skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you're trying to blur the fraud line and make weak comparisons when no one is in disagreement over Enron, Wildcard or Nicola
>This is one of those claims that is self-evident after taking a highschool or college level US history class

It really isn't. That class should also bring up the Pinkerton's, which is just an example of what shady shit the private sector engages in.

I brought up two examples, wage theft and private military contractors. One of the two very much is the same scale as literal war crimes.
Don't forget to pay your apple tax
(TM) on the hardware to actually build said native apps. And your yearly tribute to the apple app store so they flip a coin as to whether your app is listed or removed.
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WIP! I'm a teaching assistant for the course Machine Learning with Hung-Yi Lee [1] at NTU. Recently we've been working on a compilation of common questions that a student may want. Hope this could be useful to anyone who doesn't want to waste time digging through tons of machine learning websites!

[1]: https://speech.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~hylee/ml/2021-spring.html
Yeah I tried Tesseract with screenshots from the Spotify UI, but with terrible results. Makes you wonder where the competition is. Is anyone building an OCR based on DL?
I think google is very happy with their current model of having everyone just ship blink. It means they control what the web can and can't do not just in their own browser, but many others. None of those browsers are running hard forks

And sure, you could disable an API or this and that feature, but it means you're spending a lot of time to keep reintegrating upstream, because google changes a lot of things all the time, so you really have to pick and choose what diversions you afford yourself. you can poke around the brave repo a bit to see the devs bemoan that.
I don't disagree with any particular point here but I'd like to point out that there are some second order effects from that investment money, it wasn't just "gone" and it didn't just go to the koffers of building contractors either.

I can give some examples;

1) Newham was a very impoverished area before the olympic stadium was set to move there. Now Stratford and Newham are desirable.. More desirable than Hackney which has been "up and coming" for as long as I lived there.

2) Internet in London is/was _abysmal_. Genuinely awful. I even wrote a exasperated blog post about it[0]. This was due to degraded and faulty ADSL being he only option and grossly oversubscribed even if it worked well- and the large providers only followed each other with fibre installations.

When the olympics rolled in there was an enormous infrastructure improvement - I even remember talking to some Telecity employees about it. -- That infrastructure was later sold on to last mile providers who expanded it a bit and I went from speeds worse than dial-up with frequent route drops to symmetric gigabit and IPv6 using a new company called "Hyperoptic". That was a real improvement for everyone in my area because they had given up on home internet. (no netflix, youtube, only basic banking websites possible).

[0]: https://blog.dijit.sh/the-true-state-of-london-broadband
I'm starting to think that the French police are the worst in the EU at least. And here I was thinking that the Dirty Harry cop in the Dobermann movie was a caricature. Looking at the news of the last few years it seems they really are that deranged.

1. Police answer a domestic case by kicking down the door and shooting the father of the (Asian) family without warning:

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2083188/more-...

2. Riot cops shoot a mother and her children at the outskirts of a Gillets Jaunes demo, one of the kids loses a hand:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/30/french-police-...

3. Police anally rape a young (black) man with an expandable baton during an identity check:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38892302

4. Police assault a (black) musician in his studio, allege "smell of cannabis" emanated from within:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55127815

And all this is happening in a democratic country at the heart of the EU. If the police in Tunisia are taking lessons from the French police, I'd be worried about the safety of anti-regime Tunisians.

Of note, I come from a European country that is ostensibly a democracy and I know well that all the democratic laws in the world are not enough to control a bunch of jumped-up brutes given the authority to beat up their fellow citizens.
To put things further in perspective, if you put same $18K into S&P 500 in 1953, assuming 30% dividends tax and dividends reinvestment, now you'd have $13.3M, or $23700 per month after-tax dividend income (averaged), which is more than enough to rent any place, in any location. People who are saying that something was wrong with housing prices really need a reality check.

(caveat is that ETFs did not exist till 1975 so it wasn't as easy for a small-time retail investor to put $18K into S&P 500 in 1953, so this is not entirely apples to apples comparison).
Hi! Author of lunatic here.

We are working on a distributed lunatic implementation built on top of nats.io.
I've started building a little app that uses the serial port API. It's a little widget for collecting and processing data from a pretty custom piece of hardware. It'd be a total dream if we could just send people to a web page to use the product , compared to the nightmare which is developing, maintaining and supporting 3 GUI apps.
Has the lead-crime hypothesis been debunked?
There is a continuum between transmission and replacement.

The Japanese adopting democracy after WWII was almost pure transmission; the population stayed basically the same.

The Holocaust was almost pure replacement; only a few people from mixed families survived in some areas.

But "something in between" is much more typical. Contemporary Iran is as much a heir to ancient Persia as it is to the Arab conquest and Islamization. Roman conquest of Britain led to a significant population admixture from the rest of the Empire and Romanization of local Celts at the same time. Expansion of Germans through Central and Eastern Europe in 12th-18th century was a thorough mix of replacement and transmission.
Sure, I mean if you have the entire UK lavish money on a small area of London, that small area will benefit! Nobody would deny that nobody has benefitted from the olympics - a very small area of the country and a small number of companies contracted to build things benefited greatly, at the cost of the rest of the UK.
I think the poster is having some personal difficulties in their life, let's be kind.
This further convinces me that Apple users are experiencing Stockholm Syndrome.
> You're redefining consciousness here to mean physical awareness in the brain, though.

Where?
From pretty far down in the README:

> The primary motivator for Lumen's development was the ability to compile Elixir applications that could target WebAssembly, enabling use of Elixir as a language for frontend development.
To put it in perspective, 43GB of RAM to browse the entirety of Wikipedia doesn't sound that ridiculous when popular Electron-based IM programs use 1GB+.
Even for platforms that Chrome can't easily be ported to, WebKit itself has a very simple and actually reasonable porting API which led to it for example being used on Sony PlayStation platforms, but also being the most important browser engine on the Haiku OS.

In fact, Chrome originated as - and a lot of its code structure post-Blink-fork still signifies it as being - a meta-platform of its own with a WebKit port to it.
> I personally think we should abolish JavaScript and not allow arbitrary remotely loaded code to execute on our computers.

Yeah this is honestly where I stopped reading. The ship has long-since sailed on this one - on-demand software clearly wins on utility over local software in most cases, a fact which is proven by how dominant web is over native software despite it's many shortcomings.

I actually think what we need to advance software is a better stack/tooling for web to bring it closer to the native experience. I.e. I can imagine a world where my laptop is mostly a platform for running WASM/WebGPU code downloaded from network on demand - and it would be nice if that type of software was not so reliant on the browser as a middle-man.
lol fuck most of you people are so useless
Assumptions is how exploits get triggered.
Swift takes on low-value cross-border payments
No, it looks like the poster is going through a tough time right now.
I'm on the complete opposite opinion. So many things are native apps but shouldn't be. Not to mention i have no desire to download a random app just to see if it does what i need it to ( consuming bandwidth and power in the process). A website is much more accessible, and can usually do the job.
>Developing land is a no brainer

Yes, because you can proffit by doing it.
At least the Games serve to shine light on Japan's refusal to respect UN's Convention on the Rights of the Child, despite ratifying it in 1994.

Japan's Law incites and rewards Child Abductions by giving sole custody to the first abductor. Judicial visitation decisions are not enforced.

By refusing to protect the fundamental Right of Children to access both their parents directly and regularly, as per the CRC, Japan is a massive and frequent Child Right violator.

In 2019, Japan Minister of Justice publicly and cynically qualified the CRC of "non-binding", and the European Parliament's resolution denouncing the violations of being "unfunded".

Is is estimated that between 150,000 and 200,000 new children each year, the majority Japanese, have this basic Human Right violated in Japan.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-cust...
The US FDA was among the first world-wide to approve (Europe was months later)

UK MHRA: Dec 2. US FDA: Dec 11. European EMA/EC: Dec 21. Months later? Hyperbole doesn't help your argument.
Look at the amount of applications and web-application you have open at a given point.

If this is such a good idea, let's just all use iscsi and mount the internet.
If the car catches fire from a faulty battery, Tesla will be accountable, just like many other automotive corporations before. Technical issues killing people isn't exactly a rare thing in car history.

If the car gets into trouble because of faulty AI, that is a different story, because our legal systems cannot really grok AI yet.

That said, the same was true about the Internet, hacking, nuclear technology, airplanes, electricity etc. There isn't a single technical development in history that would be just put on hold until the lawyers constructed an optimal legal structure around it, and only then allowed to proceed.

It is always geeks first, attorneys and lawmakers later.
How? I've had a roomba for almost 2 years now, and I use it all the time - it runs and cleans our living room and kitchen at least 2-3 times a week. There has been a noticeable reduction in dust present in the house. And that's not even a fancy self-emptying model, just a normal roomba where I have to empty the bin by hand. Why would you stop using one?
Then Apple should tie it strictly to PWA / installed to homescreen, require an apple Dev account to send notifications and use the DUNS number and other stuff they collect plus lawyers, to hold asses to the fire over any misuse/spam.

I want Apple in this game implementing this stuff in a privacy concious way, rather than saying lol no make native apps and ceding the web to Google.
A bit like those systems written decades ago in COBOL.
10 or 15 stars.

This is the saddest thing on this thread.
I never heard of the ISC licence. I look into it.

But I do not want give up concerning fraud, I just do not see how a common licence will protect me more. And due to the nature of my project, I am not worried about people using code of mine, but repackaging and selling the whole thing as theirs and maybe even legally doing so, if I make a mistake there.
> please note that it’s not enough to fill in the email field on your profile. Only the HN admins can see that field.

Whoa TIL. Was this a recent change?
You say that, but you know how many people that "fully automated" warehouse in the UK employs? Around 800 per shift. It was mentioned in the last incident report when one robot caught fire.

Yeah a big part of the work is automated. But these warehouses still need people.
AI robots take off, with Boston Dynamics
A language which is not error prone will usually lead to a combination of the programmer making less mistakes and the language catching those mistakes the programmer makes (whether at compile-time or runtime, or more problematically attempting to DWIM those mistakes thankfully language design has rather moved away from that very bad idea).

Programmers making mistakes is a fact of life, that C is error-prone is what makes those mistakes into significant and recurring issues.
The History, Evolution and Future of Remote Work
That's great, thanks! I was had a feeling that, and was hoping that, some casino employees or someone with experience in the industry would reply to this comment. :)

I totally am with you on the importance of dressing. And how dressing can completely transform how you feel.

I'm also totally with you about the racial and cultural differences in dressing standards. I noticed the same trend, I think, in Australia with people of ethnic Chinese background. They tend to dress well in the casino, seemingly at a higher proportion than other races-cultures.

I'm with you also on your theory about the why of the different dress customs. I'm guessing that, also, some of this observation of black people and Chinese people dressing more fancily than 'locals' (even when they are locals themselves) might be a consciousness of the fact that they were looked down on by locals in the past, and a desire to defend against being seen like that by 'dressing above' how they're scared people might see them. I think also Chinese cultures are more hierarchical- and status-conscious than 'Western' cultures (in the present), and this factors too. I wonder if this might be also true of black, ethnically 'African' cultures, but I don't know. And I noticed a similar effect with myself in HK: when I dressed well, the local people gave me more respect and more space, than if I dressed casually and not as fancily.

Your story has inspired me to up my dressing game. Thanks for this reminder! :D

I'm also a real fan of your last paragraph. 'drunkposting' or not, it's really well written. Loved it! :)

BTW the vibe I got reading your grandparent comment was that your wife / mom's side of the family was black. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s close to losing me too. I stuck with it in a major part to prevent a monoculture, but It’s much slower than Chrome, causes major memory issues on my machine (M1 Mac) and with Mozilla on a kamikaze mission I don’t think it’s going to get better any time soon.

Literally the only thing keeping me there are Tree Style Tabs/Sidebery. Give me a Chrome based browser with that and I’ll switch (Edge’s vertical tabs don’t really count, it’s still not a tree).

I see many reasons for Firefox’s demise, but TL;DR I’m just done.
> some machine learning algorithm

A friend of mine asked GPT-3 to mimic a text written by "nindalf". It was so good that I thought it had plagiarised something I had actually written on HN. But it was only mimicking the style of my comments.
That was a great comment, thanks a lot for the clarification!

Another point that I've been missing from Linus' post is that sizeof is special also in that its argument is never evaluated. sizeof launch_the_missiles() will never launch the missiles.

Yet another specialty is that sizeof applied to an array has no array decar. if char buf[1024];, then sizeof buf is 1024, not a pointer size like 4 or 8.

To me, it's not like a function at all. It's more like an assembler macro. I usually agree with Linus and learn a lot from his posts, but here I think he's unsuccessfully trying to find arguments for his (IMO, misleading) stylistic preferences.
May be it is not foreign buyers but instead the new Zealand government that had been printing money over the last year in an attempt to spur economic growth.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300223358/reserve-ba...
The problem is memory safety and functional languages won’t read into another object’s memory even with a logical bug.

And a null-terminated linked list is different from a C-string.
That is not surprising, you see the cargo cult in Linux circles about the "UNIX way", when the actual UNIX clones, those that actually descend from AT&T and BSD code linage, never followed it to the letter.
BEAM is also a very nice VM if you are thinking of a target for your own language. It is easy to learn and use. And this adds more freedom.
That’s misleading, gold ore can have an extremely high gold content. The comparison is to the minimum threshold for economic extraction and that’s from rocks via chemical leaching not electronics.
Well, I do think a programming language is a tool and it is kind of wrong to blame the tool for the mistakes made by the one wielding it.

The problem with C is that it's a tool where you have no safety and I don't think there's a programmer alive that can actually use it in a safe manner. I guess some are close, but they will still end up with the occasional wound here and there on their bodies...

I would probably avoid using C for anything I put in production today, I still love the language though. It still feels special, sitting down with all that power at your fingertips knowing that you'll have a built in buffer overflow if you lose focus for a second, gets (no pun intended) my blood flowing! :-)
1) Not all countries recognize the public domain and will assume no one gets a license (France does this I think.)

2) I'm not entirely sure why you're against copyleft. There's no legitimate reason not to distribute source code and this keeps the things you write from being used to hurt people. If you're concerned about people repackaging and selling your stuff then the GPLv2/3 is probably a good idea.
This is a serious question since many of our students don't have a street address. Many reservations only have PO Boxes.
I absolutely agree with this, but it's an unpopular opinion that draws fire. Actual ambitious simulations are rare which is why they stand out. Rain World is one of my favorites. Rimworld is ok but the creator openly admits he doesn't want to go as deep as DF.
I don’t believe it mattered that much even at the time. Having to calculate the length of the string by iterating over it at each string operation was and is much more wasteful and slow. It is simply a stupid decision.
Another anecdote: Walmart moved into our rural town around, IIRC, 1980. The population chart takes a large upturn around that year. It was about 1000 then, and it's over 3000 today. It certainly didn't kill that town. Walmart even moved locations closer to the highway into a bigger store, too.
It called progressive enhancement. You test whether you have a feature and then code around it if you don't.

e.g. When createObjectUrl was a new thing. I ended up doing something using AJAX and doing some processing server side for IE and Edge. Now I could have done all the processing server-side. However 80%+ of the users use Chrome. So instead of checking everything on the server, I could offload 80% of that to the browser.
As a Consortium the W3C's members are mostly corporations. For much of its existence individuals couldn't even join, now they can but it's expensive. If Bob loses his job at Big Corp, Big Corp are the W3C member, Big Corp gets to send Bob's replacement to the W3C meetings to represent Big Corp interests. Big Corp votes on W3C work, albeit via Bob or his successor, but Bob doesn't have a vote unless Bob joins individually at his own expense he has no voice.

The IETF doesn't have members. IETF participation is an individual activity for people. Your employer can (and many do) pay you to participate, but they're not the ones participating, you are. The IETF doesn't vote on anything, it doesn't have members so a vote wouldn't mean anything, it is looking only for a "rough consensus".
Notebook vendors didn't get this memo.
Nope, but HN recently added a notice right next to it to let you know it's the case.
This, plus the information which books Bruce Schneier selected for his library and which he omitted. The books themselves are pretty worthless, agreed, but someone might buy it as a collection that might have some worth in and by itself.
> Yi is a collection of packages that serve as building blocks for making your very own text editor.

Terminal based or GUI based? Does it support variable-width fonts? Does it understand Haskell syntax? Can I use it to edit other files, e.g. system config files?
It comes from London frequently having money lavished on it that other areas don’t (eg - check public transport [1]) - and usually accompanied with a self-fulfilling prophecy about how other areas don’t generate tax income (which of course is because they don’t have good infra and investment). And this situation has been very much engineered by the UK government over the last 40 years, it isn’t some state of nature.

[1] https://www.ippr.org/news-and-media/press-releases/revealed-...
Orion (WebKit based) has native tree style tabs, plus runs Chrome/Firefox extensions. Currently in beta (disclaimer: founder)
It’s not if you want your install command to be deterministic.

I never want the install command to change anything. I want it to install only.
Are you talking about the Paris suburbs? Sure towns are quite small but in a 10km radius there are still more people than in many other places in Europe and e.g. the city where I grew up and we all always road around on bikes. 10km was not a large distance for us after turning 10-12.

Regarding rough winters, I grew up in Germany and live in Sweden now, so saying winter in France is rough is quite funny (my French partner is laughing quite hard now)
The closest phonetic approximation to "gn" is the "ny" in canyon, and the approximation to "gl" is the double l in billion.
I don't understand this simulation, did you have real users who could only downvote?
Agree. I can see why a Mac/iOS developer might feel that way though.
What are the pros of null-terminated strings? You have to recalculate something you already know at each string operation, potentially failing. It is slow and unsafe.

Languages where a string type is possible to have usually make use of length and non-null-terminated, while I think C++ does length and C-string with longer texts but for short string can “hack” the text itself into the pointer.
I don't think the person is mistaken, I think people pronounce it in different ways depending on where they come from. The three examples here does not seem to be pronounced like ieri:

https://forvo.com/word/piet%C3%A0/

Perchance you're speaking a dialect? Happens to all of us. :)

Not a native speaker and my Italian is terrible, but I've always loved the Italian i vowels. They are so clear and distinct.
It's rare, but I did, back when I regularly ordered from other places.

I also regularly didn't get things on time. And I don't mean a day late, I mean "hasn't even shipped yet by the time it should arrive" late, and without even a notice.

What really sold me on Amazon was game sales, though. I'd pre-order something at Walmart or Gamestop and show up on release day to find out they didn't get it. This happened enough that I finally just ordered it on Amazon instead and hoped it'd work out. It not only worked out, but it had great tracking so I always knew what was going on. I had maybe 2 games be late from Amazon in all the time I ordered from them, and at least one of those was weather that stopped the planes and would absolutely have affected GS and WM, too.

From there they introduced the 2-day shipping and the rest was history.
Go ask that to the dude in front of a Tank column <3