skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought (at half the official price, from an enterprise reseller) a new elitebook 840 g5.

i5 8th gen 4 core 8 threads, 24gb ram, fullhd screen and ~11h battery life.

I switch os often, right now I am on kubuntu lts but until some months ago I was on Manjaro and as soon as wls2 is stable I will try windows 10 again.

At my workplace I connect it to an external 23-27 inches display.

I install instantly docker, dropbox, npm/yarn/npx, webstorm, vscode and intellijidea.
Ask HN: How do you separate art from the artist?
Owning its assets, as in the case of a holding company.
>"Wait for a few more weeks and if it doesn't go away, we'll rethink things"

To be fair, this is often excellent advice.
Apparently it has nothing to do with open source, bur open business practices and metrics.

A bit of a hijack of the word "open" but I'll be generous and say "naming is hard".
1. is basically trying to create general AI. If you can make a simulation that is self aware, you've created intelligence.

2. is pointless. You can't. If while playing a video game, the game character turned to the screen and made a plea to you, would you listen? Or would you assume that it was a really weird game?
I understand that you don’t like the activity but then that is that. You just say “you” don’t like the activity. Original comment implied that he/she didn’t get it. Some activities are designed for the group, it is nothing like going to the beach.
No. That’s why no-one bothered to do anything about it for so long.
Of course you're fucking responsible. We all are in some way. And that's the thing. We need to start acting more responsibly instead of expecting someone else to solve our problems. We can't live in a world where we consume meat three times a week. Demand drives the market and what the market does is deforesting huge areas to grow grass to feed the cows which in turn add tons of methane to the atmosphere. Companies won't change unless we change our habits.

And no, not everyone wants to eat tomatoes in the middle of winter. People who are more knowledgeable about food production never eat fruits and vegetables out of their seasons.
His website is worth a look: https://www.adamapollo.com/

I'm going to sample a couple of his 27 albums. The cover art alone is a thing to behold.

EDIT - I'm beginning to think we've got this all wrong.

It's not a scam - it's a cult.
On Meditative Running
If you want raw speed, oathtool is hard to beat. Only 132KB to load to memory, compared to the megabytes of the typical Go binary. But unless you're playing an FPS where you have to input TOTP codes to shoot, this script is probably fast enough (80ms on my old laptop).
There are projects like ONIE that provide a common framework to bootstrap “white box” switches, and there are operating systems like Cumulus that can run on numerous platforms.

We’re not there yet but the situation is definitely changing / improving.
I'm getting an odd Wolf of wall street vibe from this. It's like the script were taken as inspiration for the branding.

Crown sterling = Stratton Oakmont = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPVMfGzXZP8

Stratton's logo is a lion. Crown Sterlings logo is a lion. The style of presentation is the same: start with axioms that are hard to argue with. Use it to build trust, then when they're listening segway into the real bs.

Building trust = https://youtu.be/dCANT0nG3bY?t=36

"First we pitch them disney, at & T, ... blue chip stocks exclusively. companies these people know. once we've suckered them in we unload the dog shite. pink sheets, the penny stocks, where we make the money."

They're doing the same thing but with encryption. Ofc, no one understands encryption directly so they talk abstractly about entropy and appeal to authority. After that comes the bs. The only part that seems missing from this is what they're shilling for and they're already gathering emails.

Oops. I was going to say they missed the crucial ingredient which is to create FOMO -- or fear of missing out. But they got that right too by implying existing encryption was somehow flawed or broken. People would have to sign up or risk their 'data liberty.' Nicely done.

I'll be surprised if this isn't to hype a blockchain-related project. IOTA 2.0.
> Seems more like benchmarks and marketing material.

That's what a 'white paper' means - position and marketing material.
>How do you know what humans do is not what deep nets do now, but a bit more accurately

we don't, but this is simply the faulty 'god of the gaps' reasoning applied to neural nets instead of deities. It doesn't really provide any insight or value to believe that neural nets are supposed to somehow magically solve problems they apparently can't solve.

Neural nets already consume significantly more compute and energy than even primitive biological agents with significantly worse results, so it appears to be very obvious that they aren't the whole story.
Reminds me of this music video: https://youtu.be/hKosaf5tmpI

... I can't imagine this being serious
The reason for the tracking is to better target the ads, you can't separate the two in Google's model.
I’m flabbergasted as to why this comment is downvoted. They’ve simply provided some counterpoints and asked a question. That’s how discussion and debate work. Maybe they’re wrong and there are good counter-counterpoints, but if so you should provide them instead of downvoting.

I have to say I agree with their points and reiterate their question, so I’d like to see some actual responses if any can even be made.

Furthermore, positioning increased insecticide use as ameliorating climate change is just madness.
They may well have provided more relevant figures which the reporter or editor failed to understand the value of and consequently emitted in favor of the figure that played to their "space is up" worldview.
> Remember, preserving the corporation is not the goal; maximizing value to the shareholders is the goal.

Preserving the the company is generally quite important in order to maximize value.

The "maximizing value" provision doesn't imply "in the short term", unless for some reason all the value is only in the short term.

If this wasn't the case, no company could ever invest in anything, because that lowers the short-term value.

Of course in practice the short term is often given preference, but that's not because of the provision.
Organic doesn’t mean pesticide free. The pesticides used are “natural” instead of man made. Organic also means manure based fertilizer which means risk of food borne diseases like Ecoli 157h and salmonella.
I wish we had something like it in NYC! We're getting a congestion tax soon for part of Manhattan though, so that's a start.
When you are doing the courier stuff for companies, you likely want to get it right from the beginning. Maybe they are practicing and collecting data while delivering food. Things like time it takes it to deliver on certain route, which couriers are reliable, how many deliveries couriers can make, how much to pay them etc.
It reminds me of the Steorn / Orbo free energy machine. They were so confident they bought a whole page ad in the Economist and setup a public demo of their device.

At some point, you don't know if they are scammers or if they have deluded themselves so hard they believe it.
I found Xfce on Arch to be much nicer than Xubuntu. Xfce is just more aligned with Arch in spirit.
G: The Google Assistant Command
Negative externalities are not priced in. The whole neoliberal market game is to extract benefits while pushing the burdens onto others.
Vote with your wallet is only honest if all externalities would be priced in, otherwise it is just a vehicle for shifting the blame onto the hapless consumer.
Ask HN: How to Self-Learn Programming?
I am self-learning programming for building web apps. Self-learning is not working. I am constantly switching from one language to another, Python to JS, or HTML, or CSS.

I don't have enough money and time to join any course or bootcamp.

Please give me some advice to self-learn programming.
That's something. SpaceX started around that scale too, remember? 5 years from now they might actually be getting payloads to space.
> I'd imagine history is not going to look kindly on the wealthy.

That's assuming the money is going to the wealthy, which isn't really compatible with things being cheap.

What really happened is that other things -- like housing -- got more expensive. But most of that money didn't go to Bill Gates, it went to grandma when she retired to Florida and sold her house to a millennial for four times what she paid for it in real dollars, whose huge mortgage payment is in turn now eating more than all of the money saved from having crappy tomatoes.
My company runs twice-yearly performance reviews. In the quarters where we don't run them, I personally run with my team quarterlies that match well with this concept. "What have you done in the last 3 months" and "What are you most proud of in the last 3-6 months" are probably the most important questions on the list.

This also helps tailor understanding for what the engineers are keen on doing / accomplishing.
I'm more interested in a server side reimplementation than a new client. When discord goes out of business I don't want to lose everything so I want to be able to redirect discord requests to my own server.
> People forget what extensions they have installed

automatically sync your settings into a Gist with https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Shan.cod...

bonus - if you work on multiple machines, it'll automatically update from one machine to the next too
This is especially obvious in "relationship advice" subreddits, where the answer to anything is "dump him/her".
Open business startups (I think), not open source
And yet, the US government decided that it was not Amazon but Apple, with an immaterial market share in the eBooks market, that deserved a $400M fine for price-fixing anti-trust violations.
In many ways it is. It's a universe controlled by some outside force.

A universe in which the laws of physics can be suspended on a whim is a very different one from one where it can't happen.

It would also be impossible to prove. As something with total control over the universe can just turn back the clock, tweak some settings, and "fix the glitch" if we ever found out.

We could have been started last Thursday and we'd never know.
Wow never thought I'd hear about this OS again. I still have the original manual and discs in the basement. My dad bought it and tinkered with it on a this huge Epson 386 back in the day...I got to the point of X without a window manager and gave up lol.
With signed exchanges, they won't have any information about when people share AMP cache links, so that conspiracy theory doesn't work.
I don't know where exactly you are in NYC, but in Manhattan at least, it's almost always bikes, e- or otherwise.
Architecting Containers: Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space (2015)
Like one that prevents us from being able to write perfect code?
That's not how business works.

- Corporate tax vs. individual tax
- Deferred tax assets
- Sum-of-the-parts valuations
- Internal project NPVs > NPV of investments available to an investor
This guy is a known crank. His paper popped up on /r/math a few months ago https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/bargli/can_a_mathemat...

See also: http://primes.utm.edu/notes/crackpot.html

Don't him too much credit. He deserves none.
Deep space dial-up: How NASA speeds up its interplanetary communications
I don’t have any sympathy, but this isn’t really that big of a deal. Black hat is expensive as fuck and they could have done without the money. I think they do less than DEFCON while also charging more but that’s just my hot take. I don’t think they’ll suffer any practical reputation damage (like people choosing NOT to go to Black hat). It’ll just be a meme and something they laugh about.
Hmmm
Are you suggesting that they might try doing a showy reveal?

Meh I'm okay with that. Maybe. But the amount of current publicity makes it feel like Theranos. That's why I have massive red flags being thrown up.
You can run commodity / white box switches in regular old mode, with routing protocols etc.

Just because you have a Broadcom chip doesn’t mean you need to use some new-fangled centralized / crontroller based control plane.
A line from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, linked to by the article -

'The next day, sensible they had misbehav’d in giving us that disturbance, they sent three of their old counselors to make their apology. The orator acknowledg’d the fault, but laid it upon the rum; and then endeavoured to excuse the rum by saying, ”The Great Spirit, who made all things, made everything for some use, and whatever use he design’d anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said, ‘Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,’ and it must be so.“

And, indeed, if it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for cultivators of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means. It has already annihilated all the tribes who formerly inhabited the sea-coast.'

The passage of time has amusingly cursed him here however. From his own hand, the Indians now come off as witty and polite and he ends up looking like the savage.
The price of gold up until the 1920s was pretty stable sub-$19 - even below the government's fixed rate. As far as I understood, the gold rush had very little impact on the price of gold.

But I also think this confuses topics. You are just talking straight up arbitrage that has nothing to do with being a bank. That arbitrage from high supply area to low suppy area will lower the price. The arbitrager makes some money on the transactions, but the net effect is to push the price down. Not that great for the huge socks on loans already on the banks balance sheets.

While the way the Fed operates, currency enters our economy through bank deposits turned into loans (not as true as it once was in the post QE world) those loans are going to be repaid 5+ years when inflationary effects have already started pushing the dollars down that they are being paid back in. Plus, the point of the extra reserves is to drive down rates since there will be a greater supply. They get hosed in both ways.
We don't, which validates parents point that we are basically pre-kindergarten in terms of actual understanding.
RTFC is an asshole response. If they're refusing to read, it's time for the mentor to get in some pair reading time.

Scenario: you tell the junior "we have this code that isn't documented. it's for a process that does X, but we need to understand how it goes about doing X. I need you to read and document the code." If they're refusing to do the task assigned, you've got a terrible employee, but you still don't have to be an asshole about it.
In sample question 5, there's no colon on line one ('class Lamp'), which is a syntax error:

class Lamp
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The first part of the question is 'Will this program run without any errors?'.

Your answer says 'Both statements will be printed successfully.', but that is incorrect! Lexing will fail due to the syntax error, so the program won't run at all.
In my admittedly limited perusing of the sub I've found that often the exact opposite result occurs: the OP is called out for their behavior and then actively defends themselves in the comments or is completely oblivious to why they're seen that way.
> None of that second commenter's objections even began to address the core of the original poster's point […] By conservation of momentum (and/or Newton's 3rd law), the device won't have any net change in momentum either.

There was no need to address that, since the full derivation was given in a previous comment, also by me:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17432843

> I'm a physics professor

Sadly, I have no problem believing that. You may or may not teach basic E&M, but you failed to apply conservation of momentum correctly in the general case of two different masses.
A link can be both a suitable-for-tab link and a JavaScript thing. They simply didn't bother.
Not to jump slightly off topic, but it boggles my mind how this topic (i.e., toxins) has not been included in the (cost of) healthcare "debate" in the USA. How did health of the individual - which is a function of lifestyle and environment - become completely disconnected from the cost of trying to maintain that individual as a productive member of society?

Obesity gets a free pass. Sedentary gets a free pass. Toxins in the environment gets a free pass. Etc. What are (my fellow) Americans reading, watching, and talking about if these things this simple are completely foreign to them?
Wasn't that the thing that powered the DeLorean in Back to the Future?
Considering the amount of pesticide that homeowners spray in their own yards, I'd say most of society was pretty much convinced.
It is their legal obligation.

https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/s...

Imagine you invested money into some enterprise that promised you a share of the profits it will attempt to gain. If that enterprise never actually attempted to turn a profit, it would effectively be fraud.

Now let's imagine they do give you a share of the profits, but the enterprise spends most of its income on frivolous and unnecessary expenses and therefore the profits are very small, that would still effectively be fraud.

Therefore, the provision is to maximize value. It is the basic responsibility of anyone running a public company. Of course this is all fuzzy and you do have a lot of leeway in justifying expenses/investments, but the principle remains.
I'd listen and play along. What fun! A new friend that came from INSIDE the game?

Maybe I'll take the lead when I meet Creator: "I have a QUEST for you.."
For me the example of what you cite is the wonder product 'Scotchgard'.

You could put it on your shoes from new and they would stay looking new, you could spray it on furniture and it would survive spills from coffee/tea/wine. You could coat your whole house with Scotchgard and be blissfully unaware that it was a bio-hazard.

Plus who thought negatively of the 3M corporation?

3M was a brand that you trusted, it was a sign of quality and familiar through 'Scotchtape™' and 'Post-It™' notes. Their reflective products were literally brilliant and life saving. Smart people used Scotchgard. Stupid people that didn't care about their belongings didn't.

But now we know that perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS - the magic ingredient) is not what you want in your blood. Pretty much stands to reason when you think about it, but nobody in the 1980's thought that carpets laced with the stuff would lead to people being poisoned with it.

The same chemical was used in bulk by the military for fire-fighting kit and other uses, plus the factories making things like shoes, carpets and everything else led to a pollution problem. So now, along with Strontium-90 we all have a little bit of perfluorooctane sulfonate in our bodies. Lovely.

Since the chemicals are not 'food' or 'medicines' there is no regulation on what is a safe level to have in the water supply.

But we now know that from the early 1970's the people at 3M knew there was a problem. But they kept quiet and just marketed more and more variations of the product. I only learned recently that PFOS was evil. I had also stopped using it without thinking about it. Partly due to other products such as Gore-Tex™ coming along there is way as a consumer that you realise the old product has been phased out. You just pay the premium for the new and improved water repellent to not even know the old one was 'evil'.

But the execs at 3M knew all along. Like the execs at Philip Morris. Or at Exxon. Or at Monsanto.
Part of it is due to having to worry about breaking changes made to the client-server protocol, and adding new features which may not available to all of the userbase soon, if ever. Look at the various enhancements made to IRC server software over the years and how fragmented things are.
>> This is nonsense. Saving in a bank expands the bank's ability to lend.

Haha, maybe 100 years ago when banking still worked like that this would be true. Nowadays bank deposits are probably almost entirely irrelevant for banks' lending capacity, as they just lever outstanding debt and whatever other non-transparent assets they can manage to slap a value on without breaking any laws.

Also, there is no mystery what happens with the wealth accumulated by the 0.1%. Piketty wrote an 800-page book about it. It's just moved abroad where it can not be taxed easily and mostly sits there idle to be passed on to next generations. One would have to be stuck very firmly in the Silicon Valley bubble to think much more than a tiny percentage of this wealth is used to be 're-invested in new enterprises'.
Can I sell this land to someone else if I need money? Is the use of that land for the new owner restricted or can it be repurposed for agriculture or other uses?
Ah - the goal is not necessarily the choice / freedom of readers, but that of other writers who might be drowned out, intimidated, or otherwise coerced into silence.

When this happens across a large and popular enough cross-section of media, though, it could easily start to have a noticeable effect on readers.
As far as I can tell, your comment only makes the case for the subsidy problem at Uber stronger by arguing that the subsidy problem is still generating growing losses even after accounting for IPO-related stock compensation costs.

This has been a highly analyzed criticism of Uber since day one. See the Naked Capitalism series on it. It boils down to the fundamental economics of taxi businesses and the intrinsic costs of ride supply in illiquid ride markets like suburbs.
I knew I'd become too old for Reddit when I saw a r/relationship_advice thread where the top comment was grossed out that a 30yo man was dating OP, a 24yo woman. That with an age gap like that, of course the guy was a bad egg. And everyone chimed in with how creepy it was.
in the service provider market juniper and arista seem to be king. There is very little on the market that beats an MX series router when looking for a network core for example.

in the enterprise, ubiquiti and HP seem to still be quite relevant. The amount of HP procurve gear in use is rather large.
> That's now how it works.

Yes it is. They presented their work, their sources and conclusions. If you believe it's wrong, but can not explain why, all you have is a prejudice. If you want anyone to take you seriously, you need to provide a rational argument explaining exactly how they are wrong, not just why you want to believe that they are.
Compared to Emacs extensions where you simply eval your new function and it becomes part of the editor this process is quite complicated.

Those who don't know Emacs can't really understand how quick it is to write extensions for emacs.

I wonder why VSCode could not replicate this simplicity instead of creating package.json files and stuff.
Ecosystem and habitat restoration involves more than just letting the land go fallow. If you just let it go, you could end up breeding a ton of invasive species which will choke off beneficial natives. If you’ve ever been to the Pacific Northwest, you’ll see Himalayan Blackberry everywhere, smothering all other plants and trees.

The healthy middle ground is something like the native Americans maintained - a kind of “gardened wild”. It requires active management to nudge nature towards a healthy, sustainable state. Pragmatic, spot treatments of chemicals can be useful in this scenario — it’s the endless acres of monuculutes, airdropped with chemicals, that cause the kinds of problems we’re seeing from agricultural chemicals.

If this is something anyone is interested in pursuing — buying land to “re-wild” it — check out your local natural resource conservation program.
David Bergan (Purple Mnts) Has Died
try that with Cosby..
Data Engineer – Changing the way we travel
How do they make money now? Are they profitable?