skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a Job isn't the only benefit of an education...an education is a benefit in and of itself. Society benefits from having an educated public. Society does not benefit from being in debt.

Your logic is as follows: if college degree doesn't get a job, then don't go to college.

Your logic breaks down because not going to college isn't going to get you a job either.
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> What made it so fascinating?

Like the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the biggest factor was probably the relatively cheap price. Households who may never have considered purchasing a computer otherwise, could dabble in one thanks to the Speccy and C64.

Other reasons:

• The sheer hands-on access: You could DO things the instant it was powered on. Even if nothing else (except a TV of course) was connected.

Almost nothing was off limits. You could program right away, unlike the $500+ devices of today that you can't even use as a simple calculator without needing an ""operating system"" and updating it and creating an account and picking a password and giving your phone number then downloading an ""app"" from the internet! (exaggerated snark but you know)

• All of the software that was made for it would run on it.

Let that seemingly obvious statement sink in for a second.

When you purchased a C64 or Speccy game or app, there was a very high assurance that it would run on all C64s or Speccies out-of-the-box. That greatly reduced the barriers for non-techie people to warm up to computers.

If something needed extra hardware, like RAM or peripherals, it would say so on the box right up front, though it was mostly for the 16K/48K Spectrum differences and supporting software for third-party add-ons.

• The subculture.

This is the best part for me. There were lots of weird and funky magazines. Everybody was new to it all. Everyone was excited about everything. Entire new genres were being spawned before your eyes.

All the developers were learning as they went. When you look at early C64 games and compare them with later stuff by say Thalamus or Apex, it will seem like they are for entirely different systems. So even without buying new hardware, it was like you effectively got free upgrades throughout the machine's lifetime! :)

Bruce Lee (1984): https://youtu.be/gRGGWWvvO0o?t=31

Creatures (1990): https://youtu.be/SDDkxfJCB9Y?t=2m35s

and yes, those catchy soundtracks spawned a whole another subculture of their own (see SID chiptune remixes.)
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Kafkaesque is indeed the right term. I wonder if Governments can be 'optimized' by combing out complexity the way an organization can.

To other HN readers, what recourse do the people in the article have?
Some people want to hear some message and are willing to close their eyes and throw all logic away. So are easy to con. All cults and hardcore trump fans come to mind.
This question appears in https://controlleddigitallending.org/faq. Specifically for our sponsorship program at this stage, we decided to limit eligible books to those we had no copies of (in the interest of maximizing preservation -- we're as much an archive as we are a library).

In general we're not thrilled about books being destroyed. There's always someone who can benefit from a book. Also, one never knows when a book may have to be scanned again because a digital copy could theoretically become lost, corrupt, or benefit from new tech (e.g. a palimpsest). These are all big reasons our digitization process is explicitly non-destructive.

http://openlibraries.online describes how we are working with other Library partners and including them in our model to help make works more broadly available.

None of this directly answers your question which is probably better answered by a lawyer. I'm just a fake librarian.
I think the real answer was it was one of the first computers that made sense; it was relatively cheap, especially compared to IBM, but had 64k of memory and color graphics (and better color graphics than IBM had, at that.) It boots directly to BASIC and comes with a book that explains the machine and how to write code for it. I don’t think that was uncommon for the era, but seriously, imagine that today!

The Commodore 64’s appeal never really ended. I was born in ‘93 so there’s not really any nostalgia in it for me, but I just recently bought a broken Commodore 64 and got it all working.

For one thing, there’s something to be said about the simplicity. 3 screws gets you into the computer, and ~6 more gets the motherboard out. The board is simple, only 2 layers, and you can debug it with a logic probe and not really much else. Most chips have fairly distinct functions, except the VIC-2 and SID chips which each handle a laundry list of things aside from their primary jobs of generating video and audio signals.

It’s an interesting machine because it is a fairly consistent platform. People still write demos and games, and they still run on pretty much any Commodore 64. Well OK, you probably need a PAL one, but that’s a single jumper, a different VIC-II, and a different clock away. (Someone this October just created a module that lets you switch by using 4 relays that connect to the jumper, 2 VIC chips and 2 clocks. I installed this in my C64.) You can count instructions, race the beam, flip registers mid scanline, and all kinds of fun stuff, and it will probably work on another C64 just the same.

The community has created some seriously cool stuff, both software and hardware wise. Hardware wise the 1541 Ultimate-II is mindblowing. It plugs into the userport and floppy drive ports (and optionally, datasette port) and emulates, with cycle accuracy and even a speaker producing drive-like noises, a Commodore 1541 floppy drive, a REU memory expansion, and a host of other devices. It even has ethernet for FTPing to.

In short, the thing is, it’s quite honestly still fascinating. It is a computer you can understand, yet seemingly holds unlimited tricks, and there’s an enormous ecosystem that is somehow still growing.
Throw in passive cooling please! Still waiting for the iBOX-R1000 to become available. Meanwhile more options are very welcome.
It'd be the case for anyone in the UK where fees for education are relatively new. I'm making an assumption about the poster though. I paid a tiny amount in 1999 in the UK, but fees increased significantly since then. Your response is how I understand it to have been here in the US, but I suspect that the rate of inflation in the education market is much higher now than what "boomers" had to deal with. That doesn't change that they had to work during school or take on loans, but it did change their long-term outlook.
I think belief in conspiracies serves the same end as wishful thinking -- we can blame others for creating the evils of the world. Us-vs-them thinking also serve our need for being surrounded by 'friends', something you can do only if you have enemies. So inventing conspiracies and enemies are great ways to give yourself comfort amid a messy largely random world you can't control. If only we could get rid of our enemies, our world would be a much better place.
On youtube you find many respectable and smart people massively overestimating the risk of lead exposure when coming in contact with it for a project, making sure nobody ever touches lead without gloves.
It was cheap, durable, and ubiquitous. It had sound and graphics capabilities far in excess of any of it's contemporaries (at that price point, at least). It was also quite open and came with a manual with lots of neat technical detail.

It also had quite a nice keyboard, even by today's standards.

They really don't make them like that any more.
I love this project and have started to participate on the platform, thanks @ericvanular!

If anyone lives in New York and would like a real-life community extension of this idea, you're welcome to join us in getting this meetup group off the ground.

https://www.meetup.com/New-York-Climate-Change-Meetup-Group/
The 3950X is suggested to use with a liquid cooler, but I would be amazed if one of the dual tower coolers like the Dark Rock Pro4 or Noctua DH15 didn't work fine in a case with good airflow.

threadrippers don't require liquid cooling, they have a larger heat spreader and lower peak clocks so heat is more manageable.
> No pressure, no public commenting and no rejection

Adults need to learn how to handle rejection. It's so essential to learning how to be happy in the real world.

People who are lonely because they fear rejection need to fix the fear of rejection part before they will actually experience a real friendship. Being open with each other is essential to friendship, and being open risks rejection.

Friendship isn't a individualistic pursuit, it involves multiple personalities and is full of risk and rejection. No reward without risk, contrary to what you might be sold on to mask your social anxiety.
Steven De Keninck is the author of ganja.js (https://github.com/enkimute/ganja.js).

Check out this demo https://observablehq.com/@enkimute/animated-orbits

He's also created a community for people into Geometric Algebra, bivector.net.
Join the discord channel, https://discord.gg/vGY6pPk
Kinda curious what the total TRS80 numbers were as well, those were the 2 options in my day(s), the C64 vs TRS80(CC) ... I don't know what the economics of it were which made parents choose the TRS (Tandy/RadioShack maybe?), the C64 eventually made it's way to ToysRUs and other outlets.
The rich live pretty good lives in most places and only leave for greater opportunity.

The poor have few places to go and no resources to go anywhere.
This is what happened in the UK, tuition was free until fees were introduced at the tail end of GenX (quickly abolished in Scotland, more or less). I don’t think it was ever “free” in the US but until recently (GenX again?) it could be covered by a summer job in many cases. Obviously now it is absolutely bonkers in the US, and as it stands the more elite universities in England, Wales and NI are rapidly headed in that direction.
"Hello World" in Electron is 100MB. That's the bare minimum. It's quite insane.
Interview with Director of Product Management at Twitter
The Scientific Case for Focused-Attention Meditation
I've dipped my toes into embedded rust from time to time. Can you give me an example or two of how you would use async/await in an embedded environment? I'm just curious about how it would work.
People are adjusting for inflation, but the rate of inflation on education has increased significantly without a stepwise increase in income or value from that education.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a rootkit ?
What's next? A graphics driver in browser ?
Seriously the browser looks more and more like malware.
First, there is no IQ barrier. I have several friends who, based on psychologist-administered IQ tests, are very, very close to average, who do well in the industry, usually better than me. They worked hard to get where they wanted to go. Sure, you probably can't do this work if you have an IQ under 85, but the same can be said for most any knowledge or even office job. It's not like we're unique in that regard.

Second, a "genetic bottleneck"? That absolutely reeks of genetic elitism. It implies, rather heavily, that they are genetically superior to those who cannot (or just don't) do this work.

The idea that we are special because no one understands us - finance, biotech, pharmaceuticals... No one really gets those, either.
I wonder how much it costs to get a PR piece like this on TechCrunch. Does anyone know?
For many people (me included), the motion sickness aspect IS non-existent.
This is what you want: https://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/

I have the Intel version (running Hackintosh). It's very fast and quiet. Only downside is no Thunderbolt.
Charges were dropped.

It's not clear why, but it sounds like the new AG realized there was some irregularity in the investigation that could scupper the prosecution at trial.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/us/flint-water-crisis-cha...
There were some subtle differences between these models. Most notably the sound chip.
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>> for the average user, not as much

Actually there are workloads on which they will heavily benefit the average user as well. Image processing and video editing come to mind especially. You may argue that few users do this on a PC nowadays, but that's mostly oversight by OS developers. MS should revive Movie Maker. I used it a lot 10 years ago when my kid was little. Apple already ships iPhotos and iMovie with every new mac, and both of them are pretty great for what they were designed for. Then there's also more and more 4K content on youtube by the day. My 5 year old iMac does spin up its fans quite a lot nowadays.

I think it's also a good time to start moving some of the AI workloads to the edge as well. It's ridiculous that we have near instantaneous on-device speech recognition on phones now, but PCs still have to dial back home and incur perceptible latency. I want local speech recognition out of the box in Windows and MacOS (and ideally Linux as well), with automatic punctuation and robust to background noise.
A tech startup, whose name I will not be sharing here. :)
Your point regarding regulation is quite pertinent. How do you refute the idea that strict regulation will create a non-navigable mess?
If you look at the code in the repo, each component has comments (jsdoc?) which are parsed and rendered as part of the storybook:

https://github.com/flexport/latitude/blob/master/Text.jsx#L6...
https://www.flexport.com/design/components/Text
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Absolutely. I'm not saying that it can't help or that it isn't helping in the short-term. I'm saying that the long-term net effect could still be negative even with short-term positive effects.

The original implication is that short-term positive -> long-term positive, which is simply not true.
The JavaScript world is pretty close to this. Not quite everything is async, but almost everything is async-first.
I'm not a member of BI Prime (nor do I have any intention of becoming one), so I can't see what they use to justify that bullet point.

Even given studies that show a link, there's a big difference between requiring a minimum IQ of 85 to join the US Armed Forces (as mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Intelligence Quotient) compared to asserting a minimum IQ of 120 (or whatever) to be a software developer, as amosquito seems to be doing in their comment ("...massive IQ-based barrier to entry..."). Of course there has to be some floor of intelligence to perform the job—but I'd argue it's a lot lower than many in our field believe.
This is why I hate it when people think there are N possible cases, and in a cascading if/else construct they only check for N-1 conditions and assume the remaining all fall within the Nth case. Thing is application logic in the real world is often fuzzy, it is entirely possible to overlook certain possibilities (which may or may not arise from bugs elsewhere); and even if you have considered all cases at present, future changes to other parts of the code may inadvertently introduce new possibilities.

Personally, I always check for all N conditions, and raise an exception when "the impossible" happens; this way, the application would fail noisily instead of silently doing something unintended. However, sometimes other people would "optimize" away my last condition, which is very frustrating.

Edit: Checking for all N cases helps with readability too. Otherwise one has to figure out what exactly is the remaining case by exclusion, which is sometimes not at all obvious.
In expensive/rich countries, used quality items in good condition are cheap. People prefer buying new and often get rid of old things that still work.

In poor countries, people don't buy new things as much, often are of lower quality and have less apprehension buying used if it's a good deal.
It was a bit of sarcasm, as it is exactly comparable. Go look at a globe and tell me which other countries have “America” in their name ;)
Then you'd believe anything.

They were studying genealogy as the Aryans that they claimed descent also conquered that region in prehistory.
I think they just want artificial exclusivity, similar to how Facebook was university only in the early stages.

You are not limited to browser technologies. There's React native, Flutter and some other cross platform frameworks. What super new OS level features a social messaging app needs?
I do not assert the dichotomy.

If the option to resist the imposition is not presented, the question of consent has not been called.

The act occurs without consent but also without dissent.

When likely future intent is made known by past actions, the question of consent has been called and may be answered.

You raise an interesting challenge and it is a scenario I haven't considered before. I am happy to discuss it and any other issues you find with my morality, but I would prefer if we could please agree that language is an approximation of meaning, attempt to seek clarity before semantic assertions, and that I be allowed to speak for myself.
It seems like Terry Pratchett was on to something with "headology"
>It seems like there isn't any thought being put into possible edge cases for policy and here seems to be little recourse for people to get out of it

There's often someone who wants to fix the bug when it comes up but unless it's mission critical over time it drops in priority and fades into the nothingness of the backlog and in the rare instances when the bug comes up it still keeps getting dealt with manually.

This isn't unique to government but the fact that government has a monopoly on many of the services it provides and the onus is often on the citizen to take action to avoid some sort of default action against them certainly does not help them find motivation to fix the edge cases quickly.
They were looking for some golang devs.
It's not that they are aligned with the government, necessarily. Rather, they are aligned with large advertisers, and those tend to be powerful companies and conglomerates with global interests.

Essentially, if you're a media outlet, you'll try hard to not piss off the hand that is feeding you, and Chomsky's assertion is that this is how the media manufactures consent (for all the horrible things the government does to defend the interests of those advertisers abroad).
This problem has been solved already:

http://whythefuckwasibreached.com/
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And what if that mental model is fundamentally wrong? I mean, let's not beat around the bush here. Divination (including astrology) is pseudoscience. There's no evidence for any of it. The psychic preys upon vulnerable people seeking advice about problems in their lives. It's all snake oil, only for the mind instead of the body. Sure, some snake oil salesman's elixir might make a sick person feel better (probably because they were full of opium!), but that elixir will do nothing to treat the underlying disease. That's not medicine. That's not counseling. That's deceptive and unethical and immoral by any professional standard.
Choices are only choices if they are enlightened. It assumes there is no manipulation on the other end, which in the current case is false.
Wouldn't that be the same inside any given intelligence organization, policing organization, etc?

People demanding answers of people who may not have them is part of the human condition.

Internal or external organizations all seem to encounter such problems.
There was no proxy view-source:https://not-an-aardvark.github.io/oauth-bypass-poc-fbdf56605...

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I agree that it is probably impossible to account for a lot of edge cases, but then that means there should be more generalized methods for recourse when people feel that the law hasn't accounted for their situation. It sounds like the courts in this situation were just deferring to existing law rather than realizing there is an issue with it and addressing it.
I think the point people were making/implying is that there is hardly any public support, or interest in this initiative by those who live in the city. It is more a kind of insider baseball between the politicians and the readers of such articles.
My understanding is that Rust is basically equivalent to C in this regard, in terms of concurrent writes to the same memory being per se undefined behavior. I think the JVM translates concurrent memory writes into hardware-appropriate atomics, so maybe a better translation from Java to Rust would be a large `Vec<AtomicUsize>` or something like that, rather than raw memory?
A missing semicolon has an entirely different connotation for C programmers and Lisp programmers.
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I remember the word from '90s demoscene. I always assumed it's a clunky direct translation from "grafiker", which means "graphics artist" in both Swedish and German.

Congratulations to your friend for this efficient space-efficient word coinage ;)
V8 is a JavaScript runtime that compiles JavaScript on the fly, so it seems reasonable to say that a runtime that compiles TypeScript on the fly is a TypeScript runtime.
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Tutorial: Counting road traffic with object detection pipeline
Yes, it’s extremely viable if you’re good at it.
Psychics don't have the right to defraud other people.
Hi, this is Dom, the starter of Amos.

The plan is definitely more than just books. We want to be the best recommendation engine for online learning resources - podcasts, videos, courses, stack overflow questions... Check out https://github.com/amosapp/amos/issues/2 for the current roadmap

When I say we - I'm actually working on the project alone. And I'm looking for cofounders! Lemme know if you'd like to work on this project too!

I'm organizing a launch party this evening. All you need is a Zoom client. Come join us at this link https://zoom.us/j/381352856! (BYOB ;)

Finally, let me say the whole project (code & content) is in the public domain. Check out www.solvio.org for the grander vision. Sorry for all the links and let's change the world!
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