skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once, during an existential crisis, I saw an opportunity to become a step-dad, and I did. I suppose you could say that I talked myself into making it my primary purpose in life. That wasn't hard, though--working hard to make sure a kid without a father has a reasonably happy early life is about as close to perfectly meaningful as you can get.

There are a lot of problems in our society with being a step-father, and though I'll say I did a great job, I rarely hear from said kids. That's life, but what I did is "in the bank" in my way of thinking, and it's perhaps my proudest accomplishment.

For philosophical reasons, I don't think most (if any) people should have kids. But once they're here, they're as worthy a cause as anything else I know of.

(Unfortunately, too old to do it again, and meaning has become a struggle again.)
I certainly don't support fascism but at least Hitler had some interest in science. Things are worse in India. We spent 0.8% of the GDP on Science and Technology. At the same time, a part of that (taxpayer money) is spent on Homeopathy, Ayurveda, and Cow Urine/Dung Research.

Our policy-makers absolutely have no idea what evidence in science means. Here is an entertaining collection of statements by Indian ministers,

=> “Science is a dwarf in front of astrology.” - Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, the minister of human resource development

=> “Since man is seen on Earth, he has always been a man. Nobody, including our ancestors, in written or oral, said they ever saw an ape turning into a human being.” - Satyapal Singh, the minister of state for human resource

=> "Vedic theory is greater than the theory of relativity." - Harsh Vardhan, the current Minister of Science and Technology

=> "Cow urine cures cancer" - current Bharatiya Janata Party member of parliament

=> "Maths never helped Einstein discover gravity" - Piyush Goel, minister of Railways and Commerce

=> "Ganesha proves plastic surgery existed in ancient India" - Modi, Prime Minister

More gems here: https://caravanmagazine.in/science/false-scientific-claims-m...
Doesn't seem hostile or unreasonable. He was a senior director that potentially stole IP and also committed a breach of contract by poaching employees.

I'd say if he _did_ do those things, that seems like something that would merit serious legal action.
what do you think motivated that change?
I like TillerHQ (https://tillerhq.com/) for just extracting the financial data and dumping into a spreadsheet.
https://signal.org/bigbrother/

You can see exactly what Signal is able to provide to a legal request. Time of last connection related to a phone number
Well, being a "senior director" (sounds like an oxymoron to me) would seem to apply.
I'm laughing because my understanding is that he's an employee, if he's beholden to fiduciary duties then it's a different situation.
Fish Manure: Fish Bone, Fish Waste and Now Fish Poop?”
I agree that Nuvia doesn't compete with Apple but Qualcomm is actually a rival of Intel now because of their 8cx platform that's going into ultrabooks.
Ahhh "ethics". The elusive, undefined moral compass that's whatever you want it to be -- very practical for finger pointing and self-righteous outrage.
Tribal Handbook Update
> Jews weren't a small population of some European countries' population

Yes, but those weren't the countries that had successful info campaigns against that sub-population, to my knowledge. It took Poland's defeat by Germany before Germany could enforce their own policies (developed in a nation with a much lower Jewish population). Indeed, your own source notes that in the pre-war period while there was increases anti-semitism, and some increased violence, there was nothing like what happened in Germany.

> Given that Germany at the time had an official policy of expanding into its neighboring countries, some with very high Jewish populations, your statement is at best misleading.

I don't think so, but I can see how you might think so. I believe I misinterpreted what the top level comment was trying to express, and as such my comment isn't really addressing that. I think because of this you're also inferring that my comment is meant to convey something it's not.

So, to clarify, yes, I believe Fascism is on the rise and targeted at Muslims this time. I don't think it's the same as what happened in Germany for the reasons I noted, which wasn't what was stated so it's a bit of a non-sequitur on my part, but it is where my mind went when I was reading it.
Sounds like the parties responsible need a season or two in death row.
How are you going to get around 2FA? NerdWallet (which probably has more than enough money to hire lots of really good engineers to solve this problem) consistently has problems syncing my 401k/credit card/checking accounts.
This is interesting because it definitely seems to be different for different types of projects like frontend and end-user applications vs. backend and other libraries.
> the danger is that they're fun

I don't know about others, but fun isn't the word I'd use to describe the ADHD medication which I'm basically chained to for life because I cannot function without it, and yet causes me so many other problems that I need to work around or cope with like loss of appetite (food is no longer a thing I enjoy), insomnia, anxiety, restlessness and mood swings. Where's the fun part again?

Are you willing to be skeptical yourself and understand that you might have blind spots just like the people you're talking to?
Only allowing logins via google is highly disappointing, and makes tiller unusable for me.

The last thing I want to associate with my google account is my financial data.
> there's no good and easy option to backup your phone other than iCloud

of course, there is. You can easily back it up to your computer, and then transfer it to anywhere else.
> The motto seems to be: "Open Source is BAD! How are we going the get support?! Let's just buy a product or solution from a vendor"

Not really accurate anymore. Maybe it was true a decade ago but when I worked in the DoD space almost every single project was attempting to use ONLY FOSS where possible and to try and move off of companies proprietary stuff.

Unfortunately most of the projects I've seen ended up failing and Palantir usually sweeps in and gets a contract because the users really like it.

There is a huge want inside of the DoD for FOSS, it's just mortally wounded by others who want systems like Palantir or through simple incompetence.

In my experience, anyway.
I did not suggest changing it to an unprivileged port, just a non default. Also you can change the Linux privileged port range with sysctl.
> A story we collectively tell ourselves about it — how it should be used, which people it is for, etc.

My personal opinion on this is that this is generally harmful, as there will always be that one corner case which doesn't respect the "idiomatic" rules - and then you have to fight every time to explain the good reason which led these rules to not be respected in that place.

I much prefer to say - any string valid in the language grammar is fair game ; if we don't want a string / construct / etc, then build a language in which the construct doesn't compile (or create a linter which fails the build, etc). Especially, you can't assume how other people learned the language - maybe someone went on C++ from LISP and builds his code around lambdas and std::function, or from Java and creates IAbstractObservableFactoryDispatchers by the dozen, or is a grammarian mostly experienced in Boost.Spirit or any other combination - that's ok, you're a dev, reading their code will enlighten you even if you need to google a bit, and open you to some paradigms which may later turn out to be the best fit for some use case of your code.
Papyrus is closing 200+ retail stores, Express is closing retail stores...the retail apocalypse growing every day too.
Artificial Intelligence and the Manufacturing of Reality
I have no problem if a company performs facial recognition on me as long as I give them permission and it is used for specific purposes. Why should the government interfere with my ability to decide how images of my face are used?
I didn't want to imply fascism wasn't on the rise, just some differences I saw. That said, as I covered in a cousin comment, I believe I was misinterpreting what you were trying to express to some degree.
What does your pre-code design process look like? Might beef that up; its what has helped me quite a bit.
How do you plan to handle the transitionfrom free to subscription?

Once you price yourself at 0, it can be very difficult to convince users to start paying for what was once free.

I would generally recommend avoiding having a free period entirely, and instead offer an early adopters discount as well as a free trial period.

Since it sounds like you missed your chance on that one, I would look for ways to offer both a free and payed version. Again, the difficulty here is that once something is in the free version, you want to avoid removing it, so you will need compelling new feaures to make this work. You also need to make sure that the free version continues to leave a good impression.

Having said that, I suspect you will find there is a reason so many companies end up monetizing through avertisements...
You're showing shocking ignorance of psychiatry and the classification of mental disorders, not to mention any of the latest research into ADHD.

In the US there is a larger percentage of the population who are diagnosed than in other countries, but even there, adult ADHD is under diagnosed.
I think worldwide all proto-fascism is getting another turn at the wheels of power only because the neoliberal world order post USSR hasn't come up with any legitimate solutions that people feel need addressing. Whether it's wealth disparity, immigration (warranted or otherwise), or healthcare it seems as though we're stuck with old ideas that don't work out so well. Assuming markets and light touching regulations will fix these issues isn't going to be enough for anyone anymore. And I think the scary part is that if global warming isn't addressed sooner then I expect full blown eco-fascism become fashionable with some major parties. When (imo not really if anymore) that happens expect massive purges to happen. It hurts me so much to see this happen but if the neoliberals and social democrats can't offer an alternative them in their inaction others will rise to give options even if those are totally wrong for many reasons (moral, factual, spiritual, etc).
I have as well, I'm happy to report out of the last 5 non-programmers or very-new programmers I've trained, 3 are senior engineers and 2 are on-level engineers and I'd gladly work with any of them.
> for years
So true!
I have NOT found that, when taken at a therapeutic dosage, people with ADD/ADHD thinktheir medications are fun other than the "fun" feeling of satisfaction you get when you complete a task.

I have found that people who do not have ADD/ADHD find those same medications to be fun, however, even at a therapeutic dose.

Otherwise your comments on the effects are spot on. Personally I had to make a choice in my mid-twenties, the meds or a happy-go-lucky life where I feel unfulfilled but I have a fun time.

I used to just sit all day, thinking about what I needed to do, yelling at myself in my head to do it, but never doing anything. Just constant maladaptive daydreaming. I have inattentive type ADD. I didn't develop mental executive functions until I was 28. I started recognizing there was a "manager" in my brain that wasn't there before. I sobbed when I found out most of my peers developed that 10 years earlier.

From what I've seen, people with ADD/ADHD go through a cycle of recognizing then denying that they have a disability. I have done this personally 4-5 times in my life. I will accept I have a disability and deal with it, then eventually decide that it was my environment that was causing the symptoms, only to later come to a point where I once again have to accept I have a disability that cannot be managed entirely with CBT, task lists, meditation, mindfulness, etc... I'm happy for those that feel they can do it without medication, but I also have to wonder if I'm just meeting those people at a point in time before they have to get back on medication again...
Schneier doesn't seem to make the point that they do harm in that article. He also specifically closes by extending the bans on facial recognition with a warning against focusing on facial recognition too much. Which is of course correct. The specific critique about smartphone tracking as a fallback wouldn't be valid in the geopolitical context of this thread, which is specifically Europe. In the US that's of course still the case.
The top-most comment said

> I value that choice and the freedom to change.

and my point was that not only is this freedom curtailed by capital and circumstance, deploying capital to modify circumstance requires a shitload of it. Far beyond what is implied when people bandy about the slogan of "i'm free to associate with whomever i want." In reality, you're not! You're constrained six ways from sunday and the size of the constrained set is a fraction of a fraction of the total set of choices.

I guess you can argue that this is totally intuitive to everyone and so my comment is obtuse but judging by the way people talk and behave it doesn't seem that way to me.
I figure a lot of folks are angry at the broad generalization you've stated, but I can corroborate it a bit with statistics. Conscientiousness broadly correlates with affiliation with right-wing parties. This personality trait would trend towards admiration for self-reliance (by my figuring).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918...

I've linked 1 study above but there are many more studies with the same conclusion. I also think that your generalization makes obvious sense, even without having to rely on statistics.
Firefly experiences a “test anomaly” as it works toward first launch
Part of the problem with facial recognition is it is potentially inaccurate, especially if you are not a white male.

So you run the risk of having large numbers of innocent people being incorrectly tagged as persona non grata - be that with the police, in-store detectives, hotels, potential employers etc.

Having a computer say "this person is bad/unwelcome/a shoplifter/bad credit/a sex offender/etc" is powerful, and difficult for laymen to counteract. Computer says no - sorry, it's policy, nothing I can do.

And you can do this at huge scale for pennies and in the blink of an eye with a computer. You can't do that with a human manually/semi-manually doing it.
I wish I was better at reflective listening.
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” —Edward Abbey
> I feel like Helm is similar, I've tried it briefly, but I'm not sure if or how it would fit into my workflow.

Prefix-based autocompletion is always good enough for you? I don't use Helm, at least not yet, but thought the Helm demo image in the article was enlightening.
How Regex Is Matched
> It would've made more sense to say that they were using the human brains as CPUs

That was apparently the original plot before studio executives decided it would be too difficult for audiences to understand.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...
All decent IDEs have a file search command.
How have you achieved a balance between too little and too much testing? I worked on a project that had a ton of tests, but they seemed to be "over fitted."
MIT says a lot of things.

This basically amounts to "good data from other sources, provided granularly and processed intelligently, can predict asset movements."
Jenny Odell's essay was well-written.

No further comment here on the nurture vs. nature debate, except to mention for those interested in learning more about recent research into volition and agency (i.e. what is commonly referred to as "free will"), Rita Carter's Mapping the Mind is a good place to start.

Remember though that this book covers recent experimental work in psychology, so the usual disclaimers apply.
Are you talking about a safety razor[0] or a straight cut razor? I also switched, and find I cut myself a lot less than with a cartridge razor. If I do cut myself it is usually not so deep. The cartridge razor I used was Gillette Fusion, so not a cheap brand.

[0] https://sharpologist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/34c.jpg
Why the PlayStation 4 Triumphed over the Xbox One
But one can reason from first principles, and find many more instances in one's life where reliance on others is unnecessary. It doesn't need to be an absolute.

I don't think it is possible to arrive to an explanation for why self-reliance is sought from your premise. The closest point I can think of is an analogy with the cell membrane; the fact of the existence of an indivisible individual... But to go from there to why someone would hone some skill not necessary for survival takes a change of perspective.
Alternatively, if your workstations are all relatively similar, you can sledge hammer it and just commit all of ~/.emacs.d/ into a private repo, including the packages. It saves me the headache of babysitting dependencies (at the cost of probably not being able to move to Linux without some friction? Never tried.) Caveat emptor.

Additionally, I recommend judicious use of (when (boundp 'some-thing) (some-thing)), and (fboundp ..), and (if (require 'foobar nil :noerror) (foobar-mode 1)). This avoids the cascade of errors on installation troubles (at the cost of not being alerted if you're missing them).
Mac Pro Rack:

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In grappling (Brazilian jiu-jitsu), it is very apparent from one sparring round with a person to get a sense for what they know and get a general idea for their skill/belt level. The exact belt is determined by that person's coach by measuring their skill against their personal potential.

An analogy to software would be to pair program with a person. You both get a feel for each other's strengths and weaknesses while working on a particular problem. I feel that coding interviews try to replicate this, but fall short given time constraints.
They didn't think audiences were ready to view the brain as a computer.

I disagree, but 20+ years later I don't think it would even be an issue, what with all the `people only use 10% of their brains` nonsense movies that have come out.
He even met with Chavez in Venezuela.

Edit: to whoever downvoted, here's Chavez next to Chomsky, "one of the intellectuals who fights the imperial hegemony of the elite that rules the United States": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p3kvvZfdpE
As I clicked the link, I wondered what strange Forth construct was dubbed a "Margaret Thatcher". Turns out I had the wrong Charles Moore.
Obscurity is just one more security tactic. Security by obscurity as the only defense is bad. As an additional layer to many defenses it is a sound choice.

You still paint camoflage on a tank.
because companies are lying to you about how your data is being used
The model they have in mind is israel
Actually these ethics, in a democracy are determined by the majority of people via their elected representatives.
>The problem is then what do you do with low voter turnout?

What's the problem with low voter turnout? If someone doesn't feel like voting, they should have that right. A non-vote is a vote of confidence that you are OK with any choice.

In fact, high voter turnout is usually indicative of major societal divisions or issues (case in point, the upcoming national election will probably have HIGH voter turnout as anti-Trump and pro-Trump people will turn out in droves).

> The article says that this election has in previous years resulted in <1% of eligible voters. That is clearly untenable.

Why is it untenable? What is the harm? The alternative is you force people to vote, and they'll vote by choosing a name randomly from a list.
I actively read r/india and there hasn't been a single day for the past two months now that horrendous reports of Police rioting, looting, and killing civilians (predominantly Muslims) come up but is never reported by the main-stream media. There have been numerous cases where the ruling political party has mobilised its pro-violence groups with a free-reign to do as they please. Never has a public personality been in more fear of the governing apparatus since the times of the British Raj and so only a few have spoken up. Comedians focusing on social commentary say they frequently get messages of support and caution which they admittedly did not get prior to the right-wing taking charge at the center. The judiciary is in tatters, with judges frequently found to rule in favour of the ruling majority. The judges who allegedly rise up against the tide have been found dead in mysterious circumstances.

The Prime Minister doesn't engage in any debate and has been caught lying consistently. The ruling party has been found repeatedly guilty of spreading propaganda and fake news. Some of its leaders question even the founding principles of the country and openly support and revere Gandhi's assasinators and some hold no reservations against Nazism or Fascism. Activists have been unlawfully detained, tortured, and murdered. There were also alleged reports of Police raping 90+ young Muslim boys.

The current incumbent has not only managed to sell snake-oil to the Hindu populace but continues to harbor snakes to the detriment of the very Hindus that elected them to power: Most of them are in a state of denial about the grim situation breeding in India and some of them think it is an important lesson to be taught to the unruly Muslims. Perhaps, that'd explain why a convicted pro-Hindu terrorist won elections by a huge margin, and why a Hindu religious fanatic bordering on fascism rules the largest and most populous Indian state.

Friends have lost friends, families have divided over oppressive, regressive, populist, uncompromising politics of what's by far the richest ruling party. No one is safe from the propaganda machine, not even the educated, not even the ones in an industry as left-leaning and liberal as ours. It is as if someone has blind-folded them and I don't even know how and when it happened.

It is disheartening, to say the least.
Romania is part of the EU. Officially there is no facial recognition system in use, but there are a few that are not official and those will not be affected by the ban because "they don't exist".

A relative was the lead policeman in a case where a person A accused a person B of a very serious crime. Person B appeared on a camera in the area, police identified him instantly based on the national database of ID cards (it contains photos of every person over the age of 14) and arrested the guy. Luckily for him, he was covered by a different camera for the whole time he was accused for the crime, but that was discovered after he spend a day in arrest. The person that make the false accusations simply walked.

There is a database of pictures of people that get an ID card (which is mandatory, not having one with you at all time grants you a fine). Another one for passports, but those are optional. Another one for driver's license (having a driver license with you does not save you from a fine if you don't have also the ID). These are databases everyone knows about and police are using every day, no authorization is required.
> Then there's just garden variety xenophobic polices like travel bans from predominately Muslim countries in the US

Yes, I did not agree when Obama selected those countries.