skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not lashing out. Characterizing my remark that way is a personal attack.

I stated that I have no idea what your point is and explained why I'm confused. I consider it bragging because you say that your stepson was simply fortunate ("privileged") to have someone able to pay for it, talk about doing well yourself without monied solutions and also state that it is your stepson, so, no, he didn't inherit your IQ. At every turn, it paints you as the only person with some kind of virtue, whether smarts or money to spend, and dismisses the idea that it genuinely makes other people "smarter," denying them a claim to virtue.

I think the overall picture painted here is one where you see yourself as innately smart but your stepson as just lucky his mom married a rich man who could "open doors" with his money.

I still don't really get what your point is. Your remarks strike me as very inconsistent.

But, in the grand scheme of things, it isn't at all important that I get your point. I'm just a stranger on the internet.
> I’d wager at least 99.99% of the users don’t even knows who or how many maintains a piece of software

I'm not talking about users. I'm talking about other developers who are using the package, and who deserve to know when the package's maintainer changes.

> it’s their own fault for blindly trusting random code from the internet

Developers aren't trusting random code from the internet; they're trusting a particular package maintained by a particular person who, from past experience, they have reason to trust. But if that maintainer hands the project over to someone else without telling all those other developers, that's betraying the trust those other developers put in that maintainer.

> mostly changing maintainer for a new, more motivated one usually works out better, even for these users, so why should the burnt out previous maintainer feel bad about this?

Because it's the previous maintainer's job to tell other developers when he turns over the job to someone else. Failing to do that means the previous maintainer is basically saying what you said above: it's those other developers' own fault for blindly trusting my code, hahaha, sucks to be you. Is that the ethos you want other open source developers to follow?
Isn't it the other way around? Or do you mean the worst of both world?

Edit: Think about it, the second option is the most plausible.
A gentle request: if you author something like this and you put time into making it so that somebody finding it can learn about it, please also consider explaining what the intent and expected outcome of that project is.

What's unclear is why I should consider it over an alternative, and if indeed the authors think I should. Also, is it an experiment in the sense that it's a learning opportunity for the author, or does somebody think a serious advancement is being made?

Without answering these questions, it's hard or impossible to know in what context I would want to use this.

Now, this doesn't matter for every project, but I say this here since it's clear that effort has been put into making this approachable for somebody with no context.

The more general lesson here is that people don't just want to know what your project is. They also want to know if they should be using it. If you want your project to be used, one of the easiest things you can do is explain what problem your project solves and why somebody with that problem should use your project.
I recall a discussion on the matter. Everyone that wasn't selling ads felt that if it was impossible to sell ads without tracking due to "click fraud", there was no obligation from society to prop up their failing business model by letting them ignore the privacy rights of the public just because it was expedient to do so.
The Reopening of the Liberal Mind
The author does concede this point in the article
This is a really weak argument because plenty of hilariously stupid and easy to exploit bugs are found in extremely widely used software all the time.
I would totally pay for an app that kept my contact information in order without selling it to other people. Is this coming to Android anytime soon?
There is a non-smooth transition from a server you own/lease and sits in specific rack in a known data centre with well understood routing and one provisioned as a dedicated instance in AWS/Azure etc that you manage with an API.
The problem is still that the algorithms cause problems. Social media is also a poster child because we could actually observe the transition in many cases: Early Twitter and Facebook as far as I know had entirely chronological timelines, and then changed that to "increase engagement", with all the side-effects that has. Just some examples:

- boosting things that are already popular increases their measured popularity even more, which both

a) over-emphasizes things that get reacted to quickly, which means e.g. quick outragous headlines get even more benefit over more in-depth coverage than they already do by human nature and

b) over-emphasizes popular sources over niche ones.

- Facebook actually does guesses at audiences, which means liking something can actually mean you decrease it's reach with the intended audience. (the "Facebook mom problem": if you post e.g. about your latest scientific paper and your mom likes it immediately, because that's what moms do, Facebook assumes it's family content and is less likely to show it to professional contacts that are the actual audience)

- for commercial content, Facebook intentionally limits reach among people who explicitly choose to follow you unless you pay for visibility
Can you stream multiple releases in parallel instead of doing them in series?

E.g. release A has 75% back-end, release B has 75% front-end. You can have front-end devs finish their work on release A and then start on release B before release A is out.
(Though, obviously, not that simple. You'll need at least one front-end dev to stay on release A to solve integration issues, and you'll probably need a back-end dev to create endpoints, etc, on release B. But the principle holds, still).

It's more efficient to keep everyone working at their fastest, most productive (and enjoyable) tasks whenever possible. But it does take more (and better) management to handle it.
I find this the worst insult of being poor: to be assumed stupid.

But I mean, hey, if they did better on a flashcard game, then an unequal caste system is justified after all!
I may not be entirely right about this, but I believe that Gatekeeper relies on xattr to mark files as quarantined. This is a feature that I wouldn't expect to be available when mounting non-Apple filesystems.

If this is the case, a potential solution is to track external mounts and to prompt a user when accessing a new drive for the first time, especially in the case that the OS has read or written a new symbolic link pointing to an external file system.

I agree with other commenters who say that the NFS auto-mounter should likely default to off on fresh installs. If there is a concern about this breaking enterprise configurations, set NFS to default into a prompt before mounting mode.

As far as the issue of symbolic links in zip files, I'm not sure there's much to be done (except perhaps issuing a warning that would be difficult for most users to parse). I mentioned elsewhere that this functionality is not unique to macOS or to zip.

The final issue that I see is that Finder hides so much metadata (which could be useful for a reasonably sophisticated user). I'd like to see a prominent indication of a cross-filesystem symbolic link. Likewise, it'd be worthwhile to have a clear visual indication when browsing a remote file system.
> where's my open source nuke?

There are "open-source" (leaked) designs out there, I'm sure. Or at least, old designs. Maybe for something like the Hiroshima bomb.

But you'd need enriched uranium. And for that, you'd need a bunch of gas centrifuges. And a chemical plant to make the hexafluoride, and convert the enriched stuff back to uranium.

And that's why you don't have open-source nukes.
It can also be shortened to a downvote. Turns out I added one of those, too.

In this case it's not to answer a question that someone has that is answered by the article, it's someone making a comment that has _nothing_ to do with the actual article itself, suggestion this person made a comment base on way more assumptions than are reasonable, and they should read the article. They don't want to know something, they made a stupid claim, and they should check their attitude.
> Any regulation requires more work

Thinking about what you do and how you do it is probably not a bad thing.
You'd be right, but I didn't say older CPUs. Take modern server CPUs and reduce the number of cores. May as well go all the way down to single-core.

There's clearly a market for weak, cheap, machines -- Amazon didn't originally offer a 'Nano' instance-type, but they do now.
This is really a powerful and understudied phenom that's very well exemplified in a very simple form of advice I once read concerning making decisions, self assessment:

Instead of thinking "what should I do in the situation?", consider "what advice would I give myself in this situation?"

It's almost a trivial differentiation, and yet, if one applies this concept immediately for any reason big or small, one will be astonished at how the answers are different. It's really amazing.

It's hard to put data behind it, but if you just try it, I suggest you'll probably see a difference as well. I can't think of any other psychological technique which yields 'results' (at least in terms of having different ideas given framing) for basically zero effort or practice. It's not even a 'learned skill', it's just framing. It's amazing.

I suggest more intellectual people, who might be more deep in their own thoughts, might make even better use of this than more gregarious 'in the moment' people who's attention is in the 'here and now'.
Congratulations! You are embarking on an amazing adventure!
Personal attacks and uncivil comments will get you banned here. You've done this elsewhere too—that's not good. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and taking greater care to follow them on HN? We'd appreciate that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> A nuclear fission world will never happen due to the economics of it.

I'm not sure why this keeps being said. France's prices for electricity are cheaper than Germany. In fact they are cheaper than most European countries [0]. Nuclear does have a lot of upfront costs, but they are cheap to run once built. But the construction price will never drop if we stop building. Doing so has already made prices go up.

What really matters is 1) can the company that made the plant make a profit? 2) If we need to subsidize to make 1=yes then is that price cheaper than the cost of not doing it (cost by economic damage done by increased CO2 during that period).

But the irony of this is that your argument is very similar to that which many have made about solar.

I expect the same thing will happen when fusion becomes a thing. In reality it is all about the S curve.

[0] https://1-stromvergleich.com/electricity-prices-europe/
Do you mean growing crops to make into fuel?
Is Keil Free MDK for STM32F0 Memory Limited?
It was announce here that these tools are free, but do they have the same memory limitations as before, in the trial versions?
https://www2.keil.com/stmicroelectronics-stm32/mdk
IntelliJ ultimate for TypeScript. Have tried vscode but it was slow on Windows for monorepos; haven't tried vscode on mac for this same project yet
The majority of developers are freeloaders who deserve exactly what they gave Dominic, ie nothing. If the act of posting code on github creates rights or an obligation to others, it rapidly becomes untenable to do that thing.

It wasn't Dominic's job, because you (and everyone else!) wasn't paying him.
i'm trying my absolute hardest to be constructive, but what in the hell are you smoking?
These tactics were weaponized more than 2 000 years ago, we're just actually studying them now.

But the issue is not that they exist, it's that people are somehow thinking these Machiavellian tools are literally being taught as part of a curriculum as craft at France's highest institutions - this I find very hard to believe. I think that the kids are learning this in high school outside of class if anything.
Great point, and I think it relates to the market need for a "full-stack developer", an all-around generalist who understands (more or less) the entire stack and areas of endeavor.

It also made me think how, typically, the problem with "design by committee" is that it's often a mere collection of specialists, without the necessary generalists (those with an understanding of architectural coherence, system-level thinking) with the power to tie it all together.

I think the reason why many great software projects are created by an individual or a small team, is that coherence and consistent vision across the system.
Performance looks good: https://react-vertex.com/demo-attenuated-light/

Ease-of-use looks good: https://github.com/sghall/react-vertex/blob/master/demos/Att...

Looks excellent actually.
Thanks for the nightmares I'll be having tonight about URLs with commas.
China is a terrifying dictatorship extending control to every part of life for their citizens.
> Investors aren't scared of the high upfront cost of nuclear. They are scared by the risk of spending the high upfront cost of nuclear then having the rug pulled out from under them by hostile government policy.

You peddle this line every time the subject of nuclear (fission) power comes up.

My usual response is to point to all the countries that have administrations that are pro fission nuclear -- the UK being the most magnificent example -- and observe that the relentless scheduling delays, cost blowouts, and logistical problems, combined with the equally relentless growth of deployment (and reduction in cost) of renewables in that isle.

In any case, no one's interest in jumping onto the fission nuclear bandwagon around the world can't entirely be down to some policy wobbling going on within the USA.
> I'll add that I personally find the stock Adwaita theme to be total garbage.

I mean, it doesn't really matter if it's garbage or not; it matters that it's what GNOME app developers are testing their UX against, so if you create a theme that changes the metrics drastically from the ones in Adwaita, your theme is going to break those apps.

You can probably get away with tweaks on color, squashing some elements narrower, whatever, but that's not what the post is really talking about. Things that could be called "variations on Adwaita", or "Adwaita if it had a fancy control panel with metrics sliders and color pickers", aren't gonna break anyone's apps.

They're talking about themes that e.g. change fonts on control labels to ones that don't have the same em-widths or x-heights for some characters, and so things stop lining up flush; or which replacing the icons with an icon set that isn't just "the same icon designs but now in monochrome/superflat/etc." but now has new designs, different to the same degree that the iOS vs. Android emoji themes are different, such that your gun becomes a water gun (or your homedir becomes a hand throwing devil-horns.)
But it is the going rate for senior developers in fly over states.
I’m probably a failure in the eyes of people like you. I’m 23. What should I do now instead? I only got a 1500/1600 on M+R. Didn’t get into any elite schools.

This is a serious question. I didn’t score well on the SAT and didn’t have prep tutors despite having very intelligent parents and lots of prep.
Also specialization into specific niches, with cool accessories, like the SBCs are doing. It's pretty exciting. I mean, Python on a chip is pretty amazing.
Url changed from https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/05/25/0117238/neal-stephe..., which points to this.
Huh. I've known this as "standing back from oneself" - I've naturally used this technique for a long time when assessing a customer's situation/requirements.

Also comes in handy when assessing... onself, and one's needs and requirements.
If that was the case I imagine you could ding Apple on false claims. They pretty prominently claim "Differential Privacy" both in their keynotes and on their website. Their claims are also that data is anonymized before they process it. Other companies have been a lot more vague and hand-wavy about "anonymized" in my experience and you're absolutely right that a lot of anonymized datasets can be de-anonymized by correlation.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/
Why the downvote for asking a question ?
I consider it bragging because you repeatedly try to say that your stepson was simply fortunate ("privileged") to have someone able to pay for it, talk about doing well yourself without monied solutions and also state that it is your stepson, so, no, he didn't inherit your IQ.

I’m a bog standard “Enterprise Developer/Architect” who makes the median income of “Senior Software Engineer” in a major metropolitan area that’s not on the west coast posting on a site where plenty of people work for companies where the starting pay right out of college is $50k - $100K more than I make. I’m self aware enough to know that HN is the wrong place to brag about either how smart you are or how much you make.

I also mentioned that I grew up in one of the ten poorest cities in the US and that my mom was a high school teacher - not exactly a high paying job. By the way, my dad was a factory worker. I didn’t come from a “monied family”.

I also never mentioned what my IQ was. My wife was already living in the one of the most affluent areas of our state raising two kids. She was doing fine before she met me...

Am I “innately smart”? I don’t know. I’m just a bog standard full stack Enterprise Developer. I’ve never started a company or come up with a great money making idea.
I sorta trust my direct dependencies in node-world and have some idea who is responsible and if they are reputable. But there's approximately 1187 other subpackages nested ad nauseum under those dependencies, and there could be anything at all hidden deep in the bowels of that mess, with some malicious party potentially injecting who knows what.

I hate it, but this is what we have made it. I hope that we aren't getting riddled with backdoors and keyloggers and miners, but I wouldn't want to lay money against it.
Athena: Dropbox's internal service that automatically keeps the build green
If you ignore the privacy complications, this is actually quite an interesting idea.
That's exactly what did it for me, too. Except it wasn't a trainer, but a Couch to 5k like podcast. I found one that was much much more beginner friendly than C25k and also gave a strength and rest plan. Using the podcast and seeing hte weeks go by has made me much more motivated to get out and run, even on wet 5 degree centigrade days, let alone the 30 degree days.

Just something to hold yourself accountable to, really. I've also found it's why many of my other projects/ideas/desires don't pan out. There's nothing to hold me accountable, so I get bored and move on. It sucks, because it feels like I'm trapped in a rutt, but I don't know of a way to really manage that.
> If cooling systems for machine rooms haven't caught up with modern systems that dissipate more heat, the direction you're thinking has merit. But I doubt there are serious limiting factors here, besides cost.

I think we agree, but I wasn't really thinking of power-savings as the real motivation here, I was thinking of security.

It seems likely we're going to see a steady steam of Meltdown/Spectre-like security concerns. We can have our cake and eat it -- isolation and all the CPU cleverness there is -- if the isolation between instances is done physically rather than with VMs.
This is creepy as hell, since you need a lot of surveillance on children to train this thing.
Rendering a single static 3D object lit by one point light isn't much of an achievement these days -- I'd be curious to see how this performs with hundreds/thousands of elements moving around on the screen at once.

My experience with React suggests the answer is "not well." (But I'd be happy to be proven wrong on that point!)
How to go 'Incognito' on your web browser, and what it means
Assuming no slowdown from all the context-switching (a generous assumption), and equal sized features, splitting the team would make the high priority feature take twice as long to deliver.
It's better to just walk away from this type of thread before it spirals any further. It's not going to go anywhere.
Hledger: Robust Plain Text Accounting
IQ is almost by definition performance on standardized tests.

The SAT in particular was developed as an IQ test.

I am off the top of my head unaware of any IQ test that you can't get better at by studying, but there may be some.
The problem is that action to restrict things is taken today and all regular people will get for it are promises of a better future. And some of them are simply empty promises, eg hyperloop.
Which is still fructose and glucose. In the article you linked Mexican Coke has similar levels of both of those so it's chemically nearly identical...
The point is the resources make things easier.

HN commenters tend to ascribe a lot of value to IQ. The problem is that proxies for IQ like the SAT are very fallible. The $800 my parents invested in a Kaplan course, increased my score on the SAT by 6 percentile points.
That is a big "if", of course.
And I thought the initial idea was to have the gov't pay the losses of the victims of thefts, without incarcerating the thieves. As though that would eliminate the victimization.
Since you used your personal information previously, can’t you use the business information this time?

From Stripe’s perspective (as well as your business’s), wouldn’t this application be from a different business though the owner/proprietor is the same?

EDIT: spelling
I went to a no name state college in the same city I grew up in - you know the one I said was the one of the poorest cities in the US?

Why? They gave me a full ride scholarship including room and board even though I stayed at home. I really just wanted the piece of paper to get pass the HR filters of “needs a degree in CS”.
My first job out of college based on an internship I had the year before was as a computer operator. I took it so I could move to the “big city” where I still live and figure out my next steps.
There's nothing stopping a graphics toolkit from following the lead of Bootstrap and having N different "semantic tints" with names like "primary", "danger", "done", "busy", "paused", etc.; where the theme designer then gets to define, for their theme, what color "primary" or "danger" will be—but ensures that that color coherently means only that semantic idea throughout the theme. (So if they create a theme where "danger" is blue, then the window close caption-button should have a blue background, the delete-permanently icon should have blue as its primary, etc.)
Yeah, the issue is we already need to build huge amounts of renewable/nuclear to replace existing. Trying to also add on carbon -> fuel 'sequestering' just massively increases the amount of energy production required.
Lyft/uber need to pay drivers and make a profit -- if a rideshare is employee/driver owned the profit is the same as the drive pay out. Margins can stay the same but how could lyft/uber keep drivers and make profit for shareholders?
Haha, I feel you!
Look, I was simply answering a direct question put bluntly to me. I don't care who you are or what you think of yourself. I only know what was in your comments here in this discussion just now. Your username doesn't ring a bell.

This is getting overly personal and completely pointless and you being personally defensive in no way clarifies what point you were trying to make about tests or IQ or whatever.

And it's really not important, so I'm leaving this discussion at this juncture.