skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with creating a Facebook account is that you have to agree to their ToS & privacy policy and thus give them legal permission ("consent" in GDPR terms) to stalk you in every way possible and they are very good at that (in fact they already have a "shadow profile" on you, but as long as you haven't agreed to the terms they are doing so in breach of the law).

If you really want to use a throwaway account and have a chance to escape their surveillance engine, use it on a separate machine, VPN'd to a separate network (where none of your real traffic ends up) and do not do anything on that machine that can be correlated to your real activity (no playing with friends for example).
I entered into parenthood with similar trepidation, but my fears turned out to be unjustified. It definitely means having different experiences, but it's waaaay more fun than I thought it would be.
How many people do you think ARE financially able to go to MIT?

The tuition cost is $53,450, with housing costing $10,430 and to my understanding living there is required the first year.

Factor in books and food, and you're looking at $60,000-70,000/yr.

That's $240,000-280,000 for a four year degree.

I dropped out of highschool at 16, got my GED (thinking I'd be able to get a 2-year headstart on my degree without researching the cost of college), and enrolled in community college where it cost me $800 to take a single class.

Making $8/hr working in a lumber mill fulltime on top of trying to go to school, that just wasn't going to work out. After taxes my income was about $1,000/mo and I was living on my own and supporting myself, so all told I could manage to save about $200-300/mo.

It took me a third of a year to save up enough to pay for one community college class -- or I could go into crippling debt as someone who wasn't even legally an adult yet.

I eventually wound up quitting and giving up on the idea of ever obtaining a college education.

Real fantastic options, our education system and opportunity equality in the USA is just swell.
For whatever reasons, it seems to me that relatively few black people study for engineering and science degrees. At least that's my feeling in Europe.

Then it's simply a trickle down effect, like for women in tech: Few choose this path so even fewer end up being tech entrepreneurs or at Google/Facebook, etc (since the article mentions the workforce of these companies).

So, once again, education from primary/secondary school is key and needs a long term investment. After that, all these talks about "increasing diversity" in tech by 'tweaking' hiring practices or what not is just PR fluff or virtue signalling because this tries to fix a consequence while ignoring the cause. Silicon Valley's giants should instead reach out to help on education if they wanted to do actual good long term.
Yeah and? 12-year olds have reddit accounts for things like gaming or other discussions. I think if you go to r/All it features nsfw content
Isn't it?

What's more, and this keeps behind repeated and emulated, I do not understand how being arrogant, condescending, insulting, full of bad faith scorn and hatred is supposed to make me be part of a group or use a tech, API, stack, framework or what not.

"I'm a VMS user", they seem to say, "watch me be a nasty person."
Not really true considering that moves were tied to very short-dated OTM calls starting late April. I don’t think even Softbank is that irresponsible. Regardless, we’ll likely see another market crash before election. Stay tuned.
I didn't think about it before but just thinking now - I know more Indian origin tech founders in the US than Black tech founders in the US.

I find that a bit surprising suddenly. I'm an Indian who has never been to the US so I can not imagine the ground reality. But it's odd when I think of this. And I follow a good chunk of tech stuff online from various founders.
Tech entrepreneurs come out of IT.

In the US, when I was a teenager, blacks kids who were into computers were doing the same things the other people going to computer clubs and whatnot did. Some knew more than a lot of the white kids. As people graduated high school, went to college, got internships and jobs, somewhere along that route a lot of them fell off.

Also, I worked at some places with a lower manager that just seemed to have it in for the staff black IT person for no discernible reason, making life more difficult for them etc.
Or you could approach it another way, store the data using the full range of the system float type and normalize it to [0,1] through accessor methods.

Can float types even support 0, 1 inclusive? You just can't represent natural numbers like that with floats...
It does try to manipulate you. It has dark patterns such as nagging for phonebook access, and if you grant and then revoke such access, it hides all your contact names (showing number only) until you re-enable phonebook access. They also store your phonebook contents remotely so they can nag non-users to join and reveal you have become a user to anyone in your phonebook. It's not facebook-level or linkedin-level evil but it's definitely manipulative and nasty. The safe way to use it is on a separate device with no contacts.
Awesome. Now we can see if the movie and media industry experience a correlated rise in profits and settle this question whether "piracy" damages these industries once and for all.
Do you have a link to a submission with this issue? I only use the old interface and don't think I've run into what you've experienced.
Alphabet failed because it was clear that despite what Page & Brin initially assumed, shareholders/leadership were not okay with dumping billions of dollars into projects with no clear ROI.
Generational wealth. Ask yourself why there are so few entrepreneurs—of any race—who can take big risks without a family safety net to fall back on.

Now realize that slavery was only two generations ago, Jim Crow / legal segregation ended with this generation, and mass incarceration and systemic racism are ongoing.
Gee, why aren't a predominantly economically unfortunate demographic majorly present in an area requiring capital or higher education?
In addition to OP being a strong candidate, this line basically screams, "I was very lucky."
You should take a look at Pathologic. If you're looking for high art in games, that's what I'd recommend. Watch Hbomberguy's video on YouTube if you're curious.
Glad to hear. That comment was in jest, of course!
people can't believe others would use this, and go on using their GUIs instead of terminals
People who don't follow the politics or news regularly often believe that complex problems have simple fixes, hence the popularity of soundbite politics.

The only computer person I've ever met who was confident he knew everything there was to know about computers had never strayed outside building desktops.

The more you know about something, generally the more you recognize how much more there is to it that you don't know. A first-year medical student almost certainly is more keenly aware of how complex open-heart surgery is than someone whose knowledge is limited to watching it on Scrubs.
I too avoid calling it piracy.

Instead I call it "taking something you know you're not supposed to take."

Edit: Really love these downvotes. Shows that people who engage in this act would rather have it called piracy because it's easier to brush off than having to look in the mirror and admit they're obviously doing something wrong. Sure they can mangle definitions of common words and perform incredible mental gymnastics but the bottom line is that taking something you shouldn't is wrong.
You mean in terms of a publicly-held company, right? Because there are plenty of massive corporations still privately owned that are controlled by one person or one family.
> Only difference is I don't limit my sources by their viewpoint or bias.

Difference from whom? Do you think most people do this or were you speaking specifically to the person whose comment you were responding to?

Every article, and in fact every utterance, is inherently biased, if for no other reason than your choice of word of what you leave out to make a point, is itself a choice.

The telegraph and subsequent rise of news bureaux (first Reuter’s, then UPI and AP in the us) lead to a theory of “neutral” news in the hope of increasing the customer base (sell to more newspapers of all leanings) but it’s still inherently biased on its foundations.
Millenials aren't even young anymore
yacc is not a recursive abbr, it stands for Yet Another Compiler Compiler.
I’m looking forward to trying Sequoia PGP[1], a new OpenPGP implementation using Rust. Its opinionated high-level API and removal of MD5 and IDEA might just be the do-over OpenPGP needs.

[1] https://sequoia-pgp.org/talks/2018-08-introduction/sequoia-i...
Page still runs the company. He and Sergey have unassailable voting power over the board. The lack of official title not withstanding, they are still in charge.
Considering how successful Thimbleweed Park, the spiritual sequel to Maniac Mansion, has been, Ron Gilbert, Tim Schaffer and Dave Grossman could just reboot Monkey Island with a different name, say Ape Archipelago or something.

Fans would only love a chance to return to that world as envisioned by its original creators, and even if all the character etc. names have to be change it would be better than waiting forever for Disney to do anything with the IP given how it conflicts with Pirates of the Caribbean.
Who are some 25yr old directors and VPs?

Not counting "CTO" of a 10 person startup where the title is obviously bogus.
Amtrak is owned by the US government.

US broadband is run by local monopolies established by government action.

US Healthcare is heavily regulated, and grew massively expensive only after regulations were added, and preconditions were excluded.

All US prisons have problems.

You have any real examples?
Have you toyed with instagram masks and other AR projects lately? Fun moves around, and what's been hot and new 20 years ago is not anymore.
The flamethrower in Syndicate was the best. I can still hear the screams.
Also being able to 'persuade' large groups of people to form a human-crowd shield was quite delightful.
Management? Probably never. We are probably 0.5% or less of the reddit audience. Even on reddit commenters are only like 5% of the people visiting make comments so they don't mean much to reddit management. They will only know if there is a geurilla movement in social media to criticize some part of reddit and then reddit and twitter blow up. That's when management notices.
Dikes can also lead to the destruction of swamps or coastal habitat reducing natural ways of capturing the carbon. In some places they can also lead to further land corrosion which counterproductively will only increase flooding. So dikes are no way a silver bullet to protect lowlands from the effects of the climate disaster.

Air conditioning does not protect workers that need to work outdoors, or people that live in areas with limited access to electricity.

And this says nothing of the other effects we still have no way of combating, including forest fires, stronger hurricanes, prolonged droughts, increased pesting of climate tolerant species, mass migration of climate refugees from the worst affected areas, and—eventually—conflicts and even wars arising from this mass migration. There is no technology that can save us from these effects.

Yes the effects of the natural world is indeed devastating. But there is no way the society as we know it can survive these changes. At best I see humanity regressing to another imperial age with constant wars around the planet, massive exploitation of the majority of the human kind, technology only serving to increase this exploitation, frequent famines, no relief after natural disasters (except for the wealthy few). And even this can’t last forever as at some point the mass of humanity will not bear it any longer and we can expect a societal collapse at a scale not seen since the Bronze age collapse of the 12th century BC.
Yeah that's obviously horrible. But I don't know anyone in the US who is advocating taking away pain management meds for terminal, cancer, etc patients that are suffering greatly.
read the article, it's not very convincing to be honest. it's a long winded biography of the owner of the site who is bulgarian. the evidence is that the reporting content is right-leaning/conspiratorial and that he is bulgarian basically.
Out of curiosity - the 25-year-old white VP seems very specific, so I assume it’s based on a personal experience.

When were you able to enter the field, compared to them? Do they have more experience at an earlier age?

To be clear, I am in no way arguing or trying to minimize your experiences. I’m looking for holes in my own view of the problem, which I stated in a top-level comment. Based on that I would expect that the VP probably had a lot of starting advantages over you. That doesn’t make it right, but it may highlight effective strategies for changing the dynamic for your children.
This seems to be a review of several different studies on analyzing brain activity and isn't just about the first study shown, so while the original title is a little sensationalist, I think the edited title is pretty accurate to what the article is about. Some of the other studies include one at Carnegie Mellon about phrase prediction, an experiment at the University of Oregon about facial recognition, Neuralink, thought reproduction at Russian Corporation and Moscow institute, etc.
Actual alt-right havens, or just... not left?

The subs I often frequent are exhausting in their claims of being overrun by alt-right types. While I'm in no way saying that there aren't politically obnoxious people (even specific users whose damn job seems to be shitposting political content), in subs like /r/seattle, just being not 100% aligned with the popular hot takes gets you labeled as alt-right. Hell even disagreeing with part of something gets you in trouble. Are you for police reform but against the rioting? You probably didn't know this about you, but you're an alt-right troll.
Is it possible to submit a falsified gradient which still reduces the cost, but less so than the actual gradient would, and such that how the network behaves is manipulated?

Like, say, if one selected some of the images in the batch to use a different label for when computing the gradient, but still using the right label for most of the images in the batch?
They do their best to prevent it, but a lot of students don’t even apply because they or their parents think they can’t afford it. Access to education about financial aid itself is a privilege. That has got to be the biggest limiter by absolute volume of people.

It “felt” more uncommon that someone actually turns down an MIT offer after they see the package, as they do their best to provide student work aid and students tend to be optimists about debt - but I only saw the people who said yes, so my data is totally biased. I’ll note that one common situation is folks who can technically “afford” MIT, but are offered a full ride elsewhere - a lot of folks I knew who joined felt some pressure to save money by taking the scholarship elsewhere, and struggled to turn it down.
No this is a discussion between the 2 decades for patents, which seems fair, versus the 7 decades for copyrighted material, which doesn't :)
From the man page[1]:

"In kernels prior to about 2.6.15, a read error would cause the same effect as a write error. In later kernels, a read-error will instead cause md to attempt a recovery by overwriting the bad block. i.e. it will find the correct data from elsewhere, write it over the block that failed, and then try to read it back again. If either the write or the re-read fail, md will treat the error the same way that a write error is treated, and will fail the whole device."

[1]: https://linux.die.net/man/4/md
How can I determine that percentage without knowing (1) what fraction of people get myocarditis or (2) how serious it is in those cases?
Yeah, VSCode did that thing where a great product seems to just become worse, for no obvious reason.
I don't think anyone is seriously claiming that rust is a replacement for C.
The last few months have been pretty crazy. I've been tracking WSB's most commented stocks as a sideproject - https://topstonks.com

Up until yesterday you could reliably hop on whatever the hivemind was interested and make some money. They even foreshadowed the market drop by mentioning the VXX before the correction.

It'll be interesting to see what happens in the next few days.
> (zero the BSS, setup the stack, jump main)

Also: run global initializers. Getting kinda fuzzy on the boundaries, but I'd also add in the process to copy the initial contents of the .data segment from read-only to read-write storage.
I mean, if you get into MIT, you can definitely get student loans... lenders agree that your MIT degree is proof that you'll make significant income later in life and pay off that debt.

Your situation sucks. It's not really applicable for top schools though. With a combination of financial assistance and debt, it's possible for most people coming from bad financial situations.
I use it as both. Not everyone fits in whatever category you've designated there is a lot of middle ground on reddit. It's far better as a platform than facebook that force your identity. If reddit ever isn't mostly anonymous I'll head out.
> As a C programmer I would say they are my favorite class of bugs, because they are so easy to fix,

I know what you're trying to say, because at least 95% of segmentation faults are easy to fix, but I take issue with this. The hardest bug that I've ever fixed was a segmentation fault!

You've obviously never experienced random crashes where the best idea anyone has is to bisect code changes in production and see when the crashes stop.

And you've obviously never experienced random crashes on customer machines where you've tested the crashing function for weeks, poured over crash dumps and ran the exact same function with the exact same data and could never reproduce it.
Don‘t be that person, don‘t diminish previous achievements. You, with all your arrogance, still stand on the shoulders of giants.
These „innovations“ are so frickin obvious and easy because you‘ve learned about them. Inventing them for the first time is 100x harder.
A lot do, including mine: https://reactor.am

Just like blogs, it's up to the author. Feeds will have whatever links the author puts into them, regardless of whether they're for all-text blogs or for podcasts.
> A little known fact is that Germany resorted to using sawdust in bread when they had flour shortages during the world wars

That wiki article suggests the use of sawdust in bread during WWI, but for a reference uses another encyclopedia-like source [1] (which does not cite any reference, and whose about page suggests it was written by a single individual). While it may be true, I'd be very hesitant to accept it without seeing a better source (and preferably one made before the wiki-circular-citation thing started).

[1] http://www.zum.de/whkmla/economy/period/warecwwi.html
Wanted to is very different than doing. As far as I'm aware there has never been a dirty bomb attack. You could effectively create a dirty bomb with less radiation with more easily obtainable materials (still pretty expensive and labor intensive). The threat would be similar to a more radioactive substance because the biggest damage is the fear (that's what terrorism is about. They could do MUCH more _damage_ if they weren't as concerned about striking fear). The reason it hasn't been done is because it is impractical and difficult to do without killing yourself. There's better and far easier ways to strike fear into people's hearts. Killing a single person is more effective for them than increasing the chance of getting cancer in one's lifetime by 10% for a dozen people. The much bigger threat is a briefcase nuke but that is several more orders of magnitude difficult/expensive to obtain.
Yeah, I’ve noticed recently. For instance /r/ActualPublicFreakOuts is quite conservative, in comparison to /r/PublicFreakOuts
Are the people who say "respect the role" now the same ones that said Obama was a secret Kenyan that ran a human-trafficking ring in a pizza parlor though? Not trolling, this is a serious question because I don't think we all realize yet just how gaslit and completely bonkers every crevasse of discourse is after years of Trumpian propaganda and reactionary media.
It is from Peter Cooper.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617016
Consumer and business legal options regarding the Experian Data Breach
The press has always been biased, I don't know why you're acting like this is a recent development.
When does Education stop? by James Michener (1962)
What was interesting was the cube game was actually kinda fun to play in a odd way. They could have kept that going for awhile. Like reset the cube every few months or something. Different shapes etc. Godus started of interesting but went sideways quickly and tried to turn itself into a pay to play game. No whales showed up for that because that is not what people bought. Then the resets of game progress every few weeks and people gave up on it.
Not that this necessarily makes things any better, but what are the odds this could largely be explained by a kind of withdrawal from people who were using it every day for years? If you suddenly stop taking almost any psychoactive substance that you've had in your body 24/7 for years, the odds of some negative effects persisting for a month don't seem too unlikely.

It could certainly be some combination of both, too.
> Yet while VRporn.com is certainly a safer sexual strategy in the age of Covid-19 than meeting up with partners through Tinder, every choice to isolate and insulate has its correspondingly negative impact on others.

Author seems too horny for this job.
Talking about Canonical (which advocates Snaps as a supplement to the distro's repo) and "it is highly discouraged to install software from outside your distro's repository" in the same breath is rather odd.

As is thinking that Linux of all OSes is in any way a walled garden.
Yeah it'd be fascinating to see if there is a ROI for the cost of that LE operation and rise in GDP/tax rev
I also stream the music. The point is a mix is not a medium for listening to one song. It’s a medium for listening to a set of songs mixed together. Sometimes you only get 1 or 2 minutes of a 8/9 minute non-Radio-Edit of a track.

To be fair, playing devil’s advocate I do know some people who only listen to streams of DJs. I guess the question is what’s the breakdown of people who do that. My guess is it’s a very small margin. And even if it were more sizable, are those people really gonna go off and go buy individual Drum And Bass tracks or whatever off Beatport? I would doubt it.

The end result is it feels like they cannibalizing or cauterizing off a potential market and generating more bad will.
*economically sabotaged
This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but it has brief cheat sheet type treatments for many languages. It assumes you know the common programming language features, but want to know how they're done in a particular language.

https://learnxinyminutes.com/
The original Doom code basically broadcast packets to every machine on the network, which on any large network would bring everything to a crawl. It's why network Doom was explicitly banned on many university networks.

The first patch I ever used (first time I heard the term) was the Doom network patch.
There are ~1.4 billion people in India. The subset of those who are able to afford to immigrate to the US is a small fraction of that - a fraction that by definition has either the financial means to do so or extreme motivation and persistence.

In light of that, it’s not at all surprising to me that people of Indian descent in America are disproportionately successful.