skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aside, you might be interested in my colleague's work on MOOC Forum analysis as she goes into some discussions about what type of students come back to MOOCs - https://nikign.github.io/
Downloading and trying to figure out the code for DikuMUD-based distributions is what drove me to learn C as a kid.
Yeah, for the most part all of engineering is equivalent to least squares I'd say, there's always some non-linear optimization procedure that uses a norm^2 metric since it's so well studied and solved already. It's disappointing as a mathematician, but the rest of me is fine with it :)
This reminds me of a hypothetical project I would take up if I still had a dog and a small yard: building a poop cleanup map from CV processing of camera footage.

Stepping stone toward a Poopba, obviously.
What competitor is this, if you don't mind me asking? Could use a service like that for my own project.
This was an incredibly positive and deeply important read. This is something that I've dealt with all my life, but of course have felt more acutely these past few months.

Thank you for writing this; I won't soon forget it.
> The concept of "surrogate activity" breaks down once you understand human action. Whether in pre-historic African savanna or in modern-day NYC, people always act to improve their present conditions.

Have you read Jacques Ellul (i.e. the ur-"Kaczynski-style" argument)? Ellul defines technique as "[..] the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of development) in every field of human activity." I don't think you can reasonably state that Ellul nor Kaczynski fail to "understand human action".

In this case, the problem isn't that people are maximizing their own self-interest. The problem is that they aren't. Yes, they're making a "voluntary" "choice" to use an addictive technology and a liberal, market-based society is providing individuals with what they actually "want" rather than what they think they want. What those people without antibodies "want" are Skinner Boxes and the market is happily providing them, all up and down the line. This does not seem to be resulting in a functional civic society.

> Humans are different from animals in that we can initiate voluntary conscious action. Kaczynski doesn't differentiate between involuntary (animal) action in response to stimuli, and purposeful human action, which is not and never was about mere "biological needs."

Where is the evidence that there is such a thing as "voluntary conscious" or "purposeful" action" and not "mere biological needs"? If there were a difference in principle between the two, how exactly does that invalidate the argument that "voluntary conscious action" is not triggered when people aren't bored and have meaningful hurdles to overcome in their own lives?

> Because humans prefer wealth to poverty, much of human action is about creating wealth. You can create wealth without "looting" others. In fact, it's a lot easier to corporate with others, trade, and help each other build wealth than it is to steal.

I'm sure that some members of every society that reached an equilibrium with their environment that was later disrupted by the intrusions of foreign markets would disagree. "Staying competitive" is a more compelling explanation for as to why "humans" "prefer" "wealth" rather than that all humans are naturally materialistic and acquisitive. If you don't run faster than the slowest member, you will be eaten. If you don't think faster than the slowest member of the tribe, you will be sacrificed. If you don't adopt, you will be enslaved by those who do. That's a great way to optimally allocate resources, but once again, this dynamic and addictive technology does not seem to be creating a functional civic society.
>Live noise cancellation for spaces.

I was thinking about if this being weaponized to suppress speech. If an array could be put on top of a protest to silence it. It's sort of the equivalent of shouting over someone. Would the supreme court find the government pumping out anti-noise a violation of rights?
> On the other hand though rather than just outlaw this behaviour entirely they've chosen to try to mitigate the worst effects and whose fault is that?

That's the fault of reality. Disable this today and big chunks of the world will just stop working. That's why they try to push to disable their stupid design mistakes of the past instead of just disabling them cold turkey.

Testing whether disabling a weak auth option won't hurt anything significant within your typical medium to large organization with 20 to 30 years of IT history is a timely operation and major pain.

Any mistake can be extremely costly - think about few hundred expensive employees, doctors, heavy equipment operators, whatever - sitting without their working tools for hours or days because of a stupid security checkbox.
Switzerland is a model for this. Given their neutral and famously anti-confrontational manner, their armies do a lot of civil construction and aid work. The US should do more of that kind of thing.
I'm not sure what you're asking. Obfsucating means making the code unreadable/unintelligible. Think minimfy js on steroids. Debofuscating just means undoing the obfuscation.
They're having fun and learning. I think it's OK.
San Francisco: A Forbidden Fantasy Comes True
My mind went immediately to a Netflix presentation about "the role of central teams in devops" a couple of years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA1qPQg3WTc

The big thing I remember about their approach that surprised everyone: there was no mandate to use the platform/central team's tools. It made me chuckle how many times the presenter was grilled by everyone about that. It was like some of the audience straight up thought he was lying about that.

But basically, if you have a platform team, and a mandate to use that team's tools, well, the other teams aren't really "customers", in the sense you can leverage choice as a signal. So you have to make up for that. In my experience, you need very good management, and constant, multifaceted communication. Which... might work, might not.

It's probably best to delay any kind of centralized/platform work until you have a _very_ clear pain that defines a very clear set of roles and requirements. Unless everyone says "Oh shit this is amazing" ... just say no.
GP is referring to the kernel implementation that is a work-in-progress.
What does that have to do with accelerators?
Not only that, but it's a general lesson in what scale of human suffering can happen due to government overreach and attempting to effect social change from the top.
What's the performance situation of the wg-go implementation now? I recalled there's a utun device API limitation that each packet requires a syscall. Is there any progress to avoid the overhead?
Community Supported Agriculture. Farm shares, basically. Pay a fixed amount/week for a weekly allotment of whatever is seasonally being harvested by a local farm. Usually at better prices than local grocery stores and you support local farmers and ag.
Or the more common case where the information is so good that acting on the information would reveal the source/means of the information allowing the spied upon to eliminate the source so no action is taken.
MVP scope, sanity, and schedule. (Via lobste.rs)
'Debo' or 'Deob'?
Sure, there is no reason ASICs cannot do Chapoly. I don't know if we ever will.
Roosevelt statue to be removed from NYC's Museum of Natural History
Deno's main selling point over Node.js seems to be some dubious sandboxing. Unlikely to be compelling enough for people to rewrite their applications from using Node's stdlib to Deno's.

Personally, it makes me cringe to see hard-coded HTTP URLs in source code files for loading dependencies. They present it like we're stupid for using package managers all this time. What used to be a simple command line option (changing a package repo) is now a thousand file edit. Excellent.
I hear the pinebook pro is pretty nice.
I still sometimes log in to a MUD, Diku as well! Fond memories of roleplaying and PK.
> maybe much more so than novice programmers can appreciate

Okay, unsubscribe. This is not the tone you use to interact with the community. This is brash, elitist hogwash.
Yes, but how good was Google maps back then.
I use Mapillary to e.g., add speed limits to OpenStreetmap.

One-ways streets, road surfaces, sidewalks, lighting, oneways, shops and restaurants, turn restrictions, max heights below bridges, etc, are stuff that to a large extent come from Mapillary.
Next Generation of Xcode
Dr. Drake is especially famous for the Drake Equation (as the article mentions) which is a fascinating way to think about how many intelligent civilizations might be findable.

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1350/are-we-alone-in-the-un...
No that's not what's meant by "surrogate activity," not in the way OP quoting Ted Kaczynski meant to mean. They define anything other than the most basic, like hunting and gathering, as a surrogate activity. So anything that we call a career today where you can work, make progress, and maybe even enjoy is, in their opinion, a "surrogate activity." I suggest reading TK, it's a very cynical worldview, but there is some truth to some of the arguments, and definitely something worth taking seriously.
I can't find any formal definitions after a quick google search, but there seem to be a ton of uses of "debofuscating" in different research papers.
"You will likely have a sense of where you fall in the orbit of the group(s) you affiliate with: closer to the core or closer to the fringes of some formation. Your feelings about IGCs will probably depend to some extent on this."

For some reason even without the context of which Group we are speaking about/or where I might fit in said group - the term "In Group Contrarian" makes me bristle immediately against said contrarian... I wonder if this reaction is specific to me or if its more general. To brisle against a person who identifies (or in this case is identified) as "contrarian" absent the necessary context (perhaps because absent context...the "contrarian" is describing themself as contrarian just for the sake of it). Fun semantic games.

I'm somewhat surprised by this as I see myself as somewhat rational but this leads me to think that absent other contextual clues for me at least the "default" setting is to "dislike" the contrarian and I can then be swayed by the veracity/rationale of their argument.
MI5 had identified and at the start of WW1 rounded up the German spies active in the UK

And aside from Philby which was facilitated by his mates and inter service rivalry plenty of other spies have been caught.
Really a well written summary! A good, but not overwhelming, about of depth.
And meanwhile, as the north sea becomes navigable, Japan and Russia invest in new Arctic oil extraction projects. https://www.ft.com/content/df288d08-1c14-11ea-9186-7348c2f18...

https://www.globalforestwatch.org/ is a useful site to get a sense of the size and progression of fires in Siberia.
A gaming-inspired curriculum for building products
It's just a typo, and we're all human. Maybe focus on the really interesting research instead?
Not an impossible idea, but project management for life.

Construction project at home? Punchlist, budget, progress tracking, vendor relationship, contract management, dependencies and blocking.

Comparison shopping? Gift lists, family research, nominations, voting, chipping in for purchases.

Cooking at home? Family nominates a recipe for dinner, cross reference pantry, add needed items to shared grocery list.

Transportation? Whos taking what kids to what events, in the event a plan changes, a push notification goes out to all parties (friends, drivers not in the family.)

Budeting? Projected cashflows. Asset allocation in multiple accounts is incredibly complex, with different family members having different roles. Being able to budget and save, while still giving extended family privacy. Signing a kid up for soccer, or starting a new construction project automatically updates the budget.

Calendars exist, task management like asana exists, financial management like mint and personalcapital exists. But tools are either too generalized or too specific to interact with other ultra specific domains. An app knowing when someone leaves work, knowing they are the best person to pass a grocery store and pick up kids en route from soccer. We have all sorts of complex interactions in life that require planning, and they are often extremely repetitive sequences. The apps that do exist in these specific fiends often dont facilitate collaboration with other families.

tldr: instead of generic task management, management with detailed workflows, workflow interactions, automation, consensus building.
Original post on lobste.rs by adsouza. Too good for the HN 24/7 hustle gang aka side project gang to miss.
> Docker on ARM Linux doesnt use x86 emulation, I'm not sure why Docker on ARM macOS would.

macOS is not linux, so it will need some form of emulation/virtualization to run "Docker on ARM macOS"
> The laptop frequently took as long as 12 seconds just to LAUNCH Firefox

Apparently, that needs emphasis.
All and all very interesting, however, some of strongly stated opinions in the article lack justifications and that's pity.

I don't mean that the author is wrong, just that he is stating his opinions strongly as facts, for an instance regarding ADFS vs SSO with Hash Sync, the statement that the latter is much better is stated as an obvious fact, without much of explanation of justification.

Since not everyone would agree, for instance some security teams I have the pleasure of working with/against, more facts and reasons and less assertions could have done better.
@Foone has ADHD and finds it impossible to write blog posts:

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1161786083782250496
It's weird that we've set up a stock market for machines rather than humans, where ever-faster bots interpose themselves between slightly slower bots, all the way up to the original buyer and seller, who are probably bots as well.
This is quite interesting. Email is much more strongly async for me than chat. I only check work email a couple times a day, and ignore it over the weekend. But people's main complaint about slack is that it is always online.

FWIW, I only use Slack per se for fun social groups.
Hi, could you describe your use case a bit? Just an alarm trigger for deer in the backyard?
Is this really that surprising? Governments' advantage is crafting certain kinds of incentives that markets can't, but it's pretty much a guarantee that government will be more incompetent at whatever specific task they put their mind to, in large part because of the burden of democratic accountability. Conditioned on the resources and incentives being centralized (in Brin), why wouldn't you expect his organization to be more competent?
How is PCA the same as least squares? I've always understood it as the eigendecomposition of the covariance matrix.
I also own one with similar specs but a lesser known brand. Something that worked for me to be able to upgrade Windows 10 was this:

1. Compact.exe /CompactOS:always

2. Enable compressing the whole C drive (right click, properties)

3. Clean %TMP% and C:\Windows\Temp

4. Use the new control panel storage options to clean temporary files

5. Use the old tool to clean temporary files (the one in C drive properties) because the new panel does a half-assed job

6. Defragment the disk

7. Manually remove old downloaded updates (I can't remember the commands for this)

After all those steps I had about 14 GiB free, enough to upgrade Windows. The problem with that cheap thing? Nothing after or before the 15XX editions of Windows 10 works well, Windows blocks the drivers (battery management, wireless, accelerometer, sound and a few others) due to "compatibility issues." Now I'm stuck with a version that doesn't work and unable to downgrade (windows.old is long gone). It doesn't help that Microsoft doesn't offer old .iso downloads.
Also note that the author has made the whole book available to read free online and via ebook:

https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
If you are on an iPhone, type: "ai." to get to the site.

The trailing dot denotes the root of the DNS hierarchy and makes the domain "fully qualified". Otherwise it appears to fail a local integrity check if you try for just "ai"
Human populations are too large today to rely on hunting and gathering, but perhaps you could replace it with subsistence agriculture. But in the modern economy, it shouldn't really require anybody to work more than 10 or 15 hours a week to satisfy basic needs such as food and accommodation: otherwise, they are likely being swindled. So it leaves the problem of what to do for the rest of the time.

Of course there are movements that say science, technology, industrialisation are things to be avoided, such as the Amish or primitivist anarchists.
I still relish my time as a darkside member.
These are all good courses actually!
Ah and the UK probation service and crime lab privatisations worked so well.

And those Private US prisons are the envy of the world ( that's sarcasm btw)
Hi Fareesh, I'd love to hear more about your use case. Email's in my profile.
Some years ago I wrote a really simple MUD in Scheme[0] and that's what I did. It was essentially a REST-like API that returned JSON objects. Commands went through a hierarchial routing structure. Connecting via SSH or the browser just had different ways of "printing" the structured data.

[0] Can't remember if this was before or after PLT Scheme got renamed to Racket, but it was around that time. It turned out to be a great language for it. Wish I had done more with it.
I underline and write in the margin, using my own symbolic shorthand for common words. I list all the symbols on the title page so I can decipher it in 5 years.

At the end of a chapter, I go back and make long-form notes in markdown, then commit to a git repo.
48 RTSP streams is a lot of bandwidth to consume at once. Why not use an edge PC or Jetson system to do it in small blocks? A new Jetson Xavier NX can do 8-12 streams depending on FPS and model.
In cases where the bulk of their time is wasted on a boring job when they could be learning and having fun all the time on something impactful, no that's not OK.
Indeed.

That's what I don't understand. How hard is it to just make a plain text copy of the data to serve to people who want it instead.
It's at home.[1] This was from my steampunk period.

[1] http://www.aetherltd.com/images/tty14ro/printerathome1.jpg
Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20161902

TL;DR is TF executor parallelism is too pessimistic to fully exploit the parallelization opportunities in the problem space. Regent is built on top of Legion which is a cutting edge dataflow library, and is designed to provide the guarantees to achieve that speedup.
Surely a key change would be a home office subsidy, say, split the difference on the cost per employee for footprint?

That would also be benefiting the lowest paid employees proportionately more than the highest.
i agree with OP and i also see what you are trying to say but OP is saying something that is deeper that resonates with me.

OP is saying that we are trying to integrate or otherwise assimilate other fields. you know, the software is eating the world thing.

now doctors you just gave as example aren't trying to do that, are they?
Right, and I think most conversations in real-time (like in a pub) involve a decent amount of back-and-forth; most don't consist of people trading long blog-post-length monologues. (Though I suppose there's a certain sort of person who pontificates while drunk.)

While I'm not a big fan of Twitter, "the character limit encourages a weird conversational style" is not on my list of grievances at all.
There’s a lot to unpack there, but essentially, the southern way of life is a myth rooted in nostalgia for the “Old South,” or the plantation south. It started after southern Democrats “redeemed” the south from Reconstruction. They invented a revisionist history known as “The Lost Cause,” which was about the so-called noble Confederacy fighting “The War of Northern Aggression.” This ideology crossed into the mainstream, most notably when they released the film “The Birth of a Nation.” It’s this period of time when the Jim Crow laws were created and white southerners created systems to keep white supremacy in power. Today, this legacy has created the folks who wave their flags.

Religion was just one way they spread that message.

And, aside from that unfortunate part of southern culture, the south is a multi-cultural, complicated place.
I found it interesting, but reading a thorough synopsis is probably almost as effective as reading through the book itself.
To be a contrarian, don't forget Adam Curtis went to Oxbridge. Maybe he got turned down by MI5.
Pluralsight is a good place to spend it - it's a little expensive but the courses are top notch and done by professionals, for professionals looking to cram.

Masterclass.com looks good too. Lots of non-code related things like writing and cooking by experts in their respective fields. Considering most of us don't know any professional actors or Michelin chefs, this is a fast way to pick up skills into the top 20% as cheaply as possible.

Plenty of books out there, but this is not the thread to list them.

Would it cover fitness? A personal trainer or dietician will take you further than most advice from friends and the internet.
Buy expensive textbooks with good resale value and then resell them to transfer that educational budget to your personal bank account.
Oracle's BlueKai Spilled Network Monitoring Data 'Billions of Documents'
I’ve a book where I keep notes on the books I read. Most of the time, I re-read the notes from the the last reading when I pick up the book again which is a great memory refresher. It’s works as great notes for the whole book when I need. I also make relationship maps to remember anything that has a lot of relationships.
Devpi: Self-hosted private PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool
Suppose we should destroy all edifices to Ramanujan like we’re doing to all the slave traders of 100 years ago now?
Terraform mostly can make the current state match the desired state but the challenge is the real world side effects such as the state that exists in the database that is about to get destroyed or down-time of services that depend on the resources being managed and so on. So you can't blindly allow it to do what it wants.
As a thought experiment, imagine some wealthy private
citizen who could afford to spend, say, $10 million USD
and had a few hundred employees to draw a team from,
and adequate transportation to a disaster location.

Now identify a country that could respond with
a similar level of aid in less time. Not more aid
in more time, but just “beat to the punch” with
a useful initial response. Citations preferred.
Checking account or total value of investments?
Where are all the OpenBSD exploits that bypass these mitigations? Serious question.
Egyptian/Messerschmitt Ha-300 Supersonic Fighter Jet (1964)
Bob Dylan is, without a doubt, a genius poet and songwriter.

He might be a decent guitar player, I’m not sure.

He is, by far, the very worst singer I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. Even I can sing better than he can, and that’s going a very long ways.