skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the uber rich—top one percent of the top one percent—have realized that staying rich requires less than 99% of their net worth. This resulted in the 99% pledge aka the giving pledge and similar movements. It's those that are wealthy but not wealthy enough to be a Warren Buffet or Bill Gates that seem to feel like the welfare seekers are coming for them. In my opinion, what would actually convince them are studies and experiments that show that wealth sharing improves the collective health of the society rather than just bringing up the downtrodden. The UBI experiments and higher taxes are small but non-trivial steps towards that.
The specific laws I'm familiar with don't reference consent to each specific recording, they reference consent for it to be recorded in general terms. Unless the law changed I wouldn't bother myself with it.
I think your assertions may be correct and you'd still be off in that the some large fraction of the money facebook takes from big companies came from advertising avenues subject to exactly the same risk of being ignored.

Think billboards, train stations, toilets, tv, cinemas. All of those could be ignored and are often unrelated to the activity conducted at the time.

The value of Facebook if nothing else is that it is one central point to reach everyone's eye at any point in the day.

So for the non-data driven decision maker, Facebook at worst will be no worse than other low-yielding "mindshare/brand awareness" channels and is at least current and conveniently executed. (consider the admin that goes with negotiating and conducting lots of adhoc coverage with each channel)
A) Cheating hurts everyone.

> is nothing compared to the massive grade inflation one sees at top universities in the US

B) Because student at top universities (For the most part) have higher GPA in high school and a higher SAT scores already. Unless your morals require a strict bell curve of 10% F, 10% A, 40% C and 40% B?
Could this be related to Google's recent announcement of the .app TLD with mandatory HTTPS[0]?

[0]: https://www.blog.google/topics/developers/introducing-app-mo...
>or barely graduated and ended up worse off than our other classmates in terms of job/grad school prospects.

And also devalues the degree their peers actually worked for, even if only a little. I've been in a lot of interviews where I'm wondering, "How the hell did this person graduate from ${school}?" and the obvious answer is "a non-zero amount of cheating".

I don't think you should beat yourself up over it but I also think but it's also important not to rationalize it away either.
Yep! This is absolutely possible.
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"ended up worse off than our other classmates in terms of job/grad school prospects"

you sure about that?

Just because the jobs they wound up in didn't impress you, doesn't mean that they didn't beat out other honest competitors on the margin for those jobs
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> The majority of people don't vote in primaries, they consider themselves independent.

“independent” voters show the same degree of partisan consistency as those identifying with a party.

> I don't know if they vote alone party lines, but the fact that we have switched between democrat and republican presidents regularly is proof that enough people change their vote.

It's more proof of the fact that the composition of the eligible electorate and which of them actually turn out to vote changes; the assumption that the same people are voting in every election so changed party outcomes are driven by voters flipping from one party to another is inaccurate.
I agree with you, building must commence. But it will not help lower income people or make things more affordable. It might lower the price from astronomical to, very, very high, but really what it will do is create more housing stock for more upper middle class people to move into the city.

So what you'll be left with is even more wealthy folks coming in, and never anything affordable for the blue collar folks.
The main difference of Operators is explained here https://coreos.com/blog/introducing-operators.html Operators basically encapsulate human operational knowledge on a particular system, like how do you run a Memcached Ring on Kubernetes capsulated by https://github.com/ianlewis/memcached-operator.
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I think that's one reason people stopped using LiveJournal/Blogger and other platforms back in the early 2000s. I had countless friends delete or restrict those accounts because there was too much up there; too personal. All modern social media platforms encourage constant posting to quickly bury anything embarrassing.

It's a weird change in dynamic when you think about it, because people were too afraid of the "real" so to say. I wrote a post about this years ago. I'm not sure if I entirely still stand behind it, but I'll leave it here anyway:

https://khanism.org/society/how-social-media-destroyed-my-ge...
If you think of the hardware as a black box, it does correspond to the instruction set architecture presented. Generally you don't think about implementation details of an op-amp when you wire it into a circuit. The issue is that CPUs have become so complex that the lines are blurred, since the external interface is so removed from what's going on inside with micro code and ooe and cache. So while pedantically there are no longer low level language outside of microcode, that renders the term useless, and I'd prefer the natural language evolution that's occurring.
I don't understand how this works. Surely you lecturers are going to know your unique voice, your skill level and your opinions and a random essay by someone else is not going to be passable as your own. Plus don't you have to discuss in seminars essays that you submit? Won't it become apparent that it's not your work when you can't defend it? Plus where do they find people skilled in the particular curriculums of every school?
The solution that I've liked the best is aftera fairly short standard time period, 25 years perhaps, copyrights go to an annual renewal where the cost to renew goes up (substantially) over time. Maybe Year 26 only costs $50, but Year 100 costs $5,000,000.
> And that is entirely Apple's fault.

If Skype didn't suck so much it could be the cross platform standard.
I know two people who are currently doing a CS MS who barely do any of their own assignments. They have friends help them, either by doing most of it or all of it. They can pass programming classes because tests are leniently graded, and at least half of the score comes from multiple choice questions that can be answered without actually understanding the material.
Figure out what you need and trade off with your partner. You get one evening a week off, and she gets a different evening a week off. On your evening off you can go to a cafe or hackerspace to work on something, or sit and read at the library, or go for a drive, or bike ride, or a walk in the park.

Note that depending exactly what it is you need (or think you need), certain lifestyle changes may be able to get you parts of it "for free". For example, I choose year-round bicycle commuting, which is a hardship in the winter, but it does mean that almost no matter what, I get 5hrs/week of time to myself for fresh air, thinking, and physical exercise.
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It sounds like a lot of people feel like they're missing out. This could be because so many on social media are trying to imitate the image of that lifefaker website that came up here recently. It's no surprise that the 18-22 age group feels the worst. They're the ones cultivating this fake life image the most!

If you're connected to 500 people and each person has 2-3 days a year that are "lifefaker" worthy... then it's pretty obvious how you'd feel left out. Each day you'll see 5 amazing posts that make you feel like you're living a terrible life. This is pretty standard stuff. It's standard by young people to not share sad things or things that won't fetch a lot of likes or envy. It's common to post things that aren't even happening now or recently but to share moments from the past that were great even if your life is pretty crap at the moment. It's about creating the image that your life is fantastic even if it really isn't.
C leads you to believe that memory access has uniform cost regardless of address. What is the perf cost of:

*foo

Depending on what foo points to, and which memory you have previously read, the cost can vary by close to two orders of magnitude on many chips.

C does give you the ability to control those costs, but controlling how you lay out your data in memory and controlling imperatively in which order you access it. But the language doesn't show you those costs in any way.
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While I do agree the WiiU was a kind of failure, I think not listening too much or being too reactive has served Nintendo so well that I hope they keep doing what they do.

Plus, if not for what they tried with the WiiU, we might never have had the Switch, which feels like an iteration on the same concept (but a much more successful one).
If you have Spotify premium then yes. I've had premium for some time now so I don't know if it's changed but without premium shuffle is always toggled. So without premium you could listen to dark side of the moon, but it'd be out of order.
>x86 assembly is a high level language. It's analogous to JVM bytecode.

If you take this position, then having the distinction between "low level" and "high level" languages becomes pointless, and we have no way to distinguish between languages like x86 assembly and C and languages like Python and Haskell. This is why we use the terms "low level" and "high level": some of these languages have a lower level of abstraction than others. The fact that it's not giving you a great idea of exactly what's happening in the transistors is irrelevant: "low" and "high" are relative terms, not absolute.
I'd like to compare the economy to an OS. A task of an OS is to schedule processes, and to do so in a way that is fair and efficient. It would be efficient to give priority to the process which has been running the longest, because that would minimize context switching. But clearly, it's not fair. So from an average user's perspective the OS would be a failure.

In the economy, "priority" is given to those with the most wealth. Priority leads to more opportunities to increasing wealth. In other words, money agglutinates, and evidently for most participants, the economy is a failure.

In the OS analogy, someone could step in and formulate a rule stating that new processes would get a minimum share of the CPU. This would be equivalent in the economy to giving poor people a minimum income to keep them happy enough to not cause any trouble for the wealthy. But clearly, it's a hack in both cases, and a deeper evaluation of the problem is necessary.
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I can buy a 1000 piece puzzle for $5 at walmart. Sure it's not nearly as cool as this but 236 pieces for $120? That's outrageous. I'd rather just have my money, thanks.
>The impact of a few students paying others to author papers on their behalf is nothing compared to the massive grade inflation one sees at top universities in the US.

grade inflation is real, but at least it effects everyone equally. cheating allows dishonest students to get ahead by paying $$$. moreover, you can adjust for grade inflation, but you can't adjust for cheating.
interesting, do you have any recommended source to read about this?
Discussed at the time, in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5611288
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I noticed this too. Has the domain actually been registered with Gandi yet?

Maybe 13k gets you a fully registered domain, and the £650 is like buying an option or a chance to be in the running.
Personally, I don't really see meaningful value in degrees anyway, so I don't really buy that line of argumentation. My only reason for pursuing graduate studies was to pass the barrier to entry for an academic position, but I gave up on that and went into consulting.
> To be clear, when you clear your cookies in your browser, it can make parts of your experience worse. You may have to sign back in to every website, and you may have to reconfigure things. The same will be true here. Your Facebook won't be as good while it relearns your preferences.

That's not a bug, it's a feature! I've had my browser set up to nuke everything on shutdown as far as I can remember. Yes you have to log back for sites you want to interact non-anonymously but I consider it the sane default.

Tracking and privacy aside, you'll likely save some money too as not being logged into shopping sites raises the barrier to ordering pointless crap.
Well kinda. The flexibility comes with a cost. Clock speeds are lower and for the same logic it's going to be less power efficient than a GPU or CPU or ASIC. Logic element density will also be lower so it'd be impossible to reproduce the entirety of a GPU or modern CPU (huge caches etc) on a similar-sized FPGA. I'd also imagine that the physical distance of gate paths are highly optimized in a CPU such that more gates can be traversed per clock tick there than in an FPGA.

If you have very specific compute pipelines with "colocated" (there's probably a better word -- basically data directly on the wire, not in memory lookups) data in parallel an FPGA can offer very high compute throughput.

But if you're having to do memory lookups and such for your algorithms then the memory bus is going to be your bottleneck and most of the FPGA's advantages are out the window. At that point sure you've got a few places where the FPGA does a few operations at once, but ultimately you just have an early 1990's speed processing pipeline with a few hardware-based micro-optimizations. A GPU and its custom designed baked in logic around memory buses and caches and such are going to blow it out of the water in terms of logical efficiency, power draw, heat dissipation, logic element count, and clock speed. Total throughput will be several orders of magnitude greater.

So, it depends what you're trying to do. It's dangerous to say FPGA is always badass. Sometimes they are, and sometimes they're not even close.
Yeah you're supposed to send the links yourself, It's mainly meant for personal use on group chats.
Yeah spot on. I think the square footage thing, and the various zoning laws and requirements for permits are probably one of the biggest reasons housing is not affordable.

As it is now, if you build more housing, more wealthy people will move in to fill that housing, and more and more, and on and on until you hit a plateau. That plateau will never be affordable for a blue collar worker unfortunately.

My point is that building more houses is not the answer all by itself. Drastic changes to our understanding of property rights and landlording are required as well.
You're not wrong. I can only speak for their outcomes relative to my peers at the university I attended.
> While Base64 encoding is very useful to transfer binary data over the web

This part I cannot fathom. The era of 7-bit bytes is over. What can possibly justify the need for a "printable characters" encoding now? Something stupid like putting data in a JSON string? What's the next step, base-64 encode the JSON containing that string and put it in an XML tag?
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In a science fiction novel I wrote, the main character has trouble understanding the concept of data that has a physical location; to her, it's something that's just there. While I don't know if the real world will be that extreme, I don't think it's at all impossible. I think over the long term -- and maybe not even all that long -- it's probably inevitable.

It does require some mind-shifts on all sides, including those of content creators/providers, though. I don't know that I need to "own" any of my media in an everything-available-all-the-time world, but that requires, well, everything to be available all the time. If content availability comes and goes like the tide based on contracts and deals that I'm not a party to, it makes me a lot more skeptical of the implicit everything-everywhere promise.
If people use it en-masse, probably negatively, but most likely they're betting few people will use it, just like how few people (almost no one I know) 100% go through with account deletion. The reality is there is no compromise for privacy. They build tools that help you either lose all value from facebook and retain your privacy, or relinquish your privacy to continue using facebook. It's not so much privacy forward tooling as it is a constant reminder they have a gun to your head.
That’s assuming “delete“ actually removes the data from Facebook‘s servers rather than just hiding it from you and ignoring it for ad targeting.
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Was any timeline mentioned for this feature?
I don't really feel sympathy for employers that don't adequately screen candidates.

And who knows: maybe the cheaters are completely capable of meeting the requirements of whatever job they end up in.
> Actually, the author's argument about PDP-11 is interesting because C would have never been considered a low level language back then, for any platform.

Sure, agreed, but I don't think it's super interesting that words evolve in meaning over time.

What I find strange about the comments here is that some people think the article's title is bad even though my experience is that many people today do think "C is a low level language" is a reasonable thing to say.
I can't say i've found a solution. But I have improved the situation. I work remote now, cutting out 2-3hrs a day of commute time. Though we had to move states (CA -> TX) to get a larger home so I could have an office.
Given that they are now going to face a class action lawsuit and hundreds more of these, $30,000 would have been cheap for his silence.

The question isn't what he has to gain, it is what they stood to lose.
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