skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> did you think service would remain high quality, free, well supported, and run by tireless, unselfish, unambitious benevolent dictators for the rest of your life

I would run some things I run forever free, if once in a while 1 user would be grateful. In reality that doesn’t happen so I usually end up monetising and then selling it off. People whine about everything and get upset if I don’t answer tickets within a working day etc. Mind you; these are free things with no ads. The thing is; they expect me to fuck them over in the end as everyone does, so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Just a single email or chat saying thank you for doing this once in a while would go a long way, but alas; it’s just whining and bug reports and criticism.
>On the flip side, your comment is "Thank You Sir May I Have Another?"

I never said that. I said in many industries that choice is none existent other than unemployment and people care more about employment than they do about OS martyring.
> void doesn’t introduce any new semantics to the language.

I'm sure the author is most likely aware of this plus the context is around TypeScript but I think it can still be misunderstood and if you haven't been around when IIFE were very common you might not be aware that:

`void` is a javascript operator and it does have semantic meaning, it evaluates an expression and returns undefined.

const a = void 1;
console.log(a); // undefined

see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Reminds me of a toy that would let you break/destroy the screen with a variety of tools like hammer, drill, bomb, etc.
That remembers me a virus that was adding himself to every e-mail sent by outlook. What was its name again ?
I wonder if open source software can play a role in this. Maybe we can have an open source algorithm for determining credit ratings and private companies only provide a secure database of ratings.

It will also offer the lay person insights into how the credit rating is exactly determined. They can know what is causing their rating to be less than desired and take appropriate action, instead of watching a random youtube video titled "5 ways to quickly improve your credit score".
The only reason is that law enforcement is reactive. And usually requires the tactic to be effective before it does (yes, too late by then).

Which is to say that Adobe can and very well might be targeted in the future for abusing their monopolistic position in image editing market to get people to start using their other tools by bundling them.
Bonzi Buddy was widely classified as spyware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

But if you read the description of its spyware behaviour from a current perspective, it's not that different from the telemetry that’s implemented everywhere and Windows bugging you to use Bing as a search engine.
I’d love to see an example on the bad code and also the ”correct” notes. I have a couple years of experience and it’d be nice to see what I can spot.

Anyone know a good resource for something like this?
This is a really naive view on monopolies.

I worked in a company that also sold a collab solution and we had technical champions all over the place that 1000% agreed that our product was better than Teams in every single metric, including performance, UX and productivity. Yet they couldn't secure a budget since the higher-ups knew they got Teams for free in their E5 license.
Finding someone at a university, office or maybe library seems like an easier and more environmentally friendly option.
a foot divides well into 1/2,1/3,1/4,1/6, 1/12 too. and he picked 1/10.
One positive note: I think the name "undefined" is actually very fitting for what it represents.
This was probably the single worst design decision of JavaScript. It is the only language I know of that has two "absent value" types. If null was a billion dollar mistake, then undefined adds an order of magnitude to the problem. There is absolutely no reason for undefined to exist.

We've generally adopted strict mode. I think it is now time to come up with and adopt a new no-undefined mode. And yes, it should break the standard library. It is worth it.
> Does coal kill rich people?

Certainly, they still breathe the same air, don’t they?

> Nuclear meltdown does.

I’m pretty sure that nuclear meltdowns are much, much easier to avoid. Even in Chernobyl almost all the casualties (shortterm and longterm) were amongst people directly handling and trying to contain a disaster. If you’re rich you’re unlikely to be a fireman..
Turns out that avoiding taxes is saving you money!
You can choose to also use slack, or the OP app, if you think the beneffit you get by using the app is greater than the value of paying for it. Nobody is preventing you. Since MS included it for free, is not like you can not pay for the other app because you used the money to pay for teams. I personally don't see the value on slack, but like I said before, I have worked at companies where we had both, office/slack or gw/slack.
So far nuclear has been extremely safe compared to some other energy sources (especially coal).
Thats a nasty headline. I first read cock instead of dock. Sorry.
I am a bit confused, in another post you mentioned

The C spec only requires that integer constant expressions that have zero value are nullptrs. The moment you assign it to an int variable, it's no longer a constant expression as far as the language is concerned, so if you then cast that int variable to a pointer, the result is indeterminate

It is not an integer constant that gets assigned to a pointer so this is not a null pointer in that case? It is just a pointer with address of 0 (which very well might be the implementation of nullptr but from my understanding that is not required?) so shouldn't nullptr dereferencing rule not apply here?
Where do you get the data for such a thing? Last time I looked into this (not to trade per se, but to see if I can come up with anything clever using machine learning) the complexity of the data landscape made my head hurt. As did the cost for some of the more comprehensive options.
>Also why build a Lutheran school in an Apache reservation and not expect them to integrate some degree of their own culture into their new found Christian belief?

To provide education informed by and providing Lutheran Christian values and practices.

Different Christian denominations have difference ideas about what constitutes valid syncretic Christian practice vs heterodoxy, paganism, or outright devil worship.

The Catholics are notorious for allowing a surprising amount of syncretism, and the average Protestant is known for alleging even the Catholics are practicing ugodly polytheism.

Do you believe it would be better that the Lutheran's didn't build a school there at all? It's not a purely rhetorical question, I can imagine arguments for that position.

>But in general I can’t believe that one can be expelled in the 21st century in a western country under the reasoning of „doing something satanic“?!

Is it actually hard to believe that a Lutheran school would throw you out for that, or is this rhetorical? Are you making a statement about your shock that religious schools are even allowed to exist, or what exactly?
The joy of Flash was the ease of scripting alongside vector-based illustration with keyframe animations and audio (plus intuitive asset management, onion skinning etc. etc.). Flash was downright fun indeed!
I'm not a front-end dev either. It's not about "empathy", it's a market, you either play along the market or you suffer from it.
I want widgets on Windows desktop as well.

I want clock, calendar, notes, CPU and system stats, pull out or slide out menus with shortcuts, quirky ones like this one.

Instead what I have is ads.

And copilot everywhere.

With touch screen laptops today you can do so much more. My levono also folds 360 and let's me use it as a full touch screen desktop. There is so much potential for productivity hacks and interactive UX ideas if Windows customization and widgets ecosystem was alive and thriving.
They don't make pockets big enough.
Oh absolutely, its not a good product for end-users. Doesn't change the fact that Teams has adoption that Skype For Business can only dream of however
Wouldn't you just make the picture change a few times to remove dust and that's it? They flip, the dust comes out.
Teams was the first tool from Microsoft on this space that was "good enough". The tools you mentioned were mostly for calls and instant messaging, not so strong on collaboration. With Teams Microsoft is really building a collaboration platform. They would like work to take place inside the Teams app.
So they couldn't make a good case for the value of paying for that product vs using the free one. You know how many products die because people don't see the value?
> you shouldn't do that.

Never? I can easily come up with scenarios where I think you'd also make an exception; If he was a German journalist in 1940 and he discovered what really happened at concentration camps. I'd wager exposing those papers without any redaction would be acceptable.

If you agree, then the rest is just about how you weigh certain crimes by the government, how many and what kind of names you expose, etc.
> That was in C, release 52 years ago

No, it was in ALGOL W. The "billion dollar mistake" is what Tony Hoare - one of the designers of the language - called it (later on, of course).
The link you posted is about Aboriginal and Tongan converts.
Show me the employees suffering.
How do you then distinguish between referring to a function with no / empty arguments, and invoking that function? Functions are no arguments (aka thunks) are useful in a number of contexts (pun intended!) and it's kinda the point that they are not immediately invoked.
the term [AI] arbitrarily divided the study of AI into two groups of computer scientists: those deemed to be doing meaningful work toward AGI, who were explicitly in pursuit of a system that could do everything humans could do, and everyone else, who was assumed to be spinning their wheels on more limited—and therefore frivolous—aims.
I didn't read the domain, and was first a bit upset that the OP apparently flew to visit a store[1], but then realized that it's Mr Geerling (I don't follow him) so I guess it's more of a work thing, at least.

1: Yes I'm from Europe and yes I know that the US is big and that domestic flights are like taking the (approved) bus for many of y'all, it just doesn't feel like something that "fits" today's climate, so to speak.
Show HN: a Rust lib to trigger actions based on your screen activity (with LLMs)
Does anyone else think this is the least important distraction to real hackers today?
Diaries of actor who inspired character of Withnail to be auctioned in London
Is this the EU regulation? https://repair.eu/news/new-ecodesign-for-sustainable-product...
Please share how you make it work on FF then.
True! Presumably they'd refuel the vehicles in these places as well. The number of depots would depend on how much time you want to waste having vehicles driving out-of-direction and (1) the cost of additional real estate plus (2) the cost of employees at each location.
A caption to a figure in the article reads "Georgi Molotov ... 'the great survivor', was one of Stalin's key enforcers for decades". Wasn't Molotov's name Vyacheslav? [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov
Which is why the fines must depend on the company and be much higher, to threaten their own business.
What does wise mean here? Because it seems to be the same as intelligent, which is not how I would describe wisdom at all. Wisdom and intelligence are not the same thing, and while our age is definitely "smart" it seems to have a complete and total lack of wisdom about pretty much everything.
The fact that equal temperament is imperfect is a bit of a side issue. The 12 tone scale was settled well before that came along.

The fact that our 12 tones, which are mostly made of simple ratios of frequencies, sound good is not a coincidence.
It's in your own example, you are less likely to find remote working, modern development practices or competitive salary at your average SharePoint gig compared to your average fullstack, devops or data engineering job.
The problem with this is guarding the laptop during the days/weeks (e.g. if you leave your laptop in a university library, even just momentarily for a bathroom break, it could go walking). There’s also the cost/hassle of enrolment (or sharing an existing student’s login).
It's a useless, unproveable generalisation from a supposedly omniscient "insider". I know of at least one finance organisation using HSM as you'd expect.
I mean, if someone is physically harmed it is also too late, but still the law has the perpetrator pay potentially huge amounts or for the rest of their lives.
It's worth to remind, in the current Brazilian legislation, is not a crime. There was a new drugs law in 2006, that was aiming exactly on "decriminalization", somewhat similar to what Portugal did a few years ago back then.

It's considered only a misdemeanor to use drugs in Brazil.

The thing is, in the law, it never says how much of a drug is a crime or not. So you can already guess what end up happening.

The law in 2006 was so open, that what happened, was an increase of people arrested, and not a decrease.

So in my opinion, this is a complete valid from Supreme Court, because there is a legal problem with how the lower courts are judging here. The decision from Supreme Court is actually because of a man that was convicted in São Paulo Court, with 3 grams (!).

Fun fact: The 2006 law doesn't even mention which drug is a drug. It says that Anvisa (Brazil FDA) is that classify that.

So if a President really want to make it LEGAL, they could just nominate liberal names on Anvisa, and suddenly, Anvisa could classify weed and other drugs as non-dangerous, and it would be legal to even sell it...

Another fun fact: in 2000, by mistake, ANVISA removed a poppers drug (Chloroethane) from the drugs that was banned.... So for a few weeks, it was completely legal Chloroethane. And a guy end up being released from prison because of this!
It's not that simple. Imagine you build the next great thing, you open up a new product line for everyone. Your business starts doing well, but then Microsoft or Apple come along, throw money at it and include it in their bundles (Office or OS) by default.

Suddenly, you are the loser, while they are selling below investment cost to simply push you out of the market.

So that's the issue.

Similarly, it should probably be made illegal for VC-backed startups to undercut incumbents just to shut them down: that's very similar to me.
As a regular tourist visiting Greece the slow internet in tourist areas is "a feature, not a bug" for me. It allows me to stay connected, download during the night some podcast shows and stream music. Video is painfully slow which motivates me to hang out with people or read books. Lovely.
> He was only released after 'admitting' that he was guilty...

There is the deeply philosophical, mathematical (Bayesian estimates), legal and political question whether the fact that he admitted that he was guilty increases or decreases the probability/likelihood that he is actually guilty or not.
I agree. The new settings app is one of few places where new design/reorganisation is actually better and people are annoyed just because of broken habits.
Whats really bad though is how individual settings in the app are gradualy disappearing.
Widgets has existed natively on Windows since Vista. Unless you have disabled it from your taskbar settings, it's the icon next to your start menu.
I was going to suggest having hover text for the characters that just summarises what you already have in the separate bios page, but I've just remembered that doesn't work on mobile haha. Adding faint text might help, though you have to keep accessibility contrast guidelines in mind :P Ultimately, this is just my viewpoint, and your website, so you should do what you feel is best haha
Just watched Kiki’s Delivery Service and was reminded of Phil. My favorite childhood comedian. RIP.
I think the main issue is the DOM API is designed around JS. Running another scripting language with different semantics in the browser is trivial, having it interact with the page and do anything useful is not
Is the repo in English, or Eng? Professional and unlazy is not to use so god damn many abbrs (/s) like "sth" or "msgs".
Yes, the internet speeds in Greece are terrible and pricing looks inversely proportional. It's as if people don't really care about technology at all.

I get all the island life and stuff, but really, trying to do real remote work from there in interactive terminals... not fun at all.
I vaguely recall a LiteStep theme for Windows back in the day that did something like this -- hadn't heard of it as a Mac feature before!
Huh? There are plenty of probability distributions on real numbers that don't have an expected value. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution

On the other hand, it's possible to construct probability distributions that have a meaningful expected values, but don't have anything to do with numbers.

> It is not like colors of beads in a jar that have no value until we assign one, which we do arbitrarily.

Huh? 'Red' and 'blue' are a perfectly fine values as far as I am concerned.

A random unit vector can perhaps be represented by a bunch of numbers (assuming you fix some finite dimension), but is not by itself a numerical quantity. Eg you can't multiply vectors.

It's also not completely clear that the definition of expected value of unit vectors you gave is necessarily the right one for every context: with your definition the expected value of a distribution over unit vectors is (in general) not a unit vector itself.

Often it's convenient to rig things in such a way that the expected value is a thing of the same type.

If you allow the expected value to be of a different type, you can say that the expected value of drawing from our urn is the expression `30% * blue + 70% * red` with `*` and `+` being purely formal operators from the free ring.

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In any case, expected values and random variables are separate subjects.
GPUs are used for more than only ML workloads.

CUDA relevance in the industry is so big now, that NVidia has several WG21 seats, and helps driving heterogenous programming roadmap for C++.
Seeking Advice on Suing Stripe from Abroad for Frozen Funds
A year ago, our Stripe account was frozen without explanation, locking over £14,000. We sell clothing and had fulfilled all orders and shipped to customers even after the funds were frozen. There are no disputes or refunds pending on our account.

We've tried to communicate with Stripe for over six months with no resolution. Our emails go unanswered, and there has been no release of funds. Attempts to reach out to Stripe’s management team have also been met with silence, and interactions with their community team have only led to repetitive email responses.

At this point, considering legal arbitration seems to be the only option left. It's incredibly frustrating and anxiety-inducing as a legitimate business unable to access our funds after fulfilling orders.

Has anyone here experienced something similar? How did you go about contacting a lawyer for an arbitration, especially when based outside the US? We’re looking into remote options for a class action lawsuit.

Any guidance or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Is there any reason you’d want to do this?
Expected values are a completely separate topic, and should not be confused with random variables.

Not all probability distributions over real numbers have expected values. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution

Many probability distributions over something other than the real numbers have expected values.
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You mean immortal life in digital heaven will not come true in 5 years?

Only for those who don't believe in Kurzweil.
In almost every case you test for someVal != null or someVal == null (which is almost the only case where == is preferable to ===)

And on the other hand sql made the opposite mistake where NULL means both "this field has an empty value" and "this field does not have a value"
Post-2008, globally important financial institutions are required to submit private, internal risk reports to regulators. It would not always be prudent to make this information public, but it makes good sense for regulators to see it -- privately.

It seems like if we want to have "fair" duopoly app stores (Apple and Android), then we need a regulator who is fully embedded and integrated into the process, but can view all details of the decision, including ones that should legitimately stay private (security, etc.). To be clear, the regulator needs to have the final say on what will be private and not. Also, the regulator needs to be involved in the appeals process.

That said, I still think we need to allow multiple app stores on each platform. Meta is large enough to do it. Yeah, I know, that will get no love here. And, unfortunately, it probably means lower security for unsophisticated end-users.
i dont understand spanish :(
Does anyone know why it takes a few seconds to start a VNC session, even on a fast computer and a fast and low-latency connection? I'm using TigerVNC.
Pretty sure Jack lost the ability to distinguish reality from his own hype _way_ more than 5-10 years ago
A 5,2 Intermittent Fasting Meal Replacement Diet for Adults with Diabetes
I don't think you know the meaning of the world suffering.

And data science and IT infra/support are different career choices that differ around skills and education rather than choice of OS vendor. Those jobs are not interchangeable.
> The burden of proof is supposed to be the other way around, as presumption of innocence is a thing in Germany (Unschuldsvermutung).

Theoretically.

Unfortunately, judges who are actually fit in IT topics are rare, especially in the criminal courts. They tend to rather believe what the prosecutor tells them. I'm just happy we don't have US-style juries because that would be even worse given our collective love as a society for faxes and writing information on highly processed dead trees (i.e. paper).
In Europe at least supercomputer are organised in tiers. Tier 0 are the highest grade, tier 3 are small local university clusters like the one you describe. Tier 2 or Tier 1 machines and upward usually require you to apply for time. They are definitely highly utilised. Tier 3 the situation will be very different from one university to the next. But you can be sure that funding bodies will look at utilisation before deciding on upgrades.

Also this amount of GPUs is not sufficient for competitive pure ML research groups from what I have seen. The point of these small decentral underutilized resources is to have slack for experimentation. Want to explore ML application with a master student in your (non-ML) field? Go for it.

Edit: No idea how much of the total hpc market is in the many small instalks, vs the fewer large ones. My instinct is that funders prefer to fund large centralised infrastructure, and getting smaller decentralised stuff done is always a battle. But that's all based on very local experience, and I couldn't guess how well this generalises.
While brazilian society's relationship with race can be quite nuanced, the left-of-center political discourse is largely analogous to the US in this aspect (form my non-american perspective at least). So yeah, the translation was pretty accurate.
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Someone upthread is right: VirtualGirl it was called. Borderline spyware, but really well done.-
I was more thinking of asking a friend to upload it on some gigabit connection. Not days then.
Yes, I agree about the pedagogic benefits.

Though as kazinator demonstrates in this thread, it looks like this approach can lead to some confusion between random variables and expected values.
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