skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a problem with outlets with the ground prong up, but...

1. Why isn't your plug all the way in the socket?
2. Why haven't you replaced that outlet that doesn't hold a plug properly?
It actually accomplishes the 1-2 goals of the operation:

* Political win for Trump being "hard on China"

* Paycheck for Trump's donor Ellison

Let's not pretend that there was any legitimate national security threat coming from the funny video app. That was and is a yellow peril fantasy from the outset.
Not hard to see how it's confusing - you call it gas but it's not a gas, it's a liquid.
Ya, the double standard is obvious. I laughed when I read all these articles about Trump which were the same about Obama on this issue, but with a completely different tone.
A fellow older classmate of mine and I were looking for work after changing careers.

We were talking about his recent interview when he got a call from the recruiter and put her on speakerphone. She told them they were going with someone else because they thought the other person "fit the culture" better.

He asked if she could give some feedback on what that meant and she flat out said "Some people thought you were too old." Shocked he asked again and she repeated it. I don't think it even occurred to the recruiter that it was wrong.

My buddy chose not to do anything, both of us looking for work and etc really didn't want to get into some legal situation and looking for work.
> Based on... what? The only reason there wasn't an X1 tablet was because of the exclusive deal with Nintendo.

The fact that it's the same innards as an original Shield tablet, just rebranded and launched for a bargain basement price on what was supposed to be a flagship quality chip? A chip that didn't get any major users?

And can you cite this exclusive deal with Nintendo from somewhere other than a rumor site?

> I don't see Qualcomm out there making phones because they make far more money extorting others. If they didn't have the ability to push their patent portfolio down the throats of anyone who wants to make a phone that can actually connect to a cellular network, they would absolutely be making their own handsets.

Why would that stop Qualcomm? If they have so much pull and vertical integration is what you want to be doing, then why haven't they done that in addition to selling their chips to others? It makes sense for Samsung since they literally manufacture a great deal of the screens and other components anyway, and for Apple since they have the margins to pull it off. But it doesn't really make sense for anyone else except to dump extra inventory that you couldn't sell as glorified dev kits.
The Downs–Thomson Paradox
Sentimetrix is another major player, who were the winner of DARPA competition in this
domain and have customer across public and private sectors.

http://www.sentimetrix.com/
I think people intuitively perceive the universe as being roughly analogous to Earth's oceans. Obviously we know it isn't objectively true, but subjectively we're just not capable of comprehending the true scale and emptiness of space, of reconciling the Hubble Deep Field image[0] with the fact that less than 5% of the entire universe is physical matter. Even the distance between the Earth and Moon is mind-boggling on human scales, and humans have traveled it.

So it seems reasonable that if any interstellar civilization were out there, one would have found us by now, or their presence would be obvious to us. After all, Rome knew of China, even if they never directly interacted, and Spain eventually stumbled across the New World. Von Neumann probes make sense because it doesn't occur to us that the chances of any arbitrary path along the universe intersecting with a star would be effectively zero. We look up at the night sky and we can see so many of them, and they seem so close together, obviously you'd run into one no matter which way you went, sooner or later. Right?

It's more comforting to make up rationales as to why we might be alone than deal with the ramifications of being surrounded by life we may never see in a universe in which the entirety of physical reality amounts to a rounding error in a zero.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Deep_Field

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/the-c...
I'm not really a developer myself, but I get the impression there's plenty of long-time Mac developers who like/enjoy making Cocoa apps with Objective-C and Swift, particularly in comparison to doing the same on Windows.

Outside of web-based technologies, what would you consider a "desirable option" for making UIs?
This is why I recommend spacemacs: just install the python layer, read its readme file, and get going. Emacs is like clay, but that’s only useful once you’re comfortable with it. Until then better to get an opinionated experience out of the box, and tweak it from there.
assembled. which seems a fair price. dude certainly isn't going to retire on the proceeds.
Or just that senior engineer who knows better than to allow a for loop to pass code review!
If Facebook ran that ad, you should at least try to hold them accountable.
Great! How does this compare with Theia[0]? I've recently set up an installation for Go and JS development[1] and been happy so far ;)

[0] https://theia-ide.org/
[1] https://pojntfx.github.io/felix-pojtingers-theia/
>...Personally, I think the grand calculus may tilt slightly in nuclear's favor over fossil fuels, but the risk can't be swept under the rug.

Slightly?

No one except the Soviet Union said the Chernobyl style plants were reasonable designs. That kind of design would have been illegal to build anywhere else in the world.

The death rate from Fukishima is far less than the death rate from any properly working fossil fuels source (or wind or rooftop solar for that matter). One estimate is that worldwide use of coal causes up to 800,000 deaths a year - this is much worse than all deaths from nuclear, including the bombs that were dropped on Japan!

https://endcoal.org/health/

A NASA estimate is that the use of nuclear power has saved approximately 1.8 million lives in the years 1971-2009:

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/kharecha_02/

No one ever promised that there would never be a nuclear accident - that would be unrealistic for any power source. But historically nuclear power has been safer than all the alternatives that were available.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-ener...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

Unfortunately anything at all related to nuclear is covered by the media orders of magnitude more than other power sources so many people have an understandable perception that it is much more dangerous than other sources of power. 200 thousand people had to be evacuated in CA a couple of years ago because of a lack of maintenance on a hydroelectric dam could've let to catastrophic failure. We got lucky that time as the rains stopped just in time, but how much did the media cover that story? How much would they have covered it if 200 thousand were evacuated because of a nuclear power plant?

It is possible there will be some major advances in grid storage that will allow us to stop using natural gas to cover for the intermittent nature of wind and solar. But what if that doesn't pan out? The dangers we are facing in the coming decades are immense. Is your fear of nuclear power so great that if you had to choose, you would prefer the world to suffer through catastrophic climate change rather than use nuclear power?
Why does propaganda work if it's so simple then?
Jill Lepore is also a staff writer at New Yorker, whose writing appears regularly in it.

But I guess her recent book is one reason why all these media outlets are covering the same historical topic right now!
Humans are lazy. Overall, it was less effort to be forced to sometimes have to deal with upside down outlets, rather than convince everyone that there is a specific and universal orientation.

It's not a great reason, but here we are.
Unfortunately, so far I have seen the opposite - people lapping it up and the "consensus" on the Internet (Reddit in particular) being that we're all doomed, with the more extreme outliers thinking about suicide because they genuinely expect the world to _inevitably_ become a literal Mad Max desert dystopia within the next few decades.

We've swung way too far from "completely ignoring the problem" to "absolute frenzy". Reminds me of Y2K.

Also, of course, if you don't agree with the hivemind (that everything is going to be much worse than actual science predicts), then you're a terrible person and need to be at least downvoted to hell, but ideally shunned and have your life ruined.
Do you ever worry that you're training yourself to find actual human interaction unbearably slow?
> when we use the word "civilization", we are definitively talking about cities. Associating onset of civilization with 3-4000 BCE is a conclusion from present evidence, not a definition, and would need to be changed in the face of new evidence of cities.

The term 'civilization' is not really used at all among archaeologists, to be frank. You are correct in recognizing the link between the notion of civilization and the notion of cities, since both of these terms are ambiguous, co-dependent and ultimately useless. What evidence is needed to call something a city? Many settlements have been excavated dating to times before 4000 BCE which include features that would be classically referred to as characteristics of cities. If you were to follow the evidence, as you claim to do, the distinction between cities and settlements and between civilizations and whatever is associated with settlements (which is ambiguous as well!!) becomes meaningless. Only cranks really lean on this distinction as having any sort of significant meaning, which tends to be upholding a truly arbitrary notion of what constitutes a civilization (i.e. circular logic, with conclusions leading the parameters of reasoning).

> while it is possible, in principle, that GT builders invented all their stonework methods de novo, it is clearly much more likely that they drew on a long history of gradually more sophisticated stonework not yet unearthed, possibly elsewhere. What we know about sea level changes allows that much of such evidence may now be under water, although it could also be found in the Tepes yet to be excavated.

Where is your evidence for this wild claim? How is this clearly much more likely, when there is literally nothing but speculation to base this on?

> the rest

So much cherry picking and mental gymnastics going on here, I truly don't know where to start.
The Sun's tidal forces on Venus are only 2.6x the Sun's tidal forces on the Earth, which is less than the tidal forces we get from our moon.

(This estimate assumes that tidal forces are proportional to 1/R^3 and that the orbital radius of Venus is 73% of Earth's)
Denouncing an objectively evil and racist nationalistic gov't is not flaming.
If you're in the US like I am, I think it's because the BBC redirects all non-UK visitors to BBC.com, and so when you hit the back button from BBC.com you get sent back to BBC.co.uk which in turn redirects you to BBC.com. It gets on my nerves too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24468232
What's interesting is that many people who are considered "experts" are not. There are places where expertise is challenging/impossible to build up because there is no quick feedback loop.

A parole officer will not learn much if 4 years after their decision (one of thousands of decisions they made) they are told it was wrong.

One of my favorite papers: In Praise Of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How Lazy And Ignorant Can You Be? by Michael A. Bishop

https://philosophy.fsu.edu/sites/g/files/imported/storage/or...
Another point in favor of the authors thesis: pure functional programs continue, two decades into the 21st century, to not be widely used in spite of their syntactic popularity. Software still continues to not be written at significant scale in Lisp, or Haskell, or even Scala.
A lot of it isn't even scientists, it's media picking up the most extreme opinions, distorting them to make a vague possibility sound like certainty or to make them sound worse than the actual prediction, then amplifying them for the clicks.
Britain and the US are politically, and economically entwined with each other. As a country, keeping core technology at home is tied to defense (don't buy your guns from your competitor). If they don't intend to go to war with the US, then there isn't any real defense loss (I'd also point out that making IP "blueprints" for a core is different from manufacturing the core itself). If Britain were to have a real issue, it would be the US locking down F35 jets they sell to their allies.
Brand new outlet, brand new high quality extension cord

https://imgur.com/a/0DXJXkw
I don't know if you noticed, but the SpaceX rockets work extremely well.
With coronavirus restrictions forcing cities to rethink their infrastructure, more people should be aware of this paradox.
Try using a mp3 or whatever as a ringtone or alarm tone. Laughs We don't do that around here. I'm not even sure you can buy extra ringtones from the app store. Think different. And with different I mean e unison.
What would happen if you lied about your age (eliminate the first 10 years from your resume), both at the time of applying for the job and after joining the company? How much trouble can you get in for that? It doesn't seem unethical at all.
Mussolini would have said he cared about lower-class trains running on time whether or not he did.
If you haven't yet, I highly recommend watching to the Royal Astronomical Society Press Briefing [1], where the main researchers present the results of their research. It's just 30 minutes and pretty well explained (although I'm not an astrophysicist).

One of the researchers, Dr. Clara Sousa-Silva, also have a 2-min video on how they know about the elements in other planets' atmosphere [2], and a great explanation about what is phosphine [3]. Her personal website is one of the best I've ever seen.

2020 doesn't cease to surprise me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1u-jlf_Olo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt7UBhYdM_o

[3] https://clarasousasilva.com/phosphine
I dont blame your buddy for not pursuing legal action, the legal system sucks. That said companies feel confident doing that largely because they know most people will not peruse legal action and even if they did they likely have the money to bankrupt them long before it ever got to a jury
I am happy that you found my comment somehow useful. I actually agree with lot of criticism of "capitalism", except for using the word itself, because the problems are more general than that.

Marx made a lot of criticism of capitalism, and a lot of it is valid. (He underestimated the possibility of huge technological progress, but let's ignore this for the moment.) The problem was not with criticism, but with the proposed solution; the entire plan could be simply summarized as "1: socialist revolution; 2: ???; 3: all problems gone".

And it turned out, you can organize a successful socialist revolution, but the problems will stay, and often get worse. Now you don't have a capitalist competing against a capitalist, but a politician competing against a politician. The workers are no longer exploited by private factories, they are exploited by state-owned factories instead. You are no longer afraid of losing your job and starving to death; you are afraid of men in dark coats knocking on your door after midnight. Your kids don't go to university not because they can't afford to pay tuition, but because they said a politically incorrect joke and someone reported them. (Not all things are the same: you probably get universal healthcare and free education, which is nice, but also universal censorship and ban on everything that was not approved by your political superiors, which sucks.) But this is even more general than politics.

The best text I know written about this problem is: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

The second best is the first noble truth of Buddhism: "It sucks to be born, it sucks to become old, it sucks to get sick, it sucks to die; it sucks to not get what you want, it sucks to get what you don't want; briefly, everything you see sucks." (You can make some people applaud if you add "...in capitalism" after each clause, but that just offers a fake hope.)

To really improve the world requires solving ten thousand independent problems. That is a lot of hard work. If only it was so simple that you merely need to abolish "capitalism" and then live happily ever after...
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> Ever seen the most beautiful masterpiece on YouTube being disliked by some people? I think people disliking where majority likes are the ones lacking empathy.

I do not follow. Are you saying that idiocentric tastes negatively correlate with empathy?
What has he done beyond reveal humanity for what it is?
We'll struggle to address this until we get the global population under control, particularly in the 3rd world where regard for the Environment is much lower than in the West.

At least in the West, we can phase out beef, coal, and oil; as well as dramatically limiting immigration (accepting migrants only from other highly developed countries, deporting all illegal immigrants, and ceasing all permanent refugee programs) in order to limit overall population growth.
> I dream of making an OS with Forth/Factor similar to Plan9 and Oberon.

Oberon inspired Acme and pforth runs on plan 9: https://github.com/Plan9-Archive/pforth9 (Factor cant be built on plan 9 due to the lack of c++ feature.)

I went through a forth phase and realized that its a good fit within the industrial control and motion segments. I started writing a motion control library I called forthaxis which took coordinates and spat out trajectory commands for servo drives. Didn't get very far but it was a fun exercise.
I wonder. For my buddy, he'd get found out in the interview, for me ... I might be able to pass, maybe...
> Older workers have experience.

Not always. older workers might be moving into coding from other areas. Or have no relevent experience in modern tech stack.

> Experience is expensive.

Fang Graduate roles pay > $200k. Lots of experienced people would love that but would never get hired.
I think you missed that I said, "And I can't begin to imagine how to explain my world-view to someone who clearly didn't grow up with [those shows]... Other than to sit them down with all those fantastic series, and hope that they take hold in them."

I did the introspection you ask for, and "watch those shows" is the best answer I can come up with.
“ would a bunch of people from the 1800s really be of much use to society today”

Maybe not everyone but go back another hundred years. Would Newton be of negative value today? I seriously doubt it. I adore James Joyce, who was around in the 1800s. But let’s not consider people like that for a second but consider the random guy on the bus last year. A no name non-contributing zero. I want him to travel the stars. I don’t need a random guy on the bus to produce or display worth in order to not only live but live well- live better than any kings have ever had. I would like that for you. You don’t need to show your papers to stick around another year as far as I’m concerned. I would love for you to experience unending pure hedonistic pleasure for centuries free of charge. You don’t need to say anything if you don’t want to or can’t. I don’t think anyone should have to work for it if they don’t want to.
To the anonymous users who are protected from displaying their ignorance by downvoting me without any comments/replies: http://www.euroairship.eu/index.php/forest-and-urban-fires/
Yeah I still think of that situation a lot. Feel a little dirty not able to do a thing, but needed to get a dang job.
> cheaper, contractor rates.

Are contractors cheaper than permanent employees? I always thought it was the opposite - that's why so many positions are "contract to hire". They'd rather have a perm employee, but they want to deal with contracting for a few months just to be on the safe side.
Please don't be disheartened. Like everything in life, software projects have natural cycles. People's free time waxes and wanes, and inspiration ebbs and flows.

Unlike many software projects, ones built on Emacs are very stable in the long term, as Emacs itself takes stability and compatibility very seriously. As well, these projects have many users, many of whom are Elisp hackers, so I have no concerns about these projects' long-term health.

So please don't panic just because one maintainer is preparing to reduce his activity in the project. Neither Emacs, nor Org, nor Helm are going away.
We tell tradespeople who are 40 years old to hit a bootcamp and get work in our magical software industry. Then, when those same people come to us to be hired our recruiting manager says stuff like "well... they're 40, but have only got 6 months of experience; we can't hire them as a new recruit, but they also don't have enough experience to hire as a senior developer — guess we can't hire them".

It's disgusting. Hire someone based on their experience, not their age.
No, actually there has been already many studies that there's no turning back on climate change. Even going all electric energy it's not going to do much for climate change, there's no turning back on this aspect at all.
The companies I've worked at have been very bad at measuring things like "this is how much that bug cost us in terms of people who tried the app once and then never came back." They're so focused on the data sources that are easy to collect that things like this are basically invisible. They know churn rate is an important thing to track, but look at it much more from a "what about this new feature, or changing the color of the icons" perspective, than from a "what if our software was less of a dumpster fire?" perspective.

If you want to build quickly AND have flexibility AND have some reliability, you're gonna need some experienced employees, but if that's not a thing you've ever seen cause you've only ever worked with people fresh out of school... you're not gonna know what you're missing.
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They might appear to want it, but I think the weather channel simply takes whatever is available. With hours of time to fill each day, they will make hay with whatever data the government weather people put on the website.
We do, but, it's mostly because we were raised on it and have a lot of ingroup memes for discrediting other options - my company forcing me to work outside iOS for the first time in several years was a real eye-opener.

I don't think Apple developers have the experience to see how far behind SwiftUI is and how little chance there is of them catching up, and I don't think non-Apple developers have the experience to see there's very little 'special' to ObjC or Swift.
You might be interested in The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance.
I thought back-button hijacking, malicious or accidental, had been solved in browsers years ago. I suppose I need to go search for an extension to fix that instead.
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Magit for vim would be great
"We live in a world that demands instant gratification."

Do we? Or might that demand just be a voice in your head?