skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, no, parents value the Bay Area exactly for what it offers to older children and teens. You can live anywhere with a toddler, but you want your kids to spend their teens in South Bay. Why?

- Some of the best high schools in the country. Many teachers have advanced degrees in their fields. A direct connection to Stanford and Berkeley. Courses beyond AP Calculus available for children to take.

- You can raise your children in the church. You do not seem to understand what a luxury it is to have a vast choice of local churches, where many people you meet are doctors, engineers, lawyers, and other influential professionals. The Bay Area is composed of lots of tightly knit communities where people can exchange experiences, favors, and insights with others they can trust and relate to. Maybe you weren't able to break into one, so you couldn't see the benefits?

- You overstate the pressure on local kids. Aside from a couple of tragic incidents at Palo Alto High several years ago, children in the area have lots of opportunities to hang out in bubble tea shops and cafes, visit friends, participate in sports, and basically do whatever they want to. The unique luxury of living in the Bay Area is that if you kid is over at a friend's house, you can rely on the mom to say, "Sure, you can play Zelda, but first let's do an hour of homework!" This unique and amazing culture of high achievement is what drives parents to the area at any cost.
I use the exact same solution.

But I'll be honest and admit that plenty of the content is the same content that is being advertised to me.

Even if I'm not going to buy it I still benefit from learning it exists.
Imagine a world where schools are not built to resemble factory work conditions but actually catered to kids’ natural curiosity.

Where learning happened via the pull of that curiosity and not via force-feeding.
It has gotten a smidge better in Cupertino because of the "Main Street" area that popped up, but it's all in only one place, a tiny one compared to how big Cupertino is. Before that, there was pretty much nothing.
I don’t think you can be at the top of any technical or competitive field without a level of obsession beyond the norm. Athletes eventually need to go beyond the weekend warrior basics. The bare minimum for Doctors is to study for recertification, but you don’t hit the top without voluntarily keeping up with the latest research etc. And as easy as it is to coast as a developer, sysadmin etc to actually be at the top requires unusual levels of dedication.

Remember many extremely gifted athletes never make into a top collage team let alone the NBA etc. Similarly someone can be unusually intelligent and well educated, but that alone isn’t enough. Many people talk a good game, but being the best isn’t about having a large ego it’s about actually solving problems and improving things.
Would not recommend if it's plumbing related. That's one of those things where a screw up could cost a lot more than calling a plumber in the first case.

Not to mention going days without water because no plumber is available.

Not an experience I want to repeat.
"What, besides credibility of the institutions making the allegations, are these allegations' "own merits"?"

Because China hacking is fairly widespread and so this is not just about a single institution, it's about many.

There's broad consensus here, it's not just 'Dick Cheney & Co.', it's many governments, many agencies, many businesses, academic institutions and the spying/hacking takes a variety of forms.

Yes, this an 'escalation' of sorts, because making it 'NATO' makes it both firmly an issue of national security for not just the US, but for many 'important' actors.

If anything, I think there's not enough action here.

It's definitely worthwhile to keep a very close eye on misinformation and propaganda ... but I think so far we're on the right path.
Soooo....RSS is a fantasy?
That purchased operating systems created by the free market.
A co-worker from southern California just went to Arizona and purchased 4 homes as investments. He deemed them good value compared to current California market and was basically able to buy 4 units vs 1 around LA for the same price.
Your cost benefit analysis is off. Which would you rather have, a broken jpeg once in a
blue moon or a hacked phone?

Writing image decoders for several formats is hard but it's not so hard that a trillion dollar company can't write a good one.
It looks similar to Homotopy Type Theory, which also attempts to connect seemingly unrelated fields of mathematics into one.

I wonder if there’s a generic name for these things. Unifying theories? Category theory? We don’t tend to see serious attempts outside of mathematics and physics, which I believe is a missed opportunity.

So many fields seem to be fairly homomorphic, yet very few people seem to notice. For example, electricity transmission, water distribution, telecommunication, transportation networks, and electronic circuits are pretty much identical yet use completely distinct vocabularies. The same is true for apps and multimedia (movie, tv, book, radio, album, game, newspaper, magazine, phone) which first appear to be discrete concepts, but actually exist on a continuous spectrum.

I believe that the complexity of today’s world is merely magnified by our choice of words. A semantic refactoring might just be the best way to improve humanity’s productivity.
“It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.”
- Nathaniel Borenstein

Quoted at https://blog.codinghorror.com/your-favorite-programming-quot...
So couple of things might have helped shape the way I assign colors or structure to things. At least that's my theory - For numbers and letters, I think that might've come from pre-school alphabet or numbers book. I've always pictured the letter 'A' as always being yellow. B was always red , then C was green, D was orange , E as kind of purple, F as pink and so on. For numbers Zero was always white, 1 being black, 5 being bluish.

For time scale - I grew up in the late 80. So planning and scheduling was always done on a wall mounted calendar in my parent's kitchen or mom's day planner. So I think the concept of a year/month/hours in a day where always superimposed in my head as either a grid pattern for the month like any other calendar , or up/down rectangular scale for hours in a day or clock. Same goes on how I visualize a year. Priors years are just vertical block on the left of the current year block. Future years were on the right of the current year. Same for decades. Direction & distance were always like a measuring ruler going either left or right.
It's running on a RISC-V emulator that's running on the ESP32 Xtensa. That would slow it down quite a lot.
A quick look at the O3DE game engine and building it with Meson
And to see being rich as an indicator of merit.
it appears techies have discovered zines?
It would be cool to hook this up to the lightning network.
In this market, the buyer is on the hook for what might have otherwise been the seller's expense.
Self Discovery Retreat
US State Department joins CDC in raising UK travel advisory
"To sell will cost 6%"

I just sold a house a week ago without an agent. You can list on MLS for $45 and pay a flat fee to a broker in your neighborhood for ~1-2k. If you are selling do not pay agents. The market is red hot - they wont do anything except call you in 48hrs with offers. The title company does all the important paperwork anyway.
"If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though. It's Hambone."

-Jack Handy
Honestly, this is one of the problems the cloud is great at solving

It's also one of the problems the cloud is great at causing. It's certainly possible to architect maintainable (and repeatable) infrastructure in the cloud. But it's just as easy (or easier) to deploy a mess of unorganized VM's that were launched and configured by whoever needed one.
> My impression is more experienced developers test their code more often.

Java percentage is unit test is so high most probably because it's an enterprise language. And the whole unit test craze started with Java and jUnit.
Hospitals could face $2M fine for not disclosing prices
I agree. There is a lot of Be Like Me in the thread. The arguments need to be exposed to more diverse psychological scrutiny than is available on HN.

We can care for students, emphasize their gifts, provide math education when it is desired, AND achieve good educational outcomes. These aren't mutually exclusive...
Mmm, get me some more of that red herring to go with this delicious wine.
> In the India context, nationalism is a unifying force finding a commonality beyond the hundreds of diverse languages and cultures that India is made of.

You skipped the key plank of nationalist Indian politics - religion. Who are the new Jews of India? The backstabbers of the nation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
There is nothing "capitalistic" about that.

First, I would consider mandatory education a socialist policy, not a capitalist one. It's completely against the concept of a free market.

I would say it's the result of politics, namely a good part of 2nd wave feminism (but not all) and the destruction of family as an institution.
Broken families dependant on welfare are golden for any centralised power who needs votes every 5 years.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure big businesses (who are in bed with the government) benefited plenty from having twice the workforce. More competition in the workplace, lower wages. AND you sound progressive, because you're giving women the privilege of being able to work like your husband.

But there is nothing capitalistic about big businesses profiting from centralised political propaganda. That's the opposite of capitalism.

Automation won't be enough to reduce the number of hours, you need to change people's minds: we don't need a technical solution to work less, we need a social, political one.

EDIT: I didn't realise you support Antifa in your bio (I really don't, couldn't be further away from supporting political violence), which is surprising given we actually agree on the premise, which is that people are working too much and we left government puppets growing our children instead of doing it ourselves.
Those are much rarer, and in several cases the attackers didn't actually have the data when those threats are made. That aside, what you're talking about is substantively different crime and one that is much easier to prosecute internationally than computer based crime.

Espionage, and blackmail are both crimes that have been around for a very long time and have international treaties around them. That doesn't stop it from happening, but when someone is caught it's much more likely they're going to be extradited and prosecuted than for a crippling attack against a computer system.

Either way, if an attacker is threatening to release your internal confidential data, would you rather have a copy of that data as well or not? Your course of action is also the same in either case, notify the FBI if you're in the US.
Here's a thought...combine solarpunk/glamping.

Create communities for singles/families... master-planned cities if you will..or more loosely communes...

Homes are maybe some sort of tent/yurt on a pedestal with a bed.

The community has a campus building with restrooms, showers, kitchen, cubicles (for work from home), farm-land for planting crops, solar panels, etc..

The area would have playground equipment, exercise equipment, outdoor sports/games, a makerspace/library with tools, toys, big toys (4-wheelers, etc), that people can 'check out' and use.

I feel a lot of the problems w/ society is everyone has to own a drill, when one drill per street that anyone can access probably makes more sense, maybe 2 or 3 max... but still if we could just curb our need to "own" things.

A shared "library" of everything from toys for kids to video games for consoles, to books, to tools and 3d printers, etc...would be pretty awesome.

I think of it more in a utilitarian manner than aesthetically lots of glass/trees on skyscrapers that nobody who wants to do something in this space could ever afford to build, so it definitely remains a pipe-dream...

Fashionable glamping communities could pop up super fast and be sustainable and fun.
Manjaro fired their treasurer for calling out misuse of funds. They tried to bundle paid freeoffice instead of libreoffice. They screwed up their SSL certs (twice). I'd avoid them.
the url should end like /Deurbanising-the-Web.pdf so that hitting the safe button doesn't name the file document.pdf or 0.pdf

Also this...

https://lab6.com/0#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A1%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C...

eh?
Thanks for the response. Right now I'm focused on Javascript professionally (NodeJS for the backend and React on the frontend). I'd say my long term goals are to give back to the community through open source in some capacity.

In particular, I'd like to contribute to a library or a framework so I guess that would mean understanding the reasoning and the fundaments of why/how the library was created. Whether that means understanding design patterns of Javascript specifically or software fundamentals, I'm not sure.

Sorry if this still sounds too broad, but I'm growing quite bored of working as a typical developer and need a bit of guidance.
This embedding idea has potential. On a related note, I enjoyed these Peter Norvig essays on writing a LISP in Python.

https://norvig.com/lispy2.html
Apple takes security more seriously than almost any other vendor in the entire world. It's in a small club of vendors that operates at the literal frontier of what computer science knows about building security into commercial products. No reasonable argument about what Apple can do start from the premise that they don't take the problem seriously.

They aren't above criticism. They do some things well that Google doesn't do as well, and vice versa; it would be good if everyone could level up to highest standards set by any in the club. It's totally fine to point these things out.

As for the bounty payout thing, I highly recommend you track down a talk from someone that has run a vulnerability/exploit market; there are a couple. The economics of selling vulnerabilities to the grey market are nowhere nearly as simple as they appear in ordinary message board threads. In particular: Apple offers a fixed, lump sum payment, where every market I'm aware of offers tranched payments that end when a vulnerability is burned.
Inner Alignment: Explain Like I'm 12 Edition (2020)
I had to look this up since it’s been a while, but looks like no - this is not a full solution. It correctly accepts the positive instances in polynomial time but no algorithm is known that would fully decide all instances in polynomial time.
Similarly, I bought last Sept in Nashville, TN and Zillow says my house is up 13.5% already. The Nashville housing market is especially ridiculous, it's one of the hottest in the US.

> Relatedly, a ~70 year old woman bagged my groceries today and I doubt she's doing it for fun. Seems the accelerating wealth inequality is destroying our society/communities if it hasn't already.

Let's not forget about the error in extending unemployment and benefits that the current administration passed. We should all hope and petition that a 4th stimulus check does NOT go out (inflation). The fact of the matter is, these policies are keeping a lot of the lower income workers out of the job market because they are still making more off unemployment than going back to the workforce. I estimate, this imbalance in the market will correct in September when these benefits end.
Exactly, and state changes are batched behind requestAnimationFrame :)

Also, there's .react(new_state), which is synchronous.

If one prefer not to use Proxies (old browsers, etc), it can be disabled via .react( state, { ..., watched: false } ) and then can call just .react() manually after state changes. Which is also batched(async).
The home only expenses (down payment, home owners, etc) when you chose rent should be converted to a standard rate of return of VOO (index of SP 500) for the 15 years. THIS would be the greatest calculator ever built ever.
A failure to invest in business continuity and maintaining your systems will cost you one way or the other. Hard drive failure, fire, flood, lightning strike, or ransomeware. These aren’t new problems facing businesses.
E.g. I did not know it was possible. (And, being able to run Linux is significant.)
But koko/kore/kono vs soko/sore/sono doesn’t seem to match that hypothesis. How do you make sure you’ve got enough examples to prove the argument?
Law Firm for Ford, Boeing, Exxon, Marriott, Walgreens and More Hacked
Yes, Kind of. I think calling it MIT overall would be a little misleading, If you look closely Microsoft has clearly mentioned what part of the code is released under what license, like for example looking at linux-firmware specification [1]. Added commits to Linux are under GPLv2 (as they have to be), The build script itself is under MIT, while added drivers and under their own respective licenses. Same is true for all bundled packages. List here [2].

So it's more of a Licensed under MIT unless otherwise stated.

[1]. https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/blob/1.0/SPECS/linu...

[2]. https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/blob/1.0/SPECS/LICE...
> Not sure I'm following your point. If you weigh the bad actors and financial incentives of climate change proponents against the bad actors and financial incentives on the fossil fuel side, do you think the scale tips in favour of more honesty for the fossil fuel side or climate change side?

No one funds research into problems that aren't that big a deal. There has to be a crisis NOW for climate scientists to get more funding and social status. The news media knows there has to be a crisis for people to tune in; no one would watch programming on a problem that won't occur in their lifetimes. And politicians love to take the side of causes that give them the moral high ground. They also get to be sanctimonious and pretend they are "on the side of science" when they have no more grasp than anyone else.

To wit, if politicians were actually interested in reducing CO2 emissions they could just tax it straight up. They could combine that with lowering taxes on other things so as not to hurt the economy. The market would then implement green energy solutions of all kinds on its own.

But that wouldn't give the politicians any leverage for donations from green tech for future campaigns. So they pick and choose winners and losers based on donations and the revolving door. Fossil fuel isn't that unhappy because they get to set up a Nat Gas plant with new wind and solar installs to fill the gap when it's cloudy and calm.
An Unedited, Rain-Soaked Ride on Claughton’s Aerial Ropeway [video]
I suppose that makes two of us
Meh, it's on a topic of continuous improvement and some psychological tricks, I find that in line with HN topics.
Write Code as If Today Were Your Last Working Day in a Company
It's a Google feature that isn't very smart... adding a dash before a word will exclude results containing that word

I suspect it trips up people that don't know this more than it's actually used.
And the elimination/ebay'ing of items that you realize you haven't touched or unpacked since your last move.

Arguably untouched junk in American households has better housing than most people in this world.
Canonical releasing new versions of mainline kernel without libraries
The fivefold repetition rule requires no claim by the players.
To be honest, all your points sound scary/depressing/unappealing to me. Like the last point - helicopter parenting - kind of creepy to be honest, yikes.
But this might be a difference in our cultural backgrounds and how we grew up.

But one thing that is not just matter of cultural background and preferences, but of facts and ongoing research - is that pressure, high expectations etc. do have a devastating effect on teenagers' mental health and mental wellbeing.
Ah, I missed that story. Thanks for the link.
Have you considered the flipside, which has much more evidence for it, that denialism is being promoted by institutions and speakers who are by proxy funded by the fossil fuel industry, which is one of the largest industries on earth?

I really reccomend, if you want a level headed, conservative, independent look at the issue that you check out some of these videos by Potholer54, a retired geologist and science reporter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEylCS6-hBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEylCS6-hBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99qI42KGB0
> We each waive any right to a jury trial

Is this a common thing to put into terms?
Ask HN: Can AI help solve asynchronous communication gaps?
Problem: In async communication (e.g. leaving message to someone 5+ timezones away - and seeing their response only the next day) #1 reason for the time lost is that when I leave a task/memo for someone and forget some important detail - I only learn the next day that the work has been on hold because the other person had been waiting for my response to their question.

A possible solution would be an ML algorithm that analyses our previous communication and structure of the memo - and immediately asks me the questions that would most likely arise.

My question to AI wizards: is this technically feasible in the current state of technology?
Looking Glass is lossless, so provided you can do your color calibration under Linux then it would work fine.
> What Sonia did to Narasimha Rao was enough for me, to judge what her character or lack of it is.

Worse than what modi did to Advani or his own wife? Sonia Gandhi entered after sitaram kesris exit, not narsimha raos.
I think all of your points miss one glaring fact: Quality of life doesn't matter in the face of an existential threat.

It's not: How do we maintain our quality of life?

It's: What quality of life can we achieve?

The basis of your argument needs to be a reality in which life continues, which limits all other considerations.
> There are still places that require tests regardless of whether you've been vaccinated.

Which places? This makes sense when you're crossing a border, they (in an ideal/logical world) really don't care about your personal health, just that you're not bringing the disease du-jour in with you.

You can still carry it and infect people, even with a vaccine record. That's one of the problems with something that grows exponentially, you have to hack at the root for your efforts to be effective.
Testing the backups is harder then you think... It's not like you are going to double up your entire server fleet just to see if you can restore everything from backup. You maybe test restoration of one or two servers and then assume the rest will also work. And you probably have some redundancy so that the data is saved on different machines plus a backup plus an additional backup. Then if things goes down, which is very, very unlikely, like a coordinated nuclear attack on several data-centers, but of course can happen, you assume you will figure things out... And then someone will ask: so what happens if your team also die in the nuclear attack, then you add one zero to the backup price/cost estimation.
First create a task list.

basic, but stay with me...

Then before you start the first item, tell yourself that this is gonna suck. It's going to be the worst thing you've ever done. You're not going to enjoy it. But you're going to do it anyway

And then fight like hell through the task. Try it, it works. (N=1)