skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a lot of assumptions regarding people you have never met. Why do you discount the white people who don't have the reactions that you presume they all do?
The author's refusal to explain to the store employee why he wants the smallest box makes me think he actually is stupid, or at least lacks the emotional intelligence to understand that when someone is trying to help you, you should explain your intentions to them. If I worked at the Apple store, and somebody insisted they want the laptop in the 'smallest box' without explaining why, the only reasonable conclusion is that they're experiencing the XY problem. Not to mention that Macbooks of the same form factor all come in boxes of the same size, so there's a million other configuration options he'd need to provide... https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-x...
Google Constantly Bringing Scrolling Facilities
I've been considering getting a TV tuner card so I can use Plex's DVR/live TV features. I haven't found a reason to actually do it yet though; after all, if I even want to watch the local news I can just go to their website.
To me, “Jewish space lasers” is a slight hyperbole of the kind of rubbish we read from low-efforts trolls. I’ve obviously read about Marjorie Taylor-Green, but not being American I missed this gem.

That one could write that she did not quite say that, instead of the sane universe’s version that she did not say anything remotely like it truly is shocking. And horrifying.
Long term travel is no big deal. I plugin at home, so I always have a full battery when leaving, instead of the normal refuel at the beginning of long trips. My car charges at 550 mph when low. So we drive for 3.5 hours or so, everyone gets out to stretch their legs, grab a snack, potty the dog, and meet back in the car. Sure sometimes we end up waiting an extra 10-15 minutes waiting for a charge, just not a big deal. Especially when over a normal year I skip 50-100 trips to a gas station. It's really nice to wake up in the morning and know that unless I'm driving for 5 hours or more I just don't have to worry about it.

I'm a fan of the latest/greatest phones, I have a Pixel 6 Pro on order. But when driving I find it MUCH nicer to have a 15" display always showing the current map than to have some tiny phone clipped to my dashboard or windshield. I wouldn't call it second rate at all. Phone calls, voice recognition, etc works great in my Tesla. Having moved to a new city recently, I've really appreciated the nav.

One big difference is many other cars have a nav system that feels over a decade out of date from day 1. So they age really poorly.
Finally here! Congratulations to everyone.
If they can't get ahead because a public school didn't give them an extra workbook to mess with, then they don't have anything remotely resembling "incalculable" potential.

I'm not saying we shouldn't treat prodigies differently. I'm saying that 99.99% of these "gifted" kids aren't anything like prodigies and that the money aimed at them is better off spent elsewhere.
Lack of which is one of the main selling points of cryptos.
Ketchup no conversant they if if hdfhvhvkjsf. Don’t you agree?
A few years ago I did a MOOC called 'programming languages' which teaches languages like racket and ML.

In one of the intro lectures, the professor remarked that (paraphraaing here) 'now I am not naive--I know you will probably end up programming in Java or python when you reach the professional world, but the purpose of this course is not that you will actually go out and use racket in your life as a business programmer, but instead that your knowledge of racket will change the way you program in Java or Python'.

So there's really two types of learning--learning a language to use it, and learning a language as a sort of intellectual feast to bring back to your own.

This also has paralells in (human) language. The only languages I've studied are French and Hebrew. French has 'que' which can combine two noun phrases in a way that doesn't quite exist in English, and Hebrew has construct state.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages
Sorry if I make a mistake here, Im not really very knowledgeable about either language, but I hope the general point stands.
I think without that diode there would be ambiguity about which switch is pressed, it keeps the rows and columns in the matrix separate so no current can flow back to other rows/colums when one key is pressed.
> With the assistance of the EDR module manufacturer, the NTSB Recorders Laboratory repaired and downloaded the fire-damaged EDR. Data from the module indicate that both the driver and the passenger seats were occupied, and that the seat belts were buckled when the EDR recorded the crash. The data also indicate that the driver was applying the accelerator in the time leading up to the crash; application of the accelerator pedal was found to be as high as 98.8 percent. The highest speed recorded by the EDR in the 5 seconds leading up to the crash was 67 mph. [3]

> NTSB tests of an exemplar car at the crash location showed that Traffic Aware Cruise Control could be engaged but that Autosteer was not available on that part of the road.

> No speed limit signs were posted in the crash area, but according to Texas Transportation Code 545.352, the speed limit for the road is 30 mph.

Floored it through a turn and lost control. My wild speculation is driver showing passenger vehicle acceleration capabilities on a residential road.
That kind of thinking is what drives experienced people out of software. So 400k salaries (not equity) was available in the bay area before everything went full time remote, which is great if you are forever childless and 20 years old sharing an apartment with 6 other people. Then reality sets in. I have seen people do it though, contractors living in Afghanistan for a decade earing more than $300k with no living expenses.

> It all comes down to a test.

Well, that's more informed than a lottery ticket, but it still sounds like a gamble compared to nearly every other professional industry.
You realized you just dismissed GDP per capita, a quantitative metric, as too “flawed”, then instead relied on HDI which entirely a made up metric based on subjective measures?
Much like plumbers where clients don't understand the issue and yell at you for "excessive billing" or asking for discounts.
Ya the lock out is absolutely arbitrary. There is zero physical difference between the consumer and server chips for these features. I think actually there's a lot of benefit to consumers by having these features enabled! I talk about that a bit here in our Xorg Developer Conference 2021 talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pVrTyLqV_I

We're going to try to add support for more distributions in the coming days.

Right now we've got support in our install script for Ubuntu 20.04 hosts and arbitrary guest operating systems (Windows guests work best so far) but if people on GitHub are posting issues asking for support for other systems I'll try my best to get to those.

I'm going to try to add official support for Arch, PopOS, and Fedora as I know some people who I think would use it on those systems and a few others.
I think he confused his trip to the Apple store with a riddle at a Google interview. I'll second that that made him sound like a complete dumbass.
People in my circles stopped saying AI and switched to ML after it 'did something previously identified as more or less intelligent'. I see this is more or less the norm.

That makes some sense because once we understand how things work they become repeatable and thus not-that-intelligent in the eye of many.

And that, again, makes sense considering we are nowhere near anything that has the 'I' in it: it's pattern matching which is statistics and it works on a massive scale due to tech/gpu and ago advances but there is no 'I' there. The most basic mistakes are not correctable by the most advanced stuff we have and as such, it gets things it is 'bred for' wrong all the time, with sometimes disastrous outcomes.

This stuff should be in labs, not identifying gun shots, faces of criminals, driving cars, identifying 'fraudulent' people and such. Because of the 'I' missing, this is a nightmare and it will get worse.
The conversation (from the MP quoted in the article) started with those cons, so the pros were the necessary response. Our agreement on your point might have been more evident had I been less terse.
Haven't seen one in the wild yet, jacques@modularcompany.com is my email.
Yeah I think this strikes at at least one of the issues, which is time. Although I am less familiar with how availability of time has changed over the generations. I will say I am constantly struck by how some of my relatives from previous generations were able to have 10 kids in a 3 bed house (relatively poor) and survive, let alone be happy. Anyway that one could be relevant overall, but I am curious nonetheless.

I think one other reason could be the tendency to mistake having a question that could be looked up online for the desire for human interaction that the question maybe was supposed to lead to. That may sound like a small/isolated observation but I could be convinced that the behavior change has broader consequences for how we view people/interaction.

I think there are probably many other factors at play here.
NATO, Nukes, and Nazis
I wonder how many of these listing sites will experience the HN effect...
Classic “I can make Dropbox with rsync” comment
I presume the remaining $0.11 is Office Space-style shenanigans?
> I don't know why people keep typing actual thoughts on Twitter

Laziness and direct reach to mass audience
If you're looking for resilient, growth-minded friends, I'd recommend taking up a class where everyone is guaranteed to look bad in the beginning. Only those that can get through the rough waters in the beginning will make it to the "shore" of basic competence. It can be a great filter.

I realized this when trying to learn Salsa dancing. Some people have a natural talent, but most don't and that includes me. It was one of the most difficult things for me to learn and it took months of very very bad dancing to get to a passable level.

As a guy, it can be tough post-college to make other good male friends, but I look back at all my male friends now and they are almost all from Salsa. There's a real camaraderie that comes from passing through a challenge together and making it to the other side.

Sure - it's not a Navy Seal experience or something that intense, but the fear of social humiliation is a strong one and if you can get through that with some other solid people, it builds a real bond.
Meetup is the best app I've found for this. The group nature of most of the events steers it away from tending towards dating.
The point I was making was that WCF done well is a lot fewer billable hours to rewrite to use anything but WCF than people often think it is. I've done those rewrites before, and WCF is one of the few frameworks in existence that went so far out of its way to try to not leak abstractions that unless you were dependent on some truly baroque bindings, it's easier than most people seem to think. I've heard a lot of projects avoiding the .NET Framework to .NET 5+ transition solely because of WCF and how much work they think it would be based almost more on sunk "debts" feelings of existing tech debt from debugging WCF bindings/magic rather than maybe seeing it for what it is as more of a "unit testing DI exercise" where you've got existing test mocks (WCF) and just need a clean new implementation of existing interfaces.
There are dozens of configuration options for Macbooks that all come in the same size box. The size of the box is not enough information to select a laptop. The author was being intentionally difficult under the guise of superiority, and the Apple store employee was just doing their job.
Iota Roulette
I’d love to see one in action. Is there a reasonable emulator?
> I am at the last few years of my life before I have children and have the most advantageous combination of free time, youthly energy, and money that I will ever have

I had children younger than most, and have never been starved for friends. I'll think you'll find that far from being isolating, having children will immediately start making you friends.

IME, the time before children was the most isolating part.
Oh, great. Except uhh... they are.

Shell variables are inextricably tied to environment variables and frankly, making them uninheritable would make them less useful, not more.
Fauci funded COVID-19: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/nih-admits-funding-gain-f...

Everyone involved should face the firing squad.
ok, but the media would stop any general strike using identity politics and or Dem vs GOP polarization already existing...divide et impera...divide and conquer...we are already quite divided...and therefore quite conquered...

as long as the media & its corporate advertisers can keep congress and the white house more or less evenly balanced between GOP and Dem over the long term, the people will never catch on that congress is bought and paid for...and 'throwing the bums out' has not worked yet...so it will not likely work in the future...

i don't see how any action by the people is going to effect any positive long term change...all we can do is wait for a collapse of the US dollar...as long as the dollar holds its value, the elites can still control everything and keep squeezing us dry...

it's gonna get worse before it gets better...maybe a lot worse..
> I think the relevant property is not anonymity, it's accountability.

Indeed. There has been quite a bit of discussion in the UK about the lax sentences given to people posting racist comments on social media. The platforms don't seem to take these issues seriously and the courts don't seem to either.
Show HN: Almost-instantly filter and locally tag JRE episodes
> As to the 11¢ offset, we have currency conversion to thank.
Surely the difference there is that Rust doesn't have header files.
Blockchain: A Clickable Guide
That’s a really thorough comparison. Much more detailed than I expected.

From what I see, the trade off in disk space usage would point me toward Timescale for most of my workloads. The insert performance tradeoff just wouldn’t justify the difference for me.
> As a side note, I question the author's appeal to Marx as an authority.

Natural reference to make if you're writing about alienation from the product of one's labor.
Well i took from your reply that you challenged the notion that citizens have _not_ wanted the get-rich-quick crypto jazz.

I wasn't saying that chargebacks don't exist. I was saying that the government dictating that you cannot lose all your money in a foolish endeavor would, in some parts be seen as infringing on your "freedoms".

Force safety nets was the discussion, as i took it. And some countries are resoundingly against forced safety nets.
> The Orb is also resilient to various forms of tampering, including attempts to modify its software, extract its cryptographic secrets, or disable its anti-spoofing system. This resilience is critical, since any of these intrusions might allow a hacker to generate fraudulent IrisHashes. The Orb’s embedded systems reliably detect advanced attacks of this kind, and prevent corresponding fraud.

Doubt. In the end this is a device collecting signals, signing them cryptographically, and sending them to the cloud. If there's an economic incentive someone will find a way to get it to sign fake signals.

There's also the centralization issue, where the manufacturer of these orbs essentially has total control over producing the currency.
Its a sign of the times. There's a lot of people, especially on the right, whose only experience with "news" is actually editorialized media. There's a "groupthink" and tribal element here too. This person wants to push their anti-Google bias views as fact, when in reality if you dig down into this dispute there's no clear villain.
Some computations you are interested in, others you are not. You don't have enough interest to go around to every process in the entire world.

Nature doesn't distinguish. But we do, for practical reasons.
My posts may seem harsh because I am frustrated by peoples' lack of understanding that being able to work as a sex worker is a *privilege* (to borrow a woke term) that poor men simply do not have. A poor man in your position would have no choice but to keep working these low paying jobs. It is ironic to me that leftists who keep calling everyone privileged will willingly ignore this obvious fact because in their worldview men are privileged by default.
One of my favorite is “I don’t know how to do that.” I’ve found that people absolutely love demonstrating that they know something and will happily show you how to do X. Or, everyone says that they don’t know how to do X either. Then we all figure out how to do X or give someone the task to research it and report back. A good thing to remember is nobody knows what you don’t know.
Way to go Sentry! I’ve just finished setting up the early motions of a similar fund over at https://www.gitpod.io/blog/gitpod-open-source-sustainability.... Currently an initial amount of USD 30,000 has been earmarked. One day I hope to triple that (or more). At https://www.gitpod.io/blog/devxconf-wrap USD 10,000 was distributed to maintainers of LSP implementations and “digital infrastructure” that people use day-to-day but seldom think about.
If you have to spend hours doing your taxes, no gov run filing system is gonna help you reduce that. All these "I don't have to do anything to pay my taxes" things are essentially for wage earners taking standard deductions, minimal interest, minimal dividends, no mortgage, etc. And if you were in that situation, filing your IRS taxes would take 10 minutes, if that.
Yes, because money isn't everything. I know (you seem to be American) that this is probably a strange concept :-p

And HDI is still quantitative, it's still a number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#New_me...

You might not like the magic numbers in the formula or the things they choose to weigh, but GDP is much, much too coarse to evaluate anything about the greater well-being of a population, especially in developed countries.
> Nope.

Yep.

> Buying a copy of everyone's credit card transaction data, no matter who they bank through, is not even close to the same.

As I already explained, the user has to opt in to share that data with Google. The purchase is a deal with the credit card companies to send data that users have opted in to share. https://support.google.com/googlepay/answer/10845853?hl=en

> Nope. Apple's cloud service is every bit as optional as Google's.

You completely ignored my post explaining why they are not. To repeat myself from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28933939:

"You cannot even install an app on your device without giving Apple your billing details and letting them know you installed it, which is used for ads. You cannot get your location without also telling it to Apple. You cannot tell Apple not to track your WiFi SSID's location. You cannot uninstall Apple News, which is filled with user tracking for ads. On and on."

Apple, Google, and Facebook are all privacy nightmares. The difference is that iOS forces that privacy nightmare on its users, while Android does not. Your comparison of Apple to Google is as irrelevant as it is incorrect.
How much harder is it to build an audience for a blog?

All it takes is one retweet to give you a massive engagement boost, so you don’t even need an audience to have an impact on Twitter.
The Rollup project appreciates and thanks Sentry for the contribution.

I'd like to ask a question in earnest: Does $500 reflect the value and developer time savings you've received from the project over the years?
Driver was behind wheel at time of Texas Tesla crash, NTSB says
No need to anyway. Sorry, it wasn’t meant to be personal, or even criticism really. As I said, just a nit (the video was quite good).
...and Mamet's Things Change and State And Main. The latter had him working with Philip Seymour Hoffman and William H. Macy, both of whom later appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights and Magnolia along with Ricky Jay. (Jay actually had 2 roles in Magnolia, the Narrator and as What Do Kids Know's director or producer)
Perhaps a bit misleading title since the predictions were mainly (with a few exceptions) about the future of music industry instead of music itself.

It is an interesting question how much music itself can advance while still staying enjoyable by a significant number of people. For instance much of the popular music nowadays appears to be rather simplistic in terms of rhythms and harmony, and the innovation has been happening more on the timbre.

In classical music more modern approaches such as atonality never seemed to gather such large scale interest as the stuff from older masters. Time will show if e.g. microtonal music will make a breakthrough at some point, but it is hard since the new harmonies sound just 'wrong' until the listener learns them. (Of course for some native listeners the same could presumably be said about western music.)

I guess it's not a completely unreasonable guess to say that there are some optimal thresholds of complexity for a human brain and that's why simple regular clapping and singing in thirds and fifths will continue to evoke the strongest emotions for the majority of people.
Yeah, that's an odd set of policies to support.
I started working on building sites, not as a full-time surveyor, but had to learn doing many of the typical surveying measurements, just around the time the "technical revolution" came, early 1980's.

#1 - laser (or whatever) distance meters, until then there were only Invar stadia rods and staffs [0]

#2 portable calculators (before the ubiquitous HP-11c, there was the HP-67 or 97, but right until then it was logarithms books and manual calculations)

Then, like only a few years later, I believe 1989 or 1990 came:
#3 "real" total stations, with an actually working interface to computers, that changed once again the way we could work, much, much faster [1]

Still, it happened more than once to need (for one reason or the other, dead batteries, tools shipped for revisions, and similar) to need to do manual measurements and surely you need to have your basic trigonometry brushed up.

[0] here is an early Kern one, it costed (not the "full" E1 deopicted, only the DM503 + a "conventional" theodolite) at the time around 32 or 34 millions Lire, more or less like 2 years of a surveyor wage:

http://www.dehilster.info/geodetic_instruments/1984_kern_e1_...

[1] getting one of these at the time:

http://www.dehilster.info/geodetic_instruments/geodimeter_sy...

particularly the servo-operated version was a surveyor's dream, bordering with "sheer magic".
Just to provide additional context...

This works and should be encouraged if you are indeed very smart and very quick, typically introverted and are actually going to be rolling up your sleeves to pitch in.

This approach is painful for everyone else and should be discouraged if you are a very extroverted and very non-technical person with no plan on actually helping out whatsoever with the actual execution on solving the problem at hand and really are only contributing to look smart in front of any leadership who happens to be in the room.

Definitely be aware of the Dunning–Kruger effect - which is a cognitive bias stating that people with low ability at a task overestimate their own ability, and that people with high ability at a task underestimate their own ability.
Let's hope so... er... wait... Except there are way too many systems that store plain text passwords.
Eating cannabis won't give you cancer, drinking alcohol likely will. One of these things has metabolites that actively damages DNA and one does not
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26852399

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871001
While that's true, I would argue that makes it more good than certs on an HSM, not less good as the person I replied to posited.