skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's part of a broader anti-science reaction that we need to keep a close eye on as a society. See also antivaxxers, antimaskers, etc.

USA has a serious anti-intellectualism problem (and to be honest a religion problem as well) and this is manifesting as bizarre pushbacks against some of the least harmful of modern inventions.

It's especially ironic because you don't often see these same folks pushing back against car ownership, or micro plastic accumulation from modern consumerism. Instead they advocate against GMO's, vaccines, and sometimes even birth control and abortion... all things that arguably have made the world a far better place.

I hope at some point we can move our country beyond arguing over left vs right politics and start realizing that we have deep national problems stemming from religion and our for profit higher education system. The former for actively promoting ancient morals, ideas, and belief systems, and the latter for putting modern morals, ideas, and belief systems behind a paywall that is out of reach of many Americans.
I don't think that's a very representative view of what my post was about.

I actively search for contrary opinion and dissenting facts.

Hell this convo spurred me to re-watch and re-read a bunch of the old criticisms.

Regarding moon landing and antivaxxers being the same that is entirely false. There is plenty of evidence we landed on the moon, there is plenty of evidence vaccines work.

Truthers don't argue if planes hit the towers. They argue the people behind the act were not those you have been lead to believe with little to no evidence.

Truthers don't believe the narrative. And aside from the more extreme individuals that believe everything that Alex tells them, truthers don't disagree with facts.

In fact truthers seek fact. The only problem is that they we were met with obstruction at every turn.

When you're prevented from looking at the evidence, when the evidence is quickly cleaned up and destroyed without standard practice investigation taking place it leaves questions open for interpretation.

You can't tell then me the sky is green, no you can't look, and no, your argument that it is blue is an argument from ignorance, how dare you open these old wounds.
The audience is on Twitter.
Can that be used stably on normal desktop hardware though?
You can smell incense better after COVID.
First, some broad advice: I'd say start with tutorials in HTML and Python. Mike Dane has a lot of free video tutorials that some of my students have spoken highly of: https://www.mikedane.com/

Remember that with coding you learn by doing, so resist the urge to "just watch videos" or even "watch videos and take notes". I recommend to my students to always have a side-project of some type. Pick something that will motivate you, such a game, or an application that you find interesting. Have that motivate you to learn the next thing, instead of just picking new topics and reading them one at a time. When we have limited free time as adults, learning new skills is all about maintaining that motivation and direction, so when self-teaching project work is probably the very best motivation and guide in lieu of an instructor.

Self-plug: I teach coding courses for beginners. My program (Kickstart Coding) combines video-based graded coursework with weekly live sessions and 1:1 tutoring, for a $299/month subscription. Learn more here: https://kickstartcoding.com/
> For a classic example, just look at /r/wallstreetbets -- young people are frustrated because there's no end to this tunnel

That's a bad example. By many measures retail investors have outperformed institutional investors since March. The simple reason is that options have a built in exit strategy, the thing that's missing when most people lose in scams - including Ponzi schemes!

On the flip side, why then do they outperform? High risk, high reward. Opportunities where you lose your entire principle, like out of the money options, turned out to be wildly underpriced, simply because institutions never buy them.

Anyway, I get it, those people are stupid. But they made money.
If you're interested in trying the analysis of competing hypotheses technique (ACH) from book, I maintain an open-source implementation here: https://www.opensynthesis.org/

Our wiki on GitHub also has related reading, including guides from other countries: https://github.com/twschiller/open-synthesis/wiki/Reading-Li...
TulliusCicero says that regulation in general isn't automatically a bad idea. You're giving specific examples of purportedly bad regulation, which doesn't challenge the point that there exists some potential system of regulation for these industries that is better than no regulation.
How can you tell how much video memory is allocated & reserved by UEFI? I’d love to read more about this (and the hacks you used to get around it).
I remember playing this as a kid on my grandad’s Win 95 PC. Well done :)
I fixed this problem myself in my mid 20s by taking up early morning exercise. I started running and lifting at about 6 AM and slowly moved that back to 5 AM over the course of a year. It completely rewired my brain. I get sleepy around 9 PM now and fall asleep with no effort. If I don't set any alarms, I'm typically awake by 6-7 AM. The big downside is that on the occasions I do need to stay up until the early hours of the morning, it's a real struggle.

(An alternative interpretation of these events is that my body rewired itself in my mid 20s and my behavior changed accordingly.)
Well I wouldn't pay for it if I could print billions in a snap because then I would start my own company that creates open RISC-V laptops and pcs. But in the current market I will because there's simply no alternative.
Sleep is such an interesting aspect of the human existence. We all need it, but so many of us have such drastically different experiences with it. Some people are early risers, others night owls. Some people have extremely vivid dreams, others have random jumbles, and some people nothing at all. Even the amount of sleep that a person needs can vary wildly. This whole thread is full of examples of people sharing their different experiences with sleep, almost as if no two people have the same exact patterns.
"Policy"-style debate[1][2]. What happens when metrics must be gamed to win.

State as many points as you can while gasping for breath. Coming to coworkers near you.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPsEwWT6K0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=murvOaHB66A
Yes, sorry, SIT -- it's been a while since I set it up and I forgot some of the details.
I'd say 95% of digital nomads are just online marketers who market their own lifestyle so that they can sell a course on how to imitate them. And obviously, their customers will imitate them and sell a course on how to imitate them. And so the cycle continues.
But... where is Tom? And will he be my fist friend?
Sleep paralysis every night when falling asleep (repeated attempts) and then when waking every morning (often being forced back to sleep) certainly has an impact on cognitive performance. Feeling like you're suffocating with the occasional sprinkle of epileptic attack isn't great either.
on mac: Preferences > General > "Click in the scroll bar to:" > "Jump to the spot that's clicked". Though with mac touchpads, I forgot when was the last time I ever clicked the scrollbar.
I found that the road to success is very different for everyone and for all circumstances. It can't be taught because everyone has different skills and is in a different situation. Only very general tools can be taught.

Even if person X is successful and writes down every step, it will be very hard for anyone to repeat it.
Look, I don't want to criticize signal, which I believe is a very nice tool, and kudos to moxie for putting this together:

however nice it may be, signal does not solve any of my problems, whereas gpg, which I agree with him, is an absolute dumpster fire, does (modulo great exertion).
People want to believe in get-rick-quick schemes, and will go by the flimsiest evidence they can find.

I think the trick is to realize those glamorous selfies are mostly a mirage. If you were having the best day of your life on the beach, maybe, just maybe, you wouldn't be on your phone trying to get the perfect selfie.
I take issue with Monsanto and their variously harmful practices (specifically the use of roundup, and suing farmers whose crops got cross-pollinated with nearby patented crops), not with GMO itself. So depending on how you phrase a questionnaire, I might be counted as "anti-GMO" but I'm all about sensible applications of the technology. I think a lot of folks are in this camp, but we get tarred as anti-GMO which makes the conversation divisive and not productive.
How’s inflation?
Now there’s a bright idea, adopt the argumentative strategy that vegans employ.

Anyone who is busy worrying about the morality of other people’s diet needs a hobby.
Pinebook is possible (as are most of the SBCs we have) because there is an almost endless supply of processors and SoCs designed for cellphones and tablets. If a company decides to make a part that's really focused on performance (and tuned to the OS) the same way the M1 is, and that matches the needs of a laptop, then it'd be possible. But, unless the part is incredibly well tuned for this scenario, it'll fail the same way as the Windows on ARM laptops have - same price as an x86 at meh performance.
Very good. You got me. Here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9583362

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25238542

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6420048

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655400

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655400

Some of these are the replies to the claims of bias, some are the original claims themselves. The search bar is at the bottom of the home page. I may have been rather childish throughout this thread, it's a defence mechanism, but it doesn't mean I'm wrong, and it doesn't mean there isn't pro-Apple bias on HN. That doesn't mean there isn't pro-<FAANG> bias around here either.

People are entitled to these opinions, and to express them, as are you and I to participate in whatever you call this exchange. It's why I still love the internet even though it feels like it's raising my blood pressure from time to time. And why I go through spits and spats of spurning all social media and then participating in controversial discussions like this and other philosophical debates.
Thank you for sharing!!
I use pass and store all sorts of stuff in there.

For instance, I have five years of tax returns saved in it. It's a simple, secure way to store them for easy retrieval later.

To store:

$ cat tax_return.pdf | pass insert -m taxes/returns/2017

To view:

EDITOR=/usr/bin/evince pass edit taxes/returns/2017
Rolling friction in the tires / the contact patch's static friction.
> That's a bad example

I don't think it's a bad example, because if you spend some time on that subreddit, you'll quickly realize people are literally gambling with their life savings. In no small part due to disillusionment and cynicism with the current economic realities -- we can no longer work at a stable company, marry a pretty wife, have a couple of kids, retire 40 years later, and live off of a plump 401k.
Aah yes, mod_perl. That brings back memories.
Much Ado about Nothing
I suspect the chances of actually hitting a target would be very low, if the weapon was rigidly mounted to the drone?

Although if a grenade was used rather than a firearm, it could be worryingly effective.

Then again, RC aircraft have been around for many decades, and haven't become the terrorist or criminal's tool of choice. Even flying with a first-person view isn't particularly new, here's a video about a hobbyist doing it in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5_gPhT61ek
Not just poisonous to us (who can arguably wash it off), but it's also poison to pollinators as well.
Anything that is (like make) turing complete can be made to do all the things you list.

At a very minor cost after all: your sanity.
> That is blatantly false

You're missing my point. And I don't care right now.
I assume it's the same as with Darcs, where you would record a tag patch. The darcs --exact-version option prints that for a released version of darcs.
It is clear that their advice is not suitable for someone who has a family and so on... single and living alone, maybe
My hope is that enough of these exposes and the prestige of working at McKinsey will be akin to having worked at Enron or a WorldCom i.e. it becomes a scarlet letter instead of an elite marker.

The thing that baffles me is not that the majority of McKinsey consultants would go along with it but there are almost zero whistleblowers. I guess it shows the power of McKinsey's narrative and the strength of the McKinsey alumni (read: mafia) to blacklist the whistleblower.
> you'll quickly realize people are literally gambling with their life savings

Gambling, yes. But the stock market is not a ponzi scheme.
Exactly. I guess the only real challenge is in ensuring that the wireless link between the controller and the vehicle is both uninterrupted and low latency.
It is my understanding that DuckDB is an embedded in-memory OLAP ColumnStore designed to be primarily used with R/Python data frames. I noticed that they added JDBC support. Does this mean they've added persistence and other OLTP functionality?

I thought their "SQLite for Analytics" tagline was confusing and I'm certainly questioning my recollection now.
> I think the trick is to realize those glamorous selfies are mostly a mirage. If you were having the best day of your life on the beach, maybe, just maybe, you wouldn't be on your phone trying to get the perfect selfie.

Well said, but the optics are still there. The selfie is bound to get more hits on social media, more coverage, etc.
I've always found AoC to be added stress during a time of the year I'm not really running a stress-deficit. I find the competitive aspect a pretty big turn off. I usually get a few puzzles in and then burn out, because I can't keep up with the people who do it every day (I don't even use my computer every day).

I wish the scoring didn't prioritize timeliness. This is really the sort of thing I'd enjoy cranking out on a plane ride, not every day.
No. Because (in no particular order):

- it shouldn't be the community's (or a crowd-funded dev's) responsibility to provide software support for hardware produced by one of the largest companies out there (bonus: with zero hardware specs);

- Apple could make all this futile with a push of a button (SecureBoot can be disabled for now, but what guarantees are there this won't change?);

- other arm64 machines will be available soon enough, most if not all of them with publicly available specs;

- I do not own an M1 machine, nor do I plan on buying one;

From a technical perspective, it's doable. Looks like it has UEFI and can run Windows. But we know nothing about possible silicon errata and required driver changes (or at least I don't).

Anyway, I'm sure others would like to see this happening and would actually pay - hopefully the Twitter poll will reveal whether this is actually worth it.

Disclaimer: I ported things to arm64 for a couple of years as a contractor.
That's likely a different bug. From what I understand the CFS bug being discussed was introduced in Linux v4.18 and fixed in v5.3, and we have not used a kernel within in that range in our Hadoop clusters.
Come on. WSB is people goofing with real or fake money for fun and lulz. It's not for desperate people trying to survive.
Okay, I'm not finding any benchmark that supports the idea of a slowdown, so probably I remembered some rumour I read on twitter or reddit.

What I am finding now is that python is working more than fine on M1, be it through rosetta or native code, which is consistent with your experience.

Also to clear things a bit, I parsed your "3.6 -> 3.9" as meaning that you had moved from Py36 on intel to Py39 on apple, which is why I asked if maybe there were speedups or differences from moving to 3.9.
Author here. If I had to run Kubernetes for money-making purposes, I would still seriously consider GKE. I still think they're the best at running k8s. It's just that k8s limits what any operator can hope for.
If you'd like to be able to understand the inner workings of your app, that's great, and there are a lot of good suggestions here for how to do that.

However, from your description it sounds like you're struggling to communicate about what the programmers should be building, rather than how it's being built. If that's the case, learning to program will likely not fix your problem, and will instead waste time that you could have spent on higher-leverage activities. I'd recommend the following:

1) Focus on learning only those technical details that are relevant to your app. For Thea (from your profile), you would want to spend some time understanding encryption, multi-factor auth, the basics of cloud hosting and storage (their respective Wikipedia pages would be a good starting point). You don't need to know enough to build it, but you should be able to talk intelligently about each of these aspects of the system.

2) Don't expect to successfully convey your design requirements in a single conversation turn. It doesn't matter how good of a communicator you are, if there isn't back-and-forth between you and the developers, they did not understand it. If they're not asking questions, have them diagram what they understood as they explain it back to you.

3) Stop your developers if they start using jargon and ask them to explain it. Just as you expect them to ask questions, they should expect you to ask questions. This way, you'll learn only the jargon that is relevant to your business requirements, rather than spending time learning stuff that will never come up in the context of your app.
And that instruction is to replicate the x86 FP rounding behavior, which ended up in the JS standard. Nothing else...
The obvious reason to me would be to make sure all your DIMMs are working.
In tech, it's more like the US pays well and the rest of the world, not so much...

Even FB in London pays significantly less than FB in SF, and you can transfer somewhat easily and get that high pay if you move to SF.
The first thing that comes to mind is Hirevue[1] rating job candidates based on metrics like eye contact. Generally I see this product as automating the process of discriminating against people with autism and see it as deeply immoral.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiri...
Tony Hsieh
I'm not sure why this is being down-voted. It's disturbing to see given the site we're on.
This study's incredibly underpowered. 33% more patients going to the ICU and dying in the placebo group, and 2x as many patients on mechanical ventilators in the placebo group, wasn't statistically significant.

"The rate of mortality (7.0% vs 5.1%; P = .590), admission to ICU (15.8% vs 21.2%; P = .314), and mechanical ventilation requirement (7.0% vs 14.4%; P = .090)"
> They showed this during a recruiting event once.

so it must be true !

Sarcasm apart, selling to young people the dreams is probably their 2nd most profitable activity (after selling to C-level)
it is sketchy windows freeware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDownloader, https://support.jdownloader.org/Knowledgebase/Article/View/a...
> While it's true that regenerative brakes are not frictionless, none that I'm aware of rely on friction.

They rely on the friction between the tire and the road, wearing the tire down, releasing the microplastic particles.
A couple of years ago, I watched the whole of Star Trek TOS, TNG, DS9, and then Bablyon 5 one after the other.

So I have to ask whether you're using a modern TV and perhaps what your media source for B5 is. Because, frankly, most aspects of B5 pretty objectively haven't aged well (the elevator scene is one exception), and the FX renders are especially bad, at least from the DVD box set.

I fully believe it looked incredible at the time on a standard def CRT. But TNG still looks OK and DS9 looks good.
Riemann Sums != Riemann Hypothesis. That said, there is a decent book for the layman on RH: "Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics"

https://www.amazon.com/Prime-Obsession-Bernhard-Greatest-Mat...
It's hard to believe that OTM options are wildly underpriced. Institutional investors might be unable to trade them but there are plenty of hedge funds with no such restrictions. 0
I think if you want a laptop to run Linux then you should just buy a laptop that comes with Linux. There are some pretty good options out there today (Dell XPS Dev Edition, ThinkPad, System 76, etc.) that you can buy from the manufacturer with Linux.

Trying to take a laptop designed for macOS and turn it into a Linux laptop is going to be a painful and frustrating experience. It's like buying a Tesla and trying to put the Toyota navigation operating system on it. If you like Toyota's system then just buy a Toyota.
The funny thing is the claim that the switch to PB free was some sort of sudden thing imposed on the industry from the outside instead of a 15-20 year long process where the industry have heavily involved in decision making. First rumblings I remember about phasing out lead was around 1988 or so. Same time they also had to deal with switching to surface mount packages and the phase out of Freon. The electronics industry didn't want the liability of having to deal with lead solder, lead contaminated waste, and worker safety. Seriously in 30 years I've never heard any complaints from the PCB manufacturers about phase out of lead. Only from people with no attachment to the industry.
I think one of the biggest issues is that tech people are "know it alls".

They make lots of money, they must be smart right? So when a friend disagrees the person doesn't consider it.

And unlike their Engineering counterparts they won't search for proof. If you need to see real world examples, look at who buys brand name. It's telling.
Can someone build An's SpaceHey Editor to match?
Exceptions abound, but in general software development jobs even at smaller studios pay a lot less in Japan than in the US.

In Tokyo you'd expect to make around 400,000 yen a month, which is about $3500 a month. That sounds nice until you see that a 400sqft apartment with no bedrooms can cost 100,000 yen or more. A one bedroom can hit 150,000 - 200,000 yen in a nice area with convenient access to train stations.

Edit: the website linked has good statistics on this:

https://www.tokyodev.com/2020/01/07/japan-developer-salaries...

Notably, "this 2018 survey conducted by the Japanese government found that the average "System Engineer" (a roughly analogous position to a software developer) in Japan had 12 years of experience and an annual compensation of ¥5.5 million."
I think that's debatable, but it's most definitely people being cynical about the current state of the economic realities we face. It's all fun and games, until someone commits suicide[1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/18/young-trader-dies-by-suicide...
The average person doesn’t need Final Cut either, but Apple participates in that market for some reason.
Japan also has some of the worst job satisfaction and work happiness in the developed world. (I googled "Japanese job satisfaction" and the trope of the overworked Japanese salaryman seems to check out.)

Restricting the job seeking/information process (something that should be completely open) can't possibly be helping out.

Perfect information about all jobs available to you would surely be ideal for worker happiness by helping you find a job you hate the least.
You may be interested in https://github.com/stripe/skycfg, which we use to generate Kubernetes resources using its native Protobuf data model.
X86 based PCs are no alternative?
Awesome write up. Sounds like you might be on the right track. I was thinking something similar myself. Or perhaps genetic programming would be a good fit for the problem.

Feel free to get in touch if you want to chat and trade ideas. (Email in profile)