skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook knows how to keep the government happy by just handing the NSA and whoever else all the data they hoover up. So I suspect they can get away with whatever and no one is going to say too much about it. They provide a great service to the powers that be!
> Google Maps experience with offline downloaded maps is 100% quality and absolutely not "sub-par" or "frustrating".

Selecting areas to download is more of a hassle than with OSMAnd, and the map data requires more storage space. I've also frequently experienced severe degradation in the detail of the voice prompts for turn by turn navigation when the phone doesn't have a data connection, where the phone only saying "in a quarter mile, turn right" without giving me a street name or exit number, let alone lane information.
No. We use semi standard. But I’ve always found it awfully presumptuous to codify somebody’s style opinions as standard.
yes, but it will have to operate outside the DOM. currently adblock killer/detection scripts relies on the fact that resources/scripts fail to load (both can be detected), or an element isn't showing (the nag message is hidden under the place where the ad should be). if your browser is dutifully rendering the ads as intended, but blocks it out in the frame buffer, there's nothing the site can do. no such adblocker exists as of yet.
That's an important point, especially with the oft-repeated statistic of 2-years as the average tenure of an engineer.

Of course, averages (even if true) are like stereotypes.

It would be interesting to see the tenure data on the experts (consultants/implementers) of large-scale systems, other than at the iconic ones (e.g. Google, Netflix).
I assume that is sarcasm, right?
I guess "think different" to them means "take risks" or "run counter to the stream on things" or "see threats as opportunities" or something.

IBM had just "think" and I really liked that. The trouble is, it leads to endless ratiocination.
surprised that no one has mentioned TiddlyWiki (https://tiddlywiki.com) yet, its fairly popular for this sort of thing and very easy to get started.
Since you asked, I think you used two more exclamation points than were needed here.
Which means you loose a lot if the benefits of an ad blocker, and thus makes it worthwhile to instead invest in the arms race: You have to watch a black screen for the duration of video ads, ads that pop up overlaying content still get in your way, you loose the bandwidth/memory/CPU capacity for loading and rendering them.
If a number of companies are using it as a single or major metric for hiring, yes. These companies are looking for anyone with a shovel to fill a seat, because historically having a shovel is better than not.
Some friends and I agree there is this "game" which is to own the meeting: only be in a meeting, if you can own it. It sometimes plays out as hugely destructive to the agenda somebody else had going into the meeting, but boy, is it effective at getting (some) things done.
> What if Google decide to "hide" or "highlight" certain kind of shops for instance

Doesn't google already do this? Shops with paid advertisement come much higher than unpaid shops.
How does the existence of a catch-all, of any kind, make it not a "valid business domain?"
imho if you're involved in your startup community and work on fun side-projects, you'll either find someone or someone will find you through friends of friends.
IT salary extras: 5 perks worth pursuing – The Enterprisers Project
Lawyers gaming the legal system or enabling their clients to cause long term harm could face the possibility of disbarment.
>I recently came back from a visit to London, and did not once need a car

I'm not sure this is a great test. (Though, yes, London does have a great transit system even though I've also taken cabs from time to time for various reasons.)

When I visit American cities and don't travel outside them, I very rarely rent a car and don't necessarily take cabs/Lyfts all that much other than getting from the airport. I'm usually staying/doing business in/eating in a relatively central location that often exists in cities that are otherwise fairly spread out.

To give just an example that I'm very familiar with. I never rent a car any longer when I visit Raleigh but I'd never claim you could live there without a car.
Surely /dev/power would return “1” when you read it (“0” when it is powered down, of course), and “echo 0 > /dev/power” would turn the machine off.

:-)
Plan 9's rio window system expected most graphical clients to use the draw functions, which operate by writing to /dev/draw. /dev/draw wasn't even a framebuffer—it was a control file that you wrote messages into. It clearly wouldn't have met Carmack's requirements though as the thread you link to points out, the Plan 9 team would have been happy for him to map the framebuffer into the address space of his process.
To answer question directly: Angel.co has a few folks and I've connected with at least one person on there who I really like.

More broadly: Plenty of non-technical founders out there - I think the important thing to determine is what areas are weakest for you? Example: for me, my weakness is coding, then finance. I can do those things myself but I'm slow. Ergo I work best with hardcore engineers, I don't mind if they are a bit slow on the "soft" side of things.

Source: am a sales guy with a technical background, so the "people" side is something i have a lot of exposure to
The 'out of africa' story gets more and more hard to sustain the longer people look around for other stories in the emergence of modern humans. Yes, the apes is out of africa. And then? it gets really complicated really fast.

Also, reminded of the endless jokes about who is more advanced from what archeologists find in their own country: Americans find copper wire: invented primitive networks. Russians find Glass threads: invented optical networks. Irish dig up a bog and find nothing: invented wifi!
High Security? I suppose it depends on context. But for real high security facilities, a visitor is not getting past the first guard desk without an ID check with the visitor's name being on a list that is maintained via secure communication channels - facility to facility. And there are often multiple levels of guard stations to pass through where this is repeated.
that kind of spammy shit would have had me off of it very quickly. but, thankfully i never used it in my life...and never will. if i wanna see cat pictures and latte art or Beyonce's latest plastic surgery updates i can just google it... it all looks the same after the first 5 minutes anyways...who is that bored? my god.
Meet the silicone support policy: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2016/08/1...

Even 4 year old pc owners might find their systems to be partially supported:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-blocks-windows-10-cr...
This is just bizarre - seems like corporate insanity to me. TO give some background to this, Intel's PSG is what Intel renamed Altera. Of course Altera was the FPGA company, and as part of their Stratix III/IV/V range they did 'HardCopy' which, basically was a structured ASIC! They canned it because in reality whilst customers want to be able to go ASIC in theory, it never really made much sense in practice. So what? They're buying a company that is doing something people don't want?

That's what really worries me - because if the acquisition were going into the group that builds Xeons, basically as an enabling technology for an internal team that makes sense. But being part of PSG means that they're going to try and sell this to customers (again).

For investors what you need to watch for is whether what they're really doing is buying growth. It's a classic move - buy small, similar companies and use get growth by upselling their product to your existing companies. But once all the customers have either bought or rejected you're back to brass tacks, the core business is missing growth/margin targets.
Paste into Gmail with Ctrl-Shift-V. It will remove formatting and paste as plain text.
>That, or we move ad blocking out of the browser and into the OS where sites have absolutely no access whatsoever.

that's probably overkill. all you need to do is move the adblocking part further back into the rendering pipeline (ie. outside of the DOM) so that javascript can't detect it.
This is why we have more flooding too. More parking space means less ground to absorb rain water.
I, for one, am quite proud of Europe for taking steps to protect her citizenry. Hopefully the rest of the world will follow shortly.
Really, go see a doctor instead of talking to HN.
Ugh! It really is a situation of “we (ICANN) took money from people applying for these and don’t have the guts to officially say ‘no these are reserved for private usage, deal with it’ so we’ll call it ‘delay allocating these names indefinitely’”. At least they’re planning on refunding the applicants. And Google has the clout to push for making say .dev closed off via an RFC but instead bought it and runs it for their own (internal) development. It’s like no one has the concept of thinking about working for the public good for small groups or individuals on this modern internet. Tragedy of the commons.
Yeah.. reading all the comments that appeared after I wrote mine, it looks like I don't need to worry too much. That is, assuming the HN hivemind is on the right track -- which, for something like this, I think is generally the case.
The point is that writing to a file is basically passing a message to the kernel. Writing to a framebuffer is writing straight into memory.
No, you're so wrong.

Sorry, just had to throw it back at you to emphasize how silly it sounds.

I'm guessing you're referring to people that want to date their co-workers? Otherwise, it's hard to think of who else might worry about litigation when considering a romantic overture.
People who eat only meat to become more healthy
Another problem begging for self-driving cars.

Have the car drop you off, then self-drive to an offsite parking, and then return when summoned.

This model would also support mobile "gear boxes" where you have activity-focused mobile storage pods of gear (think toolboxes for trade work, or a surfing/beach pod with your beach gear, or a biking/triathlon pod with all your triathlon gear), which I think will be a huge benefit once self-driving hits reality.

Rather than have storage units where you can't easily get to your stuff because of the side trip and annoyance of loading/unloading, you have modular storage that can be summoned to a spot and purpose needed.

That would reduce storage needs in urban areas as well, so you could further enhance density.
The supermarket test isn't really a very good one. If I'm standing in Chinatown in San Francisco or Boston I can easily imagine that I'm more than a mile away from the nearest supermarket. But I will in no way be lacking in non-packaged food options.
French forces near breaking point and could become inoperable, report warns
My point exactly. Advertising is unethical/immoral, plain and simple.
I would be terrified to ever try and contribute anything to Linux, lest Linus yell at me and call me stupid. Seems like he does that in every excerpt that gets posted here.
Also done by Jordan Peterson
"Jordan Peterson - The Carnivore Diet Changed My Life! - Joe Rogan Podcast"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGikB-54Lwk
Get ear plugs if you have noisy neighbors (read: loud music all day).

Working from the couch will hurt your back. Get a chair and a big desk.

Don't tell anyone you're home, they might disturb you while working.
Possible yes, probable not so much. Building extensions is simpler than building desktop apps. For one you need only JavaScript. While if you move in the OS you'd have to support different versions of systems (you have Windows, OSX, Android, IOS, Linux) and it is much more cumbersome than in the browser.
> It's not severely space constrained by an ocean like NYC or SF and so the economic value of conversion is not lower.

is somewhat contradicted by

> Most of the time a parking space more than 400m away is irrelevant

This is the space constraint the article focuses on: if there's enough surface parking, it pushes destinations far enough apart that you need to move your car to go from one to the other.

Re: marginal cost, there are plenty of effects that impose additional capital and/or opportunity cost on converting between parking and not-parking uses - everything from long leases for companies that operate parking (10+ years sometimes) to basic constraints like "putting up a building requires a large chunk of up-front spending". Those effects make "economic equilibrium" slow-to-impossible to reach.
You are right. Edited, and will take it into account when posting, have a nice day!
Downtown Palo Alto and Berkeley both have a nice model with affordable public garages just off the main strip. So the pedestrian area isn’t (as) inundated with cars and parking, but you can still get there as a motorist.
> I live in large dense city in the US (Los Angeles)

Los Angeles may be large, but it is NOT dense, even by US standards.
This is a truly ridiculous over simplification of reality in the Bay area and so loaded with personal biases to be taken seriously.

The majority of people I know and work with are mostly in between the inner and outer circle the author describes.

That's a very large group who are paid well (many also sitting on options that will continue to pay well). Being a software/hardware engineer, marketing, finance or other back-office roles does not automatically put you in the "outer circle" on the edge of the middle class.

This is a classic example of an author with a very narrow world view based solely on their personal experience which doesn't look like reality.
just curious - how so? It's an llc and the business bank account is the same as my personal.
How do you maintain dedication and commitment to deliver? It's not just about knowledge or skills, as many idle geniuses can tell you.

Depression is correlated with realistic perception of realist. Non-Depression (optimism, productivity) is correlated with mild delusion.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201206...
You know you have a certain level of personal exceptionalism due to proof of practice. In my personal experience I have formed the personal belief that people are generally deeply fearful and offended by originality. There is a minority segment of any population that is willing to embrace originality and try the new thing (whatever it is). If that new thing is embraced by those willing to give it a shot then (and only then) can it become a potentially experimental idea by the rest of the population, a sort of social validation.

For the person working on that new thing this is deeply frustrating. The early hostility is super depressing. You just have to power through it, because you have the personal vision to know that new thing solves a problem in a certain way.

Having gone through this more than once I have formed high personal exceptionalism. Due to my technical experience I now have a pretty good idea of what ideas are super great and what ideas are really bad, though from time to time I am still (rarely) surprised at just how wrong I am.

The consequence of this is that I am really bad at marketing and self-promotion. I would rather just work on my idea without telling anybody. Because I have a small following of users to my big github project I know people will end up using my code anyways. The biggest limitation in this approach is that you are effectively removing yourself from external feedback.
I can't comment on point 1 since I don't work in the Bay Area. But going by the reported this makes sense. However, there must be ways for employees to be making significant money, else everybody would just insist on moving to some other place.

The second one doesn't resonate with me. Its okay for people to take action when they are in a position to do so. Sure I agree that its not a luxury for everybody since some labour might be easily replaceable but when people are able to force corporates to correct course, that is a good thing. As far as the thing with young programmers go, I can understand. Most of us didn't really handle very big projects since it was never necessary. Aside from some courses, most involved writing assignment level code which doesn't require much thought over issues like code design. And they were never graded as such except for certain courses where a few commits actually made it the main code base of some big project. Experienced programmers (like yourself) aren't required to write code as much as mentor others, otherwise most of the young and immature ones would just convert to old and immature programmers.
>seventh might be they believe implicitly they are the smartest person in the room

As a person with contrarian tendencies who has occasionally been accused of "implicitly believing" I'm the smartest guy in the room, I think it's important to recognize there's a difference between trusting your own reasoning and thinking you're smarter than everybody else. You can mostly avoid the latter by learning strategies that help you estimate the confidence level you should have in your beliefs. A couple of "am I wrong?" mnemonics I've learned to apply include:

- What kind of evidence are my ideas based on? Is it observation, hearsay, case studies, or something more substantial?

- How many silly/unrealistic counterexamples can I think of? Often these will contain hints of a more complicated, realistic objection.

- (if you have time to use the Web) Are there any professional researchers whose conclusion resembles my argument? What can I learn from/about them?

- Am I at risk of wishful thinking, availability/selection bias, or defending a position I previously implicitly committed to? If so, try to apply the same reasoning to a similar situation where the fallacy won't apply.
We should open a new thread some day with all the hacks you can do to target people on FB.
It's still the black gold that makes Norway's peculiar style of socialism work.
In QNX, everything is a message, including files. The basic primitive is MsgSend, sent to another process which has a MsgRecv outstanding. The other process sends a reply back with a MsgReply, which unblocks the MsgSend and returns data. Any amount of data can be sent. POSIX file primitives, open/close/read/write, are small functions that make MsgSend calls.

MsgSend is a more useful primitive than a file. It's a subroutine call across processes, a better fit to anything that isn't stream I/O. In most OSs, you want a subroutine call, but the OS gives you an I/O operation. Linux has to stand on its head for operations such as getting all the properties of a pluggable device, because returning a variable length array of fixed-format records as an atomic operation isn't a Linux primitive.

Microkernels have a bad reputation because interprocess communication in Mach was botched. Mach was built on BSD. To do this right, you have to design CPU scheduling and message passing together, and they need to be tightly coupled. The key to interprocess communication is arranging the normal path for a message pass to throw control from one process to another without a trip through the scheduler. Get that wrong and your microkernel will be sluggish.
Very bold claims, and little data in the presentation. This is extremely soft
Power is a physical state rather than a logical one. It would make more sense defining runlevels that way.
I grew up in Montana, not far from one of the routes Lewis and Clarke took through that state. The legend of John Colter is still alive there. Every year, Montanans hold the John Colter run to commemorate his escape.

http://winddrinkers.org/trailhead/races/john-colter/
My understanding of the mini-slogan "everything is a file" is that it was never meant to refer to the entire API of the object, but just reading/writing data.
Whoever down-voted this does not understand sports, nor the British love of sports and betting. Maybe read some P.G. Wodehouse to understand and lighten up.
It depends on how the tests work. If they all treat the program as a black box, there should be no problem. If the tests are unit tests that use a lot of mocks, then yes, this sort of methodology might produce crappy results.
I’ll block everything with zero sense of shame until sites realize they have to switch to non-tracking/invasive ads.

I have zero concern for whether sites think “dumb ads” is a viable business model or not. Obviously I also don’t mind if a big fraction of sites just go under because of it. If your day job is to do work for a company that is funded in any way involving modern “adtech” at any stage, I’m not very sorry for your job loss.

I don’t mind ads covering 75% of the page, ads bloating downloads etc. I mind ads that invade my privacy and ads masquerading as non-ads
And I see those ads with uBlock Origin installed, congratulations, you're doing it right! I've seen this on one other site in probably the past 10 years. I think it was a custom furniture site I couldn't afford anything on but I was so surprised to see ads and that they weren't tracking me, I emailed just to cheer them on.
rm seems violent, what about unlink /dev/plug :p

ps: jokes aside, I do believe that if the filesystem as machine representation was enforced and design with good sense and average joe in mind, you'd probably not even need man (pardon the hyperbole)
Nice! Finally could put my physicist training to use... I skimmed the cited papers but they seemed very generalized as you mentioned. I’ll have to find the matlab code examples to understand how a complete system model would look. The linked post seems to deal with just a single perceptron/activation function AFAICT. The embedded constants don’t bother me too much as both physics models have embedded constants and I presume evolved neurobiological systems would have been tuned over time to incorporate the appropriate constants for dealing with useful quantities (force, mass, etc). Could be fun to port the matlab code to Julia!
Low self-esteem means hating yourself. It means that even if everyone else can do it, you still think you can't.

High self-esteem means respecting yourself. It means that if someone else can do it, you thin you can do it too.

Exceptionalism is a mild delusion that says that risks and constraints don't apply to you. It means that if no one else can do it, that doesn't mean you can't.

Arrogance is about how you treat others, not how you treat yourself.
If only some Big Bank would create a secure micropayment experiment, we could experimentally determine whether that could supplant the tracking&ads regime. (At least, for those users that despise ads ... targeted or not.)

If the potential rewards for hackers could be kept minimal, it'd not attract interest.

The NYTimes has kept their site reasonable, but I don't want to subscribe. I like the idea of paying per-item, not bulk. That lets users encourage the kind of content (and authors) they want to see more of, while generating revenue for the content that Big Papers must provide (regardless of popular interest).

WHY this topic is always off-the-radar mystifies me.
By having excellent social support structures, many resources, above average ability and domain knowledge, a sense of purpose in your work and being free of mental health issues.
"Cameras are a bigger threat and I haven't seen any good novel ways to defend against that."

My method is not novel, but to guard against cameras and shoulder surfing when typing in a code on a keypad, I've always just covered my typing hand with my other hand.

At some banks, I've seen keypads retrofitted with raised sides, presumably to make viewing the keys from the side impossible. Your hand is still visible when you type on those, though, and so I would guess the keys that you type could be inferred from your finger motions. Anyway, the top of the keypad is not obstructed (so that the user can see it themselves), so a camera from above or someone from behind might still directly see what keys you type, so I still cover my typing hand with my other hand even when using these types of keypads.