skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The argument seems to center around how easy/hard or expensive/cheap the process is.

It is about scale of the violation of privacy rights.

Take murder...its not criminal to think about murder. Its not even criminal to discuss a murder (so long as no "substantial step" is taken). Its not murder if you kill someone, but did not intend to, that would be manslaughter. Intent to kill someone and doing it, that is Murder and is criminal. If one shouts a racial, ethnic, or religious slur while committing murder, then it is both murder and a hate crime. If one organizes the mass killings of groups of people based on race, ethnicity and/or religion at a large enough scale, it is genocide.

The law is very capable of distinguishing intent, acts themselves and the scale of acts. Its only these tech companies that wish to muddy the waters by spinning this decision into the court outlawing your right to take photos.
I disagree with the premise itself. Breadth of knowledge is not obtained because you will use every single piece of it, rather because you will be able to make connections between disparate topics. When you have breadth of knowledge you know which reference to pick up for help with your new exciting problem. (I am assuming it is a given that breadth of knowledge does not imply only superficial knowledge).

Lastly, having breadth of knowledge means you have learned how to learn efficiently. This is a significant force multiplayer.
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Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19190153
The PhDs will probably be replaced by AI before that happens, to the extent that they haven't been already.
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I think the rationale here is that the market is rational, and if people were to consume less meat, less meat would be produced.

And that makes sense to me. It's not as if we're killing 3 billion animals per day just because we can, we're doing it because there's such a huge demand for it.
On your website, it seems that the overview and documentation is targeted at developers. As a user, I would love an easy-to-understand overview of what Blockstack is, how it works, and why I should care.

Edit: And here's a question maybe you can answer for me directly: If the user data is stored in a location of my choice, and the code runs on the client, what's the point of an app being powered by Blockstack rather than just being a local offline app that saves data to iCloud/Dropbox/whatever?

Thanks!
Unless you properly regulate capitalism, is it still capitalism? I don't want to accuse capitalism because it often falls into the whole "is socialism bad", "mao and stalin murdered people so socialism is dangerous", but it's difficult to not correlate environmental issues and growth policies related to capitalism. I guess communist states also had environmental issues? What about current socialist states?

I mean how can we can really pinpoint the political issue here? It seems crony capitalism is at the root of inequality and global warming, yet rent seeks are still being left alone. It seems so difficult to have something in between.

Today we're giving crumbs to the poor in exchange of co2 emissions. We can't do anything right.
Well, can we really call Google's option free when it feeds off of our own data? I'd rather spend a few pounds a month on storage that isn't looking for ways to monetize me then save that cost and end up losing my privacy. What's more of a hassle is the setup since quite a few people will always choose Dropbox and Drive over taking the time to set up NextCloud.
Just disabled right clicking, I was playing around and thought it was interesting at the time. CMD-OPTION-I and the browser toolbar still allow access to it, might reenable it though with all the feedback though!
This post demonstrates the success of marketing "protein is meat". Such that when someone mentions reducing meat consumption, someone else thinks they are referring to a low-to-no protein diet.
On chrome at least copy(Paste json here) is enough
I read it fairly recently, and I agree that it is both great and short.

Regarding multi-layer neural nets Minsky says they're uninteresting as they could be declared with enough complexity to basically reimplement any existing logic circuit. What made multi-layer neural nets interesting again was a multi-layer training algorithm.

There another interesting part, shortly after showing that single-layer neural nets can't implement the XOR function, Minsky shows that all that's required for a single-layer neural net to implement the XOR function is to add another column to the training set with specific values, effectively encoding the hidden layer back into the training set.
This LinkedIn who is aggressively against crawler but have broken crawlers who regular ddos some random websites?
It works if you're skilled enough: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BunnyEarsLawyer
Maybe. I don't consider the Congo to be part of my civilisation, so I don't care.
When my grandmother was dying in the hospital we sat and talked. I aske what their meals had been like back in the 20s. Every part of every dish has animal protein or fat in it. The turnips were seared un lard, the turnip greens had bacon in them. The biscuit was made with lard too, and yes there was always some pork chicken or beef on the plate. Roots and leaves are healthy and should be most of the volume of our food, but grass fed animal fat is great for getting the remaining calories and animal protein absorbs so much better than pea or rice.
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Supply and demand though. It wouldn't be instant, but if people start eating less meat, they will produce less.

If grocery stores can't sell a certain amount in a couple days, and if this trend continues, they will reevaluate and buy less
> the seizure of carbon extracting industry

It sounds like what you mean is that you want some government or government like entity to take down big beef/pork/chicken.

What the actual version of that would be is some government-esque entity taking over a bunch of farms and murdering their cows/pigs/chickens and forcibly unemploying large groups of people.

Alternatively that might mean some government-esque entity invading a bunch of foreign farms owned by small Central and Southern American ranchers who aren't exactly rolling in cash with their occupation despite releasing a lot of carbon into the atmosphere.

Let's maybe not call for large government/government-esque orgs to go around seizing anything. That sounds very drastic and bad for a lot of mostly innocent people who do a lot of hard work to raise cows for not very much pay.
Another example is how the US government and Microsoft effectively killed off japanese competition from their TRON operating system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project).
1 million vs one or two sellings for 1.5m hmmm...

I think Apple could do better and has the resources to do so. Why not incentivize enough so the people that profit from this kind of business don't even have to ponder the decision?
Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines (Marvin Minksy, 1967) [pdf]
Instead of all these cookies, tracking, etc, have they considered forming some kind of "Netflix for text"? I don't want to pay for a subscription for several different content producers where I only want some of the content from each, but I'd be willing to pay some flat amount or even variable amount where content producers get paid based on popularity of content, and the platform can enforce accuracy of the content.
That isn't new - it was suggested that TV would fail in the US because Americans lack the attention span for it!
>“You talk on LinkedIn the same way you talk in the office,” said Dan Roth, LinkedIn’s editor in chief. “There are certain boundaries around what is acceptable.”

That is pretty much it. As for the rest of the article it just elaborates on that and I'm not sure I understand what the article is asking.

Maybe I missed it in the article but ... why should we be talking about LinkedIn relative to the other platforms? It is just a site with very a specific use case that isn't what the other sites do.

There's also some insinuation that LinkedIn is some super corporate friendly place. Maybe it is but you know what, AS A USER (not a corporation) I also DO NOT WANT LinkedIn to be Facebook. It might seem corporate friendly, but I'm willing to bet most users want things the way they are as far as not being Facebook as well.

Side note: I really hate questions in titles like this. It's like some attention begging non specific "oh woe is me" social media post. Just tell me what exactly the topic is.
He has a bachelors and masters from a Top 3 US program, but neither were related to the work he's doing. In fact, they asked him to start studying ML (with the understanding that he had no prior knowledge) in preparation for his new job.

My gut feeling here is that the 'I don't do what they're testing for in interviews' feeling pervades FAANG management as well as engineers. They probably don't actually see much value in programmer intelligence above a certain bar.

On the fintech side, they are approaching recruiting as they always have and probably won't even schedule an interview if you don't have a recommendation and a top 5 university on your resume.
If you have find my mac you should be able to program it to reset the laptop as soon as it comes back on...not sure what the android equivalent.

What kind of questions were they asking? Is this the TSA or dept of homeland that took her electronics?
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Even if everyone decided that it's in everyone's best interest to eat less meat, some people would just assume since everyone else is doing it, they can cheat. Or worse, they would just ignore it.

The point at which we ask people to do the right thing is long gone. We need swift, definitive action that takes the hammer to the nail and closes those gaps for good. The only way I am aware of that happening is regulation. Yet, we have massive corruption and money dictating favorable outcomes so I don't know how anything will change. We need someone with brains and balls to say no to a political career and just do what's right no matter the personal consequences. This person would need to be extremely intelligent, eloquent and convincing enough to get other world leaders to get on board and implement a policy that EVERYONE has to abide by. This needs to happen practically over night. All seemingly impossible feats, but this is what we are up against now.
Yeah I was aiming to keep things super minimalistic, I’m just getting started with a web portfolio and I’m still in undergrad. The website was by no means a finished product, not sure what CSP or HSTS are but I’ll look into them. I use cloud flare for the SSL cert so they should update?
Reconcile that value of experience... with commonplace startup hiring age biases, and dotcom interview processes biased towards someone with CS101 fresh in mind and who perhaps just spent months practicing leetcode whiteboarding. :)
100% agree.

Being 35 and having worked in IT for 15 years now and seeing the rapid acceleration into DevOps/Cloud/nix/Programming/Stacks I fear for my future. I want to learn a ton of stuff, but the vast amount of stuff needed to learn in order for me to move up in my salary bracket is stifling. AWS/Azure/+ the former I mentioned, then Python, YAML, Cloud networking. I'm good at some stuff, but the industry is just moving so ultra fast now it's hard to keep up.

I've been contemplating getting out of IT altogether because I'm not fully confident in career growth at this point unless I murder myself with study and ignore my family.

I've been a MS SysAdmin for 15 years, moving into nix devops (the new way of sysadminning) isn't easy.
Like with everything else, power and influence. If the meat eater somehow let the vegan to win then well they get to control what people eat.
Hey kfreds, great job first and foremost! You’re definitely working on some great stuff. In the world of VPN, it’s great to see another being innovative too.

We (Private Internet Access) are working on something similar called zero access. In response to your call to collaborate with other VPN providers, I would love to get on the phone with you to trade notes.

My contact info is on my profile here! Hopefully looking forward to it!
Joe Amstrong had a related talk 'A Guide for the Perplexed'[0] last year. He mentioned several 'forgotten great ideas' such as Linda Tuple Spaces, Flow-based programming, Xanadu and Unix pipes.

[0] https://youtu.be/rmueBVrLKcY?t=1949
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I would suggest attempting to learn the general principles behind the one way to do ML/cloud/whatever you have studied. That type of breadth of knowledge is the useful one. It lets you gain further knowledge much more efficiently. As I mentioned above, to great extent breadth of knowledge is about learning how to be an efficient learner.
> did calculus really make you a better software engineer?

Ten years ago, I might have agreed with you, but with data mining and machine learning coming to dominate the practice of software development, calculus is more relevant than ever. I took undergraduate calculus about 30 years ago, and I’ve forgotten so much that I recently dug out my old textbook (that I still have for some reason) and started to re-read it just to make better sense of a lot of the machine learning documentation I’m coming across these days.
For anyone who hasn't had a chance to see how animals are treated in slaughter houses (WARNING! Graphical and not easy to watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYQDWF2SkSU
I hardly look at LinkedIn. Why?

Two reasons:

- I don't need another Facebook

- I get so much connection SPAM from LinkedIn that I consider LinkedIn one of the biggest cesspools on the internet. (Mostly recruiters who I've never worked with trying to connect, but sometimes people trying to connect as a way to promote their business.)

If they (LinkedIn) better policed connection SPAM, I'd use it. Maybe I'm in the minority; but constantly getting connection requests from people who I don't know is a major turnoff to me.

That being said, IMO, the observation that LinkedIn has a good tone to its conversations makes it an attractive alternative to platforms like Facebook where the tone turns toxic.
I share the same sentiment. I’ve got a terrible eye for design and I don’t have the slightest idea about fonts. Articles like this remind me of my gaps and I’d love to pick up some knowledge.
> Man has within a single generation found himself sharing the world with a strange new species: the computers and computer-like machines. Neither history, nor philosophy, nor common sense will tell us how these machines will affect us, for they do not do "work" as did machines of the Industrial Revolution. Instead of dealing with materials or energy, we are told that they handle "control" and "information" and even "intellectual processes." There are very few individuals today who doubt that the computer and its relatives are developing rapidly in capability and complexity, and that these machines are destined to play important (though not as yet fully understood) roles in society's future. Though only some of us deal directly with computers, all of us are falling under the shadow of their ever-growing sphere of influence, and thus we all need to understand their capabilities and their limitations.
I believe you're right. We didn't evolve to eat regular meals, but rather to gorge when there was abundance, then starve/fast during the in-between periods. Probably water was the one thing that we had regularly from day to day.

I've moved to a calorie-limited diet, myself, and the effects on my health have been dramatic. My acid reflux has subsided; it disappeared when I went low carb for a month and has not come back, even though I've added fruit carbs back in to my diet. I'm down over 20 pounds, and hoping to lose another 20 or so, while at the same time working out and replacing fat with muscle mass.

We can be healthier, if we try. Unfortunately, our modern societies, especially here in North America, encourage excessive eating with all of the sad results that are evident if you go out in public and observe the clinical obesity that is commonplace.
I am going for a minimal look however and still working on projects to put on the site.
A lot of browser memory consumption comes with overheads from their multi-process models.

However, that aside, it makes no difference whether you have a window, tab, or "space".
Because LinkedIn does exactly what it's supposed to do, and hasn't crossed any lines that we know about?

There, wrote your entire article for you.
LinkedIn is like the Facebook for corporate, and it's a crappy service IMO
It has been widely confirmed that going for a wide breadth only makes you good at architectural type jobs where you orchestrate multiple separate silos of knowledge coming together, without actually knowing the details too deeply but instead simply trusting that they will interface correctly.

If you try to have a wide breadth and a deep knowledge simultaneously, you will pay a heavy price. You will not have much of a family, you will not have other hobbies, you will not know much beyond CS, you will not even have time to use the vast majority of your knowledge to its full depth. There simply isn’t enough time. You will likely die as you lived, at a keyboard with your head weighing down on keys spamming them infinitely in a code editor, or slumped in a chair or bed with a technical book resting on your chest. Very few people will notice your passing, and the world will be no different for whatever knowledge you gained.

What we should strive for instead is “Just-in-time knowledge”, where the goal is to quickly become an expert on a topic you know nothing about right when you need to be. Many people first learn to do this when they get into debates on the internet, and then extend it into their professional careers.
The scarcity concept is one I really connect with also. A bit extreme, but there's a 30 day water fast (supervised) that's meant to be life changing. From what I recall the believe is that eating as a coping mechanism stores that trauma in the lipids. 30 days burns through it all.
Really? Thats the same as saying “Oh you have a heroin addiction? Just stop thinking about it and you will be fine for days...”
It's usually the lack of breadth that hurts you.

IT is a fast-moving field. Solving business problems takes understanding which good ways to do that are currently available, what limitations and dangers each approach brings, how would it interact with other things, etc.

You still need deep knowledge, but the most efficient knowledge is that of key principles, general approaches and ideas. A specific technology does not matter much, and can be mastered quickly enough, if you already are acquainted with the principles behind it. E.g. learn about FRP, and you will see how React, Elm, and Excel all work along the same lines.

What you end up with after some time is like a normal distribution: deeper knowledge around some area and various levels of acquaintance with a wide range of other things.

There are still areas where you can polish the mastery of one narrow thing to utter perfection: making pizza or coffee, sports like running or weightlifting, etc. You can keep practicing them to counterweight the feeling from the view of the sheer and constantly moving IT landscape.
Yeah, and it's a sick practice. My 8 year old account was shadowbanned for criticizing an advertiser in a sponsored link.
I find posts about vegan/vegetarian lifestyles to heavily vote in lockstep. People don't like it when someone points out that something that seems to confirm their bias actually contains no logical argument.

Tone is something you read into things, as much as is written into them. If someone is responding because of a perceived tone, it would be wise of them to consider if they're being as aggressive as they accuse the other side of being.

Also, I dont mind being downvoted, I just wish someone would provide a logical argument in response.
Tell that to someone who is running 112 threads at 100% doing Reinforcement Learning... Overall, Machine Learning enthusiast would eat any core they could get. With 64 cores Threadripper might even get close to 5TFlops and act as an older GPU for Deep Learning training.
As opposed to the higher ones, which get peed upon by humans?
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Personally I have no "smart" devices except mobile phones.

What are the Chinese going to do with my personal conversations? Apart from use it for marketing, for which there are already much easier ways of collecting data.

I'm far more worried about MY government collecting data and being in a position to make real use of it. Western corporations are more likely to play ball with western governments.
Ask HN: Does a Freelancer's Age Matter?
What are your/your company's responses if a 40-year old software freelancer applies for an opportunity?

- Does my age increase the likelihood of being overlooked?

- Do you assume you'll have to pay me a lot more than say a 27-year old freelancer?

- Should I call myself something more fancy like "software consultant" to improve my chances?

- Do you expect me to take on some people / project management tasks?

- Do you expect an interview to be awkward because I'm older than the average age in your company?
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If you'd asked me a few days ago I'd have said that the MH-Z19B is okay on a budget but now that I know you can get an S8-0053 for $20, I don't think I can recommend it.

If it's difficult for you to get the cheap S8s for some reason though, per that thread it looks like an MH-Z19B with calibration off is a decent choice.
Yes, its going to be not easy but at very least if you are meat eater, you should fight for the law to ban meat to ever become reality.
Not scalable to 7b people, but maybe applicable to a few more millions of people in North America, for example, where meat consumption per capita is very high. Imagine the impact on the meat industry if one million more households in North America decided to keep chickens in the back yard, for example.
It might be just a gcc fork probably?

I mean, the current compilers from Arm and AMD are literally just clang forks… why would anyone reinvent the wheel when you can just tune clang :)
Yeah the time saved surprised me also. No more "hmmm what to eat for... " only one meal a day. I was surprised to learn how much time I spend thinking of either what to eat, or eating or digesting it in a food coma :)
Yes, working class, or worker as opposed to executive, office employee, etc...
> The source of money is newly minted tokens, just like in Bitcoin the miners operating the nodes and processing transactions get the newly minted tokens.

Ok, so where are those tokens being minted? In the apps themselves? Who's buying them since they don't seem to be publicly buyable?

Because my concern would be that my journal/calculator/paint app are running CPU intensive mining with or without code injection and connecting to a large amount of foreign peers just for the sake of storing my data in storage I own...
I think you are right:

I'm fairly certain socialist states polluted just as bad as capitalist states. As far as I'm aware they also did so in a more wasteful way, i.e. they produced less goods and services for the same pollution.
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Especially if you are in any kind of project management role. There is simply no excuse.
What would be a good example of a slow-moving field?
Lab grown meat can't come soon enough.
The use those, in the form of cheap oil and global trade hegemony
A matter of philosophy. Which is more important: the continuation of civilized human society, or democratic ideals?

Personally, I'm not actually sure. The human race, like all things, is ultimately doomed so surely some consideration for values outside those of mere survival is necessary.