skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did witness a Japanese style in the 1990's - a book of coding blocks was being used with the primary value the coder was adding was glueing then together.

Back then, I thought it was idiotic; how could a professional sit there and copy from others.

I now view it as genius - save your effort for the hard problems.
Been drinking more green tea and have been cutting out a lot of the alcohol. I'll try cutting it completely for a month. Thank you.
Thank you.

Writing tests and documentation or diving deep into debugging hard issues is what I consider part of "good work" (and that I have also enjoyed doing), and I can't wait to do good work. It just has to be compatible with the rest of life. It's mostly the way we work that has to change rather than the content of the work.
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I'm saying this informatively rather than as a nit-pick but

Because Result<T, E> is an enum, that can represent two things

is an incorrect use of that terminology - Result here is a tuple (it might possibly be a union but I hope not - those are really weird). Tuples are a really good data structure to get more familiar with since they do a lot of stuff that may be inobvious from the outside. A lot of folks will equate them to arrays and arrays can usually be used to represent them but a type-safe tuple (or n-ple pronounced EN-pull) is, essentially, the useful part of structs that aren't classes.

If you're not yet familiar with tuples I'd suggest spending some time reading up on them since they're a very strong tool in the developer toolbox.
> nine congressmen have asked for an investigation

Is that change from within? Is this not proving my point?

> else they wouldn't have even started that research department to begin with

You couldn't think of a single other reason to start a research department? Like, say, to say you're doing research but without regard for the results?
> The point is that the most-work chain is allowed to be ignored if the politics are done right.

If the best argument against PoW is that people can ignore it, then I don't know what to say to you. Like, don't let me stop you then: go run a Bitcoin miner that ignores PoW, and see if you can convince anyone else to accept your forked coins at 1:1 parity with real Bitcoin.

> Maybe a picture will help

I never once brought up monetary policy, so I'm just going to ignore what you wrote about it. You're answering questions I never asked.

> PoW is ultimately subject to politics which means the whole system is subject to politics.

PoW is ultimately subject to market forces. Miners regularly switch between Bitcoin and BCash, depending on what's profitable at the moment. This indicates that miners are not loyal to any ideology; they're only trying to optimize revenue. Thus the simplest explanation as to why Bitcoin has a much higher PoW than BCash is that Bitcoin has higher demand. Hate to break it to you, but the market has spoken -- there's far more demand for Bitcoin than BCash.

But, let's not mistake that for some grand conspiracy against it. No one is stopping BCash from overtaking Bitcoin; the onus is on the BCash project to convince people to value it more than Bitcoin.
Kobo readers have Pocket built in. Would be nice to have straight RSS too but I send long reads to my reader all the time.

reMarkable has a Chrome extention to send stuff to its devices, though it's a bit less seamless.
PPAs are specific to one commercial distribution. Shouldn't they offer a flatpak or something similarly cross distro?
I don’t want anyone’s money. I’m just here for discussion.
I'm curious what is the situation in the UK with regards to the universalness of banking services, especially electronic ones. .

In the US we have a large portion of the population that is "unbanked" for a varaity of reasons and have to rely on sketchy and scam financial services like those prepaid debit and credit cards and "check cashing places".
I can speak only for the Pebble Time Steel, but it is leaps and bounds better than the gameboy color.

I would kill for an equivalent display in a laptop - saturated colours and eink readability in direct sunlight with 30hz refresh
Isn't it weird when all of us individually knew forced password change is more harm than benefit, but it took literally decades for this to become institutionally admitted?

Just imagine, maybe a subset of neurons inside your brains have amazing ideas that could change your life, but it might take decades (or never) for them to surface to the conscious level where you realize "oh, I have an idea".

How to make sure organizations are not less than the sum of their parts?
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They recently removed bookmark descriptions and the justification I read was that it was old code and hard to maintain, so maybe we're lucky and they'll improve that UI next.
Pure python - under pypy - on my system faster than all of the above :D
Years ago someone pointed out that the whole alien invasion thing doesn't make that much sense because you're deep in a gravity well at that point, and there are plenty of resources in the Oort cloud and the outer asteroids.

More likely for a sentient species to watch helplessly as an advanced civilization strip mines their outer system of resources long before they can get to them, and not only not be able to even throw rocks high enough to hit them, but perhaps find themselves stranded there not even able to take proper revenge.
> The idea is to transform XML RSS to JSON and transform any article URL to plaintext by a nodejs script via an HTTP API SaaS or whatever you call it.

So not really an RSS reader.
April 2 (?) interview, (20/20?) - he says it could be his laptop, or it could be fake - he doesn't know - I thought that came out recently establishing that yeah it most likely is his laptop, he's pulling a 'I can't recall' - then feel sad for past drug addiction.
( https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=20%2F20+hunter+sa... )

So I would not say "entirely unsubstantiated" -

In fact I would read between the lines and be real - he's certainly seen the articles quoting emails and pics and such - if this was a setup / fake plant - he could of said 'hey that could be my laptop, but I never emailed X and never had a pic of Y - so the thing is false flag - He did say deny the content and owned up to the possibility that it was his hardware - so..

If I'm wrong and don't know the whole context I am open to consider whole truth, admittedly have not watched the whole interview (yet, and don't want to, but will if people say this or that)

At this point it certainly seems that twitter censored something as voting disinfomation or election manipulation - and that by censoring it twitter actually created disinformation / election manipulation.

With this, being such an important thing - I am okay if corrected and find out my current understanding is wrong.
The mailing list[0] has been trucking along. Not with a lot of force, but at least one post per month.

[0] https://lists.j-core.org/pipermail/j-core/
Thinking of market demand - this guy hasn't even sold the three he built for $666, which seems really decent for a full system already ready to go. I'm tempted myself but wouldn't get much use out of it because I am deeply embedded into Apple and I'm Ok with that, I use my reMarkable tablets to scratch my e-Ink itches.
In case you or anyone else doesn't already know, ABe also livestreams on his YouTube channel. Recently he's been drawing a new short manga.

https://youtube.com/c/abflygm
Given the nature of what you're trying to do, arguably, there is very little for you to do. As you've already observed, "normal" human visual acuity is already wildly incapable of perceiving 2^256 different possibilities as distinct anyhow. If normal humans are 200 bits short of the desired 256 (and I'm still feeling generous claiming we could distinguish 2^56 different images of this type, but it's a nice round number to make my point here), color blind people are 203-ish bits short or so. It's not that materially different.

Normally when discussing being color-blind sensitive we're discussing not embedding 2 or 3 bits of information into colors that can't be distinguished by those who are color blind, but in this case, we're trying to jam massively more bits than anyone can handle into an image, so it's not clear that much is called for other than tweaking where the bits get lost a bit.

Or, to put it another way, relative to the desired goal, we're all already massively "colorblind". Those who are what we humans would call colorblind are, in relative terms, hardly at a disadvantage at all for once, because we're all so many orders of magnitude short of the mark.
"What's more, 92 percent of the bottles recycled yield such high quality material, it can be used again in drink bottles. In some cases, the system has already reused the same material more than 50 times."

Also: "Its success is unarguable – 97% of all plastic drinks bottles in Norway are recycled, 92% to such a high standard that they are turned back into drinks bottles. Maldum says some of the material has been recycled more than 50 times already. Less than 1% of plastic bottles end up in the environment." [0]

Just articles I found quickly, my friend who split his time between the US and Norway before the pandemic was telling me about it.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/12/can-norw...
Sounds good to me. Will do.
There are available eInk with a DSI interface and Linux drivers? It shouldn't be that hard to build a DIY eInk slim tablet with a PiZero or for some, with a CM4.
Sorry, but you're not right, at least in the way that Rust uses the terms "enum" and "tuple." In Rust, an enum is a sum type (also called a "discriminated union" in some other languages; we don't use this term for Reasons), and a tuple is a product type (like arrays). Result is an enum.
> it is hard to follow what the last episode is saying

I found it hard to follow what most episodes were saying, and I changed my interpretation several times, always feeling that I'm on the verge of understanding, but not quite getting it.

And I actually liked it that way.
Despite the issue where it would be trivial to brute force similar looking but not identical 'avatars', I think this still has a few good uses for non-identification.

1. Creating at least some default avatar. Not to be used to verify identity but just somewhat better than having a very limited set of default images. Having rate limits on account creation would prevent most brute force methods.
2. Avatar suitable for partial-identification for very small populations. Imagine a matrix/Element room that as <100,000 people. The hash/math could be modified to drastically trim down the space of the hash (e.g. 2^256) to something similar to the size of the room.

#2 sounds pretty interesting. It could be expanded by making parts of the image/avatar dependent on some other input other than the user ID like the user's role in the chat group. Another segment/ring could something more short lived and relative like just identifying users in recent chat messages.
You're right about the capitalism/trade distinction and it was a mistake to group them together. My post was pertaining more to trade than capitalism proper.

"its shortcomings are numerous:"

Can we elaborate more on these points? I don't view many of them as that fatal or bad particularly.

Take positional goods. If there's no negative externalities, how is that bad? If person A wants to give lots of money to person B for a diamond, that has zero negative impact on me. Person A is presumably happier and person B is presumably happier (otherwise they wouldn't have traded). Nobody is losing in a nontrivial way here. You could maybe argue that a society with status strata is undesirable, but it's a bit of a stretch to lay the blame for that on capitalism, diamonds (or family pedigree or whatever) would be a status marker irrespective.

Take quasi-sociopathic companies. Yes, they're amoral and generally will do anything for profit, but this is mostly a point about externalities. A chemicals company will treat their customers extremely well but will dump in the river because those impacted aren't their customers. There's examples of businesses treating their customers atrociously (e.g lead spiking of turmeric, not doing safety recalls, etc), but these are exceptions and aren't the rule, brand equity all the way through the supply chain incentivizes the opposite in general. Every business I patronage treats me like royalty and it's no coincidence.

Regarding races to the bottom, do you mean things like the zero sum competion for speed among HFT firms? Isn't this waste just an inevitable byproduct of competition? As an industry, they've largely successfully automated away expensive human market makers, despite this zero sum waste that comes from that competition. It's not efficient to have 5 supermarket chains with 5 legal department and 5 HR departments, but we accept that we need that waste for competiton to function.

Regarding rent seeking, that's fairly broad and it'd be better to discuss specifics.
Funny, a couple days ago the title was "Huawei spied on Dutch bla bla". Today it's "may have spied".

The original article (well, the translation bondarchuk posted here) says they had the access. Not that they did anything with it.
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Was there a big run of 4.7 inch eink screens recently? Lilygo has a similar set of products: 4.7" screen powered by ESP32 with different battery connectors, touch screen overlay, and a few case options (some of which are basically just repurposed phone bodies). Theirs comes out to ~$50 if you get touch + a case
> Bucking a major trend, company speaks out against the age-old practice.

Next sentence:

> Microsoft is finally catching on to a maxim that security experts have almost universally accepted for years

So ... they're not bucking a major trend?
Cryptocurrencies are absolutely taxable — at least in the USA. It’s a gigantic pain in the ass that I feel every April. I don’t know why the USA makes taxes so painfully difficult and complex but that’s another topic and something they can improve on.
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I wonder if it's more common for that language than other languages. Probably not many people have enough expertise in many different languages to compare fairly across them.
> Because it eludidates the hypocrisy of trying to claim that Lin Wood's call for Pence's execution was "technically" a call for a legal trial and execution and not for the mob violence that actually resulted.

Who do you think is trying to claim that?
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Funnily enough, there's a whole segment of people who simply know words like duodenum, jejunum, etc because a large segment of Metal Gear Solid 2 took place inside the "intestines" of a giant submersible vehicle.
Oh, now I know why I hate that ladder E: your sight tells you it's an E, but it has a bit more up, so it analyses it, and it's still an E, and the process repeats until your sight tells you that can't possibly be an E anymore.

It has the same vibe than this novelty facemask, if you wore several of them: http://www.naijanetwork.com/uploads/imageupload/997/FLM4TP8P...
Rain is mostly free if ocean is all that is downwind of you. Most of the West Coast of the United States is lush because the terrain catches most of the water that would otherwise flow much farther inland.
I totally understand, that sucks a lot. But it is just one data point. Also small nitpick but you say "Android phone" but it was probably an issue just with OnePlus and you would have been fine if you had a Pixel.

edit: I don't want to sound like I'm blaming you for buying a OnePlus btw (I had one myself)
I am keeping busy, so i got that going for me. I do wish I had more driven people around me to vibe with. How important is blood pressure?
Microsoft has that.

Not plaintext, but encrypted (not hashed) with the idea that they can be used for things like that.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...
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Sounds like something from Monty Python!
Sure in a theoretical world that doesn't exist you could have a DPO where nobody sells any shares. I'm not sure what relevance that has to our evaluation of the actual world that exists, though.
What changed? The community? You? Something else?
> Rotating passwords every so often is good advice

Why, though? The article debunks, with evidence, the usual reasons people give for requiring rotations.

If something we doesn't measurably increase security, we should scrap it.
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Oh, mostly personal.

How to be a kinder person.

How to not take things for granted.

How to contribute more to my community.

How to accept that due to a drift in my world views, I will likely never have as close a relationship with my parents as when I was young.

How to decide if one should withdraw from the world as much as possible or embrace it.

How to view every person as valuable.

How to respect every person even when they are creating problems for you.

How to cope with long term illness in the family.

How to feel about having amassed an amount of money that seems disproportionate to my contribution to society.

How to disagree with people without resenting them (even when you believe the things they believe are hurting people).

How to raise a kid who is curious and interested in things.

How to raise a kid that shuns cruelty.

How guide a kid away from traps you fell into yourself without taking over their life.

How to show people you appreciate them.

I'm not saying no book has helped with any of the above. But I have never read a book that fixed one of these problems or really even ever told me anything very interesting about them. What to do is mostly obvious. How to get oneself to do those things is the hard part. And I think that kind of change doesn't come from reading one book. It comes from many absorbed over a long period of time. It comes from daily devotions (not specifically of the Christian variety, though I have seen those guide people well too).

Maybe I'm wrong but that's the best I've figured out.
European comics and novels did that before Japan ;).
And with far more mature and adult themes.
Because then people would ignore their IP rules. Which would probably be pretty devastating for high profile things like Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
wow that would be super awesome, have to check if licensing is possible (probably not)
Certain lessons need to be re-learned the hard way.
this is amazing :)
That text is for a technology demo of full self-driving, not for the production car.

Every sales page related to autopilot has visible warnings regarding driver attention and do not suggest you can sit on the backseat in any form...
Programming style could mean different things: architecture, design patterns, spelling, naming, favorite languages, favorite domains, coding styles (tab vs spaces, where to put braces, space or no space before functions).

What probably matters a lot is how programming was learned (self taught, at school, availability of resources from the country / in the language of the person…) as well as the variety of code which the person read / contributed to.

No, that does not answer the question at all because I have no idea :-)

With respect to naming, English being a Germanic language rooting a good part of its vocabulary to the French language, it would be interesting to compare German code and French code both written in English and find out whether German (resp. French) people tend to use more words rooted from the German (resp. French) language.
I should add that a password which you actually need to remember, like the master password to a password manager, should never be used online. The more isolation you can maintain the better. This way offline attacks against stolen hashes are unlikely to find anything, since they will only contain randomly generated passwords.
They could issue new shares, but that would be even worse for the existing shareholders, because it would create selling pressure and dilute them.
Yes, but maybe a company or organization is, in fact, looking at political climate change solutions, but needs tech hires for their operations, etc.

As the target audience for a job board like this, the question I am starting with isn't "how can tech solve climate change?", it's "how can I apply my tech skills to a problem like climate change?".
Note that the OP is a Python user, not a Julia user. The Github profile is a bunch of Python packages and the Julia code wasn't even optimized (https://github.com/00sapo/cython_list_test/pull/5). If this test says anything, it at least would say that a inexperienced Python user could pick up Julia and do pretty well, even if the code they write isn't great. I think the right thing to do is just to help this guy learn to code for performance a bit better: it'll be better for him and would bring some positivity.

Even if it doesn't say that, bashing people who use Julia for a repository made by a Python user is a new level of HN trolling.
Agreed. I've been using it for years, and much to my surprise I've been able to convert most of my extended family into using it. The fact that our parents (60s-70s) are using it successfully to post and share pictures as well I think is a good sign of it's accessibility. The rich media, good voice/video support, and ease at making multi-user discussions are all excellent. The persistence across devices is excellent, and I love that it's just as easy to use on the desktop as it is on mobile.

I do think there's some improvements that can be made, such as a better visibly into how to sign up without a phone number (I think this is still the default on the phone app) and a more visible download option on their website (the free version is buried under "Resources" -> "Downloads". You can make backups, but there's no easy method to do a plain text export. I get the feeling sometimes messages get "Stuck", and there's been issues in the past with notifications not being sent or push notifications not getting through certain Android sleep states. Sometimes I'll edit a message just to "resend" it such that it's delivered.

Overall though, It's still my secure messanger of choice by far. Glad to see it discussed here.
I interviewed at a Dutch company that had offices in Paris and the French programmers insisted in using French for all identifiers. Effectively it was job security for them.
I didn't really understand your explanation so I might be restating your ideas, but just in case:

> And then - just to keep it confusing - we have to split both of those groups of five semitones, so... we arbitrarily split them as 2-2-1 (i.e. WbWbWW keys). Thus the white/black keyboard pattern, starting at C, of WbWbWWbWbWW. If only someone had explained all this in grade school.

We don't arbitrarily split them! It was very much made on purpose to match the diatonic scales, which are very natural due to being a chain of fifths. E.g. from F ascending 5ths: F-C-G-D-A-E-B-¡F!

It's not arbitrary that we based modern keyboards around heptatonic scales! Then we added some black notes so we can transpose, which is pretty convenient on 12-TET.
Check this twitter thread out.

https://twitter.com/jmgosney/status/714599256410054657
Of course the community is friendly: all dissent is ruthlessly crushed and removed. It feels very friendly and nice until you start to dissent, then it turns on you hard.

I posted an article saying I now recommended elm and was a part of the reason we chose it for our product. But I also said some things I disliked about elm.

So I was banned.

No warning.
Or they are stimulated by new ideas and and general patterns? To those kinds of people writing how something that already exists works is supremely boring. It doesn't require narcissism