skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are an assembly of atoms floating around pointlessly.

I mean... I do believe that. I also believe fervently that all of humanity's existence is an insignificant stray mark in the book that is reality. For some people that's a fundamentally depressing idea, followed by "well then why do we even exist?" For others that's liberating. For me... that line of thinking doesn't lead to any practical conclusions about what you should do, so I tend to keep my thinking at levels of abstraction that are somewhat more Earth-sized (or smaller) in scope.

But more broadly, the point I was getting at is that I don't think people in general spend much time thinking about the multiple possible perspectives/beliefs that can be held about their actions, or about the second order effects of their actions, and my personal plea is for more people to do that.

Even more specifically, this time speaking about conversations I've actually had, if you are one of the thousands of engineers whose job is to crunch data ever more efficiently, perhaps it's worth spending some time mulling over why it's not kosher to just pull that customer data into the training data for a new ML model without getting consent first. I promise it's not because stupid laypeople want to make your job difficult.
Does mastodon have a tool that can create regular back ups to email to you??? Seems relevant for a common problem like this
> And you're acting like it's some impenetrable tome. Give it a read, it's a better intro to OS dev than Tannenbaum, IMO.

That's not my point. Virtually no one was reading in code from Lion's book and compiling it.

Today, if someone has a bunch of code written for Rasp. Pi, you can download it from Github, change a few lines (to blink a different light or something), and then run your own changed version yourself.

The C64 manuals of the 80s were the most similar in this regard: people would faithfully type the code written in the C64 manuals into their C64, and "learn" by tweaking those programs.

In contrast, the Lion's book was basically theory. You wouldn't actually change the code, it was there for deeper learning purposes.

> And a RPi has tons of still hidden bits, and an Arduino is even less powerful than most PDP-11s.

Arduino is the beginner microcontroller. You'll quickly graduate to STM32 if you need to push more processing power.

But with that being said: Arduino / ATMega328p is built like a tank. The lax electrical characteristics make ATMega328p much better for beginner electronic engineers: you can be quite far off on voltages and still have a working system.

In contrast: send 5V down a 3.3V pin on STM32, and you'll fry it. ATMega328p can actually take that kind of abuse in most cases.

STM32 is fully open and small enough to fully understand as well. But I dare say that most people probably only need the power of an Arduino / ATMega328p for most electronics projects. Having wider tolerances is better IMO, rather than spec-chasing.

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Or hell, buy both. The STM32 is $10 and the ATMega328p boards are also $10.

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/stmicroelectronics...

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/microchip-technolo...

This isn't a $500+ investment like it was back in the 80s. Things are way cheaper and easier to do, with plenty of free documentation. I mean, we have Github these days to share code and examples with friends. Its just so much easier to collaborate and learn compared to the past.
In order to get such early academic performance, the child has probably been trained very hard into enjoying corpus learning.

This makes it less likely for them to enjoy moving to a place where this topic is nonexistent.

Or, to say it in ML terms, it would be very surprising for this child to be trained so fast without overfitting.
Instances can A. block bots on themselves, B. block other instances known to harbor bots the same way they ban bots on their own instances, and if necessary C. whitelist federation if there is a pandemic of hostile actors.
Supportive personal anecdote:

I got PRK in somewhat unusual circumstances, paying $1.6k total. My cornea thickness was compatible with the procedure (which is one of the big reasons to do LASIK over PRK, i think), but my offset was huge (-7.5, where PRK usually caps at ~-5).

The circumstances boil down to having it done in a foreign country, and they used a non-FDA approved eyedrop (toxic if it got in the bloodstream) that allowed the procedure to correct my offset fully. Four years later my vision is going strong.

Long recovery time was 2 weeks with fireworks in my eyes the first two days. After that it was logrithmic improvement in blurriness.

I would also highly recommend PRK, it enabled an entire lifestyle for me which heavy glasses actively discouraged, and there isnt a day i miss waking up to a blurry space.
Attacking? I merely observed that he called me a payed shill, something I would consider an attack on my integrity. This convinced me that he has no interest in having a grown up conversation. You are more then welcome to do your own critical reading of the "evidence" provided. I'd start by looking into circular references..
You thought this was a clean, well-modularized codebase?

Well, even if it's nice and clean A, B, C, D, E are each going to have their own dependencies!
‘China is the greatest counterintelligence threat we face. Period’: FBI Director
Quantum Leap for Computing Is a Small Step for Computers
Considering:

- the topic of the article

- the amount of other people in this thread complaining about patterns and justification for downvoting

- I had been downvoted multiple times for literally asking a perfectly reasonable question (on a topic that one cannot learn by RTFM)

- I am regularly downvoted for asking clarifying questions of people who say things that are clearly not true while implying I am saying things that are in no way reflected in the actual text, or have been chosen "at random" and warned about engaging in flamebait in threads where numerous people are doing the same or worse than me, the primary difference being I often happen to hold a minority opinion, in a discussion about opinions (something an increasing number of people struggle to differentiate from fact)

....I didn't think it seemed all that unreasonable.

I realize I'm not a model forum participant, and I know you have a hectic and thankless job, but I think it's fair to suggest the possibility that ideology plays a bigger role around here than is optimal, and recognize that all people (including you and I) suffer to some degree from ideological filtering in our judgements. HN having guidelines is a fine idea, but might some common behaviors (say, blatant dishonesty) on this site have varying visibility depending on the observer, and have reached a frequency that may be worthy of reasonable guideline modifications in order to maximize quality of discourse?

/rant
"Diversity" based on identity politics and physical characteristics (race, gender, skin color) is a left-wing position.
Yup, I use Best Buy for all electronic purchases now. They have a great return policy and I enjoy that most things I could want are available same day.

I pretty much only rely on Amazon for Kindle purchases now or to read reviews on big ticket items that I'm curious about.
Suddenly, Amazon's massive presence is also Amazon's weak point of entry to encumber the experience.

Chinese sellers flock to Amazon to assert their seller positions in Amazon's marketplace by doing whatever is necessary to ensure product ranking and profit. They have the means, labor, and production at their disposal, which is a competitive advantage that will only further cement their dominance.

Amazon contractors like warehouse workers and delivery agents couldn't give less of a shit about the packaging or delivery of items.

The only thing from stopping sellers from going full-Taobao and just openly selling/promoting every kind of brand-name fake, like replica North Face, Louis Vuitton, and Apple, to US consumers is the legal attitude of IP in the US compared to China.
git commit -am "hope this works"
The argument is for deterministic environments--no initial condition dependence.

If initial conditions are allowed, then you can consider the following environment: initial condition is an arbitrary source-code; the environment proceeds to implement said source-code. Clearly this "environment" is too all-encompasing to be considered as a single environment.
If you think that's bad, think of what they're like when they eventually move on to other engineering organizations as leadership...
I'm reccomended FedEx,HP or Cannon :)
> I only started browsing reddit after advertisers forced them to purge the most toxic users/content from the site.

Reddit, as a site, is built around you having to subscribe to things to see it on your front page.

Are you saying that opinions you disagree with (toxic) merely existing invisibly prevents you from using a platform? Because if that's not the case you were never forced to interact with those subs unless you explicitly sought them out. The one exception would be /r/all, but again the default is your "home" page so you'd never see that content.
It takes effort to not use electron. It doesn't take effort to have your library update its dependencies to use a faster utf-8 validator
There's also a more subtle version of this, where the seller leaves the listing the same, but once enough positive reviews have accumulated they move production to a cheaper factory and use cheaper materials.

So you might see older reviews for a pair of boots that say they're made from sturdy materials with good stitching, followed by later reviews saying that they didn't match the advertised sizing and pictures, or that they just fell apart after a couple weeks of use.
That seems perfect.
This point is extremely important, particularly in the healthcare field (which I happen to be in at the moment). We have to be very, very positive that our deidentification process is thorough and accurate to prevent a HIPAA violation from occurring.
I went the same route. I can confirm that it caused lasting social issues that I wasn't able to correct until my late 20s.
No, we're not. I'm not on your side just because we work for the same company. I'm not even on the company's side.

I'm on my side, first and last and always. If cooperation helps me, so be it. But if cooperation harms me, then I will speak up. If I am not heard, I will leave.

That is my inherent and sovereign right as a human being.
It’s easier now than ever.
The difference is that normal people don’t venture off the big websites now.
Haha lol
He mentions Curie as non-Ashkenazi, but even with her I don't know, she was born Polish with full name "Maria Salomea Skłodowska"(-Curie), her middle name "Salomea", given after her grandmother sounds to me like Jewish origin. I wonder how percentage of Nobel price winners/etc. would look like if you'd really dig deeper few generations or did genetic tests.
I'm a little surprised no one's tried reviving newsgroups for discussions. Decentralized, not privacy-invading, can be rendered by a large variety of front-ends. Somewhat censorship resistant. There would be a huge potential spam problem, but that can be controlled by filters and moderators.

Maybe Usenet would be more of a headache than it's worth, but it seems perfect for what you're describing.
Thanks, the paper looks interesting!

Though I wouldn't call it "very far". Solidarity peak is the same as it was around 2008 (the Great Financial Crises I guess), regulation and waste views are interestingly conflicting, the anti-corporatism shift is happening across all cohorts, so again it doesn't seem like the Dems are going that much more left.

The views of immigration are very polarized. That's interesting, and probably the result of the excessive media coverage plus the very real recent underlying events.

The emptying out of the center is the effect of Trump.

Though it'll be interesting what will happen in the upcoming 2020 primaries. And we'll get a lot of data about what people value. (With the usual caveat about polling and statistics.)
It is better to pay cash for online services than to pay through your private information. If the service is free you are the currency, all your interest are sold for profit.

I would much rather pay for online services like email, news and content than to sell info about myself through ads to private companies.

Useful services:
Email
Protonmail,fastmail

Online video
Peertube

Paying for social media.

Paying for newspapers online, this is so they do not have to sell their platform and independence to ads.
That would be cool. Can we still build hardware as reliable as v1/v2?
That worked, but how did you find that particular method?
Seriously! I really miss setting IRQs with jumpers (or, on the fancy stuff, DIP switches). It was fascinating having an excuse to learn how interrupts worked.
Not really, unless I'm missing something. They have thematic similarities, I suppose.
Prismo[1] was an attempt at that if anyone wants some historical context.

[1] https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo
What exactly has been the effect? Which political and religious views are you talking about? I can think of instances of neo-Naxis being kicked off Facebook and Cloudflare, but no instances of it happening according to religious views?

If you are OK with banning Nazis from a platform, then you’ve accepted the premise that certain bad actors should be removed, and now you’re in a debate about where the line should be drawn.
If you believe my conclusion, the halos after LASIK are not a real problem: there's actually no difference in experience between people who underwent LASIK and complain about halos and a healthy person: both see the same halos under the same conditions (e.g. night time and/or being tired). It is just that people after LASIK suddenly start paying attention to those halos.

I suspect it is a very mild form of post-surgery paranoia. I have a very similar thing after a minor surgery in the abdomen area: I started paying waaay more attention to what happens in my stomach.
Bill.com S-1
Have you met other people in this situation in real life (either who skipped grades or who could have and didn't) and what did you think of them?

Also how did this affect your expectations of your own children?
Lol, if you try to create a "subwiki" that already exists, you get a 404 and the error is in the URL:

> https://createsub/?url=/wt/emacs/&failed=This%20SubWiki%20al....
I work at a company that has a variant of the TGIF as a decade-long company tradition.

The PR is there and sometimes the raffles, but the Q&A is non-existent and whenever bad things happen the meeting is skipped for a few weeks. Everyone notices the weeks that get skipped and it sends a huge signal.
ActivityPub. Prismo already tried it, the developer just burned out before it got anywhere usable.
I read about the heat issues, so when I bought my pi4 I also got an aluminum fin cooler case with 2 fans built into it. Thankfully the fans are totally silent. I half expected it to sound like half a drone.

Now I can crank it up and rip the knob off, and the temperature doesn't get anywhere near throttle point.
Learn React.js in 30 Minutes (Crash Course 2019)
> Amazon is good only for books and probably cables.

Even ignoring how badly they package books, Amazon has also had a counterfeit book problem for a while now[1]. Two years later, not much has changed[2].

[1] https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/amazon-counterfeits-no-starch...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/amazo...
It is easy to set up a site, to blog and people can comment and you do not get drowned in auto spam?

Where and how?
@here is not asynchronous.

It sounds to me like they were using Slack for discussions that should have happened on a Google Doc or ticketing system.

If people are constantly pinging you on Slack they're doing it wrong, and you need to let them know.
That sounds like a political thesis, not a workplace. Who said anything about status quo? How does a lack of discussion mean agreement with a position you assumed but was never stated? Do you see how people don't like this?

You can challenge all you want, but being an annoyance in the office by forcing your views and interpretations on everyone is a major issue. I don't care about your politics and don't want to discuss mine. The company is paying you for productivity, not political change. Understanding boundaries is the first step to communicating with people.
Dtplyr 1.0.0
Security Highlights from Chrome Dev Summit 2019
Do you know if the new designs proposed using thermophotovoltaics and silicon-carbide pellets are more efficient than traditional RTGs in their use of plutonium? Eli Yablonovitch mentions work being done at Berkely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDxJsa8miNQ&t=3280
Perhaps it's not fair to point to a 97-page article as "something specific," but "the thing that changed" was thoroughly explained in Amazon's Antitrust Paradox (2017) [1]. Specifically:

> In some ways, the story of Amazon's sustained and growing dominance is also the story of changes in our antitrust laws. Due to a change in legal thinking and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, antitrust law now assesses competition largely with an eye to the short-term interests of consumers, not producers or the health of the market as a whole; antitrust doctrine views low consumer prices, alone, to be evidence of sound competition.

[1]: https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
I have Costco premium or whatever the highest one is.

Consistently great quality + deals.

Right now they're selling a Costco-sized box of 1,500 Legos for $40.
Not to mention that Walmart will very often have promotions with multiple different credit card companies to give you double (or sometimes even triple) points. When the prices are the same on Walmart or Amazon, I typically do Walmart now for that reason.
If you change B and the A/B/C/D/E integration test breaks.... duh, it's obvious. Yes, that's easy.

But A, B, C, D, E are each going to have their own dependencies.

You could change X, Y, and Z and now the A/B/C/D/E integration test breaks. Which one was it?

Or maybe you're super cautious and you only change Z. And now the A/B/C/D/E integration test breaks. Obviously it's Z. But how? Why? It's a four-developer team and you're only really familiar with R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z.

There's also the fact that unit tests serve as living, de facto documentation on how to actually use the classes. You can both use and iterate upon Z a lot faster and more confidently if it has its own tests.
That seems like a difference in viewpoint. I can understand your stance, but I don't share it. To me, being "priced out" means that something costs more than you are willing and able to pay.
Sure, but none of that prevented you from creating and inventing and just having fun. It was an exciting time because microprocessors had just appeared and it wasn't yet clear what all might be done with them. People did amazing things with those 8 bit processors - do you think Woz and Gates were just dinking around?

If you were interested in computing it wasn't so hard to get yourself to a company or school that would provide access. They didn't stop you from creating and inventing.

Nowadays computing is more dominated by a few large companies and institutions than it was then. Do you really
own, control, understand, and trust your phone and other gadgets as well as they did then with their 8 bit processors?
If only the activists were mature enough to approach it this way.
Yes! That's all I want back! Reddit is a great source but some of the best discussion happens on forums that you have no idea about.
Oh, I've somehow totally missed this - sorry!

> We probably should have spent our time making the platform work better for developers and end users instead [...].

I keep a number of folders / bookmarks / stickies, where I save all the quotes like this one, so that I can then stumble upon them randomly. This is the single most important thing to keep in mind when building any kind of a platform. Developers particularly, are often the most important users of your product, since they will over time help drive the momentum and keep on bringing value.

Thank you for this reminder.
No, not currently.
How did being assertive and bringing your whole self to work work out for James Damore?
The overuse of overly granular services can make this pretty awful unless you've put event tracing in place.

I mean, the obvious answer is don't do that, but this is the world people are embracing.
Even though it's fair to say that overall motivation is different for different folks - the advice given is universal.

Having knowledge of the bigger picture usually enables one to do their job a little better, and is motivating at the professional level, if not a personal level.

The subtle issues are first - empowerment, which enables people to do their jobs, which is always motivating, and second - understanding the difference between professional and personal motivation.

Almost everyone has an innate sense of pride in their work and skills. When they are able to do a better job, they feel better. When they have knowledge of 'the bigger picture' it can really help orient them in the landscape and inform their decisions.

'Motivation' is a tricky word in this context: most work is work, it's not motivating in the natural sense, but I do think we all have a sense of professional obligation, and want to fulfil that obligation.

People who don't have a reasonable motivation to do whatever it is they are doing ... should be doing something else.

Giving the broader context of any material objective will definitely help whether someone is 18 or 60, whether they are in ops, finance, or R&D.
If you start from real data that's a very tough nut to crack. Depending on your purpose you may be better off with generating data that has the same statistical properties.
iVerify, an app that tells you if you're hacked
Metafilter was started in 1999.
God damn. I'm disappointed because I went through a series of awful routers (TP-Link, D-Link, Netgear) and the Asus one is the first thing that actually works well. I've got some other Asus hardware I'm really happy with, so I was starting to warm up to them.
WT:Social for the name of a Facebook rival makes it a total non-starter.
Netflix has many problems with this model and is currently trying to find a solution. There are services setup to fool netflix into providing content outside of geograpical areas that they are liceased for.
I'm curious about the "explanation component" approach you've hinted at... are their any publications you can point to with this approach? If not, can you maybe describe it groso modo?
Reddit doesn't really avoid anything as far as I can tell. A lot of the content in the big subreddits is more or less well concealed "organic advertising".

The upvote system is also basically useless on reddit these days, the site is way too big to enforce any kind of etiquette and people gladly upvote empty one-line quips while they'll bury anybody expressing any form of vaguely dissenting opinion. It's frankly toxic.

At least good old blog spam is easy to identify and ignore.

There are a few topics I care about where you have both big subreddits and also dedicated "old school" forums on third-party websites. The forums are always more interesting and in-depth in my experience, when the subreddits are just a litany of karma-whoring picture posts and low effort so-called "memes".
Ah, somebody posted it before I could. :)

(Disclosure: I’m the creator of Aether, happy to answer any questions)
I donated to the admin's Patreon account in excess of his hosting fees. But, that didn't cover his time, apparently. The admin is still active on GitHub after the server crashed; I guess he just lost interest.