skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Giving citizenship to foreigner" is definitely _not_ something that the government wants to have in the news during the election period (the election will be played, as usual, between the candidate that manages to balance fearmongering about foreigners and following the eternal french mandate of welcoming the oppressed.)

So if there is a calculation, it's to do it well in advance of the campaign, so as not to have to justify themselves.
WSJ is respected because of its reporting track record, compared to other sources.

That's really all you can go on.
Because s.230 expressly provides for them not to be treated as one. The worry at the time was that information services making editorial decisions (taking down harmful content, in particular) would be treated as publishers, and so liable for what was left up. That creates an obvious moral hazard problem, encouraging bulletin boards and web hosts to refuse to even look at what's being posted, to avoid liability. So s.230 was added to the Communications Decency Act to make clear that the legal responsibility would fall only on those originally providing the information.

This situation isn't mirrored outside the US, FWIW. IIRC England & Wales will impose liability for libels etc., but only if the host had actual or constructive knowledge of the content of the post and chose to let it stay up. That introduces quite a lot of legal uncertainty and a bias towards deleting controversial material but may be better overall. I don't really know.
Flags to turn off aliasing checks do exist in C compilers, but they result in 'slower', less optimized code. They're intended for the common case where types are reinterpreted in a way that isn't expressly allowed by the C/C++ standards, in which case the compiler can't use type information to infer that two pointers don't alias. FORTRAN can assume lack of aliasing in many other cases.
My parents took a hands-on approach to education but they still knew when their resources were exhausted. At some point you 'graduate' your parents educational resources regardless of their expertise, few parents will attempt to home-educate college subjects for example.

An engaged parent can sit alongside their kid and interpret the materials taught by the teacher in the classroom. They can be 'teaching' family culture while the teacher is teaching the curriculum.

I will agree though that in order to succeed in the above as a parent you have to be aware of the importance of your role and be willing to take a hard stance sometimes when the teacher strays outside of their territory into value proscribing in ways you don't agree with.
Yeah, it's like companies are the gig economy workers for the government.
Read a paper: The effects of serious games
We can call the the Ministry of Truth.
I don't think discord or slack is a great alternative as it is very ephemeral (and not really open source / decentralized) but I do think interacting with a mailing list is worse than a threaded forum type layout.
This doesn't sound right to me - there was plenty of GUI-based applications, and having DOS at the base was usually not a problem (as long as you have the right device drivers - a problem not exclusive to DOS).
Uber has done that before, I'd not be surprised
The worse part is that in her eagerness to close the "prompt" on her phone she "agreed" she had posted this content (instead of appeal), which probably put some sort of permanent mark on her record. One can only hope she gets kicked off for good one of these days!
And in the background, consumers get fucked.
Making the world a better place, one garbage can at a time.
So when FF reduces customization by changing the extension system they are bad. When they let you customize the UI ad-infinitum through userChrome.css it's because, "its UI is THAT bad.". Right, got it, FF bad. Some of the devs who have worked on the FF extension system over the years both before and after the changes have blogged about why they had to do what they did, https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo..., are security and maintainability difficult to grok? FF is large and has had to live in an increasingly hostile web for a very long time. As for your reasoning about why there are alternative browsers and ecosystems, it's simply not good. One of the main reasons people work on alternative browsers is they like making things. This is evident everywhere in Free Software/Open Source, where there are options for almost every part of every stack.
Gen X raised their kids actively rejecting some of what they felt were the worst parts of parental philosophy from the Boomers. Often reactions turn into overreactions, and the next generation may course correct. Some of what is 'wrong with Gen Z' is the consequence of Gen X trying not to fuck up their kids the way they felt they were fucked up. I expect as Gen Z comes of age and discovers philosophy, that they will be more circumspect about allowing their kids to do whatever they want unsupervised. And if not them, then their kids.

The thing with Capitalism though is that it's going to harvest as much income as it can while public opinion is still undecided (legislation often trails public opinion) and even going so far as to try to delay changes in public opinion.
You know that a language has horrible string handling if the C binding to the language are an improvement...
I encourage you to try to read it with an open mind. I didn't realize who the author was when I read it and I found it a somewhat reasonable summary of some real problems. Some parts are a bit hyperbolic (scepticism was shot), and the title is a bit misleading (most problems pertain to the interaction of science and public discourse, not intrinsic to science itself).

Overall the article is nowhere as bad as his initial IFR estimates or fox news appearances, and I believe it is a good thing to keep communication open with people on the fringe, and this may be a worthwhile opportunity.
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It seems hacker news can't or won't read between the lines here. These people aren't medical professionals as implied, the real story is that immigration standards have been lowered, and covid is the justification.
> "I need to bypass this policy because shit's on fire and I've got a fix"

Want a list of catastrophes that occurred because someone did this?

Edit: Also, Fowler didn't write this article, it's just on his site.
As usual, no reply to this comment is actually addressing the question:

> Why shouldn’t we have per country caps?

So, I'll give it a shot.

Let's say that 1% of the human population happens to have great genius. They're the cream of the crop in terms of ability, though perhaps they lack opportunity.

Statistically, where are most of them going to be born? In the most populous countries of course...

If you choose a flat-rate cutoff for importing talent on a per-country basis, you're choosing "diversity" (of birthplace...which might not mean anything at all) over "talent". Which would be fine, except that this particular route to residency was ostensibly created to bring in talent specifically.

Although, immigration is a highly politicized issue and practicality usually has little to no bearing on the policy in this area. It appears many other issues in America are heading that way...
It’s currently “invite only” for instructors (mostly just to prevent abuse of the computational resources for, eg, crypto mining). If you shoot me a quick email (travis@pathbird.com) I’d be happy to set you up with a course.

You can demo the student experience with code JULIACON2020 as well.
> Does this translate to "Applications of this research might destroy society, please refrain"?

This is boilerplate acknowledgement of ethics concerns that often appears in DL/ML papers these days. Doesn't really mean anything.
Is that based on empirical analysis of the data?

I'm thinking not.

Journalists fail all the time, for sure, but there's a lot of journalists in the world churning out content every day. We tend to focus on the failures, but I don't see any evidence that the failures represent even a majority of the content.
I don’t want to speculate about why they designed their study this way or that way, because who knows.

I do feel confident in saying that Scientifically, the human data in this study are largely uninformative.
This is unacceptable, in my opinion.

Most of the properties I've rented in the UK have only have only had an inspection at the end, although one has had a mid-tenancy inspection, where they took photos of the (previously) damaged part only.

Personally, I'd start off by raising a Subject Access Request under GDPR (it's part of British law, not just EU) as well, as well as asking how they asking how they process and store the data.

If they're using the data incorrectly (e.g, if they claim to collect data to check for damage, but there is no damage), you could make a complaint to the ICO.

If you're not familiar with your rights under GDPR, I'd recommend reading the UK Information Commissioner's Office guide for this (https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/your-right-to-get-copie...).
Yes, clearly this is all rational individual choice and society doesn't exist.

Get over yourself.
Can you really patent the reason you are using an existing technology?
What documentation said they shouldn't use it?
Here's the state of the art on that:

https://iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=31249
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A couple thoughts here. I was an adult before social media was a thing, or even the web, and I sometimes wonder if I would have even attempted much of the experimentation I did - doubtful, at least at that age. Why bother when now it takes only a few minutes searching to find someone who already solved the problem, and better than you (think) you could have. But now I understand I would have missed out on so much had I not even tried. Who knows what fresh angle you’ll bring to the table? It happens.

The second thought is at some point you come to terms with your own limitations (and strengths!), and you realize, yes this person is great at such and such, but am I able to do what I want in my life with my talents? Am I happy doing my thing, even if it’s not “as good” as them? Yep. So good for them. And good for you.
I'm not the only person who never feels like they're one of the "smart people" in these threads, right? After close to a decade on this forum I've just learned not to fight that feeling and instead to find the humor in it.
Well, purely anecdotal but a family member was part of the local communauté de commune and they had difficulties recruiting Eboueurs. This is more in the country side where I imagine that the risks in term of accident might be higher? (at least when it comes to road safety), I do not know the situation in cities.
Facebook are infamous liars, but journalists keep covering Facebook as if their various PR statements are true

This is like, the 100th time Facebook's public relations has been caught lying about pretty much every god damn topic they have ever addressed in public, but the coverage never, ever changes

Every time it turns out Facebook was deceiving the public, or investing a less-than-reasonable effort into protecting the public, journalists are shocked, shocked that FB would do something like this.
Creating screenshots and GIFs add to the production time. I pretty much never watch screencasts either (too long), but I understand why everybody makes them.

Cost of production is close to zero. Sit in front of a computer and talk while you work. No edits required, upload as soon as you're done.
> Are we now to charge every citizen of every country with the sins of their country, then?
> When the paper eating citizenry of North Korea don't rebel, are we to throw charming coloquialisms at them or say they are supporting their government motivations?

Not quite, but if we are to claim ourselves to be a country "by the people, for the people", then yes, we bear at least some of the sins of our country. Maybe not past sins, but we certainly bear current sins if we do not at the very least actively go against them.
GPUs are practically the "OS-free" compute device of choice these days.

The way GPUs work in most cases is through work-queues. The CPU submits work to GPUs (either OpenCL queues or CUDA Streams), and the GPU "plucks" work off of the queue to do. There are dozens of SMs (NVidia) or CUs (AMD GCN) or WGPs (AMD RDNA) that pluck the work off concurrently.

The kernels are then run to completion. Upon completion, the stream gets an event that triggers (which often times, automatically enqueues another task). If the CPU has work to do, it can get an async message (or maybe be waiting through blocking behavior).

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There are other models of course, not everyone runs the standard methodology. "Persistent kernels" start up early on and infinite-loop. You interact with those by passing data over PCIe and the kernel itself contains a queue/load-balancing logic to pickup the data somehow (rather than letting the device drivers / hardware logic do that)

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The thing about GPU-level tasks is that you have so many little tasks (ex: shoot a ray, or render pixel (0,0), render pixel(1,0), etc. etc.) that just pulling tasks off of a queue is your most efficient methodology. Lots of small, roughly equal-sized tasks can be load balanced with simple methodologies.
Especially in the EU the gig economy is relatively new and its not at all like factory workers who're getting shafted more and more as the years go by.

Being an Uber driver is a new thing which people started doing voluntarily knowing full well what the conditions were. For people then to start complaining "this is a abuse" and OMG no social security just seems ... weird.

Here in Belgium you now need to have a taxi license and everything good about Uber is now gone (it's more expensive, the drivers are all moody a-holes and they've gone back to doing detours for no reason just to jack up the price).
There is no way to intentionally follow specific users or customize your view of the site depending on who is a part of your personal network. There is no personal network at all. Those seem to me to be the defining features of social media. Hacker News is just a crowd-sourced link aggregator with comments that requires persistent accounts so the links and comments can't be easily spammed.

Of course, so is Reddit, but I personally don't think Reddit should be considered social media, either. You can personalize your content view there, but the personalization is based on content topics, not the following of specific users.
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I wrote a bunch of scala code last week to fix problems in a service that we are actively working to replace. I consider this a "legacy" work, nothing to do with technology used
Biggest ever UK renewable energy support scheme backed by additional £265M
DOS extenders solved the 640K limit problem.
Who your friends with changes a lot during our younger years. School, college, job changes, neighborhood changes, …etc, all bring new friends and old friends you can’t find time for. These changes are rarely reflected in social media.

In addition, younger people do follow a lot of “influencers” - the worst kinda people to follow in social media.
This. If my beliefs/“religion” say I can’t be fingerprinted, that’s fine. But if my beliefs say I need to sacrifice newborn babies on an altar, that’s not ok, and I will be charged with murder.
> Indeed, was there really any pressing need to reduce the residence requirement from 5 to 2 years for garbage collectors?

Judging by piles of garbage decorating biggest cities of Western Europe every few months, yes.
You absolutely do need 4 lane roads in Manhattan.
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> This is not a protocol or specification bug, but an implementation bug which was then unfortunately replicated in other independent implementations.

> We will also accelerate our work on matrix-rust-sdk as a portable reference implementation of the Matrix protocol, avoiding the implicit requirement that each independent library must necessarily reimplement this logic on its own

I like the idea of providing a core Rust/C++ library that can be called in any other runtime via FFI, compiling to WebAssembly, etc. I've used the same technique to ensure consistency in usage of a custom time-series compression format across an organization. Overall this technique seems in-line with the "DRY" principle, and the tradeoffs have been favorable in my experience. I think it will be a good step forward for the Matrix ecosystem.
You could think and self-reflect. There is a reason why shower thoughts are a thing, in a society dominated by things that illicit emotional reactions it's hard to have time to just be.
It's not a precondition, the overwhelming majority of citizenships (e.g. all of them minus 12,001) are granted through regular channels.

Rewarding exceptional or deserving people does not mean that those not rewarded have been treated unjustly. That is a perversion of egalitarianism.
There wouldn't necessarily be a indian/chinese majority if immigration were to "cherry-pick the most skilled immigrants"

As the current system is being abused by Indian consulting companies plahying the numbers games and filing for as many people as possibly to place them at low(er) income roles

https://www.epi.org/blog/new-data-infosys-tata-abuse-h-1b-pr...
> The platforms have followed the letter of the law because they know that doing so is important in the UK. However, that doesn’t explain why they haven’t simply integrated the required changes in the UK only, and kept their products and services the same elsewhere.

Because people are apathetic about their own privacy, but parents are hyper-sensitive to any threat to their children, even imaginary ones, which is why governments always use children as the rationale to justify more surveillance and encryption backdoors.

The tech companies don't want that protective impulse to be the trigger that would create a mass movement, which would invariably go much, much further than simply protecting children.
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Your suggestion is counterproductive.

Companies that are forced to pay a robot tax are uncompetitive and will be forced out of the market.

End result: no tax revenue.

Companies that operate in an industry that can be or is likely to be automated will hire less or no people so as to not be liable for the robot tax should they at a later date start automating.

End result: less employment, less tax revenue and stunted growth.

A robot tax will result in more bullshit jobs. Jobs that can be done by automation should be done by machines. Human labor should be reserved for jobs that cannot be automated.

Your suggestion is akin to a populist policy that treats symptoms rather than root causes, trading good optics and a short term gain for unintended consequences and long term pain.
The problem seems to be though, that while the company may have tools to detect abuse, if they're choosing selectively when to enforce things it defeats the entire point

Edit: downvotes from shills
Are you really this unfamiliar with this or being obtuse about it? Of course it is unlikely that a single shareholder will have enough stock to hold clout, but that's not how these people operate. Just like no one person makes a difference when protesting anything. You find like minded people, gather together, and make your large number of people heard. Sure, it's not easy to get a large enough percentage of the stock, but there are ways of doing it and it has been done and will continue to be done. A recent tech example is how Disney was pushed by its investors to pursue the streaming options [0].

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-07/disney-ac...
I fail to understand why this is such a big problem in non-professional settings. Yes, if I do a nice gesture to my boss I do not want him to assume this is the new normal, and I'm expected to do this nice thing on a regular basis. If they want me to do it on a regular basis, I want them to declare this as part of my job description.

But friendship requires give and take. And, it seems to me, when you do a nice gesture to a friend, you're signaling them this is your end of the "give". As long as you stay friends I think it's expected of you that you'll continue doing yhings that are useful to your friend. Of course, you reserve your right to change the good deeds, but when you stop doing anything, it seems reasonable for your friend to question whether you're willing to continue the friendship.
> does not the same logic demand that one object to abridged versions of the KJV being presented as "the KJV" without further qualification

The statement in question referred to "modern KJV" and the absence of a dedication to King James should be a rather good clue that it's not quite original.
"because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and cried to Him: ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?" - Numbers 11:20
I am using Teams for Android and Outlook and I don't have even have Edge installed and links work fine.
Ask HN: List of Problems with Social Media and big tech?
Things I can think of:

1. no real appeals process(think jury of your peers type stuff)

2. minimal parental controls

3. advertising driven promotes ad budget over real reviews

4. no bill of rights only terms of service

5. focus too much on share holders not users

6. fraud and illegal activity rampant

7. exacerbates income inequality

8. winner take all and tying own products over others

9. privacy
What is the issue with black ink? Is it part of the chemistry of it having things potentially harmful or else?
While very interesting nevertheless, just because other people are deploying WordPress websites, doesn't necessarily mean you should too.

I'm also quite happy to see Ruby continuing to grow in this report.
Email has had threading since before I was born.
In the end of days, amongst the smoldering ruins, a cockroach scurried over a keyboard and triggered yet another computer to default back to Microsoft Edge. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing left moving but the flitting of black vermin, illuminated by glowing screens filled with the sulky, impassioned, and now joyful gradient blue and green curved wave of the Microsoft Edge logo. It had won. It had finally won.
it seems quite clear ZFS is not a derived work of the Linux kernel, given it was developed for and extracted from Solaris, and that same code works on FreeBSD and Illumunos
Sounds like a DRM for personal data.

DRM gets a bad rap because of its previous use in limiting user rights to things they bought (and owned), but here, in this use case, perhaps DRM has a better use case.
The scary thing is now this is one step from the government policy. And in some countries, it's already becoming the government policy.
Could it stem from ἐπιού & σιον, roughly translated into the drink of zion?
Why yes let's just remove the ability of people to take a market-priced car ride... Have you considered the private space that a car affords? (albeit shared with the driver)
Yes. Donald Trump was impeached twice and has an unknown number of civil and criminal investigations ongoing. If a billionaire and the leader of a major political party is in this much trouble, it kind of shows that elites do get in trouble.
>> In the beginning, Rust did have one sole patron: Mozilla. Everyone was uncomfortable with that arrangement, including Mozilla.

>> We spent years trying to get away from this situation. It had tons of negative effects.

>> Why are we regressing here?

Amazon has an interest in using Rust to help build their software, probably for heavy use in AWS.

Amazon also has a lot of money and talent that can help Rust continue to grow and improve.

It is a delicate balance to accept help and resources, but not let Amazon take too much control.

What should be done?
FOSS Projects should fight to maintain a healthy independence from corporate influence. That perfect balance ism difficult to define, much less maintain.