jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Is that a serious question?

Yes?

> Vehicles simply didn't have have navigation prior to separate GPSs like Garmin.

But we're not talking pre-Garmin here - the person I was replying to said recent Lexus didn't have them. They must have had navigation in a recent Lexus surely? So how did you input an address?
In a nutshell:

"An article about computational science in a scientific publication is not the scholarship itself, it is merely advertising of the scholarship. The actual scholarship is the complete software development environment and the complete set of instructions which generated the figures." -- D. Donoho

As an example, at university I wrote a paper on network coding and referenced the Microsoft Avalanche project (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/avalanche/). What always puzzled me was that they never published source code to back up their claims to fame. Why? Maybe I'm being naive, but to me the openness of the scientific community implies that you must provide other researchers the opportunity to reproduce your results.

If this were a paper on chemistry you'd describe the volumes, concentrations, and proportions of all substances used. So why don't computational science papers offer source code and instructions on setting up the build environment? What am I missing?
> Gotta hand it to Microsoft. Behind the times on web dev for so long, now busting out open source left and right, ....

Open Source is not just about opening up some source code, it is also about how you act in the larger interests of the community. Just earlier this month, Microsoft sued Kyocera over patents on Android. Microsoft has sued every Android phone maker so far, and have forced some of them to make Windows phones. Their position on Linux infringing unspecified patents has not changed or been clarified.

Microsoft is playing the Open Source game because they really have no choice. Open Source has thrived and will thrive without them. Microsoft doesn't deserve our attention until they stop abusing patents.
The i5 shouldn't be an issue. You can always custom order. Even the entry model can be bought with an i7. You can have a custom Macbook shipped to a nearby Apple store for pickup, so ordering custom is no big deal.

Of course if the resolution isn't acceptable to you, that's an entirely different issue.
I think it's more along the lines of Katy's own sudden perceived elevation of status is jarring to her. "The wealthy" as a group come with a lot of stereotypes, responsibilities, & judgments. Katy doesn't think of herself as wealthy, but having hired help is generally a sign of considerable wealth in the USA. So, Katy is unsettled by how her social status seems to have changed out of the blue, and how she now needs to behave.

Particularly, there is a pervasive stereotype of the wealthy mistreating or dehumanizing hired help, so any suddenly-wealthy middle class person is going to be panicking, "Oh shit, how do I not become that wealthy person, I've never done this before"

I don't think judgement of the worker was even on the radar.
Actually, CryptDB does (or at least did originally) use homomorphic encryption (HE) for evaluating SQL arithmetic expressions. While the earliest suggestions for HE were terribly slow, CryptDB found one that was practical. If memory serves, there have since been HE improvements claimed by IBM and/or Google.

But as michwill states (and CryptDB acknowledges), their approach either leaks information or precludes classes of expressions. For example, their order-preserving encryption could be susceptible to a brute-force attack via 'a > b' ... '(a+1) > b' ... '(a+2) > b'
That's the usual defensive line. Its not about color as long as the work gets done. Never mind imbalance or systematic exclusion, that can't be real.

Its ever so easy to dismiss bias when we have an emotional connection. It's worth being careful about, noticing and even sometimes bringing up. And not helpful to get trolled and mocked for bringing it up.

Is this picture really disproportion in makeup? Lets see, 40 people, black faces make up 14% of America. What's the probability that's by chance? Its about 1 in 1000.

But lets be real. Black engineers are rare, much less than 14%. From ^this site its about 6%. That comes out to maybe a 1 in 12 chance of happening by accident.

So who knows. Maybe Mozilla is that 1 in 12.

^ https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
frankly, I would have redirected the image to their own homepage.

If only for the outrageous user agent.
I wouldn't think of these first as "population control policies". Like, teaching people about contraception and birth control isn't a population control policy, it's (generally) a women's rights policy. And while it's definitely true that birth rates decline as women gain more reproductive rights, I don't think we should see that as a population control policy, but rather as a human rights policy.

Where these two perspectives really diverge is on the issue of enforcement. If we say women have a right to control their bodies, then the enforcement comes down against entities who deny or limit those rights. If we say women cannot have more than N children, then enforcement comes down against women (and oftentimes their families too, but not always), often in horrific and traumatizing ways. Or concretely, if India decides to implement population control via an education campaign and they are in danger of not meeting their goals, what do they do? Do they ramp up education efforts? Do they look at different women's rights policies? Do they crack down on employers and health care providers who are less than helpful when it comes to access to birth control? Or do they embark on a gruesome campaign of forced sterilization and abortion?

So while I agree you're technically right, I think it's unrealistic to rely on population control to combat global warming, and doubly unrealistic to rely on reproductive education (etc.) to indirectly combat it. I think the incentives and enforcement are too far removed from the problem at hand, and that's saying nothing of the cultural challenges.
yes, but I believe they support semicolons as a statement separator on the same line
Must suck if you're a vegetarian.
Can confirm the OS did as well (win 95). It was a hard install on my notebook which lacked a cd drive. So many floppies.
Matrix is okay, hopefully will be better someday, but I've had a pretty good time with XMPP the last few months. If you stick to Dino and Conversations (maybe Gajim too), the OMEMO is easier and more reliable to get working than Matrix's encryption, and you can turn it off. I mainly use Matrix unencrypted because they don't let you turn it back off, and it feels like most of my contacts don't understand the device naming and verification stuff. (also sometimes device verification just doesn't work). XMPP is also a LOT less laggy. Closer to IRC feel.

I still use Matrix, but it's often frustrating with messages showing up late or out of order, and none of the clients feeling quite good enough yet. Especially if you use multiple accounts.

Every XMPP client I've used supports multiple accounts, but for Matrix I've only recently run into Quaternion which supports this, and I believe also Neochat (they both use libquotient), but they're still rough to use.

I wouldn't even consider options that aren't free software, and I'd also exclude signal because of them not putting their app on f-droid, not being properly decentralized, relying on a phone number, etc. (note that both email and phone number are optional for Matrix accounts)
But, how does WhatsApp do this? I mean it works great for countries with low bandwidth without user doing anything about it.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1347318930138918930
I have a horrifying vision of huge "dongles" everywhere ... like USB/headphone/etc but for cars. $100 each, aftermarket is $50 but they slowly ruin your batteries, etc.
I can't empathize with your lack of empathy. All I need is to try to put myself in someone's else shoes to feel empathy, going through what they're going through is not required.
Ya, let’s implement speed limits based upon an known organizational issue that can result in catastrophic failure. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
Rumour I heard was that it was because they realised 20% of their customers using much older PC's wouldn't be able to decode fast enough, so they distributed it with the uncompressed to everyone because no distribution platform allowed "optional" downloads.
Just to take this one bit:

> You don't automatically achieve a coup by entering some building and interrupting some bureaucratic process

Sorry, but that's EXACTLY how coups work in the real world. You disrupt the government in such a way that the rule of law fails. In fact, it's been reported that at least one Trump goal was to push certification out beyond the 11 day (I think, details are fuzzy) deadline in the electoral count act and force the house to decide.

You're simply saying that it didn't work. But that's down as much to luck (a smallish crowd and multiple barriers to cross) and architecture (cold war escape tunnels) as it is to anything fundamental. It is VERY easy to imagine an alternate universe where Pelosi and Pence are still being held hostage right now.
By definition, x percent of the people are below the xth percentile. That’s not a sane way to set limits
Why?

Are you avoiding NPM as well?

Seems like a curious requirement for JS development
"Cuomo also urged the federal government to nationalize the effort to acquire protective medical supplies — including masks, gowns and gloves — that are in short supply. He says masks that used to cost 85 cents are now priced at $7 as states are forced to bid against each other for limited supplies."

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
The Raspberry Pi is meant to be educational for a people with a range of skills, and they did say in their issue tracker that by adding the repo, it means everyone has easy access to it. I expect they'll be able to add further intro articles and blog posts and make a Pi even more accessible.

I suspect it's easier for tech savvy people to remove it, if they really care, and rather more difficult for relatively non technical people to figure out how to add the MS repo, then install VSCode.

I'm in the former group. It's easier for me to remove it, than it is for my nephew to add it.
If it's true that 5G has a range of only ~300m, then, in the area where I grew up, we'd probably have needed one tower for every 1-2 houses.

So yeah, seems like an urban tech to me. In rural areas, it would degrade into a Rube Goldberg version of fiber.
What I'm seeing here is two needs:

1. Trust the tech/maths capabilities of hires who pass the new interview process.

2. Clearly represent that need to others in the org who are more conversation-focused.

Do I have that right?

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1. Design interviews as close as you can to the day-to-day work -- like pair-programming and pair code-review, but for maths.

When interviews resemble the work, it is easier for the new hire to trust that they can do the work. Some of the best interviews I've done (from both ends) were pair programming and code-review based. When I started an interview by writing tests first and then got hired for that, led me to feel a higher sense of psychological safety during the day-to-day work. I trusted that my need for TDD was aligned with the org's needs and that my ability to discuss technical tradeoffs were sufficient to deliver results. If new joiners trust that their skills are a good fit for their role, it is easier for them to speak up in otherwise-tough conversations.

For more on this, read The Speed of Trust or this blog post summarising a piece of it:

http://eliteaming.blogspot.com/2016/09/core-3-capabilities-p...

2. Represent the value of a solid base of technical expertise to folks who think in terms of conversation and creativity.

First, refer to the need for trust to enable high-quality conversations.

Second, refer to the need for folks who can make technical details accessible.

"We need people with the depth of expertise that can allow them to explain deep technical issues clearly, correctly, and accessibly. That clarity is necessary so everyone in the room can play with those ideas and see unexpected opportunities -- and so they can offer an off-the-wall idea knowing that we'd clearly see its technical risks and make a high-quality decision about it."

https://kottke.org/17/06/if-you-cant-explain-something-in-si...
Yup, well said.
If true, kind of supports my point that "LinkedIn has the greatest built-in policing mechanism" isn't very accurate.
I think something similar existed in Alaska. I had relatives up in south east Alaska ( the chain of islands that hang down, with cities like Juneau, Ketchican. While visiting we were shepherded around in a little school van by a retired teacher who worked at the local boarding school which was managed by Indian affairs. It was quite interesting talking to him - essentially kids who lived a traditional remote lifestyle in fishing and other villages all over the various islands would come to the school for months at a time for an education.

I'm sure I didn't hear that 'other' side of the story, but it's pretty clear what was happening - taking kids away from their traditional families and putting them into American style education is a softer form of cultural destruction. I also spoke with his former students who had moved to the big city (think 3,000 people), and the city itself is mostly a mix of native, old russian and americans.

In some ways their lifestyle was the same, their income was still fishing but they were living in a mostly normal American town - aside from the fact it was in the middle of no where and there were more boats and than cars in the city.

I'd like to go back up there, everything I have learned about tlinget and the people I spent time with was a really interesting and awesome opportunity.

Similar things happened to the scotts when scottish gaelic stopped being taught in school and was transferred to English. Now of course almost everyone in Scotland besides the Outer Hebrides speaks English.

In many ways the Tlinget I met in SE Alaska were aware of what was going on and there was a lot of cultural preservation and focus on their language and traditional lifestyle, but again what else would you expect when you talk to people who work at the local cultural center? It's hard to say what the 'average' Tlinget experience is and since it's pretty sparse up there, experiences vary wildly.

Anyway - Go to Sitka, AK, it's beautiful!
article content seemed suspect so i googled the guy's name a bit
> Have you spent any time learning any of this? If not, then why do you say that "this is very complicated and I'm too stupid"?

not all things require the same amount of effort to be understood at an adequate level.

> If you find a text in German and you don't understand a word, because you have never studied German, do you think you are too stupid to speak German?

there are definitely people that are able to look at a german text without having ever studied german before and make sense of it in a rough way
News stories are written to give a summary first, then more detail, then more detail, if you didn't know. That's how it's worked for a long time.

Hence google simply steal the most valuable bit, the headline and the summary, and users can get away with merely browsing the free content, which Google has stolen.

It's as if google owns a newspaper store, that they allow any person to just browse for free. In a real world newsagents you'd be told to buy or GTFO because the newsagent makes money from selling the papers. But because google already made their money, they sell the land, they gleefully give it away for free.

Don't forget, Google is worthless without the content, if everyone banned Google from scraping content tomorrow it would go bust overnight.

But almost every site would make more money without search engines.

Reflecting on this, it's actually in every governments interest to make it as hard as possible for Google/Facebook/etc. to do business in their territory. If google just "give up" on Australia, it means all that advertising money will probably go to an Australian search engine, and be taxable.
One third (35%) of people who took a new drug for treating obesity lost more than one-fifth (greater than or equal to 20%) of their total body weight, according to a major global study involving UCL researchers.

The drug, semaglutide, works by hijacking the body's own appetite regulating system in the brain leading to reduced hunger and calorie intake.

Three quarters (75%) of people who received semaglutide 2.4mg lost more than 10% of their body weight and more than one-third lost more than 20%. No other drug has come close to producing this level of weight loss -- this really is a gamechanger.

The drug possesses a compound structurally similar to (and mimics) the human glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) hormone, which is released into the blood from the gut after meals.
I guess showing them a live data source for the stock price in the presentation would just make their heads explode. I thought that was a reasonably out-of-the-box Office feature?
You went from the 'bitcoin has no intrinsic value fallacy' right to the 'bitcoin is not a currency fallacy' - seriously read the Bitcoin FAQ or something. All your points have been discussed to death for the last 4 years. You think after 4 years, hundreds of startups, and millions of dollars invested in Bitcoin that you are the only one who 'realizes' Bitcoin is a scam? Wake up, bitcoin is legit now. It's been vetted by larger forces than your 'blog.'
I have the same feedback, FWIW.

I signed up a couple weeks ago and was turned off by being asked to follow various users whom I didn't know- in some follow-based communities it almost feels like giving a tacit endorsement.

Given that I didn't yet understand Hubski's dynamics or model, I was just sort of staring at the page as my interest-momentum at moving through the site dwindled.. and I'm currently on the [rather passive] search for a new community-based site. Many of your new users likely will not be as eager.

Somehow the abstraction provided by 'lists' (a la Twitter) that you can follow seems to break some of the psychological barriers.

Perhaps you could provide a few topical, curated lists of 'editor-picked' users to follow and have a brief sampling of what sort of content you're going to end up seeing by choosing to follow it.

anyways, looks really cool and hope my unsolicited advice doesn't come across as discouraging. best of luck!
Coincidentally Blue Bottle started selling $!50 pajamas today...

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If you're taking about magsafe, it's patented. Apple reverted to USB-C charging on all current models, which is not as cool as magsafe, but on the bright side, you can now charge on either side and use the port for other things when not charging.
But this is still backwards. Internal google services are being cloned into watered down versions for the public. Google isn’t moving to GCP internally.
> If we're about to see 20% unemployment in the US, a hundred thousand people or more will die directly from that economic event alone.

Provide evidence of this.

And in most countries there is a constraint over medical equipment and personnel. Also a person can be asymptomatic and still contagious which means merely testing these people can come at a serious cost.
Don't mean to hijack the thread, but since virtually all of us are in quarantine, I thought this might be an opportune time to ask for recommendations on family-friendly (think 3 generations...) board games to play while stuck at home. I really don't want to play Scrabble, Monopoly, Risk, Game of Life or Clue... but have no idea if I should go with Jaws: The Game, Settlers of Catan or Ticket to Ride

EDIT: Thank you all for the great responses!
Would drinking a lot of alcohol have the same effect? Temporary immune system suppression
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Do you think it'd be okay to rent your computer from your company and pay for your office space and desk? Or split the costs of their servers or cloud costs with their employees? No, nobody sane thinks this.

My point is that parking (or some reasonable transit alternative) should be figured into the operating costs for the company. Acting like employees don't need to actually get to work is not a good way to run a business.

It should be $0/mo for your parking, your company should be getting you the space as part of your overall compensation/operating costs.

I should add, the office I worked at now sits empty, every single employee who worked there left (including myself).

Real companies understand that as part of their facility costs, they need to provide this stuff. So they pay for a parking lot when land is cheap, or pay for monthly parking in cities. Or they pay to subsidize mass transit. If a company doesn't want to pay for the cost of running a business in a place with expensive parking, then they should office where parking is cheap. If they don't want to pay for the cost of actually running their business, they shouldn't be in it.

It's the employee's cost to figure out how to get to work, it's the company's cost to figure out what to do with them once they get there.
Maybe I do, maybe I don't, but I'm not demanding all of that crap for a job. My demand is more modest: any job I take must not contribute to the proliferation of non-free software and the company I work for must not attempt to control or mistreat its customers. And if I can't find such a job, I'll work as a waiter.

Beyond that, having enough of a salary to live on is all a person really needs. Having such an inflexible laundry list of demands just ends up making a person unhappy. I bet there are more hidden demands beyond this list. This just reeks of bad attitude, selfishness, and entitlement.

The happiest people are those who desire the least.
> From the start, Dropbox was almost magically simple: Install Dropbox’s folder on your desktop, and by simply dragging files into it you could suddenly access them from anywhere.

That was simple in 2007, but this kind of synching model (also used by Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive) doesn't feel simple anymore to me. Most applications still save files in other locations by default. Having to save them in your Dropbox, or having to move them to your Dropbox afterward, turns out to be a massive friction.

If the goal is that "Your whole computing environment ought to follow you around", you need to remove that friction. I know at least one person who lost access to some important files when she needed them because she forgot to drop them off in the right box.

One possibility would be to do what Microsoft does with Office 2014 and OneDrive, and try to force you to save all your files inside the synched folder. But that quickly gets annoying, especially since most people already have mountains of files stored and organized elsewhere.

That, and the lack of client-side encryption, is why I'm a loyal customer of a Dropbox competitor that allows me to sync any folder on any device with any other folder on any other device. I set it up to sync my entire $HOME partition, so I don't need to care where my apps store their files. That, Mr. Houston, is how you get me to hand over my "whole computing environment" to you.
On OSX/iterm you can do command+k to clear the screen and less lets you navigate up if you need.