skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that is sad, but already many people are way smarter than me without any artificial modifications.

If i could pick i'd prefer to live in a world where there are thousands of people like Feynman and most people are smarter than me, instead of a world where all people are about as smart as me, and progress in science is correspondingly slow.
Engineer is an incredibly widely-used term as part of titles. In addition to SWEs etc., you've got sales engineers, systems engineers, field engineers, etc. When I was in the oil business there were titles like mud engineer (which people joked should have been called mud salesmen). The majority of these people don't have engineering degrees and have never worked in what most would consider an engineering role.
I have had some luck with this method [0]: "The trick is reportedly used by the US army to help them fall asleep when in situations that are less than peaceful, such as on battlefields." It has some similarities to yours, but some interesting differences as well. I've modified it a bit to say “don’t think, don’t think, don’t think” to myself over and over for a minute or two instead of 10 seconds

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fall-asleep-two-min...
That makes sense, I don't see why not. Patreon probably batches this for me. I end up paying $15-20 a month (and growing) to Patreon, then they distribute that to the individual content creators.

(Except that I closed my Patreon account since they decided to get all arbitrary and political over the Sargon of Akkad thing, but I suppose a good alternative will prop up eventually, which is why I'm looking into donating directly to the source)
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As a scientist myself, you should always be very wary of things like this because scientists often think they have things totally figured out and then boom, oops, we knew nothing and the gene you altered or change you made has about 100 different effects that we hadn't thought of or known about. You make these sorts of mistakes in a human being and you've just given them problems for the entirety of their lifetime that they never asked for.

"First, do no harm" is harder to live up to than you think.
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30% is in the ballpark of a marketing budget. Back when there were only a few apps in the app store it made some sense because it was a marketing platform. Now, it's not. In fact it's quite the opposite.

When Steve Jobs was asked about the exorbitant fee when the app store was born, he said it wasn't an issue because people were going to be using web apps instead anyway. And that's exactly what we should have done.
I agree with the above but when does it get to a point where due to the architect innovation is slowing down? Yes ultimately it will be the usage/usefulness/contribution of the open source project that will determine if its healthy but how do you tell?

When a enthusiast comes on board, they bring in new ideas, new tech etc. If they are proposing changes what is the real reason they feel they have to make that change? And how to distinguish between instability and stability of introducing that change?
Did you get hired in a proper research and/or teaching role though in the subject area that you previously worked in when you were in academia? Or did they just pay you out of a research grant for a role as a technician of some kind? Big difference there, as the latter are, in my experience, treated as a "lower caste" and get paid neither as much as other academics nor as much as they would get paid in industry.
I do a helluva lot of commenting online via twitter, various forums and a bunch of blogs. Over the years, I've gotten much more careful about the things I say online on specific topics because people routinely imagine they know me better than they do based on having read my writing for so many years.

So my experience really doesn't fit with what you are saying at all. My experience is that what people say online is the tip of the iceberg of their life and the world imagines it has greater context than it really has and leaps to weird and inaccurate conclusions on a pretty regular basis.

Trying to figure out how to express myself so I feel like I'm actually understood takes an inordinate amount of my time. I have reason to believe most other people don't spend anywhere near as much time and effort as I do on trying to sort that out.

Most of the time, most people don't seem to get as wildly and horrifically misunderstood as I seem to so often end up being. Or if they are misunderstood, it isn't that big of a deal in many cases.

But I remain aghast at the idea of someone calling the cops on me because of something I have said online that people imagine they understood that was not a "threat" against anyone but me.

On top of being skeptical that Facebook understands you as well as you imagine they do, I am also pro right to die.

In a nutshell, if people give a damn about my sorry ass, they could choose to do something meaningful in the here and now to help me make my life work instead of being part of the problem, making my life harder than it already is and then pretending to themselves they are Good People by calling the god-damned cops on me for leaving a fucking courtesy note somewhere online if I decide to finally check the fuck out of here.

Note to self: Don't bother to leave a courtesy note online informing anyone of fuck all. They really don't deserve such courtesies. Geez.
It doesn’t seem you know what flutter is:) performance and tool chain is orders of magnitude better than the alternatives. Please try it out. I am a go, python, js dev and I find flutter offering the best developer UX
This is true. Many of these devices are using effectively joke crypto libraries however, theres a world of difference between something that needs a sophisticated setup, and the python crypto library that was transliterated into C and makes absolutely no effort at being constant time. The original Trezor software took something in the order of 300ms to produce a single signature. You could probably have done recovery of the nonce from ec multiply with a stopwatch.

If your security appliance is using an ECDSA library for Arduino that has absolutely zero tests or review, you just outright lost. Some of the more well known products in the space do exactly this.

https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/blob/master/test/test_e...
> Calling the cops on a stranger because you supposedly care about their welfare is asshole behavior. I don't care at all about your supposed justification or algorithms etc.

Better to be an asshole that cares than an asshole that doesn’t.
Agreed with this. In fact, I feel a lot of the issues society has with privacy and freedom of speech right now come from how it seems to be willing to trade virtually all freedom for the illusion of 'safety'.

A free society is also often a risky society, but the rewards of freedom outweight said risks.
It's not about the companies. I do not care much about them.

It's about people that may be hacked between someone's 0day disclosure and manufacturer's response. And if the manufacturer doesn't care to fix the bug - roast them about that. It's their fault.

It's not moral because people (not companies) may suffer. Your actions have consequences.
What is privacy is just their marketing selling point.

Apple did try ads and they failed. So they changed their business to something they can handle. Something even required by law through GDPR.

The most obvious prove was that Apple had insufficiently implemented GDPR according to a consumer organisation on the EU, a month after implementation. Where they surveyed all tech companies.

They love GDPR because they think it would hurt their competitors though
> You only have as much capital as the bank will lend you

There are other ways to acquire capital. I see a lot of people who were doctors, lawyers, and tech professionals in the farming business. That is probably not a coincidence.

> And if you are successful, you buy out your less successful neighbor to expand your farm, where does your neighbor go?

The neighbour retires. If you are the neighbour, why would you sell your piece for any less than is required for you to retire? If you plan to keep working, you may as well keep working your farm.

> Old farmers can probably retire, but what about young ones? They often just give up and move.

The young ones generally don't start in the first place unless they have a line on capital that extends beyond the bank. And so, they also have that capital to sell. But why wouldn't they simply keep on farming?
Is qualifying for a mortgage on a house really the same thing as affording it though?
What is this "Stripe Madness" to which you refer?
I love a good fizzbuzz HN thread, on a snowy day off with coffee, almost as much as a good vim HN thread.
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Is this Tim Ferriss?
To this day the smell of east coast pizza makes me think of this game. Spent many quarters on it. The SNES version fueled many late night sleepovers.

Interesting to learn that the AI had a slight jump on the player — created some compellingly difficult matches as the game wore on.

The thing I love about old games is how tight they were — not much room for waste, and so the pieces fit together like a watch.
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> The obvious one is that the security domains in the device are idiotic. There's a "secure" processor with almost no processing power or IO, and a "insecure" one which handles the screen, buttons and IO. Both of them handle secrets (for example, the seed shown on the screen), which leaves you with essentially no gain whatsoever.

I think the idea is that the secure processor will verify the insecure processor's firmware (the "MCU check"), making such attacks impractical.

Of course, the design is broken and it can be bypassed by emulation, but security isn't all or nothing - "no gain whatsoever" is not true.
He Jiankui did a Q&A in November, many of the questions people asked concerned the informed content process he used. The Q&A starts ~20 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLZufCrjrN0
Senior pilots for the major carriers are reasonably well compensated though not usually at levels that the typical FAANG developer would get out of bed for (likely $100-200K). Many regional pilots earn less than $50K and first officers less.

Partners at big city law firms are obviously very well-compensated. But the glut of lawyers has been something of a story in recent years and employment difficulties/low salaries for graduates of second and third tier schools are the norm.

Neither of these professions are examples of highly constrained supply except to the degree that there are only so many ex-military pilots and Ivy League law review grads.
Jordan Peterson talks about it sometimes. I bet the podcast the author was hearing at the time was one interviewing Peterson...
But is a nice idea
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I left a research lab, started a BE company, failed, started a dev shop, which has had some success. I am glad I left, but there is very little opportunity to do research, or work on anything related to my phd. In retrospect, my opinion is academia is a toxic, low productivity environment that punishes ambition.
hell, not even any antibiotics in the first place

No man-made antibiotics. I assure you, Mother Nature was way ahead of humankind there and, in fact, a lot of our drugs are based on things already found in nature.

We have a want center. We tend to like the taste of things that benefit us. There is research on such things.

If you are sick and you respect your cravings, it's possible to find yourself consuming a thing that contains a natural form of medication that addresses your issue, and doing so in sufficiently high quantities as to hit a medicinal dosage of it.

This is likely a root cause of the idea that "god" made someone better: We don't know what they were sick with or what cured it, so it seems miraculous. That doesn't mean there wasn't something in specific that they did or that simply happened that fixed the issue.

We are swarming with billions of microbes at all times. Some are beneficial and we can't digest our food without them. Some are harmful. Low levels of harmful microbes are a routine norm that the body deals with daily. It's only when it gets beyond a certain threshold that it becomes identifiable sickness.

I would be surprised if we were unable to find some wins that are, relative to our current objectives, major, obvious, safe, and free.

When antibiotics first came out, the world announced the end of disease. It's a few decades later and we are dealing with the rise of super bugs instead of living in the predicted disease-free utopia.

You and I fundamentally don't see this problem space at all similarly.
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Home Counties accent (or even Received Pronunciation) do not pronounce "car" and the opening syllable of "character" the same way, since the 'a' in "car" is elongated (I'm not sure what the correct linguistic term for elongation is).
You must read the book "The Revolutionary Phenotype: The amazing story of how life begins and how it ends" by J.F. Gariepy, PhD.. It outlines how genetic modification will eventually result in DNA being replaced completely with a new system if we continue down this path.

Watch this short clip where he explains in detail what the book is about: https://youtu.be/mFQk7ausjd8?t=131

I do not mean to be advertising for him, I feel it's important for people to understand that what will happen will be equivalent to RNA based lifeforms being replaced with DNA based lifeforms...

Here is the Amazon page if anyone's interested: https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Phenotype-amazing-story...
> It isn’t that they are copying the rich, they are going from places where there are few opportunities to where their are many opportunities.

The appearance of opportunities. Sometimes the opportunities are real, usually not. Plenty of people move to California in hopes of becoming a star, where opportunities are abound, but only end up in dead-end jobs. It is quite likely that those people would have been far better off in a mundane job where competition isn't fierce and where living costs won't destroy you.

> this never had anything to do with “fashion”

Fashion is very much driven by the rich, through hopes that dressing like the rich will result in riches. It has been for as long as we have historical records about fashion. Nobody goes out of their way to dress like a hobo, unless the rich are dressing like hobos for some reason.
The comment I was replying to implied that checking with the inertial measurement system was an alternative to checking against GPS.

I still think I'll be surprised if accelerometers provide useful velocity information over timescales useful to a pilot. But maybe that's because I only have experience with cheap MEMS accelerometers from around 15 years ago.
I’m not sure but I’m guessing his point is that black hats would more likely write their own software and script kiddies would rather not use abandoned software?

In any case, there wasn’t any shortage of tools even in the 90s. Nor places to research them either. Plus systems were less security conscious then too so the barrier for entry was a little lower.

Source: my own misspent youth.
> The cost of Apple's gatekeeping -- their review bureaucracy -- is entirely their own doing and benefits no one.

That was actually the reason I ditched my Android and switched to an iPhone a few years back. After writing an app for both platforms and seeing how terrifyingly easy it was to get on the Play store ($25 and 4 hours after uploading the apk) vs Apple's more rigorous review process which took close to a month, checked out our company's DUNS number and _actually_ tested/used the app.

Also the cluster hell that is the forced Android permission system and how intrusive the most basic ones are vs. Apple's opt-in "Read contacts? (Yes/No)" while using the app are why I'd never go back.
> "Being homeless was an unfree condition by all counts; thus, it was incumbent on a free society to remedy that problem. A quadriplegic adult was blocked from civil society if buildings weren’t required to have ramps. Anderson’s democratic model shifted the remit of egalitarianism from the idea of equalizing wealth to the idea that people should be equally free, regardless of their differences."

I wonder if Anderson supports an open-borders immigration policy. By her argument, a free society should be equally obligated to someone unlucky enough to be born in Congo, and should afford her all the same freedoms to live, work and participate in a well functioning free society.

I personally don't support an open borders policy, but that's because I don't subscribe to her philosophy of morality. If she isn't calling for an immediate end to border enforcement, I wonder how she reconciles that with her espoused moral philosophy.
Well, I didn't expect to see this pop up here. (I'm the author)
occupational licensing and the laws around them are what keep many people who go to prison without a good means to obtain a well paying job. it also keeps many in lower income strata because even simple jobs are overly regulated protecting entrenched concerns; read : hair and nail care and even interior decorating in some jurisdictions.

yet there are defenders who will pop up with any threat to the licensing by citing extreme examples but most of this is to protect the businesses who both "train" to meet the licensing requirements as well as those who hire because it becomes an expensive business to compete in
From the article:

'... the [Fourth Circuit] held that because UMW had the "technical capacity to control the means by which the harassing and threatening messages were transmitted" (that is, the ability to block campus network access to Yik Yak altogether) ... UMW had substantial control and thus could be liable for the harassment.'

So you're right that the court didn't explicitly require the university to do anything, just as courts don't require that people refrain from committing murder, but if you murder someone, a court will likely lead to you being punished.

With the threat of being potentially held liable for harassment, there is at least a strong motivation (if not a "requirement" as such) for the university to "control the means by which the harassing and threatening messages were transmitted", especially if that is the simplest or cheapest way of avoiding liability.

I suppose that if that happened, and if my theory about the First Amendment is correct, then affected students could bring their own case and demand a different resolution to the issue in this article.
Yes there are multiple hierarchy. But all hierarchy are not equal. Some are inherently more difficult to get on top, some are more beneficial to society, some are less likeable to get into, and in each case you can command a higher share of wealth for being on top compared being on top of another hierarchy.

The society seems quite well multivalued as of today anyway, with people on top of their hierarchies commanding high wealth.
Those claims are somewhat confusing. What is the difference, in your mind, between an IO loop and a "global event emitter"? That's all the IO loop is; an event emitter that fires events at subscribed code.

Do you consider the "OOP"-ness to be evident in the fact that subscription functions (whether 'onclick' functions or 'fetch' callbacks) contain both code to react to events and an implicit binding to the IO loop? Or is your issue that some (not all!) DOM APIs happen to let you attach on-event functions to the same things you can read data out of?

Basically, I don't see why UI programming is any more inherently OO or functional (assuming those are even opposites, which has historically been debated more or less to death) than any other domain. There are UI toolkits that subscribe to each and both of those paradigms, with varying amounts of rigor.
reduce() is still available in the functools module.

I highly recommend to become familiar with the functools, itertools and collections modules to anybody using Python and not using them regularly.
It's a pain in the ass to write functional code in python because the syntax is not optimized for it. A functional programming language makes lambda and (partial) application as cheap as possible, which Python does not.
Germany has a good railway system that connects many (most? all?) small villages with nearby towns with nearby cities. More importantly, its rural population density is an order of magnitude greater than the US, at 237/km^2 vs 35/km^2 (source: https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/rural-population-percen..., https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/rural-population-...). The biggest misconception that I’ve found my friends from other developed countries have about the US is that we are comparable to other developed countries; we aren’t; we’re more comparable to a continent, and more of a second-world country than a first-world one.

Moreover, the US system of government was designed to tilt the scales a bit in favor of rural areas than cities (that was maybe a fair trade-off a couple centuries ago). Combine that structural power dynamic with decades of rural depopulation as smart kids from small towns pursue opportunity in cities (I’m one) and it goes a long way towards explaining why we seem so crazy with our elected officials.
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People are responsible for their own actions and that doesn't change here. It's not different from any other component failure in automobiles or aerospace. When an autopilot fails, they don't go out and find the people who contributed code to it and charge them all with hundreds of murders. They might jail someone if they made a willfully negligent decision with regards to testing or approvals but that person is just as likely to be in business or product as to be an engineer.

Silicon Valley doesn't think anything different from that and doesn't expect to be treated any differently. Jailing engineers would be the different, weird thing.
I have certain % of my USD salary get automatically invested in s&p index. Would getting paid in NSDQ be setting it to 100% ? also, Wouldn't the exchange rate of NSDQ constantly be fluctuating.
> Irrelevant, that it's not perfect doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.

It's not a question of perfection. There are two strains of HIV, one that attacks CCR5, and another one where CCR5 is not involved. In Asia, the latter strain is more common than elsewhere in the world; about 25% or so of infections involve that strain. Dr. He appears to have made no attempt to actually ascertain which of the HIV strains were actually involved in the cases at hand.

The evidence is pretty damning that Dr. He was not motivated to conduct a medical experiment; he was motivated to become the first person to achieve CRISPR in humans, and the medical experimentation was merely a means to do it.
Assholes usually don't actually care. They just like to imagine they are good people and that their latest decision to fuck with your pathetic life while not actually genuinely caring about you at all is evidence of what wonderful people they are.

I wish assholes would stop using me as evidence of what wonderful people they imagine themselves to be. It only compounds the problem.

I have yet to run into anyone on the internet who actually cares about my actual welfare when I talk about my struggles with being suicidal. No, it's just some societal trope that trying to keep me around is some kind of good behavior on their part, never mind that they will not do fuck-all to help me resolve any of the real world problems that make me suicidal and probably won't stop fucking with me for giggles and out of prejudice either.

Assholes who imagine they care are the absolute worst people I deal with in life. There is zero upside to dealing with their shit. Assholes only produce shit. That's probably why the world calls them "assholes" to begin with.