skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General news have the usual problem with technology: terminology.

This doesn't sound like spyware at all, but rather like software to spy on your competitor.

https://www.techinasia.com/uber-allegedly-secret-program-spy... is more clear: "Called Surfcam, the program developed by an Uber staff scraped data that competitors “published online” to figure out how many drivers were on their systems in real-time and where they were, the report said quoting anonymous sources."
This thread may have originally been about celebrating someone's life, but politics was inserted well before my comments.
You do realize that the top paying employers in the EU aren't "the next Google" or "the next Facebook" they are actual Google and actual Facebook. In fact, the top tech employers in the EU by average annual compensation is literally a list of US tech companies and SAP.

So you're correct, the EU has failed in building the next Google and Facebook, because the majority of top-tier EU CS grads already work for them.
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Funny. Yeah I totally would have missed the word "different"... does such a lock even exist in the real world?
It's easy to be cynical and think this (and not without some good reason) but we have a lot of examples of drugs that are absolute cures. Antibiotics come to mind, as well as vaccines (preemptive cure). I'm sure there are other examples.

Doctors for the most part actually do want to cure patients, not maintain them in sickness even if it would make them more money.
Some people have underlying neurological issues that can manifest in teenage/early adulthood years independently of drug use, although use of psychedelic drugs does tend to exacerbate such problems.

It is possible the drugs permanently changed this person. It is also possible the drugs merely accelerated what would have happened regardless.

For most people, psychedelics are indeed pretty harmless.
Your first paragraph is exactly how I describe it to people. I'm a big proponent of LSD, but only to those that I think are intelligent enough to make a considered choice[1], and always with caveat that it involves a temporary lapse in your ability to shove things down into your subconscious that you'd rather not deal with. The implication is that if you feel like you're not currently ready to throw open that door and take an honest look at your issues, then it's likely not yet for you.

[1] I know this is unavoidably derisive, but I mean this in the most mundane way possible. Some people I know can read the literature & integrate other sources of data (including anecdotal data and cautious experimentation) and come out with a best-effort understanding of the science that's far superior to the blunter recommendations and laws that are the start and end of most people's investigations. The latter play an important role, since most people just don't have the critical thinking or epistemological skills to integrate a big messy pile of data saying contradictory things with different types and quality of source. This goes for everything from psychedelics to nutrition to interpreting your blood test results.
>it's frustrating to know that you cannot easily contact anyone @ Google to ask for help.

This is completely normal for anything with Google.
I really like the better visibility into the true costs. Too many times in the past, a team had a budget for the software they needed to deploy a project, but the Virtualization software, storage array, etc, were all out of the IT budget. that makes the IT budget look bloated, and hard to explain, and ripe for being seen as a 'cost center'.
Nor would a company be around for long if it were the only one respecting environmental protections, workplace safety standards, or anti-child-labor laws.
I really like Chicken but I switched for similar reasons. Also, some of the eggs I wanted to use won't work on my system. Still I think Chicken is really rad and I'd use it again.
The line is in the little thing only backwards people seem to use these days... the law. In the case of 8chan, the US law. It is within the US law to praise terrorists under the Freedom of Speech law (1st Amendment). If you want to change that fact, you can try to change the law. For example, I'm a Czech citizen and it is illegal for me to praise terrorism or nazism. Anyways, until such time that the law is changed, any calls for mass action against 8chan are little more than mob rule. Also, it doesn't help your case than almost all calls for extreme action like deplatforming come from a fringe minority of society (progressive far left activists) who are typically orange man bad, guns bad, free speech bad, low taxes bad, low regulation bad as it makes it hard to find compromises for such a group of people.
i think cracking down on imagery created from this violent act or other violent acts is a closer equivalence to child pornography. alternatively, you could compare bans on lolicon to the censorship you are advocating.
I think you're reversing causality. Wouldn't higher rates of gun-related homicide induce a locale to enact stricter gun laws? And if those gun laws are only partially effective because the problem they're trying to control is systemic and national, you'd end up with the situation you're observing: places with few gun crimes have few laws because they've not been induced to enact them, and places with more gun crime have more laws (but continue to have more gun crime because places with fewer gun laws facilitate unregulated gun markets and transportation costs within the US are extremely low).

The rest of your comments are basically an angry anti-leftist rant that I'm not interested in engaging in. I have Facebook for dealing with political rants, thank you. ;)
I'm in a similar position. I visited Apple ecosystem with Macbook Pro, but that laptop was terrible and I switched to Windows PC despite loving macOS, I just don't want to pay Apple tax for things I don't need. But you should wait for their new Mac Pro announce. I don't have huge hopes for it, but who knows.
The RAM is quite frankly easily upgradeable on the iMac.
The entire sentence was (including typo of "trade odd" instead of "trade off"):

For anyone who is primarily a sysadmin, I would recommend sticking with the default behavior (which is rich, and lends itself to being more and more useful and they become familiar with more an more commands), and making a minimum of local config changes and plugins to suit their needs (it's a trade odd. Just choose wisely).

The key (corrected) part you're missing is "it's a trade off. Just choose wisely." I go into more detail on that in subsequent comments to other replies.

> I'm simply arguing that, as a sysadmin today, you're far better served eliminating the need for N node access to make changes, and using your customized local config to push changes to a repository that is applied by a CM-esque system.

That good for many things, but not really an adequate solution for diagnosing a problem under stress.
I'd mention Feyerabend's Farewell to Reason and Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach as my faves in the undead category. Or family if you will!
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> The problem is not simply one of obsolete ideas and refuted arguments but also of untenable form: No one in the academy seems to be writing books like these anymore.

Well, since you cannot determine if it is an Undead Text until it has been thoroughly rejected by the field after a few decades, the only other thing to do is to apply the "anti-disciplinary and scholarly"-litmus test to recent books. There's plenty of those, no? For example, Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century".
I would highly recommend trying Elixir out. There's a little bit of a hump to get over at first if you're not familiar with functional programming, but after that it's mostly smooth sailing.

The language has it's own built-in process manager capable of running thousands of concurrent processes with a small footprint.

Things like function arity and pattern matching are core concepts and core parts of how the language works. I've found that when comparing 2 simple web applications, one Python 3 and one elixir, that the Elixir codebase ends up being a bit larger because of the required boilerplate. However, as an application becomes larger, the disparity swings the other way and the Elixir codebase will remain smaller over time.

In addition, writing Elixir code just feels clean. Nothing really feels hacky, even if it is.
I do not think they would bother with technical, that has consequences (ie technical debt), legal is more than enough. Even if someone finds a loophole currently, it's pretty much guaranteed they will change the T&C of MacOS immediately to close it the moment they feel threatened.
Do you know https://nomadlist.com/? You should be able to find a perfect place based on your requirements.
Good. Ban them all. Force everyone with an unpopular opinion off the major platforms.

While we're at it, let's ban political debate and fake news. Ban NPR and ban Breitbart. Ban religious debate too. If it offends someone, get it off the platforms.

Let's make it so every controversial content and comment is forced off YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.

It's the fastest way to end centralization.
Reading your comment on my iPhone SE. It really is the best ultra-portable smartphone ever released :)

I'm a bit puzzled as to why they don't just keep selling it, maybe with an upgraded SOC but no other new components. I don't think it would cannibalize sales of their mainline phones, and it would give lower income people a path to buy into their ecosystem. They're taking that approach with the iPad line. Maybe it didn't sell as well as I thought it did.
Because the cost of all that external junk adds up and you create what is essentially a dongle town on your desktop. It defeats the whole purpose of a Mini.

I know because I tried to do this with a 2018 Mac Mini. Aside from the very lackluster GPU performance, it's a pretty speedy machine.

I had a fairly generous budget for a new computer. 32GB of RAM was about $200 from Crucial. The external SSD storage options were pretty crappy. Any sort of TB3 option was a few hundred dollars to start. I ended up settling with a USB3 2TB HDD. I then had to copy my Photo and iTunes libraries over to it and re-point the apps to the right spots.

For the external GPU, you're looking at about $500 at a minimum. And then you have to find a place for that to sit, and it's essentially the size of a small ITX PC case.

I ended up returning the Mini and just breaking down and building a vanilla hackintosh. A 8700K/32GB/1TB SSD/RX 580 ITX box with quality parts that's all in one small case (Fractal Design Define Nano S) in the same desk footprint as just the external GPU enclosure, and it's not a thermally-constrained dongletown.

Would I recommend it to anyone? No. But after an initially scary couple of hours, I have for all intents and purposes a normally-functioning macOS box that is noticeably quicker than the Mini for the cost of just the base Mini -- sans all the other junk I had to buy. The macOS install is vanilla, with SIP enabled, and no janky kexts in the OS install - NOTHING custom in the OS install. The bare minimum shoved in the EFI partition.

Everything works (sleep, audio, iMessage, etc). It was marginally more trouble than getting Windows 10 installed. Less trouble than getting Ubuntu installed.

God, it's glorious.
I think also the transitions are totally different depending on what decade you started.

I suppose the amount of people starting with C now is massively lower than even 10 years ago, let alone 20 or 30 - so that's where the graph falls flat for me and a lot of people my age who grew up "with the internet" and migrated upwards in this graph (and downwards the stack).

Then again I never migrated, I guess. There are 27 languages on this graph and I've been paid to write 13 of them, read 1 (rewriting from this to something else), used 2 more professionally on a lower scale and dabbled with 3 or 4 on my own.
The point was to illustrate the fact that 'world domination' is a strange word to use when comparing against 3 countries only, leaving aside a lot of well educated students, some of who ranked as the best of their field - for instance korean and french students in ML.

Plus the fact that the US dominates the tech sector has more to do with the available capital there than the technical skills of US students (on average)
I think it's just a question of which algorithm the browsers use to translate the mouse wheel input into an animation.

The other browsers are probably mostly tested with Apple's high precision mouse/trackpad devices that report scroll distance in very small steps instead of the coarse distance reporting of standard mice.
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Cell and RefCell are both !Sync, as they don't prevent dataraces. You would still need to wrap them in a Mutex to actually make them threadsafe. But Rc<RefCell<Ppu>> would forego the need for unsafe{} here, at the cost of runtime enforcement of unique mutable access, without making it threadsafe. Or Arc<Mutex<Ppu>> for the thread safe variation.
Which OS / package manager are you using? I haven't noticed this behaviour on my Linux (Kubuntu) or macOS installs -- both Firefox Dev Edition though.
They are not chemically addictive but my suspicion is that they can be psychologically addictive. I once knew someone who would argue for a Brave New World-esque world because of his (positive) experiences of psychedelics.

I don’t think his friend is mentally ill but he reminds me of someone like Eckhart Tolle.
Robotics/drones seems like the obvious market.
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Yes, but xanax is only used short term I think.

Withdrawal isn't the same as addicting, no ?
Read recently only about 30% of aluminum can sheet aluminum is from recycled aluminum cans. So recycled cans are piling up waiting for prices to go back up.
The US contributes more to CS research than those countries so they should be the standard.
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I think you're under-estimating the grip tobacco had on society. Smoking was very common. Between the 1940s and 1980s over 40% of the population smoked. https://trends.collegeboard.org/education-pays/figures-table...

We used to give cigarettes out in Red Cross parcels. https://www.loc.gov/resource/anrc.08956/
> responsive website

This theme is discussed here often, but really, this is what HTML was designed for. Load https://thebestmotherfucking.website/ in a browser and scale it at will, it will always look good. The fact that people put a ton of often useless stuff and complain it looks bad in some browser doesn't mean media queries are theonly way.
No. Linux should always be the priority!!

Let the war begin!!
Maybe there was some edge case where it could crash, but for me it always used to work.
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The study (which I didn't see linked in the article, so here it is: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/03/12/1814646116 ) also tried to investigate this question by restricting their analysis to students at US universities whose strongest language is English (89.1% of their sample) or those who claim two strongest languages and didn't find a significant difference to the overall US student population.

That doesn't say a lot about Indian/Chinese/Russian students in the US in particular, but their data is public at https://osf.io/c78wb/ , so maybe it's possible to get that information, depending on how strongly they anonymized it.
Where does Erlang/Elixir fit into this in your opinion?
Yes because the process of creating child pornography is harmfully exploitative of a child, and we as a society have decided this one of the worst things anyone could do, so we've made creating, distributing, and accessing child pornography illegal. If someone disagrees with this, they're most assuredly allowed to voice their opinion on it however they see fit, obviously as long as no child pornography is involved.

Drawing a parallel between child pornography and untoward politically incorrect discussion out in the open doesn't seem like a very useful comparison, especially when I provided another recent example of a shooting that one could argue was caused by online "radicalization."
> Ecma TC39, the JavaScript Standards Committee, is proud to announce that we have shipped a website [0] for following updates to the JavaScript specification.

Seems to be the new website from where I'm sitting. The spec is linked from the header. It might be an old instance, but it is clearly meant to be used as part of the new.

[0] https://tc39.github.io/
That's not addicting. And kinda makes sense to tapper off (with many types of drugs).
> What other phone will give that to you?

Samsung Exynos variants - starlte, herolte, etc.
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I boot off a Nvme SSD in an usb-c (https://www.delock.com/produkte/S_42600/merkmale.html) enclosure on my 2017 27" iMac. I do manage 1000 MB/s. Popping off the screen and using the right adapter and SSD you may be able to reach 2500 MB/s.
That question first and foremost tests English reading abilities. Many mathematically gifted non-native speakers (and indeed native speakers) would miss-understand the "different".
What you could do is subsidize biodegradable fishing nets so that they're cheaper than plastic ones. Then everyone everywhere stops using plastic ones because the only reason they were used to begin with was that they're cheaper.

That also requires the government rather than industry to pay the cost of its regulations, and explicitly choose how to raise the money rather than implicitly taxing fishermen (and fish) without ever evaluating whether that is the optimal funding source.
> Windows goes through a mandatory process whereby it identifies hardware, installs and configures drivers etc. etc. etc. You can inject a script to carry out the process of things like setting up a user, and generating a password, but that's fairly minor on the scale of things. This first process requires a reboot. There's no escaping it.

This is the "OOBE" (out of box experience) phase. I'd have thought they'd just skip it and provision you a pre-warmed image .. but I guess because there's a license/activation dependency they can't do that?

I wonder how many MWh could be saved by Microsoft adding a "acquire cloud volume license at boot" mode. Or shoving the licensing/uniquification requirements into the platform TPM.
But not addicting, your body/mind doesn't thirst for it.
Ubuntu 18.10 using APT.
A couple of jobs ago I have spent plenty of time optimizing a Packer-based AMI pipeline that was similar in spirit to that which you've described. It was all quite frustrating, but then the job got yanked from underneath me, so I never finished solving the problem.

The article contains a screenshot[1] of a response from AWS support indicating that only EC2's own AMIs benefit from this pooling optimization. It follows that custom AMIs must take the startup time hit all the way.

[1]: https://maishsk.com/blog/images/20190307_aws_ec2_secret/foru...
There's some apps on this list which are in the regular Google Play store. OsmAnd and Google Sky Maps are ones I use from the Play store.
Yes, technically. But the user experience is fewer tabs crashing, which I'd argue is what user's care about. You notice a crash because of the tab's "oh no" screen, not by watching `ps`.
> I don't know enough about agriculture to understand what that means, but I have heard that the US uses a different, presumably lower, standard for organic crops than the EU does.

It means exactly what you heard. The USDA Organic label doesn't mean that organic crops are sustainable. The organic label doesn't address problems associated with commercial agriculture: monocultures, wide-spread use of pesticides, fertilizer run-off into streams/rivers/ponds/lakes causing them to become hypoxic, destruction of wetlands to create arable land etc.
I feel that again misses the point. Sure, it's perfectly possible for a resourceful and knowledgable human to hand-engineer various tools from the environment. But to make something very much like an ordinary pencil made of wood, graphite, rubber, metal, and paint would be a monumental task, far beyond the cost of a pencil in our established society.

The fact is that globalization and industrialization has democratized the construction of literal artifacts. Consider the single-use plastic bottle, with a precisely machined screw neck and matching lid. It's lightweight, transparent, and will last for years. It would be exceedingly difficult to find and process the raw material to craft such an artifact from scratch, yet millions of them per day are used once and discarded.

Same goes for most office supplies, now that I think of it. And we haven't even touched integrated circuits yet.
There's been a pretty solid migration from Ruby to Elixir -- since Elixir was envisioned as a Ruby-style dev-friendly version of Erlang.
That's interesting. I'm going to test that out by trying some straight up lemon juice in my sparkling water.
For context, the author (Robert Bryce) has traditionally been opposed to renewable energy.

The institutes he has worked for (The Manhattan Institute and The Institute for Energy Research) have been funded by Exxon and the Koch family.

He is alleged to have said :

"I love cold beer and air conditioning, and the only things that can bring that to the American consumer are oil, coal and natural gas"

That probably will not come as a surprise should you read the article.
> many of my peers have resorted to streamlining for whiteboard interviews, and unsurprisingly, they end up with well-paying jobs

I switched into programming and am low paid, and am doing this right now for interviews. Practicing for whiteboard interviews, or coding tests (real time online and in person).

I re-read the language docs and then did (so far) 20 or so self-timed programming tests. Most of them I did in 5-30 minutes, 1 or 2 I got stuck on and subsequently reviewed. After finishing reading the language docs I will read though the platform docs, and may do some quizzes on that as well. As well as whiteboard high level class creation tests (HAS-A, IS-A).

The tests have a lot of array stuff, String manipulation, using long instead of int, casting from one type to another, doing a lot of stuff with maps and sorting maps by value. It also uses things then can be done quickly and compactly in streams. I do these things once in a while, but now have it memorized and down cold.

Hopefully this all leads to the latter result you mentioned.
I've made at least a dozen LOB Rails apps for internal use at companies. I also worked at a bespoke consultancy that made Rails sites for startups, and I've seen dozens of Rails apps "in production," out on the open internet, and making money for their owners. I think there may be some conflation here between "production" and "Twitter- or Facebook-scale production." And I wouldn't trust ANY framework to applications at that scale.
Could you elaborate why are you calling experience "enlightening", considering you can not put it into words?

There is a joke about a guy, who could not remember a brilliant idea, he got under drugs. He left a piece of paper and pencil around, and wrote it down during the next trip. A day later he found the paper, which read "The Water is Wet".
it’s close to dmt in the sense that part of it’s structure is DMT. as far as effects, if you believe the literature: dmt is like sailing into the sunset and 5meo is like stapping yourself to a rocket.
both give you something, but radically different