skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The funny thing I have always thought about mac vs win is that mac was so set on doing it “their way(think different)” that they ignored UX that really was intuitive and “just worked”

Mac was so set on being different, that they aschewed UX tropes that were natural.. and had to spend ridiculous amounts of resources trying to convince people that their way was the right way, but clearly it was not.

This, IMO, is where the “fanboi” concept evolved.

Brainwashing.

Who cares - in the long term - where the UX and UI elements came from, the point is to make machines immediately accessible to humans creative desires, not to mold workflows to a corporate ego...

So, Apple figured out how to develop products that were managed through the extension of the desire of the user, but they are still struggling with the requirement from Jobs to be “different” - and Ives’ perception of a common user is skewed toward “Ives’ has stated that this is how it should be done” type design, which I find completely ironic given the whole “think different, so long as it’s exactly how I am designing you to think” campaign is a hypocracy that goes up to an 11
At least some of those "clever" programmers will eventually become "wise" enough to avoid doing that.
> It is a car with seatbelts that don’t work; a car without any seatbelts is better.

This is a wrong comparison.

Furthermore:

As an early enthusiastic Whatsapp user I'd love to use Whatsapp if it had continued developing into what Telegram is now instead of selling out and start feeding data Facebook.

Right now

-one side has sketchy crypto (according to world leading cryptographers AFAIK) and correct incentives

while the other side has

-- good crypto,

-- incentives stacked towards tracking me (contrary to their previous promises)

-- and a track record of doing exactly that

I don't think it is an obvious choice without trade-offs either way.

But it's not like "just use Whatsapp" is an obvious alternative.

(Signal seems to be a completely different story but most of my contacts don't use it.)
> I think that the Mac back then was head-and-shoulders a better system than Windows.

I completely disagree.

First of all, Windows 95 had preemptive multitasking (the Amiga was the only computer that had this at the time), Mac OS was single task and used a terrible scheduling and it would be years before Mac OS gained preemptive multitasking because of terrible architecture choices that made this extremely challenging.

From a GUI standpoint, Windows 95 was a total revolution and made Mac OS look completely antiquated: rendering, scrolling speed, font types, menu items and dialogs, etc...
Clearly we'll work out how to deliver through the atmosphere.
But the VPN traffic itself may be shaped as well.
the social construction of reality. Read and watch your world unravel
I think there's a huge need an opportunity here, but what you listed (part time, self-serve, skills matching) is part of these other platforms already.

It sounds like you're leaning towards extreme quality ($100/hr+ rates). If that's the case, I think the question is, how is the $100/hr developer 2x better or faster than the $50/hr developer?

I've been burned many times by low cost developers but I've also found some fantastic ones. Similarly, I've been charged top-tier rates promising quality, but delivering the same quality or lower than someone who lives in an area of the US with a much lower cost of living.

I guess the question is, how do I know that developers on your platform will be worth their top-tier rates?
Hayao Miyazaki had a scathing critique of a team that created a neural network designed to draw/animate on its own. It’s worth noting because his main criticism is that the more we offload these techniques to machines, we lose an element of creativity in ourselves.

Videos only two minutes but even that little time of ripping into the team that made the NN is hard to watch.

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/12/that-time-miyazaki-absolut...
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Fair enough, no point trying to dispute a family anecdote!
Iterating towards v1.0
By law, NSLs can request only non-content information, for example, transactional records and phone numbers dialed, but never the content of telephone calls or e-mails.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL33332.pdf

NSLs don't break well-designed and well-implemented E2E encryption. They can obtain metadata, which can still be harmful, but that's it.

If you want metadata on Telegram users, just hack Telegram's ISP. If the NSA hasn't already done so, I'd be surprised.
I get what you are saying, I am not familiar with the research. But the video game analogy was proving my point, not the opposite.

I love to learn a new level or video game characters future is at stake. Mario's death is not a loss that triggers great anxiety for me.

Needing to get certification in a field that I am not familiar with, so that my family can stay fed and not be homeless, tends to take the "joy" out of learning for me.
That is not true. Many people, including 'pioneers and experts' think that we are going to far in how big of a deal we are making this out to be.

We can not do this forever if we want a real human outpost there.
This is confirmed by research in the book Learned Optimism (great read for depression).
One important thing the Trump presidency is teaching us, is you can have a President that does nothing, and the world does not end (and neither do the US).

The logical consequence is, we probably don't need Presidents.
It happened in the 90s. It will happen again.
Alexa/Sonos is here... it's called the Sonos One
It's a big deal. This is essentially our equivalent of the prime directive.
I can believe it if the application is written properly using a functional paradigm to make it parallelizable. In Java this almost inevitably means making endless copies of objects to pass to functions and then immediately discard, except the discard isn't immediate. It doesn't happen until the garbage collector kicks in. So you end up with a memory use graph that looks like a sawtooth as the garbage collector is discarding hundreds of megabytes of temporary objects every time it runs.

I've seen this on a modded Minecraft server with a half dozen players connected. It would thrash over a gigabyte of memory every 5-10 seconds or so. I had to tweak the garbage collector to avoid performance hitches.
When you don't pay your web developer
This article is from 2014. The fact that it is 2018 and we still have to convince people this is a bad thing is alarming.
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>You have to pick one.

Why? Why can't you have both? Once we verify that there isn't measurable life on Mars, we can start a human settlement.
This was a fun side project I've been working on for the last few weeks. It's been a nice way to find books on new topics, and some new subreddits too.

The home and subreddit pages are prerendered and served statically, so I didn't need to deal with databases or javascript.

I just looked at comments with Amazon links rather than actual book titles so the counts are pretty small, but the ordering should be fairly accurate.

I'm using Amazon Affiliate links. Depending on how popular the site is after the initial wave dies down in a few weeks, I'll either run it as a tiny business or wind it down to a hobby data science project.

I'd appreciate any feedback!
The article mentions that despite prices going down, not up, people are still buying fewer clothes. Not sure if they are counting skus or expenditure, my guess is expenditure, so if prices per article are going down (H&M vs Levi's), then of course total spending on clothing will go down, even while consumption remains the same.

In any case, to me it means less waste.
Probably fewer "outfits" (count of pants or shirts).

But in my travels the outfits are all of quality (highest that the person could afford or find) and they are all very clean.

I had an hour-long conversation with a Guatemalan woman about how she hand-washes her whole family's shirts and pants every day because they each only have two sets - one for today and one for tomorrow. She took great pride in how well-dressed and clean her family was despite them not having the resources for many clothes, a washing machine, or the luxury of not having to do hard, dirty work on a regular basis.
I'd be more concerned about the developer side, particularly new developers and OSS contributors, the wide attack surface introduced by such complexity, long-term inflexibility, impossible to track down bugs, etc more than anything. I'm sure they have plenty of people to QA from the user perspective, just clearly not the code.

Maybe the developer was pressured to focus on releasing quickly over code quality...yada yada. The typical startup developer story. But not a story that I like to find in my security-focused software.
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No, but it's important that we control and police language and shove PC culture into your head at absolutely any opportunity and just grind and grind and grind away at any artifact of traditional culture.

Case in point - see the 900 post Tesla Falcon Heavy thread, where the majority of the discussion centered around a tangential point over gender expectations.
Privacy Car = classic car. Or even just a bit older car. If it's from the 90s and before it probably won't be able to track you. Of course, it will probably be less safe in a crash too.
> After adjusting for inflation, wages have fallen and rents have increased. They've been increasing at a pace of roughly 3% above inflation/year:

Where in that link does it say per year? The text and the chart show a 4% rise above inflation total from 2007 to 2015. That rate of rise is in line with the numbers from last year[1] that show housing as a whole rose somewhere between 0.5% and 1% more than overall inflation.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/mobile/consumer-price-inde...
From the WireGuard website[0]:

> WireGuard is not yet complete. You should not rely on this code.

So...should we not rely on this code?

[0] https://www.wireguard.com/#about-the-project
I’m trying to suss up some old memories...

But NT was the first winOS which supported multi-proc, correct?

NT4 was the first OS I could have my dual 266 intel procs run softimage IIRC
Yes, you can SSH into the device and change a config file. This is a hacker's dream indeed.
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The hysteria over what amounts to a blip in a seemingly endless run-up of the markets has kind of surprised me over the past few days. Not sure what to make of it, but it has been interesting to watch.
>a country that is mostly involved in their own shit and area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War

By using telegram you are directly supporting the Kremlin.
> Secondly, I think the "if it's slow just rewrite the hard parts in C" is generally out of step with more modern options.

Right, including modern options like “use Cython”, which opens up C-like power and performance within the Python ecosystem and while maintaining Python ergonomics (because Cython is both a Python language superset and had tooling integrated with Python's distutils, etc., tooling.)
It's pretty much constant in the video; just keep watching until you notice small particles floating about. I recall them being visible especially well about 1 hour into the stream.
Agreed, that goes to my comment about transportation vs. application layer. Transport security is just one small part of IoT security, of course. It is not a solved problem, but there are a lot of best practices that just aren't addressed most of the time.

To put it another way: Mozilla proposal needs to work with _multiple_ security models. They won't get there overnight.
> The gap, however, is an artifact, a social construct that has no implications for “social justice,” drivers are treated equally.

That’s not supported by the article. For example, why do men have more experience with Uber? Is it because women were initially more skeptical of the idea given possible risks to their physical safety? Why do women drive less and quit more quickly? Is it because they’re more likely to do Uber as a side gig to primary domestic duties?

What the author probably meant to say is that the evidence shows Uber isn’t discriminating. That doesn’t mean the data isn’t relevant to social justice concerns.
Or, "Gig economy is the natural evolution of free markets".

With the Internet, now I can find the best logo designer in the world, rather than within 30min driving distance. When the supply of labor goes up, prices go down.

I'm sure just the top X% of gig workers reap the most rewards in the gig economy, but it's a free market situation and if they weren't being rewarded enough they'd raise their rates or stop working. That doesn't seem to be the case though.
I don't think it's as much a generational issue vs. a haves vs. have-nots issue. It's just more likely that younger folks fall into the have-nots category and thus gives the appearance of a generational issue. To wit, I can provide lots of anecdotes of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers suffering in this economy in the same manner as the Millenials described in this article. What they have in common is their (lack) of economic power. You should acquaint yourself with the term "monopsony" and how it relates to a labor market.
> I feel like there's better ways to solve that than "no internet for you, and internet you do have is Being Watched".

What are those ways?
Interesting! I really like this from their description: "Compared to behemoths like *Swan/IPsec or OpenVPN/OpenSSL, in which auditing the gigantic codebases is an overwhelming task even for large teams of security experts, WireGuard is meant to be comprehensively reviewable by single individuals."

It's so rare and so pleasant to see people treating small code base size and high comprehensibility as a major benefit, rather than a nice-to-have or a negative.
I really like zeroTier
Well, one could use this data to claim that a pay gap of on the order of 7% is plausibly not relevant to "social justice". In other words, if you didn't have sex discrimination, you'd have a pay gap of something like 7%. Not many industries, I believe, have gender pay gaps that small. If you have truly gender-blind, performance only returns to pay, your gender pay gap should be single-digit.
Not sure if you can still do it but years ago at my first job one of my coworkers (with a BSC and MSC in mech eng) got the full workshop manual for his partners car so he could work on it.

I assume that he also did that for his Mustang which had been prepped for drag racing (the top class that is legal to drive on the road)
WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel
>Nothing is wrong with consensual sex, period.

Is that entirely true? If I say "nothing is wrong with eating Big Macs, period" that's right in one sense. But you and I can see with our own eyes what an unrestrained diet of Big Macs might do, and it's bad, if not legally wrong.

You might say the problem with unrestrained eating is the desire or relationship with food, not the object (the Big Mac), but in that case traditional morality is also saying something about the focus of 'healthy' desire, not the sex act.

Even if you strip away the "wrong," the way people incorporate sex into their relationships and ethics will make lives better or worse.
Not coincidentally, the human population has doubled in the same timeframe.

Is everyone else screaming inside, or is it just me?
I was in Mexico last week near Cancun and observed exactly that. I always saw the locals with jeans and a nice shirt. There's no way I could do that in 85F weather.
Because it doesn't matter that you can't walk a hundred million light years, if your goal is 5 meters away from you.
More than likely it's going to get ejected within the sun's gravity well and will slowly get pulled into the sun where it will cease to exist.
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Why not store the data only where you live ? Worst case meteor strikes and you die with your data.
say anything to another person starting with "you .... " will immediately bring up defenses and come off as argumentative and passive aggressive and all kinds of boundary violations going on there. There is no harm in saying what you feel:
"I feel bad about the way we talked last time"

Unless I read this the wrong way, are you being addressed like this by someone?
It's the outright ban on wifi that feels draconian. How would you handle it?
We could call it the World Wide Web.
Are we assumed to have contaminated the Moon?
As I assume that the load-scripts.php file is only used for the admin interface, it seems silly that WordPress didn't want to classify this as a bug and make it only accessible to authorized users.

Does anyone have an idea why this is?
Always have this issue with Xcode.

Somehow it is able to open up the device manager and THEN give the window in the background focus when I switch to my editor and back to Xcode with cmd+tab.

So I have to move the Xcode window down, to grab that backgrund thing what seems to be part of Xcode.
Though the odds of that life surviving for extended periods of time in space is close to nil.
Here's my workflow for this situation.

Four fingers up, expose.
Drag the windows you need up top into a new desktop.
Command (or control? Or option? Or a combination?) Plus the right arrow to switch desktops.
Try all the combinations until I get to the right desktop or throw the damn thing out a window.
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Yes, rents are certainly included in CPI. For me, it's more a question of weighting. When it's not uncommon to find people spending 50% of their income on rent, are rents being appropriately weighted in the CPI?
You might use up your traffic allocation and your provider might shut the server down if it disturbs other tenants.
This will hammer your CPU to the wall too. If it's a cheap cloud provider that is charging you based on the assumption that you're not actually going to use very much CPU and the server you're running on is overprovisioned, they'll get angry. If you're paying for 100% of the specs you're getting, it won't bother them (i.e., AWS, where even the 'overprivisioned' tiny VMs are overprovisioned with specific SLAs for what that means, and you're still welcome to use 100% of that promise).
There's that Marxist "exploitation" language again.

Don't want to do it? Then don't work like that.

Want something better? Start your own business.

It's that simple.
It's typical in mil & aviation software to get specs with a required 50% cpu & memory reserve in anticipation of updates in the maintenance window (which could be shown as decades for many products).
Maybe it's geographic. I've used VRBO exclusively and never found a comparable option on Airbnb. VRBO fees to renters seem lower and you feel closer to the property owner with less glam or polish from the agent obscuring the realities of the property.

VRBO feels like craigslist, while airbnb feels like eBay to me.
Definitely. "Never say never. Always give it your all. It's all or nothing." Everyone constantly says these things all of the time, but it's totally untenable. Besides being harmful, it's completely cliche. It's time everyone comes to terms with it. It's the subtle things that kill ya. Everything must be reexamined and reworked -- a complete and full examination of our entire vocabulary -- every jot and tittle. A massive undertaking yes, but we must. Let's face it, we need whole-scale change. Change is the only constant, and it's now or never. We must all pledge to absolutely never ever say these things again. Ever.
I don’t know, but I know some people you could ask.
Hi, do you happen to have the list of absolutist and non-absolutists words you have used? I couldn't find it in the publication and the comment below (by slig, which lists the absolutist ones) does not give its source.
I think I would measure my life by how many people come to my funeral because they will miss me due to the positive impact I have had on their lives.
Yes, that would have been appropriate as woolvalley specifically brought up Microsoft, and your reply talked a lot about Microsoft's source available release as if it were meaningful counter-example to woolvalley's reference to "closed source."

You wondered why you got downvotes? That's why.

I have no dog in this race.

If you "personally do agree" then why do you bring up an argument that you disagree with, in order to justify your views? It comes across as if you are making the argument to win some sort of rhetorical point, where the end - your advocacy of C# - justifies any tactic.

I do not care to follow up on this discussion any longer.
The GP and lima have both claimed that one can transfer files without the cloud, but this is not mentioned in their FAQ (https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us).
This is a direct quote: "Use the reMarkable desktop app or the reMarkable mobile app to transfer documents and ebooks onto your device. Once imported, your files will be synced across your connected devices. reMarkable works best with our custom built apps for iPhone, Android, PC and Mac."

By using a search engine on their web-site(!) one can find details about USB support: "NB: This functionality is currently experimental, as we haven't fully implemented it yet. We will work to improve how this works and looks in future software updates."

Maybe this is a great device which allows open access, but it's very difficult to figure this out from their website.
Vreal raises an $11.7M Series A (VR live streaming platform)