skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If andai is just connecting a full-function laptop to the internet with some ethernet-over-audio bridge, then you're right.

But don't you think he has a point if he's talking about a simple, single-purpose device like an arduino - say - that can't connect to the internet, but allows keyboard entry of plaintext, then encrypts it, sends ciphertext to a PC via audio?

I which case I think there are some advantages in using audio; if the device used wifi / ethernet / USB then you have to trust a lot of code to be exploit free:

- ethernet driver code
- wifi chip firmware
- kernel network code
- USB drivers
etc

Whereas if he's written his own simple bytes-to-audio converter in a few hundred lines of code that can be audited, then I can be be more easily convinced that it's not possible for an adversary to remotely install a keylogger or extract keys from my little encryption device.
I haven't used a road atlas in 15 years and I stopped printing directions out 10 years ago, even for cross-country trips, because my phone is so reliable. Heck, I rarely even look up the address of where I'm going until I'm walking out the door. Is that a "backup for poor planning" or a paradigm shift?
I wonder if you realize that the market return people are trying to beat is effectively the average return over some period, and therefore you're saying that on average people don't get above average returns?

Also, as others have said on this thread, using compounding it would be possible to do extremely well without beating the market.
Interesting idea though I think the best choice is a VLI linting tool configured to check these and editor integration.

You could also use JS and log the info to console. Last thing you want to do is this making its way into production and it probably will: sods law.

I just think the most efficient approach is to log violations to a console with exact line numbers.
> moved away from Fortran

Once in a blue moon I still have to hit up some damn Fortran because the latest badass optimization routine is cooked up by a crusty German. JavaScript is gonna be around for a minute, I'd wager.
FYI http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Mouse_vs._keyboard/ind...
>No one seems to know.

Everyone knows. Get the cancer known as the state out of the business of picking winners and losers.
It was Herstein's Abstract Algebra (3ed).
OpenAI: https://openai.com/blog/
For a sufficient reason.
Would you tax foreign entities (Samsung, Toyota, Huawei) on foreign earnings or just the domestic entities (Apple, Ford, Cisco)?
Fair enough. You might be absolutely right. That's very much part of my point.

The top 10% are there because of a million reasons. You identified one of them. Perhaps they are some of the most confident people out there.

Success is hard. I suck at so many things yet I have managed be have success (after many failures and going bankrupt twice) because of grit, determination, being open to taking stupid risks and a saint of a wife who put up with my entrepreneurial bullshit for years. I'm not in that 10% but we do very well.

My trips up and down the scale (if such a scale exists) have taught me so much about human nature. It is so much easier to blame everyone else for one's own failures (or lack of motivation, risk taking, etc.). I've always said that in business I am and will always be my own worst enemy. The psychology of enduring the torture business can be is crazy.

The first time I lost everything I did not, for a minute, stop to blame everyone. I licked my wounds and figured out how to start from scratch again. Not a dollar to my name. Maybe that's why I don't appreciate victim mentality, I see it as very weak and have nothing but contempt for it.
In London, they simply restrict parking to residents from, say, 10-11am in one area, and 11-12 in the next area.

One parking warden can cover a large area, residents get a permit, visitors only need to pay for one hour of parking.
Right, and even after years of this, they've chosen not to do that. Nor require even a confirmed email address.

Twitter is arguably built to be a spam platform.

Streaming API? oh man...
Yeah, I was just having a conversation with someone today about how it never works out in practice. There is no free market, and in anything approaching it, companies simply e.g. collude to keep prices high or make things unnecessarily complex. Look at cell phone plans and what "unlimited" means, for example. Not that the wireless ISP industry is unregulated (far from it), but why not just start your own and fix it? Free market, right? Start a healthcare company and undercut everyone because free market. Start an ISP and take down Comcast, etc.

The point of a business is to make a profit. This is many times at odds with what people actually need to e.g. Stay alive. I'm not sure why many people keep attempting to suggest businesses as a solution to the modern basic needs of humans. They're fundamentally misaligned.

I guess there is still debate around if a modern society should let people suffer and die because they did not generate or inherit enough money to pay for medical care. It saddens me that our baseline of giving a shit about other people in our society is pretty low in America, even though we have far beyond the means to do so. Enough people with enough power here would rather have a few extra % in their shell company bank accounts instead of increasing the standard of living for the people of the society in which they exist.

"A rising tide lifts all boats"
Cryptanalytic capabilities of academia are on par or are ahead of the government's abilities. In the past it might have been the case that governments were agreed of the curve, but academic crypto has progressed immensely in the past couple of decades.
What are these "disengagement" figures? I drive a Tesla and disengage Autopilot several times in a single drive. Unless it's just because I'm in NYC?
Can't your browser turn off JS on a per-domain basis? Just wondering.
Ted Unangst's blog is interesting even if you have nothing to do with OpenBSD.
Fun with brute-force testcase reduction
I have personally noticed a similar thing as well. The solution that worked for me is to use less. In my case, I have settled for multipage applications (I find that SPA's increase the complexity of a UI exponentially) and I primary use jQuery for any UI related things with RequireJS to make it modular and Grunt to build/compile everything and obviously NPM for dependency management. I have used Backbone in the past but I don't find it very good. Other than that I using plain Javascript, the kind that runs in the browser. I don't really mind if I have to write function() or () =>.

One thing I'm very conscious of though is not to use jQuery to manipulate the DOM. I.e. I have a data object that I pass into a render method in which I "empty" a parent node and use jQuery .append to render the entire thing based on that data model. Basically, my template is a JavaScript function. Crude, but it works well. In an event handler such as a click I will update the data object and then re-render. I.e. a typical MVC style of flow.

Doing this allows me to actually build solutions rather than spending the majority of my time dicking around with a gazillion libraries, frameworks, transpilers and what's not. I find all of it interesting but I'm a one man band I have to produce working projects on time and on budget that do what they are supposed to do.

For my projects, my users simply couldn't care if the UI was built with jQuery or React. For your project that might be different though.
You've got a pretty stereotypical view of the developing world.

Nevertheless, SF actually has pretty good services for the homeless. That's why there's a lot of homeless people there.

Given also that the median black household income in California is $35k, it sounds like you can actually survive of $30k in Cali without your kids dying of dysentery. Alternatively, if you want to 'scrounge crude shelter', there's 11 million square miles of public land in California.

In short, my eyes just about goggled out of my head when the response to "kids die from drinking dirty water" is "yeah, but they can live wherever they want".
Everytime I hear developers trash a language for this or that feature or more generally on its "elegance", it reminds me of the old debate people had over Mac being too controlling of what the user could do and PC with linux being the ultimate tool of freedom.

In the end what won?

The simplest, and the practical. With Linux inside it.

Thinking a new language will or should come and replace JS for frontend after it has been developed and continuously improved with the web for 20 years is just tiring. JavaScript has been polished, it is practical, it has a plethora of tools and ressources. Improve javascript if you want to improve things, stop creating new paradigm all the time.
I am quite happy that ES6 proved that JavaScript could become a very modern language although it is not strongly typed, tools like flow are filling the gap for now.

I personally think Swift ans JavaScript are the most elegant language.
And although I can see the beauty of functional programming - I dont see it being used widely or being very pratictal for frontend.

As for typescript, it is a very good formalisms but it is made better by the tools built around it.
I think JavaScript could go there on its own, no use having two languages in the long run.
Some key improvements it does need would be to formalize flow types, more integrated linear algebra tools (or C++ extensions like numpy/scipy), a way to transpile/compile to native apps that is more efficient than electron (although electron is the bomb), and that's it. The rest has to be the job of browser making companies to comply to new standards.

Developers always want to reinvent the wheel instead of submitting PRs and participating to the debate about the future of open projects as "participants". It's ok to "only" participate.
Thanks for posting this. My diurnal cycle is also ~25 hours. But my schedule is more chaotic, in that working and sleeping times depend on work, personal and social commitments. And of course, I freelance.

Edit: I've been doing this for decades.
Hey. I just realized I was maybe too harsh on all this.

You are right, investing is better than a savings account. However, be careful these days. Read what other top investors are doing. barrons.com & marketwatch sometimes say what other top investors are doing. Many are keeping some cash. Good to have when the market drops. Many have short positions.

The best returns come when you buy after a correction & sell high.

ETFs do well when the market is marching upwards. Maybe one more year of that but it can't go on forever. 1.1 to a high power starts to consume everything in the universe.
this one i also follow .
Should we be comparing the US of 330 million people versus tiny nations that have artificial advantages due to their small size and homogeneous culture? Which pushes further into how you compare such dramatically different examples in the first place.

Consider Finland. Five million people, 82% white, extremely anti-immigration, and they don't have to defend themselves for the most part. The US military shield has mostly taken care of that for them (thus their 1.3% of GDP military spending despite having a frequently hostile Russia on their doorstep). So you want to compare their outcome, to the US?

Comparing a wildly diverse nation of 330 million against Sweden, Norway or Finland type nations, is absurd. Those are the absolute elite outcomes of the world and Europe in particular.

Compare Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Minnesota, Virginia, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington, etc. to those nations. They all have median incomes equal to or higher than Switzerland (and that's before adjusting for the better cost of living in those states vs a Switzerland type nation) and are much closer on a population basis. Those are the elite outcomes of the US collection of states.

Or would you rather compare various of the bottom 25 US states to the relatively impoverished half of Europe nobody ever wants to talk about? Bulgaria, Belarus, Russia, Moldova, Hungary, Ukraine, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, etc.

The fact is, most developed nations struggle to match the median incomes of the poorest US states. Japan as one example has a median income 20% below Mississippi and Louisiana (and it's likely to continue losing ground to those states). Germany is about on par with Kentucky.
I think programming as a full-time job is hard enough on the brain, and the manager's instinct of trying to squeeze extra productivity out of people should not be applied. Let people work at their own pace, if you see someone who seems to be consistently slow (say over 6 months), have a talk with him. Maybe he can put in some extra effort and the talk will make him do so - or maybe he's already at max capacity (max capacity over long term is very different than max capacity over 2-4 weeks) in which case you either accept it or fire him.

Also, if you evaluate people on speed only, ignoring quality of their work, people will eventually figure it out and the quality will of course suffer. To prevent this from happening, you'll need to pay attention to quality too, which in practice is probably even harder than tracking speed.

To summarize, IMO software development (like many other white collar jobs) is a ripe for exploitation by slackers. This cannot be entirely prevented, and can only be combated by being in the trenches with the team and careful observation of each team member's performance over the long run.
It's disappointing to see Postfix grossly mis-characterized as a mere means to "send emails with spoofed addresses".

It is amusing to see that the author "went through the list" to identify "the services that [xe] didn’t use on [a] daily basis" and spectacularly managed to miss ModemManager. It is a good bet that the author's machine does not have a modem. It is, after all, a pretty fair bet nowadays that the author's machine does not even have a serial port connector.

Of course, that would have led to the author's next discovery, that disabling ModemManager.service does not stop ModemManager from being started. (-:

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/avoid-dbus-bus-activation.ht...
There are numerous examples of families in which talents seem to persist across two or more generations. The Bachs and Mozarts come immediately to mind. Myrna Gopnik and her children Adam, Sarah, and Blake. The Huxleys. The Darwins. Multiple acting and performing dynasties: the Barrymores, Ravi Shankar and daughter Norah Jones, Woody and Arlo Guthrie. The Assads: brothers Sergio and Odair, sister Badi.

That's just off the top of my head, though searching for intergenerational or family genius turns up surprisingly few useful results.

Of course, disambiguating nurture vs. nature effects is a challenge, and I'd be interested in examples where neither prior fame nor economic advantage were particularly beneficial. Cases of twins or siblings raised independently would also be of interest.
We have single payer here in France and we are way less entrepreneurial than the US. In fact most entrepreneurs here hate single payer as it imposes huge taxation on them for something that would be cheap under a private insurance system because most startup founders are young.
I'm not an expert but I'm not sure why it would matter. The federal law cannot be overridden or ignored by provincially regulated industries.

Canadian law is not a choose-your-own buffet for the provinces.

Am I wrong?
Most people don´t know how to build this because their X MB JS framework just slows everything down.
Stop Working for Free Time Is Running Out
Never give up! ;-D
Just highlight the sentence really quickly. Do it enough and you get good at it. Just like with keyboard shortcuts.......
I recommend NoScript(Firefox plugin) for blanket or selective JS removal from web pages.
Something as simple as unpacking a zip - you have to confirm access to the target directory in The Unarchiver, after you clicked the file clearly initiating the action. That's the only way the developer could do it, annoying for the user.

My app extracts translations from surrounding source code if so configured. Requires extra permission prompt from the user too. That's just two non-exceptional examples.
Yes we need more federated services. Email is a great example.

Facebook is a telecommunication medium, which means it should conform to the telecommunications act, which says that there should be a level playing field, and an open network.

I guess TBL should best start thinking about the protocols in such open systems.
Could you elaborate on this one?
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Not able to open website
Navigating code with mouse is much faster then with keyboard only. Things like ctrl+click to see function definition or mouse over to see function documention, variable value or its type. Double click the name before I press shout cut for rename and so on and so forth.
Mary supposedly illustrates the difference between knowing (or modelling) and experiencing.
Quantum technology is beginning to come into its own
There are many things that started 70 years ago which have long since gone.

So, there must be forces which sustain the US model, where the employer pays for medical insurance.

Also, I fail to see how employers offering medical insurance should make insurance for an individual any more expensive.

So, while I appreciate the sentiment that something is clearly wrong, the two things that you mentioned are not the cause.
Just because somebody is very apt at one particular kind of mental skill, doesn't necessarily make them immune to believing very silly things.
No. For two reasons, a general reason and a specific reason.

Firstly, quantum computing at scale _might_ be possible in our universe but it might not. One of the spookiest things that might still be true would be a thing called finite non-local hidden state. In this scenario the whole universe has some sort of hidden state, a bit like the seed value of a Minecraft world. Quantum computing in a universe with finite non-local hidden state just weirdly "doesn't work" when you scale it up, because it's basically using the universe's hidden state as magic working storage, and that runs out. Simulation nuts would tell you finite non-local hidden state makes it pretty clear we're in a simulation, but then they would say say that...

Secondly it says "near future". We have every reason to believe there will be serious obstacles to scaling up quantum computing. Somebody else gave the example of Babbage's engine. Just because we can conceive of fusion power generation doesn't mean it's going to happen next week.

Or at all. At the start of the 20th century some mathematicians thought all of mathematics could be formulated as a handful of assumptions plus a huge chain of inference. It was just a matter of writing it out precisely. Surely an inevitability. This project was begun by mathematicians and philosophers and it was going pretty well (proving that 1+1=2 for example) up until this chap Gödel comes along and straight up proves it's impossible with his Incompleteness Theorem, if you can do 1+1=2 then Gödel shows how you can write out effectively the equivalent of "This statement is false" and blow up your whole system.
Buffett's secretary Bosanek pays a tax rate of 35.8 percent of income, while Buffett pays a rate at 17.4 percent on profit.
http://news.yahoo.com/warren-buffett-secretary-talk-taxes-22...
Would you mind to share a link to the TED talk ?
The US's entire concept of "freedom" is wrapped up in this too.

If you take a service, for example household track/rubbish collection, that was being provided inexpensively via a mandatory household tax and move that service to a private company who bills households individually even if it costs more, Americans view this as "progress" that is "more free" (because you could theoretical "opt out").

A lot of other places simply view this as handing a private company a monopoly that used to be a public good (i.e. required but cheap); and because they as citizens now have less money and the same service level, they only lost in terms of quality of life ("freedom" isn't a metric here). Plus the externalities of making it optional, like having people illegally discard their trash by the side of the road.

This same thinking is prevalent throughout the US, from HOAs, to utilities (electric, gas, water, trash), to healthcare, to public transport, and so on. And none of it is REALLY about capitalism as these companies aren't competing with anyone else by the nature of the deal that was struck when the public service was sold. All people care about is "Keep government out of my X (even if it costs 2x as much)."
Pretty much a complete rewrite. Wayland is nothing like X11.
Your comment sent me down a multi-hour rabbit hole.. thank you. I ended up reading a fair bit about Marcus Reichardt's initiative toward a SGML DTD for HTML5.1. However, i was unable to find a place where a tool or said DTD was available for download. Do you happen to have a link?
US Embassy attache shot the only known independent footage of Stalin’s funeral
One more thing. I think rehab causes people to die, because a heroin user is made to stop, then they are in rehab for a while, and then they get out and accidentally inject too much and overdose. When you are denied something you want for a period of time, the tendency is to make you want it more. It makes the drug into an obsession and the whole thing just reinforces the importance and perceived desirability of the drug.

I think that even users of a drug have beliefs about the drug and its effects that are myths promoted by the anti-drug side. Drugs are supposed to feel like more pleasure than 100 orgasms, right? I actually think that no drug directly causes pleasure. It's like alcohol. Alcohol by itself does not plaster a smile on your face. The enjoyment of drinking comes from combining it with an enjoyable activity. Likewise for drugs. Their effect on mood is neutral and the enjoyment comes from combining it with an enjoyable activity.
The importance of unit tests and how I realised it?
JSON-RPC? Not in my 2017. The last time I've had to use that was with an old version of Zabbix https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.2/manual/api

Nah, it's all about http://jsonapi.org these days. GraphQL seems neat. Cap'n Proto also seems neat but I'm unaware of anything actually using it. gRPC is also neat but AFAIK not supported in a browser, so you need some kind of gateway to have it work with browser clients anyway (think SPAs calling APIs which can normally service server to server over gRPC). CPNP has the same-ish problem in that it doesn't fully work in browsers (serialization works but not RPC).
Some of them can still be found if you look around on Google. Unfortunately, they haven't aged well -- their wallpapers are mostly for 4:3 monitors and low resolutions, the textures are for low-res screens etc..

box-look.org has a few more recent ones.
I write a weekly AI newsletter called Import AI which is also cross-published to this WP blog. I try to cover a mixture of fundamental research papers and applied stuff. It also includes some OpenAI updates: https://jack-clark.net/
it seems that hell froze over.

So fvwm95 will also come with a release?
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Not everyone can be an entrepreneur. Some people are just wired that way. Seemingly, most people just aren't wired that way.

It used to be that that was fine. You could work in factory doing honest manual labor, and still provide for a family and buy a house. That's not possible anymore, without taking on a mountain of debt. When you look at the stagnation of wages compared to productivity[0], it's not strange that people think "where did all that money go?", and then look at the increasing inequality [1] and decide where to lay the blame[2]

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/US_produ...

[1] https://ddoublep.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/cbpp-income-gai...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Historic...