skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good point, but I don't OP is describing full blown narcissistic personality disorder. He just has plain all full of himself disorder, something that so many of us have (and it's probably getting worse).
> There's no time-asymmetry in the statement "There's so many more higher entropy states than lower entropy states."

That is a good point, but this is only one of the premises of the full argument for the origin of time's arrow (and it is the one that answers gowld's question). The other premise is that the universe started in a low-entropy state. This establishes a contingent asymmetry in time, in that there happens to have been one special time when entropy was at or near a minimum, and then the asymmetry in the outcome of processes, from the first premise, puts a rachet on the time axis, so to speak, so that complex things will not make round trips in time.

That is my understanding of the argument as it is often presented (e.g. by Feynman, in the article here, and also in Carroll's talk, mentioned by nullspace above), and the article you link to presents the big bang as a valid resolution of Lochschmidt's paradox.

Thanks for bringing Lochschmidt's paradox to my attention, I had not heard of it before.
I think that’s the best use for 4k, there are lots of tiny details in nature that come to life in 4k. For other things, movies and such it may even make it worse in some cases, too much detail isn’t always better.
Lets be fair here you do not know there employees are stinky.
I get the impression he is saying it would have never been an issue for them if it wasn't ever going to be implemented at parliament specifically. It was not an issue to use it on every body else. If they could get away with it they would probably ban it from being used on themselves and continue to implement it everywhere else.
Narrator: "they haven't fixed it yet"
Part of this, I think, is the disgust felt by westerners around the wet meat markets that is added to the horror.
Yup. Years ago, an employer sold some software to a Canadian government department. Every couple years, it becomes somebody new's bailiwick, and I get a couple emails asking what it is and how it works. I am not sure that it has ever been actually used, but they keep paying the renewal invoices.
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Solar thermal panels might be wonderful for heating up water or buildings, where the target temperature is fairly low. However, as the target temperature goes up, the target starts radiating that heat energy back out, which is where this innovation could be useful.

So, it's useful for applications where you want a higher temperature than most solar heating applications now.
It's also needed because only C provides a standard ABI, so any linking of binary objects that are not being built by that exact same compiler release has to go through that lowest common denominator. Rust even provides 'bindgen' and 'cbindgen' utilities to make this pattern more workable.
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Fuck it, the entire work environment seems designed to decrease productivity (open plan offices, meetings scattered thought the day, constant changing of task priorities, half arsed documentation of our product).

Why should I bother about making myself more productive when so many factor outside of my control are doing the opposite?
There are a lot of workplaces that will simply not allow someone to take months of unpaid time off work. A woman will be eligible for some medical time off (generally unpaid) - but the father (or non-birthing parent) generally cannot take time. The main exception I see to this in most employee handbooks is time off for adoption.

Now, this is talking in general and not about tech per se, so if someone is really lucky they work at somewhere that doesn't expect them to do work every week to keep their job.
When did they give a statement like that? Show me
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Clojure is very different from Java, so there are definitely cases you might prefer Java over Clojure.

Scala also is a different beast (the one I prefer personally). I can understand people not choosing Scala if they're not into FP and are afraid to be unable to recruit Scala developers.

But Kotlin being some sort of "improved Java", the philosophy stays the same, Java developers can seamlessly switch to Kotlin... The benefit of picking Java over Kotlin is pretty slim.
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Hi, I'm working on an easy and very hackable GUI debugger.

Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpuw0uCtInc

I will develop it as long as i have time and you can contribute it or develop plugins: https://github.com/rohanrhu/gdb-frontend/wiki/Plugin-Develop...

Currently it works on Linux (or WSL) but Windows support is not far :)
Small details are off-limits to criticism?
that's the slowest subroutine I've ever seen
But that's true of a well-constructed monolith, too. And it has far fewer failure modes and less complexity in general.
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Equivalent to you maybe. Certainly not to me. Not that either one of us holds the absolute truth.
Perhaps, but being the decider about who does and who doesn’t deserve some assholishness is the heart of what an asshole is. Someone who disregards the wishes and feelings of another. Like if you said you like asparagus and I said “you should like broccoli, it’s better”, if we weren’t buddies like you that and I wasn’t your nutritionist :).
>This comment was sadly written in Chrome, since I need it for testing...

You realize you can have multiple different browsers installed, right?
"Churchill wanted to [...] ensure fair and free government in Eastern Europe, especially Poland, for whom in 1939 Britain had gone to war."
Poland was left largely without help during WW2.
If Britain and France would agree for a preemptive strike against Hitler the whole ordeal could be avoided in the first place.
If the help would come in the 3 first months of the war, most of the destruction could be averted.
Lets not forget about Warsaw uprising in which 11 old kids were fighting waiting for some sort of help to come from "allies". Percentage of the destruction was bigger than in Nagasaki, yet no brit around.
I highly recommend exercism as a way to either learn a preferred language deeper or to begin learning a new language. I went from an apprentice Pythonista to journeyman level and picked up C++, go, and Rust sufficiently to read other's code by using exercism.

Note: just a satisfied user, no other affiliation.
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>Although the firmware was released last year (August 2019) as I write this article, it uses an old Linux kernel version (3.3.8) released in 2012 compiled with a very old GCC version (4.6) also from 2012!

This is what happens whey you pay peanuts for embedded devs and outsource development to the cheapest sweatshop you can find so your products can meet a competitive price point.

Sadly this will not change until there's regulation in place to hold manufacturers accountable for their massively obvious vulnerabilities since nobody cares that they're flooding the market with potential botnet hosts when they're overworked, paid miserably and have a manager constantly breathing down their neck.
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American here, I've heard both "Map Key" (or just key) and "Legend" used interchangeably for map Keys/Legends for as long as I can recall. So I suppose there's more to it than just American vs. British English.
As long as nothing bad ever happens to JetBrains.

(You could say the same thing about Sun/Oracle...risks all around.)
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There is NSFileProviderExtension, but last I heard it was still a very immature API.
This is amazing! I’ve used binwalk extract for ‘capture the flag’ challenges but I never really thought about the practical applications of it. Wow! Thank you
Sandwiches are always the best!
That's a great great idea. Will follow this
Got a source for this? Not doubting just interested.
Those look like parentheses though. Also braces, but the Lua version has those too.
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You say that like having 4 or 5 solid editors for Clojure is bad because no unity. To me, it seems great because there are a wealth of choices for people that like different things and many of them are excellent, well above the bar for being a productive developer.
Yes, the WHO says quarantining within China is fine but canceling flights to other countries is unnecessarily punitive. It's absurd.

If China wants countries to open their doors again then they need to let the rest of the world's doctors in to help research the nature of this virus.
You need to think of things like that like a low-scale industrial system. It needs to do what it does.

If you go to a candy-store at the beach and see a 150 year old saltwater taffy machine, you say "ooh, cool". The thing that makes a missile go up is essentially the same thing, it needs perform it's function to spec, period.
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Get married and have kids.

Nothing will cure narcissism more effectively than holding a quivering, helpless newborn in your arms and realizing that you must keep this miracle alive.
*their

the site doesn't say who is behind it so it might as well be operated by a bunch of hamsters for all I know.

hackers use org-mode or local solutions not this type of carrion
Did you forget about what they are doing to ethnic minorities right now? They are running literal concentration camps. Of course they don't have it easy on the internet.
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Saying that some people need to be subjected to abuse is a terrible point of view.
Volunteer at an animal shelter for a couple hours a week. The cats at pet stores always need volunteers.

Animals can't communicate so you are forced to empathize.
Not sure if you're being intentionally ironic about "not a narcissist but perfect" :).

I'd echo the rest of your comment with my MD friend's "narcissists can't be treated, they think there is no problem and pointing out what they are doing only makes them think that their behaviour is actually good...".
> but still has that deceptive feeling of actually being fake.

I think that's key when it comes to AI for these use-cases.

It's not restoring by filtering out noise and interpolating. It's really creating something entirely new.

Even if they perfect the technology so that the result looks perfectly real, it will still be completely fake.
Evolution doesn't prevail completely. It might favor a path (and thus see its population grow), but the other path is not guaranteed to be eclipsed already.
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Hello HN,

In the last year or so I have noticed an increase in Urban Planning and City Design 'consciousness', especially on Hacker News. That is why I am very excited to share Plan Together with you.

Plan Together is a simple website which allows citizens to collaboratively discuss and plan the future of their communities. Users are able to post items to a map, each tagged as a suggestion, news, criticism or praise. Other users can comment on these items; leading to ideas, understanding and unique viewpoints to surface. To better understand how this works, please visit the site.

I am very excited about this project. It is my hope that by empowering users to talk about the world around them it can change their attitude towards their communities. Most people believe their voice and input end with their house or apartment; I want the scope of their belief to include their streets, parks, communities, and cities. As Plan Together grows and municipal officials and planners begin to use the platform's information gathering, community outreach and analysis tools; a new continuous, iterative, relationship-based urban planning paradigm will hopefully emerge.

Feedback is appreciated and I hope you have fun on Plan Together!

Thanks,
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That is literally what the FileProvider Framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider) allows.
This question seems like a trap... asking people who have overcome narcissism to talk about how much better they are now. Wouldn't that be narcissistic?

With that said, I'll agree that talking to a mental health professional might be the best thing, if you can afford it. Autistic spectrum disorder, for example, sometimes looks like narcissism... if you can't sense other's emotional states, it makes listening to them instead of talking about yourself more difficult, mimicking narcissism. And I'm sure there are other diagnoses that might also have the same effect.
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DriverKit has support for building ethernet drivers:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkingdriverki...

I could imagine this being used for implementing a layer 2 VPN.
>Not everyone’s brain works the same way. Read some stuff by Temple Grandin or Oliver Sacks

Yes, but these study outliers. Most everybody's brain works the same way (or in a few, finite, ways)
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What are examples of problems you couldn't solve with your mind?
Behringer synth engineers are in UK and Italy. chinese only manufacture the synths. iirc the italians do the TD-3 and the other clones are uk designs

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments...
> But let's be precise why it's good: because isolating responsibility reduces complexity.

The thing is, it just shifts around complexity. Once you have microservices, you have to deal with a bunch of new failure modes, plus a bunch of extra code whose only purpose is to provide an interface to other services. And in terms of separating data, the worst part is that you've prevent access this data with some other data within the same transaction.
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Proof of work costs Ethereum $700M+ per year and it's going away soon
Ask HN: What are some example of low tech improving your life?
I saw the same questions asked on the Bogleheads forums and I'm curious to see what the HN crowd says.
It is mostly related to drivers to soc, not about paying devs
I work on azure compute on a core infrastructure team. I can say for certain that yes a cloud background check is required once you start on the team and this does not require citizenship. I know co-workers on many types of visas. This is a compliance measure. Azure is very into compliance.

For some of the other US gov stuff, Secret or Top Secret clearance is required. This does require citizenship and a lengthy clearance process. You will know if you’re doing this though as clearance is difficult to get so I’ve seen them hire a lot of people who already have clearance. These projects are for the most part separate from regular azure although they use the same technologies. Outside of PM these roles are mostly live site roles where access to control plane machines may be required to ensure proper operation of the platform.
Are you familiar with our tax website? Google CCRA.
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And that’s a good thing, right? I mean, I always hear Turbo Pascal was terrific.
the crave is closer to the mother 32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JexfJSNVQmM
> Another huge advantage Kotlin has over Scala is tooling, which is basically all thanks to an IDE company creating the language. Tooling will never fall behind because they are in the business of selling tools.

Not sure I'd agree with this. Kotlin's ties to JetBrains means that you're basically hosed if you don't use IntelliJ. Scala's tooling works pretty much everywhere (LSP/Metals, ENSIME, IntelliJ, Eclipse/Scala-IDE).
> As engineers and tech people we have one tool that has proven incredible useful in our careers: our brilliant rational minds. So we tend to think that we can solve any problem in life with this tool. thinking that therapy is somehow beneath us is pure hubris.

To add to this: we also tend to think we can correctly assess any problem without external help, but especially when it comes to the "self" this fails. It's kind of inevitable: being able to analyze a problem requires some distance, but taking distance from yourself, especially your problem areas, fundamentally goes against that. The result is blind spots.
There’s a guy on youtube, Sam Vankin. He is the author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited and has been studying this for a long time. He claims to be or have been a narcisist himself due to some early childhood trauma. Look him up, he claims he developed a therapy for this and he lives in eastern europe, you can even pay him a visit if you’re interested in aleviating or improving your condition. Whats worse about this condition is, that if left untreated and despite any acomplishments you’ll have ever made you’d always be deeply unhappy within, basically a shell of your true self and this will probably spill in your life and around you and make a lot of victims: family, friends, basically everyone around you.
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As for manually forcing a particular signed binary for a specific device, the “Have disk...” or “manually select from” route still works without that developer mode nonsense.
That is a 10 cal license, so you can only have 10 users using it, and that is 10 assigned users. Don't quote me on that but you have to use core licenses for web apps if you have internet users.
Why do you want to change? Regret anything?

I don't know the first thing about you, so it's hard to say what is going to help. If you truly are a narcissist all bets are off, but perhaps you are just a bit self-centered which might mean there is still hope after all.

I'd look for books on being a "building lasting relations", "how to deal with emotions", "how to be a good mother/father". That kind of stuff. Bring out the wounded inner child and see if some CPR is still an option.
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Funny; reading your comment vs the one you're replying to it seems like you're much more offended.
I like the idea. But if you have the knowledge that they are tracking you, why even participate in the app? I get it that all your friends do it, but that's terrible excuse. You don't become a social pariah.
> No travel ban: Tedros, as he is called, said the WHO does not recommend limiting either trade or travel to China at this time. “In fact, we oppose it,” he said. The health organization said it would question border closures, quarantining of airplane passengers who aren’t ill, and similar steps.

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615123/the-china-coronavi...
And untangling a monolith tends to be much less problematic that untangling a bunch of microservices. For one thing, you can refactor/untangle it all offline, do your testing, and do a single release with the updated version, as opposed to trying to coordinate releases of a bunch of services whose interfaces/boundaries were poorly defined.
Yes because Google is known for its long term commitment to initiatives.

As far as JetBrains, I am big fan, I have a license for R# that I gladly pay for, but JetBrains is just one company whose core set of products are rapidly being encroached upon by free alternatives.
As to parsing `ls`:

Bash scripting is incredibly powerful but also terribly broken with horrible edge cases. E.g. if syntax, bash quoting, -print0, parsing strings with regexps...
It's near impossible to build sound applications with bash.

Parsing output of almost any program breaks at _some_ point: https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html

You need to know what data you are dealing with when writing shell scripts. bb does not aim to fix that. Just gradually improve.
Automate everything including finding bugs?

Can you elaborate on this? I have never heard of any efforts to automate bug discovery beyond static code analysis tools in IDE's for example.

I agree with your first and last point though. Cheers
Why not just poll the audience? "How's everybody feeling about wings tonight? I'm kind of ambivalent but I'll come out if anybody else wants to."

It's not complicated, all I did was just summarize how you said you felt in two sentences.
I never understood the reason an advanced user would buy an Apple product.

Is it compiling iOS apps for other people?

Given the high price and lack of qualities, I don't imagine many advanced users would buy anything from Apple.
> IMO the more simple explanation

For me Occam's Razor points towards internal analytics.
I'm an Enterprise AWS customer(well, I work for one), our account is special enough that we've got extra AWS tech people on site regularly in addition to normal support, and I've seen 1, 2, and 4 with AWS, both regular support and our on-top handholding.

On top of that AWS documentation is often both needlessly opaque, elliptical, incomplete, and outdated or otherwise incorrect.

On the other hand, if the issue isn't too obscure, AWS’s huge marketshare means that you can usually find decent answers on SO.
Same here, just very enthusiastic about it, no affiliation.
30-60% isn't a marginal increase, that's just a solid raise. I'd call 5-10% marginal.

Maybe they're holding out for something larger, like 300%,
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> These teenagers are relying on a sophisticated network of trusted Instagram users to post content from multiple different devices, from multiple different locations.

I'm not sure that quite qualifies as a "sophisticated network" but you're right, I would think any service, especially something as big as Instagram, would end all sessions if the password is reset. Could this be by design? Seems like too be to be missed by the security teams though. Does Facebook do the same thing?
If you turn the whole thing upside down, won't the free-spinning nut work its way along the spindle and unlock the box?
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Can we just take a moment to appreciate how well-written this is? Super engaging and fun to read.
Kotlin's inline classes (and Scala's AnyVal classes) are syntax sugar for static methods. The object itself is erased completely whenever possible (just like primitive values).
In mediterranean countries hot water is regularly heated with rooftop tanks / heaters. This could mean higher temperatures achieved with that relatively easily.
Also, if you have the CPU cycles to spare, optipng (http://optipng.sourceforge.net/) can often find a nice reduction in size without having to change the actual image at all.
We recently had to choose a cloud provider for a Fortune 150 company. Google was the first one thrown out - for this exact reason. We have absolutely no faith or trust in Google's ability to keep anything running or to provide any level of customer service.
My experience with Behringer guitar effects pedals is that they are 1:1 clones of more popular ones (mostly by Boss). Here is an example list:
https://www.tonestart.com/ultimate-behringer-guitar-pedal-cl...

Basically, the components in a 80-250 EUR guitar pedal are worth around 5-15 EUR and the rest is intellectual property. So it is possible to pirate hardware as well.
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Student has right to ask for commisional exam and result is a grade - they don't decide on punishment to professor nor fairness. It is strictly test of knowledge once you go this way.

You don't need to play massive legal battles and shortage of professors is less of factor due to there not being a risk of professor being fired.

As for secretly recording everything, make sure it is legal where you live.
You map out your ancestry. That's great: records found, tree built, work complete. Business relationship over.
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I see lots of shiny new free editors, but IDEs, especially with deep semantic models and refactorings, are a rare breed.