skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Zarro, I wanted to comment and thank you for this comment. it's a really insightful assertion and I think I agree with you quite a bit. We really need to push to differentiate CCP and China in Western media.
The argument against that is usually that not choosing this side means choosing the other side. There is no place fir neutral ground in the reality of those who's identity relies on ideology, it's "for us or against us".
Yes, if you learn fundamentals of programming, find some good books, setup programming environment, offline from internet is good for you.
Locked down devices don't get to use WSL in the first place.

And I don't see what the problem is. Okay, so they'd have to let you replace the bash binary. That doesn't give you any abilities you don't already have.
Build it in Lisp and name it Hacker News.
I don't think that setting up an enemy is what Chinese government needs to survive after 1979. it might be used to. on the contrary, what they need to survive now is to keep their economy stable and strong to prove/maintain their legitimacy to rule the country.
Facebook wants money, this makes them money faster than their other business.
Ask HN: How do you learn and improve yourself as an experienced developer?
How do you learn and improve yourself as an experienced developer? I'm talking about constantly learning any topic that helps you professionally.

I've seen this topic covered superficially by a thousand times, but never by real developers talking from their real habits.
And I've seen that many devs start feeling overwhelmed by information and that they are left behind, without taking any action. It may be a relevant discussion. So

Do you actually learn constantly new stuff related to your profession, from your own initiative? (Every programmer likes to say they continuously learn, but just a few from the ones I've met really do)

Are you doing it in an organised/ planned manner? If yes, what's your structure? (i.e. you might have fixed intervals of time in your calendar when you force yourself to learn or you may just do it when you find some free time at your job)

How do you find motivation? Especially if you already have a good salary, you already are good enough in your field, etc.

How are you choosing what to improve/ what to learn? Do you evaluate and prioritise the topics in any way

And any other related idea/ experience you have, please share and let's discuss it
+1 for Conan, my favourite feature is using the deploy generator to gather my dynamically linked libs to deploy with my binaries - so powerful, and generally breaks the coupling between the distribution (and which packages it provides) and my application.
Why? Spinach isn’t even close to as bad as people like to make it out to be. For me it ranges from a nice lettuce replacement to something that doesn’t really alter the flavour of what it’s mixed with. Sure, if you cook it with stuff it turns all mushy, so I guess most people actually don’t like the texture more than the flavour itself.
FYI, I flagged it as the question was "Why is HN predominated by...". That's presumption without evidence. Who says it is? A couple of downvotes?

I just answered a different comment with why I don't think your claim is anything near true.
Absolutely. It's a crude estimation. If anything, it's going to be even more commits per release. The point being, it's impressive that those many changes go into a single release of something as critical as the Linux kernel.
>I especially appreciate the ...

And you missed this > 0.99 one (a bit dated, still ...):

Apple iPhone sales

correlates with

People who died by falling down the stairs

https://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=28669
Casts exponential function.
That still doesn’t answer how MS is able to ship an entire Linux OS which obviously contains the newest versions of bash and many other binaries without apparently having licensing issues that Apple does.
We have such a feature. I think your comments on this topic have likely been downvoted because they have largely been unsubstantive. The site guidelines say: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive", and this is the most divisive topic on HN at the moment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I feel Facebook is a corporation with obvious bad motivations (trying to avoid the loaded word "evil" here) and should not be trusted with anything at all, they've repeatedly shown that "trust" means nothing to them.

The thought and implications of FB having any type of control over the financial system, the very foundation of our current society, are absolutely horrifying to me.
I believe the parent is saying that the claims to be "against deplatforming" are fake when the same people happily supported deplatforming before. It's just a tactic to say that deplatforming itself is bad, what they actually mean is "deplatforming someone I like is bad". Saying that is fine, pretending it's more than that is dishonest.
Is your market study available to read anywhere?
My last couple of WiFi routers were bought because they could run OpenWRT... I feel like stories like this support that position.

At least if there was a security issue OpenWRT couldn't patch, I have the source code to do so myself.

And I haven't bought D-Link kit in a very long time. Their record on a variety of things (reliability, support, ...) means you get better value (in the low-mid market segment at least) from the Chinese vendors e.g. TP-Link.
The value in libra isn't in some novel technical concept. From what I have seen they made some ugly trade-offs to make the whole thing scale, invented their own not-state-of-the-art BFT algorithm and invented a new programming language for smart contracts that looks a bit saner than the EVM stuff.

The real selling point is the partnership with major payment services, CC companies etc. If it succeeds you might be able to pay with libra at every POS terminal and that would be huge. If the base layer is as permissionless as advertised that could even be used to build proxies that allow Bitcoin payments at every POS terminal.

The second interesting idea is the monetary basket backing it. That would take some control out of government's hands and would discourage overly reckless money printing since people would have a damn easy way of both detecting it (e.g. looking at the Libra/€ price) and opting out (buying Libra). If all big fiat currencies aren't stable enough even gold or BTC could be chosen as a backing asset.

If OpenLibra can't replicate this they have a totally worthless project, not much different from all the other altcoins out there.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. State actors do an OK job of keeping their prints off of things.

What bugs me are silent downvotes. If someone disagrees, great! Tell me why.

Being quietly zapped into invisibility just feels like cowardly thought-policing.
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> Should I keep the startup on my resume (with reason for shutting down + lessons)?

yes, experience is what matters, not success or failure.
there is a definitive argument for your school of thought. Are we as humanity willing to bet our existence that you are right? Are you?
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> State actors do an OK job of keeping their prints off of things

No doubt they do. What are our options? We can fantasize about this and project our fantasies onto other users—or we can look for some sort of evidence, any evidence, before making claims. If you want to believe in diabolical state actors manipulating the community and leaving no trace whatsoever, how could that ever be falsified? The only thing you have to go by in that case are your own assumptions and preconceptions.

On HN, we choose the other fork of that branch and look for evidence. I'm not saying the bar is high, but there needs to be something. In the absence of any evidence at all, the HN guidelines ask users not to post insinuations about astroturfing, foreign spies, etc. Someone else holding an opposing view does not count as evidence. There is an epidemic of internet madness about this right now, and it's not in the values of this site to succumb. Perhaps everywhere else wants to be James Jesus Angleton in the wilderness of mirrors, but HN, barring catastrophic failure, is not going to go there.

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As for silent downvotes, I realize they sting and are annoying, but that's the way HN works. Users aren't required to explain why they downvote. If we had such a requirement, the threads would fill up with 10x the petty bickering about downvotes, and we have more than enough of that already. The thing to do with downvotes is to examine what you wrote to see what might have been objectionable about it. If you notice something, note the correction for next time. If you notice nothing, muse to yourself about the fickleness of homo internetus and move on. It's not worth posting about, which is why the HN guidelines ask you not to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To speculate, screens are progressing to display dark mode well. I get eye strain from Jetbrains Pycharm dark theme, the terrible way it renders on my laptop, so I am holding out now. Holo theme for Android may have accelerated the trend from 2012.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2012/01/holo-every...
If you go steady speed the lower Cd and higher efficiency of the drivetrain might actually make it more efficient than the bike.
if you read Bosstrom's book you will learn how
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So you're going to build Libra and market it under the same name with "Open" tacked on the front? Sounds like obvious trademark infringement. I'll bet they get a cease and desist before the week's over.

It's like selling hamburgers and fries at OpenMcDonalds. How is that not super confusing to the public?
> Another thing I wish they would do is provide an infallible way to verify system password request dialogs.

You are requesting trusted path (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_path) for windows the ctrl-alt-delete sequence is apparently used to implement their trusted path, so it should have been designed to foreground its own active windows, minimize non trusted windows, or similar.
I've had a quick look at your comments, including in this thread, and I think this is because you post inflammatory, unsubstantive comments.

Try to post substantive comments on what you disagree with about China and the CCP, show that you know a minimum the issues at hand, rather than "have we forgotten what liberty is" or "how to defeat the communists"...
Jack Ma stepped down just a month ago and was CEO at the time of the interview. He's completely clueless and he was at the helm. Those are facts.
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Your brain would starve without glucose, but your body can produce the glucose your brain needs, so it’s not something that would ever happen. But the statement is still technically correct.
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> For a start, a scientist would not find the term "consensus" at all compelling. Things are either proven or disproven when it comes to science.

This is only true for hard sciences, i.e. physics, chemistry, maths, etc. (EDIT: And even then, I'm just gonna throw in Pilot-Wave-Theory, as an example that some things have yet to be proven or disproven... and maybe even never will be?)

Soft sciences have to rely on consensus, essentially by design.
I would be surprised if they had code bases that large.

https://www.f35.com/about/life-cycle/software

F-35 has 8 million LOCs. An equivalent C++ project would be Qt (~ 8 million LOCs and > 100k commits).
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It's also probably one of the oldest open source repositories. OpenBSD pretty much pioneered the concept of making their VCS open to the public over the Internet (hence the name).
> but I have a formula

https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations (or https://tylervigen.com/old-version.html ).
Hm, if I turn on 1-year-history or history-forever and includes my node_modules folders in the backup will I fill their whole storage cluster?
I was surprised to hear that that Winnie the Pooh was banned in China for some ridiculous reason.

Then I did my verification. And turns out it is not the truth.

baidu is dominant search engine in China. you can see that the search results do show Winnie-the-Pooh both in Chinese and in English.

http://image.baidu.com/search/index?tn=baiduimage&ps=1&ct=20...

http://image.baidu.com/search/index?tn=baiduimage&ps=1&ct=20...

I don't understand why some people say it's banned and others seem truly believe. simply a joke? you have your judgement.
I wrote about side projects here:

https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/08/02/personal-proje...

It seems to me that you can treat side projects like work, but you shouldn't. Side projects should be about scratching an itch that can't be done at work, whether that is the domain, technology or some other aspect.

If your side project is like work, pick a different side project.

If every side project is like work, as is so for some commenters, then take some time off from them. Or don't do them and forgo the benefits.
I believe you're missing the whole point. AI is often used as a fancy name for classifiers in general, including supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms.

Filtering the initial batch of candidates is basically a classification problem. It is also very time-consuming to perform by hand.

If recruiters are able to used supervised/unsupervised algorithms to filter out 90% of the initial candidates with a low misscladsification error and without wasting valuable time the they'll be able to operate more efficiently.

The trick is how to tell how far the auto classification algorithms should go in helping pick the best candidates. Some company use stupid fizzbuzz tests to weed out candidates based on a quantifiable index by abusing a metric whose value is negligible but very effective in weeding out a considerable portion of initial candidates.
And thus instead of being outwitted by a superintelligent AI maximizing paperclips, we end up with a pantheon of blind idiot gods, tended to by priests who don't understand them, and kept alive with human sacrifice.
Personally, I have tried multiple times to develop learning habits. But I always fail (yes, the literature on this topic hasn't helped me)

Why am I focusing on this? I am really passionate about all the new technologies that appear. I know that from a logical point of view, you shouldn't try to get on every trend, but I really want to get out of my comfort zone and learn a lot of new stuff
For quite some time, popular media has been the West's strongest weapon, influencing people the world over with (mostly) American ideals through Hollywood and -later- Internet. Recently, this powerful machine has been turned against its makers, with Russia pouncing on click-bait happy news sites and social media, and China buying their influence in main stream media. But free media has become such a big part of Western identity, I wonder if there is an easy way out of this. Expecting the large corporations involved to police/defend themselves is definitely not the answer.
"the only thing you have to go by in that case are your own assumptions and preconceptions"

dang, you are not the only dude here who went to college.

In my own case, all I can say is that I have "seen some shit", and I would not feel totally comfortable or assured that this was all purely the result of personal, unpaid, opinions.
No, we've fired the permafrost gun. A smaller gun, sure, but with a hair trigger.

There is clathrate under the permafrost, but I doubt that it's substantially vaporizing yet.
Darktable is abysmal, sadly. It is my go-to example for the failure of f/oss to fulfill common professional software needs.
I've a 2006 Toyota about to have it's second set of defective airbags replaced for free. In Oz.
> https://i.imgur.com/qbUy5aH.png (from an ancient WWDC slide mocking the Windows approach.)

That's funny
Chekhov (possibly apocryphal): "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."

You can tell things. You just have to tell the right thing.
gdb has colored output since v8.3, including syntax hightlighting.

Regarding vim, have you tried the termdebug plugin that ships with vim?

:help termdebug-starting
Educational credentials weren't on my mind. The point is this: if you have evidence, let's hear about it. If you don't, then please follow the site guidelines and refrain from making insinuations about astroturfers, shills, or spies. Someone else having an opposing view does not count as evidence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why can't an attacker with router access poison the DNS, redirecting a bank address to the router itself with a fake cert, and duplication of the login screen and steal credentials that way? (Or probably better, steal online MUA [ie email] credentials).

I guess 2FA might block them, but if it were a typed in code you could still get it.
>The authors seem at least as intelligent, if not more so, than modern people I'm acquainted with.

Why should that not be the case? Those who can write were rich and went to school. It's not hard to imagine that they also received some sort of higher education. The difference between today and 2000 years ago is that everyone is rich by roman standards.

When you watch Clickspring's video series the biggest limitations appear to be access to raw materials and energy. There is a reason why most progress happened in the last 200-300 years. As soon as you have a lathe it is trivial to build every other machine, including the steam machine.
Sometimes I also have the feeling GitHub is slow. The web interface reactivity is also usually better in Chrome then Firefox.

Well, after all that tells us that GitHub doesn't do anything magic. If you bother, checkout other services, such as Gitlab. If you can afford, host your own Git server (for instance Gitlab CE). It requires basically no administration (I have done it for ~100 users for 3yrs).
To me, the term "bipeds" seemed like a stylistic choice to emphasize the shortcomings of the systems -- the algorithms are not sophisticated enough to understand what a "person" is, so the author used a different word to emphasize that fact.

And the rest of the article is about a test with crash dummies. Why would the author talk about "people" when the tests were performed with dummies?
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There are companies that provide office space everywhere. Check out Regus for example -- http://regus.com.
It's more like 150M visits a month.

Edit: 147M in September.

Edit 2: I'm talking about page views, plus ajax requests like collapsing subthreads. If by 'visits' you mean user sessions, that number would obviously be lower.
Thoughts on RMS and GNU
I wish MacOS had a good ePub reader that did not insist on multiple column view and runs as a standalone app.

Kind of sad XULRunner got killed or I could run EpubReader as a stand alone app.
That's wildly inaccurate. When I ran the numbers, China was less than 1%.
It's such a nice standard, I just wish it had better support on E-readers (looking at you Kindle).
Japan has put almost as much money ($1B) into US treasuries as China ($1.1B) https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS22331.pdf

Since China is "new money", Japan must have held more US debt at some point. It seems unlikely to me that this would not also extend to holding stakes in American companies.
there is lot of training happening on the edge (mobile devices) as well, look up 'federated learning' https://medium.com/syncedreview/federated-learning-the-futur...
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You can go from a normal Western diet to eating nothing but lean and fatty meat for a year with no ill effects.

http://www.jbc.org/content/87/3/651.full.pdf

> Two normal men volunteered to live solely on meat for one year, which gave us an unusual opportunity of studying the effects of this diet. The term “meat,” as used by us, included both the lean and the fat portions of animals. The subjects derived most of their calories from fat and the diet was quite different from what one, who uses the term “meat” as including chiefly lean muscle, would expect.

...

> 11. In these trained subjects, the clinical observations and laboratory studies gave no evidence that any ill effects had occurred from the prolonged use of the exclusive meat diet.

People in the Arctic circle like the Inuit always lived almost entirely off of meat and Mongolians and other steppe pastoralists come very close, adding dairy.
> There must have been a serious regression in the kernel, but no one seems to care

If the feature used to work reliably in older kernels, you could try and bisect the issue. There's a bit of work involved, but it's quite doable.
Apple Books? Switching it to single page view is pretty trivial.
I don't recognize any of these team members as having made any substantive contributions to major areas in blockchain security or scaling; Having raised a lot of money in funding is not relevant experience here; Nor is building a few side-chains and inefficiently linking them together.

Reading between the lines here: the real message seems to be that a bunch of opportunist nobodies decided to get together to exploit Libras public image for their own benefit. It's the same pattern I've seen done many times over the years. "Hey, these people are really evil for being so wealthy. We of course secretly want to be wealthy too but we're totally different to they are." Then when you reach your goal you become the new "villain" for someone else and the cycle repeats.

Blockchain companies love to paint themselves as the hero. Completely outside the reach of regular politics or capitalistic desires. It's even been a popular launch tactic for a while now. Dark wallet did it to great effect; And every iteration of dark web market has done it since; You can even see it in the 'us' vs 'them' mentality inherent in most "decentralized" system design. Only, here the architects are the main influences and not the regulators... But lets be honest here: this group shouldn't be trusted any more than a normal, profit-seeking company. And I see no reason to believe this team could deliver a more secure or scalable cryptocurrency than any that already exists.

Tl; dr, gimme money and prestige plz.
I don't understand how leaving the planet is a solution. If people can live on mars then they can also live on a polluted earth.
holy fuck no
Zero maintenance is not the same as becoming a lifetime maintainer.

You haven't provided enough context here, but since we even patch software on Mars I doubt you can built a bug free, feature complete software that will last "forever", so you'll need to find ways to delegate maintenance to someone else.
I thought we already had a ton of "open platforms for financial inclusion". They are called "cryptocurrencies". Like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Litecoin, etc.
Well, it’s only Kindle that insists on a proprietary format. Everyone else does ePub 2 fine (ePub 3 support is spotty).
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I am also very annoyed by silent downvotes but can tell you that they definitely go both ways. People are too quick in blaming "paid trolls" or "state actors" when it's most likely good old 'keyboard warriors' from both sides.