skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so weird for me. This keeps happening and I just don't get it.

The chan* boards are still some of the few places on the internet for people to actually learn something. I went to university, but I feel I only got an education when I started reading and 4chan.org/lit was where I went to learn. This was in my mid-20s - this is where I learned about things like Middlemarch, The Book of Disquiet, If On A Winters Night a Traveler, etc. This (https://4chanlit.fandom.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/sub) is amazing and can be found nowhere else.

It's also an anonymous board with people who are quite clearly angry and in pain. Since it's anonymous it prevents backlash for hateful ideologies, but it also means that these people can't be found to be reached and helped. But clearly, the solution can't be to allow hate to be public just to help the haters. It's a sad catch-22.
That's my point. Any single factor by itself seems hardly a reason to switch. Sadly the "whole picture" is not something the vast majority of users are likely to be informed about, so barring severe and protracted regression, I don't see any large-scale switch away from Chrome.
Is Google Helping China's Military? (Asia AI News)
That's odd. I bought a Switch at launch and my dock's working fine. n=1 and all but it's worked great and I dock/undock my Switch nearly every day. I use it mostly like my cell phone - plug it in at night and grab it in the morning. I rarely actually play on the TV (pretty much only DooM) so I don't know how it's big, fragile, or unreliable.
And yet Germany (among others) an industrial powerhouse full of innovation has a pretty strong union sector.
This is a really cool project. The one issue I see is that the Teensy isn't what you'd call power efficient (compared to some more domain-specific DSPs, that is).

>That seemed incredibly expensive. I haven’t done much electronics, but digital signal processing doesn’t seem that expensive?

The cost is in R&D, not just for human trials but for DSP engineer salaries. It's an extremely specialized skillset and the companies that hire for it look for PhDs most of the time.

In particular, optimizing adaptive filtering to clock in the dozens of cycles per buffer with fixed point DSPs to maximize battery life, while providing features like feedback reduction, noise cancellation, working around the infamous "cocktail party" problem, with modern features like Bluetooth... all with audio fidelity on par with some serious audiophile gear.

My understanding is that there are also some other market forces too like very long lifecycle management and low volumes for new products, but idk how real that is.

Point is, I don't think those devices are really overpriced - at least no more than any other medical device paid for by insurance companies.

EDIT:

I'm reading some of their documents and a few things jump out at me. They mention supporting FFT/IFFTs on the platform. This stands out to me since doing that on a battery powered device is unusual. Firstly because it's not cheap in cycles, and secondly because useful FFTs require rather large buffers of memory which harms your latency, and may come at a premium. When I've seen them required (e.g, a codec), it was typically on a dedicated FPGA with the algorithm burned in, not running on the DSP.
Why does Trump need to be asked before revealing anything?

All this looks like a thinly veiled ploy by Q to try and get free publicity from media. If that doesn't happen, fool people enough to make them think it is some kind of "proof".
This ian't the sort of topic that I normally comment on, but today's events have been particularly disturbing, so I thought I would share what I have experienced.

I have seen two very different people that are very close to me radicalized and turned into full-blown white nationalist, violent tinfoil-hat types.

In the first case, my brother (let's call him Bill) struggled with uncontrollable anger and violent outbursts for his entire life from the getgo. I've been told that that could be linked to a near-suffocation event that happened to him during birth, though I suspect that may be neither here nor there.

Because of his behavioral issues and a terrible juvenile "corrections" system, he spent the majority of his life from the age of twelve through 25 in juvenile detention, jail, and eventually prison. He was in some of the most violent prisons in the United States, and joined a "white power" gang largely for survival. He regularly espoused the exact views detailed in the manifesto on a regular basis whenever he was out. However, after a few years out he sort of naturally came to the conclusion that his whole ideology was bullshit and abandoned it. At present, he no longer holds those views.

In case 2, a friend (who I will call Bob), had never been in trouble, never had any family trouble or any serious trauma, started spouting the exact same stuff as Bill used to. He was about 26 when this started, and it was an enormous surprise to everyone he knew. I, being extremely curious by nature and very close to Bob, spent dozens of hours trying to get to the root of what was going on with him to absolutely no avail.

The important thing with Bob is, his answer to every question about "Where are you getting that?" was a simple "I read it on 4chan/8chan and I believe it." Every. Single. Time.

I realized a couple things. First off, Bob was gone. Every conversation with him was just him repeating *chan talking points over and over again. No amount of appeals to humanity could provoke a novel thought. He kept to his points religiously, and he made it exceedingly clear that he was trying to recruit as much as he could.

Secondly, Bill had originally found himself in his situation through systematic dismantling of his humanity, whereas Bob was doing it purely for uh, internet street cred? Bill was able to face the real world after leaving prison and make his own decisions, but Bob carried something (in my opinion, specifically regarding this issue of radicalization) far more insidious around in his pocket. The approval he craved from the chans was something that had to be sated daily, which made (and continues to make) him a terrifying person to be around.

My point is that from firsthand experience with people from two very different backgrounds that I am very close to, the 4/8/whatever chans are far scarier when it comes to indoctrination than most people could believe without seeing.

TL;DR This issue is far larger and more impactful than nearly anyone would care to admit, and sites like 8chan will likely have an unpredictable and indelible impact on many, many people's lives until it is acknowledged and addressed.
I’d love to be the kind of business ignoramus that can create Google.
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> the last time that xenophobia was not stoped it cost over 80 million lives

I assume you are referring to WWII - it is a strong assertion to claim that was a xenophobic war. The Nazis were xenophobic, but one suspects their driving motivations for actually doing something about it were economic. They were expanding because they famously thought they needed more space and resources, and the German economy prior to the war was famously horrible and probably the major contributing factor to the Nazi movement gaining any traction at all.

In fact, I'll assert based on a hunch that aggressive wars powered by xenophobia are vanishingly rare. "[color] people are bad" is a good propaganda slogan for the troops, but nobody is going to stump up the funds to actually deploy them if there isn't some sort of economic justification.
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Tesla can change so much with over-the-air updates (2018)
Niklaus Wirth's "Compiler Construction", which teaches how to build an Oberon subset compiler.

https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/

Afterwards you can follow up with building an workstation OS on a systems programming language with GC, all the way from the boot sector loading code to the graphical UI, by reading and implementing "Project Oberon".

The 2013 edition uses an FPGA instead of the original Ceres hardware.

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How is this even legal? Is there a movement to ban stacking ranking? If we don't voice our concerns as employees, then nobody will.

Also the fact that "meets expectations" is concern for firing makes absolutely no sense. A plumber who "meets expectations" in fixing my toilet is a good plumber. I don't expect a plumber to go "above and beyond" and give me a Thai massage too.

Absolutely unreal some of the crap we put up with in this industry. Blows my mind that there are actually humans out there in management positions advocating for and implementing this totalitarian dystopian garbage, throwing away their employees for "meeting expectations" as if they're disposable "widgets".
The primary use case I'm focusing on is ad-hoc scripting: When you have a task that involves some files, some servers, some HTTP requests, some command line tools, some data manipulation -- or a combination of all that -- and you just want to get a correct result quickly without fuzz.
I have no idea why auto companies are still pursuing hydrogen cars when BEV is just better?
This depends on where you work, including it’s org and/or team culture. I’ve been on teams where management wanted details - what is our delivery plan (PMs and technical leaders communicate this to more senior management and involve engineers to ask questions, understand what’s achievable, set dates and expectations with stakeholders, clearly define CX, write or review customer stories, etc).

I’ve seen teams where a director level sat down with engineers to understand the launch plan, what system metrics are/will be available, what are technical dependencies? Does team A own them or team B? What’s the escalation path in case of failures? Have we stress tested? Failure tested? If dependencies all died, how resilient are our systems? Do they fail gracefully? What’s the forecasted peak request rate? What’s our infrastructure spend? The list goes on...

I’ve been on other teams where management is high in the clouds - strategy only and even the immediate or other technical management refuses to get involved in any kind of planning, estimates, or generally having any accountability of deliverables. The couple overachievers in the engineering team are basically the ones responsible for the success if the project succeeds (and sometimes they’re also owning the definition of success and success metrics). If this scares you it should.

My point being, there is certainly a broad spectrum.

These experiences are from 3 of the FAANGs.
Been there, done that. I dont recall exactly what went wrong, its been too long. I think part of it may have also been not knowing what came from spacemacs and what came native to emacs adding to the learning curve.

Setting spacemacs aside, other problems have largely been emacs itself. Something about the versions or dependency libraries available on linux mint and arch being incompatible with desired plugins, or installed plugins not activating or working.

Like I said, I might give it another shot, though given how comfortable I am with other options, I can't honestly say that I know what I would get out of it. Org-mode is uninteresting as I have no need for it, most other editors that I use have reasonable parentheses manipulation (or the fee keystrokes that would be saved with a shortcut arent a big deal). Other schemes and lisps I've tried have also had reasonable REPL integration as well.

Who knows, maybe this time around I'll find something to keep my interest. Does emacs have anything like VSCode's ability to run remotely in a docker container? That is something that definitely would be handy for working with gerbil, since I'm currently doing my side projects in osx
A little oxidation and this would make the perfect logo:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IK9F9F4
Presumably Airbus is still being watched by a regulator or two. Unlike Boeing which has not been watched as the FAA has clearly been gutted.
Parsing JSON is probably an order of magnitude more inefficient than working with any binary message formats in terms of speed and energy.
> Allows a process to call execve(2). Coupled with the proc promise, this allows a process to fork and execute another program. If execpromises has been previously set the new program begins with those promises, unless setuid/setgid bits are set in which case execution is blocked with EACCES. Otherwise the new program starts running without pledge active, and hopefully makes a new pledge soon.

https://man.openbsd.org/pledge

Pledge can be inherited by child processes too.
I’ve charged my Switch with third party chargers not designed for the Switch. Obviously I don’t get proprietary power delivery, but it does work in general. The issues with third-party docks don’t seem to apply to typical USB PD chargers.
Nobody cares if matplotlib is outdated. It served its purpose here, which was to show how plotting data can lead to further understanding data. You don't need a fully featured tool to do so.
What are you talking about? Unions are a 19th century European (mostly British) invention. Sinclair is a 20th century US writer, 100 years before him there were already strikes all over the world requesting better working conditions.
There isn't remotely what you would consider to be "real competition" in the airlines industry. Only last year American, Southwest and other major airlines agreed to settle a price-fixing lawsuit for tens of millions of dollars. Airlines regularly collude to fix prices.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-15/american-...
On the other hand, 2 hours for a tertiary interview after already spending time out is a reasonably significant investment of time for someone who likely already has a position and which I’d suggest isn’t widely required for positions outside of technology. Certainly no management position has a 2 hour examination on processes or people retention strategies in addition to the usual coffee shop discussion or panel interview. I’d be more in the line of reviewing a GitHub if available or a sample application or even just some concepts, implementation can happen in a range of languages but as long as the core is solid that’s what I’d be focusing on that.

The most egregious version of this I’ve seen was an interview for an infrastructure position where the challenge was a generic coding test. That’s fantastic if you want a generic developer but it won’t tell you anything about architectural patterns or common sense. In any case, I’m just a developer and these tools are usually aimed at managers, and since this can at least give a non-technical person a hint of whether a candidate is suitable I guess that’s valuable on its own. I’d be very interested in the tech behind the product offered by this team to evaluate the candidates though...
I think that's going a bit far, the MSM can be kinda horrible to everyone. OTOH you'd have to be pretty fringe and controversial to explicitly stick up for young men.
It wasn't an autopilot that failed. This was just supposed to be an accessory system.
IBM lenovo USB wired KU-0225.

20ish USD, tough as nails, excellent layout and construction.
It is actually that simple, because it is a fundamental part of social psychology. In primitive cultures, when one man amassed too much wealth, he'd give it away for two reasons: one: it brings him prestige as a benefactor, and two: it prevents disgruntled members from killing him.

We're socially wired to keep things "fair", and when very unfair things happen, we have an almost religious feeling of righteous indignation. If someone is cheating society, we want to punish them and set things right. This is why there's a tendency towards lynch mobs, or their modern twitter equivalents.

Equivalently, when someone feels excluded from the basic things he sees others enjoying freely (food, sex, shelter, leisure), he also feels this injustice, and will want to lash out, punish, and bring justice back to his society. If he's excluded for long enough, or to an extreme enough degree, he'll stop associating himself with that society, and possibly even consider replacing it with a better one. Of course, not everyone who feels the bad end of inequality is going to take up a gun and start shooting, but the less emotionally stable you are from your circumstances, the greater the risk. These "manifests" are a last-ditch effort to be listened to, respected, and included. I'm not talking about listening to whatever weird bullshit they're spouting; I'm talking about listening to their pain and humanity.

The sad part is that many justice systems are designed to exclude those convicted of a crime, thus excluding the most vulnerable, who need inclusion the most. It's one reason why you have such high recidivism rates in societies with more vengeful justice systems.

Inequality is a form of exclusion, and we're wired to fight it. Fighting terrorism is fighting the symptom rather than the cause. The harder you hit them, the harder they fight back, because they've got nothing left to lose that they care about, and they have "righteousness" on their side.
The question is how much these additional fancy features actually improve the product over what is feasible DiY? How much longer is the battery life?
I believe the "guild" proposal makes it such that the global lock becomes guild-specific, which seems similar to what you propose.
No. In this context it simply means "network-standard." And the standard has always been big endian for network applications. Not because of any advantage, but simply because that was the standard.
Lebensraum was long, long before the Nazis. It was the goal of Imperial Germany in WW1, and became policy again under the Nazis. Probably dates back to the 19th century. The economics were irrelevant to the policy.

Economics had nothing to do with pursuing the idea of racial purity and a superior race either. Untermensch goes back to the twenties and intertwines with the US eugenics that the Nazis cribbed from heavily.

Originally from a translation of a 1922 KKK book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch

US eugenics influence on Nazi ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#...
Has anyone tried Microsoft sculpt [1]? I use the 4000 series [2], and that's been amazing..

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...
What's stopping Trump from telling us?
> It's not some conspiracy... It's because they aren't very good.

Sometimes marketing is a conspiracy. To sell you something crappy.
> Personal Reasons and Thoughts: My whole life I have been preparing for a future that currently doesn't exist. The job of my dreams will likely be automated. (...)

It's only mentioned in passing but this may be the most relevant part for HN to discuss.
This had been flagkilled. I vouched it because it is a serious point.

None of them obviously. But the standards of trust I have in my friends is higher than in strangers.

I'm not certain that there really are paid shills on this particular topic online (I actually somewhat doubt it because it would open the companies up to serious legal issues). But we should always be aware that the interests of strangers may not align with ours.
...why? That's not at all obvious.
> Imminent threats and specific calls to violence are a different matter.

That is what I find disturbing. That general threads and calls to violence are ok. That threatening your neighbor is ok meanwhile you do not set a date and a time for the violence.

Finally, if I say that Coca-Cola causes cancer the Coca-Cola Company can sue me for lying. But, if I lie about your race is on because it only affects men, women and children economy, well-being and dignity but no corporation bottom line is hurt.

It seems that free of expression has some intriguing limitation when is convenient for some. Don't you think that racist propaganda may be protected because historical reasons and not any logic or benevolent intention?
Essentially the entire experience of existence on a human scale is exclusively photons and electrons interacting.

Photons are basically packets of momentum that atoms exchange.
Then I'd say it's on Nintendo to make their connector proprietary so it is _obviously_ not interchangeable with a standard-shaped cable.
Yeah it quickly becomes apparent in one's career that in order to actually realize any sort of personal vision it is necessary to be slotted into the "executive" box, except maybe in very large companies that have the spare resources to spend on Quality
> When a candidate does run into an interview that represents real-world problems that would need to be solved in the day-to-day of the actual position it’s MIND-BLOWING

But sometimes if I was asked to solved a complicated problem as a take-home test during interview, I might be hesitated to do my best because they might steal my ideas for free like this[1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/4tutqr/potential_empl...
> Software engineering reliably undergoes a major technology shift at least every 10 years.

Maybe that was true in the 90s, but I don't think it is true anymore.
It's not a mental health problem. It's a propaganda problem. These people aren't clinically insane. They are just enveloped in hatred. In particular dehumanization propaganda brainwashed them into seeing others as not even human.

If you go to places with decades long conflicts, you'll see this mentality on display everywhere. So it's not a mental health issue. All these people aren't insane. They are just really convinced that some other people are the enemy and that those other people are not even worthy of existing at all and that their life is worthless.
I used to like those when they first appeared just as a new series catch up. Then it got utterly pointless and self-parody with weekly and break catch ups and coming soon teasers. Even news progs joined in. How to save 5+ minutes of programme making with real time repeats.
The thing that I find difficult with OWASP: there doesn't always seem to be comprehensive examples provided for what these attack surfaces could be used for. That makes it difficult to both understand the impact of a particular issue, and test for it.

As an example: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/AJAX_Security...

I'm fascinated to know how this could actually be exploited. But there's no hint or reference to that. It's just "don't do this".
I built mine using a DZ60 PCB, an aluminium case, and some ZealPC Zilent (revision 2) switches.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72
This looks like fun. Does anybody know of other guides for different kinds of programs (other than compilers, which I've seen tons of here on HN)?
Pretty sure that in my country Western imported hearing aids start around 300 or 500 dollars—mostly European ones. And afaik those aren't the ‘just blare at 5x the volume’ type but tuned by the audiologist to the patient's hearing profile. And they go behind the ear.

2000 bucks are the type with a dozen advanced effects, bluetooth connection to work as music player headphones, and adjustable with a remote or an app.

So, people in the US might find it cheaper to order European aids or smuggle something from Canada. (BTW, afaik plane tickets cost way less if you buy them in the airport just before the flight.)

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Also, personally I'd be wary of twiddling the params of a hearing aid since I'm not an audiologist nor any kind of doctor at all and don't know if my choice would cause more damage in the long term. And if audiologists mostly reside at hearing aid dealerships then I'm not sure they will just give you a chart of your hearing so you can walk home and tune your aid by it.

Ah, and azalemeth's comment reminds me: if the board just has jacks for headphones then you can't even use the hearing charts without also knowing the frequency response for the headphones.