skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rationale stated for this work is preventing ISPs from being able to monitor and potentially sell information about Internet usage, which is reasonable and worthwhile. But by hosting a VPN with a third party, haven't we simply reassigned the same responsibility to someone else rather than absolve it? Is Digital Ocean more trustworthy than, say Cox Communications? How is this risk to be calculated, especially by a layperson?

I believe low-latency anonymizing networks like Tor might be a better more suited for accomplishing the task of obscuring one's own network traffic. In fact, I'm typing this comment from Firefox with uBlock Origin configured to use a Tor SOCKS proxy which is always running locally - eliminating ads and making little attributable netflow in my wake.
I'm basing that on an extrapolation of our family, yes, but we do have a toddler, so I'm not that out of kilter with real life.

Remember we're only talking about folding here. I don't think we spend much more than an hour contact time doing the full cycle. But for folding, I allow 20 seconds an item, 180 items... With absolutely no checking, that seems right.

However you look at your personal situation, you have to generate a lot more load before you're not talking about a period of duration which would clearly outstrips the lifetime of the clothes-folding robot.
This was a long time ago and I don't remember the details. One commonly-used quantitative workplace success metric is compensation/salary, which is not necessarily unreasonable for MBA programs but can be more problematic in other areas.

And you're right. It's not really surprising that getting good grades/test scores at one level of school correlates reasonably well with the same thing at another level. Which I imagine is one reason universities/grad programs generally don't optimize purely on that metric because their objective isn't solely about cranking out students who study well in school.

ADDED: This, by the way, is more or less just a variant of general intelligence measures being correlated to a lot of outcomes. The SAT and so forth aren't intelligence tests, but I'm sure they're very correlated.
I'm going to pile on late as well. What about collocated servers?
Same here - its a real shame they picked a niche language for this rather than the now universal Typescript like everything else.

As such, I'll pass since this feels like a dead-end just like polymer was. It felt like polymer had the same hype cycle as flutter - was going to make development so much easier/faster/less error prone etc. It is now a semi-abandoned legacy hulk of a project that people hate working with (anecdote I know, but that has been my experience) because its totally different and alien to how people are used to working, for no/little obvious benefit apart from "this is from google! its got to be good!"

I wish Google would just accept defeat and support existing common tools rather than suffering from "not-invented-here" syndrome and create something totally different and non-compatible, rather than contributing to the existing industry de facto standards to make them better. There may still be a few "google-scale problems", but UI frameworks and HTML libraries are not them.
This is exactly how I feel. The lack of freedom to choose your own language is appalling. I don't want to be locked into a single language. If they targeted the JVM platform instead, would have the choice of Clojure, Scala, Kotlin, JRuby, etc. Also, targeting the JVM makes a lot of sense of Android, since ART complies JVM bytecode down to super-efficient machine code (at installation). I was really disappointed by Google's decision to push those wanting to use Flutter to learn Dart. Fortunately, the Flutter Windows and Linux libraries provide C and C++ wrappers[1]; hopefully these become preeminent, and result in other language bindings for Flutter. I've been tired enough with the web being JavaScript-dominated for a long time that the rise of options like TypeScript, ReasonML, Elm, etc. (in industry) felt like a breath of fresh air to me.

[1] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Desktop-shells#c-wra...
They say it doesn't matter for them as they comply with all lawful requests anyway. Haven't seen any comment regarding the need to build full backdoors, but the insidious part about that dumb law is that they wouldn't be allowed to talk about that anyway.
Well, I posted a fact: leniency toward government official misbehavior.

empath75 posted a fact in a reply to my fact: most government employees are good.

The fact doesn't contradict mine directly, but it came across as a rebuttal.

There's a pattern to this type of answers. It's 'throwing true facts out there that sort of contradict a point without having to actually address the point being made, and if anyone takes the bait, you can always say there was never any contradiction being made, it was just a statement of facts'.

So I did the same. I posted a totally true fact that sort of rebuts the point without having to address the point being brought up.

I prefer a point-counter point types of conversation.

Edit: I don't think civil servants are like drug dealers.
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This line of thinking makes no sense. If I offer you $1/day to take care of my yard then don’t take the job. That doesn’t mean I exploited you for offering.

Making it cost significantly more for Uber to get drivers will just make the price of an Uber go up, the demand go down, and people losing their job as an Uber driver.
Hey, it's quite common to each country to see themselves as the best in some things that everyone have.

I've been around South America and each country has a word for "McGyverism" because they see themselves as resourceful. The funny part? Every one of them say they are the only one with a word just for it.

Same goes with bullshit, people in Rio de Janeiro think they're best in bullshiterry in the world. NYers claim the same, and Chinese street vendors in Shenzhen area too.

It's just normal for human groups to see themselves this ways and even take proud of it
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Its a catch 22 of a question. Once you add OO to your immediate mode system, you've simply begun making a retained mode system.
Also have a Samsung "Smart" TV. I banned it from the internet when it started showing me ads inside the OS. Since then it's been great, although I've had to invest (had is strong, I could have gone with a cheaper solution maybe) in an Apple TV box to get Plex/Netflix and the like.
Check the post history for this person. There's a weirdly specific and persistent anti-Massachusetts vendetta.
He also stated that advanced summon would be rolled out last week, but then it didn’t happen.

Why? We (the general public) don’t know exactly but rumors are that some issues were uncovered and Tesla decided to slow down the rollout of this feature until the issues are fixed.

That’s good that they slowed down the rollout. I’d rather wait for a safer, better version of the feature than get a dangerous version, if that’s part of the issue.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this picture except for people interpreting forward-looking statements as 100% locked-in promises. They are not promises.

In technology, people predict stuff all the time and sometimes the predictions come true on time; other times they take longer. Perfectly normal stuff but outsiders don’t always get this. Elon has correctly predicted plenty of stuff that has come to pass. Not always on time, but it is a given that schedules can slip in technology.
The Costco Auto Program is worth checking out: https://www.costcoauto.com

You can pick the car and get pre-negotiated pricing online. You still have to go to the dealer to actually pick it up, but you don't need to be "sold to", negotiate the price, etc. The people I know who have used it have gotten excellent prices, but it's always worth comparing to the estimates from Consumer Reports or other sources.
The difference is that if you're an IC you generally have to produce actual work that will be evaluated at some point. It's of course possible to BS your way into showing your manager you did more than you actually did or better than what you actually produced. If you're in management, then your job becomes mostly talking/meetings, which is much more conducive to "hand waving," which is probably why there are so many BSers who end up thriving in those roles.
I think Reason is a much nicer language than Dart, so if I'd need some non-native cross-platform UI, I'd use Revery.

For the rest React-Native is probably the best choice right now. Using mobile optimized native UI elements saves quite a lot of battery.

https://github.com/revery-ui/revery
Typically, when companies are having trouble generating top line growth they cut costs. And, unfortunately, since people are often the highest component of costs, they are among the first to be cut.

Also, it makes sense that the amount of people being laid off is at an all time high, there are more people working now then ever before.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/192356/number-of-full-ti...

In other words: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
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Freecodecamp.org has a module on data visualization that's based on d3.
I'm also writing a C app as a hobby. Somehow LLDB is an excellent debugger in my hobby app.

Same with Swift (iOS) development.
I also had no idea what "immediate mode GUI" meant. Granted, it's been while since I've done any non-browser UI work.

Browsing the Dear ImGui project, it looks pretty cool.

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki

From the hip, I'd say one big difference is the API for modals is blocking (waiting for user input), vs callback. That's pretty cool.

I don't yet know how non-modal is handled. Edit: Ah, it looks like return values are also wired up directly, vs the indirection of an event model or listeners. Clever.

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At this time, I don't think comparisons (in this thread) to OpenGL's immediate ("interactive") vs retained ("batched") modes are relevant.
It's a valid concern, though in my case there's no other means to check the ownership albeit being flawed one; note that me having a valid login password/ or not doesn't seem have any impact on me recovering the password as I contacted them using web form support.
Well it is Hong Kong, so that will last for till at least 2046.
> to an experienced programmer you can look at code and tell what sequence the lines are going to run in

Unless the code/language is asynchronous - which requires a different mindset. And/or event driven - yet another mindset.

I've seen developers struggle with both; I know when I first learned event-driven programming (via Visual Basic 3 - yep, that long ago) - it was a different thing to think about, but it eventually became second nature. Windows 3.x cooperative multitasking helped to make it clear, too).

But yeah - they have to start somewhere, and sequential processing is the standard entry point, because most people understand cause-and-effect in the real world.

Technically, they also understand asynchronous and event-driven models, too - because both are real-world things as well - but they really don't think of them that way - or at least don't use those terms (if they think about them at all). Figuring out what terms they do use for those type of things might be key in teaching them such concepts...
Dude I struggle with this everyday. When I first started off in my career I was so nervous to express any technical ideas or questions in front of other people because I thought I was stupid- as I started progressing in my career I learned that a lot of the people I encountered at work who were ultra confident (and probably attributed to my tech self-consciousness) actually knew way less than I thought. I still don’t consider myself to be good at what I do, but I do know what I do know, and more importantly I know what I do not know.
Does that include adjuncts?
> Corporations are a legal fiction by which power is granted to people, so, no, that's not what is “really happening”. Corporations obscure the real distribution of power.

The point is that corporations distort the real distribution of power. Apple's money nominally belongs to its shareholders, but in practice it's under the control of their executives, and they have many perverse incentives derived out of everything from personal enrichment at the expense of the shareholders to tax avoidance to empire building.

Moreover, even under the set of incentives they're "supposed" to have, it means that a significant chunk of the economy is set toward advancing the interests of the fictional entity Apple Inc. even if its interests are not aligned with any individual person.

> Not so diffuse; the set of major capitalists is very small compared to the whole population, and the share of stock (and overall wealth) they control is quite large.

It's diffuse even then. Jeff Bezos is the richest man, has more than a hundred billion dollars, most of that money is in his own company, and yet even then he doesn't have majority ownership of even that company.

An "ordinary" billionaire, i.e. someone with a billion dollars, could invest 100% of their money into Apple and still barely own 0.1% of it.

Moreover, nearly all of the wealth of the rich is invested in corporations. Those investments yield returns, but the corporations are controlled far more by their executives than the nominal owners. Most importantly, that wouldn't change even if there were less "wealth inequality" unless the corporations were also made smaller -- it would in fact get worse, because the ownership would be even more diffuse, leaving the executives with even less accountability.
>So when doing graphics, DTP, CAD/CAM, document processing etc.: not so much.

Yeah, haven't done graphics, DTP, CAD/CAM, etc, and I guess immediate mode or mixed mode is more prevalent there.

But I'd say the vast majority of GUIs (whether enterprise or desktop/business apps etc) are forms and regular widgets based. If they need some custom part (e.g. a plot or a custom drawn control) they implement it by drawing it, but still use it in retained mode, in the classic widget tree, embedded in some window, layout widget, etc.

Immediate mode is almost non-existent in enterprise GUI work for example -- except niches like CAD apps for factories or some special case (a custom widget drawn but embedded in an otherwise retained mode UI).

>These frameworks are flexible and were explicitly designed to be flexible.

Yes, they have escape hatches to draw your own widgets when needed.

But their main idea wasn't "immediate mode", but "we provide these ready-made widgets", and they're judged by how many and good those are, not by the ability to drop in drawRect or such.

In the same way, that OpenGL and DirectX is 99% immediate mode, regular GUI toolkits is 99% retained mode (on the API level programmers are meant to use, and mainly use).

Almost any book on GUI programming on Cocoa, GTK, QT, etc I've read, primarily focuses on the available widgets and retained mode use, and any "drawRect" equivalent is an aside about what you can achieve if needed.
Good to know.

I used https://www.unhaggle.com to find out the MRSP of the car and saved about $2k from the list price, basically the lowest price the dealer could offer. It's basically a lead-gen system for dealerships which I discovered after my experience mentioned above. The dealer was very welcoming with us using it and said it was getting more common.
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Hot take:

Who's to say Google's plan isn't to make this become big, then purposely give iphone a shittier experience just a few ms of more jank to make android look better? Think long, long term. I wouldn't trust this.
It's interesting the definition of bullshit in this study:

> ‘Bullshitters’ are individuals who claim knowledge or expertise in an area where they
actually have little experience or skill.

compared to the definition that the philosopher Harry Fankfurt came to in his book On Bullshit, and that this study references:

> bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care if what they say is true or false, but rather only cares whether their listener is persuaded.

The key difference being, these teenagers might still have regard for the truth, they think they know it and believe they know it. But they're still bullshitters under the definition used in this study. Intention seems to have been discarded in this study when I think it plays a very big part, especially among teens. The specific context of a situation might mean certain individuals are inclined to overclaim vs others because they have different reasons to.
It's area related, at least according to the data so far. Places with older houses, high (and increasing taxes), and undesirable weather with low or stagnant job growth are going to have a hard time selling.
Generally, I do trust the big VPS providers much more than my local ISP.
Yep. One of my all-time favorite blog posts anywhere is his 2003 post "The .NET Abstraction Pile", where he lists 40-some different abstraction layers involved in clicking the "Check In" button in a networked version control system:

https://ericsink.com/Abstraction_Pile.html

A particularly good quote:

> I stop whenever I get to Physics or Chemistry. For my purposes, light is real, not an abstraction.
Yeah that is why I said C++ and python...
I recommend story mapping[0..2]. It facilitates seeing your backlog across goals and activities, which may span projects. With a more focused backlog, you can then prioritize within specific scopes.

The main downside is tooling. Unless you are using a physical board, you'll probably want/need a SaaS.

[0] https://www.jpattonassociates.com/user-story-mapping/

[1] https://agilevelocity.com/agile-tools/story-mapping-101/

[2] https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/story-mapping-vis...
Lower coefficient of bullshit in areas where people are likely to say "u wot m8"? Can't say I'm surprised.
Thanks for posting this! I was disappointed that the article didn't feature an audio clip at least, so YouTube was going to be my next stop.

Growing up, rhubarb was neither sweet nor interesting. I'm now quite intrigued.
Seems like it's bigger in the female space from what I can tell. My gf and a lot of her friends used it in the past or use it now. They use it to save outfits, foods, etc.
I would say get used to it. I don't mean that in a degrading way or something, but we're developers. Until the day you retire you will need to keep up with technologies.
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I believe this is the thread/article in question. [0] (sorry for the low-content post, just recalled a fragment of the title and figured I could help.)

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19524325
But why? How do I effectively communicate that ads annoy me and that I actively avoid products/brands I've seen in ads because I assume that if they need to market so hard they're probably not very good.

Like if I'm looking for some inspiration on Pinterest for a dinner party how do I tell advertisers that they look stupid advertising some terrible Kraft Cheese green bean casserole next to pictures of beef bourguignon. The contrast actually makes their product look worse. I could go on a similar rant about just about everything popular on Pinterest -- fashion, beauty products, home decor.

I'm literally in a mindset where I'm looking for things to buy and they're failing so hard it has the opposite effect.
Damn straight I do. I know how that sausage is made. If I worked in a pepperoni factory I'd hate pepperoni. The only reason I don't go around shitting on things that seem bad about other states is because I don't have enough information to comment with a high enough confidence that I understand the big picture as well as the specifics.
There's another way of looking at it. Given that we accept a spectrum of intelligence in biological forms -- i.e., a spider is not as intelligent as a sheep is not as intelligent as a crow is not as intelligent as a human -- why wouldn't we also have a spectrum for A.I.?
Maybe it's social media that is broken.
>I really want to like Flutter, but I someone really don't want to spend the time to learn Dart.

If you have the time to spend to build an app, learning Dart to do it will be the less of your concerns.
> I would strongly suspect this rings true for the vast majority of people

Could you provide your reasoning for this strong suspicion, beyond the fact that you don't like it?

(I also can't stand Pinterest and don't know why Google Images ranks it as highly as it does. That said, I'm not willing to assume my preferences are representative of the population when (a) Pinterest has hundreds of millions of MAUs, (b) Google has better data than I do and as strong or stronger incentives to deliver good results, and (c) I don't have any data about anyone else's preferences. https://equilibriabook.com/ has more on figuring out whether one's thesis that a system is broken is actually correct. https://equilibriabook.com/living-in-an-inadequate-world/ section ii is a great starting point.)
Just for reference $5 is a coffee in SF.
Can confirm. We have datacenter space in Hong Kong with a fiber connection to he.net and it is indistinguishable from all of our other sites, globally.

End user Internet usage in Hong Kong is also indistinguishable from California. Although, to be fair, I stay at (relatively) expensive, western hotels and my Internet experience inside of mainland China is also indistinguishable from California.
When following an intermittent fasting protocol (eating within the same 8 hour window, for example), productivity tends to increase in the fasted state. Maybe there's some initial adjustment period.
Jocko Willink puts out an excellent podcast focusing on learning leadership and discipline lessons via military history books from the perspective of a Navy SEAL.

I don't listen to it too much because it gets pretty dark (My Lai, WWI, Chechnya), but every episode I've listened to has been worthwhile.

http://jockopodcast.com/
This is strangely approaching Nietzsche's notion of Eternal Return of the Same with the caveat that he additionally speculated that if particles and their configurations are finite, then moments in lived experience necessarily repeat themselves "at some point". This to him was the most gargantuan challenge to the Christian moral tradition since this eliminates any notion of Providence as well as the more general moral notion of "You could've done otherwise" since there's no value to considering timelines, not even from a "Best Possible World of All Worlds" sense.
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While VSCode is great in a lot of ways, it does not have good performance. What is has is adequate performance and great extension support. It regularly stutters quite badly on my beefy Dell Precision when running on the integrated GPU.

I use it as my daily driver, but its performance pales in comparison to something like Sublime.
We also have a powerful imagination.

I'm not dismissing any sightings, just saying more discipline in documenting these things is always welcome.

Sure, the Navy is probably interested in drone sightings but maybe we'll learn something more about other phenomenon.
Perhaps for them in a narrow sense, but considering the damage they do, I'm to the point where I'd be willing to have companies pay them their inflated salaries just to stay home and not interfere.
I have found no evidence that the author has changed their stance on this issue. You can find other issues that have also been closed with a brief explanation.

If the author wants to show up and say otherwise, I'm happy to take correction.

But, I'd rather have a robust implementation of a speculatively less secure scheme then have the undelivered promise of a more secure scheme papering over an insecure implementation.