skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are people on HN, reddit, et al, who have criticisms over vast numbers of people, mostly cogs, but all seem to be working jobs at companies that don’t do much harm, if any?

It appears as if at some level all of us need to have some level of cognitive dissonance to not see ourselves as bad people. I know there are levels to how bad things can be. I’m just saying no one is a saint.
if electron is not to your taste, you can run the emulator in your browser here:
https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii/

coincidently today firefox 79 was released, which brings back support for SharedArrayBuffer, which is a key part of the browser port of this emulator
Let's be honest: the quality of humanities degrees in Australia is bad. Could they be good, and challenging, and actually useful? Of course - but I doubt you get this anywhere in Australia for undergrad. The bad thing here isn't the doubling of fees for mostly useless (and I mean intellectually useless - I couldn't care less if something isn't really directly relevant to a job) majors - it's the state of those majors in the first place. It pains me to see the lack of real rigorous and critical thinking present in undergrad classes, and the assessments are often a joke.
What victim narrative? He didn't say anything about being a victim or try to make anyone feel sorry for him.
They are also usually fairly easy to spot by their lack of external markings and the people entering or leaving the building ;)
Where did you hear this? I study at an Australian University. I have never heard of these sort of degrees in my entire study career and I have been here about 5 or so years.

The Univeristy I study has the following sort of degrees under the Bachelor of Arts :

Anthropology and Sociology,

Archaeology,

Architecture A & B,

Chinese Studies,

Classics and Ancient History,

Communication and Media Studies,

Criminology,

English and Literary Studies,

European Studies,

Fine Arts,

French Studies,

German Studies,

History,

Human Geography and Planning,

Linguistics,

Music Studies,

Philosophy,

Political Science and International Relations,

Psychology

All of which, at the very least, seem to be very worthy things to learn.
I read them. Many do.
Yep, one of my nostrils always feels blocked but my fiancée’s nostrils are always wide open on both sides. I’m practically green with envy. Only being able to breathe using half of your nose is frustrating.
I think we agree - trying things you think might work is a good place to start, then you can attempt to confirm that empirically.

Predictions have to start somewhere.

What bothers me about the comment I replied to was the hostility to trying to understanding the underlying mechanism. "As long as it does something beneficial who cares after all what the bias is?" is not a good position. That kind of thing leads to people doubling down when it turns out their pet hypothesis is actually shown to be wrong (not saying that's the case here).

It can also lead to people thinking they see benefits where none exist (or where the activity is even harmful), it can lead to people making up explanations (most of human history).

It's good to be willing to try new things, but also to have a healthy skepticism.
Not the same thing, but I believe the parent commenter because I’ve seen multiple studies done where it was found that breathing exercises seemed to help with reflux: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3807765/
Which service from Google rent user data?
Even if you've read HP lovecraft, the lessons contained are pretty specific to the 1920s. Air conditioning, non-euclidian geometry, previously unknown colors, cities, black people, poor white people, immigrants, native americans, interracial marriage, basically anyone that lovecraft didn't like, are all eeeevil. scary.
The Tarim mummies. Many centuries ago about 3,800 years ago. I remember seeing one that had a large pointed felt hat like a stereotypical witch would wear.

Being blond haired and blue eyed doesn't mean much though since there are some non-European cultures where it exists. Solomon Islands people, and I've known blond Lebanese people, supposedly there are some blond north African people too.
I was considering the distinguishing characteristic of phonics as sounding out a word so you can make an aural association to a word you already know. So rather than memorizing whole words you can memorize some basic syllables and rules to speed up the recognition and memorization process. You can't do that with a logogram script, or if your first language is sign language. (I'm sure remembering and identifying phonemes is still important for deaf children in the context of a phonetic language, but I'd bet it's a more arduous process, more akin to learning strokes in Chinese logograms.)
This is rad but want to hedge that this sort of farming is only viable for some leafy greens and herbs. The site for instance only talks about lettuce which is rad but nutritionally void.

The sun is a lot cheaper at scale than LEDs unfortunately.

It may solve some specific urban farming issues but we haven’t got endless sunlight beat yet.
My interpretation was that the author like most people is just about done being disrespected by smug elites.
Ideas can have a long gestation period. Neural networks were invented before even the 1950s. I read about them as a child of the 1970s as "learning machine". They only became a smash success in the last 10-12 years.

Of course, even if someone knows they have a great idea and is willing to wait for it to flower, there's certainty that will happen in their lifetime.
> only the wealthy and privileged can afford to be less vocational in their thinking about college.

Isn't that perfectly reasonable? If you have the means to study as a hobby, then you should be able to enjoy that. If you haven't yet got the means for that, then earn it and maybe your children can do an arts degree off the back of your engineer's salary or you can do it yourself when you retire. The whole point of the government subsidizing education is to create useful workers that give more back to society with their useful work. Not to indulge people's pseudo-intellectual pleasures.

It's not as if arts degrees make people somehow superior at understanding society and arts and culture. Those are things anybody can pick up even with no formal education. Understanding the scientific method, statistics and critical thinking would go further in making well rounded useful thinkers than knowing what some ancient person's opinion about his local society was or training to become an activist who refuses to allow themselves to think objectively.
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I received this email a couple of hours ago. It appears to be from Substack. It includes many email addresses in the 'To' line. Presumably these are all Substack users. If genuine, it's a strange mistake given that the email is about a new privacy policy, and compliance with California's CCPA.

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Don't forget that the modem firmware is completely proprietary, so the idea is rather to make it do less, not more.
My idea is that "the right to bear arms" should be reconsidered. One way or the other is fine, but I think that with military technology advancements we are in a poor middle ground right now. If we as Americans affirm the 2nd amendment, then the right to bear arms should be relaxed considerably (meaning, more military equipment should be allowed to civilians. If we reject the 2nd amendment then guns should be restricted to a greater degree (maybe like Canada)

The 2nd amendment is not a right to own a gun. Here is it's text:

> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

so what I'm arguing is that "small arms" are now basically ineffective arms.

If for some reason the USA Military became Americas enemy there's no way a credible opposition could rise without another military backing it. The point of the 2nd amendment is impossible today, so I think we should either fix it, or abolish it.
Modern pot metal alloys are nearly all lead free, partly due to the EU's RoHS regulations and partly because lead is a lot more expensive than zinc.

It's also worth pointing out that metallic lead isn't all that toxic - it's lead compounds that you need to worry about, especially organic compounds.
Indeed, we know that a fusion reactor will work if scaled up to about 1.4 x 10^27 cubic meters...
I hate to say it friend but 2016 was no black swan. This is the new normal. The tech landscape we built has completely destroyed a sense of shared narrative, at least in the US. With rhetoric being more effective for building political capital than sane policy, there is no one to call out the smarm.
Modified Gravity Theory Passes a Critical Test
That is, by far, the thing I loved the most about the i.MX6 design I worked on: it was a high cost low volume board, but we could still get parts from Digikey and just download the reference material off the website. A company like Qualcomm wouldn’t have given us the time of day.
When the tax payer is footing the majority of the cost of these degrees this sort of attitude is very relevant.
Does it really need any? It seems to work just fine.
First code that goes to production is 1.0.0
Are you sure "history of photography" was the degree, rather than about a single subject or course? If you were studying for a photography degree, I could see you needing to study history of photography for a semester.
For nostalgia's sake, I just went and found Gardner's RSA article. It was from 1977 - I was 10 (by which stage I was almost certainly grabbing the magazine from Dad as soon as he'd finished reading it).

Notable quote: "For example, to test a 130 digit odd number for primality requires at the most (that is when the number is actually prime) about 7 minutes on a PDP-10 computer."

http://simson.net/ref/1977/Gardner_RSA.pdf

(Tonight I might see if I can still remember how to make a hexaflexagon...)
What I find nice about his technique, is that it is much simpler than yoga and pranayama. He does not, for example, emphasise inhaling or holding or exceeding for a particular count of seconds. I find that it is easier to perform the
Wim Hof technique because of this.

The breathing technique which is closest to Wim How is that of Tummo. You can find videos of this on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUQ-SV092GM
This tweet (and the related website) seems to be from America's Frontline Doctors; they have been accused of quackery. See related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23982139
but maybe problem here is in that corrupted thing called lobbying is allowed in the very first place.. I don't see how legal buying politicians this way is different from illegal corruption.
You can sell that expensive house and move to a lower cost of living. Even in the bay area, $300-500k is a good salary (they said several hundred thousand). $200k in that area would be different, and I think you might be missing some costs in your breakdown since that seems like a lot left over. Even if you could save $50k per year on $150k take-home pay, that's a lot better than most of us.
I'm assuming when they see when a search click is the final click vs when the user comes back to click on something else instead. I'm assuming for most people, Maps/Translate widgets are their final destination.
This is how I get over that hump. Not only do I not work on anything related to my day job, I mostly build things in my free time that aren't really useful to anyone but myself. Sure my company may be able to claim ownership of my Sean Connery themed programming language but will they? What on earth do they plan to do with it?
No. Amazon has a view of what it thinks is best for the US. That view is informed by its own self interest. Others have a view of what they think is best for the US. Their views are informed by their own self interest. Ultimately when a view does not align with the law of the land, the holder of the view can a) comply, b) comply and seek to redress their issues, or c) fail to comply. Amazon, in the speech above, says it will comply. There is nothing hypocritical in wanting a voice in a policy decision.
Because someone in your (presumably massive) org had some code somewhere that was parsing the source itself looking for... something. (The story Googlers tell is a program looking for a specific line number in a program’s output.)

More on Hyrum’s Law:
https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
Very under appreciated point even by native English speakers.
> It pains me to see the lack of real rigorous and critical thinking present in undergrad classes

This is not a new phenomenon. I went to university in the US 20 years ago. Very few students ever thought to question the narrative they were hearing. Critical thinking was not taught where I went to school unless you were in a hard science. And from what I see around me today, it’s still not being taught.
> In practice, these packages are already widely deployed and NOT tagging a major version completely invalidates the versioning mechanism all together.

It implies that all releases are potentially equivalent to semver-major releases, but that doesn't invalidate the mechanism. It means there is no such thing as a safe upgrade, though.

(I think it's a mistake that semver doesn't didn't keep patch versions as having the same semantics in pre-1.0 releases as post-1.0, though.)
1. Squarespace is a private entity. They have no obligation to leave your website online, similar to how you have no obligation to spend money at businesses you don't support.

2. The Twitter user in question is pushing propaganda about Hydroxychloroquine, along with clearly false information that is not backed by the scientific community.

3. Take a look at the Food and Drug Administration official communications on its stance regarding Hydroxychloroquine: https://www.fda.gov/media/138946/download

4. Direct quote from FDA official statement linked above: "However, based on emerging and other scientific data, FDA does not recommend using HCQ or CQ to treat hospitalized patients with COVID-19 outside of a clinical trial."
I am impressed by the sheer length of that article. It's a reminder that however good I might be at communication, I will never have the full package of skills it takes to write well, day after day.
When these degrees are tax payer funded the cost of said degrees should be index'd proportional to the historic rate of payback from past people doing these degrees.

Hear countless anecdotes of people saying they used their arts degree to get a professional job, so this sort of indexation shouldnt be a problem
Many engineering programs require an ethics class already, and many STEM degrees require TWO YEARS of "liberal arts rounding" classes. I learned nothing in those classes that I couldn't teach myself, but I sure as hell paid a lot of money for them. Additionally, every single university student has had 13 YEARS worth of liberal arts education before they've taken their first university-level class. If 13 years wasn't enough to "round out" a student, then what good will another few years do?
I'm generally fine with the planned breaks, but every time I wonder when it's coming back this time I remember this is the last revolution he's covering.
i wonder what sites like APOD would do. they have intentionally left that site as a simple HTML1.0 layout to not wreck compatibility
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It's actually idiotic and anti-market. If art history majors get low-paying jobs, it makes no sense to have their degrees cost more. They should actually be increasing cost of the high-paying majors and reducing the cost of the low-paying majors, in order to correctly reflect the market value of those degrees.
A related principle: when given a choice between a subscription and a one-off purchase always take the subscription until you've paid the price of the object. Most of the time I cancel the subscription, so the principle pays for itself in amortized cost, and I spend at most twice as much money in the worst case
Dates tell you squat all.
Using dates as release version names has its own problems. The key thing I find challenging with them is you don't know what the release name will be until it's out there (or you try to guess ahead of time and are often wrong).

This makes talking about and planning for a release unnecessarily verbose. You can only describe your releases in terms of relative time. Item A is going in the next release. Or the release after next. Or three releases from now. It's much easier to know the name of a release ahead of time.

I did away with semver for my company awhile ago, moved to dates for a little while, and now just do plain numbers. It's basically just a simplified version of semver without a distinction between MAJOR or MINOR patches. This works just fine when you're building a web app and not a library to be consumed by others.
The owner of WeChat thinks deepfakes could be good
Had a moment like that back when I was a teenager taking violin lessons. One day my teacher was berating me for not having practiced enough (she was right) but I insisted it was because my violin was giving me a hard time. So she challenged me: "use my violin and show me". The thing was beautiful to play, and I managed to play the whole piece in a go. She still knew I hadn't been practicing, but I got a chance to play a great instrument.

However, my cheap violin did have a good thing: the bare D string would make its box resonate when tuned correctly. And from there the rest of the instrument could be tuned pretty well. I still have that cheap violin, however I stopped playing a long time ago. I should pick it up again some time.
As somebody who has been interviewing recently, the format I've preferred is from TestDome. I've never used leetcode or others but I imagine they're similar. I had 4 coding problems for which I had to pass a set of test cases which were explained from a high level. The first 3 were fairly easy and had time limits of 10 minutes or so. The last one was more involved from a design and functionality perspective and had a limit of 45 minutes. Then, it was followed up by a conversation with a developer where we discussed the problems and approaches. The time commitment was finite and reasonable, and the opportunity to explain my code was appreciated.
AES-NI can be used as a hash, but don't assume that it makes a good job at it. Latest version of MeowHash is fine, but all other variants and prior versions have shitty collision ratios, equivalent to a ~50 bits hash :
https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash/wiki/Collision-ratio-comp...
>You won’t be taken for those roles on Leetcode interview performance alone.

I think the problem is that for some teams the entire process is some combination of leetcode-style "technical" interviews and then some "culture fit" interviews, without any chance to talk about actual dev work.
I didn't watch it either, but...

Does your language have exceptions? Do the exceptions support stack traces? Do those stack traces have line numbers? Well then...

// old code: version 1.2.3
if(problem1) throw new Exception();
if(problem2) throw new Exception();

Meanwhile, we have client code that catches the exception and then inspects the line number to see whether it was caused by problem1 or by problem2.

(You may say that this is crazy and no one would do such a thing. Maybe so. But this at least proves that it's theoretically possible. Also, you'd be surprised at what some people will do.)

Anyway, we upgrade to the new code:

// new code: version 1.2.4
// Helpful comment here; no other changes.
if(problem1) throw new Exception();
if(problem2) throw new Exception();

And of course this comment messes up all the line numbers, at which point we can have anything from misleading error messages to system meltdown, depending on what the client code used the line number for.
I agree, but lobbying is a free speech issue and good luck getting Americans to agree on any amendment let alone one that reduces free speech.
It was stated that they originated from a MacWorld demo disc, so the companies were fine with giving the software away.
I think your calculating market value wrong.
> Now they have flipped that to drive students into in demand careers, as there is a shortage.

If those careers were in-demand, shouldn't the wages on offer be enough to drive students into those careers?
What? You can see large efforts on the roadmap that go far beyond source code versioning stuff. Cluster DR for enterprise, for instance: https://github.com/github/roadmap/projects/1#card-42486591
There were people (Tocharians for one) in Central Asia and Western China who descend from Indo-European migrants from the Black Sea area.
That's very helpful thanks, I do understand what that means but I didn't know I should/could think of entanglement like that.
It was updated last year.
For those who have trouble with the link:

https://archive.is/wT9Uo
Not that cut and tried as it depends what "goes into production" means.

As an example: Lets say I have an open-source library that I am developing. It is currently version 0.x.y and someone depends on it (without my knowledge because that is usually how it is).

Is that now in Production? Should I be forced to make it 1.0.0 even though I am still making large numbers of breaking changes?

That is a simple example off the top of my head. I am watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tISy7EJQPzI (Linked from another comment) and he goes into good details about issues with Semver.