skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing I never really see from these is about setting up on an existing instance vs running my own. And if I set up my own, does it need to be a community? Am I shutting myself out of an experience by creating, say, a Mastodon instance for my family?

I'm bought in to the idea of Mastodon, but getting started is like being handed an atlas of the US and being told, "Please pick a neighborhood to live in."
To actually reverse climate change (as opposed to simply slowing or stopping its further progress), we'd need to go back to pre-industrial CO2 levels. That's not physically impossible, but it is (almost certainly) politically and economically impossible, at least with current technology and politics.

Cheap solar and coming to our senses about nuclear power (i.e. promoting it) could make a big dent. So it's not hopeless. But it's sure not going to be easy.
If X goes beyond Y, then someone claiming that isn't wrong, and provides more information than someone claiming merely that X can do Y.
Regarding the wrong auction price, I wonder if the $300K discrepancy was Sotheby's fee, so the article is trying to say that Wayne might have pocketed $1.3 million? (Or it could be sloppy journalism.)

I thought I noticed another error in the article where it said that Wayne "gave up his 10 percent of Apple for just $2,300", but Sotheby's scan of the amendment to the contract (the 4th page) says "Wozniak and Jobs agree to pay and deliver to Wayne, the sum of eight hundred dollars ($800)".

That part wasn't an error. The Sotheby's Catalogue Note at the same site says that Wayne "received another $1,500 when Apple found the funding they needed shortly thereafter", which would bring the total he received to $2,300.
I don't mean just IPOs. From the article:

> When I say “shrinking,” I’m using a specific definition: the reduction in the number of publicly traded companies on exchanges in the United States. In the mid-1990s, there were more than 8,000 of them. By 2016, there were only 3,627, according to data from the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

So how many of those ~4400 publicly traded companies that disappeared between the mid-1990s and 2016 were .com IPOs?
This work is even more crucial now that the Brazilian road system is collapsing. I can totally see investment being poured into railways again. Reminding people of how effective that system was can help speeding development!
Korea is experiencing the hottest summer ever in recorded history, but Korean summers have always been hot, humid and uncomfortable, so while it's definitely more uncomfortable than usual, it isn't causing too much turmoil.

For parts of the world like Europe where such extreme temperatures have been relatively rare, it will be extremely interesting - not to mention super unfortunate - to see how long it will take for individuals and societies to adjust to what very well may be a new normal and/or how it may impact migration (both in and out) patterns.
Unrelated: I really like this site. Some HTML, a dash of CSS to make it look pretty–it's fast and responsive, and has no tracking to boot!
Earthbound had a particularly punitive bit of hard-to-notice copy protection - it would be exactly identical up until right before the final boss, and then immediately crash and delete your save.

At which point it isn't so much copy protection, but copy ... karmic punishment?
I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
Once you know someone will hurt you to get ahead - avoid them and avoid being the throat they need to step on. Sometimes you can’t help it. The best you can do then is not leave openings and have some solid backup plans.
Surely that list includes Clickspring as well.
Then it's a good thing that wasn't what he argued, isn't it?
The highest bidder is likely to be a government agency.
Could you decentralize Slashdot?

Really, forums or anything with user-generated content/comments seem almost impossible to decentralize; it's difficult to do server-side anything when you don't have any servers.
> Stuff like a special way that they can jump perfectly on some slopes to build up hilariously high speed values then using that to launch across the map all in a fraction of a second.

"...But before that, we have to talk about alternate universes."
Amazing. A friend of mine gave me the book "A Void" [1] by Georges Perec a few years ago that follows the same constraint. A little research and it turns out to be because he was a member of that community [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
cyclekarts: http://cyclekartclub.com
I completely agree. It's far too easy for me to type things on autopilot and fool myself into thinking I've understood them. But making some changes usually reveals any misunderstandings right away.

It also helps me enormously to rename ALL variables and function names from examples. Yeah, it's a total pain and can even get confusing. But it keeps me actively engaged with the examples and makes a much clearer separation between USER-chosen names and actual LANGUAGE keywords!
The 2007-2008 financial crisis led to Dodd-Frank, which is much more concerned with banking practices than public investment.
/r/mk is such a great community. Very friendly, great jokes, and so many pictures of unique keyboards and keys.
Really, what do you expect?

What do you expect when so much of the popular message is for people to get involved in programming, and to do so while giving away the fruits of their labor--to join open source projects and the like?

I see many young people being recruited into the software engineering industry, as it's a cool new thing, and the current salaries at many corporations are still attractive to many people. Of course, much of the message to get involved in the industry is to--spoiler alert--increase the pool of talent and reduce the cost of software development (salaries). But even beyond that, bodies are essentially being indoctrinated into a system where working for free is heavily promoted. They may be paid in good vibes and perhaps some attention, but that's a small price for many entities to pay.

It should be obvious: if you create something and release it into the wild, for all to see--the good actors and the bad actors--, what you create can be used in any way, by any one. You've given it to them, and for free; they owe you nothing. At the very least, people should understand some of the basic legal mechanisms that can offer them some protection (e.g. copyright) and ensure their creative expressions are used in some accordance with their wishes (at least, by those who follow the law).

Do good work. Get a fair price for it.
For wheat and maize it can't and it doesn't have to. Both are stable after picking and can be transported. Lettuce cannot be transported as well after being picked. Maybe shipping containers with live lettuce?
> So in relation to the larger issue of the thread: In so far as mathematics came from physics (e.g. a tool to study nature, considering most strides in mathematics have come from people who could also loosely be described as physicists (like Newton and Plato, etc.) it's not a major stretch), computer science sort of came from mathematics, transitively it came from physics.

I really respect the effort here, but formal, productive mathematics predates anything we'd call physics (or the scientific method) to such a huge extent that I think this is a weak conclusion. But, on the other hand, it wouldn't have ever occurred to me to call Plato a physicist.
Objective-C deemphasizes formal inheritance. Class clusters and informal protocols generally substitute for some of the benefits that inheritance can give.
Personally, as both a writer and a programmer, I often consider implementing the systems that I’ve written dystopian fiction about. Not to create a dystopia, but for the same reason I write: to point one out, such that people can get incensed, laws can be made, etc.

To put this another way: the most efficient way we could have possibly found to get the use of nuclear arms in war globally banned, was to have someone use one. The Cold War would have been far riskier if the world hadn’t seen Hiroshima and Nagasaki—it would have been a stand-off to the use of weapons we would have as-yet had no understanding of the consequences of using. It probably would have ended with the use of hundreds of bombs, rather than just two.

It’s sort of the moral equivalent of a “work to rule” strike: the best way to get through the lesson that something is bad, is to stop pushing back against it and just let it happen for once.
Mechanical work is straightforward though, and book time can be a bit liberal but is otherwise fair.
Far beyond what "might not be capable".

Some TAS runs do things like abuse the order that the console would read inputs to do multiple inputs in a single "frame".
Not the author but I like 48Khz because its easy to generate on most systems and with a 24Khz nyquist if you set your low pass 3dB point to 24khz you have very little attenuation from dc do 22Khz.
I worked at a company that was acquired by Ticketmaster, and I have a change to talk to one of the executives in casual way. They are not as bad as the may seem, but the business model is definitely intriguing.
They go to a venue that hosts, say U2 for a concert. Say a U2 wants to sell a certain ticket for $100. Ticketmaster says: Look, If I get exclusive rights to sell your tickets, you will get not 95%, nor 100%, but you get 105% of the price of ticket, because I can charge whatever fees I want.
So when you complain about Ticketmaster's high fees, hate then just slightly less, and hate U2 a bit more because they are ripping you off by pretending that Ticketmaster is the only bad guy.
A relevant point here is that video compression almost always destroys the signal relied upon in this research.
I think you're right, insurance and banks are both looking at a similar problem. In our approach, which is agri-specific, we work with banks to include requirements for climate smart agriculture into loan agreements. Farmers must do x, y and z if they want a loan. From an insurance perspective, this is the equivalent of requiring drivers to wear a seatbelt. We use a remote-sensing system to verify that farmers are in compliance with the system, and if they are we pass a score back to the bank for inclusion in their credit scoring algorithm. Compliant farmers have an improved risk profile and should be able to access credit on improved terms to reflect the improved risk.
I’ve always looked at these systems as “if someone else built this, it would be worse.” Doesn’t the same moral conundrum exist anytime you build a system that dehumanizes people for profit. Ad networks? Drug trials?
Mouse eye coordination would probably be harder.
The only thing you do by honking your horn at a car in a lane they're taking up is 1) they move if they're not there for a reason or need to be there, or 2) being briefly annoying to the driver, if they're even in the car, which the driver will promptly forget. If you know the laws and see a car breaking a law, then call the police and tell them someone is breaking the law, since it's their responsibility and not yours to police.
extensive OO gymnastics is an acquired taste, and best practiced by someone who is willing to deal with the dynamic mess that will inevitably result in a mature code base. Nothing you say is wrong, yet none of this is necessary to solve the vast majority of actual problems.
Magit has a PR problem: most people think they need to be already using Emacs to use Magit, but that's far from the case. Indeed most Magit keybindings are single-letter like vim. I wish I could get more people to try Magit without being turned off by the fact that it's an "Emacs plugin". Hmm.. what if there were a standalone version of Magit? Would more people use it?
it should be clear i was too out of it to not notice s/got/git
Oh please let’s not glorify those simple trick questions to be anywhere near as hard or require the degree of intuition that OP or theoretical mathematicians work on.

75% of interview questions can be solved with some form of BFS/DFS and they’re largely a hazing ritual these days. I’m saying this as someone who recently got offers from 4 of the big 5 companies
Ever try DbVis? It's got a nice graphing feature for DBs with FK constraints.
The concept of a measure implies a way exists to bin people. So after measurement we may safely confine a person to a bin and never reconsider their lot in life again. Our culture is full of that mindset, and it’s unethical when applied to autonomous beings. People are ends in themselves - only to be defined by that person.

More simply, I personally believe I need a reason to do something mean, but I don’t need a reason to do something nice. Is binning people mean or nice? It’s definitely mean. I suggest corrections but also the possibility of redemption for offenders.
How do you deal with the unfavorable thermal properties of those suits?
It’s great. Just as long as you reward me for watching an ad as opposed to making them a forced part of the experience.

E.g. watching an ad to double my score/gems, sure. Making me watch an ad after every level before I can continue, hell no, that’s an instant uninstall.
How I slashed a SQL query runtime from 380 hours to 12 with two Unix commands
LOL'd so hard I almost peed
I believe this is the premise behind image sensors which support global shutter (as opposed to rolling shutter) but other than being aware that this feature might exist, I'm no expert on the subject.
"Widely popular" is a funny term.

I'm willing to bet you have never heard of Aamir Khan -- but considering how much of the world is a fan of him (largely in China and India) he is considered by Forbes & Newsweek to be the biggest movie star in the world (attribution: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robcain/2017/10/05/heres-why-aa... )

I think the same can go with software. Just because it's not popular in the West (and it's not discussed widely on Hacker News or trade mags/sites) doesn't mean it's not very popular worldwide.

My only point (originally) was that Nationalism and confirmation bias can cloud objective judgement about something. Is your point that that Chinese software is at best 'trivial'? (If not, please clarify)
Ad retargeting analytics would be one. The ability to track even anonymous users in an attempt to “nudge” users towards purchase behavior felt especially wrong. I didn’t work at Facebook but this was definitely a selling point for their hiring team. The tough part about this is that most of the internet is funded by this single business model. Collect data and behavior about users and non users.
Not saying this was likely, but one potential reason could be a kind of selfless penny-pinching.

Say you have a call center run as a co-op. You’ve got workers and HR people. Both the workers and HR people are shareholders. If you can eliminate the HR people, then the workers can each have a larger proportionate share for the same work. Automating HR eliminates the HR people.
Why Windows of course. ba dum tish
I agree with the second part but I'm struggling with what's informing the first part of your statement there. It doesn't seem to me that these are mutually exclusive, and it seems to me the assumption must be that if the experimentation and testing involved in theoretical CS do not involve physical phenomena, they aren't really part of what we consider the scientific method. I'm a little surprised by this.
Throwing in a guess for the second company, was it Zest Finance?

I know this isn't the point of the thread, but I couldn't help myself. I will ask for forgiveness (as I am sure we have all done in both technical and ethical matters)
Even better: try taking out parts of the code you think you don't need, or don't recognize, and see what goes wrong.
Well, not in graphics libraries obviously, but it comes up quite a bit in other areas. Vectors with a norm of unity are just a fundamentally important set.
There is 0 mechanical skill involved in chess. Reflexes don't matter. There is mechanical skill involved in Dota 2, and reflexes matter.

And consider a game like Quake where mechanical skill is even more important (even though mechanical skill matters, Dota 2 is still primarily a game about strategy and team coordination).
> I think I prefer the money solution over the fear solution.

A carbon tax/ETS is also a money driven solution, a proven one at that. No need to execute anyone.
Centralization is so useful that people will create it wherever it does not already exist.

One example is Github, a centralized service that makes it easier for teams to use a source control system that was originally designed to be decentralized and distributed. When it was purchased by Microsoft and people started looking elsewhere, they looked to competing centralized solutions like GitLab and Bitbucket.

Given that centralization is so useful, and people want it so much, it should not be resisted. We would be better off if the effort being put into decentralization was instead put into better centralized services that respect user privacy.
Re wheat and maize, it's what happens before they're picked that is the concern. Where banks project high rates of loss, they simply withdraw from the sector - understandably.

Re lettuce, I think what we will see is 2 things: firstly highly capitalised vertical farms close to where the lettuce will be consumed. Secondly, smallscale contract farming again close to point of consumption. Imagine a small greenhouse in your back garden. You pay for the infrastructure and have Uber like aggregator linking you directly to buyers. Oh god - I can see the pitch now: it's like Uber for Romain lettuce...
I committed and bought a Dell Developer Edition laptop. I wanted support in case I had a problem and I wanted to know all of the hardware was built to work smoothly with Linux without having to research each item. I was torn between Dell and System76 but ended up settling on Dell because of previous great hardware experiences with them.

I’d held on to my 17” MBP until last January when it was clear they were sticking with their current direction on laptops.
If interested in this, you might also be interested in the lead author's other research papers

http://abedavis.com/research.html

and his 2016 PhD thesis, which includes the "chip bag" research.

http://abedavis.com/thesis.pdf

I'm interested in this research, from the angle of "Can passive surface measurements tell us what is happening inside the human body?"
Been using newsgroup.ninja for a while Without problems.

Astraweb is good but I ditched them after they had some drama a while ago.
You can't, but if the NSA or CIA wanted to kill a bunch of people they could. Whereas ISIS and company can't. Not knowing who is buying your 0day is dangerous to public safety.
> What’s easier: building a new internet, or forcing companies like Facebook to be honest and transparent?

Those companies have proved they can't be trusted.

So I believe the answer to that question is to build better, easy to use, decentralized platforms. I think that given a real choice, people would be happy to use open systems. Up until now they haven't been given easily usable alternatives that do all the things they want to do.
You're not wrong but I've found that varies by subreddit.
While I'm not a fan of Steemit, and it has a non-trivial list of flaws imho, I think they represent an interesting counter example to your claim.

The various communities on Steemit all seem to focus rather passionately on protecting their hashtags and feeds from users or content that are abusive or spammy.
Unbelievable, how do you sleep at night?
> I was very severely punished for breaking security on our pcs at school

I wonder how common this is. I've seen it happen at my school - when you have a VNC server on every machine with a 3-character password (three guesses what that is...), the local admin password on every machine is school, and the domain admin password is a single dictionary word, bad things are going to happen.
Context, for those not aware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A. This specific quote is at around 10:35.
That's a rather shallow interpretation of his critique and doesn't give proper due to the depth of his argument.

It also misrepresents his argument about "achieving knowledge" - which isn't something he argues - rather, that such a concept of coming to some foundational conclusion is actually mythology. It's subtle but important.
The counterpoint is that traditional DNS has horrendous loss recovery and basically no congestion control and these things definitely benefit DoH at the tail.

QUIC will let us have it both ways (and as QUIC has an HTTP definition, its basically a free upgrade for DoH).
Is there a straightforward way to change Instances without losing connections with other users?

Does it make more sense to host your own, so that you'll always be @isl@isl.tld ?
Monopolies are so useful that markets will create them wherever they do not already exist.

One example is Microsoft, a monopolistic company that makes an operating system that everyone uses, replacing lots of unpopular incompatible ones.

Given that monopolies are so useful, and people want them so much, they should not be resisted. We would be better off if the effort being put into making markets competitive was instead put into increasing Microsoft's share price.
I did actually chuckle when I read your comment but what is wrong with using the usual tools at your disposal? All I did was slap a couple of piccies on the end of a WebDAV share.
Holy sh!t this blew my mind.
I don’t know about the techniques but the theory isn’t prima facie impossible. A paintbrush can act like a microphone just like anything else, and if the paintbrush (more likely a putty knife or more rigid object) picked up a sound while applying paint, that could manifest in the paint layer.
People aren't omniscient. People at best look for known unknowns, but not unknown unknowns. Particularly when it comes to tech, that covers a very broad area of things that they don't know are possible.

The idea that if you need to tell people about it for them to know about it and potentially buy it, then the offer is a scam, is baffling to me.

As for inbound leads, their existence doesn't stop outbound sales being productive. they're not mutually exclusive at all. In fact they're complimentary. Outbound sales results in customers, having customers creates awareness of product in the market, people that hear about it through those customers become inbound leads.

Regarding people living fine without the new product. You're just arguing against progress there. Which as a definite luddite and potential anarcho-primitivist, I am all for. But "scam" isn't a synonym for just "bad", and any definition that includes just creating needs would have to include most of modern commerce. Definitely including any and all software developers.
Ah, wow, pre-industrial? So there's no leeway at all? You mean we'd have to go back to pre-industrial emissions levels, or actually sequester all the carbon we emitted all these decades?

Luckily, cheap solar seems to be coming, and electric cars are hopefully becoming more widespread as well. Nuclear is a different story, unfortunately that one doesn't seem to be very palatable to the average person, even though it sounds like a silver bullet.
I think that the root of such test is the idea that "I write more test than you so i'm better" mentality. Similarly to evaluating productivity to number of line of code, evaluating "seriousness/professionalism" on number of tests bring us this sort of irrational behaviours.
No way of verifying user's experiences :/

Could be just a bunch of roleplayers.
The last couple years have been spent making things right. Documenting the protocol, fixing ugliness in toktok (fork of libtox that's effectively replaced it) and such menial but important work.

Now it isn't a hacked together piece of shit anymore, but proper. As a result, it works reliably. The user experience is very good.