skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were talking about negotiations with news publishers for revenue-sharing (i.e. legalized racketeering).

I hope they don’t cave disgracefully like in Australia and just shut down Google News and remove news sites from the search index in France as they did in Belgium a few years back IIRC. I am a Frenchman and very skeptical of Google, for the record, but rent-seeking by failed businesses should not be condoned, like the copyright levy charged on data storage devices here.
But using noise to generate textures isn't directly related to SDF (I think?)

from other replies I think the point here is there are no "vertices", i.e. no mesh geometry
I can imagine reasoning behind that, at least today.

Last year, I've been tutoring a teenager who wanted to take CS on his maturity exam[0]. The exam has a theoretical (algorithms, knowledge) and practical (programming, data science, databases) parts; for the latter, you're expected to write some code in one of several approved languages, using one of several sets of approved tooling (which includes FOSS tooling).

My student wanted to use C++, and thus had a choice between Visual C++, DevC++ and CodeBlocks. It's quite obvious that one of these three is entirely not like the others. Between advanced IntelliSense, errors being flagged as you type, limited on-the-fly static analysis, and semantic suggestions[1], you don't have to know as much about C++ to succeed - the IDE will let you click your way into a working program.

All of these are very useful features when you already mostly know what you're doing. But if you're being tested for your knowledge? That defeats the assumptions of the exam, and of the educational framework behind it. Good education needs to walk a fine line of making sure the tooling augments, not replaces your understanding - so I can understand if some universities choose to skip IDEs initially, letting the students understand the problems their tools are solving for them.

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[0] - aka. "matura", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matura#In_Poland. CS is one of the optional topics you can take, and since our universities don't do admission exams, your score on STEM topics on matura is important if you want to continue formal education in technical subjects.

[1] - Green, squiggly lines, programmer equivalent to grammar checks from Word :).
It needs time to manifest. Sometimes it takes decades. Not every side-effect is going to immediately manifest.
The problem with this policy is that we're nowhere near cryptocurrency exchanges. Not at all.

We mentioned crypto because we allowed people to pay for our services using BTC or ETH, that is it! You're also allowed to pay using usual banking card.

Still, I submitted an appeal after we tore down this whole feature but no luck, still got banned after that.
I don't know how copyright in France works, but in Germany there is no such thing as Fair Use.
When people don't read the article, they tend to do one of two things - comment on the title (which is often misleading) or use the title as a springboard for politically-driven polemic. Both drive down the quality of discussion considerably. The fewer people who read the article there are, the less substantive the discussion becomes, less insightful, less novel, more tedious and repetitive. The best comments are, invariably, informed by the content of a well-written, insightful article.

The goal of this community is to gratify intellectual curiosity. If most people the forum and never engage with the posted content, preferring only to engage with other, similarly unenlightened commenters, how is that curiosity ever going to be gratified?

It's as if Hacker News were a book club and you said it wasn't that important to actually read the books. Yes, it's possible to discuss A Confederacy of Dunces by only having read the cover and back blurb and hoping someone else in the group actually did the legwork, but why join a book club in the first place if you care so little about reading?

Unfortunately, I think your other points are correct. It isn't possible or even feasible to force people to read the articles. More people have to want to put in the effort and if they don't, they don't. There should at least be as much social pressure within the community to expect people to engage with content as there is to suppress humor or incivility, but the insularity and elitism of the culture here makes that infeasible. There's no way to engineer this, people have to care more.
It's probable that inexperienced workers (of all ages) will come across this and deploy it to unsuspecting small businesses because both want to ride the Python Way.

I think in the future Microsoft's LinkedIN will verify everyone and Microsoft's Github will require a LinkedIN account. In the meantime, Caveat Emptor if you let RedFox2 BrainStormYourWayIN.
There should be more testing like this, also for other packages and languages. In many case there are many packages with a similar functionality. Having solid testing helps when selecting which package to use.
IIRC, Norway pays for most sick leave and maternity/paternity leave through taxes. For sick leave, I think the employer pays for a small amount (a week or two), then it shifts. (Am an immigrant, and could be misunderstanding).

Vacations are kind of a tax too: They take a portion of your income, and give it to you in June of the next year.

Not everything has to make things rough on the employer. Though, to be fair, if people and companies are taxed fairly, the richest people and companies would still be paying a larger share simply because they can afford to do so without slipping into despair.
Indeed, and as the vaccines do very little harm compared to the virus, it's definitely a good thing to get vaccinated. Especially as we are now getting the fuller picture that covid can lead to last lung and brain damage.
Yes, this sort of thing has made me quite the data hoarder. It began as a way to save bandwidth for YouTube videos I wanted to watch repeatedly but after I noticed the number of holes in my "liked videos" list I started saving everything I found worthy. Huge swaths of content are being deleted every day. Not only copyright threats but also people who've decided they don't like their old content anymore and therefore nobody should be able to see it. A goodly chunk of my formative years would be lost to me if I didn't have my archive.
Not my point.

A phenomenon which affects a large fraction of a population has effects on the entirety of the population, ergo, it is socialized.
That’s Disney’s doing, not Google’s. Sonny Bono used to be known as “the Congressman from Disney”.
Do you know if the ban was due to a blanket ban on anyone convicted of anything abroad or specific crimes?

I mean the second one is bad for someone just being gay but the first would seem to catch people convicted of political crimes in the likes of Spain during the fascist era or the Soviet Union.
Could it be a genetic parasite?
I am not so sure. Some side-effects do take time to manifest. They just started talking about how teens get heart issues from it and so forth. We did not know this before either, nor did we know about the AstraZeneca's blood clots. Some take longer time though. We simply do not know. Anyone leaning towards "it is safe" and "it is not safe" is silly, because we just simply have no idea, you cannot claim either for certain.

> Especially as we are now getting the fuller picture that covid can lead to last lung and brain damage.

Yes, we are just now getting the fuller picture of COVID-19 that it can lead to this and that. The very same can happen to the vaccines, and it is actually happening to some of these vaccines.
Actually, H2O is the most potent common greenhouse gas, then methane, and then CO2. If you burn methane (CH4) you end up with 2 molecules of H20 and one of CO2. Which to me would seem to be worse than one molecule of CH4 - but I might be wrong. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable could comment?
Xi wasn't even in power in 2008. Shows how politically illiterate you google employees are.

> China under Xi is fascist. Mass rallies under a glorified leader for life. Calls to return to a mythic past of nationhood under national rejuvenation. What's the difference between Nuremberg rallies, and the mass rallies the CCP runs? The near constant glorification of the CCP and Xi, the huge number of young people in the party and at the rallies (almost 100 million people in the CCP Youth League).

Your definition of Fascism is having rallies and involving young people?

> #4 is especially good example

You forgot about the multiple terrorist attacks and race riots that led to this so called "obsession". Those "protestors" set elderly people who disagreed with them on fire. Who asked you, in your comfy office job in Silicon Valley, what is and isn't a real security concern on the other side of the planet. If you're so concerned about frivolous use of "national security" then maybe do something about the literal National Security Agency your company clearly works with.

I used to be neutral on Google but it's clear that the people working there should have no power over anything.
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>And with this the government makes sure those media conglomerates have a positive opinion of the ruling party.

That probably got a hearty laugh, or at the very least a chuckle, from anybody familiar with French media.
Ah, we don't actually distinguish these. Just use "hair" if you want to draw on a beard or moustache.
Here it's around 8€ per unit for national ILL and 17-38€ for international (depends on the system it goes through and may be even higher in special cases). You can also get copies of articles for a bit less, but that's not always available.

None of that is unreasonably expensive, but I can see it adding up quickly if you need to order like half of the things in your references (which might happen if your institution isn't subscribed to one of the bigger journals in your field).
If you can't innovate, litigate.
I understand that. However everywhere else it took maybe a week more and only for the first few months.

Does that really explain why the US is still having these problems? My guess is that the system is overwhelmed either way. Flights from and to China also were massively less, yet the worst delay we had with china was like 1 week. And today it is on average a week less than before Corona, because most postal systems were actually able to grow and better themselfs in that time.
If it's virtually zero risk and it protects others, that's pretty justified. You know, like how we already take into account more than just individual risk when we vaccinate children.

Stop trying to make out like this is some sort of new or extreme position.

FYI - there have been about 30 kids in hospital in the UK with covid in the last month, so the risks are non-negligible.
Phil Spencer on the future of Xbox: we still want to take risks with games
> If you work in a place you like then - if you’re smart - you’ll not only work well, but also make sure everybody knows you’re an valuable asset and without you things could go awry. It kind of conflicts with your disappearing for a few months.

Yes, that’s why no institution gives valued employees extended sabbaticals, for instance.

Oh, wait...
I believe you have it backwards regarding the bus factor. The company wants the bus factor to be as high as possible. From Wikipedia:
“The "bus factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel.”

The issue here is you are treating employees as cogs that have to be “in the machine” for it to work (i.e. the value they provide is to keep the business running). Valuable employees don’t necessarily cause the business to stop working if they leave. They just continuously add value (individually, making people around them better, designing systems that provide advantages over the long term, etc.) when working that wouldn’t be created if they weren’t there.
There's quite a stark difference between "it might go bang if you abuse it" and Chlorine Trifluoride (sand won't save you this time) https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sa...
Among other sites Microsoft serves ads on DuckDuckGo, so if you're a privacy enthusiast, you'll probably see the ad :)
I never said this shouldn't be anyone's individual choice. All I said was that I'm disgusted that so many people would make the choice.
undefined behaviour and Undefined Behaviour are the same thing… How would the standard define behavior that depends on the implementation. All they say for UB is that there are no requirements for what will happen. How would your perfect language deal with a branch depending on some uninitialized boolean value?
The irony is that at least half of these books has almost nothing to do with psychology (as a theoretical or practical science).
The niche subreddits are still valuable to me, particularly stuff like r/emacs and r/AskHistorians
Ask HN: Graduate school while running a company?
Have any founders here simultaneously pursued a higher degree? If so, did you feel each pursuit diminished your experience of the other, or did you find a way to pursue both satisfactorily?
C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 2nd Edition
Stop allowing companies to pay below minimum wage because it’ll be made up with tips? Seems fairly obvious.
I'm the only owner, designer, manufacturer and financially involved person with any of my boards. If it's not my name on the post, it's not someone tied to the product beyond being a customer.
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It's possible, although the cited articles in that section are from 1990 and 1991. (Another one links to a clone of the same wikipedia article in pfam, which is a comically circular reference.) We hadn't sequenced much then, so the absence of these organelles was probably established by microscopy in these model organisms.
I find stories like the one linked incredibly frustrating. There's no detail whatsoever about what actually happened, so we're basically in a he-said-she-said between google and the regulator. If google's done something wrong I want to hear about what actually happened!
That might be the only way to extract money from Google and others short of leaving the EU, yes, considering they don't pay any taxes while extracting massive amounts of value from the country.
I don't see how the emojis have anything to do with that section, since they're all over the readme anyway. Aside from that: what they're stating is that they "don't want to and aren't planning to divide the community into multiple Elm derivatives, and will actively try to prevent that". Not dividing the community is not the same thing as threatening the main Elm team. And for a smallish language like Elm it makes sense to me that they want to keep everyone on the same team.
I have literally _a toolbar button_ in my Android web browser that downloads the video of any page that I'm viewing right now. How can there be anything more convenient than that?

But your comparison is extremely flawed anyway. E.g. "Fumble on your mobile keyboard to type the address of your preferred save video service." Even if you claim not to know how to use bookmarks, you still have history. Basically, the "unconvenient" method you are describing is literally fewer taps away than the "convenient" method of messaging SaveVideo, which has no autocomplete at all, and _requires me to login to Reddit_. And with SaveVideo you still spam and even reveal to everyone you are downloading the video in the process.

I'm even more convinced the only reason SaveVideo is popular is because their viral spamming strategy actually works, and bazillions of people learn about it because every user of it actively spams everyone else while using it. If on every thread of Reddit I was posting a message about my magnificent browser extension/bookmarklet/website for downloading videos, how popular do you think it would get, convenient or not?
I love this comment line in the source code:

"PRAYAH 1: P L O G L A M S T A H T"
It's not just about economics but about forming bonds with ones child. This is one of the most important things you can do if you're having a family.

Regarding the economics: In the end someone is going to have to look after the kids. Looking at how much it costs to have kids, your argument makes no sense, too. If you just work and don't have children, you get paid the whole time and you also don't have to pay the enormous amount of money an extra human life costs.

So actually in the society you're proposing, having children would be even more of an economic drain than it is now, while parents would also miss out on the opportunity to form bonds with their child, therefore significantly worsening the child's life and maybe also even damage its psyche permanently ("my parents where never there for me" etc). Because not even remotely everyone can afford unpaid leave.

In the end, what you're arguing for is to worsen everyone's life just so you don't feel treated unfairly, even of you are not.

For the argument that the company has a problem by so called private choices: this is life. People get children. Self reproduction is basically the purpose of humanity. If your company (or to an extent your society) does not have the productivity to pay for their workers temporarily leaving, maybe it's just a shitty company. If your workers don't care for each other well being, maybe the company is just not a place worth of existence. Humans gotta look out for each other. That's basic human social behavior. That's what we're here for. As an employer of 10 people, I'm always happy to allow my workers taking off time for their children. Happens about once a year since I'm in the organization. Also we don't pay the full amount of the costs because it's subsidized by the state.

Children are awesome. Parents are awesome. And giving both the opportunity to form a bond, to not be stressed out and depressed, to make a basis for all the things they will become, all the things they will achieve in their later lifes, because they are healthy, loving, social humans – that's awesome.
As one data point, we never did these sort of analogy puzzles in school in Finland (but we don't have standardized multiple-choice testing either). I'm only familiar with the concept and format as a part of the general anglosphere meme complex that you naturally get exposed to if you spend time on the internet.
Healthcare in the U.K. is basically a monopsony. It is also, like many traditional high-paying industries, one which requires a bunch of education and a period of not particularly good conditions before getting good pay (but still having long hours.) Certainly in the U.K. one must suffer as a junior doctor for a while before more lucrative positions become available. While I would like people working in healthcare to be better paid and I’m sure the U.K. system could be made better, it is easy to feel that not having doctors paid like Americans keeps costs down a bit (though maybe that feeling is not bourne out by facts.)
> So with that conflicting forces, it becomes a matter of opinion and perception. So it becomes no longer selfish, and just common sense.

All information points the disease being worse than the vaccine. It's not common sense to avoid it. It's highly irrational. If people are really concerned with not harming themselves, they _will_ get vaccinated.
Is Google too powerful? Sundar Pichai answers [video]
> Users saving videos is a commercial problem for the owners of those videos.

99.9% of videos uploaded on Reddit are not original content, they have been lifted from other platforms, very often by downloading them on said platforms then reuploading them on Reddit.

The hypocrisy displayed by some tech companies is revolting.
Not entirely dissimilar to what is happening to the Chinese market right now. Interesting observation.
Bootstrap a JavaScript Image Editor Library to $20k MRR
> All I'm saying is the OP will behave unexpectedly for people expecting "just a lisp" (a Scheme-like and/or CL-like lisp)

What sort of expectations do you think will be defeated? Beyond the fact that it's only a toy and not, in fact, a Common Lisp or Scheme? Almost everything is missing, but it's a toy. You noticed the Vec but apparently didn't notice the toy language still doesn't even have Cons at the end.
> it's about how much money Google makes from it

How much money does Google make from showing French news headlines?

And why should Google be discouraged from showing those headlines?
I don't like it but I have little hope that the humanity will abolish the "appoint others to die for the tribe" business anytime soon (within my lifetime, or in 1000 years, or at all). Coercion is still such a powerful tool in hands of so many, pervasive on all levels, no way we're going to abolish it. Not sure whether we've made any progress historically; maybe?

I guess we'll see the abolition of animals farming globally around the same time. This would be the expression of humanity's "sentiment" against coercion towards the weaker in general. I believe this may happen but not very soon. (I am myself a meat eater.)
I do miss the reddit I joined over 10 years ago.
I think most people have never in their life read an article by a journalist about something they're knowledgeable of that wasn't complete dogshit. You mention Glenn Greenwald because presumably you're not an expert on state-level corruption. Pretty much any piece of journalism on any topic you can poke plenty of holes in with some research. Hell some articles you can use the article itself to disprove the main point the journalist was trying to make. At some point overwhelming empirical evidence can elevate a "cocktail story" to a rule of thumb.
It's important to note that the fine is not for violating copyright, but for defying an order by the antitrust regulator to have talks with newspapers about the issue.

I'm not sure what the intended procedure for "we believe we fixed the issue, we don't have to talk about it anymore" is, but whatever Google did apparently wasn't it.
If you're in the UK, you can watch the whole interview on iPlayer:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000xwll/amol-rajan-in...
Google has 93% of searches in Europe and 88% in the US.

If such a company refuses their services to somebody who is compliant with every single of their publicly shared rule, it's an abuse of their power. And an anti-trust issue.

But I didn't offer to break them up. The real solution to this problem, I think, would be to create a transparent process for moderation. That is what the article is about.
On a slight side note to this, I remember as a kid one of the common things cops said to us about drugs besides health was, if you get convicted you can't go to the US anymore. Just a bit of a chuckle I had there of the threat of not being able to visit the us was bigger than threat of jail.
Looks like prod is overloaded. Have a try on the dev server: https://unstable.massless.io/tool/face-maker-ai/
They had passed a special tax law to go after Big Tech’s dodgy tax avoidance schemes. It was suspended after Joe Biden’s worldwide minimum corporate tax law, which achieves the same ends (and is not myopically fixated on tech, when IKEA or Starbucks have been doing the same for decades).

This is different, it’s rent-seeking news conglomerates like Murdoch successfully lobbying the EU to extend copyright to cover news snippets. Sadly France was one of the countries that pushed the most for this to happen at the EU level, so it is not surprising it would be the first to use the new law as a cudgel.
Yeah, just tried the one I've been reading - this morning's fetch (~0400 UTC) got a 404 but I got the correct output just now (1018 UTC).
Dev version while prod is down: https://unstable.massless.io/tool/face-maker-ai/