skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your conclusion doesn't at all follow from your premise.

It's at best a modern-malthusian position, that those who are strongest at information extraction should survive. (As opposed to Malthus's original proposition, that only the wealthy should survive).

But this begs the question: what makes "information extraction" the thing that we should optimize for at social scale? If we can make it so that everyone has access to correct information, there will no longer be a need to compete on information extraction.

This similarly tracks with Malthus's wrongness: we don't actually need to compete on food prices, as we've got enough to go around, there isn't a shortage of food for only the wealthy. And this is true at world scale. Barring some kind of massive catastrophe, we aren't at risk of global starvation where a Malthusian approach would make sense.

> This is part of why so many tech luminaries were ahead of the curve in detecting the COVID-19 problem¹: they are secular information extractors for the most part, untainted by petty identity.

Taking this to its logical conclusion, you are saying that it is a better outcome that the CDC was wrong, as some tech luminaries made money, than if they had not made money and the CDC had provided superior initial guidance, saving thousands of lives.
When I order something from Amazon, I might get a counterfeit.

When I ask my insurance company to pay for some health care, they might pay.
What evidence are you basing this on?
CUDA develpment is totally fine. The service was designed with DL in mind, but that shouldn't stop CUDA dev in any way.
At least with Silicon Valley you get to laugh through the tears.
The Lorax would like a word with you.
Okay, sure. I’m just drawing an equivalence to how Asians are treated to how whites are treated, rather than how I think they should be treated, as POCs. That’s my point, a point of comparison and contrast.
Amazon is one of the most liked and trusted brands in the world: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210304005244/en/Cos...
It’s not a commodity. There’s no price I wouldn’t pay to be treated for an active heart attack - if I’m even conscious to decide!
Assuming there is only one big filter, which I think is unlikely.

Any mega black swan event is a filter in its own since it's disturbing the system you are adapted to. The worse event is one that disturbs the system you are dependant on.

Climat change is terrible, but it could be worse. We depend on oxygen. Gravity. What else await for us ?
That sounds appropriate, scrum and slavery go well together
> In short, imagine your code is in real world usage, which has real user, instead of just "small examples" or project to learn only.

So, for instance, something like starting from an idea (a "webforum for all my friends", or other usable example), designing the database, implementing authentication, implementing the frontend (html, css, js, etc.), then adding those small things and finally deploying to a webserver?

The thing I think I'm asking is what kind of topics would be good to motivate people to follow through? For instance, the webforum above could work for some while others would have other ideas. It would be hard to design a course around a moving target like that..

I hope I'm not boring you with my questions above, I'm mostly trying to understand your point because I've been thinking about designing interesting courses for people, but I wouldn't like to do another basic introductory course with small chapters and exercises as other 1000 courses out there..
I personally believe your child has more right to exist than 1 mouse, 1,000 mice, or 1,000,000 mice.

People are people. It's a different bar, and I'm not going to equate people lives with animal lives.
I agree with you that I don't want my manager to completely stop coding (especially if it is something they like a lot). I just want them to realize that there are higher priority items on their list of things to-do. And spend at least some amount of time figuring out how to help their reports grow.

Also, this depends on the experience level of a manager's reports as well. If all of them are quite experienced and have clear goals regarding their career, the manager does not have to spend much time on career coaching. They can focus most of their time on coding. But if that is not the case, then they'll have to balance their time accordingly.

That's a good point you make regarding intentional vs unintentional. This point had not occurred to me earlier. After thinking about it though, I am confident that its not applicable for my scenario :0. I will have this in mind for future situations so that I don't come to wrong conclusions.
Nothing in that press release mentions anything about WoW
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> Software that is created by enterprises for internal use is complex because the enterprises themselves are complex. They are full of rules, created by different people with very different goals, that add up with time, and the applications must deal with them.

Maybe it's just me and my scarce disposition for forgiveness, but after several years I tend to believe complexity emerges as a consequence of superficial understanding, diffuse aversion to analysis and outright pool analytical skills.

:/
I don't doubt the experience.

The issue is, you're just someone on the internet. The real people I know disagree with you, and so do statistics, so while I completely empathize with you, I can't agree.
If you are not doing anything fancy with your current router, using debian on an x86 machine as a router will work indefinitely. All you'll ever do is apt update.
> > > I said "virtue signaling" is a thought-terminating cliché, like "fake news."

> > Evidently you think the phrase, rather than its actual meaning, is the issue. OK.

> I don't think that either, and I never said it.

ok

> Maybe try to understand why they're bad before getting defensive.

If there's a flaw in my understanding the best thing would have been to point out what it was.

> Or just call everything "fake news," your choice.

I don't think that either, and I never wrote it.

Let's leave the discussion here, it's not very productive.
Both the books (all of them) and the Sierra game were a very big deal to me. Weirdly, I've never seen the Disney movie.
My bad. The emotions were high. I wanted to remove it, but I can edit the post anymore.
I started years ago with openwrt.

First I tried the tp-link TL-WDR4300, which was very well supported at the time.

I then moved to the tp-link Archer C7.

Along the way I went from a "regular install" of openwrt, to build the LEDE fork myself, then back to building openwrt.

It's actually quite straightforward after you get over the hump.

$ git clone https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git
$ cd openwrt
$ ./scripts/feeds update -a
$ ./scripts/feeds install -a
$ make menuconfig
$ make -j $(nproc)

I got away from the GUI and now do most configuration via the config files in /etc/config.

my current router is a wrt-1900acs, which took a while to get stable. I sit it on the shelf for a good year.

Because I learned how to build openwrt, I also have two mikrotik rb3011uias-rm 10x gbe switches. I wish the touchscreen worked.

It's not in the main tree but I followed this thread:

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/support-for-mikrotik-rb3011uias-...

It's a community build, but it is stable and works well.

If you want to play with openwrt, it's a little saner to have two routers. Have one that works, and one that you can break without having to stay up all night to get online.
In Boston it's called the Big Dig
If that's the only one that bothered you, you may want to consider why that is.

It's something you have experience with, and therefore feel empathy for. Is it likely that you just happened to have experience with the one "role" that's worth being empathetic towards?
The Early Television Foundation has many links. [1] There's a sizable history of rotating-machinery mechanical television. It's not hard to do, but it never got very good. You can only light up one pixel at a time, so you're stuck with dim, flickering images.

Scophony and Eidiphor, though, were clever pre-CRT systems with more potential. Eidiphor big-screen television projectors were patented in 1939, and were in use into the 1990s.

[1] http://earlytelevision.org/mechanical_gallery.html
I agree. I never said Bitcoin is perfect and there are cryptocurrencies that cover various use-cases. I think it will prove to be unbeatable as a store of value though, even if the detractors continue to cling to the "it failed as a currency argument". I don't care what it was supposed to be, I only care what it turned out to be.
> If you do not deactivate Connected Services, you specifically consent to our electronic collection and use of your personal information and vehicle data as described above and our storage of such data wherever we designate.

It would be nice if opt-in by default was illegal.
It's certainly immoral. People cannot consent to something they likely don't know is happening.
This comes as no surprise giving the repetitious, almost regurgatory nature of public debates these days. I can't remember the last time I heard a new argument made up on the spot. The Chinese Room thought experiment applied to debate wouldn't need an infinite book, you could get by with at most a pamphlet.
I read the soldier one differently. While the soldier is not fixable as an individual, their personality can work by fixing leadership.

I say this as a soldier myself.
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Given the Verge gives you a choice from a 1/3rd banner to accept their cookie or accept their cookie, with the privacy terms a PITA to read unless you accept their cookie.

I wonder if the verge themselves are GDPR compliant! If only there was some standard logo that would be a seal of GDPR compliance easy to see and trusted.
I’m still not following. I’m using the word “commodity” to refer to a good or service that’s indistinguishable from another of the same type.

So under that definition what you’re describing isn’t relevant to whether it’s a commodity or not.

Also, health care isn’t a commodity right now but I’d argue it should be (a high quality one).
The Disenfranchised Designer is spookily good
Feeding cattle seaweed reduces their greenhouse gas emissions 82%
How to download Stock Data in Excel for free
> My current setup is Linux, AwesomeWM, Firefox, and Emacs. I customized away all the pain points I had with them a decade ago (half a decade with Awesome).

Amen brother! Exact same setup here: Linux / AwesomeWM (with a dedicated modifier key on my keyboard only for AwesomeWM related keybindings), Firefox, Emacs and the occasional IntelliJ IDEA for Java stuff.

> The time spent on maintaining the configs across upgrades is trivial, on the order of tens of minutes a year.

Exactly.
Very cool. I look forward to visiting it soon.

Some of these old serial terminals can do real graphics but the whole topic is rather obscure (which makes it more interesting i suppose).
The value and effectiveness of Amazon's approach will take some time to be proven or disproven.

But I'm open to any approach to bring insane US health care costs into line. Americans spent nearly 18% of the US GDP on health care in 2020. Healthcare spend increased 4.6% in 2019 alone[0]. It's out of control.

[0] https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
In addition to pbcopy for macOS and clip for Windows, there's also xclip for Linux. It doesn't look like it's been updated in a long time, but it meets my needs.

https://github.com/astrand/xclip
Damn, I had this idea as well, I had a Trello board with a load of ideas in around this. If the authors want some ideas happy to share with them...
If cybercrime was a natural disaster, it was worse than 2020's climate disasters
Yep - most people stop instances and come back whenever they're ready to train again. No charges for GPUs while the instance is stopped.

If you have a say 200GB harddrive you're only paying $4/month for storage.
This is why we have the American College of Pediatricians and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Seems to me like strengthening consumer rights and/or striking down on fake marketing and quacks in regulation could solve at least some of this.
If iOS allowed sideloading, you could just stay in the app store though. Problem solved.

As a developer, I just want to be able to distribute my apps to myself, my family and my friends without having to pay $100 per year and without having to ask Apple's permission for us all to do whatever we want with our $1,000 phones.

Our government will sort this out eventually now that iPhones have over 60% of the active phones in the US and that number will not be shrinking since 90% of the youth market is on an iPhone.

Apple will be forced to open up sooner or later, just like when "Ma Bell" used to force you to rent a phone from them just to use the landline that you also leased from them - once they had a majority market share, they got broken up. Same thing with Microsoft bundling IE with Windows - they were forced to share their APIs with third party companies. Consumers and small developers don't decide this. Lots of small, medium and large businesses are affected by Apples restrictions and they'll keep fighting it for us.
If I’m having a heart attack, healthcare is distinguishable by “what’s the closest ER”. The ambulance crew is unlikely to even permit a choice in the matter.
New insight about gene expression and neurological disease heritability
I am indie developer who makes and sales apps on Android. I can tell you this is not true. Users are willing to pay for good apps.
The products that are discoverable through Chums are either directly recommended from friends, or are part of our product catalog. For products that can be found at various merchants, we give users a choice of where they can make that purchase. Users can write reviews of products that call out untrustworthy third-party sellers.

Our ultimate goal is to build a sense of community and chase the “good feeling” that you get when a friend takes your recommendation. We hope that the social aspect of the app will keep people accountable and being able to see content from friends or friends-of-friends will make the reviews more trustworthy. 3rd party listings could be shared, but since there's no incentive for users to plug products, the reviews will be more genuine. The community can call out products that they don’t like/trust.
The researchers anticipate that concern, and specifically checked whether "information vs. misinformation" just boiled down to partisan disputes about what's true. They found that "our participants were more than twice as likely to consider sharing false but politically concordant headlines (37.4%) as they were to rate such headlines as accurate", suggesting that there really is a problem of people sharing things they know aren't strictly accurate.
Another comment in this thread with one of the most common laptops disagrees. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26492848
Ok noted. That's for me to work on. Thanks for pointing out.
They can't practice without board certification or being supervised by an MD, and in some states both.

It isn't like they can go to Bob's Online College and then it's a free-for-all after that.
"I guess mummy and daddy paying $20 mil for a new library to get me a seat at an ‘elite’ school is still meritocracy eh?"

As someone who never even finished college, I think this is a pretty cheap shot. My former boss on Wall Street went to MIT and only got there because his father was a migrant strawberry picker who worked his ass off to get his kid a good education. My last boss was African American, and went to Harvard and MIT - also probably the best damned general manager I've ever worked for. Everyone has their own story, and most of the people I've met who have Ivy degrees are no different from anyone else I've worked with except they were more driven (or guided) as kids and put the time in that it took to get where they wanted to go. I don't begrudge them that for a second.
There are weird corner cases sure, but not enough that you can't deal with individually.

I think that's where a lot of organizations fail. Take the "Technical Fellow" I mentioned earlier. This is the "weird corner case" - a technical IC who is capable of contributing strategically but has no interest in management.

The people in this role generally have ~20 years in industry and most have advanced degrees. They're some of the smartest people I know. They have the people skills to manage, but little interest (or rather, prefer to stay purely technical). Without the technical fellow role, they would have likely moved into management after 10-15 years and moved into director positions, at a loss to the company. Or, they'd dead end as senior devs at a lower salary and not have a voice with senior management.

My employer has 3500 employees (across all BUs). There are fewer than 10 technical fellows.
The existence of a slider won't force anyone to do anything. People will ignore your slider. Some people will only use it in one direction, and others will use it only in the other direction.

You aren't accounting for human nature. People aren't robots.
Yeah your experience absolutely mirrors mine. Don’t even get me started on JPA; I’ve used exactly the same phrasing you did: when you use JPA, now you have to know SQL, JPA and JQL. It makes no sense!
I'm intrigued, I love CSS-only solutions. The examples are lacking plots with both x & y axes labels though which is among the minimum required functionalities for plotting.
> On the surface level, being denied service in the app store because your app caters to people who are poly, is like being denied service in the general store because you're black, or Chinese, Or Jewish.

No it's not! Your race is innate, sexuality is innate, that isn't.

Your argument is so transparently ridiculous that I highly doubt you're operating in good faith.
>I’m sure they know though and this is a deliberate obfuscation technique, a dark pattern by marketing people.

I don't think so. AWS is still very much in "we want to get as many people onto our platform as possible" mode, not "milk every cent possible out of existing customers" mode (yet). AWS account managers and solutions architects will go to great lengths to help you reduce your costs (and are actually incentivized to do so), because making you happy with AWS and recommend it to others is their top priority above all else. The docs may be confusing, but if you ever have any interaction with their enterprise account teams, you'll find that obfuscation could not be farther from their intentions.

The fact that S3 pricing isn't simple is just an unfortunate side effect of market segmentation taken to an extreme. And in some ways, it's a good thing. The current pricing structure allows people that have different use cases to only pay for what they need: someone using S3 for storage but not making a lot of requests will only pay for storage, while someone using S3 to store relatively little but accessing it often will only pay for accessing it, etc. If pricing were to be simplified, you would lose that ability to segment, which would be a huge loss.

I do think there is room for something like a Lightsail version of S3, where you just pay a flat fee per month for a certain GB and bandwidth allocation. But I think that should be a separate product or S3 storage class, not replace the current pricing.
That’s bullshit, nobody is going to bother with attacks like this to steal your uber or doordash account. SMS 2fa kills credential stuffing attacks for all but the highest value targets.
Some more old-school H/P/V/A/C (man, I miss seeing that acronym pop up on sites, anyone else?) zines: http://textfiles.com/magazines/

And newer-school (90s-00s) zines: http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/
I've never in my life met a single human being who was white or black. Why do we still use this terminology when yellow and red have gone out of style?
A (black) engineer colleague of mine told me about his team's effort to change master to main. The whole initiative was started by a rainbow colored hair (white) PM and since it was what they believed to be a highly visible and easy fix, grew to a team of 5. All non-technical PMs of course.

They ended up producing a "manifesto of inclusive software" where they listed every word they considered offensive and what it should be replaced with and made a very public announcement regarding the change.

The only response to their email was my (black) colleague asking if the branch renaming could be postponed to after a release because he didn't know what it could break in the build and release automation in case "master" is hard-coded somewhere.

This apparently started a lengthy thread between him and the 5 PMs where they explained to him that the reason he wasn't supportive of the change was because of the "systemic and cultural racism" he apparently internalized.
Speech is a right, and forcing someone to host something is against 1A.
How do you get to write so well in HN?
Anyone who would abuse this overly wide access given to their org (by the dev) wouldn't make a single bleep about it and just keep scraping data and code quietly until the door is shut in front of their face. So I don't think your idea about how this should work is good.

If somebody wants to just shovel other organization's code into their silo then they are not incentivized to attack the current state of affairs; on the contrary, they are benefiting from them, why would they say anything at all?

> The author would probably have himself professionally disbarred if he knew what Disqus was doing with his blog.

I agree that we should be conscious of security in all things and apply universal standards but your comment comes off as a whataboutism and a discussion stopper.

We can and should address the security issues one by one. That a lot of things are broken does not mean we should throw our hands in the air and give up, no?
More charitable reading would be that they don't want to offend potential customers. I mean, I guess that can be seen as "cashing in," but then all good customer service could be dismissed in the same fashion.
Janet is a good option if you are looking for small binaries. Some people argue Janet is not really a lisp. Regardless, it has many lisp features you would expect like macros, is cross platform, and can produce statically linked binaries.
Sure, but I’m talking about the services mentioned in the featured article.

Amazon Care does not provide emergency surgery at the moment.

Health care is far more than just emergency services.
Funny thing is there was a .NET Framework "port" to FreeNSD a long time ago called Rotor...
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You can derive pattern though. You can learn about recuring weak links. And you can learn about solutions. Those are nice.
Another alternative for shell scripting in CL there is https://www.cliki.net/cl-launch
Each newsflash could cover those things anyway, but they choose garbage wedge issues and will continue to foment them when they cant find any: biden's dog was a recent controversy because talking about systemic problems doesn't get clicks and doesn't make people upset in the same way this type of BS does.
Thanks for the kind words! Our mobile app is built with React Native, website with React, and backend with Node/GraphQL. This is the first time I’ve used GraphQL, and it’s been a dream come true.
/bin/true will still forever irk me: https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/966896123548872705
Bernie Sanders isn't DSA, though generally the DSA likes him.