skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely not "water is wet" levels. "It is obvious to me that this is true" doesn't actually mean it is true, and it definitely doesn't mean that other people think it is true. The jury is out on both of those, and I would say learning in general is an exceedingly poorly understood subject mostly based on very questionable school environments.

It's pretty hard to even talk about this issue without crashing into nature vs nurture immediately, and that's a gargantuan question in itself. For example:

> If it were easy to be "smart", then don't you think everyone would be "smart".

This statement entirely depends on a nurture-based interpretation of the above gargantuan question.

I've met lots of smart, accomplished people who believe that if learning becomes difficult or tough or grueling, you're "doing it wrong". The kind of people for whom talking about "T-shirt turning" is their idea of fun. Hard to argue with them when they know more than I do, isn't it? Yet, for some people, banging their head against something to understand it seems absolutely necessary and they can't really avoid it. And so two people learn the same thing, one carefree, one with a great amount of pain. What's this about?

I've had my own personal experiences where I was working on something, and found it rather easy, and assumed it wasn't really anything complicated, but got feedback which was the opposite of this. On the other end of the scale, I had times when I was working really hard and felt like I was using everything I had at my disposal to do the task... and then got feedback that I was performing extremely poorly, and was missing something fundamental that would have made my life easier if I would have just known.

"learning is pointless" is often very much about hard work not paying off. This has major social implications.

There's a lot of oddness that comes with learning things in general. People learn with far less effort if the task involved is actively enjoyable in itself. Other people learn better when the task has a return, such as a monetary one.

I think "learning is hard" is a very useful statement socially. I.e., for the average person, there's lots of resistance to learning things. But it is not a statement that can be made globally, i.e., that learning is always hard.
The idea of sending the sound of gunfire into a peaceful rally with armed cops nearby is frightening.
My counter, if everyone had basic necessities met like health care, and universal basic income, would they choose to work as prostitutes?
Why? You'd log in to servers that were more or less permanently on and connected to public internet in order to access email for the length of it's existence.
When I took this course, several exam questions where of this form; give an example of a function that is something or satisfies something else. Reading this book would have helped.
Only when the regulatory environment demands it. Normal engineers also cut corners in third world countries with weaker protections.
Google has a continual Red Queen's race between everyone's dependencies. I'm guessing they were lucky to keep it mostly working and avoid Reader's fate.

"We're deprecating X, please migrate to Y by this date."

"Y doesn't support all our use cases!"

"Neither will X when we turn it off, sorry."
Reminds me of Spider Robinson's Melancholy Elephants.

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
Sadly, it’s already been lost.
I'm the same, if email registration isn't available I'll first greatly reconsider how much I'm interested in what you're offering.

If I'm VERY interested I'll consider google or github or something, no matter how interested I am I'll never use facebook or twitter etc.
Can you read? Seriously?
Google requires a phone number nowadays. And you can't use the same phonenumber more than X times. (Not sure what X is but I hit it last week so had to go on the second phone)
You can push g around quite a bit at an early age, but by adulthood everyone regresses back to their original potential. This is just another way of saying there is a shared environmental component to g at an early age, but none in adulthood [0].

0. There is a shared environmental component for deprived shared environments, but it has to be very extreme to not washout by adulthood.
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The lingua franca of theatrical lighting control is a physical-layer protocol designed for custom cabling called DMX. Light boards emit an array of 512 values in the range [0,255] and dimmers, or lighting instruments themselves, interpret these values as parameters like intensity. For various reasons it's useful to carry this signal over an IP network, and proprietary standards to do so have proliferated.

Light boards these days are just computers with some domain-specific IO. Tired of our ancient ETC Expression console, my colleagues and I wanted to start using ETC's new Nomad control software on our laptops. Our venue's dimmers only understood ETCNet2, while Nomad could only speak the newer ETCNet3 (and a few other open standards we couldn't use). Attempting a software upgrade on the dimmers themselves seemed incredibly risky. To bring Nomad's output to DMX would have required an additional $500 hardware purchase on top of the already-not-cheap software license.

On the message boards, I discovered a strange fact. The ETC-branded DMX<->Net2 interfaces we owned were actually white-label manufactured by a company called Pathport. Pathport boxes spoke a much wider array of protocols using the same hardware. These things handled firmware updates by flashing themselves with whatever was served to them over BOOTP. Pathport firmware images were free to download straight from the manufacturer.

Net3->Net2 was too much to ask for, but they could do ArtNet (an open standard) to DMX. Nomad could also emit ArtNet. So I flashed and configured one node to operate as ArtNet -> DMX, and plugged it into another node configured for DMX -> Net2.

So now, locked in a closet, there is a very strange loop of switch -> hacked ETC box -> normal ETC box -> switch which seems bizarrely redundant, but actually makes the world go 'round. And I could run lights and sound from any network drop in the building.
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Compromise is the act of all parties giving up something they have in order to meet somewhere in the middle and get a result that all are more-or-less happy with. That really isn't the case in this issue - gun owners would be required to give up all or a portion of their expensive hobby/pastime, while those calling for gun control would be giving up nothing in return.

While people will say "We'd get a safer society as a result" - that's not addressing the problem, which is: what did they trade or give up in order to reach that compromise with the gun owners? There has to be something for it to be fair to everyone.
> it does seem to blur the lines of such absolutist statements as those you have made.

I could not disagree more. Again, we're talking about copyright, and copyright covers a specific expression of an idea. The fact that Pharrell was listening to an earlier, similar work is irrelevant, because listening to an earlier work around the time you wrote a new work doesn't mean your work is the same as the earlier work, any more than eating pizza around the time you wrote a new work means your work is literally a pizza.

> That doesn't prove causation on it's own

I think you're using the wrong framework here; this isn't a reverse engineering case. We don't need to prove that the authors of "Blurred Lines" had been exposed to "Got To Give It Up"; it's so popular and influential we can just assume it. What needs to be proven is that "Blurred Lines" contains copywritable elements from "Got To Give It Up". And contrary to the majority opinion of the appeals court, it seems quite clear it doesn't.
Similar situation, except with a personal massager, a wireless mouse, and a large bowl.
I use a posh script like this when i dont want the computer to lock.

$ws = New-Object -COM wscript.shell;

while($true){ $ws.SendKeys("j"); Sleep 60;}

Ive used it for demos that way the computer doesnt lock before the demo starts, its pretty short and easy to remember. Also on windows if you spam SendKeys("{Left}") everything you type is backwards and when you hit the windows key it freezes the computer in an interesting way, pretty fun.
Just recently I had to put together a web-based UI for editing vector graphics (clothing tags) and export them to pdf for printing. In order to avoid writing and maintaining two separate codebases, I re-used the client side code as my rendering code.

So I ended up with a server serving the editor frontend, as well as api endpoints that would use puppeteer and headless chrome to make a request (to itself) to load the frontend, import a given label file, render it, take a screenshot and save it to a file, then reply to the api request with the contents. So kind of a recursive api.

I had so much fun with this but I still can't believe I had to write my own svg editor and bake my own pdf generation and merging code to get the job done. It should not require two languages (node and python) and a headless browser to get the job done.
I did something similar in my last job: We used a custom terminal services client to log in to our data center, and the servers would kick you off after something like five minutes of inactivity. I ended up modifying the ts client to send a shift keypress every four minutes.
>Google’s privacy policy explicitly allows them to use queries for advertising

So does Bing.

Finally, as described in the Display of Advertising section of this document, we may use search query data for the purpose of personalizing the ads we display to you as you use our services or those of our advertising partners.

https://www.docracy.com/0fap0koedur/bing-com-privacy-policy-...

>Why are you trying to paint Microsoft as exceptional here?

Microsoft tracks their users using their Bing and Yahoo search engine.

Microsoft sends vast amounts of Windows telemetry back to their servers. The services sending this telemetry data cannot be turned off.

Microsoft has broken into the accounts of their users.
https://mashable.com/2014/03/28/microsoft-hotmail-email-priv...

Microsoft operates data centers in China that are run by Chinese state run companies that allow the Chinese government to examine any user data they want.

Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet (Azure China 21Vianet) is a physically separated instance of cloud services located in mainland China, independently operated and transacted by Shanghai Blue Cloud Technology Co., Ltd. ("21Vianet"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Beijing 21Vianet Broadband Data Center Co., Ltd.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/china/china-welcome
What do you imagine GitHub..... doing?
Partially, yes. Can you give some more examples of changes you've made to your use of language? Also, is this for speaking only or writing too?

>I dropped most words with opposites as a practice in nonjudgment.

Don't pretty much all words have opposites? Looking at verbs, it's hard to think of ones that lack an opposite.

I really like this general idea, and thinking about it, I want to alter my language accordingly. I would appreciate any resources.
Just put your database schema in a VCS and get on with life: http://www.liquibase.org/
Shooting firearms is definitely not the only way to retaliate against an oppressive government.
So it sounds like status quo ain't "a matter settled between two humans on equal rights".
How about the game industry workers unsatisfied with their compensation come work for companies like SFDC? Everyone is hiring. Even if your passion is for games, there are still many benefits to the path of taking enterprise roles, not least among them is to build up a financial nest egg to fund your own game or to let yourself accept the lower compensation in order to fulfill a child wish to work on the next Halo with hundreds of others.
I did say it was wrong: "It is perfectly fine that OFA and other organizations should not have this kind of access either."

Your issue is that the media didn't point this out back then. And there's a reason, which is because it did not have a catastrophic outcome at that time. This time it did. The US State Department has been decimated, an insane warhawk who wants to attack North Korea has just been put in charge of national security, thousands of undocumented immigrants who have been here for decades have been sent to countries they have never known and often in danger to their lives, our president congrulates autocratic leaders on their fake election victories and the US has sank to its weakest and least influential world position in generations. These are not "leftist" viewpoints. These are the majority viewpoint.
I've seen people strapping a watch on the back of the mouse to achieve the same effect, the constant ticking makes it like the mouse is slightly moved, preventing a screen lock.
No, I read what you wrote. You had an automated email, you responded by deleting your account. You got another automated email, from the same email address, saying your account had been successfully deleted.

You then engaged with a support representative, who deleted your data and email from their account system. What that representative did not do, clearly, is delete you from the (likely third party held) email system.

Note that the automated emails come from an elsevier domain, and the support email came from a mendeley domain. That is a good sign that you are in multiple systems.

Then, later, you again got automated emails from them. This didn't come from the support person, it came from the automated system the company set up, again likely with a third party and managed by a different team. Unsubscribe from those and they will go away.
I expect Mastodon's numbers to sharply increase over the next few months, and I wouldn't be surprised if this month was by far their sharpest increase in users. The 'big' social medias have had over a decade head start, and by being centralized are more user-friendly. I've known about Mastodon for a while, but always wrote it off as "that weird Twitter clone". I've recently decided to try it again and turned my opinion around about it.
> As Bo Winegard recently argued, many on the radical left are committed to a kind of cosmic egalitarianism which manifests itself in the religiously held dogma that evolution cannot have produced group differences in socially valued traits, because that would be cosmically unfair. Instead of being open to evidence that genetics may partially explain such differences, many leftists construct increasingly exotic and untestable theories for why it is that in countries with a relatively high level of equality of opportunity, different groups still end up exhibiting different outcomes.

What would you call the ideology of this writer? I don't know a term for someone who thinks they are some sort of centrist but still believes in the argument that "different groups end up exhibiting different outcomes, but man, all of the explanations that don't just relate to skin color are just too complicated and therefore--by Occam's razor--must not be true." I think I'll settle for alt-right.

The fact is that race turns out to be sort of correlated to income, etc. in the U.S.! But so does, say, the level of education, or the affluence of the neighborhood in which you grew up... and it just so happens that due to massive historical events like slavery or racial discrimination in loans from the FHA, many black people live in poor neighbhorhoods with poor school systems and poor parents.

I am definitely open to the possibility that "genetics may explain such differences." But given the world we live in and the evidence available to us, I am far more inclined to go with the explanation that requires fewer leaps of faith--instead of jumping from economic achievement to growing up in a poor neighborhood to race, I can just... leave out the last step.
Definitely, because drunk driving has the potential to harm others, even thought it may not always. Also, I'm not sure that's a good analogy, as trying to prevent drunk driving doesn't take the form of restricting driving for everyone, while gun control usually affects responsible gun owners as well as bad people and suicidal/uncareful people.
The libertarians on this site are libertarian so long as the companies are doing exactly what they prefer.

The moment a company decides its in their interest to change something the libertarians cry out, demanding that somebody must FORCE the companies to do something against their will.

It’s comedy and it tells you a lot about standard HN psychology.
Gotcha on the edit, and yea that was the direction.

But if you lost the gmail/Facebook login you also loss all of the sites you used. Classic single sign on issue.
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This is one of the silly small features of macOS that I really miss on Windows and Linux. Glad that the author had the same problem but did something about it :)
Interestingly, the states might be able to require a freedom of speech in malls. I’d settle for a modern version of Pruneyard for Google and Facebook.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v....
Descendents of this still exist in many codebases, especially libm's. I've found it in my own codebase as well. It's surprisingly maintainable.
So you're saying vacation is only if it's impractical and the diversion itself must be the point?

You might be conflating shightseeing and vacation as time-off. On top of that, you might want to look into how pilgrimage or other religious get togethers look like.

It's not like people come and pray and do nothing else. In most cases shopping and getting together with people from afar is involved. People have and always had natural needs like roof for the night and food. And rest during the day. If a bunch of people got together at night having a similar goal, they'll probably have a chat and maybe even party a little. There's a reason why many religious sights were surrounded by shopping and entertainment. Even a long time ago.

For example, the very simple act of sunday church. Back when traveling took time, it was certainly a day trip for rural people. It was pretty much a tiny conference or festival for them. That's why market square a frequently next to churches and markets are held on sunday. People come, shop, have a chat... And go to church while at it. I'm talking not only today, but from historical perspective too.

Talking about vacation only as "diversion", I guess quite a few of my vacations wouldn't count then. If I was going to a music festival, diversion itself wouldn't mean jackshit to me. I went to many festivals where I basically got to the location in cheapest possible way. Stayed on festival grounds and then got home in cheapest possible way. I saw no sights nor diversion itself was the point. But boy if it was vacation :)

Same about amateur racing. I get to the location, I race, get some food, sleep it off and go home. Sometimes terrain/location is part of signing up for the specific race. Sometimes I go there just because it's well organised and my friends are going. More likely than not no sights are seen nor I are about location aside from race track much.

Sometimes vacation is purely to get out of daily routine and jut spend time with myself. Diversion itself ain't the point either.
Not yet. Fuck the US government, and Fuck Donald Trump. See? That wouldn't fly in a lot of countries. We are still mostly free. We need to gain back lost freedoms, and continue to defend the ones we've got.
"only" is irrational. Why not double the trees?
Just to be clear, 0rtt is only for "revisits", and for revisits of static assets the client is likely to have the asset cached still. So the only benefit is if the "static" asset has changed, or the client's cache is cleared. Which seems less useful.
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Not sure why you got downvoted. It seems like a very pragmatic and helpful feature.
Production system that would chain-ssh through various bastion hosts to get around asinine firewall systems, eventually telnetting in as root to a non-standard port to run a script and dump data out of the files on disk of a MySQL instance backing a virtualization system. Billed based on how many of the output files that instance appeared in ("hourly billing!"), and who was the "owner" of that instance.
Google and ISPs both have monopolies, but ISPs have local monopolies and Google has global monopolies. In 2017, Google wasn't just "a" lobbyist, they were "the biggest" lobbyist, dwarfing any ISP's.

When you say "Google and Facebook aside", it feels like you are literally missing the entire point... You have an elephant in your sinking boat, and you're worried about the weight of the dog.
>I don’t understand ... why aren’t the default settings of an account more secure and private?

They are (for the most relevant definition of your question).

Specifically a Facebook app you choose to install can no longer see any of your friends information. That was done in 2014 before any of this happened, more details and timeline here: https://www.facebook.com/boz/posts/10104702799873151
“Run” – the resource runtime
Yep, that’s how it is.
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Still better than living with the religious nut jobs.
> I find the concept of average Joes owning guns of any description crazy.

It becomes a lot less crazy when you consider that parts of the US still take advantage of guns as protection against wild animals. It becomes a little less crazy when you consider that a lot of people use them as a hobby - target practice (it's part of a few different Olympic sports).

Guns are, practically speaking, no more or less crazy than Bowie knives, hunting bows, cross bows, or any number of other devices purpose built for hunting.

> the elephant in the room is the massive cultural problem the US has with firearms

Yeah, definitely an issue. It's, oddly enough, largely a city vs. country issue. People in the city have no practical use for guns. People who don't have the miles of concrete protecting them from the wilds tend to take a much more practical view on the usefulness of, the need for, tools that can protect them from predators with teeth and claws.

I've been within 100 yards of a black bear with her cubs. I'm glad I had a pistol at the time. I'm even more glad I had no cause to use it.
On a windows machine you can start a powerpoint presentation, then minimise it. This stops the screen lock from starting.
There's a fair amount of talk on this sort of thing on /r/conspiracy, around stories like the latest school shooter, on various antidepressants, being well known to authorities, numerous calls to law enforcement but no one will do anything. I have no idea if any of it is true, but this sort of thing being in the news doesn't cool speculation either.
because it did not have a catastrophic outcome at that time. This time it did.

That is your opinion, and you're entitled to it. But do you not detect even a whiff of hypocrisy in this whole thing? It should have been portrayed as the terrible thing that it is today back when Obama did it. That is what I have an issue with.
Genius. Now if we could convince the kids of today this is solution to rewriting everything using the latest fad framework.
Okay, I don’t like the future anymore. Can we go backwards through time yet?

We’re supposed to be the country that’s against the cruel and unusual shit.
the X Windows system (in use in a production system, post 2015)
I used to use autohotkey to send an F13 key press every couple minutes to avoid lockout on a work computer where I wasn't allowed to increase the timeout
I’ve literally just helped someone do similar in their own product. If you run into issues with puppeteer’s blank or missing pages of a screenshot (for high-res images), just forgo that for canvases base64 export. It’ll save you a world of hurt!