skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno about that, having grown up in a rural area I can distinctly remember newcomers to the area (especially if from abroad) never being accepted unless they had young kids going to the local school (who would be accepted by the other kids much faster). There was one couple who tried extensively for years going to and organising events but never became anything more than "the dutch couple"

You also get a lot of weirdness where everyone knows a bit too much about everyone else.
...and, yeah, there's a really strong push towards conformity. If you're at all unusual it's pretty isolating. Some people will help you if you're in trouble but you'll never make anything resembling friendships.

If you grow up in the community, your direct family are pretty accepted within it, and there are other people within your age range, it's highly unlikely to be a lonely experience. in my case we had two neighbours that got married around the same time as my parents but neither could conceive, which both resulted in no other kids in the area at all and a kind of strained awkwardness between them and my parents
There is a bit, for example: https://www.consciouslifestylemag.com/quantum-jumping-shift-...

But it’s definitely not very common.
From the perspective of a casual, non-European observer, the only effect of the GDPR that I've witnessed is the explosion of websites being extremely aggressive about forcing me to consent to their tracking cookies.

Where is the real benefit to Europeans' privacy?
And the switch to Apple meme only works for those fortunate enough to live in countries with a monthly wage that actually makes it a viable option.
Interesting, I don't want my phone to be attached to any other aspect of my life. I want it to be a communications device and that's about it. Maps and navigation are the one other thing that I think is really useful.

I don't want my phone to be able to touch my bank account, my email (other than a phone-specific email account) or any personal or work-related files.
Presumably what the government in the UK is already doing, gradually adjusting taxes to make the rentier economy less viable over time.
Do you have any pointers to where one might find some of these checklists? I have been building my own but they are still very sparse.
>Raspbian defaults to being discoverable by bonjour so you can just `ssh pi@raspberrypi.local` and then modify the wifi config file

Why would you do that when you can just drop a wpa_supplicant.conf on /boot?
My experience is exactly the same. I've lived in several urban centers now as an adult, and I'm planning on moving to the suburbs or exurbs once I can afford to buy a house. Honestly the only people I've met in the city are the folks from Church, but all the ones with kids are moving out too. Cities feel super atomized to me right now, where folks really have little in common beyond shared misery in high housing costs.

Obviously this is just my experience.
The problem is not asthetics the problem is overfitting the data. Add enough knobs and you can approximate anything, but your simply encoding data not finding anything new.
Most of HN trends young (<=30) and maybe doesn't remember the before time.

There was a general optimism and sense of freedom in the 90s that is just gone. We have continued to progress in many amazing ways, but I feel like it's on inertia. The living, growing, vibrant ideas of today are totalitarian and paranoid: the alt-right, the authoritarian left, nationalism, technocracy, neo-feudalism, etc.

I think part of the popularity of 9/11 conspiracy theories comes from the deep intuition that something broke and never recovered. I think most of those theories are BS but the intuition is correct.
With a billion iOS devices out there, if Apple was truly collecting information about you and selling it to third parties, there would have to be some evidence that compromised data is out in the wild. To date, no one has found any.

So it's pretty safe to say that yes, you can trust Apple.
If you don't launch, I can predict with 100% confidence how many people will sign up: 0.

What do you have to lose at this point? The money's already spent.
People are allowed to build communities around minorities. I don't get why there's white male backlash about being "left out" every time this happens.

What's the point of quoting male suicide statistics at a person trying to build out access to minority voices? Nobody is challenging men's ability to form their own communities. This is one app, privately developed, with a specific purpose.
I've been top 50 a few times at a moba I play, and hang out around the top 0.1% of players when I'm active in my game mode. I just have losing streaks these days though since I only play every 3 months. All that fluency is "like dust in the wind" when you stop using it.

Edit: to clarify, I'm probably in the top 35-45% when I'm rusty, which is a massive drop. I can't play top .1% without spending a few months grinding

At least with memory you can recall enough to relearn quickly.
Yes, we didn't want to remember the last file selected in every directory visited. In other words, it's like remembering the state of every directory visited. `nnn` selects the parent dir when you come out of a child dir.
/boot is a fat partition. You can mount that from most OSs.

Edit: forgive me, I see that's not what you meant at all.
Or maybe it was? Either way, the point is valid.
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The joke was lame, but that's not what puts him at risk.

He behaved like a fucking idiot after the complaint was made, and it's his behaviour that puts him at risk. The letter he wrote to the women is horrible. Failing to engage in good faith with the complaints process is always going to end poorly.
If you're relying on issues for documentation, I would suggest you are misusing that tool and should focus on writing good documentation instead.

If you aren't relying on issues for documentation, what of value is being lost?
I know 'ed' isn't commonly regarded as the peak of accessible interface design, but it occurred to me recently that it was at least designed under the assumption that the user wouldn't be able to see their document, and that retrieving/printing content from the document would be relatively expensive and inconvenient.

I wonder therefore if ed might be a surprisingly accessible editor for users with vision issues, or maybe its a case of users without vision issues simply finding it "no less hellish".
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I am more interested in the engineering aspects of Bamboo than just the aesthetics. The entire video is about how unique it is, and how beautiful it looks. None of that matters if the whole house of cards falls over. There was an interesting brief comment about treatment to protect the Bamboo from rotting away but very little information was conveyed in the presentation. I wish they'd show the technical fundamentals of why Bamboo is unique.
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I don't think seeking growth is the root cause. We all want things to be better tomorrow than today, and a large part of the way we experience "better" is captured in economic notions of value. And as Jesse Ausubel points out [1], use of many resources has been decoupled from economic growth. Take video games as an example. It's a $100bn/year industry. At worst its resource usage is modest. But I suspect it's net negative: every hour people are driving in-game vehicles is an hour they aren't driving ones that burn fossil fuels; virtual purchases replace goods that get shipped or bought in stores.

I think you're more on target with the shortsightedness that relates purposefully wrong accounting and unchecked drives for dominance and greed. But I don't think ending that is incompatible with creating a system where we keep improving the amount of value we create for each other.

[1] http://longnow.org/seminars/02015/jan/13/nature-rebounding-l...
All that advocate switch to iOS as solution to the security issues on Android.

On plenty of countries getting an Android device is already a dream come true, let alone being able to get an iPhone.
A lot of problems in software stem from earlier on in the process than the testing and validation phase. They happen at the writing and design phase. So your checklist not only has to contain "check for buffer overflow by checking for a standardized pattern," it also has to have points like "make sure the code is maintainable" so the programmer won't introduce a stealthy memory allocation that won't get freed in the first place.

Of course, it's not so simple. How do you actually quantify maintainable software? Just for that one point, you could write an entire book. When you introduce other points, the process of writing quality software becomes exponentially more complex, with different aspects of well-structured designs overlapping, balancing with each other, and sometimes contradicting each other.

To bring it back to the original illustration, even if you have a flight checklist, it's not going to matter if your plane was poorly made in the garage of some beginner aviation hobbyist out of scrap metal. If your program is made of spaghetti code and poor abstractions, you're going to be working on that testing checklist for a long time.

I do agree that checklists are helpful and that more standardization would help, but we also need more quality training and certification, arguably more so. We need great aircraft designers, not just pilots.
But where was the SD card flashed? I think the idea is to enable ssh right after flashing the image.
Ask HN: What checklists do you use?
Checklists are "encoded knowledge ready to use".

What checklists do you use before/during/after coding. Anything from requirements gathering to post-deployment are fair game. Regarding user interview, security, software architecture, marketing, etc - Any field.

Whatever checklist you use, if it eases your process, please share here.
I can't help feeling half the problem with the UK student loans system is the fact it is framed as a loan rather than tax. If it was a graduate tax people would look at it completely differently despite a similar financial outcome.

You are right though, without that extra finance there is no way universities could have expanded the way they have. Traditionally they were always underfunded (in the UK) compared to other parts of the education system.
Can somebody clarify specifically what risks the microg signature spoofing patch might entail in real world use? I know its conceptually bad, but its a bit abstract in terms of my actual phone
The problem of “high house prices” is just imprecise language for “high cost of housing” - whether the cost is interest or principal is not terribly consequential.
>You are the one claming that women have it worse. They don't.

I don't see anybody arguing this. The most popular Twitter accounts are of white men, so someone built a tool to find the Twitter feeds of not white men.

By definition the app is to help find underrepresented people (on Twitter).

I'll be honest, your comment comes off as extraordinarily angry for what we're talking about here (someone made an app to help showcase certain minority Twitter accounts). Nobody's suggested the United States Constitution should be rewritten. Nobody's made value statements. So where's all this (I'm seeing) anger coming from?
The interesting part to me is that this works without an Internet connection.
I wonder if we'll ever increase the biomass enough that we'll actually want to increase the total carbon in the system...
That is mounted at /boot....
I wrote this to configure my Raspberry and connect to WiFi right after burning an OS: https://github.com/afdezl/rpi-headless
Tobacco is unusually nasty, just look at throat cancer from chewing tobacco. Incense, woodsmoke, and Pot do cause problems, but the risks are significantly lower.
That was precisely my point, yes.

But also that scientists are more concerned with fussing at the public how they need to “trust science”, despite that doing so historically has been questionable at times.

Perhaps people would be more willing to listen on climate change if there were more institutional credibility.

Edit: You can downvote all you want, but in the middle of a replication crisis and sinking faith in science as an institution, maybe you should think about it.
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I initially had a negative reaction but after thinking about it I changed my mind. There is a major need to cut through the algorithmically generated suggestions that provably fuel misinformation, group think, and general hate. Twitter is a great medium to hack at this problem, and the first iteration of a product will always have some (positive or negative) biases in an effort to find itself and move forward on key features and mission.

Personally I think the conversation on this thread needs to stop thinking this product criminalizes content choice. If my interest is engineering blogs and most engineering blogs are written by men its ok for me to predominantly follow engineering blogs. What this product (to me) is there for is when I want to branch out I have an option for doing that in a powerful new way.

Finally (offtopic) I think we do need to have more civil conversations about virtue signaling. I don't think this product or announcement is virtue signaling. But virtue signaling IS a big problem in Silicon Valley, people shouting from the rooftops how they want to do good before quietly slinking back into a board room to do bad.

Good job OP, I'm not a hardcore twitter user but will definitely follow this projects development and wish it the best.
If that was all it was it would be fine. The trouble is, at least in the UK, property has been an appreciating asset. People have been using it as a source of current or future income rather than just a home.
I work in a family farm a few weeks a year and if you head into town to pick up some things you gotta budget time for making chitchat with people, and it was the same deal when living in a built up walkable urban neighbourhood in Montreal, and in Vancouver, you see and interact with the same people every day.

Now I live in a neighbourhood with many immigrants from Africa, and they're super tight knit, in terms of their involvement in the community they put anything else I've seen to shame, excepting maybe when I was staying in a small villages in Indonesia and Mexico back in my surfing days.

But, like many, I grew up in a generic cookie cutter suburb and it was pretty dismal as far as community involvement and interaction goes. People get in their cars and drive away.
I'd like to see one addition to that. On boot, it should also write a file, /boot/MAC-address, if it does not exist. This should be a text file containing the Pi's MAC address.

With that, those whose networks require whitelisting by MAC address who are trying to set up a headless Pi could boot it once to get it to write its MAC address to the SD card, whitelist that MAC address and assign it a static IP address, create /boot/wpa_supplicant.conf, and boot again to get the Pi on their network.
It's applicable for any search engine...
There was this guy in college who claimed to be able to factor big primes. So we gave him the product of two. His nickname became Optimus Prime
The Chicago Tribune is blocked in the EU.
Ah, yes. I forgot that. There is in fact plot already going on in the last scene.
As an American I find it extremely aggressive also. I have literally never heard someone say “tell me about yourself” in a normal, casual conversation.
Ethically, I think just about everybody agrees with you. However, as soon as the ad-supported device is 10% cheaper, it's going to capture most of the market.

I don't think the market can solve personal privacy issues - only legislation can.
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I've seen hoses with all of those diameters, but they've all had the same standard fitting size at the ends. Same with the backflow preventers- all the normal course threads. Now I'm genuinely curious, what state are you in? (not being obstinate, I really am just curious!)
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Sounds like an awful experience. Glad you did get successful resolution eventually.

I was really talking about the likes of Facebook, Google, etc... I would say that you are a customer of eBay and PayPal (although the eBay case could be arguable) and definitely PayPal should make resolution better as they are actually handling people's money - which is a whole new ballgame.

But really, come on, if you are getting a whole lot of useful services for free, expecting support when things go wrong is surely a bit greedy. In this world you get what you pay for, and if you pay sweet FA you can surely expect no more than sweet FA in return.

It would possibly be useful if they provided a paid tier that guaranteed swift resolution if something goes wrong, but we've all been so conditioned to expect everything for nothing now that they probably wouldn't get enough takers to make it worthwhile offering it.

Anyway, the whole thing is a mess and a hugely complicated subject. I could probably go on boring you with my thoughts on it for ages more, but I'll spare you any more :-)
I especially enjoy it when I catch myself trying to reinvent that wheel the one millionth time.

Just today I was thinking to myself "All these music player apps (of which I tried five) are really convoluted, I should do my own."

So, I was brainstorming for a short while how I would do the layout and that I need this feature and that feature and yep, my idea would be essentially as convoluted as all the others. Maybe a tiny bit more refined for my specific use-case, but seriously not worth the effort.
I'd need some walls in my climate here though.
"Yes, we could be in for a lot of pain if inflation and interest rates rise over the coming years."

This is true, but I think unlikely ...

All macro trends - especially demographics and birthrates - point to large deflationary headwinds. The little bit of inflation that we experience currently is the result of massive manipulations like quantitative easing and related policies. Just look at the price of oil ... even the peak 2018 price is quite low when compared against the last ten years.[1]

Nobody can know how this will pan out, but I think a reasonable guess is that as QE is allowed to unwind we experience recessionary forces that we are no longer willing to accept or able to withstand - given the increased fragility and interconnectedness of our economies. And so we will see QE3 and QE4 and so on, with related ZIRP[2], until we finally see a deflationary collapse.

That could play out over decades. I don't know how you could shrewdly prepare for such a sequence of events, since the correct way to prepare for deflation is to have liquid, cash assets and those assets would be almost completely idle during the ZIRP period (like the one we are living in).

I suspect the only way we would see real inflation is if political actors made political decisions to massively overshoot the QE (and related) policies. Even then, we would not see high interest rates unless some later actor decided to "correct" that inflation.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy
How long before they get sued for their stylized 'e' which is a ripoff of Google's logo? Essentially it's an upside down 'G'.
Jodoroski dune was crazy and not in the dune way, his ideas were interesting in an artsy way but it wasn't dune, I think he didn't even read the book
Of course, it could be a subtle reference to 4chan's /e/ board (NSFW), which is certainly best visited in private.
I had a related thing happen a couple of months ago: I started getting some lower back pain that I thought might be kidney stones based on a couple of Google searches. Went to my doctor, who prescribed a muscle relaxant, which I got at the pharmacy across the street. It went away.

Over the next few weeks I got several robocalls on my cell phone from a pain clinic offering me relief for my "chronic pain", so it was either triggered by my online searches or my doctor's office or pharmacy sold off my private information.
Probably more important than any of that we have gone from a population with three generations alive to one with four generations.
Say on a Mac or windows box.
It's also an issue with the final output of these tools being text, instead of reified computer models.
The Docklands Light Railway has worked quite well. It gets you from A to B much quicker than a bus although the top speed is not high, by avoiding jams etc. It's also driverless unlike the busses.
I'd debate the degree to which China opened its markets, but that's an aside -- I mostly agree with you in theory. But there's one nagging issue. Countless other developing nations that have done things such as open their markets and have had nowhere near the success to show for it that China has.

I think unforeseen consequences, both negative and positive, are a major part of how societies develop. We in general have nowhere near the foresight we like to image we do. And in particular, I'm more inclined to attribute China's success to their systems in large part because the only thing as large an outlier as their success is their governmental system. And the timing also fits quite well. If it's just e.g. open markets then it leaves you having to explain why China is thriving whereas most other developing nations following the WTO playbook have relatively little to show for it.
If you look at it through the lens of opportunity cost, sure. But homes don't actually yield anything, they are not productive in that sense. So from the economy's standpoint, there seems little reason to classify it as such along with financial assets that produce yields.
I'm not seeing what is fake physics regarding the Nautilus article. Seems the points are legitimate. A single universe implies Boltzmann brains. The multiverse makes statistical prediction unworkable. Easy to see this from a machine learning perspective. So, we need something else.

Fortunately, here is such an alternative theory!

https://www.am-nat.org/site/law-of-information-non-growth/
Probably a better way, as I replied to a previous poster, is "you get what you pay for; so if you pay sweet FA why should you expect to get more than sweet FA?" I think most people would understand that :-)
Indeed. Add to that the new fangled world wide web, that would change everything for the better.
Sawstop is an innovative company that has some patents. Why wouldn’t they try to use them against a competitor?
slightly related but for me 80s are always 20 years back
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People living interdependently in close proximity to one another is characteristic of most people throughout human history. It has never been perfect, but when you throw it out, you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
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Does anyone ever ask you “tell me about yourself” verbatim in casual conversation between peers? I honestly find it hard to believe that this is normal. It sounds way too much like an interview question.
Design thinking is one of the worst things that came out of IBM. It is an appalling jargon of shaky abstract ideas that, when the time comes to implement, fall apart and at that point you're just doing what any intelligent person would do - use logical reasoning, observation and rational decision making that would occur anyways without this Design Thinking bullshit. This stuff [1] bothers me to no end - Can someone tell me what the hell is this [1] guy talking about!?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psLjEBUOnVs