skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so typical of the tech press these days. They complain about the first version of something not being up to their standards and then write off the whole thing. It seems so typical of people who have never done the hard work of creating something new themselves. We should be applauding all innovators I just don't understand the negativity. Sure its not perfect, who cares? The next version will be better and the next version after that better again. I think they just feign outrage for clicks.
Clearly, AGI-level intelligence is possible, because human brains exist.

So unless you pose that a function has to rely on its materialization (there is something untouchably magic about biological neural networks, and intelligence is not multiple realizable), it should be possible to functionally model intelligence. Nature shows the way.

AGI will likely obsolete humanity. Either depricate it, or consume it (make us part of the Borg collective). Heck, even a relatively dumb autonomous atom bomb or computer virus may be enough to wipe humanity from the face of the earth.
Simple JavaScript pseudo-monad to check if a key or a value exists in an object
Believe it or not, it's possible to turn off the alarm without checking your phone.
Without spending a lot of time on this, I don't believe that Slack just used ethnicity to ban this account. Could the OP have been using VPNs or something that led Slack to believe his IPs were coming from IRAN? I don't see Slack doing anything differently, and all this "outrage" seems to be unfounded at this point.

Edit: one thought, hopefully they can open a new Slack account with IPs originating in Canada and Slack can copy/move/reinstate the account.
What about https://keybase.io
I tried Pandora's brilliant method for feature prioritization
If you make your site completely unusable for 30% of people, no matter how many try to use it, they'll end up making up a miniscule portion of your user base, which you'll then use as justification for ignoring them.
Clickbait title, but I'll support anything that encourages empathy toward users.
Sheesh the format of this article is dreadful.
I am using sovereign - https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign

It is dated it seems, but still does a job.

There are indeed issues with delivery, but you just work through these as they arise. Also, there is no monetization involved, so I do not care that much about delivery rate. But if your profits are directly tied to delivery rate - hoting own SMTP server might not work as well.
We had poker planning introduced to my team and within two months or so we got to the point where most of the time we all get the same number or get something like 8-13-21.
If you would’ve paid for it, you might consider actually paying for it (if you haven’t already): https://magit.vc/donate
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I just leave my email client and systems report open all the time. That way I can easily glance over and check if something needs my attention when I have some attention to spare, rather than be distracted by a notification appearing randomly over my work.
You don’t have to jump from one to another :) you can just stop using Facebook
But being a subscription service doesn’t incentive the NYT to improve your understanding of the situation...the only thing it incentivizes them to do is to keep you from unsubscribing which is easier to do by creating outrage than by staying with the truth.

See what I did there?
Yes. You have free reign to make sites for whoever you want get the fuck out of here with your attempted guilt tripping
The way the brand and scale turns into a moat and/or pricing power is through lower customer acquisition costs than less notable competitors. If everybody who wants shared office space googles WeWork to find it, it's going to be an uphill battle for other operators to get noticed.
... it's effectively my clock. Checking what time it is when you wake up is in no way strange, is it?
Same. Just need a design
When I saw the video yesterday, have a lot of laughter.

Real breakthrough!!
it also shows how quickly people make the "Good for developers = Good for users" mental leap.
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This is great! When the system IDs someone, you know they're not the person you're looking for. It's a great way to weed out potential suspects.
> Highly intelligent people have highly intelligent reasons to stick with their older devices and software. Hipster managers who think they're 'too cool' to see this piss me right off.

A better way to put this might be: The newness or hipness of your device doesn't add any IQ points to your IQ score. The irony is those who need to understand this the most are often the last to get it, if they get it at all.
I have been thinking of ways a "new nuclear" company could have a business plan that gives them an exit in case they run into regulatory or other roadblocks and molten salt handling was one of the ones that seemed most promising.

(Too bad there doesn't seem to be any non-nuclear market for Brayton cycle turbines.)
How would that work with email clients?
Matrix.org's problem was that they reinvented the wheel (again) WRT the protocol. Now you have a protocol that if the main company goes under, probably can't be developed further and doesn't already have wide adoption and lots of clients written for it (as is the case of IRC/XMPP). HipChat had a better model here where they used XMPP (admittedly, in the worst way possible and completely misunderstood and broke the protocol in lots of places) but build their own service on top of it. You could still use third party clients, the experience just wouldn't be quite as good. If they had enabled federation it would have solved the Slack problem to a certain degree.

Matrix could have done the same thing, but they chose to waste time and money reinventing the wheel (and doing a bad job of it) instead of focusing on the service and the clients.
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Regardless of whether parents understand hacking, computers, or Fortnite, I think parents would be able to tell if something was up based on differences in what their kid is doing.

The spectrum of Fortnite "hackers" ranges from a bunch of idiots being handheld by internet users on how to use off-the-shelf scripts to those that actually have an understanding of computer science and information security to DIY their own malicious code.

I somewhat agree that if a kid is making $200-$400/mo doing some 'video game nonsense' selling "skins" or whatever, then parents could be apathetic to whatever their kid is doing in their spare time.

Now if a kid was coming to a parent with salary-level money, or buying expensive items, then that would be a more serious sign their kid is involved in something. And given they are too young to legally be employed, there would be a lot of questions where the money came from. Once this level of money is reached, it's easier to fall into a path of being a career criminal. If someone is raking in a few thousand a month as a teenager from Fortnite account theft, who's to say they wouldn't have the confidence to get involved with other crimes like identity theft, bank fraud, stealing credit cards, etc. It opens the door to a lot of bad life decisions.
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Been a little while since I looked into this, but some devs do test for slow connection usability. The problem is that browser tools for simulating a slow connection don't drop and delay packets semi randomly like radio tech will. They just limit your max speeds.
Do we actually care about these users? Are they going to buy the products we advertise on our websites? Are they going to subscribe to our platform?

No. So why should we optimize for people who do not matter to our bottom like?
> grunt work

Honestly, it is an insult to call good data preprocessing skills grunt work.

It may not be as attractive, but requires a lot of understanding of the nature of data and way in which patterns present themselves.
I really don't understand all the cynicism around this. It's a prototype of a bold idea, in all likelihood it will fail (like most bold new ideas), but at least they're trying something new. That's how change happens, through trial and error, not through foolproof, perfectly executed plans. For better or for worse, Elon Musk has a track record of taking difficult ideas and beating all odds to make them a reality.

If you wanna call out Elon Musk for something, call him out for his abusive management practices and erratic/abusive behavior on twitter. Calling him out for trying out bold ideas (with all the trial and error that entails) is really petty and counterproductive.
It is in fact my only clock unless you count the microwave or laptop. It is also my only alarm.
You may want to check https://prism-break.org/en/all/#social-networks
Carpenter here. Metaphors suck and are almost always deceptive ways to reinforce a point. Someone would denigrate a carpenter for using an electric screwdriver on finish screws where precise movements and protection of the surface area is important. You would be fired immediately.
Has anyone here used any of these? I'd love to hear your thoughts vs Slack.
Well, as a user I find Javascript heavy websites to be a toxic wasteland full of dissapointment and failure.

Just yesterday I was trying to use the Sendgrid support site. I was logged in. There was a "click here to login and send a support request" button (and no other way to create a ticket). clicking it just reloaded the page. There was a login link (even though I was logged in). It may as well have been a static image, you couldn't click it.

After a few minutes of trying the button finally worked. When writing my ticket the support system would scroll the page down on every single keypress so that the text field was aligned with the bottom of the browser and I was typing on the bottom few pixels of my browser and display. It was awful.

Unfortunately this "certain level of interactivity" is what I've come to expect from Javascript heavy websites. News sites where the content doesn't load. The re-rise of loading spinners, delays, errors, my CPU fans being exercised While. Displaying. Text.

> No one would denigrate a carpenter for using an electric screwdriver over a manual one.

No, but I'd complain if it took an hour to open my front door, took all my strength to do so, then when I finally got into the house it just fell into a pit and I had to start again.

I hate the rise of Javascript, and I resent that it has made the web a significantly worse place.
Didn't the NAT get pulled from hyper-V?
Has the Boring Company even said anything about how they plan on so dramatically cutting the cost per mile of tunnel building?
Now that google has killed off their G+ social network, maybe they can focus on adding value by being the "discovery engine" for the fediverse. I mean, their original product was their search engine, so connecting disparate data silos is something that they're good at. It worked for website discovery all these years, why not for federated/distributed points of online presence? Mind you, it need not only be google, but can also be bing, or duckduckGo, etc.
The other thing I notice too often is that the UI / UX was designed and/or built by someone with a cutting edge resolution screen that was likely connected to some corporate high-speed mega-pipe.

I keep a older crap laptop for a reason. I'm not sure why I feel so alone for doing so.
That paper is mentioned in the comments of my first link. I would be surprised if the Go team doesn't know about it. In that thread, as well as here, both you and the other poster haven't actually stated how the paper's strategy would work for Go, and haven't actually stated how the strategy affects compile times, binary sizes, and execution time.

edit: addendum: but also, in every thread about Go, there are some Haskell people showing up to talk about how the Go team is too stupid to understand the Haskell type system. This happens regardless of what the opening topic is, which in this case, is dependency management. No matter what the topic is, if it's a thread about Go, you will find Haskell programmers there, condescendingly talking about how Haskell's type system is so much better than Go's type system. It is very tiring.
The problem with OOP patterns is not that they are complex. It's that you gain incredibly little by using them.
Ah, the life of an on-call sysadmin.
> But reporters arrived to find out plans have apparently changed from a public transit system to a private system for rich drivers.

The author missed a solid opportunity to make a Stonecutters joke.
Facebook is a tool to receive updates from friends and family. As such, what it really is at its core, and what would replace it, would be a giant opt-in personal spying network.
Regarding the invention of the internet, they should have mentioned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
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Maybe more of an email list than an RSS feed then? You can control who is a member of the list to receive content. It would be cool if social media could be done through email, sort of like Usenet.
How often do you place a blindfold on when you first wake up and spend a few hours with life without sight? Your phone is your 6th sense and it’s part of you now same way your eyes are. It’s called being a “cyborg” and we are all that now. And it will only get more integrated with surgery soon. Imagine bluetooth connections from chip in your head to phone in your pocket. Google search with your mind without looking at your phone. That changes school doesn’t it? Kids will have no choice but to get the surgery to compete.
I learned a lot about unix systems, server administration, Windows internals, some more C++, graph theory and distributed systems theory.
"A full build out of the concept could end up being a private uncontested highway system mirroring the congested public one for use only by a very rich few."

That was exactly my thought when I read about the test. I have a hard time seeing how this can scale in capacity. But getting himself out of the gridlock...now that's...something at least. Speed similar to a helicopter ride above the traffic without all the hassle of getting on and off and finding a place to land.

Not sure it's a good thing.
Wait till they hit college. then you become the alarm clock. (Today, got up at 0500 Pacific to provide back-up alarm for kid on east coast with final).
This is great, thanks. Also have the below:

- https://gohugo.io/ Static site generator written with Go-lang
- https://jekyllrb.com/ static site generator written with Ruby
ChaiScript
Sure but GPLv2 doesn't help you if all copies of the source code are gone, so be sure to grab a copy of that vdhh repo now in case tithomas1 removes his.

I imagine it's not in a working state on current versions of macOS, what with the security changes that Apple makes pretty much every year. But if someone wanted to try to get it going again they certainly could.
> It's still 100% about how to benefit users for most teams.

If that were true, things like Amp would never have even been proposed.

Modern web browsers are absolute marvels, but shitty developers and business people are driving people like me into apps.

I'm far less optimistic about the web now than I was 20 years ago. I more bullish than ever on the internet in general, but the web is a mess.
That's the point of the comment. Modern data science tutorials assume the source data is a nice and tidy CSV, when the reality is that data is very often a mess, and it's a constraint often not reflected in the glamorization of the field. (it's also a reason that I recommend that code always be published when making posts such as these, as it's very easy to do wrong!)
Why does their need to be a requirement? Making a website accessible to individuals using screen readers is the right thing to do; it shouldn't need to be mandated.
"No, it hasn't. It's still 100% about how to benefit users for most teams."

I have to say, though, that if this is the case then far too many teams utterly fail. Quite a lot of (most, I think) web sites don't appear to be designed primarily to benefit users to me (user benefit generally seems to fall to third place, behind "make it pretty" and "use the sexy new tools"). And that problem has been getting worse over the last decade or so.

"No one would denigrate a carpenter for using an electric screwdriver over a manual one. No one would complain that the carpenter only cares about their "carpenter experience"."

I absolutely would if the result is that the carpenter's work is worse for it.
Solution: null route *.oracle.com.
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It indeed depends on personal circumstances. In my case my case sending mail through own SMTP server is not a problem.

Even if that would be a problem in future, you'd rather use one of SMTP PaaS (there are quite a few of them out there) instead of using fully integrated solution like Mail Chimp. I.e. you can use Mautic and connect it to Sendgrid or something like that. This way you have full ownership of mailing lists and newsletters content.
I don't understand who upvotes this articles, propagating them to the front page
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/other/17
As well as keeping the conversation going, this has the added benefit of showing the other person that you care about them - great for relationship building! (Pro tip: it works best when you actually do care about them ;-) )
Yes I am wrong and will admit it. Certainly not a troll!
I take it you don't have a cat meowing in your ear, because they want morning food?
>I really don't understand all the cynicism around this. It's a prototype of a bold idea, [...]

Well, because it isn't. Tunnel boring is an established industry, it's just a new topic on HN, and apparently for Musk. People don't call him out for being bold, they are calling him out for doing bad and falling over his own hubris.
Ok, I can agree to the fact that companies may take advantage of immigrants like others have suggested. However, what the original comment said was specifically against Indians which sounds more like a racial bias (and for some reason it sounds more so, if there isn't any salary discrimination happening in company for immigrants).

Yes, large portions of tech immigrants are Indians, but not all immigrants are Indians. This is typical correlation doesn't imply causation mistake. Considering, a huge majority of Indians in tech it shouldn't be less common than otherwise. Doesn't mean Indians managers are mostly bad. The ones I had in US were great, and includes the best I've had.
agreed. But that's a fundamentally different concept you are describing. The point is you cannot compare $100 salary and living in A with $100 salary and living in B unless you know the values of A and B. This definitely holds for "modern" western countries where social welfare/tax systems/costs of living/healthcare have a huge impact on living standards and hence what a salary of value X means. Generally speaking you might say more money == more fun, but I don't know of any data to back up that claim once we are talking about some dollar amount above the poverty limit.
Honestly, it already happened. Books from before copyright became effectively infinite are widely available. Recent books are widely available. Anything in between (1930-1980) is a gulf of missing books.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-h...

I like reading old pulpy science fiction. They are typically out of print, and will never have a reprint. I'll find a reference online, but won't be able to find a copy. There might be a plot summary, or a listing of which out-of-print magazines initially carried the story, but no copies.

As another example (and please somebody prove me wrong), I cannot find the 1954 movie "So This is Paris", starring Tony Curtis. No copies available anywhere on amazon, ebay, or searching through internet sites. There was a short clip of one of the songs on Youtube a few years ago, but it was taken down for copyright infringement. I simply cannot find it anywhere.
The value of that intangible asset is called 'goodwill' and the market gives it a value. Worldcom had to slash around $80 billion dollars in lost 'goodwill'.
Indeed; the 'open the blood-brain barrier' motivation sounds fscking scary; the barrier is there for a reason, and you'd be opening yourself to totally unknown risks in the process.
They didn't shut down their account because she visited Cuba, but because her account was created _from_ Cuba. It's unfortunate but I guess it's the only way Slack has to "know" where an account is from.
Will the team be renamed the "Justified Ancients?"
What are your pain points with the matrix proto?
Also: the book of Ecclesiastes [1][2], or the Song of Songs [3] — poetry at its finest... how is it not about thoughts and feelings?

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

[2]: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes_(Bible)

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Songs
> So when were the citizens of the US punished for their government bombing Japan?

About the same time as Japanese citizens were punished for the Bataan Death March, the Rape of Nanking, and the Korean Comfort Women.

Besides, since when is it appropriate to "punish" a country for winning a war in which it was aggressed against?
Nurse or Nurse practitioner?
I sometimes feel the temptation to check it even during the night when I briefly wake up to roll over or something.
Build it on links. It supports advanced terminal functionality like graphics already.
Dillo?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillo
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React has nothing to do with hot loading. It simply gives a retained-mode DOM an immediate-mode interface that is either to program but still retains the efficiency of retained mode. Yes, it is true, that having anything immediate-mode makes achieving hot loading easier (among many many other things), but it isn't the main reason behind the framework.
Is there discovery on Facebook?

Most people I add because I meet them in read life. Actually, 100% of the people I add on FB after I've met them in real life.

Maybe if there was a good search and easy add mechanism for people I've met, it would fulfill the discovery aspect. I agree with you, it does feel easier to find people on FB.
Hmm, in the case of node_exporters, prometheus can be configured to pull metrics every X interval and if the target is down it can be alerted through that way too right?
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In my middle school (late 90's, the age of ICQ) all the self-described "non-technical" girls spent their breaks on mIRC in the computer lab gossiping or whatever teenage girls do. If we're talking about a developer audience (the readers of Hacker News) it really isn't difficult at all.
Nope. But I still grab my phone and look sadly at the time.
What if you didn’t need money or attention?
a private road network? the libertarians will be all over this..
Yeah, I had a manual alarm clock for years, and recently discovered that my phone is actually the ideal alarm clock.

I travel a lot, often to different time zones, and instead of having muck around with hotel alarm clocks, my phone alarm always goes off at the same time every morning relative to the local time.

And there's no alarm clock at home that buzzes in the morning and annoys the heck out of my neighbors before shutting itself off after 30 mins.

A phone also doesn't blink 00:00 when the power goes out.
With 30% having bad internet you'd think there would be a push in those communities to get better internet.

Then again, the lack of internet usability may create an image of the internet as not being worth it. If you have no access to the better things on the internet, then you may think that there is nothing of real value on it so you won't push for better internet.