skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is hilarious because it's so true... There's also a conversational/argumentative style where you take the opposite position, either because you like to go against the flow or because you want to see how well the other guy's argument stands up to yours. I think if you look at my comments I tend to have a lot that are "well, no, <contrary idea because reasons>". If I'm at all representative of HN, it would surprise me if part of the HN Cycle™ is contrarianness.
It might only help a little bit, but it also won't hurt anyone so there's not really a reason not to.

Stupid child abusers who put known-pornographic images in their iclouds are still child abusers. The fact that fruit is low hanging isn't a reason not to pick it.
It makes me wonder if we aren't using human waste properly.

I'm being serious.

We don't absorb all of the nutrients and calories that we consume, partly because we are overnourished (our bodies might spontaneously combust if we utilized every single calorie we ate), so there's plenty of leftovers in our feces. Does it ever get recycled for use in agriculture in "developed" nations? (I can't think of a word for that which isn't now a faux pas)
Software piracy might not be as bad as actual piracy of the "attacking ships on the high seas" variety, but it's still pretty unethical, and promotes the spread of proprietary software that does not furher the best interest of its users. Please use fully-FLOSS alternatives instead whenever reasonable.
Agreed. If they really planned to enable E2EE, they would have announced it with the CSAM detection. It makes no sense to have all this backlash only to enable E2EE at a later date.
Is this Windows only?
> We find that rising piracy increases subsequent R&D spending, copyrights, trademarks, and patents for large, incumbent software firms. Furthermore, copyright and trademark filings precede those of patents, and firms with large patent portfolios disproportionately increase copyrights and trademarks following the shock. We conclude that piracy and similar competitive shocks push firms to innovate to stay ahead of imitator products, and that this effect is moderated by their existing patent portfolios.

Is it pushing firms to claim more intellectual property?
Of course they were trying to minimize taxes, just like everyone else, individuals and corporations alike.

In this case it didn't work, but I don't see any parallels with stealing.
Very strange how there are 15 comments and not one link to the React documentation: https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html

That's the best resource because it's primary source material. Now `npx create-react-app` and make something. No need to overthink this.
Faster and smaller Hugging Face BERT on CPU via compound sparsification
combining multiple sparsification methods to improve the Hugging Face BERT base model (uncased) performance on CPUs. We combine distillation with both unstructured pruning and structured layer dropping. This “compound sparsification” technique enables up to 14x faster and 4.1x smaller BERT on CPUs depending on accuracy constraints.
I've considered trying, since I'm buying a second line as a "distraction-free tool" for the daytime hours.

I think the easiest thing to do (aka the #1 method of de-Googling) is to run certain versions of Android that have the play store removed, that has a version of android built from the AOSP with an alternate store like F-Droid enabled.

If you search "AOSP phone" or "de-google android" you could get places.

The other thing I have thought about is getting a Pine phone.
or 60% turning into 120% proobability

guess we'll never know
I am quite happy with my Synology DS920+. I mostly use it for backup and hosting Docker containers. I was surprised by how much software is produced by Synology itself and either comes included with the machine or is available as a package - LDAP, WebDAV, SQL, Plex, replication/cloning/backups, and a host of other services.

One thing that surprised me was RAID - I am not very experienced with home servers and such and was really disheartened by how much of my disk got eaten up by RAID. I was using the Synology Hybrid RAID which I think is similar to RAID 5.

TL;DR Synology is pricey but full featured and very pleasant, understand your RAID configuration before you purchase disks.

EDIT: Another thing I will say is that docker compose is not supported IIUC, so just watch out for that if your configuration depends on that (like mine initially did).
Then why wouldn't they say, "the government asked us to do this"? Apple is taking all the negative publicity this way.

My favorite theory is this:

Apple wants to create a chilling effect on reverse engineering iOS. They're starting to catch regulatory attention and lost their recent suit against Corellium. By putting neural hashes in the encrypted OS image, they can accuse anyone who reverse engineers iOS of:

1. Being in cahoots with child abusers

2. Knowingly possessing CSAM

I would hope that most courts would see through that paper thin logic, but the idea would be simply to introduce enough doubt that most reverse engineers don't want to risk it.
I think your viewpoint might be biased — do you know any people who haven’t had their lives wrecked because of cannabis?

Is cannabis legal where you live? Criminality causes stress and paranoia.

Are you living in a heavily Christian environment? Asking because in heavily religious environments, schizophrenia with religious illusions often occurs as a result of internal conflict between sin-programming and self-perception.

Is cannabis socially accepted or are people forced to choose between cannabis and other people? Social exclusion has in some studies been ranked more stressful than getting raped, so some sort of social PTSD can be expected to develop in these kind of environments to those who get excluded.
Agreed.

The fact that all software seems to be migrating towards being totally funded by ads or subscriptions is distressing.

I just want to pay a fixed price and own something again. It drives me nuts that now-a-days everything is about rent seeking or shoving ads into view (or both, see streaming media services).
>keyboards are often more powerful than entire computers from the 70s and 80s!

That's interesting. Has anyone hacked a keyboard? It sounds like a very interesting project.
Indeed, not an insightful comment at all. Everyone knows that.
On the contrary, the software engineering industry is massive and market validation with more competitors is a good thing. You can build a great business just dealing with companies that don't use Github.
I agree with the premise of the second. The big money comes from pros and corporate concracts, who generally (but not always) avoid pirated software.

I feel if MS and Adobe weren't so lenient on piracy, they wouldn't have captured/held the worldwide market in their segments at such an astounding rate.

For a smaller, non-monopoly, it may be a very different case though.
Given that the implicit bargain being made when you join an early startup is ‘I’m going to take a paycut to invest my time into the successful growth of this venture’, is there any kind of framework that exists that lets you put that investment into a more secure basis than common stock options?

Like, if you’re offering them a market-valued $300k worth of engineering skill over the next year for $150k, that’s a $150k investment in the company.

What kind of terms would an angel investor offering $150k get?
Then eOS should be fielding look-and-feel bugs for the stuff that they changed, shouldn't they?
How much is it DAs vs cops just not wanting to do their job to prove what they said would happen is true?

Cops don’t always arrest based on the law, but what they feel like doing. See Oregon where they decided not to police proud boy protests and tend to arrest anti-white supremacist type protestors much more.

How much is it the cops found they can prove their own point? If I make a bet that I’ll get last in a race, I’ll run slower. If one claims some policy will slow them down and They don’t actually have an incentive to win, Then there’s a chance they’ll slow down to be right so people will do what They say in the future.

What incentive do cops have to arrest or charge theft when cops keep saying it’s CA laws that are causing thefts to rise? They can make themselves seem right by not arresting people.
what does this program do? i compiled it and ran it and got no output. i hope i haven't fork bombed myself or something
> If you move the internal person and hire someone to backfill, you have two people who need to be trained and who might not be a good fit at for the particular job.

I have 1 opening at my company.

Someone internally transfers to fill it. I still have 1 opening at my company.

Alternatively, someone externally joins and fills it, and the person who was unhappy and looking to transfer leaves shortly after instead for an outside role. I still have 1 opening at my company.

Except in the first scenario the person transferring is most likely familiar with internal tools, practices, systems, deployment, culture, goes on and on. Not only that, I have tangible, full fidelity data on their performance in the form of artifacts produced for their current team. Externally, I'd need to rely on data collected in their interview process.
I was continuing the facetiousness :/
Hopefully vaccines will prevent people from ever dying of COVID, not just delay it. For unvaccinated people, lockdowns just delay when they get infected to a later wave.
Right, and that seems to be the ultimate question. Which side of the scale should society fall on some of these questions. Is it better for the majority to progress more quickly without those intellectual property laws, or do we need the profit motive for companies to innovate and therefor be rewarded for that innovation.

It doesn’t feel like an either or, but more of a how far in either direction should the laws be.

As a question, would software patents be more acceptable to people if they were limited to 2-5 years rather than the 15 (I think) they are now?
For sure, I wasn't taking a swipe at you, it's fair! I was just giving the reference point.
Unidentified ‘Dengue-like’ disease has killed 32 kids in 11 days in India
> If you are allowing user to mess with your files […]

That's the problem. They shouldn't be your files, they should be the user's files.
We haven't. Although we do plenty of testing in general. We don't view it as a ROI driver, just an element of a strong brand. Which is much more subjective.
Pressure from governments of course. Apple would rather control how this works then cede control to governments/legislation. Problem is that this still doesn't stop governments from stepping in anyway. Apple has simply laid their own framework instead.
If your phone were to detect illicit pictures, nothing would happen unless you send them those files to Apple, in which case they would have know that you had them anyway. There is nothing even remotely close to the truth with saying that your phone `self reports` to the authorities. Not only Apple has no idea about what photos you have on your phone nor what they are scanned against unless you send them your photos with iCloud, but it also isn't your phone reporting to the authorities but Apple, once they know for sure that you have illegal content on their servers.
In the same way as C is a higher-level language compared to assembler.
I'm curious what those are. If they're around the UI, I've found Cinnamon is a really good approximation.
There is International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children) (ICMEC), Child Exploitation and On-line Protection (CEOP), Parents and Abducted Children Together (PACT), Missing Children Europe (MCE), and more just in Europe.

ICMEC is a fork of NCMEC.
Apple Will Get Permission Before Serving Its Own Targeted Ads
humanure is a thing
There is a long standing debate on the ethics. High seas piracy is bad because when the pirate steals, they deprive someone else of their property. But in the digital realm, no one is deprived of anything when someone else steals it, because in almost every case, the person was not willing to pay for it anyway, so there is no loss of revenue.

Honestly, there isn't a whole lot of difference between something like open core software or open source with commercial support and commercial software that is easy to pirate. In both cases, the people who are willing to pay will pay and the rest don't.
You say that, but there are also tons of ways to hide such things (there is an entire field dedicated to side-channel leakage). The point is you don't know unless you have the source code (and can compile it yourself, I'm ignoring the trust of compilers at the moment). You can try to reverse engineer and analyse all you want, but it doesn't mean you know what the system is really doing...
Pharmaceutical companies are evil... who knew? The problem is a medical system that rewards bad actors. The systemic problems need to be fixed. And that won't happen so we can continue to pretend that "it's a few bad apples" and nobody else's fault.
Internal Job applications suck. 90% of the time you're routed to the same application systems as external applicants and you then need to fill out the whole application, upload resumes, etc. If I have to do all that why not just apply elsewhere?
I use the K120 and when I bought first bought it a few years ago it was $12. I just bought another one and found it combined with a mouse (listed as "MK120" but really the same keyboard) for $15.
Serious question. Why did you chose buy the HP workstation instead of buying components yourself and building a simple workstation with Noctua cooler and Noctua fans?

Asking to know if there are reasons I didn’t know of..

I built my PC with same characteristics as yours, and had fun while building it too. It only took about an hour or two..
CDC study estimates over 80% of Americans are now protected from Covid-19
That doesn't make much sense. People would have cancelled their subscriptions during the month of August. There's no need to wait until the end of the month to know how many people are cancelling.
On the other hand, file format compatibility is hard to get right and results in ugly hacks and subtle breakage when multiple apps want to extend a standard. Steve Wittens has a good blog post about this:

http://acko.net/blog/on-variance-and-extensibility/
Doesn't the fallout from this like make it a bad thing to do though? They are pretty much attacking their biggest fans. I am pretty sure that's generally not a good idea from a marketing standpoint.
Linus Torvalds, the Founder of Linux, Is Selling an NFT “The Golden Spiral”
There are lots of hungry people, in lots of places. Please have some sympathy for their plight. Capitalists tell us that they can properly distribute the food produced in a few nations to everywhere, but they have so far largely failed to do so. Invariably capitalists and their useful idiots invoke "market failures" as reasons for capitalist-owned politicians to take even more freedoms from producers and consumers than they've already taken. It beggars belief to complain about a strictly hypothetical "monoculture" (resulting from new crop varieties!) when giant firms like Cargill, Tyson, JBS, etc. control so much of our society.

It has in most cases been far more reliable, resilient, nutritious, environmentally benign, and just to produce and consume food locally, rather than burning fuel to ship it around the world while it's still edible. We put up with lots of externalities from agriculture, because it's important that humans have food to eat. We can't dismiss completely benign ag tech out of hand, for essentially religious reasons. I make no particular claim for these particular crop varieties, but your objections are ridiculous.

You're simply wrong about this, and it's not "disingenuous" to say so.
The context of what they are developing. I've been in teams where I seemed to have genuinely surprised people when suggesting to talk to the actual users and asking for some feedback on what for and how they are using the tools we developed (vs what the product owner thinks), or to have a chat with developers from "next door" teams.
Also, try the sell the strategy session first(low cost to them and if they pick you for the strategy session your 90% of the way to selling the whole project)

If you really want to knock their socks off offer to identify frameworks, libraries, templates, third party products and apis to minimize cost and time to get the project completed faster and with less overall costs.

Now your starting to move into trusted advisor territory.
What C tricks are used? I'd be fascinated to know some details.
Exactly, it's (sadly) a temporary victory at best.

Ten bucks says they take a page out of our politicians' handbooks and sneak it in as a small, vague footnote in a much larger, unrelated announcement once the initial bad press blows over.
Industrial control systems and various sensor systems use it because it is built in to the network. Think embedded devices.
Too bad it got the same thing wrong the early press coverage did.
“...a high-level programming language is a programming language with strong abstraction from the details of the computer.”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_programming_langu...
In some cases it may even increase revenue. There's been multiple times I've pirated a game, only to buy it later to get easy access to updates. Of course a good demo system would help with this, and Steam's refund policy is somewhat a step in the right direction.
Wrike has a horrifically slow UI. It's impossible to run a sprint planning on it, or to quickly go through what's in progress during a stand-up.

It's actually slower than JIRA, which is impressive.
True, but you don't develop that way using graal. You develop java apps the usual way (eclipse, emacs/vim/maven, whatever) and create a fat jar (or uberjar). When you make sure the application is working, compile it with graal, creating a static binary.

Clojure cycle is even faster because you keep REPL open and evaluate code directly while application is running. After that, you build uberjar, then compile it with graal.
How is piracy defined here
No, cars and cigarettes are known to cause far more substantial health effects to those around. By what instinct does one find oneself tempted to compare bad smell to cancer and asthma?
Amid a surge in ransomware attacks, cities are taking some of the biggest hits
only if the code was available.
http://archive.today/4GNVL
> The NSA doesn't break real crypto any more, they just find or make software bugs.

They still can, and do break crypto. The Snowden papers (IIRC) mentioned that NSA factored a bunch of primes by throwing ridiculous amounts of compute at it: billions of dollars.

With that,they could break schemes with no forward secrecy at their leisure (from all the historical internet traffic they had gathered), and they could decrypt ~30% of all "secure" internet connections in real time at the time,IIRC
Plus the barriers they put up to apply. You're already in the organization yet 90% of the time you get sent to the exact same application process as an external hire so now you need to waste time filling out your work history, updating a resume, etc just to get an interview with people you already work with.
I see it now. Thank you!
> My Grandma TYPES LIKE THIS ON FACEBOOK because she insists it shows her excitement

Yeah, and since she's your grandma you read her allcaps as excitement, don't you? mom glare

As a bridger, I think you all need to see the gradients that exist in language, and learn how to read, maybe write dialect
It looks great - it seems to add dashboard functionality to the infinite nesting idea of workflowy.com which gets the nesting right, but is missing metadata & dashboard tools (and an API).
Before I switched to Linux (from macOS) I believed such commenters as they gave me the plausible excuse.

This is wrong. Linux is very good for an average person.

Well, if that average person wants to do something unusual and doesn’t want to invest even a fraction of their time into learning the system… well, blame on them. Making a desktop file is no rocket science, and something you can learn how to do within half an hour at most. Don’t listen to someone who makes such a bold statement as ‘Linux in such a bad state’ and then immediately shows their lack of competence with showing they are unable to make a desktop file. It is not Linux, it is you and all those guys who upvoted you to become the top voted comment on this thread.

ElementaryOS is trash, just get yourself Fedora Workstation or even Ubuntu, if you have no idea of how to deal with Linux, changes are it will be much easier for you with those distros.
> In fifteen to twenty years, China will have a much bigger economy, more advanced technology and more capable armed forces. It will also remain America’s most formidable rival, and will be able to constrain the exercise of American power globally.

There's plenty said about the ascension of China, but not much said about the simultaneous decline of America, particularly the loss of the dollar as the world's reserve currency. I think an argument could be made that China doesn't have to do anything to surpass the United States in the coming decades.
vscode.dev is not yet publicly available. You can use github.dev for now
"We conclude that piracy and similar competitive shocks push firms to innovate to stay ahead of imitator products,"

In the case of piracy, this seems like an odd statement. If I can pirate your software and make it widely available then you're innovating to stay ahead of yourself -- which I'll just immediately pirate when you release it.

How does me innovating quickly, help me stay ahead of people simply copying my product? Unless the innovation is around how to monetize my product, even in the face of piracy (e.g., ads, support, SaaS) -- in which case those things don't really imply that I need to innovate on the actual product itself.
Not the OP, but let's say an OKR isn't achieved; having insight into all the work that went towards that OKR might be useful in understanding either when the goal of the OKR is met or whether the OKR should be reevaluated. I'm not saying that's a common thing to do, but I could see that being a case where task-level information would be beneficial.
Given how often you are also routed to the same application process as externals and the effort required to fill out those applications you may as well apply elsewhere too.
It's not "directed". It simply goes to whatever has the highest energy requirements.

If you are sitting still at your desk all day, not moving a muscle, your brain has a large energy requirement.

So your muscles will waste, your bones will likely become brittle, but the energy coming in will go where it needs to.
> It makes me wonder if we aren't using human waste properly.
I'm being serious.

Such "Organic Farming" been taking lives of millions from communicable diseases every year in South Asia in China until the advent of synthetic fertilisers.
Well, of course. GPT-3 has no underlying model of meaning. It's just autocomplete with a bigger data set. Used on natural language, it produces text that looks reasonable for about three paragraphs. Then you realize it's just blithering and has nothing to communicate. (Like too many bloggers, but that's another issue.)
>No disrespect, but I think you're either uninformed or misguided on the topic.

No disrespect, but nope. Nothing you have said here contradicts what I said.

Electron is not a browser. It is a toolkit that lets you use web technologies to build standalone apps.

Any app can embed a JavaScript engine or web renderer and cache code from the web, even on iOS. That isn’t a special feature of electron.