skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as far as I can tell this is what inx.co is doing and they are about to launch. interesting company sounds like they have lofty plans and an executive board that has some interesting people (former nyse and tsx execs). both a platform for 'traditional' crypto but also building an exchange for fully regulated 'digital assets' a la digital representations of stocks etc
Is he talking about this theory?

The Grand Unified Programming Theory: The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow with Principle-based Warehouse/Workshop Model

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
Remind me of python based "rash" application that did the same thing with sqlite based CMD history.

Kinda wish you made the same variables savable and supported additional search options (see rash) at https://pypi.org/project/rash/
I would say that’s pretty good given Canada’s standard of living.
Not even a week. The assholes couldn't wait ONE WEEK before trying to spy on all their users. Is this a record for losing the trust of an established user base?

I think the worst is yet to come. I'd venture most users don't even know this happened yet.
Popularity at school linked to age position in class – study
This version didn't exist until GistNoesis flipped the sign, so no, it's not.

This gets to a larger philosophy of open source: we should encourage people to fork when they want to iterate on someone else's work, however minor that iteration may be. This is open source working as intended.
> As such, punishing him will do nothing to de-incentivize this from happening again.

It can, if word spreads that defined benefit pensions aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. My friends and I place zero value on DB pensions, as should anyone else unless they’re promised by the federal government (who can print dollars so they can never be unfunded).

If I am evaluating two jobs offers and one gives me a DB pension (not from government) and one gives me a 401k, I’m going to value the DB pension at zero and go with the 401k.
If you know the structure of the file so that you are comfortable reading it a bit at a time, and you’re confident the structure won’t change, C has several ways to control how much of the file you read in. You could just write a python module to handle this situation.
Does the Huffost CEO pay take advantage of staff with disabilities by paying them less than minimum wage?
It was bad faith of DHH to say that posting the pyramid was meant to compare the list of names to genocide. The good faith interpretation would make it extremely clear that the employee was comparing the list of names to the lowest rung in the pyramid AKA the farthest removed from genocide. That rung is simply called "biased attitudes" and includes a wide span of things, none of them remotely comparable to genocide and several of them could be used to accurately represent the list. Eg. "Fear of differences", "Stereotypes", "Justifying biases by seeking out like minded people"

I don't really understand how or why DHH would construe that as "you're comparing a list of company names to genocide"
Do you think that accounting is always correct, accurate and not rigged?
I agree, I do think building more housing would help. However, my point is that I don't see that happening anytime soon. We've only seen light forms of the policy changes this would require, and many haven't even passed. There's a lot of opposition to these policy changes, and they have money on their side. And even when (if) they do change, it will take some time for them to have an effect.

My age group is at the age of looking to put roots down and have children. For many of us it makes more sense to leave than to wait 10-20 years and hope things get better.
Kitchen Timer app for iOS, written in Python. Source code available
Itch is an indie video game store, which got called out today in court by Apple’s lawyers for having “unspeakable” games ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Before being aquired by Facebook, Whatsapp might have had a non-evil ToS that didn't automatically assume acceptance of changes. I really don't know details here.
And ARRR is that fun
court jester that might be a Rothschild someday.
I like this too! I think the flat packing is a pretty great idea, actually - cost of shipping seems to me to be likely a double-digit percentage of the cost for a manufacturer. So that’s not nothing.

I wonder how the mouth feel changes with this; this seems like the sort of thing that El Bulli would have played around with back in the day. Perhaps we can get some chefs interested in finding new pasta shapes.
Had 15 GitHub followers in 2019? You can get $4kAUD of crypto for minimal effort
What's worrying is not the population drop by itself, but the widespread belief that it's caused by ridiculous housing prices that we're not effectively addressing.
Young people in Sweden only use Snapchat
FAANG hire maybe the top 5% of SEs. By definition most of us will never get there. Especially if you don’t have the willpower to waste months for training to the interview.
I don't see systemic racism as being something activists say for shock effect.

The effects of Systemic racism is quantifiable and reproducible. You can simply do things like sending resumes to different employers with no meaningful changed but making the resume seem more like it's written by somebody of a different race. From what I see westernized Asians and Caucasians are preferred, anybody who sounds too foreign or too much like another minority is not.

Affirmative action is meant to counterveil this but in itself is the most brazen and blatent example of systemic racism in society, involving both power and prejudice, since affirmative action has teeth. The entire function of it is to put your finger on the scale to ensure certain racial groups get hired in preference of others.

Sure prejudiced beliefs have likely declined in general since say the 60s but racism is prevalent and omnipresent and hidden behind euphemisms and not called racism. The big reason why "systemic racism" specifically has come into vogue is that people are more opaque and dishonest about their prejudices for the sake of social survival.

People advocate for systemic racism while proudly calling themselves anti racists. Those against affirmative action and such also consider themselves anti-racists, but seem unconcerned that no affirmative action would effectively lead to a society where certain groups will certainly disperportionatey suffer from systemic racism - often conveniently to their own benefit.

I can't see racism as not pervasive, although I think it's easy to start fearing prejudice and microagressions from others that simply don't exist out of paranoia, to end up getting oppressed by phantoms.
It's impractical to demand laws to protect people from all incarnations of their own stupidity or credulity.

Specifically, it's not Musk's fault that it seems a large numbers of stupid and credulous people are choosing to have their "investment" strategy influenced by the tweets of a well known Twitter jokester. If Musk tweeted that paper shredders actually convert $100 bills into gold, should he be liable for any losses incurred by anyone stupid enough to think he was being serious?
What .... That is exactly what happened to my wife when I sent her the link just now. "Here honey, this ought to be relaxing" and boom, two long pieces and then a Z piece army.

I appreciate a free game but is this one of those abusive research projects?

Edit: Undo and redo don't work here either
If I were Apple, I would say “oops a couple security-sensitive APIs slipped through that we forgot to open up for requests for access,” and quickly publish an expanded list of all of the entitlements they’re currently saving for their close friends. This is different, and more toxic, than all of the in—app purchase stuff — you’re telling indie developers that no matter how hard they try, they won’t be able to match the functionality of Apple’s special friends.

Otherwise, well, there goes your narrative of having a level playing field. The problem with this is, the loss of trust results in a slow, unending decay that only becomes obvious in retrospect.

It may not seem like it, but billions of dollars of value are at stake with little things like this. If you work at Apple, you should raise the alarm.
I did not make an argument, hence it is not a fallacy of relevance.

I provided factual information. The reader can draw their own conclusions.
Phonak once made a dive into consumer audio, with the Audeo PFE around 2012. Judging from their portfolio now, it didn't last, although the quality was superb. Maybe having a known „brand“ helps with this endeavor…
My understanding is that in the UK if you have no heirs your property reverts to the crown.
Throughout your entire 3 paragraph rant you didnt mention one concrete well known example of deliberate misniformation spread by experts.
And by deliberate I dont mean something where another point was argued previously with less proof/technology but was changed with more proof. That is not deliberate misinformation.
> Well, if the greater Bay Area were a country, it would now be the world's 3rd highest population density (give or take) [1]

This is a useless point to make. Of course its density is high compared to countries, because most countries don't consist of just one sprawling city with no land around it.
Right, it's about eliminating the mundane parts, not about having nothing in my life. It's a balance that will be different for everyone.
Washingtonian staff goes on publishing strike after CEO op-ed about remote work
http://www.prc68.com/I/StellarTime.shtml#P

The Northrop patents are probably the most interesting. IIRC, if you trace the prior art, you’ll find some patents from the early days of WWII.

How they work:

* Telescope on an alt-az mount, preferably on the ground or a gimbaled platform linked to an INS.

* Optical wedge (prism) behind a telescope to nutate the image around the optical axis

* A rotating shutter behind the wedge, centered on the telescope’s optical axis (often a starburst pattern, but several of the patents propose different shutter patterns to mitigate the effect of background luminosity gradient). The shutter is phase locked to the prism.

* Ground glass screen at the telescope’s focal point

* Single-pixel optical sensor (PMT in the 1960’s, but you’d use a photodiode today) sensitive to the entire screen

* lock-in amplifier synced to the shutter (note, however, that the patents do not describe it as such)

The lock-in senses the output from the PMT. Phase and magnitude from the lock-in operate the azimuth and altitude servos of the telescope to center on the tracked star.

When the tracked star is centered in the telescope, it makes a circular pattern on the screen, modulated by the shutter. When the star is off-axis the circular path is offset, so the instantaneous modulation frequency depends on the phase of the prism (it helps to see the figures in the patents).

They also put an IR-pass filter somewhere in the system to cut down on scattered light from the atmosphere, which helps to improve the SNR. I’m not sure the filter is strictly necessary because the LIA should give you dozens of dB of processing gain and navigation stars are visible to the eye in a telescope during daytime—but it seems like “free” SNR.
On the other hand it is admirable that OP turned towards his own ignorance with an attitude of acceptance for the sake of improving his own knowledge. Too many people assume their own expertise and don't return to the fundamentals often enough.
The article's title is actually "Washingtonian staff goes on publishing strike after CEO’s op-ed about remote work", but that's 1 character too long, so I changed "CEO's" to "CEO".

Also, archive link: https://archive.is/Cqfjt

This is in reference to the op-ed "As a CEO, I worry about the erosion of office culture with more remote work", published at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/06/ceo-i-wan..., discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27081817

… and there's also a followup, "Washingtonian CEO Apologizes for Op-Ed ‘Threat’ to Staffers’ Jobs if They Don’t Return to Office ", at https://www.thedailybeast.com/washingtonian-ceo-catherine-me...
> As told to Kiran Sidhu

Who knows what he really said. Not us.
> I honestly think math education can be hugely improved with this approach.

Teaching someone is more like a swiss cheese. Different students have different problems at different levels, and different holes at different levels, that they need to fill to progress more effectively.

A slider (or any completely linear progression of learning) is not, in general, going to be helpful to anyone.

Traditional textbooks can be of variable quality, but it's a benefit that you can flick through to any page. If a teacher can identify what page might be most useful to you, all the better. A point on a slider is unlikely to give you that.

> Why use X and Y when you could carSpeed and carAcceleration?

One of the purposes of math, one that makes it useful to teach to everyone universally, is that it teaches 'abstraction'.

Math questions very often are about car speed and acceleration, or some other contextual example (at least in Western education systems). Using v and a to represent those makes it easier to use algebraic tools that you learn that apply generally, rather than re-learn tools for each specific situation.
I'm in Japan so I use nosh.jp. It's decent and surprisingly cheap, not much more than food from the supermarket here which is expensive regardless.
I (someone who knew nothing about cryptocurrency trading) followed these instructions and ended up with $3650 AUD in my bank account after all was said and done. Of course, some of you are more likely to put it to better use on the market, but I’m not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
> FL seems happy.

Happily full of voters that collect tons of government aid via Medicare, Social Security, and National Flood Insurance Program, and yet happy to decry government help for anyone else.

Let me know when FL has parental leave or any half decent employment laws that help those at the bottom.
Please do not trivialize having OCD like that- In reality, it's a debilitating disorder characterized by severe compulsions.
I like this dude.
Care, its not like they don't monitor our spending patterns already or censor transactions
I just see fiat as sort of unit of accounting and not as a store as wealth.
Do you trust government or private banks more?
Neat.

Should combine it with power line internet for an almost completely unmonitored channel for data exfiltration.
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It triggers me that I couldn't get a full screen clear
What? I justified why I put culture and social cohesion first explicitly in my comment: because many poorer asian countries do much better than many richer white countries on average. The culture variable is overriding the income one.

Culture is so obviously a factor: why does Switzerland have so many guns and similar average income to New Hampshire but much less violence? Clearly culture has an effect.
People seek privacy in different ways and for different reasons. One end of the spectrum is the privacy for everyone as an ideology. Somewhere else is for example immediate protection from an abusive (ex-)partner embedding spying software on your phone. If you haven't heard groups caring about the second case, maybe it's due to your usual contacts?
Tetris(Noun) The act of clearing four lines at once (the maximum possible) in Tetris.

Somehow went my entire life not knowing that meaning of the word!
I think Tesla's approach is the clear winner here. The funniest part of the article is that it doesn't even mention their success at this, documented in literally thousands of YouTube videos showing off the latest FSD betas.
Is it different, though? Can you do things that deeply without limiting the number of things you’re doing?
Yeah, the idea of running an operating system without installing it was amazing in the PC world twenty years ago. (This is how DOS and CP/M worked on PCs with no hard drive, in the sense that you would boot them from removable media, but that model didn't seem to outlast the 1990s.)

One of the magical experiences I remember with LNX-BBC was when we got Two-Kernel Monte working, which was a tool that let you boot a Linux kernel using a Linux userspace as the bootloader (not emulated or virtualized, but directly on the hardware, replacing the prior kernel and userspace). We had all kinds of fun with that, like netbooting over HTTP.

In fact I remember a whole discussion like "hey, PXE is too restrictive, we can ship 50 MB of code that does an arbitrary netboot using non-BIOS-included drivers, protocols, and authentication logic". I think someone did make a custom image to do this in some environment.

One thing I didn't know until I checked just now is that the Two-Kernel Monte replacement kexec is still maintained in the kernel! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kexec

Somehow I thought it had fallen by the wayside after a couple of years, but apparently not. So now I should go try some netbooting over HTTPS... :-)
Facebook needs to implement a new "unless you show me peer reviewed papers you cant promote snake oil" rule. And implement a more strict "show me FDA approval" for anything claiming to be a cure on facebook.
soap was a really good interoperability protocol for adding kilobytes of overhead to simple text based rest rpc where interoperability was defined as being able to interoperate with clients and servers from the exact same software environment.

trying to get perl to talk to windows or windows to talk to java or java to talk to perl never really worked at all.

but wsdl was like this tempting thing. self describing services! (that only worked when you had a full definition of the service on the client side anyhow)

i'd take a wild bet that this stuff at amazon grew out of frustration with soap a long time ago...

edit: read new replies to thread. this is new as of 2018. soap was circa 2002. ah, well.
I can definitely feel when I break out of the routine once in a while. A weekend feels like an entire week. Now with corona and winter I can barely recall what I’ve done for the last 6 months, if not just work.
Great, I will eventually uninstall it when they make me. I only keep it around to deal with people that haven't switched to Signal or Telegram yet. I have all three on my phone. Whatsapp usage has dropped a lot lately in my circle of friends. I removed Facebook Messenger ages ago (nobody I know uses that anymore). Just like the Facebook app and instagram. Whatsapp is the last bit of Facebook software on my phone.

I've been watching this corporate stupidity train wreck play out over the last few months. Every time I open whatsapp I get an obnoxious dialog urging me to pretty please accept their T&Cs. I click it away because I can. The fact that I can amuses me because it signals a certain amount of despair by Facebook. It's not normal for an app to be usable without accepting the terms and conditions.

The dilemma Facebook has is the very real problem that people are opting to uninstall rather than accept. Their users are angry and disgruntled. Which is why they are allowing people to use the app without accepting the terms and conditions. Which is of course highly unusual. From a legal point of view, until I agree, the old T&Cs apply. Basically they are saying those were actually fine and nothing really changed and it's all cosmetics but bla bla bla could you please accept the new ones anyway. It's a very weird position to take legally.

Either the old T&Cs were fine and there never was a reason to change them or the new ones materially change the old T&Cs and they should just state in plain language why and how. Instead we get this months long weaseling that is no doubt partially inspired by the fact that they are under a lot of scrutiny by authorities in the EU and US for privacy violations, monopolistic tendencies, data leaks, etc. The real issue is that the new T&Cs are of course designed to carve out some legal wiggle room there for Facebook to do user hostile things like ads and tracking. So they are in fact a change and they need users to swallow that.
I think maybe by trying to experience many things, those people end up having experienced nothing deeply? And his advice would be to pick one or two of those things and really dig in.
I tried living without a mattress for a while. It wasn't super comfortable but it wasn't really a major problem till winter, at which point I realized I would need some more insulation, and a mattress seemed like the best bang for the buck. I might be able to make do without if I lived in a warmer place. Right now, though, the place I'm renting came furnished, so it's not an issue.

(Bonus with a furnished place - I don't need to worry about the kinds of bills that the OC was talking about because one flat monthly payment covers rent, water, electric and internet. My only other bills are phone and media/content subscription services, all of which are also flat rates, set up once and paid automatically.)

For me simplifying my life doesn't mean living with nothing at all, it just means living without unnecessarily complicated or laborious things. Clearly different people will draw a line at different places.

The point of my previous comment was more that it doesn't hurt to try eliminate things from your life, if it seems they're just a hassle. Who cares about the social conventions? I think a lot of people find themselves caught up in the rat race and take part without really thinking about why they're doing it, or whether it actually is worth all the effort. It turns out you can forego a lot of things and, actually, life isn't all that bad. That's especially the case if you are earning a decent salary, so you afford to can go out and treat yourself whenever you feel the urge. I think now is probably a better time than ever before to live simply, because we have immediate access to all the world's knowledge and art from a tiny computer in our pockets.
Brian Acton and Jan Koum seem to actually be ethical - and then Zuck ruins it all by being the sociopath that he is
I often reflect on the similiarities to that and how techno and house became EDM.

When I started going to Midwestern raves in the 1990s they were literally some of the first fully integrated places I hung out in. Definitely some of the Detroit techno parties we went too, some of the first places where it was a majority Black space.

EDM now is thought of as this totally white music, all electronic music really, by everyone. Oh some rappers might flirt with some electronic beats, but the whole genre has just been whitewashed basically.

But for some of those years in the 1990s it really felt like we were living in the future. Hopped up on smart drinks (and LSD), gay and straight, black and white, talking about this new thing called the internet and dancing all night together.

We were it - the New Humans…
Alternate title: Destroying General-Purpose Computing, One (Permission) Bit At A Time

If I understand correctly, one of the big unsaid implications of this article seems to be that it is now impossible to have RWX, because the hardware completely prevents it. APRR looks more like a general permissions-remapping mechanism, while SPRR appears to go beyond that.

While the technical details are certainly interesting, IMHO it's also disturbing in the same way as weapons of mass destruction or DRM. This technology is used by one company to essentially maintain control over its users, under the convincing guise of security.

What do SPRR and GXF stand for?

Given the functionality, my guess is APRR = Access Permission Remapping Registers, SPRR = Secure Permission Remapping Registers, and GXF = Guarded Execution Feature.