skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better comparison to reading is writing. My handwriting is terrible. Like not doctor-terrible; there's at least dignity in that. It's a grade-schooler's block letters. It's terrible. And I spent so much wasted time and effort on it.

I mean, I've had access to a computer since the mid-80s, so I could write, I just couldn't hand write. And it turns out? nobody cares about my handwriting anymore. It's not that useful when you have portable computers. (In the mid '90s I took a tandy TRS-80 model 100 to high school. Such a nice keyboard)

I argued and fought with my parents who made me practice handwriting, arguing even in the early '90s that it was an obsolete skill; but they sat with me for hours a day, making me copy letters. Just like they did earlier, when they were making me learn how to read.

But reading, well, it went from a struggle to make me practice to the thing I got in trouble for doing when I was supposed to be doing other things almost overnight. It was like I finally memorized enough of the words to figure out young adult fiction, and a whole new world opened up to me.

Handwriting never got to that point, even though there was a lot more struggle involved. To this day, I can't write coherently with a pencil and paper for more than a sentence or two; it takes too much focus to make the letters, and the thoughts about the sentence or paragraph evaporate.

How much of this is my own motivation? I do remember arguing that handwriting was useless 'cause I could type, and that was better. If I had access to a state of the art screen reader (they existed at the time, and I think were okay?) I maybe would have made the same arguments about reading. Would that have made it harder for me to actually learn to read?
[Off topic] I'm a chess fan/player, and that 'endgame/end game' metaphor always confuses me (and a lot of players) and seems wrong. It seems to just mean endy things like result, final result, outcome, final phase etc.

In chess games, often there is no endgame - the game ends in the middlegame, or sometimes even in the opening. If there is an endgame, not uncommonly most of the whole game is the endgame, 60% or 70% or more.

In movies, almost every time you see people playing, someone moves and says "Checkmate", which is also, I guess, around the time meant by 'end game' - right at the end of the game. That's just not much like what the word means in chess. except, sure, it's the last of 3 phases (opening, middlegame, endgame).
Niven's First Law of Writing: Writers who write for other writers should write letters. - Larry Niven, science fiction author (1989)

The writer is that person who, embarking upon her task, does not know what to do. - Donald Barthelme

Summary of advice from writers: Advice from writers is useful, and not only about naming. Writers have been at it for centuries; programming is merely decades old. Also, their advice is better written. And funnier. - Peter Hilton

... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Does anyone know a similar app not geared so much for developers? i.e. (also) interlinking nodes with full markdown support (incl embedded images) or even files, a good search over all of them, preferably WYSIWYG-y (like Typora)
Details are here: https://www.apple.com/mac/docs/Apple_T2_Security_Chip_Overvi...
Because you know that the technology to physically disconnect a microphone when a lid is closed is extremely simple, and doesn't require a computer chip that is impossible for the user to audit.
That's not "moving goalposts" as you put it. Are you saying that you believe that they would allow such an enormous loophole in such a bill?
this is great and open source, what is the idea behind it?
Softward development is a very inconsistent status and status depends upon what is aimed for greatly. Outsourcing to cheap labor was considered a cost cutting panacea until it backfired horribly.

Apparently Japan considers programmers low prestige still for one.
Ah. Of course what you optimize depends on what you consider valuable, so that makes total sense.

But if you want to optimize for customer satisfaction, maybe the video watched to completion or the one shared is better than the one the total amount of watch time.
Swartz did work with PACER before the JSTOR incident. His first incident with an FBI agent was because of the work he did with PACER.
I'd probably set up Grafana talking to Elasticsearch or PostGres, but I haven't thought too hard about it.
Thank you. That's both encouraging and a useful tidbit to help me find a path forward.
Caught this video the other day on Youtube. It's a archival 1959 lecture from MIT demonstrating light's wave particle duality. Using only a visible light source, photo-multiplier, and oscilloscope. Just remarkably clear and simple. It's amazing how much more the memory retains with a demo. And I can't help but think quantum computing could be made accessible to a wide audience in this way.

The Physics of Light (1959) John King-MIT-Electromagnetic Radiation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnSH6YDFXfk
This can be done by leave-one-out cross-validation in a collaborative filtering system. If jane saw schindler's list and gave it 8/10, delete this from the database and use the rest of the data to predict it, then compare the predicted score with the score she gave. I did this for a movie recommendation system i developed: http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/morse/MORSE-Paper.html
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Not necessarily. If cellphones gave cancers to 1 promille of users it would be darn difficult to prove anything but it would still be much higher rate than many other factors.

The difficulty is in getting statistics right. How do you compare two groups of people controlling for the variable when people who don't use cellphones are very different in other aspects than people who do.
I have been blocking advertising on my computers and phones for close to a decade now. I am ad-free. And yet the bubble persists. This industry is beyond mere logic.
There are a lot of non-trivial aspects to scaling event sourcing systems. Particularly if you want atomicity or asynchronous two-phase committing. Having implemented them ~5 different ways for different services at my startup, I’d definitely welcome a reliable DB-level abstraction.
You have it backwards, it's the caller's bug if they assume order in an async process.
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There is. It's just called continuity errors, or retroactive continuity. Not something that you can easily fix given the type of industry.
Just put a magnet-actuated switch into the mic itself and a magnet in the corresponding place in the body - problem solved.

Nothing to break, zero attack surface, what's not to like?
Why doesn’t it work for the use case?
As someone who paid for a non-top MBA and regrets it, I agree with the grandparent - don't take a (non-top) MBA unless your employer is paying (and don't take the top one unless you know what you'll do with it, though connections will be very sweet).

If you can get into Wharton or Harvard I think it's very likely someone other than yourself will be paying.
Because a physical switch would actually provide security. /s

Any bug or future exploit negates this feature.

I have the feeling this was just done because it was possible and then the marketing team found out about it and decided to make a big deal out of it.
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How did you manage horizontal scaling with this approach?
Are you the primary spender in your household or is it a team effort? I've found that what helps me may not help her due to different upbringings and mindsets about money.

I agree with you that the CSV the primary valuable artifact. Most of the pie charts and such don't add any value. The real opportunity to improve lies in the thought process I face at each individual spending decision.
Austin is a bigger deal than Denver or Portland, for tech.
There is. For example you can leave your phone plugged in and it will continue charging on a macbook, even with the lid down and machine turned off.
Sorry, I don't believe any of that. It reads like "let them eat cake".
The number of people want this is ridiculously small, plus quite ugly.
RAM must continue to be powered. Your network card as well, for remote wake up on network activity. Bluetooth can also be configured similarly. On older computers with HDDs, it is also configurable whether those HDDs are turned off when the lid is closed.

Of course this is just assuming you keep the default of closing the lid => computer goes to sleep. It is possible for some Macs to keep running while the lid is closed, so basically only the display is not powered. It is also possible for some Macs since Mavericks to actually have most of the kernel running to perform background tasks, called Power Nap.

Closed-display mode: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201834

Power Nap: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204032
Human composting is also an option:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRsopS7yTG8

Every year > 130M humans are born and >55M humans die. As mentioned in above article / video cremation isn't a very good option either as it ejects over 5,000 lbs of mercury into the atmosphere yearly.

Seattle trying to help make human composting happen:

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/inside-machine-will-turn-corps...
Good to know. Was thinking of this for myself in a simple usecase.
Yes, lots. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204032
Tell me again what’s wrong with Ripple or Stellar? How are they centralized?
I use TiddlyWiki for note taking, and I think it has most everything you’re asking for. Except, my one complaint is that it uses an odd dialect of markdown.
I am pretty sure the opposite is true, the newer cellphones expose users to more radiation. There was even an article few days back on HN describing the trend in context of introducing 5G.
This site is a rip off from transferslot.com.

They even used the same design and layout. Cheap copy cat.
How could you possible draw any kind of line in the sand on how closely the advertising needs to be to the product being advertised? I don't think that's possible. For something tangible, like an iPhone, sure. Show the product, talk about its features, whatever. But lots of things aren't that tangible, or if you talked about them that way the people who saw the ad wouldn't even understand what was being offered.

#1 rule of sales is that people don't buy products, they buy transformation. The product is the tool to get that transformation, so it's often more effective and more relevant to pitch the end result (which can be something immeasurable like a feeling) instead of the actual product. And there's nothing inherently wrong with that.

The issue here is different entirely. It's making a person a brand rep without their consent, because they're conveniently deceased.
But that would mean you can’t use the built-in microphone when actively using the computer in clamshell mode.
It was the United States that created modern China when we let them in the WTO and gave them most favored nation status. We got nothing in exchange for that, we could have asked for labor and environmental requirements.
"The next"? How about "one of the previous"???

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/03/07/comcast-xfinity-...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080213/133855251.shtml

Banhof's stance is that they do not even want the capability to block websites. This is something I wholeheartedly agree with. It certainly means some speech with which I strongly disagree is protected as well as speech with which I do agree. ISPs should _not_ have this kind of power. Banhof do not want it, but since they're being forced into acquiring and using that capability, using it to protest against it seems eminently reasonable.
So someone from Apple engineering built the T2 chip on a whim, never communicated it to senior management and then marketing accidentally stumbled upon it and then decided to suddenly promote it.

Words don't describe how delusional this is.
Is this not true with the current implementation, as well?
Don't pay/use for their products/services
This is exactly how iOS works...
FWIW:
We offered many years ago to pay PACER and various states to do precisely that
(move to digital publishing, and make it all open).

They were all unwilling.
PACER is at least somewhat reasonable, since we did not offer to pay them the 145 million a year they were making at the time, and they felt Congress would kill them if they gave up that revenue source, which is probably not wrong.
(the others, what we offered was much more than they were making).

So I'm not sure why you have such hope.

For all states hat have moved to digital first publishing, just about all of them have struck agreements with lexis/etc whereby they have token "free access" sites and the data is still otherwise locked up.
I think that "new process" menu option is a bit of a lie. I use it every time, but I've had supposedly separate Explorer windows (including the task bar) crash simultaneously.
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Why would this change anything? Presumably there would be an easier way to listen to you if this was the case.
No Pizza for the EFF (or: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater)
There's at least a pre amp and a d/a converter that the mic needs to have powered up and running before any of it's signal can be used by the rest of the computer.
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I valued your comment so wanted your input on an orthogonal question
I’m old and am bitterly disappointed that I haven’t been new again
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God bless his/her soul :)
Also putting that abstraction in the app layer allows developers to break it. Either by accident, or as a temporary hack that never gets fixed, or a temporary hack that has unforeseen side effects.
Treat people like freelancers while paying them like low-wage waiters? $13bn/2mn jobs is $6k/job/yr, not so impressive compared to welfare.
Phoenix AZ was running a program like this decades ago. They'd tell the homeless about the great weather and services in San Diego, and put them on the bus -- no arrangements at all on the receiving end. Then they started getting phone calls from SD city hall...
I have kind of gotten used to the "New Microsoft", but not really, actions like this still blow my mind.
Except the magnet-actuated switch for each mic.
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An excellent book. Recommended if you like your science fiction hard and bleak.
Beware of These 16 Cognitive Biases That Affect Creative People (Infographic)
For many years, my stock answer to anyone who says that computers are "fast enough" or "more powerful than most people need" is that I will only be satisfied when I can create photorealistic movies by talking to my machine.

The session could go something like this:

Create a scene: London docks, around 1919, mid-afternoon. There are a few ships being offloaded, crates stacked around, trucks and horse carts transporting freight.

<scene is created based on historical photos, ML readings of period books, etc.>

OK make it grimer, more soot on everything. And make the season wintertime. Add more stevedores. Ship in the foreground is red, weathered, and flying a German flag.

<changes are made to the scene>

OK pull back and add a pub on the right side of the screen. Let's make it dusk. Sun is setting. Get some good light spill when the door of the pub is opened.

<scene updates>

Let's work on the pub's sign. It's called the Red Swan. Make a sign carved in the shape of a swan, paint it red. Smaller, and let the wood show through where some of the paint is weathered away. Hang it over the door.

<scene updates>

etc.

This should all become possible eventually, and probably a lot sooner than many people think.
Show HN: Chivvy – App for web designers to find leads quickly
I grew up near Mercedes and Porsche in Germany and from what I remember they were always very reactive. Every time something like catalytic filters, safety belts or emission standard became mandated they always fought and claimed the world would go under. And soon after they adopted these things and did really well.
Chivvy is a web app for web designers/developers to find leads easily and quickly.

Users search for category in a location, (such as Doctors in Las Vegas, NV) and are returned results with typical information such as business name, phone, contact email. Information tailored to web designers are also returned, such as website, website preview(so users can see what a website looks like without leaving the app).

Users can favorite any listing, which will then be saved on their dashboard. Your dashboard can be exported to a csv at anytime for easy integration to mass email campaigns.

Any listing can have a audit ran against the listing's website which contains info on what a website is/isn't doing well.

The website is in alpha right now and I'm looking for testers. The site is free to use as of now. Once you sign up you will receive a invite to the slack channel where you can request features and report bugs along with the other members.
As I see it, in a few years time the market for batteries for electic cars will be a little like the market for DRAM or Flash today. The upfront costs to be able to produce competitively at volume are very high, and although the market is large, there will be just enough competition and cells will be commodity enough that profit margins will be both slim and volatile. I'd much rather be in the business of making cars to use those batteries, where there's potential to differentiate your product with good design (like say, Apple in computers and phones) than in the business of making batteries.
No no no no no. He's right, and this is a hard-learned lesson that many practitioners have discovered independently.

Both the caller and callee face huge problems of reentrant function calls when you mix up the behavior.

Generally the right choice is to make every callback invoked asynchronously, unless you need to do something else.
A lot of people can be tracked down by their online aliases unless the person has gone through a lot of work to make sure they keep their aliases separate (which isn't as easy as it sounds). That means that by definition most aliases and usernames can be googled to find a specific person and thus would fall under personal information according to the law.

You think email addresses are bad but the masses hate having to remember usernames. Emails aren't used for logins because of marketing (all those systems already had email verification in addition to usernames, thus email was required). Furthermore, without an email it becomes impossible to recover your account if you forget your password. If the app has no personal information and email and you forget your password (which most general users do) then it's impossible to recover your account.

So this law isn't going to discourage companies from collecting your email address, it just has the potential to add burdens to companies that end up with 1 million signups (even for a free website).
I doubt fred rogers would have liked being deified as some form of secular saint by nostalgic adult info workers either, nor his face plastered on t-shirts, motivational books, etc.This is just shameless enough to get you thinking about that.
s/less powerful systems/systems with lesser compilers/

With TCO, I'd expect the same code from the recursive version.

The recursive version has the benefit of being pure; it doesn't mutate anything. Speaking of which, HN ate your ++.
I agree that each position may require different attitudes but I think it’s interesting to think how this situation might have been avoided if more people who were digitally Inclinded (fang applicants ) equally were applying to these positions
The only reliable way to prevent eavesdropping is to physically break continuity of all voice coils in the device.

Entrusting a black box chip to do this on your behalf is more risky than there being a physical kill switch somewhere which all the voice coils pass through.

There's certainly going to be a way for the chip to be told via software to reconnect the coils, though you may not know how yourself.
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Kind of like pay for ads on Google or don’t be an internet facing business. This is how you determine if a company has a monopoly: if it is practically impossible to play the game without including that one entity in your business plans marketing model
It’s a part that when it fails is probably a motherboard replacement ($), and it fails often because people.
And then they would have to endure 10 million support calls from users who didnt know they disabled the switch and cant make skype/facetime calls.
Not to mention, Lisp family, really, top-down, prove correctness, first principles? This is a family of the most flexible languages, the very best tools for iterative, bottom-up, experimental development.
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You could shard based on uuid, so that each shard has its set of objects that it manages.

The easiest way would be to cast uuid as a 64bit unsigned int, then mod by the number of shards. If the number of shards is dynamic, then use consistent hashing.
The FBI invesitated and then did nothing, which was the right course of action. PACER is a government database intended mainly for litigants and the courts. It is essential to the functioning of the court system,[1] and it was proper for the FBI to investigate any unusual access. It was also proper when the FBI declined to press any charges after they concluded that all he was doing was distributing the documents, which were public and not subject to copyright.

[1] PACER is literally a read-only view into the same databases courts and lawyers use to file documents and orders in cases. Some people want a mass-publishing system for court documents, and maybe we should build such a thing. But calls to abuse PACER for that purpose are just an end-run around the political challenges of getting the government to spend public money building such a system.
Merely owning a vehicle is an odd definition of skilled labor. They actually do a lot of community engagement (Uber now has huge operations teams all over the world) so that point is either ignorant or outdated. And you seem to object to the idea of independent contractors entirely (unless you can elaborate further), which is your right, but not really a unique strike against Uber.
Just looked at the transferlot.com site. The first three entries were the following...

Repick.com MRR:$100 Price:$20,000

byteptr.com MRR:$50 Price:$20,000

getvora.com MRR:$550 Price:$40,000

Is this a bad joke? Asking for 6 to 16 times yearly revenue? They want people to buy a site that then takes many years to get your money back, whilst crossing your fingers the site stays relevant for all those years?
> Has a business model that doesn't rely exposing more eyeballs to more ads, corrupting the press, media, and privacy in the process.

Though it does have a business model that (did?) flagrantly disregards the law in pretty much every market it moved into.

And we'll see how the privacy thing turns out when they figure out the data they have on millions/billions of people is worth a bunch of money and Wall Street is demanding "more cowbell".
I see this as a side effect of the somewhat delusional things adults tell young people. If a kid love playing with animals, they get told "you should become a biologist!" or "you should become a vet!". But, while I'm sure many people in those professions would love to play with animals all day, that's obviously not what their jobs are about.