skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is wildly untrue and outrageously offensive.

Oh no, it's definitely true.

If not, can you give me a modern equivalent to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weary_Dunlop ?
Prisoner of War under the Japanese for three years, suffering horrific conditions.

After the war "Dunlop forgave his captors and turned his energies to the task of healing and building."
But the repo process for brain cells is a little too gruesome for bankers.
techies who live in city bubbles, very cute
When you're trying to write new code, you run into a problem and look for a library that solves it. But all of the libraries that you find are Windows First, and it is not until after you're committed to them that you sometimes discover how they are Windows Only.

So yes, even in a new project, there will be a pull back to Windows. Because virtually nothing is truly written from scratch.
I mostly think of serverless as abstracting the actual way things run more and having a more specific contract than "exposes a port". I imagine this allows for deeper integrations and features like handling cold starts. It is difficult to mitigate a lot of these problems without a good contract/interface that allows it, and an arbitrary container doesn't really let you do that.

It's similar to buildpacks on Heroku. How are they all that different from containers? Well, Heroku runs buildpacks in their own container system, so they're not much different, but Heroku can more easily control updates to packages and the base OS of their containers by not allowing you to run arbitrary container images.

In the end, I think of these as higher level abstractions, often building upon containers, but not allowing as much flexibility so the "serverless runtime" can optimize more things.
I don't have any public projects to release right now. So, I don't have to worry about getting sued. Modula 2 was nice but you could use any of Wirth's with low risk. Although Lisp's had lots of companies involved, Scheme is probably safe with PreScheme aiming for low-level use. A Racket dialect with C/C++ features like ZL language had could be extremely powerful and safe.

Rust, with Mozilla backing it, is probably not going to get you sued. Nim has potential given their commercial interests are paid development and support so far. As in, less greedy they are the better. Languages with community-focused foundations, such as Python, controlling them are probably pretty safe. Although it was risky, the D language now has a foundation. Although no foundation or legal protections, the Myrddin and Zig languages are being run by folks that look helpful rather than predatory.

So, there's you a few examples you might consider if avoiding dependencies on companies likely to pull shit in the future. Venture-backed, publicly-traded, growth-at-all-costs, and/or profit-maximizing-at-all-costs are examples of what to avoid if wanting to future-proof against evil managers turning it from good dependency into bad one.
Coin found off northern Australia may be from pre-1400 Africa
This is a truly nice point.
Automatic Programming of Cellular Automata and ANN Guided by Philosophy
InsideSherpa (YC W19) Is Hiring Software Engineers in Sydney
This seems mind bogglingly dangerous.
At least with commercial self-driving vehicles, there is a responsible legal entity (the car manufacturer).
The thought of thousands of amateurs and enthusiasts releasing their hacked self-driving cars on the public roads is terrifying.

The disclaimer "YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPLYING WITH LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS" is nice, but I can't that stopping the mindset of "I've just tweaked the algorithm a bit; let's see how it goes".
"but that simply how supply and demand works"

Are you sure? Because the normal way of thinking about "supply and demand" is to suggest that prices will go down if supply grows faster than demand, which is what happened for nearly all of the 20th Century. And if that process has stopped, then we need to ask why. Please consider the data here:

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_302.60.a...

Try to explain these 3 data points:

(Young people in college)

1970 25.7%

1996 35.5%

2016 41.2%

There was no price surge when youth participation going to college went from 25% to 35% but there was a huge price surge when participation went from 35% to 41%. And the early surge is a much larger surge. So why did prices only go up during the latter era?
Yes. Google is a competitive place, so opting for 20% time can slow down your career progression unless you are extraordinarily good since it might reduce your ability to create impact at your "real" job. But as long as you understand that, you can do it. (I know people who have done 20% projects in the last year)
The specific nature of my issue is that there are a finite number of hours in a day.

If you go to the trouble of working on multi-year open source project it shows a lack of foresight to not include a quick install guide for one of the mostly widely sold hobbyist hardware platforms in the world.
Anecdata: apparently Google Zurich pays more than Mountain View
I think it's really polarized for guys. Guys who are into cooking, like myself, are really into cooking. But the vast majority of guys don't even consider cooking.

> For example, I just decided to make 20L of kimchi one day.

Nice! I've been getting into fermentation. I made kimchi a few weeks ago and I'm thinking of doing another batch soon. Also have some sauerkraut that I just made.
The logic runs like this:

A secured loan should be easy and cheap to get, because if it goes bad, the lender can reposes the collateral. This is like your house and the truck; you ran up some debt, it didn't work out, you lost them both, but you also lost the debt.

An unsecured loan should be harder to get and pretty expensive, because it's riskier. If I run up $20k on my credit card paying for a fancy vacation, then can't pay, they can't take that vacation back from me. If I declare bankruptcy, I get a "free" vacation (I mean, not exactly, bankruptcy is complicated and expensive, but...) That's why credit cards run a 16% interest rate.

Student loans are for an education, which you can't repossess, but we also don't want to carefully vet applicants or charge them 16% interest rates. To try and square the circle, we've decided that student loans will be super easy to get and have very low rates, but then to try and avoid abuse we've decided they can't be discharged in bankruptcy. And then to try and avoid people being stuck with massive loans they can never repay, there's a bunch of complex income-based repayment plans and schemes where you can get balances forgiven in some cases.

> Why is it I can ditch close to 90 grand in loans lickety-split but students cant? how is education any different?

Education debt is different due to the combination of being inherently riskier than, say, a mortgage to buy a house, while still being something we want widely and cheaply available.

That being said, your biologist friend may have some better options if she looks into it.
> slashy-slash

That sounds like some kind of comical-violence.
Work with a psychiatrist to try other meds. There are non-stimulant meds that work with ADD too.

Adderall is not the only option; it didn’t work for me. It took a bit, and I ended up with Dextroamphetemine. The physical side effects dulled down to the occasional restless leg, and the mental effects work well.
ADHD doesn't suck. Forty years of 9-5 jobs, mortgages, university degrees, and elementary school sucks when you're the type of person who can get diagnosed as ADHD. The world discriminates against people who don't have the temperament to fit in to its patterns of society.

We don't quite know how to pursue ἀρετή, virtue, eudemonia, excellence, whatever you want to call it in life because modern life was built for another kind of person and the animal life we left behind is far gone. Advice about "fixing" ourselves is mostly about finding effective ways to fit square pegs into round holes (like Adderall)
> On Usenet it always seemed to be a fishing metaphor, which is why people talk about taking the bait or spitting the hook.

This is why I'm certain it started out as 'trawling'. The conversion to 'troll' was a result of misspelling or misunderstanding the spoken word. Or perhaps just standard punning - one who trawls is a troll.

"trawling for opinions" is a well-known and still often used phrase.
Discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17068772
You mean, they should only have to deal with people who are motivated enough to volunteer to spend extra, non-mandated time at school and who are supported enough that someone is paying extra money for them to participate, in an activity that while not mandatory produces broader social approbation for success than math?

Football coaches aren't generally better at motivating people than math teachers (heck, they are sometimes the exact same person.) They are just operating in a context that favors having more motivated people to start with and accepts them further weeding out the unmotivated.
I don't have the research handy, but Adderall has been proven very safe for long-term use when taken at "normal" dosages and with oversight by a doctor.

I've been on it for 20 years and with the oversight of responsible doctors, and I have never had to increase my dosage (in fact I've reduced it 25% in the last 5 years). All my heart/blood/* tests come back good and I'm not a particularly health-conscious person. I regularly take week-long breaks to assess if it's still the right regimen for me. (Like the parent post says, the days off of it can be brutal but avoiding tolerance and assessing its true impact are invaluable.) I don't "like" Adderall but it is the only way I feel sane.

My point: don't be afraid to seek meds that help just because you may fear some long-term effects. A doctor can help you decide if the long-term effects are worth the gain, and there may not in fact even be the long-term effects you're worried about, especially if you talk about those worries with your doctor.
In only 0x100 bytes of ROM that is so simple, there’s unlikely to be too many software bugs that allow dumping. Decapping a chip and imaging it isn’t cheap either. The hardware mechanism for locking the boot ROM may be hard to figure out without having the boot ROM already. And given how simple and effective the hardware mechanism is, it, too, is unlikely to have any obvious flaws to exploit.

So they didn’t exploit flaws, they just tried to work around the protection.

Even though the Gameboy is relatively slow (~4.7 Mhz processor IIRC) it’s still not going to be easy to hit exactly at the right time to be able to perform your fault injection.

The protection is simple enough to be effective. If you did it with a modern manufacturing process it’d probably be quite difficult to be able to image the bits directly...

Nowadays, for say Nintendo Switch, you are more likely to see keys and firmware data dumped via early boot exploits or privilege escalation.
Yes, all our customers can get source code access if they wish. It is their application after all. Any reason why they should not get access?
In the UK, the definition of a monopoly is >25% market share.
> Hypothetically, a member of the Class of 2019 with $50,000 in loans would owe about $550 per month over the next decade -- or $20 daily. (Assuming 6% annual interest and a 10-year term.)

This article misrepresents the nature of student debt in the United States. The average student graduates with 60% of the debt in Bloomberg's hypothetical scenario ($29,800) [0] with a fixed rate of 5.05% [1]. This leads to a monthly payment of ~$320 with a 10y term, 58% of Bloomberg's calculation. Student loan debt is absolutely a major problem, but it's important to rely on facts, not hypothetical scenarios.

[0] https://studentloanhero.com/student-loan-debt-statistics/

[1] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans/interest-rates
"two OpenBMCs aren't purely IBM, and that's more than one example apart from RISC-V possibilities. BMC is particularly important, because remote access is critical for large-scale management, typically implemented with a lot of problems, and often exposed highly insecurely. "

Very, well said. I've definitely thought about this. I was just turning ideas around instead of digging super deep. Still, one problem I had was how to sell the security-enhanced solution to businesses that were already leveraging backdoored, low-quality products. I'm concerned there would be a lot of "who gives a shit" reaction to the product.

The trick I advocated long ago was to embed and/or disguise security products as stuff with (non-security benefit worth buying here). The trick would be to figure out whatever chip, PCI card, etc had useful functionality to add to their servers. And, btw, it also has an ultra-secure interface to the buggy management systems. Back in the day, people like the folks behind Diamondtek LAN got secure tunnels and management systems certified by NSA for this stuff. There might still be a tiny market. Nonetheless, I'd rather have a non-security benefit, esp performance or monitoring, to sell them on with the security features subsidized by its sales. This concept is partly inspired by Bell's "selfless acts of security."

http://lukemuehlhauser.com/wp-content/uploads/Bell-Looking-B...
We have laws to punish bad behavior after it happens, while they have a culture that reinforces good behavior from the start.

Nowadays, it seems like trying to enforce good/proper behavior in the U.S. would be taken as an affront to personal freedom or "forcing one's culture onto others", so perhaps we need a different way to incentivize good behavior in this multicultural society where it's almost a sin to want and expect others to do something for the good of anyone but themselves.
> Allow common table expressions (CTE) to be inlined in later parts of the query

If you were using CTEs before to improve readability of your selects, but weren't keeping an eye on your execution plans, this can significantly improve performance of some queries.
Geographic Preference Meets School Choice: The Lily-White Schools of District 2
In a nutshell, the DSM say anything that sucks is a disease.

What is exciting is that the wandering-in-the-dark of psychology is being usurped by neurology actually understanding how the brain works on gradually higher and higher levels.
Cool, looks like it briefly covers a lot of topics
I guess we are desensitized.

I played Carmageddon and Mk 3 when I was like 7. In my teens I watched videos of middle-east decapitations, limb mutilation by the narcos, etc. just out of curiosity.

I'm not proud of it, but I don't think it has made me a violent person or anything.
I feel badly for the people that got sold college as an aspiration that they weren't qualified for, and dropped out after a couple of semesters.

I don't feel badly for the 30-somethings I know who racked up expensive private school loans, bumbled around through "finding themselves", failed startups, went back to school for more debt, traveled the world, and now are finding the bill for that irresponsibility coming due.
Oh, thank god.

Installing this on all my browsers ASAP.
A regulation is what entitles them to take the 30%.

And seriously, what do you think the percent should be? It's not that simple.
I've never been in combat and have had very little exposure to physical violence, but I stopped being able to watch war movies and even many action moves without feeling terrible at some point in college[1]. Most violent war/action movies and shows do their best to dehumanize the anonymous men that the "good guys" slaughter, but for whatever reason it stopped working on me, and I can't/don't want to turn back on the part of me that, when I was younger, was so casually capable of such dehumanization. (I'm aware that the characters are often fictional, but unless you think you'd be a fan of watching someone depict a torture or rape, it doesn't much affect the logic I'm using).

(There are also plenty of exceptions, where the violence isn't trivialized and the horror is central to the point; Watching a movie like _The Act of Killing_ is far from escapism)

> I do not understand how people watch that stuff.

Frankly, most people have a grossly stunted sense of empathy, with exceptions only for those things that they have firsthand life experience with. An instructive contrast is media depictions of sexual violence against women: for a couple of decades, there has been a concerted effort to decry media depictions of violence against women (sexual or otherwise) that are perceived as unnecessary or trivializing. The success of these campaigns is to be lauded, but what they reveal about how empathy-bankrupt monsters most people are is sort of chilling: people en masse can be taught to play-act empathy by rote if it's drilled into their head that a particular case is no longer socially acceptable, but they don't seem to be capable (en masse) of practicing the skill of empathy itself.

For anyone who watches Game of Thrones: Compare the huge outcry against the depiction of Sansa's marital rape to _an entire season_ of infinitely more gruesome torture porn by the same perpetrator against a male victim, which included genital mutilation. Despite being a far more egregious and lengthy display of gratuitous and stomach-turning violence, the latter caused no backlash whatsoever, and is in fact still fodder for jokes about Game of Thrones-themed foods ("Theon's Flayed Sausage"), including from publications like Huffington Post which were some of the loudest complainants about how unforgivable the former scene was.

TL;DR: It's not a particularly popular opinion, but most people are far more depraved and far less capable of basic human empathy than even their own ostensible moral standards would imply. Like you, I can't _relate_ to how people watch that stuff, but I can definitely _understand_ it.
Alternatively, if you were using them to force a barrier in the query plan, it could completely tank. Thankfully it can be turned off, and they did this in a major release.
I suspect based on your writing you may be taking yourself a tad too seriously, and that can have huge costs in terms of anxiety.

The point being made is if it's a substantive point it doesn't matter how much the speaker identifies with it, the valid point has been made to you and it is to be considered. Hence it should not matter provided you are sticking to the facts. It seems you have made this into a personal insult about whether or not your transactional view of the costs of speaking are being respected. That is to shoot the messenger.

The person is doing you a favor by pointing out valid concerns even if they don't agree with them.
I think it's a great idea. It's always wise to invest in education. The student loans ARE an investment.

The only real problem with the student loans is that they gave them to people without concrete earning potential. They should have only gave out loans to educate people at real institutions (not U. of Phoenix eg) in practical areas like engineering or science. Instead, they gave a lot of loans to people who wouldn't have good employable potential post graduation.
As people (including geek types) age, they tend to wish for simpler, more functional technology. They may still care about privacy, but may prefer more support and ease-of-use. That is likely there market.

Unfortunately, I think it is the current generation of geek types that will care most about privacy, and so they may be a good bit ahead of their market.
Wow! My story resonates with that of the author's.
Although I did relatively well at school I struggled in collage. I skipped classes and my grades were far lower compared to my school years. In the second
year of college I was finally diagnosed with ADHD. Not that I haven't seen it coming. Some of my teachers have long suspected it even during school. I knew I was special as I couldn't stick to the topic I was talking about during conversations, and even when writing essays!
That my sound a bit elitist, but my belief is that the biggest factor that made me get through this is my self-perceive above-than-average intelligence. I couldn't let me fail. I managed to get in the second most prestigious electrical engineering college in the relatively small country I live.
Running a startup is not easy, let alone if you suffer with ADHD. Me, having plans for the future, was relieved to see other like-minded people sharing their experience! Thank you.
I've literally spent 2 years working on a project that did exactly what this article is recommending. There were some places which needed the relative-url as an identifier, and other places which needed the "database id" as the identifier. We constantly had to extract the id from the URL, or convert the id into a URL, and keep a mental map of which format each input was using, and which format was needed for each output. It was a mess. I would personally not recommended this at all.
Absolutely, familiarity with troubleshooting, how layers of technology interact, dealing with new tech regularly, working with technical teams is a big leg up.
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I've banned this account until we get some indication that you intend to stop taking HN threads further into flamewar. Would you please stop creating accounts to do that with?

As the guidelines explain, this is not a site for ideological and political battle. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just think about all the dust bunnies and body hair that gets in your meal when somebody else cooks it, though.
Inside Facebook's global constitutional convention
"You'll have a chance at landing the dream job of the richest person on Earth"? (Bill Gates, member of the technical staff at Bell Labs in the late 1940s.)
You have to have the desire to improve and communicate, which a child who speaks no language has. Plenty of people live in language bubbles in foreign countries, and barely learn at all, but if you actually expose yourself to the language as much as possible, it definitely works.
Wow, that's a comprehensive list! I've been searching for the most useful resources I've used in 25 years and they're all there.

On the other hand, I see that Delphi usenet forums have been closed for a year... long time I had not checked.
>Student loans are for an education, which you can't repossess, but we also don't want to carefully vet applicants or charge them 16% interest rates. To try and square the circle, we've decided that student loans will be super easy to get and have very low rates, but then to try and avoid abuse we've decided they can't be discharged in bankruptcy. And then to try and avoid people being stuck with massive loans they can never repay, there's a bunch of complex income-based repayment plans and schemes where you can get balances forgiven in some cases

You say that like there was some master central plan, but I doubt that's the case. Would love to know the history of how our whole "system" / tangle of rules etc came to be, timeline of events, etc
Seriously. I’ll switch just so I don’t have to pay Comcast.

Now I just need some Tesla solar panels and a couple powerwalls, and betweeen that, a well, my septic system, I can cut every cable coming into my house.

Well, I do use natural gas for heating and I love my gas stove, but nearly there!

If only the receiver and the power requirements were small enough to fit in my cell phone!
They absolutely are the victims but it's also a students responsibility to do due diligence on the bootcamps just like you would (should?) research an employer before signing the job offer.
That doesn't mean that BTC can't go to $1, it just means that BTC will die if it does go to $1.