skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> to make the privacy trade-off worthwhile, personally.

Maybe now. Maybe Today. But what about your privacy in the future? That data is now totally out of your control. Maybe you will feel differently in a few years. Maybe the laws will change and your past browsing history will be googleable by your ex wife. Data is forever. It should never be handed over solely on the basis of current promises.
Right, don’t use that, but there are well-implemented timeouts in network libraries, etc.
I believe a big chunk (the majority?) of this comes from a fairly simple deal to set Google as the default search engine in Safari. Facebook doesn't have something similar to leverage, that I can think of at least.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...
When your nuke uses kilotons as a pre-detonation measure of weight, you've done something wrong.
Human actors - Breaking Bad is about the process of a man changing into a monster. It takes great acting to make that story work

Video games will never do drama as well as theatre or film, because we can't see into the actors souls - video game stories are puppet theatre

Edit: thinking about this some more, I think I might be wrong - there are many animated films that I've found emotionally moving and involving that don't have human actors (Ratatouille for example!)
How many movies does your avg movie goer know or can name movies from the 40s? Maybe, maybe half a dozen (it's a wonderful life, casablanca, citizen kane, Disney Fantasia and Pinocchio, and his girl Friday. I'm pretty sure your average person can name an order of magnitude more video games from pong to mario to sonic to modern day AAA games. And over time, some will have staying power, like I hope Breath of the Wild will.
You have nice colleagues.
Is playing a computer game "platforming an entity"? It's really fascinating how these neologisms evolve.
I never thought I would want a "walled garden" on my desktop, but these shit software stacks that companies are integrating into their products are forcing me to want to fight back to lock down my machine.

I would love a simple utility that could not only neatly encapsulate and display the data being sent from my machine out on the network but also allow me to merely check a box to block that traffic.

A smart initial config of course would "allow list" the usual web traffic from my browser(s), mail traffic from my mail client, etc.

I don't want to mess with proxies, don't want to have to block ports using a command-line tool or by wading through my router config.

Maybe I am asking for too much.
> Isn’t it peer pressure that results in companies that stop acting like assholes?

I don't have a good theory of what stops people from "acting like assholes" but I am skeptical that opining about potential complicity for playing some video game is a significant factor.
The issue is that we now have real experience of deploying this stuff at scale and integrating intermittent sources into grids. Many countries in Europe have 30% or more of their electricity supplied by intermittent but it turns out that the integration problem isn't as difficult as envisaged. The consensus amongst engineers is that up to about 70% is manageable without any big tech breakthroughs.

Network reliability has actually increased in many European countries despite the increasing reliance on intermittent sources.

The current approach certainly depends on having back-up deployable generation capacity (natural gas) but that was always required for demand following even with thermal sources so most grids already have the infrastructure to incorporate more intermittent generation.
Or another theory that all the talent that contributed to great success stories at Blizzard went to better jobs or launched their own indie studio.
> So, instead if having "words", I would make them functions, with typed arguments

Interesting idea. Wouldn't it require some compiler magic, though? E.g. you can't type a Y combinator.
They claim a price of less than £50 per ton. So 51Gt would about to £250 billion. If that method would indeed work it would be -by far- the cheapest I ever heard of.
are you saying that nuclear power related accidents like chernobyl don't happen?
> There are sites like investopedia but they seem generic and articles aren't well connected with each other.

You'll see this theme repeated throughout your investment learning. Investing is a huge space with hundreds of different 'instruments', the thing that has gotten me the most comfortable is just time and exposure to all of the different aspects.

I think in the beginning you need a choose a path and deep dive into it. I would start with your immediate goals, which sounds like to find somewhere relatively safe to park your money till you're ready for more active investing. In addition to BogleHeads I would explore Vanguards ETF offerings here https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/list#/etf/asset-c... .

Periodicals are also a fun way to learn , Barrons is good, WSJ. I'd read these cover to cover the first few months.

Good luck have fun!
what about RPL then :)

sexprs without pair matching are horrid, but it's a solved problem since a few decades (paredit was made by zeus)
Regardless of whether the big carbon-producing nations use nuclear power, they will stock nuclear bombs. Thermonuclear, in fact.
Of the proposition that any doubt should never be applied to you and what you say, unless and until it has been definitively disproven: I, for one, am skeptical of its falsity.
Start voting with your wallet. I think this is specific to Wacom tablets, but there are many vendors that provide Wacom hardware without their specific OS. I wonder if there is a good open source ROM for drawing tablets?
It sounds like you just don’t enjoy frontend work. If you are trying to build a product on your own it’s impossible to avoid, but there are plenty of companies in the EU and US hiring for backend developers. Understanding how both sides get work done is important, but there is nothing wrong with focusing on just one area.
Again, at no point have in endorsed censorship. In fact I quite explicitly said I don’t endorse censorship.

I just saying that people can do a better job of sign posting the risks, and pointing people to resources to help them learn about the risks, and how to mitigate them, without having to sacrifice fingers and toes.

> you are probably a dumbshit teenager doing dumbshit stuff without adults knowing.

Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to help them understand the risks. We’ve all been dumb shit teenagers at some point. The lucky one have adult mentors that help do dumb shit without killing themselves, I don’t see why we can’t aspire to make videos that provide that guidance to everyone.
I wonder what the pathway would be (in a perfect everything-matures-at-a-constant-rate way)

Probably better representative systems that don’t pit countries or peoples against eachother. A way to identify as a human or earthling above all nationalities.

A revolutionary better economic understanding so we don’t have to choose politically and have clear economic growth tied to wellness of people.

Probably connected to the above is a superior education system for everyone who wants to and help to realize mature atomic sciences.
I have depressingly started to believe (accept?) that everything I use tracks the name of everything else that I use.

Agreeing with the author’s conclusion:
>“This isn’t the dataset that’s going to complete the embrace of full, totalitarian surveillance capitalism. Nonetheless, it’s still deeply obnoxious. A device that is essentially a mouse has no legitimate reasons to make HTTP requests of any sort.”

Also, I always disable those “experience programs,” like Nvidia’s. They just give off data collection vibes:

>“If you too have a Wacom tablet (presumably this tracking is enabled for all of their models), open up the “Wacom Desktop Center” and click around until you find a way to disable the “Wacom Experience Program”.”
Replace “play video games” with “use fossil fuels”. Is it still ethical to participate when outcome is climate change?
Especially when the idea being pinched was checks notes a way to objectify women in a super gross way.
There is a commercial forth called 8th that has a few thousand users and has support for ODBC, a few native databases, Bluetooth, can run on iOS, Android, Mac, Linux, Windows, has a GUI, can cross-compile to different systems, matrices, constraint solver, I/O for a lot of common formats...etc. It's a cool language that has the same abstraction as Python, but can go lower as well.
https://experty.io/
No more fascinating than the root-level claim that

>Guilt by distant association is an abhorrent concept that should not be validated - using someone's products does not imply supporting the company's policies or leaders/owners personal behavior or political actions

eliding the simple fact that buying products from a company, shitty or otherwise, is literally supporting that company and its owners. I can't think of a more meaningful way to support something than to give it money...
Attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with AI, then talk back
> Microsoft Surface Duo

That's codenamed Andromeda. [1]

And yes, was planned to be a Windows SKU before mobile Windows utterly exploded.

[1] https://www.windowscentral.com/surface-duo-andromeda-windows...
We don't do that currently because there hasn't been a new plant built in 50 years and the designs of the old plants were specifically engineered to make materials for nuclear weapons.

If there wasn't a huge stigma against nuclear energy they would be making advancements, but nobody is going to fund advancements while there is no guarantee they will be allowed to apply them.

What would happen to the JavaScript language if every year half of congress gave speeches condemning JavaScript and calling for a prohibition against any new JavaScript code? How many new people would bother learning JavaScript.
Running a nuclear reactor does not produce nuclear weapons. This is simply fear-mongering fake news.

Also, modern nuclear reactors are dangerous. The GenIII+ specification for all new reactors requires the use of passive shut off. Which means the operator must actively keep the reactor on.

If they were to all turn into zombies, for example, the reactor would simply shut off.

Omega Tau podcast also did an extensive series on nuclear waste storage that I highly recommend every skeptic listen to. Nuclear waste storage is not a problem.

The problem is that naivete people seem to have that renewables can provide 99% uptime baseload, the boomer ignorance that all-things-nuclear-are-bad-because-Greenpeace-told-me-so.

Moreover, China has proven that nuclear Gen III reactors can be built cheaply - they are concurrently building 24 1GW plants.

Steamline ancient western regulations, block the endless lawsuits against plant development, re-open the Nevada storage center, tell boomers to stop stonewalling the only ready climate change solution, and BUILD THE DAMN NUCLEAR PLANTS.

We have a PROVEN solution ready to go that can be deployed in literally 10-15 years. We just need to end the ignorance.
A good observation. They make up 49% in the UK.

Firstly, this difference is based on statistical extremes. Women and men are more the same than they are different, from a temperament perspective. Agreeableness is the big five dimension that stands out the most here. Men are more likely to be disagreeable, women agreeable. Disagreeable people are more likely to be into "things" vs people. Agreeable is the opposite. In more egalitarian nations, where women are given more equal opportunities, they are actually MORE likely to follow careers that follow this temperamental observation. You can look to western europe, and then the Scandinavian countries as an example of progressively more egalitarian society.
I have an issue with your accounting. Educational videos like this lead to interest in science and technology. Some of those people will then become scientist/engineers/innovators. They may make contributions directly related to these topics. For example microwave beaming of energy that would eliminate our dependence on coal. These innovations will save hundreds of thousands of lives and create a better world.

Yet you choose to focus on the extremely tiny (and of yet no statistically provided citation) number of people that might be harmed by playing with the power of science that is simply beyond them.

So taking the total accounting into consideration; it would be unethical not to promote this content.
> With such attitude you either should switch away from dev completely or suck it up and start setting specific goals and learning to enjoy the process

Why? I hate frontend too after having done 'fullstack' for over 30 years and I wish I never did (could've spent my time optimizing my skills; which I am doing now). I think it is good to recognize this and focus on the things you like; for me: backend and embedded. Enough really well paid work is there anyway without the frontend stuff.
That's exactly what GP is saying though?

There's a borges fake essay on exactly this topic: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
The current world is filled with coal power and it's making a lot of us anxious.
>Or are we now getting into the post-misinformation/disinformation war where truth is redefined again for us?

When has there been a period in history where this has not been true? The difference is only who is doing it...
I went to a patch with the kids over the weekend here in UK. It was fun but when it got time to pay we joined a long queue with others having our pumpkins in a wheel barrow.

When we got to the front we had to match our pumpkins to a template based on size (cost from 50p to £10) and then a cashier would tally up the total.

I got chatting to the owner whilst waiting and he was open to a more tech smarter way to pay to avoid the queues.

Anyone have ideas on how to do this, ideally using existing tech mashed together in a low/no code way?

So flow would be ...

- Move your barrow under a camera.

- It would take a picture and through image recognition identify and classify pumpkins based on size.

- This would be pushed to cashier with total.

- Maybe where confidence level on classification was low it would prompt human intervention.

To me weighing the barrow would be another, perhaps better, solution but the farmer wasnt keen on this and ran out of time to dig deeper!
HUION is the larger "Cintiq-clone" product I have used, but I have no reason to believe their software is Boy Scout honest.

Of course Apple's "Side Car" means your iPad is a pretty good tablet.
Almost on topic...

When we were kids, my brother studied a railroad atlas any time he wasn't in school or church. This thing was a monster, large book with hundreds of pages of maps. Literally county by county across the Unites States, all railroad lines and yards. I'd go to sleep Friday night while he sat in an overstuffed chair, studying. I'd wake up at 7:30 AM Saturday... he hadn't moved. Still there, a few pages further into the atlas.

As an adult, he worked for the Illinois Central as a hump yard operator. Later the Iowa Pacific, and ultimately found himself doing customer service for a small line in Texas, mainly shipping sand. His job frequently included finding 'lost' cars somewhere in the US, on any line that happened to be in that car's route. He was really good at it.

One notable call had him searching railroad yards in Missouri. He had a strong hunch that the misplaced car was on a spur where that yard stored cars that had lost their way. But he needed to confirm. He could have called that yard, but getting the right person to check logs or go hunt was always a hassle. So... He Googled up the yard, zoomed in on the spur and noted that Google helpfully displayed several businesses in a strip mall backed up to the spur. Mike dialed up 'Patty's Nail Salon' and the call went something like: "Hi Patty, this is Craig with the Iowa Pacific. I'm tracking down a misplaced car and I have reason to believe it is sitting on the spur outside your back window. Would you mind checking for a car with ID 123876?"

Extended pause....

"I'll be right back!"

Sure enough, there is was.
>I would love a simple utility that could not only neatly encapsulate and display the data being sent from my machine out on the network but also allow me to merely check a box to block that traffic.

Does Little Snitch not meet your needs there? I believe even with the challenges caused by Apple's unfortunate elimination of kernel extensions it's still powerful and effective. The GUI is solid and I've had solid success over many years with it for this sort of thing.
Bitwig was founded in 2009 (from Wikipedia). Seems like it’s worked out fine for both Bitwig and Ableton.
And misses OPs point.

> You can code all you like, but reading text books on the subject and studying other people's code will quickly improve your skill.

Companies need to prioritize this is the point. It's not about low pay, high pay jobs. Or obtaining a role once you have the skills, it's that companies don't prioritize learning/development as part of the role, they focus on output - and they would get more value from their employees of they did.
Yeah, maybe I’m just dumb and can’t figure it out properly.

I dump files on my computer and they don’t end up on my colleagues laptop. So we end up resetting OneDrive on his Mac, which sometimes solves the issue.

I have shared links with clients but then they suddenly can’t access the folder any longer. So I share it again.

I agree that the apps are good, but only in the desktop version. The web apps have still a long way to go.
It doesn't take much of a walled garden to prevent mouse drivers from surreptitious network access. It only takes a capability based permission system.
Sometimes I'm torn between boycotting a company and understanding that surely not everyone who works for Blizzard deserves said boycott.

Who does a boycott really hurt?
If you're on MacOS, there's a third party program that's relatively simple to use that does exactly what you've described: Little Snitch
Nuke Your AWS Cloud Resource
There is a whole messenger client in there - "Swapping instas" is the new "can I get your phone number" in some circles.
I wish Synthesia could allow user uploads and sharing.
Weight is the simplest by far. 50,

Otherwise, build a box, and the smallest box that fit the pumpkin determines its size.
For one its not just about stopping the unfavorable trend, but also reversing it, not to mention remediation all the pollution in the environment.

All this is going to be insane energy and also resource intensive and totally impossible just by saving some resource here and there. A massive expansion of clean energy sources is whats needed, anything else just wont work.
> Turbines have gone from 1-2MW to 10-16MW

Okay, but GP's point was that these bigger turbines need to be spaced further apart instead, so we can place fewer of them. That we could build bigger turbines was not in question I think. Do you happen to know whether the MW per km² increased more than the 30% expected amount that GP cited?

And regarding doing things between the turbines, I wasn't "awake" yet in 2006 so I don't remember how it was then, but were they ever placed so close together that you couldn't have farmland in between turbines? The problem seems to be that people don't want to live near them and find nature filled with wind turbines ugly, not so much that you can't do anything else in between.

(Just to note, I don't find them that ugly (even if, of course, nature would be prettier without them... but that's not an option) and I also didn't find them to be very loud when I visited some nearby wind turbines. Perhaps it's different at night when it's all quiet, but personally I don't think I'd mind living next to one. The blades are a bit scary though, I can't help but imagine the consequences if one of them lets loose... but that's like being afraid of air travel I guess.)
I'm English and I've always seen it as 'bat(ting) an eye'. I don't think I've often heard it said though.
I’m not debating the effect. I’m sure it’s real. I doubt the folklore around why people are quitting.
Don’t we all just chant the “Fear is the mind killer” Bene Gesserit litany until the fear of failure dissipates?
Their arguments not only miss the point about harm - but make them come across as disingenuous.
True. But there is a difference between minimal (e.g., Detroit legend Robert Hood) and something that is half-baked (e.g., too many examples to list).

Dancing or not, the music is still music and it has to stand on its own, at least in the context of its peers.

When something is cheap and easy to produce and release, there is an overabundance. That glut clogs up the environment (read: the haystack buries the golden needles). Plastic seemed like a great idea at first but then we've (kinda) come to realize cheap and easy ain't such a good thing ;)
Aesthetics is a sense of right/wrong and beauty/ugly.

It is used as a guide for action, among other things. It operates independently from the play of models.

It is used to get axioms, among other things.
Not 60% for sure.
According to the latest Amazon's Q3 2021 report AWS Operating Margin is around 30% (page 15 of the pdf) [0]

[0] https://ir.aboutamazon.com/quarterly-results/default.aspx
You could s/play video games/ with a whole plethora of morally objectionable strings but that doesn’t make it equivalent to playing computer games.
Here’s an object example:

I’m developing a fairly ambitious iOS app.

It’s a social media-like app, based on aggregate servers. I wrote the servers, myself, years ago. One is currently a world standard, and heavily in use. The other, was a server I wrote a few years ago as a “practice” project.

The app, itself, has been under development for over a year.

A big reason for that, is the team had only a vague idea of what it would do. It wasn’t really feasible to get them to hash out a more detailed plan, so I set up a “breadboard” system, based on Apple’s TestFlight beta-test system [0]. TestFlight is usually only engaged towards the very end of a project, but we’ve been using it since one month after my initial checkin.

TestFlight requires a fairly “complete” app, that runs without tripping any alarms (like crashing). Apple vets each release.

I can produce a fairly full-featured app, quite rapidly, so I was able to meet Apple’s quality bar, pretty quickly.

Because we are using TestFlight, we have some significant advantages:

1. The app is constantly at “beta” quality. Even with incomplete functionality, what’s there, works well. I cannot overstate the importance of this.

2. We can have non-technical stakeholders constantly “test driving” the UI, and providing relevant, useful feedback, on a continuous basis. They are also highly motivated and engaged.

3. Because Apple is constantly vetting the app, we know that we probably won’t have any nasty surprises, when we finally release.

During this year, we have explored a number of avenues that have resulted in “dead ends.” I’ve tossed out months’ worth of work.

That’s great. The best code I write, is the code I don’t write. I’m happy to tear out huge chunks of code.

The result is that we now have a clear, robust, ultra-high-quality app that is in the final stages of development. I still have a couple of areas of functionality to add, but we’re done prevaricating. We know where we’re going, and everyone is on board and psyched.

The quality of the app is also, quite frankly, jaw-dropping. We’re all thrilled to death.

Using TestFlight has allowed us to work through a lot of stuff that is often encountered during early MVP stages; without the brand damage and public humiliation.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/testflight/
Every country had a Propaganda Ministry during WW2. The concept is neither novel nor a sure sign of dystopia. Of course the concept is most closely associated with Orwell, but it is not unheard of for even democracies to arbitrate the truth.