skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all at least are dumber than we'd like to be. Nobody would refuse a pill that would make them smarter. Sorry for off-topic, but this has been gnawing at me lately, feels like something is a miss about my cognition, only very subtle, nothing to go for any kind of practitioner. Is there any route actually for giving the good old fat bucket a rattle to make it work back at original capacity? Have you ever tried anything?

I know this is off-topic, if it annoys anyone, I could take it somewhere else, but thought people interested in this article might have experimented or self-reflected.
Most developers don't work in domains where there is any math as per se.

I do however feel a little sorry for the some /r/programmerhumor post-ers, who are obviously students who think that everyone just copies stackoverflow - I understand what my code does, I look at the assembly etc. etc. I wrote my first interpreter at 14/15 though so I may not be the best example, but you get the idea.
How much energy is used to deliver and listen to radio?
Did you try the Docker-based approach after trying Python's virtualenv? Or did you go directly to Docker?
> You can play any Windows game, not just selectively supported ones

This is a big selling point for Shadow vs the other platforms. I was considering doing something similar with an AWS image but if this is custom tailored to “just work” I’ll definitely give it a go.
Re-read what I said. I'm specifically talking about the ass-heavy FWD crossovers and minivans that dominate the roads today (though I suppose there's a few FWD sedans out there with similiar handling). They all have a very respectable sway bar up front for good "car-like" handling and they all have a lot of weight out back. This results in a class of vehicles that mostly cannot go sideways even if you try (and believe me, I have tried). Someone with one of those cars comes in with four nearly bald tires and wants two good ones put on and you put them on the rear then you have improved their handling by exactly zero because the fuse in the system is still the front traction. Adding more rear traction doesn't help because handling/performance is determined by the weakest link in the chain and that's still the front which is unchanged . If you put the tires up front then sure, there's a 2% chance of going sideways rather than a 1% chance but you've also improved the handling greatly by addressing the weakest link which is end that was lacking in traction. The vehicle will corner and stop much better because the threshold for loss of traction is much higher.
If you claim that you have meaningful pattern in the data, but someone replicates your pattern with meaningless data then it's perfectly valid to argue that your pattern doesn't come from the data but rather from how you chose to process the data.
Docker is the NoSQL of 2020.
Security 101 for SaaS Startups
>As such they should not be allowed by law from having discriminatory rules based on any protected class or idea.

Pretty sneaky, but there are no "protected ideas" equivalent to the legal definition of a protected class, apart from ideas being protected against discrimination by the government in the First Amendment, so Twitter moderating content is not equivalent to racial or other protected class discrimination.

Twitter is held to the same standard as other private businesses in that regard. Hotels and restaurants are also allowed to refuse service to you and even eject you from the premises if they don't like your behavior.
No, I read that the doses reported by the government are the full two doses, so if there are 100 million doses, then the government has 200 million shots.
Yeah that’s a great use case! Out of curiosity: what kind of screencasts/demos did you have in mind (e.g. web app development)? I just ask, since I’d love to think through if there are opportunities to improve the experience.

Also, just as an FYI: even though the core of CodeSwing is local, you can also store your swings in GitHub repos or Gists, via an integration with another VS Code extension that I maintain called GistPad (https://aka.ms/gistpad). That way, if you want to create samples or share swings with others, you can simply use GitHub + VS Code to do it.
Sorry, I'm an idiot.
from the linked article

> Traditionally, each of the regular classes (A-C) divided the networking and host portions of the address differently to accommodate different sized networks. Class A addresses used the remainder of the first octet to represent the network and the rest of the address to define hosts. This was good for defining a few networks with a lot of hosts each.
Wow that’s crazy.
I've recently spent a few hours in NixOS land. I even built my own ISO and booted into it from an SD card. If you want a 30 minute intro to getting started then just ping me. I'm en route to something like what you want and I'm not far ahead of you.
>Another comment mentions MCAS, but maybe that's too easily classified as a management failure.

You can also chalk it up as a non software engineering failure because the sensor hardware is what failed first.

It's not very clear cut.
Not quite - https://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/a-brief-history-of-s...

Windows version didn't come until 1992, the Atari and Mac versions were released before that (Mac before Atari, however, the precursor by the same company was developed for Atari first).
Why so, though?
And MacOS does? Is this some Apple Silicon humble brag? Cuz that's "Apple doesn't allow developers and enthusiasts to do their thing on their own computer that they purchased" not "Linux doesn't run on my machine".
Point 2 also had me scratching my head. The supposed evidence for it (that graph) is statistical mystery meat.

If the two metrics (confidence and ability) were independent in a simulation, you'd expect to see a more-or-less flat line on confidence if you sorted by ability. So the model clearly insists on some sort of association between them, no? If the association is weak, you get a cross-over. Big deal.

Also, the graphs don't really look all that similar - especially when you consider the fact that the line on which the associated variable have been sorted by quantile is always going to be ascending (duh).

Tufte says "to clarify, add data" - one thing that neither the chart from the original study nor the simulated one respects. Surely we'd learn more from also being able to eyeball a scatterplot.
> On a Mac, there is a major performance hit whenever you do disk IO in a bind mount (i.e. voluming a directory of the host system into the container). Working without bind mounts is extremely limiting. [..] If you’re using Docker on a Mac and you’ve never tried it on Linux, you owe it to yourself to try it on Linux.

Or use named volumes. I'm running a dockerized WordPress dev environment on my MacBook with average TTFB's of 40 ms.
there are different forms of awd. Some "awd" is mechanical with even 50:50 or a 40:60 distribution of power like the quattro system that have a center differential. These systems still work great with large differences in traction: if you put snow tires on the front and regular tires on the rear, you can bust some sweet drifts and drive right out no problem. I wouldn't try bad tires on the front though. Other systems use electronic sensors and have a front bias giving 80+% to front wheels while giving rear varying amounts when the front loses traction. It reacts much slower and there is probably a bit of over/under correction from the control system if the tires don't have even traction. I could see this leading to a quickly cycling clutch that would over heat your system.
Typically you only get one or two phone screen interviews at Google, so the bar should be much lower. The purpose of the phone screen is to see whether it's worth the time for onsite (now virtual onsite) interviews.

This may vary by hiring committee, but on mine we don't look at feedback from the phone screen interviews at all.
> I do not know much about subject but I confidently claimed 100% effect, therefore confirming what I said :)

Well, that's not a Dunning-Kruger Effect either, but maybe a confirmation bias mixed with survivorship bias.
Hey, Ohiovr. Interesting idea. Thanks for sharing.

My understanding has always been plasma propulsion uses high energy to generate sustained low thrust without reaction mass, making it most suitable where there is high energy availability (portable fusion reactor, etc.) and a long slow acceleration is fine, that is, deep space.

With the atmospheric conductors, you are basically talking about artificial lightning, correct? Potentially a lot of energy, to be sure! The big questions must be how to harness it and for what uses it is best suited. Is there not speculation on this (sci fi or academic)? I seem to remember reading about this as being a “problem” to be solved as part of a space elevator design.
> But there are businesses that are much, much more dependent on Facebook (or Instagram, Youtube, etc). And if your business is built entirely around piggybacking one platform, it can go belly up overnight.

This is the real takeaway. Don't build sharecropper businesses that are dependent on someone else's platform. Facebook, YouTube, Apple, etc don't care about making your business viable. Don't depend on them.
> Outdoor cats average 2-5.

On the other anecdata, my parents have only had outdoor cats and every single one has made it past 5 - several past 10, one past 20. Of the 10 I can think of just now, only 1 died of "unnatural" causes (car).
Message to pinterest: Please stop ruining google image search. Please. Just stop
Learn to use the Internet (1995) [video]
Mostly interested in how much RAM it uses - Launchy using < 9MB for me indexing all my applications + some of my docs. I feel like anything built on Electron is going to be 1GB at least?!
> No, attaching yourself to popular interests as a marketing strategy isn't sacrificing gains for ethics. Nor is it “ethics” even if some instances of it use “ethical” or a synonym in the branding.

From a pragmatic point of view, I'd argue that as long as certain ethical standards are (in fact) upheld, the distinction doesn't matter, but I concede that this is a view that not everyone would share.

> Ethics is doing right because it's right. Making an outward show of ethics where it is advantageous to make a sale (Eve if what you are selling is advice to others on where to put their money) is not ethics, it is commercial exploitation of others ethics.

Yes, but why are you assuming that no business exists that can do (at least some) things because they are right?

If such a business exists, than it's hard to see how Darwinian capitalism would lead to its destruction and replacement, given the aforementioned popular interest.

In theory, if some individuals do things because they are right, and some of those individuals are business owners, than transitively, some businesses that do things because they are right should exist.

In practice, there are plenty of non-profit foundations motivated by doing things because they are right, and which operate for-profit businesses in direct or indirect support of their motives. Management is appointed by ownership and tasked to execute the business as ownership intends, which at least occasionally means that sometimes, things are being done because they are right.

As a practical example, it's hard to imagine a (hypothetical) mosquito net manufacturing business owned by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation operating in violation of the foundation's ethical position.
Where on Earth did that come from?
Was Wave part of gapps though? Or did it predate all of that? Maybe it might have had a chance if you could have collaborated within an organization rather than only as individuals.

Edit to answer my own question, looks like the original G Suite was in August 2006, but at the time it was just GMail, Calendar, and Sites. Docs was added in early 2007. Wave was a thing under Google from 2009-2012, but was never part of G Suite.
For end user devices, I much prefer Nix/NixOS [1] for this kind of thing.

With Flakes [2] (experimental feature), you get full reproducibility.

The documentation is spotty and there is a considerable learning curve, but I've switched to NixOS on my laptop and desktop early this year and am mostly very happy with it.

That doesn't cover sandboxing though. I would actually agree that sandboxing / restricting applications (Mac OS style) would be sorely needed on Linux desktop.

Flatpak and Snap are trying to do this. A much saner approach than trying to find or maintain up to date, trustworthy Docker files for applications.

[1] https://nixos.org/

[2] https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes
Same goes for IT projects, junior developers usually have a significant confidence when facing new problem (task estimation). Their confidence sometimes comes from limited ability to see all the path that may go wrong, on the other hand senior developers although have considerable experience, sometime overthink solution because of the past experiences, and often they leave extra space for so called "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns".
I tried browsing Reddit in incognito on my phone earlier and it wouldn't let me without installing their app, thankfully old.reddit.com exists. From clicking on a search result to viewing an image post took ~8 clicks. The flow went something like: Click on result -> ending on an AMP page and clicking a bottom sheet to view the post in my browser -> clicking on the title to view the actual post -> ending up on the actual post and being told I need to view it in the app??? -> changing the URL to old.reddit.com which is tedious with a phone keyboard -> finally load the page and click on the image
Apple definitely allows it, but as far as I know Linux doesn’t support it yet. (turn off SIP, couple other things related to the boot process I think)
Yeah, I actually think there's a ton of merit to this. Fundamentally, the natural progression of technology for any alien species is probably going to be the capability to backup/restore/copy/enhance their consciousness. Biology is delicate, but a purpose-built computer can be designed to survive under very austere conditions, and offers so many incentives! Under the premise that such technology allows for faster and more robust iteration, it would quickly come to dominate the species within which it originates. At that point though, I think there's a lot of incentive toward looking inward rather than outward as an entity--be it from internal competition to become the dominant intelligent entity within your species, or because you've secured a large store of energy and low entropy to harvest. At some point, your iterations are so fast that, IMO, expanding beyond a certain size is likely to introduce a significant fracturing of that society/entity. Why spend the energy on having to compete with your future self?
Pffffffffff *amn it ...
I can not be right about being wrong in a proper way ...
Behavior can be learned - when I was born I could not talk, now I’m a SWE

Edit: had I been born 100 years ago I would have had a different line of work
The link to the Youtube video in the previous to last paragraph is not working for me even after removing the extra space after ?v=

Does anyone know what the mentioned infamous example is about?
You might find this study interesting:

"Researchers identify a new personality construct that describes the tendency to see oneself as a victim"

https://www.psypost.org/2020/12/researchers-identify-a-new-p...
Screen zombies: Average person will spend 44 years looking at digital devices
For those of you who are interested and want to try, look for 1846 or 18Chesapeake.
OP's point stands. You assigning them with "humblebrag" intentions is on you. It's not unreasonable to think that many people have M1s now, and it will certainly increase over time.
There was a similar ML bug on Instagram last year.

I had a 5-letter username that hackers would constantly try to take. They somewhat succeeded this summer by having my account deactivated. There is no real recourse on my end since Instagram/Facebook doesn't have customer support.

My real fear is that someone will try to impersonate me in the future.
I definitely frequently used this in code I had written and ran. It is very nice to not have to worry about both stacks and IPv6 is the future anyways. It’s nice to make this configurable for your daemons but I think the default should be true. And also this allows you to not have two separate bind address config lines and all the confusion that comes with that.
Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25526517
Enthusiasm is common, endurance is rare
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
I've used multiple that run the build in a sandbox without secrets. One of them didn't even mount in the .git directory, it just propagated some commit info via environment variables. I also like to split the publishing of artifacts from the deployment process to make sure it's repeatable. This also ensures that the CI pipeline doesn't have direct access to production.
The primary reason behind the move was not wanting to manage CI. Since there were no options for a managed Concourse in 2018, we migrated to Circle, one of the Changelog sponsors at the time.

Concourse worked well for us, we didn't have any issues that were being enough to remember. You may be interested in this screenshot that captured the changelog.com pipeline from 2017: https://pipeline.gerhard.io/images/small-oss.png

I missed the simple Concourse pipeline view at first, but CircleCI improved by leaps and bounds in 2020, and the new Circle pipeline view equivalent is even better (compared to Concourse, clicking on jobs always works): https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/thechangelog/chang...

The Circle feature which I didn't expect to like as much as I do today, is the dashboard view (list of all pipeline/workflow runs). This is something that Concourse is still missing: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/thechangelog

My favourite Circle 2020 feature is the Insights: https://app.circleci.com/insights/github/thechangelog/change.... Yup, we were one of the first ones to ask for it in 2019.

In 2021, I expect us to spend one migration credit on GitHub Actions, as a Circle replacement. Argo comes as a second close, but that requires an innovation credit which is more precious to us. Because we are already using GitHub Actions for some automation, it would make sense to consolidate, and also leverage the GitHub Container Registry, as a migration from Docker Hub. Watch https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com to see what happens : )
I am not sure how good of a comparison this is, but relying on one client or one platform in business feels like going all-in in poker. But in these kinds of relationships, you are definitely not the shark.
This is why I still miss Google Reader and haven't been able to find a new RSS reader.

Being able to subscribe to individual journalists and blogs is a great why to build a feed of SMEs and build your own news site.
A Lone Star Speech Victory
I have a half-dozen GL.iNet products. The low CPU power means they become the bottleneck on 1gbps connections, like the ones I usually use.

I imagine it won't be an issue as much once traveling is possible again.
My personal computer doubles as my workstation. I manage my Python virtual environments with virtualenvwrapper, and I install all the other stuff -mostly OpenGL and gamedev related tools- with apt or from source.

Many developers would consider this Ubuntu 20.04 install that I run on a 9 year old computer to be an accident waiting to happen. But I'm finding this Ubuntu release to be extremely stable even at 3000+ packages.
I run most of my apps in containers on my developer workstation as well. Once containers became popular and I noticed that a few of my apps were available as container images on DockerHub, it just made sense from a resource and security point of view. This is the first post I've seen advocating it, but I think it is sage advice for anyone.
Not even Apple silicon. Linux is not compatible with MBPs since the touchbar models. More because of "Apple doesn't care you want this" (wifi firmware is known-broken) rather than disallowing.
That's why I included assets in the proposition, and not just the money. He would still have the ability to earn about twice as much as others given he also will be given the same amount of assets as the rest of the people.

edit: Which kinda makes it a bad comparison to UBI I guess. Maybe what we need is more than just money for UBI, but also a distribution of assets.
I believe other apps like Microsoft office 365 word, Airtable, Quip, Smartsheet etc. - are very similar in frontend architecture to Google Sheets. So, I was looking if there's a common engine or approach to handle UI
Twitter is for all intensive purposes a walled garden run by a dictator. There is no accountability because it’s a private (albeit public) company.
There wasn't an actual explanation as to WHY it wouldn't be real. They show the original plot, then another plot generated with random data that looks like a dampened version of the original effect.

Then there are like 10 paragraphs on either side of these two pictures, which don't do a lot to support these critical plots. I am left unsatisfied!

> "The above Dunning-Kruger graph was created by Patrick McKnight using computer-generated results for both self-assessment and performance. The numbers were random. There was no bias in the coding that would lead these fictitious students to guess they had done really well when their actual score was very low. And yet we can see that the two lines look eerily similar to those of Dunning and Kruger’s seminal experiment. A similar simulation was done by Dr. Phillip Ackerman and colleagues three years after the original Dunning-Kruger paper, and the results were similar."

OK, so you removed the brain, and made some models that produce somewhat similar results. What if your models just modeled the brain? How does this refute the original?
Not a boomer but still saddened every time I remember +Fravia is dead. I remember checking his site every day for most of 1995 and 1996.
Reach out to me if you want to learn Nix
I'm always happy to help people climb the steep learning curve
Love my projector. If anyone's on the fence, please know that you don't need a projector screen, your plain wall will be fine. Blackout curtains aren't needed either. And if you have an old nonfunctional fireplace in your home the cable routing is 80% sorted already.
Uniformity is an entirely different issue. All browsers can zoom in, regardless of the CSS, but how they implement it is different.

Safari on mobile devices uses a visual zoom which is like scaling up an image, while desktop browsers usually scale up CSS units and reflow the layout with the bigger dimensions.
>[...] both experts and novices underestimate and overestimate their skills with the same frequency.

Looking at these graphs there is maybe some curious conclusion to be made about the symmetry with imposter syndrome.

If we believe to have 'average' (2nd/3d quartile) knowledge about a subject, there are three possibilities:

1. We are correct in this assumption.

2. We are victims of Dunning-Kruger and know less than we believe we do.

3. We are victims of imposter syndrome and know more than we believe we do.
Pinterest is definitely an expert level content farm. For Google Image Search in particular, you're right that it does create a bit of a broken end user experience that feels a bit misleading.

It's surprising that Google hasn't cracked down on this yet or dealt with the obvious dupes problem (showing image result from Pinterest that came from website a vs showing result from website a).