jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Given the rather enormous of time and attention spent on it, not to mention the vast amounts of heated debate it had already spawned, I'd sort of assumed the NYT would either publish a really, really solid article or (more likely) just spike it and try and forget the entire thing had ever happened. After all, given that the NYT was now so much a part of the story, writing anything good would be pretty hard.

But no, kudos to them, they found a third way: Just write a poorly written article that alternates between interjecting disconnected ideas and making vague attempts at guilt by association, and carefully ignore anything inconvenient.

> He denounced the neoreactionaries, the anti-democratic, often racist movement popularized by Curtis Yarvin. But he also gave them a platform. His “blog roll” — the blogs he endorsed — included the work of Nick Land, a British philosopher whose writings on race, genetics and intelligence have been embraced by white nationalists.

So he denounced the works of one person who believes bad things, but he also linked to a second person, who may or may not believe bad things, but is liked by a third group of people who also believe bad things, so...logically...that must mean he actually does...support the first person? Despite denouncing them, because he didn't link to them, which proves...something...?

It feels weird even writing this argument down. If you link to someone who supports X, then you're actually supporting every other person who has ever supported X? Link to a pro-vegan website, you must support every terrible ideology that has had at least one vegetarian supporter?

What a depressing waste of everyone's time.
To be clear, I didn't mean bury in a reactionary way to this piece, or do anything to actively inhibit NYT's ability to publish what they want. I meant provide alternative means to publish/access information that strip these news houses of their power, as they are just as full of it as anyone else.
He also aligns himself with dozen of other thinkers he agree with and mentions them. Why isolate some particular name, if not to imply "here's a racist"?
I'm quite happy this post got some answers.
It wouldn't have helped the situation if it also got ignored.
> Why FreeBSD?

Thoughts on the underlying OS · Issue #37 · helloSystem/hello
https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/issues/37

More recently:

FOSDEM 2021 - hello... again?
https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/hello_bsd/

– expect a recording at https://www.youtube.com/user/fosdemtalks in due course.
>One good quality my manager has is that, he doesn't do micromanagement. Trusts the employees.

Management depends on the "managed". A manager might let someone do practically what they want with little supervision because they have a track record of getting things done, being right almost all the time, and knowing when to tread lightly or ask for a greenlight when the risk/reward ratio calls for it. That same manager might be micromanaging on a task by task, day by day, or hour by hour someone new to the team during observation. You can point some people at a problem and forget about them. Some people will anticipate problems managers overlook. It really depends on the person. There's no size fits all in my opinion because people are different.

>I think work from home also adds to the confusion. Had there been some in person interactions, I could have interpreted better

Suggest that as an idea. Weekly or bi-weekly calls to align everyone.

I used to go on walks with team members. We'd go outside of the office and just walk in the city and talk about things. It was very, very, effective in getting people to talk about frustrations and share their opinions when we were outside of the office and there wasn't a laptop we could hide behind or a sofa to go back to. We also have a balcony in the office with a view on the Mediterranean, directly facing the port, and we've had many conversations there. We've been working remotely for a year now, and we've been doing weekly calls with Jitsi with the team. We record the videos and make them accessible for reference. This has been useful as people refer back to them. We share our screen and go through code. Sometimes we troubleshoot things and we prototype things live. It's cool.

>With due respect, he is a very mediocre manager.( in terms of technical knowledge etc.)

He's lucky to have you then. Any manager works to hire people who are way better than themselves. Why would anyone hire people otherwise? He makes decisions based on tradeoffs. He may not be great in terms of technical knowledge, but you are, he's relying on your deeper technical knowledge to make decisions and tradeoffs.

>Only silver lining for me is that, my 2nd line manager ( his boss) is technically very good and he rates me very high. He still talks to me.

Not good enough. I think this ought to be sorted out for the sake of everyone and for the sake of getting things done.
In some ways that is certainly true, I don't unconditionally trust any newspaper published here.

However we also have the problem that is the "Daily Mail" which is a truly vile publication - which I read because it keeps me informed on what a significant chunk of the population of my country thinks.

We don't really have any truly decent news sources left or right wing, they've all moved to click bait nonsense and "reaction pieces" to something someone said on Twitter - I suspect because it's cheap.

The best of the bunch in terms of what I consider classical journalism is probably The Guardian (which is biased) and as long as you avoid it's opinion section (bleh) is a reasonably decent paper.

Honestly the best you can do to remain an informed citizen is read a bunch of them and look at what is not been said by each.
appalling
Perhaps I'm misremembering, but wasn't there actually quite significant backlash towards their security flaws in the early days, causing them to rectify the problems?
The Minneapolis city council for choosing to fund George Floyd's legal team before the trial even started.
The title asks "Who's to Blame?" That's regrettable wording. We could apportion blame in a number of ways but that wouldn't really help prevent a situation like this arising again.

There are three main actors in this case:

- The university that charged huge tuition fees for a course in Religious and Women's Studies.
- The financial companies that loaned the huge sums of money needed to pay for those fees.
- The poor girl who took out the loans to pay the tuition.

One could criticise the university either for charging such expensive tuition fees or for failing to provide advice that the girl needed. However, you could also argue that the university was acting in its own (financial) self interest. That self interest would have been damaged if the girl had gone to a cheaper university.

One could criticise the companies that loaned the girl the money, money that they must have known she would spend a lifetime repaying. However, again, they acted in their own financial self interest, knowing that they'd probably get their money one way or another.

One could also criticise the girl but the article makes it clear that she thought that she was acting in her own self interest by getting a degree that she thought would be of great help to her career.

Many commenters here have suggested that either the girl could have benefited from better advice when choosing a degree course (which would have helped her to better act in accordance with her self interest) or that student loans should be dischargeable under bankruptcy (which would be an incentive not to loan to students who would find it impossible to pay the loan off).

How about a third option, give the university an incentive that is better aligned with the interests of the student after graduation: instead of charging large tuition fees up front, a university could instead say "in exchange for getting a degree from us, you owe us a certain percentage of all of your future income." A lot of people are prepared to voluntarily give a tenth of their income to the church so why not to your alma mater? I guess it would be the equivalent of selling "shares" in yourself to the university rather than taking out a loan.

I'm sure there are a million reasons why this wouldn't be workable but it would be rather wonderful if the interests of the university and the student could be aligned in this way.
I agree that we're smart. That's why I think we can all read things. Points add little value to a good comment, or detract substantially from a bad one. If you don't have time to read, you shouldn't be participating in an active forum like this.
you've never stared into a bright LCD in the dark and become blind to the keyboard? if so, cool. but many people have sensitive eyes.
I guess what I'm looking for is the comparison of the model with experiment. How do the researchers know that they are simulating c. Elegans, and not just an artificial organism inspired by c elegans?
Fair enough. I'm not a lawyer. Just throwing out ideas.
I don't think you're surrounded by people who are smarter than you. I think you're surrounded by people with more experience than you, and bigger egos, and warped personalities. The personality issues make them feel the need to make you feel less than them, so that they feel better about themselves. If they're smarter about anything, it's how to manipulate your emotions.

You either need to learn to ignore the emotional manipulation, or you need to get out of that toxic environment. And you need to hold your head up. Learn what you can, but don't learn the attitude. It will ruin you.
I would say that being a developer on average doesn't give any special ability to evaluate the probability of success of an early stage startup. And if you don't have an special ability to evaluate the probability of success, 1/48 is probably generous.
A million times this. Also some regularly missed advantages of shared hosting are that its usually available in the same country as you, is portable unlike PaaS solutions, doesn't require lots of legwork and tends to come with a shit ton of bandwidth up front meaning no per-Gb costs which can ramp pretty quickly.
"find the closest fiber plant Comcast has for the HFC node that services the general area and make them give me a L3 drop to this bridge"

You are massively underestimating the work involved here. Aside from the physical constraints of needing a POP installed for handoff to your random wireless bridge, what makes you think the author can "make them" do anything? And what makes you think that Comcast could effectively engineer a solution to support this one-off installation, when they can't even schedule a normal OSP drop?

Edit: rhetorical questions aside, I actually investigated this option for my parents' old home in the boonies. Comcast actively prohibits you from doing this, per their AUP (http://www.comcast.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/HighSpee...): "Network and usage restrictions: ... sell the Service or otherwise make available to anyone outside the Premises the ability to use
the Service (for example, through WiFi or other methods of networking), in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, with the sole exception of your use of Comcast-provided WiFi service"
The conclusion of this article was pretty predictable: when you ditch connected tech you pay more attention to things around you. Is this a surprise? Are people expecting that they couldn't live without Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Snapchat without going crazy?
So a new mirror is up now, enjoy!

http://dimitri.github.io/pgloader/
thanks for this idea, already thought about doing something completely different for some time.
So you think my motivation comes again if I see that not learning anything is also boring? :)
Passive Houses use active ventilation for just this reason. Mine draws air from outside, runs it through a heat exchange with the air being pumped back outside, and through dual HEPA filters. I breathe much more easily now than in the 100 year old home I lived in for the previous ten years.
Jeff Hawkins defines intelligence as the ability to predict. I think it's a good definition: it allows us to measure intelligence.
Seems like it works out to be $200 more than Twilio to purchase a random code through Plivo. But if you manage your own lease it's $200 cheaper. I hope I didn't screw up the price comparisons. Might make a difference since it all comes from http://www.usshortcodes.com

A shared short code seems to better for now if you are more price conscious :)
I taught Linux Admin courses before I graduated high school, and the first order was learning vim. If you have a mac, 'vimtutor' is available to you.

vim has nothing to do with PhD-level CS or writing compilers and/or lisp interpreters. The Emacs community might fit that stereotype a little more but really not much more.

Vi (vim being 'vi improved') is great because it works on basically any terminal. It works with my iPad's keyboard and with a teletype terminal from the 70s or 80s, as well as a normal PC keyboard. Emacs has similar brags.

The terminal's not going anywhere and if you like keyboard shortcuts, knowing five or ten that will work on any keyboard in existence for an editor that is on most unix systems you'll find has some value.
She does have insurance, and it's great insurance. The treatments are just so specialized that the bill, after the insurance does their "work", is still anywhere from $10k to $50k.

They've made it clear that because the treatments are so specialized and that they have had to go outside of the normal realms for a patient (e.g. they had to bring in another specialist), that once the money stops flowing, things will need to be reevaluated.

It's a fucking scam. And a fucking shame to this country.
No, the older version of their GC used bulk VM operations, but not virtualization features, and there was still a penalty reported ... errr, I can't find it now. Probably in a Clifford Click blog posting. I just skimmed the new edition of Jones' GC book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1420082795/), published before it could consider the newer one; it talks about the changes needed on stock hardware but I didn't see any estimation of costs while glancing through it. (I'm not searching any more right now because it's obsolete.)

The base papers are:

Pauseless GC, uses a read barrier instruction in their custom 64 bit RISC chips:
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/vee05/full_papers/p46-c...

And the newer one that they're using in that old hardware and the software on commodity hardware Zing JVM, the Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector (C4), which I have not studied (the paper was published 2 weeks after the Joplin tornado trashed my apartment and rather disrupted my life): http://www.azulsystems.com/sites/default/files/images/c4_pap...

It's possible they figured out how to minimize or eliminate the penalties of the original software read barrier they applied to the Pauseless system in C4 (or perhaps in relation to their custom vs. newer commodity hardware); I just did a quick skim of the relevant part of the C4 paper and a few keywords and couldn't tell.

This is all great stuff that I hope to get back to soon....
Which also included a financial crisis and recession roughly every 10 years and ended with the Great Depression. How much faster would the economy have grown if it hadn't been plunged into recession once a decade?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis#History
There is some interesting thinking to be done on "native" versus "adapted" when it comes to planning new forest. It's a reality that the climate is changing and there are many introduced pest species that are all drastically changing the landscapes. On the Pacific coast, the combination of drought, sudden oak death disease and pine beetles are rapidly changing the flora and also the fauna when food and shelter disappears.

When you plant a new forest today, do you try to preserve the native species or do you anticipate what species will thrive in the area 20-50 years from now?
You have almost certainly had a keyboard with these, even if it was behind a fn key combo on a laptop.
If the guns themselves become easy to manufacture I think that there will be more emphasis on controlling and tracing ammunition, including primers and propellants for handloading. Making stable, uniform smokeless propellant starting from raw cellulose and over-the-counter chemicals is a huge investment of skill and effort. Making black powder is more tractable but still a lot of effort.

Most aspiring firearm enthusiasts who are not criminals could get legally permitted in Europe if they were willing to invest as much effort as it would take to make their own guns and ammunition from scratch. Most criminals who want guns just as crime accessories don't have the discipline and drive to make weapons that they can't buy. (Thank goodness, or homemade bombs with wireless command detonation would already be common instruments in areas with gang rivalry.)
And here is the paper: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~hhuan30/papers/sensitivity_1.pd...
Glad to hear that! :)
Exactly. Flaunting the law would be, for instance, waving a copy of law in the face of the person they were arresting.
As a huge believer in UBI, I think it should also be paired with public healthcare, public housing and ideally public food allowances. Basically all living needs covered.

UBI without all of that does risk inflating the price of everything as the excess capital would just get sucked up into private companies and landlords.

It's an idea who's time has come though, wealth inequality is so extreme as to be essentially unfixable without a revolution, we have excess food production and the majority of "work" being done isn't actually to the benefit of humanity or even productive. Think about how much time is wasted in middle management, working on ad tech, marketing...
Why are these people even filming cops in the first place?
Money Printer go brrrrrr

It is clear that the Modern Monetary policy is one of infinite spending so why not... by the end of the year we will probably 1/2 to that number in COVID relief anyway
Indeed and they all use their own notebook interface which are (in my view) inferior or at least no better than JupyterLab.

I get that they feel the need to add their own features (collaboration etc) to distinguish themselves but it would be so much better if they had settled on a single UI.
It's interesting, but it makes one want to hear the surprisingly fast tempos which Beethoven apparently wanted...

Does anyone have examples of such recordings?
That's a bit handwavey. Experience plays a part here and I've at least never seen a scaling issue where the root cause is not some form of API latency.

Most of the raw HTML generation, rendering is done by frameworks and browsers respectively and they're pretty standard / efficient pieces of software.
There are also third party apps like "Click to Chat" that let you start conversations with phone numbers. Once you sent 1 message you can just use whatsapp normally.
Indira made one bad, expensive decision re the Golden Temple. How hard would it have been to simply lay siege to the place for an extended time without storming in? In many other ways, she was a great democratic force. One costly decision justifiably cost her life - and ironically, same thing happened to her son (Rajiv however was a much less competent ruler).
odd Windows gave you that - believe \r was Mac's standard at one point…
Very very impressive interview - thanks !
You're kidding, right?

Excel is awful, here's proof: If I open up the documentation for Windows, there's nothing about average.
I hit the Start menu, I type "average(1,4,6,8)", and I get, nothing.

What you like about Excel is that it is an IDE. And IDE that makes simple things simple, and hard things back-asswards (VLOOKUP??? CONCATENATE?? filters)

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.me...
And then there are those pages (eg [1]) where I am unable to see anything at all at first glance because of these instincts. :)

[1] http://www.mediamarkt.de/ (sells electronics)
Once these tracking devices become small and cheap enough, secretly putting them on people is the next logical use case. This will be a stalker's dream come true.
How do you feel about the proliferation of postnatal health education and its associated literature?
What makes you think the number exists and this isn't just a standard "don't be an asshole" clause to protect Amazon from someone who abuses the system?
Love this mindset; far too many people think of the System 1 part of our brains as things to fear and reduce as much as possible. Training it is vastly superior.
Yeah, I meant that it's not exactly the same level. Certain implementations of RSA were using broken sources of entropy, but it's not the same as "Bob always uses his address as his password" which has no entropy.
Except that most people get a significant amount of manganese from their water, thus putting them at risk. This is what I said in my post, which you should read before you reply to.
> The stubborn application of law is not justice. It is authoritarianism

No it's not. The stubborn application of the law is called "rule of law" and it's the foundation of the political theory coming out of Enlightenment liberalism. Authoritarian governments are characterized by personalistic/charismatic rule, and the use of fiat/decree in the place of pre-existing legal standards.

Bradley Manning knowingly violated a long-standing law in the military code of justice that he was fully aware of since signing up. Applying the law to Manning is an example of rule of law not authoritarianism.
I agree. however, sometimes that can be a hard judgement call to decide. Say if a nurse find proof that a doctor is sexually assaulting children.

Would it be wrong if the nurse gave all that doctors patient files the press (given that the officials refuses to act)? If not, then what should the expected behavior be?

When it came to trial, how should sentencing be done? 35 years? What would be appropriate sentencing for the nurse if the number of patient files was in the thousands, but only a hundred or so had proof of criminal activity?
That's how fines work for individuals, in Finland:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland...
In some ways, HTTP 3 is the same HTTP messages, just over QUIC.

But as you get into other features, there are differences. And your clients and servers need to both have fallbacks to HTTP 2, since UDP connectivity might not be available, and fallback is expected.

So, you have to build support for having working push, or not. Or having working priorities, or not. Or having long-lived non-HTTP sockets, or using fallbacks like web sockets or even long polling. There’s even more fun on the horizon, and I’m not looking forward to my colleagues thinking of a fallback strategy for some of those...
They really picked a great Golden Gate Bridge lookalike for the header image.
I always use compact mode regardless of screen height but one of my screens is 600px high, I need compact mode for it. The web is unusable without those few extra pixels I gain from compact mode. I also set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 0.75. I keep telemetry enabled too because I know some of the features I need are in danger of being removed if they disappear from their statistics but it seems that it doesn't help at all if they remove them anyway. If this gets removed I'm turning off telemetry, I'll have no use for it anymore.
Cute idea. Sounds like magic.
I'll be interested when I can click on "Buy" and it has a price. Otherwise, I would be very interested.
For every extra dollar you make you can save 50 more cent and spend 50 more cent..
I imagine it depends on location, but there are places where it's wide open.

"Using a cheap RTL-SDR, it didn’t take long for [k-roy] to tap into this transmission and stumbled across the power readings for his entire neighborhood using a simple command"

https://hackaday.com/2017/12/21/read-home-power-meters-with-...