skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could. As mentioned above in Denmark this is all known to the tax authorities, either by public registry (number of kids, civil status) or by banks, financial institutions, insurance companies and your employer reporting.
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403095
285 and Buford Highway is another one.

I've heard that part of the reason for this is that Waffle Houses only come in one size, so if there's more demand they build more locations instead of bigger ones.
Not quite. Ricochet IM[0] is a messaging system based around Tor hidden services. The entire purpose of Tor is the ability to route messages to people without finding out where they are.

[0] https://ricochet.im/
>I don't want them to lie to me about my battery

You say that, but you most likely do. Even if you absolutely don’t, the vast majority of users still do, even if they don’t know it.

The whole point of software is to at least partly obfuscate what the hardware does, to the benefit of users. Making things easier to use and understand and hiding unnecessary complications is not arrogance towards users, it’s acting in their interest.
Navigating the invisible landscapes of remote working
> presumably he thinks it's OK to pay money to these companies in certain circumstances

When they're behaving in what he considers an ethical manner, or at least offering some ethically designed products, I think so. He's hoping to help catalyze a revolution of sorts regardless, and AFAIK is still waiting for the hypothetical ideal entity to arrive (which probably isn't going to happen any time soon).

I look at Stallman's lifestyle as a form of performance art at this point. It's more than this, for sure, but that's the best way to describe its immediate impact much of the time. However, we will likely be chewing on the thoughts he has brought forth for generations to come.
> I personally prefer SIM-free

If I can’t insert a SIM card of my choice, how do I choose or switch provider? Is it hard coded to whatever Google prefers?

I’m open to lot of things with phones, but you can take the SIM-slot from my cold, dead hands. That thing is not going.
I'm assuming you're referring to RATHL? RATHL attempted to show a treatment regimen was non-inferior to bleo, and didn't. The results are quite controversial, and bleo remains standard of care for many Hodgkin's cases. However, that may change with future trials and more data. Bleo is, as you say, truly a poison. It hurts a lot of people. But on balance, it saves lives better than the alternatives when appropriately used.
This isn't something I spend a lot of time on. I settled on Dia long ago and it works fine for my purposes.
I suspect some of it is nostalgia. For me, when I lived near so many of them I took them for granted. Now that I have to drive a decent distance to get to one means they're more special to me. It brings back memories when I go to one. My dad was notorious for visiting them when I was a kid. He'd give me his copies of Popular Science and invariably a Waffle House order ticket would be stuffed in somewhere that he had used as a bookmark.
As a 9 year old in late 2000, Knoppix was my introduction to Linux. I wasn't asked to install Linux on the family computer (not that I knew how to).

I don't remember how I first heard about Linux or Knoppix but I do remember those first magical moments using it. While I've had many influences Knoppix definitely was an early influence on my tech interests because it was so easy to start.
Yes. SIM = freedom.

SIM-free sounds like something you are given in oppressive regimes with one state-controlled telecom actor.

Can’t see why anyone would want it.
Baby Capsule
मनुष्यों में एक वर्ष तक प्रयास करते रहने के बाद अगर गर्भधारण नहीं होता तो उसे बन्ध्यता या अनुर्वरता कहते हैं। यह केवल स्त्री के कारण नहीं होती। केवल एक तिहाई मामलों में अनुर्वरता स्त्री के कारण होती है। दूसरे एक तिहाई में पुरूष के कारण होती है। शेष एक तिहाई में स्त्री और पुरुष के मिले जुले कारणों से या अज्ञात कारणों से होती है।

बांझपन, प्रजनन प्रणाली की एक बीमारी है जिसके कारण किसी महिला के गर्भधारण में विकृति आ जाती है। गर्भधारण एक जटिल प्रक्रिया है जो कई बातों पर निर्भर करती है- पुरुष द्वारा स्वस्थ शुक्राणु तथा महिला द्वारा स्वस्थ अंडों का उत्पादन, अबाधित गर्भ नलिकाएं ताकि शुक्राणु बिना किसी रुकावट के अंडों तक पहुंच सके, मिलने के बाद अंडों को निषेचित करने की शुक्राणु की क्षमता, निषेचित अंडे की महिला के गर्भाशय में स्थापित होने की क्षमता तथा गर्भाशय की स्थिति।

अंत में गर्भ के पूरी अवधि तक जारी रखने के लिए गर्भाशय का स्वस्थ होना और भ्रूण के विकास के लिए महिला के हारमोन का अनुकूल होना जरूरी है। इनमें से किसी एक में विकृति आने का परिणाम बांझपन हो सकता है।
I feel comfortable with simplicity and minimality in the interface.
Agreed, but I would say the Overton Window was already way over there somewhere anyway.

The fact that they need to lay out why this might be wrong is mildly depressing.
What do you think was the secret nefarious purpose for this hardware?
There's a long history behind education, types of it, and the reasons, rationales, and interests behind these. One of the better synopses of these I've found is Wes Cecil's "Myths of the Modern American Mind: Education" (61 minutes, audio only):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFiiOm6fB3c

He traces the history back to Babylonia and scribal training, Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, medieval education, scholaticism and the rise of the Seven Liberal Arts with their Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and Quadrivium (Maths, Geometry, Music (or harmony) and Astronomy), the emergence of the modern physical and social sciences, and the Prussian Educational System which is the foundation of contemporary Western education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education

Throughout virtually all of this there's been a sharp division between intellectual and technical education. The liberal arts were distinguished from the technical arts, also called Artes Mechanicae (mechanical arts), servile arts, or vulgar arts, originally: tailoring and weaving, agriculture, architecture and masonry, warfare and hunting, trade, cooking, and blacksmithing and metalurgy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artes_Mechanicae

Since 1800 or so, the distinctions have largely been between pure skills, including trade, vocational, and technical skills (including STEM), professional training (law, medicine, military, religion, and general administration), and humanities or liberal arts. The relative prestige of these has shifted fairly markedly over this period, as well as the increased specialisation within academic curricula and programmes, with the University of Virginia offering eight fields of study in 1825, and Johns Hopkins University using the term "major" for the first time in 1877. The emergence of technical schools, such as M.I.T. (1861) with specialised courses of study helped drive this transformation.

Cecil's treatment is on the light side, but engaging.

John Stuart Mill's observations on the indoctrinational role of education are also interesting. As others have said, schools play multiple roles.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6x7u6a/on_the_...

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346760110081599
Knoppix always missed the nilfs2-module & userland utility => I always ended up using PR Rescue ( http://prrescue.prnet.org/index.php/Main_Page ) to be able to mount partitions of the devices that weren't able to boot anymore (I usually use nilfs2 for the root partition).
If you can afford $40/month to use Google, then they can make much more than that simply showing you ads.
>IMO people interested in success should be suspect. It’s weird to me that people would go through life seeking attention for invention that will not last much beyond their death.

Err, the attention and success can help them get money, funding for their projects, and other niceties much before their death, so there's that.
they are told to get some rest and maybe prescribed something. I don't think that needs 8 years of medical school.

What takes 8 years of medical school is knowing when not to tell the patient that. When telling the patient to go home and rest could result in severe illness or death.
I also like Plantuml, but it does not do that good a job with statecharts.
By RMS's standard, it seems that it is ok to reuse old systems (irrespective of which company built them originally) provided you can use them without binary blobs (irreplaceable built-in no-source firmware is fine though). Quoting his "how I do computing page" [1]:

> I use a Thinkpad T400s computer, which has a free initialization program (libreboot) and a free operating system (Trisquel GNU/Linux). It was not sold that way by Lenovo, however; small businesses buy them used, recondition them, and install the free software. This is one of the computers endorsed by the FSF.

Of course I'm pretty sure he would also approve buying and using any open hardware product [2] (provided it can run using only free software). There are some initiatives popping up in this space, such as:

- The siFive HiFive's [3] (Risc-V based), that can get you a fully open, slow system for $3k (1k for the base board + 2k for the PCIe-and-others expansion board).

- The Talos™ (Power9-based) systems [4], that give you 2019-grade performance at ~2-3x the usual price.

All in all, not a pleasant stance to make, but definitely doable for some folks.

[1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_computing_hardware...
[3] https://www.sifive.com/boards
[4] https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html
It can also be incredibly frustrating. There's a human reason the code is a mess, and unless that situation changes, the code will rapidly revert to a mess no matter how clean you make it.
See also this Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6022522
Georgia Tech On Campus M.Sc. CS
$40,000

Georgia Tech Online M.Sc. CS $8,000
Neurofeedback therapy seems like a good candidate for that - helps train people to self-regulate/calm their brains by engineering a computer game that makes them feel good (by giving them rewards when their brain is in the right state).
Bruce Schneier: Critical Flaw in Swiss Internet Voting System
Cool idea. There’s no contact info on your website... how can people interested in this concept get in touch?
That's silly. Of course you have a filter for those likely to succeed. So do all institutions in the same business of the same tier. Then, you compare them on what they did with that human capital. Some could do better than others.

Just because I build a cabinet out of good, knot-free straight boards doesn't mean the cabinet is all about the boards.
Well, those kind of types can always stick to the popular and safe languages...
On HN? Never!
Locally, both x2go and chrome remote desktop are very fast. You can even watch videos, although they stutter from time to time and the audio gets choppy.
Thank you :)

If you want real power for implementing things in as few lines as possible, F# is definitely worth taking a look at as well!
Yes, cows which have given birth, not cows which are pregnant.
Fun that you can post people’s gifs and images without attribution and make it the main body of your ‘content’
It’s been used in finance (as well as FANG) for a long time at this point. Often investors buy all of these companies at the same time to reduce volatility and get exposure to big tech.
Have you ever heard of someone getting ticketed for not doing this? I have never once notified the DMV of anything, and have driven for years with old addresses on my license.

And, of course, if you don't drive, none of this applies.
So I need to buy a thing to take up more space on the counter to tell me something I already know?
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Why China Silenced a Clickbait Queen in Its Battle for Information Control
Perhaps it's more of a case of there being 2 issues:

domain specific knowledge (e.g. 3d math, usability)

correct program writing

And you do them in sequence rather than in parallel (and then of course your boss declares phase 2 doesn't get any of your time).

Lots of software engineers really emphasize the second part. But this is like insisting on correct shoelace tying in a shoe factory ... it's nice, but without making a shoe in the first place there is no shoe and no need for shoelaces. And when it comes to choosing between no shoe or badly tied shoelaces ... the choice is clear.

This is why the neverending complaint of software engineers that no-one cares about correctness. Entirely true. You can do without correctness (if there's anything Microsoft taught us), but you cannot do without domain knowledge.

And it's a bit self-serving: guess which one is most often missing in software engineers ?
From the FAQ of the UK-based Carphone Warehouse[1]:

"What is a SIM free phone?

SIM free phones are sold without any SIM card or network attached to them. Normally, people buy the phone and then choose a SIM only deal for their calls and data. All SIM free phones come unlocked, so you can choose whichever network you like.

What are the benefits of buying a SIM free phone?

Normally, people buy a SIM free phone when they want to own the handset outright and take out a SIM only deal. This reduces the cost of a monthly plan as you are only paying the network for your minutes, texts and data allowance. SIM only deals aren’t only less expensive but they can be more flexible, as 1-month rolling contracts and 12-month contracts are common place."

[1] https://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/sim-free.html
Managing the FINN.no infrastructure where 170 developers deploy 1000 times/week
This is from About page:
"Each palette is a public property and not owned by a specific creator, nor by Color Hunt."
It seems to be working off an on. I'm able to search videos now. Pretty cool!

Are you going to expand upon this idea?
Came here to post this. I did my undergrad at an obscure state university with relatively low admissions standards. I learned a shitload. Could I have done that on my own? In theory, yes. In practice, I’d already been doing that throughout high school and, while that gave me a good foundation with the basics for college and let me skip past the Programming 101 stuff, it never came anywhere close to the rigor and focus I got in a formal setting.

People seem to forget that the vast majority of college grads didn’t go to an Ivy League school.
> There was an entire controversy about how hard Apple made it for law enforcement to access iPhones, which indicates security benefits.

It indicates that Apple software is secure, it doesn't indicate that it is secure because it is closed-source. It might be even more secure if it were open source, because then many more people would be looking for vulnerabilities in it.
oh I never realized they were siblings .. https://ncatlab.org/johnbaez/show/HomePage
There was a relevant and entertaining stand-up bit about this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

This might partly be why people love the music they heard as teens first. I hear a lot of stuff now that just seems like riffs on stuff I’ve heard before. I don’t have the nostalgia of first being exposed to it in my formative years to carry me through.
I’ve noticed a few people say similar comments recently. Ray tracing is done via software that (typically) doesn’t require any specific hardware. It may be faster on specific hardware, but it’s plenty feasible in most GPUs. The whole RTX thing is marketing
The worst volume control? The one which utilizes a non-logarithmic function
Can geometric algebra be used in algebraic geometry? I understand geometric algebra is useful in physics involving differential geometry and calculus, and that algebraic geometry is heavy on the algebra of polynomials and a complete field of study in mathematics, whereas geometric algebra is more like an object (Clifford algebra, etc.).
How does it follow that with O(log n) complexity you get 64x more work with 16x more data?
What does it say about a person who makes such a catastrophically stupid and easily avoidable decision? Will they decide to treat your big launch day like their degree, and bug out the day before never to be seen again?

Yes, this is signaling, but really useful signaling. School can provide both signaling and skills.
If so the established term is “unlocked” (which is the default), making you free to use whatever SIM/provider you choose.

As such SIM-free is a terrible and confusing name making it sound like they are taking SIM-based freedom away (Kind of like Apple’s headphone jack-free phones).
Hard to tell for sure.

I remember getting infuriated with the recent Super Mario Party because so often it would have a player (who might be in 1st or 2nd place) collect a star, and then choose the next star spawn point close enough away that the player was able to reach the next star point while completing the same turn, being able to buy 2 stars in a single turn! What the hell?

If I were the designer I'd make sure to pick a next star position far away from the previous point on the board, or at least make sure it couldn't be reached that very same turn by the same player. That just seemed lazy.
See my dad just told me snakes and scorpions would fall out of the trees, and that they were particularly attracted to kids who were being naughty. . .
Mario Kart is notorious for "rubber banding" techniques that make it easier if you are bad at the game. Other examples:

- Enemies move at a speed proportional to how far behind you are. Hacking the game and putting yourself way ahead causes enemies to drive inhumanly fast. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JV-kMYLYCo

- Only the person in last place can get blue shells from item blocks.
Thank you!

And thanks for asking. Just swapped home pages yesterday and the contact part got dropped. Bringing it back today. In the mean time it’s:

- dminkovsky on twitter

- dmitry@pony.gg

- dminkovsky@gmail.com
If the IRS doesn’t know those things, how could they ever audit someone? The 80/20 rule should absolutely be applied to taxes. In unique situations the citizen can go through the manual process.
The connection being that coming from the fringes/nowhere (e.g. no Google or MS etc), without much support, and building a language with a comparable feature set is not exactly impossible...
This is a good article from the EFF but I would extend the headline to say: Why the Debate Over Privacy Can't Rely on Tech Giants or the Tech Community.

When it comes to privacy, the tech community is full of contradictions and double-standards. Too many people in the field view privacy solely through the lens of security i.e. if your data is securely held and never leaked that is good enough. This suits the tech giants very well. In fact, it appears to be how many of these tech giants view privacy themselves.

Of course, you can't have privacy without security. But security simply by itself does not equal privacy.

A widespread attitude among tech workers appears to be: being tracked to death online is perfectly fine as long as that data is never leaked. This, in their view (and the view of the tech giants), equals privacy.

Questions about how much data is held about users, or how relentless is the level of tracking are rarely raised. Until, of course, some of that user data gets leaked and we get a glimpse of the sheer volume of data held.

Even for companies that profess to have never suffered a data breach, the sheer volume of data they can mine and interrogate for "insights" into user behaviour must be staggering. The tech field's reaction to this: silence. Or, "yeah, so what?"
This reminded me of an IndieHackers episode from a few weeks ago, where they interviewed the founder of https://pioneer.app/, which attempts to use gaming mechanics to motivate people to work on interesting projects and be more productive. It's a really cool idea that has the potential to do a lot of good for the world imo, so I have hope that this _can_ definitely be done.

Highly recommend listening to the whole thing if you're interested in this stuff: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/080-daniel-gross-of-pio...
The only élite university in the US with a significant drop out rate is Cal Tech. I’m sure there are lots of people who went to MIT who graduate with a softer degree than they expected to get going in but drop out rates at the tip top are low. At top graduate schools they birder on non-existent. Most years no one drops out of Yale Law School.
I feel like he's touching on a fact that we in software development and UI/UX design need to take heed; know when to stop.

Case in point: Google Maps. The old version used to not be as pretty but it worked really well. The new one looks fantastic. It's also slow, buggy, and not nearly as feature rich. Someone, somewhere inside the Google Maps team said, "We need to put out an update!" and nobody asked, "But, why?"
This is the thing that gets me, is that if a piece of hardware has firmware that you can't replace then it is OK to use. But if they add the functionality to replace the firmware, then it all of a sudden is not OK to use that hardware. Or, is it the case that if the firmware is pre-loaded, but replaceable, instead of needing to download the firmware to the board every time you boot, then that would still be acceptable. Not sure where he stands on that last point.
The guy should have licensed it from Conde Nast!?
Could you describe what Grothendieck was doing in algerbiac geometry? Would studying the above get you up to the point of his work? If not, what are concrete suggestions that would get you there?
Thanks :) Yup, there are also constraint programming libraries in Python which can be used for providing similar functionality, and they're definitely worth checking out!
Someone on all the Google design teams needs to stop hiding functionality behind ambiguous hamburger menus. Often they don’t even save any space or declutter the interface in any meaningful way. It’s extremely annoying and makes any useful setting or power-user function completely undiscoverable.
There's a brief commentary at the bottom of the OP in case anyone missed it.

My catchphrase with my kids: "just because you can doesn't mean you should".
Nothing, I think it was hardware that was included because they might one day add a feature which used it, under the belief that customers would want that.

What I think is nefarious is not informing customers about that latent capability, because denying customers that information increased sales (eg, by not informing people who would be concerned by the mic).

A lie of omission for “good intentions” often is actually just denying the other person the information that they need to make an informed decision, for your own benefit.

That seems to be what Google did here.
I misread the title as "How Designer Engineers Luck Into Video Games", and immediately thought why would they be talking about being lucky when the every month some report comes out that makes it sound like the whole industry is burning. Haha.

This actual topic was far more interesting, and that Twitter thread link posted by CM30 is gold.
Depends how much math you know, but Chapter 15 (Commutative Rings and Algebraic Geometry) of Dummit and Foote may be a good starting place.
What about volume control UIs that are generally thought to be OK, but still drive you nuts? Has anyone else experienced this? Some years ago, when I made the questionable decision of buying a Das Keyboard, I was surprised by how much difficulty I had with the volume wheel that they put in the upper right corner. My prior keyboards had volume up and down buttons, and I never saw any problem or deficiency in that interface. But when I mentioned my frustration to a couple friends, they thought I was just being crotchety.
Android Q will kill clipboard manager apps in the name of privacy