skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess my language was a bit imprecise, by "software developers" I meant "people involved in the software development process" rather than the specific role of the person writing the code. I guess I should have said "software companies" or "companies developing software". Managers definitely deserve their share of the blame for demanding user-hostile bloat too, likely more blame than the developers.

On the developer end (as a developer myself) we definitely deserve some of the blame for embracing things like Electron with such zeal in my opinion. I don't care how much memory a developer's workstation has, there's still a lot of hardware in use that can't take the bloat. I'm not saying everything has to be a native app written in vi against an original print of The C Programming Language as Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie wrote it in 1978 or it's automatically shit, but something like React Native for the desktop would be far less horrible in terms of resource usage I reckon.
> This is needless Apple apologetics.

Just to be clear, I am neither defending nor attacking Apple. I don't even own any Apple devices.

I'm just giving my interpretation of the dynamics behind what is going on.
It's an open secret among educators that the brightest students learn to read at home. Early math is just practicing the same arithmetic over and over, because the logical skills for algebra just aren't present in a seven-year-old.
Art, music, and gym are actually really important in early childhood development, because they develop motor skills. Gym gives gross motor skills and major muscular development, and art and music give fine motor control. Penmanship is also important for developing fine motor control. For young children who can't yet engage in much logical reasoning, developing motor skills is appropriate and important. We tend to think in adult terms about what is the right thing for kids to learn, but small children are not adults and need to develop skills that adults take for granted.
This is either the result of:
A.)captcha solver farm services that sell auth tokens to spammers in bulk
B.)more unlikely, but a system which uses the easier to solve audio captcha with a recognition software to farm auth tokens

The first system is probably the one at fault here, you should switch to an alternative or inhouse system, google captcha has been broken like this for years, I no longer use it in favor of hCaptcha, although i have not deployed it in production in a few months so for all i know ot could be compromised
how would you go about calculating whether or not their stock is overpriced or a buy at the moment?

i'd assume that any future potential has been probably overly enthusiastically priced in already.
you wouldn't do it for an extra 10mil a year?
In my experience this is an overrated concern. And when it does happen, it's usually accompanied by a rewrite anyway.
Making hard and fast statements about a topic even lifelong experts don't feel comfortable making a conclusion about is unwise.

There is no meaningful line between a language and a dialect, and it mostly comes down to politics.
Ah, I think I understand! Something 18bnly away from us today has a light bubble that includes objects outside our light cone.

If you can get there in 45y, that doesn’t mean 45y has passed at that location. In fact if it’s 18bnly away, that means you’d arrive in 18bn years from their perspective. And not 18bn years from what you saw when you left, but 18bn years from when they saw you leave. By that time, space will have expanded enough that it’s no longer possible to see past.
Yeah, the article mixes up the two trees, which doesn't bode well for the rest of it.
EQRx Goes Public: Its mission is lower-priced drugs
This will be challenging since the epidemic of obesity (which kills far more than covid) now effects > 50% of society and leads to disability at younger and younger ages.
It appears around 95% of the imported corn is feed-grade yellow corn because Mexica doesn't grow very much of that.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2020/august/us-corn-exp...
If carbon tax is dead, what's the alternative? Is there one? I certainly can't think of one.

Ultimately the problem is that people aren't going to vote for things that make their life worse. And reducing fossil fuel usage currently makes your life worse. So it's unpopular.

I think sadly the answer is that we won't do anything meaningful about climate change until it's really, really bad - and then the mild life-worsening of a carbon tax will feel minor compared to the alternatives. Sadly it might be too late by then.
With so many sites, when I contact them about some issue, they say "firefox is not supported - use chrome or safari."

I've had problems recently with banking/finance sites and Wix.
Elementary is great, the couple times I've tried it, I wasn't into the desktop paradigm it was encouraging me to use (e.g., no minimize button, native apps that are pretty and consistent but less functional). Will look forward to giving it another spin.

Having recently begun using a Mac for the first time, and after having had to suffer with Win10 for a few years, I have to say that I didn't appreciate that several out-of-box linux desktop experiences are now superior to commercial options.

Ubuntu for example is quite stable, has attractive defaults that aren't garish or trying to be too unfamiliar, and otherwise never does anything I don't expect. Especially when it comes to finder/explorer/nautilus.

All major desktops now have a dock, some tray icons, and a notification area.

To me the differentiator is just staying out of my way.
Imagine grinding for a year on leetcode to go to FAANG and this salary cut happens, or promised a salary rise after 2 years but instead gets cut.

Feels like a complete scam.
But many security researchers and analysts seem convinced this system will catch up innocent people. Will it only take a single arrest of someone who happens to get a copy of their iCloud account to their lawyer, instantly proving their innocence before Apple is destroyed? Or will it take two?
I was able to merge a PR after trying a dozen or so times. So it would appear it’s degraded, not totally out.
The gnostic view is that the tree opened people up to the knowledge that the creator of earth was a flawed god, and not the good one up at the top of the heirarchy. In my understanding.
There's a term for it but I can't easily find it.

https://neurosciencenews.com/neuron-counting-9898/

This article goes into it and mentions "numerical distance effect", which looks appropriate but not what I remember.

I did learn that people who play first person shooters can usually recognize more objects at once instantly; 6 or 7 instead of a more typical 4 or 5, if I recall correctly.

They used number of grapes in a hand to measure.
The mandatory vaccinations that triggered a riot in Montreal in 1885
Thanks! Indeed, having something released at last is an amazing feeling.

Regarding the bottles, that's exactly the spirit! Hope you enjoy the app.

As mentioned above we are still figuring out how to further develop it. Any suggestions are welcome.

thanks again,
Rodrigo
that's what you get when Microsoft buys a platform
This is interesting. Any way to post the documents to be read publicly?
2 years in the making. Been waiting for this since last year!
Not the same way as you do with turbo
For unstable, you should currently take Firefox from experimental. I assume, like for previous releases, it will be here by tomorrow. Due to the freeze for Bullseye release, the dependencies to put it in unstable are not present.
Knowing is like ‘technology’, which exists as a nucleus usually for around 50 years in some local before getting ‘out there’ and going global.
Sell ads plastered over your friends gossip: $86B

Extend the life of millions of people: $18B

Level of wrongness of priorities: Infinite
Flatpaks, as well as snaps and appimages to a lesser extent, are a true godsend to the linux desktop. I can finally have a stable system and software released yesterday.
This is not correct. I was able to open the website just now.
What changed when you switched?
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Premieres in 30 minutes. An in depth analysis of Tesla's bailout of SolarCity. Depending on the result of this trial Musk/Tesla can be in big trouble. Other than that, this channel is amazing, his Musk debunk youtube series is a must see.
> classes

IMHO this is the elephant in the room. The US is a bad place for poor people, and the black folks are overrepresented in the poorer social classes.

The social and economical system of the US is failing, and media and politicians are sprouting anti-racist slogans to distract attention away from their failings to improve the living conditions of the poor.

Its not racism, its poverty that is eating the country.
Nitpicking a bit, food for thought for others maybe.
Thinking of this mostly from the perspective of artistic works since the author made a reference to those.

> Sooner or later you can find a free copy of whatever you want, but getting a copy delivered to your inbox the moment it is released — or even better, produced — by its creators is a generative asset.

This is assuming the process of creation itself isn't being copied. I can imagine a dystopian future where the process and hence, the product are both free and consequently worthless to the creator.

> It is my belief that audiences WANT to pay creators.

Been a student most of my life so far, so i think you need to have money before you can act on the desire to reward others. Also in a dystopian world, if everything is free, who has money?

> When there are millions of books, millions of songs, millions of films, millions of applications, millions of everything requesting our attention — and most of it free — being found is valuable.

Agreed but easy to find means more copies exist. Perhaps it is a delicate balance?

Maybe wealth and copies don't go hand in hand as some, including myself, would like to believe.
Why would anyone trust establishment media outlets on this topic? Especially when they resort to such transparent manipulations.

From appeals to credentials to guilt by association this article has it all.

>"His posts have been retweeted thousands of times by supporters of QAnon..."

"Many Q supporters wear shoes, therefore those who wear shoes..."

This is on the level of, "You know who else had a mustache?"
a co-op can have a monopoly on a market. a co-op is a legal structure like an LLC, or corporation. it doesn't signify market penetration like monopoly or oligopoly does.
> How often does one even migrate DB’s?

I've never seen it happen on a production system in ~20 years.

Might happen at the current gig but that's more down to "Firebase is junk for this job and we're rewriting everything anyway, might as well consider switching DB too".
once you get close enough from c, all the stars in the universe appear to be either right in front of you, or right behind you

That's not really right. There is a distortion where things appear more in front of you than they are at the time you see them, but that's only because they were at that angle, but by the time the light gets to you they're not where they appear.

Also there's nothing that would shift light to appear behind you other than your movement away from objects that you have passed.
If space is an issue, you could use Google Photos instead of iCloud Photos, and your photos will be scanned on Google's servers instead?
The issue here is one of scale, not necessarily intentional complexity - though admittedly one often leads to the other.

In a world of single servers - or even multiple servers load balanced over a single database - you only have a single point of failure. And while that is often touted as an terrible thing, once it goes down it's game over... in some ways, our scaled up distributed systems have a worse problem.

The issue is we envision our distributed systems optimistically - as isolated little bubbles that receive and emit clean, efficient, fault tolerant packets. When one goes down, only a few others get affected, and the broken module can be easily re-deployed with very little fuss.

In reality, the people with the vision quickly become horrified with what is produced. The authentication system touches everything. The stock management system gets hooked directly into the homepage. Suddenly, every single part of your system is hinged on at least 5 servers, and if any of them go down, it's game over until one of them gets brought back up, and by that point the job management queue is so backed up with critical tasks (that should probably have never been entrusted to a background jobs queue) that it takes hours for the organism to re-balance itself.

And so, these systems go down more often, because instead of one single point of failure, you have 5 - while telling yourself you have none.

The question is, how can we do this better? I've seen big teams and small teams similarly struggle with this. I guess Netflix with their chaos monkey strategy wins on this, but even that is not infallible - as you say, the 1000 layers of abstraction (and goodness knows how many unique combinations of interactions and potential simultaneous failures) something is bound to be missed from time to time.

So I don't think the problem is we're moving faster or breaking more things. It's just that we don't know how broken our systems are until they break.
It is not unique to this case that how we divide and understand langauges is tied up with politics of nationalism. Have been since the start of modern nationalism. What we call "Italian" could be called "Florentine", it wasn't spoken in all of "Italy" until it became a political project to make it so...

And...

> Until about 1800, Standard German was almost entirely a written language. People in Northern Germany who spoke mainly Low Saxon languages very different from Standard German then learned it more or less as a foreign language. However, later the Northern pronunciation (of Standard German) was considered standard[4][5] and spread southward; in some regions (such as around Hanover), the local dialect has completely died out with the exception of small communities of Low German speakers.

> It is thus the spread of Standard German as a language taught at school that defines the German Sprachraum, which was thus a political decision rather than a direct consequence of dialect geography. That allowed areas with dialects with very little mutual comprehensibility to participate in the same cultural sphere. Currently, local dialects are used mainly in informal situations or at home and also in dialect literature, but more recently, a resurgence of German dialects has appeared in mass media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_German
I’ve been using GitHub for nearly a decade now. It used to be down all the time. Outages are now comparatively rare.
Atleast logos are an exception

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Circle/-/issues/50
The alternative seems to be keeping the young under employed
Yes! You might be thinking of node-secureworker[0]. We've been the maintainers for the last couple of years, but haven't been using it in production (concerns around Intel SGX)

[0]: https://github.com/evervault/node-secureworker
JSX (React's default markup language) expects all tags to be closed, and self closing tags are valid. If you spend a significant time writing React apps (with JSX) then it becomes pretty second nature to write self closing tags. It's not exactly XHTML (I can't think of any other of XHTML's idioms it uses).
On both sides of the Irish Sea, too. Hard-line unionists in the north of Ireland have been pushing "Ulster Scots" in the last ten years or so. Not out of any real cultural association with the language or with Scotland - they overwhelmingly identify as "British" - but as a tool to diminish Irish-language initiatives. Every time there's a measure proposed to support Irish, they can propose an equal amount of funds for Ulster Scots.

It actually helps them to make the language seem as ridiculous as possible, since the real goal isn't to promote their language but to mock another.
That trackpad gesture support where it actually tracks with your finger movement looks really nice. Is this typical in Linux distros now, or is elementary going above and beyond the rest with that?
Generating Cooking Recipes with TensorFlow
Clearly it matters what you are doing. I, fortunately, have amazingly healthy mental health but also spend a lot of time on devices for my job. What I do on the device is clearly different than a high schooler suffering from FOMO.

We use this insight with our children. E.g. it’s not “no devices” it’s “no consumption right now, you can only use your devices for creation/discovery, consumption time is limited to 1 hour at these times”.
It does have some strange things:

- What's the scope of x? it appears to be the argument of two different anonymous functions.

- Is / both apply and reduce?

- So 'x f list' applies f to list x times. What if I use ',' instead of f? That is, what does 'x,/list-of-lists' do? does it flatten the list of lists and then concatenates x or does it flatten the list of lists x times? It seems confusing to have symbols that act both as operators and as functions.

- Why is '-2#x' "take last two elements of x" and not "negate the first two elements of x"? If I understand correctly, based on the evaluation order you're using it should be the latter, no?

And all of that from a simple Fibonacci function. I can't imagine how difficult it must be to dive into an actually complex codebase. And it's not just about the different paradigm. That's not the problem, the problem is focusing on terseness above all.

I get that once you are deep into a language or codebase you lose sight of the complexities because you get used to them. But it doesn't mean they aren't there.
Restaurant operators are turning to robots as labor shortage drags on
I believe it is more of a standardization of knowledge when picking the tool for mathematics. TI-83 calculator is common and easily to have all the students to use the same calculator and provides various approach of how to solve it. If one student is a outlier (like using HP calculator), then it could be an issue since the instructor only have the knowledge of using TI-83 (or its variants), the instructor couldn't help that student since HP and other graphic calculators have different inputs, layouts, etc.

And not everyone is good at solving math alone without the aid of the calculator. Some people simply can't solve mathematics at all, maybe up to multiplication/division level is the best they can do. I am not good with mathematics myself and struggles with some advanced algebra. It is not the matter of trying to solve, it is matter of memorization of mathematics formula and equations that US Education drilled down so hard which is ironic when they said that calculators are forbidden to use during the exam while they are encouraging to use the calculators in class and homework... Their pedagogy is fucked and hypocritical.
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Twitter is now said to be complying with India's new IT laws
Negative correlation also known as anticorrelation does not mean there is a "direction". Simply, it is a scalar number and not a vector. Don't add to the confusion of terminology by using a colloquial definition of "direction" to mean it can be negative or positive. We could have defined correlation to be in [0,1] and your sense of direction would be very confusing.
If anything companies should be paying people MORE to work from home especially if they aren't providing equivalent hardware (multiple monitors/etc). The cost of space/facilities/utilities/etc are now handled by the worker and not the employer. The fact they want to instead pay these people less is really gross.
Have you heard of the Gervais Principle[1]?

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Well I am getting 500s instantly, not after some internal timeout
There has been a long and mostly fruitful conversation between the 'bright greens' and the 'crunchy greens', but it's time to resolve the difference.

The difference, briefly: bright greens (I prefer Viridian†) support a high-technology road to sustainability, while crunchy greens are about bringing our carbon footprint down to sane parameters through traditional lifeways and reduction in energy use.

† https://www.viridiandesign.org

Simply, we don't have time to indulge the crunchies any longer. Carbon zero isn't going to cut it, we need to remove carbon from the atmosphere and that calls for substantial additional energy.

Either we get everyone up to a nearly-American energy budget, with plenty left over for carbon capture, or we reduce everyone's standard to that of an Indian peasant and still roast.

There are Americans living in big houses, with good insulation and heat pumps, solar, and a battery bank, whose homes are net exporters of energy. This is not a total accounting due to embodied energy, but it points the way.

To me the solution has always been simple: tax carbon and apply the proceeds directly to subsidizing replacements for polluting technology. If you ask people to give up their lifestyle to 'save the planet' they're just going to ignore you, and if you try and force them, expect violent resistance.

The hard truth is that America has already flattened carbon emissions, and given our great wealth we're uniquely positioned to pay the new-technology premium to fund the transition to a sustainable technology stack. Most of us are willing, some of us are stubborn, but insisting that everyone live in a pod and eat bugs isn't a winning move. We're wealthy, relatively far north, and well armed: why should we?
That doesn't mean it's not degraded.
For front office work, they definitely do pay the most.
I think they're saying that if someone can completely hack your phone so as to have remote control of it, they can sign you up for an iCloud account and add CSAM to it.

This seems... implausibly convoluted. If you have full remote control of someone's phone, Apple or not, you could do all sorts of incriminating things "as them", and I don't think Apple's new system noticeably increases your risk from this.
> They showed extended, unedited clips of koko fumbling and just brute forcing a whole series of signs until she got a treat.

...what do you think human children are doing for the first ~4 years of their life?

Also, different learning methods are used by the subject depending on their mood -- most importantly frustration -- and other context. Brute force learning tends to be the last stage before they're so frustrated they give up or become aggressive. It's also a common exploratory tactic.

Teaching human sign language over a variant organically developed by the subject and team would have what advantage, exactly? It may be nominally more interesting to know a gorilla could adopt a purely human communication system -- very interesting. But it's also such a corner case of studying communication and particularly interspecies communication that to call it out as a problem is nothing more useful than a nitpick.

We're coming from an age where all animals were by default assumed to be a sort of squishy -- sometimes tasty -- automaton. We have a long way to go in unlearning that particular arrogance. Assuming that intelligence can only be demonstrated in the purely human terms you seem to be looking for is just another vestige of that same arrogance.
Google scans all photos in the cloud (Gmail, Drive, Google Photos) for CSAM and has for a long time. It just doesn't show contextual ads against email anymore, since those all sucked.