skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those may be violations too. That it is a common practice does not turn it into a non-violation.

I'm not disputing that. What I'm asking is, why is this particular 0.1% small snippets case such a big deal all of a sudden, when it obviously IS common practice (within the bounds of small code snippets)?
As a new parent I'm really torn on this topic. On the one hand building resiliency and self-motivation need to happen through self-directed activities. On the other hand, Sitting on a couch watching Netflix probably isn't the most efficient way to build these skills.
If the Five Eyes countries and their intelligence services are in your threat model you've likely already lost.
Because otherwise someone will say that they invented a new algorithm for ML based on their ML effort at work but it was really solved at home on their personal computer. What happens if you come up with an idea while walking back from the bathroom to your home office related to your day job during business hours? Is that during work or outside of work?

I think it is ridiculous to claim things unrelated to your active job assignments. Making a board game as a hobby is unrelated and non-competing to deriving a new ML solver.
I just got a 13" Macbook Pro with M1. My expectations were exceedingly high, based on all the reviews and stories like this.

After a few days of use, my take: It's good. It's not the messiah-of-tech that I was led to believe, but it's good.

Honestly, I think the hype is overblown. If it wasn't for the hype, I might have thought this machine was amazing. But the expectations being set by all this hype is crazy town.

Not trying to take away from the real technical accomplishment. I'm sure if I put it through the ringer with benchmark tests, it would beat everything with flying colours.

But my day-to-day experience using it hasn't been much different than my previous 2016 Macbook Pro. Yet so many reviews make it seem like everything is so fast that you simply have to experience it to believe it, that every action you take feels faster and better. And that, in my own experience, is proving to be a load of B.S.
So what are these better faster and more stable approaches?
> "...they seem like a better idea than air conditioning whole rooms."

in the same vein, most people's behavior around heating/cooling is comically misguided and inefficient. most people believe temperature is what we're trying to control, and that's driven by how weather reports, climate controls, and even our language ("it's hot!") emphasize temperature (which isn't nefarious, and makes sense in their separate, respective domains) rather than heat transfer, which is what we're really after.

this is most evident in cars, where folks point air vents away from themselves while running the a/c (or heat) full blast, rather than pointing the vents at themselves and running at a lower speed. the former is based on the idea that the whole car's interior temperature needs to be lowered (or raised) for effective heat transfer away from (or to) the body, which is incorrect and inefficient. pointing the vents at you (on bare skin ideally) promotes heat transfer immediately instead of waiting to create a big enough temperature differential to do the same work.
> the developers legitimized the exchange of real money for in-game money (through the buying and selling of game time)

To those unfamiliar- EVE has the deepest player-driven economy of any game. All in-game items are crafted by players, out of materials mined by players. Money (ISK) is created in a small number of ways: NPC mission running results in ISK rewards, as does killing NPC ships among the systems, and insurance payouts. Items are destroyed when a ship is destroyed, and ISK is destroyed via trading taxes, insurance contracts, etc. CCP attempts to tweak knobs to keep the money supply at a reasonable rate so inflation doesn't get rampant, etc.

CCP (the company behind EVE) sells an in-game item called a "Pilots License Extension" (PLEX) for cash on their web site. Your EVE subscription can either be paid for in cash, or by redeeming a PLEX in-game. Like everything else in the game, a PLEX can be traded in the game. So, many people will pay cash on CCP's site to get a PLEX item for their player, and list it on the in-game market for PLEX. Eventually, a player in the game will purchase a PLEX from the in-game market with ISK they earned while playing the game, and this don't pay CCP real money to pay for their subscription.
On the other hand, those are precisely the terms you will encounter in the literature.

What is easier: matching (𝛍, 𝚺) to (𝛍, 𝚺), or to (mu, Sigma)?
Edit: Removed
You're totally correct, I was admittedly doing some sarcastic concern trolling (but with some sincerity! I do genuinely want the right to be mentally healthy) in response to the 'both sides'-ism in the grandparent's post.
The GPL and the FSF legal eagles have a long history of replying, "Then you can't have things like that. Sorry."

I suspect there would also be an argument that an intentional distributed system like a chat client/server would be a different beast from an application like an audio editor.
Wine next please.

I can't get over the taste of Ethanol. I know there are notes and stuff, but all I can taste is yuck.

I wish soda and juice had a following like wine and beer.
Estimating Electricity Demand of Sub-Saharan Africa Using AI
I was under the impression that this class of language was standard boilerplate that is included in all software employment contracts.

It's been a long time, but I think my offer letter had some bullshit about the company owning any IP I developed on my own initiative if it could be tied in any way to company resources.

The bits about using AWS services and making your game available on the Amazon Games Store, whatever that is, are slightly odd, but not really enforceable.
One word: rollbacks

That's not really much of a "debate", but then again neither is "you totally don't need that feature we don't implement" from the marketing department :P

https://redislabs.com/blog/you-dont-need-transaction-rollbac...
It's not about "where attention and reason doesn't contribute to success", it's about the simple reality that if someone commits to having something staffed "5 days a week" or "24/7", then either their costs have risen 20% or the salaries have to fall 20% when the working shifts fall by 20%. That might be acceptable to some business and staff (part time employment is already a thing) but magical productivity improvements aren't always as achievable as certain knowledge work fields. More attentive drivers don't go 20% faster or have 20% more space in their lorries, and for that matter I'm extremely sceptical people would pay 20% more attention to the roads working a four day week than a five day one.
By the way, on the subject of single-character variables, is there a list somewhere of the single-letter math symbols that julia supports? (e.g. multiply, divide, sigma, etc)
This is some real life creepy pasta
The best part is, this applies to not only the corporate people, but also the people working at the warehouses.
i'd have to poke around to be sure, but i have a suspicion:

box-sizing: border-box;
width: 400px;

might be the fix for that scenario
I feel like one thing that seldom gets mentioned is that there is a difference in battery life between the Pro and the Air. I have an M1 MBA and while the battery life is very impressive I still go through about 10% of my battery per hour of simultaneous VMWare Horizon Client and Firefox (10 tabs, one playing music) with a little Zoom sprinkled in. If I just have Safari open I can definitely get a lot more out of the battery, but I feel like that's a little unrealistic.

That being said it's still the best laptop I've ever owned and I don't have regrets about getting the Air, but when these battery life articles come up it's just assumed that everyone has the Pro.
What do you mean a red herring?

In NYC, it's usually required for a subletter to take over the remainder of a lease and then have the option of signing a new lease. The option to simply immediately break the old lease and start a new one usually doesn't exist. (Or if it does, it's only with a penalty for the lease-breaker.)

I don't know why this is, however -- if it's for administrative convenience, legal reasons, or financial reasons. But your idea that "the landlord can agree to the transfer of a lease", well it's true they can, but as a general rule they won't.
Prediction: Facebook will introduce many more dark patterns like this.

Solution: Stop using Facebook. Delete Facebook, if possible.

Why would you disrespect your limited time with this?
I have a bad feeling by the time computational social scientists or whoever work anything out algos will suck society dry.

I have been in too many meetings where no one cares. Each time its the same story - ya the data is showing this random group of people over here are hooked like crazy, dont worry about why and what effects its having on them just keep them hooked.

Its like a big trap. Once you walk in there is no exit. The people who push back or try alternatives all get politically side lined. And we end up with cluelessly or crazy people in charge.
I was a private tutor for a long time. My market segment often leaned toward the "rather wealthy," although not anything like this. However, the struggle to motivate is very real. Each child or teen (or even young adult) comes with their own package of bad coping skills, strengths and deficits, motivations (or lack thereof), and so on. Each one has a history.

In any case, to my actual point -- discovering those motivations is one of the things for which I was paid. Often, children do not understand education. It has been a flat "do this" chore for them with some nebulous payout that will supposedly happen twice their lifespan away, when all around them they see images of people who did not go the conventional route to success.
Your last sentence made me wonder if there's a company that vets programmers.
> Science agencies such as ARPA-Health hope to replicate the success of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, but researchers question whether they will thrive.

Well, I think one can figure out the answer pretty quickly:

> US President Joe Biden’s administration wants to create a US$6.5-billion agency to accelerate innovations in health and medicine ... the Biden administration has proposed launching a second US agency, the $500-million ARPA-Climate (ARPA-C), to spur technologies for fighting climate change.

That's per-capita funding of 20 bucks and 1.6 bucks. And I'm not even sure those figures are per annum or just flat sums!

So it will fail for lack of funding if for nothing else. The US is notorious for lacking public funding for research, with money much more often coming from private corporations or the military establishment (like DARPA - the Defense APRA; ONS - Office of Naval Research; and such).

Another reason one can expect a failure, at least for that second agency, is the problem at hand. The struggle to contend with climate change is, at this point, not so much a struggle for better technology but rather for the necessary socio-economic and cultural changes (within world states and on the international level). Of course, better tech can _mitigate_ the depth of necessary change somewhat, but it is unreasonable to expect deus-ex-technica solution coming out of some lab.
> it's common for unfurnished apartments in Zurich cost upwards of $2,000, so adding $400 on top of that for a really beautiful interior package is not that big of a jump, especially when compared to fully-furnished apartments which cost significant more.

I'd be mindful of that assumption across markets. I'm in London and while furnishing may have an impact on the list price for some properties, list price is almost always a product of the market and it's rarely possible to quantify the _cost of furnishing_. For example, apartments in my building are roughly the same price whether furnished or unfurnished. Furnishing is seen as a convenience here[1], not a financial benefit.

I do think this is a great proposition and that, once prices come down, you'll have a good opportunity in London -- just challenging the assumption that furnishing is universally reflected in price :)

[1] Typically, a furnished property is easier to tenant, so landlords can choose between furnishing (easier to find a tenant, risk of expensive damage) or unfurnished (harder to find a tenant, no risk of damage). Very common to see a furnished property offered "furnished or unfurnished" if someone wants to bring their own furniture, and that doesn't impact the price.
As a gamedev I rarely play games myself now but just glance through playthrough videos to learn, buying is more like supporting dev and showing respect. Why is this acceptable in game industry but 0 tolerance in film? Even music has free streaming that can let you try before buy.
It will be interesting to see how things shake out. I haven't used Nix much so I don't know how easy it is to do iterative development (change, build, run, repeat) for apps (web, Android, iOS) or services (binaries, containers)
design flaws, same for 2-3 generations, all the way to 2021 models https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQXXqny2wEA
You can also set -o pipefail. The first non-zero exit code is returned if there is one.
>it's common for unfurnished apartments in Zurich cost upwards of $2,000

I'd say that's the lower end, actually. Zürich is indeed pretty pricey.
That's why this is good training for the real world.
I love F#, but it will be always third to VB and C# on the .NET ecosystem.

At least there is still C++/CLI behind it, in the set of tooling and .NET frameworks coming out of Redmond.

Anyway, the next .NET Conf focus will be on F#.

https://focus.dotnetconf.net/
Pure data-driven decisions would not be possible here, I'm afraid, because there are not enough studies about which language/framework is the more productive in a given situation (and doing such a study is super tricky, because the competences of the participants can very greatly).

What is possible however is to first analyze the core attributes of the techs which are relevant for the project and team such as: good supported libraries for the problem, support for immutable data-structure, expressiveness of the type system, experience of the team with the tech etc. You can then decide which tech fits better the environment. If still undecided you can try to build a prototype on a short period (at the risk on giving up on technologies which are hard to learn but could be rewarding on the long term).
Is it easier to use? Or just it just look pretty to a subset of people?
Its still there, just not on the menu bar.
Try Activity Monitor/Energy. The battery graph, time remaining etc is at the bottom.
Exactly, this is the thing people always seem to forget. When I write a paper with mathematical symbols like this, I always include a glossary for the reader. It's even required in some venues.

People like to pretend that mathematical notations are standardized and obvious to practitioners, but they're just not. In my physics undergrad days we made a joke shirt with all the usages of the symbol "k" as it appeared in our physics texts. Is it the constant in Coulomb’s law? Is it a spring constant? The Boltzman proportionality factor? Is it kinetic energy? Is it a kilo? A kelvin? I think we were able to cover the front and back of the shirt with the overloaded usages.
Instead of

𝛉 = pinv(𝐗)*y

write

𝛉 = y\𝐗

It will automatically dispatch to the most appropriate algorithm depending on the type of X (Cholesky, QR, LU/Gauss, …)
QR, Cholesky
The tor users / hackers / ransomeware folks? For sure - we agree there. Because claim handling costs are way up there is going to be building emphasis on following things like this DHS alert on how to protect your network.

We're rolling out tor blocking our sites where we didn't used to need that. I think more automated options as well will come (think cloudflare) which will help folks with this as well and maybe jam tor users into perhaps recaptcha loops or similar? Not sure what right solution is to filter out the tor users - hard block or try and detect and recaptcha etc.
there's already some for wine, notably wine proxies like acid league.
To confirm, you reliably get 10 hours of battery life running VMware, Firefox, and Zoom?
The Athletic folks had a tent up at the Lutsen MTB race a few weekends back. It is actually really good, no difference in taste quality from the "leaded" stuff. This has definitely come a long way.

Perhaps timely too! https://youtu.be/3Xa1L01ZNaY
Just drink juice? Fresh, unpasteurized grape juice is unparalleled in taste. It has a shelf life of maybe 3 days, but in those 3 days it is the best thing to drink on earth (milk fresh from the coconut right off the tree is close).
It would have been helpful if it mentioned things like VAX clustering, versioned files, built-in KV store (indexed files), and so on.
What fan are you talking about ?
Overall is probably not a great measure because a business exists somewhere, not everywhere. The US is I think really only big-business friendly. If you’re a little guy they could care less about you. New business formation is dwindling.

For example in most US states an employer can prevent you operating an unrelated side-business - how is that “business friendly”? The answer is it’s not - it’s capital-friendly. It has the effect of shutting out the broader populous from participating in business on their own terms. California gets this right!

There’s also the question of what level “overall” is measured. The US makes it easy to exploit workers and so suffers the consequence of having to support an impoverished strata of society which generates negative tax income to the government. In a society that prevents this, the government can receive more taxes from more people and offer more services, including making business formation easier - a virtuous cycle.
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Yes, my job is ethical.
That's been my experience as well, in practice (I don't if there's a legal reason).

Yes they'll sometimes pick the most qualified applicant, but only if you submit your application the same day or same weekend, which is often the case with open houses. It really depends on the landlord however -- for a lot, it's literally the first qualified person to apply, which is why you want to be the first person to the open house and have all your documents ready to apply on the spot, since it might be gone 30 minutes later.
> They passed a tax added to your property taxes that is a function of any surface area on your property that does not allow rain to come into contact with dirt.

Tamped earth structures. BOOM. When you make your billions, just cite @musingsole in your about page.
The pirate bay is very clear to not claim any responsibility for what people post on their site. That's how they get away with it.
I paid an extra $500/month with an 11 month commitment for a furnished place over a non furnished. Maybe a little steep, I think I overpaid, but the one thing I will say to anyone reading this:

The benefits of living in a nicely arranged and furnished home can not be overstated. I work from home and my productivity ... and income ... and my peace of mind ... went up dramatically.
Larger battery in the macbook?
Here's my take.

Leading up to and since the M1 Macs were released, the tech community went from skeptical, to intrigued, to excited, and if you were to completely remove Apple's hype machine, these machines stand on their own.

As an M1 user, I can attest to the ridiculously good battery life, and others in this thread are sharing similar anecdotes (I'm on an Air, so I'm not even on the best battery life available).

It is with this context that a statement from Apple's VP of marketing on the same topic is somewhat interesting. The performance and battery life surprised many of us in the tech community, and this anecdote seems to confirm that even at Apple, execs were/are downright surprised at how good this thing is.

If this statement was released before these machines launched, or if performance/battery weren't stellar, then a statement like this from a marketing VP might ring hollow. But in the context of this product's success, I think it's more interesting.
I play eve and generally it's still more fun to talk about than play.:)

It's a game where preparation is basically how you avoid getting stomped on. That leads to a bunch of time spent doing things like moving ships around and messing about to fight the exact right way to set them up and arguing mercilessly about important space business
Given that Java was Sun's attempt to bring C++ developers half way to Lisp, and C# was born out of a lawsuit due to stuff like adding Forms, COM, events and P/Invoke to Java, maybe not.
Only in poorly ventilated enclosed spaces. But the sweat usually gets evaporated anyway only slower.

And when they are used outside, the added humidity is negligible compared to volume of surrounding air.
Doesn’t everything look like that at 109ppi, relative to modern smartphone/tablet/imac displays?
Which does not imply that she is not trying.
Conversely, the first chart understates the effect.

0% improvement (1.0) is 5/8th of the length of the Y axis, making a 42% improvement look barely interesting. Probably should have opted for a different chart here.
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> F# is a decent language, even in some aspects "better" than Go, Rust or Python, but it is late.

F# came out well before Go and Rust and well in time to compete with Python's popularity. There were other factors that affected its adoption.
ARM has a history of battery life though:

"When the first test chips came back from the lab on the 26 April 1985, Furber plugged one into a development board, and was happy to see it working perfectly first time.

Deeply puzzling, though, was the reading on the multimeter connected in series with the power supply. The needle was at zero: the processor seemed to be consuming no power whatsoever.

As Wilson tells it: “The development board plugged the chip into had a fault: there was no current being sent down the power supply lines at all. The processor was actually running on leakage from the logic circuits. So the low-power big thing that the ARM is most valued for today, the reason that it's on all your mobile phones, was a complete accident."

Wilson had, it turned out, designed a powerful 32-bit processor that consumed no more than a tenth of a Watt."

https://www.theregister.com/Print/2012/05/03/unsung_heroes_o...
Exactly. Making it harder to read, write and understand on purpose, unless you're a part of a specific small exclusive club. There's absolutely no reason.
Good point, although Amazon is a huge company with their finger in every pie. Given those fingers in every pie, they have some kind of carrot to go with this carefully edited stick?

I recall the horrific fad maybe ten years ago of forcing "employees" to come in and work on their free time for hackathon and maker type events to generate corporate PR. Perhaps, this "Personal Game" policy is a legacy from some awful corporate hackathon event from back in 2012 that nobody even remembers anymore, but the legal paperwork remains in the air like a bad smell.

I suppose until the censorship is removed and we find out the precise legal definition of "Personal Game" we can only wonder and do the usual "big company always bad" thing.
I think you can also use steamcmd to download games? Not sure about launching.