skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Those words were spoken by a TJ father who immigrated to the United States from China after surviving the Cultural Revolution."

Hilarious. These propagandists really can't help themselves. "Survive the cultural revolution". Like a billion other chinese? It's funny how the same propaganda sweeps across the media at the same time. I've seen "Survived the cultural revolution" from fox news to the washingtonpost and everything in between.

> "School district officials announced that, as a result of their new admissions system, they slashed the percentage of Asian students admitted to TJ to 54 percent this year from 73 percent last year."

That is dramatic drop but what did they expect? The problem with chinese/asian american population is that they are too small a base to matter. And considering they marry out at extraordinary ( dare I say genocidal rates ), they'll matter even less in the future. In a democracy, numbers matter.

> The American Dream of equal treatment

Since when has equal treatment been part of america or the american dream? Maybe instead of mindlessly memorizing "facts and propaganda", these people should have learned critical thinking. Or the history of natives, africans, mexicans, etc in the US. Or their own history. The history of asian americans has never been that of equal treatment.

If these people are stupid enough to believe "The American Dream of equal treatment" then they deserve what they get. Hard to sympathize with such people.

One thing I do find odd is that the CRT advocates are so intent on increasing black enrollment at a school named after a slave owning white supremacist ( Thomas Jefferson ). Wonder how they square that circle.
How do you stop millions of users on Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms from clicking on the link, engaging with the material, leaving likes/dislikes/reactions, and arguing with each other in the comments section? As long as the engagement metrics on our platforms support a style of communication that values polarization and reaction over mild objectivity, this style will propagate itself and continue, as sad as it is.
Caffeine and methylphenidate are in completely different leagues.
It is over ten years old so doesn’t fit the list.

I’m curious what you think it does that’s so good, I read the first one because a friend really liked it and I just found it competently written epic fantasy. In contrast I remember reading Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson and thinking I had never read that combination of Black Company style moral ambiguity and a world with deep history before, and really wanting to read more. Or A Game of Thrones where the writing was just so good.
Comparing EC2 Pricing with DigitalOcean Droplets
>> The 286 was compatible with close to nothing by the early 90's.

Wolf3D came out in 1992, it was the perfect companion for a 286. Same goes for Duke Nukem II in 1993.
As someone that has held that title at multiple FAANGS and done hundreds of interviews: please don't equate performance in the absurd interview process with ability to code.

Most of the best developers I know would fail a technical interview for their current job.
It’s not a single top-to-bottom thread. Twitter shows the first two posts from the thread and then abruptly cuts to infinite scrolling of suggested third-party content.
Welcome to HN.
Type less read more.
Or has said else where: lurk more.
This is an interesting question to ask, but velocity of money has been declining for about 25 years now and shows no signs of stopping[0] (the recent large drop is due to the stimulus).

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
I have no doubt this'll be flagged and removed from HN but before it does, I just want to say I think it's interesting how adjustments are made to move against high percentage of Asian Americans in certain environments but really no one does the same when other non-white groups dominate other situations.
My favorites on this list are:
- Station 11, just a great novel even if you don't care about SciFi
- Ancillary Justice series. Also really good novels but more for SciFi fans.
- Leviathan Wakes: The inspiration for the best SciFi TV series of the decade.
- Murderbot!!!! Everybody loves Murderbot Diaries

I was sad to not see Seveneves. I think that novel is 2/3 amazing and you can just skip the last 1/3 and miss nothing.
> Yeah, WTF is wrong with that

Nothing is wrong with it. Donald Knuth proudly describes himself as a programmer.

But a good chunk of the people reading this comment probably make more money than he does, and title inflation is part of the stupid game we have to play to earn outsized rewards.

So proceed with caution.
We had X-No-Archive: YES throughout the 90s, which thankfully DejaNews honored (up until Google purchased them in 2001, anyways). Search engines are destroying the social fabric of humanity, making it possible for haters to hate with perfect precision. We've been on the wrong course ('index everything! archive everything!') for thirty years now, and we've earned today's toxic and deadly Internet that resulted from it. Oh well.
The bigger problem is the forced march of hobbyist programmers (who had to get this job just to pay the bills) into some corporate automata climbing up and down some ladder in the name of career. The only thing worse than a career is career advice, especially if given by a career programmer.

Enjoy being a programmer, from this you'd never have to retire. Enjoy the freedom; it shouldn’t be all about money and optimizing the optics of what you do, just to force some perspectives.
Thanks for that, that looks great.

I've been looking for a way to post regularly without actually having to do it. tweetdeck is nice, but its still more hassle than filling a folder with markdowns.
Where is the drone industry headed?
There are many ways your photo can be made public that have nothing to do with either of those. For example a company you worked for might publish a photo of you without asking you etc.

What’s more interesting is how inaccurate a lot of this data is. Spokeo for example seems to think I am related to someone because they share a last name and we lived in the same apartment building at some point. Google’s approach of simply collecting third party information simply isn’t reliable.
I remember my Compaq 386SX 16Mhz with 2MB of RAM and 40MB hard drive. I played "UFO enemy unknown" a lot on it; the machine was so slow that at times the "Hidden enemy move" screen could stay up for a couple of minutes :)
UAC is not a security boundary, its simply a UX feature. The only reason that so called 'exploit' works is because the logged in user already has admin privileges. I would not categorize it as an exploit, but yes interesting.

Its similar to popping up a fake authentication screen and asking the user to type their admin password.
Nothing that's not peer reviewed and openly published should be admissible in court.

Let's also remember that judges, lawyers and cops are folks that couldn't hack STEM.
Privacy-aware Rails consoles with console1984 and audits1984
Yes, but the advice he's giving is not meant to optimize for the most perfect description of what you actually do. It's meant to make what you do sound good in the eyes of people more concerned with making money than objectively and unambiguously describing things.
People may also find interesting the Open Dylan project's alternative implementation of an LLVM bitcode writer, https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/blob/master/sources/... and https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/blob/master/sources/...
I think this explains a lot of the buggy software, companies should have employed someone who calls himself a programmer.

And maybe companies should learn that they need programmers especially good ones otherwise you get something like Salesforce
On that matter, I think (just a not-so-well-informed opinion but still plausible) most countries should urgently protect their software development industry and dramatically reduce taxes on those companies. Because the day US/China automated-production AIs will get to its prime, nothing produced in your county will have any value whatsoever beside land. Ferrari and Rayban? Near-zero market value tomorrow.
Methylphenidate is not meth.
How effective is test prep? That's a serious question because yes, we see a lot of emphasis on it in societies that put a lot of emphasis on tests, but I am not aware of any serious trial of its impact on test scores.
There is CSVW
Also why is this restricted to only under 18? Why can't over-18's also remove personal information?
I've worked at a few medium sized organizations and the cognitive dissonance around modern development practices has been astounding. Many claimed to practice 'agile' development. We'd have daily scrums, stand-ups, and kanban boards with tasks broken down and estimates to the hour. Yet it was so obvious the entire process was "waterfall in disguise".

First PMs would write laughably incomplete requirements. Then developers would be asked to create tasks and estimate how many hours it was going to take. Then developers would implement the features and maybe write some half baked test cases, as PMs watched their burndown chart and constantly asked why the project is behind schedule. Then the QA department would manually test the product for a couple weeks. After a few cycles of back and forth between QA and the dev team, the performance team would deploy to a staging environment and run their analysis, resulting in a few more back and forth cycles. Finally the devops team would deploy the latest code - at midnight with a bunch of developers present to monitor for unexpected bad outcomes.

I wrote features that didn't get deployed for months and in some cases years. If you find yourself at a place like Pitch, be grateful because shipping every week is a blessing.
Good for them!

I read and really enjoyed "Permanent Record" by Edward Snowden[1]. In it he talked about a time when we didn't use our real names, we'd both change identities and did not expect our identities to be perfectly congruent with our IRL selves. (an element of roleplaying).

I also think that a big part of the problem touches on philosophy, politics, and maybe human nature; Part of the issue isn't that we have something to hide, but that we've allowed people to shame us for things that are ok. We've created a world where the fake is more lauded than the real, and so now people feel pressured to keep up public images that are inhuman.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46223297-permanent-recor...
Zerohedge also proudly extols Vorhies having been interviewed on Epoch Times... As if that would do his credibility any favours.
youtube-dl can’t download age-restricted videos from YouTube anymore.
That led to all those buggy software we now have.
Maybe we shouldn't appease these "moneymakers".
It's hard for me to imagine anyone installing this project and using it. Even when picking and installing vim plugins one by one it's hard to remember what they all do and how to use them. I think it's better to see this project as an inspiration, like looking at someone else's dotfiles.
> my 8 year old Macbook Air is still more or less as functional and useful as it was when I got it.

Right? I remember the enormous performance jumps from 286 to 386 to 486DX2 to Pentium to P6S...

Today, I'm still using a late 2013 MBP. Other than the lame 128GB of disk space, it is still my primary machine and is fine for everything I do. Most of my work is done in the cloud anyway so its essentially a 1970's dumb terminal.
App developers, how do you contact your users?
Hi there,

We've been working on an iOS app for a while which we want to launch now on App Store. I wanted to ask the founders who've built apps, how do you keep in touch/contact your users for feedback? Contacting them through the emails they sign in with would look a little sketchy, so we don't want to go down that path.
The Shrinking Role of ETXTBSY
should've named this account patio12

oh well
Yes, the first thing the group would do is acknowledge Taiwan.

Either we acknowledge Taiwan, or expect that it will become like Hong Kong. Probably recognizing the relative autonomy of Hong Kong and Tibet would be a good first step.

China will not go to war over it 'today' so harbour a fleet there in Taiwan, put some airbases nearby, run some heavy patrols and then 'recognize' Taiwan publicly.

What can China do at that point? It can't do anything militarily.

Importantly, it's still an export-based economy, and though no single export market (not even the US) is super critical - major markets together are, as are certain key parts.

Since they've transgressed all sorts of WTO rules, they should be removed from the WTO.

Since they lied about the pandemic and more importantly, will not allow an open investigation into the roots of the pandemic that has obliterated the world economy and killed millions of people - they should definitely be removed from the WHO.

Any interference into media culture of politics in outside nations has to be confronted: they're actively bullying students on campuses in North America (especially in Canada), that definitely stopped.

The new 'group' should set up an few outposts in the S. China Sea with naval patrols to ensure the continued freedom of navigation in the area.

Supporting the industrialization SE Asia (aka Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, India) so as to be able to remove dependency on 'one source' for labor.

Etc. Etc..
>Wonder how they square that circle.

That's a pretty straightforward circle to square - it's apparently a good school, or at least the parents think it is, and the name doesn't change how good the teachers are.
> We can't grow enough food to support our population without GPS

Can you justify this?

Edit: I mean can you provide an authoritative source or a plausible argument for believing this?
I’m not shrugging off the problem, and people should be extremely wary to the point where I think it makes sense to portray the situation as if we would be locked to earth forever if it got out of hand so cleanup is never necessary.

However I think people underestimate ingenuity and the ability to solve the cleanup problem if we really have to. I don’t know how much effort has really be invested in hitting that cleanup problem as hard as possible, as most discussion about it currently is theoretical, and there isn’t a lot of financial benefit to researching it.

If it starts preventing launches, then the incentives to hit the problem harder increase.

It’d obviously be better not to be forced into figuring out whether that problem is solvable, my point is it’s not set in stone that it’s an unsolvable problem, and the incentives are currently such that I don’t think we can consider possible solutions adequately explored.
The answer, as I understand it, is to provide another method of stimming that doesn't cause physical harm to the child.
There's a button "see full thread".
Disagree on this. I used to only read non-fiction, but these days, I feel like reading fiction (especially literary fiction) and having different experiences and empathizing with characters is more beneficial and relevant to my life in _general_ (obviously not always the case). Plus there are no limits to the realities that can be created in fiction, so there are some creative (and escapist) benefits there as well.

I'm not saying fiction is objectively more "beneficial" than non-fiction, I'm just saying the opposite isn't necessarily true either.
Anything that requires multiple files to be passed around together is a non-starter. Even with just one file it's so hard for people to keep track of the 'current' one.
I agree with you, but just want to politely add that it didn't really sneak up on us, we were warned from the beginning, we just ignored it.

It's like in the story about the frog in the pot of hot water, if someone keeps telling the frog, "you know, that water isn't going to stop getting hotter," and the frog is saying "seems fine to me, I think you worry too much."
> From a risk management perspective, each construction stakeholder needs to review, verify, or otherwise build trust manually to make sure they’re protected (i.e. let me double check that document so I know you didn’t screw me over).

Is fraud a common problem in construction?
Lambda uses a stripped down Linux kernel (afaik it has some syscalls removed)

The kernel surface is part of their security model. There's some details here https://www.bschaatsbergen.com/behind-the-scenes-lambda

E.g. exposing the kernel would undo some intentional isolation
Show HN: Wurkbuk digital worksheet management for teachers and instructors
Programmers program computers. No different than dentists drill teeth. Or maybe we should adopt some Latinized or Hellenized name to infuse some mysticism? That’s our mistake?
My family, my wife's family, and much of our extended families are all privacy conscious (we chat over Signal, just like we close our window blinds at night)... and they are all alarmed over this and ready to ditch Apple if they don't change their stance on this.

All it takes is a wiretap warrant and Apple would have to scan on-device pictures and iMessages for whatever the wiretap says. This is true even if the phone has iCloud switched off (most of us already do), since all Apple has to do is change a Boolean variable's value, or something similar requiring no creative effort (and hence legally coercible).
The MMU was a sanity-saver even in DOS development using a DOS-extender like DOS4GW or CWSDPMI, where a crash could actually be debugged/output a stacktrace rather than instantly reboot the machine.

A fair-few DOS applications (via DPMI) also implemented virtual memory schemes like a "real OS" - I remember POVRay 2.0 officially requiring 2 MB of RAM, but was able to start on my 1MB 386SX machine (albeit with 1-2 mins of HDD-thrashing...).
Many of us who grew up on or before the web think this has always been creepy and shudder at each new step we take into darkness. Privacy advocates have been screaming into the ether since the beginning, and it hasn't done anything to stop the erosion of privacy.

A huge percentage of society is willing to accept anything Facebook, Google, and Apple throw at them and simply don't care about the present and future ramifications. Some think about it, others enjoy the convenience or think that there's no way it can harm them. Some even drink the cool aid and honestly believe surveillance is good for society.

I fully expect to wind up in a future where we're all starring in our own versions of the Truman Show. Sensors everywhere, constantly streaming our choices and preferences. Our health data, associations, and even thoughts and feelings used against us.

When everyone is watching everything you do, you're no longer free.
seems to depend on the query. I can issue straight forward queries that visit a few hundred thousand triples easily. But when i write a query that visits tens of millions of triples it times out.
Again, the reliance on KDE components. I don't use KDE, therefore relying on them for a package when they shouldn't be necessary for a simple Qt application, adds bloat and dependencies that I would not use otherwise. KDE is not a lightweight DE, especially when compared to Sway and other similar tiling window managers for Wayland.
Sadly other low-end, crippled options like the Cyrix 486SLC took the 386SX's place.
I recommend listening to some Alan Watts lectures on youtube (try to find a long video, the short ones are usually just bits with music added).
This is so sad. We did not build cities for humans but for machines that, we thought, would serve humans well. We got it so wrong.
When I took the TJ test ~25 years ago it was much like every other standardized test I took in school like the Iowa tests and the SAT, which are generally regarded in the field of education not as measures of mental capacity or scholastic aptitude, but of test prep, whether direct or indirect. Or put another way, they are known to have cultural bias.
Machining without rigidity is a Hard Problem. If someone expects to just iterate past it or trade away a bit of performance and ignore it, they are in for serious disappointment.

This isn't necessarily obvious to people without CNC experience: just look at the number of people in this thread who think deflection compensation can solve rigidity problems. There's no shame in being new to CNC and not really understanding or believing the hype about rigidity, but the Polar Bear company has a financial interest in pushing people towards learning these lessons in an expensive & time consuming manner. That's exactly what they're doing. The people with CNC experience have seen this show before, have seen the burned customers, and are just trying to make sure that expectations stay in the ballpark of reality.
The characters to escape are clearly defined in both specs, but that doesn't mean there's a universal escaping system. Just google "how to escape JSON" and you will see the wealth of users struggling to understand what and how to accomplish this. There will always be people struggling with escape characters, I don't see it being any harder or easier in any format.
Not (I think) the exacttalk/blog post gp was thinking of - but worth watching IMNHO:

"Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017"
https://youtu.be/30jNsCVLpAE

Ed: oh, here we go I think?

> Running Aground: Debugging Docker in Production
Bryan Cantrill19,102 views16 Jan 2018
Talk originally given at DockerCon '15, which (despite being a popular presentation and still broadly current) Docker Inc. has elected to delist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdMqCUhvRz8
Maybe this one? It seems to match except the "he regretted waiting so long"

http://www.paulgraham.com/kids.html
So you have to be under 18, and prove it, to get help with this problem?
This is neat, maybe if I need data to be removed I can just take a vacation to Europe and fill out the form from there, that makes me protected under EU law for the duration of my stay.
Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices
SynAck ransomware gang releases decryption keys for old victims
Sure!

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-07-27/US-China-mili...
... and the fastest way to reset the processor was via a triple fault -- arrange for the general protection fault and the double fault handlers to both fail.
Hong Kong reportedly lets Nicole Kidman skip Covid quarantine – Hong Kong
I haven't come up with a good answer for this in my company. My partner and several employees work at one location, and I work with another employee several states away. I've suggested treating meetings as all remote, having each participant involved in a conference call from their desks. Instead, the other office prefers to sit around a speaker phone, which makes for a very difficult meeting to follow.
This is a really good question, especially since a substantial fraction of the cheap Chinese solar panels produced in the past decade are not even lasting long enough to fully pay for themselves. Lower-tier Chinese panels are now frequently seen to be delaminating after just 6 or 7 years. At that point, they begin leaching toxic heavy metals into the environment.

Recycling them makes no economic or energy sense, so most will wind up in landfills, poisoning the ground for centuries to come.
Leverage, Liquidation and Insurance Funds
> 12 picoparsecs

That's... a length. About 230 miles or 370 kilometers to be exact. ;)
"Because the day US/China automated-production AIs will get to its prime"

I think this time is quite a bit far off. But eventually will have sourcing price of just the raw materials. That said and regarding your next point -

"Ferrari and Rayban? Near-zero market value tomorrow."

On this I disagree strongly. Current trend is that IP becomes constantly more important. So that while manufacturing costs for said items may tumble, IP laws likely protect the sale of items branded as such. And the price difference does not likely result in cheaper prices, but in a bigger revenues.