skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most interesting (IMO) extract:

> after just over 4,000 generations, test system settled upon the best program. When Dr. Thompson played the 1kHz tone, the microchip unfailingly reacted by decreasing its power output to zero volts. When he played the 10kHz tone, the output jumped up to five volts.

> Dr. Thompson peered inside his perfect offspring to gain insight into its methods, but what he found inside was baffling. The plucky chip was utilizing only thirty-seven of its one hundred logic gates, and most of them were arranged in a curious collection of feedback loops. Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest— with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output— yet when the researcher disabled any one of them the chip lost its ability to discriminate the tones. Furthermore, the final program did not work reliably when it was loaded onto other FPGAs of the same type.

> It seems that evolution had not merely selected the best code for the task, it had also advocated those programs which took advantage of the electromagnetic quirks of that specific microchip environment. The five separate logic cells were clearly crucial to the chip’s operation, but they were interacting with the main circuitry through some unorthodox method— most likely via the subtle magnetic fields that are created when electrons flow through circuitry, an effect known as magnetic flux.

This nicely illustrates a major advantage of evolutionary processes: they can use any resource in the environment, whether you know that resource exists or not.

The program's crippling overspecialization ("the final program did not work reliably when it was loaded onto other FPGAs of the same type") is also typical of evolutionary processes.
I'm 22, and I think I have one or two capital-t true friends. I do have so-called friends, but they are at their respective colleges and are doing their own thing, and we do hang out when they are back in town, but then again, I don't consider them capital-t true friends (though I would in earlier years). After graduating high school in 2014 till now, I have spent a great deal of time alone (I argue it is partly because I attended a community college, I still do). While I don't want to be 42 and think I wish "I would have put more into making friends then", I don't think I will (or maybe I will). The aloneness I have had all these years has been so important to my inner self, where all things stem from, that I can't say I would have had it otherwise.

I suppose that's why I tend to gift Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet to friends, i.e. "But your solitude will be a hold and home for you even amid very unfamiliar conditions and from there you will find all your ways." Or maybe that's why I admire Tarkovsky, i.e. "I don’t know… I think I’d like to say only that they should learn to be alone and try to spend as much time as possible by themselves. I think one of the faults of young people today is that they try to come together around events that are noisy, almost aggressive at times. This desire to be together in order to not feel alone is an unfortunate symptom, in my opinion. Every person needs to learn from childhood how to spend time with oneself. That doesn’t mean he should be lonely, but that he shouldn’t grow bored with himself because people who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger, from a self-esteem point of view."

Though sometimes I think about what side is greener, I suppose it's a matter of perspective.
Few people are simply angry. There’s usually some strong emotional attachment to something. All emotions have a root cause. Having a way to process and ultimately let go of such negative attachments is crucial to overcoming things like chronic anger. Therapy/meds are valid options.
You never made a real connection as to why post ad spend means pre-election subterfuge, so your fact is not a fact.

What you are stating is a theory you haven't proven at all, and all your subsequent arguments and defenses don't hold or mean anything. You have no evidence to your claim.

All you have done is make a theory and expect the rest of us to accept it as fact. If you come back with actual proof instead of just a theory maybe we can consider further discourse.
INTP/J here. I’ve found most strong friendships created over over past decade we’re with very, very similar Myers-Briggs types.

Wanna be friends?
jlouis's programming epigrams (2012)
Not by default. I've run two kinds of jails:

a) I didn't need much separation, I just wanted to run multiple environments on one box to save hardware; in this case, I enabled raw sockets, because it was convenient to ssh into the virtual environment and ping things.

b) things that I wanted really separate; for these environments, I left raw sockets disabled, the jail only contains the one executable (statically compiled); additionally, I also setup ipfw rules to prevent IP traffic from the jail from getting in or out, other than the specific things it was intended to do.
> Contrast this with the attitude of some more demanding professions like piloting an aircraft

CS isn't a profession though, and AFAIK no one has ever died due to a CS mistake.
Test-taking strategies are definitely possible without learning the material. Hunting for keywords is a common one; learning to recognize the kind of answers that show up as confounders is also pretty common. Even free response questions can be gamed, if you learn how to come up with plausible answers that can rack up partial credit.

It is difficult to game your way to an A without knowing a fair amount of the material, but it's definitely possible to get a passing grade and possibly as high as a B. And students are often very eager to try to claw as much partial credit on a test as possible.
> The car of the future will sell your data and also be vulnerable to hackers

I see few things happening. There will be a time when modern connected car I own no longer receives software updates while it otherwise would remain a great daily driver. Each passing day it becomes more vulnerable to being hacked to perform variety of things. What is the level of risk that I am willing to accept before having to get rid of the otherwise good car since I no longer feel safe operating it? Eventually there will be an event where this risk gets realized. This will further hasten the move towards policies/legislation where private automotive ownership is no longer allowed and everything moves towards subscription based auto ownership. This will take longer in the US due to cultural reasons, whereas Asia and Europe will hesitate much less to implement this.

At which point I suspect also the data collected by subscribed automotive belongs to the vendor 'renting' it out.
Hopper's Nighthawks: Look Through the Window
What are some ways startups can take advantage of voice search?
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I'm talking about AMP vs the news articles and cooking recipes I try to read that get intercepted by AMP.

Google already tracks everything I do and resells my behavior. That is literally their entire business model.

The NSA puts backdoors in hardware modules you can't remove, finds flaws in firmware, cracks crypto, and exploits mobile devices that can't or won't be updated. And HTTPS simply isn't necessary for 90% of the use cases its champions claim.

I've switched my default search engine, changed browsers, unloaded most of my free hosted services to paid ones, and am paying for a newspaper subscription. I am saving money in the process by cutting unnecessary expenditures to pay for these things. I didn't have to get used to it and life is better.
Comments:

"Thank you for being so brave and sharing this with the rest of us"

"This very much resonates with me, I went through a personal phase in which my core values blah blah spirit animal blah blah blah get in touch if you want to discuss further"

"Great thought! Please contact me if you are interested in pursuing a career in disrupting the cereal industry"

"<gandhi or MLK quote>"

"I fundamentally disagree with the premise, +500 lines of tedious rant"
So, I think you're right... but this is only a flaw if you as a user specify a lower bound that does not exist. The tool won't do this. And it can be prevented by disallowing referring to versions that don't exist.

It's entirely valid (and interesting! I hadn't thought of this one), but I'm not sure if this would happen even once IRL, except for people trying to break the system. Which can be fun, but isn't a risk.
I heard Peter Thiel make an interesting comment on this recently: that banks avoid political scrutiny because they fund both political parties, whereas Google is overtly biased towards one side (the blue side). This makes the red side hate them, and the blue side neglect them because they think of them as easy money.

The only way to survive political scrutiny in a two-party system is to support both sides, or at least have a plausible threat that you could support the other side if over-regulated.
Battle-tested infrastructure as code
He was in Cruise seed round.

(Cruise was funded entirely by Vogt and a small circle of investors, including Kan and other Twitch veterans.)
I’d suggest you’re doing fine as you are. But I would also suggest making the time to talk to a therapist once a quarter or year, at least. Just so you’re not tempted to rely on your daughter or wife for emotional support that would be easier handled by a friend or therapist. Outside viewpoints help infinitely more than very close associations for many sorts of issues.
A million bucks wouldn't get a square city block of what you describe.
Please consider Mailbox before adding attachments
Where I work, the standard attachment size is becoming around 3MB and we are only allocated 512MB of Outlook storage space. Rather than my email signature reading "Please consider the environment before printing this email", would it be unprofessional to change it to something like "Please consider Mailbox before adding attachments"? What's a better way of phrasing this if I were to use it in my email signature?
It's clearly a hat. https://twitter.com/arxpoetica/status/966177376077058048
Agreed. If anyone from Atlassian is reading this, the changes to Jira and Confluence make me think something is wrong there. I have been a faithful Jira user for over a decade and it has gotten markedly worse as a product in the past year. Maybe it's more profitable with app/marketplace, but the experience with multiple integrated apps is dog slow. Navigability has gotten worse. HipChat had uptime issues to the point my company moved to Slack. I am worried for you guys.
I'd say thats exactly the answer you're looking for.

https://imgur.com/kH7tw8M
> So I'm wondering "Outside of work and family, where would other hackers have excuses to meet people in daily life?"

Play! Or, well, hobbies in general.

I've met people online through games and technical social forums, some of whom I later grabbed drinks with after we found out we were in the same area, and later still ended up working with several.

Nowadays I'm into boardgames - if you plopped me in a random city with no other contacts and a need to socialize, I'd maybe check online for boardgame bars. Maybe try to strike up a conversation about a boardgame another group's playing that looks interesting, or invite someone who's just grabbing food to join in. Or look up shops that might host the occasional MTG tournament - I don't generally play MTG, but it's a common enough game there's been a circle that plays it at every job I've had, and a tournament settings by it's very nature is going to force at least a minimal amount of interaction between complete strangers.

One of my friends is into drones - building them, racing them, the works. So there's racing events he goes to and meets people at, socializing during the downtime. More interactions of "oh, I recognized XYZ that you did online!" (common forums, videos, etc.) Also hosts a monthly movie night - a relatively easy excuse to get to know people better that he might only kind-of barely know at work.

Paintball seems like another option I should try picking up sometime. I bet paintball fields have some kind of open-to-all events to try and drum up business.

> But I stay quiet because it damages social relationships to express myself in odd ways. It's better to be on a cordial first-name basis than have an arms-length-but-personal experience with them.

Does it, and even if it does, is it really better? Extensive online socializing has made me very comfortable with being frenemies or worse with trolls etc. - worst case scenario, me and whomever I'm conversing with both find out we have better things to do than talk to the other party - and best case scenario, you've found something to bind over for a lifetime. Win/win.

(I realize this can be much easier to say than to internalize, but I wanted to plant this idea.)

> Even now, the smart thing is to stay quiet and not post this.

Then intelligence is overrated.

> You're told to stay quiet in a thousand ways by the society around you.

Then those parts of society are also overrated. Fuck 'em. Keep talking - how else are the other weirdos who also don't know when to shut up going to find you? :P
Society gives adults little time to themselves. Most of your adult, waking hours are at work. But it’s imperative to keep some distance between work and personal life. So a large majority of your adult life is blocked out from genuine social connections.

Our days and hours are very scarce resources...almost all taken from us. I think the Spanish accommodated this by decreasing their daily work hours. If the US did that the US would employ more people, more meaningfully, and benefit from increased social “health”.
Mountain View approves 10,000 homes by Google's North Bayshore project (2017)
Yes, but it's a borderline call, so we'll put it back.

(It's better to send questions like this to hn@ycombinator.com, as the site guidelines ask. When you post in the thread, we only see it by chance.)
Similar feature-set at first glance, but not open-source, not free after beta ends, and created/maintained by an unknown solo developer. Nice site design, but I think the cards are pretty heavily stacked against this one.
Yes, but he invested. See above.
Well, I wouldn't invite a woman I barely knew to meet with me one-on-one unless I was trying to signal sexual interest to her. So I guess my brain is somehow trying to be consistent?
I have a script running on aws right now.
Consider artists. There's a tremendous potential in using technology like this in art, and preventing someone from selling their works will often put them off of using it at all.
It's kind of fun how some people see the center console as "the future", and others hate it. Fortunately, Tesla doesn't need a majority of consumers to love it.
> economic incentives for people to create ad-free alternatives

Yes, but they will have to fight a giant up-hill battle because ads exploit a quirk of human psychology, which is that most people strongly undervalue their own attention.
And downloading the full Git repository for every `go get` is frequently a far greater waste than even storing copies of all the versions you're currently using in all projects you work on.

GOPATH is unambiguously terrible.
Chips 5 Years and Beyond: New Nodes, Materials, Memories
Bad idea. How quickly we forget that party in Boston.
Listen to the one linked in the article, not the one embedded in the article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPDILKQjJW8
People have definitely died due to programming errors, if that is what you mean. The classic example that comes to mind is Therac-25[0] accidentally giving thousands of times the radiation dose.

It’s a miracle these kinds of consequences aren’t more common, given how much code runs machinery and how undisciplined many engineering firms are.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
They are rewriting the web version. Don’t know how big/popular that one is.
Same for NYC, and SF.
> Do people really consider the ethics of introducing tech like this?

But consider the fact that you are using terms out of the humanities, while most of my fellow CS students endlessly griped about how useless their humanities courses were and how they wished the school would get rid of that course requirement (six courses total over 4 years).

Until we teach the tech-priests of the 21st century the great responsibility due to the power that they hold, I doubt things will improve.
Jeff Vogel:

> Twitter was designed, from Day 1, to enable any random person to send messages directly to any public figure. In other words, from Day 1, it was designed to be an abuse and harassment engine. It's not a bug. It's a feature. All that abuse and controversy is how it gets clicks and money.

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-i-deal-with-haras...

Twitter's feature set is perfectly optimized for harassment and abuse. Changing it to prevent harassment and abuse would kill the product.
Interesting, this pointed me to a documentary that might be worth watching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Wizards_of_the_Electr...
I think life just gets more complicated. Folks spread out. Work responsibilities grow. You have to prioritize time with your spouse. You have kids and their schedules to work around.

My friends aren't the only thing I don't have time for. There are seemingly a million things I once was enthusiastic about that don't make the cut.

One thing I noticed in the alumni base of a club I was involved in university is that participation drops to near-zero for the folks who are in their mid-30s through early-50s. Then it starts to pick up again. It's that time of having pre-adolescent kids where life seems to really detach people from their old social circles, but some reemerge once their last kid becomes a teenager.

I just had my first kid and moved to the suburbs, and I can already tell my physical connections with folks have dropped considerably.
But it’s far more better to time everything just right so that one arrives at said meeting right on time, no later nor sooner.

I think living in Finland has conditioned this type of attitude of not being too early(for fear of wasting time waiting) or too late (fear of being rude). One thing that helps significantly is to know travel times(by bus,car, etc) and allocate rough estimate to them. Luckily most Euro countries have good public transport to make planning ahead less stressful.
This kind of attitude around package management and especially dependency injection have been major turn-offs for me as well. More than a sufficient number of the community has been emitting a high-pressure stream of NIH combined with ignorance of existing solutions, and it has been crippling the community for years.
I can see that, but it greatly depends on the context.

The thing is, my date or friend being late for something like a dinner or cafe meetup is of little consequence. I'm not going to be sitting there twiddling my thumbs stewing in anger bored out of my mind because of it, because I presume we were doing something I genuinely wanted to do wether they were a participant or not. Their presence was just to enhance the experience, we were going to share an experience as a means to enhance it and get to know one another. There is zero urgency for this to have happened precisely that way at that time, and the cost of it not happening exactly as planned is insignificant.

If we were supposed to be pouring a cement foundation and they showed up an hour late and I couldn't get it all poured and finished before it started setting in their absence? Ok, that friend is getting taken down a notch if it were clear they were needed and they had committed.

From what little I know, Thayer Prime strikes me as someone who is not particularly aware of the importance of context with expectations, and is applying the same level of obsessive anal retentiveness she uses professionally uniformly throughout her life.

If my friends are late for social activities, I just pull out a book and hang out wherever we wanted to go - because I wanted to go there. Maybe they'll show up, and that'll be great. If not, well at least we spend time at places I like to be anyways!

Sometimes it seems like some people date just to force others to fulfill their expectations, and their whole world is shattered when those expectations aren't met in the slightest way. Life is so much more than that, it's absurd to me. shrug
One of the reasons it is hard to make friends as an adult is because the associate between sincerity and naivety grows stronger over time. The more you get burned or see people get burned, the more closed off you become to real interpersonal connection. This is the default behavior. Once you realize this though you can do something about it. Ultimately you have to be willing to be vulnerable, to stick your neck out in order to cross that barrier from 'associate' to friend
I've always thought it'd be a great thing to have an app or service that acts as a "lobby" of sorts to pair you with like-skilled folks for workouts, pickup sports, runs, etc. For instance, if I run an 11 minute 30 second mile, I'd love to be paired with someone who also runs that time, so I can enjoy the activity with someone without them getting mad that I can't run a 7 minute mile. It's a feature of online gaming matchmaking that I think could work well in the real world.
^This!
Seattle is overflowing with welcoming spirits like newfoundglory. It's your friendless, self-deserving, crazy lifestyle that's the problem. Got your own opinion? You can GTFO! /s

Disclaimer: My two Seattle visits were both welcoming and pleasant, and I've never met newfoundglory. Had I, I likely would have found them to be quite friendly.
Smaller sensors mean bigger depth-of-field.

Shallow depth-of-field is incredibly distracting for video and difficult to work with. Everything is out of focus. It's mostly a photography/art thing to isolate your subject.

You can see how sports program would want everything to be in focus, instead of just one player. That would look ridiculous.
I'll be honest and just say that it's actually incredibly discouraging to hear about things like this. I'll be interested to hear about the research but I don't care about the ivory tower.
"American policy is dedicated to the principle that no two people differ in learning ability."

That would benefit from a reliable citation.
Is it usual for the perspective of NPR articles to be this bizarrely biased?:

> ... in retrospect, some of the decisions his team made seem hopelessly naive, especially for a bunch of geniuses.

> They made it possible to surf the Internet anonymously — unlike a telephone, you don't have a unique number that announces who you are. We know how that turned out. People with less lofty ambitions than Cerf used that loophole for cybercrime, international espionage and online harassment.

The primary bad actors on the internet are not individuals exploiting anonymity.
RFID in Oil and Gas Inc
The oil and gas industry has analyzed and improved their processes regarding how to manage the supply chains and assets and the maintenance processes. In a positive dimension, the use of RFID and computing technology has aided in reducing workload while improving the efficiency of tasks carried out by the personnel of the industry. With the technology, faster, and creative approaches have been utilized to ensure that employees are safe, and all other processes regarding supply chains and assets management are carried out smoothly and perfectly (Garfinkel & Rosenberg, 2006).

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Poland’s Central Bank Secretly Paid YouTubers to Slander Cryptos
> People have definitely died due to programming errors, if that is what you mean.

It wasn't.