skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the US State Department:

>Most U.S. citizens 18 years or older who reside outside the United States are eligible to vote absentee for federal office candidates in U.S. primary and general elections. In addition, some states allow overseas citizens to vote for state and local office candidates and referendums. For information about your state, see the Voting Assistance Guide.

>In some states, U.S. citizens who are 18 years or older and were born abroad but who have never resided in the United States are eligible to vote absentee. Direct your questions about eligibility to local election officials

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...
China Is Totalitarian. Why Is That So Hard to Say?
My company is stupid, but not that stupid. We already have vast amounts of data about checkins that could, in the hands of a stupid person, be used to create stupid developer metrics for performance evaluation, and yet I've never once in my many cross-team performance ranking meetings heard a manager who had the gall to trot out "lines of code" as a serious metric for comparing people. And I'm at a FAAMNG. ;)
If we are going to use a car analogy it would be better to use a more fitting one.

Installing an exhaust filter won't reduce lung cancer risk of the driver. Car dealers should be careful if they advertised filters as medical devices that reducing lung cancer for drivers, rather than an filter that reduces pollution for those who live near the road. Exhaust filters are still a good idea for society, but if you want to reduce the personal risk then an air filter for the AC is required. It would however be a rather bad world to live in if everyone installed air filters for the AC and excluded filter for the exhausts.

Outside of garages or other enclosed spaces where the driver might actually get exposed to the cars exhausts.
> Accessibility is not a technical issue so there is no reason to expect developers to focus on it.

I have to disagree with this part. All the points you've mentioned are required to maintain a general accessibility awareness within a project. But getting accessibility right is still mostly a technical topic: using buttons vs. links, using semantic HTML, implementing ARIA roles correctly for non-native components, having at least a high-level WCAG knowledge, being able to operate a screen reader, etc.
All it takes is one look at the reproducibility crisis to know that “academics” are just
as corrupt, greedy, and politics driven as any politician.

Thing is, flat earth is easy to point at and yell “lies!”

How about the Trump/Russia collusion? Pushed by powerful interests with an axe to grind, and in the end debunked. But there are many who believe there is more there than meets the eye. Perhaps they are right.

Frankly, “disinformation” labels, given by any authority, can and will be manipulated. People calling for that are idiots who can’t understand second order effects of their choices.

You act like there is one objective reality, and you know it and others don’t. This is false.
“Alternative facts” are differences of opinion on things that 99% of people have no personal knowledge of.

Does Hilary Clinton eat babies? Hell, I don’t know. I’d say probably not. But one of her top donors, Ed Buck, did just get charged with tying up homeless black men and injecting them with meth to OD them while He got off.
Who knows? Not you, not me.

TLDR: None of us have the proper insight to truly discern “misinformation” despite what we think. I may get downvoted to hell, but this is the truth.
Our world is shaped by narratives outside of our control.
> That doesn’t have a good ring to it either as pedophiles often claim they were in fact seduced by their victims.

Guilty people often claim things that would be mitigating or exonerating if true; that doesn't make it a “bad ring” to have fiction in which the mitigating or exonerating thing is true. (And, just to be clear, what Spielberg was suggesting would, IMO, only be modestly mitigating, and only even that in combination with Spielberg’s pushback on age, and even then not really appropriate background for with the rest of the film. But it was definitely reeling things back from what Lucas was suggesting.)
Hmm, rlwrap[0] is a really nice tool when working with applications that are poor at handling terminal input. It basically handles your keystrokes in rlwrap and whenever you type enter it will send the input line to the application to handle. It's very useful also for application that don't have their own input handling (arrow keys, etc.) or have extreme keystroke latency. It will even give you ctrl+r feature to search commands you typed earlier.

I use it often for pentesting when getting a raw reverse shell. I'll get access to a remote bash session through netcat, and using rlwrap I can do the line editing locally and find the complex commands I've written before without copypaste.

[0] https://linux.die.net/man/1/rlwrap
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This is being sold as "Cutting-edge software versioning for minimalist" but requires you to have an additional number in your version that does nothing
I‘m still at 52gb free Storage. But I just need 2. I’d even pay 2-3 bucks a month to get rid of the device limit. But I won’t pay for a terabyte I don’t need…
Agreed, and that is the heart of it.

- Someone fixing their own code fixes the codebase. Someone fixing someone else's code, generally only knows enough to make a fix at a single point, to fix an observed bug.

I think the abstract is just making statistical observations and hopefully in time will develop and test hypothesis that could create a theory. Anyway, they can use my hypothesis above and give it a whirl.
Ask HN: How far away are mainstream, mass-adopted, driverless cars?
I've to admit it: I read through it with increasing disbelief, feeling old and outdated, until I've reached the release date.
I agree.

The fact that he inflicted Java upon the world is proof enough.
In EVE it is explicitly allowed
Oh wow this is great
I have always wanted to
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I love the religious overtones on the post. All I can say is that the best option is probably to coexist.
There is strong evidence, that E2EE backups are coming. How about hold our horses until actual release of iOS 15?
LLVM is also preferred because it has much cleaner internals than gcc (although gcc has gotten hugely better over the years). And of course, all production compilers become monumentally complex over the years (I once worked with Open64 - gah).
> Or more relevant to Netflix -- your language setting for content has to be the same as your language setting for the UI.

Yeah, it sucks! How hard is it to have a general UI language setting and per-profile content language preferences? I usually set everything to English but that means my family can't use my Netflix.
I always thought real numbers cannot “exist” in the physical world, since a single real number could contain a universe of its own.
I own all these names on my shadow DNS system :)
- Non-native client

- limited family sharing

- unreliable auto-fill…
Here's something that's not zero: the number of comments from people that don't get the joke.
Maybe somebody thought of short sha-1 id's of git: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Revision-Selection With that only 4 chars is enough to identify a commit :-)
While this true, you can’t say that it is worse than current state. (Only server side encryption, plaintext in the eyes of Apple)
In fact, a commit should have a single purpose, otherwise it creates dependencies and, for instance, you cannot revert a feature without also reverting a bug fix and it makes cherry-picking a nightmare.
ZeroVer is satire [1].

[1] https://0ver.org/about.html
I think the main issue is just that Pandora's box is now open. Once you make this move, you can't go backwards.

If you'll indulge me, would you bet $1000 that this style of scanning isn't expanded in the next 3 years to include non-CSAM content?
Well done, I'm with you. I've being doing similar in the games industry for years. If we, the actual makers stand against immoral action it will both build pressure and incentive for alternative ways of doing business.
Arguably, you'd need to simulate tens of billions of neurons in order to achieve human-level intelligence. So, even if you'd have correctly simulated a single neuron, there's still a lot to cover to achieve human-level AI. And even then. The few unfortunate cases where a human child has been reared outside of the normal environment (see Genie), having a human brain has turned out not to be enough to have intelligence that would be recognized as 'human-level'. So, apart from the simulated brain itself, you'd need to devise an appropriate training environment to use for training said brain to achieve human-level intelligence. Which would be a formidable feat in and of itself.
That was a long time ago and the actual primary reason was apparently Stallman missed an email [1], although I think the intentional technical hurdles to plugins was another of many reasons. When GNU moved all their software to GPLv3 and the business community decided they didn’t like that license and Apple brought LLVM as a serious contender.

GCC hasn’t remained stagnant though.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/632062/
Your terminology is inaccurate.

Threshold neurons like Pitts-McCulloch neurons are rarely used in artificial neural network architectures. They can't learn.

ANN's uses a nonlinear activation function that is differentiable (at least in practice). That small change makes huge difference.
I will continue to use Master btw.
SJW will go away at some point. I will remain because I can actually code.
Are you sure they aren't talking about these admins ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Rouge_admin
> Do not want to respect it but still be on the platform? Please gtfo…

You don't have to install those apps, lol. You can feel free to tell Facebook to GTFO off of the phone that you own, by merely not installing it.

But why should one think, that they should control someone 'elses' phone? If someone else wants to install facebook, on that other app store, let them do it.
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I got a Cease & Desist from Chuck Norris back in the iPhoneOS 2 era for having a jokes app that listed Chuck Norris facts (among other categories of jokes). They also had Apple take my app down. I got it back up by listing Charles Gnorris facts instead.
One of my direct reports once fixed one of my "simple bugs" with the astonishingly direct commit message:

"Const, motherfucker. Do you speak it??!?"

(which, I hasten to add, would have been unthinkable if it had been a bit of peer-to-peer banter, much less senior-to-junior, but as a way of winding up your boss, it was a absolute masterwork)
Yes it does. Does the government have control over the fact that cars must have airbags and seatbelts?
Ask HN:What's the oldest unresolved, and significant software bug you know of?
What's the oldest unresolved, and significant software bug you know of?
>>We should focus on getting more vaccine uptake rather than mask debates.

I agree, though I suspect we will disagree on how to go about that.
You over-estimate how much LLVM might want Intel's code dumps.

Based on (minor) personal experience of gcc forks, it's not unusual to make some fairly significant change to some major data structure to make your CPU work better, but which would break several other backends.

There may not be any nice way of integrating these changes in a way which would make the acceptable upstream, without multi-months of work refactoring huge chunks of the compiler (which would still also need lots of work on all those other architectures, to make them compatible with your changes).
Years ago it was a very common tactic to buy up any three-letter domains you could get and find targets to pitch them to. I think the going rate was about $800. People would grab them off the drop list and have a pretty decent strike rate. In the case of PJG there were things like P* J* Graphics or P* J* Group.
Previously I was using various projects for these things like Coquelicot as a WeTransfer alternative but practically speaking Nextcloud is so easy to use (and relatively stable now) that I use it for most things that need to be shared with others:

* it's intuitive to use, so people who haven't seen it can quickly download what you send them without having to log in, being tracked and so on.

* password protection and expiry date for shared links come in handy

* superfast search is a boon for me as I have so many files it's probably the most important aspect

* the photos app in Next/ownCloud is underperforming if you have a large number of photos in a folder - the thumbnails seem to be generated each time I open the folder, it's probably a bug.

* when you need to collaborate, it's supereasy to add users and they intuitively know how to do things as they're used to Dropbox etc.
> For the conspiracy to work, it'd need Apple, NCMEC and DOJ working together to pull it off voluntarily and it to never leak. If that's your threat model, OK, but that's a huge conspiracy with enormous risk to all participants.

Worth reading: https://pingthread.com/thread/1424873629003702273
Yeah, but using a JIT build tool, rather than a script tag. In production you'd still do the static build rather than using the JIT though.
Everyone is different. I've spent three or four years working remotely, and I'd say I do better in an office. I like the routine that it gives me, and I like the human face-to-face contact. I especially like the energetic creative discussions clustered around whiteboards that you never seem to get so much when working from home.

Having said that, without endless meetings and distractions, working from home can definitely be a lot more productive ... it's just that after a while (a year or so) I start to feel hollowed out without human company.
> Well it works better than Just work hard, go to college, don't save your money!

This is stupid.
The alternative is not going to increasingly overpriced and under valued college.
> As promised, after a short break, we have also renewed our work on upstreaming MathML-Core in Chromium. […] You can try these for yourself in Chrome canary by enabling experimental web platform features.

Finally! The lack of MathML support in Chromium based browsers was quite frustrating to me. Though, it will be probably still quite a lot of time before the libraries like MathJax and KaTeX became redundant for basic use cases.
From my experience, definitely go with the second approach. Try to spend a lot of time initially defining the events with domain experts. Designing events that map well to the domain in the first place is the hardest, but also the most important criteria for success with event sourcing. Usually that means very specific event types. A simplified example from my career: an event EquityPurchased { Portfolio, Symbol, Quantity, Price } can be used when the customer says: "Our portfolio should calculate cost FIFO rather than average". Very specific events are also easier to version, because often something in the past version has been implicit. In the example the customer may say: "we are going to purchase some equities on the Oslo Stock Exchange, we didn't really care about currency and currency rates since we only bought US stocks before." So now we can make a new verison of EquityPurchased { Portfolio, Symbol, Quantity, Price, Currency = "USD", ExchRate = 1 }
> Treat them as R&D employees. Start paying them for doing random crap on company time and resources, no strings attached. Then you'll have innovation.

I think this is really important and it's often overlooked by a lot of companies. It's also one major component of what keeps me being a freelance worker.

Most of my decent ideas come while I'm walking around, maybe 3 miles away from my workstation and I also learn a ton of job related things while not directly working "on the job" with random self guided R&D and other activities that I like doing around tech (writing blog posts, podcast host, etc.).

But most companies don't see it that way. IMO it's unreasonable to expect a salary worker to put in 9 hour days (no paid lunch), be on-call 365/24/7 for emergencies (also not compensated for) and then be expected to do continuous learning and other "this is work related but not directly related to work" activities after hours without compensation. This is exactly how you end up with burnt out employees even if the person enjoys tech. The critical component is the no strings attached. R&D needs to be no strings attached otherwise it feels forced or you're fighting the system by having to cram it in after hours since you can't do it on company time but then you're also left feeling like you're being taken advantage of because it's not compensated for.
> is also the world leader on consumer privacy

is also an early PRISM adopter and well known on cooperation with totalitarian regimes. Censoring Belarus protesters happened several months ago.
Do you have some sources for this claim? Or just a belief?
Is that 256 weights per-cell per-layer, or 256 in total? Is "how many cells in each layer" a valid question too?
Same thing with C++Builder whose last version from this year is still based on LLVM 5, I think.
Even Apple's clang is behind LLVM upstream if I'm not mistaken.

The joy of permissive licenses!
Or maybe they, you know, hand out loans based on ability to pay back like any other loan.
Top of that, there are many other tools which can do all the same. People are thinking like this has been hard work to add right now, and now future exploiting comes easier. Hard part has been creation of system, which locks Apple out of your pictures. Scanning your system files and sending some metadata is literally few lines of code and could have been pushed on week anytime in the past.
Contracting out the running of prisons by the government is a recent innovation[1]. Are we to say that government was historically small in 1983 and has remained small and then notice that somehow there are more private prisons in the US now? That's not a description I'd want to defend.

The US is also not the only place where prisons are private[2], there's the southern hemisphere's Sweden a.k.a. big government paradise, and it has a private prison.

To say either "public" or "private" and ascribe some sort of good or bad to them without providing any reasoning is presumptuous in the least, but to then tell someone what their actual position is - in your view - after making such a presumption would only be to compound an error.

I know what I meant, try to focus on what you mean and fixing that before mischaracterising my views again, thank you.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/history-of-amer...

[2] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/crit...
Support of a feature doesn't mean reliance on a feature.

You can install and use Gnome/KDE apps on other desktops as well. It's just a bit dependency heavy.
I guess it is complex issue, especially as most of the goods we import from Chine so in the sense we have outsourced our CO2 to China, it would be excellent if they could switch 100% renewable, and recently I read news that they are close with Thorium reactors... so, I guess they working on it but as everywhere else progress is not as fast as we need it to be...
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> irreversibility is not a feature but a bug

Completely true. Irreversibility and lack of consumer protections might just about fly for small transactions with pocket change which people on both sides of the transaction don't mind losing, but isn't going to be acceptable to most people for larger transactions. If I'm buying a house, for example, I don't want the risk of it being stolen because of an unfixable bug in a smart contract, or sold to the wrong person by an irreversible mistake entering the address. Scaling up further, if you look at the back office for any investment bank, a big chunk of people power is spend on trade reconciliation and essentially fixing human errors - this is a good thing for both parties making such transactions.
some years ago Pakistan planted a few million trees . how are those trees doing? how many survived ?
It’s both because it’s a multi-step process.

The image is not fed directly into the hashing function, like taking an MD5 hash of a file or something.

Rather, the image is first evaluated by a neural net that looks at specific visual details, and has been trained to match even if the image has been cropped or anything like that. The results of the neural net evaluation are what is then input for the hashing function.

This is explained in detail in Apple’s documentation they released with the announcement.
But hey… even terraform made it to v1.0.0 after some time… https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.0.0
I think all billionaires are part of a cult of the 1% that want rule the planet so one of their rules is wiping humans being to get to the one golden billion human so they can slave it
> Not really. You negotiate with a boss who has to consider how your deal will affect other's deals. The deal environment changed so the deals they need to make are going to change.

I'm in a team that has multiple "remote" people since before pandemic. We all can't suddenly show up to single office because we are on three different continents, so, obviously, there is not much risk of our deal changing to something more strict.

> Everyone voting on the same deal that is compatible with all roles in a group and strikes everyone as fair to them is just a less ideal negotiation that will make arbitrary decisions when the group changes. (I.e. the manager wants everyone in office so they hire a lot of interns and juniors who vote that way for the local help they need.)

I assume that company with such malicious management wouldn't conduct the vote in the first place.
I stand corrected. But the point is that artificial neurons are computationally simple.
The download channels still have this tagged as beta.