skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I say "society could break" I mean that there is a general acceptance, or stability, in society whereby we accept that these practices are alright. And that stability will break.

Google, and companies like them, are built on practices which only exist because their users don't fully comprehend the depth of discovery, correlation, and export Google is making on their data. Maybe deeper, users don't fully realize the value of their data.

If you build a business on the ignorance of your customers, you will fail. Period. Society always gets smarter. Google has so much amazing technology and legitimate value (G-Suite, Cloud, etc) to fall back on that they'll be alright, but companies like Facebook don't have that same level of breadth.
My favorite story of practical effects on a John Carpenter film is about the portal at the end of Prince of Darkness, where a character reaches through a mirror to hell. The effect was achieved using a large pool of mercury, which the crew had "liberated" from the hydraulic system of a rented piece of heavy machinery. They filmed for one night, got the shots they needed then replaced the mercury before anyone noticed.

This was a terrible idea for many, many reasons. But they got the film made.
No problem! You've got some great resources there too! :) I had problems running some demos though.
As evan__10 said, if you don't know the details ahead of time.

I own a company and we are currently developing a hardware tool for attendance tracking at child care centres. We use the Pi and our plans for shipping these things was to ask our customer what their SSID and password were ahead of time and hard code them in. This tool could solve our problem. Additionally, if the user changes their SSID or password at any time, the Pi won't be able to connect. We use a tool called Dataplicity to remote into the Pi and could change the password ahead of time, however if the user changes the password before we can do that, we lose all ability to connect to the unit.
This is terrifying, thx for the answer
Not just to feel bad, but also to experience discomfort. A lot of addiction is just trying to find relief for temporary discomfort.
To me this looks like the continuation of Project Cybersyn [1] and is just applied cybernetics on a societal scale. To call it totalitarian or dismiss it as a simple dystopian nightmare is very superficial. I am actually quite impressed at the guile of the Chinese state for going ahead with this.

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

To the unknown person who criticized me ("people like you are what's wrong with the world") but later deleted his post:

To see this from a mere political angle, is to miss the point entirely. You are deluding yourself if you think that similar cybernetic feedback loops are not currently in play in western democratic states. The difference is that in the west, these loops are driven by non-state actors and focus on cultivating consumerism (look at the Black Friday hordes), apathy and lack of critical thinking. By taking an active approach, the Chinese state could try to pre-empt these problems on one hand and aim at creating a different kind of citizen on the other.
If you want to really supercharge leaf collection, use a large tarp instead of a wheelbarrow, then carry your plunder like santa. Wheelbarrows are a waste of energy for carrying leaves.
I went to a small religious college, and my experience was similar to yours.

Edit: There were some exceptions, such as my double bass lessons.
For me it was cause I wanted to beat the shit out of my curve and get scholarship money and letters for grad school. Similar sentiments are found in Hardy’s book I think. If you spend enough time around math professors you will certainly hear a story about so-and-so who is now an acclaimed mathematician who showed up for some undergraduate course when he was 17 or something extremely confused about what the “meaning” of the material was but figured out how to solve all the problems and get an A cause he cared about being good at it (and had the ability to do so).
Many University presses make money by selling hard bound copies to academic libraries. When some of these books become popular, paperback copies are sold. Usually, a hard bound copies are 3 to 4 times more expensive than paperbacks. Even when academic libraries acquire a paperback copy, they send these books for binding to preserve them for decades, if not centuries.

Academics want their books to be published by 'reputed' publishers, so that these books can be accessible in libraries, unless a professor requests his library to acquire it.

Now we have so many fiefdoms online: all Oxford University Press publications are available on oxfordscholarship.com. Every major publisher has its own online access. It is like online movie catalogues held by different companies. And no one has access to all of them. This is why even academics go and search on scihub and libgen sites for books, instead of going through their libraries.

Academics want their works to be known to fellow academics and the public as well. That's the incentive, not royalty.
Here is a pretty interesting philosophical take on the hated leaf blower: http://julesboykoff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Boykoff_L...
Hmm, mind telling me which ones, which browser, etc? My contact info is in my profile if you rather do this privately.
Iris Automation Is Hiring a Computer Vision Expert – AI for Drones
>I’m not subject to other people’s belief systems

You live in a society. Your actions have consequences, and if you can ignore that to get your fat paycheck then I can certainly judge the shit out of you, without a very high chair.

The fact that you claim rational discourse has ended when people invoke the lessons of Nuremberg - “because Godwin’s law” - is a stain on, and reflection of your own character.

Godwin compares people to Nazis sometime himself you know, when there’s a call for it. When this many people are calling you on it, maybe you should be listening a little better..
They mean that it has a closed license until 2022. Either they are objecting to GPLv3 or they don't understand open source licenses.
Ricky Jay: Secrets of the Magus (1993)
I've been frustrated lately that my rating as a passenger in Uber is at 4.78 and falling despite my own preception of always being an excellent passenger. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to have your entire life controlled by this type of rating system. I listened to a podcast that dug into how once you get into a hole with this type of rating system it's self-reinforcing and practically impossible to get out of. This can't be a good thing for civil liberties.
I know, it sounds almost silly but its like being in addiction you're just so preoccupied with how you think you're going to feel.
> There’s no right or wrong answer here though.

The processor cache plays an important role which you are ignoring.

External storage devices: most of the time they are write-back and even equipped with read-ahead. Yes, I know there are some exceptions but if you are write-through non-read-ahead you _chose_ to be slow in your feedback already and this discussion doesn't even apply.

Network mounts: cache coherency rules apply to CIFS as well. And again, if you _choose_ to ignore/disable, you are OK to be slow and this discussion does not apply.

If `nnn` take n secs the first time, another utility will take around the same time on the first startup (from a cold boot).

Now the next scans where you go into subdirs would be much faster even in `nnn` due to locality of caching of the information about the files (try it out). The CPU cache already does an excellent job here. And if you go up, both `nnn` and the other utility would rescan.

> point the other developer was making

Yes, he was saying - my memory usage may be 15 times higher because of storing all filenames (in a static snapshot!!!) but you are dishonest if you show the numbers from `top` output without reading my code first for an education of my utility.
Are you suggesting that anyone who wants to should be permitted to build a house in Central Park? And that the "government" is unreasonable for preventing them from doing so?
At the time AOL was planning to shut down the Silicon Valley site and preferred to have everything in Virginia. Additionally they were already in talks with Time Warner (which internally we knew about).

There was a lot of redundancy in ops between AOL and Netscape, and AOL's talks with Time Warner made it apparent that their belief was that content and subscriber base was their future, not software... which is where I was at the time.
Just another 2 cents: I prefer the threader version as the main twitter site for me frequently fails to load, bothers me to sign in with full page interstitials, download the app bars, and has many touch areas I can hit to accidentally load random other pages. If anyone replies in the middle of the thread too I have trouble following it.
Optimization in the context of machine learning
And now many gas stations have video screens on every pump that include blaring audio. I was at one station in Minnesota that had about 10 loud screens all playing slightly out of sync in a cacophony - I can’t understand how people design and install systems like that thinking they’re normal or useful.
such a system is ripe for abuse

I hope I'm not being too cynical by saying: the things we fear most about this system are not abuse, they're the system working as intended.

Xi is a dictator and he is riding to and fro on a tiger from which he dare not dismount. Mass surveillance and a strong police state are the tools he uses to stay in the saddle.
So to be clear, you are arguing that we cannot blackbox anything and see what network connections it's making or amounts of data being sent to whom or timing of it because proprietary? Nor for that matter find security vulnerabilities that lead to jailbreaks and then further deep dives right? Since it's proprietary that means nobody can possibly find any issues? You might want to think about this one just a little bit longer.

Seriously, the fundamental issue with proprietary is maintenance, ie., not finding but fixing (in a good way) problems and then making those fixes available to other users. Adding features to scratch niche itches is another, though arguably not as critical a matter. But for merely reverse engineering, decompiling, probing memory, fuzzing and all that lack of source code is effectively zero barrier. If it wasn't then source/algorithm obscurity really would be effective for security rather then a bad joke.
Maybe they’ll be a new subculture of unrated or poorly rated people that supply their own market and services? That’s if the government doesn’t just start killing them.
well, if it's not possible to install apps, at least it doesn't suffer from a disappointing app market. maybe that's by design ;-)
I'm a big fan of slit-scan:

https://vimeo.com/71702374

As used in Doctor Who:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnzcAFy8d8
FYI the expression is “of course” I.e. “well, of course!”
It continues to frustrate me that no one seems to have a better name for this process than "rasterization".

It frustrates me because that word very clearly seems to say "turning non-raster data into rasters". This process does this, but so does ray-tracing. For that matter, various algorithms for turning 2d vector data into 2d raster data would also seem to be covered by "rasterization", like filling triangles with scanlines, or the like.

Just another lost battle, I suppose.
Well, for what it's worth, I think the west needs more Muslims. I mean, why do we have weekends? It's basically Saturday because of the Jews, and Sunday because of the Christians. Well, the Muslims' holy day is Friday. Three day weekend every week? Yeah, sign me up.

This is not an endorsement of Islam as a theology. But culturally, I'm down.
The sense of entitlement people have of open-source projects is ridiculous, ESPECIALLY if they haven’t contributed to it.
I'm hopeful about the news that a new Dune adaption is currently in the works.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/1/14471312/dune-movie-adapta...

Does anyone have other news about this? (Anticipated release date?) Googling around, the bits of news seem to indicate it will be a movie that covers only the first half of the Dune book.

In the meantime I'll need to check out the documentary "Jodorowsky's Dune", which appears to have been well received.
I didn't realize it was an AMP link until I clicked and saw that it had been blocked. I have a growing hosts block list specifically for AMP hosts. If anyone else wishes to block some AMP hosts, here is the link: https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts/blob/master/amp-hosts...

I don't use Google anymore, so the list only has 362 at the moment, but I keep adding more as I find them. Pull requests are welcome!
I was at Netscape in Mountain View during that time, and i don't remember anyone getting a check that big at all. The severance checks weren't small, but nowhere near 6 months.

I did not get laid off (was part of Netcenter ops) but other friends did. A few months before the layoffs, they were all reorganized into one group too.

They had 2 meetings - morning meeting? laid off. Afternoon meeting? still employed. People were paged to one of the two meetings. A friend i was staying with was paged to the morning meeting, but thought "Eh, i'll just sleep in and go with you to the later one." Cue a bunch of pages and phone calls saying "you need to be in the morning meeting" and we just knew that things were not going to go well at all.

I ended up leaving that job shortly after, and honestly, I regret leaving to this day. I thought that we were all fixing to get re-org'd again or laid off a few months later, but i could have stayed there for a few more years easily. Sigh. Hindsight is 20/20, they say.
I bike to work. Leaf blowers almost kill me every time. Here in dusty Southern California I can spot a leaf blower half a mile away by the cloud of brown dust being picked up. While biking through it I hold my breath and squint my eyes – hoping for the best. It's a nightmare.

I'm convinced that these leaf blowers cause half of the particle pollution here in LA. One day, the leaf blowers blow the dust into the street towards the other neighbor, only so that the next day the other neighbor blows the same dust back to the other side again. This is a great business for the gardeners, they are paid for pushing the same dust around the block ad infinitum.

The second reason they are a nightmare for the environment is what they cause of water consumption. Yes, you read that right. The same dust pushed around lands onto the cars parked on the street, causing them to need much more frequent trip to the car wash than they otherwise would. It has a a massive impact.

California can not claim to care about the environment before they ban leaf blowers.
Holy freaking paranoid waste of lifespan, i have to admit i thought, partly because i'm 51 now and while I dig what you wrote, I think priorities shift as the rear view mirror shows more. Cool project, though.
Some people might want to get perspectives of women working in a certain field that's usually male-dominated.
What is this comment in response to?
I've tried doing just that, and it's still somewhat inconvenient. There's quite a bit of stuff that resides somewhere in the $HOME dir, from config to application files. I considered symlinking part of it, but then you have the problem that nothing works without the SSD connected.
Unlike Uber (or even HN for that matter), China's social credit system is transparent and explicit in the way it rewards or deducts points.

You know what you did wrongly to lose points, so that you can avoid it next time.

You also know what are good things that you can do to improve your score.
At the risk of sounding uncaring or such...

Ok?

I mean I don't get why the owner didn't try to find someone else to graciously take the reins without a fork (maybe they tried and couldn't find anyone?), but I don't get the dramatic post and very "taking my ball and going home" tone I'm getting.

Again, maybe it's just me looking to wrongly but when 4 out of 6 reasons are referring to yourself and not the project...

The bit about having to defend yourself on Twitter, I guess I don't know this person and how bad they have it, but I find it hard to imagine someone just inundated with Twitter noise over a library to the point they need to walk away in such an abrupt manner, like taking the slightest amount of time to transition would be life ending (definitely get not wanting to deal with noise over free work, but this is a known problem and they could have started a conversation about that), and I definitely don't see how this will reduce the amount of attention they get...
I couldn't agree more.

However, couldn't this project have been handed off to new owners or simply left dormant rather than be archived? I guess it can be forked, but the upgrade path for existing users would be less clear.
>I've grown tired of continuously defending my inactivity and decisions against trolls on Twitter, the issue tracker, and elsewhere. It's draining and I don't have the patience or energy to deal with it any longer. These same people expect to impose their short-sighted and non-generalized values and goals on a project for which they have contributed nothing and are not willing to maintain. The sense of entitlement from a small but vocal minority that do not understand FOSS and refuse to understand it is very much a concern, and I'm simply not interested in shrugging that off anymore.
Ricky Jay, Magician and 'Boogie Nights' Actor, Dies at 72
Be careful about being certain of genetic factors. Addiction is undoubtedly passed down through generations to a certain degree, but to my knowledge there is no scientific consensus about whether the delivery mechanism is genetic or cultural/symbolic (ie the meme/“monkey see monkey do” theory).

Research into my own family has convinced me that the cultural conditioning is a huge factor. Key data points for me were seeing some very specific behavior patterns replicated across generations by certain women in my family. I just can’t explain that level of “copycat” behavior with a gene.
It's from the announcement:

> These same people expect to impose their short-sighted and non-generalized values and goals on a project for which they have contributed nothing and are not willing to maintain. The sense of entitlement from a small but vocal minority that do not understand FOSS...
Please don't take this or any HN thread into ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
6 years ago I was in high school, rural USA, living in the unfinished attic of a house with a Master Lock on the pantry door (parents' idea of extending food runway). I had also never written a single line of code!

Now I have a beautiful apartment in Manhattan all to myself and I can do whatever the hell I want.

So thankful for everyone on the internet who acknowledged programming as a viable career. If I didn't have the software community telling me all this stuff was possible I never would have even tried.
Ok, we changed to that from https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pytroll/8OS5WD8RBY4.
Pretty sure the gp meant the 20th.
HBR: The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
This is a wonderful interview and well worth a read, especially if you're a "hacker" and not familiar with Ricky Jay.
I have two pairs of boxer shorts that came from the Netscape company store. They are still in great shape (i don't actually wear them..) that have the Netscape logo and Mozilla the character on them.

I wish I didn't actually wear (and wear out) my Netscape Communicator t-shirts. And I'm also kicking myself for not buying a bunch of other logo items!
Sure, that explains why the elites fought; what I still don't get was why the average white southern enlisted man fought.

I mean, sure, it's clear why the elites wanted the war. But for the average white southern laborer, slavery did nothing but push down wages; It's hard to ask for a raise if the boss can just buy someone to do what you do.

The explanations I've heard were nonsensical (that the average white southern man fought because it was in the interests of the elite southern man) or assume the southerner was just... evil (the average white southern man fought so that there would at least be something below him.)

I find both of those explanations really unsatisfactory, because they assume that non-elite white southerners are either stupid or evil to the point where they will start an extremely brutal war who's explicit aims are to preserve the wealth of the elite at the cost of everyone else. This seems... unlikely.
Why even bother being on Twitter? I keep hearing developers encouraging each other to be active on Twitter, but who gives an actual fuck what goes on with Twitter? All it seems to do is generate drama on every front. Do developers(or anyone) really need to be on there? If I were the owner, I would have just closed my Twitter account in the face of demanding freeloaders.
Ok, since commenters seem to be agreeing that this is better, we've changed to it from https://threader.app/thread/1066284025600339968.
The article claims: "There is no legal nor illegal alternative to it as of today."

That is absolutely not true. Libgen and Scihub have
been with us for years, massively eclipse library.nu on content, and do not seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. Moreover a cursory look over their operational TTPs definitely shows competence and familiarity with best practices (unlike library.nu) which I guess explains why they're still going strong.
> There was nothing hostile about it, just facts.

You said I was just like a crazy person ranting on a street corner. If you didn't intend to sound hostile, you did a very poor job of communicating.
Basically it comes down to this: lawn grass is ground cover and leaves kill lawn grass. So you have to get them off. Getting them off with a rake sounds fine if you don't actually own a lawn and this is all academic. Otherwise you probably find raking very labor and time intensive. Firing up a blower to whoosh the leaves back into the forest where they came from is so much easier and faster. So obviously the real problem is owning an unproductive acre of suburban land that needs ground cover. Reply to this comment if you'd like to buy mine.
That's right, Google was gaining popularity fast but few knew about the profit monster that targetted search advertising was. They IPO'd in 2004.
As an avid user of libgen.io, I would not be able to express my sadness if it shut down.
Good insight, I agree the workplace is that sort of extended tribe, and as people switch jobs more frequently its replaced with a more vague 'industry' concept that is too diffuse and large to fulfill that smaller tribal association.
I respect their right to be on Twitter in peace, but yeah I'd probably block users before I'd list Twitter complainers as a reason how I'm closing the lock on a popular library and throwing away the key instead of just walking away yourself... because that's definitely one way to get a lot of people (imo rightfully) complaining about what you did.

Also kind of kills your credibility in the future. Walking away over toxicity is fine, doing it like this? Not so great. (of course there's something especially egregious we don't know about, but they're laying a lot out in that post, I'd expect to see it there...)
I have a strong vision impairment and have tried this when Occulus first came out. I found the lag not good and became no longer interested in this problem. There are a few vendors working in this space whose hardware is slowly getting better ...

https://www.esighteyewear.com/technology
frustrated lately that my rating as a
passenger in Uber is at 4.78 and falling

Mother of God, passenger ratings? I'm glad I've never used Uber, and now I am certain I never will.

I mean, of all things, I don't even like the HN karma system. Arbitrary frowny faces for The Wrong Kind of Joke only now, scale that up first, just to taxi drivers, and then apply it to Society At Large, All Day Every Day.