skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's more likely they will change when the EU courts find them guilty of anti-competitive practices.

Such a ruling would, IMO, be wrong. If it's "anti-competitive" to decide the terms on which you will offer a service you produce and own yourself, then pretty much every service business anywhere is "anti-competitive".

Unfortunately (from my perspective), I think it is indeed quite possible that the EU courts could make such a ruling.
From the main website, which I presume you have seen:

> As of August 20, 2018, we're no longer accepting new signups for Highrise

https://highrisehq.com/

Not sure that’s valid grounds for criticism. Basecamp never ends support for products, but this one is otherwise sunset.
I don’t mind getting old myself. With age comes wisdom. With age comes confidence and self assurance. But it’s watching family and friends around me getting older that breaks my heart a little. Watching your parents start to decline is horrible. Make the most of the time you have with them if possible.
> So you're claiming that it is typical for software with telemetry support to ignore your choice and still send telemetry about you turning off telemetry? That sounds wrong, but I cannot say I investigated this deeply.

No; I'm saying missing data leaves holes that can be measured. They know, for example, how many people have downloaded Chrome and how many daily Chrome users they get at google.com (because Chrome will still send a valid UA string if it has telemetry turned off). They can estimate how many users have telemetry turned off from those signals to a pretty decent degree of accuracy; certainly enough to know whether telemetry is telling them about 90% of users of 30%.

For (b), I'm curious what software you use. It's pretty standard in games, online apps, and business software. It's absent in a lot of open-source (mostly because a lot of open-source lacks a centralized vendor who would be willing to pay the cost to collect and interpret that data to improve the software).
The author, Ron Gilbert, did a great fireside chat style talk at Handmade Con 2015 where he discusses developing games at Lucas Arts, and his indie work in progress at the time, Thimbleweed Park.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cktmhqXMsGI
> you can play through a game of Civilization in a few hours/days. There is no analogous real-life experience.

If it's not analogous to real-life experience, you haven't gained any tacit knowledge that useful for real life.

> If you fail in Kerbal Space Program, there is no Challenger explosion

If you're involved in launching Challenger, you don't (and wouldn't) learn how to do so by playing Kerbal Space Program.

> In the same way books transport us, and let us visit other places and situations, games can do the same.

Yes, just like music - but that is a different thing than gaining tacit knowledge that can be used in a real-life situation. Lets not confuse arts with professional development.
In my experience this part is simply untrue:
"With only 2GiB of RAM, the EVOO won't be able to run anything without hammering virtual memory (swapping data from RAM to disk and back again). Beyond that, a 32GB SSD simply is not enough room for Windows itself, let alone any applications. The first time the EVOO tries to upgrade to a new build of Windows 10 (for example, Windows 10 build 2004, which just released last month), it will fail due to lack of space."

I have NO idea how... But my little media pc with 2gb and 32gb has not only worked great last few years, but literally last night went through windows 10 upgrade.. And has 16gb free space this morning (Did have to do disk cleanup to get there - but it was literally a single check box).

On my other Computers,windows takes 70 plus gb after a while. All articles indicate DO NOT delete winxs and other huge directories..
Yet this windows does something differently and has been ticking GREAT with those specs for years.
From the very first link:

> The herd immunity threshold
(HIT) defines the percentage of the population that needs to be immune to reverse epidemic
15 growth and prevent future waves. Figure 3 shows the expected downward trends in the HIT for
SARS-CoV-2 as the coefficients of variation of the gamma distributed susceptibility or exposure
are increased between 0 and 4 (to assess robustness to changing the type of distribution see
Figure S22 for equivalent plots with lognormal distributions). While herd immunity is expected
to require 60-70% of a homogeneous population to be immune given an R0 between 2.5 and 3,
20 these percentages drop to the range 10-20% for CVs between 2 and 4.

Curvefitting from COVID-19 incident waves, past SARS experiences, surveying of contact tracing data, pre-epidemic mobility data in the population, etc, all point to CVs around 3 which corresponds to a herd immunity threshold of 15% or so (hence the paper's 10-20% range). I think this is optimistic and a threshold of more like 30-35% is likely, which with durable aspects of behavior change might really end up being ~25%.
This is one of many reasons why I think targeted advertising should be regulated or outright outlawed.

Even outside politics, it allows a malicious actor to target their ads to vulnerable targets (whether it’s kids for scammy “games” full of in-app purchases, dubious “medication” for sick & desperate people, or malware to non-tech-savvy people) while flying under the radar of those who would be able to fact-check and call out the scam.
Fast WAN connections are becoming more common. Also while WiFi has decent bandwidth, the latency/jitter/loss are still ass.
Here's a link to the "quack"'s paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302941651_Quantum_G...

Science establishment knows all, and is never wrong, especially once it excommunicates a heretic. Science heretics are always bad and wrong. Science establishment people are always right. Trust science establishment. Give science establishment money. Science good. Quack bad. Give money. No money to quack. All to science. Science good.

Did we mention science right and quack wrong?
You can use science(knowledge) to advance the world better; you can also use it to abuse. For instance, one can use nuclear energy to reduce pollution and betterment of people. Or one can use it to destroy others.

Same thing with computing: Democracies around the world can use computing to spy on their people in order to suppress any political dissent.
I would say as a first point of enlightenment, medicine. Many afflictions have been eliminated or mitigated.

> But fundamentally I disgree with your opinion that the real world is muddled and confusing.

I was illuminating the difference between the world around us being its complicated, partially unexplored self, and the GP saying that science is muddled and confusing, which it is, but to a lesser degree than the world it is developing from.

> you will largely find “science” has mislead humanity at most steps along the way

Your use of quotes there is the tell... many have purported to "know" "scientific" facts when their beliefs were nothing but beliefs. And most/many have been cast aside as our level of knowledge has progressed. And that is the true progress of science - learning more about the world and changing from guesses about reality to knowledge about reality.

People will always have their agendas and limitations, but the process of learning and understanding always surpasses each individuals' limitations and gives us better understanding. Even if it is "one funeral at a time".
There are some very capable systems being used in shows around the world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfA7PqZ6aCw
I understand what you mean. While I'm a Factorio fan I felt this way about the graphical-programming zachlike SpaceChem. Too much like work.

I approached Factorio like MineCraft but with the boring stuff automated.

To have fun in a game like Factorio, just mess around - you don't need to make a perfect factory, or compete with your friend.
I've experimented with a few different methods (keeping a notebook next to me, Gdocs, etc.) but in the end I keep defaulting to just using notes on my phone because I don't like to have my laptop open when I'm reading and when I want to jot something down, I want to do it then and there
Don't try to locate it in “Open Access” at the top.

Look the page in a desktop browser. Directly below the book's cover, there's a “Resources”. To the right of that “Resources”, there are “Overview”, “Author(s)”, “Open Access”; and that “Open Access” is the one you want.
I don't love the compile times, but I'll also say with TypeScript I tend to check the browser that often. TS also means simpler refactoring, for example.

Note also:
* type checks can run in parallel, so they won't block your other build block
* the tsc has been making gradual improvements to performance and techniques to improve compilation and type checking
* there are speedy alternatives to the TypeScript compiler (tsc) (eg: https://sucrase.io) for transpilation
Microwave is traditionally used to reduce latency caused by fiber’s refractive index. I suppose you could bury waveguides, but an air interface works just as well (besides the occasional weather; better to be fast most of the time).

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/priva...
Barely readable on FHD screen + heavy flickering in Chrome ?

Will stick with https://epoch.sh/

Not to be discouraging, love those small weekend projects turned out to be big helpers!
Apple has already done this a few times before. I'm sure internally they've decided whether they need buy-in from a critical-mass of apps like Word and Photoshop (or maybe they feel they don't anymore). I'm pretty sure the Carbon API was a concession made because Adobe wasn't going to port Photoshop (they still took 10 years to do it). Apple will reach out to those companies individually and coordinate something if they feel it's needed. They often demo these things live at the announcements.

At least this time Adobe has already ported the "core" of Photoshop for iPad Pros last year. Microsoft had Word running on Windows 10 on Arm (I think they merged the mac/windows codebases a bunch of years ago?)

I think the biggest question is what will happen with OpenGL because so far I don't see pro apps adopting Metal.
Licensing, certifications, and tests.
I hear you. Not passing judgment one way or the other as I don't know the details, but it sounds like your former team fell into the trap of allowing engineering teams to kick subpar outputs over the proverbial fence to one another.

The way you ultimately solve this is by aligning incentives, eg "platform engineers get fat bonuses/promotions when the products built on top of their platform kick ass."
FaceTime is not a Facebook product. It's also bad form to accuse others of being poor communicators while ignoring all obvious social cues to continue on with a preformed rant against an unrelated entity to the topic at hand.
If by “abstract” linear algebra you mean “course that starts with the definition of vector space”, then it is geometric enough in the sense Artin talks about.

It is pedagogically a problem for people who ask questions like the one in topic. But it can also be a problem when one encounters bilinear form and linear operator in practice but can't distingish between the two. I can't think of a specific example but I was asked once about some problem (in electrical engineering, iirc) where the source of confusion was this; some transformations of a (square) matrix were natural while others were not.

Some people feel strongly about the topic—mostly those with “pure math” inclinations.
Or a much thicker fiber with conductive coating while sending microwaves through it? Shorter microwaves should be transmissible via a few mm wide conductive pipe.
> Hope to release wireguard on FreeBSD soon as well.

Available as a Port / package:

* https://www.freshports.org/net/wireguard/

* https://www.freshports.org/net/wireguard-go/

Running it in a jail for further compartmentalization:

* https://genneko.github.io/playing-with-bsd/networking/freebs...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23004061
100%. This is why it's leadership's job to align incentives such that teams are motivated / rewarded for providing other teams with a high-quality service.
Why would you get rid of the Logitech 2.4ghz mouse? These are great (well, the gaming mice), absolutely no difference in performance vs wired, no pairing required..
Fair enough, and thanks. If I'd known the criticism was old news I wouldn't have added to it, or at worst done so ironically. I just saw someone posting similar thoughts to my own and basically let them know they weren't alone.

I now know what to expect if I do read more in future, but regardless of my opinion of the style, I definitely rather people post/publish in any form rather than not post at all. Anything that can inform people about something they weren't previously aware of is a good thing.
If you're in the Bay Area then you can take Bay Area jobs that are not remote.
It was actually a safeways bag not harrods (even more obscure)
Would you be any more charitable or engaging with the entire argument if I replaced "don't know how to", an implicitly ambiguous phrase that entertains both forgetting and lack of mastery, with an explicitly cumbersome variant? "My parents and siblings have forgotten how to cook, how to learn, how to grow as humans, where my nieces and nephews never learned"?
Realtors in the US typically have an exclusive contract with the seller and the seller must pay the commission however the house is sold. Without a contract like that (seems common in Europe), a buyer can bypass the realtor and work directly with the seller. The listing agents hide the address to try to prevent that from happening.
> Me saying this as a 26-year-old doesn't quite feel right, but I still think I'm correct. I certainly don't feel ready for a child yet

Our first kid was born a week after I turned 27. We got married at 23. If you had asked me at 25 whether I was ready for a kid I would have said no.

That summer my dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer. That put things into much sharper focus, and it turned into a question of "if not now, when?". So then we decided to go for it.

My dad got to meet his first grandchild. Three weeks later his cancer started growing again. Three months later he was dead.

In my opinion, the greatest disservice we do to the young is shielding them from the reality that life comes to an end and it's going to pass by whether you are ready for it or not.

Adulthood is basically accepting that there are things you want / need to do, even though you are afraid or uncertain how they will turn out.
Summary:

> The devices by themselves, however, don’t create more accountability and transparency. It’s how they’re used by police that matters.

Duh. Without policies mandating use and disallowing activation by the officers the cameras are as good as absent.
Yes, if I were desperate. $400 for T460s i7-6600U 2.60Ghz, 8G ram, 256G SSD. I need to add extra memory and bigger disk to make it worthwhile. Still on the lookout for a good deal.
This isn't novel, and may even be less invasive than tactics used in 2016 by the Trump campaign and in 2012 by the Obama campaign.

Both of those campaigns siphoned data from Facebook without consent of any of the users. Trump famously used Cambridge Analytica, while Obama for America's Director of Data Integration and Media Analytics built up a huge database of every American voter using data siphoned from the API used by Cambridge Analytica. [1]

At least now they're explicitly asking for permission (and you actually have to download an uber-partisan app in the first place).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru...
13th cent. castle started from scratch in 1997 w. authentic tools and materials
Truly commendable that he would do this, but deeply terrible that a private citizen, no matter how wealthy, can beat governments to the punch on this kind of aid.
Isn't the gating factor for adding housing in the Bay Area a political issue rather than a computing one?
Your computer can help you look up the definitions of words you don't understand.

e.g. in FireFox, double click to select the word, then right click and there is "search DuckDuckGo for 'word'" in the menu. Dictionary extensions are available for in-browser definitions, and searching DuckDuckGo or Google for "define:word" will usually bring up a definition in the search results page, or if not then in the top few result links.
As bad as it sounds, but in the age of 128 character twitter messages , the voters do not care about debating ideas. Most of them have already formed their opinions on whom to vote for ? The only thing left to do for both campaigns is to drive the people out to vote.

That is where these apps become useful. Most of the messages pushed by these apps are not positive messages about the candidate - instead they are negative messages about the opposition .

The key is to always keep your voters eager to vote. In fact, I would argue that democrats need this kind of an app much more than Republicans as their voters are much more fickle.
I'm guessing you're familiar with the concept of mindfulness. Just out of curiosity, why didn't you mention/discuss it in this essay?

FWIW, I enjoyed the essay.
I genuinely don't understand what the author is trying to say. It seems like their thesis is this:

> Wifi (and bluetooth, etc.) sucker you in by making it seem like they “just work.” But if you investigate, you’ll often find that the wireless link is operating in a degraded state that performs much worse than a wired equivalent.

Wireless technologies are founded on exchanging the convenience of wirelessness for reduced performance and reliability. There's no "gotcha." That's the whole idea. Maybe that trade isn't for you, but it's not a secret. If you take any course on physical networks, they go over the advantages of not sharing the medium.

As for the hellishly complicated tech stack that is bluetooth...sure. I don't think it's because bluetooth is wireless. We've had regular articles here on the total mess that is UBC-C[1]. Wired standards are not free from complex protocols and error-filled implementations. All things being equal I imagine that wireless protocols will tend to be worse - but all things are frequently not equal.

There are no free lunches and wireless technology trades performance for convenience. I myself have some wired devices and some wireless devices and am quite happy with the result.

Edit: This feels like saying "Phones sucker into making you think they're a computer. But if you investigate, you'll often find that they have less processing power than many other computers!"

[1] From 15 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23435805
I thought between Google, VLS, Tom Tom, and I can't imagine that I just coughed up a complete list, there'd be enough competition to just procure this function competitively. I assumed it was more the Not Invented Here syndrome of a VC funded company who (until recently) had little of a cap on their Engineering spend.
It's karma - India didn't help Tibet as it was over run ... it was just a matter of time
> Large parts of Africa and almost all of Latin America are more highly educated now than 1970s Europe

Source please? I have been working in Brazil for the past few years and the education level here is nowhere near 1970s Europe. Not even close. The public primary school system is so bad that any family who can afford it - even poor people - pay for private school. Sometimes only a $100 a month for the cheapest private schools. They are not very good, but they are better than the public schools and so there are an estimated 40,000 private schools in Brazil. About 40% of the primary and secondary schools. So about 60% of Brazilians get a very substandard primary and secondary school education.

At least 26% of the population earns below $56 USD a month and as a result the government gives them $13 a month but only if their children are vaccinated and stay in school. That should give you an idea of the level of poverty and the tax base upon which the public schools in those areas have to operate on.

Conversely, the free government run universities are excellent and hard to get into. Ironically, the vast majority of students accepted are from elite and expensive private primary and secondary schools. So the free public universities are mostly a service for wealthy or at least upper middle class kids.

Your claim that almost all of Latin America is more highly educated now than 1970s Europe is highly suspect unless you can provide something to back that up.
Location info will allow identification of people who downloaded the app but are not showing location behavior typical of Trump's base. Those people become persons of interest and can be dealt with later.
Yes, in production it is suggested to use current-limiting resistors, pull-down resistors, a fuse, a zener diode or a TVS or a varistor. Using all the suggested protective circuitry in the worst case the fuse should be the only component to fry in case of direct lightning strike.
I'd actually pay to see a Trump/Biden debate. I doubt the DNC will allow it though, for fear of Biden forgetting where he is or what office he's running for, while on stage. Before you downvote, consider that this has already happened, several times.
the topic is interesting but I found the article too lengthy.
I do like the tea with stranger setup and get to know thyself concepts... but I feel the article could have had twice the impact if it had been half the length.
Isn't that where Angular comes from?
> we shouldn't denigrate this fact: having 'a roof, food, the ability to communicate with people at a distance, basic medicine/healthcare, basic rule of law' ... this is heaven compared to any situation their ancestors would have lived in.

It's only heaven compared to how it was before. If you are born under the current system, you don't know what it's like to have lived in a worse time. So while our ancestors are probably astounded at our prosperity, having tasted the before/after, someone born now will not be grateful, because they don't have a hellish alternative to compare it to (besides people in other countries).

This "relativity" extends to other areas too, not just poverty. For example... torture. For our ancestors, torture meant having your spine stretch until it broke or being stuck in an iron box filled with spikes or being starved and beaten and stuffed in a tiny locker or any number of horrifically macabre prospects. Now torture is "being alone in a room". I'm not downplaying the psychological damage of solitary confinement, but relative to the torture POWs went through or the torture methods used in medieval times, solitary confinement almost seems like a reward.

The standard by which we gauge poverty, torture, happiness, etc. shifts as society improves.
Most of your points in this post apply directly to your own previous post.
I don't understand your claim that C++ is dying. Do you have data to back this up?