skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I first misunderstood this as interfaces in 3D games, and it doesn’t really change the supposition.

Interacting with most AAA title UI is an exercise in extreme frustration. Days Gone’s menu is like someone developed a fetish for prezto.js.

It’s pretty, but also pretty unintuitive.

Also beside the point a bit.
But your browser does give out your data. A website doesn't know anything about you until your browser sends them some data. That's not the case in your restaurant example, because the waiter has eyes. He gets information from you by your mere presence whether you want it or not. That's not the case on the internet.

To be clear, I think some privacy regulation is necessary, but there seems to be some kind of dissonance. People want a service, but are unwilling to pay for it nor give their data. Then they complain to the government that they should be able to get the service without payment anyway.
> Just thinking about the loop mechanics: jumping into the middle of a C for loop probably isn't super-useful, as you're only skipping the one-time init, which you could skip anyway: just leave it empty and put that code elsewhere.

Irreducible loops [loops that have multiple entry points] tend to cause compilers to bail out on optimization; there are some algorithms which just don't work on irreducible loops. In a modern optimizing compiler, introducing irreducible loops will not give you a performance benefit and will probably give you steep performance hits instead.

I will point out that literally none of your examples are irreducible loops, since you have unconditional gotos immediately before the loops and thus they have only one entry point, even if it isn't the normal lexical entry point.
I suggest studying "A Regular Expression Matcher" by Rob Pike:

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/be...
Wondering if Scoble will get one to try out in the shower and kill this one too :-)
What Do Outliers Live?
I generally agree.

I like keyboard interfaces for non-spatial input over a mouse because fingers require less effort to move than arms and wrists. They can also move faster. These problems are made worse in 3D.

I see 3D being useful in 2 cases:

1) Adding depth allows more keeping of context. This is similar to zooming in and out by pinching to keep the context. But with 3D you lose less peripheral view and occlude less of the surround content. Our brains are better wired for spatial processing in 3D.

2) Fitt's Law predicts that the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the ratio between the distance to the target and the width of the target. By adding another dimensions we can get objects closer and reduce the distance.
"Always violate your conscience" does not sound like good advice. Maybe you're working on the assumption that you "feel guilty" about deals that are actually fair?

Besides which, economics is all based on the fact that two parties in a trade can both win because they want different things. Eg, you have a surplus of oranges, I have a surplus of apples. I value my first apple highly (I like apples!) but my ten thousandth apple is nearly worthless to me. I'd happily trade that last apple for a tenth of an orange. And you'd gladly trade your last orange for a tenth of an apple. We trade some of our fruit 1:1 and we both got a deal 10x better than what we'd accept.
Regulatory capture. It's easy for FB, Google & Co to pay lawyers to find the loopholes, figure out the right angles and buy off the Irish (or Luxembourgian, another notorious offender to punch holes in EU laws for big corporations) government for tax deals & privacy exemptions. It's much harder for smaller competitors, so GDPR is an effective gate keeping device.

It's the same with taxes. If you're a small company, you're paying the official rate. If you're Google, you'll have a Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich, who cares if you need to pay €10m to set it up and get the okay from revenue services (there's a fun report on how the uppermost German tax officials "freelance" for the large tax consultancies on the side and make a lot of money to write "articles") - you'll save billions.
Certainly, spying on someone's domicile is illegal. But it wasn't really the analogy I was going for.

I'm going to be purposefully obtuse and set up a contrived hypothetical, but to me it's really more like: you came to my store today, but I saw you at the golf shop yesterday. Maybe I watched you closely to learn exactly what you were thinking about buying. I happen to also sell golf things and maybe I want to peddle them to you. So I really go all in on my sales pitch and single you out while you're shopping. That's legal in meatspace. What makes "the same thing, but do it on a computer" illegal and unethical? I think it's a real important question for legislators to answer. Is it the scale? The fact that it can be automated? That we're really not actually comfortable with the meatspace example but didn't have a good way to ban it before?

Just food for thought. I'm mostly neutral on the GDPR, I appreciate the intention but I think we as a society need to define consistent expectations about privacy.
I think you're right, the question now is do we learn from how it's changed and how we're changing it?

Do we continue to make the planet an ever more unlivable hell-hole because "the world is a dynamic system."

Or do we look at what's happening, learn from it, and try to prevent things from getting worse.
Well yea, it's a sad fact that IRC requires a client side server running something like ZNC to work as needed. IRC is great in many, many ways, but this is a fundamental flaw. It's nice there are solutions, but they are technical, require hosting, and aren't perfect.

Other chat protocols fix this but lack the base, and are having trouble competing against the likes of Slack or iMessage in different use cases for example.

I'm excited to see how Purism's Librem 5 is going to play out with matrix as it's primary communications platform.
matrix is a bit of a mess right now.
a number of IRC channels have banned their bridges.
People trust centralized power because there is no viable alternative to trusting the centralized power and hoping for the best.
And even if you consider this stuff, most people won't; supporting pork is supporting pork, because pork is fungible. Only the simple approach is viable.
Do you mean that advertising won't generate the maximum amount of revenue possible unless it violates users' privacy?
Mojave Phone Booth
I'd guess the tracking doesn't (thankfully) know your Amazon order history, only that you were browsing for shoes.
Exactly my thoughts. I would rather be in a job I love and taken advantage of instead of being in a job I hate not being taken advantage of.
VS Code Remote Development in Kubernetes with Okteto
Put your image metadata to use embedded in your image files
I'm fine with it. Airports are the worst sort of fares a driver could take, people could get dropped off deep in the suburbs and the driver has to take 20 mins to get back to the city where people are actually calling rides. Occasionally these distant drivers will try to snipe me too while they are out there, probably hoping I'm too drunk to notice that they will take 20 mins to arrive. It's fickle work.
Are you saying that you wouldn't have your multi-million dollar imager running as much as possible?
Yes Marx, you are right, and that model not only explains everything but it has been successful in modeling the future, public policy and to organize labor.
Why do doctors advocate less frequent scans when they see that frequent scans creates false positives? Can a metric be invented such that a doctor can make a solid decision "I'm 99% sure this wont kill you in two years" and leave the tumour alone?
Program synthesis.
Note: 14 Mar 2019

They've seen this coming for a while.
Good point, actually
This thought is incredibly reductive and dismissive of abuse.

Not all relationships are between oppressor and oppressed, obviously. It does not mean they do not exist. The history of capitalism is especially rife with clear examples of those in power exploiting those lacking it. Power being capital or wealth.
If you read up on this, you'll find a lot of not-very-nice things said about ecospheres.

The shrimp inside are ʻōpaeʻula [0] which evolved to live in volcanic tide pools filled by rainwater. Sort of a feast or famine environment where the salinity and nutrients available are very volatile. Because of that, the shrimp have evolved to handle a wide range of temperatures, salinity, and scarcity of food.

The latter means they can go surprisingly long without sufficient food without realizing it. In other words, there's a good chance (according to some) that the shrimp in your ecosphere are actually slowly starving to death and aren't in anything approaching a stable ecosystem.

(Also, they aren't brine shrimp, which are an entirely different class of animal.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halocaridina_rubra
I felt similarly when I heard the news.

I can't explain the sadness I felt when I learned that 4Chan brigades are largely responsible for how quickly his situation deteriorated.

For those who, like me, didn't know, he had begun live-streaming, where he would take call-ins to his landline. It's there that a concerted campaign to get Terry to alienate himself from his parents (with whom he lived) and stop taking his medication. This is not to mention how they egged on romantic feelings for a YouTube personality who they would later impersonate and torture him with in awful ways.

All this led to Terry's parents being unable to house him. They were very old and the situation became impossible. Terry survived on the streets for sometime, meeting up with (genuine and loving) fans along the way. Terry sadly was struck by a train.

We were able to celebrate an eccentric and strange life because of the internet. It also ended it. I hope the internet can heal... I know people like you and I hope it can. It didn't here.

If you want to learn more about Terry's life and death, please check out Fredrick Knudsen's video essay. It is in-depth and important, although very challenging because of the subject matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg

Finally, if you feel like you or someone you care for are in crisis, or might be soon, consider speaking to the folks at NAMI in the US. If you're not in the US, they can direct you to people in your country.

1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or info@nami.org
The UK has been alarmed by the "New Zealand flatworm" threatening its earthworm population - some places have lost all of their worms, though it seems to be under control. On the other hand at a push, it may be possible to deliberately seed forests with them.

I think this article is quite hyperbolic though. It talks about a researchers "horror" at theoretical possibilities, but the latest literature review cited is 6 years old and it did not resolve any definite effect.

>Our results suggest that although earthworms are largely beneficial to soil fertility, they increase net soil greenhouse-gas emissions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate1692
A metric I've found useful: Is your boss directing what you're working on right now?

Software is a profession, and like any profession it requires that you put in time to practice and expand your skills. Keep what you need to do for work separate from what you want to do to grow.
What Glass was supposed to be in the first place. I just hope it finds its way to regular people too at some point - would be cool to have such a tool in hobbyist space, not just in structured professional employment.

Side note: throughout the video my inner critic tried to scream, "they're definitely overstating the impact", but it was drowned in excitement generated by the music. It's one of the few times in my life when I felt the music is purposefully manipulating me. Now I wish for a switch that could cut off background music from a video and leave just the speech.
When I took a social psychology class long ago, they mentioned that the most significant cultural difference between Canadians and Americans was that Americans take overconfidence as a sign of competence whereas Canadians perceive it as an attempt to intimidate or take advantage of someone.

Seems to apply to this article as well. Maybe 'high-class' overconfident people become more convincing as wealth disparity widens due to the magic sauce they must obviously possess to be so rich in the first place. It's like Gob's bragging from Arrested Development: "The guy in the $4,000 suit is holding the elevator for a guy who doesn’t make that in three months. Come on!"

I'm having a hard time finding a paper about the US/Canada difference now though, so maybe I'm wrong.
He gradually sold them off, sometimes to hire craftsmen to do work on his prized cars that he couldn't do. Things like upholstery and paint. The car he cared the most about and the last one he sold was his 1926 Wills Sainte Claire. My father sold the Wills Sainte Claire so that he could pay for college for my sister and me. But he remained a life long fan of C. Harold Wills and his company.

With the help of the Wills Sainte Claire museum I reunited my father with that car on his 100th birthday at Kellogg Center on the MSU campus. My dad did so much for me that it made me very proud to give him this much joy. It's the only time in my life that I ever totally stunned him. The classic car magazine,Hemmings, even did a story about it.

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/index.php/2016/07/07/wills-sai...
Does someone need to clip it if it runs into glass?
> Become? Become?!

You stole my comment! No but in all seriousness, this is a long-standing issue. The A) requirement of making BT-enabled devices backwards compatible, B) the monstrous stack of protocols involved in like every use-case, & C) an assumption that Spread-Spectrum Frequency Hopping @ the physical layer is a substitute for encryption, all combine to make a BT kind of especially terrifying.

Take for example the Nike Fit Band, an iconic bluetooth peripheral that's been on the market for some time:

2015: https://securelist.com/how-i-hacked-my-smart-bracelet/69369/

2016: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4737495/

2017: https://www.zdnet.com/article/bluetooth-security-flaw-bluebo...

I'm sure I can find one from last year as well, but you get the point.

Also here's this for good-measure: http://ubertooth.blogspot.com/
Do you have any awareness that this is just a framing, not objective truth? Applying a set of labels to match a predetermined story with two dimensional pre set roles.

If an owner closes a company and stops paying any salaries just because he has enough money already, is that good or bad for the wage earner? If the labor has inherent value why does he need a boss/owner in the first place?

Marxist or any other framing devolves to drivel when you use it mindlessly by rote- painting by the numbers won’t create any new art and mouthing platitudes creates no new information.
I've been checking but I can't add the module. Either it's slow to get to Enterprise version or it's blocked. Not sure.

Found a work-around though - Google cloud shell being *nix works fine for SSHing about the place. Gets me around the port fw too
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/30/dining/climat...

The information is widely available. I don't think needing more summaries of it is the problem. The problem is people don't care enough to change their behavior. And food is really tied up with identity, while people covet bad identities.
Mailgun is owned by rackspace.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace#Acquisitions
I love the quote from the Slate Star Codex article:

> ...what bothers me isn’t just that people said 5-HTTLPR mattered and it didn’t. It’s that we built whole imaginary edifices, whole castles in the air on top of this idea of 5-HTTLPR mattering. We “figured out” how 5-HTTLPR exerted its effects, what parts of the brain it was active in, what sorts of things it interacted with, how its effects were enhanced or suppressed by the effects of other imaginary depression genes. This isn’t just an explorer coming back from the Orient and claiming there are unicorns there. It’s the explorer describing the life cycle of unicorns, what unicorns eat, all the different subspecies of unicorn, which cuts of unicorn meat are tastiest, and a blow-by-blow account of a wrestling match between unicorns and Bigfoot.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/07/5-httlpr-a-pointed-rev...
My wife has had full body scans every 3 months for the past 3 years. She currently has multiple active sites of bone mets, from the spine to shoulders and hips. A single scan is much more convenient and keeps the oncologist up to date with the state of her cancer.

In our experience sometimes a new cancer site isn't diagnosed quickly, especially if it's asymptomatic and slow growing. Having past scans and reviewing them overtime has found multiple tumors so far.

Seems the radiographers err on the side of caution when feeding back to the Oncologist. Her last cancer in her neck (c2) had been tracked over 3 scans (because it was small and slow growing), before it was reported back to us and subsequently treated with cyberknife.
As a counterpoint, and instead of a point of fear.

I would almost offer a way to easily counter these "forced tech transfers," but with the tone taken here and elsewhere, I just sit back in disgust.
Uh the browser runs code that comes from the website.

The website decides what the browser sends more than the user does.
My favourite way to build a web app in 2019
World of Warcraft Classic Releases August 27, 2019
Why is this an issue with testing rather than an issue with the conditions under which treatment is given?

In other words, ISTM the problem isn’t with a full-body scan per se. The problem happens if every little thing found gets treated or tested invasively.
There's no need to bother paying women equally for equal work at my employer (pointless to bother), what we need is changed laws to ensure women get fair pay in all cases. See how silly this sounds?

How about instead, both.
"Systemd is a bunch of loosely coupled tools"

As just one example, the nspawn owning package requires a libnss package which pulls in systemd-resolve. I believe it also requires dbus.
"demonstrably better" ... there's a reason beyond entropy why a lot of distros decided to adopt SystemD. A talk linked to in another thread goes over a lot of this. TFA itself shows there are alternatives.

It's like arguing that KDE or Gnome shouldn't exist as options... nobody removed anyone's options. Don't like it, fork it.
There's nothing vague about it [0]. Consent must be freely given. It's the service provider who has to make a choice; offer the service with no tracking, or don't offer the service at all.

[0]: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
You will know you are being taken advantage of when your are verbally abused, given unreasonable deadlines and being asked to do jobs far outside your job description.
ITX boards and SFX power supplies are certainly less common, but by no means hard to find. And they are standardized, just like the ATX board variants and ATX power supplies.

The only compatibility issue that you need to worry about is cooler height and video card length, if you choose a very small case. But there are plenty of really nice ITX cases like the NCASE M1 that are reasonably small, with excellent compatibility.

If you want to get really exotic, there are cases that require DC to DC adapters for external power supplies, but if you stick with SFX internal PSUs you should be fine.
I wish there were some way to favorite discussions on HN, not merely the article that started them -- if that feature existed, then this would be one of my favorite discussions on HN ever... why? Well, you have a ton of bright minds, who, for whatever reason(s), can't agree, yet each one adds some valuable piece of information to the debate.

Basically, where there's controversy (especially with bright minds) then there's always something there.

I hope that future system designers and historians will read and re-read these systemd controversies we are having in the present day... maybe we'll have some fundamental key piece of understanding then that we don't now, and based on it, everyone could agree... of course, then again, perhaps that would never happen...

Still, a lively, highly informative, interesting and thought-provoking discussion! A+ as far as discussions on HN go!
There is an EconTalk with a Broadway producer. And he talks about the history of why Broadway unionized but essentially people were so willing to work that producers wouldn’t even pay them.

The fashion industry is much the same today. Models, photographers, hair and make up artists working very hard for free or nearly for free - hoping to make it.

http://www.econtalk.org/mitch-weiss-on-the-business-of-broad...
https://ircv3.net/ does exist although i’m not sure how competitive it can be.

It’s hard to see a future for IRC or something like it to beat the proprietary alternatives unfortunately.
What will it take to create a simulated Earth?
Question to the community:

What advances in computing will we need to create a hyper-accurate simulation of reality?
No. That braking problem would have plagued ANY car manufacture. The only difference it there would have been a mad rush of people setting up service appointments at dealerships all over the country to get it fix -- costing time and money for everyone involved. Tesla did OTA updates, no fuss.

My Chevy Volt has had two software updates in the past 6 years.. not user noticeable improvements. I love my car but the car I was sold in 2013 is the same (problems and all) car I have now. My friends who have had their TM3s for over a year have drastically improved cars in almost every aspect.
> They have to stop pretending they are a luxury brand and release a cheap tiny little box with knobs instead of an ipad that will compete with the leaf or any other subcompact.

Believe it or not, the screens are cheaper. Other companies (most notably Volkswagen) are moving towards entirely digital interiors as well. They cite reasons for it being a better experience despite decades of research pointing out the importance of touch controls while driving to limit distractions, but most people believe it is because they are cheaper to build and service.
If you hate your job you're automatically paying yourself less in stress offset. IMO stress and meaninglessness at work is not worth any $ at all
Location is definitely the weakest link in the MicroG/Lineage ecosystem.

Does anyone have any idea why this is? Are the open source location provider backends just not as robust as Google's?
I have several terrariums and the plants self-limit when they hit the glass. I have never needed to prune or trim them. When they get too dense they start dying back from moisture issues, and it self-regulates into a pretty stable loop.
People say "hand me my laptop" instead of "hand me my Dell XPS 1023a(c) v2" already. It'll be "hand me my glass/glasses".
The ten strongest brands in the world [pdf]
That's the startup business model. Fill them with dreams, overwork them, and discard them when the dream fails.

WeWork has a series of motivational articles to do just that.[1] That's part of WeWork's business case for charging more for their office space.

[1] https://www.wework.com/creator/personal-profiles/turn-career...
If you are enjoying it, which it sounds like you are, then I would stay and see if you can evolve your role into something even more.

An idea just based on what you wrote is pitch a community outreach program to your company where they sponsor a daily lunch class to help teach programming to those looking for a career change. I know many US states actually give large tax breaks to companies who do things like this.