skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today, It's possible to purchase a VR Headset and be in a different reality and that's on Gen 1 hardware; Gen 2, with varifocal lenses, will change the way we compute and live radically.

For a modest expense, you can purchase a supercomputer capable of fitting almost every book, major production movie, and TV show ever made on its storage and you can download it with your internet connection over months or years. More than enough to last you a life time.

You can fit enough knowledge to educate yourself for the rest of your life on a piece of equipment the size of a bottle cap.

You can, tomorrow, go to an airport, sign up for a passport, and fly almost anywhere on earth.

You can call almost anyone on earth.

And, on that internet connection, you can find out about the myriad of challenges we humans face, including global warming and alternate forms of pollution like deforestation.

I'm in my 30's and I've come to the conclusion that the youth needs to begin investing in government en masse (special interest groups and also investing in their own livelihoods), but more importantly, moving to places that are younger or have a good balance of people. That requires passion and a lot of work, but its doable and if you do it, you can largely ignore all of the things you've stated. Furthermore, as more people realize this, a cultural change will happen, and that is inevitable.

You can already see that with the "OK Boomer" crowd; the problem has been recognized and that is the most important piece of dealing with it.
Also worth nothing that they originally had a bug where the APs would crash if you did actually block this data from being sent.
Jenkins DSL Job Simplified
Holy shit. Someone needs to do something! These little critters sneaked into that position with no one noticing. They are definitely up to something! Think about the children!!!
"We could, of course, handle this cost imbalance by draconian decisions about life and death, but that is probably a political (and maybe ethical) non-starter.."

Well at least giving people the choice to terminate their lives in those circumstances should be permitted and doesn't seem too problematic.

"I believe that it is pointless to increase the human lifespan unless the quality of life for the elderly is also increased."

This is not very worrying because people working on these approaches seem convinced that it's not possible to increase lifespan without increasing quality.
“The fund has been closed to outside investors since 1993 and is available only to current and past employees and their families. “ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
The "even" in "even Barack Obama" isn't about him being super far left, then "even" is about the fact a former president has to be the one telling people their tactics aren't working.

And then they go on to ignore his advice because he is insufficiently left. Which ironically proves how prescient his advice is.
> The lack of appreciation of pure knowledge in this thread is truly saddening. If all you care about is getting a job, this question boils down to simple finance. If you want to truly learn, understand and engage in a topic, what can possibly be better than emmersing oneself in an environment of learning, inquisitive students and knowledgable professors full-time?

It's sad, but inevitable with tuition and living fees as they are set now. I do some contracting for a university in the UK, and I honestly don't blame the students who treat the university as a service provider and the degree as a financial investment. They're paying customers and deserve a high quality service with good teaching and good facilities. There's no room for variability here, the CMA will rightly fine universities who have misled students or failed to fulfill their obligations.

If the degrees were free at the point of use (as used to be the case here), I'd totally be behind the idea of studying for the sake of broadening one's horizons.

Fact is, they've gotten increasingly more expensive and the students with sense are going to make sure they get a return on what will (for some) likely be a working lifetime of additional tax or a huge upfront cost.

You need to be in a privileged position to suggest that dropping probably around £45k on 3 years of a degree should solely come down to a desire of "immersing oneself in an environment of learning, inquisitive students and knowledgable professors full-time". The "simple financials" are a barrier to today's students - even with the UK's maintenance and tuition loans.
Gonna guess beat/mood/song analysis.
A comment made by a government employee who presumably took his government job for non-economic reasons.
This is a well-known concern in demography. See, for example, the Wikpedia page on dependency ratio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_ratio
I wish someone actually studied this. Is it social circle? They never have been taught to deal with emotions as good as women? It’s in women’s DNA? It’s differences in attachment like men profoundly think they are a team? It’s the reality ( somewhat distorted) that women can easily find a partner, but the contrary is not true, ie. females do the selection?
How did you configure high DPI for the xps 13? I couldn't figure it out and gave up.
I can understand them wanting logs of crashes, it's a reasonable way to try and improve their service. Since you can use their APs with other controllers that would limit their collected data. Having the data being manually sent would also limit their collected data.

I'm ok with them actually collecting data, as long as they're:

* Open about what actuall data is being collected.
* Open about them actually collecting data and not sneaking it in.
* Providing a way to opt-out.
* Adding the proper GDPR documentation around this so as clearly not to break the law. As it is it's a grey zone, why not be clear about it.
It’s insecure too :)

https://blog.innerht.ml/google-yolo/
You should be more respectful of diverging views. I know that what I said is not politically correct. I am not trying to be edgy. I am truly repulsed by insects and spiders in general. Hence my welcoming of this piece of news. I am just being honest. I could toe the HN line, and express shock and outrage, but that would not be a genuine reflection of what I truly think. I value science, and the scientific discoveries that entomology can bring to the world, but I am perfectly willing to make peace with the near extinction (I don't think even humans could kill all the insects) of something I only have ever had negative experiences with, even at the price of some science. You seem to ignore the fact that mosquitoes are the single most dangerous predator humans have ever known, responsible for billions of deaths, cumulatively, just to name one example.
You have the right to think differently, and your opinion is just as legitimate as mine. But don't be surprised if you don't see this news in "BREAKING NEWS" headlines on CNN, ABC, CBS, or in the Wall Street Journal.
If the goal of a university was research it wouldn’t have any undergraduate students and it probably wouldn’t teach Master’s students either. Some external organization would educate future researchers and then they’d hire them.

So you’d either have a graduate studies only university, like the European University Institute in Florence or Rockefeller University or a research institute like the Max Planck Gesellschaft, RAND, SRI International or the Institutes for Advanced Study.

The idea that research is even a part of the core mission of universities is at most 200 years old. They’ve always been traded schools for theology, medicine and law and latterly finishing schools for the upper classes but the research university emerged in Germany with Alexander von Humboldt.

Most people don’t decide upon goals and then look for the most effective ways to pursue them. They look for the socially approved and known good ways of getting what they want. For the huge majority of university students that means they’re at university because they need a degree to get a job. People with money and people who attended selective universities may think otherwise because they have other or better options but most people know that if they want a decent, respectable living they better get their certificate of middle class membership, their Bachelor’s degree.

Outside of maybe Cal Tech no university sends the majority of its students on to graduate study aimed at producing researchers[1]. They are funded by governments whose voters would be apoplectic to be told education was an afterthought to faculty research. The median college graduate might be capable of doing a Master’s degree but there is no way more than 10% of those who matriculates as university students are capable of becoming researchers if that.

Whatever universities might be of their purpose is research they’re a terrible waste of resources.
I totally agree with this point, but there is an unavoidable anthropic counterargument, which is for the people who do in fact live in some kind of end times, this is exactly how it will seem to them too. We can't just rely on induction, you still have to at least attempt the deductive due diligence.
It's a lot more than social exclusion. It's purposeful social polarization, functionally driven by virtue-signaling and popularity-contest dynamics. And this is just as true wrt. the "canceled" as wrt. the "cancelers" - https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...
Kim Zetter's article evolved into the book Countdown to Zero Day

https://smile.amazon.com/Countdown-Zero-Day-Stuxnet-Digital/...
> However high dpi is hell to configure, still not happy with it.

If it's about the HiDPI autodetection you should try Tumbleweed, Qt has many HiDPI related fixes there and sddm works OOTB.
Borrow, appropriate, copy, create a similar mark somewhere near the boundary of trademark infringement.

Are we still riding the ghost of his dick so hard that parent poster can't use colloquial language?
> And the population pyramid would change dramatically if we had a global thermonuclear war or a planet-wide plague, but we probably won't be so lucky.

It was very interesting to read, thanks for sharing!
1. I really love to have a dedicated image manipulation API which is not tied to a (headless) CMS.

2. I don't care about speed. Image manipulation can never be instant, and while the operation may be super fast on your end, the image data still needs to travel the wire, and be rendered on the UI. Your performance argument therefore is mute for me.

3. I do care a lot about having smart features like face detection, auto rotation, optimization (e.g. optipng), this should be on your start page.
Some Criticisms of “I, Pencil”
What can I say. My fellows did not cover AI, robotics or people management. Sounds like it's become a lot more of a practical degree in the last twenty years. Much more vocational, perhaps. There was a time when CS graduates would be hired and big companies would immediately start training them in how to engineer software, but now people expect to finish a CS degree and be capable of a related but different discipline; software engineering. I can only assume that CS degrees have changed to meet the demand.
POWER is basically only top of the line though, other than the relatively rare NXP QorIQ chips that were used in e.g. AmigaOne stuff.

Most of the hype for RISC-V seems to be in tiny embedded stuff (e.g. WD's disk controllers) and academia (naturally). SiFive has finally made an out-of-order core, but I don't really see the market for big unix-capable RISC-V. RISC-V is really a royalty-free "MIPS in a trenchcoat", so expect it to be used where MIPS is used now.

ARM is everywhere, from smartphones (unfortunately Qualcomm dominance, but Apple is kicking ass in performance) to AWS EC2 (in-house silicon!) to massive HPC clusters (Fujitsu A64FX is impressive, they use HBM2 RAM (!) to make a SIMD-capable CPU into something almost GPU-like in a way).
AWS has basically ensured that ARM is the next ISA for servers :P
>the existing infrastructure and computing devices all rely on register based machines, and run imperative instructions

I don't think the author is disputing this at all, but positing that for writing application layer programs this is unnecessary complexity and ought to be abstracted by the language/compiler.
Perhaps as it stands our programming languages are too general purpose; in future, will we see a clearer distinction between languages for different purposes?
Which six classes?
https://github.com/deezer/spleeter worth checking once
I like how some people pin the recent success of AMD on that one person, even if he doesn't claim it himself.

Is it because of not truly knowing what it takes to do VLSI nowadays or just hoping that if one man did it, it can be done again?
Disabling (access to) WinBox should be the first thing to do on a Mikrotik. Most of their serious security issues are in WinBox.

The Web UI seems to be a perfect equivalent if you want a GUI to manage your one box at home, and SSH should do the trick for automation. Is there any reason to use their proprietary (Windows-only) software to configure the router?
4. I'm unable to find the address of your company on the homepage. This is a no go, especially when dealing with images which are potentially sensitive user content, I need to know exactly who is responsible for operating the service.
Amusingly we can compare it with a clean design that was supposed to replace x86: Itanium. That had the full weight of Intel and partners behind it and was such a flop that it's been completely ignored in this thread.

X86_64 is genius because it is the perfect example of the art of the possible.

It drove SPARC into irrelevance, forced Intel to adopt it instead of Itanium and drove PowerPC out of consumer computers. I'd love to have a nightmare like that on my resume.
I wonder whether widows of couples who spend more time apart are similarly affected? There are many occupations where the husband spends days to weeks away - truckers, pilots, seamen, oil rig workers, construction workers, soldiers, etc.
Is that clear from their homepage?

> Ease of use → grandpa-friendly certified™

http://puppylinux.com/

If I wasn't tech savvy and I stumbled into Puppy, I'd assume it was targeting non-tech savvy people based on that statement at the top of the homepage. Then I'd likely feel burned by "Linux" when it wasn't. There is a marketing problem there.

Although in that example, why is a mainstream user looking at puppy in the first place? So I think you're right, that's a cherry picked example.
Yes, the extinction of... mosquitoes ... beetles ... ants ... and butterflies will cause the downfall of our 21st century, techno-industrial, information based civilization.

The food chain will be fine. Nature will adapt.
The author addresses some if not all of these points:

"It's awkward as hell to use and takes way to many brain-cells to achieve simple results."

> Even I find the above [react.js FRP] code hard to read, despite having written it! While this could be seen as a downside of the denotative approach, I see it as a mismatch between the denotative approach and textual syntax. There’s been interesting work visualizing streams, which I hope to build on. Currently, I’m in the mockup phase, but I hope to build a developer tool experience that will automatically generate a live visualization.

My understanding is that right now it certainly does require too much brain to do anything in FRP, but that isn't a downfall of FRP as a concept ("FRP kinda sucks") but rather that making FRP convenient is still today an open research question.

"That if you have some real world problem that involves state, that you want to model that using virtual state and not the high-order time-varying continuous functions that FRP uses."

> Denotative languages better convey the global structure of a program. We can fully understand an expression by its subexpressions, and their subexpressions, recursively. There are no spooky action-at-a-distance side-effects that can manipulate things from afar. We don’t have to read the entire codebase to ensure we understand a single piece; we must merely read its subexpressions, recursively. This allows us to quickly rule out what we do and do not need to read, saving us a lot of time in large codebases.

I don't disagree that using concrete, non-abstracted state is a simpler way to model state-related problems, but this isn't about modeling and solving state-related problems, it's about solving them in a way that's maintainable. It's easy to argue for simplicity now (i.e. when first approaching a problem) and we have many, many tools for using state for that, like ipython notebooks, or pen and paper. But let's point out that simplicity of these initial concrete-state-minded approaches tend to grow into entangled messes, messes that are arguably solved by encapsulation and patterns. Regardless of whether they do solve the problem, having to understand things like inheritance and all their related problems kind of defeats the purpose of using state to make the problem simpler to understand in the long run. Which is what FRP purports to solve. Except we don't have the pen and paper for FRP yet.

"The great irony is that nobody on the planet thinks of spreadsheets as time-varying continuous functions."

True. No one thinks that. The author doesn't think that. Probably not even the folks who made the neat stats-oriented spreadsheet[0] thinks that, and that's data as continuously varying as you can get.

All of this kind of props up the title which is that FRP is grossly misunderstood.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18785371
Expanding vocabulary, remembering historical facts, memorising national flags, English counties and US states, remembering facts about programming languages.

For things like flags, counties, etc. it works great - I can now recognise more or less every flag in the world and the total time allotted is probably less than an hour.

For things like vocabulary, historical facts and especially programming language stuff it's not quite as useful - a little bit of context helps here to really cement these concepts in memory and spaced repetition doesn't work as well when what you are remembering is less "atomic". It also makes it harder work and less fun - this is a sign that you are stretching yourself a little of course, which will pay dividends if you put in the effort. It does make it more of a chore though. Overall, it's still a time saver.

One thing I've noticed using Anki is that I often find myself struggling to remember something the other way round. E.g. I will have learned a word X (front of the card) with definition Y (back of the card), but then I find myself at some point in life trying to think of a word with roughly definition Y and I can't quite remember the word X even though I'm aware this is something I've put into Anki. I think I might try doing cards both ways round but this can introduce some complexity since a one -> one mapping can then be many -> one when reversed (at least with English vocabulary, might work better with other things).
Ah, so that's what makes a man great. Not their accomplishments and failures, but how aggressively they self promote.
I just wish it stopped recommending me years old videos from my subscribed channels that I've already watched. -_-
This makes me think of those articles where they talk about people retiring from the US to places like Chile where their retirement dollars take them much further. Will be interesting to see if this trend increases and what impact “exporting your elderly” will have on the places importing them.
I would stay way from the Edgeswitch products as well, unless you like switches that randomly reboot and support that is basically useless.
I'm less worried by manipulation and misinformation in general than by the thought that there are people who somehow believe that this is a new phenomenon.
This sort of structure where a hard but brittle material is mated with a softer but elastic substrate is also one of humankind’s great innovations. Through trial and error bladesmiths learned to work steel in a way such that the edge of a tool or weapon blade would harden and better keep its sharpness, while the spine would be made flexible and shatter-resistant. These opposite properties are now known to arise from different crystalline phases, or allotropes, of (carbon-alloyed) iron, in particular martensite and austenite.
I was at a school graduation yesterday for preschoolers (yes, we do that in these parts of the world!). Part of the speech of the guest of honour talked about raising kids. His advice was that while we are usually bombarded with messages of things to do, he said that the most important things are the stuff that we should avoid. We teach our kids to fear, for example. This he said does a lot more damages later in life - like anxiety disorder. Teaching kids dishonesty. He said that kids learn through our actions and speech. So, if the children learn that we, as adults, deal dishonestly with others then it becomes easier for them to also end acquiring such behaviours. Can't remember all the points though, now.
We know empirically that the vast majority of people who make tens of millions of dollars from their business don't give almost all of it to charity. So if we can agree on any moral framework, then I think it's fair to say that Sivers is, at least in this way, a "better" person than most, as most in his situation don't act so "good".
>much better at predicting

Citation needed
Is it really possible to apply CS skills to all hobbies? If yes then how do you apply CS to hobbies like woodworking or crochet? The only thing I can think of is a retail site, but then again why wouldn't you just use something like tindie?

Or should people who don't do coding related hobbies not do CS? Which is a special requirement just for this major. People in civil or biomedical engineering don't apply their majors to their hobbies.
> What can I say. My fellows did not cover AI, robotics or people management. Sounds like it's become a lot more of a practical degree in the last twenty years.

Honestly, it needs to be. Employers are not going to be impressed with grads who've not encountered basic things like version control by the time they've graduated - and it's irresponsible to market a degree as a stepping stone to a e.g. software engineering job without covering these basics properly.

The theory is still incredibly important - mathematics, algorithms, performance & time complexity, data structures etc. It underpins everything we do in industry. But there really needs to be some element of practical software engineering too because the vast majority of the UG cohort are there to get a job.
It helps to gain perspective. How did people in the great depression deal with those feelings? How did people in WWII deal with those feelings? How did people deal with those feelings when it seemed evident the world was about to end from nuclear holocaust? How did they deal with the feeling that the world would be catstrophically cold by the year 2000 (as my dad was taught in college)?

In almost every age of history that we can see, if you had put yourself in that time period, you would have been able to come up with plenty of plausible reasons to ask your question. But what happened? Sometimes, things got worse. Sometimes much worse! But often, things turned out far differently than you would have supposed.

I've observed two things in my relatively brief life: people in every age tend to think their problems are unique, and people in every age tend to be really bad at predicting the future.
Get a password manager?
Keyboards seems a pretty individual thing. I like Apple keyboards (even the touchbar ones), and think their standalone desktop keyboards are the best keyboards for programmers available.
Too much choice can be paralyzing, yes.
Devil's advocate: Doing the same thing at home with an online community and saving $100k?