skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you donate $5,000 to a university they will invite you to one or two events a year where they show you the kind of research donations have been supporting, some students who received bursaries say how it let them buy books and focus on their studies, and the head of the university gives a speech about their vision for the future of the school. Important-sounding academics and administrators will circulate and talk to you as a peer.

Or, from a more cynical point of view, they make you feel important/distinguished/part of their community, in hopes of soliciting further donations in the future.

I assume, if you donate $50,000,000 they knock that up several notches.
I regret not getting one of these when SoftIron was selling theirs
I find this website to be a fairly amusing example of how marketing co-opts real, generally easily expressible ideas to be an amalgamation of highly targeted jargon and pointed funnels for personal information collection.

Generally any well intentioned person who worked on an idea like this would be delighted to share what their product does specifically and clearly - unashamed screenshots of interesting visualizations (maybe half cooked), telling descriptions of specific numbers being crunched and their utility as predictive indicators of project success, verified with statistical certainty.

Sadly this kind of naive, honest approach is very regularly usurped by the machiavellian machinery of the professional art of convincing others to buy things, which is narrative focused and story driven with very little concrete substance.

Not blaming the author here, I understand the motivations at work and sympathize with them, but still sometimes find myself dumbfounded by the results.
A young computer engineer tries to solve a mystery in first teaser for Devs
Probably when you get to Carmack's wealth, you stop filling your brain with the expected prices of random items and you become more susceptible to things like this.

In the UK politicians sometimes get asked what a pint of milk costs or a loaf of bread, to prove they are in touch with the common man. Because many aren't.
> Ww2 hit russia harder then west which was hit super hard.

I know. Russia suffered greatly in ww2. That's my point. It's why I compared ww2 to the soviet collapse. That's how awful the soviet collapse was for russia. It was even worse than ww2. I never claimed the west suffered more than russia in ww2. No country suffered more than russia in ww2.

> What happened is that post ww2, people had children.

Not only that they had jobs and hope for the future. Life expectancy increased, everything got better. They became the 2nd largest economy in the world. Everything improved not just from ww2, but even prior to ww2.

The exact opposite happened after the soviet collapse. They stopped having children, people died in droves, life expectancy dropped dramatically, their economy tanked from being #2 economy in the world to a third world hellhole being picked apart by foreign vultures, etc. Even today, 30 years later, russia still hasn't recovered. It took russia 10 years to recover from ww2. In 30 years, russia has yet to recover. In other words, russia is worse off today in population, economy, international clout, etc than they were 30 years ago.

> Post communist russia has less children for the same reasons why western countries have less children - you got options if you are ambitious and also need to work if you are not.

We have less children because we are wealthy and selfish. Russia isn't wealthy. Also, given the growth the west has enjoyed in the last 30 years, we can afford to have less children ( though we probably should be having more ), but russia doesn't have that luxury.

Anyways, people think since bombs weren't dropped during the soviet collapse that ww2 was the worst thing russia experienced in the 20th century, but an objective analysis clearly shows otherwise. Winning ww2 helped russia advance and improve. Losing the cold war truly damaged russia in ways that it doesn't seem capable of recovering from. Not only that Russia has a higher median age than the US. So not only is russia older, it's poorer than the US. That doesn't bode too well for future russian prospects.
That would have been fantastic!
If you're talking about TimBL's Solid, I wouldn't call that a social network: it's a set of specifications for data storage, on top of which people could build a federated social network.

(Disclosure: I work at inrupt, TimBL's startup, but this is my personal opinion.)
“Jobs was far more of a "tech guy" than either Sculley or Cook.”

Very true. “Renaissance Man” is a such cliche, but Steve Jobs really was. Having those tech skills and interests under his belt is what made him such a fabulous tech leader and tech salesman; and without that mix he’d have just been one more Swiss Tony bullshit artist in an ocean of the bums. (Like many here I’ve worked with that sort, and the old joke about the salesman, the developer, and the bear is frighteningly on the nose.)

But whereas someone like Woz loved and built tech for its own sake, and was perfectly happy doing that and nothing else all his life, Jobs always saw tech as just the means to his own ends: which wasn’t even inventing revolutionary new products so much as inventing revolutionary new markets to sell those products into. The idea that personal computers should be Consumer Devices that “Just Work”; that was absolutely Jobs.

And yeah, Job always used the very best tech talent he could find, because the man’s own standards started far above the level that most geeks declare “utterly impossible; can’t be done”, and he had ZERO tolerance for that. And of course, with the very best tools in hand, he wrangled that “impossible” right out of them; and the rest is history.

Woz made tech. Jobs made markets.

As for Sculley, he made a hash. And while Cook may be raking in cash right now, he’s really made a hash of it too: for he’s not made a single new new market† in a decade, while Apple’s rivals—Amazon and Google—are stealing the long-term lead that Jobs’s pre-Cook Apple had worked so hard to build up.

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(† And no, things like earpods and TV programming do no count, because they’re only addons, not standalone products, and so can only sell as well the iPhone sells. And the moment iPhone sales drop off a cliff, Cook’s whole undiversified house of cards collapses, and they might as well shut up shop and give the money back to the shareholders.)
The best shield for the devious are the innocent and idealists. If you murder someone and burry them in your back yard - invite the police over for a bbq.
Even if everyone was against it, at some point science would reach the state that it would happen, or become trivial, without anyone trying.
Yes and no. I know many people that would be well served if they removed this idea of, "Well, i can't be an alcoholic because i don't drink beer for breakfast" notion from their minds. I was never like that either, but I did use it as an escape at almost every opportunity I could. I would spend an enormous portion of my waking life rumination about alcohol and strategizing over how to get away with it. When will i start drinking today? How much will I drink and not have a hangover? Well, theres that dinner at 7 tonight. Do you think they'll each have one or two drinks? Would i get some stares if i have three drinks?

I'll be a year sober next month.
Customizable Tiny Linux OS for Your Development Needs Optimized for Chromebooks
Absolutely, I read it the same way. I was asking myself what a 'teamwork repair' was and how it collapsed a freeway, in record time no less.
Editor and former professor here.

Pay to publish imho always seemed to have a perverse incentive structure to me. Reminds me of the "advertisement" journals you used to see.

The way I see this headed is academic nonprofit orgs self publishing using open source software etc. and recouping costs through membership fees. Journals are already often closely affiliated with orgs, and the members do all the work except copyediting and editorial portals. Academics are also used to paying academic org membership fees for other reasons.

I've already had conversations in this direction with colleagues.

It's either this or eventually things like the preprint services, maybe with sugar on top.

The killer app in this area would be an open source service / server software for running a journal imho. If it were done well it would be hard to beat.

That said, I think traditional publication models are going to be around for awhile, maybe with much more open access or lower pub charges, just because the publishers do provide a service, even if access and price are distorted, and there isn't a uniformly better model at the moment (maybe too big a conversation for typing on my phone).
From a factual perspective, it wasn't on the App Store. (It was distributed via an enterprise certificate, which I find to be even worse, since they are explicitly not supposed to be used in the manner that they were.)
Yeah, in an ideal world, I really don't give a damn what my coworkers wear. Seriously.

In a less ideal world: As long as management doesn't get the idea to mandate dress clothes or GOD FORBID business casual, I'm fine.

Fuck business casual. I will never ever ever ever wear a polo shirt. Polo shirts are for old hairy guys that play golf.
It's been a decade since my brother, who had suffered from alcoholism for years, ended his life. He had withdrawn from the family and let his personal life go all to hell financially, including a large chunk of unpaid Virginia income taxes. I wish I had realized what trouble he was in, but I'm not sure it would have helped if I had.

Financial distress is tied in to all this substance abuse, both as a cause and a consequence.
In many countries, you can't release your works into the public domain. You can only license them. Thus you should generally avoid CC0.
If the type of guy who will give you $60,000 to cover the cost of your sabbatical invites you to lunch, but this lunch will take 8 hours of your time, that's still an excellent hourly rate.

(If you're willing to overlook the sex offences, that is)
As someone who managed a bunch of communities in the past, it fits my observations, and it also seems that I'm an otter myself,despite it being a bit contradictory.
A "teamwork repair" is when you fix your teamwork, obviously. The fast that it collapsed a freeway is remarkable, so that must be why it's newsworthy.

The original headline is word salad.
These are not architecture documents but change management documents. Roll out of such decisions should, among other things, result in an update to architecture docs.
Java 14: Memory Access API (On-Heap/Off-Heap)
11-nines data durability? Sounds good, but it's virtually meaningless (2018)
because it's extremely easy to "deploy" on old-fashioned cgi-hosts. You need a python-cgi configured, drop 2 files with ftp and your app is up and running. Also auditing is a lot easier (and you only have to trust a handful of maintainers).
> My iPad Pro is as fast on single-thread as all my Intel desktop machines, and 2/3 on multicore

in Geekbench. That particular benchmark has been critized for years for not being comparable across platforms.
Everything that happens to us changes who we are. Every conversation we make. Everything we think. We are not the same person in any given moment.

Also, because we are shaped by the things that happen to us, we are literally actually not ourselves but rather "everything else".
Felicia the ferret pipe cleaner for AEC (1971)
Is the Unison codebase manager written in Unison?

What other user-facing open-source softwares have been written in Unison?

Which of those softwares has been used for months or years by at least one person?
Interesting, I wasn't aware that Microsoft documents the ABI compatibility for MSVC 2015-2019.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/binary-compat-2...

Furthermore, GCC/libstdc++ have maintained ABI compatibility for at least 15 years now, even across an incompatible change of std::string and std::list required for C++11 conformance, so in practice the situation with C++ looks better than with Rust.

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/02/05/gcc5-and-the-c...
Long term and on a large scale there are interesting implications - societal changes that come with an older population, retirement age and how people plan their last decades, improved quality of life in your later years, certain treatments and quality of medical care being only available in certain countries or only to people above a certain level of wealth...

On a personal level, I'm still in my 20s and it really doesn't matter to me right now if I would live to 70, 90 or 110 - it wouldn't impact any of the decisions that I would make in the next 2 or 10 years.
The Romans are famous for their plumbing...
> and then given the "content creator" treatment

Content creation is done almost exclusively through proprietary software that's heavily optimized for a given platform, so this would be one of the worst markets to tackle first with an architecture change.
Language and OS features.

Recent hardware versions use Xeons.

Again, just features missing from C, and available in other languages.

Another notable feature, it did not make use of any Assembly, in 1961, because all CPU features are exposed as compiler intrinsics.
The Wiki page for CIA activities in Syria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Syria#War,_2... - includes the choice quote "CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones" battling each other.

If Russia had a preference, theories of kompromat look pretty weak compared to theories that maybe Trump just looked less likely to topple regimes basically on Russia's southern border. Hillary was probably going to continue in the same vein as either Bush or Obama, at least Trump would have appeared as a new draw from the deck.

Trumps "peace with Russia" pronouncements are one of his best features. It is a good year when the US president isn't flattening countries a la Bush. If there was a path to swapping out the missiles for insulting tweets that is a big win for everyone. Not to say Trump is particularly good, but really the US has an impact on the world and wide-eyed anti-Russia conspiracy theories help nobody. At least his administration has been better than Bush's for the Middle East.
> The world is full of “thoughtful” people who have been taken in by frauds - Theranos is a recent example

Even more recently, "John Carmack and Amazon's $30 1TB thumb drives"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22018782

> For example, frauds often seem to work on smart people who aren’t smart in the specific field in which the fraud operates.

It also works where smart people are experts in the field the fraud operates. One of the greatest frauds in science was one where an archaeologist ( amateur ) duped the experts.

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

Sometimes, in banking, finance and fine art, the scammers scam the experts in banking, finance and fine art.
It might be, but most people’s experience of mailing lists involves them getting their head blown off for daring to ask a question without three year’s solid experience in the area.

(I have no idea if OpenWRT in particular is like this, but there’s enough out there that people don’t make them their first port of call.)
Boeing’s departing CEO leaves with $62M amid supplier layoffs
I'd also have to document why certain decisions were taken.

Yes please. So much this. With evidence, please, so that the decisions can be revisited in the future and changed when they no longer apply. Every day I open another source file on a system that was built over a decade by a rotating cast of mostly first job software engineers without adequate mentorship and (I wish I was making this up) having their C++ code reviewed by a C programmer who gave them comments such as "just turn all these functions into one-line macros", and someone who appeared to be mainlining late-nineties OOP hype like it was going out of fashion and needed to get it all on the page before someone beat him to death with an old Vic 20.

Every day we stare at it and ask ourselves why. Why was it done like this? Was there a good reason back then? Does that reason still exist? If I rewrite it to remove all this horror, will something else break? Even, oh God, even "What is this actually meant to do?" I can see what it does do. What it does do makes no sense. Did it ever make sense?

Even the occasional comment like "cheeky hack for performance" is often more hindrance than help when a quick test shows it actually makes performance worse. Did it ever improve things? Did the hardware change underneath it such that it no longer helps? Did other code change such that it no longer applies?

Anyway, where this was going is that a decision recorded without evidence or even the factors considered might as well have been a coin toss to the software archaeologist having to maintain it in a decade's time. If the decisions and reasoning aren't recorded, you're forcing someone to attempt to reverse-engineer your state of mind, and that's an expensive and impossible job.
These slides are handy: https://t1lang.github.io/NorthSec-20190516.pdf
"was using a single table for users & bookings just more columns"
Could elaborate more on this point please ? Thanks.
Haven't we known this for quite some time? I'm just amazing many places still use it!
How I've Started Working Remotely Before It Was Mainstream (21 Years Ago)
On your second point, a determined criminal could always deploy rubber-hose cryptanalysis on a 2-factor authentication scheme, but it's still a significant improvement.

Your first drawback is substantial, though.
William Gibson: “I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was.”
I like SPJ's use of Comic Sans for presentations.

As others have said, overuse and misuse have caused the hatred of Comic Sans, and at least from what I see, that overuse has receded, now replaced by other fads like pseudo-handwritten "brush" fonts that do for (or to) brush fonts what Bodoni does for Roman, and extremely condensed light sans-serif all caps.

So... without that overuse, one can actually appreciate Comic Sans, and I do because seeing it in presentation slides means I'm almost certainly looking at an SPJ presentation, which is always a delight.

tl; dr version: SPJ is the only guy cool enough to use Comic Sans for presentations.
PrivateBin 1.3.2 and 1.2.2 released – Fix for persistent XSS in filenames
I would take the whole mattress industry with a grain of salt.
This page redirects me to an adobe flash installation screen randomly.
I also like the "Ecosystem" part of Julia: https://julialang.org/
Sadly, for some reason code samples are lacking.
I have seen pretty much the oposite - very very few if any MLs I have seen react the way you describe.
China reports first death from 'new type of coronavirus'
Man, I'm so sorry you went through this with your brother.

It's better to lay off the booze completely or until one can gain control - if that's even possible for you. I find that it makes a bad situation worse.

For anyone going through this, my experience and general advice is as follows:

You need to feel the pain that you're going through instead of masking it with alcohol. Pain lets you know something's gone awry and that you need to address it asap.

I don't know if anyone has any literary references that alcohol enhances anxiety and depression - because I'd like to see it - but it was my experience.
It's a comedy/meme game.
> defended (or not even questioned) by media coverage and big name personalities.

Those aren't examples of "thoughtful people".
> (US sites comply by region blocking GDPR covered users).

The only thing they comply with is their own paranoia. The GDPR doesn't even apply to US companies if they don't specifically target EU users.

I wouldn't be surprised if many sites were only violating the GDPR because they show those "cookie notices" which completely miss the point and don't help with compliance but could be considered catering to EU users.
Not actually a terrible guess; references to the island are an established poetic way to refer to Venus (who originated by washing up on its shore).

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

And there I thought I'd found something different.
The Tile chips and descendants made by Tilera and now Mellanox might fit the bill. They were noted in the press quite a few times back in 2010-2013 or so. They had 64 cores (sometimes other numbers) and could run Linux (or a bare metal environment). The idea was/is to have a grid of identical cores which can each talk at high speed with low latency to their four neighbors. The "outer" cores used their outward-facing bus to talk somewhat directly to DDR, Ethernet, and other ports. If a core in the middle wanted to do an Ethernet send, it had to send the data to its neighbor and so on until it reached a suitable "outer" core. And you could (perhaps even should) program these communications explicitly.

Linux and GCC support meant it was easy to program, but perhaps not easy to program well enough to beat x86 (which for most potential customers was probably the more relevant comparable, rather than the DSPs, FPGAs etc that Tilera suggested might be replaced).
> Am I quite alone in this?

I sure hope so.

But, to take your line of thinking further, what are the odds that we are currently at just the right lifespan for humans? If you are against increasing human lifespan, you should also probably be in favor of decreasing it, unless you think we are at very special point in time in entire human history.
RIP Neil Peart T Shirt
Why does a single file mean you only have a trust a handful of maintainers? Each line of the ~4k lines could have been written by a different person and merged by a different maintainer.
Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences
I remember playing with the FB tools back then, and I was surprised of how much information I could pull from it. As I can recall there were few bars of entry when it came to data collection.
RIP Neil Peart
They knew they shot down the plane just a few minutes after they did it. Yet, they lied about it 3 days straight. Admitting it after 3 days is surely more honest than Russia still not admitting they shot down MH17 5 years ago, but I wouldn't say it's "well done".
The Chinese Paddlefish, Which Lived for 200M Years, Is Now Extinct
Growth vs. Fixed Mindset
I don’t really buy this claim. I think there are also examples of this the other way round (eg endometriosis affects many women but little research was done into it for a long time and people were turned away being told they were just imagining their pain instead of being given a diagnosis).

I don’t think I’m in a good position to guess at which sex is treated worse by medical research but I don’t think it’s obviously men.
One thing I've found with weed is that it's not really fun on its own, it just changes how you perceive what you're already doing. So rather than sit at a bar with friends I find myself choosing to see live music, or to play music, build something, or do some other creative endeavor.

It's definitely not a one to one replacement for alcohol, as I don't find myself doing exactly the same things as I would if I went out drinking, but what I do when I get high generally feels more fulfilling.
It's hard to tell how ubiquitous using a sewer for waste disposal rather than simply throwing it outside was, since a lot of accounts come from those with a vested interested in making Rome look good/bad. However, there were laws ordering compensation of those who the throwing of waste injured, so it was unlikely to be as sanitary as a modern city.
Yeah I agree, it would create a huge amount of conflict and revolt. Wealthier people would have easier access to this tech. That would really mess things up I think.
".. a recovery email address"

This just moves your security issues to another account.. how many layers of recovery email address are you willing to go before hitting the end?