skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Referencing the concept when defending your ignorance is not grey thinking.

Who actually believes that they have all the answers? Everybody except truly deluded people make claims without having to put asterisks on everything they say. Imagine how burdensome it would be to qualify everything with confidence intervals all day long.

Which is really the problem with this article: it's attacking a straw man. Nobody actually believes contrary. The only reason I can imagine they'd attack that particular straw man is to imply that they or their readers are of this class of people who engage in grey thinking, and therefore are somehow better. This is where the laziness/arrogance comes in in my opinion.

Saying that things in the world are a "grey area" provides no useful information. It's the equivalent of saying: "something might happen, somewhere between multiple extremes." At best, it's a form of laziness. At worst, it shows lack of courage to attempt to explain something, even if it's wrong.
What I don't understand is: why don't they go to a university in Europe? I just checked for my alma mater: tuition fee is ~500 euro for 1 year. You pay about 4k in rent per year (this is probably too high an estimate). The level of education is high, and the programs are available in English.
The current philosophy is bizarre. You get NPs and PAs who pretend to have never heard of secondary infections, refuse to prescribe antibiotics because virus, then you’re back in a week and they magically discover bacteria.
Drop the "follow your dreams" rhetoric and have a serious discussion with them about the costs of life and lifestyles.

If they want to live in a 6000 sq ft house in Malibu, then they shouldn't get a degree in 5th Century Aerobics.
Are you trying a joke on Linux vs Unix? in reference to companies using Solaris or FreeBSD maybe? (there aren't many left of those).

All the DevOps roles I've ever seen are Unix based. In my experience sysadmin roles were more likely to be a windows administration or a helpdesk role than that.

I think it's pretty good devops got split into a distinct title. It's not a great experience walking into a sysadmin interview only to find out they are looking for an exchange administrator.
Take as many gap years being an artist as you want. The degree won't help much in pure arts anyway

maybe the 529 will grow in that time anyway
The basis in GDPR I've seen people use for your position is that consent must be "freely given", and consent isn't freely given if my other option is not using the site. The line of argument seems pretty sketchy on its face; can it really be true that my consent to an employment contract isn't "freely given" because my other option is not taking the job? It's certainly not clearly made to avoid doubt.
For some reason, the new gimp version has a dark mode layout with an almost black, gray background

But the file dialogs have black text. You can hardly read anything
Most sysadmins have pretty much always coded to some extent.

That was one reason that Perl became so popular among sysadmin back in the early 90's: it was a really useful language in which you could do much the same as you could with (and had a syntax which was similar to) shell scripting, sed, and awk, which were tools that were popular among sysadmins up 'till then.
wow you did not like a tv program, you are so edgy and smort !
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Same here. They need something to hook people into watching something long. Most people are OK binging youtube because popular videos have a sweet spot in their lengths.

People like to watch trailers.

They need to fill the first row of titles with trailers. People need to get hooked via these trailers. Hell, they need to hype their future show with trailers.

Netflix I know you are reading this.
The biggest (and worst) achievement of the Netflix UX is keeping people scrolling through lists (since almost nobody likes the blaring auto-playing previews of what's selected) and adding things to their lists but not really spending time watching movies or shows. This way, Netflix prevents its customers from spending time on competitors' platforms while also saving tons of bandwidth and other resources. It's a devious and genius UX!

Anyone from Netflix claiming that they truly want their customers to watch more on Netflix is delusional or lying or both! For example, Netflix customers have complained about the auto-playing previews for a long time and there's no solution from Netflix.
And from the 1990, Schmidhuber:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/djju8a/d_j...
This happens to parents that don’t discuss the importance of having money in life. Also happens when kids get little to no financial education.

The kids grow up thinking pursuing your passions and dreams is more important than accumulating money. And it feels so good and right until you find yourself broke and poor and your passion is gone, and you think life just sucks.

It takes no effort to throw down a spreadsheet. List their yearly earnings for the rest of their life. Throw in expenses like mortgages, vacations, food, then add in kids and family, medical emergencies, show them just how poor they will be if they go down the path of their shitty career. Many kids may be left wide eyed when they accept these numbers are true. There’s no extra money hidden away, no big windfall waiting to come out and propel them up the class ladder. This is it, this is their life. Good luck.
Elect a turd into office and the turd will treat everything under turd control as an asset or liability. The turd will sell libraries and whatever else is of value.
Yes, the original Mac had invisible UI: the double click. It's an undiscoverable operation that people had to be taught, and invented so that Jobs could squeeze two operations onto one button because one button looked cleaner.
There is a whole gaggle of these outfits.

In New York, they always have aggressive guys with heavy Long Island accents. The schtick always puzzled me, as I live upstate and the accent sounds like nails on a chalkboard up here.
This is a really good concept, definitely going to use it with the kiddo. On a laptop screen, the buttons could be bigger, hard to hit them with little fingers.
I'm still so confused. I understand what a photon is (ish... I understand it can behave as a particle or wave, but in this case it is a "particle"). How do you "observe" a single photon? How do you "destroy" a single photon "in a particular way"? Heck, how to do keep something moving at the speed of light stuck inside a chip? Create a fiber optic loop somehow? How is the photon introduced into the loop?
It has an effect on gum health, which is far more important for the integrity of your teeth and overall health than some superficial crevices that can be filled.

EDIT: Also, we understand the mechanism by which food left in the teeth contributes to gum disease very well. I'm all for demanding high quality epidemiological evidence when we just have a hunch about things, because we deserve at least some correlational power to any claim, but the way in which this data is collected by something as difficult to monitor, annoying to some people, and socially pressured as oral hygiene is deservedly suspect IMHO given our direct clinical knowledge of the health matter in question: it's aetiology, progression, and reversal, on an observable level per organism is very well understood by modern dentistry, AFAIK.
Because most European universities are crap compared to American ones. Crude, but the truth.
Simple UI is better when you have consumer grade "simple" but problems starts when complex pro app start to do "simple" and you get "simplistic stupid"
Dental plaque is a biofilm. The point of flossing is to break up the biofilm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_plaque

Here's a study (just read the summary here) that says a water jet (waterpik brand,) is effective. No idea who paid for the study and didn't research the plaque types mentioned against the wikipedia plaque article to see if there are other types of plaque.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19385349

I have to say if I go a couple days without flossing (once in the evening,) but with water jetting, I can feel the floss sliding across something, presumably the plaque/biofilm between the teeth before the floss cuts into that layer and I can feel it against the tooth. I use one of those forked flossers which isn't the best approach as it doesn't wrap around the tooth but you can pivot the fork to get some extra coverage. It makes an onerous task slightly less onerous.

You can buy plaque staining tablets to visually evaluate your plaque condition. Buy some, water jet and test. Floss and test. let us know the results.

I do both plus an Oral-B electric brush. Probably too much for most people.
I've said it before and I'll say it again:

20+ years ago when I was a Windows sysadmin, you could immediately discern the technological savviness and technological maturity of an individual by looking at their system tray:

The number of little icons in their system tray was inversely proportional to their level of this kind of technological maturity.

The system tray of 2019 is connected/smart/cloud devices in ones home.
You have two particles, A and B, which can be in state 0 or 1.

When you measure particle A, you get random value 0. B is instantaneously set to 1. Or the other way around.

But you can't communicate using this, because you can't control the random value you get, thus there is no way to "modulate" the other end.
>Jeez, or just eat 3 healthy balanced meals a day and stop obsessing over gimmicks and fad diets.

Do you see the irony is calling fasting a fad diet when it has been part of human culture across the globe for thousands of years, and instead you point to "3 healthy balanced meals a day" which essentially was a fad diet in the 18th century.

>I can't imagine our ancient ancestors worrying about fasting or being keto.

Again all the Worlds major religions have codified fasting into their religious texts and traditions (they must have thought it was pretty important to pass down together with sacred religious texts).

As far as Keto...the original Keto diet was developed and codified because is prevented epileptic seizures, but that wasn't a wild guess in the dark, its been known for thousands of years fasting would prevent seizures (it just wasn't codified that fasting puts someone in a state of ketosis which can be mimicked with a high fat diet).
> At least with DevOps, there is no doubt that it's about Linux systems and automation.

Windows Server still exists and maintains some market share. Automated, continuous delivery, and monitoring of web applications to Windows Server machines is DevOps in the exact same sense that it is with Linux machines.

The essence of DevOps is that there's no fence. The same team that writes the code deploys and monitors it. This essence remains unchanged regardless of the hosting platform - Linux, Windows, or even proprietary platforms like AWS lambda.
DARPA head resigns, moving on to industry
If you don't have enough knowledge and subsequent intuition, you won't realize that "fact" needs to be checked. You will be easy to manipulate.

In practice, you see that with non technical managers all the time. You see it when people just throw around smart sounding soundbite about history if you happen to know period well.

Many charizmatic confident people rely on others not checking what they talk about.
These parents are heroes.

> A couple months ago, my 17-year-old daughter’s guidance counselor called her into his office to ask pretty much the only question that adults ask high school seniors: “What colleges are you applying to?” When Ella tossed off a handful of universities, he said, “Have you thought about going to art school?”

This is goddamn malpractice.

> Like most parents, who save on average $18,000 for their kids’ education, we’d failed to sock away anything close to the $75,000 annual sticker price it would take for Ella to go to, say, Pratt in New York City.

A friend of ours matriculated at a similar school, but dropped out and went into physical therapy instead. She and her husband managed to buy a house in their late 20s, have kids, etc.[1]

Your job as a parent is to socialize your children. And that means telling them how the world works. The society that they see around them exists because people with valuable skills work hard to produce things. That doesn’t just mean doctors or engineers—the world needs accountants and roofers and HVAC technicians. The common thread is that these are skills that people and companies need every day to make the world around us keep humming. People are compensated based on the value and rarity of their skills. And money is necessary for security and supporting yourself. Kids need to learn these lessons from the earliest age. You abdicate that duty if you don’t teach them that, and instead allow a bunch of government workers fill your kids’ heads with nonsense.

College, for most people, is a joke. Take a bunch of classes that don’t teach you anything useful, and then get a job that doesn’t require you to use anything you learned. It’s an elaborate shell game we have to play because we’ve bought into the nonsense peddled by teachers and guidance counselors. As parents, it’s your job to be smart and help your kids navigate this game. (We’re going through this with my wife’s younger brother right now.) Manage your courses to keep up your GPA, take prerequisites at community college for a fraction of the price, etc. The Kafkaesque administration of most colleges makes this hard enough. But teachers and administrators will fight you the whole way. They’ll talk about making sure kids get the “college experience” and telling kids to “pursue their bliss.” Its your job as a parent to do everything you can to fight back.

[1] I don’t want to come across to much like judging people’s lifestyle. I know some people who are happy with the bohemian art world lifestyle. That makes them happy. But when you see people complain about student debt and the plight of millennials, that’s what keeps coming up: they can’t afford to buy a house or have kids.

[2] That doesn’t mean I think doctors or aerospace engineers don’t need to go to college. But in 1960, less than 40% of the population graduated from high school and less than 10% had a bachelors degree. It’s incredible what a sophisticated economy we had with so little formal education.
Sysadmins could code scripts since day 1.

Its not like they ran the backups at midnight manually.
Just have them work the numbers out. Specifically create monthly budget after they graduate. Salary expectations, rent/mortgage, student debt, taxes, transportation, food, etc.
It hurts usability in several ways. For example, you can’t click on an iOS scrollbar to jump to a specific part of the document. Nor can you use it as an instant reference to determine how long the document is.
This is an impressive and eerie showcase of how realistic GANs can be:

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Sometimes it fails but most of the time the faces generated are uncannily realistic. Make of it what you will.

If you’re in London it’s currently in the Design Museum.
"DevOps is about tearing down silos (Dev and Ops), not creating new ones."

Do we really need a new term for this?

It just sounds like common sense.
In a way it’s like how people call themselves “software engineers” instead of “programmer” even if that might be more fitting. You sound more competent when you say devops so you might be able to get a larger salary than a sysadmin.
Why can't we control the state of a particle (i.e. force toggle a particle from state 0 to 1 or vice versa)? Is there some fundamental law of physics preventing this or is it just because we don't have a method of observing the state of a particle without changing it?
I'm fairly certain the calibre of reader here is able to make that distinction without it being pointed out. Or they could read the article to find out.
I'd like to point out that these "bullshit stories" are not necessarily lies. They could just be the post hoc rationalisation of hunches.
I'd argue it's a balance. While I agree it's logical for them to want to optimize a balance between watching and scrolling. They don't want you to scroll forever, otherwise you'll get bored and not watch anything, I can only tolerate searching for nothing for so long.

Do that enough times and you have a subscription cancellation fast approaching.
I find the whole concept strange. Why are technically skilled folks boxed into being “individual” contributors? There are many ways (hats) in which technical skill can be leveraged to help other people or teams: the person who can troubleshoot surprises with relentless digging (beaver), the person who provides technical feedback to colleague (reviewer), the person who has a broad understanding and can quickly get someone up to speed in a new area or suggest exactly what to look for (consultant), the person who understands the system well enough to onboard a new member quickly (teacher), finding new directions for the org (researcher), etc. All of those are multipliers on the performance of people and teams, and don't befit the “individual” moniker.

Working on complex problems requires collaborative effort, which can be immensely gratifying not just intellectually but also emotionally (humans are social beings). It is strange to see a warped restriction of the concept of collaboration down to each “individual contributor” doing what they’re assigned, and ignoring the other “hats”. That formulation never allows/imagines a chance for the whole to be better than the sum of its parts.
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> Are you trying a joke on Linux vs Unix?

No, I'm saying the the DevOps ideas have nothing to do with OS choice. You could use them in linux or Windows or in any other OS; or you could ignore them in linux or Windows or any other OS.
That's me as well. Working out just plain sucks. Afterwards I am nauseous, tired, smelly, sweaty, out of breath, etc. These feelings last for about 2-4 hours after cessation of physical activity. I hate going, I dread it all day long. Working out sucks.

But yes, generally, I feel better if I have a routine that I stick to and just muscle out the work-out. I have successfully trained for, and ran, a marathon. I hated every single mile. But I never felt better, life-wise, than during that process. Which makes me hate working out even more, as I know it's good for me and makes life better. Gah!
Not everyone wants to go live in another continent at 18, an expensive flight away, with no family or friends, different culture and perhaps different language? Plenty of reasons.
> what I _think_ the author wants to say. And that is, (1) don’t make generic statements

I don't know if that's what the author meant, but it is bad thinking.

If you insist on no generalizations, you can't understand anything - the world is huge and awash with facts. Generalization is the process through which one can ignore irrelevant facts and focus on the important ones.

An example:

One might start out with the idea that men are stronger than women. This is not an unreasonable position to hold, but it certainly lacks some nuance.

One could point out, for example, that some women are stronger than some men. Which is true. However, this counter example is pretty weak, because most men are stronger than most women, while very few women are stronger than most men.

A more refined version of the original statement is: men have 2 std dev greater upper body strength than women, or in more approachable parlance: 95% of men have stronger upper bodies than the average woman.

It is true that the positive tails of both distributions extend to infinity, so there will always be examples of women who are strong in relation to most men. But it is also true that you will almost never find a woman who is the strongest person (at a given task - strength is specific).

At the end of the day, it is possible to craft true generic statements that capture enough nuance to be both useful and simple with a basic understanding of statistics.
I've worked at several companies that use some form of go links before.

The primary advantage of them is that they are very easily self-serviceable. Anyone can create a new go link, and it's easy enough to do even the HR department managed their own.

You are definitely correct that the same thing can be handled using DNS records and something like a reverse proxy configured to route them based on the subdomain. However, that introduces permissions and ease of use issues. You typically don't want HR to have access to edit DNS records. You can relegate it to a subdomain, but at the point you're typing in "mylink.links.company.com" the shortening effect is dubious. Secondly, managing DNS records is typically technical enough that some groups like HR are not going to want to do it. And if I have to go talk to some group every time I want a go link, I'm just not going to do it.

It's shockingly useful to think "This is a page other people should know about" and be able to enter "go/page-name/edit", paste the link in the box that comes up, and have "go/page-name" go to that page on everyone's computer in the company. Done and done, you made it accessible in less time than it would take to figure out who you have to talk to get a domain name set up.

A secondary benefit is that you can enter a description in your go link. So I can just go to "go/" and get an index of all the golinks we have, with descriptions. It's sometimes useful for when I'm working on a system I haven't used before and want to see what other people have "bookmarked" about it.
Ask HN: Thoughts on Feren OS?
I just recently heard about Feren OS after seeing an article on their latest release. It looks like a nice UI compared to other Debian UI's and was curious if anybody here has used it and what their thoughts are. Is it polished or is there still more work to be done? What do you like and not like about it?

https://ferenos.weebly.com/
You don't need teleportation for secure comms; you just need pairs of entangled qubits (at which point you can just use their measurements as a one-time pad).

That said, if you really want to amplify your transmission rate, you'll also need massive ensembles of entangled qubits (i.e. instead of pairs, you'd need N-tuples). Entanglement gets much, much harder to sustain as the ensemble size goes up.

Oh, and you'll also want to replenish your entangled ensembles on a regular basis, since they decohere over time, and you can't reuse them across messages (since measurement destroys entanglement)...
This is why many doctors in the US get their basic medical schooling outside of the US. (Often in the Caribbean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_schools_in_the... )
FTL communication has not yet been observed/discovered. The parent's last sentence explains the restrictions in this case.

>the spin you observe is effectively random, so there’s no way to know that the results match up unless you compare them with another means of communication, one that is at most the speed of light.

The term for this is called "quantum teleportation" and for each qubit that is "teleported" there are two "classically communicated" bits that are required for information to be transmitted.
> many women grow extra sets in their uteruses

What.
“How much do you floss?” In no way implies they think you floss often. It’s actually the reverse. For example, if someone ask “How much do you shower?” It’s a not so subtle hint that you stink, not that they think you shower often.
We can change it (light polarizing crystals for example), but that breaks the entanglement of the individual particles.
Risk-Based Lending, Pricing, and Compliance
The author briefly transitions from arts schools to engineering schools which- in my opinion- are a totally different beast. If you graduate with 30k-50k in debt and a six figure salary then it's not too bad