but but carefully enough that we still end up with 0% real interest.
As opposed to “divide and conquer.” Presumably the same idea as “land and expand,” but you conquer the client company by “providing” successively larger projects.
Singapore's Last Traditional Coffee Roasters May Soon Disappear
100%. True experience with ACL surgery in New York: It's an assembly line with the junior surgeons cutting open and patching up. The main guy goes OT to OT and does the most critical part and then moves on to the next one. They schedule 6-7 surgeries at once; the whole process is quite impressive.

Exactly the same process for my mom's knee replacement in India. By the time the actual knee guy walks in, patient is knocked out, opened up and ready for the heavy hitter.
The point I think OP was making is that you can say anything with a reasonable evidentiary basis in a complaint. (And some lawyers don't bother with the evidentiary basis part—see the post-election lawsuits that are being sanctioned for just that.)

It's not about whether the language is in the article or the legal document; the legal document itself is merely a lawyer saying something that is in their client's interest.
They make you give up some of your monopoly rights when you put stuff on Github (some parts of those ToS might or might not be legal).

You would have a much stronger case if they had taken your code from elsewhere.
> As a result I use the supposedly not ok, security by obsecurity.

Security by obscurity is perfectly OK as part of a layered defense, where your systems are also secured properly. Where it is not OK is when you don't bother to secure your systems because you assume they're hidden and no one will find them.
Android hardware isn't at fault. It's the bloated software stack written by Google devs only working on flagship phones.
What you've said is really not correct, at all. For one, Glade is not deprecated in the sense that it doesn't work any more, it still works okay with GTK3, however it has a number of limitations that may make it difficult to use (which it always had, nothing has changed here). Two, a replacement is being worked on, I'm really not sure what your criticism is besides "go faster" which, I'm sure we all wish we could write code faster and have it work perfectly and do everything the first time, but that's not realistic.

Edit: Just to be clear here, in my opinion the new tools will likely end up being a large improvement on Glade. Glade is a pretty old application that by design does a number of weird things that don't match current best practices, you can see some of them if you read the blog post that was posted above.
Cool. I wonder if you could turn it inside out, such that it dumps heat inwards to have the opposite effect and warm you?
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I prefer to use security by obesity. Meaning I won't get any Tinder dates so my accounts are safe.
Crypto for people who don't follow crypto
And this is why Europe lags the US in large tech companies. They just don't bend over backwards to appease the billionaires, which the states do.
While the article seems part-advertisement, the risk is real. Best not to let strangers know your worth, and use multi-factor authentication everywhere. It's a disgusting (and beautiful) world we live in!
Hitler's Noxious Plan to 'Restructure' Berlin
Hope they wont fudge it like the FTC did with Facebook.
The best learning method I've experienced was in a course in which we had to summarize a relevant paper in 2 pages for the professor. I have to admit that I didn't learn anything from the professor __in__ the class, but reading a paper (which I chose) and summarizing it was immensely rewarding. In addition to reading the paper (which was pretty technical), I watched YouTube videos of the authors explaining the ideas in simple terms and read about the intuition on their DeepMind webpage. There was this comment on the paper which I read on Reddit (or maybe YT) that basically introduced me to the whole field of transfer learning, which then led me to my current research area. To think that all of this started with one paper (and another course which also touched upon transfer learning but from a causal perspective---"transportability") makes me appreciate this method of learning.

It's not even learn by doing. It's learn by not knowing. The past couple months literally felt walking in uncharted territory because no one in my school knows about my current research method (so no professor can spot my knowledge gap). I have felt down, up, excited, and anxious as I tread carefully in an area in which I have more knowledge-gap than I have knowledge. A sense of suspense and fear, but also great pleasure that comes with exploring something that few people in my field would even try. It's risky but I like it.
23 day old account, no bio listed... I don't think there's much personal information leaking out there.
We are talking about inflation causing an increase in interest rates. Public debt is not a problem in this scenario because the real interest rate doesn't change that much. However, inflation will kill the bank accounts of rich corporations and encourage them to invest their money.
You the man. Loughed out Loud.
Thanks for this nice post.

I certainly mean the first reading of "can", as in "to be able to". You are right, though, that in reality, there are no absolutes. However, by and large, of course people who live in a democracy absolutely have the power to cause societal change - it's just that it's not an easy process and there are certainly parties who are interested in roadblocking this ability for their own benefits.

As for your list of questions toward the end, I have opinions on a number of them. As I'm sure you might have too. A small text box on HN is probably not going to do it for a thorough discussion, though, I suggest we take ourselves a couple of thousands years of time and enough tea to make any progress on them at all.
The "movie business" is far from dead, there's an insane amount of production now and the breadth of those productions is far wider. The only death is the exclusivity of the industry, stories like the movie Tangerine (shot on iphones) or the recent release Zola (based on a twitter feed) are reaching audiences along with a ton of others that never would have seen them. Contrary to that, the highest grossing films of all time are mostly within this century and past decade now. There is more representation and choice in video content now than ever before, even if the movie theater industry might not ever go back to it's heyday. I personally am fine with more tailored content, tv or film, beamed into my home on demand over going to a theater
I think that this might speak to the deeper problem that a lot of people have experienced with GTK: stability. The project isn't a huge well-funded company with lots of vendor-lock in like Microsoft is; it can't afford to be rethinking how the GUI toolkit should work every few years like Microsoft does. (Or continuing to support and maintain all the old no-longer-favored GUI frameworks like Microsoft does.)

It's great that GTK4 has decided to commit to API stability, but, at this point, it may be too little, too late as far as the project's reputation among many developers is concerned. Having to lose a venerable tool like Glade to get to the API-stable version doesn't exactly take the edge off.
I know it exists, but the universally known name is 80% of the utility of having a standard flatten() function.

I could tolerate a slightly different name, but `itertools.chain.from_iterable` is absurd to me.
Wow, I find his manner so disagreeable.
These jackets are powered for hours from a rechargeable battery about as big as a fist. I don't know of any house-sized AC unit that could run from such a battery for more than a few seconds. So that doesn't make intuitive sense.
I had the idea of going out and flirting with guys directly, then giving them your onlyfans as your contact. I imagine this would effectively be a money printer.

I'm surprised onlyfans women don't do this routinely. If you were an even marginally attractive women, and you could hold a decent conversation for 20 minutes, I probably would be stuck ponying up $10 to see you naked. Even knowing that I got played.
I definitely would have taken the job and then accepted the first good offer I got out of it
Yeah, right... This isn't going to fly in court any more than if the Pirate Bay page was written in a way that says that it's solely responsible for what you do with the magnet links that they share.
They most likely didn't though as it would be a flat out lie. He probably explained the procedure etc but never commited to doing it himself specifically.

Or maybe something more important came up just prior. Ultimately people have the learn and have a go at some point - with your attitude they would be no more doctors.
This is a fascinating and unfamiliar history of Nazi Berlin, viewed through the lens of its energy and water services. It’s adapted from a new book by scholar Tim Moss, the result of a career spent studying the infrastructure of the city. In part it’s a story — one documented before — about Hitler’s deranged idea to “restructure” Berlin into a world capital, to be called Germania; in part it’s one about his idiotic plan to cleanse the "degenerate" city by diverting water from mountain springs, and his unusual interest in the city’s water supply. It’s a rigorous but insightful piece, with some interesting images to boot.

Disclosure: I work on the MIT Press Reader. What I’ve read of Tim’s book is brilliant, but it’s a scholarly work and not the best introduction to Berlin for a “general reader” interested in learning more about its history. It’s a meticulous study of one city’s urban infrastructure, after all.
> Every once in a while, I'll be interviewing a candidate who starts waxing lyrical about how rewriting everything in today's flavour of JavaScript really helped their last company. Or how their bosses were impressed with what this cool new bit of tech can do. Or why they could never work anywhere which didn't use this specific code editor.

I do sometimes wonder if this is how popular frameworks, etc get ... um... popular. Not that I think there's a "Fronk" doing it, but, well, many Fronks.
But if you don't have the keys to move your money, it becomes a lot less useful as money. It's still like gold though, something that you have a sort of vault that you rarely visit.

If you got drugged and someone took your phone to do a bank transfer, I would imagine there would be some hope of reversing the transfer, with a whole lot of painful steps. With crypto it's pretty futile if they manage to move it.

Also the $5 wrench attack can evolve, right? Just because you have your keys in different places doesn't mean you can be coerced into getting them together.
The landlords are the ones writing the listing, the agent is the one collecting the money for supposedly "connecting" someone, when AT MOST all they did was post it onto a couple websites like AirBnB. I have no problem with the fee a website collects for listings. They provided a service that allowed the listing to be spread. But the agent is now just an unnecessary middleman between the landlord and such services. 9 times out of 10 real estate agents don't meaningfully contribute to the matching of landlord/tenant in the NYC or Boston markets, yet they continue to collect a fee. And as I mentioned this happens even when it is provable that the prospective tenant found the apartment via a source 100% unrelated to the real estate agent (such as a friend in a different unit).

Before you try to argue that landlords wouldn't pay them if they didn't contribute - the landlord doesn't pay! In cities where the landlord has to pay, you will find agents are used much less often and charge cheaper prices for these sort of rental services. The problem is when the landlord chooses the agent but the tenant has to pay. Every agent just charges the max allowable fee, and the majority of landlords stick with this scheme, whether out of stubbornness, loyalty, or kickbacks I don't know - but it hurts tenants far more than landlords. Otherwise you are correct, landlords would stop using them unless their prices went down!

Let me know when a real estate agent makes their own website that gains traction across the city.
I guess I should say that I prefer to work for small < 20 person companies. Usually in the interview process I meet enough to get a good idea.
I bought the lens with the shutter blades stuck open. The shutter was fitted between an early Fujinon SWD 90mm f5.6 EBC at an attractive price.

It turned out there were a couple of things wrong. The main one was that lubricants had gummed-up the shutter blades and the slow-speed escapement (that's two separate things wrong). The gummed-up blades had caused mechanical interlocks in the lens to get out of whack and jam the blades open.

Soaking the entire mechanism in Shellite (lighter fluid in US) for a day or two unstuck the shutter blades, and some poking-around freed the mechanism. Working the escapement repeatedly has it moving nicely; a bit slow but close enough.

Be very careful with lubrication. Some left the factory with none at all, and those places that were lubricated were things like the cocking lever; not the escapements or clockwork. The lubricants used are those used for watches: often whale oil or modern synthetic replacements, not stuff from Bunnings or Supercheap Auto...
Typical female bs, this is the kind of stuff that causes misogyny.
You’re right. I am being overly judgmental here.

I am also sorry that your family is dealing with Croatian government corruption, which is never OK. I hope your family is able to get a good lawyer, that will protect your family’s interests and needs.
> If we're worried that "lambda f:" could do pretty much anything in the body, then we should also worry that "if f:" can do pretty much anything in the branches.

That is the part common to both. If you take that common part out, you will be left with more information in the if statement than the function call.

In the function, you know what arguments it (might) be interested in. You know they are evaluated. But in the if statement, you know what values it is interested in, usually get the same amoutn of information about whether they are evaluated, much clearer guarentees about how they are used and that the aspect of them that matters is their truthiness. Also the code might be about to branch.

Put it this way - if(...) is a specific - and common - named function. It is a very easy argument to make that it is carrying more information about what is going on than a general anonymous function.
Thanks for sharing this, indeed it was helpful (and the automatic translation from German to English wasn't bad at all). I am a bit surprised that things are going wrong this often (if indeed it is neglect rather than intentional) as I would have thought they'd have this down pat given their work in Fremont/Nevada/Shanghai already.
Does it feel like this to not have access to papers in the scientific community?

Yes, it's very frustrating read a paper and see a citation to something that would be useful only to see that your library doesn't subscribe to it. At least if it's a book you can get it by inter-library loan, so that's a little better than journal articles.
This is very cool. Thanks
Is there something similar for startup go to market strategy?
in Canada you'd likely be unable to get into ANY university with a note about plagiarism in your records.
None of this is particularly new. Tutors and "crammers" make regular appearances in older British fiction. The writer Sidney Smith got his start as tutor to a nobleman's son, and facetiously or otherwise suggested that such work was a good step up to a bishopric (though Smith's clerical career not got past dean).
Concise algorithms written in Julia
I think of it as right to existence and functioning for the device...

And right of access for the device-human configuration.

It's feasible, and not even very difficult, to make information on a website accessible to every browser since Mosaic, for example. And that's exactly what I do.

If your site has a "browser not good enough" message on it for some visitors, I think you should be just a little bit ashamed of yourself for giving up.

I think it is the difference between hack and craft.
An average includes "youngers".

The expected life expectancy you give isn't for people with an average of two comorbidities.
> Are we going to treat computer neural nets as human from a legal standpoint?

Maybe we will some day, but for now this isn't the case, where the law is concerned :

https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-101-issue-2/copyright...
It's the sociopaths in middle management calling these shots.
Aside from the keyboard issues, you're talking about design choices you don't like, not design flaws. They made the choices they made, and by and large executed on them at a high degree of quality.
I only got two paragraphs in before my THIS IS FICTION alarm bells were too loud to ignore.