skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unfortunate reality is that a lot of success boils down to IQ (and some other metrics of mental acuity,) which is mostly hereditary or imprinted, so that's depressing for a lot of people in education who started off wide-eyed and optimistic.

Also, an efficient, nationwide online schooling system (CAVA in California as an example,) would be the end of something like 90% of the teachers in the country. Would that be a good thing or a bad thing? Who even knows...

Everything has trade-offs.
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I experienced the same thing. Then after reopening the page the content showed up, but I was no longer interested in the content, only wanted to see the page source to see how can a page be so broken, and it was no longer broken.

So if you are still interested in the content, you should try opening the page again. It may work.
If only a project existed to support devices beyond what the original manufacturers were willing to put out with singular consistent releases across all hardware.

Oh yeah, Lineage.

If only the company that made the OS actually supported the effort to perpetually support devices with a single OS the way Android should have been from day 1.
But if we are demand constrained as opposed to supply constrained for most consumer goods, than you will see an increase in 'Q', not 'P'.
Ubi goes hand in hand with taxing the rich
Apparently, this has spread to Deutsche Bahn...

1) a railway dispatcher just tweeted that IT systems will be shut down (https://twitter.com/lokfuehrer_tim/status/863139642488614912)

2) a journalist tweeted that an information display of DB fell victim to ransomware (https://twitter.com/Nick_Lange_/status/863132237822394369).

I guess that #1 and #2 are related, though.
I've just started reading this book. As an object, it's pretty neat. My big complaint is that all of the stuff they've put into the pages can fall out and that ruins the experience quite a bit. I wish they had an index for all the cards and other things so that I could put the book back together.

Edit: if the site doesn't link for you, go to Amazon and search for Ship of Theseus. That's the book the article is about.
Arbitration must remain voluntary, as your right to a proper court must not be violated.
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Searched for "anything" - got asked:

Did you mean “anyhting”?

I wonder what's going on there...
do you have advice on whether it is worth going back to school if your goal is to build novel and useful software/ai tools using deep learning - not necessarily improving the algorithms themselves. Would you expect to still need those 5 things you listed as advice.
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Posts like this definitely give me a nice flare-up of imposter syndrome. Had not heard the acronym IPC. So I guess I don't even know basic shit.

As a bootcamp graduate, what do you want me to ... do? I can't go back in time and major in CS. My employer is satisfied with my work and I build things I'm asked to build independently. Should I give up a startup salary, inflated as it may be, and ship myself off to a CS monastery?
The Xerox star: so far ahead of its time, it's still ahead of its time.
They even have icons for "Fuck", e.g.

https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=Fuck&i=54850

Iconic karma sutra here:

https://thenounproject.com/term/sex/
This should usher in a new era of cheap phones that upgrade immediately to the newest version of the Android OS.

It lowers the price floor for a shiny new phone. All of these additional features are expensive to create but, they are differentiators. With this, Google has the ability to push more new features on the base OS. By conforming to this standard, Google make it easier for them to compete with all of these manufacturers' features.

Now it's up to them to make compelling reasons to upgrade their phones beyond apps. I see things like Google Assistant, Mapping, etc. being more integrated into the OS so that you are always in the Google system no matter what app you are currently in.

This is a big and brilliant win if they can first pull it off technically and then pull it off with compelling services. They certainly look like they are investing heavily in both.

I look forward to a $99 or $199 (or $49 if you can stomach sketchy Chinese phones) phone that just keeps getting better and better and better for free as long as the phone works. This also makes a very compelling thing to make the phone into a computer once the battery can't hold a charge, etc. Take the guts or use some kind of USB->HDMI out and make it into a TV app or a digital mirror or another internet station somewhere.

Brilliant move Google.
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Embed the Google Assistant in any device
Interesting comment, I totally agree.

Eg.
For a casual user, very clear highly descriptive medium is best (eg tooltips), for a mid-level user familiar with the program, icons are ideal. For a super-user, they dont need any visual UI and can do everything from memory using keyboard commands or gestures.

I think icons are mis-used more frequently by modern designers than text.
Perhaps it is a lot easier to mis-use icons beceause their meanings are not standardised or codified.
With English text for example, there are dictionaries and official sources for grammar, spelling and meaning. Also people are actively taught these officially accepted values in school.
The suite of icons we're discussing (eg. disk icon for 'save' right facing arrow for 'play') have come from a mish mash of different contributors, only in the past few decades and in the tech industry where things have been in constant flux. The same icon can often mean two completely different things, and they can also often be stylized into an unrecognizable or ambiguous form.
usually !~ (always|only). OP's usage was fine and the complainant looked more ignorant than petty.
>Humans are agressively being eliminated from as many business models as possible.

Well, that only works as long as many businesses don't do it.

See, business models tend to require people with jobs and money to spend. You can rip profits by catering to those still working if you automate your restaurant or supermarket first.

But it gets increasingly harder to make money for any businesses when those whose jobs got automated away get increasingly many.
Is Russia being hit the most because it was the NSA the one that was exploiting this vulnerability before? Perhaps they are leveraging some other leaked NSA tool that gives them more direct access to Russian computers?
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Don't do this. It's awful.

Except if it is a programming exercise.
You immediately jumped to asserting your correctness, as if this is the only possible axis around which anything can rotate. I know you believe and your belief system has a definition of what counts and does not that is designed by the circumstances of its inception to make the assertion of any other symbol sets to analyze the world as invalid and undeserving of consideration. But I am not arguing about this, but rather the Right to Power derived from the nature of this argumentation is itself a tiresome way to engage about the world and what there is to find in it.
That is a general problem with universal basic income schemes. Unless technology and automation is advanced enough to provide goods and services for basics needs without requiring any labor at all, the scheme will fail in the worst case, i.e. everyone decides to stop working. And there is not much you can do against that, at best you can devise an incentive structure that makes it unlikely that you will hit the worst case scenario. But without robots doing all the work, there is no way such a scheme can work unconditionally no matter how the people are deciding to live their lives.
On a apge liek this [1], the tooltip when mousing pver 'present' is numbered '2.', and the tooltip when mousing over 'hervir - to boil' is '1.', which is the opposite of the order on the page.

[1]: https://andycloke.github.io/verb-master/#/?_k=efs1q4
Whe I mouse-over
I was hoping there might be feathers preserved. Or is that not expected for this species?
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This is probably the first major hacking incident that will cause multiple deaths.
depends who you're trying to thwart

TV downloading updates? it'll probably work

trying to stop MS from spying on you? they have engineered parts of the stack to avoid things like firewall and hosts file blocks, so presumably they have an IP hardcoded in case you block all their hostnames at the DNS level
Is it possible to cause havoc on banks worldwide?
Let's go to the decision:

Defendant contends that Plaintiff’s reliance on
the unsigned GNU GPL fails to plausibly demonstrate
mutual assent, that is, the existence of a contract.
Not so. The GNU GPL, which is attached to the
complaint, provides that the Ghostscript user agrees
to its terms if the user does not obtain a
commercial license. Plaintiff alleges that Defendant
used Ghostscript, did not obtain a commercial
license, and represented publicly that its use of
Ghostscript was licensed under the GNL GPU. These
allegations sufficiently plead the existence of a
contract. See, e.g., MedioStream, Inc. v. Microsoft
Corp., 749 F. Supp. 2d 507, 519 (E.D. Tex. 2010)
(concluding that the software owner had adequately
pled a claim for breach of a shrink-wrap license).

Note the part that:

Plaintiff alleges that Defendant
used Ghostscript, did not obtain a commercial
license, and represented publicly that its use of
Ghostscript was licensed under the GNL GPU. These
allegations sufficiently plead the existence of a
contract."

IE if what the plaintiff said is true, it's a contract.

I see nothing in the decision that says the court would have found a contract without these allegations being true.
North Korea SHOULD be toppled, in an ideal world.

The problem, though, is that when you go around toppling regimes, millions end up dead, when before only 10s of thousands were being killed by the secret police.

So yes, if I could wave a magic wand and give human rights to the entire North Korean population, with no negative side effects, I'd do it.

But we don't have that magic wand, and we have to balance the good that we'd be doing by fixing North Korea, with the bad that'd be done through the millions that would end up dead.
>Which is an obvious self-reference. I would on occasion say "you" to mean "one", but actually mean "me" in an hypothetical fashion.

I don't think it's [just] me. Identity politics is based on attempting to program this impulse.

>This is an informal accusation that would upset people because its unfounded.

I think the evidence is abundant. It upsets people because it trivializes their behaviors and makes them feel unimportant and predictable (that is, it fails to stroke their egos). People like things that make them feel in control and important. Commentary around psychological realities rarely does this because psychology itself is about analyzing and generalizing human behavior.
"Things are always the same" fallacy.

No, there are periods that are artistically more fruitful and interesting that others, and the history of art knows and documents several of them.
Only if the bad guys use the NSA-backdoored encryption.
No-one running a large organisation's IT systems is going to be letting individual machines just install whatever updates the software maker feels like pushing, even on Windows 10. That would be a big risk in itself: plenty of software makers, including Microsoft, have pushed horrible breaking changes in updates in the past.

Personally, where I would point the finger squarely at Microsoft is in its recent attempts to conflate security and non-security updates. Plenty of people, including organisations who are well aware of what they're doing technically, have scaled down or outright stopped Windows updates since the GWX fiasco and other breaking changes over the past few years.

This also leads to silliness like the security-only monthly rollups for Windows 7 not being available via Windows Update itself for those who do update their own systems (not that this matters much if Windows Update was itself broken on your system by the previous updates and now runs too slowly to be of any use). Instead, if you don't want whatever other junk Microsoft feel like pushing this month, you have to manually download and install the update from Microsoft's catalog site. Even then, things like HTTPS and support for non-IE browsers took an eternity to arrive, and whether the article for the relevant KB on Microsoft's support site includes things like checksums to verify the files downloaded were unmodified seems to be entirely random.

I get that Microsoft would like everyone to use Windows 10, but since for some of us that isn't an option or simply isn't desirable. Since we bought Windows 7 with Microsoft's assurance that it would be supported with security patches until 2020, this sort of messing around is amateur hour and they really should be called out on it a lot more strongly than they have been.
I disagree. I mean, yes, the icons look much, much nicer, but the text I can understand much easier.

For example, desprite owning an iPhone myself, after looking at that comparison, I just realised that I had actually never used (nor really knew what they meant) what the "do not disturb", "timer" or "calculator" icons were. I've always navigated to calculator and timer from the apps on the home screen (and have never used do not disturb).

I'm not saying that Apple should change the icons, not at all. Just that I don't think this is a refutation of the idea that text is best at all. If anything, it shows that text is much more descoverable and understandable, if a good bit uglier (and less compact).

I do think that icons are the right choice for the iPhone, and once you learn the icons there's no problem (as long as they don't get changed!), but its not as clear cut as you seem to be saying. I'm forever confused by non-standard various unlabelled icons all over the place. I also have no idea what most of the articles in the linked article mean (eg the washing machine/clothes icons -- I still don't know what they mean when I see them on clothes!)
Yes, enterprise-size companies want this, especially with regards to security. But companies of that size buy Samsung or/and Apple (in general, I'm sure there are exceptions).

Now, with the prices of these devices they are not exactly what I would call 'disposable', but (for Samsung at least, I can't say for Apple) update availability is highly dependant on the network carrier.

I think Google needs to somehow force the availability of updates, regardless of whether the vendor wants to use updated software as a selling point for their latest phone - maybe Treble is a step towards that.
Linux is ubiquitous in the data center. We are not a low-value target. Also, corporations with cloud-based infrastructure are more likely to pay large ransoms for their data, especially if it is the backup/archive system that is attacked.
We already have that distinction in our current regulations... some devices need FDA approval, some don't
> Things like basic food stuffs will get more expensive, because there will be more money chasing it. Rents will go up, since disproportionately more poor people rent.

Why would demand go up? Do you think these people are currently not eating and living in the streets?
In France an atheist activist has been recently condemned to 3 months of prison for saying 'Islam Kills' in public. And that's just one of the most recent cases.
Just like any resource, your 'motivation per dollar' return decreases as people get richer. For $20, a very poor person will do a lot of difficult things; a rich person probably wouldn't even get off the couch for $20.

Once you get past a certain wealth level, money actually STOPS being a motivator, at least in the ways that it is for poorer people. Instead, it becomes more like a scorecard, to demonstrate to others your success. That desire to demonstrate your success will always be there, whether you tax the money or not.
Is there a dictionary for icons? If not, maybe its time someone started one!
Guess: a) their misspelling dictionary is populated with past searches instead on english seed directory without taking into account if they found anything. and b) folks typed "anyhting" more often (maybe even just once) then "anything"
Nope, they've introduced a HIDL for defining hardware interfaces. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13928385 which I posted back in March.
rsc is one of the most brilliant minds of 21st century software engineering. A very lucid thinker and speaker, too. While not everyone likes stuff he works on (ex: Golang), his insight and brain power are unmistakable.

One such example to me is his overview of Acme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M

Russ's demo is one of the clearest technical demos I've seen.
If many of those people don't have money to "put food on the table and participate in society" who will be able to pay any business for anything?
LinkedIn was always a recruiting/contacts database disguised as a social platform. So while their UI was never great, the new UI is particularly horrendous (and surprisingly, its performance seems pretty poor too.)
The French Fracture
What's the point of having a footer when you can't get to it? I see links for about and pricing that I wanted to click on, but I can't get to it. Super frustrating.
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Munich never switched back, which is probably the city you are talking about, but Microsoft has been throwing millions of dollars into both defamatory propaganda against the city and attempts to either elect officials to force them back to Windows or to buy off key officials to make it happen.

It is extremely crooked when you read the narrative as its unfolded over the last decade. Microsoft is extraordinarily aggressive in maintaining its monopoly in the public sector.
It amazes me that they could make it in bulk for $20 (https://www.amazon.com/Ship-Theseus-J-Abrams/dp/0316201642).

Among the pages are cards and other items that the two fictional readers shared or saved.
I'm quite comfortable with the scientific method's track record of discovery and utility, thanks.
Instead of deserves to go, I would say where it will be the most mobile. Sitting in a bank account doesn't do anything for the economy. Giving it to the poor means it will get spent. The people that the poor buy from will see an increase of revenue and make more money. Those people being one step above the poor will spend the profits (as well as buy more inventory), and the cycle continues. Trickle up will generate the economy spur more than trickle down.
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I imagine a late 1800's version of you would also require car owners to use their horse and buggy exclusively at least once a week because it will "give a lot of people jobs". That's some sloppy reasoning.
Alternatively, we could figure out how to automate his job away.
Ok yes well. Mostly they can still be describe as largely static relatively, because thats the whole point of building them. Something stable to move across
> It's not worth investing money if 70% of the proceeds get taken away.

Yes it is. As long as the 30% of the proceeds are higher than the proceeds of the best alternative use of your money.

> This is why world wide, capital is taxed fairly lightly.

This is wrong. It is taxed fairly lightly because it is mobile. Tax it too much and it just moves abroad.
How can I protect myself from these NSA level attacks (not attacks by NSA, but by criminals who now have these tool)? Is keeping Windows up to date enough?
When you find yourself in this situation, it's a good idea to "zoom out" a little and get closer to nature and real people.

I took long walks, trying to soak up the sun, trees, insects everything. I also walked all over the city and watched different people getting on with their lives; commuting, serving, sweeping, chatting ... and all the while paying attention to their facial expressions and language. And finally I volunteered at a school.

It will bring some calm. You will also realise how envious you can be of those in poverty.
> Linux lets you use multiple libcs, so (at the expense of a more complex build) it should be possible there, at least?

Linux lets you use no libc if you want, too. I suspect the reason this kind of change doesn't happen is, if you want to make breaking changes like splitting libc, then you might as well fix all the crap APIs, at which point you might as well fix the crap language choice (and use say Rust instead) at which point libc is a low level abstraction that you hardly care about.
Thankfully someone did make an index for the all cards and inserts in the book and where they belong:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1589916-insert-inventory

To my knowledge, the "meta book" is named "S". That's the name on the book cover. OTOH, inside the cover is "Ship of Theseus" which is the made-up book that the made-up meta characters are writing in the margins of. It looks like Amazon now allows you to search for either.
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I highly doubt it.
He is not talking about the actual flaws as being the example as to why we shouldn't give the NSA backdoor access; he is saying that the leaks prove that even the NSA can't keep their stuff secret. If they couldn't keep their hacking tools secret, why should we think they can keep their backdoor access secret?
Good grief. Ordering food by appearance is like deciding music is good because the artist has purple hair or a painting is beautiful because the canvas smells like cotton.
By the time anyone can get all the code required to support a modern SoC upstream in Linux, it's already obsolete.
If you believe that money is the communication of value and you believe that communication is an important right of human beings, then giving the power of currency to the people, without rent seeking middlemen is net positive.

If you believe that interest rates are too cheap and causing boom and bust cycles, then it could be interesting to see what a deflationary currency does, and if it does actually generate a death spiral of savings and fear of taking loans.

If you believe that everything humans value that can be digitized, is, and successfully. Books, movies, photos, music. Then it makes sense that currency would become digital in the same way. You can make it at home, you can mix it, and you can broadcast it, just like all those other things.

If you like the idea of the worlds fastest appreciating currency/commodity/whatchamacallit... How many things are out there that actually change the relationship between man and government and man and other men more than a well adopted crypto currency would?

And how many of those things can you make money on by providing liquidity?
I see this complaint a lot when it comes to legos, but it couldn't be more wrong. I can't say for sure on the Disney castle, but those other ones are all using fairly standard parts. Plus, any new pieces are still compatible with the legos you had years ago.

fwiw as a kid my parents bought me mostly sets with things like pirate ships and castles and stuff, a specific goal. They were no less fun than the big boxes--in fact, sometimes they were more fun because I had all the pieces I needed to make whatever it was, rather than trying to make something out of the generic boxes and running out of a certain unit.

I'm not really sure where this complaint comes from, Legos today interlock exactly as they did 30 years ago, so what if they come with a cute guidebook that shows you how to make an X-wing?