skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look I hate Facebook, Google, the news, prefer physical books, like to exercise, whatever but I always hate seeing this stuff.

In Western society there are always two lies operating at once. The first lie is that technology will save us and fix everything and is the ultimate path, the second lie is that throwing away all of our technology, being as close to nature as possible, blah blah will also save us and fix everything.

One thing happier people do in fact have is a sense of historical perspective and also future sacrifice. Knowing the sacrifice that 500 mothers and fathers made before you to move the human race hopefully a little forward, and knowing that you can help pass along their sacrifice, knowledge, and your own hard work to your children, grandchildren, and subsequent generations.
Tech Interview 101
In Scandinavia the lore is that the cold is good for sleeping. They stick their babies outside to nap even when it is below freezing:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21537988
> where are other places to read other developers essentially plain-speak their way through problem solving / program architecture in a similar fashion?

Livecoding is becoming more and more of a trend. When I do it on my YouTube channel I follow exactly this approach.

I basically use it as an excuse to play with new tech or to try building stuff I need. Except I also turn on the stream and talk out loud like the audience was my rubber ducky.
My Experience at the Mr. Robot Event or How I Social Engineered My Way In Early
WeWork's $20B Office Party: A Bet That Could Change the World's Business
Yes, you are correct - I meant nobody in my specific user community. There certainly are other audiences who would edit documents differently than my authors did....
Well we came out of the jungles, it's in our genes. Humans don't belong to the jungles of concrete. There was research done at the hospitals in the 80s that by having a window with a view to nature in the patient's recovery room after the surgery. The person was discharged couple of days early, had to take less painkillers and had less post surgery complications.
>And on top of that you have the telemetry, endless horror stories of forced restarts for updates, updates resetting settings and/or degrading performance (which took 5 months to resolve in the case of the Creators Update: https://betanews.com/2017/09/11/windows-10-game-performance-...)...7 works like clockwork, with no bullshit.

And that's why you get LTSB, which have no "feature updates", only security updates for 10 years. Although one disadvantage is that the release schedule is sporadic (there was one in 2015, 2016, and the next one is in 2019). I guess you could also use get the pro edition and choose "defer upgrades", which buys you ~6 months before having to install a feature upgrade.
Credit for color science goes to the scientists, credit for artistic effects using color goes to the artists. There's plenty to go around.

Jan Koenderink's book on color measurement looks good.
Despite the title, the very first sentence is a run-on sentence.
How Bill Gates and Warren Buffett met
I’ve owned three Fiats, with the first being just as unreliable as the next two. Some of us are just slow that way.
Actually were it to be done by police in the USA, Canada and many other countries it would be illegal even for law enforcement.
Hey have read your story Paul and sorry about that. FWIW even Oracle tried to sue them, and Oracle has never been known for not going 100% ruthless or going cheap on their lawyers / law talent, and even they failed. The only one who can stop them now is the government. Democrats are already lining up against them, and in the congressional district I live in, even the very conservative Lamar Smith recently sent them an angry letter regarding various accusations. They are being hemmed in by both sides, and if politics gets better the cooperation of both parties will lead to their massacre, and if it gets worse, they’ll be the scapegoat likely and equally massacred. I hope that provides some solace. The breakup of Google and Facebook will also unleash a flood of talented engineers for places they are more needed than shitty advertising companies, maybe you can partner with one of them when the dam breaks.
FYI for transparency. I have informed the google search team of this undesirable search behavior.

I am a google employee within google cloud. So can't talk about why you see Obama instead of Trump but good catch.
Apple gave Uber the ability to copy your iPhone screen
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Are you using it in clamshell mode? Where you keep the lid closed and use an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse (you mentioned mbp and macbook air in your post). If so, I have heard about multiple problems like sleep/wake and cooling issues across multiple models and multiple OS releases. That is a specific use case I've heard avid mac users complain about over the years.

I did encounter corrupted Time Machine backups when I set up my own network Time Machine Server in Linux (using netatalk). When my laptop would go to sleep in the middle of a backup over wifi the whole backup would get corrupted. I haven't had that problem since I switched to using Synology as a network Time Machine server (I never had it happen when using a USB Time Machine backup, either). I've never used a Time Capsule.
Only in one direction. You can use char to access data that's really uint32_t, but you can't use uint32_t to access data that's really char. ("Really" here is what the C standard calls "effective type"; for normal variables it's equivalent to the declared type, but for malloc'ed memory it has a weird definition where you can change the type by writing to it.)
You can always switch to Ubuntu.
This idea raises an interesting question - what if all child porn in the future was artificially generated. Would it be illegal to consume or share that material?
> And that's why you get LTSB

That's why you wish you could get LTSB, but you can't unless you're a large corporation. For most users, it's not a solution, it's a tease.
I love looking for things. I think a lot of us do. Web searches, thrift stores, street photography, 3D models, Github projects. Momentary instances of challenge keep it exciting. I do think most of us find comfort in the "hunting and gathering"-like types of activities we indulge in. Our visual senses still celebrate the red colors and glossy surfaces of apples and berries.
One thing UN's declaration of Human Rights doesn't seem to cover is the right to free will. http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Perhaps it should?
> I also think about distractions

There is a book on this idea "Infinite Distraction"

https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Distraction-Theory-Dominic-P...

The idea being that our media experience is modulated in a way that people can't individually or collectively focus indignation.
I'm not sure these are quite the same things. Take a North Indian curry for example: even it's detractors wouldn't call it particularly bland, but the flavors are obviously way more subtle than, say, pixie stix. This isn't particularly surprising given that you put half a teaspoon of a dozen different spices into a curry while the pixie stix are literally just sugar and maybe a single flavor, wired directly to a part of our brain that likes sugar.
That's great! People die producing those bananas https://vimeo.com/81230547
Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle (1986)
Not only that but I believe the look on his face was one of joy or at least accomplishment. The media parroted that spin.

That said, metaphorically we're already in The Matrix. Humans were just fuel for the system. When I see so many over-weight/obese "consumers" I can't help but think how happy the system is to have them; how well they're fulfilling their role. VR glasses will simply close the loop.
Opsec breaches here: (from https://www.vg.no/spesial/2017/undercover-darkweb/, linked in this thread)

1. not firewalling the server so all traffic goes through Tor

2. registering a bitcoin wallet with a private email address

3. asking a coding question using their own identity (Ross Ulbricht, anyone?)
Nice quick guide! I definitely need to learn more about typography as I'm convinced the designers I work with don't know enough and what they design doesn't translate correctly in build.
Lightning aircraft crash at Hatfield (2013)
Great comment. Cognitect, and it's ownership/dominance of the language, is one of the more unfortunate things to happen to clojure in it's evolution, and should serve as a learning point for future language creators.

I wish Rich had been able to find/take a different path and developed more of a community with a "social contract" rather than keeping clojure a semi private project which users should be grateful for the ability to use. It would bring more participation from a wider community which would make the language and community far stronger in the long run.

Recent interactions I've had with the ReasonML project are night and day different than clojure.

At this point it feels like there needs to be a clojure like language (fixing some problems like startup time) that embraces more of a social contract with the community.
Gosh, if only the existing ones were even remotely enforceable.. There's a lot of good stuff there, but the phrase "talking to a wall" comes to mind when I read it.
I have a large house and it uses both active and passive solar. Even the trees are situated to give ideal results.

If you're curious, it is an envelope house and oriented to make maximum benefit with the Sun. The second floor overhangs the bottom floor which blocks the peak solar energy from hitting the windows.

It produces more energy than it uses, and also uses a couple of turbines. There is a room in the basement that is dedicated to controlling it all and is where the battery banks are all stored.

Caveats:

I didn't do much of the design myself, except the initial drawings and consultation.

I didn't install any of this myself. I'll poke at lots of things, large voltages are not one of those things.

It isn't a matter of being ecologically sound, it is practicality. I lose grid power both frequently and with long durations. I like my modern conveniences. Solar and wind were my options, though I have a whole house generator if/when they aren't adequate.

It isn't ever going to be financially a cheaper option. Never. I'm never going to break even, it will never cost me less than mains power. This is also because I will continue to be on the upgrade cycle, my installer happily lets me trade my old stuff in.

It is, however, much less expensive than homes with similar sizes. The house is on zones and heated according to use. I have no AC as it isn't required. The passive solar and the external temperatures means it never gets very hot here.

I'd be happy to answer questions, but I really don't know much about it. I had it all done for me and barely understand it. There is an in-place monitoring service that tells me what is going on, but I keep that firewalled from the 'net. It lets me see what is doing what, how much energy is stored/produced, what gets pushed out to the grid, etc...

As I said, it's not meant to be green nor will it ever be cost effective. I've only produced more energy than consumed for the past few years. I often have no mains power for a week at a time. Using a generator for that long wasn't really conducive to my lifestyle.

The installation wasn't cheap. I live near Mt. Washington, on the side of a mountain, and wind is a serious issue and I get 3 to 4 meters of snow every year. The best I can offer is pictures. I haven't invested much energy into learning the details and I have absolutely no intentions to try working in it myself.
It seems like Microsoft has "learnt" from Chrome and the whole web-apps ecosystem where the users are conscripted into accepting continuous updates. I don't doubt that the average user is better off, but they should be making escape-hatches available for the technical folks who wish to exert a greater level of control over machines they administer.
Frank Blokland is working in this direction. I don't think every aspect of typography is amenable to being reduced to a mathematical model, but some things are.

http://www.lettermodel.org
I turn off WiFi, data and location for a good part of the day.
fascinating book! love the follow up too!
According to the comments it actually is a huge issue and multiple people got their data corrupted.
Windows 10 LTSB, at least at the pricing level the companies I work with get, is >$300 / seat. That's a steep price to get the basic level of control that came with OEM Windows 7 Professional.
Mean? Organizations don't have feelings. People do.
It sounds like they did a beautiful thing: looking out for the rest of their team.
There is another part to the analogy: we've all woken up to the fact that corporations re-engineered the food supply after World War II. They were hacking the human body. I think I didn't get this say in the year 2000, but I really get it now.

Think about what your grandparents ate vs. what your parents ate (assuming you grew up in the U.S. and are in the 20's-30's age range. Anecdotally the effect seems to have been particularly strong in the midwest.). It's like night and day.

It's not a coincidence that the food was remade by large corporations during that time. And likewise it seems obvious to me that we will look back on this time in 20 years and see that big corporations were hacking the human brain, like they were hacking the human body 50 years ago.

Now I don't think it is a matter of evil people in dark boardrooms. But if you believe in capitalism, and you believe in biology, then this effect is almost inevitable. It would be surprising if it did NOT happen.
> The issue is that once you hit undefined behavior, the optimizer is allowed to do whatever it wants - the proverbial launch nukes, crash, raid your fridge, etc.

That's not quite how it works, or at least not what usually happens. Optimizers don't look for undefined behaviour to then do whatever, they look for the set of defined behaviours and then try to generate the cheapest code that behaves correctly in all those cases--and if that means that undefined cases do weird stuff, that's an acceptable side effect.

That in particular means that the potential for undefined behaviour to occur at runtime does not make the program undefined. If you ask the user to input a number and you then use that number as an index into some array without any input validation, the user could enter an out-of-range index, in which case the behaviour of the program would be undefined. But if the user inputs a valid index, the program must not exhibit any undefined behaviour.

Therefore, yes, if any of the bytes are not inside any valid C object, then that would produce undefined behaviour. Which is precisely why the compiler would be allowed to combine the loads into one 32-bit load: As the code, if it takes that path, is going to load all four bytes, and accessing a byte outside any objects would result in undefined behaviour, the compiler may assume that all accesses are within valid objects, and therefore loading them all in one is correctness-preserving.
Are a large percentage of people in our technological society actualized in that way?

Do people that take a 2nd job to put food on the table for their kids see that as progress for the human race?
You can get LTSB on an Open Business license. That's a minimum 5 license purchase to open the agreement.

I'm not arguing that Windows 10 LTSB is easy to get or economical, but I've put it into a couple pretty small companies. It's definitely not geared toward home users, but it's not just "large corporations" either.
It's definitely unethical sometimes. Like the No Man's Sky incident.
Just think... Woz designed this thing when he was 26. Amazing.
To be clear, the only recommendations in the article are long hikes and maybe some arts and crafts.

It's predominantly an anthropological case study.
Ask HN on Show HN: Why is Swing UI still so Ugly ?

2 Decades since it's introduction in 1997 ( I remember being forced to use it in a trading OMS application in 2002), Swing UI looks frozen in time, ugly as ever.
Now they just discharge the patient.

(It worked out okay, but I didn't realize I should have had a wheelchair on hand recently when I picked someone up from a relatively straightforward orthopedic surgery)
I think it’s the number of people which is the problem. Also, there are not 400m Americans. Yet.
Certainly not, I'm all for some arguing on the internet.
Checked out their website, looks as if they could really benefit from somebody with some web skills: https://www.scamsurvivors.com/
But what if it's artificial child porn that looks like your child? Do you really want to enable that?

Currently, in the USA it is clearly illegal to produce porn that resembles a real child, even if no child was exploited to produce it -- despite the fact that purely fictional (e.g., drawn) erotica featuring underage characters is still only of dubious legality. There are justifiable reasons for this.
Part of that is because Java has basically moved onto JavaFX over Swing—and partly it's because I built this specifically to resemble old Swing apps :)
It's likely that the Cavendish would be replaced by a cultivar resistant to the (current strains of the) fungus.
I've looked at the comments and disagree. For a 15 year old bug, there is actually not that much discussion.
That's a stupid thing to be proud of.
It's actually the federal government who put the USPS in that situation by demanding they fund the retirement of employees who weren't even born at the time. Without that ridiculous requirement, the USPS would be perfectly fine, financially.

Straight from the horse's mouth: https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/be-careful-what-you-assume
Sounds a bit like working at Google. "Time to 'gather' some fruits from the micro kitchen!"
Don't confuse technological advancement with overpopulation. The former directly impacts the reduction in natural spaces, the latter is loosely related (but only through the former), at best. If we didn't have to house and satisfy (with resources) so many folks, we wouldn't need to have to expand so much into natural spaces.
Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy [audio]
... which is why trying the access is undefined behaviour, which is why there are no constraints on what the compiler has to do for that case. The standard says nothing about what the compiler has to do in the case that you try to dereference a pointer that points outside an object, therefore it may assume that you don't do so, therefore it may combine the four byte loads into one 32-bit load.
Not yet. I suspect Hub is a pre-cursor to this an experiment of sorts while they also get some useful data in the process.
You know that for a fact? I've never heard that. I'm not disputing it since I've never heard this argument before, but it does fly in the face of the fact that the federal government also demands absolutely massive amounts of money from them: https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/be-careful-what-you-assume
This is not a fair assessment. A big chunk of the direct marketing that results in actual sales comes from catalogs that people order and/or want -- I am not sure I would call that "spam". This type of direct marketing can be very cost efficient -- it's the old idea of selling more to people who are already your customers.

As for the actual junky junk mail, I've seen 1-2% yields from well-designed programs (as others have mentioned). I've seen online campaigns (fb, adwords, amazon, etc.) with comparable yields.
I'm just saying that in the end, happiness isn't the metric reality optimises for so much as survival. Evolution also tends to prod happiness to correlate with survival, but there might be some lag when society/technology is moving much faster than genes can.
Gp was speaking specifically about some holdouts they know.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=apple%20uber&sort=byDate&prefi...
<layperson>

If energy cannot be created nor altered, only change forms, then time seems to be quite arbitrary.

Take money. Think of money as your economic energy. It can change from coins to bills to T-Notes. It can be dematerialized into an accounting entry or a whole lot of Satoshis but ultimately money is just your economic energy.

To track it in your head, you timeline it - my employer/customer owned N units of money earlier, now it belongs to me as a banking entry, later I will convert it to bills to buy a goat etc etc. You may create all sorts of elaborate theories regarding money. There may be tight mathematical rules governing the transformation of money from dematerialized form to bills e.g., your ATM demands a PIN to do the transform which is completely arbitrary as far as money is concerned.

All through these changes, money hasn't changed form at all.

To tie it back to the original piece, energy is mass. Your electron waveform which we interpret as mass is energy. Once we started tracking it, we had elaborate rules (laws) to describe its behaviors but ultimately, it's just energy.

While we are observing the energy, it behaves a certain way which follows all the rules of physics..but much like the ATM and PIN rule, the rule is not relevant to the energy.

Likewise, your need to understand a before and after state for energy forces you to invent time. For example, if you never transformed your money in the bank into bills, as far as your bank account is concerned, no time has elapsed.

</layperson>
But Windows 7 is still under security support and will be till Jan 2020. (See here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifec...)
https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-fede...:

"Visual depictions include photographs, videos, digital or computer generated images indistinguishable from an actual minor, and images created, adapted, or modified, but appear to depict an identifiable, actual minor. "
I'm always surprised when I see things like this, considering the somewhat large number of military officers continually leaving service with this active credential,many of them from pretty technical roles.

What sorts of roles is your firm having such a hard time filling?
Petrochemicals also enabled mechanized warfare. That's a bigger impact on killing power than any squabbles in the Middle East. I expect deaths in Levantine squabbles are also dwarfed by road accidents.
Drat, that video is not available. (At least not in my area.) But I'll dig around for it now that I know the title. Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ82lJkR-OQ

>This documentary about stupidity tells us the history of the word "moron" ...

That's so relevant now that we all know the Secretary of State called the President of the United States a "Fucking Moron", and nobody challenged or disagreed with him, because they all knew he was right.
This is a lot of whats changed in the 20 years I've been in the industry. My first job as an engineer, EVERYONE got an office. Even the new grads. It was assumed you'd need a work space and some quiet to think.

My last job (I'm not taking another), we were packed in like gerbils, cages stacked on top of each other and most of my coworkers were non-technical. Yes, many "programmers" are now non-technical people. They're not scientists anymore, they're janitors.
Paywall. Anyone have link to full article?
Quite.
Sadly, idiots like him/her somehow survive. Being “proud” of the fruits they like/hate, the technology they use, the country they just happened to be born into.

It’s all rather disgraceful. :/
What’s Gone Wrong (and Right) in the Industrial Heartland?
Camille Paglia vs. Identity Politics
Thing is: I trust uBlock Origin more than I trust Mozilla.
That was my thinking as well. Here's an article from 2005 [1]. I remember hearing about it in the early 2000s.

[1] https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-06/can-fruit-be-...