skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A world where 50% of people live at the North Pole, 50% at the South Pole and nobody at the equator, is polarized. So is a world where 90% of people live at the North Pole, 10% at the South Pole and nobody at the equator.

First, in order to make sense, it should be "would like to live" not "live", with some context that a new city needs to be built, or something. Polarization is about opinions and attitudes.

Secondly, a world where 90% of people would like everyone to live at the North Pole and 10% would like everyone to live at the South Pole is less polarized. Society is able to make a compromise that is acceptable to more people.

If 8 billion people think soap tastes terrible, 1 person thinks soap tastes delicious, and nobody thinks soap tastes meh, we've reached consensus as a society. There will always be some issues where there is a strong consensus at one extreme or another, but that doesn't hamper society's ability to agree on decisions.
Leopard = meh

Snow Leopard = Awesome

Lion = meh

Yosemite = ok

Sierra = good

High Sierra = Awesome

Mojave = meh

Catalina = meh

Big Sur = meh

(snow leopard and high sierra were the best IMO)

Mac Admin for 15 years
Yup. This reads a bit like new grad in over their head.

“I was the most senior consultant on the case proposal”. Unless this guy was selling the work to the customer (normally what partners do), no he wasn’t the most senior. He was the new consultant in the back doing the grunt work.

And the “sit back and shut up” is actually good advice for someone who has never done consulting before. The client knows you’re a 20-something junior. They aren’t hiring you, they are hiring your partner who has 10+ years of experience.
> free press

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.

If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." - John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Sun, at a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1880
It used to be $15/mo and $20 in December.

It should be granted up front for uber use over the year, not spread out each month to try to scam you out of it.

With CSR you get a $300 travel credit that's automatically applied to any flights or car services. When you book travel you can use credits to reduce flight cost with a slider. It's much nicer for the user.

Signing up isn't technically challenging - it's forcing me to do it that bothers me. I don't like Comcast style customer relationships. If you're giving the reward just give it to me, don't make me jump through hoops.
Novell had it 20 years ago. Zenworks!
The "meaningful" thing that comes out of this is cover for management. That's meaningful to management.
descript.com works pretty well, but it's not free. Under the hood, it uses Google Speech-to-Text, so if you were creative enough, you could probably build something similar. I find it easier to pay descript.com when I need it. :) You can export tracks back out to video and audio multi-track editing apps with the Pro plan.
Glad you’re making headway and progress on your idea and glad you’re catching up on knowledge on youtube. My honest opinion is that you don’t need to know everything EE to get stuff done and if you indeed have a great idea that can potentially make some money, you can hire someone with experience in the field.
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I am worried that Google and Apple hold too much power over user's cell phone. What would be best possible alternative to take back the control?
From "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" to "Russia is using energy weapons". I wonder when they'll start claiming Kim Jong Un is in contact with hostile extraterrestrials.
It's possible without relying on the legal system or contract law. That's one of the interesting things about smart contracts. Steph could sell NFT shares in a smart contract stipulate in his contract to be paid in ETH at the smart contract address. The smart contract could then pay holders of his NFT shares a set % of his salary automatically.
You simply can't take 12-16 classes a semester, the day doesn't have enough hours for that. They _might_ have gotten permission from the professors to skip classes and just show up to the exams, which is _not_ learning.
Broadcom makes some good stuff now and then (Rpi’s)
The easiest path is to read Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman. Builds from the ground up and by the end (or after a second read) you will have a deep understanding. Book hits on all of of the tech you mentioned except Kube. For that read one of the original google papers on cluster management systems eg. Omega
Excatly. I get the feeling the same group of people in favor of this ban is heavily overlapping with the large population segment that wants legal marijuana? Like, its gotta be all or nothing here, you want this stuff legal, or not? Otherwise your gonna get contraband, perverse incentives, and very likely excessively harsh punishment on petty drug crimes....
It should be an internet rule that whenever someone calls something scientific or trashing something as poor science, they should provide scientific references. I'm referring to you here.
It’s a big pivot from php in terms of the level of the stack it’s targeting. That’s not necessarily a bad thing but keep in mind that there’s a bunch of associated skills, knowledge, and even culture that differ in web dev vs. for example distributed systems.
That's simple, you just stake more coins. Staking rewards go back into the stake, so it is compounding (ie. you stake 100, get a reward of 1, you are now staking 101). As long as you don't unstake, your stake will grow over time.

If you want to stake more coins than you have, then you need to acquire coins by other means (ie. buy them off someone who doesn't want to stake them).

Stakers also have an incentive to trade some of their rewards instead of re-staking them, because they want the network to get utilised rather than simply be 100% staked.
I think discussions of OOP and inheritance often miss the influence of Knowledge Representation on OOP: I’m not entirely clear of the history myself, but I’ve gotten the impression that knowledge representation research (things like frame systems) was a semi-independent influence on the design of OO systems
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You've become part of a cybernetic loop that you are not in charge of. There is no such thing as a "free" service. All social media platforms subvert human drives in favor of creating consumption habits that are destroying the planet. Even by your own admission you are addicted to Twitter, which should be telling you something.
>Rust is almost certainly (at least a large part of) the future

Can you name any design wins for Rust in a product's embedded SW, embedded OS, or device drivers? I've never seen it in the wild. How does Rust deal with hard RT?

I'd be interested to see what people had to say.
I too rarely got sick for years, even with international travel. Until I had kids, which I notice you don't mention anywhere in your comment.
The correct answer to the "find me a rock," problem is, "rock is ready to go, legal is still papering it but here's an email we can use as a letter of intent, so either way, they owe us a rock."
I'd have bought a dozen by now if they'd double the RAM and make it ECC.
Yes, and you can include everything in 'labor'. Like the cost of labor of the BS marketer.
Follow the guidelines and use the original title unless there's good reason not to. I don't consider vagueness to be a good reason.

The problem with the title that I was commenting on (it has since changed) is that almost everyone was reacting to the title alone without reading the article at all. If a vague title forces people to read TFA before they comment, all the better.
Out of curiosity, how do you envision going for full eradication without governmental intervention?
This is just wrong. Vastly more tests were done for the flu during the covid pandemic than have ever been done.
> Like it or not, masking has minimal effect on spreading aerosols

[citation needed]
The attack vector Makes more sense. Your enemies will always have new backdoors they don’t report so you need a many as you can get. Closing loop holes isn’t super effective because there will always be a new bug or exploit
Somehow I feel that wasting some developer time in a situation where informing all the parties involved would have probably undermined the research itself, is a lot less of a ethical breach than full blown coerced human experimentation with permanent effects on those people's lives, which this research is being compared to. The outrage on HN about this experiment has been mind-boggling to me, how sacred people hold keeping the Linux kernel and its maintainers' time pristine. And ultimately it seems that the research was useful, given the blast radius it produced.
The Scottish distillers should just ship whisky in tankers a few million gallons at a time. Much more cost effective.
Arss – an RSS reader that doesn't try to do too much
Fine fresh roasted coffee will say good as whole beans for at least a week or so IME, it goes bad extremely quickly after being ground though.
faster ads compiled from rust to webassembly. it's heading in that direction.
Having lost my mom... You might want to make that time.
Has anyone given the consideration that many of the positive tests have been common coronavirus colds or other things that may resemble flu and be diagnosed as such in a ICD10/CPT data dump ?
It's worth checking out the other links/blogs on this site. I read a lot of complaining about Leetcode, most of which I think is valid. That said, something that's not discussed often is its effect on interviewee's mental health.

I used to admin a large Discord server for junior software job hunters. It's pretty insane how many struggle from anxiety and stress directly caused by the interview formats popularized by Leetcode. The author here makes a pretty good point, honestly:

>Leetcode is a competitive programming platform at its core, not an interview platform.

I think this is where a lot of the stress comes from. Like the author, I mostly avoided Leetcode and focused on fundamentals (literally reading CLRS and implementing foundational algorithms).
The problem with Hilbert’s program was, loosely, that the power to construct propositions was stronger than the power to mechanically check proofs. That is, the formal language of propositional logic + number theory can construct propositions that are not decidable in a finite number of steps.

There are two responses to this discovery: tweak the formal system so you can’t accidentally run into these traps, or shrug and just be more careful about how you prove things.

Now that the world is increasingly computerized, it’s become clear that the right choice is to stop using a default form of mathematical reasoning that causes major issues for mechanized proof assistants and instead build a new foundation that is friendly to computers (but can be extended to support the power of classical formalisms)
I’d also add that live systems like Smalltalk avoid a lot of the fragility and dynamism of inheritance by the way the browsers show all the currently active extensions to the class, and all the current subclasses in a fairly compact view. It’s a lot easier to find and modify affected child classes in this way than it is with “code in files” systems.

Also, the way CLOS does inheritance avoids a lot of the drawbacks too by decoupling classes and inheritance from behavior.
Users warned against upgrading to Ubuntu 21.04
The math never added up. Buying carbon offsets is mostly a PR move by corporations to show that they're doing something but to avert disaster requires restructuring the entire consumption based economy and that ain't gonna happen any time soon. We are already on track for more than 2 degrees warming: https://theconversation.com/there-arent-enough-trees-in-the-...
I believe that Rust is positioned to be the Next Big Language for server-side and application programming, taking over for C/C++/Java.

I'm not sure if there's a .NET-compatible implementation or interop but it'd likely take over C# as well if so, if Microsoft decides to invest in it. They have pretty good languages like F# already but Rust is designed around zero-cost abstractions and avoids the garbage collection penalty that comes with running on the JVM or .NET.

Rust offers performance, type safety, memory safety, and metaprogramming that are provided by few other (largely academic) languages, while permitting multiple programming styles and escapes from those restrictions when you need them.

On the other hand, I don't think the Web-oriented languages will go away unless someone develops a variant of Rust or Rust framework intended for building websites. However, for everything else that's not running inside a web page or supplying the content in a web server, I think we'll see a gradual transition to Rust; the web server will be in Rust; the JavaScript compiler will be in Rust; the browser will eventually be in Rust; and so on.
There are very few areas where mechanizable proofs have had success in math. I think some of the classification of finite groups was done with computer assistance, and some of the cases of the four color problem as well. But basically these are hand-crafted programs. Think of someone telling you that software engineers will be replaced by software writing computers -- that was the (failed) promise of UML. This is one of those situations where the software is generally not smarter than the person writing the code, and mathematical research, at any point in time, is driven by about 2-300 of the smartest people alive in the world at any time, with another few thousand adding finishing touches and elaborations on their work, and perhaps 10,000 adding small marginal adjustments to it. The idea that mathematicians' jobs are going to be automated by software is orders of magnitude less likely than the idea that software engineers will be automated by software. Lots of grand plans, but not much in the way of productive, transferable progress.
I spent way too long trying to figure out how giving your kids your lifetime's earnings would be a performance hack beyond, you know, giving them a head start, before realizing what the headline was talking about.
Off-topic, is there any cue in the above comment to indicate 'motivated' should be read as 'has a defined motive' vs 'enthusiastic / hard-working' ?
Nah. They count every puliminary death as flu. They just called it covid last year.
Show HN: Appleshouter – iOS Push Notifications for PWAs and Web apps
Use browser-based conferencing?
Should have mentioned that I only mentioned watch mode issues because that’s the only issue I’ve had with the JS compiler. It’s been fast enough, although the app I’m working on is relatively small.
I saw this same information about flu disappearing in Hong Kong about a year ago. So this wasn't a matter of predicting an effect so much as translating it from one region of the world to another.

And yet the medical establishment in the US has continued to push the flu vaccine on everyone. I can only assume that this over-zealousness helps the anti-vaccine movement.

BTW, the flu death stats quoted in this article are mostly from pneumonia rather than influenza [1]

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
The fact that he called covid a flu varient have tipped you off to the level of expertise involved. Did you really get hooked by this bait?
Ah, man, I get being anxious in interviews but it never occurred to me that newbies would be stressed out by their (lack of) Leetcode score. It's totally unnecessary of course - the people who've racked 1500 problems are probably as unemployed as you are :p
What’s a good way to pickup CS skills in a well rounded manner outside of a CS degree?
Moving from Sysadmin to DevOps rolls and need to learn this stuff.
I can relate so much to this. can't agree more. make time for your parents
It’s great to see more companies pricing this way, and I’d even be happy to pay a flat fee for each support ticket or to vote on future roadmap with my money.
One year ago:

Broadcom bluetooth/wifi chips ran out of firmware hot patch ram slots long time ago. Company seems to be too cheap to respin the rom mask with all the fixes baked in. From what I remember even brand new iphone x ships with no room for BT firmware patching.

RECON 2019 - Reversing and Exploiting Broadcom Bluetooth (Jiska Classen, Dennis Mantz) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Mi8_9ABCc

35C3 - Dissecting Broadcom Bluetooth (Jiska Classen, Dennis Mantz) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nI9ok7iQg
Yeah, furu is shockingly close to cheese in flavor. It's very pungent and salty, so you can't just just chop off a huge slice and eat it like you would cheese, but you could probably blend it with creamier tofu/soy milk to make something similar to normal cheese.
This is a good concept. Identifying what skills the student may lack if the lesson is difficult is a really good idea. It is missing from too many books in which the author just assume a student will be able to identify what he or she should learn to understand a specific topic.
70/30 beef from a local butcher. No additives.
Ever since I read the blog The Last Psychiatrist back-to-front, I've been suspicious of any article that contains the phrase "like a movie".

The author of this article is suffering from a severely miscalibrated valuation of her past; she values other people's observation of her failure over the failure itself. The shame she feels (as the author of TLP says- no guilt, always shame) comes from being observed by others as a failure, rather than the existence of the failure in reality. If she could snap her fingers and erase all traces of the startup from everyone else's memories but retain it herself, she would not be "hiding from her shame", and it is likely that her negative feelings would go away. (The fact that this is true is the root of her problem.) Appearance, not reality- when she tells us what she went through, her descriptions involve important names and visual descriptions; "Madison avenue", "glass doors", "like a movie". It's not her fault; most people think like this. I certainly did, and still sometimes do.

In the first paragraph, she tells us how her pain manifests; it's whether or not she's "interesting enough to talk to at parties", i.e. whether or not other people are impressed by the appearance of her actions, in the present. This makes no sense. If you have an interesting story, how could it become less interesting when other people observe it? If I used to play Major League Baseball (I didn't), would my pride in myself be related to how many people in the present knew I used to play? Of course not- I don't need them to know, because I already do.

(An aside- she didn't experience 'not being interesting enough to talk to', she experienced 'being ignored by a shallow assistant producer who was assessing her for value that could potentially be extracted for personal reasons'.) If your stories are not interesting to the people around you, you are with the wrong people.

To avoid situations like the author lived in for six years, you must accept reality and feel guilt over your own actions rather than shame from your actions being observed. There is nothing shameful about a business venture failing from lack of preparation. It's a hell of a lot more than 99% of the population has done. Who among us has pitched a company to a venture capitalist? You should be able to be a boring person at a party that no one is talking to and enjoy your own memories of swinging for the fences and failing- your past actions, successes, and failures don't change depending on how much people know about them.

It doesn't matter if other people know what happened to you in the past, because you know, and that's what has to drive your emotional state. If you did something bad, feel guilty and don't do it again. If you did something good, feel proud and do it again. If you can learn to worry more about what happened than what people saw, mental peace will find you.

"If you want to be seen as someone who sits up straight, don't sit up when other people are looking. Sit up all the time."

A taster: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/10/power.html
In my experience, ESP8266 development doesn't rely very much on the datasheet. Thats because there is a large community around one or two chips, and therefore a single driver implementation is good enough for everybody to write high level code on top of. There's little to no register interaction, and no need to look up how the peripherals work. There's no ARM Cortex I can think of that has this development style.
The photo finish thing was part of the family business of my neighbors, where I grew up. I did it as a side gig to going to school/college, where I studied electronics, then software engineering. The software I wrote during all that, for the results processing of these cycling events, and of which I sold a few copies around the world, was the reference to get me my first programming (day) job: https://www.totaalsoftware.com/products/stagerace

Edit: looks like the Amstel Gold guy is still using a copy of my software, he has it on his website, neat!
The European System of Monopoly
No one is good with Excel. Only Socrates is, and he knows he isn't good with Excel.
Anybody care to weigh in on something I can't figure out. Last October I had some sort of illness, with severe flu like symptoms.

However my nasal swab PCR test, taken 48 hours after symptoms, came back negative. I assumed it was flu, but everything I'm read suggests that flu is virtually unheard of this season. For a standard cold, it seemed to severe (102 F fever, body aches and chills). I also had a strong reaction to the first Covid vaccine dose. What's the most likely explanation here?
I share your view of what working mathematicians think like on this subject. I summarize it thus: how many interesting theorems are there in Category Theory? And the answer you get from proponents varies, but it seems to be like 1-3 with some being kind of a stretch. I would love to learn of a body of theorems like those of analysis or topology or algebra, but by comparison there seems to be very little "there" there. I would be happy to be proven incorrect on this!
I'm sad to announce that I fucking called it on the day of the Rust foundation's formation [0].

Say what you want, but the problem here is that you don't need to give board seats to those who have tons of cash, rather instead have them sponsor it, like how the R foundation has done.

Facebook essentially bought a board seat to drive and prioritise which features they want in the development of Rust.

The wolf eats the same grass as the sheep and gets praise for it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26124316
I've become a wsl convert now as I can trust windows to deal with sleep/wakeup and wifi much better than linux. If macosx experiences a developer exodus I think it's likely many will follow suit. Especially with things like WSLg coming out