skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are aesthetically pleasing to me. I might even hang some prints on a wall, but it would be to add some color, not because I find them to be a superior display of artistic ability.

To be fair a lot of simple looking art like this is produced by artists with a sound understanding of composition and color theory. For some of them everything they do is done with intention and thought. However, having a sound understanding of color theory and composition are just two basic skills any good artist will possess in addition to a multitude of other skills.

Note that I'm not saying that artists have to adhere to standard color theory and composition. I'm saying that when people deviate from them usually the good ones do it in an intentional way with a full understanding, and the specific way they break the rules is well thought out and so it works.
Dawkins?! Then you must think of every atheist as a nihilist, and the term doesn't mean much then. I don't think that's what's meant by the word, at all.

Anyway, meaning is not something things have in isolation–it is always meaning to someone. Like what's the meaning of a painting? (apart from in peoples' minds) A written word is a squiggle, but means something to someone that speaks the language. I think the nihilist/existentialist angst is from people in the generation or two after christianity, not having that cosy pre-defined meaning to their lives, of everything being god's plan. Like a child, used to the parents deciding what to do, what are the rules, punishments, structures, moving out of home and feeling...abandoned, empty. I (like almost everyone I know here in Australia) was brought up without being taught a religion, never had that loss of faith or feeling of lack or meaninglessness. Hmm well, not true, aged about 20 I had a mild 'existential crisis', wondering about the meaning of life, and learnt that it's silly (and dangerous) expecting there to be the meaning of life out there like a rock. Nihilists stop there, thinking that in "there's no meaning in X" they've captured the essential truth about things, and torture themselves with the abyss. A bit like the contemporary goth thing, thinking that seeing the meaningless, desolation, emptiness of things is wisdom. I started reading E.M. Cioran essays a year or two ago, but couldn't stand him; it was full of this vibe; going on about what a superior wisdom his ultra-bleak, desolate view of things has, as if he's better than any happy person because so miserable. Occasionally I hear some intelligent person talking as if an intelligent person must be unhappy, as if it's a given. Maybe it's from the existentialist message filtering down and being taken for wisdom. Maybe Sartre is to blame for that.
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> There are many people who have money but don't show it.

You could attribute that to humility or good manners, but you could also attribute it to the fact that their persona is good enough of a signal that they don't need to add another signal.

This is especially true of traditional nobility and the super-rich. It doesn't matter whether Bill Gates wears a $40 watch or a $40K watch because everyone already knows that he's one of the richest guys in the world. Marie Antoinette wore diamonds not because she felt a need to demonstrate her status and power, but because she liked diamonds and happened to have the status and power to get them.
I think, like many things in life, there are advantages and disadvantages to this approach. The advantage, like you said, is to not get stuck doing the same thing for too long. Although I'll notice that when working in large companies you can move to different teams that work with completely different technologies so there's no strict requirement to change the company because of that.

One of the major drawbacks with changing jobs too often is that certain problems simply require very long time to obtain the expertise to make significant improvements to the state of the art of that problem space. To give an extreme example, if you look at the scientists winning Nobel prizes, they spent their entire lives dedicated to pursuing the answer to one question. Working in tech may not require an entire life dedicated to one problem, but it can easily require a decade or more to become an expert in a problem domain.

Not to mention, getting a comfortable hold on the internal tools, procedures, APIs, etc of some of the larger tech companies can take years, that's even before you start learning to become a domain expert.
> [language/framework du jour].

Is this an accurate description of Google? I thought they used the same 4-5 languages they've used since the beginning of time, maybe minus perl and plus kotlin.
> stopping termites from entering the building.

Do the termites in your location not fly? In Fiji we have termite swarms once a year. Millions of them will show up at every light they can get to in the evenings. Everyone is advised to turn off their lights for a few hours and light a fire outside so as to get the termites to kamikazi. These are the Asian Subterranean Termites that arrived here via Australia.

Pesticide in a ditch around a house isn't going to stop these buggers.
I agree, but not before I lol'd.
I've ended up using softether for the sstp server support, and my only
complaint with it is that it feels like a second-class citizen from the linux
CLI.

Configuring it is a pain done through their `vpncmd` command which gives you a
shell with custom commands (not very automatable/reproducable)

Logging is also stuck between logging to a file or sending it to a syslog port,
which, with the rise of systemd, leaves it logging to nowhere that journald can
access

It's a pretty solid piece of software, but it definitely feels like it was
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These are ideas echoed by some of the top people in the game development community as well. there is a nice book about these kinds of ideas:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1916478700
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This feels like an extension of how the work world is being run increasingly. More and more process, policies and automated decisions and less common sense. Good to teach children as early as possible to fall in line :(
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>> For example, a File morphs between a closed file and an opened file, however in current systems any operation can be applied to a file, irrespectively of whether the file is actually opened or closed.

But not in Rust. As a matter of fact anything based on intuitionistic logic could do that for you (e.g. use-only-once, must-use, etc).
I wonder what can parents do to prepare kids for that -- teach them to never post anything personal where school could be watching (so nowhere), create a fake public persona to avoid closer scrutiny, and so on?

Schools will prepare students for accepting global surveillance and to counteract that parents will prepare kids for living in cyberpunk underground. I don't think either of those extremes are good for the kids themselves...
When I attended F8, Facebook gave a presentation on how sophisticated their drug post detection had gotten. Things like being able to differentiate between a photo of broccoli tempura and weed (that slide can be seen here: https://www.cnet.com/news/marijuana-or-broccoli-facebook-ill...), "candy" being sold at unusual prices, factoring in how networks of people interact with the posts, etc. were highlighted that appeared highly sophisticated, to the point where some examples took hints for the humans in the room to figure out the right answer.

Meanwhile, their only action in this article is apparently banning a hashtag. I'm dubious that that's the best they can do.
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It's ok to have flying cars as long as they are flying over unpopulated areas. Emergency vehicles can fly over populated areas but sometimes I think the cops put on the lights and sirens just for kicks.
You can't checkout if you have tracked changes. If you mean you lose untracked changes, then a) it's unsolvable in the general case unless we all start doing out-of-source builds, so don't have to worry about build artefacts and b) it's already solved by git-worktree, so if you haven't RTFM, adding new features won't matter anyway.
My favorite thing: cooking. I have been the primary cook at home for 30 years but only in the past few years have I had time for anything more than what we can get on the table in 20 minutes after soccer practice.

Every once in while I get a new cookbook like "Voila! Effortless French Cookbook," "German Meals at Oma's", and "Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking" and then work my way through the recipes that look interesting. I have found a lot of recipes that take hours of preparation and cooking, but I have also found many that I love that I can get together in 20 minutes.

Spending some time learning how to cook is very relaxing, but it also is quite cost effective because now we very rarely go out to dinner. The best part is that the whole family actually looks forward to trying new meals together, so Friday nights have become what they should be: long hours gathered around the table talking and laughing, eating well and drinking wine by candle light.

I cherish every Friday night that the kids are home from university and appreciate even more the quiet nights that I share with my wife.
> taking up neurons

As long as they're not being used to hold "celebrity" biographies ...

(Sometimes I'm sad I even remember some names ... There's only so much crap one should be asked to take in to live in society ...)
This is a combination of CYA (“we did everything we could, we even surveilled all their communications”), and tech “magic” mentality: where new, unproven technologies are sold as an easy fix for complex societal issues. 10 years from now we’ll read about how none of this actually helped any kid in real crisis - but it’ll make a few school administrators feel good and in control for a few years.

The bigger problem is that unlike previous similar boondoggles (see D.A.R.E.), this might have lasting consequences by acclimating a generation to constant surveillance.
Is this really the main takeaway from such a huge event? How about the fact that millions of users' data is just acquired by the company that already knows literally more about users than themselves?
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I agree with this approach particularly at the start of one's career but I will add that once you find a problem space that you really want to advance the state of the art in, then you better get ready to spend a decade or more studying it. Sure, it's possible to pursue this even by changing jobs, but it is MUCH harder in that case, advancing the state of the art in computer technology is something that very few places in the world have a business need for and the resources to pay people to do that so I think it's much more likely to spend a lot more years in a single place to pursue such a goal.
Fortunately, we have data. Not anecdotes.

I’m citing Wikipedia for conciseness. You can look up the article’s references for citations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps
Thing is though, whenever they do do something - like say, organising a group to discuss their problems - they get attacked, ridiculed etc. in a way that no other group ever does today.
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> It's such a waste of time that nowadays I just move up to the next price bracket where most products are made of real wool and/or cotton.

Yeah, I found my sizing in a couple decent-ish brands that hardly deal in synthetic fabrics at all, and just buy them during seasonal sales (on their websites) or at thrift stores. Shoes? Seconds and ebay. $9 for a thrifted button-up that's $80 new ($45 on sale), looks & fits nicer than something from Target or The Gap or whatever, and will actually hold up for a few years (in a rotation) ain't bad at all. Sale prices are nearly as low as normal prices on much worse clothes. Saves money for the occasional splurge item for stuff that's hard to thrift or get used (jackets and suits are tough), and even with a few of those my wardrobe looks similar to someone who's spending 3-4x what I am on clothes but being less frugal about it. But it definitely took a lot of up-front effort (research, finding sizing, a few full-price items or gambles on stuff on ebay to get all that dialed in) to get to this point.
Big ole 747s in the sky. Bunch of air launched drones.
Nobody is stereotyping the Chinese people!

Google and Apple have publicly stood up against the US government, and the US doesn't (publicly and legally, at least) meddle with companies to anywhere near the same extent as China.

When I support Google, I support Google alone, but when I support Tencent, it feels a little like I'm supporting the Chinese government, too.
> deserving demonization

really?
Then there was the strange period where a stuck anode somewhere in the Youtube recommendation engine seemed to be offering up Mariya Takeuchi's "Plastic Love" to everyone...
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It goes even deeper - the Youtube algorithm recommending the likes of Ryu Fukui, Taeko Ohnuki and others has led online music aficionados, who knew about these artists before their decades old music gained renewed popularity with millions of views, to term them "YouTube-core". For example, I had a physical copy of one of Ryo Fukui's album around 2014, before it took off (or perhaps even before it was uploaded) on YouTube. The music is, of course, excellent, but it's funny how these things come around.
Wirecutter, like Consumer Reports, initially had sterling recommendations. Well-researched, well-tested, and following the reviewer through the process was half the fun.

Lately the reviews I've seen are selecting for what Amazon link will perform for them, rather than truly what product (available via Amazon or other retailers) is the best product or value. I've found their picks frequently have bimodal ratings, with a large chunk of users hating the product.
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Excellent! So hopefully this means that it's not desensitizing kids to surveillance, just teaching them how to avoid it since they know it's there.

Good times.
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> I am rocket fuel to your business tech. I make difficult things easy and easy things automated. I have the 30k foot view and am on the ground with a microscope.

Wow nice pitch! Don’t know if you’re as good as you say, but damn that’s a good pitch!
I guess the reasoning is that the more industries you have your products in, higher the chances of your survival will be. If the economy fails, hypothetically there will be some industries that'll survive.
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To be quite frank, in software engineering, about half of the job is being able to work well with others.

This means being able to make it through a job interview without having a temper tantrum.
The free market is usually predicated on rational actors. I don't think the target market of teenagers fits the bill, nor does any market, really, once propaganda enters the picture.
We successfully recovered it, actually (although it turns out we couldn't find enough software for it to be interesting). My cray-buddy Andras has a great write-up on all of the work he's done on software recovery and writing a C++ simulator of all of this stuff: https://www.modularcircuits.com/blog/articles/the-cray-files...
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Here's a Hawking radiation calculator that you can use to get an idea of some of the numbers involved: https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiati...

Using this calculator, we find that a black hole with the mass of 433 Eros, 6.687E15 kg, would be quite hot, some 18 million kelvin, but emitting just 8 watts of power, and be 0.009 nanometres in radius. Pretty hard to find.

Let's try something smaller. 162173 Ryugu, the rock that Hayabusa2 landed on, is only 4.5E11 kg. This gives you a much brighter hole: 1758 megawatts at 2.72657E11 kelvin.

Interestingly, this may make it harder to detect! Its blackbody emission peak is at 9,211 KeV, and the Chandra X-Ray observatory only goes up to 10 KeV. (Focusing very-high-energy photons is not easy) You'd have to detect it from the fraction of total power it emits lower down in the spectrum.
You're getting downvoted but you're absolutely right that HN comments are too much about sarcastic jokes and giggles nowadays, starting to look like reddit. With that said, I don't think this comment is one of the worst examples.
Considering that people eat mushrooms all the time, most likely fine.
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Nobody is claiming that China and Russia have anything close to fair and balanced journalism. The above comment points out the irony that Americans are treating censorship on a Chinese social media app for teenagers as if it's the greatest threat to democracy, while their government bombs a country because they don't like the guy in charge.
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