skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> janitor boots

I’d hazard that in the last decade or so (more than most), CS is akin to being a Digital Janitor.

Debugging/repairing things, cleaning up spills, dealing with problems the kids make, working long hours to keep the system going.

The difference is, in some markets, you can make a lot more.
My advisor for my math degree told me straight-up "You don't really understand a math course until you take the next class in the series." I'm really glad he told me that, because it sharpened my perception of how well I understood different subjects. It also shaped which classes I took for the rest of college, tending towards depth over breadth.

Too many students think that math is just an arbitrary collection of arbitrary steps. It all makes sense, but you have to have at least one teacher contextualize it for you in order for all of it to click.
Imagine? Isn't that how mastodon works today?
Also, I can hang a spoon off my nose.
"make lemons out of lemonade." - presumably the author meant "make lemons into lemonade" - I can't comment on the article to correct so am doing so here.
I was a parent Of two boys during that chapter and marinating in kids. I remember I got turned down by LEGO when I first went to them for a license to do a book but the boys told me not to take no for an answer. We ended up doing a deal because I pretty much had to. Btw, when Klutz was only about ten minutes old, I got a note from a scientist describing a little book he’d written on how to solve a new puzzle that was just getting traction. I turned it down because I figured any puzzle that was so hard people needed a book to solve it would never take off. His book sold 8 million copies later that year when he sold it to a big NY publisher. I’m still not sure where my logic went wrong. Does anybody still have a copy? The Simple Solution to the Rubik’s Cube by J. Nourse?
Keep it simple: First a POC than a MVP
I have a Jarvis standing desk right now and I'm very happy with it, but I've recently gone on a home automation bender and want to automate all the things. In particular, I'd like to be able to control the desk remotely so that I can add it to a Home Assistant script that fires via an Alexa skill.

This seems a bit silly, but I have a whole configuration that I use for coding that is different to the config that I use for (say) gaming - different monitor settings, change in lighting, open/closed window shades etc. I'd like to adjust desk height similarly (I have two keyboards and mice, one positioned below the other one on a pull-out keyboard tray).

So, any ideas on where to start automating this particular kind of desk? The controller is a sealed unit and my google-fu is lacking when it comes to finding the protocol used to communicate with the desk itself.

EDIT: Found this: https://github.com/sarahkw/deskctrl/blob/master/schematics/r... not sure if my desk is a JRV1 or not yet but will find out.
> shedding more virus than is normal, but we still don’t know what would trigger this, let alone how to identify it through practical means.

What's the technical path to a airborne virus monitor? Something that sucks in air and detects viruses, and sounds an alarm like a smoke or carbon monoxide detector.

It doesn't have to be very specific to COVID-19, so you probably don't need RNA sequencing. Any significant number of viruses (except possibly a few harmless ones on an allow-list) should be reason to evacuate a building.
musk studied physics though. and you cant be a phd chemist without being a physicist at some point. of course all politicians are primarily politicians at the time when they do politics but we 're talking about background here. Background matters because it creates a culture and a set of ethics. Popular figures are generally freeloaders riding on democracy's bias for popularity.

It's just that for lawyers , politics is almost part of their normal career progression: you go from law-student to law-maker. Political scientists or economists becoming politicians is similarly easy to grasp. Medical doctors and engineers less so, but what matters here is they are both regulated professions, regulated by lawmakers so there's a long-standing relationship.
> I'm also not sure how much The_Donald was as a community.

It was very clearly a real community, as you can see evidence from the fact that they migrated to thedonald.win when Reddit made it clear that they wouldn't be treated fairly.

> So you'd be in your other community and one day they all show up and down votes and the vitriol begins... it was no mystery that this happened, it was spoken of openly in The_Donald for a time.

> Who wants to deal with that?

And yet Reddit happily ignores vote brigading and other negative externalities from any subreddit that toes their party line, so it seems bizarre to single T_D out. And as far as I know that wasn't the reason Reddit gave, rather they said something about supporting violence which in my opinion was a pretty clear "we're fishing for a made up reason that lets us boot you guys"
It's kind of sad though because it's still 10X easier to build a browser app than a native app simply because of the wealth of highly-usable stuff written for JS.

Every time I have to build a GUI in Linux I just build a webapp that connects to a TCP backend on localhost because that way I can just build a beautiful UI in HTML/JS/CSS and I don't have to deal with the mess that is GTK, QT, TCL, TK, and all that crap.

Android programming is another can of worms and I'm frankly fed up with Gradle updates breaking my project every update and needing 79+ files, multiple cludgy steps for signing APKs, zipalign (wtf) and other crap just for a Hello World.

What would be nice to have is "installable" apps that use the webkit rendering engine but have full access to the system including directly opening TCP ports and direct access to /dev. These would have to be trusted apps obviously. Websites that load code without consent should be restricted, of course.
also banned gendercritical, which was an extreme left, radical feminist (as in, Valerie Solanas radical feminism) board.
Has anyone seen links to actual spectra from the monitoring organizations' counters?

An example of the sort of thing I'm looking for: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.4853.pdf (see Figure 1)
Silly you, we were always at war with eurasia.
The comparison with TempleOS was a real low blow and it makes me wonder if the reviewer is being entirely serious or just sees all operating systems not immediately useful to him to be a total waste of time.
I'm not ignoring that it changes over time.

The principle that 'nations pay for local delivery for free' as a matter of convenience, was established 150 years ago.

That basic principle remains today.

If that agreement were not made an eternity ago, nobody would even think to suggest it today - because it doesn't make sense.

You are missing the point when you're referring to 'making or losing money' on the deal. It's not so much about the cost of regular shipping - it's about the subsidisation of entire competitive industries.

The rise of e-Commerce has changed everything related to shipping, quite fundamentally.

A US subsidy on their own imports to China, even a smaller one, can make quite a substantial change in commercial trends.

The treaty was not designed to do that, nobody was thinking in those terms, at that scale.

Not even 25 years ago did we think individuals were going to be buying little parcels from China on an individual basis.

The treaty now has to live in the context of e-Commerce and it should essentially be abolished for packages, because it simply does not make sense. In an era before computers, it might have made sense to honour each others letters. But now there's no reason why the sender just can't pay appropriate rates for shipping.

Edit: I should add - there isn't a single argument presented by anyone on the entire thread as to why one nation would arbitrarily deliver another nations physical packages 'for free' or on reciprocal basis. This is because there is no reason to support it in 2020. It exists for historical reasons, bureaucratic and political momentum.
I believe they mean other communities in the sense of "other subreddits", although I can't speak for them.
I also doubt that this is the hardware that will ship to customers. Customer hardware will be 50-100% faster at least.
I think those on the other side of your argument would consider Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be a militant SJW.
> It ultimately ends in total polarization," illustrates co-author David Garcia (CSH and MedUni Vienna). Not only do people categorically favor or oppose single issues like abortion, same-sex marriage and nuclear energy. "If they are pro-choice, they are at the same time highly likely to be for gay marriage, against the use of nuclear energy, for the legalization of marijuana, and so on," says Garcia. The possible variety of combinations of different opinions is reduced to the traditional left-right split.

This is an interesting observation, because while we think of all these things as related ideologically, they aren’t necessarily. For example, both Denmark and New Zealand have liberal new Prime Ministers who are women, pro-LGBT, pro-welfare state, and quite strongly anti-immigration. (New Zealand’s PM, Jacinda Ardern, has received very positive media coverage in the U.S., but is part of a ruling coalition with the “New Zealand First” Party, such that her deputy PM is an anti-immigration right-winger.) So the issues on which the “left” and “right” have formed coalitions aren’t necessarily ideological but are to some extent the artifact of history.
I too am surprised at that label for HN. I agree that compared to other popular social media forums (Twitter, Reddit, facebook, etc) Hacker News by and large seems civil. There are certainly some trolls and bad-faith arguments, but it's only a small subset of comments.
"Web surfing" might seem easy to dismiss, but look at the original iPhone. Sure, it had a nice form factor, etc., but the thing that made the iPhone a game changer was mobile Safari, a modern web browser. Remember when Apple's response to "hey there are no apps" was to use "web apps"?

Well, I tend to consider the bare minimum for any desktop OS to be viable is the ability to run a modern web browser (which would let you do your email, desktop productivity, music playing, games and PDF viewing).

Hell, I'd even go so far as to say that Haiku's next major milestone should be to get Firefox or Chromium to run on it. With a working modern browser, all of a sudden it's at least as functional as a Chromebook. Which means you might actually be able to use the OS as a daily driver in spite of its other shortcomings.
I'm currently listening to Bernie Sanders Filibuster (Millennial/LoFi edition) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6qy_9E0rY , it sounds so close to what you wrote (but extended) that I read it with Sanders' voice.
A Tribute to Bill Shannon – A Giant of the Java Ecosystem
Can we talk about how much more CS people are expected to work than people in other fields ? ===> THIS
With the current Solo we have 256kB of flash so we sort of arbitrarily reserved space for 50 RKs, but you can prob tweak the firmware if you need.

With the next gen of Solo we have 2MB of flash, so assume virtually unlimited RKs, at least given the number of sites that currently support them.

(note: double checking w/ the team for correctness)
Like writing or art, you have to can't not do it. I've been retired for 3 years and I still do it, can't imagine not doing it, even if I don't do it every day.
It seemed really popular to me. The daily threads alone regularly had 4000+ comments when I was viewing the sub more frequently.
>In my own opinion this was a long time coming, and Reddit has long since shown that the original hands-off model is woefully inadequate in the face of communities that are willing to expend the effort to argue continuously in bad faith, organize to influence and control opinion in other communities, and attack the platform itself in their campaigns for hateful speech. Just ask /r/BlackLadies if you think these users "stay in their containment areas". Hopefully Reddit is turning the page to better empower its communities to protect their users and keep hate off the platform.

All this will do is push these folks out to different platforms where they will organize brigading and bad faith participation in the dark. There are gobs of matrix/discord/irc rooms where people organize the manipulation of social media, and this move just removed visibility of it from reddit.
People for slavery and against slavery definitely are both extremists and deserve to be treated in the same breath.
When I was first learning how to program it felt like arguing with the most pedantic person in the world. I would write a script that felt like I had crafted a concise and elegant argument, only to have the computer respond, "Invalid. You missed a comma somewhere on line 564".
I think the context here is that if a company advertises perks like unlimited vacation, and remote work, then you want to see that employees who take advantage of the perks are not at a disadvantage when it comes to the work they do or advancement in the company. If company leadership is taking frequent vacations and working from home often, it's a better sign that you won't be disadvantaged for doing that than if the company leadership was always working and always in the office.

My first question after someone mentions unlimited vacation is "how much vacation did the boss use last year?". If it's less than 4 weeks, I would view that company as being dishonest about their vacation policy.

The same thing applies to the number of hours worked. I value work-life balance and so if my boss is working 60 hours a week, I will know that company is not for me, because the boss would view me and my insistence on working 40 hours or less as uncommitted to company goals.
> I only enjoy building things when they have a component of learning, or when it's something I haven't done before

Yes, yes, yes and yes.

This comment came at the perfect time since it's something I've been thinking about all morning and it even relates to PCB's :-)

I think I'm the same way. I have bare boards here (PCB designed and came back from fab), a stencil, paste and trays of parts. AND a customer and a damn healthy profit margin.

So why haven't I assembled, tested and shipped the boards I should have almost a week ago? Well, that's the question and I think your answer crystallized it perfectly for me. The fun part of solving the problem and coming up with a solution is done. Actually building and testing these things is BORING and I have to force myself to do it even though I know shipping just two boards will cover this month's car payment.

I was thrilled and excited to ship the first ones: precision analog electronics, a four-quadrant multiplying DAC and a domain I enjoy working in (machine control). But now that we're up to Revision 4, I am so effing bored with it.
Since the power and thermal envelope is a lot higher, it's probably noticeably faster than the iPad Pro.
Seems to me you can do both at the same time:

push a finished feature to the Git master branch, and a w.i.p. feature incl a compilation error to a personal branch
Apple's system settings layout remains largely unchanged and is a case study on usable design and function over form. It's a joy to use after experiencing Windows control panel hell and now metro/fabric UI with everything looking like a large rectangular solid color filled button.
Commercial Influence and Covid-19
well they're essentially a media company, like netflix, and what really justifies the subscription you pay is original content exclusive to the platform.

And there's no cheap way to produce content really in particular if you want to compete with the production value of modern TV shows.
Speech an Indian administrative officer gave at a Women's Day celebration [pdf]
Weed out courses, lack of real world requirements analysis/editing/testing skills. Think of Journalism where they don’t actually teach you to gather info, edit
, and collaborate.
PyCaret: The solution to simplify machine learning?
Maemo Leste – Thirteenth Update
I am surprised there isn't more talk about high school seniors deferring their college admission until 2021.

Starting a new school when there's a good chance classes will be remote seems like a poor way to accumulate huge amounts of student debt.

Although some media are starting that conversation: https://www.news-herald.com/opinion/5-reasons-students-shoul...
Google Will Collapse (2018)
Gendercritical was not "extreme left". It was an anti-trans (TERF) subreddit hated by actual leftist subs.
If PWAs die, we will be struck with this duopoly in smartphone OS for foreseeable future as native apps are the ones which help them retain their position.

If we want upcoming pure Linux smartphone OS, Sailfish or any other platform which protect the mobile computing from becoming proprietary; we need web apps & PWAs to grow and capture significant market.

Apple's treatment towards PWAs has been well known as PWAs are the only threat for its Appstore monopoly in iOS.
Political science seems to be going through a phase of questioning the rationality of voters.

The two major theories of public choice -- Median Voter theory[1] (political parties take positions that appeal to the median voter) and Investment theory of Party Competition[2] (parties take positions most beneficial to their donors), both assume emotions (irrationality) of voters to be small. In the current political climate -- while it seems that the explanatory power of emotions seems to have gone up, it isn't clear why.

This sounds very similar to the debate in economics around Efficient market hypothesis[3] and the emergence of behavioral economists.

While it is seems easy to attribute things to emotion, we might miss other explanatory variables underneath. A great sound-bite from Thomas Ferguson who first proposed [2]: "The electorate is not too stupid or too tired to control the political system. It is merely too poor."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_voter_theorem
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investment_theory_of_party_com...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
This played out how many (myself included) speculated it would.

1. t_d would not be banned as long as it was moderately active (it's basically been dead for months)

2. If it goes, ChapoTrapHouse gets banned as well.

The big thing here is that Chapo served as a clearinghouse for the "dirtbag left" and was incredibly active. The expectation that it would be banned was increasing even before the anonymous warning over the weekend. It was common for users to get warnings/3 day bans for "posting violations of content/upvoting violated content" without specifying the specific post or rule that was alleged to have been violated.

It's clear that including Chapo was a weak, "both sides" move.
I used to use reddit a lot but it got far too political. even generic subreddits like r/pics or /funny seem to often have a top post bashing trump.

it’s really devolved.
This is a transcript of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1jwf2dMoc0
Since the donald moderators removed the new moderators that Reddit added (that was selected from and voting on in the donald subreddit), it was clear the moderators weren't interested in rescuing their subreddit to Reddit's standards.

I think Reddit is trying to avoid appearing capricious when it banned subreddits. Reddit users do want a rythme or reason to Reddit admins actions, otherwise, there'd be further user discontent.
I would oppose even stronger against "unfair advantage", author in the article wrote "almost unfair". If you worked harder than others to achieve some level of understanding or mastery it is not something I would ever call "unfair advantage".
You call what fascism?
>And yet Reddit happily ignores vote brigading and other negative externalities from any subreddit that toes their party line, so it seems bizarre to single T_D out

Do you have evidence for this, or is it just your gut feeling?
My perusal of Chapo Trap House was a lot of people un-ironically wishing that gulags came back and certain people were thrown into them. Just because communists did them, doesn’t mean you aren’t advocating for concentration camps, left-wing or not.
Right in time for the election.
IMHO decentralization (via federated protocols) is the most viable option here. Taking Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/) as an example, people are able to connect globally with each other, but you also have a moderation framework that allows for true decentralized control over content.

You can join an instance with moderation policies that align with your ideals or even host your own instance.
Here's a nice 3blue1brown video about the easier version of the inscribed rectangle problem, that some inscribed rectangle exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmgkSdhK4K8

And I remember thinking this was a nice overview of some aspects of the "square peg problem" (the Toeplitz conjecture): https://www.ams.org/notices/201404/rnoti-p346.pdf
CTH made a parachute sub (MTC) that was widely promoted on CTH and that sub, of course, is free to continue as is because Reddit's admins are totally fine with left-wing hate. If it weren't for double standards, Reddit would have no standards at all.

Also, /r/rightwingLGBT was banned for 'hate speech', because apparently being a non-leftist gay person isn't allowed by Reddit's commissars.

Go ahead and rock this down to -4, it won't change the truth that leftwing hate and calling for murder of white people ("John Browning") is apparently totally OK, since a stickied post on CTH redirected people to MTC for almost three weeks prior to the ban and MTC currently has a stickied post advocating for "John Browning the slave owners."
The problem is that what hate is, is in the eye of the beholder. People can say Trump wanting to enforce rule of law is hate, I don't think so. People can say Trump wanting to enforce our borders is hate, and I don't think so. You have politically motivated people who think that anything that disagrees with their political viewpoints is hate, and justification to be memoryholed from the internet. I don't agree.
> But it still gets shipped over a long distance.

So do Amazon products.

> I'd rather see more local products

How is that related? I asked for sources that would confirm claims about worse environmental impact of Aliexpress vs Amazon.
The most recent discussions have had to do with how to handle queries that return different results depending on whether the user making the query is authenticated; whether to use the same resolver or to instead require the frontend to use a different "whateverPublic" query if they know the user isn't authenticated.

Another is what to do when subqueries yield errors. We're often faced with three choices there: whether to make the entire query return an error, or make the subquery return a friendly error, or make the subquery return null/empty.

Finally, we're suspecting that in most cases where it might first appear we need a dataloader, maybe we don't if we change how the frontend queries, since the "+1" part of the "N+1" can often make its own group query to whatever repository we're using.
I'm seeing these kind of titles (what every X programmer should know about Y) quite frequently which seems like the trend of adding "for humans" in front of library names.
This is not true at all. I see comments like this and wonder if the person even ventured to TD, interacted in the comments, or just simply contrived such a story. I don't doubt that there were bad actors in TD, as there are in r/politics and every other political community, but having intermittently visited the sub since inception, I almost never saw anything remotely close to "hate speech" (whatever that is). Most of the comments were from regular people that support the President, and rightfully were tired of the hypocrisy coming from the other side. Don't forget that TD was a target from day one, and even exposed the CEO Steve Huffman manipulating comments on it. What message did that send?