skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you tell me why you believe it should be a bigger deal than it was?

I explicitly stated why I thought it was big deal.

>> As a regular citizen I think its a big deal because

>> 1. It eroded publics confidence in MSM giving rise to alternative/fake news sites.

> what else do you believe should happen?

Also addressed this

>> 2. What about Donna Brazile's collaborators. Surely she didn't pull this off all by herself.

>> 3. What were the motivations of collaborators at CNN, why did they do it.

I want answers to those questions. And possibly releasing the debate questions to everyone instead of pretending like they are secret. I really want to know why they are pretending that they are secret when they are not. Regular ppl are just idiots to be fucked with?

Merely firing one sacrificial lamb is not enough, why would i possibly care about a multimillonare's job at CNN. More honesty and not taking people for idiots would be a good outcome. You know like a change that would prevent this from happening in future.

> Can you tell me why you started this non-sequitur thread to begin with?

As I mentioned it many times, this to me was one of those things that "trump supporters" used to discredit the media and create fakenews. CNN never coming clean didn't help the case.
If you're an enterprise-ish company, you use DEP which they still support. This only affects companies that have, for whatever reason, chose not to use the solution Apple provides for this.
Capital is fundamentally amoral, but that doesn't mean it has to be dehumanized. Its use can still be powered by ethics.
The difficult bit is making a bomb that goes off reliably but not before. Explosive stabilisation is the innovation that made the Nobel fortune, remember.
You're thinking about it too hard.

People don't want massive bunches of cable lines running through their neighborhoods. Most people don't even like the few they have unless they're underground and there aren't access pillars every hundred feet.

Voters aren't going to let regulators ugly up their neighborhoods and drive their home values down.
I totally agree with you. Parent comment is completely unreasonable in rallying against parts of another culture that he believes stupid. We must be inclusive of all parts of every culture because each culture has a very different lens, and there is oft little that can be agreed on as a result.
I view his leaving of SoFi to be more about his evasiveness and misrepresentations to HR and to the board. Hard to be an effective leader if you've lost that credibility.
The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86 [VIDEO]
I tend to work on both Open Source and Commercial software.

The cost of context switching between different tools because of it's licensing makes it a non-starter to use one for open source and the other for commercial work.

Granted, the cost of a tool is minuscule compared to the potential gains from speed of development, and any corporation that balks at paying for tools for their developers won't be in business very long, I still find myself penny pinching and using free and or open source tools, even if inferior or lacking in just one or two bits of functionality.
This short and brief response is also to @bena,

I have struggled with this a lot. I can completely understand the notion to discount such experience. My conclusion is that this seemingly can not be "proven" in the traditional sense as it's a construct of the mind and not something external. It's sort of like me trying to prove that the way I see "red" in my mind is the same way you do. It's just not doable. Thus, I think this is something limited to the experiential. This used to bother me, now I just enjoy it.

A few anecdotes from my brain:

I have experienced deeper consciousness where instead of being from my normal 1st person view, it has been from a lower point of view. As metaphor, Imagine you are dreaming and there are 10 people in your dream, including yourself. As normal you are viewing the dream through your eyes and the 10 people seem to be functioning on their own. But then within the dream something happens and I realize the arbitrariness of my perspective and I suddenly become aware that I am actually simultaneously looking into my dream world from all 10 people's perspective at once and a lower level consciousness, which now becomes my conscious perspective, is omni-aware of this fact. It's also very strange as it sort of makes me question which viewpoint is really "me." Particularly when my consciousness shifts between the various perspectives.

I've also had things happen like when I am talking to someone sitting in front of me, I lose my 1st person perspective and my perspective moves to a lower external level where I can now see how my brain is "drawing" both myself and the person I'm speaking to, and the "onion" layers of thought that built those images of us and our environment as well as the sounds of our words.

Even as far as how when we say a sentence of words, I've had perspective where I can see the words expanding to other concepts and deeper meaning of the word. It's usually a very visual and emotional process, but quite interesting. So the words "tasty" "apple" start as two peaks of two mountains, but as the brain unpacks the concept of "tastiness" and "appleness", the thoughts expands outwards, just as the peaks of mountains expand outwards to their base. It's when the bases overlap that I can see the relation of the terms and how they interact with each other. But then imagine that for entire sentences, or stories, or any thought/concept.

When you can shift your consciousness from the peak to the base, it's interesting because you can see these larger concepts. For example, you can "see" taste, or sexuality, or redness, or anything-ness. Very fascinating.

I've also had interesting experiences where starting a an object, say my garage floor, I've been able to see layers of overlapping patterns that my brain seemed to have used to draw the floor. When I see it from the top, I see a floor. But when I move to the side, It's layers of different patterns.

I don't usually shares these on a public forum as I have already spent enough time questioning my own sanity as I rarely hear others talking about this sort of thing. Self diagnosed conclusion: I'm sane. :)
Usually you'd want to reuse existing hacking infrastructure that is people, exploits, operational practices etc. These are bound to leave fingerprints.

Doing everything from scratch to ensure secrecy would take significant resources. With no guarantee of success.
Then be really worried, the amount of munitions dumped at sea is staggering[1]. A US bomb was found around Fukushima near a car park [2]. People tend to ignore the amount of munitions and equipment scattered all over the Pacific and adjacent nations from Japan's attempt to conquer the area during WW2. Their build up while not as impressive as some of the German construction was just as destructive

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/decaying-weapo...
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40886169
Really? I get that it's not the norm, but to judge the whole piece _purely_ on the choice of units seems rather judgemental. The imperial system, while unconventional, still works fine.
Well, someone has to run essential services, right? Who's going to teach? Who's going to work in the services industry?
You can enable it on battery power in “Preferences > General > GPU Rendering“
Ohh, he's the Silicon Snake Oil guy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Snake_Oil
I'd be surprised if it doesn't frankly. The blue-light effect on the circadian is well documented science. Don't think anyone is challenging that.

...and turning on flux makes the screen decidedly less blue-ish even by a non-scientific eyeballing so I'd be very surprised if it doesn't check out on a broad level.

Whether it delivers the tangible results promised is a different question.

Broadly speaking I've noticed a correlation between late screen time and bad sleep (or rather falling asleep).
Most "cognitive scientists" seems to conflate the world with their simplified models. For a field with one of the lowest replication rates (and which won't get better) they seem to take their conclusions more seriously than scientists in hard sciences.

This interview is painfully self contradictory, "there is no inner truth but there is no easy way of solving this", almost in self denial.

"What happens is not what happens. What happens is the story that we tell ourselves about what happens." well, yes

And of course the brain tell stories, and "a deep truth" might not be so deep, but past events and how we handle them ourselves do have an effect (though it might not be so obvious).

In a fundamental level, is the brain chaotic ("deterministic " but unpredictable due to millions of different variables) or does it have a random component (and how much is that)? And what abstractions emerge from the brain's complexity?
You might be interested in spectacle. It's a light weight window manager for os x that will let you do that (and more) with any app.

https://www.spectacleapp.com/
Just had a look at their docs:

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/remote-control.html

Cool, it even works over SSH! Wait, what? This lets a remote server take over your workstation.
Thank you so much for this thoughtful reply — I enjoyed the code samples and the details on Lisp's macro system, and I can see how its approach gives you more control to invent on top of the language. It's given me more to read and think about.
It's not just Germany, it's common to northern Europe.
I run a site in cloudflare that's using a little over 2TB/mo (used to be more), and haven't received any email. Would be nice to know what this limit is so we're ready when the time comes
Ironically 'machine learning' has tremendous marketing.
Are you sure this isn't the result of HK's "overheated discussion detector?[0]"

Threads mentioning China often seem to bring out a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment, which results in arguments, which results in heavy voting, which may trigger the flamewar detector.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089
Very cool, I recently wrote a map tiler that runs on AWS lambda and supports real-time tiling at any zoom level and real-time reprojection. Planning to open source it soon.
I do too, kinda, but I use tmux to copy text from the terminal into the clipboard, and have for years. The muscle memory around that is so ingrained now that I only rarely found myself using iTerm’s smart selection.

It was nice, though.
In that one instance the motivation is known, but it is a horrible and dangerous blanket business requirement that cannot be enforced. There is no way that ends well for a business relationship. It is up to the employer to discern and address the motivations of its employees. When this responsibility falls on the customer the business ceases to have customers. It doesn't make sense for a customer to pay for a service and be charged with the management of their service provider's managerial concerns, because if that were the case the service provider would become an internal business unit.

What is interesting is that the letter says this: This plan will irreparably damage Google’s brand and its ability to compete for talent. The letter is completely addressing the concern for reputational harm, but the company did not do so prior to the establishment of the relationship as a matter of its due diligence considerations. If this is cause for the DOD to pass on Google's bid for a larger project the harm is absolutely manifest. This is analogous to the Streisand Effect where the harm was neither well known nor established but achieves both due to the complaint - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Also, the DOD is the US military and those terms can be safely and definitively interchanged. I can affirm this as a military officer. https://www.defense.gov/About/DoD-101/
But what if you want to use elements like <pre> or <textarea>? How would you put in a line break on the rendered page? I suppose there's an argument to be made for not rendering line breaks as a space, but such a change to the HTML spec at this stage is probably not going to happen.
So we have no moral standpoint to criticize child brides...because we must be inclusive of all parts of every culture?
"Is" as in "it's not the same entity".
Maybe you guys should start considering mandatory castration.
Can you link a source? I've found a lot of sites claiming blue light is bad, without a real reason. This[1] site seems to support my uncertainty.

[1]: https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/should-you-be...
FWIW, it's not 404 for me, but I don't understand what's the purpose of this page.

I couldn't get past the nag screen. :-/ Fortunately archive.org has a working copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180728201531/http://fortune.co...
I recommend Cool Retro Term. No tabs. Not a lot of features. Emulation can be a little strange. But it's cross-platform and a metric ass ton of fun.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

And if you push the settings right, you can use it to convince the procurement department that you need a new monitor.
Really, that should not be possible with secure boot. Secure boot ensures only trusted OSes are run, and those OSes should require authorization before allowing secure boot to be turned off.
Scarier evil maid attacks involve changing hardware or firmware. The personalized version of secure boot mentioned would make that more difficult.

Incidentally, an interesting defense against evil maid attacks involves glitter nail polish. Use it on a sticker over the case and take a photo. To verify your laptop is safe, compare the sticker with the photo.
The key is that glitter polish has a lot of minute detail and is thus hard to replicate.

This only gives tamper protection, but evil maid attacks require interaction so it suffices for security.
> It would be weird if a dev preferred the lockdown

I’m a Dev and I prefer the lockdown, on my daily driver device that is. If it was forced on every device, I’d be opposed, but having it be something I can opt out of on my dev devices is perfect IMHO.
I'm sure this rebuttal will get as much coverage as the original headline. "Confidence intervals"? "Misclassification rates"? Get out of here with your science-talk, nerd!

Sadly, these days I see too many ML practitioners and "data scientists" without the necessary prob/stats foundation. Misinterpreting data happens even to experts, so not surprisingly it's going to happen even more so to amateurs. Suggesting more foundational knowledge is considered elitist. Why shouldn't a month-long bootcamp be as good as a MS/PhD? In this case, the original ACLU results fits a certain narrative and hits all the hot topics so it was bound to be picked up.
In my experience, for most jvm apps non blocking io is a premature optimization that makes little performance difference. I once optimized an app, for instance, by switching to non blocking io, and was only able to go from 1000 rps percore to 1200. I got a better performance improvement by switching out the service's json library for a faster one, and that took far less effort.
For the most part, I see non blocking io as a fad. It can make a noticeable difference in Performance, but in practice most apps are so poorly optimized that there are easier, lower+hanging fruit.
>so their project is kind of doomed.

Agreed. Can't see this being very difficult to duplicate for a skill say Windows dev. As they say in finance circles...it's got no moat to keep competitors at bay.

[Rumour time]

I've seen (unsubstantiated) rumours on the interwebs that people are seeing different blue light results between flux and (windows) built in when measured with hardware meters. Seems unlikely to me, but thought I'd throw it out there.
I am working on a utility macOS app which add page numbers / text watermark to your PDFs file ( https://pdfpagenumber.com ) , currently implementing the bulk processing function.
I use iTerm simply because the standard emacs keybindings don't work in Terminal. I'm sure there's some configuration somewhere that can fix that. But iTerm is properly configured out of box.
The "secure" part of secure boot only protects booting macOS, it doesn't safeguard against actors intercepting shipments and dropping malware before the customer performs MDM setup via DEP. E.g. it's trivial to sideload a LaunchDaemon via Target Disk Mode, which the Mac will load on first boot, even with full protection, since FileVault hasn't yet been enabled by the user (or the MDM). Imaging every device that you buy is still the only available protection against this threat. Note that Secure Boot is very much a welcome feature in this scenario, as it also secures the machine's firmware.

Performance is also a factor, as you mention. If you're onboarding hundreds of people in the same room at the same time, there's no WiFi in the world that can deliver the base config in a timely and reliable manner. One solution is to preload all the necessary bits, see for example Facebook's AutoDMG Cache Builder.

Imaging is still also by far the most automatable solution, and the only one that can truly be zero touch. It's possible to reinstall and set up a fleet of machines, with no human needed to touch them. DEP still requires a human with physical access to set up the machine on first boot.

While we've switched to DEP and MDM as our main deployment method, it still has a ways to go before it covers all cases.
>Mr. Cagney was romantically involved with an employee, even though he had previously told directors that he was not involved in any extramarital workplace relationships

Okay...? If that's literally the extent of what they found then this is kind of a non-story. Calling it a "sex scandal" is even quite clickbaity in my opinion.

Like, yes, there is a conflict of interest. Potential for abuse or coercion. But nowhere does it say any of that occurred, meaning this was just a routine violation of workplace rules. Absolutely mundane. I'm very much siding with the investors here.
I don't want to argue the merits, but I do want to point out where the argument is. What you consider "reverse discrimination" I consider attempts to change the result of centuries of oppression. Such attempts take many forms. I do not think such attempts perpetuates the problem, but rather are attempts to rectify it.

Again, I'm not trying to argue this on its merits. I just was surprised by your wording, because I got the impression that you took the matter as settled, when it is very contested.
In VIM one can also specify a point in wall time to return to, i.e. `:earlier 10m`. I'm not sure how granular it gets, but I've saved work that I was sure was gone with that tool.
I mean, whether you're right or not has direct bearing on your initial statement.

You said the author was wrong and used this tulpa as evidence for the depth of mind.

If the tulpa is not real and nothing more than an elaborate fantasy you've created for yourself, then your conclusion that he's wrong is suspect.

I'm sorry, you don't get to protect your claims while simultaneously offering them as proof that another's claim is wrong.

I had a tulpa at one point too. I investigated my beliefs, an I realized it was just an imaginary friend I concocted to help me work through issues and project things I wasn't ready to deal with onto. See. Words are easy. Now you're an ex-materialist and I'm an ex-tulpaist. Where does that leave us? We've both investigated our beliefs. We've come to opposite conclusions. This is why third party objective verification is important. You don't get to opt out.

You are the one who feels attacked and I understand, it's frustrating to have people question your claims when you have no actual evidence to provide.
I switched to using Fish as my shell about a year ago, and there were some performance issues with it and iTerm, at least with my default fish/tmux/vim/vimux setup. I don’t rememeber what it was exactly, I just remember that switching to stock Terminal.app made it go away.

I may try this iTerm beta just to see if it fixed it.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chip...

(not quite the same thing but heading in that direction)
> If it wants to. But I presume it already has done all that and there's no real reason for it to anymore.

You're kind of saying you don't know here, ie you (the you in this comment thread) are in fact are not conscious of this. Does the tulpa inform you somehow of things it becomes conscious of, and thus makes you conscious of those specific things? How strong of an identity does this tulpa have?

> And the line at which unconscious processes become conscious is fuzzy and not at all distinct. Another thing that becomes utterly clear when you meditate.

Ok I get what you're saying about fuzzy consciousness. I've only meditated to the point where I became more conscious of my body, but not of my own thinking processes, which I would like to get to. But there is a level that seems like it would be hard to penetrate in our subconscious processes. Eg, can you say you are conscious of the neural spiking compression your retina ganglia cells are doing to compress input it's getting from their photonic receptors? Seems quite unlikely. So there is a whole gamut of different levels of processing in our brains, and I'm sure it's possible to get a deeper consciousness of some of that, but there's obviously a limit somewhere.
Also re: photopsias, and strain.

> The wavelength of light may also affect the photophobia percept. Main et al. (103) found that shorter wavelength (blue) light was more uncomfortable for subjects with migraine than for those with tension-type headache or controls. These investigators also reported that longer wavelength (red) light was also less comfortable for subjects with migraine (103).

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485070/#!po=0....
I do like that you have presentation vs data separated by default. Something I wish React had. ;)
Why is it not portable?
Who said anything about morality? This is precisely about conflicts of interest, mismatched power dynamics, and potential abuse of authority. It is a situation that should be avoided at all costs because it can be exceedingly corrosive for an organization.
I think that was the point of their question. While it's disabled by default, if it goes from 12h life to 6h, people will leave disabled. If it goes from 12h to 11.5h, people maybe would consider flipping that toggle.
> Sonic pi seems to be the most recent endeavor in this area. but it doesn't offer any deb-packages. compiling for Debian/Ubuntu seems to be not documented.

You sure?

% lsb_release -sic
Debian
stretch
% apt-cache madison sonic-pi
sonic-pi | 2.10.0~repack-2 | https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
sonic-pi | 2.10.0~repack-2 | https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main Sources
That's not inherently sexual assault. Does it have the opportunity to go wrong? Sure, if your relationship becomes linked with career advancement, and especially if it's coerced. But as long as that's not present I don't see any assault going on here.
agree, nothing worse than the barista banging whatever it is to remove the coffee grounds. I know the noise is trying to create a busy buzz, but it's ridiculous after a while. Like working in a tool shop.
Breaking promises and lying to your board of directors is a non-story?
Interesting! I also use Fish primarily. ZSH sometimes and flip back to Bash when it doesn't work well with Fish but still haven't seen issues. Thanks for sharing.
Ah, ok. Sounds like Tmux was an issue for a few people.
I used to program music (algorithmic composition) using Common Music.[1] It allowed me to program in my language of choice, Scheme.

Unfortunately, last time I tried a few years ago, I couldn't get it to compile.

Does anyone know if there's another good Scheme alternative to it that doesn't have a mountain of dependencies?

[1] - http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/