skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even once I started using Linux as my daily driver, however, it took a while still for the importance of free software to set in

same here. Even though, I'm a Linux user since 1995, I just understood the true meaning of free software last year (maybe because I'm not a native English speaker). I realized that it means the software is free, not me. It's kind of respect to the software as something important in our lives.
Ah, gotcha. AGPL also came from outside the FSF in its original form, but was adopted (and later extended).
Activists don't deplatform anyone; the platform owners do. Activists merely use their Free Speech to lobby, much like the ones being deplatformed are generally doing for their own ideas.
It's easy to say that but kids (yes, kids) that are age 17 aren't really the best equipped to make great life altering decisions in the first place. People fuck up all the time and our response as a society shouldn't be "well, too bad" because 1) that's a terrible way to treat other people 2) if a ton of people are bankrupt due to student loan payments it WILL affect you indirectly, and potentially your own children/family members/friends

I'm not sure of a great solution and it's way outside my knowledge/expertise but ignoring the issue and basically just saying "should have got a STEM degree idiot" isn't good for society
am I understanding this mechanism right?

1. Set up a bluetooth beacon in the diary aisle that broadcasts as a connectable (nor not?) device with an "SSID" (or the bluetooth equivelant) that is a known GUID

2. apps on your phone can scan for available bluetooth devices, and see the presence of the GUID, which is enough for them to know you are in the dairy aisle of Store 1234.

if that's right, does this mean disabling bluetooth, or restricting a device's access to scan for devices, will preclude this?
It will reinforce the beliefs of gullible people about the underlying superstitions. They might not purchase it, but they will read it without realizing it is satire, and move on feeling that such things exist as evidence for such beliefs.
Just checked out live commenting feature on Observable [1], the ability to send code suggestions and preview + merge suggestion with 1-click looks amazing.

I built a tool [2] for Jupyter notebook code reviews which has commenting feature for GitHub pull requests (regular text comments). It would be great to have actual code edits/suggestions as review comments.

[1] https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/suggestions-and-comme...

[2] https://www.reviewnb.com/
fyi BLE tracking is both completely legal and has wide spread usage all across the EU. there’s hundreds of EU-based companies that provide these kinds of services.
Even with heat being wasted, the energy density is so high that it still outpaces batteries by a significant margin. For example... try making a battery powered 747 airliner... you can't because the weight is too high.
The parent poster might be referring to this article: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-e...

Specifically section 5. I wouldn't characterize the author's view as "recycling is a conspiracy", though. More like "we're not going to be up to our necks in garbage anytime soon, like we thought we were in the 80's" which the author mentions has affected the priority society has given to recycling as a whole. If indeed this is what they were referring to.
I'm not sure that I'd say "most", but I bet the numbers are higher than most people would think. My Wife's best friend was hit by a car and killed while trying to cross a freeway on-ramp on foot. A good college friend was killed when she ran a red light as a result of being distracted by her phone. A personally know a couple of people who had car accidents while driving and killed either (a) passengers in their car or (b) bystanders. In the drinking & driving example, you can say that the person drinking & driving was responsible, but it's still considered "unintentional". For the first two examples, the "unintentional killers" are completely innocent of any-wrongdoing, but you could still assert that they "unintentional killed someone in a tragic accident". I'm sure most people who have had similar experiences don't talk about it.
Related:
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep13945/figures/1

An awesome map of antineutrino emissions from the earth, which doubles as a map of operating nuclear plants.
I wasn't there, so I can't know how the interview went, but are you sure the motivation was "just to prove how smart he was" ?

If I'm already 100% sure I'll recommend a hire, it's not rare for me to go off-script and dig into random stuff in the candidate's experience, first of all because I find it interesting or fun to talk about, and second because having deep knowledge about anything is positive signal, regardless of whether it's useful for the job.

I have definitely been in this scenario and asked people who had relevant background to work out low-level performance details of their code. I hope they didn't think I was "drilling" them.
Am I right in thinking that this is mostly interesting for statistics-adjacent fields? I imagine someone using this mostly to embed charts and graphs alongside code a la Jupyter Notebooks.

What would be fascinating to me is if these tools made it significantly easier to make "Explorable Explanations" (nicky case, bret victor).

I love the Raft visualization (https://raft.github.io/) and would be ecstatic to see more stuff like that surfacing around, making it easier to grok sophisticated distributed systems. Next logical step would be to actually control said systems from the visualization itself.
I fail to see what point you're trying to make here.

If you want to use a bitcoin bank you can. If you don't then you don't have to and can self custody.

You have the choice to do either. Which is not the case with electronic claims on fiat money, as they require a bank counterparty.
Thanks to Equifax breach, 4 US agencies don't properly verify your data
No, because many developers are part of that 99%.

Being a developer is not a synonym to be enamored with an UNIX CLI.

In fact, a graphical REPL is much more powerful.

So no, that 1% does not target the other 99%.
Oil Tanker Attacks Echo Persian Gulf's 1980s 'Tanker War'
For me it's rather simple. I like GNU/Linux, the whole free/sharing ecosystem helped me learn so much, it allowed me great productivity, to modify anything and everything, etc.

I like others to have the same opportunity, so GPL it is, even for libraries.
Apple? Maybe it's the big stores and advertisers want to know everything about everybody that are to blame?
>A negative view of Reddit as a whole makes no sense

I tend to think of "reddit" when used generally as meaning r/all for an account that isn't signed in. You won't find many "red-tribe" beliefs here, so I don't think you can say it reflects society at large. Anecdotally, I'd say the subreddit that most consistently gets something that looks a little like red tribe beliefs to the front page is r/unpopularopinion. Reddit is definitely not an even cross section of America.
“Build an HTML5 Template with Bootstrap and SASS
Every couple years when it comes up again, I'm endlessly amused by this project.

I had a lot of fun actually reading through the early commits in the project. You can see how things can go totally crazy really fast.
Cybersecurity giant Symantec plays down unreported breach of test data
Too broad of a statement, there are buckets.

In the lower value bucket, they typically have a trade or product with no scarcity, and no market. They try to sell based on a multiple of their effort. This is everything under $1,000. Prices adjust based on volume sold and desperation of the artist, by artist. So therefore yes prices are more arbitrary at the beginning of an artist's career, and at an art show there would be no rhyme or reason between artists. Perhaps some competition and a race to the bottom at a bazaar. This is the same as pretty much any other trade or contractor that is always testing their market. These artists aspire to be in higher tiers, but largely don't act like they understand what drives the value in those tiers. If they do understand and realize they aren't eligible either way but still spend their time on trying to monetize art, then that is a good objective lens. People with other marketable skills will just resign their art to a pasttime and forget about the monetization goals.

In the middle value bucket, it is mostly fine art with low worth, and a very different market. The market forces to create the arbitrary prices are different and mostly correlated to the artist's network when they were alive. Typically there is something undermining the scarcity of these works, but that can also be just demand. Galleries arbitrarily raise the prices over time until a private seller undercuts them.

In the high value bucket, it is mostly fine art with high worth. The market forces to create the arbitrary prices are different and mostly correlated to the artist's network when they were alive. Here it is rarely about the aesthetics or the discipline involved in a piece, but the eligibility of a piece even appearing in this market is again based on the artist's network while they were living. Most of the high value bucket is a product of monetary policy and there are whole books about it.
>If Marty is roaming the aisles at a reasonable speed (i.e. not so fast as to endanger shoppers!), there's still a substantial chance

Still substantial but less than without it.

Most of the restocking and cleaning happens when the store is closed. Customers don't want to have people getting in their way stocking shelves and you don't want to be mopping floors (other than cleaning up spills) when customers are walking down them.
In isolation, I'd prefer the better targeted advertising.

In reality, I'm not comfortable with the amount of privacy violation getting that targeted ad requires.
It's not such a PITA anymore. Most distros have automated build systems to create VM images from a config file. For example, we use FAI + Ansible to entirely automate the creation of a Debian AMIs for AWS, deployment, and provisioning.
I guess that applies, since "all viewpoints" does include actual Nazis.
We're looking for a global addressing system that can span cities and states (not necessarily countries), and for one that doesn't depend on lat/lon (because that has inherent error margins in it). It should be global and consistent so we can build tools on top of it, rather than have to learn each country's addressing system. Also these coordinates would be used by our system internally as identifiers, but the users would just see the artifacts that matter to them, like roads etc.
I have worked at Amazon, and can categorically say that this description of their interview process is false.
SDICONGO
In the news today The 85-year-old tech entrepreneur who made her staff millionaires https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/85-year-old-tech-entr... but paywalled
in {1, 0} representing true/false respectively, * is often used for 'and', and + for 'or'. So there may be a good interpretation if you can sort out what the plus sign in x+iy means - is it an 'or', or something else? Good luck!
Nobody is going to jail over student debt, that's some nutty hyperbole.

If you could get out of student loans by simply declaring bankruptcy, no sane institution would give out student loans. A young graduate has little to lose by declaring bankruptcy.

What we really need to do is teach young people not to waste $100K+ on some ridiculous degree that will not get them hired.
Evernote Critical Flaw Opened Personal Data of Millions to Attack
I never called him alt-right.

And I don't see why the fact that he's jewish negates the fact that he's engaged in hate speech several times - some nice examples here:

>If you wear your pants below your butt, don't bend the brim of your cap, and have an EBT card, 0% chance you will ever be a success in life.

>Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock
Basically it means those loyalty apps stores put out? Are you sure you know what that app is doing...?

You are right that disabling bluetooth or being aware of what apps your phone has is what is required.
I find it fascinating that the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia which is home to the holiest sites in Islam, paid so much money for a distinctly Christian art peace ("Salvator Mundi" is Latin for "Savior of the World").
Nasa estimates it will need $20b to $30b for moon landing, administrator says
I like the idea of a license that is "fair", but there's something about GPL that rubs me the wrong way where I feel it accomplishes the goal of fair in some antagonistic manner.

To me, GPL feels more like holding a legal gun to your head and say "You used my code, now play fair". It's not your Mum asking you nicely to share your toys with your brother. But then MIT is too far the other way where it's your Mum saying that if you don't want to give any toys to your brother even though he gave you a bunch then that's your ethical code and you have to live with it.

I wish there was a license that did feel like the "it's the right thing to do" argument without the threat, but I just don't know how you'd achieve that. Even something where you license the core as GPL and then the majority supporting libraries as MIT doesn't feel right to me.

As a lawyer, do you have any ideas along these lines?
The title is a bit click-baity since I don't think anyone would think Observable would run javascript as if it were in editable <script> tags in a html document. But this is what most of the points try to explain: that there is a framework around the js it runs (so errors don't leak to other blocks (cells)), some types of imports are not supported since they are not needed, etc.

Not saying Observable isn't great, just pointing out that it is javascript - other languages have playgrounds as well.
That's not true, big-O notation (also called Landau symbols) was used as early as 1894 by Paul Bachmann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation)
Run this in a docker env then?

docker run -it --entrypoint /bin/sh -v $PWD:/bla -v /run/docker.sock:/run/docker.sock node:12

apk add git docker cdrkit libvirt-daemon qemu-system-x86_64

npm install https://github.com/ottomatica/slim

cd /bla && /node_modules/.bin/slim
How do you get errors to other services in Segment?
Did you write some custom code to catch errors and then send them as segment's track calls?

We use Sentry with Segment, but on client segment just loads sentry and the errors are caught by sentry only, they do not appear in other integrations.
Not All Military Bases Plan for Warming
I'll take the troll bait.

Ok, sure, but why did the loan officer approve it? Because student loans can't be shed off in bankruptcy, so it's guaranteed. What loan officer wouldn't approve such a loan?

If we're going to blame the victim, let's also look at the market structures that allow it to happen in the first place. If the lender took on some of the risk instead of passing the buck to our modern-day debtor's prison, then these degrees wouldn't be fundable if they are as worthless as you suggest.
Indeed you did. You're openly one of those people who likes to point out that members of __insert group here__ engage in mass killing. Thanks.
Just another mineral you need enough from to add to the list... It'd be useful to have permanent monitoring of your body to know which ones you have too much and too little from imho
If the SVG was embedded, you would have to periodically re-upload a file to update the stars/fork stats no?
I think it's instructive to consider who the employer is too. Leetcode works well for Google. They pay top notch compensation and have a long line of people who want to work there. They can put horrible hoops up and enough people would still want to jump through them.

Most companies have cargo-culted the programming interview, even when they don't have the same amount of demand from candidates.
This thread is interesting to me, since I've changed my mind on this topic since I originally commented. :P

I blame Rust, and macros.
It is easy to take potshots at people who got Art degrees, but what people never want to engage with is those who didn't do that. Investing 50-100k in a software degree may provide job-market-value and the ability to pay back the loan, but a huge loan is still a drain. A huge loan that was taken out to pursue a very economically viable career path still delays basic things like owning a home, marriage, children. The effect is more extreme on certain degrees than others, but that 60k still causes harm to the economy regardless.
Thank you!! I always wanted to have a way of quickly ssh'ing into my docker image with some sort of virtual box implementation so I could poke around. I always felt the debug tools lacking. This is perfect. Can't wait to try it out!
Why don't you like that explanation? Leonardo was obsessed with detail, and he would study things intensely, it's not that much of a stretch.
This scenario is one of my nightmares. It makes me extremely anxious to think about it. I’m absent minded all the time, preoccupied with work even while driving so it is not far fetched. I try to focus but I fail I lot.

And somehow my nightmares always come true. Maybe I attract them with thinking about them. Sounds silly I know, but can’t help feeling that way.

I wonder if anyone else has this feeling
I went through a similar interview once - bring your own laptop, and code-up a bowling scorer which spanned two sets of interviewees. Was not the worst interview experience I've had.
> If you could get out of student loans by simply declaring bankruptcy, no sane institution would give out student loans.

And yet, credit cards (unsecured lines of credit with no recourse in bankruptcy) are issued continuously to this cohort.
The loans are foisted on people who aren't even trusted with the decision of whether or not to drink alcohol. It's predatory, and at the same time the cost of education has absolutely skyrocketed. Baby boomers could emerge debt free from college with a minimum wage job. If they ended up with loans they couldn't afford, they could declare bankruptcy.

The baby boom generation pulled up the ladder behind them, and is now pouring boiling oil down on the generation trying to catch up.
Gut microbes eat our medication
Where did you get the impression the move was “easy”?
Sleeping in a tent for nearly six years actually did my health a world of good. It also dramatically changed my perspective on the state of housing in modern America and its relationship to myriad problems, including health issues, in ways that aren't likely to be taken seriously by most people any time soon.

When I comment on such things, it typically gets downvotes and/or snarky, dismissive replies and personal attacks.
Oooh, dat interesting! I wasn't strongly aware of non-classical logics (other than modal and classical). Meeting intuitionistic logic... bloody hell that was very weird for someone brought up on classical logic. I will certainly take a look, thanks.
> magnesium

Yes! Magnesium changed my life!

I was certain that I was living with depression... until I read somewhere that lactose intolerance can lead to magnesium deficiency.

I started taking Magnesium and felt the effect immediately. All of my body is physically relaxed. I struggled with muscle cramps and spasms, they are gone thanks to increasing my magnesium intake. It's as if my muscles being under stress created anxiety and that anxiety reduced my ability to be happy.

I have also learned that I need to supplement with vitamin D during the winter to avoid having SAD. Vitamin D + Magnesium are also my solution to happiness.
When you need a doctor or lawyer or pilot, because they are certified, you at least know that they all have at least a bare minimum amount of competence. You may not know if they are elite ninja skilled, but you know they know the basics. Literally anyone can say they know how to program, and there is nothing on the resume that can confirm or deny this. I’ve interviewed Senior Software Engineers with years of experience who couldn’t complete a FizzBuzz-like task. Software engineering unfortunately does not have its own “bar exam” or board certification, so it has to be “Monkey Dance” over and over no matter how much experience you have. It’s frustrating both as an interviewer and as an interviewee, but until there exists a verifiable signal of competence for one’s resume, basic skills need to be tested over and over and over.
So if you're not ready to take on responsibility of a large loan, maybe don't take one out, wait a few years, research the market, maybe work some jobs that don't require a college degree.

And seriously, figuring out which degrees pay takes literally one google search. A 17-year-old can easily do that.
Honestly, part of this doesn't bother me that much. It doesn't bother me for a store to know where I'm standing while I'm in their store.

What does bother me is the part where they can get lots of other data and use it to build a profile of me that spans far beyond their store. The fact that this Pulsate company encourages devs to include my email address, for example, seems really invasive, and probably would be illegal under the GDPR?
I started taking magnesium on advice of a chiropractor, as I was getting a painful calcium deposit. I take a magnesium/calcium deposit, and later added vitamin D.

I don't know if it's the root cause, but my mental outlook has improved over the past few years.
Announcing Visual Studio Code Installer for Java
If we replaced all cars with EV's how much greenhouse gas would we actually curb? I know we're shifting the strain of the car producing greenhouse gases tp the power plant. Anybody know the numbers?

Intuitively I always thought the only way of actually making a dent in emissions is to change the way we live by shifting to public transportation. Suburbia is what makes the US the leading greenhouse gas producers and only changing the way we live to be more like cities such as NYC or Tokyo do we actually stand to make a change. We need to reduce the usage of cars to make a meaningful dent in greenhouse gas emissions.
Isn't that the whole point of subversive art? If nobody would fall for it, how could it ever be taken seriously?
Yes Apple. They rolled out iBeacons and created a whole toolkit on ios that enabled tracking - at least a lot easier than it would have been.
This gets my vote. Keep a recording of the confirmation for any potential legal issues.

Plus the image of the silence in an office being punctuated by the occasional "DELETE" or "CONFIRM DROP TABLES" is hilarious.
Can somebody clarify for me - if you write 9,990 lines of proprietary code and include 10 lines of GPL code, the whole 10,000 becomes GPL, right? And then the whole 10,000 becomes public property according to the GPL so the person who wrote the 9,990 lines of proprietary code starves to death and dies because you can't monetize public property, and our food system only accepts money in exchange for food, not "good deeds" or whatever?

If so, then this is what people mean when they say the GPL is a "general public virus".
What Is GridDB? In-Memory Database for Time Series Data
I think both the ability to write, and (read+understand+effectively explain and give an opinion on existing code) are important, and the latter is severely under-appreciated in interviews
You could teach old people to stop trying to charge 100K for some ridiculous degree as a prerequisite to enter certain job markets, but they already seem aware of the problems they're causing.
I had heard of the technology, but had no idea how widespread it was. To be honest, I had assumed it never took off.
Why did you do it 20 years ago?
Training an AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes
I'm not sure what your point is either. Mine was "oh, there's a website now; they must have been reviewing old issues to prepare for the launch." There is no "official" style guide, you're 100% right, but I'm not sure what that has to do with this.
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