skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh boy, absolutely. Glad to hear that someone else has this experience too. It's like the social part of my brain is drained for blood and energy, and it usually takes an hour or more after having stopped working until things return to "normal".

Say when I'm out traveling or doing some other activity that involves talking to people for most of the day. Conversation flows naturally and I feel at ease interacting with different people about anything really.

This has of course gotten better with regular practice and being aware, but rare times I still feel it is an effort to even produce a coherent sentence in my second language (English) after a really intense day of developing. People notice that I'm acting absent-minded too which is the worst part, but like I said, practice and awareness has generally made it better.
The distinction is that ‘function’ is a type which you can check as in

isinstance(obj, types.FunctionType)
There's an increasing trend of IRC networks having Matrix bridges (inc. Freenode) and Matrix works almost entirely over HTTPS. Perfect for corporate networks and proxies! Helps me to stay sane at work.

https://matrix.org
If the market agreed with you that Intel will suffer greatly in the future due to Meltdown/Spectre the price would have dropped already. Of course you might be correct and the market wrong. You’re short Intel, right?
Every Bitcoin Electrum wallet since 2015 is insecure, update now – explanation
This is something I noticed as well - I upgraded from a PowerBook G3 to a PowerBook G4 in 2009, and then to a MacBook Pro in 2010. I bought the fastest non-unibody machine available, a 2.6GHz A1260. It lasted me very well, five years of daily use before I upgraded. However, I began to notice the backlight issue. I'm a writer in my spare time, so staring at a screen is an occupational hazard. With a CCFL screen, I can stare at it all day at a comfortable level. With an LED screen, full brightness is astonishingly bright, so you have no choice but to use it dimmed. I found I could only go an hour or two at a time in front of my expensive MBP, and for a long time I couldn't figure out what it was. I considered going back to the G4 many times.

It was only after I started using an LED-backlit external screen that I spotted the connection. Apparently I'm a little more sensitive to PWM than average, although perhaps not as much as the OP of the Apple thread. At worst, after about 45 minutes, my expensive LED-lit monitor would give me migraines when dimmed, which the laptop didn't.

Either LED technology has improved or I'm no longer sensitive to it, because my current Clevo laptop is LED (as is just about every screen on the market now) and I'm okay using it for long periods. I had to learn to tolerate the external screen on maximum brightness in a well-lit room for a long time.

It's annoying and certainly not ideal, but I can't blame the manufacturers. CCFLs are power-hungry and toxic, and were always going to lose against LEDs. The technology is easily superior but lacks finesse. It only affects a minority of people, which is probably why it quickly supplanted CCFL - either no study picked it up, or it was such a small number that it could be ignored. I wouldn't want to keep using CCFLs but I wish they'd figured out a better solution before bringing LEDs to market.
Medium to large Django projects were the first times that I began to see the power and usefulness of decorators. The most useful one I've used was a decorator to require certain JSON parameters in a POST and optionally specify a list of possible parameters. Makes the API code logic infinitely simpler, especially if you write some custom middleware to handle / report API errors. The code is clear and declarative, and errors are handled gracefully all in one place.
http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000393/ch09.htm...
I posted the clip because it's a lighthearted argument about the reasons we're pursuing environmentalism.

I think a lot of current hysteria it is driven by petroleum politics and geopolitics. Otherwise, both parties in US government would have been pro-environmentalism. Try to think of why someone might have a different position given that they understand the science.

Finally, regarding humans surviving. What is the ultimate number of humans that should exist on earth? How much environmental damage or "change" is allowed to sustain these humans or for "progress" to occur? How many children should humans be allowed to have? Who gets to decide these things?
Should humans be allowed to develop new industries at the expense of the environment?

Some people think that it's best to live in tribes and forego all technology. Some are content living with current tech advancement and keeping population at about what it is now. Others think humans should spread to as many planets as possible.
Thanks for the tl;dr. I think the "crazy" adjective refers to the instruction, and not to the use of it. As the article explains, the instruction is quite complicated and has a large number of parameters.
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Very good explanation, thanks for your time.

Still something that's unclear to me. Let say I'm observing a star moving away from me at speed of light. Will I see the star? If yes, it means that, those photon-things, have a property which I haven't. Some "move at speed of light" type of property. So now, we have two points on a line, the "value" of a photon (speed of light) and my "value" (speed x), do we? What about that? We cant call that speed because we are saying speed is relative. How do you call that property then? And what is the other bound? Cant be x right?

Or another solution is that, light depends on the observer. Ok got it. 100% got it. Light both has a speed (speed being always dependent from the observer) and both has a property I havent. The key is that light has a special property I havent, but it isnt about speed. Am I correct?
You need a certain fraction of people willing to just do the required work without complaining -- there is only so much schlep a person can tolerate; certain factors like marriage, children, a mortgage, sick parents, and sense of duty can raise the amount someone can handle. There probably aren't enough slots internally to accommodate the others. Compliance is a very useful trait for employees to have, obviously it falls on a spectrum.
The key is extremely. As an example, DDT sprayed to get rid of certain insects killed off a large number of birds at the top of the food chain, such trouble tends to concentrate. So poison the lower levels and the intermediate levels might survive but the apex species will suffer the most.
The title is a clever misdirection. In the article, it refers to a (claimed) tendency for society at large to react more empathically to perceived discomfort among women than among men.

Edit: Although according to wikipedia "empathy gap" seems to mean something quite different from either what I was expecting or the way it's used in the article.
The Stripe frames are set up by JS. What’s stopping an attacker from wrapping it in their own form, collecting, and having it still submit the details to Stripe?
Yes.

> > You could change the "region" on your DVD player or computer, but only 3 times or so.

Before this law the shops selling DVD players (for TVs, not computers) would also give you a sheet of paper with a controller code to turn your machine into a region free player. You'd tap some numbers into the remote control.

After these laws (which were introduced across the world) shops would no loner do this because it was a criminal act.

The fact that I could not legally buy a DVD that was only sold in Japan (never sold in the UK) and play it was really weird and scary. It was now more legal for me to pirate that DVD than to buy a real copy.

So, when people ask me why I pirate so much, DeCSS and DMCA are why.
Apple doesn’t have the competitive pressure that I can take my broken iOS app and run it somewhere else as-is, or tell my customers to do that.

“It works in Chrome” (and previously IE) is a real issue and the browser that broke compatibility like that would have to be supported (potentially through the coercive power of its own market share - see the initial “any open source browser versus IE is a good thing” switching to “we need multiple browser engines, even if they’re all open source”) by the others or face irrelevance.
Buy the machine you need when you need it. If you don't need a new machine right now then yes delay that purchase.
Go uses the same technique[1], or a Duff's device[2] when AVX2 is unsupported.

I am convinced that similar tricks are employed by almost every language runtime or standard library (GNU libc also does this, etc.)

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/asm_amd...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
Good read.

I'd also like to point out the Long Reads section of the Hacker News Letter. Otherwise, I wouldn't have noticed this.
In a nutshell it is a very nice illustration of how easy misguided attempts to repair things can be worse than the original problem.
Not sure why you're tired of it since I haven't heard this argument used much.

Regardless, when I say Earth, I mean the rock and likely ecosystems that currently exist and might develop on it. I think these things cannot be easily separated that's why Earth is used.
> This article is going to rub lots of people the wrong way, I suspect, but it's level headed, well reasoned and well written.

I get that this is natural reaction, but don't assume that people who disagree with something do so because it offends them. I didn't like the article because I don't find it very insightful. I think it generalizes too much and takes things at face value.
Thunderbird and apple mail are both very popular clients that support PGP via plugins.
A lot of experienced people in the computer graphics industry doubt Magic Leap and their claims -- myself included.

It is a fact that what ML started out saying they were going to do is not what they are currently doing. And what they are currently doing is incredibly similar now to the Hololens.

> I don't know whether Magic Leap actually will produce anything of merit, but this blog won't help anyone find out.

I think the author of this blog post isn't wrong.
Like Sweden, UK and Germany?
> not just for the technical

I was mainly referring to putting Gentoo on a free-hardware* machine, so I don't think that would be recommendable to non-technical users for some time, but otherwise, yeah, agree with all your points.

Especially about buying new machines - Linux is very much a real benefit when hardware isn't considered disposable.

* which doesn't really exist in full, yet, but there's seems to be some initiatives gaining momentum.
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Oh, if you're referring to biological magnification then yes, but that's not the problem we're talking about, right? We're talking about global warming, which leads to species dying off (due to habitat loss, etc.) rather than staying alive but accumulating toxins... that's where I don't get how things would be any different if we were lower in the food chain?
> The average HN user is not the typical desktop/laptop user.

Maybe so, maybe not. Personnaly I have the hunch that most HN users use the same setup as the typical desktop/laptop users.
tl;dr JSON RPC server on localhost with wide-open CORS; any web page you go to could have stolen your coins. Publicised by Tavis Ormandy.
> This was a Big Thing On The Internet back in 2000 . . . before the Pirate Bay, broadband, and Netflix.

Just a nitpick, but this was not before Netflix; I remember this vividly because I was called to a friend's house to troubleshoot their problems with Netflix DVDs and it was because their DVD player had been purchased off ebay for cheap and was region-locked.

The super-cheap DVD rentals offered by Netflix were really game-changing for people who were interested in DVD quality but couldn't justify the cost of purchase/rental in my area.
Use blockchain :-)
You are describing a more complex wheel already.

The first used wheel bas probably some vague round stone with a hole it it.

It sucked, but it was better than no wheel.
I agree with you and the grandparent partly, but if you take an intersectional view of diversity issues, solving diversity and (as you put it) increasing inter-group empathy are effectively one in the same. For me, the constant rearing of this connection (societal scale problems being solved in tandem by solving other societal scale problems) is what convinces me that ideas of intersectionality are real, but sadly leads to the conclusion that yes, the problems are extremely difficult and operate on generational scales.
Yeah. RISC-V is good.
In their faq they do seem to step over RAII as an idiom to have scalable and maintainable memory management without garbage collection.
For (semi-) realtime systems, the predictability of RAII is a huge benefit.
Maybe use SHA256 rather than MD5.

A few years hence ease of producing MD5 collisions might render moot anything that you had to say.
Progress and Poverty more like.
pi, e, √2 are thought to be normal [0], which would make them Disjunctive sequences [1]. This means that every finite string appears as a substring in them, including for example all Shakespeare works, and the ADN of every person [2].

In particular they contain this illegal prime number, and the gzipped and non-gzipped versions of this program in every programming language possible.

Does that mean that they may become illegal someday if they are proven to be normal?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive_sequence

[2] http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pimatrix.html

(edited to add links)
They have practically done that, none of their unique technology works, but not everyone is aware that this is what has happened.
Moon-walkers: Alan Bean and Charlie Duke.

Other Moon orbiters: Jim Lovell, Tom Stafford, Fred Haise, Al Worden, and Ken (TK) Mattingly.

Of those, I've had an extensive conversation with TK, moderate conversation with Jim Lovell and Fred Haise, some conversation with Alan Bean, and listened to talks and Q'n'A sessions with all of them.

Most were pretty moderate in the words they used, but in most cases you could hear between the spoken lines the frustration, and the yearning to see flights beyond LEO. In the longer, more personal conversations their feelings were obvious when the topic came up, supporting the impression obtained from the more moderate, public statements.
Is there any place to get a proper manual of all these uses?
from the article

> I had also heard something years earlier about autistic people having issues with certain types of clothing similar to my own.

similar in what way?
from https://www.autismspeaks.org/blog/2017/06/05/autism-and-resi...

> We know that many people on the autism spectrum prefer relatively snug-fitting clothing that covers their arms and legs.

...i did not know that. however, i did know that incredibly fashionable people prefer relatively snug-fitting clothing that covers their arms and legs, thank you.
I would argue that there is a discrete population with the 'disease' of ADHD, in the same way that doorways are a discrete difficulty for people who are very tall. One must either move into a house with very tall doorways, or learn to stoop. In any case, you'll probably often bang your head. This analogises to ADHD because failure to meet social and societal expectations often has real (and occasionally very painful) consequences.

'Attention' is normally distributed, but the environments that smoothly manage different degrees of attention are not.
Larger code size is not for free either.

Besides, this translation layer is not a major source of complexity anymore. Even instruction decoding in x86 is not a big deal anymore.
It is showing confidence that the author know what he is talking about, because as you can see he ran the code and that part did not run.
Do you think that in fifty, maybe one-hundred, years people will look back at our present day understand of psychiatry and shake their heads.
Almost sounds like the neurons dedicated for auditory processing have been temporarily allocated towards the visual/logical tasks, hence the delay in switching back ;)
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An illegal prime reminds me of the article "What Colour are your bits?" from Matthew Skala http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
So, has the law changed? What's its impact today?
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Thanks for writing this so clearly. It also captures my personal view on the matter. I have not been involved in such research, but friends of mine have. So I have been looking at it on the side, concluding what you wrote.
Not disagreeing that the saying may be made up, but Scientist != engineer.

This is Especially applicable here in photonics and sight.

Most engineering works in approximations that get taught as rules. One needs to be very careful of the assumptions they're making about the physical world and eyesight when discussing AR.
I wonder whether this scenario is now going to play out in the opposite way, with Google ditching Blink for Servo once Mozilla finishes morphing Gecko into Servo with the Firefox Quantum project.

Who would win then? Google's money and marketing power, or Mozilla's independence, trustworthiness and being the renderer's creator?
Ugh. Don't do that. The water is disgusting in Ontario. There are some pretty strong guidelines regarding eating fish from there too. Heard stories from people who need to test it and filter it for injectables. It's not out in the wilderness, but it's still a good idea to just avoid it. So you drank one bottle that's different from sustained consumption.
> 'Attention' is normally distributed, but the environments that smoothly manage different degrees of attention are not.

Does that mean we should be prescribing amphetamine to those who don't function well in the available environments?
We can invent ourselves out of fossil fuel reliance. It's more complicated but the work is underway.

Never is a long time.
IQ also correlates with future-orientation, which is basically self-control and anti-criminal behaviour. Being more or less likely to commit a crime is a huge success predictor.
There has been a lot of progress recently on the web-platform-tests project [1]. This is a cross-vendor effort to improve interoperability on the web platform through testing.

Historically the process for building web-platform features has been to write a spec and then assume that implementations of the spec would reach compatibility in an ad-hoc manner by patching until sites worked. The big innovation of the last decade — still controversial to some — was the idea that it's OK to adjust the specs themselves when implementations have converged on some other behaviour or when the spec is otherwise wrong. The goal for the future is to use the same engineering discipline that you would use for developing software to developing the platform itself. In particular the objective is:

* Every change to a spec that influences browser behaviour must be accompanied by a corresponding test case.
* Every change to a browser that affects a cross-platform feature that isn't already adequetely tested must be accompanied by cross-browser test cases.
* The results of those tests must be visible to browser vendors in a way that makes it easy to identify the higest value bugfixes (e.g. cases where N-1 browsers agree and one is different, or cases where a spec change makes previously correct behaviour — which may not have shipped yet, but just be enabled on nightly builds or behing a flag — wrong).

Apart from the work of actually writing the test, achieving those goals involves a lot of infrastrucutre work to ensure that the cross-browser tests are well integrated into the development cycle of each browser and are able to cover as many scenarios as possible (testing often involves manipulating the browser in a way that is not exposed to normal web content). Despite the large scope of the project, I think it's agreed that modernising the way the platform is developed, and prioritising interoperability at all stages of spec and browser development is essential to avoiding existential threats to the open web in the long term. Certainly Mozilla put a lot of resources into post-hoc fixes for site-compatibility issues, and whilst there will probably always be some bugs that slip through, it will be much more efficient to catch those problems up-front before they ship to end users.

I sadly don't have data to backc this up, but I'm pretty sure we're already seeing the effects of this effort, with recent, complex, features shipping with fewer cross-browser issues that we would have predicted five years ago.

[1] http://web-platform-tests.org/
I do not. In fact I love taking a break from programming after a long day and talk to people. I think they work different parts of my brain, so it's relaxing.
A bit late to this party, but: Campbell et al.'s "Biology" is the best textbook I've ever read. It starts at entry level but goes really deep. Everything is explained very well and beautifully illustrated. To add context to the "hard" scientific content, there are also interviews with leading researchers in biology who provide their points of view on the main themes of the book.

There is a bewildering confusion of editions and versions of this book, but look for a book called "Biology" or "Campbell Biology" with Neil A. Campbell and Jane B. Reece in the author list, but not necessarily listed first. There is what I believe to be an abridged version called "Biology: Concepts and Connections", and something called "Biology: A Global Approach", which may just be the name for the newest editions.
I know exactly one person who uses it. To me it always seemed like 4chan-light.
Do you have actual facts to back up your first paragraph? If it's just an informed opinion, mine is: if you can, you should definitely wait before buying new server parts.
No, if you read the article, you can learn that a decorator is a callable which can return ANYTHING, not just callables.
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Any non-Latin string operations.

While technically UTF16 is variable length, 99.99% cases use single word per character. I.e. on modern hardware with branch prediction and speculative execution, these branches don't affect speed. With UTF8, CPU mispredicts branches all the time because spaces, punctuations and newlines are single bytes even in non Latin-1 text.
No need to learn strict POSIX shell. If you learn bash from a good guide and it should explicitly inform you about bash specific features. This way you can learn both at the same time.

On top of that you can use `checkbashisms` tool to lint your script against bash specific syntax.
I don't think a lot of people can jump into Page 6 of a document called Kernel booting process and understand it.

It requires knowing something about the topic, and maybe some of those who don't would have to look up and read about 1, 2, 5, 10 different topics that show up in the article that they didn't know about before.
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Almost all problems I have with JS projects have to do with npm. It got better with lockfiles, but it seems they're inventing new problems...
Emergence of Invariance and Disentangling in Deep Representations
Already counting down th days before yarn is considerd the new defacto standard package manager...
Julia vs. Python: Julia language rises for data science
Given all the recent articles about "techies have less empathy" I stopped reading before I got to the end, assuming it would be another one of those.

But thanks for pointing out that in fact it was talking about something else (and I largely agree).

Yes, wikipedia's "empathy gap" does seem to be talking about something else yet again.