skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would describe myself as destructively critical of myself. My body, my work performance, the things I say, the way I say them, pretty much everything. So, as an example, if you misspoke while talking to someone, the lesson was "Don't spend two days destroying yourself about one minor slip up, for certain nobody noticed and if they did they didn't really care."

You're aware of your flaws because they're a part of you, but that doesn't mean that anyone else notices them.
spirited away (amazing on the big screen!) is playing in select theaters at the end of this month: https://www.ghiblifest.com/

the subtitled version is more emotionally genuine, imho.
An "interests" area is somewhat common as well. Also awards..."NCAA rowing championship" or similar.
To be fair, on your second point, some transit systems that are not paid for with contactless, like Suica in Japan, do not require biometric authentication to be used, if it is set up in a specific configuration.
Maybe. I don't recall seeing leaks on picture/video specs or battery life.

When you build an event like this, I think you put your best foot forward. Google did, it just wasn't terribly impressive IMO.
> I missed the memo on when meritocracy became a bad word

The New Yorker just had a very interesting article on the idea of Meritocracy and it covered some of the reasons why there's negativity associated with the idea. It was enlightening for me. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/is-meritocracy...

The article is in part a review of the book "The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite" (Amazon link: https://tinyurl.com/y4qhruhc)

The basic argument is that "merit" is a word that pretends to be about innate ability and grit, where in reality it's a deep encoding of privilege.

EDIT: OH and I forgot the most relevant tidbit... this article says that meritocracy was a bad word right from the start: "The term “meritocracy” was invented in the nineteen-fifties with a satirical intent that has now mostly been lost. “Merit” was originally defined as “I.Q. plus effort,” but it has evolved to stand for a somewhat ineffable combination of cognitive abilities, extracurricular talents, and socially valuable personal qualities, like leadership and civic-mindedness. Attributes extraneous to merit, such as gender, skin color, physical ableness, and family income, are not supposed to constrain the choice of educational pathways."
The Chinese telcos developed their own 3G standard called TD-CDMA.

Note that 3G refers to a family or classification of network technologies, and the same is true for the other G’s. As an example CDMA2000 and UMTS are both competing 3G standards.
I haven't owned an apple phone for years and I would have to say there has never been a better time to switch.
> Due to the large number of installed files

It sounds like the Rust distribution needs to use zip files more?
I’ve found that the classic fiction books have revealed more fundamental truths than modern non fiction books.

Even scientific books that are out of date have deep insights into nature for example the origin of species, what is life?, and origin and history of conscientious.
Short answer, I don't know, but probably not?

Long answer, I'm also curious about this. I feel like the future of fingerprinting resistance isn't refusing to give up information (since sites can block you or force you to turn the settings back on) -- it's lying. Don't block microphone access, just feed it white noise. Don't block the location, just spoof it.

BUT, a bunch of people who are smarter than me have decided that zeroing out the canvas is better than making it return random values, so for the moment, I assume there's something they know that I don't.
Exactly. Taking money out of the equation just makes the society replace it with something else.
Debian could just take RHEL's fork of Python 2. Why don't they do that?
Are there any good sci-fi novels about global warming thawing out some ancient alien artifacts?
I'm working on a library right now that, I hope, will have an easy to use API. It'll also have a "mixin/ctfe version", whereby all reflected characteristics are returned as strings that can be mixed in. This opens the door for runtime reflection as well. It's in the works.
I really hate this stupid argument. Meritocracy is like freedom and equality - it doesn't exist, and it's fundamentally unstable, so it will never exist, but it's a bright and fair ideal that's very worth striving for. Some people being disadvantaged (by birth, abuse, lack of education, ...) also doesn't retract the argument that meritocracy is useful (despite the whining of social justice warriors), at most it informs us that we should be looking for talent and potential in unexpected places (and nurturing it when we find it).

The alternative is: "well there's this one girl that's a sex slave somewhere in the world... FREEDOM IS A FALSE IDEAL, EVERYBODY ABANDON SHIP!!!"
Having recently 'upgraded' from my old Nexus 5 to a hand-me-down iPhone 5s, my single favourite feature is the fingerprint sensor - it makes logging in automatic - something I can do in my pocket if I wish.
The radar chip is especially interesting. I remember being intrigued when it was presented by the ATAP team years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QNiZfSsPc0

The team showed an impressive amount of cool stuff back then, it's nice to see one of these projects shipping on a flagship product. There's more info here on how it's used: https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/new-features-pixel4/

EDIT: found the original presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpbWQbkl8_g . I think the touch sensitive cloth project also made it into a few products.
Because Apple has no spine and routinely caves to pressure by the Chinese government?
I feel like that philosophy is like "never look down, for fear you might have to come to terms with the giants whose shoulders you stand on."

One of the tougher individual questions are 'how should one deal in societal stances one doesn't personally agree with, but tacitly relies upon society at large to in fact take those disagreeable stances?' war, defense, vaccines, GMO's, wireless communications.

I call these the "you need me on that wall" things.
Because you run a company, not an asset stripping operation.
I did. I've been employed as an eng for 8 years.
You could share D .di files, which are akin to C/C++ headers, but automatically generated by the compiler.
Now when I'm stuck behind slow people in a narrow space, I can think of them not only as potentially gravely ill on the verge of collapsing, but also consider how their mental faculties are rapidly declining. This is science with obvious benefits!
This link doesn't seem to work outside the U.S. Try:

https://www.blog.google/products/pixelbook/pixelbook-go/
Oracle licenses are priced with a relatively equation, taking two inputs:

1) How much money do you have
2) How much would it cost you to switch to something else

Your annual license cost is the smaller of the two inputs, minus a 10% discount.
to reiterate what you said, since others are trying to be helpful and giving other workarounds:

this is besides the point. for such a simple task as publishing static text, we've got what, yet another $7.99 (or whatever), a month fee? yes, medium provides some benefit to both authors and readers, and some may find it worth it, others won't.

But it's static text. www.pacbell.net/~username, or Geocities may not have been so glamorous; capitalism has an odor all its own.

(inb4 I get ad-homonym'd for having personally benefitted from capitalism)
Yeah, projects that win often resemble early startups. That being said, you're totally welcome to build whatever you find interesting.
I recall responding to the statement "English is just as gendered as...", but clearly that's not what you wrote. That's my fault.
I think it’s worse than that.

As far as I remember Jphone, the company first heavily advertising camera phones, forced the shutter on its own to preemptively clear itself from any potential issue.

Every phone carrier from there had the choice to forgo the mandatory shutter sound but risk backlash if anything were to happen, as Jphone set a precedent. And they choose the safety move.

When the iPhone came, it would have just been a marketing quagmire to go with a mutable sound.
It never seems to pan out. Jack Tramiel, of Commodore fame, burned all his retail partners so many times nobody wanted to carry Atari computers anymore. His 'genius' solution was paying $67m for a chain of malls https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/25/business/atari-to-acquire... He ended up losing at least twice that amount in less than two years before writing it off.
The Stale Backlog
Yeah, reminds me of this overly complicated flashlight that the media was going on about several years back: https://www.fastcompany.com/1837966/mustafas-space-drive-egy...
It brings to mind a sarcastic way to get perfect prediction of patient outcomes. Step one is to decapitate the patient.

Predictability/accuracy isn't the important part except as means to the end - the outcome.
The reorientation of companies, driven by MBA conventional wisdom, into shareholder-centric, stock-price optimizing machines has come at the detriment of building long term value and delivering better products to customers.

Rebuttal?

And let's center our conversation on the average MBA graduate. I'm sure there are schools with different approaches, but no true Scotsman doesn't seem like it would be productive.
>Anyone can have an MBA from an elite school. You just need the money and be willing to spend it on a degree.

This is not true at all. Regardless of the value of the degree/experience, elite MBA programs are still difficult to get into and have low acceptance rates.
They removed the app. This is why people were attacking Apple.
> Postgres

Yes, maybe there will be built in automatic fail over in a few years so you don't have to hack it together using a bunch of scripts.

Of course there's overlap in functionality and most companies should probably chose PG over Oracle. But PG is a joke in some areas like the above mentioned.
I would rather hire a person who likes classical music than the one who likes country/rap/bieber. From my experience, people who prefer classical music are generally smarter.
The author lays it out as simple math, but I take issue with several of the assertions. First, that we all read content of all types at the same speed - namely our maximum words-per-minute. I've recently been handed a book far outside my area of training (I'm a scientist, the book is philosophy and cultural critique), and often I find myself re-reading a sentence or stopping to dig up context on terminology. I'm sure if I was simply taking in the sequence of words at maximum speed, I'd finish the book much more quickly, but I wouldn't be getting anything out of it. Secondly, the author is incredibly dismissive of non-book media (they mention television, but it may be my habits that bias me toward grouping blog posts and essays in with "social media" since they both happen in my phone-to-face space). It's true, engaging with a single author on a focused topic over many pages has unique advantages, but not everything worth being exposed to requires that level of involvement. Some of the best reading I've encountered this year has been short fiction and essays, almost always online. Also, others have noted it, "books" is an overly general target, there are lots of books that aren't worth the time it takes to read them. Setting a target of reading so-many books, without any other qualification, can lead to some strange optimizations (e.g. reading through dozens of pulpy airport romance novels to pad your total in late December). I'm not immune to book elitism, I do find I enjoy reading paper more than a screen for most topics, but the all-caps "TRASH" definitely set off my alarms.
It's not based on revenue.
The code base in question is not one I wrote; it is one I decided to maintain years after the original author lost interest in it. [1]

This is not too different from what I have seen in multiple jobs, where the new hire doesn’t get to write all the code they use from scratch, but instead has to maintain someone else’s mess. Often times, management and market conditions demand more from programmers than they have time to properly implement with test cases, well structured code, good comments, etc.

Technical debt is a big problem in code used by businesses, and the technical debt this particular 6000-line script has is a lot less than some stuff I have seen and have been paid to maintain.

The fact of the matter is that most open source code out there is quite a bit cleaner and maintainable than the code which is behind firewalls, running important businesses.

[1] Edit: To the original author’s credit, this particular code base is an incredibly popular and successful map generator for Civilization 4, with some 40 thousand downloads; it got messy because the author was more interested in adding new features requested by users than in keeping the code base clean. It is a single script because that made it a lot easier for users to install. And, newer versions of the same generator are written in Lua and not Python because that is what newer versions of Civilization use for scripting.
> I missed the memo on when meritocracy became a bad word

When people realized that the guy who starts with a billion dollar dad and a buy in to harvard is being graded on the same scale as the guy who started in a trailer park with a single mom and community college.

You can't have a meritocracy without the same starting point, and you can't have that in real life.
Oh my God, this has been such a long time coming. Debugging WebSocket connections has been one of the main reasons I’ve had to open up Chrome in recent memory. There might not be full feature parity but I think now Firefox’s dev tools are at least complete for my uses.
There are so many hardware and OS level fingerprinting vectors that software tweaks like these are only marginally useful.

Once you've done your tweaking, have a look at https://amiunique.org/ to see how anonymous you really are.
I'm sure it will be priced at just below the cost in legal fees to defend yourself..
They should get back in the prefab home game[1] with the tiny house craze and the impending ADU boom in California.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Catalog_Home
I have a 10 minute commute in the south bay and I "only" pay $2100/month. Rents in the bay area are excessive, but even so $4000 is excessive by bay area standards anywhere outside of SF proper.
>Face ID should have similar protections as Touch ID

It already does. Biometrics of any kind are not protected if the police have a warrant which is what happened in the story you linked.
> but it's actually intended a giant middle-finger to Oracle

When they were all cheering, I actually felt bad for Oracle for a nanosecond.
> His [son] can piss away money all day every day and never even make a dent.

His son is 22. Life expectancy right now is about 93 I think, so he has 71 years of life left. Ignoring interest, he could spend $1,000,000 a day every day for the rest of his life.

Yeah, he could spend an awful lot of money. Must be nice!
Weather and access to nature in Silicon Valley is optimal for humans. The driving is also great. If you have an actual building to live in the Redwood City to Mountain View corridor, it’s a fairly amazing life.
Copy constructors were needed due to type checking const/immutable copying. C++ interop was just icing on the cake.
I don't think it's only the EPA that made this determination. IARC stands in opposition to a wide range of government agencies. Note that much of their opposition is based on results in S-D rats which really aren't indicative of any effect in humans.
Its a fine ideal, but plenty of people that massively benefit from the myth that it exists and is the primary way that people "get ahead" in the world, get very angry when you question that fact.

Because its not, and the absurd shell games that get played to pretend it is are extremely harmful to society as a whole.

You are making a straw man argument that I am "winging" that one person is disadvantaged, therefore the entire system is flawed. That is not the argument I am making.

The argument I am making is in fact a majority of the population (Black, white, or otherwise) is greatly harmed by the myth that the American economic system greatly rewards "merit", how many poor white rural people become CEOs?
I think I remember seeing something about the "as" syntax. Wish I could find what I read, IIRC some arguments convinced me that the walrus operator was an improvement.
Meritocracy in principle is a solid idea, but in practice, it simply has never existed. Even in what most would define as meritocracy's golden age, the "merit" of a person still depended massively on their upbringing; even the neighborhood a child grows up in (or the quantity of neighborhoods) can tell you a lot about what someone will be able to achieve in life.

The rich hate this, and have clung to meritocracy to excuse the fact that their children, brought up with staff to see to their needs, with education to explore every curiosity, with hobbies to learn what they like, and with resources to attend college virtually without cost, are somehow not advantaged over a child who's mother has to work two jobs to scrape out a meager living, and sees said child maybe 3 hours a day, to send them to a public school or daycare where they are treated like cattle, until they can sign up for enough debt when they barely understand finance at all, to assure they won't be able to buy a home until their thirties, at best.

It's ridiculous. The core tenet of meritocracy is a level playing field and the rich and poor have never had one, ever, at any point, and arguably could not as long as markets exist. It's just not possible.

As long as there are financial barriers to child care, to housing, to education, you cannot claim we have meritocracy. Simple as.
Did you try typing it in ? It does nothing of the sort and goes to dlang's page.
> The desperation for local experience can really suppress wages in some fields.

Isn't that good for the Canadian economy too?

I'm sure it's not great for Canadians looking for a job, but access to high-quality talent at below-market rates seems like it would be win/win.
Thanks for the input. We're going to keep it in CA this time but will start thinking about remote hackathons for future events!
It’s easy to hate on MBAs, but unethical people are unethical no matter the degree.

My general observation is most people aren’t good with finance or the numbers behind their business. Having a 2nd tier MBA Doesn’t help. People who list MBA after their name rarely have it either. People from top tier MBA programs have a fighting chance. They may not have technical or leadership skills but they can talk the language of business. That helps to get into the C Suite, or sell to the C suite. (If that’s not the goal, it’s a bad degree)
can you give an eli5 of postgresql's offering vs oracle db? Why isn't there an open source equivalent right now? What 'extra stuff' did Amazon have to build to make it 'more' than the open source stuff available right now.
Yeah I did an in-place upgrade via apt. I for some reason thought zfs was in debian proper (contrib vs. main). Like I said in another post, I may try doing that again.

But then again, the main reason I haven't is because all of my stuff is backed up via Nextcloud, so reinstalling Debian is pretty quick/painless for me.
I don’t agree or disagree with any specific points.

I just think it’s funny you are 1:1 comparing a country twice the size of, with the same population of New Jersey, with its single city over 250k... to the entirety of the United States.
Has anyone worked out if Do Not Track is actually worth it's weight?

You're effectively flipping another bit that de-anonymises your browser a little bit more, and I can't why a bad actor (the people you're actually worried about) would honour it.
Yeah, complaining. It's irritating when idiots try to "win" arguments in the internet by spouting completely obvious bullshit.
I really thought on-board voice would be a game changer. Not having to do the round-trip to the cloud to determine intent, and providing a conversational interface (i.e. "now send this to Pam") I thought would generate that buzz. It sure seemed to when Google announced that they had reduced this ML model to ~500mb so it could run locally.

In contrast, Apple's A13 chip's contribution to extend battery power is incredibly impressive to me.
It is easy to hate on "prestige" MBAs, but I think it has more to do with there being little to no empirical evidence that it prepares students for business success in the real world.

Also, a lot of people have endured "elite" MBA's entering the workplace into positions of seniority with no prior experience and exactly the results you might expect under the circumstances.
Yeah, I don't really buy that telemetry is actually guiding design in the first place. Rather, I wager telemetry most often gets used to create post-hoc rationalizations for changes somebody already has their heart set on. And if the most relevant statistic plainly doesn't support the change, then a less obvious statistic is found instead and said to be more important (e.g. "telemetry says 85% of our users use this feature.... but telemetry also says that 90% of users close the application within five minutes of using this feature every time they use it, so users might think they like this feature but actually they're wrong and it drives down user engagement.")

I've not worked at Mozilla, but that's how I've seen it happen just about every time I ever saw telemetry get cited in situations I had some insider insight into.
That phrase stopped being witty ages ago. These days it's mostly a low effort comment.

I don't need a plurality of data to counter his claim that MBA's are "exclusively" for rich smart kids.
In theory SQL is SQL, even more so if your App uses a layer of indirection like an ORM. If you don't use any Oracle specific features, procedures and similar, in theory you could just replace it.

But that is not what happens.

First problem is - majority of mature enterprise systems (which tend to use Oracle), are not designed in such a schoolbook way, so that's you first problem. Codebases are ugly and teams loose the knowledge to maintain some parts that are mature and work mostly ok - often the DB layer.

Another concern is regressions in the product that is hard to properly test for. Minor details that are exposed by even small changes in DB behaviour or performance, that won't get caught in testing, but will cause an impact when your next scheduled job happens to fall on the first friday of that one month where the customer has that very special report that is just slightly so different and runs only once every 7 years.

Another major pain point are operational concerns. When dealing with DB technologies, managing, deploying, operating your back end DB servers can be quite a different beast. In theory your teams should be able to handle it, as they are experienced engineers that know how to learn new tech quickly. In practice, you don't have money for those, and your team is lazy and doesn't really want to learn that new cool tech, just let them do their job.

And finally, if it all "just works" at the moment, it is a hard sell to switch such a fundamental part of the system and properly validate the investment versus the risks.

And this is all if you're not a super user of Oracle specific pieces, surrounding tooling or consultants/expertise.
How does the purging actually work? Is there sole evil republican henchman with database access? Is there no oversight into what is actually purged?

Trapped behind the paywall.