skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People of all ages have always been too busy working and generally trying to survive.

Traditionally older people tend to have (or have had) more set schedules/defined work hours, more benefits (paid time off), and better job security in general. I'm not saying it's impossible for kids today to vote, but there are some disturbing trends in employment and the way workers are treated that I can see making it harder than it's been for previous generations.

Previous generations were able to support themselves at least enough to move out of their parent's homes. Young adults today are clearly struggling in ways that past generations haven't had to and that's going to strain how much time and effort they can spend on local and state politics.

Of course none of that addresses the larger issues like voter disenfranchisement and gerrymandering which limit the impact of voters making the effort seem less worthwhile.

I still think young people should do everything the can to get involved and vote, but I'm not going to pretend that any mention of their struggles can be dismissed by calling them "whiny entitled people"
There is an interesting map presentation of similar data from 2014: https://census.socialexplorer.com/young-adults/#/

It's interesting to see different trends between young adults in different decades.

New generations tend to living with parents more often, they are more educated, but earn less in average.
Seems a bit narrowminded to assume it's dead because you haven't personally seen any art in a while.

Steampunk is alive, but more niche. See https://www.brassscrew.org/ for instance.
Perfectly acceptable because it follows the purpose if not the letter of the request :-) Will check them all out
Based on his comments on all matters related to state surveillance and, in particular, on dualec drbg I would take a comment like that from him to be weak evidence that they were backdoored. :)

He's spent countless hours tirelessly denying the existence of programs that have subsequently been proven to exist. He clearly has a huge blindspot related to the potential for unlawful and unethical conduct by the US government.

What is clear enough about the NIST curves is that they used a high entropy process that would have easily allowed them to grind to select for undisclosed criteria, somewhat inexplicably. Maybe they used this fact to add security against currently non-public attacks? Maybe they used this fact to weaken them against an attack the public doesn't know about. Maybe, like tptacek, they were largely blind to the concern of government backdoors and just didn't care if the process looked somewhat janky. Regardless of the reason no clarification seems likely to every be made.

The more frustrating point is that the alternative of choice (curve25519/ed25519) is only available at the 252-bit security level, and current goverment guidance discourages ECC below 384 bits. Higher bit ed25519-alikes are no where near as mature or deployed. If your strategy is try to make choices where in the future you'll never have reason to feel stupid about the choices you made the options aren't really that great right now. You either use 384bit+ NIST and are exposed to the suspicious generation mechanism, use ed448 which is some weirdo cryptosystem few other things use, or use ed25519 and violate NSA's recommendation to use >=384 bits. With each of those options if it later turns out to be a bad choice you'll have plenty of reason to feel stupid.
I wonder how much corporate software still runs on win32, most of my customers started delivering their software through the browser years ago. The only thing they accept on the client is Office.
More power to Google/Apple
If I could buy a house for 30k I would be over the moon.
A long time ago, I might have forgiven such rigidness. But, yeesh, that was 30 years ago. In 2019 if I've already tokenized it for you with FROMs and GROUP BYs, you're a computer, go figure it out. Many years of writing SQL prevents me from but the most rare ordering mistake, but it kinda grinds my gears just a little that it's still an issue.
Personally, I could never stand the Steampunk aesthetic -- probably because of the people adorning it -- and I'm glad the world has moved on.
"The California Supreme Court ruling has significance beyond the ALPR case. It set a groundbreaking precedent that mass, indiscriminate data collection by the police can’t be withheld just because the information may contain some data related to criminal investigations."

Good. What other systems would be targeted next by the EFF? Facial recognition systems?
Yeah I figured it must be about keeping happy relations with China, but it stills feels a little excessive to actively support the camps instead of just keeping their mouths shut and not signing the letter. Perhaps China pressured them into signing so that they could specifically act like Muslim countries supported them. It's disturbing
Two relevant quotes from the article:

> And more Americans than ever are zipping around in SUVs and pickup trucks, which, thanks to their height, weight and shape are between two and three times more likely to kill people they hit

> “All this talk about pedestrian distraction, driver distraction? It’s such a distraction,” says Ben Welle of the World Resource Institute for Sustainable Cities. “It puts all the responsibility on individuals, and none on the environment they operate in.”
I believe the trade-off for privacy has traditionally been done on a case-by-case basis through the use of search warrants. I don't see anything wrong with the use of warrants. If there is reasonable suspicion the police can investigate further, it's sensible.

Now we are seeing multiple instances where scapegoats and boogeymen are being used to systematically strip our rights away. The worst part of the whole thing is that when I attempt to fight for my privacy, I would be seen as supporting child pornography. It is an insidious tactic that is unreasonably effective.
Bizarre Highlights from Oracle Code One Community 2019
But AWS has been in Brasil for years.

I ping 150ms from Chile to us-east-1 so your latency issue must be some other problem.
> Even now, I recently upgraded to an X570 based system on Linux. I had to bump the Linux kernel to 5.2 and download binaries to get the wifi working... I then got my rx5700xt video card

AFAIK, the minimal kernel for RX5700 drivers is 5.3 (I've been running on a 5.3 rc for a few week but now the 5.3 is stable so you don't need to run on an unstable rc anymore). With 5.3 it worked at first try. (But I still agree that needing to update your kernel is a bit annoying, especially when you run on a distro that doesn't support 5.x kernels, and now you need to update your distro then update your kernel…)
Audio starts around 20s.
Musk Hired Convicted Felon to Dig Up Dirt on the Cave Rescuer
I love lua syntax, its the only language I feel I actually dont have to look up syntax when I return to it a year later. Its just stupid simple, and that has a big value for me. Maybe Java < 8 also .. also pretty simple but very verbose :)
I wish it looked like the underlying relational algebra expression that it represents, but unfortunately, that's too much for your average joe with no compsci background.
These results showed significantly higher than the ARGO data set, which itself claims 0.04C+- accuracy back to 1955 (ludicrous, yes). Thousands of sensors directly measuring temperatures every day are impossible to beat by measuring gas concentrations.
The article covers this analsis more thoroughly.

> At the level of those involved, there is the question of who is distracted, reckless, drunk. Zooming out, there are factors such as the design and condition of the road, the quality (or absence) of a marked pedestrian crossing, the speed limit, the local lighting, the weight and height of the car involved.

> Last year, 41% more US pedestrians were killed than in 2008.

Driving is not up 41% in 10 years.
You can find more information on a website called Blind.
I'd be awfully surprised if anyone that really cares about this would be fooled by this ruse. For most people, if the government says "We need to do this so you'll be safe", the vast majority of people will agree, or at least won't actively object.
This is the exact rules for voting when women and slaves were disenfranchised.

At its core, America has not changed one bit since.
Interesting stuff. One of those things you don't really think about, but when it's explained, it seems intuitive.
Of the top 20 most popular HN submissions with "steampunk" in the title, including this one, 6 were 9 or more years ago. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=steampunk
> Law enforcement and security agencies need to be able to access any communication.

I don't agree with this -- but I think this does strike at the very heart of what the debate is all about.
I edited my comment from "facts" to "things," which was actually what I meant. Apologies. I'll clarify, so as not to disparage the person who replied.
This is why we need to take our constitution seriously folks. It’s not about carving out exceptions to parts of it we don’t like. It’s about saying “Unless you have reasonable suspicious they’re involved in a crime then you can pound sand.”

“If you have nothing to hide...”

No! You don’t have to prove your innocence to the government. The burden of proof is always on them. What’s they collect enough information they can make anyone they want into a criminal. AND THAT’S THE POINT.
The biggest news is probably the fact that it's BSD licensed. Having some GPL parts had driven me away from newlib before.
First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

Martin Niemoller
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...)
Value all parts of compensation that you cannot easily sell at zero. Options? Zero. RSUs for a private company? Zero. Promises for future raises? Zero. Actually: any promises - zero. (Promises on signed paper may sometimes be worth more than zero)

Always remember that the place you work at has no (and owes no) loyalty to you. Calculate accordingly.
I think the focus are on their apps, integrated services, cloud offerings and direct software. I think X-Box is probably their biggest focus for OS development.

In the end, it isn't a bad strategy. For better or worse, their office software, communications and collaboration tools (office365+mail) tends to be better than competitors and price competitive as well. Their authentication platform ties into what is/has been used in office environments and expands externally. Their cloud platforms are a natural target for their developer tooling, which has made a lot of progress in expanding to support various non-ms platforms.

In the end, I don't think MS is going anywhere, and the strategy seems a bit more friendly than say Oracle or IBM in similar spaces respectively. I don't think this will mean Windows over Linux any time soon, but I wouldn't be surprised to see things closer to that in a decade or so. Of course Linux itself is becoming less Free (as in freedom) lately, which is another concern.
Re: Running swap nodes: sign me up. I have spare capacity.
With respect to facebook in particular, they have had the means of reading the messages on either side for ages, even before it was required by law. iOS and Android both have "leaky sandboxing", where certain apps from the same publisher can read each other's data and memory, and Facebook added WhatsApp to its sandbox almost immediately after acquiring it, allowing the main Facebook and Messenger apps to read all the messages received by WhatsApp.
In most housing markets, the cost of housing is at least somewhat similar to the dividend-discounted future net cost of rent. High rents and high home listing prices are usually connected. So if you don't want to buy a house, you probably want to rent and that's going to be seriously over-priced too.
You're right, but I imagine that is more of a racial thing. White protestors get away with much more it seems than the black.
This is true. Until we implement omnipotent god-AIs, generalizable perfection is an unattainable standard.
> There is no convenience that would ever convince me to have an always on listening device in my home.

Many smartphones have this, and will respond to "Ok Google" or "Hey Siri". Do you view this differently?
The CSV standard looks very sensible and reasonable.
Yes, somehow whenever these issues come up, it never leads to a suggestion of banning cars. Instead, there is an "angels on a pin" dissection of some obscure details that will supposedly fix the problem but that completely misses the point: cars are killing us all (pollution, carbon, obesity, degradation of city life) and need to be generally rejected for common use.
Stream Team: A Case for Swell
To claim that it's not dead, one should have some evidence that it's alive.
There's also https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/10/man-behind-dic....
Can you try to give me a sense of what "steampunk" means in a literary sense? When I think of "steampunk" I think of brass machinery, tubes and pipes, oversized hardware, needle pressure gauges, etc... and I struggle to see how that kind of aesthetic would be captured in a literary genre. I would love to know.
Even then, there is a LOT of .Net framework code, and commercial integrations that don't work outside windows. Right now, working on isolating windows-tethered portions of services in order for the rest of the application to work in .Net Core (linux/docker/k8s).
The article asserts, but provides no real evidence that steampunk has "died".

I wanted to refute the author's claim by looking at google n-grams, but the viewer cuts off in 2008 with the steampunk n-gram still going strong...

Instead I present anecdotal evidence that steampunk is not dead:

1. The presence of an steampunk section in my local Spirit of Halloween store.

2. The release of Carnival Row this year by Amazon, which I believe fits the bill close enough.

3. A continuing new release of steampunk novels (https://www.goodreads.com/genres/steampunk)

Flimsy evidence, but perhaps enough to refute the death of steampunk, which is a strong claim.
I remember being happy when IE7 came out, because it fixed a bunch of CSS bugs in IE6, and also finally supporting PNG transparency meant that whole new kinds of design were actually possible ... feels so weird knowing what we can do today with CSS and be reasonably sure it works in three major browsers.
The Halloween theory isn't an "alternative" one, it's the sensible one, and tying it to iPhone launches is the wackadoodle one.
https://www.kickscondor.com is really bizarre.

Animated backgrounds, infinite scrolling, elements that are only partially visible until you mouseover them, and uses zooming interface for opening individual posts.

Feels like a bastard child of GeoCities and modern web.
A russian man is suing apple for “turning him gay”
Blind may help you answer this question, I've seen so many interesting comments about this on it.
Of course. It uses the Text [0] and Scientific [1] packages under the hood. The internal ADT representing JSON is actually very simple (as json is very simple itself):

data Value
= Object (HashMap Text Value)
| Array (Vector Value)
| String Text
| Number Scientific
| Bool Bool
| Null

[0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-1.2.3.1/docs/Data-Te...

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/scientific-0.3.6.2/docs/D...
So you're working on both Halide and Taichi?
Building the Worlds Newest Amiga – The A500 (2/3)
> why 99% of git usage is on Github, Gitlab or Bitbucket

I doubt it.
Obtaining actual informed consent.
This made me both very sad and very proud at the same time:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/dceatj/i_...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156215
Well, the housing market is a mess in pretty much all first-world countries, right? There's also the fact that less and less young people are getting married, favoring long-term partnerships without any ceremonies instead. Top it off with wages rising slowly, disproportionate to the speed at which housing costs climb.

I don't have kids and likely never will but I won't be surprised if my mates' children will have to live with them until they turn 30 at least. And those are all reasonably steady families with good incomes.
Sure... but I was just answering the question of why Apple might have a moral concern by a previous poster.

That said, there are plenty of countries that haven't done anything approaching the scale of what China did in Tibet in the last few decades.
To be fair, those experts are pushing a particular agenda. They are advocating for making roads and cars foolproof, which is a fine idea, but doesn't disprove the claim that in the absence of such foolproofing, phone distraction increases dangers.

The article makes a specious argument on behalf of those experts, and the statistics that were so heavy at top of article, disappear when these experts show up:

> Plus, within the US, pedestrian death occurs disproportionately in neighbourhoods populated by people with low-incomes and people of colour. Is distraction really more endemic in those neighbourhoods, or among people driving through them, than it is in wealthier, whiter areas? Or is it more likely that these neighbourhoods are more likely to be criss-crossed by high-speed roads, and less likely to receive investment in transit interventions that protect pedestrians?

It's silly to claim that poor neighborhoods have gotten 41% more high-speed roads in the past 10 years.

Remember that "expert testimony" is what one uses when one doesn't have evidence to show.
^^^ Source Please.
In practice, this means you would rather nils permeate throughout your system rather than being caught at a system boundary, i.e., where you parse and validate that loosey-goosey outside world data.
Wtf are you talking about? Digital currencies don't "work" because they are volatile not because they lack a Tree Notation strategy. They have become an speculative investment/gambling rather than a method of payment.
There's also Estonia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19897702
Their /intent/ is oppression of speech anywhere and anyway they can make it happen. It will likely happen here eventually too.

The fact that the space this is currently being fought over is a corporate sponsored forum is irrelevant to the intent of this group of people.
Sure, just like actual existing Communism is against everything that Communism actually is.

Both Communism and Agile are at odds with reality (current productive forces and human nature) so they tend to devolve into tyranny.
> Bitcoin original goal is to create a digital currency that people can use. We're not even close to achieve that goal.

I disagree. Cryptocurrency is de facto being used as a currency quite successfully by lots of people. Sure, there are technical hurdles that prevent people who don't really have any need for a decentralized currency from using it. But none of those hurdles are so challenging that people can't use it if they really need it. Plenty of people have used cryptocurrency to move money across borders, make purchases that are illegal under oppressive regimes, etc., and not all of those were technical users. There aren't technical hurdles so high that someone who wants to buy drugs online can't do it with enough effort, for example.

Hacker News types will point to the failure of cryptocurrency to emerge as a competitor to traditional currencies within the regulated market, but that's precisely what you'd expect: cryptocurrencies hamper regulation, so of course there will be resistance from the regulated market. But don't mistake that for failure: cryptocurrencies have created whole markets and flows of value effectively didn't exist before.

To be clear, here's what I'm NOT saying:

1. I'm not saying there isn't room for improvement in the user experience. There is.

2. I'm also not saying that the effects of cryptocurrency are necessarily positive. That remains to be seen.
Persecution of minorities is not a possible future, it is a fact of the present. It was even worse in the recent past, and what progress we've made is not the result of predestined change in sentiment but of prioritizing civil liberties instead of the boogeyman of crime and moral degeneracy. You don't punch holes in the levee after the flooding stops.
I'm planning to do a steampunky pc build soon!
steampunk lives!
> The only reason it would be useful at the top would be if it allowed you to use the new/computed column names as aliases later in the query

I'm soooo gonna miss that when we have to add MSSQL support soonish. Having to repeat myself is tedious, especial for non-trivial expressions.
I agree but could you imagine the holy wars over the "proper" way to order a SQL query?
Art on Duval in Key West has 2 really nice pieces, I don't remember the artist name, I am trying to look them up, one is a computer desk and the other is a bar, the bar is all wood gog and gear driven, and it looks like a steampunk contraption, when you open it up all the functional gears move the pieces to reassemble it into a functional mini bar. It's a beautiful piece. I am trying to find pictures and info.
This article directly refutes this claim. The US has 50% more road deaths than the UK. Are US drivers that much more likely to be distracted by their phones?

The key issue is that our roads are designed to maximize vehicle speed, and this kills people.

Focusing on the responsibilities of drivers ignores the environment that they operate in, which is clearly the worst in the developed world.

Americans will demand big roads, big cars and long distances, all at taxpayer expense, and then try to blame some other group when these things kill people.

Shrink roads, shrink cars, reduce amounts driven, or continue killing ~6000 Americans per year for your personal convenience
Why would Microsoft want 12 x $250K when they find out that you installed your 5-licensed Windows on 17 computers?
I really appreciate what you've shared! Beyond your other comments, i think by not having a "standard desktop image" seems to have made your group that much more flexible; so kudos for that! Also, I'm wishing the best for you and your business, and if you should move to linux I'm keeping my fingers crossed even more! (The more diversity in operating systems, all the better for everyone! Though, i'll admit that i'm greatly biased in favor of linux :-) Best of luck!
At least, I've never seen someone use the `$` operator and put the right operand without any spacing in between. Not only would it cause errors on activating Template Haskell because GHC would interpret it as a TH splice[1], but also it would be weird to read because one tends to use the `$` operator when they have a multi-term expression they would otherwise not want to parenthesize. For example, take a look at this line in Yesod[2]:

$logInfo $ pack $ show (a, b, c)

The one without a space is a Template Haskell splice and the ones with a space are using the function application operator. If logInfo didn't need to be expanded by Template Haskell and we deactivate that extension, we could write:

logInfo $pack $show (a, b, c)

But I doubt anyone would because the implied parentheses around those operators are:

(logInfo) $((pack) $((show) (a, b, c)))

[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4/docs/html/users_gui...

[2] https://github.com/yesodweb/yesod/blob/c8aeb61ace568cdc2bc81...
Oddly enough, your rational comment has been downvoted.