skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m not sure the debt situation can be fixed until we deprogram people to stop seeing college as this one, singular, necessary thing, though.

This is an interesting point of view, and I would like to push back on this.

In my view, it is not a practical suggestion to "deprogram people" like you describe, anymore than it is practical to "deprogram" the general population to no longer fall victim to ponzi scheme's or other scams like fake ICO's etc... This is because con-artists prey on fundamental aspects of human nature and employ sophisticated social engineering techniques to manipulate the behavior of their victims. In order for the social engineering of "our side" (i.e. deprogramming people) to overcome the social engineering of con-artists, we would need to be better at it than they are! We are not going to beat them at their own game, and attempting to do so is a losing strategy.

The student loan industry is a predatory and hostile industry which is backed by the biggest banks and has enormous political influence in congress. The main goal of their lobbying is to prevent being regulated.

This is a smart strategy for them because in my opinion, history has clearly demonstrated that the best solution to this type of problem is government regulation which prevents the worst abuses of a free market system.

There used to be laws where you could clear your debt by filing for bankruptcy, but this is no longer possible for student loans. If my generation had more political power in DC, we would pass laws to allow this as well as cancel a very large percentage of outstanding student debt.

So I strongly disagree with proposal that people need to be "deprogrammed" because I don't think this is a practical approach to address this major problem.
There's a lot of myth and ancient legends insinuating that we're only building our world on top of pillars built by "those who came before", but that's quite expected considering that there are abandoned human settlements spread all over the globe. Every generation has seen more and more of those abandoned settlements as time has passed, and so those legends were born.

That doesn't mean we _know_ there's been civilizations that were wiped out during the last ice age, though. All evidence is circumstantial at best. It would be awesome if those bots found something, though.
Why isn't streaming filling this void? I remember back when winamp made it easy to receive live streams from hundreds of broadcasters. Is that still a thing? Broadband wasn't very broad back then, either, so the tech should be perfect for rural areas where connectivity is spotty.
Same font? How about starting with having the same font renderer that actually respects font rendering settings?

I mean, it is ridiculous. I have disabled antialiasing so most GUI text uses crisp aliased fonts as i like them. Then i open the settings app and it ignores the setting while using some font rendering with blurry antialiasing without even subpixel antialiasing. If i open an Explorer window (with, e.g., Win+E), it uses the settings i've set and has antialiasing disabled but if go to the address bar (This PC) and type "Control Panel" and press enter to open it, it uses antialiasing and this time it is subpixel antialiasing! WTF!

And the cherry on top? There is a "View by:" (Category, Large Icons, Small Icons) list at the top right where the "View by:" text is not antialiased (as i have set it), but the selected option right next to it uses subpixel antialiasing!

Come on.
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@/user/DJKing101/ +/r/savedyouaclick/ +/r/torbrowser/ +/r/UpliftingNews/
If you've done web development for small businesses I would give that a go. Start with family and friends who might need a website or know someone who needs one. Focus on basic websites till you get your feet wet again.

Then start doing more and more advanced sites.

Try offering a website as a service package where a small business pays you $99/mo (Up to X pages) for design, development, hosting and maintenance and small updates. You can give a quote for large edits/updates. Ass you add more pages to their site increase their monthly subscription (you can set this up through paypal at first or ask for an annual check, or set it up through stripe, stripe has invoices now which is a nice way to do it.)

Or offer them a traditional quote($500-$750 for a really basic site in my area if you're working with individuals or freelancers), plus a monthly or annual hosting and maintenance fee ($20+/mo).

There are still plenty of small businesses that need websites or need new websites. Start with family and friends, then start inquiring about talking to other businesses who you can see need a website or a refresh.

SSL certs are a bigger deal now, since the browsers will list sites as not secure. If you sign up for forge.laravel.com you can spin up servers on Digital Ocean and setup SSL certs from LetsEncrypt. Forge is $20/mo, Digital Ocean droplets start at $5/mo, but the certs you can setup for free and forge will automatically renew them. So you can provide SSL certs as part of your hosting, maintenance packages.

Good luck.
I initially built PhotoStructure on nights and weekends for my family. I work on it full time now. https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/

<plug>
If you don't have your photos and videos well-organized, or you're nervous at all about the photos of your loved ones being used for adtech or surveillance training data, or you'd just like to try out a fun "serendipity" interface, installation takes less than a minute and then it runs politely in the background.

I'd love to hear what you think.</plug>
Someone once said to me, "my kids can watch the Grinch Christmas special any time they want. So it's not special anymore."

I completely agree.
Concurrency and SMP are two very different things. One can have a kernel that handles concurrency better than anything else alive but it does not have any support for SMP.

But ... I didn't say anything about BeOS in my comment? I was talking about Haiku, which has very different origins than BeOS, especially on the kernel front where the internal architecture was and is pretty different from the Be kernel.

I actually don't know how much the Be kernel was designed for SMP from the first days; I think it was but I'm not sure. At any rate it definitely did have better concurrency for desktop usage than anything else at the time, I believe.
Zanzibar is basically the brainchild of a Bigtable Tech Lead + a Principal Engineer from Google's security and privacy team [1]. This led to a very sound and robust original design for the system. But it also greatly evolved over time as the system scaled up and got new clients with new requirements and new workloads.

[1] https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136626971566149633
This is absolutely incredible. Since we saw login with Apple yesterday, makes me wonder if any of the other big companies can compete with this. Curious about Facebook/Netflix/Amazon.

Netflix seems zippy, but I've never looked at the request timings, which could differ pretty dramatically from UI load times. I imagine Google also dwarfs their login scale. Would be interesting to see numbers capturing full load time from clicking the login UI to successful redirect (or however you would measure this without including the time of the page load post-login).
IBD [1] as well but I guess that association is more obvious :)

My hope is that ankylosing spondylitis, which has a significant genetic overlap with crohns and UC (combined referred to as IBD) and they have significant incidence overlap, may also be treated or at least ameliorated through the microbiome.

My larger hope is that all autoimmune diseases can be treated via the microbiome. All the current autoimmune treatments we have are blunt objects targeting major pieces of the immune system with very undesirable side effects.

[1] https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/05/new-findings-...
She is saving it for her kids.
> The original way of doing electronics was tag board, hand-soldered components, and valves.

And there was me just pushing a 555 timer into some breadboard. I imagine that some thought this was cheating.

I am broadly in agreement with you, however, I would like to hold back on my judgement to view this tinkering as useless, a waste of time. I used to work with a guy who had no idea about programming but that did not hold him back from having a great time with a Raspberry Pi. With next to no knowledge he was delving in deep into things I would struggle with, despite however many years of UNIX/Linux. Sometimes enthusiasm is wonderful.

Recently I took an interest in how the original arcade machines were programmed. At the time that arcades were a thing I did not see the art that was in the development of these games. The music in Marble Madness is a work of genius but at that time music was about things like a drummer being able to keep in time, not programming a synthesiser chip. Consequently I was not seeing what was really going on in these arcade machines and more wary of being fleeced in dingy arcades, with that feeling of guilt that goes with wasting time. Because I now have a different view of the arcade with this hindsight I am wary of dismissing the fads of today. I like to be a bit more open minded or naive.

During those years when the arcade beckoned I spent my time in a workshop of a different kind - a regular bicycle shop, doing evenings, school holidays and Saturdays. We were always in need of staff but I never had anyone from my school friends to recommend. This was a pity. Every working day I was loving it and getting better and better at doing things with spanners, the vice, everything really. I was not a big user of power tools but if you are holding things for the guy holding the oxy-acetylene torch you are still learning.

I wish there were more opportunities for this learning by doing and getting paid for it. It is a win-win-win. But for some reason - the same reason I could not recruit my school buddies into the bike workshop - we are not having enough of that going on. I feel the maker scene is useful for that, even if people cannot make replacement products they are at least learning tools that make them employable. Even if those tools are not needed in the job there is so much confidence and enthusiasm gained.

If I think back to my former workmate doing things with a Raspberry Pi, the initiative he showed made him employable in tech. He was doing pictures for the website (products) the slow Photoshop way rather than the ImageMagick automated way. Most artworkers are not suited to being taught how to automate their work, you just wouldn't bother to even try. I had a vested interest in him doing stuff the automated way and because I had got to know him through this Raspberry Pi nonsense I was able to explore the possibilities. His knowledge of shell scripting made a whole lot of stuff possible, making my job easier and giving him more day job time for Raspberry Pi tinkering. Luckily he wasn't overly micro managed.
How old are your organs?
I was saying the same thing but once you have one it's actually quite nice from time to time.
Spring traps aren't necessarily better. It can crush organs and keep them stuck, while taking longer than 2m to actually kill them.
And you are being downvoted for what is basically a well articulated version of a fairly uncontroversial view, and not far from a reality in many developed countries :-)
This is one of the nice side effects of the air-sealing requirements in modern building codes. The more airtight your building is, the fewer entry points there are for pests.
An alternative perspective: https://meltingasphalt.com/wealth-the-toxic-byproduct/
OK, but it's a better marker of group identity the more peculiar it is to that group. So absurdity or impracticality are common characteristics of effective shibboleths because they make the marker a better discriminator with fewer false positives.
The NSA can't watch our every move, that's illegal.

We learned from Edward Snowden that they do so for some people anyway, illegally. It's bad and wrong.

It's not nearly at the level of China.

America doesn't have xinjiang reeducation camps for political dissidents that also happens to be full of people charged with the crime of being religious.

America isn't harvesting the organs of its prisoners against their will.

The consequences of being caught by the Chinese surveillance machine is far, far worse in China than it is in the USA, which really doesn't even have it at the same level.
Pretty cool idea, looks like a really approachable way to instantly create a basic CMS. It could also be great for client's to manage their own site content too.

I see you have the GNU GPL-3.0 license. This is a bit of a deal breaker for a lot of commercial purposes as it requires you to publish your source, is there a specific reason for this?
I'm in NYC and while I'm not into hip hop I remember driving around in a delivery van with this gnarly dude listening to KRock and Q104.3. It was the same damn song over and over again on Q104.3, same hendrix, beatles, zeplin, doors, etc, etc. you could listen to that station for one day and hear all it has to offer. The the ads, talk about a cacophony of awful noise. Couldn't stand it. KRock was the same in its later years though I remember remember a time when it didn't suck as much. But again, the ads were awful.

Though the best rock station around (90's/00's) was the NJ college station 89.5 WSOU, Seton Hall's Pirate Radio. Hard Rock, Punk, Hard core, Metal, etc. Awesome station if you could receive it, almost impossible to listen to in a car. I listened via hooking the roof antenna to an FM amplifier and then to my Harmon Kardon receiver I rescued from the trash and repaired. I'd to tune in, run a cassette on record and mix down the songs I liked later on. Another treat used to be this DJ, a woman with a thick european accent who played black and death metal on monday nights, Monday Night Mayhem. Discovered so many great bands from that station. Never got old, never played out the same damn metallica song like Krock. Instead you got Pantera, Meshuggah, Megadeth, Gwar, Gojira (Back when they were still Godzilla), Sick of It all, Life of Agony, and a ton more. Then at some point I stopped listening for one reason or another, there was also a big format change too. It's still around though haven't tuned in for years.

Now I just keep the radio tuned to WQXR, the public classical radio station. No ads but the pleas for donation can get a bit annoying at times. Though I have donated. Then I get my fill of weird music from roaming around peoples bandcamp profiles. You can find all sorts of stuff on there. Rock, metal, noise, electronic, you name it.
I’d start a hobby, classical station. The local KPR (Kansas) is pretty much classical, but is polluted with the drivel from NPR. Instead of advertisements. You can’t go thirty seconds without hearing the name “Trump”
" I don't think UWP is suitable for such information density. "

This may be true but it doesn't speak well for UWP.
Yes, but this was, apparently achieve by getting included the option to do E AND the previously allowed ~E (according to the thread here).
"It's fun"

Why are larger vehicles inherently more fun? A go-cart is fun. A double decker not so much (I would guess anyway).
I'll go a step further. Don't pay for any sensor, you can make your own resistive sensor from a couple of resistors. The reason they fail is oxidation on one terminal. If you alternate the polarity as you read the sensor, it avoids that problem.
The digital war will be won with pencil and paper.

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The Chinese government will use WeChat data to arrest and make dissidents vanish.

Fakenews is not a threat great enough to justify this.

There is no equivalence between what is happening in China and what we are dealing with in the USA.
I recommend switching from AdBlock Plus to uBlock Origin.

uBlock Origin is run by what seems to be a very principled and knowledgeable person.

(The only downside I recall from moving from ABP to UBO is if you're a blocklist developer: adding site-specific rules in a form suitable for shared blocklists is currently easier in ABP than UBO. For my current experimental data set, I have manually added over 10,000 such site-specific blocklist rules, mostly one or a few at a time, using the text editor in UBO, but I still prefer UBO to ABP overall.)
What is the right data format to move around? JSON?
At least in terms of their online coverage, BBC News' reporting has been thoroughly mediocre on all issues for a long time.
I'm not a huge fan of GSK making money off this data, but I am a huge fan of having the data be available. Did you know you can download all your 23andMe data and make it publicly available through openhumans.org? Here's mine:

https://www.openhumans.org/member/iandanforth/

I want this data out there to help any and all researchers. The more free, public data exists the easier it is for researchers without GSK levels of cash to make discoveries and contribute back to the community. Just like OSS, someone has to be willing to give away something that has historically been sold. I'm willing to do that and I hope you will as well.
This is an inevitable future. Adtech and martech companies already pay for customer data. Why would they not set up ways to gather this data?
Point to evidence that free time leads people to do these wonderful things.

In a macro sense, biological life/evolution, economics, and production of goods points to innovation and efficiency gains being made by risking one’s time/enengy/resources in hope of creating a new local efficient outcome.

Free time has nothing do with that.
Damn - I'd better stop hoarding money in my 401K too!
You are right about some of the complications.

You'd want https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds for a clear relation between source and artefacts. Then build-server hacking would be slightly less problematic: at least anyone would be able to check whether the server had produced any compromised builds.

And you could have multiple independent entities producing builds in parallel for your open source projects that need to agree. So a hacker would need to take control of all of them.

(You don't need to figure out byzantine fault tolerance or something like that: if there's any discrepancy, sound the alarm bells and have humans investigate.)

Every build server would sign their artefacts, but the signature would just certify that some specific sources compile to some specific artefact. Not that the sources are trustworthy.

Now you need to trust: the author of the sources of the packages at the times of signing, and that at least one of the all agreeing build servers that you ever collected signatures from for the package was not compromised at the time of signing.

That signing build server doesn't even have to be the same server that build your binary packages, the latter could be run by Satan for all you care.

Yes, in practice you will trust a central registry. The benefit of the signature model is that you don't have to trust the whole chain of provenance, but only at specific points in time.
I'd be interested to see some actual data. Is there a kill trap that's reliably quick? I can see the electrocution one failing to kill as well.
Nobody has forked out a billion dollars for paying people to make YouTube grade videos, if Huawei had a rival service and booked every single ad slot then I think that they could either lose a billion dollars or foster a new platform.

YouTube isn't massively integrated into other services, if you had one platform that did email, video hosting, Patreon things and still image things then I think it could work.

If the on-boarding is with your device, as per how it is with Android then why could it not work?

The goal posts change all the time. Because MicroSoft failed at it doesn't mean they would fail if they did the same today. Or if some other player did.
There’s no explanation of what the site does, who built it, or how to use it.
> Then at some point I stopped listening for one reason or another, there was also a big format change too.

Just realized it was when napster came about plus the format change eliminated a lot of the metal so I got bored with it. Plus I discovered so much more music on napster and even got a bit more into industrial and other electronic genres.
Paris clamps down on scooter startups
Am I alone in thinking that 99.999% measured availability for a service so completely in the critical path for almost everything is relatively low?

Phrased another way, when it is not availability, do end users experience service disruption, and if not, how is that mitigated?
I recommend watching it sped up, on 144p.
One of the claims made here is "Synergy uses brilliant physics to achieve twice the expected speed for a given horsepower."

The power required to fly at a given speed is the product of that speed and the drag at that speed. If this is truly an apples-to-apples comparison, it implies Synergy is producing half the drag of the reference airplane at twice the speed. Drag of an airplane goes approximately (a good approximation, when we are talking about maximum achievable speeds) with the square of the airspeed, and therefore this is implicitly a claim that the these innovations reduce the drag coefficient of Synergy by (by, not to) 7/8.

Given the effort it takes to reduce sailplane drag by a few percent, and the enthusiasm within that community to adopt whatever it will take to do so, I will be skeptical until I see a quantitative explanation based on actual measurements.

It is claimed that the innovations mainly reduce the induced drag, but this makes the claim even more surprising, as induced drag decreases with speed, and so, therefore, do the benefits of reducing it.
Are glue traps more or less humane than what happens to these creatures in the wild?
This doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm misunderstanding. The Universe a BB appears in doesn't have to follow the same rules as the Universe that brain is hallucinating. I don't see how the properties of our Universe give any information on whether Boltzman Brains are possible.
http://html-notepad.com - distribution 2,5 Mb (compressed)
http://notes.sciter.com - 2.5 Mb and on all platforms.

And these applications are not using "numerous DLLs" - just two files: app.exe and sciter.dll (and that one can be linked statically into executable).

So "yes", 50 Mb for an Explorer thing is too much.
Math versus Dirty Data
D-Day Daily Telegraph Crossword Security Alarm
I believe fear mongering has substantial long term negative mental health effects - something I hope will be addressed in my lifetime.
I was hoping this was an open source alternative for the typical analog or mixed electronics benches.

As a physics student I was quite dissatisfied with these benches for multiple reasons:

1. They are far from educational, the course notes and lab notes for experimentation classes are much better at demonstrating principles. The books that come with the analog bench "toys" lack the ambition to actually teach, and avoid formulae, at least the books could contain or link to an alternative track of circuits which does have the ambition to teach electronics.

2. A lot of the circuits simply don't work, I believe this is due to occasionally substituting a part with a cheaper part with slightly different specifications, such that after a while of inevitable sales to parents who don't give feedback, the supplied components don't work in the proposed circuit, the original designer of the circuit would notice that the current parts can't produce the intended effect (chirping birds that give popping sounds instead of chirping sounds etc).

3. Most of the analog electronics benches use springs as electrical nodes, I believe today stackable jumper wires would be a better choice.

I think if enough electrical engineers with kids band together they could easily design an open source analog / mixed electronic bench, and properly document the required properties for the parts, and design it as a PCB with headers for jumper wires...