skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind software updates on TVs as much as I mind having a Smart TV that can connect online and has some apps (there are "non-smart TVs" that can get firmware updates through USB and without having to be online). I'm happier and feel safer with an additional device that can be the conduit to connect online (like Apple TV) or to other devices in the home network (any cheaper local/network media player device).
I'm not a fan of this view of the liberal arts.

To your concern of being "politically indoctrinated", part of the value of a liberal arts education is being exposed to ideas you might not agree with. If you don't agree with the opinions expressed in a class -- political or otherwise -- there is real value in being challenged to think critically about why you don't agree, and then justifying yourself logically via argument. Honestly, I often found this type of work more intellectually satisfying than in the cases where I agreed with an author/classmate/professor.

And this skill set is not purely academic; every one of us here likely utilizes it daily at our jobs. This kind of reasoning is necessary in software development all the time:

- Why should I choose X language over Y for this project Z?

- Why is my colleague wrong about the source of this bug?

- How can I convince his boss that I'm right?

(and so on..)
You are conflating leftism with authorarisam
Science's "assumption" is that you can understand the world through repeated and verifiable observation. Faith, on the other hand, is the excuse people give for believing in something when they don't have a good reason.
This story is of course bullshit.

Why do people believe the fake news bullshit? It screams of bullshit. I really really don't get people.

I get the media, this fake story = money.

But do people not know how to understand the simple world around them?

https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/09/23/did-a-fig-tree-grow-out-o...
Actually it's a good didactical way to first implement the "raw" version of Dijkstra's algorithm without a priority queue and than discuss the other variants of the algorithm afterwards, because priority queues are another topic that adds extra difficulty and doesn't yield any benefit to comprehend the acutal problem.
Were you around back then? It’s realy hard to describe how much MS was hated. There’s nowhere near that animosity towards Google today.
I like the idea, I could really make use of it. But have a concern on how prices are presented. There's big (font) monthly prices, and the text saying it's annual is low contrast, and partially obscured by the try it now button.

This is a huge red flag to me. What other fine print can't I see? I don't have color perception issues, but the background/text combo gives it the appearance of that light-grey text that's impossible to read.

Also, why not just give the annual price if that's how it's charged? (Admittedly, I don't know how it's charged. When I clicked the try now button hoping for an upfront number, I was prompted to sign up. I closed the tab.)

I know these aren't huge issues. But, you are selling a service to track people. For me to trust a service like this, they can't come out the gate looking like they're hiding their price.
Perhaps their first investigation should be on why they need $23 million to create a niche site.
Does anyone have experiences with enclose.io?

http://enclose.io/

https://github.com/pmq20/ruby-packer

I only used it once to test something and it worked nicely.

These days I do a lot more python and xar/pex files are a really convenient way to distribute tooling, I always wished the Ruby ecosystem would have more of this kind of tooling.
It seems like this would be easiest to do with a cgroup memory limit and supervisor process. In systemd or kubernetes, this should be pretty easy, IIRC.
If it makes you feel any better, I completely forgot about that scene until you mentioned it and watched the entire first season. By the end I could not empathize with any of the characters because they were by and large terrible people doing things I could not relate to at work and at play. Interesting entertainment can be made with all those qualities but this was not it for me.
On rotary phones, zero was usually at the bottom of the rotar, just after the after nine. When touch tone phones came out, I suspect many people preferred the zero at the bottom of the keypad since it was near the nine and better aligned with their existing muscle memory
First sentence is what I was going to write (bully but cowardly and backstabbing) but would add my manager was also entirely hands off and would cancel weeks of catch ups then complain when a deliverable didn't match their pedantic requirements.
Give it a try! :)

VNote supports Vim mode in the bone (Ctrl+J/K everywhere to navigate), Captain Mode (from the leader key of Vim), Navigation Mode (each widget shows two chars to select to focus), Universal Entry (just like CtrlP in Vim to search and jump), and so on.
Re-reading this, I sound fairly negative. I do hope this service does well. I'll likely end up taking another look at it down the road.
>> Is it typical to ask for additional options during every fundraising round?

You may, and they may as well give you some extra paper options to keep you interested.
But what's the point? $0+$0 = $0 - in 99.9% of early stage startup cases.

Engineering force pretty much has no negotiation power in this.

Engineering (surprise!) is a liability, not an asset.

Sales is an asset. Anything that generates direct and immediate revenue is an asset.

Even if such clause would exist - VC's won't allow it - they won't invest in anything that jeopardize their lion's share of exit.

My take: for 99.9% of early stage startups (Non-pre-IPO, not publicly traded) - get as much cash as you can as compensation.
Don't get tricked into working for peanuts for the promise of future that has low probability of happening.

It just safer bet.

Invest the difference into real assets or save it for real estate or so.
Sadly, they removed this too. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/im...

To whoever restored the anchor element doc, thanks, I hope it stays there or they suggest a better alternative.
Whatever happened to the German stellarator? Seem to recall Merkel being present for one of the first tests a few years back, ITER seems to get more coverage
It would be great, wouldn't it? That sounds delightful, and I would be happy to. Just one quick question:

Why was my account rate limited solely for commenting – substantively, on-topic, and in an intellectually gratifying way – about incels? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18012416

Why was this thread collapsed solely for saying "I only see depressed men on /r/braincels, not really much hatred?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18012771

I am becoming increasingly concerned that it's impossible to comment on HN in a way that goes against the commonly-accepted viewpoint, even if it's true. And I have decided that if this is something that is truly worth sticking up for, then I should be willing to sacrifice my account to do it.

HN used to be a place that I could go to express views that may or may not match reality, and if it didn't, it would simply be pointed out why it was false and that would be that. But now that YC has become Big Business, that is suddenly not good enough. These are not rose-tinted glasses. I remember.

I have made repeated emails to hn@ycombinator.com asking about the situation and have been ignored. I understand that the mod team is busy. However, it is difficult to constructively contribute to a community lead by someone who enforces rules in an arbitrary way with no explanation.

And to be clear, I'm not above the guidelines and I don't think that I am. But when I put a lot of effort into my writing, and it feels like I have been doing everything I can to stay within the guidelines on the site which I love, then being slapped down and silenced with zero recourse and zero explanation is not quite positive reinforcement.

The same thing happened when I tried to ask why it was OK to label Terry and exclude his work from being remembered as good work when he clearly suffered from a debilitating illness.

Now, I would be more than happy to throw myself back into my writing and engage as a good citizen. But it's reasonable to ask "Why aren't you allowing people to voice that their hatred for certain groups or certain people might be misplaced?"

HN isn't for ideological battle. But it's for comments. And we do occasionally talk about social issues on HN – always with an undertone of mutual respect. I don't feel like I was doing ideological battle in that comment thread. So I am left wondering how seriously to take the guidelines, if the choice between carrot and stick has been narrowed to stick and stick.
I was, and it seemed absurd at the time. Bundling IE with windows is no different than the current status quo, where Apple defaults to Safari, or Android defaults to a Chrome version.

Google's incredible monopoly in search looks like a large target.
Actually this is a typical Machine Learning probleme, luckily was solved years ago and you can read about it here:
https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-part-3-...
The same can be said of Google and Facebook too. Data is their "crown jewel" and platforms on top of that are their competitive advantage. But we do see goof ups and data being sold (to specific "partners" or affiliates) or stolen anyway. The easier route for those who value privacy is not to use such platforms and devices in the first place. Amazon and a Google are no different from this perspective.
Fair enough, thanks again for sharing.

There's definitely far more to Milgram's than I knew. Many insights.
In debates about the philosophy of ethics, it's not unusual to see a philosopher's personal character brought up in a debate about their ideas. But this is a debate about epistemology! Morris ties relativism to the idea about there being two (philosophical) Kuhns, then to there being two (temperamental) Kuhns.

Morris must have spent years thinking, "I know my advisor's theory is wrong. I must come up with the next theory to replace it." That's what grad school teaches you to do. (I'm still doing it.)

When the prevailing theory denies the existence of universal truth, you can't attack the theory from within itself. You have to step outside it somehow. Is attacking Kuhn's temperament the plan? Did Morris sit down and say, there's no rational way to attack this theory, so I'm going to make this fallacious argument about Kuhn's character, presented in a compelling movie? Using post-truth tactics to defend objective truth?
> How exactly do you propose we get those experts, if colleges aren't capable of training them?

In the majority of cases, colleges (undergrad) aren't in fact capable of training them. The material is too specialized for undergrad. However colleges can prepare those who are talented and interested in the subject matter for further studies.

Many experts in numerical analysis start specializing in graduate school, and then acquire their expertise through postdocs, academia and industry experience.
Apologies are hard for governments and corporations as they can't usually die like a natural citizen so there is no "at least it's in the past" aspect. The "person" who did the atrocity is still at large. They are still in your face. Often still taxing you. This is the sharp edged aspect for most indigenous peoples. The face of the past oppressor is still around, making rules and likely interfering by whatever definition you like to choose.

Racism/slavery is an excellent example as it clearly shows the divide between the pain and the recovery as well as the apology and healing. Given that whites were also trafficked as slaves it's hard to reconcile the diversity training I've been to. Such training was essentially racist against anyone of white skin and asserted sole responsibility. What about the Arabs, Africans, who kept slaves? Africans of all colours hunted and gathered slaves for sale. I heard nothing of this in the history lesson in that training. The British were until recently paying off a massive debt due to a former government paying for the abolishment of slavery [1]. Slavery hasn't even ended. It's still a thing that needs to be fought. At least it's now illegal and socially unacceptable. Governments can actually say the situation has been amended.

Does mean making amends make up for the now-crime-but-previously-non-crime? Does a government making it illegal really help? The straightforward answer is yes, but a substantive lingering anger will still remain. And that is the difficulty. It never ends. So it never heals.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Slavery_Act_2015
Yes, clearly. My question is why we don't actually see life of independent origin today.
If what I've been told by people that used to work on those very Google Adwords teams, it's not that they are "bad" at their job, it's that they are meant to meet a certain quota of spend and nothing like ROI etc matters. What's the solution to campaign doing badly? Up the budget! They know it's not optimal, their managers know it's not optimal, but the goal is for Google's bottom line. This stops once you reach a certain spend tier and they know the burn out rates for those companies improve and they want the longer term revenues. (This is also good for larger agencies, since they will also get the good treatment from being a premier partner.) The lower tier spends are basically "boiler rooms" peddling fake penny stocks. People trust them because "It's Google!" but that is so so far from the truth. Sometimes it's not even Google, it's a company they've outsourced to, and sometimes they even work in the same building as Google.
When I started VNote two years ago, I was just a traditional C++ player. So Qt Widgets is the choice. I think it can give me the most freedom and power.

When VNote did not support PlantUML, I used VS Code and plugin to edit and preview PlantUML. It is annoying that I need to scroll to the right element every time I update a line. Why not just hit the element corresponding to current line? So VNote provides this now.
If you are on MacOS, why don't you use Safari?

I'm puzzled as to why people seem to dismiss the "built-in" browser. It's the fastest, smoothest, best integrated, and least power-hungry browser on the platform. I regularly use all three major browsers (for testing, I write web applications) and I consistently switch back to Safari for all my non-special browsing.
Aren't you forgetting the fact that binaries aren't provided by the project itself? They come from contributors (in the project's words: 'anyone').

That's wildly different from the typical CI-built binary.
The USA tried that once, and the results were so horrifically bad that I doubt we will try it again. It resulted in organized crime openly running the cities of Chicago and New York, because they outgunned the cops. It was much like what Columbia was like at the height of their troubles with cocaine druglords.

Now there has been a shift in regards to driving while intoxicated, but that happened about 20 years ago, and while it has continued, it shows no signs of leading to a movement to make alcohol illegal. On the other hand, marijuana legalization is gathering steam lately.
My biggest issue with containers is how to properly containerize Google itself. There are so many Google properties that are major parts of the web (many under the Google.com subdomain) that its the only major site I have left to no container by default.
Safari is worlds less hardened than Chrome from a security standpoint.
Natural illumination solution for rotating space settlements [pdf]
> It may be less verbose but it fails completely to render anything if javascript is not enabled (in the browser) on the domain the scripts are to be loaded from. Bad accessibility, bad degredation, bad practice for the web.

I call BS on that. The accessibility tools that people actually use only work with "proper" browsers (counting in IE here) that all support Javascript. Modern browsers don't even officially support disabling Javascript. For most web apps, the only feasible way to degrade from "no Javascript" is to display "this page requires Javascript". Spending any more effort here because it's "good practice" is a complete waste of time. Put some effort into testing screen readers instead.

> HTML is the web.

Nonsense.

> All this pure es6/dom stuff is a cancer.

Hey, who are you to tell people what to use the web for? If somebody wants to serve as static HTML page, nobody is stopping them. Nobody is forcing people to use some Javascript framework for that.
Google bullies hardware vendors, Apple is its own hardware vendor. That is the essential difference. If MS had done their thing only with hardware they made and sold, instead of twisting the arms of third parties they’d have been OK. There is a qualitative difference between dictating the terms of something you alone build and sell, and using your market dominance to dictate terms to everyone else.
Note that Opera is now owned by a Chinese consortium [1].

Vivaldi is the new browser by ex-Opera people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otello_Corporation
It's going really well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X

It's not, however, something that designed to directly head toward fusion power itself but instead to better understand components that could be improved to make fusion power.

In addition now with fusion there are heap of companies trying to get fusion power going in about a decade or so. Probably the most interesting of which are:

https://www.tokamakenergy.co.uk/

and

https://www.cfs.energy/

Who are both using new developments in high temperature superconducting tape fabrication to increase the magnetic field to get to fusion faster than ITER.
This looks awesome.

>"The site will explore three broad investigative categories: how profiling software discriminates against the poor and other vulnerable groups; internet health and infections like bots, scams and misinformation; and the awesome power of the tech companies. The Markup will release all its stories under a creative commons license so other organizations can republish them, as ProPublica does."

Also, anyone interested in the high-level question of how technology impacts society is likely to enjoy the only non-fiction book written by one of my favorite authors: The Blind Giant, by Nick Harkaway.[1]

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/970091634
causing people not to want to fight a war? To stop doing what they were told? To question authority.

bad bad things that cannot be allowed
I mean, certain Chinese companies have also been known to literally physically take blueprints and the like.
I don't disagree. I really would love for Microsoft to make the "Microsoft Store" accept Android apps and launch a Surface Phone line that only they control...and if it takes off maybe OEMs could join in, if not, fine. I feel like they are the only company that can successfully do it...but even then Google services are so coupled with Android games/apps...and it doesn't solve the "walled garden" problem. Microsoft would still have a walled garden, which I'm generally against. I don't know the solution, but I certainly do not like the current duopoly or the problem of the walled garden. Maybe there could be two stores, one from the Microsoft repo and one that is a "Sideload store" that is just listings but the apps are hosted elsewhere to remove any legal implications for Microsoft or whoever.
As one of my grad school professors used to say, the proper way to read a math book is with pencil in hand. If you don't completely understand something, take the time to work it out. Don't settle for good enough, either--dot all the i's, cross all the t's, and get the details right.

The suggestion to take material out of order is a bit of a mixed bag. A typical book will have a few core chapters, and some extra topics later on. Most chapters will follow a similar outline. You can skip the optional chapters and the optional sections within chapters, but if you skip chapter 2, you probably won't be able to follow much of chapter 3.

One last comment: there are huge variations in how well different books are suited for self-study. Rudin's "Principles of Mathematical Analysis" is a collection of true statements with zero motivation or exposition, and it's impossible to follow on your own. On the other end, something like Herstein's "Topics in Algebra" clearly spells out the reason for everything and is a joy to read. Most books are somewhere in between, so if a certain book isn't working for you, try something else on the same topic.
I should admit that my procedures are only marginally better than an average developer's.

Sadly I have no arbitrarily deep audit in place. I just try to pick solid projects, and assume / quickly check that their dependencies don't suck.

Also I'm particularly cautious with npm (as opposed to rubygems or clojars).

I should be looking into either (or both of):

- setting up a multi-user macOS ('me' + 'admin' + 'dev'. I normally operate under 'me'. sudo is only ever executed under 'admin'. Developer tooling is installed for 'dev', an account which cannot access the rest of the filesystem)

- using Docker and/or a VM for all dev activity, as a sandbox.
TFA says they’ll do 25 mph downhill, actually.
Is Vivaldi Chromium based?
Well the postmodernists certainly cite Kuhn in support of their anti-reality drivel, but the real problem with Kuhn is that he was just wrong.

There's a mature science, where knowledge is limited but accurate, where new findings cause a recontextualization but no paradigm shift, and the previous knowledge is preserved within its new context,, and immature science, where people are doing things wrong, reaching conclusions with inadequate evidence, and stuff gets thrown out during a "paradigm shift", i.e. when they start doing mature science.

Examples of mature science are physics with the incorporation of relativity and quantum physics, which preserved Newtonian physics, or biology, where the human genome project revealed that there were 1/3 as many genes in humans as was previously thought, at which the field barely batted an eye and shifted in a heartbeat to looking more at gene regulation. Clearly, these are huge changes in the fields, but they don't rise to the level of a Kuhnian "paradigm shift" since the old knowledge and vocab and understandings were preserved.

What's an immature science? Probably the social sciences, or those areas of other fields where there's reproducibility problems, p-hacking, and other dysfunctions. To the extent that these fields have overarching paradigms, they may suffer a "paradigm shift". But in mature science, there just aren't any paradigm shifts, in the Kuhnian sense, happening, because a mature science has sufficient evidence in hand before generating a "paradigm".

Kuhn was wrong. But "Paradigm Shift" is a flashy phrase and it captured the zeitgeist of the time it was written. At this point, anything that helps tame this pop-philosophy-of-science phenomenon is not unwelcome, especially because, yes, Kuhn's writings are supporting anti-realist postmodernist trash, without being especially misread.
From the article:

"Finlay had read an article about the number of people who are homeless because of job loss or other temporary circumstances. He realized that his preconceptions about homelessness, shaped by the chronically homeless people he saw living outside, were wrong.

“The majority of homeless are people that we never really see because they are trying to work, they’re getting day labor,” he says. “They’re living out of their cars. They’re not panhandling and living under the bridge . . . These are all people that were employed, had good job histories. There was just really no issue that would preclude them from working other than they didn’t have an address.”"

The prejudices and hatred are towards the chronically homeless, not the temporarily homeless. Nothing in this article suggests those prejudices are false.