skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they expect it to be inflicted on people who aren't them.

I strongly oppose excessive force by police. But I'm aware that police are people, and I am fully cognizant that they have a gun and I do whatever is necessary to assure them that I am not a threat to their safety.

For example, during a traffic stop I keep my hands firmly visible and on the steering wheel. When the cop asks for my license, I say it is in my right front pocket. I do not move my hands to get it until he says ok. I do not reach for the glove box until he says ok.

I do not berate officers, I don't argue with them, I don't move unless they tell me to. Yes, I have been held at gunpoint by the police.

I never lunge for my cell phone in my pocket. I do not run at the cop or away from him. I do not try to touch the cop. I do not reach for the cop's weapon.

Back in the 60's, when toy guns looked like real guns, my dad (WW2 and KW combat vet) gave me one. I am white and lived in a small all white town. My dad said if I ever pointed it at anyone, I was liable to be shot, and he didn't want me to be shot. Being a rather stupid boy, I pointed it at people, and he took it away.

Always remember you're dealing with an armed person who does not know you're a sweet old gent with a cellphone in his pocket. Never force him to make a split second decision at night in poor visibility as to whether you're whipping out a cell phone or a gun.
Don't you sometimes "want" to eat some chocolate, or an ice cream, or even better, a nice, juicy, salty steak? I definitely do, and I "like" what I feel when I get to eat it.

Yet I may be no more than a replicating machine whose purpose it is to build these new machines which may likely replace us one day, maybe keep us in a zoo, or as pets, if we get lucky.

I can't imagine what motivates these molecules to behave, to group the way they do; why the existing energies get channeled to make them move that way, since there is no need for the energy to do anything at all.

Something motivates me, and I see no reason why there isn't motivation in these molecules; what they do is already complex enough to be considered as something which may have a special purpose.

We do have consciousness. There is this something in me which sees and tastes, which experiences life. It's hard to believe that this is something material. To me it feels as if complex enough structures of molecules allow something to plug into this universe, to absorb its information and to feed something into it, like instructions which allow this "me" to interact with it.

The same could well be applicable to bacteria or to the most rudimentary lifeforms. Because a bacteria forms part of my body doesn't mean that it can't have its own consciousness; the same may be valid for all this stuff that (maybe) "lives" inside my cells. Lucky me, that I get to stand on its shoulders in order to perceive this universe the way I can and interact with it.

"Works" and "replication" isn't wrong, but removing the "wants" and "likes" from this equation doesn't feel right.
Right. I'm talking about this:

// Make 128 byte scratch space for the Red Zone. This arithmetic will not unalign
// our stack pointer because 128 is a multiple of 16. The Red Zone must also be
// 16-byte aligned.
sp -= 128;

Isn't the red zone normally implicitly below the sp? I'm not sure why you would need to explicitly subtract the size here.
Sooo, would this run on WSL2/Ubuntu?

I tried for 30min, but got stuck a few different ways, when trying to get the modules.
I'll be honest, I don't think this was incompetence.
If you go to the Github repository, it's more understandable and it's actually pretty nice. I wish my company had a use case for this, so I could play with it.
Let me preface this with I have quit using facebook, but this is a naive way of thinking.

There's more to staying connected with family than calling them up, a completely synchronous action that interrupts the lives of both involved just to happen. But it's also not scalable to keep a large family or friend group up to date with whats going on in your world, or catch up with whats going on in theirs by calling every one of them up.
It is not delightful to accidentally annoy someone with the same message several times because you thought it did not send.
That was the first thing I thought of. Land lord visits current tenants, and they negotiate or keep the current arrangement
I really wish there was a way to jailbreak these devices.
Like the nest hub has a nice screen.
All I really want is the weather and when the next train comes.
The comment below is on point. It's all-or-nothing on threads. If people don't commit to using threads it gets hopeless really fast.
Kevin Durant – NBAs First Actively Playing Billionaire?
Kevin Durant's 32nd birthday was last week. This made me wonder if he could become basketball's first actively playing billionaire.

Durant is expected to earn over $500M from NBA contracts and sponsorships throughout his career.

His plan to turn that into billions?

Thirty Five Ventures.

In 2017, Kevin Durant and his manager, Rich Kleiman, co-founded Thirty Five Ventures; a venture capital firm designed to house all their investments. Since it's launch, the duo has deployed millions into over 50 startups.

During his time with the Warriors, Durant continuously picked the brain of successful VC's like Chamath Palihapitiya, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz.

The result?

A 400+% return on his investments.

Overall, Kevin Durant has managed to build an impressive investment portfolio:
- Robinhood
- Coinbase
- Q Bio
- Dutchie
- Whoop
- Acorns
- JetSmarter
- Overtime
- Philadelphia Union
- Postmates

When Uber acquired Postmates for $2.65B, Durant turned his $1M initial investment into $15M.

As of now, Michael Jordan is the only billionaire in basketball. While LeBron James and Magic Johnson have to be getting close; with his network and the way investing in startups work, don't be surprised if KD becomes the first actively playing billionaire in NBA history!
Cheers!

> concatenative programming is extremely close to categorical programming

How do they differ? (I'm a newbie at CT. Sorry if that's a dumb question.)

FWIW, I suspect that Joy is as good way as any to provide (2). You could implement a basis set of primitive functions and combinators in each different programming system.

As for (1) part of what got me into Prolog was the work done on compiling using it. I've actually come to believe that syntax is a macguffin, a kind of blind alley. I have no idea what to use though, C?, LLVM IR?, etc. I've been toying with Prof. Wirth's Oberon RISC CPU as a target.

I'd like to go the other way too: translate existing code into categorical forms. (Then do fun things like refactoring, etc...)
Thanks for being a customer, Brandon! Definitely let us know how we can push the envelope even further here with regards to MRR/SaaS aggregation.
> No amount of money makes up for human lives

Trivially untrue since you can save one life for under $1000 but almost everyone with $1000 will keep it rather than save the life - revealing that $1000 is worth more than an arbitrary human life.
I don't really understand why ppl still use phones. There is nothing there that you need. Connecting with family is a drive away.
I imagine this will happen to self driving cars if they become the norm.

E.g. a crime happens nearby and all the self driving cars in the area get subpoenaed for their camera footage.

Definitely a bit dystopian in the sense of surveillance all around us.
Anecdotally, regarding IP assignment policies: All large and medium-sized companies I've worked with in the Bay Area have a section in their employment agreement that says something to the effect of "We own everything you work on, using our equipment or yours, on our time or on yours, on company property or at your home."
This is an argumentative dead end for both of you. You're both arguing over the specificity of an analogy, I would imagine you're both capable of seeing the other person's point, no?
I think you may be onto something. I spoke with wife ( she turns out to be a reliable predictor of US white populace ) recently about matters surrounding BLM and there is definitely an implicit level of trust in US that was not present in the old country. But even then, it only takes one bad actor to turn it on its head? Isn't that one bad apple sufficiently scary?
I have a DM on mobile with a failed slack message in it that has clogged my UI for months; literally months.

On mobile it means that I can't tell if this user has responded to a message or is online at all. I tried telling it not to send ages ago when it actually failed but it hasn't worked, and frankly now it's so far back in history it's impossible for me to try again.

I've deleted slack and re-installed to no avail. It's really an awful problem.
I don't know if anyone else does this really bad habit, but at night I sit in bed with my laptop, back against the wall, laptop on my lap/upright knees.

Then gradually, I sink into lying down and my laptop held on it's bottom edge on my chest, knees keeping the laptop upright.

Finally, I know it's time to go to sleep when I doze off and the laptop hits me in the face.

I always dreamt of having a laptop stand that could suspend the laptop above me while lying down. I guess this guy made it happen.
For the price, you might as well do a Mister FPGA build using the DE10-Nano. That’s ~$140 versus the $200 for the Jetson Nano here. And the Mister FPGA, being FPGA based, can avoid most slowdowns software based emulators would have.
Pope Francis Laments Failures of Capitalism in Blueprint for Post-Covid World
I think if you misinterpret YAGNI as “you don’t need to change this later”. So your becomes rigidly hard coded, instead of having easily configurable variables and arguments. The over-engineered solution (the real YAGNI) was an interface, an object, methods and fields, only serving a very niche purpose with a lot of boilerplate.
It's just the price of making a successful bet. Critics were fine with it when they were confident it would fail. They just can't stand being wrong so they're making an effort to make it true.
I have gone the other way. when I first learned macros I spent loads of time trying to make paren-free versions of the standard scheme forms, and now I can't even be assed to do the racketism of surrounding my binding clauses with [].

The parens of let lets me easily distinguish the binding clauses, and lets me navigate it a lot easier in Emacs. The lets macro seems like the opposite of that. Every odd thing except the last element is an identifier and every even thing is that identifiers value.
I've always felt that putting our universe inside some larger context is a punt (American Football reference). Weather that's saying we are a thing within some creators context, or that it's a simulation, all that does is push the questions of "what is all this" and "where did it come from" to a next level up that we can't see and have no hope of answering those questions.

If you think we live in the Matrix then all fundamental questions of existence can be asked about the "outer" world instead. It can't be turtles all the way down.
They are trying to purchase ARM, so I wonder what that means for Mali...
Facebook Groups are a great alternative to Reddit for people who don't like 'reddit people'.
Pretty sure the GP was /s
Anyone use Rocket.chat? Is that a good alternative?
Glad you enjoyed it! We're eager to write more transparent content like this, so let us know if there's anything specific that'd be interesting (eg. recruiting, finance, etc).
There are also historical reasons. Northern italy has long been more industrialized than the south, going back centuries to before there was a modern unified Italy. Paris has over twice the population of Marseille and way more universities which feed the job pool. Scandinavian countries have stronger social safety nets that foster more growth than their comparatively lean budgedted peers in southern europe.
Never run when you can walk.
Never walk when you can stand.
Never stand when you can sit.
Never sit when you can lay down.
Never lay down when you can sleep.

I can't wait until I'm working in my sleep. /s
Indeed it is just a normal commit that has extra parent commit…

Git commit is always a standalone item that linked to parent commits. The actual content can be completely unrelated to parent commmits if you must do.(but what is the point of doing this?)

A merge commit is just a commit that has more than one parent.
Because I really started loving having a voice interface in a pinch (and because I want a less natural and more usable device), I started planning on building my own replacement with Rhasspy, but so far I haven’t gotten past the planning stages.
I remember doing some back of the envelope calculations that showed the potential across the membrane was equivalent to only a few dozen potassium ions more on the outside or inside. Basically a countable number of atoms have to be moved by the cell to develop that potential.
Using numeric types as ids probably leaks into other areas, where being numeric is then assumed. When you want to change it at some point, you got to be very careful suddenly. A string could simply contain a new kind of id. Seems less refactoring effort would be required. On the other hand, switching from numeric to strings might give you compiler errors when types do not match, so perhaps it might even make refactoring simpler.
@northpoleescape This is quite a open ended question.

Great answers here but I feel the most important aspects were not covered.

I'm happy to jump on a call to help. I find this to be a very interesting problem.

I've worked along side sales for years and helped startups define their sales strategy.

Maybe I can write a blog post if we chat goes well for others to read.
I was gifted an Alexa, I set up a few routines to announce the time and temp and occasionally I use it for Pandora. I leave the microphone disabled unless I momentarily want to give it a command.

Based on take aparts done by other people I'm reasonably confident it is really disabled.
They print these paper volumes called books, and I've never once read a book on anything other than in paper, or on my computer. I just walked in Barnes and Noble last weekend and spent $44 on real books. Sure I spent double of what I could have spent at Amazon. I voted with my money. Fuck Amazon.
Could you please review the site guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html They explicitly ask commenters not to post like this.
I know Facebook Groups has replaced forum boards/mailing lists for many.
Do you think people would start caring of that information affected their credit scores and health insurance? "You visited Dominos 3 times this week."
Yep, you're right on this front. It's not a binary thing. That is, you are concerned at inadvertent data leakage that could be used against you.

For what it's worth, there's a hardware switch on Echos by the way.
FB also has "shadow" accounts, so even this may not be super helpful.
> No amount of money makes up for human lives.

You clearly don't actually believe that, or there are a ton of activities you would stop doing. You wouldn't drive to work, because there is a chance you might kill someone while driving, and you only go to work for money, so why do it?
Try using an adblocker. Never see any suggestions again.
I really hated this era before flexbox and co. CSS used to be the least intuitive thing on the planet yet a lot of people claimed otherwise. We had to resort to silly tricks (remember overflow hidden?) in order to make up for the mess that CSS used to be. Again what really pissed me off isn't CSS inherent issues but the fact that many people claimed there was absolutely nothing wrong with it, a pattern I often see with many developers about this or that language. Obviously, there were some problems or we wouldn't be needing CSS grids or flexbox today.

I don't understand this.

You can appreciate something while still acknowledging its obvious flaws, nothing is perfect.
There are CEOs that are narcissistic, and there are CEOs that have NPD. The first will be awful to work with, and the latter will destroy your life if you hang around long enough. This is from first hand experience.

I placed myself in-between a NPD CEO and the rest of the company I was at in an effort to fix the company culture which was toxic when I started. It took a year but it worked. I put in a lot of effort to make it a nice place to work at. I left after 2 years, and within 6 months the entire management staff had quit or was fired after I left.

People with NPD don't know they are monsters. They take credit and place blame without exception. They view everyone as beneath them and treat everyone as disposable. This guy said out loud that he doesn't like win-win deals - it must be win-lose. Taking something away from another person made him feel better about himself.

I'm not sure I'll ever heal from that experience.
this guy has some voodoo going on this site. I see the page, then the whole screen turns white. Even in safe mode.

Edit: he is using ResizeObserver:

https://developer.mozilla.org/Web/API/ResizeObserver

which hasnt made it past draft JavaScript specification.
MSFT was in the IM game decades before slack... MSN Messenger. So if anyone has patents on that front, it'd be Microsoft...
This project has just the right amount of jank
This is where you realize that what's killing git is that git has no concept of branches whatsoever. Such a merge isn't "merging A into B (plus shove metadata as string into the commit message)", it is "merging A and B together", which is topologically identical, but semantically very distinct.

That's why Mercurial (esp. with evolve and topics) has forever my preference over git.
I've seen multiple hacks where people go to the junkyard and pick up an old Mercedes or BMW driver's seat, hook it up to power, and then use that as their desk chair with a floating desk.

If I had the space I'd consider it myself. Like you, I can drive five hours without stopping and be fine the whole way and when I get there.
I think a _lot_ of this is standardised now in the vast majority of browsers people use.
Slack is degraded. My team has fallen back to email. Is this irony?
It doesn't have to be you: your old friend has both, and shares their data with Facebook, Snapchat, and/or Whatsapp (all are Facebook) so you have no hope of concealing this.
But jokes aren't allowed here
They're the same technical operation, but they're used in different ways, and it's the difference in use that matters. It's useful to be able to distinguish them. It's never too late to improve our terminology! How long had git diff --cached been around when git diff --staged was introduced?
The owner of Regal Cinemas is closing its U.S. theaters, with 40K jobs at stake
So we're both Dutch then? In Dutch, recovery is "herstel" and a recovery college is either just that, or a "huis van herstel".

I can definitely recommend the HWG, which stands for "Herstel Werk Groep". Consult your SPV for this, as various GGZ services offer this free of charge.
UEFI Bootkit Malware Attack in the Wild
uefi bootkit malware attack in the wild. might be easier than you think.
There are some 7000+ languages in the world. Baking recognition for 7000+ words in silicon is not a huge task.
> To my understanding, these smart speakers only phone home when you say the keyword, right? They aren't storing or sending everything they hear throughout the day.

1) There has been various cases of such devices being triggered incorrectly and uploading chunks of recordings

2) It's all implemented in software. It's extremely easy for the vendor to enable more keywords or record for longer times.

3) It's impossible to prove that 2 is not happening already in limited cases

4) There is a proven long history of very effective global surveillance programs targeting every electronic device (phones, cell towers, carrier-grade routers, PCs, servers).
Thanks!

I didn’t explain my opinion as strong as I could have. In academia, your biggest problem to do great research is "publish or perish", but in industry, as an employee, your biggest problem is your company's short goals. "They buy your freedom". You can't focus on a hard problem for ten years or do research on interesting theoretical problems in industry.
If you're question is it a viable alternative to Slack for business purposes, the answer is no. And it's not bc of anything related to the application itself but because of the insane TOS.

> By uploading, distributing, transmitting or otherwise using Your Content with the Service, you grant to us a perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to use, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display Your Content in connection with operating and providing the Service.

https://discord.com/terms
At that point why wouldn't you get a Mac desktop to put somewhere else in your house, with (I assume) a better price for the performance and better cooling?
FWIW, I was also a threads nay-sayer but I've since seen the light

Remember the irc support channels where conversations and problem/solution dialogs were constantly muxed with other conversations / dialogs?

Imagine each question being a root message, and all of the dialog / suggestions / answers being in a thread.
Also makes it super convenient for search.

In addition to that I find that beyond a certain channel / DM count it's a lot easier to follow up on things with threads

Give it a shot, try to get your whole team on board. You can always revert back to not using them later :)
You could probably write an article that'd be very often read if you teach CSS from this perspective.
That's not particularly helpful for ecommerce.

One of Facebook's largest businesses is allowing companies to advertise against first-party data, ie lists of activities the customers upload. Crucially, these don't require a cookie sync; facebook matches against any of name, phone, zip9.

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2082575038703844?id=2...

Naturally, there's not really a way to buy something without presenting this information to the retailer.

What can help OP is this: if in CA, go to the ecommerce company and submit a Do Not Sell request. If in EU, submit a deletion request. NB: for the latter, they will be able to retain information like shipping, etc. If in none of the above geos, hope the retailer is nice and gives the whole world the same rights.
Open Pilot's driver monitoring could be improved. After the last update I got a ton of false positives when driving at night. Nighttime would make driver monitoring more difficult, but it's also when people are more likely to be distracted.
"Connecting with family is a phone call away."

A phone call, an email, a Zoom meeting, a Skype meeting, even a letter away for those too far away to meet in person....
How do you write your full bleed containers, and why do you prefer them?
Dialing 911 on your phone will get the EMTs sent to your house if you say nothing.

Having the phone in your pocket works if you can move. Having the smart speaker works if you can speak. If you can do neither, hope somebody finds you soon.
No, it's obviously wrong. 7 billion is spending the entire city budget on just roads for 12 years. Stretching that to a 40 year timeline means that Lafayette would have had to spend ~25% of their budget on building roads alone for your figure to be accurate. They didn't so your number is wrong.
There is a company that is solving that! https://immersedvr.com

Disclaimer: I'm an investor in Immersed, but I invested because I loved the product!