skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I do agree that the amount of personal information collected on individuals is perverse, this isn't a new phenomenon as the author might be treating it.

Long before the internet, people still bought things, and even before they paid for things with credit cards, they paid with cheques that had their home address on them. They inevitably filled out paperwork for various things, on which they complacently included their phone number, which could be cross-checked using the white pages(and other "deep" sources for those willing to pay). Most people strangely had few qualms about writing down their social security number on a piece of paper and giving that to their prospective employer. Grocery stores began offering free "club" cards for fake deals, which asked customers to provide personal contact information so they can "save" a buck on a head of lettuce.

Put simply, people have made their lives open books since before they took the internet seriously, and before advertising could be so closely tied to analytics and data harvesting. The retrieval of information is much, much more efficient, but in principle it's the same sort of transaction. You give out your phone number once and you can bet it's on lists for good. Actually, you don't even have to give it away.

Businesses have long existed to compile information on people, buying it from a variety of businesses, and selling back the aggregated data. Our means of giving them our data has become much more streamlined.

It's not just that, though. Our handing over of information has become seemingly more reciprocal in that we hand over our data in exchange for access to things that are very cheap or free. Facebook may be the prime example of this principle, since the business itself is based on data aggregation; there is no middle-person. And, for a long time, people liked Facebook. People actually like things that are cheap or free in exchange for handing over their phone number, turning off or not installing an ad blocker, linking their Facebook profile, enabling GPS tracking on their phone, and allowing apps access to their contacts, or making their purchase history public(Venmo), etc.

For the average person, it's really hard to beat cheap or free.
Looks like Tab Groups or Tab Trees, just 10 Years later.
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Singe stream gigabit speed will only be possible to nearby datacenters and only if services there don't rate limit and are underutilized. A bit farther, say 40 ms away, and you will be happy to see even a 50 Mbps stream. Then there is your ISP, they won't allow you to use your gigabit for long and will throttle your connection if you use too much bandwidth. Which leaves you with casual use of things that can do multiple streams to different nodes, like torrents or backup software that can transfer data in parallel (rare so far).
I do not understand your comment. A coop is simply an employee-owned company (usually with more even distribution of ownership than many nominally employee-owned companies). You do not need to work for a coop to do business with them
Monthly salary?
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How was this promotion not regulated? Sounds a lot like lootcrates.
Would that be an issue? The character limit is clearly a pain point for some users (graph here[1] of average tweet lengths -- many people abandon their tweets if they hit the limit), so why not alleviate it? Especially given that it doesn't appear to impact other users' behaviour: only 5% of users actually used the extra space during testing of the increase from 140 to 280 characters [2].

This discussion reminds me of when Instagram stopped enforcing that all pictures be square, a (mostly) ideological limit that made using the service harder.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-opens-floodgates-on-28...
I appreciate how the article highlights the longevity of polyester-based microfilm and the simple technology (lamp and magnifier) needed to read it.

But as a digital native myself, I'm disappointed that they failed to emphasize the biggest advantage of digital information storage - the fact that data can be copied perfectly, as many times as you want. Analog microfilm cannot be copied perfectly - the original is always better than the copy. This means the microfilm is a unique artifact that needs to be preserved and taken care of. One disaster, one fire, or one careless handler, and the object is damaged.

With digital technology, we pay a high price in the lines of code to build an application and interface, to specify seemingly opaque binary file formats, to have physical media (floppy, CD, etc.) go obsolete in a decade, and to build complex CPUs - but never forget that what we gain is the tremendous ability to copy perfectly. This is what allows us to share a file with someone and know that their copy is a perfect backup for mine in case mine is lost. This is what allows us to transfer files from old, slow, unreliable media (e.g. floppy disks) to new, fast media (e.g. SSDs) without missing a beat. This is why we can take a sizable collection of a thousand audio CDs and cram them into one convenient hard disk drive (as WAV, not MP3), with the exact same audio quality. This is why we can transmit files over the Internet - we surely can't transmit analog data over a distance without a high risk of degradation.

If we collectively accept that storing information digitally with the ability to make perfect copies is worth the effort, then there are things we can do to improve the status quo. We need to make it easier to find and manage file duplicates - otherwise it's hard to know whether a copied file has been modified or not. We need emphasize building applications on open standards. We need to make file format specifications accessible, well-defined, and easier to understand. We need to make systems that have low implementation complexity (e.g. CPU with few transistors, OS with few lines of code) to show what is the minimum knowledge needed to reboot the technology.

While microfilm may last 500 years, digital data could truly be forever - as long as you copy it periodically.
A few tidbits I know about the topic. One of the organizations which helped push microfilm was the Documentation Institute, founded by Watson Davis in 1935, which became the American Documentation Institute in 1937.

(As an aside, "documentation" was the hot term in library science in the 1930s. "Documentation" meaning "collection of informational papers" is only from 1927, says https://www.etymonline.com/word/documentation . As a further aside for those involved in science fairs, Watson Davis also founded "the Science Clubs of America, reaching at one point roughly a million school-age children across the United States; he also was one of the originators of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search".

He participated in the World Congress of Universal Documentation. Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Congress_of_Universal_Do...

> The World Congress of Universal Documentation was held from 16 to 21 August 1937 in Paris, France. Delegates from 45 countries met to discuss means by which all of the world's information, in print, in manuscript, and in other forms, could be efficiently organized and made accessible. ...

> The main resolution adopted by the congress proposed that microfilm be used to make information universally available.[8] Watson Davis, chairman of the American delegation and president of the ADI, stated that the volume of information being produced created difficult problems of access and preservation, but that these could be solved by the use of microfilm. ...

> In his address to the Congress, H. G. Wells said that he thought that his idea of the "world brain" was a precursor to the ideas other delegates were proposing, and explicitly linked the projects being discussed to the work of the encyclopédistes:

These are all ideas which percolated through Vannevar Bush's Memex and many others to become the modern internet.

Also, one of the co-founders of the ADI was Atherton Seidell. He published a series of articles in Science promoting the use of microfilm. Eg, from 24 August 1934 - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/80/2069/184 .
Huh?

I wasn't really disagreeing with anything, I was breaking down the article for people who don't have a WSJ subscription, don't want one, and don't want to bother with the archive link.

I feel the article is mostly pedantic fluff, reiterating a concept that most people are already familiar with in order to just say what she says in the final paragraph: That she can be a tolerant person, tolerate people, while still disagreeing with their viewpoint. Basically responding to the whole "you can't be tolerant and hate intolerance" canard.

My issue isn't with her stance on paradoxes, it's with the fact that she doesn't say anything.
Unless you get bitrot on some of that data, I’d proffer (which has happened to me over the past 8 or so years of hard disk backups).

There is something to be said for tangible, archival-paper printed photographs.

Maybe printing the top 100 photos each year is a good middle ground, but to each their own :)
Just a side note - you don't need the constructor boilerplate to initialize state in React components if you use property initializers (I see you're already doing it for handleInput): https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-plugin-transform-class-prop...

Additionally, you don't need to .bind on deleteItem since functions initialized as class properties are automatically bound (you should just be able to do deleteItem={() => this.deleteItem(key)}).

Another thing is that there are certain weird things that happen if you use the index as the key for ToDo's render function (consider using the actual item text itself): https://medium.com/@robinpokorny/index-as-a-key-is-an-anti-p...

Overall, great article! Hope that's not too nitpicky!
As an example, the Greek letter sigma has two lowercase forms, depending on whether it's at the end of a word. So 'ς'.upper().lower() == 'σ', even though all three characters are ordinary Greek letters you could even find within a single word.
I've only visited an A&F store once. The lighting was bizarrely low. It was like one of those 'horror house' rides at a crappy fair, with only the occasional dim spot on an exhibition of clothes. This extended to the dressing rooms.

Is this general for A&F? If so no wonder they've been doing poorly.
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That almost happened to my mother who accidentally set the oven to clean with lamb chops in there. My father went into the basement, turned the gas off and somehow unlocked the oven door. Lamb chops were saved.
>Sounds a lot like lootcrates

Which aren't (yet) regulated in the US.
I stand corrected, seems like different “socialist” countries had different amounts of slack :)
A judge in NH recently ruled that the winner of the lottery doesn't need to come forward and be a part of lottery press and therefore their name does not need to be released. The reasoning is good on the surface that people who just won a life changing amount of money shouldn't have to have their personal details flashed on the news.

However, it seems like being named in public is the best way to prevent fraud. Many of these scams are through second counsins' friends and weird sources. Now an insider could just go through their best friend and no one would ever be able to connect the dots.
We are not anywhere close to having any of that at required scale.

And when we do, it will be nowhere near existing biodiversity for a long-long-long while (if ever).

And we are also nowhere near doing that at scale from scratch. We need existing living breathing species to do anything.

And even then it's a problem when "new kind of fish" ends up destroying a different kind of fish [1] etc.

I won't even go into how bees are needed for so much more than just crops.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/farmed-and-danger...
The Lifecycle of Greed and Fear
>Unless you get bitrot on some of that data, I’d proffer (which has happened to me over the past 8 or so years of hard disk backups).

That's why I advocated for multiple copies -- and in a redundant format with corrections codes even better.

It's not like printed photos can't be burned, scratched, lost, discolor, soak, stained and many other things besides...
A well-written and well-sourced article. I found it quite interesting. It's amazing how people seem to find a way around any regulation or control to satisfy basic greed.
I dunno. Just moved about 3,000 CAD engineers to Windows 10 and they are pretty happy.

Users of Windows 10 tend to like it. IT people hate it.
It was regulated in the sense that it gave the odds of winning, just as how lootboxes/gacha mobile games just now are giving drawing odds (since there is starting to be a crackdown on those).
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Volvo’s First All-Electric Car 'Polestar 2' Is Set to Rival Tesla Model 3
Excellent use of confirmation bias?
Like useless genes.
Real World vs. Book Knowledge
I don't understand your comparison between Arduino Studio and Project Icestorm. I'm going to assume you mean the ease of use.

If your pain point is a lack of a good IDE, then this isn't something any other suite of FPGA vendor tooling will fix. They all have terrible UX. And in my opinion, that responsibility lies in tooling around your text editor, anyway. It's going to happen sooner or later, as the difficult problem of linting and analysing RTL is already solved in the F/OSS world (Verilator). I've also seen some effort on Twitter of building an IDE around Yosys.

Yosys/Arachne/Icestorm are lacking in features compared to vendor suites (timing driven PnR, floorplanning, ...), but none of them really should be required for beginners. And the fact that the entire suite is cross platform and installable from a package manager more than makes up for those deficiencies for simple projects. All in all, the pipeline for running the fully open toolchain is still much less complex than today's average frontend project.

(disclaimer: working with authors of yosys&Icestorm, but speaking for myself)
New Ebola species is reported for first time in a decade
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fruit is not healthy for you, contrary to what you may have traditionally heard. you can get everything you need, vitamins and minerals wise, from vegetables, without the sugar that comes with fruits.
Why Heathrow Airport Had Empty Flights to Nowhere
While we are on this topic, what I find to be a complete sham is TSA-PRE (a US preflight registration program). The pre-screening is valid for 5 years, in exchange you don't remove your shoes or have to remove electronics and liquids. Basically, what you did BEFORE the TSA program was put in place.

I presume they are OK with taking the chance that a TSA-PRE enrolled individual is not turning into a shoe-bomber in year 3 after preenrollment? Why not just abolish all the checks and selectively pull people to remove liquids, shoes and electronics. You'd lose the $99 revenue/passsenger that TSAPRE generates.
That is the cartoon version. The raw stuff of evolution is variation and selection pressure. Mutations are an important long-term contributor to variation, but most variation isn't due to mutation. Eg, my two parents had five sons, and while there are some similarities, there are a lot of differences too. None of the variation was because of mutations.
Can I ask a question I've always wondered about?

What's wrong with having two different physical devices, one that helps you accomplish stuff and one that entertains you? Seems like by splitting it up physically like this you'd be able to keep the two separate. If nothing else, it'd be unambiguous to all involved what your personal goals were.
This sounds poetic, but almost to the point of gibberish, not to cause offense. "Reality is nothing more than what it is?" It's not clear what's meant by that or how it adds to what you're saying.

It's probably different from person to person, but the internet doesn't make me feel small. It makes me feel almost limitless because there's an incredibly massive wealth of information and communication that's accessible to me, just like everyone else.

Even without the internet, just knowing our place in the universe is enough.

Neil deGrasse Tyson put it best:
“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.”
We also have similar machines in Portugal for ID card and passport issuance, but luckily they will ask if you like the picture or if you want another taken...
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That's really not fair to women who want to be known as logical thinkers and are just starting to grow into it externally.

You can call it pedantic fluff, I call it a coupled fear of having one's own mind appear hypermasculinized while maintaining sensitivity to multiple perspectives of listening to many individuals without being listened to directly.

Big picture. The devil is in the details.

Edit: maybe wait a few hours before downvoting next time? at least give me the opportunity to not see it as being likely to be you
> To answer your question, the reality is this is very different than what you were taught in the 90s, except that we've rewritten history for science to save face and pretend we knew this all along, and to forget that this sort of thing was explicitly rejected by the Darwinian victors 100 years ago.

Yeah, don't answer questions if you don't know the answers.

It is not that different. There still is DNA and epigenetics has not proven Darwin wrong or Lamarck right.
I know Bret Victor's work very well - it's thoughtful, thought provoking and the sort of stuff that makes me go on long walks to think further (a good thing).

Regarding state/flow... that's partially handled by the visual debugger in Python3 mode (I explain this in a beginner friendly way here: https://codewith.mu/en/tutorials/1.0/debugger).

There could be lots of ways to do state/flow, but implementing a very simple debugger has the additional advantage of progression: it's a powerful tool coders will come to use with professional development environments as they grow in skill. I made the debugger very much with the Alan Kay quote referenced here (https://codewith.mu/en/about) in mind.

FWIW, I'm actually a classically trained musician (I trained at the Royal College of Music in London and played professionally for a number of years), and spent most of my 20s involved in music education. Music education has so much to teach computing education (although I concede I'm probably biased in this opinion) and I wanted to ape the "do the real thing, but at the right level" approach music educators (like my wife) do. She's a cellist and often runs workshops with kids as young as 5 who want to learn to play a string instrument. The first thing she does? She gives them a real string instrument (although it may be a 1/4 sized violin or cello - it's still a proper instrument) and lets them play (in both fun and musical sense of the word).

It turns out that if you want to be a musician, you have to learn to do things musicians do. Likewise, if you want to write software, it's probably a good idea to learn what software developers do.

Having said that, I like the innovation and shift of perspective from people like Bret Victor, so as always, it's a balancing act. We want people to learn about the rules, traditions and history of [music|coding] so they can become effective participants in the current world of [music|code] but then we also want them to innovate, experiment and push boundaries. This sense of breaking rules should definitely be part of education.

I hope this makes sense... :-)
I do this, but it’s at the cost of portability and double the money. Presumably between those two factors you lose quite a few people who would otherwise consider this.
Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World (2010)
31. Germanium transistors perform inconsistently in different temperatures, and not necessarily to a fault.

Great thread subject, btw. This is interesting.
The judge ruled that way because people who win lotteries tend to have a lot of life threatening bad luck after they win.
It's been a long time since I've looked into this, but things like this generally are regulated (in the US). The sweepstakes promoter generally must post the odds of winning, and can't actually require a purchase of a product to enter (though you might need to pay return postage and wait 2-4 weeks for the free entry option). Some states have stricter requirements and you'll often see nationally advertised sweepstakes specify that they're not offered to residents of those states.
Is Agile the Enemy (of Good Design)?
As a question, "can we grow land plants under water?" I think it is interesting, as a strategy for increasing the availability of arable land? I'm not convinced.

That said, if you can get enough plants to provide oxygen recycling of CO2 in the habitat, then at a larger scale you might be a solution to one of the problems of long duration underwater habitats.
I took the RPi education team's feedback as a starting point and spent lots of time watching, testing and working with teachers and beginners to work out what works best given a context with beginners and/or teachers trying to deliver classes.

This is but a start and I expect Mu will evolve as computing education matures (hopefully) beyond the current state of affairs.
The 80's. Minimum wage was around $2.65 or $5512/yr. He was making roughly twice minimum wage at the time.

Even then, in 1988, that $70,000 salary was pretty good. That's the equivalent of $149,000 today. (Or $52,000 in 1981 when he was a cop).
Sigh, where is The Janit0r when we need him...
The real story behind Chevrolet's bow tie (2011)
Returned the extra money to the unfairly manipulated customers?
Relevant and probably off topic, but this conversation about the scutoid was posted on reddit and made me crack up, laughing out loud.

https://i.imgur.com/8Z0f6fk.png
my instant jet lag cure:

1. if i arrive early in the day, make sure i take as much coffee and/or energy drinks as possible to stay awake. then stop about 4 hours before planned bedtime.

2. once it's bedtime, or if i arrive at destination close to bedtime, if possible, i then smoke as much cannabis as is necessary to force me to go to sleep.

whenever i travel somewhere with vastly different timezones, i do this two or three days in a row and i'm usually fixed.
Oh if you missed this you should check it out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17638067
Well, L.A. has its own difficulty, at a larger scale, with the tangle of freeways and ramps, special lanes, multiple names for freeways, etc.

Surface streets do follow that nice, logical grid, though.
"You have to wonder how many are not getting caught if they can manage these two faults."

I wonder the same about leaks like the Snowden leaks. If Snowden could do this how many other people get access to the same data and use it for their own purposes be it financial, political or both ? My guess is a lot.
The Challenge of ‘Chronic Lyme’
I have this book. It won't teach you neither digital logic nor hardware design.

I highly recommend against learning any of these with a complex board like the Zynq, and instead getting a simple iCE40-based FPGA and starting from blinking a few LEDs and writing an UART peripheral.