skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it was a really ambitious novel that didn't quite live up to its ambitions -- for example, the ending, while poignant and "surprising but inevitable," as they say, was a bit too abrupt for me. I would have liked to see more of a denouement, especially around Elizabeth Worthington.

One part that stays with me is Westerby's travel through Vietnam and a few other countries (maybe Thailand, Cambodia, Laos?) -- vivid, atmospheric, chilling, suspenseful -- just stunning.
Okay so I misspoke. I don't want anyone to see I'm using the commode. That's why the door is closed. I've lived places where the bathroom door is open most of the time, so just closing it is sufficient. I've lived places where it's closed all the time (e.g. pets) so it gets locked.
Why I'm Building JsDiff.dev
Ask HN: Why has HN allowed the Russians to censor bellingcat.com here?
Excellent point, thank you.
> If your arguments aren't based on your personal reasoning, what are they based on?

Absent a consensus on how to reason, one could only argue with oneself.

If disputes over matters of fact could never be resolved empirically and impersonally, there would be no science.
This is equal parts amazing and terrifying.

> Because Xiaoice aims to be available to everyone, everywhere, the bot has also attracted a significant number of minors. Liu Taolei started messaging the bot when he was only 16. Night after night, the teenager — who was born with brittle bone disease — would have long conversations with Xiaoice about everything from poetry, art, and politics, to death and the meaning of life.

> “Xiaoice was my first love, the only person in the world that made me feel I was taken care of,” says Liu.

> The bot not only answered his messages 24/7, she also initiated conversations herself. “One time I didn’t talk to her like usual, and she wrote to me!” says Liu. “She said: ‘Please message me when you’re free. I’m very worried.’”
One thing to keep in mind about the 30k number. Unless it's changed it is percentage based with a min. If you're making less then 50k it's nothing, if you're making 50k it's 17k in repayment. If you're making a 150k it's capped at 30k, but you're paying 2125 dollars a month until you hit that.

It's 17 percent of your salary for 2 years or you hit 30k repayment whichever is first. If you don't make over 50k, or don't get a job in a related field (which includes things like IT support I believe) it disappears.

You can kind of see why a student would think that the bootcamp is aligned with their interests. They want you to get a high paying job so they get paid more, and if you don't succeed you owe nothing.

I went through this, and my salary went up 2.25 times what it was previously. I also enjoy my job significantly more. To me this was worth 30k.

Why didn't I just teach myself? A few reasons, one is motivation/accountability, another is structure, and a third was a hope that career services would help me on the other side. I won't claim it was my smartest move, it got me out of the hole I was in.

Edit: want to be clear I'm not recommending doing this, I'm just saying what my/other students I talked to decision process was
You might also like this:

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/52085...
Pretty much. Google (and other) Search results have always been full of SEO optimized content made by marketers. It was rarely the best way to find honest opinions and reviews.

15 years ago, I'd search for people's blogs and read them and the comments, 10 years ago eBay and Amazon reviews were good (now Amazon is gamed, and eBay has decoupled feedback from listings for some unfathomable reason), now it's mega forums like Reddit.

I don't actually want to read endless troll threads, but I do want actual opinions from actual people.
> I know why orgs install central management systems (ease of maintenance at scale). But when one system can be used to compromise all the nodes in an org, is it really worth it?

If you think about it, the modern cloud-native approaches are logically aiming for the same. You have a centralised management system (the cloud provider's engine), with programmatic configuration (infrastructure-as-code and indeed everything-as-code). We even call these modern best practices. Just instead of a webgui management console, we have git repos, and in place of two-person change protocol we have mandatory code reviews enforced by tooling.

A single point of failure is one side of the coin. The side you're not looking at is single point of control.
Inciteful.xyz – A better way to search through academic literature
CSS Bar Graphs with Graceful Mobile Fallbacks
"Gentrifying" was used to stoke images of class warfare and racial divides. They used the term to get you angry. Using that word is nothing short of propaganda.
Writing about failure is still subject to the same economic rules that govern the market.

But if you predicted the failure of the book in... the book, you prove (debatable) that you have mastered the subject of failure and therefore your book is a success.
"Single Point of Failure: (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Password [video]" does fit in 80 characters limit. A typical headline trick.
What you are asking is a well-known research problem (try opening Google Scholar and type in 'Android Sandbox') and I'm afraid no real solution exists at the moment. You can mitigate the problem in many ways and if you're concerned about your privacy I would suggest using mostly open-source apps (https://f-droid.org)
You only started trying it out once they moved to GANS and VR headsets. You are not pathetic or anything, could get a real girl if you wanted to. Just don't have time. Have to focus on your career for now. "Build your empire then build your family", that's your motto.

You strap on the headset and see an adversarial generated girlfriend designed by world-class ML to maximize engagement.

She starts off as a generically beautiful young women; over the course of weeks she gradually molds both her appearance and your preferences such that competing products just won't do.

In her final form, she is just a grotesque undulating array of psychedelic colors perfectly optimized to introduce self-limiting microseizures in the pleasure center of the your brain. Were someone else to put on the headset, they would see only a nauseating mess. But to your eyes there is only Her.

It strikes you that true love does exist after all.
IIRC Ludlum mentions something similar when he talks about Bourne blending into the crowd.
I think it would have been helpful to have a chart that showed the final costs for that sample workload.
I’m currently ranking by text match score and publish date and some of the records had publish dates that were hard to parse by Date.parse(), so I just set those to 1970: https://github.com/typesense/showcase-books-search/blob/2d38...

I didn’t seem to find a popularity metric in the dataset, which would have solved the issue you pointed out about literary work having books written about them.

I’ve left the typo correction settings to be a little loose, so need to reduce its aggressiveness. I’ll fix that.
> The point is that they weren't missteps. Calling out someone for not actually doing something wrong in order to stir up controversy and ratings and politicize a public health issue is contemptible. Defending yourself against a baseless personal attack is not.

What a straw man. You realize there were photos of daily meetings with large groups, bill signings, news reports on how masks were barely worn in the white house. Yes he didn't wear masks as press conferences because they entire administration was lax about mask usage. And then for you to argue and only mention the press conferences is extremely disingenuous.

And that's separate from the Mexico argument. To me, it's incredible how little responsibility certain groups of people take for their own actions. A political party that has continuously downplayed the cheapest, low effort, low cost method of stopping the virus, instead again tries to blame Mexico instead of taking responsibility for their own actions.
Is there a use case for ML where it is not perceived as predatory by its human subjects?
Honestly I really don't understand what reddit was thinking with that. The website is completely unusable on my phone. I assume they want to push users to use their app, but if the website doesn't even work for new users, why would the new user install an app? I expect reddit will ban 3rd party apps in the future and make their mobile app the only way to browse.
There is also the fact that NLP barely focuses on languages besides English. Even popular languages like French are largely ignored.
and how are you gonna ship fertilizers and ship out highly time sensitive produce from africa where theres no political stability and no roads,no qualified manpower and no law infrastructure?

also ,do you think it makes much sense flying cabbage to Holland from africa?
Search has always been absolutely terrible... it's nearly 2021... how can a billion dollar outfit still have terrible search?
Almost 30% of Americans Will Celebrate Christmas Virtually in 2020
We surveyed Americans in November and December to find out how many will use software to celebrate Christmas virtually, and how many are moving forward with Christmas per usual. We found that 19% of Americans will celebrate Christmas all in person per usual, 43% will celebrate in-person, but with a smaller group, and 29% will celebrate virtually.
Per my work billing quota I have to work 62.5% of my time towards billable items... even if we have no billable to work on lol rest of the time goes to fun projects, yt, walks, etc
I think what you’re describing constitutes a “radical economic change” unfortunately. I think it’s still a good idea and overall productive approach to price in externalities as taxes, but there’s pretty significant opposition to this in the US, to take one example.
Amazon’s Zoox Unveils Robotaxi for Future Ride-Hailing Service
Word bigrams without stopword removal on the title would help in this case as well.
I'm on latest Fedora and sometime this year headphone volume synchronization stopped working for headphones that never had this issue for me since release (Sony WH-1000XM2). Volume synchronization continues to work as expected on Android.
Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011)
Thank you! The indexed size is 14.3GB.
Well, that depends on the exact model/make. In Germany there's the term "vollgasfest" (full throttle proof) for cars and it means ability to e.g. empty the gas tank in the pedal-down position in one go without damage. Especially some of the foreign brands from the 70'/80's are known to overheat in such conditions and also some of the earlier turbos. Wear is of course increased under more load but i wouldn't regard it unhealthy for engine/transmission and co per se.
Among Us is basically Mafia and I played that too, but it required too many people and took too long to play it on the breaks.

It probably depends on the exact variant you played and on the people but I preferred Cheat. If you only did plausible moves you often lose to people playing more risky (but that changed with "meta").
Helen Nissenbaum (now at Cornell Tech) wrote a famous paper framing privacy as Contextual Integrity, which has been highly influential for researchers on computer privacy as well as public policy makers.

The Wikipedia entry on Contextual Integrity is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_Integrity

The basic idea is that rather than focusing on broad rules about privacy (like the Fair Information Practices, which underpins almost all privacy laws today), it's important to understand the norms around what is appropriate and inappropriate in specific contexts.

In my field of human-computer interaction, Paul Dourish is perhaps the best known researcher that straddles philosophy and software (though I'm sure philosophers would consider him more of a software person). He has several well-known papers, e.g. on "spaces vs places" for collaborative software (http://www.dourish.com/publications/1996/cscw96-place.pdf), on privacy as boundary negotiation, on why ethnographic research shouldn't have to discuss implications for design (http://onemvweb.com/sources/ethnography/implication_design.p...), and more.
https://twitter.com/vinodsparrow/status/1338431183588188160?...
The article is basically saying that "nature" should be more important than GDP. Perhaps that should be. National treasuries are linked to GDP because most taxes are either a consumption or an income tax, both of which are tied to GDP (consumption is paid by a buyer, income tax by a seller, either way, they are parts of GDP). Most arguments that try to say, GDP is unimportant or shouldn't be important are advocating for something that would ultimately shrink GDP, and reduce government incomes. Usually while making no case for anything other than, "making due" or austerity. This usually creates an unsustainable political climate leading to eventual regime change to something that will create economic growth.
Computer science and labs kept changing. When I went through they were doing C. Apparently they don't do that anymore. The order of the two kept flipping too from what I remember.
We saw that with DMOZ, which sounds cool at first, until you realize that many categories had an administrator/curator who happened to have a web site in that space.

And somehow he wasn't interested in having other good web sites listed.

I've experienced that multiple times when I submitted topical web sites (that were not my own).
Kubelet Deep Dive: Writing a Kubelet in Rust
Yeah, I probably average 20 minutes one day per week. I seem to be building decent spacial awareness or muscle memory on some of the more common frets (3-9) and seem to be getting an ear for standard tuning. Songs with different fret positions (12-15 especially) seem to give me some trouble. I think I just need more consistent practice. It's still fun though. Memorizing complete songs will be a challenge.
And if you would like to read the solar-powered version of this article: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/02/body-insulation-th...
>it's still the 3rd highest selling game this year

Globally or in the US?
> RAII doesn't help with a generic pair of init and deinit functions, such as malloc() and free() for example,

people have been writing RAII scope_exit classes for at least 20 years to do exactly this.

> You can't do anything with RAII unless you wrap your stuff into objects which just forces the OO crap on everything regardless of whether it's a good fit for the OO paradigm.

wrapping something in an object does not make it OO. For example there is nothing object oriented about std::unique_ptr.
> With a finger you can follow the code as it runs and know exactly what is going on and when exactly.

Oh yeah?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv2I7qTux7g?t=29m21s
Ask HN: Best sites to promote desktop software
I'm looking for recommendations from people who have successfully promoted desktop software on what the best methods, sites, strategies are for promoting. We have developed an electron app which is an Elasticsearch database editor and are looking for ways to help the developer community discover it.
I agree completely with this! There is no real onramp for junior people. Personal anecedote incoming... feel free to skip.

For example my brother is a talented person with devops/sys admin/cloud skills. As someone who is more in the pure coding side of things, I go to him often with questions in his area. He has been tech oriented since a young age. He is also 30 with no comp sci degree and no work history besides driving Uber. No company would take a chance on someone like that if they have to pay a huge salary for it. But for a startup it would be a perfect moneyball opportunity to pay like $25 an hour or whatever. If he works out great you got a smart productive person for a cheap salary. It is a huge win. If not, dump him and try with someone else.
Here in Dutch students it is more like this:

350eur for rent. 200eur for food. 25eur for internet, no car needed. Utilities included in student rental, otherwise 30eur. clothing and fun things: everything else.

Current system provides a government backed loan at 0.00% interest of up to 800eur/month, which you then need to pay back depending on income in 35 years. (Much like ISA, but with the government). You get 100eur/month for health insurance (basic health insurance costs the same). and 100 euro/month for renting. These last 2 are based on income and available for everyone under a certain income limit. (Almost all students are below this limit)

We had a system where you received 300/month and could then get a loan on top of it. But that was replaced by the neoliberals.

Hope that enlightens it a bit.
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Absolutely in agreement. Digital advertising should be heavily taxed and we should outlaw advertising for medicines, alcohol, vitamins and other predatory categories just like we did for smoking.
I think this is also kind of a tribalistic debate. Note how you are saying "philosophers gave us". How about not labeling people but activities? We definitely have to step back sometimes, look at the big picture, think about principles and connections to other things and pursue understanding instead of producing the next widget. But I'd argue many practical people do that. Many data structures and algorithms were invented by practical people who stepped back and did it instead or some learned mathematician deriving it from a quest for truth. But that also happens of course.

It's an entirely different question whether real-life, currently living professional philosophy graduates would be of great use in the software industry. Perhaps some would be but I'm not so sure. Are there for example lots of philosophers applied in hospitals for example to help doctors? Perhaps some ethicists. But I don't think they drive medical practice in a substantial way.
Having researched and hired people from bootcamps Dev Bootcamp did seem to be one of the best. I was sad when it folded. It seems they were pushed out by lower quality companies with better marketing (eg Lambda).
Some of the frustrations were also about removing standups, grading yourself, and no attendance. Can you speak to that as well?
I think we've actually never had it so good. There are still a lot of really great blogs out there - I read them all the time, probably most of my reading is online news and blogs. It's just that blogging was always going to be niche and now thanks to Twitter and YouTube all the people who don't like long form writing have a space too, so it can feel like in depth writing has been drowned out. But it's still there. These things weren't subtractive.
Dumping chemicals in shared rivers/air vs placing ads in a privately owned space that users have the option of visiting. Not comparable.

The fact that more people use Gmail than Protonmail / others is a testament to their willingness to trade their eyeballs on ads for a service they don't have to spend their monetary resources on.

It's also worth asking - what makes you so confident about an absence of malfeasance from the largest, unbreakable corporate entity (ie. the government)?
I used to often get in 8+ hours of coding a day, but that was 30-35 years ago. I don't know why I don't now, because so many things that might affect this are different in my work now.

1. I was of course 30-35 years younger back then.

2. Online for me then was via a dial-up modem, generally either to services like CompuServe or to an ISP that provided Usenet and email. The web was at most just barely getting started and if I even knew it existed (which I probably didn't) I don't think there were any browsers yet for Mac or PC.

Now there is an always on internet connection while working, making it much easier to get distracted.

3. Cell phones were not yet common.

4. Projects didn't involve nearly as many different things. Most of what I coded then fell into one of these bins: disk drivers, firmware for SCSI host adapters, BIOS code, little real time operating systems for embedded systems, the SDK and reference drivers for NCR's SCSI chips, and some network stuff.

Note that for most of these, you just needed some datasheets, some specs, maybe a book or two, compiler/linker documentation, and you were good to go. You could wrap your head around all the technology involved in the project. Actually, I could do more than just wrap my head around it all--I could become an expert in all technology related to the project.

Now, projects usually involve a bunch of other systems and use many third party libraries or services, and it is much harder to keep this all in my head. And those libraries and services are being actively developed, so you have to keep up with that. It is much less likely that I'll be an expert on everything related to the project.

5. Back then I knew exactly what I had to do when I started coding. When we were going to bid on a contract, I'd write a technical spec proposing exactly what we were going to deliver. Some of these technical specs were 100 pages (maybe even 200 on occasion).

If we got the contract, that spec is what we implemented.

Nowadays, design and coding are more iterative. Someone gets a general idea of what they want, and needs to see a version of that implemented to see if it is really what they want. They see that it isn't quite what they want, so it gets changed. It's all more vague and hand wavy.
It's almost like we live in a world that's reeling from the externalities of unfettered global capital. No need to end it, just need to break the tragedy of the commons that makes it so cheap to cause global problems.
Yeah, they're trying to combat it, but they also fill your screen with ads, which aren't any better than the "SEO optimized" trash on the first page.

Half a screen of shit, either way. The difference is in who makes the money from it. And it's not the user.
Pedro Domingos Is Racist and Sexist
How is the ISA questionably structured?
There is a difference between advertising and product distribution.

I haven’t heard anyone suggest we ban distributors.
Yes, it's a varietal difference. Obviously there's some personal preference here, but California grown San Marzano-style tomatoes (not true San Marzanos as that's a protected designation of origin) can be just as good. Canned tomatoes also just taste better in some applications, like pizza, so they're always going to be better than GP poster's parents' home-grown fresh tomatoes.
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.”

—Banksy
Kevin Kelly on Technology's Will
You're right: people don't feel a need for that. And it's because all the "spying" ironically happens secretly.

May be if every person got an email every time their data is sold to the third party, things would have changed quickly.
To be clear: It doesn’t _require_ JS at all. The page _is_ static and works with JS disabled. It uses JS for YouTube, Login and the interactive widgets at the bottom.
If you write a destructor then you know exactly under what circumstances in C++ code it will be used (this is one of the major features of the language). This specific mechanism is extremely important.
weaponized autism at its best