skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking of teachers.
> "can be reassigned" or "mutable" (which means exactly he same thing, BTW)

I have never used 'mutable' to describe a variable, but rather only to what it references. Perhaps it's more lax in js-land. Why would you call something that's atomic ally changed anything other than assignment?
I mostly hate tactile-less devices, fingers and eyes are nicely decoupled, and now I'm forced to focus on my smartphone.

But recently I tried typing on android keyboard with all fingers. It's hard (no tactile delimitation or confirmation) but doable. I wonder if kids these days consider this as normal pro use of smartphones. Basically cultural relativity.
> 4. As a result, I feel bad and lack self-confidence. I consider myself NOT ready to start a side-project (as means to improve my tech skills), because it overwhelms me due to the large number of considerations (for a web app: setup, choosing libraries/services/frameworks, good SEO, best coding practices...) and its complexity. Therefore I struggle and potentially leave the project aside.

Read "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F___'. It talks about how many of us want to become X but are not willing to go through the pain (including failure and frustration) necessary to actually achieve it. If you really want to become a successful side project developer, you're going to need to bite the bullet and focus on what is below the iceberg (marketing, SEO, promotion, building a community). Choice of stack/code is not that important.

Personally, I haven't even attempted a side project for the reason that I just don't really want to go through the pain.
I would start a business focusing on one of the things I really care about; education for special needs children and bullying. I don't believe in the whole "reinvent everything" stuff that most tech founders proclaim, I would look into working together with people who already work on these issues and see if there's something I could do to innovate on 5% of the process to make it more efficient.

I had a very tough time as a kid because of mild autism, my baby sister has it even worse. I never got much of the help I needed as a child and felt very miserable. My hometown and my parents are much richer today and my sister has gotten a lot of help but I still feel there has to be something one can do to make this better. I was fortunate in discovering my love of math as an adult, and the perseverance to become an engineer, most people weren't as fortunate. I feel an obligation to help the children with special needs in schools today to make them feel safer, respected and empowered in a way childhood me never did.
There are ups and downs to any of these, and various people like them (or hate them) for very diverse reasons.

My mother is from one of these small towns and she hates almost every single thing you enumerated:

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- "Everyone knows each other" is a nightmare when you're a teenager. News that you did something stupid or peculiar can sometimes get home before you do, sometimes amplified. And if you don't want to be that close to everyone, you can end up being treated as a freak.

- Trees, forest, wildlife, backyards -- also the occasional possibly rabid fox, bugs everywhere, sweeping the leaves...

- Five minutes walk or one minute drive to shop for groceries. If they're out of ketchup, tough luck 'cause the nearest one is thirty minutes away and you have to cross the railroad tracks, too.

To those of us who live in the city, these things don't look bad at all. I'd certainly endure my share of bugs and give up the night life (at least for a while...) for some damn fresh air and being able to see more than five trees at a time. But the allure of large cities for people who grew up in small towns isn't worth understating, either.

(Edit: to be clear -- I'm definitely not advocating for large cities. I was born and grew up in one so I definitely understand where you're coming from :-D)
They already run linux as their firmware, you can ssh into the cards.
Ask HN: What are the things that hacker news were wrong about?
Dropbox is the first thing that comes to mind. What are the other things/tech that hacker news got wrong?
Only if you "I know what good art is and this ain't"

Don't be like these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)
How can the functionality be implemented independently when the modules must be signed?

Complete reverse engineering could at least serve as an effective audit though.
Scientific publishing has a deep problem right now with papers being published with data, algorithms, and/or code being proprietary. In addition but not always related, there is the problem of reproducing results in papers. From bad data to crafting results to have p be under 5% causes headaches for scientists and in general creates an ecosystem of bad science.

If I had enough time, I'd like to do two things:

1) Create a third party rating system where we attempt to rate the quality of the paper based on openness, reproducibility, who funded the research, data quality, etc. The hope is that researchers will not look for papers in their favorite journals, but refine their search to only quality papers.

2) In a similar vain to the above, have a company that does nothing but tries to reproduce experiments in papers. I think this would be a ton of fun and provide great value to the world. Where funding would come from however is unknown...
Fats and protein also stimulate insulin release and a steak triggers a bigger insulin response than a bowl of white pasta. Check any chart of insulin responses to confirm this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_index

Losing weight by any means will lower your cholesterol. But the typical high fat low carb keto diet has the highest mortality rate of any popular diet.
You monster! I can never unsee this.
It's satisfying for me, it's an honest answer, and as good as any other.

With enough free time there wouldn't be much need for a direction. And after a while I would probably figure out something I liked doing more than other things.

Only issue is that in my eyes, enough is probably pretty close to immortality.
Largely because I would like to understand the breathd of the human condition, and how language makes us think differently. That probably requires getting to native speaking ability in maybe 100’s of languages, and also the patience to wait for the likely needed cognitive augmentation to be able to do that.

I would also very much like to visit a few stars and nebulae, which could take a while.

If I only had a couple of decades or so, I might take a stab at building tools to make programming the job it should be, but isn't now.
Yeah, but I mean, those didn't have spell check or word completion or copy/paste or even backspace. Do you know the pain of typing a wrong character on a typewriter? It gets old.
I think that it's better to be guided by passion and personal principles than some cheesy list of goals that you tick off one at a time.

Maybe they just have a single unachievable goal that they work towards endlessly; I think that's a worthy goal and it definitely wouldn't fit into a list format.
I guess you didn't read the 11.1 release notes where they stated they were standardising on http://commonmark.org/ right?
I'm old and I just learned the "case length" trick!
It seems like an even mix of new features, enhancements to existing features, and maintenance.
Quantum Logic Gates
> In all honesty "most PC/laptops users" will never need these patches because their systems don't have the ME firmware. You need specific CPU, specific chipset, specific NIC, and the ME FW.

Every Intel system shipped in the last few years has the correct CPU, chipset and some version of the ME firmware (it's involved in initial platform boot, including Boot Guard which validates the BIOS before the CPU even gets a chance to run it), however some of them have "diet" ME firmware with fewer modules present.

The supported NIC is the only one that common desktops and laptops may not have at all. There's a side-channel required between the NIC and ME for certain features like AMT (remote desktop/management), and some NICs don't/can't support it. However, I recall seeing something about Intel allowing non-Intel NICs to be used at some point.

> Which you're only going to find in OEM systems marked as such - vPro.

See slide 68:

> Our Achievements

> • Switched-on AMT on non-vPro systems

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-17/materials/eu-17-Goryachy...
In our environment, a vendor would probably be better served to offer a no frills basics thing and then just sell customization support (or painless customization). You could probably check off every bulletpoint imaginable and then we would still have things that need customizing.
Only if you actually then invest some time in selling it. I've had radio silence from their sales team when requesting to purchase an self-hosted licence. The one thing I know about Microsoft (GitHub) - they _get_ enterprise sales.
They don't have that. They do have handwriting recognition.
The 1-in-6 figure I believe is for brain disease in general. 1.5 Million out of ~300 million is a much rarer case.

> As you may know, almost 1.5 million nationwide are suffering similarly right now.

> He just happened to be that 1 in 6 who is affected by brain disease.
When I was a kid growing up on a farm, we'd have semi trucks come by and pick up our produce, and I thought that would be such an easier life than actually producing the crops. I told my grandpa that I wanted to be a truck driver when I grew up, and a few weeks later he drove into town and bought a computer to keep me from being either a farmer or a truck driver. He had been both, and didn't want me to be either.
No idea how the Swiss Micro calculators don't end up getting sued.
Same issue, it seems to have become an "eierlegende Wollmilchsau" (German for Swiss Army knife, but with a negative conotation).

I recently move to gittea[1] for the very reason that I dont need 90%+ of Gitlabs features. Also Gitlab chews up RAM and IO, while gittea is barely noticeable even on a low end server.
[1] https://gitea.io/
Ok Dexter
There are bluetooth keyboards for tablets. I spend most of my laptop time on a browser and in ssh, both of which I can do effectively on a tablet with a keyboard.
I was constantly running into this during drawing classes in college after having spent countless hours in Photoshop in high school. It’s amazing how firmly the Cmd-Z reflex plants itself as a reaction to making a mistake!

I’ve also caught myself yearning for Cmd-F when hunting for something in large chunks of printed text.
Simply put: slower.

A quantum computer can solve certain problems within a certain computational complexity class, which would fall in a different class on a classical computer!

Given a long enough amount of time, a classical computer can calculate everything a quantum computer can.
Well it was recently constructed in the 2000s so I doubt that was the reason :-)
> the Windows Firewall tool opens a dialog asking if it should open the port ranges

This is neat, but there are also network level firewalls and NAT that people are usually behind :(
Yeah, but they're still calling it "Gitlab Flavored Markdown". The release was just about how they're changing the renderer. This does nothing to reduce the confusion with the fact that there are still two "flavors" of Markdown called different things but referred to with the same acronym, but I guess now both rendered by the same backend? This makes no sense to me.
I don't discount people that got it in secondary markets. It's not like they're only buying a few shares. I can't find outside sources. The most legit one is from WSJ[0], 200k investment in 2009. Hopefully they verified holdings and date of investment before printing.

Crunchbase does list him as Angel/Seed Round investor in Uber in 2010[1].

[0] https://outline.com/8HHZFF

[1]https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/uber-angel--c76f942...
With iOS 12, Apple will be integrating automation that lets you automate actions within other programs either visually or from what I’ve read JavaScript. Just imagine what kids can do when they can use their phone to automate smart home devices.

There are also apps that let you program robots.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HK962VC/A/ubtech-jimu-rob...

Amazon announced an easy way to program Alexa.

https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/alexa-skill-py...

There is also Swift Playgrounds.

https://www.apple.com/swift/playgrounds/
Well put. QM allowing retrocausality has been long known.
Does anyone know if Gitlab is now on a monthly release schedule?

Today is exactly one month after Gitlab 11.0 release.

It seems Gitlab is finally on Rails 5.0, hopefully they move to Rails 5.2 soon. It seems the whole Rails Ecosystem, Shopify, Zendesk, Gitlab, AirBnb, Discourse is now catching up to the latest release.
Why Intel will never let owners control the ME
They have been releasing new updates on the 22th of every month for over two years now.
> There is no such thing as an "array". That's a human construct.

Oh yeah; social construct, I would say, like gender.

> I am from that generation that actually did useful things with machine language.

Unfortunately, most of them are undefined behavior in C.

> You are in charge.

Less so than you may imagine. You're in charge as long as you follow the ISO C standard to the letter, and deviate from it only in ways granted by the compiler documentation (or else, careful object code inspection and testing).
I took a sabbatical recently and explored a bunch of interesting areas of NLP, which culminated in https://www.alphanym.com/

If I had infinite free time, I'd just continue exploring the wonders of computational linguistics.
“Justice for just us. Not you.”
Except that "far less serious than predicted" is not the same as non-existent, and that quote in no way talks about bounds checking, which is the issue being discussed here.

In real life, we use safety gloves, seatbelts, elbow and knee protection, helmets, chainsaw cover, gun lock, ....

Naturally there are those that think such protections are only for children and an accident will never occur to them, until the day they happen to be part of the statistic.

I long for the day that lawsuits for buggy software become a regular activity, only then the industry will actually care to change.
The Dark Silicon Problem and What It Means for CPU Designers (2013)
Show HN: Voyeur – Analytics Module for Hugo Website
I'm quite happy running ubuntu on hp spectre x360 15 2017. Good build quality. I was surprised that the rotating touch screen and the tent/notepad modes work so well with ubuntu. Had to fiddle with bios during install to handle the SSD, ended up removing windows. The MX150 graphics card is not in use, but I guess if I were gaming I would find a way to use it. It's not a cheap option, but was way cheaper (roughly half the price) than the equivalent MBP.
How to Install Mate Desktop on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Pax - JS bundler written in Rust
Using TeX syntax (or any language with collapsing blocks of text), a text file with branches.

https://hastebin.com/gocibazeji.rb
CRTs can quite capably emit daylight blue. People used to use them for photography, video games, etc. Just not typically in bed.
$100M to $1B+: Non-Obvious Lessons Learned Selling to Yahoo
I don't think it needs to be. Plus, Celebration was still built with cars in the picture. What I want is a city with a perimeter. Within that perimeter you have all the buildings and zero cars. Zero combustion engines. Zero electric vehicles capable of going greater than some reasonable speed limit. Say 30km/h. At the perimeter you have cars for people to drive to other towns and a train station to get them to Toronto / Ottawa. Maybe a small airport.

Once you change from thinking "oh we just must have cars here" to thinking "how would we solve problem x without cars" the whole city can be made to be more vibrant. We can't let our children out of our sights in modern cities they're so dangerous. That's madness!

In terms of authenticity, here I partially agree with you. I do not intend to emulate an ancient European city. That's dumb. But I don't want the city to end up looking like shit like most of Canadian cities do with their completely mismatched building styles, billboard ads, tacky chains, and telephone poles all over the place. Instead, at the city formation you get good estimates of what types of natural building materials are near by (the types of wood, clays, stone, etc) and you hire teams of architects and city planners to design a set of cohesive style guides. There should be room for custom flourish, but the city should still look like a cohesive whole. There is no reason to use concrete for anything other than subterranean piles. Use large flat rocks for streets. Yes rock streets are more expensive but they look much, much better and because we have density from day one they might be 10x the price but we should only need 1/10th of the pavement by area.

Also, by creating a hard perimeter around the city, there could be a real set of community gardens just outside of the city for things like herbs and other expensive plants. We wouldn't have to choose between city life and connection with nature.
Sometimes I wonder why we even worry about things like Meltdown/Spectre when there is this gaping hole called ME.
Conversely I was born about 20 years earlier and I didn’t touch a keyboard until I was a senior in high school.
Generating Natural-Language Text with Neural Networks
> Here the same person was much more positive about the system (easy to understand he is not, at least not to me), wonder were he was telling the truth.

I don't think I understand what you mean.

Here's the relevant passage from your link wrt bonuses:

> [Before writing more in this, especially regarding Valve, I shall need to become better acquainted with the peer-review based process of determining bonuses. Watch this space!]

That's from August, 2012 on an internal blog. The external interview he gave where he calls the review process "very complicated" is from February, 2013.

So let's recap:

* A reasonable person joining Valve after reading the Aug. 2012 blog would be worried because their "economist-in-residence" is publicly reserving judgment on the peer-reviewed bonus system

* A reasonable person joining Valve after reading the Feb. 2013 interview would be worried because their "economist-in-residence" is characterizing the peer-reviewed bonus system as "very complicated" to a reporter

* A reasonable person joining Valve after reading the Aug. 2012 blog and the Feb. 2013 interview would be very worried because their "economist-in-residence" moved from reserving judgment on an internal blog to criticizing the bonus system in a public interview

At the very least, I see no discrepancies in what Veroufakis said in Aug and Feb that would lead you to conclude he wasn't telling the truth in one of those links.

What am I missing?
Thanks. But I would actually not say that QM "allows retrocausality." Instead I would say that the whole concept of "causality" simply meaningless in a time-symmetric system, just as the concept of (say) "up" is meaningless in a spatially symmetric system.
There is a "standard" REST interface described in the paper on REST. There are a lot of rules/guidelines for a RESTful API but many API's don't follow them and tend to be a mix of REST and JSON RPC.
IIRC the media arm is a separate company now, but that's an excellent example.
When I first got a typewriter, I wrote shortish papers in 2 drafts on the typewriter. The outline was in my head, and "editing" was staring at the first draft and rearranging them as I typed the second and final version.

You probably use a different technique.

I changed how I did things a year later when I started typesetting papers in TeX.
The continental side of Chile, from Chiloé to the south, feels like land of no one. Aysén region has a population density of about 1 person per squared kilometer. The Carretera Austral (Highway 7) has thousand of kilometers of dirt roads, that connect one town to the next. There's a saying in Patagonia: "The one who rushes in Patagonia, wastes his time".

Aysén has some of the most naturally breathtaking views I've seen in my life. Traveling around General Carrera Lake (the biggest in Chile) feels almost surreal. On the far west you have thick forests, followed by the Northern Ice Fields, close to where the Andes Mountains meet the Pacific Ocean. To the west, on the border with Argentina, you have a desert, with temperatures up to about 38ºC in summer. All of this with the view of the emerald-colored waters of the lake.

I highly recommend backpacking from Lake Llanquihue (northern border of Patagonia in the Chilean side) towards the south. If you do, take your time, and travel during summer (December through March). Hitchhiking in Aysén is quite safe, and can be the most efficient way of traveling at times. Talk to the locals, and discover the true natural wonders that require time and patience to be discovered (you might even find someone willing to barbeque a Patagonian lamb for you). Cochamó is for me one of those hidden treasures on the northern side, although not so hidden anymore. Who knows how many more there are.
We already do a less granular version of that in the US (it was developed before the ubiquitous surveillance necessary to implement the fine-grained version)--our mechanism for punishment-by-constrained-relationship-options is prison.
A huge upside for small town living is livability for people with disabilities. It's a major reason, for example, that people like to retire to smaller towns. It's also why it is expensive to rear more than a couple small kids in a major urban area, assuming you can consider babies and toddlers (temporarily) less-than-able human beings.

It varies from big city to big city, but older areas of cities are usually grandfathered out of ADA regulations that require wider doors, accessibility ramps, elevators, etc. Parking at all in most cities is atrocious, let alone handicap parking with extra room to unload a wheelchair. Wide aisles are a waste of space in dense urban areas but needed if you need to get a wheelchair to the only open table in the back of the room. Shoving your way on to a crowded train car is distasteful when young and healthy but a deal breaker for many. See also availability of handicap bathroom stalls. The list goes on.

I was recently at a museum in a small city and was struck with how many visitors had significant disabilities of various kinds. For all the diversity we come to expect from large cities, this kind of diversity is probably lacking.
Yeah, GitLab has been on a monthly release schedule since October 2011: https://about.gitlab.com/2015/12/17/gitlab-release-process/
I'm totally with you in not wanting to spend free time fiddling with a system for a laptop that is used for really basic stuff.

The interesting thing is that in the last couple of years, some of the Linux distros are now pain-free to the point that I have had no problems installing them for my wife and then leaving the rest to her. She has zero interest in anything beyond getting stuff done.

I guess my point is that certain distros have actually sort of quietly gotten to that place where it's better as a consumer laptop OS than Windows. So for very little money compared to a Windows or especially an Apple laptop, it's easy to buy her a well-equipped machine and get her up and running quickly, and it's very easy to maintain. That is a good thing.