skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easier to read for whom?

I have pretty bad eye floaters, and they're more visible in bright light. Having crud bouncing around my entire field of vision does not make for an easy or strain-free reading experience, so I enable dark mode whenever it's an option. I found checking Zulip at work pretty unpleasant until I realized I could enable dark mode.

If you're running a scientific study and basing your conclusions on the average of all participants, you might not pick up on things like that. And if you're running a scientific study on people with normal vision, a sufficiently strict definition of "normal vision" guarantees that you won't pick up on that, although the studies in question probably didn't use so strict a definition.

Even if dark mode is "scientifically worse" for most people, whatever that means, it's a useful accommodation. In fact, the Nielsen Norman Group article that this post links to argue against dark mode recommends dark mode as an accommodation for people with vision impairments.
Oh wait - I wasn’t counting urine. If we are than yeah, many.
Lots of people have written very trippy things without having done psychedelics at all.

Here’s something I was just learning about in a podcast recently — 2000 years old abd similar to the kind writing that pkd was doing after his breakdown.

https://biblehub.com/library/clement/the_stromata_or_miscell...
Shaders are cool - I think? I wanted to use them for generative animations , but (maybe I have it wrong) I could not see a way to store state with each pixel. I wanted the color of the pixels to be a view onto some underlying state at that pixel location - and update that state in a shader manner, so parallel and multi-threaded, with each state step depending only on the state of its neighbors - a generalized pixel if you will.
Bail security is yet another part of the US system that needs to be removed for all but the most serious crimes.
Some of the Ribbon Designs are aspirational, but also some of the Ribbon Designs are simply telemetry-based, with an emphasis on the things users do most. I'm rarely surprised how many people complaining that the things they use most aren't well emphasized are also among the first to disable telemetry.

The intersection of the aspirational and telemetry-based approaches is something of the "Office 20% Rule". The long standing aphorism is that everybody only uses about 20% of the features of a given Office application, but that everybody's 20% is different. That "Rule" is exactly why the Ribbon will never be "perfect" in what it emphasizes, it can only aspire to try its best given the goals it has (aspirations) and the data available (telemetry).
I'm interested in how you moved from architect back to engineer. That's the path I want to take at the moment but I feel I've been out of the game too long now.
Regarding 1, I don't think you need Enterprise to have HA, I'm pretty sure it comes with Vault OSS. You may be thinking about Vault Disaster Recovery which makes one cluster fail to another one, but HA is in OSS.
Most people run modern software and data not historical software and data.
It's only "stalling" if they are uniquely doing this for this organization, which doesn't seem to be the case.
How is that different than men?
Functional Programming Concepts
As other touched on:
Lots of social people are experiencing Loneliness they may have never encountered due to lockdowns, working from home, etc.

One has to wonder if it'll have other effects. As in people will rush to get back to social norms(clubs, restaurants, etc) regardless of risk. Or maybe that some people will become less social and adopt some more introverted lifestyle choices after learning about spending time alone.
I read “Molecular Biology of the Cell” when dabbling in bioinformatics (one of the books mentioned in the article).

It’s an excellent textbook. You’ll need a base level of chemistry and biology - not two of my best subjects, But despite that I still got a lot of it.
> I don't think the fact that it's a theocracy plays any part in that

It's laughable to suggest religion plays no part in Middle East affairs. Funniest thing I've read all week, actually. :)
I'd agree that it's one of his most psychedelic books, but did he maybe try not LSD but some other psychedelic before that?
The problem with daily measurements is it can lead to frustration. The daily number may change constantly but it's the moving average that matters. Few people can track a number without asking themselves what that number means for them.

I want a scale without a screen and a measuring tape without numbers. Track often but only see the trend when you ask for it.
That's MAD, right? Mutually Assured Destruction. Well, that is the logic of a species that has gone kookoo bonkers bannanas bongos mad and thinks that "let's all threaten each other with total anihilation" is "rational". Why is it so hard to agree to not destroy each other needlessly instead?
I get that the name references “expressions”, but the coffee cup and the misspelling of “espresso” really bothers my inner pedant. :)
It's easy how Disney and Twitter would be a bad fit, but don't forget that Hasbro (toy company) owns Death Row Records home to a group N.W.A. where the "N" stands for the "n-word". https://nypost.com/2019/08/25/hasbro-acquires-gangster-rap-l...
whiny comments whenever one more study like this comes out.
This is a trend that is well known and discussed for at least 10 years. A french novelist wrote about it 25 years ago: the free sexual market leads to inequality , which means pauperization for a lot of men.

Now, instead of chest thumping and whining, it is better to accept the trend for the fact that it is, and work with the consequences. These changes reflect free and deliberate choices by people that are going to be respected because most people like progress and aren't going to go back to traditionalism or authoritarianism. Such trends can indeed have society-changing effects, since access to sex and family is one of the cornerstones of organized society, and society doesnt form spontaneously in nature. The foundational myth of ancient Rome included the abduction of the Sabine women. In ancient Athens, lawmaker Solon instituted state brothels with cheap prices for everyone. Marriage, and access to family for most men has been holding together societies for millenia. It's only natural that men will not want to "give back" to society if they don't feel they get any benefit.

What may follow from here? Perhaps if men still want sex they could seek more gay sex - they do seem to be having a lot more fun as a group. Or perhaps men might just not be interested in sex anymore - after all there is very clear evidence that testosterone and sperm motility have seen huge drops in the past 4 decades. Americans (with their relatively macho culture) are even lagging behind in this trend away from sex -- it's likely more advanced in many other countries. In societal terms this may undermine social solidarity or lead to mass exodus to new enclaves that have yet to be built. There's also the prospect of biotechnology: we can already almost design babies, and maybe we are not very far from an artificial uterus which at least can provide access to family for most men.

I think as societies we should not be hiding these issues under the rug (or purposely removing topics from the frontpages) but realize that these are solid, future trends that deserve being discussed reasonably and dispassionately
Hacker Bypasses GE's Ridiculous Refrigerator DRM
That doesnt mean their customer service as in giving an estimate of a shipping time should be that bad. They could at least say "hey, we're a bit overwhelmed right now, we'll let you know when it's ready to ship but dont have more info right now, sorry" or something like that
I had some bad drug trips earlier this year, and one of the things that's stuck with me is the realization of how bizarre our reality and existence is. It manifests as an existential dread, where I realize that we're all walking around in a world we don't understand, where most people don't seem to be questioning that fact.

It's like, we all just started existing one day. You can trace that back to your parents, to being born, to evolution, to the laws of physics, to the big bang, etc, but that doesn't remove the bizarre fact that we exist and are conscious for some reason but we have no idea why. (Or if the question of "why" even makes any sort of logical sense.) Even the reality we think we perceive is unlikely to be anything like what's actually going on. Isn't that just so weird?

It's been about 5 months now, and I still get hit with these feelings multiple times a day. It's accompanied with a strong feeling of anxiety, so I wish I could go back to the old banality.

(Yes, I've been considering therapy for awhile, but it's difficult to get an appointment with a therapist right now.)
I like the two system approach, that is a good idea.

Perhaps it is just a matter of properly ordering the answers, maybe giving community votes precedence over the accepted answer?

For example, here is the question I was talking about:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11970586/apl-removing-el...

My answer should not be accepted, I was brand new to APL when I answered it.
The "correct" answer not accepted and buried below two 0 vote questions.

The thing is, my answer _works_, just not well. I can easily see myself overlooking a better solution in a case like this. Maybe I'm just lazy though haha.
I believe the best path forward for something like this is to become a technologist in some specialty and then move in to advanced engineering/technology exploration at a big company. Find the kind of place with 7 CTOs and then get a role reporting to one of the CTOs managers. You work on 3-5 year research projects and you can just decide ahead of time which one will be your last.
At a penny for a thousand views, that doesn't seem a smart play.
That’s a really simple but great idea. Thank you for that. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve learned something while working but have been too lazy to find my notes and figure out which note to put it in. And so I never end up making a note of it in the first place.
In Houston there was an outcry when the county was going to let a large number out of jail to alleviate COVID concerns. The narrative about "dangerous criminals on the streets!" was ridiculous, since they were only letting out those who were there because they couldn't bail out; they were no more dangerous than those who had bailed out for the same crimes, the only difference was if they could afford the bail.
men aren't ostracized at 25 (or 35) either for not "having a woman". Is there an undertone here that they should be trying?
In case you don't know what I'm talking about

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
Why would there be another lawsuit?
Book publishers dont care about archived websites.
They care about IAs side activity of digitizing books and ignoring copyright.
I can see them bankrupting the IA to stop their copyright infringement, but I don't think they have an interest is stopping the sale of the archive. They may not even have a legal ability to stop a sale during bankruptcy.
> But if you do like (somewhat more) consistent UIs and a deep catalog (more than 2 in every category) of very good apps, your much better off in Mac/Windows :(

The flip side of this is that the skills and apps you learn in the open source ecosystem have staying power.

I spent a lot of time learning to use old Photoshop versions pretty well, but these days I don't have a subscription with Adobe, so those skills have been lost to its walled garden.

However, I also spent a lot of time using GIMP during that period, and I can still leverage that knowledge 15 years later for free.
Huh?

Maybe my adblocker is blocking some, but I only counted 4 - and 3/4 are demonstrating execution context. Only 1 is irrelevant.

Also, I thought all gifs looped - or at least, it’s common for them to loop.
$249 Gets You a 400MP Scanning Camera for Macro Photography and Panorama Images
Extensive discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23484292
Hi there, Matt Jackson from Twilio here. I’m the Product Manager for Super SIM.

Our other cellular connectivity solution, Programmable Wireless, which we developed in partnership with T-Mobile, has a NB-IoT SIM that you can purchase from us if you’re interested in checking out T-Mobile’s narrowband network. If you don’t have any hardware, you can purchase a Developer Kit for the T-Mobile USA NB-IoT network from our Console which comes with some hardware and a NB-IoT SIM.

https://www.twilio.com/wireless/narrowband
What type of IoT device would I install this SIM in? Are there SBCs that come with a place to plug in a SIM and everything else needed to run it? I thought all of those types of things were made for phones.

Edit: After some googling, found out about cellular IoT and GSM/GPRS modules for things like Arduino. Will that work with these Super SIMs?
Genetic nutrition optimization is a really interesting topic related to this. There are many other differences related to our genetics that impact how we process food.
Not sure if this is what you meant, but I'd correct it to "what is allowed to be said" is probably 5-10 years behind certain spheres of thought. Reuters certainly wouldn't want to alienate readers with something controversial - hence the lack of strong analysis.
The "Store secrets safely" section seems to propose three alternative solutions: store secrets encrypted in Git, expose secrets to applications with environment variables, and encrypt secrets with KMS. But those are solutions to different problems. You can use all three.

For example you can use sops (https://github.com/mozilla/sops) to store encrypted secrets in Git, using AWS/GCP KMS to encrypt/decrypt them (or encrypt/decrypt the encryption key), and have infrastructure automation that gets the secrets from sops and exposes them to applications as environment variables.
Any tech dev/company in Bay Area want to set up shop in Vietnam? And live a more balanced life (in terms of dating, traveling, eating good food, etc)? I can help be your local point of contact.
Don't you think that if we have to have unions to achieve political representation -- there is something really wrong with our political process. If I am in a party and / or a union - how does that (not) help with representation? Why do I even have to be in the union to be represented?
A kernel level rootkit is a usual form of an anti-cheat software nowadays (BattleEye, EAC).

You can dislike it, you can question whether you can trust such software from a Tencent-owned company, but it doesn’t make Riot’s solution somehow different.
Orwell underestimated our ability to make surveillance devices tiny and sprinkle them everywhere
> You are limited in the performance you can get in a particular regime without making radical changes.

But you don't know where you are relative to those limits. You may be in 1999 on a 400Mhz Celeron and you'll still see plenty of increase in single-core performance.
Thanks! I think the main differentiator is our deep integration with your Stripe data. The cancellation flow is obviously an important part of the equation, but ProsperStack can also give you insights into past cancellations, with the goal of being able to win back subscribers from before you integrated the flow into your app. We also want to make churn analytics a core part of the value prop.

We'd love to integrate with more payment providers, and Chargify is definitely on the list. If you'd be interested in helping us get a Chargify integration going, I'd love if you'd send me an email (address in profile)!
The basics are in nightly, but yes, not yet. We’ll get there.
> We did not evolved to eat processed sugar, which is not easily found naturally in the environment

The flour you make French bread with is not found any more or less naturally in the environment than the sugar you get from cane or beet.

This whole thing about evolution and nutrition is entirely pseudoscientific woo.

If humans had to eat the same way as our ancestors (ie actual paleo, not some hipster fad diet) humanity would have died out long time ago.

The French thing makes this all the more ironic... I can’t imagine much more triumph in modern processing than the five mother sauces.

Clearly the American diet has a crazy oversupply of sugar... fructose, glucose, sucrose... at the amounts we’re talking about in the average American diet it doesn’t fucking matter (making the whole HFCS controversy always a joke).
Dude read the first paragraph of "Call of Cthulu" by HP Lovecraft.

Unfortunately that ship has sailed for us, there is no going back all the way..

But you should take comfort in that you're not alone.

I have a lot I'd like to share with you, would you be into having a virtual cup of tea or coffee?
I've been learning oauth at work and started implementing openid using keycloak.

Now I'm in the process of setting in a private CA with vault from hascicorp.

What ddevault is proposing is basically oauth implemented in terms of TLS and certificate autorities.

It's not bad as an idea, per se.

The problem is, as far as I see, that x509 and TLS pull into the discourse a lot of hard topics. You pull in x509 and you also pull in the whole ITU/X.500 thing. Have fun with that.

Just these days I was thinking that I'm having a hard time finding certificate authorities explained in terms of actors and interactions, instead of cryptography.

Oauth/oidc instead is just that: authorization delegation. It starts and ends with those RFC/specs.

It helps a lot to know that all you need to know is contained in that finite number of documents.
Having worked in fraud protection for several very large banks I totally understand the need for automation and case reviews.

However PayPal stands out for me as THE worst company in finance.

One colleague has over $25k that has been held pending company verification for AML reasons. This has been ongoing for over 1.5 years every time he completes the requirement PayPal issues additional requirements. And the according to email replies he received, the department responsible for such case reviews has been on leave for 3 months due to COVID.

What does PayPal do with money that is frozen? Are they allowed to gain from it?

I now always advocate strongly against using Paypal.
Couple of quick things.

Can you even use venmo to send money to people to write checks on behalf of third parties? I thought there was lots of restrictions on that type of activity in general and limits in these person to person platforms in particular.

Are these folks setup as approved businesses with venmo / paypal / stripe etc? I've had good luck moving large volumes if you are a legit large business not violating TOS. Note that accepting money to write checks for third parties is almost always a violation.
What's more, virus scanners often run with SYSTEM privileges and consist of hundreds of thousands of often shitty LOC, presenting a huge attack surface. These days you might infected because you're running "anti-virus" software.
What I notice personally is that whenever my health improves, I only feel it a small amount incrementally.

When I stop training, I quickly feel sluggish, with brain fog, muscle knots, difficulty sleeping, etc.

This is mostly a reminder to myself that my body wants movement and good nutrition, and that lapses are not worth it.
I worked with a guy in his 60s when I was in my 20s just starting out. He did good work and was a fine coworker.

He also made the same amount as the guys who were senior engineers in their 30s. His salary growth basically plateaued in his 30s, after that it was just COL adjustments.

He was perfectly fine with that though. He enjoyed being a coder, got paid enough to support his lifestyle, and liked that he got to shut off at night, since he had no career growth aspirations.
>1. Maturity doesn't equal consent.

whoosh.

He agrees with you that maturity doesn't equal consent; in fact, he relies on that it doesn't, he is saying something about immaturity. He is saying "Greta Thunberg is immature, why would you listen to her talk about long term issues of international economics (externalities)? If you would listen to her seriously, you would also hold to [other obviously absurd proposition]s." Your reply to him reads to me like you're shaking him by the lapels to say "your obviously absurd proposition is obviously absurd!!!"

Why is it so hard for "woke", "critical thinking" "virtue signallers" to follow simple analogies and reductio ad absurdem? One key to following somebody's argument is to not change their wording, just engage with the words they used and make sure you stick with a meaning that is consistent with what was said.

edit: just wanted to add for clarity, you might think for whatever reason that he's wrong and we should listen to Greta Thunberg's message. That's fine, but you know what that is called? it's called "staying on topic". It's all he was talking about.

and you may also think he went about making his point in a foolish way. That's also ok, but you say that more authoritatively if you show you get the point he was making, see above.
If the shares are worthless, the FMV should be $0, not $1B. I understand markets as well as the next guy, though.
Even the 1 or 2GB models would be adequate for that.
Or you changed because you were attending to what your wife was saying.
> The audio problems for instance that you encountered with all applications are obviously related to the hardware, not Linux.

When people say "Linux on the desktop" they mean "Linux on most common desktop hardware". They don't mean "Linux but only on one carefully tested machine".

A Logitech C920 especially is very common and uses standard USB audio, so it should work. The fact that it doesn't could feasibly be a firmware bug that happens to work on Windows for some reason, but given how janky Linux audio is in general, I think it is almost certainly a bug in Linux (or PulseAudio or whatever if you're going to get nitpicky).
Most Americans buy their food at the grocery store, and there's nothing in them that wouldn't be found in any other country. Most Americans make their own meals with their families, which usually consist of meat, pasta, potatoes, and/or vegetables.
There was a bloke (I think it was the Explaining Computers guy) who tried editing one of his YT vids on the 4 GiB Pi 4 (with USB-attached SSD for the video data), and found it serviceable. Obviously not ideal, but it was up to the job.
Most people use their computer for Facebook and email, and Linux gets that job done just fine. My heuristic is that if ChromeOS would suit a user's needs well, so would a properly configured Ubuntu LTS. I've put it to the test with a few family members without complaints.
Jack Dorsey's been pretty active on the podcast scene recently, and I feel it's harder to fake your personality in multiple long form conversations. I never got a hint of arrogance from him.

On a side note, why do people love to paint being the CEO of two companies in such a bad light? How is it different to a CEO of a conglomerate having responsibility for multiple divisions?
I use desktop Linux for last ~20 years. I don't use Gnome; my choice is simpler things like Xfce, and Window Maker before that.

I find the fact that I can configure it my way utterly important, and performance-increasing, for me. This is exactly what I dislike about MacOS: it is very opnionated and rather inflexible. (I also see zero vsync tearing, and I'm fine with GTK2, GTK3, and Qt all look reasonably consistent under the theme I can and did customize myself.)

You are correct, MacOS and desktop Linux have different target audiences, with distinctly different preferences, neither of which is "more correct". This is not Linux "20 years behind" MacOS; it's often away in a completely different direction. (Though yes, Gnome folks try to imitate MacOS, and they are forever behind by construction, because they are chasing, not blazing new trails.)
I think a big issue is that Paypal and Venmo don't want to come under scrutiny for aiding domestic terrorists.