skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You bait and switch it as a military backed outdoor team-building exercise and wait till everyone is half way up a mountain and can't easily get away before getting a six and a half foot transexual marine to terrify them into understanding the concept of intersectionality.
But a result, you treat them unfairly vs male colleagues.

Also same logic can be applied to any minority who is not in power.

I can’t be in room with black, trans-gender, gay, immigrants etc.

So as result the only people who you built relationships are white straight dudes which get promoted.
> Ask me most days and I'll tell you how much I hate javascript... but I can't live without using it as it's pretty much the only option for what it does

Very true, unfortunately.

> Just to use it properly requires setting up an entire elaborate webpack setup

This sounds like a self-imposed problem. I've been writing JS for over a decade and never touched webpack (I think it's some sort of compiler/linker)

> there's a gajillion frameworks to choose from if you go that route

Emphasis on the word "if". Frameworks are there to make life easier; if they're making your life harder, don't bother. Most things are easy enough in "Vanilla JS", now that IE6 compatibility is less important.

> best practices are argued constantly on forums/reddit/hn

Arguing over best practices is a sign of a healthy community, which is passionate about quality rather than settling for "it runs". Learning about new ideas can be useful for framing our thinking, even if we don't directly apply those approaches.

Those sort of arguments shouldn't have much impact on how we actually Get Things Done though, since we know more about the engineering requirements of our particular project than random people online, and we'll be more productive using known-good methods which we're experienced with.

> I'd like to build an app on node but I can't ever get past bootstrapping the damn app before I get frustrated at the time it takes just to dive right in.

I've not used Node in years, but again that's a choice; if it makes life harder, dump it and use something easier. Node.js bootstrapping complications aren't really a fault of the JS language; heck, you can use FastCGI if you like (that's how PHP is often run).
Speaking of blood tests - where does the uncertainty come in there? Is the measuring equipment noisy, so they might detect some marker when it is actually not present? Or is it that you can actually have a high concentration of whatever they are looking for in your blood but it somehow just be normal for you because you are an outlier?

I tend to think it is the former but can anyone clarify?
Yep, that looks right from his Wikipedia article. One count of making false statements to a congressional committee. It’s not immediately obvious to me when he was charged/convicted of that though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(lawyer)
>If running the MRI machine cost $100, people would do it.

There are different kinds of MRIs, but the actual direct costs for running an MRI without preparatory procedures is around $100 (preparatory dye injection may be another $50 cost). Marginal costs are lower still.

See also here:

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120545...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/...
That's true. The actual UI implementation of the multitouch is great.
Don't get me wrong, but if whole classes of errors, can be avoided by not choosing C++, why should I choose to use it?
Funny story:

A person I know who works for Adobe, interviewed a girl for an entry position job. She was asked questions like "What is the size of RAM? etc". She got hired. They are married now. I dont know but I think this could have gone sideways for the interviewer.
I wonder if the preview build is un-optimised (ie built for debugging/testing) which makes it slower?
19% of the most popular Docker containers have no root password
$98/scan in Japan.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/...
Don't forget Reddit. The depths of specialized subreddits there is mind boggling.
You're right, we have to remove it there. We removed it from the app a year ago and the blog is new and never had Analytics or similar tools.
> Most of the problem I have it is with the imperialistic culture that came with it and with the serious security bugs that they keep sweeping under the rug.

The most recent gripe I have is that systemd people can't even do randomness properly and even use non-cryptographic randomness for DNS transaction IDs (ok probably benign). But just boggles the mind.

https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1125840911299223554
Or the guy who was good at convincing others that it is foolproof got to live another day if it wasn't while they died. Survival by bullshitting.
OK - more facetious than I thought. Sorry.

Maybe more realistic scenario is just when working away asking "Can you come to my room so we can spend 30 mins updating the deck for tomorrow?"

Think I'd have been fine asking that previously - and now maybe less so. We can try to lurk in a corner of the lobby, which is annoying loud and doesn't have a desk.

But that change involves the thought of "maybe I'm considered to be a creepy male" - and that's not a nice thought to have (although probably good for me).
Its not just about accidentally crossing the line but the possibility of bad intentions. Especially if there is a difference in power. University has the same problem. Never be alone in a room with a female student you have to grade is really important advice for male Professors. Having a third party sit in in one on one meetings is generally a reasonable precaution. Its simply to big of a risk to take. Its only reasonable that situation is similar with people in different positions of the company hierarchy.

Its unfortunate but it is what it is. Telling people to do it despite the risk involved is just bad advice.
At the very least they could mention that there is an internal process going on to improve docs. the fact that there haven't been any is an indication of a growing trend at apple going the same way as Samsung/Sony - "who cares about devs?"
It's not 'tragedy of the commons', its a company assessing the value of their intellectual property, assessing the value of the China market/savings from manufacturing there and deciding 'the cost is worth it'.
I hope they will be playing Hans' masterpiece "Lost but Won" at his funeral
It confuses me that they throw in the name Budeprion. I've only heard Bupoprion used as a generic term for Wellbutrin.
Lol. I like it.
We usually gain a better understanding of the world through numbers rather than booleans.

It's true that programmers hate PHP. It's true that programmers love PHP. It's true that programmers hate other languages. It's true that programmers love other languages.

This isn't very useful, as you seem to imply; but only due to the boolean perspective.

Numerically, PHP is hated far more than other languages, and loved far less (StackOverflow surveys come to mind, but I'm sure there's a whole lot more data on this)
I have the N54L - it's pretty ok, it's silent. But it's absolutely not fast and also wasn't really back when I bought it :P
These are tactile controls arranged in a 3D space.

The 2D equivalent would be a flat screen with virtual knobs, wheels, and switches, and would be completely unusable.

The problem with AR is that it's 2.5D. Physical 3D is fully tactile in every dimension. AR lacks that kind of tactility.

True - not just visual - VR would have fingertip touch control of every object in the scene. That would (literally) be a game-changer, but we don't have the technology to make it happen yet.

The 3D "mice" that exist for AR/VR are clunky and crude with hand-level resolution rather than fingertip resolution.

Compare with a 2D touchscreen which has good tactile control. And a 2D desktop which (usually) gives you a bigger screen area in return for simplified but still very usable tactile control with a mouse.

In other words, VR/AR is not just about the visuals.
Not directly related to DARPA, but there are many people who have impairment in one or more of those senses. BCI technology could be transformative to the people who might not otherwise be able to access computers, even with best-in-class assistive technologies. Imagine opening a communication channel with someone who has locked-in syndrome. I just wish we could pour at least as many resources into researching humanistic technology as we do on militaristic "futures".
This (while perhaps not perfect) is massive for us, it’s going to be especially useful for Kibana authentication to add readonly and write users, something we’ve wanted for a long time but haven’t been able to afford as a non-profit, charitable organisation.

I know it’s not all 100% open source, but it’s better than a nginx reverse proxy hack or similar.

Thank you Elastic for continuing to create fantastic software.
>we are going to sell them stuff to plug in their head.

Correction, we are going to give away free stuff to plug in their head, with advertising. We'll also sell high end without marketing impulse technology (TM), but that will be a minor sector.
I well remember the battles Lauda had in the mid-seventies with James Hunt. I thought they were bitter enemies but I was wrong. Hunt died at 45 in his bed from a heart attack.

Niki Lauda eulogized his friend at Hunt's funeral:

He said Hunt was one of the very few people he liked, a smaller number he respected and the only one he had envied.
Is there any NAS that has design and simplicity as a primary focus?

I have hated all NAS that I've tried due to each one wanting to have more features than the next and all resulting in slow complicated messes.
I think so too, so I guess you realize that simply having an app store is not enough to actually replace Google Play.
Thank you. Really appreciate this kind of feedback as it helps me grow. Topics like these are tough to write about. I often hesitate to publish. I'm glad the post brightened your day.
By the way, when using a backup software like Borg or Restic that are supposed to have replication built-in, do you still need things like RAID (if you intend to use the drive only for backup) ?

EDIT: I guess no : https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#can-pro...
I don't think Harvey Weinstein's actions were anywhere close to accepted by "the old norms". He didn't get away with it for so long because "that's who society works, that's what everybody did", but because he was extremely powerful. Power always allows you to sidestep rules and norms because your victims will be afraid of you and others that could interfere will want favors from you, so they look away.
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Stop using social media, go out join in real life local community groups.

A side effect of automation and internet is increased individualism and more isolation from other people.

In the past you would go for example to a video store and watch movies with friends now you use streaming services like Netflix.

More common in previous generations you would call your friends now you text people which is less interaction.

Social media leads to a comparison effect. Ie you compare yourself to others more. Facebook is like sunshine village trying to portray perfect life moments except real life has many everyday dull moments.
except, there are a whole bunch of factors that play into this.

it's not just men seeing woman as something other than human, it's fear, misinformation, the idea the men are always the predator, mixed with the fact that both legitimate and illegitimate claims look the same i.e he said/ she said, half the time.

I totally get why men are aware that any misstep, even in it's most accidental way could be seen as harassment, and be career ending.

plus, from a outside perspective, a male boss working closely with a younger female is always going to raise eyebrows, even if their relationship is purely work/professional.

woman carry keys in their fists walking home, in fear that they might be attacked.

men avoid being in "compromising" situations with woman in the work place, even if it's just professional.

though, this is just my opinion.
I’ve built http://upstart.me entirely on Google Sheets. Haven’t had any issues and works really well. This allows me to collect data from newsletter through a Google Form - which gets stored in a Sheet - that I can then curate, copy & paste to an other sheet that is used as the DB for the Live website.

Im also working on an internal CRM tool for http://fairpixels.pro with a sleek frontend that can be used as a browser homepage (showing key business stats) all while the same Sheet is used to manage customers.

I highly recommend looking into this because it allows for a simple to manage backend for those that live in Sheets.
Do you think I have much of a future in HR consultancy?
The problem is that risk reward is so skewed in other direction.

For anyone to accuse someone of sexual harassment is 100% career killing move.

So when 2 people in the room, the one with least power has the most to loose in bringing accusations.
Huawei was under the radar of national security agencies (look at the S, not just the US) for years
Bulldozer was mistake that cost AMD years of advancements. They tried to do what Intel did a few years before. Design for clock speed and nothing else, figuring the 4ghz ceiling was easy to break.

Intel did this with P4 "netburst" architecture. They hit a frequency wall that made thier new deeply pipelined CPU worthless. This is when AMD caught up last time with the athlon series.

Intel actually went back to the design of the Pentium III!! With higher IPC, a few upgrades lifted from the P4, and new processes, it gave birth to the Core series.

The Intel processors we have today still share more design history with the P3 than the P4. And since then, Intel has focused on IPC over clock speed.

The crazy part was AMD making the same mistake years later with Bulldozer. Makes me wonder if the remedy was the same... Go back and update the Athlon cores.

The ancient Athlon/P3 IPC is amazingly good compared to today's chips if you scale them by clock speed and core count. Perhaps half, which is impressive for the age of the chip. All these bugs affecting over a decade of CPU design tells us these chips share a lot of the same logic, if not entire blocks unchanged for more than a decade.
Well, it remains to be seen if someone can even mount and attack against firefox or chrome. The researchers (RIDL) only managed ~1byte/s against a detached spidermonkey engine, with the old high-resolution timer enabled (these have been removed). They were not able to mount an attack against chrome. I have my doubts that we will ever see attempts at widespread exploitation against browsers. So not running mitigations for personal use/gaming would probably be absolutely fine.
>I also use cnet.device in my A1200.

As an aside, the ne2000 cards do also work on the Amiga ports of Netbsd and Linux.
Yes. So unless your great plan is to bring down the cartels and become a hero/martyr in the process, it's solid advice, and empirically true.

And it's easy to snark about it ("oh, what cowardish" etc) when you don't live there.
RHEL has Systemd since 2014, Ubuntu and Debian as well. Even the purists at Arch have Systemd as default since 2012.

Sure, it ain't perfect. But maybe if all the professional kernel developers and distro managers chose Systemd, and yet some angry people online keep basing their opinions on random amateur blogs catering to a certain narative, regardless of expert opinions, then maybe we can conclude that...

... anti-systemd people are the anti-vaxxers of the Linux world.
Apple doesn't seem to encourage this kind of behavior :(
Colors are amazing. It's weird it triggered smell and feelings from 15-20 years old memories.
Restricting Speech on YouTube – The Soph Shut Down
For transfers, yes, but for housekeeping activities such as scrubbing, defragmenting, indexing, and deduplicating, not at all.
Or don't please, I think it's a terrible idea to abuse spreadsheets like this.

I'm being forced by my manager to do this for a client due to a close deadline (the idea is to implement a spreadsheet as interface to make it quicker than a classic web app), lbut they keep asking me to implement advanced features that would be 10 times faster to implement with a regular interface or sometimes not even possible on a sheet. Spreadsheets have a precise use case and it's not to replace web apps.
My wife? She's Asian.
Check if the current item is the desired one. If it is, return success; otherwise
Check if the pointer is past the array bound. If it is, return failure; otherwise
Increment the pointer and continue.

Um, shouldn't the check be done before accessing the current one?
Congrats Geoff! Your advice and the empathy associated with it has been very helpful as we evolved out of YC. Glad to know the future batches will continue to be in great hands :)
Beautiful article. I do not understand why he takes the time to do this in Python. I used 4 one-liners in Scilab for free on my laptop and understood better the intent :-)
Rush movie's ending scene depicts that well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcJkVa7MsrQ

Lauda and Hunt rivalry and lifes is like a story about Stoicism vs. Epicureanism
If a process is interactive, it needs a way to be notified that its user is gone. That became a distributed system problem a while ago. PID 1 doesn't know whether an X client is active on a remote display, or a batch job is doing useful work.
>The murder rate in Mexico is >20 per 100K per year. The car crash death rate in the US is around 11 per 100K per year. So you're almost certainly not x100 likely to die in your commute tomorrow

That would be relevant if the murder rate was randomly distributed across the population, and didn't concern cartel members and their explicit targets primarily. Not to mention that Mexico is a big place, and the murder rate in tourist areas is not the same as in cartel land...
They could solve the problem easily legalizing the traffic of drugs. What the big USA brother would say? Would it be allowed?
Hustling Hard to Build a Self Service Data Analytics Product
Huawei needs to go. It’s a communist dictatorship state controlled company.
Well, good drivers can still die by bad drivers hitting their car. And far more people believe they are a "good driver" than those that actually are.
Microsoft Edge preview builds for macOS
Alan Kay and OO Programming
This previous discussion will probably help here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14298576
But WebGPU is more like Vulkan (in concepts) and WebGL is pretty much a 1-to-1 port of OpenGL.

It's not splitting the community. They needed a new modern API like what people behind Vulkan did.
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I dont think that is the case, but it might be a regional or cultural difference.
The commenter you replied to is American, and right up to the root comment, the subthread had nothing to do with Americans vs Europeans using the internet. The comment exclusively about a hypothetical choice between driving and using the internet.
Going after consumers first was and still is wrong approach in AR and VR. Technological leap is too big for that. Technology is not mature enough to produce high quality with consumer range price.

Remember how mobile phones took over? Their original market was business use. Those bricks were very expensive and heavy, but they sold well to business customers on the move. Then they became a status symbol for high income consumers and from there they gradually overtook the world.

Augmented reality and Virtual Reality should follow the same path. High end science, medicine, architects, CAD, military uses should come first. After the technology matures and prices drop, consumer products can emerge. Top notch commercial VR product like Varjo VR-1 costs $6000 and it's peanuts if you need VR for professional use. It's cumbersome to use long periods of time but the image quality beats Rift or PSVR easily.
>Are cartels operating the national healthcare service? Do they do water permitting? Collect taxes? Regulate commerce? Look at my passport when I enter the country?

Considering that they have politicians and legislators in their pocket, yes.
Just change the question to? Are you OK with us continuing in my room because blah blah, otherwise we can just do it in the lobby.

Basically, you give them power to decide where they feel comfortable most. Especially first time around.

“Can you come to my room in 30m to do blah” is an order basically, so as a result you already create hostile situation irrelevant of gender.
I view this kind of caution against foreign powers (corporations are not separate from their governments in time of war) in the same way that the 2nd amendment protects us against tyranny.

And seatbelts from flying through wind shields.

You don't need it until you need it, and if you don't have it, it's too late.

National infrastructure that needs to work in a time of war must be nationally controlled by all nations.

"Spying" is a straw man argument, it's not about spying.
> humanity is such a gradient

In general I think there is a lot of scientific insight to be gained from gettting more comfortable with gradients, instead of insisting on distinct categories. I remember a conversation with a biologists who was complaining that with European bird subspecies the categories are more like a representation of national boundaries and their institutions, masking a gradient of change that happens across the continent.

Same with languages, especially before nation states were a thing.
It's fairly well known in the telecom and internet infrastructure field that Huawei stole Nortel's entire DWDM and optical transport product line and duplicated it. The ex Nortel HQ office building in the Ottawa area was found to be riddled with high tech bugs.
$5 per 1k followers average, so $500 per post for 100k followers, sometimes split with a talent agency/network that takes a cut. Smaller accounts are worthless but might get bought as a bundle. $1k+ per post needs 1M+ followers.

$25k+ per post is just normal celebs. $250k on a social media post is extreme and only happens if the person is incredibly famous. It's no different than tv commercials and sports deals. Nothing has really changed other than adding a new medium to monetize. The fame is still the hard part, although there's more of it to go around and more opportunity for those that try.
That's true of course. So basically adding timing noise is equivalent to adding artificial slowdowns. The only upside I suppose is that it might solve all timing sidechannel attacks in one go. So it's not 3% for one and 4% for the next and so on. It's a one time cost to disable timing as an attack vector.
you have it already: https://hyper.is/
Why sell advertising when you can directly trigger the pleasure center whenever the user thinks of the brand?
There is a solution developed in France, WeMaik [0]that is very similar. We've used their solution in the consulting firm I'm a part of.

The clients are very satisfied, because the web app that's outputted by WeMaik is so easy to design and produce that they're produced by industry-knowledgeable consultants, and not web developers.

We go from idea to actionable mock-up in half a day, present it to the client, and then build the real solution assisted by WeMaik. The connections, queries, logic are not no-code, though, for this solution. We describe the specs in the spreadsheets we send to WeMaik, and they configure it.

[0] https://www.wemaik.com/
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