jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sony/MS said that Move/Kinect qualify as "a new console", which would put PS5/Xbox5 around 2015. I don't think they'll wait quite that long, but the next generation isn't coming soon either.
Webflow - https://www.webflow.com - Let's you build responsive sites in a web UI without code. I'm a non-technical founder and I use it for our marketing site (works across browsers, has CSS animations). Our devs have never even touched it. I've been very, very happy with it.
But the block chain remembers the current owning address of coins. You can't create a new address and use it to spend coins which you received at an old address, for the same reason I can't spend coins which belong to you. (You could transfer coins between your own addresses, but that's also publicly visible and wouldn't solve the traffic analysis problem.)
Donald Trump is still president of the US.

He can hold a press conference whenever he wants if he would like to speak to the public.

All of this talk about free speech in regards to the twitter ban is nonsense. Nobody is limiting his ability to address the public (except for perhaps pence and his cabinet).
> You imply there was some kind of due process, which there wasn't.

I'm glad you're so passionate about accountability, and you'll no doubt be shocked to hear how difficult it is to bring a legal case against a sitting president.
Why should that upset me? I'm never happy to see other people be enraged, but it doesn't seem workable to get upset by proxy any time I see other people who are upset, even when I don't think their anger is correct. I'd never be able to get anything done that way.
This was original jurisdiction. Cases between states start here.
Democracy is a form of government, so any function of a democratic government is a democratic act. This is because that act was made legitimate and is held accountable via a democratic process.

This isn’t sophistry, it’s a vitally important point because the legitimacy and accountability of government are the individual responsibility of every citizen. You and I are responsible for complying with government because we consent to be ruled due to our recognition of its legitimacy. Equally, we are responsible when we vote in a leader or representative. The guy in Starship Troopers is right, a vote is an act of force.
The mayor doesn't control the Capitol Police.
That just an assertion, not an argument.

Or put it otherwise: A lot of these people believe that the "vote has been stolen" from them. The way a lot of those people look at the world, their actions are the only the logical consequence. Now, you say it is okay to prosecute them, but it is not okay to prevent false information to be spread? But if you tolerate lies and hate, then why do you not tolerate people acting on these? Look in the mirror, and you'll see the Paradox of Tolerance staring right back at you.

If you need personal positions: Even here in Germany (in the past we were pretty good at ignoring the inconvenient truths, one should think we [and the world?] may have learned from that) some people honestly believe those Q crap of how rich people living virtually forever due to some substance that's harvested from literal child abuse (and obviously the gov is in on it). I-forgot-half-of-the-BS fighting against robots under the surface of the earth? Got you covered (also, the gov is in on it, obviously). Immigrants come here to replace the old populace? Those people believe that, and, needless to say, the gov is in on this as well.
Last but not least: Covid is a fake, and the vaccine actually is a chip that looks very much like the circuit of a guitar effect pedal and not like a real IC? You bet the gov is doing that (with the help of Bill Gates).

And, I repeat: Some people are believing this. They think the world is exactly like that. And of course they think someone should really do something about it.

You see where this is leading? Bad actors seeding lies and misinformation for their end (overthrow the gov and put those in charge who "spread the truth"). Of course you can jail the occasional shooter (politicians and synagogues are targets of choice), but by letting these bad actors continue "in the name of tolerance", you're creating a society which is tolerant in theory, but in practice you might need to be careful what you say because you end up on the wrong end of a baseball bat (lucky you) or bullet (less nice than the bat). This doesn't happen over a year, but in the long game, this will end badly. Oh, and yes, this is: The Paradox of Tolerance.

It's not like we're talking about minimum wage or the right amount of social welfare here. I mean, one can argue about these and there is no objective truth of what's best - at least none that we can measure without a time machine and/or infinite multiverses.
Well look at that, I stand corrected. Or, correct to begin with, depending on how you look at it :). I misunderstood another definition of mirror image twins that I had read, but I see now that it does describe pretty accurately the differences between my nephews. Fascinating!
Part of the genius of Twitter is the name and its brand. Twitter, tweet, tweeting, tweeted, etc. Even if Twitter had no goodwill, it's an excellent name for such a service.

None of the options presented here have that.

"Hey dude, did you see that mastodon post?"

"I'll add you on GNU Social"

"Fediverse is getting popular, wanna fediverse?"

"Nmd'ed you!"

"Totally Aaether that!"

"Breaking News: The Prime Minister of Australia just diaspored"
>“U.S. Capitol security needs a total overhaul. The physical breaching and desecration of our temple of democracy must never happen again,” Senator Brian Schatz,

I would argue that those trying to secure the structure against invasion by the People are the ones desecrating the Temple. Like it or not what many hear call an insurrection, I call an unequivocal vote of no confidence by the governed and a call to action aimed at Representatives. Not to hide away behind locked barriers, but to listen, and take to heart the fact that people are pissed enough to mobilize in the first place. A call and voice message to the Rep is one thing. Repeated letters another. Putting in a physical appearance at an office yet another.

Pushing your way into and disrupting Legislative business is an unmatched attention grabber, and to be frank, I'm not willing to deprive anyone willing to drive to D.C. of the opportunity to have an impact, nor am I willing to accept only the well heeled should be capable of regularly exercising the advantage of exploiting proximity to Federal Representatives.

A person exercising Liberty, especially to the disdain of the majority, is the quintessential act of American patriotism and civil spirit. That foreign actors may have made use of the chaos is regrettable, but nevertheless, this is American government by design. It doesn't exist and rule by it's own right or ability to trounce all comers. It exists and rules because we all let it. Something I think a lot of people do not quite grasp.

That Trump of all people is the one to bring all this out makes me want to vomit a bit, but it is what it is. So it goes.
There's a lovely Spanish term of art, "democradura," used to characterize these sorts of illiberal democracies (which are not, contra the article, limited to anti-Atlanticist regimes -- there are plenty of Western allies, and to some degree even Western states, that exhibit some or all of the features of illiberal democracies).

It's a shame that the paper itself is paywalled, but I like the underlying insight that effective authoritarianism is essentially about controlling information, not behavior. What this has to say about states like our own is, unfortunately, an exercise left to the polemicist.
I used a Cubox-i4pro for a while with OpenELEC and it was nice enough (some 1080p content wasn't smooth) when it didn't lock up. It worked well enough while the PSU in my htpc was dead. I haven't redone it since the sd card self-wiped.

I haven't really looked at it since. It was a nice option, and there still isn't a good Ubuntu experience on the device, so it sits unused at the moment.
It looks like something out of Half Life 2. Very creepy.
Comments should be able to collapse.
Schools are sometimes treated more like a government entity and exempt from certain rules and taxes like FICA, right?

That is my only guess...
My daily pain is that I don't know what to fund with $100 to get $1000 profit.

But I don't have $1M to fund things I want to.
I decided to write about this myself, as a place to collect a lot of my thoughts on the errant economic and moral reasoning I see on these threads:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2014/12/29/people-places-and-jobs...
Agree, why wouldn't you sell it even if only for a million dollars?
This is shortsighted. The reason deep knowledge is more valuable is that learning anything stops being fun, and therefore presents less of a biological pull, after the first few milestones. There's a logarithmic decay in reward to effort put in. So naturally you're going to want engineers that have put in the hard work to build their knowledge, rather than the posers who read about engineering but never actually got into the nitty gritty. Why? Because it becomes rare, and scarcity drives up value. Simple!

EXAMPLE: Why would I care if my plumber also moonlights as a surgeon if all I care about is getting my faucet fixed without him passing the buck due to perceived complexity?

Those things are great in a dinner party setting, but in the professional workplace you want professionals not dabblers. Whenever I meet a self styled "generalist" nowadays I scoff. It's not hard to read HN daily and pick up on the lingo and memes and fake your way to 99% of a "generalist" in both knowledge and impression, but that doesn't make one a good engineer.
Nothing about the mouth biome on HN, ever... and then a day before your launch, this article appears?

I feel like I'm being played.
White I agree with everything else, a furnace/ac does _not_ oscillate. It's fixed. You can adjust the vents to aim them, but you cannot make them push air to every part of the room on a rotating basis.

Having said that, oscillating fans annoy me because the degree of rotation is almost never controllable. I have very rarely seen fans with a clip underneath that causes the rotation to reverse direction.
> Hammering away at a hard problem usually makes a big mess

How can this be? Did you never learn how to use source control? Coding is the best way to explore the solution space, doesn't mean you use whatever you write right now.
No, it literally requires less hand movement and allows for more function.
I find I have a limit to the number of hours I can code per week. Sometimes I'll spend a weekend on a side project or fixing some bug. When I go back to work the next week I just have trouble being productive. Same if I work late I can get stuff done, but tomorrow's productivity will suck.
I can highly recommend µBlock as a alternative on ABP. The developer has written a whole page on the github wiki regarding performance implications of ABP [1]. The more advanced extension µMatrix is also very much worth checking out. It is kind of a alternative of Noscript/RequestPolicy in one on chrome based browsers[2].The developer is very serious with the development and responds quickly on issues.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/%C2%B5Block-vs.-ABP:-...
[2] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
What will he run on? Being "tough on crime"?
I'm not sure the downvoters have even taken the time to understand what you're saying. Have an upvote.
I agree that this is a serious issue in our community, but I am not sure I agree that stable libraries <=> reproducible experiments.
Another Black Mirror fan here. I was about to post the same thing as the parent. It's awesome that the show inspired this, but it's also quite scary at the same time!
You must be mixing it with Snapchat.

Note that AFAIR the reason wasn't so that it was more secure, but to remind users that Snapchat is about the instant and so that users wouldn't expect it to store all of their lives, only the right now.

A cheap and easy way to keep your storage needs low, if you ask me.
One heuristic for the quality of a language is to literally ask "what is it good for?"

Just off the top of my head (I'm skipping a lot of categories and languages):

C/C++/Rust are great for systems programming, games, and performance critical applications.

Go/JS/Python are great for creating web servers, data processing (Python mostly), and small apps/scripts.

Haskell? I have no idea.
Given the opinion expressed in this blog post I wonder how the author intends to process data that they don’t know the type of :P

Yes, Haskell is born out of academia. That’s where its strengths come from but also its weaknesses. Many new languages and language features are directly inspired by Haskell’s strong typing and type safety and the world of programming languages is better for it.

I do question whether Haskell will ever be ready for mainstream - probably not. But hopefully some other more practical ML derivative will gain enough momentum to truly become mainstream. Arguably Scala is that language, but Scala feels the C++ of ML-derivatives - the language is too big and the syntax irks me.
Maybe Haskell is bad from practical perspective, but not from theoritical. So it has a strong appeal towards academics and purists.
Why should these companies be forced to provide access to a platform that’s largely used for coordinating insurrection and fomenting hate?
> For increasingly many developers (potential contributors) a project effectively does not exist if it is not on GitHub.

I believe that's more to do with the process than the platform. Having to remember different processes to contribute fixes/features is a pain. I can't count how many times I had to register an account, log into their custom bug tracker, find the darned obscure remote (looking at you, apache SVN), check out, figure out who I have to email the patch... And then doing it all over for a different project makes the entire process a little ridiculous. With Github, it's ridiculously simple: Log in, fork, clone, push, PR, repeat.

> I see this dependence as very bad and dangerous for the global free software movement.

OTOH, having a place to call "home" for FOSS developers generates a better sense of community. It's like hosting a conference across multiple buildings: sure, the venue's big enough to hold X amount of people, but it doesn't seem like there's X people attending if I can't see everyone without having to traverse buildings.

Also,

> It's trivial to push your local copy to bitbucket, or even your own git server. Lock in is not really an issue, in my opinion.
In the other hand, it helps prevent people to build needlessly complex abstractions. That's what I like about go: relatively straight-forward code to read in most project that I have seen.
Fast Company posted an excellent, in-depth piece on Line a month ago, and that's what immediately came to mind in light of this announcement: "How Japan's Line App Became A Culture-Changing, Revenue-Generating Phenomenon" http://www.fastcompany.com/3041578/most-innovative-companies...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9074132
OP may want to add the (2010) tag &_&
Like our use of cows. Maybe tangential benefits, from being used by something that is itself successful?
I'm not making any assumptions. I'm just pointing out that people had the opportunity to remain hunter-gathers and they didn't. They were human thus the evidence of human nature doesn't support your argument.

I don't see a whole lot of people wanted to go from their current lives to hunter-gathers.

You're also talking to someone who has a large library of homesteading books and is interested in permaculture and sustainable living. I love technology and would never want to sacrifice my standard of living.
So I am assuming you agree with the approach that Microsoft took with all the IE specific features back in the day ?

I know it resulted in some very useful features e.g. AJAX but surely a standards based approach is infinitely better.
\theta_{13} was the last of the neutrino mixing angles to be measured. The Daya Bay experiment was designed to measure it, and has the most precise value for it. It's hard to do, and the purpose for which Daya Bay was built.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation

I'm in a nearby field, and work with a bunch of folks in the thick of it. From a quick read, the new news is that Daya Bay has roughly doubled their precision for \theta_{13} to ~10 sigma from ~5.

The next big thing in the field is a hunt for what people call \delta, a parameter that should encapsulate any CP violation in the neutrino sector.
I've done much the same while both working and going to university. Still do. Is not the tech industry just as competitive? It might not force labor on you but however indirectly, long hours of coding with 0 sleep is considered a badge of honor. Freenode channels are full of users claiming they only slept x hours.
I wonder what the problem with visual design is. To make a sufficiently good design, it just needs time to try out things. I think that everyone can get something nice done by experiment and selection.
I'm pretty sure that taxation is the way to collect and "recapture" those printed dollars.

They were printed in order to be spent and "stimulate" the economy, not make already rich people look richer on paper.
Thanks. Definitely informative.
> Dr. DiAngelo was not the creator or facilitator of the LinkedIn Learning course “Confronting Racism, with Robin DiAngelo.” She was unaware that her name, image, and work were being presented in this way and did not participate in or agree to the creation and distribution of an educational resource based on her research.

Source: https://www.robindiangelo.com/
There was a change in regulations in May 2020 which changed how banks classified some deposit accounts which effectively changes how the Fed defined M1 money. IIRC, it was related to what sorts of liquid deposits were counted as M1 vs not M1. Either way, IMO, the more important number to watch is M2 money.
There are so many good bald looks these days. Even just shaving your entire dome looks pretty awesome.

I’ve never had a “hah that guy’s bald” moment. But I’ve had many, “damn, kinda jealous of that style...” moments.
A simpler hypothesis is that "upper class people" are getting married later and having kids later. Higher parental age is associated with autism (among many other things).
Here’s one from about 3 seconds of Googling:

The importance of touch in development (2010)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865952/

It’s not human exclusive, and it’s woven into our chemical makeup.

“In rats, the amount of maternal licking received as a pup has a profound impact on the behaviour and physiology of the adult.”

Feel free to continue the search to answer your own question.
I used Moo before and the rounded corners was a great addition. The touch and feel of the cards is really professional as well. I'll continue using Moo for my future business cards.
Sorry, this list doesn't sound correct at all. "Sites built with Ruby on Rails": maybe. "Top sites": nope.
Your point might even include the rise of the Dark Web...
I'm not familiar with the USB spec. It happened I did tear-downs of flashdrives to find-out which ucontroller there is and try to dump stuff, etc... (For anyone interested, look up VID:PID and Google some microcontroller chip. It's a fascinating world where Russians are very present).

Your second comment about a lot of hw initialization being based on polling gives place to an "a fortiori": Why cascade this necessary evil to software. It's true, in the beginning, writing code for microcontrollers, you avoid working with interrupts. You work with assembly language, and get a bit lazy and hard-code delays (and even then, I'd choose a longer delay than the one specified as "max" in the datasheet : it's not like a chip not performing as well as is written in a datasheet never happened, so I take my precautions).

But then battery life reminds you of bad code practice: This continuous polling is draining. (And you put the uc to sleep :) )

Even more, if the application's involving sensors there's no way around using interrupts. Unless the thing is powered by a wall-socket, but even then, you get your consciousness preventing you from sleeping at night thinking about that horrible, barbarian code you put in there.

But then again, I don't know the USB spec and this may change so it's cool. And they have come a long way.
People do this when they feel stress and internal conflict for bending their own morals to do what they think might be best for their country overall. Sort of like the things you might do to save your own kid, even if immoral, but finding some comfort reminding yourself it's ultimately for a good cause. I'm not saying this is the right thing to do, only pointing it out.
I think part of the problem is the breadth of material for which you can be questioned in. Since I live in the Java world, let me use that as an example.

I have heard of anonymous classes. I've never used one on the job. Maybe that's a function of me being more server side and I think anonymous classes are use more heavily in Swing. Ditto for reflection -- aware of it and when to use it, but just never had the need. For better or worse, the pieces of functionality I've had to build out over the years simply did not require me to use those pieces of Java. There are countless of pieces of Java that I simply do not use, even if I'm aware of them.

A Java developer (at least in my circles) rarely just codes in Java all day. Often, they're using a framework. It might be Spring. It might be Hibernate. Right there, you have two vertical streams of expertise they could pounce on. Now add SQL. Even if you're using Hibernate, you'll still need some fundamental knowledge of SQL. Likely, they'll hit you with HQL questions. Maybe some lazy loading. Maybe some optimistic locking.

Maybe add EJBs. Maybe add JPA. Throw in some jQuery/HTML/CSS (unless they live exclusively in the server tier). Inevitably, some may ask about stored procs/PL-SQL. Oh what the hell...let's add web services, SOAP, REST, Ajax, JMS, transaction isolation levels, clustering, SSL. And so on. Wait...add Linux admin.

The disconnect (anxiety?) comes from a developer having to use so many technologies, which is realistic, and the interviewer salivating at the opportunity to go deep in any one of those.

"Excuse me...you can't write a static nested inner class? And you call yourself a Java developer?"

I once had an interviewer disappointed in not being able to ask me PL/SQL questions, despite me not even having PL/SQL on my resume. He just wanted to go there.

The interviews are often based on a notion that a developer does nothing else but use the language to its fullest. All day. Every day. Reality suggests that a developer uses only as much of a language as needed to build out a piece of functionality for a given need. They don't use every data structure available, nor necessarily every major piece of the language.

There's seemingly no way around this conflict. The interview is focused on a language. The developer is often focused on putting together solutions. Depth vs. breadth.

For the record, I had an interview once for a Grails developer spot and was asked about UDP. Yes, seriously...UDP.

We're not God. We're just developers.
My biggest question... who are you?
So it's just failing a lot of the time on purpose?