skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the company is as abusive to people on the outside as it is on the inside? I guess that shouldn't be surprising.
This is like saying that an iPhone is a Nokia N95 with a gimmicky name. I mean, if you stand back 6 feet and ignore all the differences, sure.
Even if you never plan to touch F#, I found it a really insightful approach for modeling domain problems - and capturing the rules of the system you are trying to model in your code and data types.

Really well done, and such a easy read as well.

It's not that it's revolutionary, but it one of those things that once you read it both seems obvious and also makes you wonder why we do things any other way.
One of my favorites from Jack Handey, although this quote is more of a paraphrase. The original reads:

“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”
When the topic of Kurzweil's predictions for 2019 came up 2 years ago (!), I gave him a ~20% hit rate [1]. However, at the time, I didn't realize that he was writing a sequence of 10-year predictions, so I didn't look at the corresponding predictions for 2009 or 2029.

When you instead grade his foresight on the basis of how he predicts the development of technology over time, it's clear that a lot of what would seem to be partial hits if assessed alone should actually be graded as hard fails. Discussion about the ubiquity of computers and their use in non-traditional roles for computers is a firm example here.

> “Many of the life processes encoded in the human genome, which was deciphered more than ten years earlier, are now largely understood, along with the information-processing mechanisms underlying aging and degenerative conditions such as cancer and heart disease.”

This is an example of where the author is going way too easy on Ray (he called it "partly right"). One of the biggest futurist misses of the 21st century is the role of genomics. While genomic sequencing has become incredibly routine, that hasn't actually resulted in the revolution in medicine that it was thought to have by, well, everybody. A key case in point is COVID-19 and some of the mutations: we understand very well details about some of its evolution, and we can pinpoint those mutations to individual genetic letters, but we still struggle to actually develop any predictive effects on its behavior (e.g., is this new strain more infective? more deadly? more resistant against vaccines?--we can't answer those questions without seeing what happens in real infections).

Contrast with organic chemistry. Decades ago, figuring out how to synthesize something ugly like vitamin B12 was insanely difficult, even Nobel Prize-worthy. But nowadays, it's the sort of task you might give to a junior chemical engineer in the first week to onboard them (although maybe not for something as difficult as vitamin B12). The thought was that genomics would lead biology to a similar sort of plane of existence--that we could treat genes as a ready menu for achieving various biological goals, and treating disease (at least those with genetic components) would be handled with a similarly combination of picking and choosing from this well-understood menu. That's what Ray was predicting here (more specifically, that the genetic influence on aging, cancer, and heart disease has succumbed to this process), and we really haven't made any progress on that front.
QubesOS has a "TrustedPDF converter" [0] that sanitizes a PDF to the extreme level for ultimate security - it converts the entire PDF to RGB pixmaps in an isolated virtual machine. The author has a blog post at [1]. Obviously you lose the ability to use the menu, search, copy or paste, but it's as 0day-proof as you can get for a horrifying file format.

[0] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter

[1] https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2013/02/21/converting-untru...
I had gotten used to that site showing what is not entering the public domain, thanks to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. (What a horrible thing to have your name on.) It's good to have something to celebrate again. It looks like Winnie-the-Pooh will be on the list next year.
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Is it really such a hassle to get a gorilla pod, or some similar thing, and wind/clip/fasten it to whatever is there?

https://joby.com/us-en/gorillapod-flexible-camera-tripods/

I got mine from Rollei about a decade ago for about 12 to 15EUR IIRC, to have something small and light for my backpack when underway, instead of something professional.
Still works. And I neither stream, or take pictures often.
Just something to be have with me if the need arises.
Regardless of legality if you get found out you'll probably get walked out of the building by security (even if you're just using it as eg a substitute for taking notes among people with mutual trust.) I've heard stories about people who tried this and it's unlikely to end well.
Weird that my comment was downvoted, I assumed this was public knowledge.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/nsa-snooping/senate-vote-m...

EFF supported this initiative. It wasn’t “reform” at all; courts had already ruled mass telecom surveillance illegal under “general warrant” provisions of the constitution. The programs were being shut down. The FREEDOM act “fixed” this and reauthorized the program by requiring FISA warrants to target specific “persons”—but here’s the catch: “person” was defined as per the FISA Act, where “Verizon” and “AT&T” are “persons”. So this wasn’t reform, the net effect was the same, but now the government just needed a warrant for each telecom company rather than having authorization to just spy on all of them at once. Read the bill... I absolutely couldn’t believe anyone was calling this “reform”.

As for EFF’s support of this horrible bill, link is here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/usa-freedom-act-passes...
I don't have direct knowledge of how the SpaceX flight control software works, but it's almost certainly classical. A descending rocket is essentially an inverted pendulum [1] with two-axis control via gimbals in the engines, which is a pretty well-studied and solved problem in robotics (just search for "inverted pendulum robot"). Hover-slam timing is probably empirically derived and then computed based on velocity, position, and mass (again classically). High-accuracy rocket positioning systems date back to the cold war (or maybe earlier) and are definitely not ML, either. As for why it wasn't done before, the answer is mostly lack of incentive/competition. There really wasn't any reason for the launch companies to make reusable rockets when the government and commercial customers were willing to pay for non-reusable and no one else in the market showed any interest at all in developing their own.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pendulum
The first link "The Octopus: An Alien Among Us" is a good window into the world of animal intelligence research. I am going through a phase of listening to audiobooks on this topic. I can recommend both "Other Minds" by Peter Godfrey-Smith and "The Genius of Birds" by Jennifer Ackerman if you want good audiobooks that give a whirlwind tour through animal intelligence research into cephalopods and birds, respectively.
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> These are areas where I have no choice but to trust the media, because none of these entities are open enough for me to personally look at them and fact check what is happening.

Your trust mechanism seems to be fail-open. A very dangerous default config.
if the only thing that mattered is some system being down not making some suit money, and mgmt has no respect for the work, it doesn’t matter. i work to feed myself not because it matters.
Really nice page design. Pictures load instantly with preloading, keyboard shortcuts (forward/back/esc). (Story is great too.)
Oh yes, sorry for that.
Are you aware of https://www.ergotron.com/en-us/products/mounts and the other offers they have? Obsess about that :-)
The next release (alpha build will drop in a week or two) will include keyword, album, and person tag imports from Google Takeouts, Lightroom, Picasa, and digiKam. See: https://photostructure.com/about/2020-release-notes/#vnext

Local face recognition, if it doesn't make it into this release, will be in the following release: most of the detection, aggregation, and backend storage is already implemented in my feature branch.

Please vote for features you want on the new forum! https://forum.photostructure.com/c/feature-requests/7/l/late...
Doesn't that vaguely translate to "public execution"?
I feel USA is more liberal in that perspective. I would agree with the system if the options you mention were also available in our country (NL) but they aren’t. You can’t even move to homeschooling when you’ve only enlisted one of your children to a public school. As soon as you e done that there’s no way back. Not even for future children or when you come to the conclusion that your child doesn’t flourish after a year of kindergarten. (Here a chool is when they are 4 years old and up)
Does anyone know if there are any rights around Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and the like?
It’s funny, I look at this and think “redux”.
I just lost the respect I once had for Apple.
You're still going to have to download a binary from Microsoft. This is the nature of self hosting compilers. It would be nice if there were an alternative implementation (say, a gcc or llvm front end) that you could bootstrap it from but that's not how it is right now.

This creeped me out just enough that I haven't played with it. Microsoft has changed a lot but downloading Linux binaries from them is still just a bit too much.
I disagree, such an approach completely desensitizes the human aspect of work and treats the people working as commodities that are expendable.
Engineering is hard, teams might need to go through multiple iterations/generations to get the desired results. A better investment would be to develop the right engineering culture rather than Team A vs Team B duking it out.
> They're very easy to bust if you're willing to put aside your personal shame.

I don’t understand what you mean. How do you ‘bust’ them?
He also lives in the famously-exclusionary Marin County coastal enclave of Bolinas that has prevented literally all growth since 1971 by refusing to issue any new water meters ever again. I wonder what was going on in the late-‘60s/early-‘70s that might have made people not want any new neighbors?
Copyright is an issue because we have seen recently that large language models could reproduce training data verbatim.

But the other issue is bias - there are some AI ethics people who object to using raw, unfiltered text for its biases. For example the reddit dataset is considered no-go. I have no idea what to replace raw text with, or even if we could get unbiased text of this size, and what kind of bias detection rules to apply, because AI ethics is still a nascent field but recently it has gotten dead serious.
That’s a sort of idealized version of what most people will think the media is supposed to do at least. But it’s not even close to what they actually do in practice. When it comes to powerful institutions or people, nearly all media outlets are terrible at taking sides. They have one side they will slander ruthlessly on every issue, and another they will fawn over and cover up for. Furthermore, any mission they have to scrutinize will often end up taking a backseat to generating advertising revenue.
I've seen companies that use a fair amount of the PDF specification before. One of the most impressive was 3D models and scripted UI elements baked into the document. It kind of made the document look like JSCAD, with an actual 3D model you could manipulate.
That is awesome. I've never understood how much criticism the creator of TempleOS got.
What stood out to me was that it was always mainly criticism on his technical ability. Is it really productive to harshly technically criticise a man that is plagued by mental illness?

Instead of being elitist and shooting down his contributions, the computer science crowd could have focused on getting this member of the community the help he would have needed concerning other parts of life.

Having all of that said, I aknowledge that he said pretty extreme stuff as well, I am not saying that any of that is legitimate.

I think I tried out TempleOS once, it really reminded me of old teletext in how colorful it was. Now I would love to look at its source code though!

HolyC does seem like a cool way of learning C because of the real time results, like coding in Python interactively.
I don't have a Twitter, unfortunately. However, I did create an issue on the GitHub project: https://github.com/x74353/SaveAmphetamine/issues/4. I noticed someone filed https://github.com/x74353/SaveAmphetamine/issues/8 which got a response with an email in it, so I'll follow up there.
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I am not saying it is false. I am just saying that the tax rate makes giving equity very unattractive, which doesn't help employee motivation.
Apple had its own tragedy, but the details are unknown.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-death-idUSKCN0XP383
Probably. But given the time one spends staring at screens, even pre-covid that should be of no concern. I meanwhile solved that by getting a used drawing table for architects off auction. Electrically adjustable, even! And not looking shabby. This is a hugh part of my life, why should it be constrained by scroogery?
Amazing that the last update was apparently 8 years ago. My workflow works better w ctags, but when ctags lack, cscope can usually fill the gap.
> I wouldn’t write off a review just because the product was loaned.

Neither would I. I _would_ be skeptical of the motivations, be they vanity or otherwise, of a review that _does not disclose_ it as a loaner.
I don't think it takes a whole lot to end up with this sort of thing. I distinctly remember having flashbacks/panic attacks for a week or two after someone kissed me for the first time. (for those of you wanting advice for how to deal with people with less experience, take it slow and simple!)
Research has shown you focus more writing than typing. Imagine if you could program by rough drafting how your function works on paper. Like with arrows and all sorts of messy things connecting the structure of your code, but entirely understandable to another human what your function was to do without needing to understand a lick of code.

Take this example(1) from the R subreddit about how to do matrix math, and the arcane R foo required to actually do something that is pretty simply explained in OPs image(2) to anyone with zero background in R or programming at all. Now, imagine how much more productive the world would be if the computer could take an instruction in a readable form like the OPs image, rather than the R jargon code actually needed by the computer to do the math described in the image. People would be learning to write their own functions right along side learning how to do math on paper. Instead, people today pay six figures and spend four years to learn how to turn the math they learned by hand in high school into something that can be ran on a computer, same as it was 30 years ago.

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/rprogramming/comments/kn2rgb/how_do...

2. https://i.redd.it/ngxi8665zb861.jpg
It sounds like you listed a lot of ways to improve yourself! ;)
I just knew that Chrome PDF engine was from Foxit.
anyone has more detail about this?
1. Search google there are plenty of comp attorneys out there.

2. They would easily be able to find a lawyer.

3. He literally said on his website he went to the industrial clinic at Apple! He even lost time from work! Due to his work injury!

4. It doesn’t matter who the employer is.they will comply with a subpoena.

5. He doesn’t need to know work comp law. That’s what the lawyer is for.

The bottom line is he has a work related injury. Even undocumented immigrants can get comp benefits.

The stigma and visa are the only real issues here. As to stigma and them asking why he left Apple: it was toxic. Maybe some employers won’t like that or it may cause immigration troubles but that is something an immigration lawyer can advise on. Maybe there is a disability exception, maybe not.

The fact is Apple will never change their behavior through hr. These employers only understand one thing: liability. That is how they change. If nobody files a claim nothing will change.
And India. My last Apple manager was always on late night meetings with India because ~80% of the Apple Online Store's work was outsourced to India. Another manager at his level had like 200-300 direct reports located in India. I actually counted the number at the time because it was so many people.
They're literally censoring JWZ's XScreensaver for iOS because they're worried about the political thoughts people might have watching one of the hacks.

The iOS App Store has got to go.
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Or maybe you were just wrong and your ego can't handle it?

I'm glad it doesn't have a block button. Its for cowards who can't defend their points. I would grill you just as hard if you were sitting across the table from me at dinner and said this kind of nonsense.

Lived experience and an anecdote are the same. Its a single data point and more often than not, single data points are almost never indicative of what's actually occurring.

And as far as what the word "interrogable" means... 1) you're arrogant to assume I don't realize its the adjective form of interrogate and 2) I knew you meant, "Something that can be questioned." Lived experience CAN be questioned. Just because we live in a world full of people who think they have the right to never feel uncomfortable doesn't mean otherwise.
I see your point, but, I disagree with you because your comparison example has a much larger difference in the relation between the two subjects. Learning the concepts behind operating system design isn't crucial or needed for something like web development.

However, concurrency is something that's used and fundamental when programming in C++, and learning it should not side-stepped with libraries. Yes, you are correct to state that it's basically all relative and based on opinion and therefore we could go around in circle all day comparing everything. But I think that my point is a fair one when you have two things as closely related as concurrency and C++.
There are plenty of people who aren't very bright or capable and yet have very "free" (in the financial sense) lives and live comfortably.

Of course there are plenty of people, both bright and dull, who could live comfortably and yet stay mired in debt and distress.
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Pasted all the “text” from JPG with Notepad to a new file but it no longer opens
Yes. Here you can find all the associated documents but I'm talking about Regulation EU 2016/799 and Electronic Logging Device Final Rule specifically.

https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/road/social-provisions/...

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/hours-service/elds/electronic-logg...
Analysis report for the new UK B117 coronavirus strain
Why 2020 felt like a time warp, according to science
Also not to be confused with Peter Norvig of Google.
It doesn’t sound like she was being taken advantage of, they obviously wanted her to leave. She was staying (and killing herself) out of fear deportation which sucks. My question is if California is at-will employment why didn’t they fire her when things weren’t working out? Is it because she went to HR?
Standard Ebooks (courtesy of @acabal) has Gatsby up and available: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-gre...

For my part, I added two newly available non-Conan Robert E. Howard stories to our shorts compilation: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-e-howard/short-fict...
...would've given everyone a really nice view of my closet, which isn't something I want to do.

Ever heard of virtual green screening?

DUDE! Diz iz HÄCKERNYUZ! And you are fussing about such basics?
So you took something written in a regular grammar and made it into the same thing except with a very complex context free grammar with support for recursion?

I hate to be a grumpy puss but using this sounds like a step backwards.
A restaurant burger is a different beast than a fast food burger. Restaurants usually go for big thick patties, softer breads, and may go with more soupier sauces. A fast food burger is very thin, on a more serious bun and usually has less moisture on it overall. Even the actual burger meat itself can be different, with fast food being a fattier cheaper cut and restaurant burgers being a fancier ground beef.
"Ho. Mobile" (by Vodafone IT) data breach (2.5M records)
I've come to the opinion that "graphical" vs "non-graphical" is a red herring. I don't think it actually matters much when it comes to mainstream adoption. Is Excel graphical? I mean, partly, and partly not, but it's the closest we've gotten to a "programming language for the masses". Next up would probably be Visual Basic, which isn't graphical at all. Bash is arguably in the vicinity too, and again, not graphical.

Here's my theory (train of thought here); the key traits of a successful mainstream programming solution are:

1) A simple conceptual model. Syntax errors are a barrier but a small one, and one that fades with just a little bit of practice. You can also overlay a graphical environment on a text-based language fairly easily. The real barrier, IMO, is concepts. Even today's "more accessible" languages require you to learn not only variables and statements and procedures, but functions with arguments and return values, call stacks, objects and classes and arrays (oh my!). And that's just to get in the door. To be productive you then have to learn APIs, and tooling, and frameworks, and patterns, etc. Excel has variables and functions (sort of), but that's all you really need to get going. Bash builds on the basic concepts of files, and text piping from one thing to another.

2) Ease of interfacing with things people care about: making GUIs, making HTTP requests, working with files, etc. Regular people's programs aren't about domain modeling or doing complex computations. They're mostly about hooking up IO between different things, sending commands to a person's digital life. Bash and Visual Basic were fantastic at this. It's trickier today because most of what people care about exists in the form of services that have (or lack) web APIs, but it's not insurmountable.

I think iOS Shortcuts is actually an extremely compelling low-key exploration of this space. They're off to a slow start for a number of reasons, but I think they're on exactly the right track.
Why can’t ordinary people use Jupyter? Or put another way, what’s missing from Jupyter that would get ordinary people to use it?
That doesn't mean a student doesn't miss something when they're away from school. Self-paced just changes the timing. The dynamic is not comparable to a work environment where someone else might be able to do the work for you. No one can learn for your child when they are away, and that fact doesn't change with less rigidly structured Montessori schools.
In fact, ketogenic diets have been shown to slow tumor growth in a number of cancers. See https://www.mdanderson.org/cancerwise/the-keto-diet-and-canc....
Wow. I would gladly buy a whole book of bird stories, or really stories about anything, from this person.
This looks dead. Is there a cache?