skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how that would work.

I can see 2 values in a degree: 1 the ability to put the degree on your resume, 2 the knowledge and enjoyment you got from the degree. I don't see how it's possible to remove 2. I guess you could remove 1 by making it illegal to put on your resume, but then how would you become "fully employed" when you can't put the degree on your resume?
I vote that if the twist is so cliche that someone jokingly riffing on tropes can accidentally "spoil" it, then it's not really a twist and hence not a spoiler.
didnt see any examples and arduously went through the process to upload my own pics and that also didnt work, regardless of threshold.

iphone
It's unlikely he chills until someone dies or property in excess of hundreds of thousands of dollars is damaged, and an attorney pursues him personally. A hacker ethos is no defense against a personal judgement you can never repay in a lifetime. Unlike most judgments, punitive damages awards are not dischargeable in bankruptcy as long as the relevant cause of action was based upon willful actions.

The audience won't be a room full of domain experts, but a jury of twelve.
I think frontend has such a low barrier to entry and such a high degree of fault tolerance that it makes sense that people misjudge their capability.
Your thoughts on the value of a degree are indicative of the massive disconnect we have in our society between an education and a credential.

The reason student loans can't be discharged during bankruptcy is because the value of the degree can't be repossessed by a bank like a house or a car if you default. You attend college to learn and grow, not to pass an HR screening.

I could very easily acquire a job as a developer simply by knowing the material and how to write code - how I choose to come by that knowledge is my own prerogative but if I take out a loan from a bank to acquire that knowledge then they have nothing to repossess.

You don't attend college for a degree you attend it for the knowledge and experience you gain - a degree is worthless, it can't be resold if a bank were to "take posession" of it.

And trust me if banks and financial institutions could create second-hand markets and derivatives for degrees they would, but that would obviously be pointless. I can't just buy and sell PhD's on e-trade.
That's.. different people in a different hearing.
Are you sure? I recently saw a non-political case from South Korea get some coverage, including on TechCrunch iirc.
That "seamless resize" GIF looks like a joke. I had to reread the paragraph a few times to make sure it doesn't show an earlier stack being now replaced with Flutter.
People have been selling photo to painting schemes for decades. There's a mini-industry where you send in a photo and get back a paint by number kit. That predates computers. Etsy has a whole category for photo to painting shops.
How reasonable is it to dive any to this and treat the Pascal as pseudocode so as to implement it in another language? Or would one be better off just using something like freepascal.org?
> nobody improves 10 times faster

> At the least, nearly everyone is capable of successfully handling the standard school curriculum, given a few hours per week of 1:1 tutoring by an expert.

Your second statement does not imply the first one. "Nearly everyone" may be capable of successfully handling the standard curriculum, and still, given the same resources, and hours/week some people may progress 10x faster than others.
Is there also planned support for Flutter on a plain old linux desktop, and if so is there a timeline for it?
I've always thought it would be better if teaching and evaluation were done by separate people.
I learned programming at 12 years old. I think its funny that people think you need a engineering degree. It does help to get a higher paycheck though.
> Airlines have no choice, there's a limited capacity in the world for airplane construction, several thousands of orders on the books for the 737 and 320 waiting to be filled. What can an airline do? They can cut back some orders but not all orders.

In a world that had actually severe consequences for corporate negligence, regulators would force Boeing to let airlines cancel/change all orders, and compensate them for the 737 Max models they already shipped to them, as they cannot be flown safely. Boeing's behavior does not indicate that they are interested in properly fixing this problem as opposed to getting it certified via corporatism / the FAA allowing them to perform a big part of their own checks.
You know, I absolutely love the current push for digital well-being and so on. The big tech companies created this problem to begin with by making their services that addictive, and now are "concerned" about how bad things are.

Opium salesmen offering beds at rehab facilities, the lot of them.
What mammals where there suitable for herding, and what crops?

It has been 18 years since I read the book, so perhaps you shouldn't judge it by my memories.

Also curious about your source for the crops confined to a small areas.
I think the endorsements should acknowledge that one can't necessarily trust the rest of the smartphone software and hardware.
I don't know what your current level is but for complete beginners I recommend this game: http://nandgame.com/ It will walk you though the basic components of a very simplified CPU.

Alternatively if you are interested in designing custom circuits which are merely used as accelerators then you could start off with an FPGA and a RISC V core to which you add your own designs.
> This is a very American-centric kind of cynicism and myopia.

I'm neither American, nor ever been to that country, so I find this quite impossible.
Haha no problem. I should probably add something in to send me measurements that don't work anyway
Preventing the student loan market from functioning as it is now is a feature, not a bug.
Can you give some examples? I find it very hard to believe, for general software products.
I think it's all about how far off the mean you are.

Consider cars: You can get most full-size sedans with either four or six cyliner engines, manual or automatic transmission, and regular or sporty suspensions. That's potentially eight different sets of handling characteristics. But they're all going to be in a fairly narrow cluster of "this still drives pretty much like a Camry." When you decide "instead of the six-cyliner engine, let's drop in a 700 horsepower turbocharged V8", it's no longer anywhere near that cluster.
embarrassing level of police bootlicking in this post my friend
I'm waiting for one of these projects to succeed so I can move out of the city. I'm 90% remote and the only thing stopping me from moving back to a rural area is reliable high speed internet.
Kind of weird posting the app as a submission like this, given that it's pretty well-known and HN search turns up hundreds of discussions about it. This is kind of like posting a link to slack.com.
Yes, he mentioned this in his "crib sheets" - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/06/crib-she... it is an interesting read, but contains spoilers for his The Jennifer Morgue novel.
Frankly my gut feel is that Bitcoin transactions over Amateur radio is illegal, however I suspect it may be open to interpretation.

Amateur radio is NOT strictly non-commercial. For example a licensed ham CAN legally use an autopatch to order a pizza. A licensed ham CANNOT call his office on the same autopatch to retrieve his "business messages".
You could start a cooperative ghost restaurant business powered by Uber eats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_restaurant
Will Google ever provide a Chrome OS “distro” to install on non-Chromebook machines?

I’m aware of things like CloudReady by Neverware[1] which seem to have some investment from Google, but last I checked, it did not have support for Android or Linux. Using community built images of Chromium OS and scripts that “hack” it into a Chrome OS installation has been a huge pain.

I’d love to test a full-featured Chrome OS on my machines, but I’m not dropping money for a Chromebook despite how cheap they may be because I have plenty of machines that it could run (with good performance) on.

[1]: https://www.neverware.com
Surely there exist perfectly sane and law abiding creative people who aren't disturbed by fictional depictions of gore. Comparing people like Romero to fictional serial killers is just silly.
This assumes that targeted ads are truly effective for changing politics. This remains to be studied through rigorous science rather than in trial-by-journalists.
I'm really glad that US senators are hearing your perspective on these issues. Thank for putting in the time and for your patience with their endless name-mangling. :)

Do you feel any more or less optimistic about what's coming in privacy law, having done this?

Any part of the experience that was especially surprising?

Edit: wording.
Stupid question: Can I play with GPT-2 by entering my own prompts using a website or downloadable project? Or is it not ready yet?
He couchsurfed his friends homes, collaborating on math papers with them.
This is one of my favourite stories, this documentary is pretty good:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2042455/

This book goes into a lot more detail:
https://www.amazon.com/Project-Azorian-CIA-Raising-K-129/dp/...

The engineering behind the gimble required to hold the huge length of pipe required to reach the sub is quite something.
Usually something barely above subsistence...
> the Bay Area especially is not very liberal

If presidential elections are anything to go by (and they are certainly not perfect, but good enough), it is. Clinton winning each county with > 60% (>70% for several) certainly doesn't make them conservative.
It's worth noting they have an emergency fund set aside for this purpose. Every penny lost is said to be covered.

Time will tell if that holds true of course.

Personally, I think their professional handling of the hack is partially responsible for the recent surge in investor confidence.

Hacks will happen. Binance is far from perfect. But the way they prepared for, and handled the hack is to be commended IMHO.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360028031711
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/333497959022997504/Binance-S...
https://www.binance.vision/glossary/secure-asset-fund-for-us...
They took over the main politics subreddit in 2016, one of the worst things I’ve seen happen online. Crickets.
> They [Silicon Valley] see a regulation and they find a way around it. We don't like banking regulations? So we invent cryptocurrency and we're going to disrupt the entire financial system. We don't like limits on discrimination in lending? So we're going to use machine learning. Which is a form of money laundering for bias.

Could you expand on what you meant by this Maciej? The first sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory - that Bitcoin (I presume) was invented by Silicon Valley to avoid banking regulations? Or did I completely misunderstand?

EDIT: to be clear, I'm not contradicting or being nasty. I would just like to learn more as I've never heard that take on it before.
What is "common ratio"? Men only teams can actually have advantages. Mixed teams can have different advantages.

One advantage I could imagine is mixed teams making the company more attractive for men to work at, making it easier to attract talented developers.
More relevant to the assessment of the morality of dropping The Bomb is whether it was reasonable to think it was necessary at the time.

(I can't confidently assert that one way or the other, though I'm sure opinions differed even then)
That doesnt matter, that information wasnt as useful....

What matters is the intent and the methods.

Its not overblown, its under corrected.
Because it's more difficult than parse "5" and "7", especially when you need to parse not only numeral IDs. "More difficult" always means "more bugs" and "more vulnerabilities".

There is no single reason for this complication. The ONLY motivation author had - less knowledge about API endpoints on the client. But simultaneously it means more knowledge about the fields where links are stored, so it doesn't save nothing.
> but I haven't seen any evidence that they sell data

It's worse than that, they give it away. RTB (real time bidding) on advertising works by presenting the bidder with a whole pile of info on the ad slot they are bidding on.

So even if you don't bid or you lose the bid you still get all that juicy data.
I wonder why Uber pool expansion to more cities is so slow.
I used to do that frequently and eventually came to hold some of those positions. In particular I convinced myself to be pro-choice after sort of arguing about abortion for sport with my very Christian conservative family.
No Tesla programmers have been arrested for Autopilot-related crashes.
He did take potentially damaging information but he was very careful to hand it over to responsible journalists who then filtered out what was relevant.

Given his circumstances at the time he did the best he could in balancing peoples right to know against legitimate stuff I think.
This is a good point, and it's a little concerning to me that we will likely soon be inundated not just with spam from lowly-paid shills, but literal bots generating a near endless supply of confident-sounding nonsense.

I am not an expert with machine learning, but it seems (at a very high level) we've done amazingly well at creating models that can recognize and sometimes recreate patterns. But they never seem to have any ability to understand the patterns. I'm sure someone much more knowledgeable could compare it to a child of whatever age (or maybe I'm just completely wrong).
From a developer perspective, why would I develop software for Windows only, if I can develop it against Linux and have it work in Windows, traditional Linux desktops, and ChromeOS? (Games may still have trouble because I doubt that WSL2 will allow direct hardware access to the GPU). Once more desktop software is Linux compatible to take advantage of this cross-platform Linux API experience, it becomes easier for consumers to choose to forgo Windows all together.
A counter-argument is that it romanticizes / glorifies it. They don't get the reality because that's about impossible (or makes for a depressing movie).
And that means...?
It wasn't quite clear to me from the article: are the resulting Flutter apps running under the Android emulation layer or are they proper Chrome OS apps?

It's great that Chrome OS can run legacy Android stuff, but it'd be a shame if the ugly design of Android started to leak into Chrome OS proper in a way that makes it hard/impossible to deprecate.
Show HN: Nanosai Mem Ops – ByteArrayAllocatorAutoDefrag-Allocation, Deallocation
It's my understanding that the contingency fund was held in a cold wallet consisting entirely of BTC. If true, then that couldn't be the reason for the surge (but who knows).
Buried in a shipping crate.
You might be aware but it's not clear to me from your comment, there is plenty of radioactive contamination around Rocky Flats.
She probably didn't use ghost writers, also Arnlod never took steroids. Its all hard work and discipline.
Microsoft Reinvented Itself
Bear in mind, I'm from the U.K so I don't have an American perspective on this.

This is a bit closer to the truth when you read or listen to what analysis they were doing.

I think what they were doing and it's association with Trump conflated how bad it was.

I'd seen in some places that mining of Facebook data in the pre-trump era, was quite prolific by both parties.
Seriously. Snowden worship makes me sick. If Trump actually had any influence with Russia, I wish he’d use it to get Snowden extradited. I want to see him on this list with Hanssen et al.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence#Double_agents
The professor who beat roulette
You can, see: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/DEVELOPERS.md.

But this is for a smaller version of GPT-2 (~400M parameters). Since the bigger model (2B parameters) was deemed too dangerous by OpenAI.
YouTube and its users face an existential threat from EU’s copyright directive
Math teachers should be just like football coaches: well-paid, especially when they work at prestigious universities.
And also hand it over to China and Russia, of course.
I think it's rather subjective. MK X was a great game in my opinion. Personally I'm hooked on DBFZ at the moment and think it's the best fighting game around. Certainly, at least to me, the most entertaining to watch at high levels.
The tradition of debate in India that this article is about (or dialogue, or dialectic, or whatever you want to call it) is very interesting, and unfortunately not well-known because most of the sources on the topic quickly get into technicalities.

Two non-technical (somewhat accessible to the general public) sources I've found are:

1. The book “Religions, Reasons, and Gods” by the late John Clayton has many interesting essays that touch on the vāda tradition. One of his interesting points is that the goal of dialogue need not be consensus or establishing common ground, but simply the “clarification of defensible difference”: understanding the other party better, and coming to shared understanding of what our differences are. Some of it is also touched on in his lecture here: http://www.bu.edu/religion/mar25-98/

2. Elaborating on the jalpa/vitaṇḍa mentioned in this article, the nyāya tradition recognized a long list of logical fallacies and poor arguments that were grounds for losing a (formal) debate. A list I've found is in the paper “Twenty-Two Ways to Lose a Debate” (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-009-9083-y) which also carries out some comparison with the ideas of Grice.
Snowden successfully evaded notice and basically "got away with it" to the extent that he tried. Whether or not you think he was justified has no bearing on his obvious opsec competence.
> commit to 6 months of training for anyone I hire.

Google broadly believes it takes 6-12 months for a new hire to become completely productive, so I doubt that particular aspect of your experience is due to shallowness of the embedded (straight) C (not C++) talent pool in your area.
the pleasure of the dance

That's great when it's mutually understood, but just like a real dance you should solicit someone's agreement to participate beforehand.
What is “noopolitics”?
The Purpose of the Development Team
Agreed, but a simple Google search would give the answer and the first bit really is nobody's business.

https://www.loc.gov/law/help/children-residing-with-parents-...
It is sad and strange to see a country with so much land area and such low population density moving in the direction of ever greater congestion -- and now in the name of the revolution.

...while upper-middle-class, single-family-home neighborhoods have had the privilege of remaining the same.

Although it is not the author's avowed view, they do seem to be operating from a frame where we have to put people's private property to public use in the name of social progress. For example, the way they use the word "privilege" here. Not selling one's home or, along with one's neighbours, not changing a neighbourhood's zoning is not a privilege, it's a pretty ordinary exercise of one's autonomy.
I don’t know if this level of cynicism is helpful. If taken to its logical conclusion, one would just give up on electronic communication. That comes with some costs, either economically, or in being exposed to other safety risks associated with offline communication, or being less effective in whatever one wants to achieve with that communication.

Or, people will conclude that everything is compromised anyway, and therefore not take the reasonable steps because “why bother?”

I also don’t think the idea that all hardware is compromised should just be accepted as fact. There is more that speaks against that thesis than in its favor, including the high market value of iOS exploits and the length Apple and the FBI went to in their fight over that shooter’s iPhone.

Apple especially has taken some steps that seem to deserve some credit. After all, if we refuse to see the differences in their approach to others’, they (and everyone else) will just learn from it not to even try making privacy part of the value proposition.
I've worked with biology and philosophy majors who came from boot camps and they seem to be just as competent as any other junior developers.
> It may sound weird but actually many people here didn't picked their university by themselves but by the guidance of their parent, so they might study something else than their favourite.

Hello! This was me. Studied music because it’s what my parents wanted me to do, and kept finding ways to shoehorn “computer stuff” into any music I was doing: making digital synths, making music analysis programs, and coding up generative music machines.

That path worked well enough, so it took me awhile to realize I ought to give up the pretense of music and just do the thing I was interested in full-time. The pay difference was indeed the incentive to re-tool, however.

I used a boot camp, where I learned the current faddish tools of frontend, to get connected into the industry, and have since happily transitioned to backend work. I’m not sure the boot camp itself was necessary, and 20 years ago I probably would have found an enthusiast group at a city library or something, but it was a short term functional community that worked for me.
I think these types of reflection (both in the original opinion piece and your response) are useful because they highlight two very different perspectives to the situation.

Urschel's opinion piece points out how the two different systems treated him as an individual differently. He wonders (rightfully) what a world where the type of individual attention and energy that he was able to receive in football could be also received in mathematics. This is a very microscale discussion.

Your response (and many others) point out that on the macroscale, the two systems are incredibly different. But I feel that a lot of the macroscale differences aren't nessecary inherent. Like, they might be super baked in through path dependence, but they aren't intrinsic to the "platonic ideal" of producing football players and mathematicians.
Interesting. Do you know a good place to read about the details?
>This remains to be studied

I think it is fair for me to assume that propaganda does influence politics without having to commission a study on it.
Yup, I was on the math team at my HS and we won state my senior year. Certainly not as rah-rah as football (which I was also in) but it was competitive and we all took it pretty seriously (obviously). Winning the state competition was just as satisfying than any playoff victory I had in football (perhaps more so).
Don't get me started on js/npm stuff...
How to Optimize for Creativity
Agreed the article is not very clear. From the context of the surrounding paragraph though, I think it means one in a million helium atoms is lost via Jeans’ escape every year. Which would obviously be quite a significant factor on any geological timescale.
This is how a poor person imagines riches happen to befall any of us. They just happen, one lucky day, you dig and you find a pot of gold, or a ton of pot.

Its a reaction based worldview, where you do not control your own destiny, and wealth is something drained from you, that comes in large quantities by chance.

You do not manage what you got, slouch through a horrible existence to slowly improve yourself. Because that is what the others do, the chancers feed upon. The people who lead that life, are the customers of the drug dealers, those who have the chance to get ahead at the cost of others.

Riches are taken in large quantities by others, with stick up like scenarios- your landlord squeezes you for everything you got, the repair shop rips your wallet open, any accident makes you a indentured slave to the insurance company.

So in a hopeless life, daring to hope, when you get a risky chance, seems actually reasonable.