skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Brown didn’t have a bed, just a foam bedroll tucked into the corner of one bedroom and a military duffel containing an old uniform and medals.

I understand being frugal and admire it, but this level of frugality is harder to understand. I would hope he was at least comfortable on his bedroll. Based on what I could gather from the article, he seemed like a wonderful man.
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Another way to think about it is that most web developers outside Google lost interest in GWT long ago (if they ever tried it), and Google was one of the last holdouts.

It was also a rather gradual process. The team moved on to j2cl, but there are still occasional commits:

https://gwt.googlesource.com/gwt.git/+log/refs/heads/master
Please don't do political or nationalistic flamewar on HN. The conversation fell way below the acceptability line by this point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As long as it's statistically better than a human driver, it's all good. Human drivers fail all the time, resulting in mass casualties in every single country.
Please don't do political or nationalistic flamewar on HN. The conversation fell way below the acceptability line by this point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. We've had to warn you repeatedly about using HN for political or ideological battle. At some point we ban accounts that keep doing that—regardless of what they're arguing for or against—because it's highly destructive of the intellectual curiosity this site exists for. Would you please fix that?
Ender's game
i'm first aid / pre-hospital rescue trained and i carry a small first aid kit in my bag at all times.

I'm going to be more useful if I take my bag, and I can have it out from under the seat in front of me and around my body in seconds.

So yeah, I'm taking my bag.
Highly unlikely, given all the other GB emulators that already exist, some of which are far more famous.
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I’d be more concerned about the effects on the journalism sector. Suddenly they can target worldwide the public perception of everything. It’s the most detailed and effective propaganda machine ever built.
> Using community built images of Chromium OS and scripts that “hack” it into a Chrome OS installation has been a huge pain.

That's actually the exact project I was referring to with the quoted bit above. I was on mobile and didn't have the chance to look up the exact project. However, I had a bunch of issues when I tried it months ago. I don't necessarily blame the script because I'm not sure if the trouble was caused by the script, my hardware, or user error on my end. I didn't really have the patience for it since I could get all the same functionality from any run-of-the-mill Linux distro (Fedora in my case) + Chromium + Anbox.
The presentation linked in the article has some awesome images of the individual spheres:

https://www.cwi.nl/events/cwi-scientific-meetings-1/cwiscien...
I think partially because the modders don't have to animate walk cycles and limbs moving, the train is mostly static. Also it's the contrast between horror and Thomas's squeaky clean branding.
You can buy a person's data in bulk for a penny each.
I don't work there, so I don't find it personally offensive, but I do find it condescending, patronizing, manipulative, greedy, self-contradictory, crazymaking, presumptuous, insulting, tone-deaf, laughable, short-sighted and self-defeating. It makes me want to harm that company. I want them to be hostile-taken-over and reorganized. (I'm not infuriated or anything. It just takes very little to get on my shitlist. They should count their lucky stars that I'm not dictator.)

Maybe those workers (who have more power to harm the company than I do, and whose place it is to be personally offended) should commit as much and as costly sabotage as they can creatively think of, and hide it behind feigned incompetence (maybe blaming it on sleep deprivation from a video-game addiction), until everyone in the company realizes that the destinies of everyone in the company are all bound together. What happened to that good old team spirit guys? If management wanted to demonstrate to the workers that a union is needed for dealing with them, and that dealing with them honestly as members of "one big team" will prove laughably impossible, they couldn't have picked a better way to advertise it. (That's what I mean by self-defeating above.)

That's just my opinion that I'm freely expressing!
Please don't take HN threads into this gender flamewar internet talking point stuff. It's bloody tedious, and we've all heard it all enough times already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What is the advantage of writing a Flutter app over a PWA or something like react-native?
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Webcam was invented to check coffee levels without walking to the breakroom
There’s a lot of distrust from many southeast Asian nations due to the conflicting territory claims in the South China Sea as well.
The traditional media had to operate in the open. You could figure out what your neighbor was reading by buying his/her newspaper for a day. Also, newspapers could report on each other’s reporting. This has become increasingly opaque.
everyone does, even some parts (fields) of the US
Is one of those words I have almost never heard pronounced. And on the rare occaisions I have, it is by people who are similarly unsure of the correct pronunciation.
I think what I didn't like about your comments about GDPR is that it used the worst example of the effects on users when you could have used a better one.

Take the iPhone for example. The iOS permissions system has basically nailed the "how do we present this to the user" problem pretty much from day one of the iPhone and the App Store. It's specific, it's easy to understand, it's not bundled with anything else and it shows you the prompt exactly when the app actually needs the location data (not just a succession of 5 different permission requests when you first launch the app). The annoyance to users that comes from GDPR is because, like you said, the existing surveillance ecosystem is trying to respond to GDPR by changing as little about their practices as possible. Maybe the surveillance ad ecosystem shouldn't even exist?

In iOS 11.3 Apple released a new API for ad attribution [1]. It seems like it could be very interesting from a privacy perspective [2].

>A successful app installation relays just five data points back to the ad network — ad network ID, transaction identification, ad campaign ID, app ID installed and attribution code — while excluding the private user information offered by Facebook and Google.

If they chose to mandate the use of this API, it would vastly restructure the surveillance ad ecosystem overnight (at least within Apple's platforms, which is a very big economy) [3]. I think the same could be done for a user surfing the web under GDPR, it doesn't necessarily have to be a hellscape.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/skadnetwo...

[2] https://www.mobilemarketer.com/news/apple-ios-privacy-and-th...

[3] https://adexchanger.com/mobile/is-apple-angling-to-cut-out-a...
Yeah but the third video is simultaneously hilarious and genuinely terrifying in a kind of weird way - it definitely captures the fear of unstoppable inevitability.
I do too, but sadly it seems that technical folks who follow this stuff closely and care about privacy are a pretty small slice of the general population.
Don’t forget that any remaining balance that is forgiven at the end gets counted as income on your taxes.
I say:

> If your employer has you working on something that really bothers you, and they're not able or willing to place you on something else, then that doesn't sound like a good fit for employment

You say:

> Workers can adapt to their work, but companies also can adapt the workplace to the workforce. Your attitude, that hiring a more resilient worker is the solution to every breakdown...

My initial statement suggested that the appropriate action was to seek an alternative employer, given that they are unwilling or unable to accommodate. If they're able and willing to accommodate, then there is no problem. You've completely mischaracterized my position.
Sorry, I must have left out private entities, which led to downvotes. Snowden is likely to have caused an exodus of hoarded intent of knowledge towards private global interests, away from governments. So the quantum race, then, would be going on behind the scenes with both private and public interests.

How hard will it be to switch to post quantum encryption globally once it’s clear publicly that there’s at least a proof of concept for a quantum decryption supercomputer? How do you differentiate between cloned 210 iq babies in massive underground communities (as an example) working on decades in the future tech, and safeguards amongst the destructive forces of the powerful hegemonic incumbency. There’s an applicable abstraction here, generally, about containing superior intelligence, whether artificial or biological. I do believe recent Star Trek movie touched upon this
When at work you should be ready and interested to learn about how to improved your work. It's as simple as that
> Also everybody: I'm bored. I'll check Facebook.
>
> Almost nobody: I stopped using Facebook.

These seem like they're less contradictory than you perhaps made them seem.

For the former, people checking Facebook requires there to be content from their friend circles to view. It isn't enough to have people willing to check their feed.

As for the second one, many people I know (myself included) simply post much less or virtually never, which for most practical purposes is similar to stopping the use of it entirely. Few completely abstain because that's not always practical, but not contributing goes along way towards minimizing data collection.
> Better times than ours.

Not sure why it’s necessary to make a slight against our times? Even Osama Bin Laden was given a proper burial at sea, and he wasn’t even a soldier, he was a damn criminal. We didn’t even use photos of his remains for propaganda.
I thought it was a truism in tech that monocultures are a bad thing?

JS might be the #1 player, but there's no reason to be against attempts to challenge the status quo.
Facebook is all words but no actions. Their actions speak otherwise. This lawsuit is just a PR stunt for them to claim they did something so they have something to reply with at the next senate hearing.

My problem in this whole data privacy debate is things like "shadow profiles" where even though I don't have Facebook, they still have information on me because one of my friends decided to share their entire contacts list with facebook and thus facebook now knows my details too even though I never consented to my details being shared.

Another problem I have with this privacy debate is the lack of technological awareness in the politicians. I watched the US senate hearing last year with Mark Zuckerberg and was absolutely shocked at how clueless the members in office were. It was shameful. Mark also got away with giving almost useless answers and the senators didn't grill him much on more important issues.

At this point, I am really curious whether our data is even valuable in the "ad market" considering everything gets leaked anyway. So if something is getting so easily available to these ad companies by simply "misusing" the service, wouldn't the value of the data start going down? I remember a few months ago, there was an article on how the data per use was valued at around $12 (not sure if I am remembering right). I wonder if that value goes down over time because of these so claimed "breaches".
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The performance was poor enough for long enough (and continues to be, probably?) that more than one third party implementation came along to replace it. There's no real reason that NPM can't be as fast as Yarn, except that it isn't (or wasn't? I haven't used it for enough full-size projects lately that I would know whether or not it's gotten better).
Aside from winning the lottery (either literally or figuratively), the fastest ways are going to include consistently investing in the stock market, or investing in your own business. If you can become an entrepreneur and grow your business, you can make enormous amounts of money relatively quickly. I recommend a cleaning business, a coin car wash, or real estate (including flipping houses); the first two are relatively easy and straightforward, and the third is a well known business model.
Yeah CMC sucks. I've been looking at this one more lately: https://www.bti.live/currencies/
"It's impossible to know what he took, therefore your claim about what he took is baseless.

MY claim about what he took, however:"
Is this saying that they should be paid huge amounts of money?
Facebook releases their monthly active numbers with their quarterly earnings. By all means the numbers have been trending up, even at their massive reach, despite all the challenges they have been facing.

So looks like you and your friends are not representative of the general population.
Yep, it seems built to run on NEOS, which is an Android distribution: https://github.com/commaai/neo
Couldn't disagree more. We should stop worrying about what other people are doing for entertainment. Totally fine if you don't want to play or watch violent media but judging others and calling their enjoyment unacceptable is a pretty far departure from an open and free society.
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This is not what I had in mind. Whoever produces something should get rid of it. I don't care if it's single use if producer is able to get it back and recycle it.
I can't imagine it actually blits, it probably swaps buffers like everything since 2000.
Obama’s campaign was also hailed for using targeted advertising as an innovative technique back in the day. I think CA is largely a big deal because it’s one of the mainstream explanations for why trump won (never mind that there are real people who like his platform, as insane as it seems).
But you probably have heard similar words, such as nootropics. That word gets pronounced "new-o-tropics."

Classic Greek "long o" is literally a long o. The sound is drawn out at length.

So it seems likely to me this is pronounced similar to nootropics.
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The physically active people I know (of whom I am not one!) seem to follow this pattern compulsively anyway. They always hurt themselves being physically active and they hate not being physically active so they get back out there again.
That's true of all currencies. It's just a shared delusion that the coin or paper has any value. That in itself has value, as otherwise you left with bartering with specific goods that have value to the person you're trading with - a significantly less liquid market than the one featuring the shared delusion.

In that sense, there's nothing special about bitcoin. It's just another shared delusion, just with fewer believers. As long as there are believers, there is value. The stronger the belief, the greater the value.
Thanks for your explanation. I think the real question here is to what do you pay attention when you inspect codebase of your potential employer and what conclusions can you make from it. Your comment answers that. I also think the fact that you were able to make those conclusions gives you additional credit in the eyes of the potential employer.
I'm not sure of this tagline but:

"Ruby and Lambda splat out a baby and that child's name is Jets."
I am somewhat suspicious of a report funded by the people being investigated. - https://www.malinschambers.com/2018/05/julian-malins-q-c-and...
The most effective sales is disguised as “not sales”.
Like it or not, JavaScript is the #1 player on the web

In a decade, Apple has had little trouble convincing developers to take up not one but two weird languages statistically nobody was using before. I don't think the languages themselves (and even their ecosystems) are what drives or fails to drive adoption.
I watched half of it before deciding I don't understand how this relates. If we're talking about arguments in which the objective truth is unambiguous (eg. who invaded Spain), there is no argument among reasonable people. And I explicitly said I am talking about adopting positions for the purpose of argument not to "attack the other side".
- Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
- 1984
- Catcher in the Rye
- Autobiography of Benvenuto Cillini
- Catch-22
- CS Lewis’ Space Trilogy
I guess a pet peeve of mine, the Di, in Dialectic refers specifically to two-valued logic, resolving to a truth or false.

Which at least in the case of Jain philosophy, with 3 basic truth values true, false, and unassertable, so really these traditions are not necessarily dialectic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaina_seven-valued_logic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekantavada
Woah there, that seems just a tad negative!

I didn't read this post as an advertisement - if anything, I was surprised by the humbleness of their post, which made clear that they were not the first with this idea, and that they take a very reasonable percentage.
There are many similarities but I think the key difference is Cambridge Analytica as its own entity sold its data (including psychological profiles of users' Facebook friends) gathered from an apolitical survey app to multiple other entities such as Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Brexit. So essentially a service that I never signed up for is potentially selling my presumed psychological profile to political campaigns, for a profit. I'd argue that's a bit of a bamboozle. The Obama campaign was using a similar data set but it didn't breach Facebook's terms and its intrinsically political purpose wasn't really obfuscated.
I've been compiling a mental list of things I want to know about a potential team. The code itself is not one of them - too sensitive to get access to, too large and context-dependent to evaluate from an outside perspective. But I do have a bunch:

- How is the physical space, crowding, noise level, workstation quality? How many hours a week do you spend in meetings? How to decision makers think about focus vs. collaboration?

- What is the process by which a proposed code change gets to production, and how long does it take? Code review? Linters? Unit tests? Integration tests? Human QA? CI/CD?

- What is oncall like? How many alerts per shift? Signal to noise ratio? How do you manage incidents? What are postmortems like? Are they about accountability, system hardening, or trying to balance both?

- What are some of the debugging/observability/operational tools you've developed for your product? What are the stories behind them?

- How do decision makers think about tech debt vs. feature velocity? What if any official support is there for getting tech debt items worked on?

- Can I fix & try things on my own initiative in addition to meeting assigned tasks, or must every work hour be dictated by the process/PM? Is an architect telling me exactly how my code has to be structured or am I making my own decisions?

- Where do deadlines come from? How real are they? What happens when a project is looking like it won't meet its deadline?

- What would happen to the business if your team disappeared? What are your current projects and why do they matter?
Out of stock without a waiting list. This beast is gonna rule the world if it stays at $35.
Dollars and "Net Profit" for the individual.
> you are obviously selling something to very specific to people who really need it

Is that really the "obvious" inference?

Perhaps they're just good at selling something outrageously overpriced to a category of particularly gullible marks. It wouldn't be the first time in advertising history, I'm sure.
Did they get this data for free?
>I wonder how ultra violent gore action is somewhat passable

Well it’s because that slippery slope that everyone says doesn’t exist actually does. Recall that the original Mortal Kombat caused all sorts of controversy when it was first released (Doom as well). Compare the relatively tame violence in MK1 to what we have now in MK11, it’s what happens when society collectively shrugs their shoulders and says “it’s just a [game|movie]”.

That nudity is still taboo in games and other media is more a reflection of no one bothering to push the envelope like they did with violence.
Used this server a little over a year ago or so. Worked well with https://conversations.im/.

Nowadays I can't come up with any good reason to use XMPP since there's Matrix and https://riot.im/

XMPP has adapted over time to support various chat and instant messaging features that we today take for granted. These adaptions come in the form of Extensions/XEP. I remember spending two hours with a geek friend to configure something that resembles what we get from any other instant messenger today (working across multiple devices).

Meanwhile, Matrix just works. Granted, UX involved with the key management associated with E2EE was not what it should have been. But, that has largely been fixed in v1.0.

Wouldn't spend the time to get into XMPP, if I didn't already have a decent network of friends there. And yeah, there's a XMPP/Matrix bridge available if you decide to go Matrix. https://matrix.org/docs/projects/as/matrix-xmpp-bridge.html
When I was younger, I tutored a bunch of people who claimed to be “bad at math”. None of them had any inherent cognitive problem that I could discern. In every case the issue was a combination of lack of preparation and severe anxiety caused by the high pressure and feeling inadequate, with the students never letting themselves relax enough to pay attention or think clearly.

If placed in a context for a few years where they were approaching math problems with open-minded curiosity, without the threat of judgment from a teacher, embarrassment/shame in front of a class, or poor scores with implied dire future consequences at getting answers wrong, I think any of them would have been just fine (not winning the IMO, but succeeding at class).

Obviously this is not true for everyone (some people e.g. are profoundly mentally disabled, or have some mental block around all sorts of symbolic reasoning), but cultural / pedagogical barriers to many people’s mathematical understanding are huge.

We can witness that there are some schools and societies that systematically do a better job of preparing their students than others. Without their students spending any more hours studying, or having some inherently different aptitude.

* * *

Driving a car just isn’t that hard. (Albeit quite dangerous.) If all you cared about was teaching 3rd grade arithmetic, and you were teaching 16 year olds, it would be not hard to cover the up-to-3rd-grade curriculum in a few dozen hours of practice.
Matrix is designed such that all of your chat history is preserved (as long as at least one of the servers involved in the chat wants to keep the logs). And the new ephemeral key backup system allows you to really simply get set up on a new device and have all of your old chat history available (if you want, you have to opt-in to it).