skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I get feelings for and idea I let my mind thoroughly explore its possibilities. The work of Jeff Hawkins has heavily influenced how I meditate and observe my brain leading to consistently better mental health management. While I say this with such certainty, I know it is a hypothesis that's unproven by studies. But it just feels satisfyingly right from my observations of myself and the world around me. My model of the world is always changing and I'm open to being disproved and accepting new ideas, and ultimately, reality as we understand it.
> I still need to apologise for that one.

Curious. Running an idea by people to get their thoughts, because it's currently leaving you short on warm fuzzies... is something to apologize for?

The initial solution was low on warm fuzzies for him. Your second solution was low on warm fuzzies for you. So you explored further. Where's the problem?
Funny, at any moment I might agree with each of you. One moment (actually a few days) I will dream of a simpler time or maybe some post apocalyptic future another I am soaking in the barrage quite amused by it and the puzzle of it's purpose and yet another influencing and enjoying those around me. I have no plan ( more than a few days), I live in the moment.
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That's also not an alternative — Google can't be allowed to treat pages different in their results just for using Google's AMP Cache.

An AMP page served without cache has to be treated the same, or this becomed exactly the freedom issue that this entire discussion is about.

My pages are actually optimized a lot, and they actually get about 10x slower with AMP than without.

I don't want to have to choose between fast loading and good SEO, I want both. And Google only offering good SEO to those who let Google track all user interactions with their page is also not ideal (I specifically do not use any ads, analytics, or tracking, not even storing IPs in the server logs).
I hope that we stop sharing an ASCII language with the compilers.

It is the root of many of our difficulties in programming.

If we create very good "program editor" (not text editors) and store our programs as a data object in a database a lot of our current "problems" automatically vanish.

Every node of the program will have a unique identifier so the editor can keep track of it across the lifetime of a project.

We will get automatic version control. Syntax war will end because you will be able to customize the syntax exactly how you like.

The editor can track the association between tests and documentation with the objects in the program.

And so much more. At the moment we share an ASCII language with the compiler. This creates a fundamental tension between the human and the computer.

On one hand we want to specify lots of things about our programs to make it more maintainable and reliable on the other hand we want to keep things easy on the eyes and parseable.

So we create a strong dis-incentive to providing information about the code to the compiler.

Because all we have is a single layer of text which will quickly become polluted.

We need our programs to be able to have lots of meta-data but have an editor that is capable enough to allow us to view what matters at a given time.

This can only be achieved if we stop thinking about programs as lines of text, but rather as data objects.

This is known as "Intentional Programming" if you are interested search for it on Youtube.

Also see Isomorf.io for a basic demo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awDVuZQQWqQ) (I'm not affiliated with them).
You could consider going to live in a rural area and getting a simpler job. It's a real option and many people choose it.
There's been several cases in history of "Fixer" worms. Welchia is probably the best known example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welchia
In fairness, we were "built to" live in social structures and dominance hierarchies. We were "built to" socially pool resources and act collectively. Taxes are just part of a really advanced system for doing that.

There are groups of people who don't do taxes at all, but you probably don't want to live among them.
> This shows that some of the legal restrictions we have on sex are just a reflection of our culture, not actual human requirements. Particularly things like pedophilia, prostitution, and incest.

I didn't see anything in the article that said or implied that the Trobriand Islands people engage in pedophilia, prostitution, or incest. I don't see how you infer anything about the origin of our restrictions on those things from that.

As far as I can see from a bit of searching, the Trobriand Islands people do have restrictions on incest, and children there who have sex are having it with other children. I didn't find anything on prostitution.
well reasoned and well written but I am not sure I agree with the 'intense scrutiny' apple faced. to me it seemed like bad pr that was forgotten within a few months. could you perhaps elaborate on this point?
Reading "philosophical investigations" slowly over one summer is something I'm really glad I did. Wittgenstein is an open-eyed, careful, insightful dude who somewhat necessarily speaks in cryptic parables.

If you sit with a paragraph of what he said for an afternoon, by the end of the book you have will have a perspective that allows you to avoid a lot of the basic flawed assumptions our species tends to make when we think abstractly. This is pretty valuable.
I don't think it was a bug, I think it was an intentional choice by Apple but I don't think it really mattered to most people untill AMP started using it.

The big problem with that that only exists on iOS is that the 'weight' of the content is much much less than normal web pages. All your muscle memory of how far and how fast to move your finger to get the page to scroll a certain amount is wrong. Instead the page scrolls MUCH faster and further. This would be bad enough except you're still technically on the Google page and as soon as you go back or close the AMP result the scroll speed is what you're used to.

The end result is it's incredibly frustrating and feels "broken".

I understand that Google's preferred solution caused a behavior that is severely sub optimal because of the way Safari currently works. My problem is I think they handled this extremely poorly and forced all iOS users to deal with it for what, over a year?

I'm glad apples fixing it but I don't like the way Google handled it... effectively saying to iOS users "too bad" since they didn't do anything to mitigate it while waiting for Apple's fixed to come through the pipeline.
Well, I suggest you start giving AMP content that isn't in Google's cache the same preferred treatment in search results that you give cached content.

I'm just going to file another complaint to the EU Antitrust committee otherwise, as this is a simple and clear violation. (Although I doubt my own complaint would be very relevant — all large publishers already have filed such complaints, and Google will be fined for it).

My pages actually increased their loadtime tenfold when I tried them with AMP — they're tested on a HUAWEI IDEOS X3 on 64kbps GPRS. AMP increases load time to over a minute. (On a modern phone, with a modern connection, my pages are obviously also faster — I'm also testing with a Nexus 5X on 100Mbps 4G)

I have the choice between a massively worse user experience, or worse search ranking. And that's a choice that's just not acceptable to me.
Larry Ellison v1... How many versions of Larry Ellison are there heh?
Yes. That applies to entire US war on drugs and war on terror.
I think that the ones that will best survive in an ad-blocking world would be hobbyist journalists and bloggers. That does not seem to be that bad to be quite frank as it would probably lead to higher quality content, less copy-paste and less clickbaits.
Hardcore Linux Workstation Guide
what's high quality news?
Looking at the comments on some on those stories, it feels like they are being swarmed by the pro-Trump accounts that permeates through a lot of reddit in an organized manner. I wonder what step online communities can do to protect against such brigading meant to alter and direct opinions, without sacrificing the freedom they offer their user to have an opinion and discuss it.

Machine learning for automatic fact correction seems like a nice answer, until you realize it would definitely go wrong, or be used to control opinion in an even stronger way.
I agree. My long term plan with my life is to acquire the wealth and knowledge to build and maintain my own life using permaculture. I'd say I agree with you and the thread OP that we weren't made to live in these nasty, dirty, stressing urban environments.

My main point is that the knowledge in this article arms you with the idea that you can cope and live within these non-humane environments by basically hacking your brain(avoiding negative prediction paths). You could call it raising your awareness to a higher level of consciousness. So, while you still might notice from time to time someone is doing something gross or that would annoy you, you no longer focus on it. You let it go, you focus on something else, your breathe, your balance, what you making for dinner, how much you love someone, how bad our infrastructure is, how to solve that problem at work, how not to solve that problem at work, how did that nasty ass smear get on the subway door's window?
Uninspiring landscapes, lack of diverse or superlative outdoor activities, climate.

There is a reason those places I named are tourist destinations to a much larger degree than Detroit / SE Michigan
Will the admins also edit posts people make on their own profile?
I wonder if Avi Selk can repeat his "trial by public opinion" success he had with spinning up the Ahmed Mohamed "Clock Boy" bullshit story that went viral to justify his promotion to WaPo from DMN. Yes, I'm clearly stating I think he rode a terrible lie to a promotion and I hope he enjoys writing about bird smuggling and diaper recycling until he realizes he's a shit journalist and should go find a different profession which he might be better qualified. Scrubbing toilets is a start. James Cameron was a janitor once.
Some languages have built-in support for writing grammars (parsers, lexers).

In many cases, it encourages engineers to write re-usable pieces of code instead of one-off and hard to read regular expressions.

Too bad that's not the case in Go. Given that, I would pick a parsec library over a yacc/lex setup.

Parsecs are much easier to reason about.
The premise that "humans were meant" to do anything is a strange one.
Yeah, I think community conventions are definitely a factor. But main differentiator will be the tone of the account, and the more personal/thoughtful it is (as it is now), the more users will expect it to be forthcoming when there's some controversy to answer for. I think interface plays a big deal too, though. Twitter threaded conversations/replies are still quite difficult to follow, and individual queries are easy to ignore/miss. Whereas in Reddit, top-upvoted replies (which is frequently calling-out-your-bullshit type questions) are going to be the first thing users see when reading your threads by default.
Waiting for the first Intel Management Engine based ransomware.
> it breaks the decade-old system-wide iOS behavior of being able to tap the status bar to scroll to the top of any scrollable view

Is that what was happening. It just felt like scroll was spazzing out. Usually I was just trying to push a button near the top of the screen.
I can't see this ending well for them consider there are large communities like The_Donald known to brigade and use bots against anyone who criticizes their God Emperor. Facebook has groups, but none as large, coordinated, and malicious as on reddit, where the admins won't put on their big boy pants and ban them despite numerous rule violations. WaPo is just wading into a swamp of alligators.
You might be able to say the same about a much older version of buzzfeed, which I think is OP's point. Ars Technica seems watered down these days. Though I have never followed either source directly.
I really hope we can break down the rules tying gendered expressions to sex. I can see the power in the archetypes, but assigning them at birth is really cruelty.

It's a shitty time. I don't know how old you are, but I really hope 30 years from now I meet you somewhere and we can look back and see that the world has moved on. I'm trying to keep a promise to myself that I'll keep trying.

Sometimes I think we're closer to that future than we think.
No, what's sad is that so many people can't cook anymore. It's especially bad in the United States.

It's impossible to prepare a good tasty meal with a microwave. And oven-ready food is garbage. You can't even re-heat most of your left overs properly. Ever tried to re-heat a slice of pizza in a microwave? Use a skillet or a grill, and it's as good as new.

Cooking real tasty food requires many many tools (most of which have been used for many centuries), a lot of ingredients and skill. It's an art form, essentially. And a couple decades ago, everybody knew how to do it.
'Living in the moment' is a metaphor. Thoughts about the future always take place in the present.
I happen to have a spreadsheet of all Reddit AMA backfires (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DTCRqeQvjOZAyngC31kn...), and the common thread among AMA disasters is the original poster being genuinely unaware that they might be received negatively (or they are just trolls). I don't think that will be the case with the WaPo, anyways.

(For posterity, here's a spreadsheet of all Reddit thread backfires in general: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bUSN7-nocMJz2Wo1KTIn...)
To think that our achievement was singular, is rather disappointing.
I would say no. Cognitive Dissonance is more about someone saying they believe something but then their actions don't reflect that belief.

An area of Cognitive Dissonance that I have, I know that I need to take more consistent breaks from computer work more often to prevent pain from repetitive stress injuries, But I don't.
One example is not most developers.

I'm a developer and I get paid to write hardware accelerated renderers and for the past two years I've been recommending Vulkan.. I'm exclusively using Linux these days for software development. Sometimes it's not about what you're targeting for deployment but the capabilities of the development machine. For example, I do like Xcode, but I can't use it for Vulkan development, even if my ultimate platform isn't macOS/Apple.

Apple dropped the ball on Vulkan and I do hope they support it eventually.
This community hates AMP the cache, AMP the centrally controlled place for all news which Google can easily manipulate or censor if a totalitarian government should ask them to, the AMP that gives pages an advantage in search results only if they let all their content go through Google.

No one's complaining about AMP the web framework — which is the part responsible for the performance and responsiveness.
We're like a little scared squirrel that looks back and forth not having the capacity to understand and enjoy 'this' moment.
I guess is because of how we perceive time and what we can do about it.
I'm personally very conscientious in avoiding forming models of the world around me by incorporating what my brain decides "feels satisfyingly right" based on my own anecdotal observations. Humans have been operating as you describe for thousands of years but it was only when some of us began replacing pure cognition, feelings, and intuitive satisfaction with systematic empiricism that we began to make significant headway in understanding the world.
Certainly roomier than a train, and some of the train cars are gorgeous. I had a chance to ride in the Georgia 300 [1][2] and man, that's the only way to travel.

[1] http://boston.conman.org/2015/08/05.4

[2] https://www.flickr.com/photos/14589121@N00/sets/721576128280...
This is amazing.

A hypocrite (Gruber, as evidenced in another thread) calls the AMP team hacks who do terrible work. Turns out their "terrible work" is actually Apple's bug and the AMP team points this out both to Apple and to Gruber. In your eyes, this makes it all their fault.

When called out on it, you double down by saying that the team is still to blame because they chose not to work around Apple's bug. You basically want Google to be part of Apple's captive audience.

No, seriously, take a step back and consider that this is what you're saying.
Standard Notes. Simple and encrypted. Available on every platform. Markdown and code editors, as well as custom themes.

https://standardnotes.org
>Released in early 1991, the video not only became an instant hit, but also a quintessential video in the ’90s genre. It codified the checklist for what a video in the ’90s would look like.

Guess what video this is talking about, no, just name the first thing that comes to mind. A little hard right?

That's because this fucking article is a puff piece trying to build a mountain out of a mole hill. Temple of the Dog was a blip on the radar but it didn't "PIONEER" anything music video wise, or even "supergroup" wise.

If you remove the three bottles of wine and $60 of cocaine that populates the article, there's about two paragraphs of decent, interesting stuff about Temple of the Dog. For somebody claiming to write about "pioneering" in reference to Chris Cornell and music videos, and not mention "Black Hole Sun" once means the writer is incompetent.

Just because somebody writes a lot of words doesn't mean they're worth your time to read them. Fuck this article. Go re-watch the Nic Harcourt interview of Soundgarden at ACL in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FCjlX9Qr3Y
You are trying to contradict the creator and maintainer of Mono.
Unless you specifically want to include "carpool" as a keyword, I'd say the name you have seems as good as any...
Check this out:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/02/fb...

FBI translator secretly married Islamic State leader

People are cray.
Primary source: https://github.com/stamparm/EternalRocks/blob/master/README....
Kotlin can just import and use any Java class. Kotlin doesn't introduce new strings or collections, so conversions of any kind are not required. Also Kotlin compiles to Java classes which can be used from Java without any problems too.
Yeah, I'm skeptical, too. Especially of surveys which ask respondents about the future. I.e., here they asked them if they used, or _planned_ to use whatever cloud platform. This is problematic because you rarely get good results from asking people about what they might do (e.g., choose to use Azure over AWS).

And like you say there is likely to be bias which relates to the composition of their survey sample.

All in all, the more accurate conclusion is that for those surveyed there was more interest in Azure over AWS (since the way there questions were framed it's very hard to even tell exactly what proportion are already using one or the other). Interest may, or may not, map to future choice. Respondents may signal interest in Azure, yet pick AWS when the rubber hits the road.
Why Void Linux? (2015)
What is the advantange to a relational sql/ddl schema?
We're so close. ^_^ We need to make sure the internet and this magical way of archiving and sharing information can't be taken from away from us unless the whole civilization is crippled or destroyed.
I consider WaPo almost completely a modern mockingbird operation in full force.
I can?

I'm running my own sites, no ads, mininal content.

How do I get the preferred treatment in the Google sesech that AMP pages get again?

(My pages are all tested on a Huawei Ideos X3 on 64kbps GPRS internet. They always load consistently faster than AMP pages)
People are unhappy with this comment but I think it speaks to Avi's (and extension wapo's) lack of credibility. Really disliked outside of the dc buro ever since the bezos acquisition. Furthering their misdirected"digital" push is hardly something to celebrate.
Sure,

One immediate benefit I could see is the independence of hardware board (even those without any controller). You could run and schedule automated test on VM, without instrumenting your code. This is more relevant for System tests and integration.

Also since we emulate transactions at bus layer, it works more accurate rather than software tests. We recently found a bug in a driver where it had a hardcoded time to wait for response, instead of waiting for interrupt status. Such a thing would work in real hardware but fails on our simulated tests.

Last but not least, sensor manufacturer could provide more accurate models of device behavior through our software which could then be tested against compensation values applied in your driver.
Concur. On my one round trip with Amtrack [1] the train back was a few hours late. As my friend (who I traveled back with and is a train aficionado) said: "At best, a train is on time."

[1] http://boston.conman.org/2015/08/05.1
Who needs fiction, just read up on Kissinger and Mao (and Chiang Kai-shek) and how the two intersect if you want stuff most people wouldn't beleive.
JavaScript Concurrency Model and Event Loop
That 50x number... you just made that up? Are you thinking about all of the different chemicals in food, or are you just imagining like, a dextrose factory?

I'm deeply skeptical of that number, but let's assume you can make your machine. Why? What good does it do? Why would you want to have a solar food factory when you can just live in an ecology? What's your vision for the Earth? Mine is that it's covered in healthy ecologies that sustain the plants and animals that live in them. It's not just about food, it's about how to enjoy being alive. It's about being connected with the plants and animals that sustain you, not for their sake, but for yours: so you might learn about yourself. Because we're just them, added together.

I don't think an egg protein solar factory that's attached to a VR pod facility is an improvement on a rainforest. I'm happy for the VR pod/egg factory to exist, but I don't think a world covered in them is anything but a dystopian future for us.
I downvoted because it's nasty.

WaPo has a lot of credibility, particularly their long form investigative journalism.
I think that the phenomenon of rich people investing in life extension technology is inescapable - it's the one thing that having a billion dollars still can't fix right now, rich people die just the same as everyone else... But I agree with the sentiment that the world doesn't really need an immortal Larry Ellisson ;)
Things I share to programers
Faster and more efficient doesn't equal good for the environment. Buying a new car is almost always a net negative for the environment. It doesn't even matter if it's more fuel efficient, or electric. What matters is the vast amount of resources required to produce each vehicle, and the amount of toxic emissions and waste generated in the production process. And, even if it's electric, the electricity has to come from somewhere. And electricity frequently comes from environmentally unfriendly sources like coal power plants.

So if you're in the market for _any_ new car, keep that in mind: you're not doing the environment any favors, nor your bank account.
As a sysadmin I have always hated SMB. I loved samba for their attempts to opensource it so I could at least use samba4 in prod and feel confident in it's stability, but I always felt like it was a bad protocol without many good alternatives. NFS is about the same, even worse when trying to serve to windows clients.

For those on linux or not aware, if you see 'cifs' it is the same thing (mostly).

One thing I always did was require connections to use latest smb (mitigates many old version attacks), ensure auth is using highest available methods, but more than anything is running the SMB server behind a well monitored and maintained firewall. That's the thing that gets lots of companies.

Also, this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba#Block_certain_fil...

Finally, segment your damn networks with vlans/subnets!