skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've read this before, and while I agree that there are tropes, like the techbabble mentioned in the article as well as creating suspense with arbitrary timelines ("we have a routine task BUT the core will explode in 30 minutes"), I think the fact that the specific tech is irrelevant is one of the greatest strengths of Star Trek.

The Star Trek universe is one where people live in a post-scarcity, post-war, and heavily automated earth and are free to pursue creative or explorative endeavors. The technology in the show is designed to be seamless; the computer responds to voice commands, doors open on their own, food is ordered from a machine. It is intentional that, in Star Trek, there aren't people huddled in front of a screen all day typing on a keyboard.

The reason for that is because a show that would be hyper focused on how tech works would be incredibly boring. And, at least in my opinion, it isn't important. The author says the characters "don't tell us anything interesting about the human condition under science fictional circumstances", but that isn't true. Many episodes revolve around what it means to be human and our role in the universe on a wider philosophical context. Whether the warp drive can realistically be snapped to warp 11 doesn't affect that at all.

To give a real world example, consider the Snowden revelations. I don't know the specifics on how the NSA algorithm worked, or what storage devices they used, or if it is possible to perform a certain operation on it. It isn't interesting nor does it speak to realities of a post 9/11 America. What is interesting are questions on the balance between privacy and security, the underwhelming public concern, and the lack of transparency in a government body. I feel like Star Trek would have covered those stories, techbabble or not.
Or you can use cross-platform solutions which are themselves good tools, and disregard platform-specific semantics in favor of globally good UI/UX and let your tool stand on its own with no need for unnecessary, repetitive, error-prone platform porting.
Current place of employment uses a similar system, power outages are quite pleasant.
What's their interest rate exposure? If rates go up 0.5%, what's their paper worth?
Bi-Partisan “Open App Markets Act”: Allow Side Loading and Payments Providers
Confirmed I was able to login directly from the email link and the cookie warnings are gone. I did see a brief flash of the login screen but then was immediately redirected to the app. Thanks for fixing this. Also I am able to create courses now, but that was fixed earlier.
Learn databases.
That's two comments in a row where you've started off with an insult.

And your data? TWO EXITS.
This is why we're desensitized to such signatures. Do we really want to be desensitized to videos that look like a recording of a human saying your name?
I measured how long it took on average to write out the display, and I set my program to write out the display at that time. The values are in the source code in that repo, but if it was 1ms, at 23:59:59.999, I'd wake up and write out 00:00:00. (Scheduling jitter could be a problem, but comparing when my program starts writing data to the actual PPS signal with an oscilloscope, it seemed amazingly consistent to me. I don't have my data around to really confirm that, though.)

I have that video linked to Github and within about ~10ms, you can tell that things are working really well when the audio and visuals line up. (I say ~10ms, because there is a 2ms propagation delay between the radio station I'm receiving and the clock display changing, and it looks perfect to the eye. If it's a little longer than that, you'll notice -- WWV with ~8ms propagation delay makes you question whether or not the display is updating correctly. It is hard to discern 8ms, of course, but I think it's noticeable if you're looking for it. This, BTW, is why I hate 60Hz monitors. Your brain definitely notices the 16ms it takes from pressing a key to it showing up on the screen. We get used to it, but why tolerate failure when you can make it perfect?)
>More than that, github was floundering economically, and Microsoft bought them to ensure continuity, because Microsoft was the single largest user.

Was it a common knowledge at the time? I don’t recall seeing info about MS being largest user and unfortunately their newspost on acquisition returns an error…

[1] https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-g...
I believe Rand came out and said that while he disagreed with Youtube's decision, it's their right as a private corporation to do so.
That video is one of the scariest things I've witnessed in less than 60 seconds. The future of communication will be opt-in, I suppose.
You can't be serious. You're saying that the abrupt, almost overnight spike of all-cause mortality by 40% (!!) in April 2020 in the USA was... old age?

Did you look at the CDC graph? Do you see the very obvious wave of extra mortality, and how far it deviates from previous years? Do you see how the excess death comes in several huge waves, waves that perfectly line up with Covid-19 waves? Hell of a coincidence, don't you think?

I'd love to see this demographic analysis you cite. It must be a very sophisticated model, to perfectly predict a regular annual pattern (deviation <1%) for the past several years, abruptly followed by the wild 50% swings and chaos of the pandemic period, so accurately that you can confidently say that no one's died of Covid.
Shameless request for scraping enthusiasts at:
https://www.pdap.io, an open source Police Data Accessibility project started on HN and Reddit. Our goal is scraping and collating all county level public records, giving us a dataset to enable "Policing the Police"
Maybe something more along the lines of this AI handwriting generator?

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html
That is a poor comparison. The 52k is taxed. But even beyond that, your expenses can be way lower if you don't have to work - to earn good money you might need to live in a more expensive place than you would if you had total freedom; you might have daycare $$$expenses; spend more on commuting and food out, and frankly might just naturally spend more due to being more stressed from work and having less self-discipline to avoid a lot of discretionary expenses.

If I had 53k/year just to SPEND - no debt!! - I'd be extremely happy and consider myself rich as I wouldn't have to worry too much about almost anything I'd want to spend on, if I chose a reasonable COL city.
My mom made extra money in the '90s doing the manual version of that. She'd pick up a stack of pages with som company's letterhead, a template, and a list of names, and then proceed to hand-write hundreds of nearly identical letters.
we are cyborgs, some of us are ahead of the curve.

I should dress as the Joker for Halloween

EDIT: Let me elaborate. in the 90s, remembering someones birthday with a card was meaningful because you REMEMBER their birthday and took action on it. today, people use Google Calendar to remind themselves to send that 'Happy Birthday' texts, and its not dishonest or deceptive.

In this case its taking that concept of using tech to enhance your abilities to the Nth degree.

now I have that song stuck in my head. M O, M O R
So this is basically an ad for https://www.windsor.io/, I guess. Wonder what sort of deal they worked out?

Shame it leaves such a sense of disgust in most people here, to judge by the comments so far. They may have picked the wrong crowd.
> Blazing fast cloud developer environments

I have a blazing fast development computer already. Also, it only takes a few seconds to push changes to a repo.

Maybe if I were highly mobile, but otherwise, this is a nope.

Also, IP much?
The developer of oh-my-zsh did something like this when a coworker bought me one of their branded mugs. It's very odd to get as a customer. Not bad, just not expected.
CTRL-V is a common "quote the next character" input command: it's specified by POSIX (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition... https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition...) and it works in bash (in vi mode and emacs mode) and zsh

It also works with just the bare terminal line discipline in many flavours of unix: look at the 'lnext' control character in the output from 'stty' on Linux, macOS, or BSD (but not POSIX).

(however the equivalent in emacs itself is ctrl-Q, probably for bad reasons)
But doesn’t this mean after 10 attempts the data gets nuked? Fine for stored passwords but unworkable for photos.
I have done this, and it was horrible… for example I was missing all attachments (no notification or error messages). Also the fields are not properly converted 1:1.
All in all, it was a big mess. This was about a year ago.
I've always wondered why we don't see more people with $50M-$100M saved up over a lifetime. The average person can't do it, but there are plenty of doctor/lawyer or tech manager couples in the Bay Area or NYC that can save $100k-$150k per year. Max out retirement accounts, invest in index funds, assume 7% return, assume a long life of 90 years, and... that ends up being a lot of money.

Not saying that couples who are capable of saving that much per year are actually doing it, but rather, you would think it would at least be more common than it is.
Why the Hype Around Hypersonics?
Slightly hot take: We don't need EV tax credits (beyond the $7500 one that phases out) because EVs are now associated as "cool vehicles" in the mind of the public.
Can your models explain why certain moves are better and not just recommend what to do next?
I think the rating system he referred to was supposed to be independen.
How many of those users ever use more than one OS?
I wouldn't use any password manager without browser integration. It's the single most critical feature to me in a password manager (ok, beyond secure storage/access). I haven't looked at Keepass lately, but unless it has a browser plugin and automatic sync between all devices (multiple computers, phones, tablets) without me having to roll my own sync solution, it's a non-starter for all but the most hardcore geeks.
The site requests access to connected VR headsets when I open it. Is that intended?
Didn’t know EEE as an acronym, in case others are looking and not interested in reading about Eastern Equine Encephalitis, I think here they are referring to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extingui...
They could be a universal game assistant sold as a subscription service if they could generalize it to most games.
I'm both proud and ashamed of this rant. At least it changed my views about some subjects.
Devils advocate on

Since all advertising is the practice of psychological manipulation how is this particularly different? Is all advertising unethical?

Even if the process is automated, if the end result is to evoke a nice sentiment in someone, is that really a bad thing? Wouldn't the ethics really come into play in using such tech to rip people off in a variety of ways rather than to merely say thank you for your purchase?

Devils advocate off

I think there's a strong argument to be made that the efficacy of this approach is more tied to the visual senses and novelty of it. It's not just the personalization since as you've pointed out it's no different than a personalized email.

Ultimately it's just a tool, and how people choose to use those tools is all that really matters.

A friend of mine ran a ecommerce company where for years they would physically record at least a couple hundred personalized thank you videos for people each day. While they were quite successful and people really dug them, I can tell you for a fact that such messages may as well have been automated because there's very little you actually know about your customers beyond their purchase/purchase history that you can truly personalize your message to them with.
> Electron done right

that is a very low bar. VS code is still slow and eats up a ton of resources. not to mention I don't trust anything from microsoft. OP said electron = bad and you should be ashamed of using it because its helping propagate it's usage when its a cancer.
I really wish they'd offer other encryption backends than gpg. GPG is pretty long in the tooth. I never have problems with pass, all my problems are with gpg.
If a business is paying for this product, then THEY (not you) are the customer. And in that context - yes, Microsoft may be asked or build a product for managers to manage their workforce, particularly if remote. This could involve presence tracking, engagement tracking (ie, do you open alerts / read your bug reports) etc.

One approach would be to monitor what management considers productive / successful employees and also on employees who have gone on PIP's - then train the AI on that data set. You'd then be able to drive various alerts to manager and HR dashboards (ie, if a manager was failing to address alerts / manager their team it would be surfaced up a level).

Dystopia may be coming indeed. Remember, usually the key issue is not if product is a paid product, but are YOU paying for it. If not - someone else is the revenue source, and Microsoft et al will serve them. Maybe the individual licenses will not have this "management" layer add-on as an option.

But I think a very real chance of something like this occurring! If not right now eventually. In Sci-fi this is an inevitability (monitored through a smart watch or something etc).
I genuinely cannot believe someone wrote this entire article about how efficiently they lied to 10,000 people without having a single second of self awareness. The only thing I can think of is that Windsor is paying them for promotion, but of course that still doesn't explain it.

"Is this genuine? Of course, it's just as genuine as if I had a clone replace me in all personal interactions so I could get on with stuff I actually care about." How is this not a parody?

Edit: From another comment, he's an investor (https://angel.co/company/windsor-2/funding). Must have slipped his mind when he was writing the "Ethics" section.
For those interested in learning more about terminal emulators and character graphics, checkout Nick Black's book Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses): A Guide to TUIs and Character Graphics[1].

While the overall focus of the book is on programming with Notcurses[2], the author shares a wealth of related info and history throughout its pages.

[1] https://nick-black.com/htp-notcurses.pdf

[2] https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses#readme
"I'm Sundar Pichai, and I approve this message"
OK, sure, makes sense. But how do they know how old the rocks are? If not by carbon dating that is...
Also I think the "head" of the family can reset passwords of the other accounts...
Because the union of people who use and enjoy Facebook and people who read HN is very small.

But the union of people who read HN and people who would hit a button to erase Facebook and all of its employees off the face of the planet is probably larger than one might expect.
Real estate agent in a red agrarian area turning purple... so every market is going to be different, but in my market it's coastal progressives moving inland for:

1) Weather

2) Cost of living: housing, property taxes

3) Quality of life: No commute, slower pace of life

In the process there is a cultural and political struggle underway, and it's the newcomers supplanting the old ways. I've had a few prospective buyers call and say that they are escaping the godless/liberal coast and headed back to conservative small-town America, but I have yet to have a single one of those actually convert to becoming a buyer, FWIW. Point being, I foresee it not being about people wanting to become Republicans, and more a demographic shift where many traditional red areas are going to turn purple, if not blue.
How does it work when you work on several packages at once,e.g. a lib and an app using it? Is it a monorepo, do you configure both dependencies to be locally editable copies, etc.? For example patching an upstream open source project that is a blocker for your app.
Totally fair and reasonable! Too many banks here in the US too that both make it against TOS to get external access to your data and also refuse to offer anything secure like OAuth — extremely frustrating :/ At best you can try to pressure your bank to support OAuth but... we're just small fries.
Xterm control sequences and escape codes
It is hard when you have millions of commits, thousands a day, and your monorepo is measured in gigs.
Came here to ask that. I think that maybe it's very very unlikely that you can actually find a meteorite that you've seen falling from the sky. So if someone claims they've seen that specific rock fall from the sky they're probably wrong.

If that's not the case can anyone please elaborate on that box?
In the old days class meant where your money came from.

The poor got their money from church, government poor houses. They do what they want when they want.

The working class was the manual labor class. Their nose is to the grindstone when they're at work, but they do no unpaid work.

The middle class was skilled trades, some sweaty like electrician most desk jobs like accountant, but all very month to month. They are perhaps the hardest working class in that they are required to work "for free" on salaried weekends and nights and so forth.

The upper class got all their money from investment. They do what they want when they want.

Clearly your example is upper class.
Seems like YouTube is missing some kind of middle ground "this thing is controversial, and definitely one-sided, and therefore probably misleading" attachment that doesn't require strikes / account suspensions.

I appreciate the Senator attaching links, but there are plenty of counterpoints of evidence: I think merely presenting one side of the evidence is itself a sign of bad faith.
The damp towel and a light breeze can be amazing! Dries out in most environments too. Just flip the bed covers over and or set them aside and it all is set for the next evening, in my experience.
No, it's not out of Netflix's hands. It's just the usual price negotiation. Netflix doesn't want to license content for global broadcast, which would be more expensive. So, they license it regionally. So, Netflix is as much at fault here as the rights holders.
U.S. lawmakers introduce bill to rein in Apple, Google app stores
No, I have plugins for roughly the same feature set/workflow in both editors. Open and edit a huge file in both editors and Sublime is more responsive.
Don't confuse bad impostors who sabotage important project with their incompetence, like architecting buildings or bridges without a proper engineering degree, and coasters who get easy money in oil or ads industries. I'm totally fine with the latter category. I'd even argue that they are a net good for society because otherwise their salaries would just end up in the Bezos' pocket.
I have seen that IPCC statement you quoted before and don't regard it as credible.

Again, once again, over again, yet again, one more time, just
from what I wrote, from either data or models, there is no credible evidence that CO2 from human activities has had, is having, or will have a significant effect on temperature.

When there is credible evidence, I will pay close attention.

The IPCC can say "unequivocal" all they want, but that does not make their claims true.

Actually saying "unequivocal" is at best just a qualitative summary and no evidence at all.

So far, no one has any credible evidence that humans are significantly warming the earth, and in particular the IPCC has no such evidence.

If you want to point to where the IPCC has credible evidence, then fine, but just their claiming "unequivocal" means nothing.

But again, so far no one has any such credible evidence; in particular, the IPCC has none, and there is none to point to in their many long documents.

To explain further, the data from the 800,000 years has not changed. Data from just the last 150 years or so is not very much data. The models that have been tested by comparison with reality have nearly all failed. That's where we stand, including the IPCC.
https://angel.co/company/windsor-2/funding

He's an investor.
From what I've read the bill would not prevent Apple from forcing developers to use their payment system. It would prevent Apple from mandating devs use it as their only option. So, any developer could put any other payment system in their apps, but that wouldn't block you from still using Apple's if you don't trust that developer.
If you pay deliberate attention, you will find that some problems affect projects dramatically more often or more severely than others. If those problems were easy to solve, they might not exist. If you learn to solve them, you will be a lot more valuable.

However, since this isn’t about listing trendy techs on your resume or l33tcoding, I don’t know if it will make you more in demand or not
> It is worse because it is resource hog and slow even on high end machines

And what of other factors? If it is worse in the dimensions you list but superior in:

* accessibility
* cross-platform capability
* debuggability
* library availability
* user familiarity

and more, then what does this matter? Each choice made in such a domain as this is picking a point in a high-dimensional tradespace, and to blatantly disregard this obvious perspective citing "management speak" and "slick developers" doesn't really inspire confidence you're arguing in good faith
Frugality here is distinct from cheapness; I don't think the FIRE advocates would say to live like a poor person in the Sam Vimes' Boots sense. Ideally it's more about avoiding the hedonic treadmill as much as possible, where you'd be spending money without getting any meaningful experiences.
> Even if the process is automated, if the end result is to evoke a nice sentiment in someone, is that really a bad thing?

Yes, because it only evokes a nice sentiment if you lie about how it was made. Magic tricks are still fun even if you know they're tricks. This is not at all fun once you know it's a trick.
Thanks, but i've used both of for an extended amount of time and Shadow is just as good, and honestly is more stable in games in my opinion - of course it's a bonus that you can host yourself in Parsec but the tech seems like it's the same since Shadow does this in its own datacenters and it works exactly as parsec with remote work.
> And now that we’ve started to roll out the next generation of 1Password apps, it’s time to say goodbye to standalone licenses.

Well, that's the end of my interest then. I had some curiosity after seeing the Rust integration, but I'm not going to pay a subscription fee to sync the smallest part of my day-to-day life. The convenience really just isn't there for me in a subscription. And no local vaults? Double no, please.
> [1] The nature of their fraud is that they are grossly overvaluing their illiquid assets. Because they have never undergone an audit, they can get away with this - they can claim that their illiquid assets are worth <whatever value they want>, with no third party oversight.

Indeed, the attestations (not audits!) that they have the money backing it even explicitly have the note on them that the assets are marked at cost of purchase, instead of mark-to-market.
I've thought quite a few times that some sort of robotic or semi-automated brush clearing system could be an interesting startup. In principle I don't see why you couldn't cut stuff, grab it, throw it in a wood chipper, and haul it out of the forest.

The devil is always in the details though and I have no idea what all is involved in operating in the forest or the economics, legality, and politics of it.
DoD Awards $1B Contract to Peraton to Counter Misinformation
Or Zebras crossing