skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it? I'd always heard Walmart was the first adopter of barcodes at scale.

EDIT: TIL -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode

On 20 October 1949, Woodland and Silver filed a patent application for "Classifying Apparatus and Method", in which they described both the linear and bull's eye printing patterns, as well as the mechanical and electronic systems needed to read the code. The patent was issued on 7 October 1952 as US Patent 2,612,994.[1] In 1951, Woodland moved to IBM and continually tried to interest IBM in developing the system. The company eventually commissioned a report on the idea, which concluded that it was both feasible and interesting, but that processing the resulting information would require equipment that was some time off in the future.

IBM offered to buy the patent, but the offer was not accepted. Philco purchased the patent in 1962 and then sold it to RCA sometime later.
To be fair, HTML::Mason was probably the most powerful templating toolkit at the time (Text::Template was there too, but from memory Mason was almost everyone's goto).
Yes. It's weird and forced when people tell you that ideas are super powerful, there is a good book "Made to stick" which is really cool. There's a section where they look at JFK's "get to the moon and back safely" as the driving force behind the whole thing. Thousands or millions before him, had the same idea, even the URSS was planning a trip. Even the travel is portrayed in a highly popular 1902 film. What set apart the moon landing of 1969 (by USA) was the execution.
Adolph Zukor – Cofounder of Paramount Pictures
Yes but those definitely are not White people.

EDIT: If you listen to them they'll agree, most are even vocally anti-White. Israel itself doesn't allow White people to immigrate because they don't want their demographics diluted.
The percentage of the Dutch population that is either immigrant, or has at least one immigrant parent is now 25.5%: https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/dossier/dossier-asiel-migratie-en-i....

I don't feel that's still very homogenous.
> they don't seem to be capable of feeding people

There's many people in this country that use guns to hunt and feed their family every year.

Ranchers also use guns to protect livestock from coyote and such.
Very clever -- reminds me of those guys who put entire video games inside arbitrarily small limits and procedurally generate all the textures and assets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
Yes. See Oracle.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ORCL/oracle/market...
Teaching by example and giving creative freedom sounds like really good idea.
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a large 'group' of people (be it ethnical, racial, religious, etc). Removing young children from their parents to be placed outside the group is a "tried and tested" method of doing so. In fact, it's so common it was included in the five acts of the Genocide Convention and has a separate subsection on its Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide#Forcibly_transferring...
Less code and simple are not often related.
Broadcom to Acquire VMware for Approximately $61B in Cash and Stock [pdf]
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>modern colonialism

What? No one's going into other countries anymore (except the US but this is largely against the will of the people and even this has stopped for now) and colonizing them. The closest would be the mass immigration into developed countries which this prevents. This also robs developing countries of their best workers and keeps them poor.
Seems like they could just lock all of the new features behind a “use x.x” line rather than going feature-by-feature. And they could include “use latest” or similar for people who don’t care about the risk and are fine just fixing things if they break.
When I posted the comment, I was actually thinking about the guqin and other zither instruments. Violin was fairly popular 10ish years ago due to multiculturalist/globalist attitudes, but now there's been a push (manufactured or not) to use 'classical Chinese' instruments and play classical Chinese music instead of say Beethoven.
EMC bought VMware for $650 million and Dell bought EMC for $74 billion and now sold VMware for $61 billion so it worked out for someone.
How can this be the most upvoted comment?

What you describe is already illegal on many jurisdictions.
Those are companies that VMware acquired, not companies that acquired VMware.
The distinction is "institutional racism" vs "personal racism". Is it possible that nobody had deliberate malicious intent in this matter? Completely. But what "institutional racism" deals with is if one race is disproportionately affected by a policy over others, which is more often than not caused by socioeconomic factors that weren't considered during the creation of the policy. Usually, it's only ignorance at play, but it's still not good to create a system that has a "net racist" effect without at least trying to understand why.
Similar experience here, the one compiler bug I've found (a Typescript type-checking bug) was in a feature that had just been released.
I'm very glad to hear it!
> If DDG wants to track you they don't need some convoluted dance - you're already on their website.

I don't trust their website either but the user-agent that I use that has enough anti-tracking measures I trust (whether those might be defeated is an orthogonal topic). The redirects through their servers... I cannot control what runs on it, just as I cannot control what terms they sign up with Microsoft.
I mostly used those during the height of the pandemic, with the restrictions on how many people could be inside an store and even how worried I was of getting sick with a small child at home and very far from my family. But now, I have lot's of options very close to home and very few worries (Although I mask myself when inside the store)
Yes, but I doubt a government could "control people" at a societal level through control of alcohol addicts.
>misleading people about what the UK's strict gun laws actually restrict and then pushing for almost the exact opposite

Can you elaborate on this? Everyone I know has been citing the UK
Ooooh that's why it's up +30% in the last few days..
If the shooter is white, the left wing will accuse the media of trying to cover up for a hate crime.

If the shooter is not white, the right wing will accuse the media of trying to cover up a violent criminal.
My family is of Dutch origin. The husband of my niece is from Moroccan origin. He has his own business. He experimented with giving her last name, and suddenly he got way more clients (all pre-covid btw). So they married and he changed his last name to hers. It kind of adds to the problem on one hand but on another this type of assimilation of culture is something you can find throughout history. Yes, foreigners are welcome, but they must adapt and leave a large part of their own cultural identity over time. Its a never ending struggle, and sometimes it goes with more violence (ie. Uyghur concentration camps) than elsewhere. Also, I have a family member who worked at the Dutch tax dept. customer service who got a burnout over this very issue. Because they knew it was wrong.
Many of these people who are discriminated against _are Dutch_, both in nationality and because they were born there. It is their corner of the world.
Broadcom likes to buy big companies with big moats that trade at a reasonable multiple because they have a mature growth profile. There are no more chip companies left with that profile except Qualcomm, which they tried to buy, and maybe Intel although their moat is fading. So they pivoted to software.
> I personally wish (or think I wish) they had pushed a little more

You are confusing extremely different things.

Encouraging a kid to experiment with taking a handful of music lessons is one thing.

Years of emotional abuse is another.
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I was made to study music (piano, singing, solfeggio) growing up. Basically robbed me of childhood - no free time (classes 6 days a week), no friends, constant pressure to do something I didn't want to. At 8th grade a just said I'm not going anymore and mom gave up.
My kids are now involved in a lot of extracurriculars, including piano, but I'm trying to make sure they have life outside of school and activities. I think it's not all bad, it's a matter of balance you need to find as a parent.
I can imagine he's telling the entertainment world to do a better job checking in on kids.

And telling those kids that they're not alone.
See point e of article 2 of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention, the operative legal definition, which reads "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
Parents, love your children, as much as you can. Children, honour your parents, as much as you can.

The alternative is resentment, a condition toxic enough to keep anyone in hell.
It's not really a controversial point, that limiting alcohol limits certain undesirable behaviors. Every bar I've ever heard of allows and usually requires bartenders to cut people off. Almost every locality has restrictions on where and when you can buy alcohol, where you can consume it, etc. The more interesting question is whether we think that the positive social effects of alcohol itself and/or people's freedom to drink (or "individual responsibility" to quote the first sentence of the author's institute's mission statement) are sufficient positives to offset the negatives. (And which political forces see themselves as having a stake in influencing that conversation).
Ok, fair critiques. We obviously see many things differently (e.g. software being static vs requiring maintenance) so probably not much value in arguing further. But in /r/changemyview parlance I'll award you a partial delta. :)
I'm not racist, so I genuinely don't know: are eastern Europeans considered a separate race?

Because it's sort of a public secret that if you hail from one of those countries which joined the EU in the 21st century, you're going to be looked at with suspicion. I suppose it has something to do with the type of people who went to the Netherlands for work right after that was made much easier, but nevertheless it's there.
The double challenge here is doing this all whilst essentially keeping it in the background out of any customer sight. Even if you know exactly what you need after a while from a business perspective, you still need to reimplement it in a way that doesn't cause your product / service / platform to lose customers. I find this always to be an extreme challenge. It's a bit of a treadmill too: doing it this way (without causing breaking changes) certainly takes longer too. So it all piles up into a big messy stack of work :)
That's almost certainly the minimum that he got up to. There are quite a few credible stories of sexual abuse as well. The personal cost to victims of coming forward with official allegations is very high so it's not surprising that no one really has so far.
Which part is illegal?

Are you talking about porn? Or using potential copyright material in an infringing manner? Or perhaps the possibility of "deepfake" porn?
No, those are "real" breaking changes in that a script running in one version of the interpreter could break if it runs in a later version, without any modifications to the script itself. But in fairness, they're a very conservative definition of breaking changes - e.g. the output of the `--version` flag changing, or some Unicode characters classes changing.
I think Trello and Atlassian went well (massively different scale, though). I think the rep is that Atlassian mainly does well by leaving the companies alone as independent organizations, more like investment positions rather than actually merging the tech.
Most of the heavy lifting is done on the GPU, which runs at a lower clock rate and uses less energy than the CPU. The neural nets used are fairly light-weight. I think the power consumption is similar to a Zoom call.
It's also that meditation is usually observant and not goal-directed, or at least it's taught that way, while hypnosis is usually used to achieve a specific goal, which means the hypnotist is intentionally making an effort to influence the client.
I feel that niche language implementations need to be more rigorously tested, because they have fewer users testing them "for free" (not that that would be sufficient.)
The mission does not include anything to check that these are good ideas, or even practical.

So it's pretty upfront about disseminating propaganda.
The 90s were thew era of "Zero Tolerance" stupidities that punished the victims and protected the bullies. "Jocks vs Nerds" tensions got official teeth; and the Nerds were the targets.

Columbine "started a conversation about bullying" when it was a well known "we just don't talk about it" feature of life. There was a feeling that maybe the troublesome kids could be beaten into shape by the "good kids".

That didn't work so they switched to participation trophies and "awareness" campaigns.
The more important question is whether these type of acquisitions end up well for the customer or the employees. And in that case, I think the answer is rarely yes.
It's relevant that they are talking about VMware's security portfolio.

The vast majority of why people are VMware proponents is down to their virtualisation software. It's why we were big resellers for a while. But for the last few years, their own sales people have only wanted to talk about security products, quite plainly acknowledging stagnant growth in on premise virtualisation.

But virtualisation is in my view the only place they've made it big. You've just linked a Reddit post in /r/cybersecurity talking about security products and every reply is about how to replace ESXi. It'll be interesting to see how their future pans out.
No, for the same reason you don't need to have basic civility/racial sensitivity training to exercise free speech.
> I uses real time AI

Should be "It uses"

Only works on iOS?
I’m all for questioning a group’s motives. But protecting personal liberty for everyone sometimes requires limiting personal liberty. I like to be free to not be killed by a drunk driver, for example, and that means we cannot leave drunk driving up to “personal responsibility.” I generally think people should be free to not be assaulted on the street, or by their spouse, or by their parents. I’m not sure that restricting alcohol is the best way to do that. But if it were I don’t think a principle of individual responsibility would get in the way. The crimes they are discussing are not victimless, they impact both individuals and society.
Honestly it's not so much the page is bad or missing anything, I've just never visited it outside of accidentally deleting the path from the URL or something. If I'm on GitHub I'm probably going to be going to a specific repo rather than browsing around

I'm not sure what would be there that could change this, probably not the right person to help, sorry!
The freedom to flexibly put thoughts into code can be used to make code more readable, or less, it depends on the programmer. A significant code base in any language can turn into a hot mess

The perl coding team I was on made readability our #1 priority. We didn't use tricky or out of the ordinary syntax unless it was absolutely necessary (like unusual regex, etc), and in those cases we would document what was happening with comments and maybe a reference to the appropriate man page. We had a style guide, for a consistent look and feel. We paid attention to naming and commented blocks of code, so the reader would not need to run an interpreter in their head while skimming through the code. We'd seek feedback from each other. It worked out well. We had no problems reading our code.

We used the flexibility and expressiveness of perl to make our code more readable. We had the freedom to tailor the code to what we were doing, instead of the other way around.
Update: Ah, found the "Tracking" setting in Sendgrid that I thought I had already turned off. Off for sure now. Thanks again for the heads up!

The confirmation link should only be going to accomplice.ai unless Sendgrid is doing some link tracking that I've just forgotten about. Could you forward that email to adam at accomplice dot ai if you get a chance. Thanks for letting me know!
The end does not justify the means.
> But I didn't find them "better" than others

Once you spend anything but the minimum on speakers then you very quickly find that everything else in the room has a far bigger impact on the sound than the speakers themselves.

The size of room, floor material, wall material, etc all have a huge impact on the sound. Obsession over "fidelity" is fine in an actual recording studio but makes no sense for actual home listening where just moving around the room will change the sound, so who's to say what the "correct" sound is.
On the flip side, you're also less likely to be serious wanting to play an instrument, especially classical piano.

I started classical piano in primary school all the way up until I turned 17. I thought I played ok... but I started lessons again about 6 months ago (I'm turning 40 this weekend) and now that I actually want to play rather than be forced to play from tiger parents, I can honestly say that I'm learning 100 times faster than when I was a kid.

Also, now that I'm actually practicing multiple times a week rather than 30 minutes before my lesson (like when I did when I was a kid), my sight reading is blowing my mind. I could only wish to read like I do today than when I did in my teens.
Children are about 300x more likely to die from leukemia than in a school shooting (2019 numbers).

"Regular" gun violence with handguns is another story.
"it is to be expected that people of similar features and likeness to themselves have the advantage"

Do you think Chinese prefer to hire their own over European-looking people? Or Arabs in the Arabian gulf prefer to hire their own over European-looking people?
I was talking to my wife about this the other night and we came to the same conclusions as the points you made. What we posit at this point is: what didn’t exist in 1969? Social media. The internet.

Legislation won’t change anything. <the war on drugs has entered the chat> Proponents of stricter gun control are being idealistic.

Having kids in school right now, we are both quite concerned about the current state of affairs when it comes to school shootings. Making guns illegal won’t stop anyone touched enough to shoot up a school/gay bar/concert/grocery store. They’re going to find a way to do it. To think otherwise is ignorance.
Not advocating for it but _eventual_ transition to veganism would definitely be a net positive (lower carbon emissions, land and water use, horrors of factory farming, mental health of the factory workers, exploitation of immigrant labor, etc.). Most of the arguments I've seen from the Veganism movement seem to have sufficient scientific backing.
I think a good test is the risk an accident poses to others. An accident with a nuke, tank or fight jet can easily kill 10's, 100's or millions.

With guns, a bullet is a bullet for the most part (if we are talking about human fired calibers), an the risk any given undirected bullet poses is effectively the same. Larger magazines don't increase accident risk, while being automatic or explosive does.

I.E. if you're a responsible gun owner, an assault rifle with with a 100 round magazine carries the same risk to your neighbor as an old revolver (if not less since most old revolvers have no safety). The risk to others only diverges when you assume ill-intent, but then risks get whacky for tons of legal objects (plastic bags, cars, planes, pens, household chemicals).
While that possibly makes it harder to acquire a gun in the city, an individual purchaser or black market dealer could simply drive a couple of hours to get their hands on one, no?

Also while impossible to prove, I think the numbers would be even higher in the city without the control in place.
> It’s upsetting because Netherlands prides on being progressive and treating people equally regardless of sex or ethnic background.

Oh no, not anymore. That age is long over, since 9/11 or even before (9/11 was the trigger I suppose). Also, Portugal and USA have a more progressive drugs policy than we (NL) do.
The school shooting club thing is an example of how regulation works.

Just as you don’t see soldiers on military bases walking around with guns on their hips for fun, there were strict rules around high school shooting ranges - kids didn’t take guns home and had strict protocols around handling, etc.

The big difference now is you have a fetishization of guns combined with a low intensity insurgency. If you ask a more prolific gun person about why they are collecting weapons, the answer in 1965 was likely to be about antique or other technical factors. In 1995 they were worried about Clinton taking the guns away, so buy before it’s too late. In 2015, many are talking about fighting the government.

Marginal personalities are attracted to the power of weapons and attention.
At the cost of giving away their billion dollars of R&D to their competition - QEMU is GPL licensed.
If intellectual property (specifically software patents) were weakened, this would be less of a problem, right?

Companies don't buy companies, they buy IP, as I understand it.
Even on this ridiculous basis, the tax authorities weren’t even so thorough as to assess if they were discriminating against migrants. Merely looking non-western was sufficient. Having the “wrong” nose or hair or skin color or name, or whatever superficial bases they used, doesn’t make you a migrant. Especially given Dutch history with its colonies, there are a lot of such people who have been living in NL for generations.

> people with a "non-Western appearance" were subjected to stricter controls
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> We've been sitting on the face recognition tech since 2018, so if we'd wanted to become Clearview.ai we probably would have a long time ago.

It says right at the beginning of the post you were doing quite well until the pandemic shut down businesses.

I try not to be overly critical (I really do) but this is one of those cases I just can’t help myself, I see no reason individual businesses should be running facial recognition on their customers and am kind of wary of someone who would enable that. And cities adding it to their collection of public cameras is beyond wrong.

IDK, somewhere we, as a society, decided 1984 was an instruction manual and not a warning…
The meth addict is deserving of treatment and help, not being shot

Not to detract from the rest of your points, but this framing isn't helping. Even if we all were to agree that addicts deserve help, it does not fall to the victim of a burglary to extend that help, at that moment, at that time.
More than half of acquisitions and mergers fail, depending on the industry.
That page should have "24th December 2015" for the Perl 6 release date, because it was not skipped, it was actually released. See the Perl 6 release announcement at https://web.archive.org/web/20151225055622/https://perl6adve... and Perl 6 download page at https://web.archive.org/web/20160208204149/http://perl6.org/... (for Perl 6 release 2016.01, there were other releases later).

It only appears to have been skipped when looking from today's point of view, since many references to Perl 6 have been scrubbed from the web and replaced with its new name. But for those who were following the saga back then, starting with the announcement that the next major release of Perl would be Perl 6, followed by the many announcements of cool new features that next major release of Perl would have, culminating with its long-awaited Christmas release, it's hard to say that it never existed under that name.