skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forcing content upon others is something I view as an anti-feature. Linking to content that they MAY choose to display (or pre-cache in selective instances) CAN be a feature.

For example, I might allow specific rooms that I know are moderated or specific individuals that I trust to push arbitrary data in to my storage. However I definitely do not want that to happen in a random room of strangers.
I wonder if this is just the inevitable trend that all great societies move towards--adding social safety nets programs to lessen the impact that "luck" and "timing" having with individual success.
Transfer.sh is am instant sharong tool for programmers
I agree, I think it helps to treat theories like this as just one model for looking at society in a particular way. It's not the one and only model, and it's not prescriptive or perfect. It's a lens that lets us focus on its key theme - different types of high-level values and how they interact to shape society. It's a handy tool I'll put in my mental toolbox but it's not going to become my Swiss army knife.
The ‘Radiation’ Printer (2000)
I'm a musician in my area, and my dad comes in contact with a lot of people. It's not nearly on a "celebrity" scale, but about 2 or 3 times a week I get called out by name in public by a stranger. It's a really weird feeling. I'm pretty sure I would hate it if it happened constantly
> Removed due to near constant misrepresentation of the presented argument.

Saves me the trouble of writing it out myself I guess
This assumes basic income won't become law
It's a messed up world for a young adult, but it's also full of more _accessible_ potential than ever.

If people would stop and make an honest assessment of their situation, why they're not where they want to be, commit to grinding until they get there, and actually DO IT...things would be better.

Unfortunately it's become fashionable to point fingers, assign blame, and make a ruckus about being 'oppressed'. That may get you more Twitter followers, but it won't lead to economic betterment.
It's essentially a browser binary.
Also off topic: I spy a Leopold FC660! Been interested but couldn't justify the price.
It's embarrassing but that's what I routinely do when declaring and indexing arrays. I imagine an array with 2 items (index 0 and index 1) and say "that's got length 2 and maximum index 1", so for my length 50 array, the maximum index will be 49. Similarly for intervals and 1-based arrays, etc. All of that talking to myself over and over again! I almost never get off-by-1 errors though. It's a good reason to use iterators instead of for loops.
I'm of the pinnacle of chat crowd, and I will fully acknowledge the difficulty to someone that is not on the technical side. However, popularity does not determine quality. From a programmer (bot/client) creator, its perfect. The protocol is simple, light, and fast. For basic usage there is no confusing things, and even where I've had confusion (DCC), it turned out to be simple.
From the view of just a user, I still prefer IRC. The clients are lightweight, my Hexchat client is taking up 28mb of ram right now, and its one of bulkier ones. The lack of images allows compactness and simplicity.
> Introduced by State Assembly member Ed Chau and state senator Robert Hertzberg, the bill would allow California residents to find out what information businesses and data brokers collect about them, where that information comes from, and how it's shared. It would give people the power to ask for their data to be deleted and to order businesses to stop selling their personal information. It places limits on selling data on users younger than 16 years of age, and prohibits businesses from denying service to users for exercising their rights under the bill.

This is fantastic.

I've been trying to opt out of as many data brokers as I can. It's a huge amount of work and many of them try to make the process as painful as possible (since, IIRC, there's no law compelling them to provide and opt-out, so it's just a courtesy).

I really wish there was some kind of national data-broker opt-out system where you could register your preferences, which the brokers would then be required to honor [1].

[1] I'm thinking of something like a blinded service where the broker sends the PII and gets a response back with usage restrictions (e.g. no people-search, do not share with 3rd parties, etc.).
HCF seems relevant in this case - Halt (servo motor) and Catch Fire
This is a constant concern with developers in embedded space (microcontrollers), afaik current consensus is rewrite everything when you sign exclusive contract, unless you put library reuse explicitly in writing.
Hold on, I'm confused here. You wrote:

> we're never going to try to price compete with Tide

> we're just a better, cheaper

Which is it?
EFnet was my first favorite network... haven't used that network in years though... #warez950 I think was one of the channels...
Here is the thing central banks are printing exponential debt money from nothing. Most people from youth generations cannot afford to buy affordable houses priced with that debt.. You could even say younger people are exponential debt slaves working for the old and rich. Having kids myself I do not feel this system is fair.
Use glip.com. Is slack on steroids.
What a load, I've never been to a city that wasn't a disgusting concrete nightmare. God forbid you want to raise kids, say goodbye to playing outside. I'll take my cozy yard and breathable air, thanks
In general, a lot of well-known cyberpunk seems to have underestimated governments--their competence, power, longevity, and reach.

China features prominently in The Diamond Age as a location, but not as a powerful, cohesive, oppressive, incredibly successful authoritarian government. It's sort of a laughing stock in Snow Crash, and barely present in Neuromancer.

Despite its reputation for being darkly cynical, I think we can look back now and see that cyberpunk as a genre was essentially optimistic about the power of computing technology--optimistic that it would indeed radically change power structures, society, and our relationship with governments.

Instead what we see today is not that different from this time 100 years ago: super rich oligarchs controlling much of the economy, rising racism and bigotry, authoritarians using new technologies to seize power and splinter their opposition.
Different strokes I guess.

I consider Lua's type system almost mathematical in its elegance. For my taste, Lua is the penultimate dynamic language, held back only by the unforgivable Wirth-style indexing from 1.

The one place where I simply must correct you is in calling tables inefficient. LuaJIT's implementation, as interpreted, is demonstrably among the fastest general-purpose container classes in widespread use.
TL/DR In Nd4j, historically, mmuli returns an F-ordered array. If you specify C-ordered result, you'll have F->C conversion underneath, and C -> F assign takes time.

ND4J returns the `mmuli` result in F order, and DL$J is aware of that. We design our algorithms around this. It is possible to get the `mmuli` result in C order, but it'll cause an additional conversion operation call, which is expensive. That's exactly what Dragan did. So on one hand - he's right: in the CCC case, Neanderthal is faster, because he doesn't have to do the F->C conversion of the result.

We make mmuli always return F because of Cuda. The cuBLAS implementation has no option for C ordered output.

`mmuli` CCC always introduces a dup for us. We expect the gemm result to always be F, so if result is not F, each operation allocates tempResult array, F ordered, and does result.assign(tempResult).
In a five year period Methane traps ~100 times more energy than the equivalent quantity of CO2, so not burning Methane because it escapes is far worse than burning it!

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/methane-vs-ca...
Noob detected.
As a millennial, this is why my generation is pathetic.

I'm not sure where I read this, but a quote that really resonates with me as a millennial who went out and found / fought for nearly all their opportunities "I love being a millennial, because it's so easy to be better than most of my generation".
Another way to write that would be:

NSString *one = @"Hello";
NSString *two = @"World";
NSString *three = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", one, two];
Fracking ban.
RSS was and is not dead.
Linux Fu: The Great Power of Make
I wasn't familiar with Tab Suspender. I ended up installing The Great Suspender to see if that will help with some of the performance problems I was having when I had a lot of tabs open. That's part of the pain is having all those tabs open can lead to my browser crawling sometimes, particularly when this particularly heavyweight backup job runs (restic).
This seems to ignore the actual trends of economic inequality in America. It's easy to brush off people's problems and say, "Ah, they just need to work harder." But the numbers show that there actually are real issues with our society. Any theory that starts with "Millennials just need to get with the program" ignores the reality that people are largely following the program our society has prescribed — e.g. college attendance is much higher now than it was in the '60s — and yet it's not working out for a huge number of them.
It seems like this came to a head around the time of the occupy wall street protests (is it 10 years ago now?). The public consciousness became aware of the way our political/financial systems were in a kind of symbiotic conspiracy to vacuum up productivity gains, there was huge pressure to do something about it despite the media's constant stream of 'nothing to see here'..... and then nothing happened. The popular culture of the west instead decended into this en masse flame war around gender, race, sexuality etc.

Seems like there was a huge opportunity that was foiled or just missed and this is possibly going to be the result of it.
It's clearly focused on American ladders. I would expect that other countries/societies would have different L/G/E ladders, but most would connect at his E1 level. (For example, in China, E2 would actually consist of people with generational connections to the party, rather than generational connections to money.)
I get way more time in parks and nature in San Francisco than I did when living in suburban North San Jose or Sunnyvale. The suburbs were asphalt nightmares with few trees and no parks within walking distance. In SF I can easily get lost in green space and fresh ocean air.
hmm... To me irc was great as a young teenager in the first half of the 90's because my friends were there. I used a lot of geographical local channels so at some point people started organizing dinners, and I ended up knowing a lot of people. I still love the concept of irc but people are gone and they are never coming back unless someone destroys fb, snapchat or whatever they are using right now.
Times have certainly changed drastically. I remember when Google Talk was announced and the tech crowd of the day embraced it precisely because it didn't have emoticons (or custom fonts and colors, or games, or a host of other features MSN/AIM/etc. had and were beginning to be considered tacky). Maybe it's cyclical, and in a few years we'll be back to minimalism.
I'm not sure I understand why this comment is being downvoted. It's got a minor preachy tone, but I'm not convinced the game theoretic logic is unsound. There are benefits for both sides to being freelance, but that doesn't negate the general power dynamic which is the person with the most power dictates better terms in a contract, and if you're providing a commodity service you can't expect to have any bargaining power at all.

The author of the article was in a very privileged position to be able to, both, afford to speak out, and have available outlets for it to make even a minor difference.
Which brings us around to the subject of the article ;)
I remember looking at John Cusack's Twitter feed around when he was setting up the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and it was a bit disturbing to see the number of strangers constantly propositioning him for sex, proposing marriage to him, asking him for money, or asking him to comment on their unusual ideas. I thought that that aspect of fame must not be that much fun for him or other people in his position.
Also: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mrubinst/tuning/12.html

Why do the divisors of 12 matter in music? I'm not aware of anything using the divisors of 12.

12 is mainly important in music because the (3/2)^12 is a power of 2.
We divide up the octave into fractions of frequencies, not
multiple os steps (a.k.a. fractions of number-of-steps-per-octave). The harmonious way of stepping through the 12 notes is in steps of size [2,2,1,2,2,2,1], which is importantly not by divisors of 12. (Stepping strictly in any arithmetic progression hits at least one low-harmony tone and misses high-harmony tones.).

Stepping in the sequence [2,2,1,2,2,2,1] leads to frequency ratios in these low-complexity (==harmonious) fractions:
[1 9/8 5/4 4/3 3/2 5/3 15/8 2]
What the article shows is that lots of people who say they want to live in an urban area are forced to live in the suburbs. This has nothing to do with people who want to live in low-density suburbs, except to the extent that those people voted to make it illegal to build anything other than low-density suburbs.
With such a thin skin I think you have found a good fit for yourself in the suburbs.
Back in 1993 I was thumbing through a book about assembly programming for MS-DOS, and it seemed that you could theoretically cause all kinds of hardware problems. IIRC the method that stood out to me at the time was intentionally accelerating disk drive motors. Were there built-in limits? On some drives or all? The book didn't say.

I'm still not sure I read that right, but man was it fascinating to think about all the control one could wield over the head of one's high school electronics teacher and his room full of new PC's.
Interesting that they integrated Mattermost in their omnibus package and not gitter.
My kids’ private school bills are about triple my mortgage so I think you’d better check your math.
Surely people will respond to this reasonably and favorably
These days I have to point new users to Quassel; there's the 'monolithic' version that behaves like old IRC clients, and there's the client/server version where the quassel "server" acts as a client and various quassel clients connect to that.

Note that it doesn't support mobile devices (in theory someone could submit a pull request to change that, but they'd probably need to write an additional QT GUI that worked correctly for them).

https://quassel-irc.org/about
Looks like a great language that's a nice mix of OCaml and Haskell!

What's the interop story? If I am embedding this language inside my app, I reasonably want to make data structures in my app to be available through this language. How would that work?
Crumple up this keyboard and stick it in your pocket
Given that we've made it illegal to build anything other than low-density suburbs in most places, actions aren't good evidence.
The more we fight each other the less we are fighting "them".
And this is another reason why privacy is a good thing. Even if you have "nothing to hide," how often do you want to be on display, with the change in behavior that implies?
Thanks for pointing me to well sourced wiki article, as it mostly confirms the couple of opinion screeds from anti-monarchists.

See reference 5 (I'll assume you know where it comes up): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5123580.stm, for what was happening before the Sovereign Grant Act.

See then the article on the Sovereign Grant, which carefully mentions that the Sovereign Grant is just a small part of the total cost of the monarchy. Note also that the same article mentions that the Royal Family also has private income which is undisclosed, separate from the Sovereign Grant.

Here's another article from a source without a conflict of interest, as provided by the wiki article you linked me to: https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/581000/Royal-family-fin...

Note that:

* the Royal Family was receiving increases in funding, when austerity measures were otherwise being implemented in the UK

* the total annual cost of the Royal family is around £300m

Russell Brand has a pretty good video on this shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyj_9sIOPzU&t=235s

But I bet you consider him to be just another one of these godless anti-monarchists...
"Uncanny valley of sincerity" is the key thing here.

I beg to differ with analogy (though not the rest of your post). The "uncanny valley" is a hypothetical situation where a construct is unpleasant because it seems human but not human enough [1]. The (supposed) solution to the uncanny valley effect is for a thing to seem more human.

But that's not the problem here. The problem is a corporation here really isn't your friend. The corporation aims to sell as much to you as possible at the highest mark-up possible. No amount of them improving the experience is going to change that.

The nice things about a local cafe have to incidentally nice. The cafe isn't a better designed experience some better designer has created to make more money, since then you'd be paying for every personalism of this service.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Here's my grim reality I'm just waking up to now as a millennial.

Married with $100k in student loans between the two of us. Her first job out of college paid $30k with no benefits. No matter, I had the money making tech degree, we'd be fine. My first job out of college was $100k, so I didn't see a problem there.

Three year later I'm facing mounting healthcare costs incurred even with top notch gold plated tech insurance. Most of my salary the last 3 years went to my landlord and the government. The remainder went to student loans and medical costs, so I don't have much in the way of savings even after earning $300k. And somehow I still owe $100k in student loans.

And my $100k tech job didn't come with retirement benefits so I don't have any retirement savings yet. It did however come with a generous stock grant. But then again, the company folded and now I don't have a job or insurance.

And now I'm a full time caregiver for my wife, with no health insurance, trying to get a job, with $100k in non-dischargable debt, looking to get on welfare, but at the same time reading about how our government wants to take even that away.

So that's what I'm doing this weekend.
"Don't be evil"

Culture is hard to kill, good on the "Group of Nine".
I used to live on IRC, but it's been years since I was a regular user. Are channel takeovers still a thing? That was one of the things that turned me off on it after getting locked out of the channel I called home for most of a decade.
As chip manufacturing goes DRAM used to be at the bottom of the ladder. Many logic fabs did DRAM first to learn the rope because the fab technology is simpler for DRAM (less layers than logic). DRAM fabs bought used equipment from logic fabs, so there were always swing capacity available. DRAM business was tough and the main challenge was yield (therefore cost and margin). I don't know if any of this has changed more recently as it certainly seems people are not bringing DRAM capacity online as expected -- maybe they are scared by the prospect that China may bring in a large amount of capacity.

The Chinese company mentioned in the article is only incidental to the story so the article title is kind of a click bait. Sure they decided to buy technology from the Taiwanese fab UMC, which is perfectly legal. UMC as a very large fab itself, could also be expected to provide the technology. For whatever reason, UMC seemed unable to deliver and had allegedly resorted to underhanded tactics instead.
I like IRC but it's 2018 and even the latest drafts of ircv3 lack built in e2e encryption for private and group messages.

Using IRC is like using ftp or email. We've been there and tried that,slapping on a solution to secure it just won't work well. They've been trying to fix email for decades now and the best solutions we have(gpg and s/mime) still don't provide metadata security (I don't think their encryption can be callend end to end either)

In my opinion, a new end to end encrypted protocol that preserves the properties of IRC people like would be ideal.
Doctors Don’t Know Why This Teenager Can’t Keep Down Food and Drink
As a millennial, I agree. There is definitely something going on that has made my age group crave attention.
More details leak on “Snapdragon 1000,” Qualcomm’s chip for Windows 10 laptops
Show HN: Screen-clean: automatically clean up screenshots from your Mac Desktop
If you open it in an editor and have the same tab width configured as the author, you'll see no indentation and alignment problems. If you set a different tab width (the purported advantage of tabs), the code will be messed up (the actual disadvantage of tabs).

Not sure why you blame this on GitHub. Emacs with a tab width of 2 or vim with a tab width of 8 will also show this code with broken formatting.
Lua provides only a meta-object protocol, without blessing a single class system.

I prefer this. Its more Scheme-like, philosophically. I've seen your criticism from many quarters and here's my guess at what happens: people come to Lua from other languages, find missing abstractions, recreate them, and in the process don't thoroughly learn the metamethod system.

Pure prototyping is a joy once you realize what all the moving parts are and how many ways they can be usefully combined. This is my experience anyway.
Weird, I felt physically compelled to upvote this just because I used to use IRC a lot. I regret that I had a lot of great BBS and IRC friends with whom I lost touch over the years.
DCC has been broken in practice for decades due to NAT. If you use a bouncer and have workarounds for the NAT problem in place, your files will still end up on the wrong machine, and then there is the multi client distribution problem. That's a bunch of problems you need to solve beyond just showing an image "inline".
> If people would stop and make an honest assessment of their situation, why they're not where they want to be, commit to grinding until they get there, and actually DO IT...things would be better.

For most people, salary is completely decorrelated from how hard they work. It's quite depressing, actually.
Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro
It's surprising the article leaves out medical expenses. There's this one mention:

The same 2017 survey found 27 percent skipping medical treatments because they can’t afford them.

In the end, I suspect that medical costs driven to astronomical levels by retirees is what will do the most financial damage to millennials.
> The key is to be pragmatic and to think through the long term value each person brings to the table, the relative leverage each has, and investment made in different ways.

This sounds bad to me - it might not be what the author meant, but it sounds subjective. I feel like making the equity split subjective and based on some perceived "value" of a person or their contributions is a way to guarantee fights and bad feelings in the future, when the person who said they'd solve all the problems backs out, or when someone unexpectedly invents the key algorithm or closes the deal that keeps the company alive. The value of founder contributions (other than time & money) cannot be known in advance.

There are ways to define contribution, relative risk, and time/money investment in purely objective financial terms that are fair to everyone and still benefit the early risk takers. Some of them have been posted already.

I did let someone talk me into inflating their share once, and it was a big mistake. I wouldn't sign up ever again to start something with someone else who argued that their share should be larger because they're more important to the company or that their time is more valuable than anyone else's.