skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of things that are kind of wasteful. Parades, lots of art, celebrations, pro sports, etc. it’s part of life. Some people enjoy austerity and austere lives. That’s okay, but many people like to enjoy life with a little more vibrance that can produce “unnecessary” waste.
You reject science fiction for being too unrealistic in its imperfect space travel engineering, meanwhile NASA blew up two crewed Space Shuttles by launching shuttles that they knew had failed components.
'Take it easy' seems like terrible advice. A computer science degree is the foundation of a tech career.

The opportunity to build a solid foundation shouldn't be squandered, even if you aren't planning on being a workaholic careerist. A strong degree opens doors.
To the sibling [dead] comment:

> You are probably thinking of assembly code generated by a compiler, not by a human

An understandable response, but no as it happens I'm not.

At various times I've been an expert-level assembly language programmer and have programmed at least 20 architectures. I forget, some are quite obscure, especially non-descript Qualcomm DSPs :-) At one time I won an informal competition to make the smallest ELF executable, and I used to write games engines, back when every cycle counted, and artfully hand-tuned, clever texture mapping techniques, tuned for each generation of processor, alongside higher-level mathematical algorithms to get the best out of the low-level loops were the sort of thing needed. So I'm familiar with Michael Abrash, and "human-optimised" dense assembly.

I've written 100% assembly programs on the order of 10,000s of instructions long, which corresponds to 100s of "pages".

I wouldn't do that these days without a good reason, in fact I'm into very high level architecture and optimisation methods, and designing languages around problems, but I do know my way around an assembler when needed.

I've also reverse engineered a number of things from machine code back to C, sometimes to fix bugs in the machine code and create binary patches, sometimes to port it, and sometimes to reverse engineer how to operate a device. So I've read and analysed large amounts of assembler too, but to be fair that code does tend to be mostly compiler generated.
M Eifler had some VR experiments inspired by Christo's work, especially Surrounded Islands. The second part of this blog post describes them: https://web.archive.org/web/20190908211426/http://elevr.com/...
That makes no sense. Look at the largest donors, unions are absolutely huge, and have a very outsized role in the US (although that isn't unusual).
The thing with the FAANGs is that they can be rather unfulfilling. At first, when you are fresh out of the playground going in to commercial engineering, everything seems great, because you suddenly get paid to do a thing you like, and there is all this technology and information and people.

But that is not unique to FAANGs, and not unique to CS/IT. At some point you usually end up wanting more, either a more fulfilling job or a job that pays more. The former is probably going to have a human or societal component, the latter will drive you more to banks, economic institutions, insurance, government contractors, exchanges and similar jobs.
How about lawsuits against the police for bad behavior get paid out of their pension fund, instead of by the taxpayer?
Do I Need to Go to University?
Can someone give me a short explanation as to what this is and why it is significant?

It looks quite interesting. I am basically looking for the ELI5 because I have never heard of a DX7 before and I don't know what the file that I was prompted to download was about.
I've doxxed my Reddit username on my Apple phone doing that exact thing. The black marker is not opaque, even after a few stripes over the username. You have to do it many more times.
UK FOI isn't constrained by that. The responding party use specific exemptions if something doesn't exist, so you can effectively do fishing expeditions as long as the request isn't excessively burdensome, etc.
As a rural in the USA, I see it quite differently. Urban areas are hard left, and rural areas are a smattering of everything. I have never been attacked for my beliefs in rural areas, and yet I have in urban ones. There is a huge divide, but to assert yourself unquestionably on the right side paints how you view your position in the world. Stop demonizing what you don't understand, or you are very much the root of the problem.
My Lamy 2000 is one of my favorite pens. The Lamy 2000 was designed over 50 years ago, but it still has a very contemporary, almost space-age look. Mine works very well and is a very comfortable pen to use.

The Lamy Wikipedia entry [1] has a picture of the Lamy 2000 fountain pen for those that don't know what I'm talking about.

In general though, the three major Japanese pen companies make great pens of high quality and aesthetics and reasonable prices for someone that wants to start collecting pens. These companies are Sailor, Platinum, and Pilot/Namiki. I have perhaps a dozen of these and I like all of them. If you ever get to go to Tokyo, visit one of the large stationary/writing supplies stores. I'm sorry, I can't remember the name of the one I went to but it was perhaps six or seven floors of paper, inks, pens, etc. It was in one of the major shopping districts and easy to get to. It was great!

Even if you are going to buy just one pen, check out the entertaining world of YouTube pen reviews. One of my favorite YouTube pen bloggers is sbrebrown, see [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamy#2000_2

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkxy_5SuaZY
Author here: I don't think publications or journalists like ads themselves. However, if not enough subscription revenue is flowing in, they are going to have to use what's worked for them (but not for readers).

This is very much a bootstrapping problem. They need money and stability, and public support, to make the investments that would make the public support them.

I think the stakes are high enough for us to bicker about chicken and egg.
If marketing works in convincing people to buy more stuff than they need, then it's directly responsible for poor people making unwise financial decisions.

If it doesn't convince people to buy more than they would done have anyway, then it doesn't actually work. This means the marketing, advertising, PR and communications industries can be completely eliminated.

Right? So which is it?

(FWIW, I think it's the first).
Chromebooks boot using coreboot. As far as I know that's pretty open.
The only meaningful C++ program I’ve ever written was a command line animation of Christo’s gates in Central Park.

I was in high school and was incredibly cynical about the whole thing, so I made an animation of a very primitive ASCII Godzilla that would trample the gates after playing an ominous tune using Beeps.

Now of course I regret my dismissive stance (the gates were very beautiful), but I’ll never forget that C++ program.
> I literally could not imagine a more transparent way to serve this application.

Just distribute the code for local execution? Sure, it's less accessable for the target audience, but it is more transparent.

But what else is new? Most users are willing to sacrifice privacy and security for convenience. That's how we got into this whole mess.
Some interesting thoughts but this aversion to the word "guys" needs to stop. My wife uses it all the time to address both mixed and exclusively female groups, it's completely gender neutral. If words like "guys" are causing someone distress then there are obviously bigger issues we need to address.

It's also bizarre that this guide suggests avoiding colloquialisms and then suggests using "y'all". I've never heard anyone in the UK say that outside of attempting to imitate a Texan.
For more information, take a look @ https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/brain-simulation/
The CS courses got me half of the way to a Math minor, well-planned GEs did the same for English and History minors. Then I had a heavy load my last semester to finish them up (with one last CS course). I think I was two courses from an electrical engineering minor, too, and I did this in 8 semesters.
For linux users you can "turn off" internet for a single program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21146655
Android 11 Event Postponed
He did do the pink surrounded islands thing in Florida which was a pretty big endeavor on water.
It appears to generate ROM (cartridge) images, which I'm guessing are sound patches, for a vintage Yamaha FM synthesizer -- A model which was extremely popular and ubiquitous a few decades ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7
That's what we call "an abstraction" and that's what they were invented for.

At some point, in tech you are going to have to create an abstraction at some layer. The upper the layer, the more the abstraction should resemble what humans see as "normal".

Did you know all numbers are stored in "registries" in the computer memory. Is a registry a number? NO! It's just bits.

At what point can you actually treat a "variable" as an actual "decimal"?

How does a storage system actually save a decimal number? Not sure, and up to some point I don't care, as long as I know the accuracy and trade-offs I'm getting.

I guess my point is, using integers sets to represent a decimal number is okay if it is coping with the lower layers' limits. If a lower layer already provides a proper solution, then there is no need to provide the same.

But ultimately, abstractions are what matter and what has allowed us to progress. All you need to know about an abstraction is its limits and compromises.
People are free to use the source code and run it themselves.
Go generics without introducing contracts! This is exactly what I was hoping for!
The unwritten laws of engineering (James G. Skakoon, original by W.J. King). 67 page introduction to "soft skills" for engineers. I wish I read this book earlier to understand that being a great coder is only part of growing into a great engineer.
While I understand that many people do not like Trump and that his tweet isn't what would be expected from a president I'm not sure what they want Trump to do about it. The president's powers to interfere at the state and local level is quite limited. The author doesn't seem familiar with Posse Comitatus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

The inflammatory tweet, when you read it without the emotional component, Trump is doing what he's allowed to do. He's offering the military if requested by the governor. That is really the key thing. As long as the state government is in place and functional the governor is in control.
If you scroll down a bit there's more info: https://www.thisdx7cartdoesnotexist.com/#faq
Citizen Police Data Project – Police allegation data made accessible
It's much easier to make friends at the start of a school year. Or the start of anything really where a new group of people come together and bonds tend to form in that time. Outside of that regular participation in groups tends to lead to friendships but I find them of a shallower quality than the first variety.

From my observations and what I read it seems that most people when they are adults actually have very few friends and there aren't many opportunities to make friends as an adult.

Just as a baseline to compare to I guess...
My opinion was based on the claim being apparently baseless. Someone saying "are you a cop?" to a masked person does not make them likely to be a cop-- in fact, it demonstrates that the cop-ness of this person wasn't readily apparent to the people who were actually there.

That they denied it is just additional (weak, sure) evidence.
Linux 5.7
It .. asks me to download something when I click generate.

Is that supposed to happen?

Running: Firefox: 76.0.1 (64 bit)

I thought it was going to be a picture of the cartridge.
Kinda bummed you didn't use security.txt for this.
Absolutely bizarre to see a philosopher writing at some length that some questions are bad because they are hard to answer cleanly. Does he know what his profession is?

It's also poor form to sling broad accusations about what "some" philosophers do without citing any examples.
HN is more libertarian than conservative. The libertarianism often aligns HN with conservatives, but HN and conservatives diverge wildly when it comes to government overreach, whether that be police brutality, cryptography regulation, or the war on drugs.

Note how even within the police brutality issue, HN is focusing on organisational incentives for police recruiting and conduct instead of the more mainstream race angle. HN believes in well-designed systems of incentives. The (ideal of the) free market with appropriate minimal regulations is the dream, which usually sides HN with small-c conservatives on economic issues and even makes HN look reactionary from time to time.

Of course, as you say, the administration is anathema to any group of intellectuals. And I'm sure previous administrations would have spun their cases to be more appealing to HN and similar forums. But I don't think the basic position of HN on police brutality is particularly new or surprising.

Disclaimer: Obviously HN is many people who have many opinions which I wrote as a single entity for convenience.
>These are multi-ton plastic monuments to some guys ego.

i've found that part of appreciating art is separating the aesthetic value from the worldly reasoning.

in other words : lots of art can be viewed as a waste of resources -- there is no intrinsic value other than what others assign to it. The (real) non-monetary value lies in the interpretation and aesthetic value the art itself achieves, not in the comparison and measure of how efficiently it achieved that aesthetic versus currency spent.

Foil wrapped buildings and waterways that many can walk across are aesthetically interesting in our society because those particular views are rare or non-existent. Other-worldly.

The value is in the novelty of having the opportunity to see something totally unlike the known world that you've already experienced.

After all that : art is still subjective. Maybe his works just won't ever click for you -- that's okay. Support the art that you might enjoy in the future by supporting artists as a valid work of life as a whole, regardless of ones' tastes.
Sweet, I would program this thing for blender and resolve.
Christo: Bulgarian-born artist who famously wrapped landmarks dies at 84
dang is pretty good at moderating comments and fixing bugs too when you report it to him or if he sees it in your comment
FM synthesisers like the DX7 are notoriously difficult to program compared to other types. There are many parameters to tweak and it can be hard to get an intuition about how each will change the sound. There's also a wide subspace of the possible parameter settings that sounds very bad/not musical.

This project seems to take a bunch of manually designed presets that sound good and use them to train a model on what sounds good, so it can make up new presets.
Im white, of Eastern European origin and a US immigrant. Fortunately not very bigoted due to my opennnes to experiences which opened my eyes.
I did not add color to my edit but probably corrected some error, i type on my phone and also miss words.
Obama was dealing with this same problem. He couldn't get the Republicans in Congress to make change in good faith.

The problem is more complicated than simple.
I was with you until the last point. If someone is legitimately afraid of dogs, and deliberately go to a park where dogs have to be on leash, and someone shows up with a dog running around, and just don't listen to polite requests? What are they supposed to do? Out here in the UK, I wouldn't call the police (I'm not that bothered), but I can imagine it being a legitimate concern.
I can appreciate that distinction. The code I linked is mostly clean and readable, but it also does things IMHO very simply - that's not to say it does simple thing though some of them are. I was taken aback the first time I read the last function.

I agree that choosing the right definitions and structures can make more problems solvable. That's a major driver of data structure choices - the things we build need to support the things we want to do, and getting that right is also part of the art.
The value in these things is being able to consistently extrapolate from weightings, and to understand all of the consequences of different weights. Most people just have vague moral intuitions that lack consistency.
Came across this tool by the Invisible Institute as I was thinking about what ways technology could help with the ongoing issues with police brutality and accountability.

It looks like they partnered with USA today on a larger database as well. I'll be reaching out to the former to see if they have plans to develop an API. I imagine that would help this spread like wildfire and increase scrutiny.
My point was that there is no writing that extends to long lines. If anything, the fact that no other writing form has made such extensive use of indentation is enough to give me pause and think if that is making any sense. (I do note the amusing lines in the Linux style guide on the use of heavy indentation.)

And looking at this before I hit go. You seem to ultimate be agreeing. Taking opening indentation into consideration concedes that long lines are bad. You just give some room for margins. And are ok with all of the mental stacking that the indentation implies.
You are mistaken and are myopic. Fox or CNN are not the ones at stake here.

The local newsroom that do the important work of disseminating disaster information, local election information are what's at stake.

40-some millions US residents still don't have reliable or fast Internet. Millions don't have any Internet at all. How do you expect to keep up with their own community and the world?
Yes and no.

Art isn't useless, and usefulness is highly subjective. No matter how sustainable we attempt to behave we cannot distinguish pleasures from necessities in a meaningful way.

Then again, even if the footprint of art in its entirety is rather small, this doesn't absolve artists from the same responsibility we all share. A responsibility you rightfully point out, not apparent in Christo's art.

Then again, most of his work is from decades ago when the urgency of sustainability wasn't as obvious as it is now.

I don't think he deserves being remembered for wastefulness.
haveibeenpwned is explicit about not entering passwords you use. If you want to check a password that you intend to use then download the database and check for yourself.
We write our own services to coordinate janus rooms over multiple instances. That service takes care of translating from our own domain specific entities to janus room. It's also responsible for sharding rooms to healthy and available Janus instances. Instead of treating janus rooms as thick/permanent, we prefer to treat them like "just-in-time", rooms get destroyed when not used and get provisioned when requesetd, making it very flexible.

We have made some modifications to the Janus video room plugin but only to fix bugs or provide specific functionality we needed for certain gaming use-cases. Out of the box, the plugin is already very featureful. The key is to always stay up to date with master, the project is fairly active and so keeping up to date is very important.

We have debated writing our own plugin and that's certainly a possibility in the future. (There is a Duktape JS layer available) To be completely transparent, if we were to reach that need, I would re-evaluate the solution with more recent alternatives, like pion.ly.
Jeremy Kun also has a good blog series on ECC. Although from memory it gets pretty technical into pure maths pretty quickly.

https://jeremykun.com/2014/02/08/introducing-elliptic-curves...
Honest question: isn't it far better to review the patch locally on your laptop? I always do this, primarily because I like to be able to go through the callers of functions that the patch modifies, look at the callers of functions that have been introduced, etc.

My decades-long complaint with every single code review system I've been forced to use at my workplaces (which no system I've seen fixes so far) is that they don't let you browse code and examine the diff in its native setting, so to speak.
after a "Christo's Fence" exhibit in the SF Bay Area long ago, a property owner acquired some materials from the effort and made an overhanging enclosure from it on his inner-urban property. While working away on some construction project, a muscular tattooed guy and I started talking about it, and the result was that I was dared to climb up to the three story roof and cross the alley on the Christo's Fence material alone (a sheer drop below). With the expression "danger == fun" in mind, I did cross the alley from above on the white cloth material -- it did not tear, I did not fall, and I had a lot of fun. Thanks Christo's Fence !
Do you have any workable example? All the examples I tried haven’t worked on latest bazel version.
that getting the degree is one thing but learning how to ship a project (aka "make it live") is another
It might be worth noting that the degree of face-watching during conversation is quite culture-dependent.
Do you know how to study?

No, I mean really? Was high school easy? CS won't be. Your math classes will force you to think in a new way, unless you had a very proof-oriented math education, which is exceedingly rare in the US.

A significant number of the smart kids that land in freshman engineering are smart enough that they never had to study in high school, and therefore never learned how to study hard things, on a deadline. A good number of those smart kids wash out, not because they aren't capable, but because they just don't have the study skills. Don't be that guy.
I REALLY like this. Take it out of the pool of pensions for all cops in that department. Maybe they'll start to police themselves a little.
Gerrymandering, mass surveillance, oligarch-owned news media that works in conjunction with the state. VOTING doesn't do much. No confidence. They are dismissed.
"It also hasn't had its funding turned off and on."

That one's a killer. I was once a project manager at an aerospace company developing a new processor chipset for space applications. Our government customer would run out of money near the end of every fiscal year, forcing us to shut down. Then a few months later they would secure funds and ask us to restart. By then most of my staff would have been reassigned to other projects. It was stupidly inefficient and caused costs to balloon.
Our department had an unofficial policy of not teaching the latest tech and telling students that was something they can do on their own time.

That being said, with wireguard being merged into the kernel and it's huge significance to networking, I expect that tech to make it into the curriculum in some forum.

Also, thank you for the vote of support!
All of this "modern art" is just terrible and not soothing to the soul. They create these installations to "elicit a response" from viewers, but any talentless hack can do that. It's not art.

There's a movement to return to traditional art and architecture. It's amazing, but I can't seem to the recall the name of the organization. They had beautiful paintings made by artists in the traditional art style.
I'm also getting on (started programming as a kid early 80's on Atari 600) and agree with what you said - it really resonated with me and what I've seen over the years.

Sometimes too, I see comments from people frustrated with having to "work so hard". I'm sorry they have that burden, but for me, programming is not a negative in my life -- even though often times I do it many hours more than is actually asked of me. Sure it's got it's boring/frustrating times, alternatively it can be very difficult, rigorous, and taxing, but I doubt I'll ever completely put it down.
> Just so you know, this is not an uncommon complaint in any romantic relationship.

It's worth so much to be able to just ask, and the other party examines the issue and their feelings and simply tells you.