jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have a post it that says "What would batman do?" at my wall. When unproductive at work or struggling, I look at that.
Yikes.

But didn’t they also take female slaves too, some being concubines?
SML could be a nice “typed Lua” for scripting.
> does it really seem that outlandish that CIA psyops might be intentionally seeding these groups with nutty beliefs because they were getting uncomfortably close to something actually true?

Not that outlandish but my own experience has shown that people can come up with crazy all on their own. Time will reveal, or it won’t.
Even if an error is unrecoverable by the caller, that doesn't mean it should be a `panic`. If a server is running your code in a request handler, a `panic` would normally terminate the entire process. That's never what anyone wants.
That's exactly how I treat publishing my own OSS now (probably on a smaller scale though).

I had started by hoping (almost assuming) people would be amazed at how useful my library was. But mostly they didn't notice it, or (and this was harder to accept): didn't even recognize or understand the issues it was addressing in the first place.

5 years later, the issues are generally much better understood in android world, but still. I know some teams are using it, but it's probably not that many.

So publishing it has just become a hobby, it's something I can be proud of, it works nicely, I often use it (or the knowledge gained while writing it) to speed up whatever I'm doing and make my life easier. I also publish articles about said issues, and they seem to be helpful to the people that read them, and I enjoy explaining things I understand.

I'm not on the engineering manager track, and I hope to be programming until I retire, so I'll probably just keep supporting it.

If I had any advice for the OP I'd say set your expectations at: personal pride in doing a good job

(I'm definitely not the best person to dispense any kind of marketing advice anyway)
the magazine is from 1983, so the C language was not news by then.

Flipping the pages of the magazine is awesome - the ads on every other page are just like time travel.

It has been so long since I have last seen the Charlie Chaplin ad for IBM: https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-08/1983_08_BYT...

I was a kid back then with a Commodore 64
Fufox is not using your personal data for commercial purposes. We don't provide or sell any users related data to any company.

We are improving our services everyday and we hope we will convince you in the future to use our services.
> Well, isn't it ironic that many people here appaled by this kind of censorship were backing the same GAFAs when they kicked Trump of their platforms

People need to stop saying stuff like this. It's not like you looked through people's account histories or remember how specific accounts speaking today came down on that issue in the past.
Does an application need to prove it can do what it claims to do before it can be ported to OpenBSD? Seems like a high bar. :-)
Re: men vs women - he has often claimed for example that women get payed less because they are unwilling to do the better paying jobs (most famously in the Cathy Newman interview [0]). He also claims often that women are more interested in empathy and men in systems, so that men are vastly much more likely to be in fields like engineering, while women are more vastly more likely to be interested in fields like nursing [1], with natural differences as large as 20:1. He himself may not make this value judgement, but given the general social consensus that views engineering as a more prestigious, intellectual job than medical nurses, I think it's mostly fair to characterize this claim as I did.

I disagree with this conclusion any way - I believe that IQ testing quickly loses any kind of predictive power when applied to different backgrounds, and many implicit and even explicit biases quickly show up. I also find it hard to believe that a society where women:men ratios in any profession are 20:1 or 1:20 can be characterized as the free-est in the world on this issue. More likely, there are great social and historical pressures trending in this direction, and the state is simply doing nothing to try to reverse this injustice. Looking at former communist countries, that are generally not even close to having any kind of women in STEM programs that could be considered to bias results, the women:men ratio in STEM fields is something like 30:70.

Re: IQ and "race" - I don't think so. You may accept that IQ has some correlation with what we understand by intelligence in regular usage, but that doesn't mean in any way that you can meaningfully compare people for IQ across arbitrary divides such as "race", especially when "race" is highly correlated with things such as poverty, teacher attitudes, social attitudes etc. And I keep saying "race" and not race because there is no scientific basis for our notions of race - they are arbitrary social constructs based on skin color and culture (for some examples: are Italians and Irish people white? 50 years ago, they were considered a different race; or, what is the race of the child of a mixed black-skin & white-skin couple? Is Kamala Harris black or white? What about her children? Are they white? black? semitic? south-asian? How many studies of IQ vs race on similar populations actually look at any kind of genetic evidence, vs just skin color?)

I will admit that "conman" was a bit rough and an exaggeration. Still, he is definitely using some conman-style tactics to sell his opinions outside his area of expertise. I am not talking about the area of psychology, which includes his self-help work, but about his political discourse.

[0] The Cathy Newman Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54

[1] Jordan B Peterson: Why so many Male Engineers and Female Nurses? (3 minute video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7uZOAzVRgU
Respectful nitpick: maybe you mean "Freedom of speech/expression should be a right of every individual on this planet"

Also, one thing is to wish for universal freedom of speech, another one is for a given community, or country, to impose its views on free speech (and limitations thereof) to another community.

Edit: typo
And then there's the problem of indoctrination of knowledge, different paths of indoctrination with more or less regulatory and narrative capture, direction guiding on what gets researched and what gets suppressed by the different industrial complexes - stagnancy and bureaucracies.
I will look into that book, and maybe you can clarify it for me in the mean time.

If I need alone time to recharge, and also do not feel complete without socializing, am I an extravert or an introvert?
Hi HN,

I'm Robin, co-founder of Save All. Save All is a spaced repetition app that uses machine learning to help people remember everything. After telling us what you want to remember, we generate multiple choice quizzes that test you in the right way at the right time to get the information into your long-term memory and keep it there. Unlike other flashcard apps, you don’t need to structure the input, you just write in a sentence.

Me and my co-founders have been avid users of spaced repetition apps for several years, after doing the Coursera course, Learning How to Learn [1]. We were particularly struck by the fact that without recall practice, you forget 90% of what you learn within a week[2]. We applied what we learned on this course, and went on to use it to be really successful at various university courses we did as mature students. One of us came top of his year in the machine learning masters at Imperial College London.

Save All is unique amongst spaced repetition apps because it uses machine learning to generate multiple choice quizzes of your information. This lets us verify whether you know the information without relying on you telling us, meaning we can better optimise your learning and make it feel like a game.

Try it out at https://www.saveall.ai or watch this video to learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTYVRfJXKVs

Any questions or feedback, please email me at robin@saveall.ai. Please note, we do not currently charge for Save All, it's free for early users.

Thanks
[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve
Understanding is not condoning. Their motivation for discriminating people on the basis of their ethnicity may be understandable, but cannot be forgiven. You can improve integration while also letting immigration in.
Cryptocurrency, art, technology.... there is nothing surprising, time passes, we develop.Remember the times 20 years ago, not everyone had a TV, and if there was, there was almost nothing to watch. And today... everyone has a smartphone and the ability to watch thousands of movies or TV shows... One Showbox app is worth it https://pipsli.net/en/android-apps/multimedia/125-showbox.ht.... I can't even imagine what will happen in ten years...
Forced wait is definitely an irritating practice in web today. Not only is is distracting and usually valueless, it's delays what is important: information transfer.
> The major advantage of DIY is that you end up being able to repair your own stuff, to know how it works, to know where it is.

This sounds similar to the NIH syndrome in some software companies. I’m still trying to figure out when it makes sense and when it doesn’t. In software, I tend to err on the side of NIH. In life, I am almost never DIY. I suspect I’m out of balance in both regards.
There are some! But it varies a lot by region. And there's been a lot of consolidation-of-providers wherever service is easier to provide.

So where there are only a few hard-to-service households missed by the mainline services, or other local geographic/infrastructure challenges, there may be no local micro-ISPs/experts, and thus only extremely expensive custom options.

That the author describes his residence by County, rather than some incorporated town/city, is a strong indicator that even though he's in the Seattle area, he's very possibly in a very low-density, rural area. He might even be on well-water and a septic-tank, rather than utility water/sewer.
I'd settle for zoom shortcuts working properly.
It doesn't have to be one or the other.

100% agreed that fed action via bond buying has been excessive as well. In a healthy economic system, there need to be "down" cycles where overleveraged or poorly run businesses fail.

If the government will backstop all investments, then why not leverage up as much as possible and take on excessive risk? Those that have been financially prudent have been punished consistently. I wonder how much of the fiscal/monetary response is really driven by personal bias towards protecting their own portfolios.

Helicopter money is certainly good optics in the short-term, but terrible governance on a longer timescale.
Inferior to what? I have yet to find a browser that blocks ads on Android as efficiently as Firefox+uBlock.
> Always thought of this as a fascinating race to watch. What will happen first: (1) Tesla figuring out how to really build & manufacture cars or (2) the legacy automotive companies really figuring out build & deploy software?

Yes! And (3) is potentially: A company who's even better at building and deploying software and hardware enters the market.
I also have a Model 3 from December 2018. No issues / defects at all.

I have had mobile service for things like rotating tires and installing a rear spoiler.

Better "initial quality" experience than the VW and Subaru vehicles that I've purchased.
So it's more like she directed her frustrations at the users ("haters") instead of the other way around?
It’s right there in the repo history. Start from the first commits. I don’t know how serious of an allegation it is: copy-pasting open-source code without crediting it properly is rude, but not illegal.
MasterCard is only allowing stablecoins. Your insight sounds good, but unrelated to this.
> reelecting the people who appointed them in the first place.

Everyone loves their Congresspeople. It's the other 433 who are screwing everything up.
I agree on some of your points. I just want to add:

Then comes the point, where one of your dependencies in conda simply wont install on the machine of your coworker or a windows machine of another coworker, or in your docker image and you are screwed, scrambling for the next package manager. Been there, experienced that.

I can only recommend to people not to go that route and to not get into trying to get the same environment on windows. A lot of headaches. It will be simpler to tell people to use another OS, if they want to use the same environment. Ultimately I ended up providing a virtual machine.

A managed solution -- Yes, this takes a lot of load off of the shoulders of people, who would like to actually get productive in other ways.
> With an unclean hospital, patients suffer and die.

I'm not a fan of this logic. Should water cost more b/c without it you'd die? Value is roughly determined by supply/demand, risk/reward. Doctors/nurses are more valuable than cleaners because they are harder to train, give function to the hospital in the first place (who cares to clean a hospital without any staff that no-one goes to), and you can consult with a doctor just as well in a dirty room.
Other countries are slipping, though. For example, Germany does not actually have a single-payer system, but instead a "system" of public and private health insurance companies. As an employee you`re usually in the public system, which can be more expensive for higher-earners because the fees are based on your income (although the health taxes are regressive, capped above like 65K income per year). Self-employed people are often in the private system, and higher income earners can also opt into the private system.

The problem is you can´t easily opt back into the public system once you´re out (especially once you´re old), so there are tens of thousands (if not hundreds), that get stuck in the private system without being able to pay the fees because they´ve become poor (possibly because of health reasons), and then they get denied coverage and thus access to medical services.

Immigrants can fall through the cracks in the over-complicated system as well.

The problem is not as insane as in the US, happens "at the fringes", but it still affects thousands and is mostly outside of the perception of society, since everybody just assumes they got the best system in the world.
Pretty cool! I tried it with this small dialogue, and then edited together two voices in Reaper from the downloads:

Bob: “Hello, John.”

John: “Oh, hello there, Bob.”

Bob: “Yes, hello. It's what I said. Why do you keep repeating what I say, John?”

John: “I didn't repeat you! I merely said hello, you dimwit!”

Bob: “There you go, being condescending again. Fuck you!”

John: “What? You're the one who started it!”

Try it yourself, or write something different. Either way, good fun!
Well they won't get away with that at all, especially not in the long run as people abandon ship to platforms that do allow free development and tinkering.

Before the M1 Macs shipped, Apple's Mac revenue hit an all-time high of a smidge over $9 billion [1]. During a global pandemic and economic crisis.

The Mac will be 37 years old on January 24, 2021 and yet, it continues to gain momentum, not lose it. Between 1984 and now, not a year has gone by without the same narrative: Apple is doomed if they don't change their ways…

The M1 Macs are probably selling like proverbial hotcakes—we'll find out on January 27th [2].

People seem to forget that the Mac mini, the MacBook Air and the 13-inch MacBook Pro are the entry-level, consumer oriented computers in Apple's lineup. These machines are the opening act.

And even as stunningly fast as these machines are, especially on a performance per watt basis, we haven't even seen the take-no-prisoners, kick-ass professional Apple Silicon Macs yet.

We’ll probably see Macs from Apple that don't have the space and power constraints of the current lineup. If they cranked the current SoC beyond the current 3.2 GHz, added more cores and started at 16 GB of RAM… they would capture another huge chunk of the market, including a significant number of Linux users…

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/10/apple-reports-fourth-...

[2] https://www.apple.com/investor/earnings-call/
If you care only about job prospects and your career, then I would skip it. However, if you like exploring different ideas and concepts in computer science, it is definitely worth a look.
I'm guessing "dove sorry" is diversity, but who knows!
I have a 7 year old and a 10 year old and have done lots and lots of volunteering teaching kids to code (via the Raspberry Pi Foundation's Code Club and CoderDojo schemes). My boys are very into building things with redstone in Minecraft and I've done quite a bit of programming with them.

What I would say is that 7 is still very young - the important thing at this age is that they are enjoying it, which it sounds like your son is and with you as a mentor, I don't think you can go too far wrong. If you weren't a programmer, I might be pointing you in various directions but don't think I need to.

I'm mostly thinking about resources that might be helpful. It's worth being aware that on the Raspberry Pi there is a Python API which might be a good way to introduce Python for a Minecraft fan. There are some articles about in old issues of Hello World magazine (PDFs available for free here: https://helloworld.raspberrypi.org/issues). You might find the magazine interesting generally. There's also a book Adventures in Minecraft by Martin O'Hanlan and David Whale. Typing ability is one of the big issues with python at that age though I find (that and the ability to make syntax errors which you don't get in Scratch!).

In terms of Scratch, there's the Code Club curriculum https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/codeclub which isn't perfect, but is fairly well road-tested.

The BBC Microbit is also fun and not too expensive if you are looking for something a bit different and has a visual programming interface. I prefer that to lots of the robot kits etc. out there because it's so flexible and you can extend it into electronics if you want to. Having said that Lego Boost went done extremely well with our boys and is well thought through, but not cheap.

But the important thing at this age is that they enjoy it, so I think there's an art in terms of following what interests them and encouraging them with that.
Half-Life's Gordon Freeman voice is really spot-on!
Using a separate secure element built into a smartphone is probably the best solution here. Most smartphone users will not lose them often, and will notice almost immediately.
I see, that's a fair argument. Thanks missed that from the article which at the surface seemed to me like a great thing.
This is pretty cool! I’ve been searching for a nice shell to unify my workflows on Mac, Windows, and Linux (WSL). Choices are few and far between, Elvish is the only thing that has worked out (which is fortunately more than decent for me), and I’ll probably give this one a spin.
Ha, what timing. Now we can make laws about domestic terrorism and give the government the same powers.
You can retire on $80k too, it just happens to be in Afghanistan.
> child porn

> Because that's what you'll find on Parler.

No article I've read substantiates the presence of child pornography.

Source?
When you decide that half of people's opinions are criminal don't expect the law to save you.
It seems like most societies have some kind of a reflex towards monarchy. We elect our leaders but still treat them in many ways like monarchs who need to be revered rather than like people we hired to do a job for us.
Great bit of history/context around cloud computing, even if there is a bit of dispute as to how big the impact was, it’s still super interesting.
It tends to help in matters of systems programming and security.
If you do have an account but your password is not a dictionary word and it's been hashed and salted, do you care?
Wouldn't it be great if somehow we could not end up arguing about PayPal policies on a thread about password security?
Does anyone even know what hint.io does?

The links in their "Your account has been compromised" lead me to a login page for the beta site, which of course I don't have an account for.

Very odd to advertise for a site which then the "users" can't use.
They really do have a different moral status though. Copyright and IP are purely pragmatic commercial arrangements. Any wrongness in infringement comes solely from it simply being against the rules of a particular game we have decided to play. If we had different rules, such copying would be harmless.

The copyright-based industries have tried to present infringement as a fundamental moral wrong. It is not. Quite the contrary, communication is good, as people unconciously know and feel.
oh! that explains why my Prolog hacking has been so unsuccessful. Thanks very much.
Living in a developed industrial nation, with all the benefits that incurs, and not paying for it? That's freeloading.

There's no moral standing in skipping out on the bill for something you're getting.
The US tax system offers a lot of deductions. When I first moved here I was paying ~12% in total taxes (state + federal) on $60K worth of income once I took advantage of the 401k deduction, mortgage interest deduction, etc,etc.
Oh. I see. Sorry, hash collision. I'm talking about the people who perform tasks like exploit discovery and development. You're talking about the people who take that work and run it in script form.

Perhaps a better analogy would be that asking "Why not pen testing?" is like asking why gun designers don't find new jobs as infantry.

Established security firms often focus on business with... guess who? Governments. The NSA employing people directly is not really much different from the NSA hiring contractors who employ people directly.
Is this article supposed to be irony? All the terms he used to describe the procedures in question violate the rule he just laid out. The TSA is not "raping" you, the scanners are not "pornographic" (any more than an CT, X-ray, or MRI scanner is), and the risk of cancer from these machines is likely so low that calling them "carcinogenic" is downright dishonest.

Don't get me wrong, I am not in favor of any of the TSA's actions here, but it seems the height of hypocrisy to write a blog post critical of the dishonesty of TSA's language while attacking them with equally misleading and dishonest terms.
It doesn't shock me ...

1 - A charismatic "Rocket scientist" as a founder (Arguably the most inspiring founder since Steve Jobs). Check!

2 - A disruptive idea in a industry that hasn't been disrupted since the rise of Japanese cars (A long long time ago). Check!

3 - Wining against all odds (a year ago very few people were betting on Tesla). Check!

4 - A world changing idea. Check!

5 - A David and Goliath story. Check!

6 - A sexy machine and a delightful product. Check!
> Definitely. If it's to be taken at face value, where is one dead person? "Died from sitting." Seriously?

People don't die from any single cigarette, either.

(Your point might be true, but your argument doesn't pass muster.)
> We plan to do some more complicated robots and also make our own fun mods for Minecraft (as soon as I figure out how to hook up Scratch to recent version of it).

You can't quite hook up Scratch itself to Minecraft (not that I know of, at least), but if you want to use Minecraft as a backbone for this kind of education, you might be interested in Pneumaticcraft, which includes little programmable drones that are programmed using a simple mockup of scratch (https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/pneumaticcraft-...) or ComputerCraft, which tries to emulate shell scripting and lua in particular (https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/cc-tweaked). In the future, if you wanted to teach him Java, you could have him develop mods himself through the Spigot, Forge, or Fabric modding APIs.