skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because the vast majority of people don't care about anything you've listed
I got the impression that the video is more about getting real with your expectations. If you want energy, renewables are way to go, instead of hoping for energy from fusion that is still, and will remain for a long time, more of a scientific experiment than commercial undertaking.
Is honesty the biggest factor in having competent officers, or is it courage/tactical understanding/craftiness/resistance to stress etc.? (Honestly asking)

The notion of honesty and moral character seems at odds with empire building
I used the racism quote above because that is the foundation of how completely broken the political system in the US is. Where every progressive policy can be short circuited -- reviled by the very people it would benefit the most -- through some simple racist gyrations.

Universal healthcare -- illegal immigrants!

Robust social safety nets -- the classic "black welfare mother with a Cadillac" canard that comes up every time, where trillions in corporate welfare get a pass by angering people about some hypothetical minority "taking advantage"

Universal income -- black mothers with lots of babies taking advantage

It's incredible, but the modern GOP plays it like a fiddle. It is extraordinary, and the public is willingly complicit.
It’s bad because it will only increase from here. Let me know if you want to volunteer to be on a microplastic heavy diet so we can be sure it’s not bad.
> Credit card Payment processing amounts to a 3% tax on a majority of transactions

Only in America. Most other countries have this under control.

> In general, crypto technology is valuable for it's ability to replace capricious monopolies with distributed implementations built on federated protocols run like a constitutional democracy.

No, in general crypto technology is valuable because it can avoid laws created by constitutional democracies. Its a back door for money launderers and illegal payments.

> We can of course expect established monopolies and governments to retaliate in every way possible in an attempt to maintain power.

Exactly we voted for this government to enforce some rules, if cryptos are a way to avoid the rules, it will be made illegal.
You have no idea of the size or complexity of the Office codebase. It's enormous and external developers have taken hard dependencies on every aspect of it, even undocumented behavior. Therr aren't enough Rust experts in the world, much less at Microsoft, to review code changes at that rate.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031224-00/?p=41... - there are probably just as many companies relying on old Office docs as old Windows programs at this point

Rewrites are always a bad idea. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Mirrorless cameras cost a couple thousand dollars

No, they don't: https://www.adorama.com/ifjxt200sk.html

And that's a new, relatively expensive model.
2020: A Year Full of AI Papers
Plastics have been in common use for well over a century. So where are the people made ill from microplastics, and what are they suffering from?

You want particles in the human body? I can find you particles. The question of disease significance requires much more than finding particles. Telling mothers they have given birth to god damn cyborg babies because you found particles of plastic in the placenta is either hopelessly naive, or ruthlessly exploitative of people’s fundamental fears on the basis of no evidence.
With an emoji for everything known to humankind one would think there were barcode characters in unicode but, nope.

Could be useful, probably not too hard to include but they have other priorities apparently...
Agreed. The more niche/focussed the hobby, the happier the subreddit atmosphere. I love /r/bikecommuting too, and also /r/ergomechkeyboards, /r/formula1, /r/financialindependence etc.
I use my Fuji x-t3 with a viltrox 23mm f1.4 regularly as a webcam at work. During the first week in all the meetings there was always someone asking about how did I get that 'cinematic' look.
Kubernetes is a multi-physical-machine operating system. In a typical OS you have CPU, RAM, etc. and the kernel decides how much of each to allocate to each running task. Kubernetes works the same way, but across multiple computers by default- and it can additionally manage any other arbitrary resource through the use of CustomResourceDefinitions (IPs, higher level concepts like “Minecraft Servers”, etc.)
I don't doubt that you have the feeling that "SPAs are slow", but what if you're just not noticing the good/fast SPAs because they're not slow?
Before Afghanistan there was Bosnia and Herzegovina, and since there is have been some missions in Iraq, and the Gulf of Aden and a full scale intervention in Libya.

Your not doing your cause any favor by pointing to another military alliance to proof a point. Too the contrary what you say about the Warsaw Pact is my point exactly. Military alliances are dangerous and need to be condemned by the UN.
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Surely your point could be made better without the hyperbole?

"Most outrageous and absurd language ever," "Megabytes of javascript", "corporate-grade bandwidth", "8th-gen i7 and 8GB of memory" to open "3 images and a contact form."

I'm sure you can find one or two poorly-optimized sites that have 2MB of javascript to download, but it's by no means the necessary outcome of using "ridiculous libraries and frameworks," and not even a particularly common one.
I just want to make this political science point absolutely clear without ambiguity: when an illegitimate (non-democratic/non-consenting) regime engages in "anti-corruption" they are doing nothing more than purging disloyalty to the whim and power of the Leader. Nothing more, nothing less. Period.
As with most things, I'm concerned about collateral damage, when it comes to this.

I'm concerned about personal Plex servers, Let's Players, movie reviewers, etc. I tend to look for broad language or excessive minimal punishments that can go after people that don't deserve to be harmed by this.
That's one place where my "What is Life?" college class landed.
Probably https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court.
It isn't a fallacy, and there is plenty of good discussion that can be had by questioning our proposed response to climate change, or COVID vaccinations.

The mistake is calling the extremist view points "the other side". People who think the government is using vaccinations to control the population using microchips are not the other side and should not get a serious platform. People who demand evidence that a vaccine developed in a rush during a pandemic is safe probably should.
This is a crowd funded deluxe webcam from earlier this year: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/obsbot-tiny-ai-powered-pt...
I have this book written by a sociologist in 2019 that has been living over thirty years in Japan. The title is (translated) "Chronicle of an ordinary Japan".

With this book you understand better how NYT could fall for the "weird Japan" thing, because she reports that a company offers indeed weird services, like hiring people for marriages (as guests, not staff).

Maybe she independently fell for the same scam (unlike the rest of the book, this particular anecdote has no source, it might be just a short-lived company), but the rest of the book is actually quite depressing.

And more to the point, it seems to me that the combination of an unfavorable economic context and certain conservative ways of thinking is what is driving Japan into aging (at least faster than the other rich countries).

How can you distinguish a superficial difference from a significant difference?
While that may indeed be the intent, an aggressive prosecutor could make a strong argument that individual streamers dancing or singing unlicensed karaoke are providing a digital service (the word "platform" never appears in the text) that "is intentionally marketed by or at the direction of that person to promote its use in publicly performing works." Which would now be a freaking felony.
Yes, getting things done is very important because the tendency around MIT is to get lost in all of the interesting intellectual distractions.

But her experience with space suits seems to be pretty different from the computers and artistry that dominated the Media Lab in the past. There has been lots of robotics but not much material science.

Of course she's in the right social circles. She knows how to navigate MIT politics. But so did Ito-- until he was fragged.

I just don't see much in her past that overlaps with what made the Media Lab interesting. So maybe she'll adapt. Or maybe she'll just turn it into some kind of combination of fashion and materials place.
> Trevor is a joke, security-wise.

Any links you can share?
The UN is more akin to a discussion table. You can get whichever two or more nations in the world you want to denounce NATO and “ban” it, but three out of five permanent UNSC seat holders are NATO members and the only three nations in the world with a blue-water Navy worth a damn.

A UN with teeth wouldn’t be a very good discussion table.
I know, I used Native Oberon back in the day. :)

Yes, those ideas are similar to ToonTalk (on Sun), CORBA, COM/DCOM/OLE, DBus,... just done in a more easier and approachable way.

I also happened to be the only PC dude among a circle of Amiga owning friends, so I know it relativity well.

Amiga had lots of good stuff, including a similar feature, and the ability to script whole applications via ARexx.

I advise a reading of https://datagubbe.se/ltmag/
GRDB is perhaps the best solution available with a very good API. Simple to start using and all the power of SQL easily accessible if needed.
Currency roughly speaking doesn't move across borders, correspondent banks in each country have a ledger, you send money by decrementing the ledger on the send side and incrementing it on the receiver side. Someone else does the opposite. The exchange rate is set such that the ledger balance tends around 0.

No new currency needed.
Same here. What's worse: my manager desperately wants people in the team to take on more responsibility and step forward. Yet everyone has a history of facing negative feedback when doing so. That ain't gonna happen.

Reason I emphasize agency is that as long as it gives the best result and meets the requirements (including ethical ones), I don't care how it is done. Result being very broad: features, maintainability of the code, enjoyment of the team, etc.. Anything else that is pushed from the management layers without good reason is needless overhead.

Now what do software devs usually do when we see needless overhead? Ah right, we remove it. If only it were that simple outside software.
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> The Senate is a gross and antidemocratic institution

In my state the senators are democratically elected, is that not the case in yours? Or is your statement lamenting the fact that the country gives representation to states as distinct entities?
This app works to be privacy respecting, by not collecting any personal data (I guess it associates with the phone it is installed on somehow). It also, like other user installed apps, can be uninstalled by the user.

I still see people fretting about how it is doomed to be misused. What threats do people see given the above?
If you want a (better) cooking analogy - if a container is a 'station' or a line cook in a professional kitchen, then Kubernetes is 'running the line', managing the kitchen, making sure everyone has the tools and ingredients they need.
Would you not count the Yugoslav wars in 1991 - 2001 as major wars? NATO was heavily involved.
> it's a work that does no useful work in any meaningful sense, but serves to make some already fabulously rich people even richer

Isn't Robinhood able to offer free trading to customers solely because they sell their order flow on to, among others, HFT firms?[0]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/how-robinhood-makes-money-on...
A beginner's guide on how to use Python to make predictions using regression analysis.
Check out some wonderful Playdate game demos, including a low-fi Doom
There is software that lets you use your DSLR or mirrorless digital camera as a webcam (though I haven’t been able to get it to work with certain video conferencing programs):

Cascable Pro Webcam (works with many brands) https://cascable.se/pro-webcam/

Canon EOS Webcam Utility https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/se...

Nikon Webcam Utility https://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/webcam-utility...
> Most ripple believers thought that central currency was basically antithetical, although one based on unskilled labor hours might be acceptable as fallback.

This stuff always sounded like it came from people who've never hired. Unskilled labor is not all equal.

> Satoshi’s concept was to use hashcash to both secure the ledger and issue currency. This was brilliant but antithetical to the no-currency concept, and re-ignited the debate

Satoshi's most important advancement was in making a currency and using it as its own rate-limiter by paying, in it, to publish.

Bitcoin's weakness is that computation isn't priced in BTC, so scripts had to be nerfed. Vitalik applied Satoshi's rate-limiting solution to computation and Ethereum scripts can now be allowed to grow arbitrarily complex.
I think I'll sit down and try to read as much of these 5,000 pages as I can over this "shutdown" week. Who knows what else is in it?
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Just found this on Facebook
It glitches, together with the keyboard. It’s like events start piling up as the UI loop locks up (for up to 1 sec.) then suddenly they rush through and the pointer wanders around and keystrokes fall through at a constant rate. Other times they’re barely lagging enough to feel it.

Awful, but I remember similar issues on Dell and an HP. It’s an issue with the device driver or some “value add” driver control software. :(
You are 100% right, documentation can't fix it. Having been involved in onboarding acquisitions into a larger parent company, it's been eye-opening to see how much of this is driven by culture.

The parent company's culture may be patient, contemplative, considerate, and proactive. They know it takes a long time to get things done and that everyone is busy. They open tickets, do research, seek advice from multiple groups. They double-check that they did something correctly, having learned that entering something incorrectly leads to it taking longer to get done. They check your slack status, and follow up after a few days if they don't get a reply e-mail.

But sometimes an acquisition's culture is quite different. A lot of 'drop everything right now, I need you to do something for me'. Using '@here' a lot and directly pinging people for non-urgent things. Or leaving a comment in a ticket like 'the backend team needs to fix this' but not going to the actual team to tell them they need to fix it and how. If they don't get a reply to an e-mail, they might wait forever.

None of this is due to good or bad people. The acquisition culture can be changed over time to the parent company's culture. But there needs to be a concerted effort to teach and exemplify the culture, though cooperation, trust, and leading by example.

Rather than a 'user guide', you can have informal discussions with groups and agree on some common communication strategies. You can discuss how different forms of communication affect you and build empathy within your team. And if the team ends up wanting varying ways of communication, then you can write user guides and publish them somewhere. The agile approach is more about building culture collaboratively and informally, and documenting what comes out of that as a de-facto standard.
How to launch a tech career in 2020
What is DOP?
That’s quarterly earnings type thinking, if you do the projections on a 50 year basis they almost certainly come out as a net gain, at least for Norwegian money. As they have lots of money looking for returns on investment overseas already.
As for the design constraint that webcams have to be small to fit into the lids, I find the lid to be one of those places where I get the worst angle (both for lighting, and just in general), which is under your chin. I have to sit back a foot or two to make it look right.

Instead, what if there was a detachable part that was in the base that contained the webcam? Then you could hang it on the top lid (like normal place) or maybe set it on a table or higher up at any angle. I guess the next issue becomes powering it and getting the data there, but maybe just have a USB cable and solve both of them. I guess this would end up to be more like a go pro in the end though.

I have had some pretty good webcams in the past (the 1080p logitechs were pretty good), but they were about $100 then. But I think there won't be something that good in a laptop because the cost will just never be worth it. I wouldn't pay for it, I'd rather spend that money on a camera that won't turn useless in a few years.
I liked it though because you could track the progress on the ticket instead of pinging people periodically to see what the status is. Once I got used to it, I found it was a much simpler way to get things done across teams.
amazing. This used to be called /cgi-bin/ with templates and XMLHttpRequest (a Microsoft invention initially supported only in IE then adopted by everyone) and now it's suddenly a new technology/approach but with a new name so you're not ridiculed for using it?

I gotta give them credit for revisiting server-side page assembling though; moving application logic and templating mostly to the front end was a HUGE mistake. JS is very fast now, but it's still absolutely glacial in its speed compared to server-side code written in compiled languages.
These breakthroughs will make 2021 better than 2020
The backend here _is_ your frontend. Nothing stopping you from adding another service layer behind it.
This is often the case. It's absolutely not always the case. Undemocratic political systems don't even always have power concentrated in one person, and empirically here officials compromised by the US were caught up as taking bribes and removed from the system. Empirically too, the process was also used to drive up public support.

The data was also shared with other countries as it helped them uncover foreign CIA spies, which shows that the program certainly had a counterintelligence purpose.

Such total conclusions are very rarely true. Here, they aren't.
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a lot of employers will set arbitrary GPA cutoffs (3.0 or even 3.5 sometimes) for straight-out-of-college positions. so if you let your GPA fall too far in pursuit of challenging/interesting courses, you are unfortunately shooting yourself in the foot.

as long as you maintain a reasonable GPA, I think you will find that the joke will eventually be on your less scrupulous classmates. the "relevant coursework" section of a resume can make or break an application for an intern/entry-level role if the applicant is light on work experience. people that do hiring are not stupid. they understand that every CS major is required to take data structures, OS, etc. if you took a risk with a challenging elective that happens to be relevant to the business, your resume will stand out.
As someone who grew up lower-middle income and had nothing given to me to start, I disagree entirely and quite frankly believe your attitude to be poison to those who might otherwise be able to improve their station.

My father passed away when I was 12 and my mother did little-to-nothing to teach me after, and while I've been blessed with problem-solving skills and a good foundation of ethics from my father, none of that would matter without hard work, including self-reflection and learning on what I need to improve.

I think it's safe to say I had a rough start, and it's hard for me to see my peers get handed things by their well-off parents, but jealousy didn't allow me to buy a house or move up in my career. Sure, I'm no founder, nor am I by any means wealthy, but I am grateful for what I have, given I had nothing before.

For those who find themselves in a similar situation, I highly recommend the book "The Richest Man in Babylon"; for me, the most important lessons were 1) humility, 2) save money for yourself and make it earn you money, and 3) seek to improve your earning potential. I know it's easy to be upset others are given what you need to earn, but frustration won't help you retire or achieve your goals.
I have this exact setup except I just bought the Samson Q2U microphone ($100ish with stand) which has USB output (in addition to XLR). I doubt I'd be able to tell the difference.
Yes, poor Joi Ito even felt the need to write some silly thesis to earn a doctorate just so he could fit in.

But I don't see it as a positive. It just means more inbreeding. The goal for the Media Lab was to bring a different kind of person into MIT. Perhaps that was a mistake. Perhaps the flashy demos were rather superficial. But if this just going to turn into an outpost of her old department and some folks from material science, I don't see that as adding anything to MIT.
Glad I'm not the only one seeing that parallel. I'd be hesitant to use this for that reason, but maybe that's bias on my part? Just seems like you'd get stuck in a similar mess of "special" updatepanels aka hotwire frames that are trying to "save you from having to write javascript". Except it still uses javascript under the covers, so you still have whatever issues that may entail, only now it's more removed from the developer to be able to solve.
I wondered why half of the graphs were entirely empty before I realized that I had zoomed into them by mistake.
Does this not ultimately just boil down to:

The original author has a set of trusted sources and the other party has a set of trusted sources and there is no overlap of trust?

Since the original author dismisses sources being from academics, experts, officials, or the media I would be curious to know what sources they do trust?
I agree, when you take a few words completely out of their original context then the statement makes no sense.
If by surprisingly little, you mean 4 pages and 500mb of requirements for a "hello world" project with the "modern" web, then yes. The DOM has always been a mess, much like javascript. And the fact that no one has tried to do something about it contributes to the mountains of duckt tape. It was bad enough when angular showed up, but when all the other mumbo jumbo showed up like react, vue, webpack and whatnot is when it all went south. I refuse to offend compilers and call this "compiling", but the fact that npm takes the same amount of time to "compile" it's gibberish as rustc to compile a large project(with the painfully slow compilation that comes with rust by design), is a clear indication that something is utterly wrong.
Am I the only one that thinks career is NOT the main thing in my life? I work just enough to not make it impact my life (freelance). Sometimes I work 5 hours a day, others 2, others 8. If it reaches the point where I feel stressed I downgrade immediately or take a day off. I chose programming specifically so I can do this (pays and is flexible enough).

Career is there just as something (i) I can keep busy with, (ii) sort of like, and (iii) gives me some income. The rest of the day is what really matters to me and I try to concentrate on that. Hobbies, family, friends etc. That's what really matters to me.

To think of it differently imagine if you didn't have to work to make a living; what would you do? I try to ask myself that question and do those things even if sometimes I have to tradeoff.

Your deep passions and skills might not be aligned with what society wants and is willing to pay for.
In many one-off applications there's no real need to create a separate API, tight coupling lets you focus on an MVP without having to focus on abstracting out an intermediate model -- you could go from the SQL database right to HTML rendering.