skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everything.

Terrific non-answer.

You seem to be projecting a lot. He never mentioned that it took him a long time to do anything. And just because he doesn't use a readymade workflow or a graphical user interface for some of his applications his setup is not a Desktop setup?

> That's what a desktop is all about, a computer sitting on a desktop dedicated to a worker, not a pro, and expert, a tuner, a nerd, a geek, someone who loves machine carnally.

This has to be the weirdest bikeshedding argument I've ever seen. The only reason I can think of why you're so insistent on this distinction is to brag.

> I don't know how many of my 13 thousands coworkers would have been able to solve the problems I had with Debian and my Lenovo P-70 multi monitor setup.

Yup. There it is.
My setup isn't the exact same as his but I've never had any problems plugging in a projector on my XMonad laptop. In the XMonad schema windows are always associated with one of the 9 workspaces and each screen displays one workspace with the windows all scaled to fit nicely in the display. When you unplug a screen the windows on the associated workspace stay on that workspace and don't go anywhere else.
minor correction: Bing didn't exist then; it was created in 2009.
> I would ask what the root of your request is: an easy garbage collected language that is ubiquitous?

Honestly, I just want to be able to write the stuff I have to in JS today in my favorite language.
linux user/dev here since 1995, few years ago went back to windows.. never looked back.. happier now I never have to worry about shit not working and just do my kernel dev in different ways. I'm no longer interested in tons of desktop config either, more interested in apps that can do more for me, with less of me interacting with the computer to make that happen
The book you're remembering is Childhood's End.
So you seem to try to define it based on "conscious decisions". But since I recognize your username I'm sure you know how the story with decisions and free will goes[1][2].

Or if it's "nexus of thoughts, emotions, and decisions" then maybe you think more about patterns of behavior. If you would call it just as a currently observed patterns of behavior and update it as behaviors change then I think it's just a matter of naming them or not, they are clearly there.

But my point is that there is no nexus. Thoughts, emotions and decisions are there but there is no single central point to them apart from maybe current point in time which is basically a story that allows you to reason about the world as explained in [2].

But even in common sense distinction you are talking about seems very vague. You "say something before you think" you do something "on autopilot" or you're coding while being so deep in the flow that you are not aware of yourself etc. You or not really you?

You can blame someone for an outburst of anger (he's not sleeping) to then realize he had a tumor in the brain pressing against the amygdala. It can be the same story with yourself.

So where is self? Naming people is useful. It's not about that. It's just that we tend to look and talk about some inner pattern inside that pattern without really ever finding it.

Even treating whole body and behavior as a pattern seems somewhat context dependent. Maybe I was part of Milgram experiment or fought in some war - "that wasn't really me".

I'm sorry if it sounds provocative. I know that "losing self" has some associations that don't necessarily promote rationality.

I'm just interested in how people organize it in their heads.

1. https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080411/full/news.2008.751.h...

2. http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Multiple_drafts_model
I Write Books about Python
Indians on Internet- 2013 vs. 2018
It's very strange for you to argue that executives pay mostly income tax. From the perspective of a corporation, their main concern is paying corporate tax. The people who own the shares then make gains from capital gains.

Uber is a growth company, so we can expect that corporate tax has little effect on them, for the simple reason that they're not making much money (by design). Still, their capitalization has some notion of corporate tax baked into it, because if they become a giant and start returning earnings to owners, then this will be impacted by corporate tax.

I don't like that we have this complicated system of double-taxing corporate earnings at lower rates, as opposed to taxing earnings as income for the owners of the company. I know that many companies find ways to skirt corporate tax... but not all, and not really the majority (but preferentially the huge companies). I also know that the combination of these two taxes may not total to what the individual owners would have otherwise paid if the earnings had been ordinary income. Still... it's not as simple as "capital gains".
This no longer loads for me. (Browser history says I've visited this before, so the URL should be correct)
Firefox does support targeting specific domains, so the add-on specifically chose to apply to all domains by writing "https://*/*" in "permissions" in manifest.json. It probably asks for this permission because of custom domains, as you theorize.

I can see in the extension source (thanks to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/crxviewer/) that on every page, the extension uses JavaScript to check for a top nav bar or a login nag popup and hide them if present, then applies CSS that hides five other UI elements if they are present.
OCR + Data mining with automatic form generation.

It works here because the state is willing to accept the data/results at face value.

Kind of a stretch to call it algorithmic justice.
Nsfwjs: NSFW detection on the client-side via Tensorflow JavaScript
Not tipping the doctor, but the hospital:

"Many hospitals conduct nightly wealth screenings — using software that culls public data such as property records, contributions to political campaigns and other charities — to gauge which patients are most likely to be the source of large donations.

"Those who seem promising targets for fund-raising may receive a visit from a hospital executive in their rooms, as well as extra amenities like a bathrobe or a nicer waiting area for their families."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/business/hospitals-asking...
Slovenian startups to look out for in 2019 and beyond
> I’ve noticed that I cannot tell, from casual conversation, whether someone is intelligent in the IQ sense.

This is because casual conversation is predicated on EQ and not IQ. In order to be able to ascertain IQ you need to actually test for it, opportunities to demonstrate it aren't going to come up randomly.

This should stare smart people in the face, but it seems we have a blind spot for the general uselessness of our own intelligence in normal situations.

The author goes on to discuss interviews, and I'd argue that EQ is generally more important in thriving and producing on a team than IQ is as well, with a few important exceptions.
Even though Pentadactyl is not under active development anymore, I'm pretty happy with Vim-Vixen. It doesn't have "caret mode" (from what I can tell) but the switch was very smooth. There are also a lot of other options for vi-browsing for Firefox now.
I really doubt anybody needs to be discouraged from frivolous open heart surgery by co-pay.

Also: nobody does on any waiting lists in Ireland or Canada. Or, more accurately: There may sometimes be waits for elective procedures, and people may get hit by busses while on such a list. But there’s no causality. The only waiting lists where people die are for organ transplants, as in most any country.
From the htop page:

Thanks to Alexander Waldeck for the idea of having htop
itself as the page background! His page actually presents
a live htop session -- mine is just an animated gif with
a few frames stolen from his page. :-)

The drunken-security.at page is offline as far as I can tell, but as I recall it he eventually had to drop the htop background as people were DDOSing him to see the results.
If you want both useful features and good shortcuts you can run a tiling window manager within a desktop environment.
I think this one's just a madlib.
Pretty sure they are not using a GAN, but it is still a lot of fun.

https://imgur.com/a/t3qeKtr
Staves – A Container Image Builder Based on Gentoo Linux
Lingvo
A higher percentage of black people live in poverty than white people[0], but the disparity is emphasized in cities. Read about White Flight.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#B...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight
Highland Cattle of Faroe Islands
"Boner is like Google but for Photos"

well...
In Python, they'd probably just make it a separate class, just like `OrderedDict` is/was. People who needed the performance would use it and everyone else would enjoy the convenience of ordering.
Black people in USA are on average way poorer. Higher unemployment rates, lower education, lower average median income, higher risk of living in poverty or growing up in impoverished areas... The income gap between them and whites is still not that different than it was around the Civil Rights Act era.
I love the blunt wit of the article.

So how should a modern version of this list look?

Surely Pascal and Basic are gone. Javascript is near the top spot. I think Python really needs to be on the list too. Is COBOL still relevant? In some ways Java is becoming the new COBOL now. C#? Go? Ruby? PHP?
It would only lead to shortages if at the current price there is a perfect match of buyer to product with no waste, AND no capacity to produce a larger volume of supply. That's hardly ever the actual case.
I don't know if I agree with a lot of these and I don't know why these falsehoods pertain specifically to programmers and not the general populace.

"People are rational actors." should be number 1 and most of the other points are redundant. Much of this is just behavioral economics à la Kahneman and Tversky.
I really hope the term "Algorithmic Justice" doesn't catch on. It reminds me of the old saying that military justice is to justice as military music is to music.
> 1. Think in billboards (Construct your explanation in less than 16 words)

> 3. Hold off. Don’t speak just yet. Seek to compact your explanation.

These have always been the most important/challenging parts of explaining a topic for myself. If I am struggling, I'll take a few moments and ask myself three questions.

1. What am I trying to explain? (What is in-scope)

2. What am I not trying to explain? (What is out-of-scope? "We can come back to that later if you're interested")

3. How would they explain this topic to me? (What is the language the audience would use?)
Well that is genuinely impossible to tell apart. I mean you can always claim that a system or a person is "overfiting", and given enough time and/or data they/it will be proven wrong.
I'm not so sure that religious beliefs -- everlasting hellfire, for one -- are all that comforting. If anything, I find the idea of an omnipotent and omniscient God far more unsettling than meaninglessness.
Joke's on you, that's just a result from thisrepodoesnotexist.
One person's loophole is another persons civil right.
Was it a commercial or government CubeSat?
But if this is to be a "universal" binary it has to interface with the OS, the DE and other native programs not just the browser.

If not you will end up with Swing type libraries that look very off compared to native applications.

Same for games really. You usually need to be aware of what platform (hardware and software) your run on and adjust for that to be able to use it optimally.
How on earth did the Tar Barrels become a tradition?! :o

and the Shrovetide Football with only 1 rule?! :'D That's insane!

Only in England! I miss you guys :D
Thank you, never knew the name, now I can do some reading.
Note to HN: s/falkiness/flakyness/ in the title
Thank you. Though I don't think this is a comprehensive list, it really brings home some of the frustrations when talking to others in tech about economics, particularly getting them to critically examine economic inequality.

Because of the higher pay in our field, many programmers/tech people have the luxury of believing in simplistic economic models, which largely fall back on some economic version of the just-world fallacy(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis). Their most salient datapoint (themselves) fits perfectly into their view, so why bother to complicate it?

That having been said, I'd love to hear/read more on how the conversation can be moved forward with people who stubbornly hold the beliefs mentioned here.
I'm equally amazed by the effort that goes into foreign dubbing. Staying in Chennai, India and channel surfing, Sky TV had dozens of US channels (TLC, Discovery channel, etc) which not only had English/Hindi/Tamil subtitles - but foreign language dubs too!

Not just movies, but full overdubbing for 20-episode season disposable reality TV shows. Think, "Storage Wars" etc. Spent over an hour channel surfing and flipping languages.

I would /love/ to know how they take the original subtitle tracks and translate/dub them efficiently.
Out of curiosity, are primary care German doctors employed directly by the state, or are they private business that invoice later to the public health budget?
TED Talks for example has a community of volunteer subtitlers that get credit for their work. A lot of them move on from there to professional captioning.
Well, the efficient markets hypothesis is true, just as much as Newton's law of universal gravity is true.

It's perfectly fine to point out its shortcomings, but dismissing it entirely is to throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.

The market is generally efficient with pockets of inefficiency due to the cost of information.

From the Wikipedia article on the Grossman-Stiglitz paradox[0], "because information is costly, prices cannot perfectly reflect the information which is available, since if it did, those who spent resources to obtain it would receive no compensation, leading to the conclusion that an informationally efficient market is impossible." (Emphasis mine)

"The rational efficient markets formulation recognizes that investors will not rationally incur the expenses of gathering information unless they expect to be rewarded by higher gross returns compared with the free alternative of accepting the market price. Furthermore, modern theorists recognize that when intrinsic value is difficult to determine, as is the case of common stock, and when trading costs exist, even further room exists for price to diverge from value"

__________

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossman-Stiglitz_Paradox
I can't speak for everyone, but I use a tiling window manager with Firefox on a specific tag ("virtual desktop", but not) which I browse mostly using VimiumFF, an extension that gives me vim keybindings for navigation. Pressing "f" puts a small tag over each link with a set of characters (ff, jj, de, df, etc) and typing the characters in that tag opens the link.
Google looks to leave passwords behind for a billion Android devices
I want a folding small phone: iPhone SE / Xperia Compact area, unfolding into a larger screen. And please make it light (130 grams). Do not stuff lots of semi-useless features in it.
I honestly don’t know how moderators work and i actually don’t use facebook. But 1,750,000,000 / 4500 is about around 380,000 users per moderator. I think they need 5 armys of moderators instead of just a brigade trying to find the worst. They need to step in with private messages or public posts to keep the discussion from going rancid fast. I see it as being logisticaly impossible unfortunately but to keep discussions from going to that depth of evil they need to step up moderatoon pressure a couple orders of magnitude. I’ve said things here that moderators told me it isn’t allowed (actually said things here that were hurtful and unnecessary blanket statements) and I gripe to myself and limp back. If this pressure isn’t there yc would turn into kuro5hin in short order. I’ve seen discussion groups fall into the toxic slime pit more than a few times never to return. I think at least facebook groups can self moderate i have been told. I really doubt good behavior can be coded into a forum.

Now that pit is billions of people not thousands. I have little hope it’s going to ever get better. Is this the destiny of all internet discussions? I worry about this a lot.
An Attempt of “Reality to Voxel” Transfer
Roundabouts reduce violations, accidents and unnecessary stops.
You are of course not entitled to buy, as in general nobody is obliged to sell.

If somebody should be forced to sell at a lower than their preferred price, the question is, by what rights should he be forced to do so? The government would effectively be stealing from that individual. By what rationale/right? As I said in another post, I personally did not get the benefit of a cheap place to rent in the center of Berlin. Why should I think other people have a right to it?

You mention healthcare, but I don't think you can force physicians to work for an arbitrarily low fee. That's not how the system works in Germany, either. Public health insurance defines how much they are prepared to pay for things in the healthcare system. That is not the same as enforcing a maximum price. And especially with the German health care system, I'd argue that normal people have no idea of the actual upsides and downsides of the system.

If there is a maximum price on health procedures, it means certain procedures won't be available.

I've actually heard that there is already a health care tourism industry in Germany, which means the most skilled physicians might not be available for publicly insured people anymore, because they serve rich people from Saudi Arabia. Sure, in that sense it is bad for the normal people. On the other hand, highly skilled people might not even exist without high incentives, and in the end more people might decide to train to become highly skilled. Expensive machinery might be used for less solvent patients if there is a downtime. It's not so easy to claim benefits of limiting laws.
Mine is tmux/vim, and firefox. If someone changed the rest of it, I'd think something looked a little odd, but I'm not entirely sure if I'm using Mint Mate or Mint Cinnamon.
As author of 'This Waifu Does Not Exist' https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ (which does use StyleGAN+GPT-2-small, with even better anime-finetuned GPT-2-small samples coming tomorrow or so), I feel a little insulted that the 'X Does Not Exist' brand is being diluted by Mad-Libs-style efforts. The snowclone exists to show off neural net work specifically, not just any old aleatorics.
"Unend: Get your groceries supplied by badly paid people because you're too lazy."
There is a fundamental flaw with the approach - the right to remember and the right to print/speak. You can keep a newspaper in your house. Why then is it permissible to stop someone from archiving the facts? Even if later proven false it is still useful data that say the New York Times featured an angry Trump full page editorial calling for the death penalty for them?

I don't disagree that undue judgement is an issue for rehabilitation but I have heavy doubts that forced amnesia is a good idea - especially given the repeat scammers who would exploit it.
Reminds me of the startup generator: http://tiffzhang.com/startup

HN discussion (2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427856
> Because business formation is pretty risky and, to me, seems to be getting riskier as you have to compete with global players in almost every market.

so by not risking, isn't it then "correct" to say that an employee shouldn't reap the rewards that the owners currently get as they bear the risk?
Steve Yegge told this story:

> Mailman was the Customer Service customer-email processing application for ... four, five years? A long time, anyway. It was written in Emacs. Everyone loved it.

> People still love it. To this very day, I still have to listen to long stories from our non-technical folks about how much they miss Mailman. I'm not shitting you. Last Christmas I was at an Amazon party, some party I have no idea how I got invited to, filled with business people, all of them much prettier and more charming than me and the folks I work with here in the Furnace, the Boiler Room of Amazon. Four young women found out I was in Customer Service, cornered me, and talked for fifteen minutes about how much they missed Mailman and Emacs, and how Arizona (the JSP replacement we'd spent years developing) still just wasn't doing it for them.

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel
Loch Ness.
Perhaps you could call them, "common misconceptions about economics," but even then it seems a bit subjective. Now that the falsehoods meme has moved past business logic details, I'm waiting for "falsehoods programmers believe about the Republican/Democrat party platform." ;)
I (not parent poster) have the first-gen 13" model (TM1613 A05)
Fake tricks, in my AI/ML offering? It's more likely then you think.
A friend of mine does it as a hobby.
Nitpick, but, isn’t Loch Ness just the name of the lake?
Mike Pompeo’s Mission: Translate Trump to a Weary World
Sure, the correlations between X1:{IQ, conscientiousness} and Y:{income, educational attainment} are stronger than between, say X2:{agreeableness, height, race} and Y.

Y are examples of what people want (wealth). X1 are examples of "valid" reasons to be recognized as useful and therefore attain wealth, X2 are examples of "less valid" or "completely invalid" reasons.
This one is hilarious: https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net
I agree that it's conspiratorial but I do like the attempt to analyze this shift in a sub-section of men's fashion. So many men are "operators" operating operations nowadays. I get the attraction to the aesthetic but it just seems so out of context in every day life.
Once upon a time I ran a very minimal setup with using awesome. Tiling windows were great but I found I missed some things that Gnome had done for me. So I'm back on Gnome but replaced Metacity with XMonad, which was a surprisingly easy change. That was back in 2012. Since then there's a lot of churn in Ubuntu with first Unity then Gnome 3. But it hasn't taken that much work to keep everything trucking along, especially thanks to gekkio's PPA that now does most of the work in getting xmonad integrated with Gnome.

I might change one or two things every year, moving from gnome terminal to kitty recently, for instance, but I'm happy with my setup and it's served me well.

https://github.com/aclough/dotfiles
How Smart U Guys?
In terms of rational actor theory, it just means you have preferences and you try to achieve optimal results using all the data available to you. It doesn't matter if your preferences seem irrational or are not apparent to others as long as they are consistent.
Right...at this point, skewering sites that build auto-generated sites would have been way more fun and interesting.
„Principal“ is borrowed from the political sphere, where it sets apart anyone elected from all those „just“ hired. In that context, it creates a hierarchy that is subtly different from the conventional. I. e. an assistant to the US President will usually have far more power than any local mayor or councilperson. But the latter may still outrank the assistant for certain questions of protocol.

In tech, it’s mostly synonymous.
I don’t know how serious you are about ending your life but it doesn’t sound good. You should call 1-800-273-8255 and talk to a professional about it.
The writer had Shipt in mind, I think. I've seen that twice now s/stuff/groceries/
The creator is sending you a particular bundle that they decided is worth their time and money as a singular unit. You decide to dissect that bundle and throw parts of it away. All of this is done based on capabilities on each side, not based on morals. Neither side of the debate is right in claiming morality.

PS: Data transmission is not free. Servers cost money and bandwidth costs money too. CDN costs money. Anti-DDOS costs money. etc.