skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The culture, language and customs of contemporary California surfers and German football hooligans seems very different

How so? Apart from the obvious personality stereotypes you're drawing upon - chill vs aggressive, which exist in every culture, Germans and Californian cultures aren't that different. They have stop signs, alcohol laws, churches, jewellery stores, maps, family gatherings, weddings, funerals, christenings, horoscopes, sporting allegiances, dress codes, toilet and expectoration norms, sexual mores and food preparation standards.

So too did the ancients. I'm wondering how different you imagine these were? I mean, their technologies, foods, footballs and built environment were different, as they are with Germans and Californians, but to what end, culturally?
That's a very good example of using full stops in English for emphasis.
Given your goal, I’m surprised you haven’t found a solution to this already.

I had a similar goal, and with Atom, I’ve solved it with a hacked-together script that automatically backed up the installed packages and replayed the apm install when I called the script.

When switching to VSCode more than 2 years ago, there was a popular plugin to sync (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Shan.cod...). And as a sibling comment mentions, there’s now a built-in sync.

I’ve used it since the beginning and it works flawlessly. I’ve even used it between macOS (primary device), Windows and Linux (popOS) machines and it works great. VSCode does a great job in keeping platform-specific settings so you don’t break it for the other device.

It’s much better than the approach I’ve used with Atom because I do not have to think about it, it just happens in the background. The only thing you need to do is to enable the sync and then let it do its job.
What's also suspicious is there is a lot you can find online about the 1994 Vatican City hoax that they allude to, but nothing about Microsoft Coffee.

I think a really good prank using deep fake tech.
I agree with you on most things, but I don't quite see it as being a Luddite. I see it as the continued divergence of the closed-source software world and the real world, the former turning into an endless treadmill of forced change sold as upgrades and massive amounts of tracking and the latter being the only world where it's possible to have enough control over your tools to get anything of consequence done. My point is, the real world isn't standing still, and I don't want it to, whereas a Luddite would.

I suppose you can call me a Luddite when the fashionable closed-source hardware/software companies declare that keyboards are now obsolete and demand everyone use touchscreens or voice.
But we can’t be certain they did not entertain a fetish before their marriages...

Question is, does it matter? What if someone likes BBW and fetishizes it, do we care? If they then marry a BBW is it no longer a fetish?
> You think economic eligibility is idealistic? Also, you think racial eligibility is not?

I think income eligibility is an imperfect proxy just like race eligibility. But my actual point was that color/race-blind approaches are idealistic in places and spaces where colorist and racial activism is baked into the historical and contemporary fabric of society (e.g. Oakland).

> If the government is involved in any capacity, yes, I think that's reasonable. I think the government should be forbidden from using race as a criteria in any of its decision making.

This where I disgree, respectfully. If the government was a willing partner in explicit discrimination based on race from slavery > Jim Crow > New Deal > mass incarceration, then it should be a willing partner in righting the inequities created.

I can see the other argument that this evidence of exactly why we shouldn't have race-based approaches, but I feel this is an apples to oranges comparison. Assuming government-sponsored racism ended with the Civil Rights Acts of the 50s and 60s (which I don't believe) then your are looking at 300 years of policy and practice prejudiced against people of color vs. ~70 years of policy (and slowly adopted practices) either neutral or prejudiced in favor of people of color.

Anyways I feel like I'm condensing a complex topic, and this isn't the forum or format for me to go deeper. (not that I won't continue responding your questions)
Removable electrical motor for Bicycles
I think we have a hard time disconnecting our personal experience with the observations we make. When we look at a photograph of a person riding a bicycle down a path, even if we've never ridden a bicycle we've likely been outdoors, stood on a path, felt wind when we moved, etc. We may not be able to accurately simulate the experience in our mind but we can get close.

On the other hand, the starting point for an ML system interpreting that same image is essentially a stream of scalar values that tend to demonstrate multiple layers of periodicity (3-4 byte intervals for RGBA and then another layer per line of rasterized image data and yet another per frame if it's a video).

Here's a quick experiment. Let the video linked below play for a five count (sound is essential but a bit intense so maybe moderate the volume first) so you have some confidence it's not just me playing a rude trick, then close your eyes for a five count. There's going to be a major change in the sound when you get near 'five', now try to imagine how the scene changed before opening your eyes again:

https://youtu.be/qnL40CbuodU?t=25

I think without any reference from an embodied perspective, we're asking ML systems to understand the sounds (which are also streams of scalar values that demonstrate periodicity) the same way we interpret the representation visually.

(Also if you enjoyed the example above check out these two channels, some of them are mindblowing)

https://www.youtube.com/user/jerobeamfenderson1

https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisAllenMusic

And a fun video explaining it all - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gibcRfp4zA
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Too narrow a use case: Will only work on middle-endian processors.
In general you're right but I think for the specific pattern of checking preconditions and handling errors the author is right.

if file_exists(path) {
# use path ...
db = get_conn()
if db.is_connected() {
# use db ...
} else {
ret = new Error("db")
}
} else {
ret = new Error("path")
}

return ret

Every check we need to do increases our nesting and makes it look like it's got lots of different paths when really it has exactly one happy path and many error paths.

if ! file_exists(path) [
return new Error("path")
}

# use path ...

db = get_conn()
if ! db.is_connected() {
return new Error("db")
}

# use db ...

This is exactly my rule -- only if/else if it's the happy path that's branching.
Its uncached database hits that crash sites.

You pretty much never need that, but many/most sites do it somewhere anyway.

A static site running on a modem should be fine, but there is nothing saying they cant/arent using a CDN too, which would be even better.
The primary reason by far why I haven't done a lot more with the Pi is the lack of large enclosures.
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The screen is modern, displaying playback of an old taped video.

Little suspicious of the 16:9 aspect ratio. News broadcasts weren't wide screen until much later. Probably it is being displayed cropped?
There's another comment showing how to use OpenSSL to setup a https web server by providing a magic cli command.
This is an utterly insane point of view. What are you talking about? Should "human", "male" and "blonde" also be considered problematic? Those descriptors scoop up far greater and more diverse groups than "asian".

> To me, Asian just seems a word that was coined by British, French, German, colonial empires

How you "feel" about etymology isn't relevant, nor correct. Truth isn't something you conjure up with your feelings.
You need the Java runtime which is what, 70MB minimum and a few millions lines of code?
I don't really know what you are responding to here.

As I posited, there is research interest and a few people doing it clinically. Your links support this. What they don't support is the idea that this is typical clinical practice.
Nice but wow... I've done the telnet to a mail server on TCP port 25 trick over a hundred times. Only once did I take it almost as far as you. When our company was bought I sent an email from HR to my buddy saying that certain employees would be given the option of taking severance. My buddy asked all of his coworkers if they got that email, they said they hadn't. He then replied to the HR guy who told him he was the victim of a practical joke.
LTE et al is wayyyyy more complicated than WiFI/BlueTooth for what it's worth. I can get the idea that process boundaries help the large heterogeneous teams needed to ship a full featured LTE modem, similar to how microservices help large heterogenous teams ship code at FAANGs. It's infrastructure for dealing with human inadequacies rather than a technical requirement.
It is a thing in the US too. For example, I have to pay income tax on the annual "fitness reimbursement allowance" the company provides for us.

Very simplified version: we can spend up to $1k/yr on fitness related expenses and get them reimbursement. We submit a reimbursement request, and if it gets approved, I get the money back in my account. The HR page explicitly warns that any reimbursement received will count towards your income tax.
The concept of Monday being the first day of the week isn't what surprises me. It was interesting to see the first day of the first week of 2019 is a date in 2018. EDIT: And I'm not in any way rendering judgment, merely uttering surprise.

(The country that claims me as its citizen is irrelevant, and obviously we are indeed discussing ISO's definition of a "week". )
Personally, I find it easier to parse if the conditional is not only exhaustive, but itself returns a value (functional languages like Ocaml, Scala, Elixir have this).

Judging by the number of long, goofy-looking nested ternary expressions I find in Javascript code, a lot of people feel this way.
I'm open to SRE or non-SRE roles.
Oh man I was hoping this was an auto-mouse-jiggler, which might actually be useful.
This is a dangerous line of thinking, although it's not even clear what Doctorow is proposing.

It appears he may be advocating just erasing debt - meaning if I owe the bank $300k on my mortgage, I don't owe it any more and the bank has a $300k hole in its balance sheet.

That would be absolutely insane, and would destroy our modern system of finance as we know it. That means interest rates will go absolutely through the roof, because lenders would bear the risk of complete default if the government randomly forgives loans again (are we even going to allow loans any more in that scenario?). It also means that everyone who is in debt will receive a massive windfall, while those who have lived frugally will be punished. Most banks would instantly be out of business.

So I guess he means that the government will "forgive" debt by repaying it for you? That's like half a step better, but would result in disastrous inflation. Even if we're just talking about consumer debt (we're not, since he also mentions bonds), that amount is around $14T, not far below the total money supply (~19T). So either the government is going to more or less double the money supply by printing currency, or it's going to add nearly 50% to the national debt.

If it doubles the money supply, then everyone will be hit with massive inflation, meaning the money you have right now will be worth about half as much.

If it ratchets up the national debt, then we'll all be repaying it eventually in the form of taxes and lost government services.

All because he doesn't want people to have to pay for for the Tesla or Samsung smartphone that they bought (his examples)?
And nobody seems to recognize this emotional component, except the people doing the manipulation!

Screwing with my emotions is my #1 beef with tech today. Even more than the freedom thing.

Friends of mine that jealously guard and maintain their emotional state seem to have issued a blanket exception for tech.
Europeans were no different. It’s changed my perspective on who we are and not in a good way.
I'm not sure this is true. We did it right in Denmark and we're still in what is starting to feel like one long lockdown with no end in sight.

Our vaccination numbers are terrible: at the rate we are vaccinating all Danes will have started their first vaccination round by July 21st, 2022. [1]

We've had the Moderna vaccine since January 13th [2] of the previous year. This is not people failing, these are our leaders failing.

I was so gung ho about us coming together to make the sacrifices and beat this thing but now a year and a half later I'm done with the colossal failures of our leadership and the promulgation of fear everywhere.

[1] https://hvorlangtervi.dk/english

[2] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vac...
Are you saying that an Wuhan-style lockdown would have been a better or even feasible approach?

I don't think humans anywhere are able to "pull in the same direction" to the extent that such a lockdown is possible without an authoritarian government. Italy imposed pretty draconian rules for at least six weeks, and has still had to deal with a second wave and additional lockdowns.

Personally, I think that the principles of personal freedom (that such an authoritarian government is largely incompatible with) are much more valuable in the long run. Working through the disease has been messier in the last year, but the economic system largely based on these principles was also able to produce novel vaccines. While the last year has been rough, I'm much happier overall that I don't live in a place where an authoritarian lockdown is even possible.
I hope that the federal government can provide incentives to keep reactors running that would otherwise close prematurely.

5.1 gigawatts of American reactors are expected to retire this year: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46436

It's a shame that the US is retiring working reactors while still burning fossil fuels for electricity. Reactors are far safer and cleaner than fossil electric generation. It's mostly the low price of natural gas that is driving these early retirements. Low gas prices have also retired a lot of coal usage -- which is good! -- but we'd make more climate progress if those low prices didn't also threaten nuclear generation.

Some states like New York already provided incentives to keep reactors running for climate reasons:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=41534

Federal policy could be more comprehensive.
Looks like I'll have to feed it a few million more data sets to train it on.
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I agree, jamming a program in a single source file is not the best metric ever.

To be fair, that's just a line in the project's Readme, which is far from the best and doesn't even provide a concise description of what the project does.
Can’t think of any ISO standard off the top of my head, but there’s a few standards I’ve looked at purchasing before. Particularly IEEE, but some of those can be very expensive.

A lot of the standards I look at are ITU or from some independent vendor available for free or at a low cost.
I can't find any mention of it on contemporary Usenet via Google Groups search, and you'd think someone would have mentioned it in comp.os.linux.advocacy if nowhere else...
Rome was doomed for failure as soon as it transitioned to the Empire. Blaming it on some equivalent of "woke" people is ridiculous.

If anything, Rome would have probably lasted longer if the Gracchi had been successful.
IIRC, oil and gas companies knew of the crater, but that knowledge was for many years proprietary information belonging to Mexico's state-owned oil company Pemex who paid significant money for the geological studies of the area.
Famous last words while clicking 'Order now' on the Amazon website.
We did it in New Zealand.
"Determines" is too strong a word, since all human cultures are different - more different than our biology would suggest, but probably no more different than our respective micro-climates and natural resource distributions.

What would you say culture is, and what determines it?
NSS should have been a service spoken to over e.g. UNIX domain sockets.
How did textbooks help you? They help with giving you texts to read at your level, giving and translating examples, and with exercises, but I've found the "formal grammar" sort of rules entirely useless.
Too right. It's just evolution really, survival of the fittest.

Software that can afford to have 100 developers work on it will, on average, out-compete software that is sustained by 50 developers.

Software (note: not necessarily _good_ software, this could also be the shittiest software with a nice lock-in) that is good at making money, can afford more developers, lawyers and lobbyists.

It's nothing new under the sun, but it does suck in a major way.
I think the JP to US prices increased specifically, and more than any other price increases Japan post might have made. Japan Post removed the US from an existing shipping zone and marked it as its own shipping zone with higher prices. I have a statement from a US shipping provider (PirateShip) about the increase of outgoing USPS shipping prices that likely also explains the increase of incoming international mail as well:

> In late 2019, the US government threatened to pull out of the "Universal Postal Union," which is the international treaty that sets what postal services pay each other to trade mail & packages. This started a negotiation where the USA required the ability to "self-declare" the shipping rates it would charge other countries, instead of them being set by the treaty. This resulted in other countries "self-declaring" rates, too... all of which made international shipping through USPS way more expensive than it already was.
10% cashback is probably pushing it unless the wallet is giving away "platform tokens" as a growth hack at the beginning. 2 to 3% is probably more realistic given what merchants pay credit card providers.

Long term, if merchants were smart, they'd make their own reward systems on top of this to encourage usage.
> No such thing exists for fMRI, at minimum you need to buy a 3rd party processing system and may need a research key on your scanner.

This is not the case, for example see the GE BrainWave software.

https://www.gehealthcare.com/products/advanced-visualization...
Check out this 2-year-old New Yorker article, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-di...
> compared to the hell we've all had to endure for more than a year now

Speak for yourself!

My life was largely unchanged by covid beyond wearing a facial covering in public which I actually prefer. What a joy to not only walk into banks dressed like a bandit without getting arrested, but to be asked to do it and thanked for cooperating!

This certainly hasn't been any sort of hell for me, but catching covid let alone "long covid" seems likely to be quite awful and potentially life-changing for anyone.
It doesn't actually add to a retail worker's workload; retail workers (in the United States, anyway) are paid by the hour, and at any given moment will be forced to do something. Filling it with a laugh is a step up.

Your problem is/should be with capitalism, not with a joke.
Seems likely the same knowledge would unlock cheaper alternatives to full body clones (organs and treatments and so on).
> And just as there's only one original Mona Lisa, there's only one original NFT of the Mona Lisa

I apologize if I'm misunderstanding, but can't you create as many NFTs of the Mona Lisa as you want? What's to stop someone from just creating a second one, even the original owner of the Mona Lisa? You can't copy the Mona Lisa (at least not in such a way as to call it the original), but you can make another NFT of the real Mona Lisa and...as far as I can tell it's just as good.

I realize you can't copy the chain that's already descended from the first NFT, but why does that matter? You can still say this is a genuine NFT for the real Mona Lisa, and the problem is you can make as many of those as you want. Or at least that's how I understand it.

Copying something digital is very different from copying something molecular. A digital copy is as good as the original. A molecular copy is almost certainly possible to distinguish, and if you can't you may as well not have an original.
> by virtue of referencing a standard in a US law, congress unilaterally voids the copyright holder's claims

Well, that's not the only option. They could also buy the copyright or a perpetual license for the public or remove the references from the law. I would think that ideally getting perpetual free access for the public should have been done before referencing the standard.
I reached out to him and KOMO on Twitter, no harm in trying. Would be handy to find these reported references in tech magazines and radio programs.
How did the site implement https?
I'm sorry but I think this is hogwash. The idea that America could function for 6 weeks in a lockdown to the level described to actually stop the transmission, by the time transmission started, is not plausible to me, and I imagine many others. This would have entailed no one working at grocery stores, no deliveries, no travel, no global trade. I just don't buy that this was ever plausible for however long people suggest: 3 weeks, 6 weeks whatever. And to what end. When do we open up to the rest of the world. I think your sentiment is hindsight wishful thinking/blame assignment. Now, criticizing the fact that we did not try what I would term more effective measures to stop transmission are fair points. Wide-spread cheap testing, ramping up massive manufacturing of real N95 respirators for the entire country, I think these are more plausibly effective techniques we did not do that are worthy of criticism.
I'm not an open-source purist myself, and Polyform seems like it might be very useful for many kinds of projects.

Just be careful because some people get very salty about things claiming to be "open" when what they mean is "source-available".
> Now I read perl for a living so who knows if I made the right move!

I know it's fashionable to hate Perl these days, but I think this sounds like great and rare fun in 2021.
In that graphic, the Anglosphere, particularly the US, make up the vast majority of the traffic.
> Would you have the same demand for video?

Yes. I turn CC on for most videos, even movies or shows watched at home.
I wonder what will happen soon as an alternative society exists such that one with personal total debt can leave and start clean with 0 wealth ? Will they build a wall to keep those people in?
I just called KOMO. They confirmed they covered it, the footage is real, and it happened. In fact, the archives tech I talked to remembered it.
Microsoft was sued by Sun in 1997. The pranksters may not have realized they are publicly taunting their future opponent, but Gates probably saw it that way.
What makes you think many of their seed investors also did not buy Bitcoin as well? They can do both.
I imagine that I would have a hard time listing out all the points of consumption. For example, I would include "filing to make a corporation" on the list. However, when the police come to protect my business from burglars, do I add that to the list? Or would a "daily protection" make more sense? Higher up the ladder, when our intelligence agencies trade favors in exchange for weapons contracts, should lockheed pay for that? Or should the workers at the bomb factory? Or the municipality in which the factory exits?