skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>These new freedoms and liberties are created by technology

Okay... let's see:

>increased wealth distribution (globally)

Trend began before the internet (the subject at hand).

>changing social norms towards individual rights and equality

Trend began before the internet (the subject at hand).

>I can, for example, participate in international engineering efforts from any one of a billion places with steady internet that will allow me to stay.

Irrelevant to the subject at hand.

>I can eat a greater variety of foods than my grandparents enjoyed. I can do research and study about my own medical alignments and make better informed decisions about my healthcare than every before. I have the option to marry anyone that agrees to it, regardless of race or gender. I can practice the religion of my choosing openly.

All irrelevant to the subject at hand.

>I understand that there is a lot of pain and a large risk of group think associated with our global information system. I have the individual freedom to choose which information sources I tune into, and I have never had a greater variety than today.

Disagree. It isn't about your basic individual freedom to choose. You can choose, yes. But it is about the field of vision presented to the focus of your mind, or rather the collective mind. It is about the narrowing of that field of view. Narrow the field of view: narrow the choices people believe they have. This, in effect, narrows their choices, regardless of their ability, or freedom, to choose.
> The patents are then being licensed back to Magic Leap.

Do you have any evidence for that idea, or are you just making things up?
But that's not the choice, the choice is between paying the fine or being unable to use the library.

The whole idea behind fines is that 1) imposing fines motivates people to return books on time and 2) disabling future borrowing motivates people to pay the fine, thereby making the motivation from 1 actually work. I don't think it's an "of course" level of obviousness that this scheme doesn't work in practice—otherwise libraries would have abandoned fines long ago.
Kinda makes you wonder why they didn’t simulate it before they flew the test.
This feels like a good use case for HN's mysterious title revision policy. Something that sounds less like we blew past the singularity overnight?
On tge bigger 100 list, this one I kinda still believe. Mostly with games.

"Software with version numbers ending in '.0' are buggy and you should wait until the next release."
I work in digital for the Democratic Party. You are correct. If you look at my comment history you’ll see me affirming this.
Remarkable how banks just, always win.
This is an absurd framing that presupposes roads are closed to the poor already (they're not) and that fairness is misplaced (it isn't). Wealth should not be a factor in whether one can hold a driver's license or not. Everyone pays road taxes.
Newly elected FL governor, in the first 6 months in the office, offered some positive developments in this area.

Computer science and math were addressed explicitly

https://www.flgov.com/2019/06/24/governor-ron-desantis-signs...

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Highlights of CS/HB 7071 include:

- Establishing the “Florida Pathways to Career Opportunities Grant Program,” which provides competitive grants to eligible institutions to create or expand apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs.

- Requiring a reverse transfer between Florida universities and colleges to award an associate in arts degree to students who have completed necessary requirements.

- Requiring career centers and Florida College System institutions to establish regional career pathways guaranteeing college credit toward an aligned associate degree program for eligible students who graduate with a certificate from a career center.

- Establishing the “Last Mile Scholarship Program,” that will pay for eligible individuals to finish their first associate or baccalaureate degree.

- Creating increased opportunities for students to take high quality computer science courses in high school by allowing students to count one course as either a require science or required math credit.

- Codifying Governor DeSantis’ required audit of career and technical education, from Executive Order 19-31, as an annual requirement to ensure high quality pathways for students.

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I'm mostly amused by this -
> 6. CS professors know how to program.

Back in grad school, we had an Algorithms Professor who was my advisor & wrote several important papers. We also had a PL professor who mostly taught Lisp/C/C++ etc. One day PL professor fell ill. So Algo Prof was sent in as a substitute. So he tried to divert the class attention by going into algorithm detail instead of focusing on programming language theory. But homework was due next week, so students asked him about some C nuance. So Prof said I don't know, but I'll let you know by next class. Then he hurried back to his room & tried to read up on C but obviously couldn't make much headway. In those days we had Usenet & that was it. So the Prof goes on Usenet & clicks on comp.lang.c. In those days I used to fancy myself a C hacker & I hung around on newsgroups trying to help out newbies. So I see this frustrated question from a newbie "HOW TO OPEN FILE FROM C ???" and I click on it so I can help this poor miserable bastard. Turns out it is from my Professor! The footer had his entire credentials like PhD, list of papers published, teaching career etc. So everybody on comp.lang was mocking this idiot who had a PhD in CS but didn't know how to open a fucking file with C. I was so embarrassed I rushed into his office & demanded how he could make a fool of himself like that. "You could have just asked me about fopen, why did you post in public that too with your real name ??! " He was like I've never used all this newsgroup stuff I barely know how to telnet. This was my first post I thought they will help me but they are just heaping abuse.
Why not simply save the backup codes on a couple usb keys encrypted with a reasonably long password that you can remember, and leave one at home and one in another geographical area (e.g. parents house)? I do that and feel pretty good in completely ditching SMS 2fa. Once a year or so I plug the USB keys to check they still work. I, like you, don’t expect to be a target and have a very minimal social media/web presence with my real name.
Confluence is broken. Here's how I plan to fix it
I read that book a few months ago and agree 100%. I would also add that not only is the predictive technology a way to guide and shape your life using nudges, but it also is sort of required by the logic of capitalist society. These kinds of technologies are used to accelerate consumerism, which accelerates further both production, environmental degradation, degrades working conditions, and (most importantly) further concentrates wealth in the hands of the capitalists.

In capitalist society, if growth stalls, it leads to riots. The only way a capitalist society can present a face where some of the population feels like they are being taken care of is when the amount of wealth is increasing generally enough that the inequality isn't as sharply felt. Advertising, credit, and other behavioral nudges are accelerants of growth.

Of course, when things break down enough, Alexa will also be able to act as an arm of the state for gathering intelligence. I look forward with horror to the day when it is installed by default into housing.
What?

Which side are you on?

Pick a side.
Alexa is banned from my house. No eavesdropping allowed.
You are correct, it does.
Yep, and yet I’ve been able to successfully implement it in a 1 year project in a prior org (as part of a team obviously). HITRUST isn’t that bad, and it’s better than the alternative, which is HIPAA directly. I would best describe HIPAA as Vague, Fruitless, Bureaucratic, and Arbitrary. HITRUST is a huge improvement even if it’s not perfect.
Aussie here, I get the odd one on mobile, but get a couple a week on my land line numbers.

Land line numbers are also registered with Do Not Call, but doesn't make any difference.

Answer the call and there will be either:

1) a few second pause and then a person will drop in with the call centre voice noise in the background.

2) a few second pause and if there is no sound (you saying "hello") it will hang up.

Those are usually from international call centres. In terms of locally based ones, got a couple during the election with a recorded voice saying "this is an important message from XYZ politician".
Ouch. Portal is one of my favorites, but partly because I really loved GLaDOS. (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System)

Without her constant prodding at you, I think the game would lose both charm and player motivation. I'd imagine the pacing takes a hit as a result.

Here's one of my favorite examples of a bad translation to English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFg6QOlV-EE

It's an NES game, but before I spoil it for you, try to figure out which one by letting the music play out.
A concern is that when the "new normal" is "no fines" then there is no room to offer any sort of "limited amnesty," i.e. you have no more cards left to play.
As a co-founder of a fintech company, I absolutely 100% agree with this. When the company was 1 person, sure, you can revel in how you implemented some cool data structure or algorithm. But once you scale, none of that really matters anymore. Organization is more important to get people to work together, understand each other's code and generally just execute the product....

Also, this recent article from HN is a good pairing with OP's: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/cs-falsehoods.html
Any advice on finding a small object you need infrequently in say a parent's house? I have a poor track record with that sort of thing that makes me hesitant.
This is just an anecdote, but everyone and everything about Magic Leap has always struck me as pretentious, elitist, and ego-driven.

I walked by their booth at GDC a couple years ago, and tried to struck up a conversation with the representatives. I was essentially shooed away and given a sticker.

Later on that night, an invite to their Magic Leap party was sent to a telegram channel with an open invitation to 'come hang'. The only problem: the invite was sent 10 minutes before it was wrapping up, almost like a "look at our party you aren't invited to".
RFC 2046 multipart/digest

A standardized method of sending a set of email messages as messages, rather than copied into body text, predates Microsoft Outlook.
The Earth is not nearly out of any such capacity.

It might be running out of capacity to do so without changing in ways we care about. Possibly.

But I do note that there is a distinct lack of interest in any attempts to solve that problem other than shrinking the population or dismantling our economies or ending any semblance of liberty.

Indeed, most of the proposals are so extreme and draconian that they would lead to much more misery and death than simply doing nothing.

Nobody is interested in even considering alternatives. Research to solve the problem is ongoing, but barely funded at all -- and yet tons of things are possible.

Sure, fusion is interesting.

But, other things are too. Safe and plentiful fission power would help, and is available today.

Work on the chemistry of photosynthesis is promising -- imagine a truly carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuel (the carbon in the fuel having come out of the air through artificial "plants"), but is barely funded at all.

Direct carbon sequestration is an expensive, but possible, option (probably cheaper than just rolling society back to the middle ages!)

But 99.9% of the energy is instead spent on terrible fantasies like "fundamentally restructuring" the economy away from profit and liberty.

Because there is no desire to actually work the problem. Just like the original Malthus didn't care about the plight of the "surplus population," but instead had a political axe to grind.
The best thing about facts is I have no need to convince people of anything. Facts are true whether we believe in them or not, and someday reality will come along to inform us of those facts rather painfully if we choose to ignore them.

It’s of course best to be polite, but we should not prioritize kindness over correctness. Not in fields of knowledge. You are either right, or you are wrong, there’s not much grey area in computing and STEM.
When you have the money to spend, you find ways to spend it.
I wonder if you can redefine the problem to not have a "good actor" distinction. For instance, instead of the normal term-based borrowing, say that every taxpayer gets, say, 10 books at a time, funded by the state (to promote education/culture/whatever). You can swap out those books as often as you want. You can also hold onto those books as long as you want. If they come back damaged or you lose them, they continue to count against your quota (possibly subject to a jubilee mechanism). At no point do you owe anyone anything. Also, the library is under no obligation to buy unbounded copies of any single book: they can have a hold system for popular new releases just like we do now. Only books the library can reasonably acquire more copies of (i.e., in print or public domain) are in this system; rare books maybe follow the current system or maybe aren't loanable.

People who are heavy library users aren't affected by this, they can do what they've been doing. People who want to hold onto a book for years can do that too (and the library might decide to buy more copies), but they're no longer exhibiting bad behavior and there's no reason to disincentivize them.
Great list.
I would add: ‘Coding and software development are the same thing’
How would keeping things exactly the same hurt working class people? Making the port more efficient helps business and consumers, but not workers who are continuously ground into the dirt, commanded, and deprived of basic necessities. These workers have a decent job because they have banded together to challenge management through their union.

Unfortunately, making things efficient on management's terms means that workers are fired rather than sharing in the fruits of a more efficient company. Only democratic ownership of the companies by the working class can change this equation. Then improved efficiency would be enacted on the workers' terms and would actually improve the lives of ordinary people.
Most of them, if it's a real passion rather than something they could do without, have enough self-discipline and concern for others to go through medical school first, but there's also Jeffrey Dahmer and soldiers. There are intermediate outlets; Body Worlds, for example, and a friend of mine does taxidermy as a hobby. On non-human animals he doesn't have to kill because they're already dead.
“ The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.”
I share that opinion and wholeheartedly agree, but I refrained for fear of controversy derailing the point. If it were "merely" a very early replica that was infinitely better preserved, it would still be of better historical record value.
No, you can't do full sensor readout at 960fps. You can only do 960fps by shooting at 2MP and keeping only 8 bits of data per pixel (or even less). Full sensor readout rates on phones are closer to 20-30 fps IIRC. And even that comes with caveats (no exposure adjustment, shutter speed must be faster than a certain amount, etc..). And that's at the low resolutions phones have. And then when you start hitting the limits of readout speed you start increasing rolling shutter issues and so on.
> Where is the underyling data to that Rand study?

The paper prominently links to it. https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/methodology.html

> I'm glad you arent arguing with my analysis of it so far.

What analysis?

> Your comment about the graphic is rather pointless, the links are at the bottom.

Single variable analysis without including obvious covariates is about the laziest possible analysis I've seen, which is why it leads to ridiculous results.

> Specifically, which stat on the graphic are you disagreeing with? The top one?

Again, I'm not saying anything about the data. It's the utterly incompetent analysis of the data that I take issue with.

As far as the first one, as a matter of public policy, it doesn't matter what the predominant use is, it matters what the net effect is, which has been shown to be negative time and again.

Response to your response.

> So by "every analysis" you mean "at least one study".

Let me get this straight. Your argument is that because there is at least one methodologically sound analysis of the data that shows concealed carry leads to violent crime at the time of the survey and no analysis otherwise, you remain unconvinced?

> Ya. I know.

Then why did you bring it up? It seems obvious to me that you didn't know.

> By "time and time [sic] again" are you referring to the so far data-less Rand study?

As I said, the Rand paper is a survey. Check the bibliography for the data. As far as "at least one," for one thing, you only need one, and for another, the other relaxed gun laws have even more methodologically sound analyses showing negative effects. That's what I meant by "time and again."
>> Democracy doesn't restrain people, really?

> Not socially, not when it comes to the individual relations.

My democracy has produced a very long list of laws that I must follow or they will put me in jail.

> I didn't mean convicing or voting are pointless, but it's not the end-all, be-all.

I absolutely agree with you on this. As I see it Democracy as it is is largely a fraud, when compared to how it is advertised to be.

> So it's up to their betters to enforce their lack of consequence and intellectual integrity on them. They can't leave it at "failed to convince".

Oh but they can leave it at "failed to convince", is that not more or less precisely where we are at, with little sign of a likelihood we'll be moving beyond it any time soon? This is the point I am trying to make, that no climate change enthusiast one seems willing to even consider. The irony of the situation is delicious.

> Who will "convince Trump", for example?

It's not Trump that needs convincing, it is the public. Understanding in detail why people voted for Trump in the first place would have yielded very valuable knowledge that could have been used towards persuading people to support fighting climate change, but instead we seem to have chosen to use our imaginations to decide why people voted for him. People who behave this way, which is mostly everyone I've encountered, are unintelligent in this respect, and the same style of thinking seems to be what is being deployed in the public relations campaign against climate change. I wish you luck, but it doesn't seem to be producing much change, so I will continue to advocate for improvements in strategy.

> You are simply are assuming good faith

Incorrect, I am assuming nothing, except where I have explicitly noted. You on the other hand, *seem to be assuming bad faith. You may be right, but I would recommend studying the matter to find out for sure.

> so what's your answer to where that isn't the case?

As always, I recommend studying the situation: find out the detailed reasons why people do not support climate change, study what the failures seem to be in why the current messaging is unsuccessful, make iterative changes to the strategy, and measure results as you go. If people thought of the situation more like playing a video game, perhaps that would diminish the sense of identity involved and result in the ability to think more clearly (for example, thinking of people as having mental health defects).
Search that Redbooks site for 'abcs of systems programming'. There's a 5-volume set from 2000 that covers S/390 and OS/390.

Also check out the OS/390 ADCD Redbook:

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246204.pdf

Which I found pretty helpful for finding my way around. (I see from the cover that it includes MP3000 info!)

Edit: Have you seen this? (I think this guy hangs out on HN)

ftp://ps-2.kev009.com/incoming/timc/PDFS/IBM/S370%20&%20S390/MultiPrise%203000
Case Study on Synthego
Alexa, or as I say 'computer', really helps cook food with timers. I'm kind of fine with giving up privacy in exchange for useful tools.
Haha no. My dad has a lock safe where they store jewels and important documents, and I just put it there.
Ha! Of course they did. Thanks for the link.
At the very top of the PDF, it says this is a patent security agreement, which is a common way to use patents as collateral for a loan. JP Morgan will only own the patents if Magic Leap defaults on the loan.

You can read more about patent security agreements here:

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2012/06/21/getting-a-loan-with-yo...
It is anecdotal in nature, and should be interpreted as such. But they're still pretty useful for those without much experience or for individuals that have a difficult time with this type of situational awareness.

While they're certainly not always true, they're conditions that one should be aware of the possibility of. One particular anecdote in the article:

> Disagreements are often about the underlying fundamental assumptions and world views that are so core to a person he can’t articulate them, any more than a fish can see water.

Has been a fundamental component of my career. I've spent time working in virtually every major business function (from marketing to software engineering teams), giving me a very well rounded understanding of the (often very) different lenses that different types of people and different job functions view things. Now, I spend more and more time getting pulled into client servicing work, as I'm able to jump down the rabbit hole with any stakeholder that ends up in the room, using the same viewpoint and thought process they do to assuage and concerns they have.
I'm gonna pull a No True Bootstrapper; if your ancestor had such a luxury as a mail bag, then they were not as hardcore as https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA/vid...

My ancestors survived the Oregon Trail, and so what? At some point this degenerates into, say, "spoken like a true toilet-paper user."
Yeah, they have a devkit you can get. Its neat but with no install base and Hololens looming over them, there's not much to talk about.
It's a good idea in theory. Receive books in the mail, return books in the mail.

I imagine the main cost-factor is size/weight of the books. The post office having to deliver an encyclopedia would be more costly than delivering a small paperback.

Maybe there's a way to work around that. It would at least encourage the readership of physical books (and maybe books in general). I don't go to to the library either, and really don't read books that much, but it certainly would be interesting to have the capacity to see reading materials online and have them mailed to me. Then again, if they are currently available for free at the library today, I suppose there's only so many excuses to make for my own laziness.
> was the only known person to survive a fall from the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud.

Perhaps that's technically correct but Ewa Wiśnierska rose from ground level to 10km to the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm and came down 4 hours later 60km away. It's an amazing story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_Wi%C5%9Bnierska

https://www.theage.com.au/national/after-flying-to-the-heave...
Do you think that people care about the difference between only detecting wakewords and actual continual listening? My understanding from people I’ve talked to with smart speakers in their homes is that they’ve accepted that it’s listening all the time.
No smartphones either then? Even when guests come over?
> a few tens of thousands of dev kits

I'd be willing to bet that it's more like a few thousand at most. Does anyone here know anyone with a Magic Leap One (maybe yes, since this is Hacker News, but still...)?