skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example:

"The alternate version contained all the same information — written in a different way. That article emphasized the complexity of the gun debate, rather than describing it as a binary issue. So the author explained many different points of view, with more nuance and compassion. It read less like a lawyer’s opening statement and more like an anthropologist’s field notes."

Matches this technique from "Crucial Accountability" called "Completing the Story". Here, the authors talk about the Fundemental Attribution Error, and then show the way to deliberately expand upon the possible influences for failed expectations beyond simply, "This person is a jerk". It can be really effective.

... And it is also the first part of the book. The rest of the book involves the techniques of actually having these difficult conversations.

I had been able to use this when talking with my wife about political issues that have great emotional significance with her. We used to get into arguments because, I tend to see nuances in many of the issues, and somehow the conversation quickly turns into something else. It doesn't _change_ her views on it and what she feels as important, but it has reduce a lot of the emotional charge while we explore many different angles of the issue.
This is fairly easy to investigate online, but here's an article I found for example: https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/buying-advice/gadget/is-it-leg...
Here's a discussion with the author, if anyone's interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFIa_szx_U
Bike networks make for a great commuter option in crowded cities, for a few reasons:

- Storing a bike is a problem in cities like NYC and SF due to space constraints

- Electric bikes offer faster commute option than a regular bike but are more expensive to buy

- Bike theft is a really big problem in cities

- It's very convenient to have the option to ride a bike somewhere without worrying about carrying it around
I use Ford GoBike daily in SF (one of Motivates' products) and I find it wonderful for solo trips (generally commuting)

In dense city environments:

* Fastest transit mode within a few miles (beats driving or Muni)

* Extremely cheap ($15/month)

* Much better than using my own bike for commuting purposes (no storage issues, flexible to switch transit modes, etc.)

* Mixed predictability compared to dockless such as Jump (more likely to be a nearby bike, less likely to be able to dock bike at destination).

Market wise, it's also great for last mile transit within an urban area, e.g. Commuters that commute into a dense city, but work a mile from the train station.
I generally aim for 80, but if that starts to get ugly I widen my terminal to 132, which I argue does not revoke my old school credentials because we had 132 column terminals in the old days (VT100, DECWriter II LA36).
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University of Universal Brothers?
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The piece is an angry rant, hence my comment
It most definitely is large. It's not just about all of the recent IoT devices. Firmware for all of the controllers on your motherboard is written in C. Most device drivers are still written in C. Many operating systems (linux) are written in C. Then you have all of the controllers in the devices in your home (e.g. microwave, oven, digital clock, entertainment devices, etc.)
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Hopefully they'll expand it to all areas in NYC.
It’s disgusting.

And the gutting of public school funding by Democrats and Republicans undermine any consideration of what is “right” or moral or healthy. School districts are discarding teaching degree requirements to meet spending goals all over the US. Of course kids are going to feel alienated. They absolutely are. And of course they will act accordingly. And now they will go to jail for it.

The only solution here is voting for politicians who do not accept corporate donations. Vote another way and you are consenting to this behavior.
There's probably not a day I don't think about certain objects or aspects of life in the way depicted in the comment. E.g. I'm using a hammer which was once my great grandfather's, I suddenly think about the people who crafted the hammer, how probably all traces of them have completely vanised of the earth except a never-visited grave maybe or a picture in a drawer of which nobody knows who is on it. Or I'll think about the materials the hammer was made fro, once dug out of the earth and a tree cut down and how eventually it'll turn to the earth again, or maybe the steel gets recycled in the meantime, still, at one point all traces of it will be gone. Together with the rest of our lives. Doesn't get me lightheaded, but can be tiring at times and it's easy to slip into the 'life is utterly pointless' line of thought.
I've been off the market for, well, 5 years. Laid off from an iOS development job, then my parents ran into a stretch of bad health (dad had dementia). Hoping to get back into the field, somehow.

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Email: jonhendry@mac.com

That last iOS job was part of a team working on an iPad based pharma marketing app, from 2011-6/2013. They started changing focus to a different concept.

Prior to that I was a Mac programmer/sys admin in a neuroscience lab at Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Harvard Medical School for 4 years until funding ended. The lab was working on visual attention in monkeys. One of my tasks was to write a device driver of sorts, allowing the use of a high-end video eye tracking device instead of a surgically implanted eye tracking coil.

Most of the 90s I spent doing NeXTStep coding in fixed income trading and other contexts.
Anyone know where deepfakes moved to? It was great seeing what was going on in /r/deepfakes but due to the "offensive nature" of some of the videos that subreddit was killed. Anyone know the best place to watch and observe the latest happenings in the scene?
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They are definitely a symptom of a much bigger problem, but I don't see how there can be any improvements in the current state of US politics.

We have skyrocketing medical cost, high student debt, we are constantly seeing a pro business approach when it comes to laws/taxes, which does hurt the middle class.
I think what we'll see is something less like the Jordan Peele version of Obama based on a public clip, and something more like a faked version of the Romney 47% video

Start with something naturally unfocused and exists only as a one off original, and it would be extremely hard to disprove without comparing it to other video of the same event.
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The layout of things on the stack is completely implementation-defined.
I use it, but it's a big buggy on big/complex PDF.

For those I just use evince.
That's fine for this purpose because even the most exclusive universities can't really expect great writing as a precondition for admission. These AIs can't even distinguish decent writing from complete gibberish.
It's called Night Shift on MacOS.
Medical association feels uncomfortable around mentally ill people. So much for trying to "get rid of the stigma".
Hrmm.. according to Gizmodo [1], this is claimed to be able to fire 1000 two second 'rounds' from the weapon's, presumably mobile, battery.

That's a half hour of lasing of a sufficiently high energy level to cause radiation/heat harm to water-based entities (ie. high energy absorbing) at a half mile.

Even with some sort of capacitor charging, I don't know of anything that could do that, and whilst I'm not a laser scientist, it's a field that I have a passing interest in, having looked into CO2 and solid-state lasers for various somewhat destructive applications.

If this is anywhere near real, the reported $15k pricetag seems like a bargain! Where/when can I get one?

[1] https://gizmodo.com/china-claims-to-have-a-real-deal-laser-g...
They're illegal in the same way that if you sticking four wheels on a fridge and driving it down the street is also illegal. They're not road worthy, and you can't use them on footpaths in the same way you can't cycle on footpaths.
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> I started taking classes in community college while I was still in high school (they had a special program for kids with an aptitude for math and science), and had completed an associates degree from a "junior college" before I finished high school.

I did this too, so I can definitely relate there. Went to undergrad 15 miles from home and commuted my last year.

> and enjoy being young.

I'm afraid only the elites get to enjoy themselves when they're young. The rest of us aren't so lucky.
I mean, there's nothing a computer does playing chess that a human couldn't, and yet the world's best players simply can't beat the world's best chess-playing programs.
As it should be... and you should feel ashamed imo.
You can try Enlightenment for non technical users. It's closer to MacOS, but with the full-fat Linux goodies underneath.
I think 2.9-3.3 is the ideal range. I pass on anything less than a 2.5 or more than a 3.7 unless there is something else in their resume that makes up for it.

GPA signals a lot about a candidate.

If they graduate with a low GPA it means they are okay staying with a path of life they are not succeeding in. I'd prefer if they dropped out and did something nonacademic, because that signals they noticed something wasn't for them and searched for a better fit.

If they graduate with a very high GPA it signals they are a perfectionist, that they do well in highly structured settings, that they are obsessive about stats, and that they highly value authority.

A 3.0 with a good attitude and success in life outside of academia signals that they can identify important metrics of success and complete them, but are not obsessive about them. It signals that they do not take authority too seriously (parents are often the largest motivators for people with very high gpas). The goal is to determine how the 2.9-3.3 spent their extra time not chasing stats, and if those experiences will bring anything to the team. I look for things like internships, team sports, volunteer work, part time work, clubs, and awards.
In a sense you're right, but hand-tuning assembly is kind of an orthogonal problem to determining whether you're using the right algorithms and data structures.
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I Made Myself Watch Netflix Original Movies for a Month.  What I Learned
Sorry to nitpick but Pentium 4 was a temporary flop until the HT version came along for which AMD had no answer. And I don't think the K6 beat Pentium II. Having bought a $2000 K6-2 computer in 1998 with maxed out RAM and graphics, I instantly regretted that decision as all my friend's mediocre Pentium II's ran applications and games better than my K6-2.
>Makes sense. Hypersocial seems like a good thing to me. Am I the only person who likes how connected phones have made us?

No, there are some others too. Not me though.

I dislike how connected they make us to all kinds of harmful imperatives (spam, advertisement, surveillance, bosses, entitled people, etc.) and how disconnected they enable and encourage most of us to be from actual friends -- not just "here for you" friends, but also casual have a good time friends, with whom 20 years ago you would go out with or visit, as opposed to exchanging comments online.
Script kiddie goes from 'Bitcoin Baron' to 'Lockup Lodger' post 911 systems DDoS
I have been using a bike sharing service for a couple of months. I'm a cyclist anyway but am temporarily without a bike of my own. It's very convenient.

> There's a pretty narrow window between a distance that's too far to walk but impractical to hire a car.

This just isn't true in denser European-style cities. If you live centrally, everything is about 30-45 walk away. It's uncomfortable to walk but comfortable to cycle.

> Everyone except literally the current user of a dockless bike is going to hate them so you're limited to where the company has docking stations. They're going to be the fastest vandalized property

No particular argument against it except the fact that I've seen the product in action and nobody hates it.

> Anyone who's actually into riding bikes will just buy one

True but there's also a lot of value in a bike that you dont have to maintain, store, or bring home. You can ride out and taxi home. You can ride downhill and taxi back up.

> Technically you're not guaranteed a bike back from wherever you go

This is true, it basically limits the user base to centrally-based people (you can always find a bike in the centre of town) and so probably means it's only a viable product in some cities.

In summary the product is a trade-off against other modes of transport, but it definitely has its place and seems to be working in quite a few cities.

PS finally it's just the cheapest way for an individual to travel, by a long way. For lots of people a nearly £5 return bus journey is a concern and the reduction to £2 (in the particular case of my city) is a really meaningful saving. Taxis and ride-sharing probably aren't even on those people's radar.
>I mean, my computers are mine, an no-one else uses them.

That's only half of what a multi-user system does though. The other half is about fine-grained privilege management.

One of the reasons (not the only reason by any stretch but a contributing factor certainly) why Windows has so many more problems with viruses than other OS's is that under windows you're basically either a user or an admin, there's no in between. Crucially, there's also nothing lower.

Under linux[1] systems, it's totally possible to define a user that can read and write from one specific folder in the file system tree but not it's ancestor nodes, read from the keyboard but not the mouse and absolutely nothing else. All of those problems that windows has with random programs being keyloggers are eminently solvable on linux because you can make a custom user that cannot use networking or listen to the keyboard as appropriate, and then launch the process using that user.

Anyway, how well used all these capabilities are depends a lot on the person administering the linux system, but windows is extremely reactive in this fashion. Desktop linux users tend not to run outgoing firewalls, for example, they just don't allow software that they don't trust to access the network.

[1] anyone know how to write star-nix on hacker news without it making everything italics?
It would be nice if there was more coverage but they have been expanding in the Bay Area over the past year.

It is around $150 a year in the Bay Area right now which makes it very economical if you can take the bike instead of the subway or a bus (i.e. just replace six bus trips per month.)