skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thiel is a very smart guy. I have no doubt that if there is an opportunity to frame the world in a way that is the most advantageous and beneficial to him and his beliefs, he would take that opportunity.

Controlling the belief system is more powerful than controlling the resources, which is more powerful than controlling the machinations of a single company, which is more powerful than controlling the product itself.

Once that's understood, I think people are free to make their own judgement calls regarding this opinion of his.
I think it's more likely diet rather than exercise that makes the difference. Can't outrun (or outwalk) a poor diet, and you can be a healthy bodyweight while eating "unhealthy" food and not exercising by just limiting the quantity you are eating.

I would argue that to be healthy you should exercise a reasonable amount and have some muscle rather than just being at a good weight. Gives you a stronger body, and helps your mental health (which Japan seems to struggle with).
I tried GeForce Now with a high speed internet connection (Comcast) with Counter-Strike and I found the game to be unplayable from the lag. I double checked my speed test and router settings, it should’ve been fine.

Ultimately I believe these services represent the future of gaming, but without net neutrality or alternative ISPs it’s going to be awhile before that future is realized.
I use transform feedback, which allows vertex shaders to send data back to the application. You could do this with textures as well, as described by pjmlp. I did this in an earlier version (https://github.com/hut/cellmade#) but it just felt SO WRONG. I was very happy that I found out about transform feedback to be able to do it more cleanly.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLTransf...

> The WebGLTransformFeedback interface is part of the WebGL 2 API and enables transform feedback, which is the process of capturing primitives generated by vertex processing. It allows to preserve the post-transform rendering state of an object and resubmit this data multiple times.
> An alternative architecture would be to have got Gitter directly federating

This isn't exactly elegant English, but I think it's structurally correct. In US English you might say "gotten Gitter", i guess.

> Also, I'm curious what the plan is to reconcile Gitter's one room per repo model with Matrix's anybody-can-create-any-room

You can already create non-repo rooms in Gitter, so this one's already solved. For instance, I just created https://gitter.im/matrix-org/matthew-test (with no matching repo) :)
The whole reason this is required, is because creditcards are inherently insecure, by just requiring a number and an expiration date. EMV was supposed to fix this on card-level, but missed the importance of online payments completely.

In Europe, where debet-cards are the de-facto standard, most online shops use a payment aggregator, which forwards your payment request to your online banking platform of your own bank, which you then have to confirm. Sometimes using a cryptographic challenge/response from the chipcard, but more and more just by using your phone and banking app to scan a QR code and validate the payment there.

This completely side-tracks the insecurity of creditcards, there is nothing to steal.
Can you start by completely blocking the css to check if that’s definitely the issue?

I’d quite like to know if there’s a genuine issue to be concerned about.
In fact, Timnit Gebru's actual manager has issued a specific statement on this. It's on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=34697380164672...

Full text:

Just wanted to say that I was stunned by what just happened to Timnit Gebru, who was in my team until a few days ago (I'm sure you've all read what happened already). I have always been and will remain a strong supporter of her scientific work to make sure that AI becomes a positive force for the minoritized, as well as her generosity and tireless actions to lift the voices of the silenced ones. She taught me a lot and still is. I stand by you, Timnit. I also stand by the rest of my team who, like me, was stunned and is trying to make sense of all this. In particular the Ethical AI team, but also the broader Brain Research team.
Some billionaire is bored during quarantine.
From experience, I think this is absolutely true.

One of the reasons for the 80/20 rule, specifically that it takes 20% of the time to make 80% of the product and the remaining 80% of the time to make the remaining 20% of the product, is that we perceive most of the accidental complexity to be in that final 20%: technical debt, localization edge cases, bugs, misuses that turn our products into spying tools, etc.

I think that accidental complexity isn't a software paradigm limitation. It's a human thought limitation. It takes time for human organizations to learn how to handle the inevitable yet unanticipated issues and exceptions to the rule, and it takes time to turn them into processes and then to automate them.
Companies could already outsource their development to Estonia or Ukraine (and done do) but there are many hidden costs to this.
These arguments you're making are irrelevant. Even you yourself are using the term "pirate", which implies stealing.

You talk as if "POTENTIAL revenue" is equal to zero, but if you studied economics you would realize that there is such a thing called opportunity cost. It doesn't matter if it's just "potential" revenue, what you are essentially stealing is someone else's opportunity cost.

This is a different story if this person created music and gave it away for free intentionally (because he/she doesn't care, or in an effort to get more audience to monetize in other ways), but if Alice is providing X in exchange for Y, and you take X without giving Alice Y, then it is stealing. Your logic is "I wouldn't have consumed X in the first place if it was not free", and you are right. But at the same time, that does not change the fact that what you did there at the end of the day, no matter how NOT-valuable you see the product, is stealing.

For example, this is like drinking a lemonade from a kid's lemonade stand without paying the $1 price, and saying "You know what, you should be thankful that I even consumed what you created. I would have never drank this worthless beverage for $1, therefore what I just did is not stealing"
I'd say the progression from machine code to Python is a fundamental improvement.

For simple cases, I think a visual/textual code interface is possible, but for any complicated case the visual interface will become inscrutable. Maybe an optimal tradeoff is like how game engines allow scripting languages to live on top. A number of 3D engines use this paradigm with a visual language in place of scripting language.
That needs to be updated then!
You don’t think the 20th century will also be remembered for landing on the moon, the birth of computing and penicillin?
That's a completely separate issue as to whether or a set of statements all mean the same thing. I entirely agree that there was serious unprofessional behavior in venting out to a listserv of direct reports. But that doesn't mean all the criticisms laid out are correct, such as "saying X means Y".
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We live in a diverse society, and HN is just as beautiful as our society in its diversity. However, there are people who absolutely shouldn't walk without consulting with their physician.
Because anti-cheat software is buggy, triggering a kernel crash which makes the whole machine unusable is a real possibility, additionally by running in kernel mode, the software bypasses all the OS protections, this can end up terribly if there's an exploit.
Chart position means little unless you're listening to FM music radio.
I wasn't aware that this article was about proposing to force the use of electrical heat vs. woodstoves. The discussion was about whether we should have natural gas hookups in new homes. Obviously backups are good, as is increased electrical reliability -- but it's not clear that building parallel natural gas and electrical infrastructure is a better use of resources than just using those resources to make the electrical infrastructure more reliable.

PS I grew up in a wood-heated home in Vermont and stacked cords of wood every year. Except for freezing my ass of every morning until the fire was going, I think wood heat is great. Unfortunately it does have some particulate issues in urban areas, and (related) doesn't scale well. But I'm not saying people shouldn't use it where it makes sense.
I've found myself in this sort of situation a lot, including on 2-person teams. While I'm pointing out all the bugs, maintability issues, etc. on their commit, they're busy writing a new commit full of the same types of issues. And on the flip size: because I self-review my code with the same attention, I rarely have any of those same sorts of issues in code that I make others review.

I'm lucky in that my company recognizes and appreciates the quality that provide with my work and encourage from others, but I'm not sure of how to actually address the imbalance. Many times I've thought of just asking engineers to put more effort into self-reviewing their code, but I always feel like it would just be too rude.
Not sure if you’re aware, but many of the links I shared are about the Bay Area as a whole.

> libertarian subcultures

I’m sure there are lots of subcultures. What does this have to do with who is actually governing?
It might have also had something to do with the fact that the subheading of that article was incendiary (literally).
would it though - in a C++ app there'd be way less places where people could send you arbitrary code to run over the network ; and if you use any kind of high-level network library you'd be well pressed to have any kind of buffer overflow, as all the buffer handling is done in already-vetted libs, such as Qt, Boost, cpp-rest-sdk, etc
Blockchain scammers just love to latch onto celebrities with a cause, and feed off of their reputations. It's a pity it's happened to Woz again.

Who remembers how Imogen Heap's blockchain based "Creative Passport" would solve all the music industry's efficiency and fairness problems? Her mi.mu gloves are pretty cool though, but they don't need blockchain.

https://tidal.com/magazine/article/imogen-heap-and-the-block...

Imogen Heap: Mycelia's Creative Passport and reimagining the music industry

Multi award winning artist Imogen Heap shares how she's creating a fairer music industry with Mycelia's Creative Passport and demonstrates how to make music with her wearable tech mi.mu gloves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_lR5ua54XY&ab_channel=Nesta...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen_Heap

>Heap developed the Mi.Mu Gloves, a line of musical gloves, as well as a blockchain-based music-sharing program, Mycelia. She also composed the music for the West End/Broadway play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Over the course of her career, she has received two Grammy Awards, one Ivor Novello Award, and one Drama Desk Award. In July 2019, Heap was awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music.

Imogen Heap's Mycelia: An Artists' Approach for a Fair Trade Music Business, Inspired by Blockchain

https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgehoward/2015/07/17/imogen-...

>“It sounds a bit far fetched maybe right now, but I really believe it’s attainable,” Heap adds. “We just need musicians to put their foot forward and sign up for something that isn’t really there yet. There’s no ecosystem there, there’s no marketplace there. Will you put the flag in the ground showing that you’re here?”

Hmmm...
I disagree. I always use descriptive variable names. I have no idea what ‘t’ is. ‘thing’ is 4 bytes more. Not the end of the world, but much more readable. Same for ‘i’ vs ‘index’.
So did Ghislaine Maxwell...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/style/ghislaine-maxwell-t...

https://www.insider.com/ghislaine-maxwells-mysterious-ocean-...

https://newspunch.com/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwells-com...
20 years ago the building code in MN required them, or some other form of ventilation. (leaving the bathroom fan on constantly would probably meet the letter of the law, but no contractor I know of was willing to try to get past the inspectors). Different states have different codes, so and I am not up to date on what the latest is anywhere anymore.
Nah, you're probably right about those.
> I think the market should be more modular

This is how apple has lost its way.

Apple should be more "modular". (and that would lead to what you want)

What people don't realize about steve jobs was that he was the great integrator. He got different folks to work together.

The mac pro from his era had pcie slots and worked with add-in cards from lots of vendors. You could add 4 hard disks.

Another way of looking at it is to read that silly book "The 7 habits of hightly effective people" from decades ago.

Basically said the arc of maturity is:

- dependent (child)
- independent (teenager)
- interdependent (fully developed)

I think pple, under steve jobs, got to interdependent and was working in the ecosystem.

After Steve Jobs, Apple regressed to independent. Instead of using its market power to foster the ecosystem, it has regressed to teenager level and just does what is good for itself. There are no other hardware manufacturers anymore and now their software developers don't feel like partners and tread carefully.

Thing is apple can probably do well for itself independently but... It's lonely at the top especially if you've turned your back on the rest of the ecosystem.
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The reality is that none of us have any idea what's going on. There's a bunch of employee-said/employer-said going on, with leaks to the press and rants on Twitter, but nobody has the whole picture. Plenty of people are willing to make guesses based on the fragments they have combined with their own biases, though.

Searching in HN under "Gebru" (the employee's last name) pulls up a bunch of past threads.
> If someone says "if you don't fix this thing I will look for work elsewhere" that doesn't mean that you can say "I accept your resignation."

I think you'll find from a legal standpoint, it does.[1] At least I know that they teach in negotiations courses that any time you make a counteroffer, the original offer is legally null and void. So if I give you an employment offer that is good for 30 days, and you counter the following day with a higher salary, then I legally can say "No, and we will not hire you" (i.e. the 30 days clause became invalid once you gave me a counteroffer).

This isn't exactly the same, but we are at least taught to treat it similarly.

Also, she didn't merely say "I will look for work elsewhere". She said something to the effect of "Let's meet to decide my end date." There's a significant difference.

[1] Although being an at-will job, the legality is rather moot.
Maybe instead of "delete social media" they should be encouraged to contribute. Use social media to foster good habits (rather than bad ones).

For example, starting/joining groups based around encouraging members to stick to fitness routines.
I can only assume that https://about.mattermost.com/matrix/ is evidence of a major skunkworks Mattermost project to implement native Matrix interoperability :D
You tell that to the fish.
That strikes me as perfectly readable. t for template, b for bytes, and s for string. What else would you call them?
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SpaceX has been awarded $885.51 million by the Federal Communications Commission to provide Starlink broadband to 642,925 rural homes and businesses in 35 states.

That's $1376.52 in subsidies per customer
As others have said in the thread, the alternatives also suck. I guess I just resigned myself to "suck it up" being the best choice.
You may be reacting to the buzzwords rather than the broad strokes. While they do have many nanny-esque laws in the area, you'll find European cities do better on the aspects mentioned.
..."but the building blocks are there."

And anyone can easily beat Amazon's pricing if they can just run a data center competently too - after all the building blocks are there.

Seriously?
I use a generic xbox 360 wireless receiver for my PC. The device drivers are an unsigned version of microsoft's drivers. Should I really have to buy the identical dongle for double the price, so that developers can dig into the depths of my OS to confirm that I'm not using a clone receiver?

I honestly see both sides of it, but at the end of the day, I am always hesitant to trust software with black-box functionality deep access to my computer. When I see a sudo command

We are already at the point of computers being able to balance a ping pong ball on a flat surface using just cameras. I can't imagine we are far from cheaters using entirely decoupled computers to physically control devices.
Sure, but that's something that's easy to model in your EV and volatility calculations, too, even though forecasting total sales and the distribution of peoples' number choices (non-uniform == better for you) is a bit of a trick.
I've been thinking a lot about why this is, and I think one reason is because TS adds mental overhead to the language, while simultaneously removing other mental overhead.

However, for JS programmers, worrying about types is habitual. Offloading that task to a robot is great, but it doesn't mean the habit will just disappear. Thus to them, TS seems to mainly add overhead.
Unless you are Native American, you or one of your ancestors immigrated to the SFBA. So to say outsiders aren't welcome, when one is or descended from an outsider, is a little bit rich in irony.
Michael "Oh." Church
FuzzOS – an operating system which is designed specifically for fuzzing
I’m not sure what this has to do with my comment.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story, and Wolfram's thorough detective work For those interested, Schönfinkels article (über die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik) is available online [1]. A good writeup about its significance can be found in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [2]

[1] http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~langeh/test/1924%20-%20Schoenfink...

[2]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-combinatory/#SchoEl...
Have you seen the size of frontend codebases? Even modest SPAs reach into the tens of thousands of lines. Or the size of large Express.js driven backends? A huge portion of the web is driven by JS/TS.
Thanks for the mirror (especially since the original was deleted).

For those that don't know the author, Michael O. Church has been banned on multiple platforms around the internet (HN, Wikipedia, Quora, and probably others). He also had an interesting tenure at Google. I believe the cause for the forum bans were about sock-puppet accounts, but he also just tends to annoy people.
To an extent internet is a strong break to healthy activities. It sucks time and motivation.
Luckily for Michael Church the hackernews crowd isn't much for cancelling someone.

By removing the article so quickly he basically self dunked. Good for him.
Ah - was from MOC. That makes a lot more sense (or rather, is more predictable...)
For those who would like an archive, I found one here: [0]. Also, it seems like someone flagged this post: [1], but it was not removed.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20201207190930/https://antipodes...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25335904
It's pretty amazing to me that this is considered a "method". This is the way I have communicated with anyone that I don't have a personal relationship to in my entire life. I'm surprised it would be seen as some kind of "life hack".
Is there actually any evidence to suggest someone who walks, say, an hour daily is less healthy, controlled for diet than any other physical activity?
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Thats really interesting, I didnt realize (or think about) the mechanics of it. I think I'll look into it more, seems like a way better alternative to my pulsating electric range as well.
Why are you counting from 0?

What do you mean by not authoriative in this context? This is just how the Gregorian calendar works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini#No_year_zero:_star...
I doubt this is true.

1. "The French baggage handlers were saying some terrible things about the English." Does Spiers speak French?

2. "In an effort to find out what had happened [to his friend Spiers], McSorley alerted the media." The media? Why the media?
Weirdly, on an older-ish Mac I'm having lots of trouble making 90s games work in Wine—basically, out of a dozen games only ‘Grand Prix Legends’ runs, since it kept being patched by the community for the past twenty years. Judging by the app db, Wine has some special relationship with Linux and Nvidia. Mac and Intel, not so much—I can have desktop software and not much else. Otherwise I'm stuck with PS1 emulation.

I have craving for SWAT 2 and I must satisfy it, even if it means installing Windows 98 on the NAS.
You probably want to check out the ultimate hacker keyboard (UHK) https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/, particularly the Blog section https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/blog and search for "UHK ninja belt" in the post from 2020-03-18.
FWIW I’m having trouble installing Windows on my AMD B450 system where Linux also runs fine. It locks up during the boot process after the first reboot.
Or to push the point further, you literally need 3-6 months minimum on an evolving crud app to assess any of these frameworks - on actual team
of a minimum of three people.
Apple TV might get it; those devices usually processors that are within a few years of their flagships'.
It's also not as trivial as just flipping to "Linux" in a combo box and re-exporting. Getting the game to run well requires work, from writing additional platform dependent code, through fixing issues caused by changing the graphics backend (unless you use OpenGL on Windows, which you probably don't) to a lot of additional QA needed to make sure your Linux build still runs after the latest changes.

I'm a solo game developer (working on [1] right now) and while I get many more requests for a native Linux version than I expected, I'm still reluctant to invest the necessary development time. It's ironic, but the very fact that Proton is so solid makes it even less likely that a Linux build will exist, since I'm fairly certain people will be able to play Slipways under Proton with hardly any issues if they want to.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1264280/Slipways
If you don't believe there is evidence then you aren't doing much research into the hundreds of affidavits etc.
Is there a good tutorial that covers all the various frameworks that are in use? Modern Javascript has become very complicated due to the proliferation of these frameworks more so than the programming language.
The Scorsese doc that came out on PBS in 2005(?) called No Direction Home does a great job of showing the "open source" body of work on which Dylan and the other Greenwich Village musicians in his orbit in the folk scene drew upon.

A Pete Seeger interview in the doc has particularly good commentary on the issue, with Seeger analogizing the playing and remaking of shared songs to how lawyers rewrite old laws and storytellers retell old stories to fit the new generations.
I feel like this is a series of copycat installations whose novelty value will eventually fizzle out. It will however be remembered and referenced in fringe and conspiracy forms for years to come! As evidence... For something!
I don't think it's as innocent as "loves the fame" ... there is a greater theme in our society regarding the influence of public opinion; and how influencers are abusing that in politics/positions of power.

The media of course enables it, which I think is a sign of a growing, large scale, rational fragility across society (demand controls their publication, there is a large demand for this type of information)