skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s an opinion piece in promotion of a book.

There is discussion of wage stagnation and diminished union influence, and the conclusion that:

> “America’s workers won’t stop thinking the system is rigged until they feel they have an effective voice in the workplace and in policymaking.”

So, the author is making as much of a statement about the perception of workers in America as their reality, but not breaking any new ground in his arguments.
Some of the larger threads:

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315086

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7162299

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243936

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6152046
Sitcom actors are always more attractive than normal people, and the sets they act in are usually way up there in terms of what it would cost to actually buy a house like that. It's because TV is aspiration with a little (a lot) of consumerist guilt mixed in.
I read through this a couple of times, and I still can't figure out its point beyond the idea that the author doesn't like kitchen islands/open floor plans, and even that I'm not sure of?

I've found to really like open floor plans and an open kitchen. When I visit my family, we tend to congregate in the kitchen as someone is cooking (or several of us are cooking) and we don't want them to feel left out. An open floor plan allows this.

When we go to someone's house that doesn't allow it, it tends to either a) divide people who are cooking and people in the living room, or b) have everyone in a small kitchen for socializing.
The Byzantines were known to take their children's phones away. Monsters, the lot of them.
I also disagree about VR being mostly content consumption, but I imagine more along the lines of creation and problem solving. Imagine iron man like 3D modeling as an example.

But the collaboration angle is something I'll look into deeper now. You are likely right.

The current biggest holdup other than cost of hardware is that it's hard on your eyes, which I think is why the short form is so prevalent.
NC State's second semester CS course uses a regex model as an example to Finite State Machines; however, I think it's only an example, not a deep dive into it
That was really a PyCon to remember. I was there as well. The lightning talks were amazing that year. :)
I seem to have deleted part of the title. The article is titled

>Regex For Noobs (like me!) - an illustrated guide

So I am painfully aware that I'm a noob too, I even call myself one! I wrote this little piece because I felt that regex can be kind of intimidating for a lot of people but that it's actually pretty OK and fun once you get the hang of it. To get people over that initial barrier is what I aim to do with the "guide".
Precision reduced to 2-bits, with "codebook" of 2 within each 4x4 patch. Similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Truncation_Coding but use 1 more bit. There are a lot of tuning left to do to find better ways to encode that reduces MSE.
Apollo Guidance Computer Saved from the Scrap Yard
Funny how I 'must be an idiot' for suggesting this, or stupidly aged.

My observation is a genuine one. When was the last time you tried a modern burner phone?

They are not your grandma's Nokia. They will have a brand you have never heard of and the functions will be upgraded to give lame access to WhatsApp or some other internet functionality that was not around before 2007.

The other thing is that you can quickly forget the strange button presses and hacks that went with the original burner phone interface. To take an automotive analogy, sure we hand-started cars once and you can hand-start them now but you don't get the same handle that used to come with them.
It's not about the number in itself, it's about the causes:

Gene drive enthusiasts say: “this is a dramatic issue which need extreme bio-engineering to solve it because we have no other solutions”.

Whereas in reality, it's a concerning health issue (but much less concerning at a global scale than cigarettes or mere junk food) that's almost fixed worldwide with conventional means (health infrastructures, local mosquitoes elimination, bug nets, and there's even a pilot program for a vaccine with promising results) and would have been solved if Africa wasn't in such a poor shape in term of development.

For the record, the whole western Europe is infested with Anopheles Atroparvus[1] which is a vector for malaria (and have been a source of many malaria epidemics in Europe in the past) yet there is no more malaria there nowadays, and in some places with high levels of water pollution it has even been considered an endangered specie and is slowly recovering.

[1]: https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/disease-vectors/facts/mosquito-fac...
Because noobs wouldn't know to find problems ;)
Most likely the gap happens because, on the one hand:

1. The privileged do not see enough actual evidence of the lack of privilege — for example all those little or big moments when someone who doesn’t have the privilege has a much harder time

and on the other hand:

2. The people who seek to speak on behalf of the underprivileged group as a whole tend to play up the claims of hardship and bias, often using anecdotal evidence or partial explanations while ignoring or dismissing out of hand rebuttals to their assertions.

The truth is somewhere in between. The best way, in my opinion, to call attention the plight of a group of people is to massively document what is being spoken about, and show the disproportionality. It is tempting to cherrypick isolated incidents and blow them up into a global narrative. That’s what mainstream media in all countries does, including (funny enough) some Russian and North Korean media claiming the US is building internment camps for its citizens, or US seizing on isolated extreme incidents and alleging there are millions of them (in China, for example). We absolutely need a platform for regular people to document claims at scale. Not Wikileaks, but for regular people. End to end encrypted, anonymous but with reputations, and able to aggregate videos under different topics.
Philippines Lawmaker Introduce 'Fake News' Bill That Would Allow Policing Speech
> Funding is a legitimate interest, it's at the very foundation of legitimate interests: companies need to make money to exist.

I think "legitimate interest" has a different meaning in the context of GDPR. I'm fairly certain about this, but you don't need to take my word for it: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gdpr+%22legitimate+interest%22&t=h...

As I said: if your interpretation was correct (in this context) it would be a loophole so big it would make the rule meaningless.

> The difference is that they now have to inform you that they are doing it...

I don't think so. AFAIK the difference is they now need to make it opt in and voluntary.
Well they say it was password protected, but the file could apparently be downloaded without logging in at all:

https://twitter.com/RLewisReports/status/1157825611252957184

And even if it was, it feels like this system was implemented in the worst way possible. Could have been a CMS function that generated the list once credentials were provided or what not.
An interesting round of "invaders encountering and testing new rules" was when far right mods tried a takeover of /r/libertarian. /r/libertarian has always had a level of interesting with groups like /r/The_Donald, and has been full of right wing memes, but is also full of left wing libertarians (the original libertarian - Joseph Déjacque, was an anarcho-communist - left and right libertarian mostly split along the view on whether enforcement property rights are an unjustified state intervention leading to loss of liberty, or a necessity to ensure liberty), and new mods were added that started banning left-wing libertarians all over the place, even for things like just mentioning Joseph Déjacque.

Amusingly, they went too far, and the original founder of the sub came back, revoked their mod privileges and put in place a new "head moderator" who was an anarcho-communist, so it backfired spectacularly.

Though the new head moderator did take care to appoint moderators that represented a cross-section of the community, and things went somewhat back to normal, the explicit support inherent in having a left-wing head mod did embolden a lot of left wing users of the sub to post more commentary countering the right wing posts to a greater extent.
Excellent point. Let us also strike eradicating invasive species from the list for being a restorative act. And then proceed with eliminating the Aedes mosquito from most of the places it is now found.
> Amlani estimated that with a complete subsidy of hearing aids, market penetration would only increase to 34% (11.2 million users) [1].

That's an interesting use of the word 'only', you're looking at a 30% or so increase and at that scale this would not have a huge affect on the price of the chip itself because once the costs of developing and the start-up costs have been born the rest is marginal. These chips probably cost < $2 to produce even at this quantity.

What you seem to forget is that once it is worth doing an ASIC that is pretty much proof that the economies of scale are there. The very rare cases where an ASIC is still expensive is when they are top of the line in switching speed, density or pin count and these devices have none of that.
Hmmm, that feels more like a jupyter extension than a standalone module. The extension could intercept imports automatically without the need for a prefix. Might require a custom kernel that does some magical per notebook lib mapping. Maybe it installs libs in version specific central folders and then does some symlinks to build a notebook specific lib folder based on the date specified. Feels more seamless but also more complicated.
If your cab can’t be hailed with an app, tracked to arrival, provide an estimate, pre paid etc - then the problem is that the cab regulators and cab companies in that particular city are bad. It’s certainly not something inherent to taxi, it’s just that in some cities with outdated regulation (for example most US cities it seems) the service sucks and hasn’t improved in years.
Where I live there is no difference between taxi and Uber. For example, I could hail my taxis with an app ten years ago (note: before Uber even existed!).
>The reason is nothing but for the lack of money.

Which isn't a Japanese only problem either. The countries which has less birth rate and marriage problem are also the ones with better child benefits, health care and education.
Definitely. I came here to write "no, because it doesn't even explain what it is about."

Starting from the home page it looks like an interesting service.
>The minimum is the closest approximation you can get; the "true time required" can never be more than the minimum.

I think you meant to say "never be less than the minimum." Agree about its utility here.
> nice collection of things online with some sensible structure

Publishers do not currently do this. Their websites are a confusing jumble with difficult navigation, poor search features, no useful discovery features, ...

The “nice collection” with “sensible structure” is provided by external citation indexes like Google Scholar.
Mmmmmm, open one side, dump the flavouring in and then smash it all up in the package and shake it up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18772197

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196507
Have you never interacted with real people or something? I can think of a lot worse ways to discipline your kid...
Is "burner phone" Aussie slang or something? Anyway, I like it :)
Yes but at the same time those are also the easier questions to answer in the first place. The goal isn't always to finish solving the problem but to evaluate how you solve the problem.
Do you remember what Google did to Yahoo!? Using the government is an authoritarian way to achieve your goals. It's fascist by definition. It is very disturbing to read stuff like this. Patience is a virtue; I'm sorry free enterprise (and liberty, in general) is not fast enough for you. The ends do not justify the means, no matter how great your intentions.
Source for that statement? I have never heard anything similar.
Uh, covered in salvation-oriented religions. Buddhism is just another one of those.
I speak with both academic scientists and cultural theorists on this issue often.

I think there's elements of truth about this but it's not the whole picture. students are indeed more demanding because they're consumers now they are paying for a product and getting into decades long debt for something so we should expect that they want a) value for money and b) not be flunked. The universities that most newspaper readers understand run according to an older system and not this consumer one.

Secondly there is a radical tendancy which challenges the very nature of academia itself. What students should do is simply "drop out". Dropping out as a morally good thing is worse than anything it appears to me in the US. In Europe it's more common but Americans have an ingrained culture of hard work (or study) as being morally good (protestant work ethic). Actually starting a utopian progressive society should be the recommendation of those who have major criticisms of academia, but it doesn't happen.

So I think that it's a small amount and a minority of students that are extreme. And they are not so extreme they would drop out because they dont! They are progressive and want to work in companies and change the world in small "woke" ways to make it more comfortable in an actually narrow selfish way and not a wider more fundamental radical way.

So the reactions from the organisation is more visible because they are serving their consumers. If the customer is always right and the customer says that something is problematic and should be changed then they will be obeyed.

In summary the idea that there's some deep cultural war occuring on the front line in the campus is wrong. most students want what they pay for. Universities are changing to meet the demands of a small number of students.

Having a degree is just about better than not. The investment, the cost of the product is just about worth it.
In my field we say "it was published in Nature, but it might still be correct".

The underlying problem with Nature is that they pick the flashy stuff AND present it in a very very condensed matter -- removing all the important technical details -- to make it look exciting for a wider audience. For the few hundred people actually in the subfield the best course of action is often to ignore the PR piece in nature and go hunt for the technical paper with all the details that is published in parallel in a "lesser" journal. That is the one the tells what the actual progress was and what you want to consider for your own work.
I think it's better, at least it's more honest than titles that end with a question mark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Forever, once said people realise that a $5 bottle of wine costs $20 in the restaurant.
> Politician's lies are to blame.

FTFY

But with the high cost of being elected, of course politicans follow the money and the corruption that goes with it.
I’m thinking more of working harder as in one person wearing too many hats because a company can’t/ doesn’t want to hire more people. I’ve worked up and down the stack over the years from the front end all the way down to infrastructure (AWS/Dev ops) and have had to be my own project manager doing Statements of work during the last days of a dying company. No matter how smart I work, if I am stuck doing a job of more than one person, I’m going to work more hours.

I’ve also worked extra hours voluntarily to work on new to me technology to build my resume.
I don't want to segregate Android from other Linux systems or anything like that, but I was just making the remark that this is a (very) different system compared to classic GNU/Linux distros. With different actors at different points of the lifecycle and so over. Like in practice: as an end-user I can't update the kernel on my Android phone; which is a huge shame IMO (it could as well use the NT kernel as far as I'm concerned, it would change nothing about my practical freedoms)

Also I was never really talking about SELinux because I don't know much about it -- the article was initially talking about seccomp and so was I. If SELinux groups syscalls, then that's good and way better than seccomp on that topic in my opinion. BUT: I'm not a fan about having "security policies" potentially separated from applications and potentially written by yet another party -- at least not on that level -- in most case that makes no sense IMO; only the applications (1) authors know or are the most efficient to specify what is needed; and if furthers restrictions are wanted they ought to be tunable by the end user with a nice GUI and a few on/off controls.

About libraries evolving under your feet: if the library are not insane, and the groups of syscalls (or "subsyscalls" if needed, like the ioctl case) are good enough, then you shall avoid virtually all problems.

At least, for sure, you will avoid trivial problems like the VDSO one.

EDIT (1): "application" in the GNU/Linux sense. Android applications are completely different beasts.
Hi, your link points to a comment at the bottom of the article
I've seen that in action. An older dev was an absolute burden on a hack day moving at a snail's pace. But for long term architecture he always had super valuable "oh I didn't think of that" things to say.

He was so awesome to have on the team, at the cost of sometimes having to watch him crawl toward a few lines of code. Not a hard choice in my opinion.

Of course I've seen the whole spectrum. Useless old people. Useless young people. It's best to simply be a meritocracy.
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Confederados
It's a common term in the US in my experience, although as the article indicates it is usually a phrase related to crime.
You may be right; but that's such a general perspective that there's a good chance it's wrong in some situations.

I think it's a little tricky to overgeneralize like that - although rent-seeking is pretty much by definition harmful; but whether something merely has a high investment cost and a long payback time, or is rentseeking depends on the details. The details for copyright suggest it's rent-seeking, not necessary investment at the current length and with the current exclusivity rules; but not every incentive to produce need result in rent-seeking.

The danger with generalizing is that you've made the problem harder to solve, and have more risk of unintended consequences if you do manage to solve the general problem.
https://www.businessinsider.com/when-can-the-government-read...

> In enacting the ECPA, Congress concluded that customers may not retain a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in information sent to network providers. . . [I]f the contents of an unopened message are kept beyond six months or stored on behalf of the customer after the e-mail has been received or opened, it should be treated the same as a business record in the hands of a third party, such as an accountant or attorney. In that case, the government may subpoena the records from the third party without running afoul of either the Fourth or Fifth Amendment.
This is such a great idea, it got standardized as a CBOR extension: http://cbor.schmorp.de/stringref
I'm in a similar situation, except I'm a British citizen looking to move to Germany. I already have a sole director, UK limited company set up for contracting / freelancing.

I've head rumours of German contractors using UK limited companies instead of the local GmbH/UG entities. How does that work generally? Are people setting themselves up as German employees of the UK entity and collecting a salary? Or is there something I'm missing here?
While I'd apreciate a little fresh air in the process as well...

> an app that you submit papers to, which then anonymizes them, standardizes formatting and presents them to randomly selected experts for review in a certain time period

Except for that it's not an app (that would be kind of pointless, why would I want that on a phone instead of a webapp), that's pretty much the standard in my field. Anonymization is done through the authors (if the conference/journal wants it to be) and ensured by the conference submission system. Formatting is standardized anyway.

The problem is the "randomly selected experts" part, for many (most?) subfields suitable reviewers are a scarce resource, to the point that in quite a few double-blind processes I've seen one or both parties could recognize each other's work or review.

I've always found openreview [1] a nice way to at least make the process public, especially when anonymity is an illusion anyway.

https://openreview.net/
>>They are not as effective as chemicals, but you just need to make your outdoor living spaces slightly less desirable for them for it to work.

So basically make your place a bit less desirable than your neighbor's backyard.

Reminds me of this joke:

You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.
The EU is out of control and is ruining the Internet.
But a big part of what was great about the Psion was the software, and the Gemini doesn't really have any[1] of that; it just runs Android with some small tweaks.

And didn't they build it on a SoC that was already EOL at launch, for which there are no FOSS drivers, meaning it will be forever stuck on an ancient kernel version[2]? I don't want to spend my money on a machine that will have be to thrown away in a year for lack of security updates. (Which is why I'm backing the Librem 5 instead, even though I loved the Psion series 3a and series 5 and would really like a keyboard.)

[1] Well, they have implemented Android incarnations of the calendar and database apps, which is something at least:
https://planetcom.squarespace.com/software-1

[2] Their Android 8 update seems to use Linux 3.18, released in 2014: https://github.com/dguidipc/gemini-android-kernel-3.18-andro...
I don't think it is that simple depending on the age.

I'm willing to bet a 10 year old wouldn't think much of 10 minutes without a phone.
My knowledge of Regex is basic.Last year,I ended up writing a piece of code,which was reading an inbound email,parsing some of the data,and depending on the type of the email and the data stored,it then ends up creating a lead record on the system with captured data. I wrote this in Apex,which is a proprietary language of Salesforce and is based on JAVA. Apex should adhere to JAVa implementation of Regex.Some thimgs are still different.The website for regex calculations was showing one info,java docs other,and Salesforce something else all together...It took me a while..
Next pregnancy, try plain matzo.
An interesting article about the US army's fight against malaria in the pacific theater during WW II:

https://armyhistory.org/the-other-foe-the-u-s-armys-fight-ag...

TL;DR: By spraying DDT everywhere, and coercing troops to take Atabrine (that often had nasty side effects), they reduced malaria incidence by about 70%. The Japanese, by contrast had little protection - nearly all Japanese soldiers had malaria at some time.
Even so, it's very difficult to kill a political movement by logical debate (or even by making them look silly). I had the misfortune to know Mark Collett (another one of the BNPers) at Leeds University. We managed to stop him making much headway in recruitment etc., but he lived for the publicity. Even when he got thrashed at Union AGMs and the like he'd be busy pitching to his potential support in the audience. Didn't work on most (he lost his votes by a landslide) but he wasn't actually trying to win. And I suspect getting his arguments attacked by a bunch of lefties and Jews didn't harm him much in his constituency, either. After all, it's all a conspiracy to stop him talking, isn't it?
It's punishment for a 12 year old not a 2 year old...