skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kind of short on details but a few things I’m curious about...

First, function keys are not necessarily “normal” when pressed; by default they also require “fn” to be pressed, otherwise they perform a system function (Dashboard, sound volume, etc.). And since you can turn off a lot of these features in System Preferences, I can imagine that these keys might be set to do nothing.

It is also possible for Mac applications to install system-wide hot keys, theoretically overriding even single key presses. At the very least you need to know what apps are currently running to debug this.

It is also possible to install your own keyboard overrides, through System Preferences. Need to check those.

I’m probably missing some other things. The Mac is extremely flexible when it comes to the keyboard.
No, there's nothing special about it, and I probably shouldn't have used that term because it might convey that it is particular to Node. Event loop, callback based programming is easily implemented in most languages.
> One challenge with stimulating areas of the brain associated with mood, he says, is the possibility of overcorrecting emotions to create extreme happiness that overwhelms all other feelings.

Terrifyingly, this risk does not seem far off the wireheading described in gwern's article, Terrorism is not Effective.

> I have just laid out a scheme whereby agents extraordinary only in dedication have exerted world-shaking power. Similar scenarios are true of other sectors. (The Secret Service works hard, but can they protect the President against the 100 fanatics?) Destruction and offense is always easier than construction and defense, but it’s hard to see why the fanatic advantage would be completely negated in constructive enterprises. (Small groups of programmers and engineers routinely revolutionize sectors of technology, without being especially fanatical.) But of course, we see very few such schemes in either direction. That is the point. There is a very large gap between what we can do and what we will do. Coordination is extremely hard (see again the principal-agent problem).

> But the scary thought is - will things remain that way? I have been at pains to keep the agents ordinary. Is there any way now or in the future to create such agents? [...]

> In short, is there any reason to believe wireheading will not work in humans like it works in mice? [...] That is one scenario. Here is another: the electrode is under the control of a program connected to metrics chosen by the subject, like going to the gym. (Related topic: nicotine & habit-formation.) The incentives are much more closely aligned: the subject could gain control of the stimulation, but that would frustrate another goal of his (going to the gym). Imagine the program hooked up to a comprehensive plan for attacking Goldman Sachs; one rather doubts that an agent will break the plan and not eat bulgur pilaf if that means he is simultaneously sabotaging the plan and also depriving himself of pleasure.

http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism-is-not-Effective
In fairness, I've had to do far worse to get my middle mouse button working and my display to use the right resolution on Ubuntu in the past five years.
"ETH/ICOs are threatening the standard financing model"

ICOs are challenging nothing.

ICOers are selling 'numbers' for real money - and the value of those 'numbers' is going to zero pretty quickly.

BTC will be around for a while, but these ICO-ers are selling nothing in return for real money, and that won't last. It will end soon.

Nobody has a 'lock' on the 'VC' model. Anyone can invest - including you. The issue relates mostly to regulations, which are there to protect you - and also actual ownership of assets, which is a pretty big deal.
I'm so happy with this comment right now, we've discovered time travel on THN!
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Why Mashable flamed out
Fricken's comment is better than the article itself. The Motley Fool is not a place you want to go for credible business/investing journalism
I can't be perpetually vigilant about all the things that need perpetual vigilance.
How do you interpret cities going bankrupt due to collosal unfunded pension obligations? It takes two to tango- the city is party, but so is the union.
I think they were somewhat beaten to the punch by Ninja Theory's astonishing work on Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice. They won the real-time award at SIGGRAPH 2016 in triumphant fashion. Not only did they create a tremendous technical achievement, but they produced a game with genuine artistic intent on a fraction of a typical AAA budget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yh-zFCILR4

https://youtu.be/OMENy0ptoyM?t=48s
Yup. Increased lifespan with increased ageism results in less productivity, less income, less taxes and more unhappy, idle people.
> Violence, poverty and deprivation are the state of nature.

According to Hobbes. Rousseau had some nicer things to say about the state of nature.

In either case, we're not in the state of nature: we live in prosperous societies, and we both can and ought to provide humane treatment to those who seek it from us.

> If you want to blame the refugees on what the West did, how about the fact that most of these people (most of whom are economic migrants, by the way) would literally not have existed without Western science and technology?

What, like algebra[1] and basin irrigation[2]? "Western science and technology" is built on hundreds of years of near-Eastern and Eastern work. Neither region has any right to claim full responsibility for its fruits.

Even if they did, you would need to be wilfully ignorant to minimize our (Europe and the US's) actions in the Middle East. The fact that we had (and continue to have) a reciprocal exchange of knowledge with them does not excuse what we've done in the modern era.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrigation#History
Yeah, sure. They won't throttle, but they will conveniently not notice saturated links until someone offers to pay them money to upgrade. Kinda like how Verizon did a few years ago with Fios and Netflix.
Not sure there’s a ton of hope here. The rule being rolled back was simply an executive action, not a law. This is why we need our legislatures to get to work providing _laws_ that protect our privacy and not leave us at the whim of the executive office.
"ICO sales took of this summer"

They're almost all flat.

Why does anyone think that anyone will be interested in buying 'Kin' tokens?

These tokens are magic numbers that someone made up.

You people are buying Monopoly money. Worse - Monopoly money is at least made of paper you could use for something possibly.

Kik's Kin tokens are way down, and they are not coming back up. Why on earth would they?

Billions of people around the world are going to start sinking all their money into thousands of fantasy tokens that have no use, and have no value? I don't think so.
>They have just been lied too often by their authorities. And then make the stupid assumption, everything opposite must be true then.

Unfortunately, this explanation seems all too plausible to me.
What he's talking about is putting yourself in a mindset of very low expectations to maximize your own happiness.

For example, if your baseline "expectation" of people is that they will be rude and shitty, then you won't become annoyed when someone is rude and shitty to you. And when someone is nice to you, they have exceeded your expectations and it makes you happy.

So what you perhaps "expected" is that people generally would not be rude, which led to your disappointment when you encountered a rude person, which ultimately just generated annoyance/unhappiness for yourself (i.e. their rudeness is static regardless of how it made you feel).

The point is not really to go around bleakly expecting everything to be shit all the time, but just in general, the lower your expectations are, the less power you give people to disappoint and upset you, and the more you appreciate people for exceeding your expectations. It's not really about whether it's "right" or "wrong" to be annoyed at them but just a mindset shift for your own contentment.
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i'd be interested in learning more about this and maybe seeing some real-worldish examples.
Actually, time travel is real. My name is John Titor, from the year 2036. I'm looking for an old IBM 5100, does anyone here know where I can find one? The future of the world depends on it!
To criticize certain countries and how they handle refugees is not to lay the blame for all the evils of the world at the feet of ‘the west’

And how would modern medicine and western science have faired without Arabic math and the Arabic preservation of Greek medical texts?

World history is complicated, and human misery has many fathers.
Do people actually open pull requests to dependencies in order to implement new features in their projects?

It seems to me that if a dependency is a hard blocker for getting something done, you either switch to a different one, or write the needed code yourself. If you opt to open a PR, that's going above and beyond the call of duty.
Do you feel Italy is a model of productivity thanks to union involvement?
Ummm... We have these.. they are called Dish Washers...

What people actually want more than any other kind is a Dish putting away Robot.
Then we'll be desensitized. That's all there is to it. Nobody's going to put laws in place limiting graphical rendering.

But, I don't actually think you're right, anyway. Crime rates have been going down in the US and Europe, not up. It's just FUD. There's no correlation at all.
Not really. That claim fails trivially to the "evening and morning" of each day.

The argument fundamentally stems from the Protestant belief in "Sola Scripture": that all Christian doctrine and belief derives from scripture. Since many protestants prefer a literal interpretation of scripture, they insist on a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 for consistency.

You can see this backed up if you watch any of the material from Answers in Genesis, as I watched at my church from elementary school onward.

You can also see this reinforced by the fact that young earth creationism literally did not exist as a phenomenon in the early church, or the medieval church, or in modern Catholic and Orthodox churches.

Many early church fathers (and before that, Jewish scholars) long wondered whether Genesis 1 recorded literal history, or if it was a literary story. In particular, they took note of the chronology and found it strange that God created day and night (the first day) before he created the sun (the fourth day).

The strongest argument against literal interpretation, I'm, is that the literary structure of Genesis 1 is so clear: God performance three acts of separation (day from night, waters above from waters below, and waters below from themselves with land) followed by three acts of decoration, where he decorates the previously separated things: sun and moon and stars in the sky, birds in the air and fish in water, and then land animals and man.
Possibly because becoming a software engineer often takes years of schooling, requires a level of aptitude that puts it out of reach for many people, and then requires continuous additional effort to keep up with the field. If this sort of thing is not compensated for more highly than low skill jobs, much fewer people would do it. Of course this argument breaks down if being a tube driver takes as much intelligence, motivation, and education as a software engineer. I don't have experience in that field. But it does seem to me that if you hired a team of software engineers for a few years you could develop a system that would not require tube drivers to exist at all. Then the city wouldn't have to worry about grinding to a halt if anyone quits.

But basically having higher wages for jobs that are harder to fill, or are more important to have highly qualified people in them, seems to be a system that works pretty well. Paying everyone the same wage seems to be a system that has largely failed anywhere it has been tried.
TLDR: theoretically possible with hypothetical extrapolations of existing physics, but incredibly unlikely that the needed extrapolations are both possible and viable for use by humans
I didn't have a dishwasher for four years in the city until we moved to an apartment that had one. "Big deal, I don't need it, I like doing dishes."

Turns out, that doing dishes is fun and easy when you're cooking for two and not spending most of your free time taking care of a new baby.

I miss that dishwasher.
You can buy a piece of a startup, and that has risk, but you take on that risk.

When you buy tokens, you're buying nothing.

So - ownership of something that may have value, vs. ownership of nothing.
They also have to make it past the general election. GOP House members in blue states voting for the tax bill are basically acknowledging they don’t care about re-election. I suspect they hope to get a good job with their donors in exchange for committing political suicide.

I think the GOP knows they are going to get one bite at this apple, and they are taking advantage of it. Hello tax reform and good bye NN.
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if the bottom third has a median income of 500k, the average rent would be 475k.. and they would still be in poverty.

so yes, money is fundamentally a rhetorical trick.
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Just have to count on SpaceX to put the telecoms out of business over the coming years.
Congestion pricing would solve that, and go nicely with robocars too.

(I'm not a fan of cars; I don't drive one myself. But I don't expect people to accept any less convenient and flexible solution.)
> Eww, can you imagine all the filthy on a towel that hasn't been bleached?!

I assume you also bleach your underwear and socks? T-shirts? Gloves? Pants? Dish towels? Sheets?
The fact is ISPs are just a gateway, they shouldn't have any say where the bits come from or end up. They're just the middleman looking to extract more money for zero benefit to consumers.
Seconding homebrew being the one of the few things that makes using OS X bearable. Pqrs also gets my turkey day thanks for making Karabiner, which is another one of those things.
I had a similar reaction when I saw a video of snappers rig[0] in Unreal 4 a couple of months ago - I don't really play many AAA games these days so I guess I must have missed where the rigs advanced to the point where modelling wrinkles in the face became feasible. Their tech[1] seems to be used in a few AAA games and looks pretty convincing to me.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_FALeUc8c

[1]http://snapperstech.com/
Just don’t give them access to all your git repos. It’s pretty easy with github/bitbucket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pd6xHjLbhs&t=1h3m
F4 on my computer is Launchpad, and Dashboard is invoked by pressing Fn-F12. Are you confusing the two?
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My son loved this game. He's no "too old" but this was a game I got him to play on my mom's (his grandma's ipad). They really bonded over it.
Go is multithreaded. Paying a small price to use multiple cores vs. only being able to use a single core? I'll take the multicore. It's not like concurrent lock-free datastructures are without cost...
My impression is that making everything formally verified is a lot of work and it would be very hard to make formally verified code as easy to write as non-verified code.
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Other than pistons not working it doesn't seem like there's a good list of known issues or missing functionality. Is there a link that I'm missing?
Maybe your F11/F12 keys are broken. It may not be a software issue.
In Hogan’s Heros the bombing of ball bearing factories in Düsseldorf was often a plot point. Iirc.
We do share the part that is relevant for the work to be done. We try to isolate it as much as possible and only share that.

We require some paperwork to be signed beforehand and we obviously do not share any production secrets or database information.

We usually have some database stub with fake data that they can work on / spin locally.
No individual cap = money grab
This really hit home for me, and I personally know plenty of other dissatisfied software developers who would feel the same. It’s incredibly sad. And this doesn’t even take into account the problems female developers run into.

The biggest thing for me was the hours. I can’t stand “startup hours”. In my first three years of software development, I guess I lucked out because this wasn’t a problem. But after my first two jobs, I started taking in 9:30-6:30 and 10-7. When I interviewed elsewhere, I came across a new term. I was told “we work startup hours.” Some companies described it using different words, but the meaning was always the same. You’ll be here late, just like everybody else. If you don’t like it, don’t work here.

I got that from three out of the four companies I interviewed for. Not a huge sample size, but hugely demoralizing.

I became a consultant thinking billable hours might save me. It’s not perfect but it’s a hell of a lot better. Working long hours is no longer the norm, as it’s cinsidered “eating hours” and doing free work for clients.
Depends how old your keyboard is:

https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-keyboards-receive-very...
The idea is that you can't do that because the conditions necessary for you to be at the entrance of the time travel working prevent you from being at the exit of the wormhole at the same time.

To get to the entrance, you must leave the Earth (with the entrance) at time X. After you've left, you can enter the wormhole and emerge from the Earth side at time X+e.

You leave Earth in 2020. You leave one end of the wormhole here, and take the other with you on a near-light-speed journey 40 light years away. One year goes by for you due to relativity, you pick up a burger from alien McDonald's, then step into your wormhole- which exits in 2021, not 2040.

Edit: no wait, I can't be understanding this right. You could just journey back home with your wormhole and give it to someone else.
They made great coffee table tops too.
Ah, template<typename T>, how I've not missed thee.
I had edited/removed the comment for a reason, so your revival of it via inaccurate takeaway isn't particularly appreciated.

In light of the responses, I re-considered whether it was best to keep such information here, but you've simply made things more difficult for me with a false representation of a removed post, that I cannot remove and to which I do not wish to respond.

It was my mistake for deciding to share what was posted here, but it would have been common courtesy to let it go (and not revive the comment in interpretive form), since it was removed by me. You could have contacted me privately to discuss further, as a courtesy to me.
> The Mac is extremely flexible when it comes to the keyboard.

True, but the fact that macbooks ship with a keyboard lacking page up, page down, home and end just frustrates me to no end. Much smaller sized laptops manage to include those keys while maintaining comfort. And you cannot make up for missing keys with key combos.
We use rez for package management (libraries) and it does have tools to show every package that depends on your package, or, every library you depend on (and their dependencies) in a node graph.

We use consul UI to show all the services that we have, where they're running, number of instances and so on.

We use ELK for service specific metrics / centralized logs.

We use Confluence WIKI for user / dev docs. Plus the README on the project git.
Just like DDoS attacks are forcing websites to hide behind a small number of major services like Cloudflare, spam is forcing email users to consolidate into a small number of well-known platforms like Gmail and Outlook. It's just too much hassle otherwise.

But unlike in the case of a website using Cloudflare's DDoS protection to fend off attacks, someone who gives up running their own mail server and signs up for Gmail isn't doing so in order to get any direct benefit from Gmail's spam filter. (Open-source spam filters have gotten good enough that they often do just as good a job as Gmail, if not better.) It's almost entirely because of the insane hassle of dealing with third-party blacklists as you said. Google and Microsoft should give them a medal or something.

Many of the blacklist operators are highly moralistic, too. You'd think they were on some sort of holy crusade against the ultimate evil. Of course you are partly at fault for e.g. not enforcing strict password policies on your users, but a small percentage of users are going to get hacked no matter what. I wish the blacklists would redirect at least 10% of their moral outrage at the danger of centralization that they're so willingly facilitating.
I think the point was the zeal that the UK government has in blocking and controlling website access. I'm sure we'll see that here as well - Comcast and Verizon will be glad to block whatever the Trump administration wants in return for even less regulatory oversight (as if it could get any less).
I honestly think that physicists are trapped until they eat their peas about the Copenhagen extraneous assumption and rewrite physics to remove it.

Einstein-Bohm-Bell turn out to have been the right camp, and non-locality not non-determinism is the kooky thing about quantum mechanics. And now we need to rebase ~70 years of physics.

(Also, no one has explained to me why it's appropriate to incorrectly model the topology of tunneling, hence all quantum interactions by pretending things are operating in a manifold.... But that's a debate for a different day.)
Which legislature would that be?
>The catch of the internet is that it allowed for people to disseminate information faster than anything before.

The specific idea was to create a resilient network to allow for decentralized command and control communications in the event of a direct nuclear strike on well-defined targets like the White House or Pentagon or the Capitol building IIRC. From what I can find via searching right now, the currently only claimed intent was to provide communications links between research installations but I remember reading about the purpose I described in some sort of histories of the ARPANET/Internet decades ago on the net.
I don't know if it's just a US thing; in fact, I highly doubt it. But yes, "What are you doing nowadays?" and "How's the job going?" and the like is a common conversation starter among friends and family here, even if just for small-talk.

And, of course, politics is a topic of conversation too, though it will be mutually avoided if it's known it may cause unpleasant friction.
The central dilemma is that there are myriad ways to do it wrong for every one way to do it correctly.