skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a stereotypical Tom Nichols think-piece write-up. A reasonable veneer of good earnest frank asssessment, wrapping a core of angry blow-hard snobbery. To say that we "wanted" this is off the mark & repulsive. There's no possible other alternatives Tom presents, no strategems or ideas for how a democratic system might better align itself to long term goals, to better assess it's progress & face hard truths: no, the convenient truth presented & packaged is that Americas are shitty people & that we hate having democracy & truth & that all we want is to go shopping. 100% typical completely expectable write up from Tom Nichols.

He is a master at writing incendiary posts that get easily lit people fired up at everyone else, thinking they're much better, angry at the everyman. It's sabotage, a way to sow dissent and strife & earn hella clicks for it, and it presents little of substantial value. There's enough not wrong about it, enough appealing, seductive even, to make it enjoyable, but it argues only for the dark side, for distrusting each other, for ineffectuality, for making you feel better, for agreeing with his thick fisted bloviation.

I wrote about a very different but equally dangerous sort of self-regard a day or two ago, when someone was warning about how software engineers adore complexity, and how they alone are a platinum guardian of the codebase, uniquely suited, to which someone else was ever too ready to worship. Just because you're a fine critic doesn't make you a worthwhile contributor[1]. We need positive basis to operate from too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28194395
I had forgotten that "Parkinson's Law" was a collection of essays; and I didn't know that the one about bikesheds was called The Law of Triviality. But I knew that the term originated with CNP; I didn't follow the link.
> those defendants were eventually exonerated

That's not what the link says:

> In March 2001, the Florida Court of Appeals reversed the manslaughter convictions of all three defendants. The court held that the prosecution had made improper comments during closing argument. The court did not reverse the grand theft convictions.

So nobody believed they'd committed the crime, and this was corrected by expunging their conviction for manslaughter, but officially they still stole the sign, even though, if that were true, they would also have committed the manslaughter.
Precisely because of the explosion of non-professional writing in these channels, paid writing has dropped in income and effectiveness. That said, the story of the impoverished author was old when "new grub st" was written by George Gissing in 1891 (its a good, depressing read btw)

TL;DR patreon makes things worse not better. Kindle destroyed the revenue stream in traditional publishing, for Amazon's net benefit.
What is so hostile about the previous post ?

P.s. I am not a native english speaker so I must be missing something.
The energy that made those rocks warm, came from spinning other rocks really fast.
Chemicals have been invented to induce melanin production in human skin (2017)
I’ll note that it doesn’t seem that you’ve tried anything. You haven’t changed your circumstances at all.. different job at a similar company, different part of town, save any money at all to open something of your own in your hometown, etc.

Also, maybe get really engaged in something unrelated. Maybe having a thing to look forward to will re-balance things.
> Such transmitted states will be signed

And pranksters, vandals and petty thieves won’t make off with these cryptographically signed signage? Because this already happens for our existing dumb infrastructure.
I really hope I survive for longer than three years the next time I get completely destroyed.
I suspect part of it was being stuck in the school computer lab, without a portable supercomputer in your pocket, and with little web to speak of (and less connectivity to what there was).

A moment that will never exist again.
You couldn't get the new deal up now if you had a trillion dollers behind you. Literally, some state would refuse to accept both sides of the deal: Yes, we want the dam construction but no, you can't send what we consider intellectual "undesirables" to write songs about it.

Actually, I doubt you can get the states to accept money for construction projects like the TVA and the grand coolee dam because they'd be hugely unpopular with some voting segment in the state.

IF you replace dams by something more current, I wonder if you can "new deal" replacing Gas peakers and the like with Solar and Wind, and building new homes to replace ageing house stocks, and re-planting forests, and the like. Maybe you can.

(I did some make-work on a youth employment scheme in 1978 which was amazing, but was a giant boondoggle to take me off unemployment lists: I went to the seaside in Scotland 70 times doing water quality sampling, and the government paid for my gumboots. I then went to university. The school of hard knocks was pretty kind to me, fish-and-chips and pub-lunches included and I kept the wellington boots: can't share footwear, government health regulations)

Edit the New Deal photographers had their work severely censored. There was a post a while back about how we assume they're documenting the poverty-life, but it was a whitewashed documentary.
Monads allow you to compose functions with incompatible in/out types. That’s all it is. And (as a nice bonus) add extra code in-between the two functions you are joining. It opens up a huge number of cool things you can do.
> Except there just isn't production capacity for that on the planet.

But it's not like we're fully utilizing the available production capacity.

https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/do...
Xagents – Train a self-learning algorithm using the command line
apple has already build one so i guess it won't be a big deal for them
How did it destroy revenue streams exactly? I’ve just never understood that to be the case.

(Disclosure, I worked with and attended university on the dime of the folks who built Amazon’s POD acquisition - so I have some fealty (and insight), I suppose)
Ok cool now compress and store and transport it after you spend $10 trillion on the infrastructure to do that at planet scale. Or, send electricity into batteries over wires which already exist. Like, come on. You have to choose which energy innovator to back and you go with Tesla or the people pushing hydrogen (Shell, Exxon)?
I hope this becomes popular enough that Spotify buys this and makes it default. I have not used this but anything is better than current Spotify memory hog. I miss those WinAmp days.
> that is more or less how human cognition works

Yes, but pranksters frequently vandalize stop signs with messages like “stop driving” or “stop eating animals” and human drivers are smart enough to figure out what to do. I’ve never seen someone throw their car into park or toss their burger out the window upon seeing a confusing stop sign.
Phrasing your thoughts this way is tedious and melodramatic. What is anyone supposed to glean from this comment? How are they meant to respond to it? Just plainly say what it is you want to say and deal with the consequences. Are you suggesting more people should be going to church?
The bottom line is, it's that after second vaccination amount of antibodies start to decline and at some point of time efficiency of vaccination going down with it.
The "better" long term protection by longer gap between doses probably just buys extra couple of months or so of good efficiency at cost of lowered between two shots
The western democracies are so pure and noble. Definitely not colonizing, dictator supporting, or war mongering countries.
The thing you find in your cutlery drawer.

As in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loeffel_03.JPG not https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MeasuringSpoons.jpg

I just measured mine using a scale and my teaspoon is around 4 ml when filled with water (probably closer to 3 ml when not heaped and no surface tension), my tablespoon around 9 ml, so close enough I guess.
We don't like this article! We are serious!

Not a US citizen by the way, but the epidemic of ineptitude is not really limited to US..
Ask HN: What happens next for dot af (Afghanistan) domains?
Anyone know what to expect for dot af domain names now that the regime propped up by the USA has been dismantled and the Taliban took over?
it'd say it's more just a fancy cruise control with obstacle detection than a true "self driving" system
The only service I can think of where I'd want them not to cancel my account is a domain registrar.
This is related to another CNP thing: committees. It's a long time since I read it, but he says something like: "A committee consists of a number of people with special expertise in various matters; and a chairman, who is expert in none. In a cabinet, the chairman is known as the Prime Minister".

It's related, because that shortage of expertise is what leads the committee to spend more time on the bikeshed's paintjob than on the safety of the reactor. Everyone's an expert on bikesheds.
I assume their situation is made difficult by a huge population on tropical, (mountainous?) islands. Do they have reasonable locations for landfill?

Could other countries apply tariff-based pressure based on plastics detection at river mouths, and help with any methods of addressing the problem? There was a comment the other day that plastics in food/bev wrappers was one issue. Surely these are not unsolvable problems with a bit more motivation?

Also wouldn't hurt to publicise the info about ocean plastics coming from their islands (like your comment) and hopefully that encourages change also.
> try to design an experiment that would prove whether the value written in the system is correct. If designing the experiment is very hard, that should be interpreted as a risk factor - if no one can check that the system is doing what it ought to, then maybe it really is wrong!
This also likely improves compatibility with observability tooling which assumes the standard calling convention, which is welcome.
"security"? You mean the paranoia FUD of Big Tech justifying their enslavement of users and locking them out of their own bought general-purpose-computers --- I mean devices --- to further the authoritarian corporatocracy?

"Trusted" computing, DRM, and all its ugly ilk are premised on making things "secure". Maybe its time we opened our eyes to realise that uncomfortable truth. If the government and the megacorps are scared enough by encryption to want backdoors into our lives, maybe we should want ones into them too.

"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
I think it's the other way around; Really Simple Syndication is a backronym - for every other historical explanation, I can't see an acronym like being created in the early days of the internet. Once it took hold/potential realised, it needed to be translated to less technical folks.
For the Love of Summer
US to Advise Boosters for Most Americans 8 Months After Vaccination
Windows Phone is still the best mobile OS. I really miss it.
Apparently you have some advice for the State Department about how to stabilize a place that has lacked stability for centuries, I bet they could use some advice about now.
The Three Solutions to Scaling by Saito Network
I say charge company B, but I disagree with your analysis of where the money will come from. Companies charge to maximize future profits.

If company B tries to charge customers an extra $500, they'll be more expensive than company A, and customers will go to company A. They'll exactly go bankrupt. If they could have charged customers $500 extra and kept it, they would have done that from the get-go. The money won't come from customers, at least in a market with any competition.

Where will it come from? Well, the money will ultimately come from company B's investors. There are several mechanisms by which this can happen:

- Company B has a billion dollars in the bank. It spends $500 million on damages. It now has $500 million in the bank, and is worth $500 million less.

- Company B has zero dollars in the bank, but an otherwise solid business. It issues new equity, diluting existing equity, to raise $500 million. Existing shares are worth $500 million less.

- Company B has zero dollars in the bank, and a negative net worth. It files for bankruptcy. A court reorganizes it to pay the debtors (e.g. the customers). Old shares are worth $0, and the company is now owned by its debtors -- it's customers. The shares aren't quite worth $500 each, but customers get as much as possible, and the business keeps chugging along. No one loses their job.

Once investors notice, they'll start to include data security into company valuations. Insurance companies will do likewise. Keeping poor security will decrease profits, and security will improve. On the other hand, I don't think many companies will fold -- in the sense of letting customers and employees down -- based on this.
Ubuntu desktops releases I mean are more visually nice on install, Debian needs more configuration after install.
Both are basically the same, just the Configuration for Mate looks better on install for the desktop distros of ubuntu.

Kinda like how Mint was doing it.
That form does not indicate that it's used to change a SSN.

Even if you do get a new SSN I wonder what the process is for changing it with the credit bureaus.
If the store uses upi , your bank app pops you up with a notification and the transaction only goes through if you click yes ,
It also auto generates an invoice for you to download while youre at it (depends on the bank tho)
I’ve used https://jrnl.sh/en/stable/ in the past and enjoyed it
I think people claiming modern C/C++ tools are close to as good as Go’s are wrong, in my opinion. With that having been said, IMO if you want the C++ experience to be better, use Clangd and generate a compile_commands.json file. For many projects you can use wrappers like compiledb, or Bear, and some build systems like CMake can output it natively. Either way, once you have found a way to do this, and get it outputting into the project root, add a local ignore for it (in .git/info/exclude) and install the VSCode clangd extension.

Truly, it is night and day. I can get Real code intelligence on almost anything, including large C projects with custom Makefiles that compile cross-arch like Wine. It only ever has trouble with unusual translation unit patterns. (You can see this in Higan for example, which has .cpp files including other .cpp files; clangd seemingly fails to put them in the context of the intended translation unit.)

It’s not as good as Go, but it is life-changing for me.
Really great job.

I wish there is one for apple music.. Since switching to apply music it has been a pain to open iTunes in my PC.
I've used POD, and within limits, its amazing (the fussyness about KDP print-ready markup is a royal pain, but I blame the PDF standards bodies for that, not to mention the iSBN scam business worldwide. anyhoo)

Imagine you have 100 troubadours, touring the kings domains worldwide, for a free food in return for a song, of which only Blondel makes a mint. Then imagine you allow anyone who can play the penny whistle to join: you now have 10,000 touring musicians, all chasing the same meal, but only 10 of them can play as well as Blondel: in aggregate there;s more music but less of it is earning the price of dinner.

Kindle has 1,000,000 authors. 999,000 of them write $2 romances or how-to books which earn them side-gig money. 1000 of them will ever be good enough to enter the booker prize. Authors overall are earning on average, less because instead of being essentially broke hobos who live off the advance, they're living off the profits on $2 sells but have to work bloody hard to be "seen" in amongst the success stories. Philip Pullman and Dan Brown aside, on average Authors are not entirely happy with Kindle. Yes, there's more money out there but the jam is being spread thinner.

(I was told this by a retiring authors agent here in Australia btw. She was adamant her "list" did worse overall. Other people might say thats not true, and it may be about dis-intermediation. She said the kindle rights were abysmal compared to traditional publishing)
It's generally rare to see blaming the voters vs blaming the politicians they elected. Maybe this is because this risks offending part of the audience. If so, it seems a bad bias that leads to the master constantly changing their mind and then blaming the servants for executing the previous policy.
Databases in AWS – DynamoDB
can you convince your side to leave the other side alone?
>”the still-unpopular argument that writers are in fact people, and they need to eat, too."

I hate hate hate this kind of sophistry. I really wish English had a concise word to describe this kind of underhanded rhetoric.

I don’t think the federal government should be employing writers simply to employ people who write. Therefore, I do not think writers are people, and furthermore, they do not deserve to eat.
> Motherboard has seen samples of the data, and confirmed they contained accurate information on T-Mobile customers. The data includes social security numbers...

wait, why does t-mobile have SSNs?
I'm glad that you at least were transparent about the shortcomings of these types of systems. Maybe some academics in forensic image analysis can take up the torch and shed light on how much of a failure this whole system is, especially when they're putting spyware on our personal devices. Anyway, I like your writings, keep up the good fight.
It's also ends up being a good heuristic for tacitly supporting secret institutional power.
The parser would be a more future proof

There's already plenty of bikeshed here but that just takes the cake. The only code that's truly "future proof" is code that you're willing to rewrite; which I'm sure the author is capable of doing if/when the need arises.
that sounds very nice and all, but unless you're independently wealthy or someone else is supporting you, you're making the same trade off as everyone else. You've just opted to take a long slow path vs others that just want to get it over with. Your still going to need some baseline amount of money to survive, whether you make it 'all at once' or slowly over the rest of your life. And as long as you're working, your going to have some percentage of bad days, days you don't want to be there, etc. Its the same formula, only the parameters have changed.

Also, if being miserable at work 'shapes you as a person' or has a substantial impact on your 'self-integrity' it sounds like you're the one defining yourself via work? More outside activities might help? You have to be able to leave work behind at the end of the day...

I grew up in a mill town with a large part of the population hating what they did..but they did it every day for 20 or 30 years to take care of their families. For most, being miserable at work wasn't the defining facet of their lives. They had hobbies, coached little league, and did a million other things. While it was far from perfect, most of the people I knew didn't 'let the job get to them'.

As for the choices you made - good for you :-) Glad you found a set of parameters that works for you! :-D
Python was a unique shit show.
There is a book with 2 editions published by the researcher about them.

An excerpt can be found here: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ746290.pdf

The outcomes depend on how much and when the students were accelerated in school.

ETA:

The two extremes:

“… 17 of the 60 young people were radically accelerated. None has regrets. Indeed, several say they would probably have preferred to accelerate still further or to have started earlier…. The majority entered college between ages 11 and 15. Several won scholarships to attend prestigious universi- ties in Australia or overseas. All have graduated with extremely high grades and, in most cases, university prizes for exemplary achieve- ment. All 17 are characterized by a passionate love of learning and almost all have gone on to obtain their Ph.D.s.”

“The remaining 33 young people were retained, for the duration of their schooling,… Two dropped out of high school and a number have dropped out of university. Several more have had ongoing difficul- ties at university,…”

Based on this HN comment [1] it appears the participants have been anonymized. It also quotes some of Terrence Tao’s education and makes a claim there was someone else who may have equaled Tao in math ability, but did not have the educational support structure to recognize and nurture it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11510032
I think the solution is simple then: The SSN should be used for read-only. Once the credit report is read/accessed, the credit bureau issues a write-only code. The company then deletes the SSN and only retains the write-only code. If the write-only code is leaked later in a hack, it is useless to criminals trying to open new accounts.
This is an extremely sad day for humanity. Privacy is a basic human right, People trusted these companies with their most personal identity information (often due to not having a choice since repressive governments won't allow one to operate a base station) and they completely shit all over that trust.

When breaches like this happen, all executives must step down.
credit checks
In cases like this we use mock functions to replace the rng dependent functions during testing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_object
As I understand, it's used in elementary school math teaching
Define "better"... Do you mean, better readability, better performance, better extensibility, better reliability...

It's immensely difficult to get better in all directions. But if you focus on what you want to get better at, then it's easy to find resources to help.
But, but, but: bracket placement and whitespace matter! It's a real drag to have to edit a piece of code in which the conventions for brackets and space are all over the place.

It doesn't matter what conventions you adopt. But not adopting any creates unnecessary friction.
I heard it's a lot more than the specific store app tracking people in that store. I've heard that there are tons of toolkits and sdks used to build apps that have this kind of tracking built into them, for example [0]: 79 out of 123 manually tested educational apps tested were sending data to 140 advertising companies. Another article [1] saying that Apple has done nothing to stop this, either.

I'd assume that anyone with location services enabled and/or more than a few very well chosen apps is being tracked via these methods. I assume that most popular apps include this stuff, and most people are being tracked. The more I look into it the more pervasive it seems to be.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/education-apps-are-sending-...

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/07/apps-continuing-to-trac...
I loved Rdio for the Ui. I subscribed for years. That said Spotify has introduced me to so much music that I missed growing up.

The Spotify UI has been pretty painful lately but I have a hard time living because the suggested music selection has been so good.
> Voip.ms

i ported my mobile number to them a week ago hoping to only ever need an LTE, 5G or WiFi data connection for cell service.

alas, i discovered that MMS (and therefore group SMS, too) dont't work through SIP protocol. that's a deal breaker for me, unfortunately. looks like i'll have to port it back out to AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile :(
Don't worry, it is also something related to Laravel. These things happen :)
Amazing. I wish they included mini player alongside each snippet. Another thing they could do is build a playground kinda thing like Go. Not sure if that's possible in this case.
Unit tests are not the only way, or the best way, to test software.
‘Price growth is winning the race’: Inflation is devouring wage gains