skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think everyone sees it as just a "children" issue - it's not like the topic doesn't come up when it's about adults. But children is the angle laws can hit the easiest, and it does hit an extra "think of the children" emotional spot. And mental health among adults is more of a taboo topic politically. So I think it is a mix.
This isn't really the point I'm responding to.

I am responding to this idea:

> If you are relying on testing for correctness, you have already lost. In any language. As Dijkstra noted, testing can only prove a program wrong. The way to get correct programs, in any expressive-enough language, is by construction. At each level, do only operations that are well-defined by the level below. Expose only well-defined operations to the next level up.

I believe this idea is naïve. CPUs contain undocumented instructions, and they expose implementation details via speculative execution and timing attacks.

So... by this metric, we have already lost.

I think I also take issue with the idea that there is a stable C++ dialect. GCC, Clang, and MSVC have always disagreed on how they interpret the C++ standard.

If you want portable code, there is no substitute for testing your program with every compiler you support and on every architecture you support. Proofs won't save you and the standard won't save you, because both proofs and the standard assume that we started from a bug-free foundation that doesn't actually exist.
The “fierce nerd” sounds a lot like what Reed Hastings (Netflix, Founder) calls “brilliant jerks.” To quote his recent book:

> Sometimes really talented people have heard for so long how great they are, they begin to feel they really are better than everybody else. They might smirk at ideas they find unintelligent, roll their eyes when people are inarticulate, and insult those they feel are less gifted then they are.

At Netflix, they say “no brilliant jerks” because they will “rip your organization apart from the inside”.[0]

A lot of this sounds like justification for a brilliant jerk’s behavior. While it’s tempting to take the “fierce nerd” badge and wear it proudly, ferocity can turn into jerkiness pretty quickly.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/No-Rules-Netflix-Culture-Reinvention/...
Why does it matter which circumstances allowed the electric car to become popular only now? Whether that's because of major industry and consumer shifts, or because the technology matured enough for mass market, they have the same effect. It's certainly a combination of both, and we shouldn't downplay the advances in battery technology alone.

I mentioned that example because the previous two comments were dismissing this attempt at 3D teleconferencing on the grounds of it being old technology with past failures. But I think we agree that it takes a certain industry environment along with a technical leap to make a technology truly popular. Even if that never ends up happening in this case and it remains a niche product, we should applaud the technical merits here instead of being dismissive.
Most privately owned tanks have demilitarized guns, though I think not all. But with the right paperwork in America, it should be legal to put working artillery in your legally owned tank. There is a fair bit of working artillery privately owned in America already, but you'd have to find a gun that is compatible with installation on your tank.

Of course this is not a cheap hobby, and if you want explosive shells you'd need to do paperwork for each shell. Even if you only want to fire inert projectiles, it's not as though you can buy those at walmart.
So does the internet. It was even worse in the early days of the web.
Reminded me of this paper on SigGraph 2007: https://ict.usc.edu/pubs/An%20Interactive%20360%20Light%20Fi..., video: https://youtu.be/8gvPS1m40gw
Yeah she has such a clean aesthetic and great eye for design, everything from the graphic design to the hardware and marketing is just.. slick.

I’d love to get back into synths but my bank account couldn’t handle delving back into that world these days.
Now don’t you see that of all the alternatives you offered (stock, land, gold…) all require some degree of state interaction, or non-portability. Bitcoin is weightless. Easy to move. Trustless. Not dependent on any state or monetary system. It is this portability, trustlessness and independence from the state, and even lack of interaction with traditional financial organizations is what provides value.
Show HN: AutoCursor
I would like to get feedback on my new start AutoCursor. AutoCursor is made for individuals that work from home and need to find a sense of worklife balance. AutoCursor keeps your computer awake even while you step away. I would like to get a few people to watch the video and provide feedback or even become a beta tester. Thanks for your thoughts in advance.
What are the benefits of SSR apps? One that I can think of is preventing other people from stealing your content.
fwiw, this comment also isn't really in the spirit of the "open discussion" you miss.
> So what did you add here?

I explained to you how the conversation migrated.

> Seems like just bullshit.

I'm sorry you think that.

> The person I was replying to took a phrase out of context

It wasn't out of context. That's just how you interpreted it.

> used it as an opportunity to advance an unrelated political agenda.

It's not unrelated. Here, let me enumerate the thread again and provide some context:

> > @zepto: Insure against the losses associated with an unpaid ransom.

You offered a suggestion to businesses to help protect against ransoms.

> > @thisisnico: A lot of times the losses result in the loss of the business entirely.

Someone suggested that the insurance can't cover all of the losses.

> > @piptastic: Not every business deserves to be in business

Someone else suggested that being "in business" isn't a right.

> > @ryan_j_naughton: No business "deserves" to be in business.

Indeed, another person agreed. They then offered an corollary opinion.

> > We should fight the rent seekers who believe they are entitled to their markets and use regulatory capture to maintain their position

Here's where you started throwing a hissy-fit about politics. The conversation has moved on from what you first talked about. There's nothing wrong with offering an opinion, nor about it being political, and it's very much in-context with the movement of the conversation; first from "businesses should insure themselves" to "businesses can lose everything" followed by "businesses don't have a right to exist" and finally an opinion: "we should fight businesses".
Maybe factors in someone good at something being humble about it includes:

* Confidence of not needing to prove something to themselves.

* Comfort with their situation, aka not needing to prove something to others -- for practical reasons, separate from validation of own security/insecurity. (In your Bell Labs example, having gotten into there, getting to do the kind of work they want, presumably having sufficient respect of others for a pleasant environment, not feeling like they have to fight their way to opportunity and respect.)

* Intellectual humility that comes with experience, having realized how easy and frequent it is to be mistaken.

* Maybe differences of personality wiring. (I know nothing of the psychological research, but, anecdotally, there seems to be variation among people in how problem-solving interacts with emotions, for example, and maybe how that affects their interactions in that context.)

Also, taking a step back, I don't know how good our perceptions of humility. (Of course, different people express themselves differently, which I suppose affects perceptions of those people's humility. And maybe, when we're characterizing humility of others, we're usually basing that on perceptions, rather than some more objective criteria.)
The definition and the list of characteristics is from the training document. The document is about addressing the ways in which current practices are related to white supremacy.

Each point isn't just about the right ways to teach math, it's also about white supremacy. You can discuss how to teach math well, such as by avoiding rote learning (maybe?), but then you're not talking on the same substance of the training document. The document is about white supremacy in math instruction.

And how do asians and indian americans fit into this discussion?
Squaring the Square
> Then they came for the cryptocurrency miners, and I did not speak out-- Because I deserve a subsidy for my video gaming habit.

Are you suggesting that anyone who buys something and then doesn't use it to generate the maximum profit possible for themselves is being subsidized by someone else?

That doesn't even remotely make sense.

What's your stake in cryptocurrency?
Inferential undecidablity is that not every proposition can be

proved or disproved in the most powerful foundational theories.

For example, the proposition Halt[e] means that evaluation

of the expression e halts. It is not the case for every

expression e that the following holds:

*Halt*[e} is provable
or
not *Halt*[e] is provable.

Inferential incompleteness is that there are true propositions

in a foundational theories can cannot be proved. For example,

the following proposition is true but unprovable:

Theorems can be enumerated.

See the following for more information:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021
https://www.coindesk.com/bitmain-antminer-e9-asic-ethereum-m...

ethereum is asic-resistant, not asic-proof. It doesn't mean you can't make ASICs, just that ASICs are <10x as efficient as an equivalent-node GPU, vs millions of times more efficient for bitcoin/etc.
Non custodial, trustless loans mean I can get a loan against my existing assets without ever interacting with any individual or being subject to scrutiny. A single smart contract can do the job of entire banks.
Some wireless headphones works passively with 3.5mm without power on. In my experience, MDR-1ABT works great maybe because it's just BT version of MDR-1A, but WH-1000XM3 and Beoplay H9i (both NC) work bad maybe because it's not optimized for it. I wonder there are any NC headphones works great for both.
I never understood why the BBC collects revenue this way. Surely this is costing > 10% of the revenue collected.

I always thought the Australian model was better. ABC/SBS are paid out of general government coffers, people don't like it but not enough
Is Apple really concerned with the latency, though?

Playing audio on a Homepod used to have huge latency, we're talking about 2 seconds lag, and it still had the sales. Sure thing, they have improved this with Airplay 2 but nonetheless... I'm not sure how big of the concern latency is for the music streaming (not for the video, calls or games).
We're glad you dig it, and thanks for sharing this! Every year at WWDC, we hope that Apple will allow users to change their default camera app, but we aren't holding our breath. This is probably the best workaround.

Other users have found luck assigning the "back tap" accessibility gesture to a similar shortcut, though we've heard that gesture can be flaky.
I call bs. There is not $80 billion USD locked in defi -- the world has not taken $80 billion USD, bought crypto with it, and put the crypto into defi code. Like, where are the receipts?

What has happened is defi tokens have appreciated through speculation. Sites like defi pulse erroneously represent the wealth locked into defi contracts as token_price * tokens_locked, which is trivial to manipulate for shallow-market tokens. Like, I can spin up a token with 1 billion units, buy one token for $1, and put the remaining tokens into a defi contract. Voila -- defi pulse reports $81 billion locked.

EDIT: downvotes aren't receipts, and downvoting doesn't change the accounting discrepancy.
This is a good point, it creates a dynamic with more bilateral exchange and gives them an opportunity to ask a follow up if they're interested.
Creator here! I’ve heard this feedback a few times recently, and a couple of people here even reached out! A proper landing page is definitely at the top of my To Do list. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts here!

It’s only a web app today, but a mobile app is in the works as I have time outside of the day job.

The site has never been marketed, and there’s never been a company behind it - just me. I’m in the awkward phase of taking something I built on the weekend for close friends who all knew exactly what it was/how it worked and evolving it to support all of the people who have stumbled across it. Super excited to keep improving it!
Perhaps the Intel Mac Pro?
the new cards (and the new revisions of the old cards) won't work on the old drivers
I think if you were to radiate out from any point inside of an enlarging circle, enlarging at the same speed as that circle, I can't see how it would radiate away from that bubble.

That said, the signal would be much stronger if you tuned it for specific regions of space.
Once upon a time, I heard a story about Air Force officers working on some technical problem that required a relatively advanced education. Until a new CO moved in and said that that kind of thing wasn't going to wash; AF officers don't work, they manage.
It's also where Station Q, Microsoft's quantum computing research station is.
Autonomous weapons could make grave errors in war
Fast builds, isolated deploys and instant rollback
Same. I suppose they kept the decor and backgrounds stark to showcase what it's doing. But it does have that feel, as-is. At least nobody was wearing orange :)
>works for petabytes

Per the article Uber has hundreds of petabytes of data.
>Air pollution accounts for 1 in 8 deaths worldwide - approximately 7 million deaths in 2012, according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO). The findings, released in late March, doubled previous estimates from just a few years ago in 2008. WHO now characterizes air pollution as “the world’s largest single environmental health risk.”

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/geh_newslett...
Parody communities have a habit of being taken over by people that aren't being ironic and honestly believe the exaggerated views. Poe's law in action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

/r/GamersRiseUp went that way: https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/fefycf/whats_...
there was a sell off phase as asic Bitcoin miners started taking over the Bitcoin market. rx480's were still new ish & nicely cheap, selling second hand significantly under $200.

but all sorts of other currencies arrived & have kept inefficient gpu mining going. alas.

I do feel like there are more reconnings coming. it will make for cheaper gpus. much more squeezed market prices, a need for gpuakers to be more competitve. to really deliver new value with more recent chips.
It's pretty tiring to see activists and researchers targeting big bad Facebook when clearly the issue is social media as a whole.

An app where the user watches a 5 second video of some rich 18 year old from LA making smoothie bowls. Then the user swipes up to a video of some 22 year old lifting half the weight of an economy sized car. The fact that this isn't obviously depression inducing is concerning.

I know by posting on this site, I'm contributing very little. But there needs to be a campaign against social media. Something that tells the world, this is mood altering and unnaturally over-stimulating. That we weren't meant to lay down slide up at our screens like brain dead slugs watching 5 second clips for 5 hours after work.

Maybe I've become too programmer minded, but we were meant to make things, read books, listen to music, even watching TV shows is more meaningful.
It also in its (albeit) small way could push ISPs to get their act together. Perhaps thats a bit naive to say but if this sort technology is available, this will help push the boat forward in terms of underlying infrastructure.
Honest question: does it matter? As with all things, the purpose of the system is what it does. And right now, for the vast majority of people, the purpose of crypto is to make numbers go up; the original principles only matter to a handful of OGs. Come crypto winter, the purpose of the system will likely shift back towards its original principles, since only the OGs will hodl on.
if they have internal documents that confirm links to depression, they're open to legal liability anyway. It does not matter what their PR says.
It's always been tough making indie software. What you're describing has nothing to do with mobile apps.
> The irony is of course that selling at an artificially low price doesn't suddenly make it not for rich people, it just adds a small random chance that you'll be able to convert your own time sitting there refreshing the website across many browsers into a cheaper-than-it-should-be ticket.

That depends on the level of demand and how low the price is.

It's pretty easy to have a situation where the number of tickets available is higher than the number of people that would have bought tickets for themselves on day one, but you hit immediate shortages when scalpers are also buying.

In a situation like that, scalpers are doing almost all harm. They add liquidity to a situation that already had enough liquidity, and extract tons of money in exchange.

> If you drive across state lines to bring HAM radios or water filters or what-have-you during hurricane katrina

That's the positive case. The negative case is someone buying it and putting it in their garage, or a store vastly increasing the price on something people need and they already had.

If you're trying to get paid for your labor, like driving essential supplies around, I would not call that gouging in the first place.
Wonderful! I think you've answered any questions I might have already.
Stop confirming my worst biases about Google culture!
Warning: This website is known to the State of California to cause depression
Non-adaptive high bitrate is only possible if all customers allow massive audio stuttering.
This is what I want to read an article about
It’s not about longevity, it’s about LTV.

If the consumption, and hence value, is high, the LTV can be maximized even if the lifetime is low.
like anything else, worth quite a bit to the right customer, until they become functionally obsolete (f.ex: nobody really cares about Kepler hardware anymore and it's gotten quite cheap)

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m...

now, being that mining cards didn't start at $10k per card to begin with, they won't sell at $10k per card on the secondhand market, but they'll do OK.

at a hundred bucks, why wouldn't you pick one up for your folding@home rig, vs paying full freight for a card with a graphics output you'll never use?
That was not Instagram but rather the set of accounts you chose to follow on Instagram.

Choose to follow all dumb meme accounts and you would never have had that experience. Choose to follow all stand-up comedy accounts (or nature or music or comic books) and you would again have an entirely different experience.

It's not social media that is creating those problems, it's the way users choose to use social media. Though I'd readily admit that the proprietors do everything they can to make the initial experience as painfully addictive as possible.
I know someone who sleepwalks their dreams. People are demanding sources because you are claiming "always" when the reality is almost certainly just "usually."
Ransomware typically targets all systems, including redundant systems, and backup systems used for recovery in the event of everything you've described.
I think you are wrong.

> There's a big difference between no privacy at all, and no privacy only in those cases requiring government investigation.

if the government gets to decide whenever it feels like if you have (or had) privacy, you have none.

this isn't a case of just vs unjust governments. there is a large extant question of a more fundamental individual right, of whether a human is allowed privacy, or whether their home is expected to be able to tell on them when the man comes & asks it.

there are huge massive reactionary negative afraid forces & fearmongers out there who will use any extremist cases they can get their hands upon to shrill-ly cry that we must do something, that we must protect some vulnerable people or defend against some predator. some are sincere. most are shallow, lying, disinformationing propoganda agents, waging a war of opinions to justify the intrusion & disruption they ulteriorly seek. some are honest at least with themselves about this deception, but others simply let themselves be blown into their extremist beliefs, let their fears take them over.

privacy is not real when it's decided upon ex post facto, at the convenience of the nation. no matter the nation.
Couldn't that just be availability bias though? as in, these ads for _things_ were shown to you anyway, because there's hundreds of ads shown to you in some way or another every week and some percentage of them are for _things_, but because you were recently engaged in a conversation about _thing_, ads for _thing_ stood out in your perception enough to get past your attention filter?
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You've presented a false dichotomy. There's a lot of room between "get rich" and "don't eat." I'd wager that most software developers fit very comfortably between the two.

I agree with GP's dislike of Graham's emphasis on getting rich. There's more to life.
Steps 1 and 2 are both dubious for the same reason
> Developers want the durability, stability, and scalability of a SQL database but do not want to be constrained by managing a schema

Speak for yourself. I love my schemas.

This article is also 100% fluff, and zero actual information. Obviously I won’t sign up to anything without an ounce of information being provided up front.
Now that right there is a niche market ripe for the picking!
Really? I honestly have no idea what you're referring too, as someone that uses slack at a full time remote job.

Nothing blinks or flashes as far as I'm aware. Just the UI changing when other people interact with the server. Like emoji reactions pop in if someone adds one. Or left side bar highlighting things if there's new messages in them, etc.

Things pretty much any other chat-like application does.
How do you know you are stuck?
I just don't think this could work. If the money is good enough, I think hackers in blackholed countries would find ways to connect with the outside world, particularly if their government was inclined to help them do it.
You are editing your comments a lot, so it is pretty difficult to answer. My answer was written before you mentioned anything about white supremacy.

But I still do not see the point you are trying to make. This is a set of 5 documents, and much of their content is great advise independently of whether you are worried about the effects of racism in education.

The link you used in your last edit is to the first of the five documents (initially it was to all of them). The first document just says that teachers should be aware of the effect that the history of racism has on their students and how to actively counter these effects. I really do not see how any of this is controversial.

You might be hung up on the choice of a couple of words. I already addressed "objectivity" in my edit of the previous answer. On the topic of "perfectionism" -- requiring perfectionism from your students is idiotic in a pedagogical setting. Education is about building up and when the student makes a mistake is the best moment to teach them something new. If you are reasonably expecting perfection, then your students are in a class that is too easy, which is a waste of their time.

All of this is standard ideas in pedagogy as a whole, it just happens to be doubly important when discussing the harm done by the history of racism.

EDIT: You mentioned Asian Americans. Well, just compare the racist tropes they have faced in the last century (model minority) vs the racist tropes black people have faced when the country was founded (dangerous subhumans).