skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since your goal is to have a career switch I would recommend you the following approach:

- Essential books and papers are good as a reference to learn and improve but focus first on hands-on stuff.

- Get involved in an open source project that fits the 'system level' category, learn how it works and try to contribute to it (again, put your hands-on)

- Start with development in C language, a good tool to build would be a TCP client and server (kind of 'echo' program). The goal of this will be to learn: how to compile a C program, basics of memory management (malloc, free, realloc), networking (create a socket, bind, listen, connect), transfer data (write, read) and so on.

- If possible, learn using a native Linux environment.

All of the suggestions above will pay off if you are persistent and keep trying learning by building; of course, getting involved in an open source project is a must if you want to have a successful career.
"For people who are basically addicted to sweet soft drinks, I think Zero is a healthier alternative."

The question is how much healthier it is and how less healthy it is compared to not drinking soda.
Is that not normal with other carriers? I've made multiple trips abroad and aside from an occasional delay of a few minutes, my phone just works wherever I go.
> Incentive to live is different from incentive to work.

Incentive to live is the primary but not only incentive to work. Wealth is what you need when you're trying to survive, only after that's achieved do other incentives matters.

> The meaning of wealth is going to have to change.

No, wealth is wealth, it's just stuff, that's not going to change. You need stuff to survive, food, shelter, etc, that's not ever going to change.

What's going to change is how wealth is distributed, that's where the conversation is.
I am amazed by how apolitically the people cited in the article are reacting to - and how the writers of the article are representing - something that is a manufactured political problem.

There seems to be a deliberate effort to depoliticize this crisis (Whereas, if the federal government were to, say, stop making bond payments, it would be an incredibly political affair.)
The eye focuses light. Formally, this transforms incoming photons so that their position on the retina is a smooth function of their direction. Diffraction and atmosphere mean a laser will be distributed somewhat in position, so the incoming photons may be spread over a 2mm spot on the front of the eye. However, all of those photons have almost identical direction and end up being concentrated in a single spot on the retina, up to the limits of the eye's optics. 20/20 human vision can resolve down to about .02 of a degree so a point source should be very similar to a .02 degree circle, the visual nerve blind spot is 7.5 degrees wide and is caused by a 1.5mm obstruction on the retina, so a point source like a laser should land in a spot on the retina about .005mm across. 2mm diameter / .005mm diameter is 400 and area is proportional to the square, so this would be something like 160,000x decrease in area with equivalent increase in intensity. Result: Not even enough to warm your skin up but instantly boils a bit of your retina.

(I'm rather happy with how well my estimate corresponds to the figure from Wikipedia: "The eye focuses visible and near-infrared light onto the retina. A laser beam can be focused to an intensity on the retina which may be up to 200,000 times higher than at the point where the laser beam enters the eye.")
There's two other cool engines with a software renderer that support colored lighting:

http://super8.qbism.com/

https://github.com/leilei-/Engoo

Both are Q1 though. However, the gray-ish/brown-ish look is entirely dependent on the color palette that you chose to use in your game. You have 256 colors to choose from, and with the 256x320 colormap, you get 64 shades of each.
1950's TV Character “Trump” Tries to Scare Town into Building a Wall
threads --> web workers

sockets --> web sockets

processes --> communicating btw microservices

memory usage --> app and performance profiling

it sounds like you're comparing a junior (high school-level?) FE to a senior BE.

in my experience FE is difficult because your code is generally running in a lot of different environments and you have to create something that works reasonably well in all those places. oh yeah, and then there's a human who actually uses the product and who knows what crazy stuff they'll do.

maybe a good distinction is that FE requires being comfortable with a lot of uncertainty, whereas BE is appropriate for people who like things 'just so'.
It's workplace policy in a lot of places e.g.: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/77485/am-i-req...

The intent is not puritanical but egalitarian - against the "old days" of using employment power relations for sexual harassment and assault.
The real story here is how many Americans live paycheck to paycheck. The Government wasn't even shut down a week and there were stories running how folks were practically starving and were a week out from being homeless.
But, they haven't removed the classic variant. They (Coca-Cola) also have hundreds of brands that push for the sugar variant of those other sodas. That doesn't count the use of sucralose which has other issues, as does aspartame to a lesser degree.

If Coca-Cola tomorrow said ("our bad, we're sorry"), switched to a low/zero calorie sweetener blend (Stevia, Erythritol, Monk Fruit maybe a little aspartame) with approximate flavor and completely dropped sugar / HFCS then I'd believe they give a crap about tackling obesity.

As it stands, refined sugars are the single biggest problem with metabolic syndrome. Fructose is only metabolized by the liver into fats/triglycerides which are linked to damaging insulin receptors and elevating insulin resistance leading to higher insulin levels suppressing other hormones and leading to weight gain, followed by full on diabetes and related metabolic problems.

That doesn't mean you can't have some fruit in your diet... juice should never be more than half a cup a day (which was the old recommendation). And high-sugar tree fruits should be minimized in favor of berries. "Fruits and Vegetables" was grouped because a lot of what people consider veggies are botanically fruit. The sweet fruits should be kept to 2 servings a day tops.

Refined sugar shouldn't be consumed more than once every few weeks. It's horrible. All the negative effects on the body of alcohol without the negative reinforcement of a bad headache.
It turns out it didn't take computer AI "taking over" to just arbitrarily decide you're out, or wrong, or whatever with no recourse.

A company of humans have decided that's ok.
I'm puzzled by the fact that it's only burned in two spots. This is a mirrorless camera so the lidar would be going into the lens and hitting the sensor constantly, not just during the exposure. I wonder what's happened here.
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There should be a marketplace for apps running on home routers. It would change the Internet as we know it. Developers should be able to create router apps and submit them to marketplaces and users should be able to install router apps of their choice with just a few taps.

Routers have a few key advantages over most other computing devices owned by the public: routers normally have a public (non-NAT) IP address, they're always on, and battery power is not a concern. If people could install a Tor implementation on their router with just a few taps, Tor usage could expand dramatically. Developers of decentralized social networks might finally get a foothold once the installation problems are gone.

IMHO the best way to re-decentralize the Internet is by creating routers that host arbitrary apps, along with a marketplace of router apps.

The way to bootstrap this idea seems simple: sell a new router with a thin margin, provide SDKs for free, let developers charge what they want for the apps, and take a 30% cut from app purchases. The plan seems so clear that I wonder why I haven't yet heard of anyone doing it. :-)
From Polish media: Huawei sales director in Poland Weijing, Polish name "Stasio", had graduated from Bejing University of Foreign Studies. He had studied Polish. 2006-2011 worked for Chinese Consulate in Gdansk. He spoke good Polish and had been very popular and well liked in IT and Polish administration circles.

Piotr D. had been working until recently for different branches of Polish Security Services at top positions. He had been responsible for implementation of SŁR (Government Secure Network) - a communication network for government VIPs.
> You'll never get them to fix it.

I honestly don't think they know how. What I mean is, this just hasn't ever been a concern for them because their services were free so they don't have a history of customer service.
More specifically a Tu quoque / appeal to hypocrisy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque :-)
> Your ISP will still know what you are doing, and will have the ability to block you from doing it should the need arise.

Putting an automatically configured VPN on such a box would be extremely easy, no?
I was a bit astonished by how the article started: that this was the first time the author had confronted his weight problem in writing. This is someone who has had a long award-winning writing career in newspapers and online, who has had no problem writing about many other subjects. Just goes to show how deep the personal shame he has felt his whole life.
Part of my judgement about them being good stewards of the data is past reports of them encrypting all their in-flight data when they found evidence of NSA tapping of long-haul cables, and their using lawyers to push back on information requests that did not go through due process.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/googl...
I'd leave Fi, but who am I going to use after that? Verizon, ATT? Granted Fi uses ATT (and roams on Verizon once in a while) but I'd rather not pay them directly....
It's fine if you don't agree with my analogy or don't like S.O. but I don't think this contributes much to the discussion of how to make issue trackers.
> Setting aside the fact that most people would look unfavorably on yet another box in their homes, how does any of this help you avoid the blocking and tracking of the ISP?

Meh, don't need another box, just keep the family desktop on. But even without that, there is still value. The ISP tracking isn't much of an issue using an existing network like Tor. Software starts up, reads the locally encrypted Sqlite DB for your list of "friends'" onion IDs and connects to your friends gRPC services they are hosting on their machines as onion services. Maintains that stream, begin receiving fed data from these other servers (locally caching as you receive which is more ideal in an ephemeral world than live retrieval, but can be a mix of both depending on settings). All without the ISP knowing a thing except that you are connected to Tor.

> Which brings me to the big problem with solutions like these, ie - inevitable recentralization.

Yup. Can't get easily get around this. People are going to gravitate towards what's easier and what they want on the outside ignoring what's on the inside. It happens to most continually adopted standards, even if it's just a more trusted server w/ more uptime. And that's ok, I don't want to win some ideological battle at the cost of user happiness. I completely agree the software must be so easy you can't tell what's under it, but I don't think it requires that radical/creative thinking. Just user-oriented effort instead of the constant barrage of difficult-to-setup tech demos.
Maybe I missed it somewhere, but I didn't quite follow how this is going to gain a foothold. Solid has the same problem any new social media platform has - before people want to use it, people have to be using it. Facebook and Google certainly have no incentive to promote it.
An unsecured database exposed the personal details of 202M job seekers in China
The literal interpretation of the scriptures is not the only one, and it's certainly not the one that was prevalent historically. That's true for both Christianity and Islam.

To read scripture literally is not more thorough than to interpret it in some other way.
NASA Air Traffic Management Blockchain Infrastructure Based on HyperLedger [pdf]
The easiest way to mirror gmail, i have heard & am using is, to set a filter in gmail, forward every mail received to Hotmail. So, any point, Hotmail inbox is a pretty segregated but exact copy of Gmail
China has been a big focus for the western countries' ruling classes for atleast 200 years.

I agree that the populace hasn't been paying attention though.
If memory serves me well, water absorbs that wavelength, so it would basically function sort of like a microwave oven, but with such a much lower energy level that you can basically ignore it.
iOS at Scale: Modularization
I wonder how many contractors this effects. The article mentions that 800k federal workers are out of work, but it doesn't say how many contractors are out of work (it just mentions that some private contractors are out of work). As someone who does government contracting, shutdowns can suck if you work in a government office. You not only are out of work, but you also don't get any back pay if congress later approves it for the federal employees.
I think (ironically) you're projecting things onto "intersectionality" that aren't there in the normal meaning of the term.
Let's go to space
I love Notion as a tool to use personally but it does not scale well. I was part of a working group that introduced Notion at my company and it worked great for a few months. Now that we have hundreds of pages it's _extremely hard_ to find the content that you're looking for. The search functionality is completely broken at scale to the point it recommends pages where the keyword you're looking for is in a paragraph over a page whose title is that keyword.
A matter of perspective. The phreakers would disagree, the age of MSIE is a dark age IMO, having services enabled by default whilst connected to WAN was ridiculous, and here the laws got more and more repressive throughout the years.

If you played computer games in 90s or used a computer in general you were deemed a geek or nerd. Nowadays everyone and their mother has a smartphone plus internet connectivity at home. Meanwhile, technology gets more dystopian but that also provides moral opportunities...
>No recourse available.

You can sue Google in small claims court for the value of the undelivered Chromecast and for the court fees you spent on suing them.
> What harm can I inflict to you, via targeted ads? Some. You can think of some creative ways to do so, but it's not a very effective way to inflict harm.

Do you see how people have weaponized social media through data? Google ads might not have been used in a nefarious way just yet but that's likely because it hasn't been thought of.
That doesn't make sense at all. A fiasco before cashing out would cause a crisis.
I'm not sure that Canada is for someone leaving Saudi Arabia as a positive thing as you think. The person leaving doesn't necessarily love Canada... even if it is the better option.
One problem with rejecting venture capital (or any other form of external capital) is that the founders (and likely the early employees) are investing in the company, in the form of lower pay.

Which is all fine and dandy, but the founders are likely risking most of their net worth, including the potential income of some of their best years. Taking outside capital not only means growing faster, but also diversification.
Reminds me of this post https://hackernoon.com/why-is-python-so-slow-e5074b6fe55b I can't say I understood everything but I also recall that Python is hard to optimise because it has such a rich object model
This is a sad story, mostly about everyone deciding what the most kind way is to treat broken work by someone whose best days are well behind them.

Interesting discussion at:
https://meta.mathoverflow.net/questions/3894/is-there-a-way-...

And mathematicians taking him seriously:
https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2018/09/26/reading-into-atiya...
Don’t use WhatsApp or WeChat when you’re in China, UC Davis tells students
I wish they released UT99 under the GPL.
How Google Approaches SEO – Think with Google
The things that big firms do over and over, they don't do by mistake...
> "thorough" seems more like an assertion of direct correspondence to the original text

Direct correspondence to the original text is not the way most religions work, and it's not the way Christianity and Islam have worked historically.

Scripture is not always interpreted literally, and the people who insist on a literal interpretation are usually innovators, because it wasn't done that way originally.

The literalists are not more thorough than the others in their understanding of their religion or their dedication to it -- they are just more literal in their reading, and often more simplistic in their beliefs as a result.
You can mod Google Home Mini to have Line in/out using a kit from here: https://www.snektek.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product.... They also have a fully modded home mini: https://www.snektek.com/shop/index.php?route=product/product...
I should clarify that I totally understand his position against Microsoft, and agree with his points that you quoted.

As for whether or not that redeems him for acting like a badass to a run-of-the-mill recruiter, the jury is still out on that one.
> Fair point and one I hadn't considered.

That's the good thing when discussing different points of view.

> Assuming that the marketing trend of "sex sells" doesn't stop any time soon is that an improvement?

I agree that no one should be a booth babe, whether men or women, that's why I focus on the respect aspect. If it's a sex conference, it fits in the enviroment of "sex sells", if it's not, as you said, it remains classless.
How to Run a Meeting (1976)
Stephen Walli actually is back with Microsoft these days :-)

It was a rather different time. Personally I wouldn't have been as rude or have named names but it wasn't unreasonable to have a bit of fun at Microsoft's expense. This was Microsoft's "Linux is a cancer" period when they even had a senior exec whose charter was basically going after Linux (among other things).
I haven't used mine in over a year due to audio stuttering issues, but you can get a browser extension to cast anything on a desktop.

I believe Firefox on Android may also support casting (along with ad blocking and an extension to play Youtube in the background by removing the page visibility api)
Why not download the maps before hand?
Whenever I go abroad, I just download the maps in advance, and have no issue at all with just being on airplane mode.
This is a rant but still worth the read. It's about a general distain for expertise, not just, say, in the government.

FWIW this is also why I oppose term limits for politicians+: the officeholders aren't around long enough to build up expertise in how their job works (i.e. legislative chamber, A-G etc), making lobbyists more powerful.

+: I would make an exception for executional jobs that are supposed to set an agenda, such as US president or corporate CEO
I see the benefits but I still think that unless the act results in repercussions, then the company should not exercise its right to fire for going against a social mores policy. People should be free to associate, so long as they don't do each other "harm". Now, I certainly would advocate and advise people to keep work and relationships separate.

The reason for corporate policies like that are there is only to protect the company from risk, not because they are trying to protect their workers.
The web cannot be decentralized without putting an end to SSL. As long as certificate-issuers are the arbiters of commerce and browsers push users to trust unsecured websites more and more, malicious governments will be able to silence people by revoking their certs.

There are stronger alternatives. We need to make a push to begin using them.
I can relate to that. I spoke with 3 different support agents and got 3 different answers to my problem.
How does running analytics on my site impair my ability to talk about what Tim Berners-Lee wants to do for freedom and control? ;-)

Yes, I track how popular what content is on my site. Motivates me to write more. Please feel free to block trackers; I do that as well.
The US had its lowest recorded murder rates (the most reliable crime statistic, since bodies are hard to either fake or ignore) recorded a decade before the 16th amendment was ratified[1][2]. Interestingly, the passage of the Dick Act[3] immediately preceded an at least fourfold spike in murders that has persisted ever since.

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

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_Act_of_1903
I'm not sure this is the use case for the majority of Fi users, if they are using a lot of data its going to be cheaper from one of the source carriers than Fi, there is no way Fi could be cheaper than T-Mobile or Sprint who are the Google Fi carriers for heavy data use like this.

Most of the time my phone is on wifi and only using data during travel why pay for anything Im not expecting to use. If I'm off wifi enough where I'm doing a lot of data I'm not using Fi.
I used Mint on and off. The service itself is solid, and the international rates were among the best around. I only left because my neighborhood has poor TMo coverage.
Because they charge by the byte, rather that the sim card. I find it hard to believe that is a generally useful feature unless you happen to have a network of IoT devices with 100MB of data usage a month.

Whatever you do, don't give one of those sim cards to my kids, which somehow manage to burn multiple GB a month each with the occasional music/youtube video in the car/whatever when they are away from the home/school/etc wifi.
> For example, I can't cast YouTube to it, because it doesn't support video. But what if want everyone in the room to hear what I'm playing and the video is irrelevant?

I'd imagine that's for the same reason why you can't "listen" to a video on mobile with the app in the background: it would qualify as a music stream, and YT doesn't have the rights to stream music in an ad-based model.
RCT's indeed seem like a good way of establishing causality. But RCT's are well-established, so what is "The New Science of Cause And Effect" (as claimed by Pearl and MacKenzie) bringing to the table?

Intuitively I might guess that RCT's are the only way of rigorously establishing cause and effect. I would have been very interested if the book had confirmed or denied this intuitive conjecture of mine.

Another comment in this thread claims that you can infer causality without intervention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18884104 Perhaps this is true?

This is the kind of discussion that I wish the book had focused on. I want to probe at the line between belief and established fact, and understand what we can rigorously say given the evidence we have. I have a strong aversion to reading extended flowery descriptions of big ideas if the speaker has not rigorously shown that the model maps to the real world. Otherwise it's like listening to just-so stories.
Fascinating! I assume this kind of technique has been obsoleted by branch prediction, or are there imaginable modern applications?
The comparison works because it's an argument against reductionism, not an argument for or against "sharing a small piece of data" which is very similar to insider trading, or child pornography (after all, it's just a sequence of one's and zeros right?).

The point here is that saying "it's ok, it's data" isn't itself a good argument because it relies on reductionism or consideration of the effects of sharing the information. You could say you don't care about the effects, but it is invalid to deny their existence.

For the record, I'm anti-copyright and anti-patents.