skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a very easy name and email address. I get wrong emails every week. Often have gotten emails with links to reset passwords for bank accounts, some medical record sites in some hospital systems, etc. Every week without fail.

I’m glad I have the email address. I hold myself to good moral values so I try to reach out to correct these errors if possible. It would suck for me if someone else had my email address and is not an ethical person.
This is a great idea.

How do you find code you want to write?
Yes! Thank you, @hackpert :)
This is behind a paywall for me, but from what I saw, that seems like it might be for the best...
Hmm interesting.but it looks like they are only interested in young doctors and researchers. Not in professional workers, at least when you use the Excel, or is there an other way to calculate the points?
Alternatively, it can also indicate that going to great lengths to litigate the difference between "true altruism" and "signalled altruism" is unproductive. Under this paradigm, the final effect is more important than navel gazing about secret intentions.
From the article this is part of any modern Chromebook:

The Cr50 device is a classic “Fritz chip” — i.e. a hardware “policeman”, built into a computing device [...], so as to specifically and deliberately act against the purchaser’s interests, by subverting the Laws of Sane Computing in these three ways:

Prevention of the full control of the machine by its physical owner, typically by inhibiting attempts to install modified firmware. [...]

Enablement of one or more types of “NOBUS” back door (Official NSA terminology! “No One But US“, [...]

Prevention of a clueful hardware owner’s attempts to “jailbreak” — to disable, remove, or circumvent the Fritz chip itself.
What's your email address?
> through therapy I realized that I didn’t have an identity outside of being a software developer. That’s what was burning me out. I wasn’t Tim the person who has a family and interests and develops software. I was Tim: software developer. The end. This turns out to be really bad. I had to remember who I am other than software developer. All I ever did was work or think about work or work on other things that were just like work.

I feel like this is exactly my problem at the moment - how did you solve it?
Life lessons from artificial intelligence:
> Learn embedded programming

Yes, this.

I'm currently learning electronics, with the Arduino environment, and I think I never had so much fun with programming since the days I learned to do some ActionScript 2.0 with Flash MX, back in the days. Not a very glamorous example, but I genuinely enjoyed the simple fact of programmatically moving stuff on the screen. Now, with Arduino, I get to programmatically move things in the physical world.

Pure fun.
I still use Delphi XE10 regularly, and it still is the most productive environment imho, (though object pascal is showing its age).

Second choice - Swift and Appcode, Swift is the most productive language I have used so far - all the static type checking but also it feels like a dynamically typed language.
As I said, read the best, not the Internet forums. There are problems with post-modernism just like there are with everything else, but not those described above. Read the best criticisms of it.

> devastating

The same way cold fusion 'devastated' physics, the Piltdown Man 'devastated' archeology, and nonsense comments 'devastate' Hacker News. I have no idea of the facts of the event in question - not the claims endlessly repeated as a dramatic gimmick, but the reality - and I don't really care because it amounts to very little either way.

Read about actual post-modernism; you might find some of yourself in it. It would make you a heretic in some circles, I know.
What about moving into a field within the meta of what you used to do?

Organisations of differing sizes benefit in a huge way (and pay for the privilege) to hear stories, “war” or not, relating to their current problem set, and the various ways those problems can be solved, from an experiential aspect. Just to hear the various woes you faced and how you tackled them, is valuable to upstarts in the field.

Aside from being cathartic to anonymise and relay your experience, you could possibly help an organisation focus or see what they’re doing right, or wrong, in their current initiative.

Your 15 years of stories are something new companies almost _need_ to hear.
No one in the history of USA Presidential campaigns has ever had a larger, more detailed platform than HRC. That's kinda what she's known for.

The more correct criticism, which she admits to, is her inability to be less wonkish and more arm wavey (visionary).

The correct criticism, which no one will admit to, is the futility of trying to explain oneself thru a medium purpose built to sabotage rational discourse.
OP is on the right track here. A property tax reform should include.

Getting rid of the Prop 13 exemption for commercial property.

Freezing or deferring property taxes for retired home owners.

Supplemental rent support for retired long term renters.

Ten year phase in period.
This is correct. And to add more clarity about the oft-cited labor shortage, I was at an event where the President of the Minneapolis Fed talked about how when he asked employers when the best of times was w/respect to hiring, their response was 2008 - 2010. He went on to say that the issue isn't really about a labor shortage but an unwillingness to raise wages because the employers were spoiled by applicants' desperation during the cited period.
Insurance companies which have hard data will lower your rates if your car has autopilot. I am sure they base that on hard data I don't have.

If you have better data than I would love to see it. But, IMO using ballpark numbers is much better than simply having a bad feeling about something.

These cars are not going to fail the same way people do. Computers really fuck up in broad daylight, people get drunk and drive down highways in the wrong direction.

Right now I would trust this over me driving tired or drunk but not sober. Give it 5-10 years and better hardware and I think it will be a better driver than I am.
This is a great question for philosopher sniping. But it's not so great for actually drawing conclusions about the world. A "genuine desire to do good" doesn't really mean anything.
I believe Tcl scripts can help automate your FSBL and BSP changes. Pretty much everything you do in the GUI translates to Tcl commands.
Google Search, Tumblr and some other.

BTW, do you use apps to build extensions?

Not wysiwyg but sort of wysiwyg? I don't mean IDE.
Some of the comments here help remind me to shut up whenever I find myself thinking dismissive thoughts about a caricature of someone's views when I don't really have insights into what they think. It's far too easy to get a vague impression from a few tidbits, hearsay, and groupthink. It's worth practicing saying "I don't know" a lot more.

It's crazy how much people are willing to attack others for holding supposed views without bothering to actually verify the view being held.

The vast, vast majority of criticism of Richard Stallman comes from people mischaracterizing his views. It's as though grappling with his actual arguments is just too much of a threat or something. More likely, it's just intellectual sloppiness — posting crap on some online forum without bothering to care about being reasonable.
You can switch between sheets/tabs in the Excel doc. There are three eligible categories: researchers, specialized/technical (like software), and business managers.
U.S. Reclaims Supercomputer Crown from China
Is Blockchain the Future of News?
I don't follow this that closely and I've tended to think of self-driving cars as an inevitable thing that results from march toward a "perfect" system.

But I think one of our blind spots as a culture is the assumption that nothing bad will happen if you drive a car correctly and follow all of the rules, and I think that assumption might prove to be wrong and that collisions are an inherent aspect of driving a car in an unpredictable world.

We as humans like to feel like we're in control of our lives, and I think that we have a prejudice toward looking at situations as if that were true, and that bad outcomes are the result of bad decisions instead of bad luck.
A good software engineer should be able to do both of them successfully.
Yeahsure@gmail.com
Read:Straight away U.S.has the a good number commanding central processsing unit
In many ways being too data driven whilst disregarding basic political wisdom (like actually campaigning in swing states) was more of a downfall.
> Why isn't it acceptable to define consciousness as the operating instructions of the mind?

Because that's not what's being debated. You can use words any way you want, if you don't care about communicating, or you just want to dismiss an argument. But philosophically, consciousness means subjective experience. When I experience seeing red or being in pain, that has nothing to do with the abstract concept of "operating instructions".

Now there might be the functional equivalent for that concept implemented by the brain when we have subjective experiences, at least on a computational view of the mind. But that's not equivalent to the experience itself. A red experience is not an operating instruction, because you can't write a red experience down, nor can you program the algorithm for that, or put it into an equation, but you can do so with an instruction.

It's a category mistake to conflate an experience with a functional concept.
Hyenas and cheetahs: AI is awakening the chip industry’s animal spirits
Rakudo Perl 6 no longer supports Parrot, and hasn't since before the first official release of the Perl 6 specification tests on 2015-12-25.

Most people run Rakudo Perl 6 on MoarVM, but it also runs on the JVM (with some caveats) and there is a JS based runtime that is being worked on.
Getting Ultima VII to successfully run, which required its Voodoo Memory Manager [0], was probably how I became comfortable hacking computer settings.

[0] http://wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Voodoo_Memory_Manager
Prepend paywalled articles with "archive.is/" to see them.

http://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/articles/cher-elvis-bo...
What is a problem you face regularly? Write code to solve it, there's probably a market for the solution.
If anyone does want to read it and can't get past the paywall:

https://outline.com/wb32mA
HRC's greatest sins, why she lost, in rank order, are the electoral college, the 2m disenfranchised voters, not being a racist, not being given $3b in earned media (free advertising), and not being Putin's toady.

PS- I'm not forgetting Comey's sabotage. I just don't know where the 2.5% swing it caused fits into this list. Probably #4.
Put .tex documents in any of the myriad web applications for git-based version control and add a simple bash script for rendering the final document.

Use branches and revisions / diffs / pull requests to review changes.

Nothing should be emailed for this.
If I understand it correctly it uses Virtual Mode which was added in 386. In FAQ question about speed it also mentions 386 onward[1]. I don't think DOS/16M contradicts anything said there.

[1] http://www.tenberry.com/dos16m/faq/basics.html#10
I have cpr@{me,mac}.com and get 2-5 emails a day with CPR completion certificates or card scans. Have no idea how to redirect them or turn them off...
> Everybody you meet has a secret smile, and a secret pain.

There's another good quote I've heard: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Maclaren) I have heard it with " you know nothing about" at the end.
GitHub allows an arbitrary number of slashes in URLs
Hi there. I once read a post by you[1] that I vibed with. It reminded me of an interesting forum post that you might like, and I wanted to share[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13026758
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20141010211838/http://forums.phil...
On a 286 you do not have access to real mode when in protected mode. You need a 386 for that.

A crazy trick that did work is to cause a triple fault in protected mode. That would reset the 286. Then there was a little bit of support from the BIOS. You could tell the BIOS to not run the power on self tests and load the MBR from disk. Instead the BIOS would jump to a specific memory location.
I don’t see it being reasonable at all. If you need more than two values, use an enum?
The most recent AvE video had a break down of a pressure washer which includes an explanation of a piston pump.
https://youtu.be/4IbjQyR9X6E
search for title on google, click link. Not worth the hassle for this fluff piece though ;)
You rested your argument on the fact that we should take away someone’s right because they got annoyed. So no, I am not being unreasonable.

I don’t need you to realize rights are inalienable but you do need to me to believe that submitting to oppression does bestow rights to me or else your framework falls apart.
Mac touchpads are better, but they still suck.

The entire notion of the trackpad is flawed. They are awful, and no one cares. People just use them so much that they get used to them and they don't notice how anymore.
You will never be one of them, no matter how hard you try.

I would not even try, I'm not Japanese. I can like their culture, work there, respect their laws and all, but Japanese I am not and will never be.
It's the new TPM? The old one had a (now patched) firmware bug, which newer Chromebooks like the Pixelbook don't seem to be vulnerable to:

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/tpm_firmware_update

Edit: this is what Chrome devices use it for https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/tpm-usa...
Science Explains Why It's So Hard to Eat Carbs in Moderation
I meant that the internal state of like/hate would be a response to something that the laptop experienced.

>Please be more clear, as the topic demands it.

You are using terms like 'pleasure' and 'experience' that have no scientific definition. I find your entire line of thinking unclear, but it doesn't help the tone of the argument to demand clarity.

>Anyway, how do I create a laptop that finds pleasure in its work? Do I throw away the ones that don't work, and keep the ones that work? Is that enough selection?

As with dogs, the internal state of the laptop would need to be malleable per generation, with generations of reproduction under adaptive pressures that favour the human owner. We currently don't have laptops of this kind.
It's worth noting that the parent admits to be playing a "propaganda game" on HN.
Additionally, she was the clear favourite right from the start. It’s not true that it was a more tightly contested primary than usual, although Sanders gave her a surprisingly good run for sure.

Clinton vs Sanders was much more one-sided than Obama vs Clinton, say.
> Any reasonable definition of consciousness should IMO be a continuum, so your laptop has some consciousness (not very much).

That doesn't seem much different from the theory of consciousness Chalmers put forward in the second part of his 1996 book, where some law of nature connects consciousness to rich streams of information. That way, any physical system which creates a complex enough flow of information would be conscious to some degree.

The difference is that Chalmers recognizes that information and subjective experience are not equivalent, and thus you need a law of nature connecting the too. That was his proposal for expanding science.

I'm not saying whether he's write or wrong, only that Chalmers recognizes the hard problem can't be waved away by making an equivalence claim.
Managing SV startup seems to be very similar to running kindergarden.

But maybe we those "rockstar" employees simply show us that the human brain power is not unlimited:

In order to fit awesome coding skills in you have to sacrifice the part of the brain responsible for emotional stability, or even common sense? :)
The Talkshow (WWDC 2018)
Close Encounters?
I had understood what the diagram means, actually I have most of this information internalized... not a great guitar player, but I know the theory.

What I don't understand is what can I do with it. What's the typical way of using it?
How nuclear rockets work
Can’t read the article (paywall) but I’ve found this to be a funny dynamic in my own family. I share a name with my dad. He was “there first”, yet I own the Gmail address. He hates this, but even if I wanted to, it’s my address of record for hundreds of services, and changing it now would be virtually impossible.

I wonder what the equivalent will be with my kids.
FTLDNS and Unbound Combined for Your Own All-Around DNS Solution
"reality, at least as far as humans perceive it, consists of observations of physical events, or at least we know that much for sure."

Curious: would you say that your dreams are observations of physical events? Can you be sure that this isn't a dream? All we know is that we have experiences, and that it's a reasonable guess that something called "physical reality" is behind those experiences.
That would be F#, not Gb. Enarmonic but not quite the same.
> Not even bothering to flip through a meager 1" thick manual for a newly acquired automobile strikes me as negligent.

Perhaps, but then almost everyone is negligent. The car designers (and the whole world) know that well, so to depend on people reading the manual is disingenuous and dangerous.
This is not really true of any mature system. There are many reasons to design a schema in normal form, including performance, maintainability and space optimisation. Database design outside start-ups is a fairly mature area and normal form is well proven good practice.
Data Science can count craters for astronomers – here's how
One day I decided to fool around with memory managers (out of boredom). I managed to fubar the MBR or something similar. Free trip to the computer shop, 200$ for restore and backup tape drive (the shop owner made himself a nice sell on a HP Colorado T1000 [still working]).
Sure. But Tesla isn't the cult. Tesla is a fellow member. If St. Musk's vision doesn't pan out, I don't care much that I won't be the richest man in the wasteland.

To people like myself, those who short Tesla aren't short an unprofitable car company. They're short a better future. I make no apologies for being willing to take a small loss to cause them a big one. Anyone considering shorting this stock should consider that I'm not alone in that sentiment.
Thank you for sharing this!

Having watched the first lecture, I was thoroughly impressed by the design and presentation of this historical artifact, with (judiciously chosen) modern embellishments.
>Say we had a very detailed world simulation running on a massive server farm, like you see in some SciFi stories. Would the characters inhabiting this world have conscious experiences? They consist of complex bit patterns, or more accurately, electricity.

I think yes. I find the arguments for functionalism convincing.

After this you're rehashing Searle's Chinese room. As I've said, 'conscious experience' is not a properly defined concept, so I can only answer for what my own impressionistic judgement of its meaning is. For me, the entire system of people writing could maybe be described as having an experience if it directly encoded causally connected perceptions and actions of an agent in the virtual world. The whole thing is so far from how we use the word 'experience' that it is, as Dijkstra said, as interesting as asking whether a submarine can swim --- that is, not interesting at all.
I actually think this is a great idea. Often in a crowd, I want to either stop and not be run into by people, or I'm rushing and people often obstruct and I have to dodge all of them to make on my way.

Having an actual place to chill out and walk slowly (cellphone or not) would help immensely.
What kind of work do you do with that setup if you don't mind me asking?
I was speaking in general, I don't have any dart projects which I believe is what the OP is about. I do have JS projects that I think would be rather ugly if limited to 80 char line length is that is what you are asking.
I think most companies basically just care about the over priced chemicals they sell in the sprayer.

They want a sprayer that just empties the product, so the consumer can buy more?

I try to reuse sprayer bottles. Some bottles allow this, but it's getting harder to get the tops off. I usually refill the opened bottle with 10% bleach, and water. I use the spray bottle until it stops working. Sometimes I use ammonia instead of bleach.

Ironically, it sounds like this guy's invention might use more liquid per squeeze; hence causing the consumer to buy more pricy liquid? Maybe, I'm wrong?
Erm, C# has been available via Mono for 14 years!
There is a much better option (weights half as much) for implementing this same functionality: pull-to-reload @ npmjs.com
>> So the people designing the next generation of autonomous driving systems are going to need a fundamental philosophical shift. Instead of treating cruise control, lane-keeping, and emergency braking as distinct systems, advanced driver assistance systems need to become integrated systems with a sophisticated understanding of the car's surroundings.

My understanding was that self-driving systems are trained end-to-end to do simultaneous localization and mapping (a.k.a. SLAM [1]). In other words, the same model would control breaking, accelerating, lane keeping and everything else.

In fact, I thought this was why Uber had switched off its car's built-in breaking system- because their AI had taken over breaking and the AEB on the car would interfere with the self-driving.

Perhaps that is not the case for Tesla in particular, though?

_______________

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...
Huh. A lot of mind-body dualists in the HN community. I genuinely never would have guessed.
Yes, this is sort of a fluffy feature piece. But I would hope that all the people complaining realize that doing nothing other than multi-month investigative journalism on Theranos isn't a profitable model. This is an easy story to crank out. Drowsy people on morning plane flights read it. Not everything is or can be serious investigative and analytic jornalism.
I mean, I'm also pessimistic about self driving cars, but I think it's reasonable to assume that Tesla engineers are aware that machine learning is hard.
Seriously. The hardware aspects are interesting, but the author's insistence on interpreting the situation as some sort of grand conspiracy theory, and using derogatory terms like "open sores" at every opportunity, makes the article nigh-unreadable.
This modern terminology is useful for distilling a vast amount of moral judgement into a single term in order to dismiss an entire class of heterogeneous social structures, some of which are horrible, some of which are fine, into being classified into the set of 'morally evil.'
Can paste 低头族专用通道 into Google Image search if you'd like to see more photos of this one.
Adding to what @jarfil said, it is also Saturday.

Many non-relevant stories show up in the front page of HN during the weekend because many people disconnect from the website to stay with their families or whatever. Many of these missing upvotes/downvotes are also the ones that make up the self-moderation that the website is known for. Don't think too much about it, the GitHub + Microsoft thing is just in the air nowadays, anything that teases the acquisition will sparkle a reaction from the community, today that reaction translates into upvotes of this type of links.
She was the worst possible candidate of Democrats. Maybe even some time in future we'll learn that Russians helped her win that primary in order to give Trump easiest opponent to beat :)