skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an important point. I came from a less well off family in Scotland and when younger considered many of my peers to be lacking intelligence or ambition in life. Then a while ago I dated a girl also from that town and got an insight into just how lucky I was. It never occurred to her that she could possibly go to uni until the last month of school (despite being one of the most intelligent people I've ever met) whereas my dad and godmother explained it and encouraged me when I was 10. We might have had similar-ish circumstances in many ways, but just a few early role models made us vastly different in our views of what was possible.

You may think people have lots of opportunities but that's not useful if they're not aware they have those opportunities.
Wow, what a bunch of not-so-smart people.
I never liked the in-your-face skeuomorphism that Apple did. I would like modern UIs with subtle 3D cues, like Windows 95 had. I don't think that's a huge ask.
>Also, how do you respond when someone brings up concerns of E2EE platforms being used for child sexual abuse imagery or terrorism?

By not caring. Privacy is worth more than forcing criminals to put a small bit of extra effort.
Definitely, the common theme is you're on the outside of the vehicle and any impact is gonna be really personal.

I actually feel far safer on a motorcycle than a push bike, because I have much bigger contact patches, far better brakes, stickier tyres and the ability to out-accelerate almost any kind of trouble. I'm also wearing at least half leathers and a proper full face helmet.
You keep missing my point. I keep giving examples of large-scale, catch-about-everything systems. I'm not talking merely has a few teams on something. This is Google, not a mid-sized business. You win if they already have their own version of Mayhem that fixes their bugs for them. Otherwise, they're behind Facebook in terms of financial effort they'll put in to get great capabilities. I'm also going to assume they're playing catch-up to Infer unless they've released their analyzers at least for peer review.
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>Sure it is! A reputable CS degree will cover multiple programming languages and compiler implementation.

An undergraduate degree in physics covers building nuclear reactors too. For obvious reasons we don't let undergrads design them.
The way electronics are put together today (lots of glue, e.g. the Surface Book) I'm not so sure about how easy that'd be.
If you use E2E as a means to sell or auction a person against their will, wouldn't that directly link the technology to their illegal action?

Also, distributing child porn is itself a crime, separate from the abuse. So you would be directly using E2E in a crime that way. Are you implying that some laws hold less moral or legal value? If so, what are the differentiating factors in that decision?
Note that peer groups have a lot to do with thinking problems in general. If you are poor or broke and hang out with poor or broke people, your thinking will be different.

Also, people tend to hang out with other people making roughly the same as them, which compounds the problem.
I think they don't know SQL enough. So even a simple fact blowed their mind. I'm also wowed by this article.
Geoblocking is common and if they are doing business in a country it's perfectly reasonable to expect them to do it as well as for the state taking measures to enforce non-compliance (though criminal liability of corporate executives is something we won't see anytime soon I guess).

What's not reasonable is to force them to block people in other countries (and also those taking significant efforts to conceal their identity) - at least there is no international law (compared to international deals) justifying that anyhow.
Gab has groups at least.
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They're not designed to maim or kill, just to accelerate a piece of mass. Police regularly use beanbags and target shooting is an olympic sport. Designing firearms spans all of STEM and keeps people employed well.

If the US government wanted to reduce the lethality of firearms, they would ban calibers, not accessories. Even so, a .22LR olympic pistol is enough to take down a bodybuilder with one critical hit. So olympic shooters could become murderers overnight, or have their weapons stolen. If not, why suspect that average people would instead?
I never looked at it like that, but you're right. Nuclear seems more attractive than many hydropower projects that get much less criticism. If only we humans were more rational about making decisions.
Anyone who believes these baseless vacuous claims about Linus inventing Bitcoin might as well grow a gigantic beanstalk out of magic beans in the ground.
>It took years to shed some of the residual behaviours, even after I started earning decent money. Despite having savings and reliable income I would still let bills run until they were overdue.

You wouldn't believe how many "wealthy" people do the exact same thing including not paying their subcontractors etc. My dad used to do electric installations in new built homes. Usually the larger the house and the wealthier the owner more excuses there would be when the time to pay came.Some of those "clients" took 2 years to get money out of them. Doing that to a small contractor you owe is pretty bad behaviour, but at the same time I can understand prioritising your outgoings if you have let's say an annual gas bill review and you know they'll not come after you until you're 3 months late. In such situation paying 89 days late is perfectly reasonable. Nothing bad about it.
Depending on donations is almost always tenuous, especially if it's not anchored by big donors (and, often, even then).

There's even a school of thought that the existence of things like Patreon for funding open source development is actively harmful insofar as it can create the illusion that it's a viable funding mechanism for sustainable open source development when it really isn't.
We're definitely keen to do both of these things when our time/resources permit. What would be the first step you'd like to see here?
Facebook relies on the fact that most Facebook messages are not end-to-end encrypted to detect illegal activity. Forget the last 1% – how would Facebook continue to detect the 99% without access to decrypted message contents?
I wonder if it's "fixable", though. I come from a lower-middle-class family, so does my wife; we're upper-middle-class now. Our kids are nowhere near as "driven" as we were... but, to the extent that we can, of course we're going to use all our resources to make them more successful than they "deserve". It's basic human nature, yes the game is rigged, because if you come from a family that is both stable & well-off, your family will naturally provide much more support than the society could provide to the average Joe. I'm not sure how that can change ever (or even if it's desirable to try to change it).

The downside of being raised in a well-off family (at least anecdotally/ from my circle of friends) is that the children already have almost everything they could desire, and they take this stuff for granted, and as such they tend to put less effort into "life". Yes they need less effort to be successful - but they are also used to "less effort", so they don't try as hard. This balances the game a little, for those less fortunate. But I can totally see how if your background is too bad, the game is actively rigged against you, and it's not humanly possible to overcome your condition. That's probably where the society needs to focus the most.
Browsing the web and reading / sending email are fundamentally different tasks. Twitter and Facebook are fundamentally the same thing. The key difference is that Facebook allows you to limit posts to specific people.

Mastodon not implementing a "limited visibility" option would be more like a web browser refusing to implement Private Browsing mode.
The other aspect of importance is that languages with Chinese characters have higher information density per character, so they tend to even out in terms of actual storage requirements.
And that's how people usually react when someone is hit on 2 wheeled vehicle: trying to find a reason the rider deserved it.

If I’m in a car and disobey the traffic laws and get in an accident with someone who was following the law - by definition, I’m at fault.
Some people aren’t cut out for being on time to late morning meetings (930). It’s a culture mismatch and there are companies that do perfectly fine with no meetings before noon and whatnot.

I wish there was an easier way to learn about this culture as part of the job search. I like to have candidates shadow for a day or two to meet the team and see how days go.

People who are into being on time have it as part of a larger philosophy, I think. Being late for them means something specific. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anyone change modes on this but it’s probably easier to change their philosophy than be late to a bunch of their meetings.
Here's a crazy idea.

Instead of spending all that time and effort invalidating the opinion of those who have successfully made it out of those circumstances, why don't you ask them how they did it and what they think can be done to help those who haven't?

The problem with keyboard warriors is that it isn't actually action. It's akin to the studies showing that people who talk about what they're going to do get the same emotional satisfaction from actually doing it.

What you've managed to do is dismiss the very people who have the most insight and made yourself feel better to boot. What's not to like, right?
Limiting scope is a very important part of delivering software.
Don't forget DRM stripping.
Governments want to secure their ability to remove your eyeballs with the help of 40mm grenade launchers that shoot "non lethal" rubber projectiles.
Seems like a pretty misleading title in this light, then?
But Valve never was a startup. It was entierely self-funded by Newell and Harrington who had become rich after working from Microsoft.

Benioff remarks about governance don't really apply to Valve because even if Valve was poorly managed it would pretty much be Newell misusing its own money.
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If you use it, I hope you support the author.
An issue in the past was that books loaded into Kindles through Calibre appeared as 'personal documents' rather than as a 'book' in the Kindle, upsetting causing the reading state sync to not work if you were reading the same book for example through the Kindle app in your smartphone also, very annoying, and goes against the promise of ebooks. I hope they have a fix for this.
Those who would give up essential Liberty

For a little temporary Safety

Deserve neither Liberty nor Safety

Edit: Also, when you "think of the children" you have to think not only of their immediate safety but to think of their future ability to freely and safely converse with their peers, no matter what the current government deems "acceptable".
Exactly, but if basic income becomes reality, it won't happen because people will want to help the poor, but because the amount of work required to produce food will become so small that people by their mere existence will generate more value, similar to the way people can get email accounts with gigabytes of storage for free.
> I also wonder if scraping the Q&As and posting elsewhere would be some sort of legal violation?

The (unilateral) relicensing was another recent issue, but generally not. All user contributions are licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0 so I don't see legal reasons stopping you. Google won't send you any traffic, though, because it will be duplicate content and the original has a gajillion links pointing to it.
While there is no right to driving automobiles there is a right to travel and interstate commerce. Notably there is no right to travel at a specific speed or in a specific way so it follows that there is some right to travel by car, and the various tracking mechanisms of vehicles violate the 4th.

Saying there is no right to travel via automobile is like saying certain methods of disseminating speech are not protected.
I read most things on my Kindle, but from the moment I unboxed the Kindle I put it in airplane mode and have kept it that way. More privacy and better battery life. So, Calibre is useful as a way to get content and move it over to my e-reader over USB, and so I don't ever risk connecting to the e-reader maker's proprietary ecosystem. I would worry that even that Kobo Pocket integration is sending data to Kobo's servers.
I didn’t claim it was anything of the sort. Just adding a singular data point.

People often say the same kinds of things about Toronto but the place is hardly overrun.

I just thought it would be a valuable single data point from a visitor’s perspective. No assumptions, just an experience.
Can someone please give some context on that video? Who's the boy? What is everyone doing? The video is creepy.
It was a fantastic episode.

Someone there made the very sobering observation that the solution to the problem was to price water the way we price oil. That way we would redouble our efforts not to waste it.

But then that only really ends up punishing the people least responsible for the crisis in the first place.
Yeah, it was only a new-grad, entry-level position, and they still wanted a huge volume of open source contributions. I don't know how most people would achieve it - mine were from internships and they still weren't enough.
Steampunk is a modern retro movement. It is not Verne and Wells, but modern writers writing in a Wellsian mode. Why this should have come formed around a group of writers who, perhaps not coincidentally, had in their younger days been friends with Philip Dick, is unknown.

Gibson and Sterling were actually somewhat late to the game.
It is a bit disheartening to see how history is about to set itself up for a repeat of its posture in pre-world war times. If you want to know how it is possible for humans to make the same mistakes throughout history, look no further than this.
Streets with Nooks and Crannies Are Beloved and Endangered
a) Other motorists are expecting it and paying attention and

In jurisdictions where it is illegal, why should a motorist any more “expect it” than they should expect a car to do any other illegal behavior? Of course safe driving 101, is that certain common behaviors you should expect.
ETransfers expire after 30 days if they’re not accepted and are credited back. I’ve had this happen as well.

I do use them to make transfers between banks because they’re virtually immediate rather than several days long pretty regularly these days without fault.
Couldn't agree more. Calibre is Kovid's labor of love and he wouldn't be so active on it if it weren't, especially considering there is little to no monetary incentive for him to spend the amount of time he does on it. It's also open source. Literally every whiner has the opportunity to fork it and do with it what they please, but instead, they just want to sit by the sidelines and criticize him for his decisions.

As Neil Gaiman so aptly wrote on his blog [1] - "George R.R. Martin is not your bitch". I feel the same needs to be reiterated in this case - "Kovid Goyal is not your bitch".

Edit - Ouch, OP, I guess you struck a nerve with the HN crowd by saying it like it is...

1: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.htm...
I wasn't trying to say you specifically feel that way, but when we're talking about predatory behavior of landlords, giving those who are being taken advantage of the ability to leave town seems like a second rate solution.
>...the game is not rigged against those from poor backgrounds

Rigged isn't a fair word, it's just reality.

Also, as another commenter pointed out, there are people that are successful in a wide range of ways, money is just one of them. And those that had it easy early on often times don't do well later in life when things can get hard.

Edit: I spent time on the streets as a teen (yes it affected me) but my siblings did not, but they are worse off then me. I hit bottom and bounced back, they are still struggling in many ways. (not just money)
TFA is most likely set in Germany, where different rules apply
I repeatedly asserted I have no problem with hosts having having to comply to national/EU/trade-deal law.

But in my opinion compliance is reached if they just do geoblocking in the areas affected by the law/delete content if it's originating there? If someone uses a VPN he's basically traveling to another jurisdiction for all practical purposes?
I had mentally lumped that under "management," but maybe I should've added "conversion" as a category. Certainly DeDRM Tools has been worth the price of admission alone.
I mean, it's their fault to be sure, but can you blame them? Drivers have had nearly a century of society bending over backwards to suit them. We rewrote pedestrian law to give cars the right of way in all but a few select spots. We built a highway system and cut neighborhoods square in half to make road travel easier.

Driving has become far too casual, too "just a thing you do." People don't respect it anymore. I'm a car guy and I see it every day, people rolling around in cheap, crappy cars who have no respect and no interest in driving; driving is the thing they have to do to get to the thing they actually want/need to do. That's it to them. Because of that they see it as something that needs to be tolerated, an accepted nuisance, and because of that, they purposely distract themselves, try and pass the time. Make this boring, arduous task go quicker so they can get their shit done and move on to more interesting things.

It doesn't matter how good you are or not behind the wheel; if you just don't care, you're a fucking danger to everyone around you. That's something not nearly enough people appreciate anymore.

Edit: Tucking fypo.
The citation for the "surprisingly large carbon footprint" [0] is crazy. The paper alleges that a car, including fuel, has a lifetime footprint of 126,000 lbs of CO₂e, and training a big NN transformer consumes 626,155 lbs of CO₂e, almost a 5-fold increase.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.02243.pdf
Hi! I wanted to say a couple small things in followup to your recent submission about coding, but that thread has now locked and is not accepting replies (<rant>my biggest dislike of HN</rant>). Really glad you're still posting comments and I can reply to this one! My email is in my profile (click my username).
If everyone is literally trying to kill you, someone will, regardless of how careful you are.

I'm not being pedantic—there are situations, like the one described in the GP, that you just can't humanly do anything about.
> I certainly don't agree with it but it makes a great conversation.

Does it though? It seems like a fallacious comparation for reasons that other comments have already explained. And as such, it makes a confuse, meaningless conversation.
Don't forget masked "protesters" who are actually police infiltrators attempting to turn a protest violent.
"Are you Santa? "

Shhhhhh!!

"safety-critical systems"

Interesting enough, safety-critical field doesn't actually use formal methods much. It's more about lots of documentation, review, and testing. Mostly just human effort. They do buy static analyzers and test generators more than some other segments. There's slowly-slowly-increasing adoption of formal methods in that space via SPARK Ada and recently-certified CompCert. The main incentive so far is they want to get bugs out early to avoid costly re-certifications.

DO-178C and SIL's are main regulations driving it if you want to look into them. DO-178B, the prior version, is also a good argument for regulating software for safety/security. It worked at improving quality. We even saw our first graphics driver done robustly. :)
A lot of these AI research projects don't have immediate economic impact.
The biggest difference between now and "then" is the internet and our connectivity, audio and video + live streaming for real-time evidence gathering; yes, I'm aware bad actors are capable of signal jamming in an area or at scale, or taking down the internet - is why the democratic nations and people that are free must strengthen in case of a future confrontation with these bad actors, and likewise technology like mesh networks are expanding - although a nation could block mesh networks too with enough effort - and really then blocking communications is more a signal to the rest of the world that we're dealing with a tyrannical government.
> I just wanted to make the point that v4-only websites are totally not a problem.

They will be once DoH breaks DNS64, unless Cloudflare invents a way to make it somehow work (perhaps hosting their own NAT64 gateway?).
Can you give a specific example of something which was "bent up" from its more appropriate standardization to placate those large companies?
Key point:

> In practice, compilers limit template instantiation depth, so this is more of a theoretical problem than a practical one.
Research guide: Deep learning-based depth estimation
With Kong Studio, they're now competing head to head with apiary, swaggerhub, stoplight.io, postman and more. Looks like Kong wants to be the king in API.

More competitions in the API space is good for the developers.
A co-worker once admitted to me she uses the communal tea kettle to make hard boiled eggs. I now have to go to another part of the building for my hot water. :/
Improovy Is Home Improvement. Made Groovy
Somewhat off-topic, but if you enjoy writing LINQ to SQL (like EF), I think you will really enjoy LINQPad.

https://www.linqpad.net/

It's my primary tool for querying against databases, because like you, I really prefer writing LINQ queries to SQL. It won't let you do most DB admin tasks, but that's what SSMS is for.
Inter-Process Communication and Mach Messages in OS X/iOS
That is not correct. Blaylock's the Digging Leviathan predates it by several years.
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I strongly disagree. Many many jobs, especially the higher paying ones, are bullshit jobs. Real work to actually improve the world doesn't tend to make a whole lot of money, it's much easier to lobby for bureaucratic inefficiencies you can inhabit, create artificial scarcity, gamble with other people's money, or outright scam people.

Look at the web. There's a ton of jobs (many would say a nigh-overfull bubble's worth) in the web right now, yet most webshit doesn't meaningfully improve anyone's life and is instead just a way to trick people into looking at ads or providing their personal data so it can be collected and sold.
> Similarly, residents of Tokyo were 'forced' into cellphones because even the 'burbs were so dense that installing new data lines was hugely expensive

And yet now Japan has a nationwide FTTH grid to the point where the telco has discontinued new ADSL signups.
Are you saying it was necessary or justified? It sounds like your meaning is that such mass murder, combined with murder via incompetence, is a necessary part of modernization.