skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how you arrive at that interpretation of "people who feel fascism is the only thing that can help them". Maybe it is about people who don't want to be called fascists, for example.

But interesting to know that the empathy training is only for diverse and identity people. OK, not really surprising, but glad you admit it.
I wonder if this is not part of a ramp up of subtle marketing toward ETH. The google trends is already growing up https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=e...
The Optimus Maximus keyboard showed why OLED was a bad choice for the keyboard. Chyrosran22 did a review of a used one that had severe burn in on all the keys.

It would be interesting if someone could make a screen key cap that was compatible with Cherry MX or Alps switches. The problem is with communication and power delivery, though. Could NFC power a tiny E-Ink display?

https://youtu.be/qj7GYU-wedo
Whenever reddit deletes a bunch of subs, HN contains lively free speech debate about how horrible it is they closed the Trump one.

I have yet to see free speech advocates to complain about the left/feminist/communist/whatever one. (I am usually fine with all of them being closed.)
The post above is explicitly not advocating attempting to cut costs to $0, but to consider survival time when evaluating expenses. The extreme example is just useful for projecting an intuition of the relationship between spending and survival.

Same as how "You can generate revenue to infinity, but you can only cut costs to zero." shows the edge cases to build the intuition.
"We can do better" is a dodge. It avoids "I can do better" with a kind of royal "we" that implies other people should do the work. The obvious response to "I can do better" is "okay, go ahead". "We can do better" tries to tell me that I should be working on this guy's problem. That I should buy his line about how important "decentralization" is.

There's a place for software criticism. But the best comes in the form of just writing better software, or improving what we've already got. Calling somebody else's project a "shiny turd", on the other hand, isn't even really criticism. It's name calling.
"[...] he made around $400/month when he started as a tester in 2015. In 2018, as a junior programmer, he said he was making ~$700/month"

Take this in context. $400 for a starting tester (aka zero qualifications) is standard for eastern europe. As a career, it's on par with call center operator.

2-3 years later, he switched to "junior developer" in the same company. I'm reading this to mean there was a conversation with the management that went like this: "You seem like a smart guy and you did a couple of javascript online classes. We'll switch you to dev and teach you how to program properly - oh, and you get 10% raise along with it. When you can do useful work we can renegotiate".

One may teach himself useful programming in a couple of years while working full time as a tester - it's definitely possible. But the baseline probability is that at that stage he wasn't yet productive, and still required what's basically paid training for 3 to 6 months.
Curious - what startups are looking at the kind of time horizon for getting their customer acquisition cost back? That seems like an idea that investors would not want to pour their money into unless it’s an incredibly sticky market... in which case, why would they switch to you and not a competitor shortly after you paid for their business...?
On the other hand, Richard O'Keefe claims in _The Craft of Prolog_, that "elegance is not optional":

"""
Elegance is not optional.

There is no tension between writing a beautiful program and writing an efficient program. If your code is ugly, the chances are that you either don’t understand your problem or you don’t understand your programming language, and in neither case does your code stand much chance of being efficient. In order to ensure that your program is efficient, you need to know what it is doing, and if your code is ugly, you will find it hard to analyse.
"""

https://programmingisterrible.com/post/39499310419/elegance-...
It being Florida is enough reason to presume guns might be present in the house. Note that contrary to the expectations of many foreigners, Florida does not have a list of all Floridians who own guns. In fact it's actually illegal for the state to create such a list.

The children seem to be irrelevant; if children weren't in the house I doubt you'd suddenly be fine with what the cops did, so the presence of children doesn't contribute to your point. Furthermore some of the narratives about what happened are greatly exaggerating the situation, claiming that cops pointed guns in the faces of children. I've seen no evidence of this happening, so I think some people are cynically pointing to the children in an attempt to emotionally manipulate others. I don't see any other reason to mention the kids. They simply aren't relevant to the story.
And the story's key theme of a missing sister, presented as a missing star in the sky, is apparently as salient as ever. Even today in the year 2021, countless people have come together (in their contemporary medium) to wonder and speculate.
> Rather, businesses need to take a step back, understand the culture and priorities of open source and then try to fit in.

Well, open source was created in order to make (some of) the ideas of the hippy free software movement more acceptable to businesses, so, I think you got that part backwards.

At the cost of losing the free software ideals, open source has gone mainstream, and nowadays a large fraction of the work that goes into big established open source projects is done by paid developers working for corporations. Thus, to a very large extent, open source IS businesses. They are making it in their image, to fit their needs.

I guess the lone hacker/activist has been sidelined, and others with more resources have taken over the show.
I don't understand why people are moving Linux --> Windows. At the company I work for everything is native to Linux--I am floored by the number of interns we get who are using Windows (it's all of them). We have an intake script for getting them up on WSL2 with our stack on top but man these graduates are CompSci people and they did 4 plus years of CompSci using Windows? I can only imagine the pain. Or rather, I know the pain since I have occasionally dipped my toes back into that world of hurt.

A non-WSL2 Windows person doesn't get the benefits of Nix, usually doesn't live life on the shell (since every Windows program is gui first), doesn't do dotfiles management (you can but paths for the git Atlassian method are non-obvious), ssh password protected keys are a PITA...good God I could go on ad nauseum.

I work in this industry because I love computing. But these Windows jockeys I dunno I get the feeling they don't necessarily love computing? Or in the way that it's this mundane tool for the production of money-points that they can then exchange for money. I also am receiving the money-points and it is good. But lemme crack open your head and pour in the magic y'know?
"Maintainability - The degree to which it can be modified without introducing faults"

I can see why VS Code might get the Maintainability checkmark in the sense that it's hard to break from a user POV, but I wouldn't consider it "maintainable" in certain aspects as long as it isn't FOSS. Your IDE/editor is subject to the whims of Microsoft's release engineering team. If you do want to build from the open-source version and have the same experience, then you're going to have a bad time: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/k0s8qw/vs_code_devel...
I always thought it was "Techniques"
Wasn’t this simply a byproduct of Congress trying to control the process? The idea of hard deadlines and low risk.

Apparently they only have until Feb to try to test it again to make sure they can launch this year. That sounds like pure political pressure instead of organizational culture.

Congress tried to cancel this whole test to speed things up so they were apparently fortunate to have done this test at all.
I personally think there's a big difference between on-the-job speech vs off-the-job. That may account for some of the disparity you're seeing.
> Completely absurd.

Where it matters, people and organizations are able to overcome bias. We got a square-jaw man to the moon, but the rocket itself was not designed by a square-jaw men.

The key phrase: where it matters.
It would help to explain what purpose you think borders serve.
I see. Thanks for your reply.
You need to relax. Yes his comment is speculation, does that mean he is necessarily wrong? He is giving his first-thought analysis of what might be the problem at Signal. Is that such a crime?
Working with multiple AWS accounts is definitely a pain, but it definitely should get better in the future given that it's a super important use case for internal services.

Internally we have best practices that dictate to split services into their own accounts, with one account per stage (i.e. beta, gamma, prod).

I'd like to also mention that CDK also makes working with cross-account/cross-stack resources a lot easier.
> as the innocent victim of a liberal conspiracy

It's fair to say that tech is majority liberal and it'd be simply dumb to contradict liberal orthodoxy to say unconscious bias doesn't exist.

So it's certainly fair to say that tech has an unconscious liberal bias and their actions are going to be harmful towards conservatives.
Out of interest, are these larger, and more "corporate" focused shops? I have directly worked with a range of client companies, and none cared about certs (even government!)

I'm wondering if OSCP is an "easy resume filter" in a time of online job applications being easier than ever before, rather than something they have a business need for, as their clients demand it?
Good.

May be the most important thing google have done in decades.

Granted. Ive not read the article, so this could be a steaming pile of ... but I'm hopeful.
Firefox 68? I'm running Firefox 84.0.2 on Pop_OS 20.04. I can empathize with the project maintainer for not prioritizing a browser ~20 versions behind latest.
I've been in security for the better part of a decade. I have none of these certs (I have no security certs at all). The OSCP is the only certification in this list that I've ever even heard of being part of hiring discussions, and even then I've really only ever seen it required/desired in penetration testing roles.

In fact, this article is very narrowly focused on penetration testing-type roles. There are a whole host of other security roles that require all kinds of different skillsets which aren't even mentioned here.

If you do want a penetration testing role, I don't see anything wrong with this roadmap other than the fact that it over-emphasizes the need for certs. Like all other types of roles, some hiring managers might be part of the "certification chaser" crowd and might require certs for candidates, but IME most don't care and someone not having a cert has never stopped me from hiring them, and quite frankly if someone does have certs it doesn't make me any more inclined to hire them.
Thanks! I spent a couple of hours looking at it and it looks like a really cool language. Unfortunately no build targets for the ESP8266/ESP32 which is my current t microcontroller of choice but the next time I try to put together a project that targets a different architecture I’ll try Zig out!
It even happens in the real world too. I remember one guy who had been on eBay or something for years working up a huge positive karma, and then one day a switch flipped and he disappeared with everyone's money and was never seen again.
>A transparent effort

Transparency is a good thing.

>move to a state that doesn't care what goes on there

Moving to a state that cares about civil liberties and freedoms. FTFY.

>How is a group allowed to file for bankruptcy when they're not bankrupt? They have assets and expenses that are adequate.

How can someone attempt to make points on an issue but not understand the basic definition of "bankruptcy"?

Your bias is showing. Big time.
So cool. I probably am going to buy a MacBook if they bring everything back. Definitely buying something else if they don't. MacBooks look interesting but I'd rather buy something with an SD slot, physical F-keys, analog audio jack and at least 1 classic USB port to accompany Thunderbolt 4 Type-C ports.
What did Google do wrong in late 2017?
In my experience, HN is pretty far on the techno-libertarian side, but with a decent amount of pro-social justice thought. It's actually a pretty interesting mix but not without its drawbacks.

This is not a comment on the 6th specifically, and actually I don't think you can apply it to the 6th, but if you are only in favor of speech you agree with, or even just speech you don't actively find abhorrent, you're not pro-free speech. You're not even indifferent, you're actively anti-free speech. Free speech is for speech you hate wish was never spoken. There's a reason the only speech you can be arrested for in the US is speech that directly harms others physically (or has a high likelihood to).
I think we also need to be careful. The OP on this thread did not specify what kind of project. Make may be completely appropriate. It might also not be and just what they are used to. The proverbial hammer.

If someone came in and tried to build my Java project with Make, I would definitely call them crazy and not use it either. If someone came to my Java project and tried to put Gradle on it to build it, I might also not use it but at least its appropriate for the language and if everyone on the team/project was OK with it, I would probably be OK with it and use it.

If someone tried to build my FE Javascript project with Make, I would not use it. If they used yarn instead of npm that would be a Gradle vs. Maven situation as above, so either's fine if there's nothing yet.

If there's a set of bash scripts that are perfectly adequate to build the project you have, fine, why use Make?

And let me tell you from experience, conventions are great but don't always work, i.e. no $CC and $DESTDIR are definitely not something every user of Make does appropriately. I've had to add that to a few back in the day. You install like you're used to with DESTDIR only to find that it just installed itself into your system. You swear, fix it and learn to _always_ check a newly downloaded project for whether they actually have the 'standard' features implemented before you build something.

Contrast that with many of the newer build and packaging tools, that basically take this choice away from the user, which is a great thing if you ask me. Sure you have to get over the "but I want to do it my way" defiance reaction but in the end it is awesome when each new project you come to you do _not_ have to check and learn how exactly that project does things because every Maven project has its stuff in the same place (unless someone re-configured it, which unfortunately does happen). But maven is bad nowadays, coz it uses XML :(
I do not really know what to think of Navalny, but fuck, this man is brave.
It's the Signal app that depends on their server, there isn't anything in the protocol that stops someone from building an app that talks to other servers.

It's kind of fascinating, they have done a pretty good job of laying out their goals, easy contact discovery, forced protocol upgrades, etc, and people come up with all these improvements they could make by just setting aside those goals.
> That USAF person in the back of the room with their finger on the destruct button.

That person (the Mission Flight Control Officer) doesn't exist for SpaceX launches, they use an automated system.

https://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/icg/providersforum/2019...
Understanding the Modern Monetary System (2011)
"on what basis nations should form?"

Free association.

As the inscription on the Statue of Liberty says, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free".

It's variety of people, customs, cultures, and opinions which make for a healthy nation, not a monoculture of brainwashed xenophobes.
Seems to me that the head of HR got thrown under the bus to protect other members of the exec.
I'd forgotten the name PrimeHPC-FX. You would think they'd be worth looking at if you knew about K. I don't remember exactly what Bristol have got now. (Its not so easy to get detailed info on UK Tier 2 systems, even if you're supporting one.) I know it's using Infiniband, not Tofu as they're mostly interested in single-node performance for some reason, but I don't know what other than the chips come from Fujitsu. It may be right that they're not doing much with systems. There does seem to be more interest this time round, at least.
>When you finally learn to master and config Emacs,

Should be "if" and not "when", in my opinion.

It's so incredibly frustrating to watch emacs from the outside. Maybe they don't want emacs to become popular? Certainly given the state of Hurd that could be true, and perhaps merely the fact that a Free editor exists is enough for them.

For me, I really like emacs. It's great. But it has flaws/warts/roadblocks that routinely turn away new users and the grognards that seem to form the most influential portions of the emacs community seem to care more about freedom than about making an editor that's welcoming to new users and that people actually want to use.
Also 'Menu > Report Bug' on Element Android.
Good news! That job was eliminated a couple years ago for SpaceX launches. A computer does it now...
My theory is the instagram effect. People actually believe what they see is real and so the people living in those instagram photos believe i the "fake it till you make it" toxicity.
The problem is that these kinds of events are too infrequent to allow for any momentum in my psychological state.
This is neat!

Doesn’t solve the problem for resin printing, though.
Being mugged isn't "user error", and the good part about YubiKeys is that the consequences of being mugged are much more intuitive (it's just like I had my keys stolen).

The "I left my keys in my coat" problem you have seems like it has a pretty obvious solution: don't keep your YubiKey on your key chain. Do you have a wallet or cell phone that you carry with you at all times? Put it in the wallet or cell phone case.
I wouldn't mind having a touch bar if that didn't imply not-having the physical F-keys row. I actually want both. And an additional, programmable row of physical keys if only this was possible :-)
Confirm you want the job. Confirm you want to work at this company. Confirm you expect to work in this role for at least 2 years. That's what they want to hear.

Wrap all that up in specifics about the job it's self and compliments and small requests:

"In my first year, I want to learn Low Latency C# and this is the number 1 HFT shop. I also really like how I can gain business experience as your tech teams work so closely with traders. I'd be really happy if I can be the go to person for quick turnaround work within 18m"
> I think that most intelligent species rapidly reach a peaceful "win-win" equilibrium, that we humans are rare or even unique in our violence

This reminds me of a short story where Earth exists in a Bermuda Triangle-like sector of space, known as the Veil of Madness, that all other civilizations avoid: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Mankind
Now I am confused, maybe because I am not religious.

But I have always been under the impression that the christians claim jesus is the only son of their god?

Wouldn't other sons conflict with this and not reinforce it?
That’s definitely what I believe
Isn't the beauty of Matrix that you or anyone else can build a client on top of the platform easily? I know on my Linux machine there are some non-electron options, like Qt [0].

[0] https://matrix.org/clients/
To what do you attribute this decline in social skills?
I forgot to turn on automatic updates. Still, it's only 1.5 years old.
Hey mate. I built, recently, a service that tracks all repositories mentioned on HackerNews and Reddit. Based on that data you can see which are the most popular or talked about repos per language. I guess that can help you. e.g. https://www.libhunt.com/lang/go
If I'm reading an article about the pandemic, I probably don't want to see ads selling me face masks. If I'm reading an article about the inauguration, I probably don't want ads selling me inauguration t-shirts.

I am however more likely to click on ads selling me home renovation stuff because they know I've recently bought something in Home Depot. Even though I'm not currently on a home renovation website.
The nuance here is that "credit history" usually means "record of ability to pay debts and manage credit". This is not that.

This is about the use of the credit account metadata - e.g. what accounts do you have, when did you open them, your prior addresses - for identity verification.

This does represent a problem for people who have no, or insufficient, credit history to achieve the identification bar; but this isn't about a patient's creditworthiness per se.
Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
> The solution is to go only to the right site.

i.e. blame the victim. This generalizes to: the solution to user error is for the user not to make errors.

So no, that is not the solution.
I dont think there's a particular reason to have USB-A when you can just use a usb-c-to-a adapter. Sure, you have to carry a dongle around but USB-C is just so much better in all aspects ( reliability, usage, speed, unidirectional). Plus it would keep the machine smaller (the physical height is an issue with the cases).
The only ports I want to see on a modern laptop is just a bunch of fully capable USB C ports. An SD card slot would be fine, and if there's something like MagSafe, I'd want USB C charging to still be possible so I can just travel with a single kind of charger and cable.

Lots of random USB-charging gadgets have switched to USB C. I like the idea of making USB A, one of the worst port designs of all time, die a slow painful death. I am very happy with my thumb drive-shaped portable card read that has USB C on one side and A on the other.
Having two keys, one of which you keep in a secure place, seems pretty simple and intuitive to me.
I don’t think there is a singular great filter. Instead I suspect there is a relatively constant probability of a black swan event across the entire existence of a biosphere.

It took over four billion years to get from simple replicators to what exists here now. It is quite possible that most biospheres simply don’t make it that long without such an event.

We don’t know the probabilities, but over billions of years the continuous probability of biosphere extinction need not be very high to filter out almost all biospheres before they develop something capable of interstellar signaling or flight.

Keep in mind that another prior we don’t know is the probability of a diverse biosphere developing this type of intelligence. We have no idea if that is likely or not even given sufficient time and energy inputs.

Intergalactic flight is many orders of magnitude harder than interstellar flight, which in turn is many orders of magnitude harder than interplanetary flight. If the probability limits such intelligences to no more than an average of 1-2 per galaxy then there is your answer. We would be extremely unlikely to see intelligent aliens any time soon, even if we do find a lot of microbes.

Given where Earth is now I would be surprised if it does not hatch an interstellar scale intelligence at some point in the remainder of its habitable life. Will that be us? Hopefully so. Given that we are already almost there (on evolutionary time scales) it is reasonably likely it will be us or an AI we create.