skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A while back a friend of mine told me how her (great-?)grandmother in Malta used to do the laundry down the river as a young woman, and her and her friends used to dream about having a magic box that you could just throw the laundry in, press a button, and it'd be done!
So wait for the upcoming new Mac Pro sometime next year (probably).
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Many comments here are about the value of higher ed generally and are fascinating to read, but I'm interested in critical reasoning particularly, and this study doesn't surprise me.

(1) Critical reasoning is rarely taught directly, especially to students who don't major in or take a philosophy course.

(2) Even when critical reasoning is taught directly, it's poorly taught. Compare an introductory text on critical reasoning from fifty years ago with one today. You will find that the former feels like it's written for a user of reasoning (which is as it should be written) and the latter is written for explainers of reasoning (colleagues or future academics, I guess?). Jargony, technical, prolix, etc.

(3) Too many professors in the humanities are influenced by a conception of argumentation-as-narrative rather than argumentation-as-truthseeking, or deny there's a distinction or that the latter is possible. Quality of indirect/incidental critical reasoning education is not what it used to be.

(4) STEM education overemphasizes formal logic. Most of our daily reasoning that's worthy of being called "logic" is informal logic.

Outside of university is more important, but things don't look great there either, for reasons everyone here is already familiar with. Echo chambers. Loss of nuance as deliberation is framed in terms that can easily be liked/hearted/shared/retweeted. Curious what, if anything, folks here think could be done to turn things around.

[Edited for clarity.]
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dont print, make a picture of the screen with old camera bought in a car sale town away.
I don't think it's a niche. I see a lot of people wearing them. It's not a success on the level of the iPhone, but nothing is. If Apple Watch was a separate company it would be listed on the fortune 500 (according to Tim Cook on last earnings call)
It sounds very weird. If the space is closed, the AC makes the air dryer, so sweating should be minimal on these low temperatures (dampness is hell).

Are you sitting next to a window that is blasting its rays over your body?

Is the building badly designed?

Are you protected by a layer of fat cells?

Sweating at 24-26C without sunlight blasting at you is very anomalous.

Lowering the AC to 20C or below is such an insanely wasteful thing to do it ought to be forbidden. The biggest CO2 footprint is us, the first world, heating and cooling.
Well I have one of those and it was properly packaged, sounds like the reviewer bought one that dropped off the back of a van to me.
Blindsight is a great story, but I don't really remember the characters. Why do you think the characters are noteworthy?
The clear advantage of text-based programming languages for complex programs is that all the wires and arrows are represented by symbolic names. Instead of drawing a wire, you simply use an entity with the same name (be it a variable, a function, or a data type). This is much closer to natural languages than a tangled mess of wires which becomes unmanageable after a certain level of complexity.
Can you get 100% Jeremy?
It's not just the cost, but also the hassle of getting SIM cards, submitting documentation to get each (in India), paying multiple bills, tracking which plan you're on for each SIM card, and so on.
Maybe we can start with telecommuting 1 or 2 days a week. Or half days. Reducing peak traffic just 20% would be a big win.
>STEM education overemphasizes formal logic.

Few people with STEM degrees have taken a single course in formal logic.
It's unbelievable how easy this is with Stripe in comparison to PayPal. I had to do the latter a week ago and it was horrible [1]. It's no wonder Stripe is so successful.

[1]: https://fman.io/blog/paypal-for-saas-99-problems/
However this article is revealing, it is not surprising at all.
> the complaint was always lack of WebRTC and ServiceWorker support

You have a source for that? To me nobody really started caring about ServiceWorker until the big push recently for PWAs w/ launch of Lighthouse etc. Whereas devs have always wanted browsers to keep up with JS/ES/CSS language standards.

Also "development doesn't really work like that". Who's to say the same devs implementing ES6 features could take on ServiceWorker. Maybe there's something in the codebase blocking ServiceWorker. You just don't know. Assuming one thing is being neglected in favour of the other is a huge assumption.

I feel like the internet getting angry that 'feature 1' is released whilst the 'feature 2' they want isn't, and being all 'why are they spending all their time on feature 1 instead of working on my thing' is such an old trope there should be a term for it.

(But yeah I'd like to see ServiceWorker in Safari too, though please let's not bite the hand that feeds)!
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Since I am developing on a daily basis with React, it is obviously my favorite choice. It is not a framework, but a view layer library. However, by only using the view layer you can already build frontend applications.

The ecosystem around React is huge. But you don't have to use anything to build an application with React. [0] For instance, most people try too early to use a state management library. But you don't have to use it from the start [1], because React comes with its own internal state management. It makes sense to learn the React fundamentals first and build your own application with it [2] before you dive deeper into the ecosystem [3].

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/reasons-why-i-moved-from-angular...

- [1] https://medium.com/@dan_abramov/you-might-not-need-redux-be4...

- [2] https://www.robinwieruch.de/the-road-to-learn-react/

- [3] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links
I am so glad people can use another browser on ChromeOS, oh wait...
I went to college directly out of high school and wasted my parents money. It felt impossible to break this to my family that I was leaving school.

After leaving school, I worked for ~4-5 years before I started taking classes again. After landing my first internship as a developer, I've been working as a developer and completing a CS degree f/t ever since. My parents were sold a lie, but I was a fool to buy into it.

The punchline being that I don't even need the degree to work as a developer. However, the subject matter is enjoyable and it's better to leave some doors open for future options (masters, phd or whatever).
Privacy to print images of apples AND oranges.
Thingworx 8.0 will release, and Thingworx Studio will be upgraded. The new version of Thingworx studio can recognize the Thing Object by Thing shape just like demo video, not only by QR Code-like mark.
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An m4.16xl has 32 cores / 64 threads.
https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/6f8u2s/githubs_...
Guys, I hope you keep in mind that this is an esolang, it's intention is not to be practical, but interesting. And I think in that it succeeded. I also recommend a look into the repo which contains the parser, which could be interesting. For me it was, because I never really thought about how to parse diagrams.
I did that once, and I wished that I could plug my phone in to my iPad to charge it. That didn't work because the iPad uses Apple's proprietary Lightning connector rather than the standard USB-C. If my iPad had USB-C, I could have plugged my Google Pixel into it with the USB-C to USB-C cable Google gave me.

This is another limitation of the iPad — like a computer, but with arbitrary limitations like non-standard ports.
You kid right ?

Snowden had to hand-hold the guy at Intercept to use GPG. Guardian leaked encryption keys in a book, before/after handing all of Wikileaks' stash to the Mossad.

At this point all we have left is 4chan, and anons like myself (who then get blocked by @dang after he's logged the IP addresses). /s
The article is about college but what about the previous 12 years of school. Why don't students learn critical thinking during those years. 12 years of school and students lack learning skills, critical thinking skills and what burns me most high school graduates don't have a marketable skill they can use to get a job if they have to start working.

Last year's election focus on some very irrelevant subjects yet our graduates aren't ready for the world they have to face. School reform should be a hot subject yet it's not at the top of the list. Start up jockeys take note the US school system is ready for disruption. I hope it happens soon.
Usenet is still up and running. There's a public news server at "news.eternal-september.org". Serious groups such as "sci.electronics.design" and "comp.lang.python" get heavy traffic. Eternal September doesn't host the alt binary groups; too much junk.

Path of a typical post:

Path: eternal-september.org
!news.eternal-september.org
!feeder.eternal-september.org
!news.glorb.com
!peer02.iad
!feed-me.highwinds-media.com
!news.highwinds-media.com
!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com
!fx01.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail

Google Groups is a Usenet node. Posting to Google Groups will result in Usenet distribution, and posting with NNTP to a Usenet node will show up on Google Groups.
On the other hand, all of your inherent values of a city center can be said to be caused by higher population density. Food and recreation spots will be opened close to where people live. Jobs are variable in terms of location, but there's certainly an advantage to moving close to population centers--at the very least, access to a vast workforce.

My point is not really to argue that the opposite is true, rather that you can make an argument either way, whether higher demand leads to higher density or higher density leads to higher demand. There are certainly low density urban centers that no one wants to live in despite their proximity to jobs, food, and recreation.
> She literally emailed the Intercept from her work email and was one of a trivial number of people who'd printed it in the first place.

Surely, NSA contractors aren't this stupid ? Something smells.
Yeesh... that post perfectly exemplifies how much stress women have to go through to just look "normal". I wish I could say that all you had to be was great at your assigned job, but unfortunately that's not enough (in both tech and non-tech positions).

I'll add though, that guys do deal with these rules too (see article below) but they are pretty clearly laid out. Guys' fashion changes over decades, whereas womans' changes over seasons.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman-sachs-elevator-guide-...
Wow, it has to be 35c/95f before it is hot. Living in Australia on one mine site the daily temperature was 45c/113f at night 32 c/90f

Amazing how you get used to the temperature. Joys of working in a desert in Summertime.
Never use air conditioning no good for my health.
And yes termites are pretty smart in keeping things cool
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> Temperature control in buildings is 100% architecture and technical add-ons like AC are a poor choice.

AC is not only temperature control. Running water through the walls or evaporation cooling only work in moderately dry climates but will not help much in humid climates. Cooling the walls will just lead to condensation and wet walls. There's certainly a lot that can be done without AC, but humidity control is required in some regions of the world.
Tragedy of the commons
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I guess you missed the part where the OP wrote "while Chrome works just fine.", yet his/her coding is to blame.

No wonder people move to other browsers instead.
> In the tropics, you cool by extracting humidity, not injecting it. And extracting humidity might not work very well in a very dry desert...so...

You seem to be saying that an air conditioner requires significant ambient humidity in order to be effective. That doesn't make sense, as anyone from Phoenix, Arizona can testify.

A typical air conditioner does not cool the air by extracting humidity. It extracts humidity by cooling the air and so bringing it below its condensation point. Extracting humidity is a welcome side effect, since it helps us feel more comfortable, but it is not the primary function of a modern air conditioner.
Japan is further ahead, as they have optimized this with a decade-old policy called "Cool Biz".

To save energy and money by reducing AC, office workers are allowed to wear more casual clothing in the summer:

https://qz.com/465327/ditch-the-tie-and-reduce-the-ac-japans...
Some trading floors keep it very chilly in order to keep traders awake (and issue fleeces to keep the rest of their body warm).
I agree with 1-3, but about 4 - I think that's mostly a stereotype about STEM, not the real thing. First, most STEM education doesn't feature that much of formal logic, if any at all. Secondly, actual experience in STEM is probably the best way to internalize that reality is fuzzy and messy (and a good education will teach you that math has tools for handling exactly that, known as probability theory).
We still need to target things like IE 9 or older FF ESR releases, so Safari current status is already pretty advanced.
Does not appear for me. It's only for the private windows.
this name is pure gold! whatever way u look at it, it was her destiny.
Good point — though I don't have any Thunderbolt 3 devices or docks, the Surface is limited by not having a Thunderbolt 3 port, because I may buy a device later, perhaps the LG Ultrafine 5k monitor.

We need more compatibility, not less.
I'm being a bit pedantic but The Intercept didn't exist when Snowden leaked to Greenwald.

Also, many thanks to @dang for keeping 4chan out of HN.
Out of curiosity, how big is your place? It seems pretty crazy that moving across LA would _add_ $1,500 a month... that's almost what my total rent is in the South Bay.
Depends how skillful those developers are, beyond web stack tech.
The leaker's name is Reality Winner. As this was sinking in, I finally became open to the possibility that I am indeed living in a simulation
As an aside, how else would one sneak top-secret stuff out of the NSA ? I assume all IO ports have been cut, and the input devices soldered onto the motherboard ?

Send some xor-ed file out using a non-secure connection and sneak the key out somehow ?

Take photographs/video using the phone, cold-war style ?
Why the over-65 requirement?

Why not just pay taxes on the purchase price, and defer all taxes on appreciated value until the sale?

And why not let the children defer the taxes further? It'd be tragic if your kids were forced to sell the family home immediately upon your death because they couldn't afford the taxes.

Seems like the important innovation here is defer-until-sale, not the pro-retiree, anti-inheritance values.
The whole idea of 'top secret contractors' is wrong to begin with. You can't have people access information at that level without making them part of your culture. If you take that risk then there is a fair chance your 'top secret' is in fact 'public domain'.
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I'm not sure this is a reasonable expectation of college. Critical thinking is hard to teach. I don't know if it's possible to scale it beyond the few teachers who are good at it.

Measuring critical thinking is hard, too. The universities who criticized the test used here are probably not wrong, even if their motive is only to save face. It's only 90 minutes, which is a time limit more suited for quick sophistry than looking at some new evidence and coming up with a solid argument from it.
No, I don't. Not here, anyway.

The Intercept does have that duty. And at least some of their staff know it. But maybe they get overruled.
Actually it's very easy if you use git, just 2 lines of config.

git config --global user.signingkey <your_pub_here>
git config --global commit.gpgsign true
From The Intercept's "how to pass on tips" page [1]:

> We’ve taken steps to make sure that people can leak to us as safely as possible. Our newsroom is staffed by reporters who have extensive experience working with whistleblowers, as well as some of the world’s foremost internet security specialists. Our pioneering use of the SecureDrop platform enables you to communicate with our reporters and send documents to us anonymously.

I think it's shocking that nobody at The Intercept was aware of the yellow dots, or other metadata (eg printer-specific output artifacts) that might facilitate the revelation of the anonymous source. This is so careless of them that I'm led to believe that they don't have a formal scrubbing step at all.

Of course, I might be biased a bit here because I dislike Greenwald so much for how he handled the Snowden leaks. The risks Snowden took and the sacrifices he made are incomparable, but "it took Greenwald several more months and help from experts before he could learn relatively basic tools like PGP encryption."

[1] https://theintercept.com/leak/

[2] https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/edward-snowden-gpg-for-journ...

Edit: I think it's shocking because assisting whistleblowers and protecting their anonymity seems central to The Intercept (which I believe is commendable), so they, of all people, should know better -- if not best.
Sure. It's possibly a misleading statement and that's all I said.
Burnout due to value conflict (as a developer, video)
> Hired a dropout who ended up producing sports science research that probably could have netted him a Ph.D.

Is there any way he could turn that into actual Ph.D.? I ask out of curiosity, because many people do things in their professional lives that are equivalent of achievements in academic work, and I wonder if there's a way to turn former into the latter.
Or this whole thing is all completely fabricated...

The way politics are now I'd believe anything at this point.
FTA:

"But there's an inconvenient truth: you can only make it cooler inside by making it warmer outside."

Followed by several paragraphs of the contribution of air-conditioning to hotter cities.
This is a really nice bit from TFA:

"FBI special agent Justin Garrick told a federal court that Winner – a cross-fit fan who graduated high school in 2011 and was in the US Air Force apparently as a linguist – confessed to reading and printing out the document, despite having no permission to do so. "

So, she joined the company 3 months prior, and it was 'permission' rather than enforced access rights that they relied on for new trainees not to color outside of the lines.

It's not about 'permission', it is all about 'capabilities'.
Its is not fair to charge for your content and get ranked high up in SERP, especially for those who survives on AdSense and other ad networks.
Exactly. Putting junk apostrophes in CSV files just means that when I import CSV files into my database I now need to figure out if the apostrophe was supposed to be there or was inserted by the exporting software.

Spreadsheet software should import formulas as plain text formatted cells, and have an optional checkbox to "also import formulas" for people who are trying to interchange spreadsheets they created.
It seems to be common practice here in northern Bavaria to only cool offices to about 5 C below outside temp - so if it's 35 C (95 F) outside, only cooling to 30 (86 F).

Fortunately, wearing shorts to work on extremely hot (over 30 C) days is also more socially acceptable here.
Thank you both for the link and the google-fu tip.
This subject is never productive on HN because almost every reply argues with a certain use case in mind but people never actually outline that use case. Those who read your post and reply do so with their own use case in mind and obviously what that other person suggested is madness (in your scenario that you never actually verbalize). Ultimately no one learns anything because they all think everyone is in exactly the same scenario as they are. Or maybe they think their personal choice is a "silver bullet". Probably depends on the poster.

Then it all repeats next week.
First they claim electronic voting is safe, then they keep secret incidents which might make the public think otherwise.

Ensuring the public gets a secure voting method (paper) is much more important than catching who did it. And I'm far from confident this incident would have eventually been made public.
> Computers have been more or less universal since the time RAM was used to execute the programs, the fact that files are a convenient way to organize data does noes not detract from the fact that the internal structure of a file needs to be known if you want another program to make sense out of it.

Have you seen Amiga OS Datatypes? It was an OS-provided interface that allowed applications to support new file formats which did not exist at the time of the application being developed. New file filters could be added/swapped at the OS level, adding functionality to all apps.

http://www.mfischer.com/legacy/amosaic-paper/datatypes.html
It won't run if you sideload it (they added HW checks in one of the later versions). If your device ships with it, then you have it.
How would people get trapped? If the property value is declining they can just get it reappraised and pay an even lower tax rate than what they were expecting when they bought it. From a tax perspective that should be a windfall for them.
The guy from Intercept did.
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Study of history requires careful study, a balanced mind and a proper perspective. Many people fall into a trap of good vs bad, or similar simplistic conclusions.

The British did enormous harm to the subcontinent, but it's egregious to say that the Mughals were benevolent rulers. They after all built beautiful self aggrandizing monuments by basically looting and massacring the populace. The same thing holds true for Marathas as well, who were known to patronize looting and raids via the pindaris.

As for Haider Ali, his son, who was similarly disposed, paid the ultimate price thanks to the machinations of the Maharaja's minister whom Hyder Ali had earlier dethroned. So what went around, came around, eventually.
It's not google's place to do this
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Wow. If only I knew how I'd be disadvantaged in business management by choosing to be child-free. Actually, in practice, it doesn't turn out to be a handicap.
She's 25 years old and worked in that job for a few months, not a security specialist or some super-spy.