skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This matters ... I think.

There is something there fighting to come out - something about software literacy (I claim we all will read write software like we read write language).

There are two types of "publish" - the kind I do here and on social media that is not proofread just flung out. It includes emails to friends and texts with shopping lists - and it is easy and simple and enabled by the platform

and there is publishing - a book an article etc. It has hurdles (and higher expectations)

Most times writing software feels like the latter - QA and proofreading, tests and slow release cycles.

Actually getting my thoughts down takes time - it takes reading around and consideration and hell it has friction.

So yes we need faster ways for people to deploy software and sandbox it so the blast radius is is limited - ensure my code to switch the lights on might leave my hall light blazing for a weeks holiday but is not going to turn the microwave on or reset the fire alarm.

But the code to do that must be the higher quality, the professional tier.

It is crazy to expect JK Rowling to go through the same process to send a tweet as to publish a book, but it is also crazy to hold that tweet to the same standards. And frankly it's crazy for the tweet to get the same kind of audience. (no this is not a comment about the content of any of her tweets - just an example after buying books for daughter)

Same goes for software. Different release standards different quality standards different sandboxes.
I disagree with a lot of this. I feel these are minor minor complaints. You hear this kind of stuff for lisp too. For example, keeping track of parens is just as annoying as keeping track of indentation.

Also the migration from python 2 to 3 is actually the best migration ever. Breaking changes on a code that has a massive library around it. All code is migrated along with the libraries. I haven't heard of any migration done as successfully as python. It required movement of the language and the entire community to make it happen.

Most migrations refrain from breaking changes and instead they take the less risky route and make the language backwards compatible at the cost of being more bloated. See C++ 17 and C++ 20.

But despite this, yeah these are complaints that I've heard, but this is totally unrelated to the hate I see. Like parentheses in lisp is something to complain about but not something to hate lisp for.

The hate I believe is more egotistical than anything. One interviewer told me I could code in any language other than python because python makes things too simple. The hate is because they believe python programmers are stupider than normal programmers.

That being said my favorite language is not python. It's my least favorite language out of all the languages I know well but not a language I hate.
Less relevant now so much WFH is going around, but I just don't want to be a captive audience to my most politically enthusiastic coworkers. I wouldn't want my employees to have to suffer each other or to have to consider political compatibility on teams. There would be reasons to have political opinions when those were relevant to the work being done or the company's actions, but it's not to much to ask people to keep their irrelevant-to-work politics out of the workplace.
> and Joe has already said his official schedule is public record and no meeting ever happened.

Must be true if Joe says so huh
> And all those tangible cost savings thanks to the removal of this accessory... not only have those savings not been passed onto the consumer, but they actually increased the price!

With all due respect, this isn’t insightful; it’s asinine.

The iPhone 12 is a completely new device, yet you’re acting like they took the existing product, removed a piece from the box, and jacked up the price. When planning this new device, the designers were constrained by a cost budget for both the bill of materials and manufacturing. By not including a charging brick, those designers had extra headroom in the budget, and neither you nor I have any idea what this headroom was used for (or to be fair, if it was used at all). They may have had even more extra headroom than the nominal cost of the brick due to increased shipping efficiencies driving down overall costs further. 70% more devices per pallet (if I remember the figures correctly) is no joke!

I’d argue the most likely scenario is that if the charging brick had been included, the price would be $10-$20 higher than it is, for a device that many of us already own five or more of and have no use for. Your assertion that they’re simply pocketing the difference is to be frank completely unfounded.
Fantastic. Hacker News front page.

An obviously planted, right wing, desperate smear job giving some true geniuses here a chance to whine about supposed “censorship” [sic] of their silly views.

Also a 2006 article from a professional “medical hypothesizer” about how you can hum your way to better nasal health.

Slow clap.

Truly one of HNs finest hours.
Here's a clever technique from the Web PKI: Stop blaming people. You don't need to care whether people are malevolent or incompetent, you can assume incompetence just fine. Intent only matters for blame, so, don't use blame.

I don't actually care whether the board at Symantec were deliberately turning a blind eye to forbidden practices and then get caught or they were too incompetent to exercise effective oversight and had no idea there was a problem, we can't trust them in either case.
Except that that's what a browser is supposed to be, according to all the web specs and security models -- an agent who acts for the user and on the user's authority.
Yet another example of our society having a massive, oppressive double-standard about which worldviews should benefit from freedom of express, and of course the beneficiaries ardently refuse to admit there's anything like that going on.
jesus. how are you still alive?

I've been sleeping 4-5 hours since the pandemic started and I feel like I'm about to die
I hear your objection. Here is a fair and balanced coverage of the document's provenance by a 3rd party, uninvolved, newspaper:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8841255/Man-Hunter-...
Workers have to work with other workers. If workers have to deal with overhearing other workers preaching about Trump or against Trump, against or for one race or another, maybe a gender argument, maybe whether God exists or abortion is naughty - that's a shit environment. We get paid to code or sell or manage, not to hear opinions being spewed across the room.

So it is different, despite your snarky comment. A company lobbying doesn't affect your 40, 50 hr work week.
the device is not defective. don’t misuse words.
What did I just read? Not that I read all of it, I made it to the 1921 paragraph and slowly clicked the back arrow.
Which is the same thing if your users take up similar amounts of data.
Strangely, the 1978 Z80 datasheet [1] describes it as a third generation microprocessor. So somehow the Z80 added another generation between 1978 and 2016.

Generations are sort of nonsense, but you could say the first generation microprocessors were PMOS processors like the 4004 and 8008 that were barely usable. Second generation would be the "classic" NMOS microprocessors like the 8080 and 6502. The Z80 is a step more advanced so maybe you could call it a generation, but I don't know how you'd get to fourth generation. Usually 16-bit microprocessors are considered the third generation, which makes more sense.

[1] Second paragraph, http://www.bitsavers.org/components/zilog/z80/03-0027-02_Z80...
I'm misunderstanding how, given the entirely not normal contrivances to cause this, they can call it room-temperature. I mean, for what definition of "room"?
No, workers are supposed to be silent about it AT WORK. They can donate to whichever party they want outside of work.

And, presumably, if the company is making political contributions to help it accomplish its goals, I'd imagine workers could discuss that and make suggestions inside work. But when you're just discussing your personal politics, you can do it elsewhere.
I'm not sure whichever poor PR department workers that got assigned the fallout of the Damore memo would agree with you.
My job never made me want to kill myself, there were numerous suicides in my 90s high school career.
Pick up phone.

Check email.

Regret screen exposure.

Bury phone.
I was thinking the same thing. Awesome article.
Soooo... docker? haha

edit: I joke, I love what containers accomplish, and working with Docker has been a joy (:
I want to like Alyx, but the hassle of connecting my VR headset to the computer every time I want to play is just too much of a pain.
you know guanxi functions without money...
I have friends and family whose businesses and livelihoods have been destroyed by this, but no it's fine we should just let them all go to the wall, what's a few evictions here and suicides there eh? I mean fuck em right, you've got yours?

If you have a look on a news site that covers areas outside the global hub that is alabama (reuters for example https://reuters.com/news/world or any other major news organisation) you will find...

1. It is pointless moving elsewhere as the virus and the response is worldwide (that 7 months of this hasn't brought this to your attention is...of note.)

2. The measures are being viewed as insufficient and and we are facing curfews and all of the things that I mentioned ARE happening.
I follow hundreds of blogs through RSS. I'd say ~80+% run on WordPress, conservatively?
First of all, you should be congratulated for showing up and doing the job despite everything. Many people can't show up. That does not make you the better person, but it means you're doing it, you're surviving.

Second, there is an absence of purpose that would propel you to make a change. You like the technical stuff, but you struggle with the political. This could be resolved a number of different ways:

1. Disconnect. Do what it takes to get away from society, even if it risks some safety for you and loved ones. This is a thing of degrees. Your comfort zone right now, as an employee, is to be attached to power, as software is recognized as a lever of power and the software industry has been nourished to that end with layers of gatekeeping and legitimacy. That's why the politics get ratcheted up to a degree that you would not encounter if you were lifting bales of hay all day. So you should recognize that the social situation you are in is actually quite intense and not "normal" by nature.

2. Develop your own kingdom. That is, allow yourself a space where you call the shots. This is, too, a thing of degrees. Some people indulge in community-building as a hobby. Others shoot for the moon and take on whatever debt is needed to gain billionaire grade power. A third group finds speculative angles that let them place studied bets without being visible figures or getting their hands dirty. My personal preference is epistemic power: building loose affiliations through the study of various topics. Becoming someone who is often consulted is a stone's throw from being a professional consultant.

3. Create the future through the present. The legacy you build for yourself comes mostly through everyday actions. If you allow yourself some time to pursue something regularly - a side project, new skills, etc. - you will continue to develop as a person, and therefore the job won't wear you out as much. It's not doing it for one day or one week that is the issue you really face, but with the idea that this is decades of your life. You need to know who you really are to be able to ask for what you want, and it's quite likely that you don't know yourself well enough yet.
Since it hasn't happened yet, that's not the correct question to ask. The correct question to ask is whether they should fire someone for circulating such a thing.

I for one, believe that you shouldn't spend your time at work having to defend yourself against these sorts of attacks, regardless of whether you are a liberal, a conservative, a Martian, or a reptilian. As a consequence of the above, I believe that you shouldn't spend your time at work making these sorts of attacks. But, as we can see in this thread, this, strangely enough, seems to be an unpopular outlier of an opinion.
> I’m amazed that anyone ever actually solved Exile. I think I might have gotten as much as 30% of the way through... I reached the windy tunnel,...

This was about as far as I got without a walkthrough. And I fear it wasn't close to 30%!

> It’s great how just about everything is destructible, although usually needing much more firepower than you have available.

Yes, I loved this. A significant part of the map, letting you into Triax's liar, is behind a "rune door" that must be destroyed. It seems that the game developers intended you to destroy this door by acquiring two radioactive rocks and dropping one on the other over the door, creating a massive explosion that would destroy it. But I read in a few places that people had successfully destroyed the door by very carefully collecting and stacking grenades to cause damage above the required threshold.

And there was a standard set of cheats for the game, one of which allowed you to fire cannon shot from your normal gun. It makes short work of that rune door.

I really like this way of designing games, where your puzzles aren't simple boolean rules (you must use the red key in the red door) but more real valued (you must deal x damage in y timeframe). For exile, it meant there were multiple solutions to puzzles that I suspect the designers had never considered.
From what I understand, the issue with lab-grown diamonds is that they can't really grow them beyond a certain size at this time. I think clear ones are a couple of carats, and colored ones are roughly double that. I could be off a bit. Regardless, that's not huge, though I don't know what size they require. Maybe it's sufficient.
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I expect them (Zoom) to clean up and surge some Keybase teams eventually. All of the top teams are related to crypto currency, hentai/porn, and 3d printing firearms. Not very "corporate" or family friendly subjects.
disinformation is a dog whistle for censorship, but fake news is...?

Censorship for thee but not for me.
IMO it's relevant that twitter is blocking the story due to their rules about releasing hacked material, not misinformation. If the hard drive is a hoax, I think it's important to have an open discussion to shine a light on it. Banning the article in a way that appears to validate its claims will only embolden claims of a conspiracy.

I think it's also interesting that the "hacking" ban doesn't have an exemption for the press. Even though the NY Post is fairly partisan even by tabloid standards,it seems like a double standard if I can still link to an NY Times article containing information about classified government activities that were revealed via hacking
Ah. "Working hard breeds character". I wish my parents hadn't been such blind working class people to understand that that's merely the way to stay working class.
I mainly use Vultr for low cost VPS's and they also have had a firewall service for quite a while too.
>Well hasn't society moved forward while college football and the NFL have existed? Your argument is provably incorrect.

That argument is invalid because it would be true up and until football had a negative impact large enough to cancel out everything else an institution accomplished, which is ridiculous.
I agree that football will eventually die out mainly for the injury concern, and that perhaps it is a matter of when not if soccer manages to replace it.

But on the other hand, MMA is immensely popular and replacing boxing and/or attracting new fans that boxing no longer was appealing to.
Which I find strange. "Oh go ahead and replicate the patented gene as much as you want, just don't concentrate it."
No, I'm not paid anything by Monsanto. I am simply outraged at the utter mendacity (or idiocy) of those propagating falsehoods about what happened.
>Free market: censors things

Literally the opposite of the case. Due to the power of Section 230, the online platforms are shielded from the normal liability, which gives them an inherent advantage. Section 230 distorts the market, making it non-free.

See also: the excellent "Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attributes of monopoly"[1] story from earlier on today.

Moreover, the Section 230 was specifically created to distort the market, to help kickstart the online communications and commerce, by giving it an edge over the other businesses. Now that it has done its job, we can revoke the Section 230, and return to actual free market. Where a tortious interference would be sorted out by a lawsuit.

--

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24771470
It seems like end game condition here requires for all mines to be flagged. In classical minesweeper opening all the clean cells is enough for a win. That difference removes the fun and speed advantage of playing without flagging.
I’m not sure what you’re arguing for. If we had ignored everyone claiming there were WMDs then a million people would still be alive, not to mention the trillions of dollars saved.
THe thing is, I appreciate the fact that they are pushing USB-C, it's a thing that needs to happen, and the sooner the better.

However, how am I supposed to use a laptop with _two ports_, one of which will be consumed any time I am charging.

I go over that on my laptop all the time.
ebg13, I hadn't noticed, but will pay attention to that the next time we record :)
Thanks, copy-pasted them from elsewhere and didn't notice that they'd been clipped. Fixed now.
> isn't a sport that upper-middle class kids get involved in.

This brings up a really interesting point I haven't seen addressed before - sports can be seen in some communities as a way to "get out". As more science gets out about the long-term effects about these sports, upper-middle class families whose children have more certain white-collar futures ahead of them won't do it, leaving the poorer kids to take on the risk.

America's always been happy to throw the poorest of us in the meat grinder, why not football?
Wait, we can’t do custom songs any more? Then what’s the point of the game?
People that never represent you: Your company's lawyer and your company's HR person
Exactly, Netflix is avoiding the cash cow syndrome
No. People leave their computers in repair shops for good all the time.

There are other red flags in the NY Post article (like, why wouldn't they just post e-mails with DKIMs), but this part is totally believable to me.
unnouinceput, what makes you say this is an ad? How is it different from others showing what they have made?
This is actually how these people think. They are like children wanting to be protected and guided by adults.
I was sexually abused in the locker room, attacked walking to/from school, had balloons filled with piss thrown at me, and constantly dealt with a feeling that I was not good enough and never would be good enough which sticks to this day. The administration encouraged much of this. I am putting serious thought into removing my children from school once this shit starts.
I agree, I think football is going to go away. The now apparent risk of brain injury is one reason. But another major factor is political, starting with the kneeling protests. This caused football, like so many other things to split along political lines. Basketball is turning out to be blue, football red. That's an oversimplification, but I think there is some truth to it, especially with respect to the politics of the football team owners that have been made plain for everyone to see. And let's face it, ignoring health because your red tribe demands it, is very much on brand, as we now see with coronavirus.

I don't think football is going to go away soon, but I can easily see it becoming an entertainment primarily for the red part of America.
There's no way to know, the whole issue is the debris from impacts is untrackable with a long orbital lifetime.
Where do you think the training data for the background replacement algorithms came from?
Never going to happen. Journalists and politicians couldn't care less about open web standards. They care about where the audience is.

Many pols actually prefer single points of, ah, influence, so they're going to fight you.
Yes, oh yes. From what I've seen, many products we've seen fall into one of several categories:

- People thinking if Jupyter notebooks had just the right CSS and animations, it'd make machine learning unstuck.

- People coming from web dev and thinking that ML folks are somehow unaware of Docker/CICD/Kubernetes/Git and if they could just be enlightened, they'd be much more productive.

- People coming from a background of publishing blog posts/Youtube videos about machine learning, or who've worked with cute datasets who think that the actual workflow is someone giving you a CSV and a metric to optimize for à la Kaggle and building something around that workflow. This is for ML what Aikido is for fighting: it only works if your opponent knows the script and agrees to fall when you go Hayaaa!

Disclosure: we're working on our machine learning platform[0] because we desperately need it. We do not come from a web dev or blogging background, and it shows. We're building it because we spent seven years actually delivering machine learning products to paying enterprise in the mid six figures contracts with actual money, trust, and careers on the line. We've done it OK enough to have companies trust us and become repeat customers, but, anyone we faced the problems that anyone who has worked on actual projects has faced. Just getting to formulate the problem is akin to extracting Ramses II's brain through his nostrils. Agreeing on the data to use and then getting the data to a usable form takes a long time. Defining the real world metric is not obvious [if only it just boiled down to F1/AUC/ROC/ETC]. Most things that matter are done by a team, and tools work great for one individual, but break for teams. Just getting results to the client makes the work an endangered specie in an "only one result out of 100 makes it to the client".

It is unbelievable how much these problems impact the team. People can quit over this and we've suffered a lot.

So we're building around our workflow that has generated actual revenues with very large organizations that were satisfied enough to come back for more projects. It is not a perfect workflow, but it is from the real world on real projects and real clients that paid real money to solve real problems.

And we're building it for ourselves to use on actual projects. We aim for 10x improvement.

[0]: https://iko.ai
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Then why include the cable? Save a few more whales and leave it out as well.

If I were king... the phone would be sold “bare”, but for $30 less. If somebody needs a charger or cable, they can use that $30 to buy one. Instead, Apple remove the charger, includes a cable not compatible with most iPhone owner’s existing chargers, increased the price $30, and tell me it’s to save the planet? GTFO.

(Really, I’m not nearly as annoyed as I probably sound, I just hate the inconsistency)
The shrill of millions of nerds realizing they have to choose between the best easiest VR tech and facebook knowing what porn they watch.
> Or did you perhaps mean that it’s only the workers that ought to be “neutral” and silent in their politics? Yes, that seems more likely to be what you meant.

No, because workers are free to be non-neutral outside the workplace. Workplaces don't contribute to political parties, an environment isn't a donor. And that's the point: the workplace environment should be neutral.
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thank you, it looks promising!
They've been doing this for years and they are mostly defended by the HN crowd everytime a story of censorship comes out.

Did everyone suddenly turn into a free speech nut this morning?