skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I want that level of control I wouldn’t want to be writing a shell script in the first place.

That’s the problem with Powershell for me, it’s taken the REPL concept but made it too feature rich and too verbose so you lose the speed of writing the code and simplicity of piping predictable streams of data.

The thing with Linux / UNIX is it’s very command line driven from the outset. So if you wanted to do the function calls from shared libraries et al you could write a wrapper in C, Python, Perl, whatever and still use Bash etc to interface with it. You’re not tied to using Bash to solve all of your problems. Bash just provides a convenient interface for chaining all those tools in other languages together. Now I know the same can be said for command prompts on Windows but for whatever reason that seems to be less common than it is on POSIX.
And websites are free to refuse to serve me if they don’t accept MY terms.

It goes both ways.
Sounds like the expected value of his advice is a half multi-millionaire, so yeah you should take it!
A Graph-Theoretic Introduction to Ted Nelson's Zzstructures (2004)
Look at L1A visa - still need to be an employee for a year but I easier for your company then a EB1.
HN is a good source of data because you get several human signals, one is up votes, the other is comment points. Between the two you can create a rank for both how non-spammy it is and how controversial it is.

Correction: how non spammy Dan thinks it is and how controversial Dan thinks it is.

His judgment is an ok proxy. But please be precise when saying things like that. The upvotes in particular are almost meaningless in a centrally controlled site like HN.

It’s the moderators’ role to manually decide if and when a certain story reaches the front page, and how long it spends there. Not the community’s. And unfortunately the content of the front page varies dramatically depending on who is manning the helm that day.

If you don’t believe this, simply try to ask about any of this publicly and he will rip out your ability to speak on HN. That’s how important it is to maintain the myth of the community-controlled website. Because after all, if the content of the site is not our decision, whose is it? Better to force everyone to believe that their upvotes matter.

If anyone wants to help plan a way around these problems, please message me on lobsters (same username) or email me. The current idea is to make a cross between HN and Reddit: you can make a "subteddit" but use all the same moderation tools that HN mods normally do. That means you can edit titles, rerank the front page, muzzle individual users without banning them, detach comment threads, collapse threads, and generally everything you can't do on Reddit.
How is this different to including terms and conditions on a web page? If they can ignore the terms, why can't I?
She was two years behind me in college and we played together in a group. She played keyboards and never mentioned that she could sing, or anything about this album.

She was incredibly nice and very quiet. I think she transferred the next year.
Why having to wait? You can file 140 and 485 concurrently
blatantly obvious attempt at regulator capture is obvious. If there's anyone I'd guess is already doing what they are warning against in this "open letter" - it's MSFT.
I can't see all the code at once because it's 80,000 lines and I have a 50 line peephole; so the "see all the code at once" has sailed. Roughly speaking, Lisp code grows diagonally:

(.....
(....
(...
(.........
(..
(...)
(....)
(...(...
(.....)))
( )))
(............))))...)

If the 80x50 peephole moves nicely along the diagonal, I'm okay.

I don't want to go from this:

+-----------+
|(..... | ;; not to scale, obviously
| (.... |
| (...) |
| (.....|...
+-----------+.
(...)
(....)
(...(...
(.....)))
( )))
(............))))...)

To this:

(.....
(....
(...
(.........
(..
+-----------+...)
| |....)
| | (...(...
| | (.....)))
| | ( )))
+-----------+............))))...)

When I move the cursor down. If the box would move diagonally, that would be great. Yes, of course the box will have empty space at the bottom left and top right.

That could be addressed in a funky way: why not rotate the text about 45 degrees? Then the rectangular window would capture a fuller slice of the diagonal. I could get used to the rotated text.
Find an email provider, sign up/pay for service, and use it. I recommend buying a domain, so you can have a fairly static email address even if you end up changing providers later on.

Rolling your own email service never seemed worth it to me. You'll have to deal with backups/recovery, maintenance, and any quirks associated with the big mail places rejecting mails from your service. I'm almost certain someone will chime with "but it's not bad!", well, it's not bad until you're on vacation and suddenly your mail service goes down and now you have to either go without mail (stuff sent to you will be rejected), or stop what you are doing to fix it.
FireHOL – Linux firewalling and traffic shaping for humans
That's my takeaway from the keynote. I've done a bit of audio coding and couldn't believe that all the processing is done on the CPU. Afaik, existing audio languages don't care much about latency (as in trying to improve it) or don't aim to become a portable standard. The ones I tried (Collider and Faust) are also not supposed to be used to implement your audio code (for media apps/games), whereas SOUL aims to fulfil these roles as well.
From my observation, definitely. They lack social skills, common sense, empathy, have little tolerance for idle/down time, and are physically (and emotionally) weaker and often have excess weight. Their maturity level is also lower and they stress easily due to not having a healthy amount of coping skills for real life scenarios.
> He also denied that Amazon had any responsibility for the negative impacts of their AI/ML technologies

I find it downright scary when corporations take shortsighted and immoral positions like that. It is historically very clear there are consequences to our work as engineers and companies developing and supplying technology. It is very important to know that we share responsibility for how our work is used starting from the moment we reasonably understand how it is being used.

I mean, there are engineers who designed and built the gas chambers in the second world war. Were they responsible for the murders that were committed with it? Or is only the one turning the wheels responsible? Or the one who was in command? Or his boss higher up? I think everyone who knew was partly responsible, including the engineers.

It also has also been proven that is is really easy to coerce people (including engineers) into doing immoral things. It is easy to deny any responsibility when it is someone else telling/ordering you to do things. But it does not clear you of responsibility for your actions.

I think Microsoft is doing the right thing now, they have come to realize their technology can easily be abused in ways they did not foresee (this probably already happened), and they try to take responsibility by speaking out and lobbying to get legislation in place to avoid abuse, but without destroying the market opportunity.

Tragically, I expect several things:

- There will be no government legislation / "red tape", certainly not from the current US government.

- The race to the bottom they are afraid of will happen anyway, and Microsoft gets to choose whether they want to be part of it or not. Their morals (now out in the open) will work against their chances of market success.

- What Microsoft asks for is still far to weak. They want to take the moral high-ground, but they also want to sell their stuff. For instance, they ask for clear signage in stores that facial recognition is being used, so that customers can choose not to enter the store. Do they really think this will provide good privacy protection? Business will simply strong-arm consumers into consent by denying service if they don't, just like they did with the old EU privacy directive (cookie law).

- In the EU, GDPR is already providing consumer protection against facial recognition, mostly better that what Microsoft is asking for. Business in EU are now effectively prohibited from using it, but US based startups will use their lead to "disrupt" the market and introduce it here anyway.
I don't believe Flickr was ever targeting the same audience. There are very few companies which succeeded in the space Flickr was focused on. Smugmug is probably the closest and they wound up buying Flickr from Yahoo!.

Turns out there's not much of a monetizable market for professional and hobbyist photographers to have a portfolio-like social photo service. Or no one's found it yet.
Butterflies and worms could lead us to self-repairing intelligent robots
Matias’s new board rock
I've read about consistent quality control issues with Matias boards in the past. I did have one issue with one switch that seemed to fluctuate between chattery and dead. But this was a few years back. Cut to five months ago: I ordered a Mini Tactile Pro (tkl), and it's sublime. The switches just get better with use. They are far better than the Fukkas I've used in other boards. I even like them better than the original Alps. Matias have taken the Alps design and improved upon it. Oh, and about having to be sure there's no dirt in the board for the switches to function properly? Not. One. Issue.
Neither. I leaned the CLI from DOS (or it might have been CP/M?).

Unless you count BBC BASIC?
The funny thing about the whole compliance thing is, a lot of traders were using AOL Instant Messenger before it shut down, to the point where I believe Bloomberg Terminal even integrated AIM. Some traders ended up moving to Discord, which is nearly as strange.
It really depends on how you spun your criticism. If you just started spouting assertions as to why the product your interviewer worked on is irredeemably horrible, you're not going to get a job.
I like how you deleted your "did you even watch the video" comment before replacing it with this one, effectively turning the question back on yourself :)

With that in mind, did you read my comment? I explicitly mentioned how GPU "acceleration" is going to increase latency, which contradicts one of the very few definite statements they make.
How relevant it is to have a Masters of Science degree from USA, for one who wants to immigrate to US ASAP?
I'm not ignoring it. I'm computing the per-trip capital cost for BART assuming today's inflated construction costs, and asking if the reduced congestion/need for road infrastructure would still justify that investment given today's costs.

I don't think you realize how completely bonkers the cost of mass-transit development has gotten. New York is up to $1.5-3.5 billion per mile of subway. The new Bay Bridge, massively over-budget at $6.4 billion, represents just a few miles of subway (BART has almost 30 miles).
We're thinking about the Turing Test all wrong
From a recent Bloomberg article[1]

The last two graphs show that 41% of the land in the contiguous 48 states is used for feeding livestock. More than 33% of the 48 states is just pasture, most of which I believe is used by cattle.

What would it take to shift protein consumption from beef (3% efficient) to products like poultry (21%) and eggs (31%)? [2]

I think we have to take a hard look at taxes, fees, and subsidies for land use and agricultural products, but there's not much political pressure to do so right now.

1: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

2: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/10...
Are there any major websites that _do_ support DNT? I note for instance Hacker News does not:

> Our Site currently does not respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals and operates as described in this Privacy Policy whether or not a DNT signal is received.
There are parts of engineering that require an artistic nature.

There are parts of design where you just have to follow logic, reasoning, good practices and have discipline.

It's either art or work, the medium (code or visuals) is not important.
Unless you can show that low calories sweeteners are directly responsible for weight gain; i.e. somehow the sweeteners affect how food is metabolized, fat is stored, etc., then these studies don't really say much other than people who are unable to control their appetites are unable to control their appetites.

Low calorie sweeteners are still a better option than sucrose with respect to flavoring.

In terms of annecdata, I've been trying to control my father's eating habits for years now (due to his numerous heart attacks and double bypass), and while I've not been completely successful, everything about my father's health has improved since he switched to diet pepsi from regular pepsi and since I got him to stop buying sugar for his coffee, convincing him to go with Stevia instead.

He still sneaks junk food, but that's not something that has changed. His blood sugar has decreased and his joint pains have improved.

To a certain extent, studies like this that make recommendations against recommendations seem irresponsible.
I’m Scottish, so I do get the context and humour. I just feel it often gets in the way of the stories and the great journalism going on at the Reg. Sometimes the pun-filled headlines feel like a brain teaser to be deciphered or a page from Private Eye - great if you’re after some light comedy, not so great if you want to skim the industry headlines for the stories that really matter to you.
> Power generators that use diesel/gasoline, you're supporting my point, which is that we'll never get over our reliance on this stuff.

The point is, which you keep missing, is that EVs can run on electricity in whatever form. Have diesel available, but your car runs on gasoline only? Tough luck. Have "coal" electricity? It is as good as solar from the car's point of view. It's not the same for the environment, but neither are ICE cars.

You are trying to argue about a hypothetical situation where there is fuel readily available, but for some reason, somehow, electricity cannot be produced from it. And there is also no electricity. In this hypothetical world, have generators ever been invented? Or solar panels? Also, if resources are so constrained, why are we even worrying about cars? There are more pressing concerns.

Why do you keep ignoring solar? Wind? Have you seen any projects that bring power to poor communities in Africa? And have you seen how they DON'T rely on fuel tankers? It's all about microgrids! If they don't have sustainable power, they will NOT have refineries, or reliable fuel delivery.

Last, why are we even arguing about places in Africa with no power? They are in no condition of importing the latest generation vehicles anyway! Heck, most people in the developed world are not even driving current generation vehicles (myself included). So even if all manufacturers stopped producing internal combustion engines today, it doesn't matter. There is a sizable fleet that's not going away any time soon.

This is why this discussion is not productive. Can we focus in places where internal combustion engines are so ubiquitous that the are actually causing problems? Like India. Or China. Or the US. Not on some hypothetical gas station in the Sahara.
There are other package managers on macOS, such as MacPorts and Fink. And you don't need to use a package manager to install software.
Reversing a tree (max element on the left) is absolutely CS homework (though probably 201). I'm sure I had to do that at least once or twice. But you can also avoid that most of the time by writing a second in-order traversal algorithm that runs from right to left.

But why would I need a data structure where I have the elements by the leaves instead of the roots? Make the nodes doubly linked (parent element) and you get the same effect without all the grandstanding.
Until they get a winning game ruined by a sudden net cutoff. Although that's probably not a big issue with Fortnite since expected game lengths should be fairly predictable (average seems to be 20-25 mins from what I've found) due to the encroaching wall thing. Would be cool though if it could recognize an ongoing game and cut off the connection only after the game is finished.
Tegula protocol
Wow, that’s actually really awesome. I really missed a good languages-other-than-Python story in Tensorflow. Now I feel a little inspired to try out ML again...
> But it does mean that sometime right about now, even if humans did not exist, we'd expect to still see temperatures rapidly rising.

Except that we know that changes in average temperature on Earth were, before the industrial revolution, almost entirely (>>90% correlation) due to cycles in solar insolation [1]. Now, that insolation accounts for less than half of the rising temperatures, meaning the energy is getting trapped in the atmosphere more and more.

It's nearly impossible to measure insolation from millions or billions of years ago like this paper did for 1600s onwards but all other related indicators, including those ice cores, are screaming that this is unprecedented. It wasn't until humanity came into the picture that indicators for solar insolation and temperature change began to diverge.

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/95GL0309...
You are missing that the brand name of a failed company tends to be a toxic asset, assembly lines are specialized for the technology that they are assembling, and the real estate is of interest to companies that are trying to establish themselves rather than ones which are already established.

At present current ICE companies are unwilling to sell these assets and electric startups are unable to afford them.

By the time that electric startups are driving current ICE companies into bankruptcy, electric startups will no longer need those assets (because they must have built their own before this happens) and therefore still won't buy them.

Please note that I'm not saying this out of pure speculation. I'm saying this because this is how past rounds of innovative disruptions played out. It is true whether we're talking about sailing ships to steam ships, wire excavators to hydraulics, integrated mills to minimills, or various generations of larger disk drives to smaller (until the rise of mobile devices making small good in and of itself ended that sequence of disruptions).

It is hard to look at what has been invested into existing auto technology and not imagine that it has to be worth something. But there is every reason to believe that it will be worth pennies on the dollar, and companies will end up in chapter 7 rather than chapter 11.
Yes and no. Why do you care?
Here's the top 10 all-time sorted by avg (from the top 100):

blog.samaltman.com 216.35
paulgraham.com 114.9
blog.ycombinator.com 108.09
stripe.com 105.63
jacquesmattheij.com 91.98
blog.mozilla.org 57.8
hacks.mozilla.org 48.78
www.apple.com 46.98
www.marco.org 46.54
googleblog.blogspot.com 37.41

I guess that's a bit biased toward ones submitted infrequently
We already have that coercion in place. In the U.S., labor law [1] says if you work on-site a company is required to put you on the clock when you commute from your duty station to a remote client site.

(I've seen companies try to get around this by having people commute directly from home to the client site and then claiming that was their normal "commute")

So just redefine "duty station" from "office" to "place of residence."

After all, the commute is being done for the company's benefit, not the employee.

[1]: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/workhours/traveltime
> threads

Threads have been supported since, well, decades (message-id, In-Reply-To). Most modern mail clients support displaying messages in thread format.

> snooze
I originally missed snoozing, but now I just create a task any time I need to address something, or tag/flag it for follow-up.

> tabs

I'm not sure what this is. Can you explain?

> I do hate that I can't just pay for gmail and avoid the crappy ads

Just shows that google thinks that displaying targetted ads based on the contents of your emails is more valuable than you throwing cash at them. That's terrifying.
Good UI is also logical. I'm always thinking about what's more ergonomic, what's intuitive, etc.
adafruit.com doesn't load resources from external sites that don't obey DNT (e.g. YouTube) without an explicit user action.
Or Microsoft. With that, GitHub, and VSCode, Microsoft will have effectively subsumed the entire average developer workflow again.
I think I just used bash.
Did you really think the RDF as you say didn't apply to workers inside Apple? Almost always the biggest kool-aid drinkers for any company are the employees.
That the guardian is so high is extremely worrying.
I know for a fact Godaddy used to do this, I don't know if they still do (but would assume so). If you searched for domains and/or added them to the cart but did not purchase right away, they had their little known team of reviewers that constantly checked the list of all domains people were interested in purchasing. The ones that were deemed valuable were registered by an affiliated entity and offered in their auctions. My source for this information is a person who used to work there.
I too am offering a take-it-or-leave-it contract, prior to any other contract with the website, delivered to an endpoint that is specifically empowered to enter into contractual relationships with clients.
Google Deepmind's AlphaZero Chess Engine Makes “Inhuman” Knight Sacrifice
remember the url ?
I never started to use Chrome.

If/when MS Edge will switch to Blink, I'll indeed switch to FF. Until then I prefer MS Edge: performance, font rendering, OS integration (e.g. video codecs) are IMO better in MS Edge.

Couple months ago I had to downgrade one of my PCs to Win7 (a client wanted me to develop for it), I used Firefox on that PC. Worked great.
One thing I always like to go back to is Ira Glass's video on taste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wLP0izeJE

In a nutshell, that feeling you get where you believe your projects look crap? It's because you're seeing the disconnect between what you can achieve now, and your taste that's informing what "great" is.

It's a bit of a double edged sword in that while you'll likely not be truly happy with a project anytime soon, that disconnect means you'll also be able to constantly strive as you recognise supposed flaws in what you've created.

In the end, all you can really do is just keep at it and over time, that gap will hopefully close as your skills allow you to create what your taste envisions.

That's the dream anyway, haha.
1) Why would you allow other people to take money out of your account? Modern checking accounts require two-factor authentication. (And who even uses checks these days?)

2) Not without a court order I would hope.

3) Depends on what you choose and what the bank will allow. It's safer not to.

4) I'm still puzzled over the relevance of checks.

I admit, every time I discuss such financial issues with Americans, I keep being surprised by how medieval American banking still is. Isn't there a market for modern banks over there?
I’ve been to the Sahara. Believe it or not, there are roads there, and about as much traffic as when you drive across the American West.
The incoming California legislature is over 3/4ths Democratic so while the Federal gridlock may not make any progress, there could be some movement closer to home that at least gets the industry to prepare for the inevitable.
Yes Flutter could become an alternative to Electron, but it doesn't need Hummingbird for that - Flutter can be directly compiled as a native desktop application.
I was hoping you wouldn't read that. I hit delete as soon as I realized I was being rude. Sorry about that.
There are quite a few that have been around for several years e.g. mailbox.org, runbox.com (since 1999!!), posteo.de, startmail.com...