skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An average smartphone contains sensors that can detect any emissions of in wifi and infrared, as well as inaudible audio. While only a portion of what you describe, it's not difficult to imagine an app that could recognize and warn of those things, perhaps even recognize specific devices in the room by their protocols.
not paying enough or not vetting well
Local storage would be advantageous here, and for most cases. VMs are cattle, not pets, and should be redeployable in the event the HV is having issues.
"Trust us, we won't use this big stick that has no legal repercussions from us using it."
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True UWP apps are sandboxed and probably can't do this. They have access to a limited version of the Win32 API, I believe.
How so? In java I can access all screens without requesting a permission.
"Uploaded" no, copied into a perfect or near-perfect simulation.

A perfect copy of an organism is still not the organism, but a copy. Just like your twin brother is not you. You won't live forever in a computer.
It's more his life rather than his death that's controversial. During his life he chose to serve Nero, one of Rome's bloodiest tyrants, and profited greatly from his service. To some that has seemed rather hypocritical for someone who preached a life of self-denial, detachment from worldly things, and distance from rulers and politics.

In Seneca's defense, some have pointed out that he tried to moderate Nero and steer him towards the path of virtue, though he ultimately failed.
As well as the incentives of researchers, developers, and executives in the NN industry.
In store applications without full trust permissions you can not.
There are some other considerations such as having non tax-deductible mortgage debt. Should I buy later I can convert that to tax-deductible investment debt.

(I'm not in the USA).

Also had a lot in a single stock which was going a bit risky for me. (Although my greedy side said hold it, it could be worth a lot in the future). If I buy in again, maybe I will go for an Index or portfolio.
For Developers only.

Don’t bother looking for questions that aren’t about algorithms and code.
I think writing Macbeth isn't a good indicator of anything except being Shakespeare. Asking it a few questions about some general concepts like logic, math, and patterns(relationships in Macbeth maybe?) would probably yield results that are much more likely to pass the test.
Panza’s Paradox
Once again, one of the biggest underlying problems is "why" - or more technically, what is the use case behind <technology>? This was always a problem back when it was merely "home automation" but as we started this "IoT" craze things only got worse.

I laugh at the ancedote in the article about voice control just behind frustrating and resorting to using the physical buttons.

No one has ever explained why I'd want to remotely control my lights. Or why I would remotely turn on my coffee maker, after I have to physically touch it to prepare it before-hand anyway.

Some amount of this tech is useful when it goes unnoticed and solves real problems. For example, my outside lights turn on dimly at sunset and turn off at midnight, unless there's motion or my garage door is open, then they go to 100%. If no inside lights are already on, the front hall and a couple other lights turn on as it gets dark. This means we never come home to a dark house, but also if we're already home, we aren't having lights automatically changing on us.

I can control many things from my phone, but it's pointless. There's a button in the entrance to the kitchen that turns on several lights (that otherwise require using switches in four separate locations), another that makes them all dim, and another for off. If we leave them on, they turn off automatically by 3am.

So much of these IoT products do not solve useful problems, do not blend seamlessly into your life, and do not even work well in the first place.
> I dislike this reductive reasoning because it basically turns predatory businesses into saviors by taking mercy on the poor fools who dared to find themselves with no means to feed or house themselves.

I'm onboard with a big chunk of what you are saying; we would have more if we wasted less, and we shouldn't organise ourselves such that we need to work more than we enjoy leisure time.

On to the part where I disagree - this lead sentence is absurdly one-eyed and anti-business. Employees have agency; it isn't a label applied at birth that they can't shake. It is as easy to quit as to be fired. Nobody is worse off if new sources of employment are made available.

While on the subject, I'm going to take a flying leap and say that the ideas behind there being "predatory businesses"
are going to be completely at odds with the ideas behind "their jobs are pointless". To hold both these ideas in my head at once requires the company management to literally be insane and evil. I'm going to opine that they are not both.
Who’s Competing with Ripple?
I don't know if it's still true, but it used to be the case that if your reply to a comment your downvote to that comment does not count. It was a pretty clever mechanism in that you could be certain any downvotes didn't come from people replying to you.
> Bismuth was long considered the element with the highest atomic mass that is stable. However, in 2003 it was discovered to be extremely weakly radioactive: its only primordial isotope, bismuth-209, decays via alpha decay with a half-life more than a billion times the estimated age of the universe. Because of its tremendously long half-life, bismuth may still be considered stable for almost all purposes.

I learned something new -- Bismuth is technically radioactive.

Bismuth is probably my favorite element, because of the beautiful way it crystalizes and the beautiful colors it has. Beyond the beauty it's also remarkably non-toxic considering its siblings, a form of it is a useful medicine when traveling, and it's more dense as a liquid than a solid like water. It's a really fascinating element. I really recommend reading about bismuth, at least this article, since the article does a good job of explaining a lot of its interesting aspects.
That doesn't necessarily mean that people who identify as religious also attend a church. My family would consider themselves Catholic, yet they don't attend church. In my opinion people have replaced the hole that religiosity used to fill with pop-culture. The amount of time dedicated to reading into the meaning of films/television shows, or worshiping actors/actresses (see tabloids) is reminiscent of the seriousness that religiously dedicated individuals take to scripture.
Not like they get enjoyment or an advantage by using that stick.
I don't think it's only up the market competitors to Google/Apple.

The market doesn't necessarily select against negative side effects, like privacy or the environment. Shifts in these need to happen outside the market. Things like legislative protection about rights, environment, and privacy are going to come from minority demands to claim those rights, not from hoping for a majority market pressure against conveniences that sell well.
Everyone in my social circle was doing this. Then I stopped doing it myself, and found that, all of a sudden, people were taking more time to get in touch with me directly. Not everyone, but enough people for me to be happy. Happier, even. I'm generally a quality-over-quantity person about everything else, so why not social connections, too?
A particularly important read concerning the meaning of life is the book of Ecclesiastes. It tells of Solomon’s great experiment of finding meaning in knowledge, pleasure, wealth, accomplishment, etc..

I am often bewildered by those who pour a great deal of energy in planning for retirement and ignoring the fact that they will soon thereafter be pushing up daisies. Death awaits us all.
Trust us. We're from the government.
The first 7 pages of this was an absolutely fascinating read.

TLDR; In 1800s China, they had “student loans” for aspiring government officials. The caveat was these officials had to hire a “trusted assistant” into their administration, supplied by the bank. This assistant both ran the province and enforced repayment of the loan. These assistants were also seasoned governing pros. Even though the officials were less experienced, these loans ended up paying the banks greater returns.

Moral of the story: I’ve got the brains, you’ve got the looks. Let’s make lots of money.
That will be terrible news for most of the YC classes recently.
relatively mundane when subjected to appropriate representations.

You omitted the important part of my statement. And the difficulty humans encounter in reasoning about the nature of abstract thought itself is something I also pointed out. My point is that this is not necessarily an indication of inherent difficulty. The ability to model and explain the nature of a self-reflecting mechanism is not a guaranteed natural ability of that mechanism itself.
- Tao Te Ching, especially LeGuin's translation
- Finite & Infinite Games (J.P. Carse)
- Man's Search for Meaning
If programming languages were guns
- Python - nice and compact pistol. Comes with a lot of superpowerful attachments like rocket launchers, missile guide systems, and flamethrowers.
- Java - a gun factory. You have to go to the controller, to get an appointment with the builder to provide him the specs to build the gun of your dream.
- Scala - M134 Minigun (remember Jesse Ventura in Predator). One problem is that you need to convince Jesse Ventura to go to the battle with you.
- JavaScript - a nice and powerful pistol with about 15 triggers. 12 are painted red and must not be pushed. Out of other three, the specific trigger to be pushed changes every day.
- Ruby - a 3d printer with three buttons to choose the type of nice and compact pistol to print. A person with practically no skills can build an arsenal over a weekend.
- C - powerful high caliber gun. Does the job in one shot. One problem is that bullet shells have to be removed manually. If you forgot to remove the shell, the gun will explode.
- R - missile guidance system. Works great, but missiles come separately.

What's your weapon?
You are missing the point. We frequently make tradeoffs in life. Many times this involves a small sacrifice now for a more sizeable gain in the future.
That's not my argument, if you say Education must take X resource then you need to demonstrate that's the only way it can possibly work. Everything from year round alternating days education (MWT,TH so 1/2 the teachers 1/2 the facilities), distance education, subliminal education, matrix style skill uploading, or simply allowing more people to test out are all counter points.

You can make arguments that solar power must be lower than X efficiency from Quantum mechanics, but something as nebulous as education is more a goal than a specific approach.

PS: As to your specific objection, Alaska already does a lot of distance education and it works fairly well though not necessarily cheaper.
I don't understand why anyone cares.
you grab the .h file and call "load a jpeg"/"draw a button" or you grab two files and call "load a jpeg"/"draw a button"

Are we bikeshedding about this?
The one that was most interesting to me on bridging the CPU and memory gap was Venray's TOMI:

http://venraytechnology.com/Strategy_Papers.htm

https://www.edn.com/design/systems-design/4429530/Two-Views-...

Their site is in a state of rot, though. That might mean they didn't make it anywhere. They did build something brilliant, though. Hopefully, someone licenses and/or acquires it that will crank out more at lower cost like Adapteva was doing. The second article has a nice summary of what it's doing along with another interesting piece of hardware.
Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks (2012)
> he had an ability to generate, with respect to any given problem, a good many hypotheses, with little initial constraint by previous knowledge as to their plausibility or feasibility;

I think this agrees with something I read years ago: you can tell those who are really creative or not by the way they look at a bike: it they see a bike, they are regular. If they see a lot of components interconnected, then they have more creative ideas because they can see small parts that can be reorganized to creat new things.
The project I run, Standard Ebooks, has all of Seneca's dialogs available for free for your ereader: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/seneca/dialogues/aubrey-st...

If you're interested in Stoic philosophy, Marcus Aurelius is also an excellent read: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditation...

Stewart's Seneca translation is admittedly not a super great one, but it does the job. Long's Marcus Aurelius translation is very solid though.
I missed the part of history where white people / middle America / anyone really rallied to treat the drug crises in inner cities. Other than to go as far as labeling African Americans as criminals in the best case, or as genetically inferior and predisposed in the worst case.

As for how democrats and the coasts are to blame, well, this is revisionist history. The reps from the coasts were not the ones sent to Washington to bust unions. The republicans sent from middle America were. There’s a movement by middle America that wants to blame others without accepting responsibility. And I think it’s foolish for democrats to engage at that level, because we have to build a coalition that lasts here. We can’t begin that without proper understanding of past mistakes or else we will move 8 years down the road and do the same stupid thing over again.

I sympathize greatly with problems faced from middle America. But there’s a lot of blame to be shared and even now middle America wants to denigrate causes important to the coasts, while also begging for the coasts to bail them out. This is unreasonable.
> However, please don't make your experiences a statement of fact about the state of technical management and leadership in general.

Sure.

There's a name for it: The Bozo Event Horizon.

https://blogs.harvard.edu/waldo/2012/07/27/the-bozo-event-ho...
Here you go:
ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/vlc/3.0.0/win64/
I was worry about a kind of this too.
I was worry an app could steal my passwords from clipboard. I checked, at least a website can't just read from the clipboard. At least in theory .. I still fill the clipboard after the use to transfer a password (often) with random stuff ..
> Nothing's more appealing than a scapegoat (liberals, "coastal elites", the EPA, Mexicans)

Did you catch that they voted 70% for Bernie?
About a decade ago, wasn't there some interest in moving to 24 volt systems; nothing came of it due to switch failures, IIRC?
Are we ever going to end up with the practice of running every app in their own independent VM?

Should anything at all run in the host OS?

The advantage of running every app in their own VM means that apps won't get necessarily tossed to the side in this constant arms race of upgrades, especially for apps that don't need internet. Imagine still actively using several perfectly good apps that were last updated 10 or 20 years ago?
Potentially, what's playing on your TV

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/08/28c3-smart-meter...
Even then it still takes time, effort, and involves risks around both system issues and market crashes etc.

Saying with more effort I can do X and get Y always has the cost of that effort.
Thinking about death in a healthy way is a good idea, which is what exposing yourself to it would do.
Whether it's for performance or economy depends on how it's tuned and how the engine is sized relative to the equivalent pure gas car. The attractive things about these mild hybrid systems is that they're cheap, they don't weigh much (so you're not hurting efficiency by hauling around a bunch of batteries and electric motors), and they give you a lot of what a full hybrid (non-plug in) offers.

If you're not plugging in, you don't need a big battery, because the hybrid only needs to store the energy from braking, and then deliver it when the car speeds up again. Even though the motor is only 21hp, it provides a lot of low-end torque, which lets you have good acceleration from a stop. This is something modern efficient gas engines are generally bad at, and the immediate acceleration in a lot of modern cars is even worse because of aggressive upshifting to save fuel. The electric motor papers over this deficiency, so you can be more aggressive about using a smaller engine with less low-end torque. The electric motor is also much more powerful than a normal starter motor, so it allows the car to more aggressively shut off the engine at stop lights and even when coasting, and turn it back on very quickly.
Hello it's me, guy who graduated in December of 2008. I made the pragmatic choice to do computer science at a cheap in state school. Graduated with a job offer right out of school. Paid off my loans around age 26ish. I worked part time which paid for my housing and food. I had some financial help from family, but not to the point where my loans would have taken more than another year or two to pay down, even less if I had paid more than minimum payments. I also had some cash saved from working every summer since I was 12, as well as part time for a few years in high school.

I think people pitching college as a magic "you go then you get a job" is pretty bad for sure. Mostly because it leaves out the part where you need to make sure the juice is worth the squeeze monetarily.

It's definitely doable and it's definitely worth it if you choose a path that actually supports the future you envision for yourself.
X11 is way worse; any app can subscribe to events of any other app, making keyloggers and other nastyware a piece of cake.
Isn’t HN just another form of social media?

I’m sitting here commenting on someone else’s opinion on the internet, when I have far more productive things I could be doing.

Later on I’ll probably be narcissistic enough to check whether this comment got any upvotes.
I was thinking about this today even before this came up! It seems a strange philosophy to adopt for individuals who "disrupt" or who can literally control their digital environments, etc. Fwiw I think people engaging with philosophy is probably a net good.
+1, emacs+intero is the way to go.

Emacs in general is highly underrated due to years of RSI/muh loading time shitflinging. Evil mode is by far the most complete vim emulation out there, and other than JS pretty much every language I write has been a more enjoyable/easy experience on Emacs than it was on vim or st3.
We need a proper Netflix for news/magazines.
Excession is an outstanding book.

(But note to others: Consider Phlebas or Look to Windward are better starter books if you’ve not read any!)
> Haskell + Nix is the best environment I've ever used for any development

That sounds like a recommendation.
Seneca would not agree. He thought how you lived was much more important than how long you lived. The stoa did not view death as a bad thing, rather as a change in state.
As always, shop around. Amazon usually wins out for me.
I remember NIPS being less terrible back in the day: the Google robots read their corporate slide decks, but we mostly ignored them, and they didn't have walls of sponsors with fine gradations... https://imgur.com/a/Hn3Aa
Smart TV's features are worth avoiding.

Smarts that plug into to a TV are always evolving faster than Smarts built into the TV.
This is perhaps my favorite part:

"If you go talk to a senior software developer, you’ll probably hear them complain about spaghetti code. This is when code is overwrought, unorganized, opaque, and snarled with dependencies. I perked up when I heard the term used for the first time, because, while I can’t identify spaghetti code as a designer, I sure as hell know about spaghetti workflows and spaghetti toolchains. It feels like we’re there now on the web."
You make a litany of good points, but who wants to lose their job in the uncertain hope that society will “wake up” to reality? There is no real indication that such an awakening is imminent, so without the ability to earn poeple are deeply, horribly screwed. In the paradigm which persists, people really do need jobs because they won’t eat otherwise.
What your thoughts on states like Somalia and Libya? They are, without a doubt, the freest market feasible. There's no government to control any economic policy. Why are they not succeeding?
Difficult to know the difficulty of wanting something, no?
> I'm still stunning how much the operators trust on things like E-Stop and Safety-Doors. They open the doors, don't even look and go into the machine with there hands.

Wow. Where I am we sometimes do this, but never without real thought. And, generally, we revisit that part of the process again and again over time.

One example: initial setup of a CNC machine part. If you don't have $50K-$100K, you are setting this up by hand. You are moving the cutting head while your hand is in the same space. If you screw up, it probably won't rip your hand off, but you will likely wind up with a solid, painful gash and it might break a small bone if you get really unlucky.

People don't respect servos enough. They're remarkably powerful and probably moreso than you expect.
How blockchain can restore trust in trade
How to Restore Contacts on iPhone (iPhone 8 and X Included)
A reorientation of priorities among people who self-identify as religious is about as far from the thesis of society deciding that “religion is bad” as can be. Mostly though, you should recognize that “pop culture” has been blamed for turning people away from religion for longer than people have spoken English.
Your ideas is actually really cool (very tech noir).

But that's not what my idea is. My idea isn't really a browser. It's just a separate format/mimetype (.app or .game) for a app runtime.

Small projects could implement it. We can have it embeddable as a object in browsers. Clients other than major web browsers (Gopher, Dillo) could embed it. Embedded devices (Roku) could include support for it. It could even be used in a physical media like SDcards or DVDs.
Windows NT (way back to its original 3.1 release) always had the idea of multiple independent desktops where applications can't cross-interact. If you use runas to run GUI applications under different user contexts, you might notice that some things like drag-and-drop and the clipboard don't work, and also screen recorders won't work ... Most users never use this functionality normally, but you might notice sometimes if you do "Run As Administrator" and the applications don't quite integrate with non-admin apps.
> compiled applications

A lot of HN comments dismissed my prediction[1] that WebAssembly will bring opaque "compiled applications" that treat the canvas as a "standard pixel buffer", allowing adblocking CSS and request filters to be bypassed.

A lot of people seem to be focusing on the benefits of new technological changes ("no longer a restriction"), when they should first be concerned with the potential risks that change will create.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10211050