skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Most users," yeah, perhaps.

A UI where each interaction takes several seconds is poor UI design. I do lose most of my time and patience to poor UI design, including needless "improvements" every few iterations that break my workflow and have me relearn the UI.

I find the general state of interaction with the software I use on a daily basis to be piss poor, and over the last 20 or so years I have at best seen zero improvement on average, though if I was less charitable I'd say it has only gone downhill. Applications around the turn of the century were generally responsive, as far as I can remember.
How did you realise that something was wrong and that you needed to go to the doctor?
The recent development is that people started willingly install those devices in their own homes. There is "How i stopped worrying and learned to love the Big Brother" somewhere here.
Did you see the comment I left? Porn is actually against the TOS, and this instance itself is going to be SFW only by the end of the night, just a heads up.
My thoughts exactly. It's a shame that such interesting developments are shadowed by the brand-name and infamy.
I'd be surprised if cars didn't come with cameras built-in as a standard. Think Tesla Sentry mode.
> All the bloat is because of misguided aesthetics (which all look the same, as if designers move between companies every year, which they do) and fanciness

That's not really true. Slack could be just as pretty and a fraction of the weight, if they hadn't used Electron.
> It seems like it's mostly useful for cases where people are blocking the ptrace syscall (like Docker's default syscall filter, maybe?) and not loading an LSM.

It’s a shot in the dark, but I’d guess this is designed to work with programs that neuter themselves or commit suicide if you ptrace them, as is common for mildly sophisticated malware or (less often) CTF challenges.
Exactly, any such ship would be packaged around a processing unit factory
> Isn't this the the world of ubiquitous code and unlimited resources we wanted?

I don't really know what this is supposed to mean, it sounds rather poetic and abstract, but I'm quite certain few if any people ever asked for a world where it takes 10+ seconds to open a simple email.
> Germans are famous for interiors

Have you ever seen an Alpha Romeo interior? Their cars ae unreliable but look great, inside or outside.

Porsche is a niche luxury sports car, comparable maybe to Ferari.
(not gp) I have T-Mobile service in the USA, and my plan includes free international phone and data, but only at EDGE speeds. I could get a local SIM, but it's rarely worth it if I'm traveling to multiple countries.
I bet they try something different this time than just an extension... maybe some sort of "brand icon" exemption that exempts any character who is strongly associated with a brand from copyright expiration. They probably sense that continuous extension isn't going to work forever.
People have done it. I've seen a couple articles about it, but the one I was able to dig up today is from Mattias Wandel (of woodgears.ca note):

https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/tech/scanner.html

This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but you run into some of the same limitations using a scanner as a large format back: moving objects end up distorted by the movement of the scanner "head" as it scans the image plane.
Gvim and Sublime do this quite well. I haven't looked at the Xi editor mentioned in the article but I would assume it does a decent job or it wouldn't have been mentioned. VScode actually isn't even that bad considering it's Electron based but doesn't quite meet the mark.

Also you're conflating syntax highlighting/auto-competition with time to render an update to an input. You don't need the popout letting you know that 17 source files and 50k lines over it found "TextComplete()" is a valid auto-complete and should be turned blue in order to draw an "x" to the screen in response to a keystroke.
Thoughts about remote work, and stats around Senior meets junior
Exactly. To say that you're unhappy is frowned upon. I'd assume in China it's both politically and also socially steming from confucianism, (i.e. against upsetting the harmony).
Qatar should be a good case for long-term study: citizens are guaranteed state jobs, land grants and a free education.
Value your time and health more. Give time to your family (kids)
Practice / learn
Don’t get angry.
Start meditating sooner
I too dream of a decentralized internet and especially decentralized cloud resources, but I can't find a way around the question of how you securely host a database on some random person's idle computer/"spot instance". If that data is compromised, who do you sue? The random person who has no assets?

Data security ultimately depends on secure physical access to the hosting hardware. Not everything can or should be put in a public database, so you need physical security. Cloud providers provide physical security plus trustworthiness due to their reputations, as well as deep pockets to sue if something goes wrong.

Most industries end up with only a few competing firms. Why would cloud computing be different? I'm open to solutions on data security.
So, are you using smart lightbulbs instead of smart lights?
This actually was kind of the nugget for me in this story: "At one extreme, it is easy to make the galaxy empty by simply shrinking the number of usable planets and having civilizations last for only, say, 100,000 years or so."

i.e. 10x longer than we have had even rudimentary technological civilization on our own planet. Sample size of 1, etc. but this to me seems the simple explanation of the "paradox". Space is big, and 100k years is a long period of time to not make a mistake.
I'm suggesting that you take an existing system and build up a corpus of request/response pairs. Then you use the LSTM to build a prediction model so that given a request it will tell you that the current production system will produce the following sql statement and this http response. Once the LSTM's output is indistinguishable from your current production system , for all use cases, then you replace the production system with the LSTM and a thin layer that can listen on the port, encode/decode the data, and issue sql queries.

Why would I want to do this? I'm not 100% sure ... I think it would be super fast once you got it working. I think it would avoid many security bugs. You wouldn't have to read that "oh drupal 3.x has 20 new security bugs" better go patch our code. I think when I had this idea I was thinking about it terms of a parallel system that could catch hacking by noting when actual http responses diverged too much from the predicted response. The main idea being that for a given input the output really is 100% predictable, assuming your app doesn't use random numbers like in a game or something.

To link this idea to the article, I think things like XML parsers could be written this way .... I can't prove it but I suspect that they would be very fast and not come with all the baggage that the article complains about.

I started thinking along these lines after reading stuff like this https://medium.com/@karpathy/software-2-0-a64152b37c35
https://imgur.com/a/7ntUkKC

That is a simple chart of recent 30 Yrs S&P 500 P/E.

> Very few people saw the last financial collapse coming

While media points the last financial collapse blame to CDOs, the fundamentals of it was housing prices. May be it is new to many Americans, but for those who have lived and seen through Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong housing prices collapses in the 90s, it was rather obvious. I remember the moment when I mention it in 2005 and 2006, but no one believe market would collapse, the idea of housing prices would fall was literally unheard of.

https://imgur.com/a/0jPNE26

Now there are concerns of Cooperate Debt reaches new height, which is often the argument of bubble. The trouble is you cant look at cooperate debt alone and judge it. Amazon is 25B in debt, but they have 45B in cash. Apple are 100B in debt, but also ~250B cash.
Amazon were issuing at 10 years and yields about 3.2%, for reference US 30 Yr treasuries has been floating at around 2.4 The vast majority of companies are swimming in cash. ( There is less of it now because of buy backs, which is what pushes those stock prices up )

So while the market, and general economy may not be healthy, I argued it isn't in a bubble either.
I agree. To talk about the possibility is to commit scientific suicide. Even cautiously talking about the topic immediately outs you to others as a crackpot. I think it's undeserved. Especially when we are now seeing just how many habitable world's are out there. It seems plausible that we have been visited by curious extra terrestrial civilisations. The bizare patents coming out of the US navy suggest to me that no one knows where these things are coming from, if they are real.
It's arguable that dashcams are "required" now as insurance in many ways already. At least as much as adequately insuring your vehicle, and arguable to reduce the likelihood of police abuse.
You can disable receiving emails in general, sure, but you can't disable the fake/lie notifications or the daily "please pay us $XX to promote your page"
> Additional movement keeps them on.

So it doesn't time out after those 30 seconds and you have to frantically wave your arms to get them to switch back on? As the sibling commenter said, what's the brand?
Aren't apps pretty heavily sandboxed on iOS? I am curious how this app has permission to read the places it needs to read to look out for stuff like malware.
Regarding profiling in Node.JS (in case anyone who is interested is unaware,) if you start your application with the "--inspect" argument and then open devtools in chrome/chromium there's a little node icon that shows up in the top left corner.

If you click on that you can get performance flame graphs / tables, memory profiling, and there's also a REPL for the process, as well as a list of loaded source files so you can set breakpoints through there if you like, as well as modify the files on the fly if you need something more for debugging.

It can be very useful, and works pretty much the same as the normal web devtools.
Yes, but then you as an author can choose to place your own performance in the public domain.
So super similar economic conditions then. Enough tourism to create jobs and/or UBI in some parts, but not evenly distributed at all, especially for places that are already disadvantaged due to location.

Per http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pw...

> The National Indian Gaming Commission reports only 242 tribes in 28 states operate casinos (as of 2014). Of these 242, about 88 have less than $3 million in revenue, and 96 have $10-25 million in revenue (enough to give per capita payouts, depending on the needs of each tribe and federal approval). Research shows that casinos need to be within 50 miles of a metro area (with 10,000 or more residents) to be highly profitable such as the few mentioned here. In PWNA’s experience, the rural and remote casinos do not have enough traffic to generate large profits — they do create a few tribal jobs.
I’ve seen similar issues in graphql-ruby. Even if I hardcode the data in my resolvers, it takes hundreds to thousands of ms to render a list with some moderate nesting.
>These are all fine changes but they could all happen on their own.

They really couldn't all happen on their own. They wanted to write more code in C#, so of course it makes sense that they'd start with the new systems they were making for the ECS. To support being able to write more in C# they developed the burst compiler. And the jobs system is a huge part of the way they developed their ECS system.

DOTS really just means Unity ECS plus a lot of other stuff that exists mostly to support ECS, and some stuff they've wanted to do for a while but it makes sense to add now since they are changing so much of the public API anyway. They brought Mike Acton in and "Data Oriented Technology Stack" is just all the stuff they needed/wanted to realize his goal of making things more performant/data oriented.

They were just calling all of their re-architecture ECS until a little while back, but it was kind of weird and ECS is already a severely overloaded term.

Would you be less upset if they called it "The re-architecture" instead of coming up with a convenient name for the new way of doing things?
Some electrical installations, at least in Europe, do not have "null" wired to the switch. Smart switches need both live and null to work.
"How's life in China?"

"Great!"

Source: I live there!

This is the mistake you're making regarding stuff you have no idea of.
It would no longer be a 'University'.

I couldn't find an antonym for 'universal'.
More about Public Domain Day 2020 in the U.S.: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2020/ (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21926233 )
I'm skeptical of adopting for adoption sake, but I've dipped my toes in where other solutions wouldn't work. I've kept in mind the failure mode (or hacker exposure). I also like monitoring/reducing consumption as a bit of a hobby.

I previously had a dark stairway to the house and got home after dark. A timer would have sufficed (I haven't seen them for wall switches), but I got a IoT switch that turned the light on at sunset.

I had a detached garage that let out to a busy street and would often forget to close it when driving away. I didn't get around to installing something, but wanted something to close it after 15m of being open.

My floor heaters consume a lot of power and other people in the house forget to turn them off. When they were installed, they included WiFi and an app. I wrote a bridge to HomeKit and set it to turn off at 11am and 11pm.

When traveling I reduce the heating/cooling. It's nice (especially when getting home close to midnight) to turn it back on when landing at the airport so you don't come home to an uncomfortable house.

It's not quite IoT, but my kid is too young to tell time so we have an alarm that changes color when its ok to wake up. I had a dumb one, similar to an alarm clock. It was annoying to set. A more expensive, bluetooth, one sets time from my phone. I was a bit worried about the bluetooth one when traveling (time zone changes, not having wifi), but it worked great. I think the nicer one worked better because of build quality and not because of IoT stuff.

I don't have any "scenes." Just a few, very specific, items with rules. I added outdoor Christmas lights this year because last year my kid kept hiding the remote and I didn't plug things into an accessible place outside. A lot of people seem to like being able to turn off house lights without getting up from their bed. I'd never blindly recommend any of this, but if it might solve a problem they have, I'd walk them through my experience.
A way out would be to quickly move our brain to machines and build fully autonomous and self sustaining asteroid sized ships (could be built in situ). To function as backups and spreader for our civilization
They should, but it's actually pretty hard to do the following two things at the same time:

a) fall back to being a bulb: power off = no light, power on = light

b) allow for some kind of control to be possible via the switch, like: power off = no light (that's easy), power on = restore whatever the lamp was doing before (if it was off before it should stay off, if it was on and just switched off via the switch it should turn on immediately)

Most customers probably want b) to be a supported feature, because they cannot make that switch next to the door disappear, so people will use that switch and expect the light to "kind of" respond normally to that input. But b) is mutually exclusive with a), which would have to be implemented if you'd like to have the bulb fall back to being a dumb bulb if the wireless stuff doesn't work right (the bulb cannot wait to assess whether there is something wrong with its "smarts", because people expect immediate reaction from their bulbs, not reaction after 30secs of pinging a server and whatnot).
Right? Imagine running a company under the name Hitler Inc. after the end of world war 2. The name just needlessly taints the project which is (obviously) not run by the convicted murderer anymore.
I like the expression "Yak Shaving", but I don't really understand what it's supposed to mean.

In the story, obviously the guy should return his neighbor's pillow, whether or not he's going to immediately ask for another favor, and he probably ought to get a new hose also. So even if he thinks shaving the yak is way too much trouble to get his car waxed, shouldn't he shave the yak anyway?
What exactly is the fundamental misunderstanding here? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation says

> Economists generally believe that very high rates of inflation and hyperinflation are caused by an excessive growth of the money supply. Views on which factors determine low to moderate rates of inflation are more varied.

The freedom dividend can cause low to moderate inflation, if the extra tax is high enough to cause recession. But the only path to hyperinflation is government printing more money.
What are some of the features missing in Airtable that you think would make it more palatable for real estate agents to use?
Three kinds of apps that are very important to me, that I cannot get without play store:

The national 2fa app. The app people use to send money to their friends, sometimes street vendors. Rideshare app.
He's actually already part of the Fuchsia team, so he very well could be working on the successor to Android.
The Moral Machine Experiment
> This is so true. I really wonder about all the people installing these WiFi enabled light bulbs into lamps that end up being connected to some regular dumb switch next to the door in the wall...

Personally, for the bulbs that are smart, I simply don't use the switches, save for restarting the smart bulbs (haven't had to yet, though) but the smart stuff I have is smart for a reason:

The living room recessed lights are Hue bulbs, and that's so we can change the color on the fly, automatically when watching a movie, and schedule off when we've gone to bed and I've forgotten to turn them off.

The bedroom ones turn on automatically when we go to bed, and when we go to sleep, I use my siri shortcut to dim them to almost off completely, but just enough to provide a night light while starting some music we listen to while sleeping.

I have a smart light in the basement that turns on at dusk because it gets too dark down there to walk, and turns off when I trigger my bedtime shortcut.

I would never advise someone to smart everything in their home, but if you have reasons to add automation or have a desire for enhanced functionality, why not? Do your due diligence, know what you're buying, and know how to hook it up safely. I have a number of IP cameras on my property that are explicitly blocked from the Internet, and are only accessible to my home made DVR. I have all smart devices, where able, on a guest wifi that has no access to my computers or other devices, and has location services disabled. This stuff can be used safely and securely, and frankly the wider community looks ridiculous with the impression being they have a printer from the 90's on their desk, it's the smartest thing in their home, and they keep a loaded gun next to it in case it makes a noise they didn't expect.
1. Data Redundancy

2. Encryption
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>There are many concerning signals from China, not least the situation of Muslims and also the surveillance state.

Why is the situation with Muslims concerning for China? For Muslims and for anyone who cares about human rights, sure, it's concerning, but it does not follow at all that this is bad for China. The US became the dominant power despite having slavery longer than any western nation, and then having Jim Crow laws for a full century afterwards, including during the post-WWII economic boom.

I would argue that, unfortunately, there is no evidence that treating your minorities well is necessary for economic success. In fact, it may be the opposite. Ancient Rome did quite well while having slavery, after all.

As for the surveillance state, here we don't really have a lot of historical precedent. Obviously it didn't work out too well for the Warsaw Pact nations, particularly East Germany, but what they're doing in China really isn't like that.
I don't understand how we can reason with "probabilities of failure" about such fundamental things such as laws of physics.

Under the frequentist interpretation of probability, 95% of having a "correct assumption" means that as you observe iid experiments of this assumption, the long-run average of them will have 95/100 of such experiments exhibit the assumption as true. But "experiment" here isn't a physics experiment, it's a _universe_ in which this assumption could be true. We're in some _fixed_ universe. This assumption holds in ours with probability 0 or 1 (we don't know which).

So, I think the 95% you're referring to here is a Bayesian belief level. This is coherent in that it doesn't require some ambient set of multiple universes to meaningfully describe what is meant by "probability", but the prior required for this interpretation is a bit of weird beast. That is, we have some prior over the space of all possible assumptions for models of physics and update our beliefs based on evidence (we can collect evidence from our single universe multiple times and update our beliefs in a coherent way). In the limit of evidence, this prior matters less, but constants matter here! How much evidence do we need before we can be confident the "belief levels" we're throwing around aren't that subjective anymore? We don't really have a good sense for what the structure over this space of "assumptions of physical models" is, so we can't really answer this question.

Within specific settings for statistical learning theory, we find that simple models generalize well. But that's an implication: _if_ you have a class of simple models and it fits the data well, _then_ you'll generalize well. When it comes to answering the question, "Which theories generalize well?", such analysis is incomplete.
> Is the asymmetric risk really any worse than hydro-electric, though?

Yes.

You are only looking at the immediate damage. After the dust settles, with a worst-case nuclear accident you have a heavily contaminated area which cannot be resettled for a long time; after a worst-case hydroelectric accident, you have mostly only water and mud, and can start rebuilding almost immediately.
Romania and Bulgaria are indeed poor and corrupt, and from what i see you, the citizens of that country, enjoy being a dumping ground for crap cars as well. Enjoy your status and obey the eu and germany.
Most predictable and most important answer: talk to a real lawyer.
Get a colonoscopy asap.
I was thinking about that recently, having automated many lights at home.

This was done in an experimental way, with an amateur approach, and ended up failing to work when I was away and leaving my wife with 30% of the lights only.

It was not a big deal for me since I was away :) But surprisingly not that a big deal for her either, after explaining me how she would fillet me when I am back home. But then she read more than usual (the tv was out of service as well) and it was finally ok.

My lights usually works but the added value of the automation is really there. Sure we can live without but it is a nice touch.

I would say that YMMV depending on how you balance availability with some added value you could live without.
How about the i-am-about-to-press-this-button-but-wait-we-need-to-rerender-the-whole-page. At which point you misclick or not at all. Especially some recent shops and ad heavy pages use this great functionality ;)