skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lovelace is a perfect mirror for our society: a vapid socialite with shallow understanding of the problems and a willingness to make grandiose claims without the ability to back them up.

Can you provide some more context to this? Given that I'm viewing everything related to heroism as problematic(and that includes Claude Shannon) I'd be curious to know more about the context of this statement.

EDIT: I have personally seen/witnessed and experienced plenty of environments where credit was given to those that brought solutions into writing rather than the ones who did all the work to bring things to fruition. So this is always of interest to me (it's also tightly related to the German saying: Wer schreibt, der bleibt/roughly: Only written proof counts)
Ok, you haven’t said anything remotely convincing to me as to why these are a actually different category, rather than a scale. And you seem to be misunderstanding what I’m truly if to say prettty consistently. Regardless of whose “fault” that is , this really isn’t a good forum for getting into properly, so I guess I’m out.
Due to unforeseen events impacting developer velocity, we experienced some slippage while burning down feature development on the critical path. Needless to say this will be reflected in our Sprint planning going forward and we’ve already added an Epic to track the remaining work needed to unblock the remaining tasks.
You know there's a difference between a computer and a computer program, right?
I got on CPAP which took my blood pressure wayyy down to normal range which finally let the doc prescribe it to me. Was disappointed when it made absolutely zero difference to my life. I'm considering trying IR instead of SR and see how that goes. Apparently around 20% of people just don't respond to meds. I keep putting off following up with the doc to try change meds etc because of course I do. Haven't given up yet though. Getting my sleep dialed in helps me a lot as it is, so I've seen improvements since getting diagnosed even if meds haven't worked for me yet.
To give another data point, this exact model--the Honeywell HCM-350--was reviewed by Consumer Reports[1] who rated it the 4th best model of 13 models in their large-room category for humidifiers. (The top three were Boneco 7135, Crane Germ Defense EE-8065, and Honeywell HWM-340.) This is what they said about the Honeywell HCM-350:

"With Excellent ratings for moisture output, convenience, and energy efficiency, this humidifier gets the job done. Excessive noise, often a problem with evaporative models because they use fans to moisten the air, shouldn’t be a major problem. One caution: Its performance using hard water is just average, so anyone with mineral-rich water can do better elsewhere. Plus, this model won’t shut off automatically when the tank is empty. Output 5/5,
Convenience 5/5, Noise 4/5, Efficiency 5/5, and Hard water 3/5."

So it seems like a good model among those available. But having used multiple different humidifiers over the years, I hated all of them for one reason or another, and returned or threw them out within days or weeks of purchase. I think that a good humidifier is an unsolved problem. It's probably the same for the author of the article.

[1] Consumer Reports is a decades-old non-profit organization which puts out a magazine (and website) which does unbiased product testing, has zero advertising, pays for all the products they test, never takes sample products, buys all their products anonymously (so they can't be given better samples for testing purposes), and has extensive laboratories, procedures, scientist/technicians for testing (a private track for testing cars, for example). I never heard of anyone claiming that Consumer Reports was fraudulent or pay-for-play.
Witness Consciousness
Install ODBC on Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10 and above
A cursory skim of the comments reveals that the problem being pushed by Google here seems to already have many existing solutions being discussed for adoption as a possible comprehensive standard. Out of curiosity, can somebody explain to me why Google would feel the need to push its own standard and throw up a sleek website/showcase instead of contributing to what is already out there?
Perhaps it's not the tracking itself that we care about, but control over when it occurs and by whom.
> this same technology has pushed us dangerous close to climate disaster

This problem is much older than the last 25 years of tech. Arguably tech gave us better climate models and power generation (and the potential for much more).

> has enriched a very small number of people

This has been the default for thousands of years. The amount of wealth owned by an average “regular” person today is unimaginable by even the standards of 200 years ago.
100% this.

Too many folks gulped Pinker’s nonsense without further inspection because it suited their priors.
There can't be war because the next World War would most likely make us extinct. We need another approach, one that puts us on a path to prosperity and sustained growth as a species. Everyone could have an amazing life, we really just need people to work on improving distribution of goods/services.
You should write your code so that it can be easy to change. Instead of reusing something to save you 5 minutes of typing, just use it as boiler plate and rip out what you dont need and rewrite the stuff that is not exactly what you need.
And use language built in structures rather then defining your own, it makes the code easier for others and more performant.
Google Research: Machine learning accelerated computational fluid dynamics
Ugh. Google Plus.

My phone contacts are still screwed up because I made the catastrophic blunder of joining a public “circle”, and google decided that everybody in it must be my best friend so it imported them into my address book.

So even today, I’ll try to send a message to an actual friend and it’ll give me the drop down of sixteen Mike’s to choose from. 15 I’ve never heard of (thought their names are getting familiar over the years) or interacted with and somewhere randomly in the middle is the one I’ve sent hundreds of messages to over the years.
My understanding is that Sweden's strategy seemed effective only until a couple months passed. When more data was available, Sweden's death toll fared poorly compared to neighboring countries.

The last time I noticed a news update on this was several weeks ago. Either the situation has switched back to Sweden's favor (seems unlikely), or your news source on this story is several months out of date.

Aside from that, Sweden's strategy was predicated on assumptions about Swedish society and climate, so even on its own terms (with which I don't necessarily agree), it wouldn't transplant to countries where people speak to, and associate with, strangers more often.
There's no good reason for a Unix system to have an unstable system call ABI. I'm sorry but companies like Apple (who broke every Go binary a few years ago) don't get to copy syscall definitions from Bell System V and then declare it their own internal API.

Usually the only time the SYSCALL ABI breaks, it's because kernel authors intentionally chose to do it for no apparent reason. For example, OpenBSD at some point changed how mmap() was defined so that it takes seven arguments:

void *sys_mmap(void *addr, size_t len, int prot,
int flags, int fd, long pad, off_t pos);

The sixth argument doesn't do anything. It just breaks binary compatibility. It's also noncompliant with the System V ABI specification, which says system calls have six arguments max.

I work on a project called Cosmopolitan Libc which lets you create static binaries that just work on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD. It was only possible to do this because Unix systems generally agree on definitions. I worked really hard to support OpenBSD since I believe in the project. I just hope they keep the ABI stable going forward.

For example, I'm really happy that this restriction only applies to dynamic binaries. It seems perfectly reasonable that they'd want to make the assumption that if a program chooses to link OpenBSD's Libc that it intends to use it. That's fine just so long as we continue having the ability to build static binaries with an alternative cross-platform Libc like Cosmopolitan.

Speaking of which, I think I might actually implement some of OpenBSD's ideas in Cosmopolitan. I could probably track down all the functions that need raw SYSCALL and use __section__ so they're all linked to the same part of the binary and then call the msyscall() function to limit it just to that page. That way as a guest libc author I'm upholding the spirit of the intent. When in Rome do as the Romans.
Society is great...

...if you’re a well compensated tech worker having gourmet lunch delivered by benefit-less contractors paid slave wages.
The Internet keeps reminding me that I would give up my Software Engineer gig in an instant to drive trucks/trains in Scandinavia.
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There is being human and there is being incompetent. Stadia did not fail because of bad luck. There were lots of obviously bad decisions made that went into this. If what you’re saying is true, then the decision makers moving on to other projects are just burning Google’s money without repercussions. Oh well, no one actually cares I guess.
Most likely because we're not anywhere remotely close to this becoming a commonplace luxury, and the impact of this happening twice a year is essentially zero.
US Army-funded research results in self-propelled materials
Oo, I like that! Really good point there.

Also, I think one thing you should look into as a natural evolution is promoting the use of auto-generated, secure passwords unique to each relay address.
Localyze (YC S19) is hiring software engineers in Germany and Portugal
"Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator.", The Netherlands not allowed (the hashtag for the project is #DDPforAll ironically) :(

http://archive.today/swdlk

Edit: DataDividendProject.com (https://archive.is/iFhT0). Given that it is all blocked, it is not that interesting to me.
We dilated on the x-mode piece of this if anyone feels like drilling down a step:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/28/x-mode-location-google-app...
You are either very important or very naive. I was not paid once $8000. As somebody from another country no lawyer company would even reply your email. Took the loss and moved on.

Even with my company I would think long and hard if anything is worth pursuing. The extra time loss required and cost means I would approach legal action in the US only if the amount is huge.

I assume freelance developers are even less willing to deal with this bullshit.
That's a violation of the Apple app store terms of service, but I have never yet successfully reported such a violation to Apple. Their tech support doesn't understand what to do with such reports and after many back-and-forth attempts I've just given up trying for now.

Apple employees, if you're reading this, it's an obvious violation of ASRG 5.1.1 (iv) Access and it's probably a violation of ASRG 3.1.4 Hardware Specific Content — but as a mere developer, there's nowhere for me to report that for internal investigation. Perhaps one of you can do better.
An ounce of cynicism is worth a pound of myopia.
How does the Chinese giving money to Burmese generals related to the generals trying to hold onto power?
Porting a game to Linux and Vulkan does not require rewriting it from scratch.
I'll leave a differing opinion on Earth. It was the least favourite book that I've read last decade. Felt like some childish revenge fantasy to me. It's been many years now, and I'm still annoyed by it.
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Why do we keep going back to netflix, airbnb, uber or whatsapp? What is so good about these platforms that as a user we crave for it.
In one word, it's the experience.

At Razorpay, in Payments team we are responsible for creating world class experiences for our Merchants.

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Thank's for the reply! I'll see what I can do.
I can see him now, watching the Formula One races alongside James Hunt anticipating Murray Walker's next Murrayism
Oh totally, this is a perfect example of the dissolution of responsibility that corporations are known for.
It's obviously more difficult to attack the 5,000 headed low-level hydra, so that's where the "controversial" decisions get made. Genius!
> And that's why I say it boils down to an expectation of slave labor because, yeah, people basically get mad at being told "this is why this goes on" rather than going "oh, I had not thought to connect those dots. I shall have to keep that in mind going forward."

Someone getting mad doesn't mean they disagree with you in that specific worst-case way.

> These so-called "ethics" seem to boil down to "we expect writers to write for free and find some other means to support themselves while producing quality content as...a hobby, I guess" -- aka slave labor. And then folks get upset if you frame it that way.

If you give no money and demand they keep doing it, that's slave labor.

If you give no money and suggest that if they're unhappy they should stop doing it, it's not slave labor.

You're talking about the former, but I'm pretty sure people are actually saying the latter.

> If you give writers and other creatives no means to earn an adequate income trying to meet your prissy high standards for so-called ethics [1], then don't be all shocked that they will do whatever happens to actually work to line their pockets, though it involves lying, writing reviews for pay without actually ever touching the product, etc.

> People need to eat. Not everyone can be a programmer.

The problem with this reasoning is that you could replace "writer" with almost anything and make the same analogy. Even something like "hitman"! Having ethics doesn't mean you starve. It doesn't even significantly reduce the number of jobs you could take. Someone asking for ethics isn't asking for free labor.
How many of those apps did you pay for?
You people are all nuts. It's amphetamine and you're getting high, and it's great isn't it?

Really I've never seen so much nonsense in one place... congratulations though on finding a steady supply of a drug that you like, just don't pretend you're any different from the rest of us junkies.
Brazil's new Covid-19 variant points to a long, hard road out of the pandemic
trn was the first newsreader I used. I think it was on Ultrix, DEC Unix or Slackware. Googling brought me to this sourceforge project: https://sourceforge.net/p/trn/code/

Someone should resurrect nntpfs.
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No they couldn’t, not without Microsoft allowing them to do so, per-seat, per-user licenses are often defined as actual individuals users.
Choose your own ad-venture [sorry]
This is why I don't sign up for new Google things anymore..
I find it inexplicable that a humidifier that doesn't automatically shut off when the tank is empty can get a perfect score in the "convenience" category.
I own this exact model. It's perfectly cromulent. I don't need to clean it that often. I don't frankly care that there's a bit of mineral scale in the basin. That's the only visible filth I see. It's quiet. Super quiet. A fan, on low. I fill the tank in my bathroom, and I seal the cap and invert it, so it, you know, doesn't dump water on my floor. I will concede that I'll take the mesh into the bathroom and dampen it, and it can drip a bit, but I just rest it on the inverted tank as I walk both back to the humidifier. This isn't rocket science.

Finally, I also own a cheapo hygrometer. It shows us hitting 15%-30% when running forced heat in the room. When I turn this on, it pushes up to 35%-40%. That's effective enough for me.

Honestly, this thing works. And I buy a six pack of cheaper meshes and just swap them out as the mesh yellows/gets a bit crusty, which usually takes a few weeks. No big deal, cost of doing business.
I want to add another train-related reference to this long list, this time audio only: El Divisadero, by experimental musician Chris Watson, an hypnotic ride on “El Tren Fantasma”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDQZTXz2-7o
> At what point does difficulty motivating yourself to do something unpleasant become an actual pathology?

At the point where it causes a significant and ongoing problem in your personal or professional life.

"Lost track of time and wasted half an hour on HN" - Not a pathology.

"Wasted half a week on HN and was unable to stop even though you really, truly wanted to get your work done?" - Maybe pathology.

"Did that most weeks for months on end." - See a doctor.
Gloom & doom is a mood more than a reasoned position.
Databricks customer agreement is middle of the road compared to competition
https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm
Bond Between Brother and Sister
If you really love you brother and sister this video is for you. Mix o all emotion. must Watch
I’m one of the apparently odd few who doesn’t like it. It’s slow, overkill for many tasks, and a Swiss Army knife that’s ok at everything but not very good at anything. Debugging it can be a very frustrating experience. They’re trying to turn it into an everything platform so it checks every box in the procurement process and don’t care about actually making it good.

I have a feeling legacy databricks installations will be much derided in 5-10 years time
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A Course on Differential Privacy (差分隐私)
It's funny. For a lot of the time on Ubuntu, I could choose to install a few million gstreamer plugins and fail to watch anything or be up in minutes with VLC. Baller software.
I added some rebutals on a reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25998041

(Pointing there to avoid duplication)
This is the problem for Stadia, it’s target audience is gamers who don’t have a lot of time to game. That is not a fruitful market.
But there's no reason Google couldn't have done these things! They just... didn't.
You should perhaps look into the history of the mmap syscall arguments.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55347021

> Coronavirus: Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf says coronavirus approach 'has failed'

> Sweden's king has said his country "failed" to save lives with its relatively relaxed approach to the coronavirus pandemic.

> King Carl XVI Gustaf made the remarks as part of an annual TV review of the year with the royal family. ...

> Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said he agreed with the king's remarks.

> "Of course the fact that so many have died can't be considered as anything other than a failure," Mr Lofven told reporters.
Canadian-Indian gains following in China for differential privacy course
Although I feel like my childhood was OK, I dropped out of highschool and from the age of 17 to age 27 I worked a _total_ of 1 year split across 5 different jobs.

If you're worried about the effect medication might have, I understand, I'm a parent and I'm 99% sure my boy has it as he's exactly like me. I would implore you to consider the abject danger that untreated ADHD presents to its sufferers. Shorter life span by on average 12 years. It's a much worse diagnosis than people realise. The transition into adulthood took me a decade. It was rough. Really, really rough. I only got diagnosed last year at 32. Medication or not, what you should endeavour to do is monitor if it goes into remission in early adulthood for them or not, and keep them educated on the topic so they can understand how/why they experience life the way they do. I'm not medicated myself at the moment (because thus far I haven't responded to it) but being aware of it has made a big, big difference.
I think most of them are used for piracy.
It's been a while I bought a motherboard. Sata (6gb/sec?) was godsend at the time. Smaller cables and connectors and nicer to keep tidy. Pet peeve of mine to keep it looking nice especially with some stacked hard-drives in the bay. Back then it was pretty clear what you might do with the slots available.

Could someone fill me in with PCIe. What slots are available and are these mainly used now for graphics and SSD? SSD in slots is new to me which I haven't gotten around to yet.
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Control over it?

Good luck figuring out which apps track you much less controlling when.

The trackers can change or be enabled programmatically and silently.

And VPN is getting more and more worthless. I have to turn it off for more and more apps to function at all.