skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely separate from the submission of this link:

I've been working on triplescripts.org, and I have plans to dive into Gnome and GJS, with the goal being to highlight GJS as a potential target for the system layer. Along the way, I intend to pour some energy into the Gnome/GJS docs. In the past, I was heavily involved in shaping the JS docs on developer.mozilla.org in its early days (ca 2006–2008).

For pragmatic reasons, triplescripts.org is "launching" with a focus on NodeJS right now, due to its ubiquity. GJS is a capable alternative, though, especially for environments where you'd expect it to be installed and where NodeJS isn't already, like default Ubuntu installs.
There is substantial research that says that conditional care like what you propose is often used as a cudgel to deny Government assistance to those that need it the most.

In other words, I think the cost of putting in these guardrails, often with good intentions, is that they're misused against minorities and the poor. If that's the case, I would rather a few freeloaders/bad decision makers abuse it rather than the most needy going without the healthcare they desperately want.
Czechia, Sweden, Finland, Ireland. There are more but plenty to pick from without registration and good prices.
It was the early 80s. Readability wouldn't be invented for about another 20 years or so.

Actually kinda serious. You need to be able to spare the RAM to have the comments, whitespace, large variables, breaking things nicely into functions, etc. I've got modules I've documented where the documentation alone would fail to fit into, say, a Commodore 64's RAM, as plain text. Early 1980s "big iron" would still be considered on the high end of embedded programming today. (In the sense that a Raspberry Pi is embedded programming.)
I find it difficult to believe that sales would be affected by a latency drop less than one tenth of a second.

How did you isolate the variables?
The fact that there's well over 250+ comments and growing here alone, shows just what a sh*tshow this keyboard is. I was in the market for a new laptop, but the feel of these just turned me off. So I got a 'new' used laptop off of craigslist.

Coupled to this, I've had a number of friends (three so far) with issues. One had Apple not only replace their keyboard but looking over the bill of work - replaced the MB and some other components. All because their "e" key didn't work?... They were covered, so no costs - except not having their work computer for the couple of days.

The fact (for me ;-) ) that chromebooks have better feelings keyboards ought to be a wake up call.

It really seems like there's no one in charge of late, and perhaps a single a-hole demanding stuff work/clean design/simple is more needed than ever before.
Are you typically hanging with all your weight in the harness, or are you leaning off the wall?
It's been awhile since I've paid attention to the field, so apologies if I get this wrong. I was under the impression that cuprate superconductors were unsuitable for use in MRI magnets because they only superconduct across clusters of microdomains, making it impossible (at least with current technology) to generate the large, strong, and uniform field necessary for the application.

There seems to be ongoing research into producing suitable magnets with cuprates, but I don't know if the problem has been solved yet. In any case, there are no commercially available MRI machines that use cuprate superconductors.
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aww :-) <high five>
> It is like if I start telling everyone the Lamborghini in the parking lot is mine, and they ask me to turn it on, and I spend the next 4 years arguing that it is mine instead of just turning it on.

I'm not sure if you were intentionally referring to the incident where Craig Wright rented a Lamborghini and claimed it was his, but if not that's hilarious... https://twitter.com/DanDarkPill/status/1105082100372393987
Is this one case where Betteridge's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...) doesn't quite apply?
I have a 2016 MBP and love the keyboard. I've never had any problems with it. That's not to dismiss people who have experienced quality issues. I don't mind the touch bar, but it's not particularly useful.
After we paid tuition fees.
How is it useful, since it has no observable effect? Equals is equals!
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> Googles moat is so good that it precludes the very existence of viable competing services.

So how do you explain the existence of viable competing services? Plenty of people have switched to DuckDuckGo and while it still has a tiny fraction of Google's market share it appears to be viable and growing. Microsoft still operates Bing. Again its market share is tiny but at this point I imagine they continue to operate it because it is somewhat viable and not just for strategic reasons.
Facebook Randomly Wired Neural Networks Outperform Humans for Image Recognition
Ok. So can you make an argument that any kind of intelligence or learning is anything more than curve fitting.

I think the goalpost moving that's gone on with AI (deep blue, AlphaGo, etc) is as ridiculous as the 'its overhyped and just curve-fitting', when no ones settled into the difficult task of rigorously defining what 'intelligence' is.

So consider the possibility that all forms of intelligence are some flavor of curve fitting. Is that such a problem? If that were the case, what would be so wrong with calling non-biological systems which can optimize curve fitting 'intelligent, artificial'?
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Thank you for proving my point that life is very different today than it was in 1973, and that comparing wages across decades is dumb
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I am looking for the most programmable robotic arm that can also carry upto 500g of weight.
I switched from Windows to Linux quite a few years ago, but when I was on Windows, I was a paying customer and huge fan of TimeSnapper. It's one of the few tools I truly missed after the move.

Well done, Leon. Glad to see TimeSnapper is still going!
Unping all the links: A Chrome extension that disables Google's link tracking
NYC to Sydney is still only ~200 ms. That's probably in the realm of being noticeable but only barely. Even then, the real need is more like one server per continent rather than every cell tower.
Slightly OT, but has anyone else no idea where to find the techcrunch targeted-advertising opt out?! I've gone through like 4 menus now and can't actually find the opt out; talk about dark patterns...
Beautiful bivariate maps with ggplot2 and SF
Started using this yesterday, with the X410 X11 install.

The nicest thing has to be running IntelliJ from X11 and have it see the linux filesystem.

I can run a Yubikey with weasel-pageant and get GPG signing and SSH keychain access to github through it -- it pops up a Windows PIN entry dialog box and then works fine thereafter. You can use wslutilities (wslusc) to set up windows shortcuts to your Linux applications. I use ConEmu as my shell and it's fine.

There is a problem with HiDPI screens. I've worked around this by increasing the font size in IntelliJ, but VS Code shows up as teensy tiny.

The worst part has to be the documentation. The docs for "pengwin-setup" is basically a bunch of screenshots on their blog.
Interesting that he would sue in a jurisdiction that follows the "English Rule" where the loser pays the winner's legal fees. Also, he's suing in a jurisdiction that appears to have much less reticence to jail parties for perjured testimony - Jeffrey Archer (a former MP, member of the House of Lords and well known author) was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for perjured testimony arising from a libel suit [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Archer#Perjury_trial_a...
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The whole selling point of Macs - the lack of need to 'tune'. Yet I even had to do this with my 2014 model - otherwise, the laptop would run hot to the touch. It is troubling to see the trend happening.
Thank you for proving my point that life is very different today than it was in 1973, and that comparing wages across decades is dumb.
I'm no fan of macs despite the fact I have to use one for work and I own a mini personally, but come on - you literally don't have to eat over a computer. How does that even work? You take a bite and chew while typing? Take 5 minutes and finish your meal somewhere else.
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> sentenced to 4 years imprisonment for perjured testimony

Craig Wright submitted a document with a fake timestamp to the court, then had to withdraw it.

https://twitter.com/PeterMcCormack/status/111902704880520806...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/bdxkii/the_fraud_c...
It’s a nicer experience than using a hand rolled script, particularly playback and handling of edge cases.

It’s a bit like saying “instead of buying food from a shop you could just grow your own food.” It’s technically true, but then you’re responsible for all the care and feeding of the tree instead of other activities that are higher economic value to you.

When we first thought of the idea, over a decade ago, people immediately raised that concern. But few of them wrote the script. Or if they did, they abandoned it after a while and it languished because they didn’t invest the time to do it nicely.

Playback of the images is the first big advantage to having someone else write the code. But also it means that someone has put effort into dealing with cases such as multiple monitors, and multiple monitors with varying DPI and so on. Avoiding screenshots when idle, avoiding duplicates etc.

But I do love scripting up personal solutions to things, and spend far too much time doing exactly that. So I like the attitude.
I recall a Ludum Dare entrant which was an android app that pretended to be a walkie-talkie to control some security operatives you were telling to search a building to investigate some noises. Very spooky. And a very good use of some basic voice parsing and NLP.
We know, because we are informed citizens, that indictments contain allegations. Having read an indictment, how could it change that? Is there some special incantation that could have been included, which would have transformed it into some sort of super-indictment that also contains facts? No, there is no such incantation. If an indictment claims that the sun rises in the east, that's still just an allegation. Someone might believe an allegation for whatever idiosyncratic reason might personally obtain, but that's totally subjective. No one else cares.

Once an allegation has been defended against cross-examination in a court, it might make the transition to fact. (Or it might totally fall apart. I doubt the charlatans at Crowdstrike would fare well under cross. "You mean you never actually examined the servers, and just took your clients' word that they had properly imaged the hard drives before destroying them? These were the same clients who had placed similar servers that neither you nor FBI ever examined in a restroom next to a toilet?") You're probably ill-informed enough to think that court proceeding has happened already. To be better informed, you should read more reliable journalism.
You’re asking great questions. Keep fighting for the time you need to answer them. I’m 13 years out of college & my perception is companies care more about stakeholder research than they did when I started working, so I think the overall trend is better.
I would prefer that it stayed that way. Most cryptocurrencies are vaporware.
Of a similar age. I've found that it's gotten way easier to have difficult conversations with people, and I attribute that to life experience and long-term perspective. A difficult conversation now can save ages of regret and ill will. Other people are responsible for their own feelings, even for their feelings about you. Sometimes you have to tell people things they don't want to hear. Things that will make them sad or angry. They may rage or cry. While sometimes those things are best left unsaid, other times you have to say them and face the consequences, knowing that it's better in the long run. The long run can be longer than you think.
Philip K. Dick was a visionary.
But does it really? I’m using Xubuntu on two different Thinkpads, an old T420 and a pretty recent T580.

On both, I have the same awful problems with waking up the laptop after it went to sleep mode (when closing the lid). It will wake up at first, allow me to enter the password in the screen locker, then screen goes black and that’s it. Have to reboot then, losing all unsaved data. Google search shows, plenty of people out there with the same problem, but the only “solution” seems to be “oh, just disable screen locking”.

So if Thinkpads are the known-good choice for Linux... then I don’t want to know how it behaves on other laptops...
I think playback is the thing that makes it nice. Glad to hear about you scripting it... it’s really useful to have records, in a whole bunch of situations.
This is a good point, often missed or buried in the noise. It goes beyond recognition though (e.g. more general classification). Another area is when you have fairly large sets with both breadth and depth, ML algorithms can sometimes pull out connections it is very difficult for analysts to even tackle.

On a related note: I have no idea what Denmark is like for this, but I have seen other public sector analytics where the analysts themselves where good at what they did, but the whole system wasn’t very good at managing the data they consumed. This can introduce impressive delays and missed opportunities.
Fascinating, that’s because they did the dash wrong for the compound adjective.

It should have been the ugly but correct “small-business-focused CDN”. If they didn’t want to double hyphenate then “small-business focused” would have been read properly by everyone. But you definitely parsed their “small[,] business-focused” correctly :).
Barring injury, you wouldnt be hanging in free space for very long. I didn't realize that would make such a difference.

After my comment I did some more searching and found plenty of discussion of harness hang syndrome in the context of rescuing an incapacitated climber though.
It's inflation adjusted wages. As in adjusted for changes in average costs of living. Most people don't spend all their money on TVs. they spend it on food, housing, transportation, clothing and other things that existed in 1973. Furthermore, they adjust the inflation figure to account for changes in the technological utility of things
But it's not--MBA is groupthink. The biz schools turn out cookie-cutter professionals who are of average intelligence and just aren't very dynamic people and the further down the school rating you go, the more cookie-cutter and awful it is.

That some MBAs go on to innovate is only because they buck the indoctrination.

Am so tired of factory-farm management!
I think it looks great. Hope it catches on!
How long until the android version is ready?
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> As for the touchpad, those of us with ThinkPads just use the TrackPoint

Our standard-issue work laptop is a thinkpad, and I find the trackpoint super annoying. It's good for quickly adjusting the cursor while typing (which you can do just fine using the keyboard), but awful for moving long distances or scrolling (lack of inertial scrolling).
“The research counts, not the journal”
Diverging paths: Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo's radically different visions
I get what you're saying, but...if more people in tech thought of themselves as PMs (whose primary job, sidetracked though it may be in some places, is to develop a sense of empathy for their customers...) we'd all be in a better place.
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Not really, most of the ICOs of 2017 were vaporware. Cryptocurrencies exist so therefore cannot be vaporware.
With regard to their "what if all the cloud providers block us" issue, it's is a good indication that they're fine. (Page 30 "We rely on third-party hosting providers that may be difficult to replace.") I don't think that's a serious risk.

For the Github thing, you're right, it's a different situation.
But it's important to remember that even counterforce strikes involve nuking command centers which might be in major cities such as the Kremlin in Moscow. And the ground bursts used to take out hardened military structures will generate far more fallout than the air bursts used to level cities.
Ah, I see how I misunderstood the point you were making in context. I read the word "can" in the point where it's not there.

I still don't agree that it's a particularly dangerous method of charging the device [1]. But I get that you'd change the wording since you feel it's dangerous.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE9hHO4hM0c
"No one has any idea what “artificial intelligence” even means."

Usually AI refers to solving real-world problems that humans (or smart animals) are good at that aren't easily solved using traditional algorithms such as sorting/searching, graph algorithms, numerical methods, combinatorial optimization, etc..

Sometimes it also refers to a computer opponent in a game, or the algorithms and strategies used by such an opponent.

There is something to the statement though in that AI seems to be a bit of a moving target: once we have a good algorithm (and input data) to solve a problem (e.g. winning at checkers) conclusively, then it may no longer qualify as "AI" - even if it did for years up to that point!
Hope our IT guys don't see this or it'll be a mandatory install via JAMF with all pictures sent to a management shared folder.
That is true. A free hanging belay would not be very useful! I did find some discussion on mountain project about it in the context of rescuing an incapacitated climber.
A lot of great insight in this comment.

The only difference is that Stipe has foresaw the problems and has been working on productivity for quite a while, with a dedicated group of people who help our engineers by building tools and abstractions. For example https://youtu.be/lKMOETQAdzs is done by the same org couple of years ago.
The arguments for this change undervalue one of my favorite things about Python: developer freedom. The language is versatile to the point of being inefficient, but that lets me adapt it as necessary. Just because they can't imagine a situation where this change would be a roadblock doesn't mean it won't happen. What about building an argument list with a dictionary and then passing it as an expanded dictionary?

Also, I don't like the idea that package developers' opinions on what's "readable code" outrank mine, when we're talking about my code.
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I want to strongly disagree with the conclusion based on 1-off personal anectdota.

Last year my working group within our company secured a major contract; largest for our company for the year. We expected we would have to hire 20+ entry level positions to execute on the contract. While the process was fundamentally based on ML, we knew there would be a large quantity of human labor as well to execute on time.

My colleagues and I, instead of going on a hiring spree, asked the overlords for 3 months of overhead time to develop 'intelligent automation' to reduce the number of new / temporary hires. We were able to make substantial enough gains to not have to bring on any new hires and complete the work, ahead of schedule and way under budget with our existing crew.

It was adjusting our thinking about how we do our work and incorporating ML at multiple levels in our system to intelligently guide our process that allowed us to eliminate 60% of the new positions that previously would have been generated by this work.

100% ML is coming for you.
We have some. They are podium's that have built-in computers or some just have touch monitors and you supply the computer. They all have USB extensions so you don't have to dick around behind the thing to plug USB in.
> Why don't you just pick a specific hardware that works with linux well e.g. thinkpads?

You can't, because Lenovo changes out the hardware randomly every year. Look at the long list of Linux problems with the latest X1 Carbon: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Carb...
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In the context of GOOG vs GOOGL, the voting rights are basically moot. Larry and Sergey's super shares dominate the votes anyway.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/01/18/why-alphabet-inves...
Wasn't that how they caught the Unabomber? I saw a documentary about the guy who caught him by using this sort of analysis, although his method was quite analog (scanning through written letters and Unabomber's correspondences to the press).
Searched Google for “upside down faces” for ML training-that was a mistake
The header and footer of top two tiers of pricing (scale / pro) don't match on the pricing page. Off by $33 and $66
A co-worked of mine convinced the company to buy them a MacBook (the first the company has ever purchased) to replace their aging Dell laptop. They have been doing more and more work on the company's iOS app and the aging Mac mini the company had purchased needed to replaced anyway.

After having the laptop for just over a year, they called me upset as the laptop would no longer power on. After some gentle interrogation they admitted that they had eaten a snack near the laptop and that, perhaps, a small amount of seltzer had "hit the keyboard". I had them bring it to the Apple Store and Apple refused to repair it under the warranty as it had "water damage." I had asked the company to purchase the extended warranty but that had been lost in the shuffle. My co-worker ended up shelling out ~$1000 out of pocket as they needed to get work done and they had very real feelings of guilt. After all, they did _eat_ near to the laptop.

I agree no laptop should get wet, or have a dollop of guacamole sauce splashed across the keyboard, or have the display sprayed with a fine mist of Coca-Cola as someone laughs and an unexpected joke. But these things happen and I don't think Apple is helping anyone by making laptops that can't withstand these common mishaps.
The Agile Manifesto calls for frequent conversations and demos with customers so developers understand customer needs and acceptance criteria. If you’re given a story card & there is no customer interaction, then there’s a chance the team is calling itself Agile without actually using Agile.
Yeah. Might be somebody living in China dissatisfied with the government.
Phew. It only took pumping some trillions into the pockets(assets) of multimillionaires to finally trickle down to 1973 levels.
Do we all remember when it was called “AI” in the 70’s? To some degree this stuff is just cyclical.
When you don’t see yourself in the industry?
Developer for five years. Half at a FAANG, half at a smaller company. In either company, I have never aspired toward any other roles, and I am becoming increasingly less enthusiastic about software.

I consider myself intensely ambitious and passionate - just about things other than work.

I am not burnt out or depressed.

What to do when you have no interest in advancing in the industry and believe you are stagnating in your current role?
At a hanging belay, one typically does not remain motionless. People move their legs around, either just while fidgeting or balancing, or bracing their legs against the rock, or aiders.

I cannot speak to any differences between climbing harnesses and safety harnesses.