skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see why not. I know someone who is quite a bit smarter than me, and was definitely more dedicated in high school, yet spent decades working security (not Walmart, but not rocket science either) and 1-2 other jobs to pay their mortgage because their parents couldn't support them through college like mine could (and numerous other factors that set them back). While they have now gotten a degree and a better job I essentially got a 20-year head start on them.

Despite what people like to believe, even in America the single biggest predictor of a child's success is their parent's income.
I'd argue that Teams is bigger than Slack because Microsoft pulled a fast one, exploited their monopoly, and included it "for free" with the rest of their licenses, rather than getting people to sign up de novo. The fact that it's worse in every meaningful way than the competition, yet far wider used, highlights the whole problem quite neatly.
"A single data scientist amongst a department of data scientists, who did actual, illegal stuff, and is being charged for that."

"par for the course"

We have different measures of normalcy or different news sources.
So he had multiple of them, cool. It was his personal property when he donated it for the purpose. So no Tesla involvement was necessary. Not quite sure how it's relevant how he'd previously acquired it unless Tesla commanded him to use it in a specific way.
Are custom dev setups worthwhile?
I make it clear what that "ownership" means - the right to control that token on the blockchain. I make it clear that it is not enforced by any legal framework, just the blockchain. What is your issue?
There is no freedom without information. Freedom requires being informed so you can take decisions that you believe are best for you. Lack of knowledge restricts your ability to make the right choices, and thus your freedom.

"Freedom" through lack of information is the kind of tactic that repressive regimes use to control their populace. It has no place in an organization claiming to further and support true freedom.
Nobody said it was, definitely not the parent poster.
Another thread on this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29288238
Is this a number that came from an actual benchmark or from some marketing material from a keyboard maker? I ask this because [1] finds latency (measured from touching the key to the usb packet arriving) of 15ms with the fastest keyboard and around 50ms with others, though apparently some manufacturers have since improved. Or are you talking about midi keyboards where I guess latency is more noticeable to users?

[1] https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/
How to programmatically find out if computer is on
Doesn't subsystem on Windows technically do this?
If it wasn't for AMD GPU closed firmware I could use GNU Guix with linux-libre kernel.
I'm 75 and I am a software developer. Keep calm and soldier on.
I doubt most people hate windows 10.
I think it's helpful to take a weekend to learn to write extensions, it's very helpful to be able to make your own little tools for your own workflow. However it's also easy to fall into the void of endless tweaking and no real code especially if you're on vim or emacs.
They everytime only copy the dumb things that Apple does, not the good things. And in my opinion the small iPhones are not small enough.
Currently I use a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini, and I will not pay a new unused phone until any company will make a phone that is as small as this.
If it's cold enough to need a face mask, you probably have gloves on too.
> The first three intrinsics, swap, clone, and drop, directly correspond to the three common structural rules from proof theory... By restricting the use of these intrinsics, we can cover the full range of substructural logics.

Dang, I think you buried the lede.
Facebook just wants them to go through their special channels so that they can get paid
I get what you're saying, but it doesn't take much cryptographic know-how to at least enable encryption at the database level. Just something to think about...

Good luck!
Not the same thing, but I remember a great hack back in the day — from Byte, I believe — where a 128k Apple IIe/c could live dual boot ProDOS & DOS 3.3 using bank switching, with each OS living in its own bank. Switching was easy, being a simple command line command. That was fun (and occasionally useful).
The thing is, being gay is probably a random distribution or even a gradient with no clear border, just like being "black" (a brazilian, a jamaican, a nigerian and a french blacks are all black but all very different, both in color gradient of their skin color and cultural meaning of it - it s almost meaningless), so it's probably as wrong to say "gay men are earning degrees faster than before" as to say "blue eyed tall people are earning degrees faster than before".

Or, in other simpler words, there are no gay men, just complex multi faceted individuals whose sexuality trends towards same sex mates amongs a myriad of other things happening in their lives.
I would love to know more about the topics you mentioned, would you care to share in more detail or point towards some starter material?
The commercial value of software is _nothing but reputation_. Would you buy software tools from a company about to go bankrupt? You pay for software with the idea that what you're not trusting your data and operations to a technological dead end. The problem here being that nobody is paying for software anymore in an ad-revenue model, meaning that companies have much less to lose doing that kind of shit.
Link to paper, since it doesn't seem to included:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652...
As much as I love lisp and hate the Nix expression language, I'm interested in actually getting things done more than I am in preserving software freedom, so I'm on NixOS.
Texting while driving was safe! Kind of. You could sense what key you were touching and how many times you touched it. "ha" would be "442" - two presses to get to H, one press for A. "lol" was 555666555. Still safer than Swype and looking down to see the several autocorrect options it gives you, or wondering if your grip was proper for your usual thumb motion. Even if you don't like the reference to driving, this was still convenient. Go watch "The Departed" from 2006 and see how Leo's character types in his pocket.

It's the same justification for keeping radio and climate controls, as well as needed safety buttons like hazard lights, as physically actuated. It is much easier and safer than having to look at an ever-changing panel.

Imagine if your climate control knobs moved around your center console by several inches every time you used them. Was that fan control, or temperature?
>n. And the more someone is a "nobody", the more likely that their numerous eventually wrong claims will be dismissed or forgotten about compared to the memorable times some random was correct by accident.

I think this applies more to some subjects than others. I think math and physics experts have a much greater claim to epistemological certainty than political or finance experts. The vast majority of political experts were wrong both about trump getting nomination, wrong about him winning ,and then were wrong about the economy doing well under Trump. I think nobodies in finance and politics can do as well, if not better ,than experts.
Here it's usually better to post one article instead of the whole blog. Which one is your best article?
I'm putting together a new laptop for my very elderly father-in-law - he basically just wants it for card games and e-mail. He doesn't even web browse.

I was planning an S-mode windows laptop for security reasons - Windows Marketplace only.

But first I looked into it and was shocked that they've replaced Solitaire, Hearts, and Minesweeper with freemium products that are bloated with ads and have a monthly or yearly fee to get rid of the ads. And of course, how many ads have horrifying notices like "your computer is being hacked!!!!" ? Perfect for an elderly and forgetful luddite.

And because of the onerous signing to submit to the marketplace, even common open-source software isn't there.

This is a massive step back by Microsoft - he just wants his old Solitaire and Hearts and to play some Sudoku, but they killed those and replaced them with freemium subscription products and the rest of the Windows Marketplace is similar.

So this is tangentially-related to the article, but my point: very disappointed to see MS jumping on the modern business model for software.
Where I work, Office is being used less & less in favor of Google docs, so I'm not sure what the future holds. MS bundling OS/Office licenses more agressively I'm guessing will be one factor.

As a side note, this increased use of Docs is unfortunately out of sync with security policy where I work. Certain types of data are only allowed to be shared through an encrypted portal that auto-deletes the file... Unless you put that data in a Google Sheet and hit the "share" button.
> I wondered if maybe this was a common confusion with podcast apps, where listeners think they’re reviewing a podcast instead of the app itself. But no, I didn’t see that obvious pattern when I checked reviews for other top podcast apps in the App Store.

The rating popup is “enjoying {appname}” .. seems understandable considering this app name is “podcasts”
That's the thing that prevents me from using my Apple Watch on a regular basis. On the one hand it has some nice features when it's basically tethered to my iPhone. But daily charging, especially when traveling, is a pain.
If you’re unhappy with this and it sounds like you are then wake up early and create. Learn along the way if you want but start creativity something instead of consuming.
I don't see how doubling down on the ageism brings anything to the discussion. Old people aren't "only...willing to see what was there decades ago."
You’re presuming ownership universally means copyright. It doesn’t. Ownership is as much a cultural norm as a legal one. Owning the NFT, in certain circles, allows you to participate in an alternative cultural norm of ownership, decoupled from copyright ownership.
.....yes.
Hot air rises; heat doesn't. Heat moves from warm to cold. You would way rather have a heated space above your ceiling than a non-heated space.

In many buildings, the mechanical systems are in the basement and whatever is carrying the heat runs up through the lower units. My old apartment in Cambridge was first floor and the 2nd and 3rd floor ducts were inside my living space and closets. On mild days, I could leave my heat entirely off and just the radiation and small leakage from their ducts was enough to keep my place comfortable. (The furnaces were all atmospheric gas burners with plenty of residual heat leaking into the basement as a result, making it an inadvertently heated space beneath as well.)
Also, the assumption that mathematically modeling a system is necessary for AI.
more like 83 of the last 2 downturns
It is difficult to think of a higher degree of penis envy.
I think free market could work with education. It is really a question how to verify the results. That is how should degrees be granted. Which is rather complicated issue as there is way too many ways to cheat.

Still, nothing really stops competing methods and prices for teaching to competing levels.
This isn't really a product issue. Separate your data properly, uninstall or disable the OneDrive client and use the web version if you need something, use a different product.... Not everything has to bend to your "unique" needs.

And it's hard to take your complaint or needs seriously when it starts out with mixing personal and business data.
I could T9 an SMS message while holding eye contact with a person. Right down to knowing certain words were “press buttons, down twice”.

I can almost blind type on a touch screen with both thumbs, too. However, it’s no where near as good as I was with hard buttons and Motorola’s particular dialect of T9. Towards the end, Motorola tried to get clever and start reordering the words based on MRU and it played havoc with my muscle memory.
How does real time makes sense in the first place for an algorithm that gets 1 minute of audio and gives you back 50s? You are gonna have to fill the gaps anyway with something not meaningful.
Just to give one example, in Thailand right now it's the year 2564.

1 BC for some is not "-1" for everyone.
i strongly disagree. i think cult, dogma, and religion accusations as well as misrepresentation of FSFs stance (i have zero association with FSF yet i could see thatbtheir position is being crudely misrepresented) do much to discredit any valid points marcan holds
It wasn't that questionable in 20th century Paris, much less to artistic and bohemian circles...

They weren't exactly about puritan prudery and bourgeois morality...

Not to mention that "I disaprove of him dating a 17th year old when he was 45" to "asshole" is quite a long way...
ThinkPad X210 (2019)
Nobody is looking at Intel's microcode mask ROM. It's in ROM. You can't even look at it.

Microcode is a bad example because the updates are encrypted too, but for the vast majority of the blobs that the FSF hates so much, at least you can look at them and audit them with a disassembler. Meanwhile, the devices with giant firmware ROMs that they openly endorse are not auditable, as you can't see the blob. This policy is making it easier for manufacturers to ship backdoors that will never be detected.
The laws exist already, and even where they don’t directly address WiFi, they address broad enough situations to be applicable to WiFi issues. It’s also not really something that requires unique and specific laws to address. For it to be a useful practical thought experiment it ought to address the law as it exists. It’s a cut and dry issue as it relates to the law. The interesting points might be around what level it ought to shift from a civil issue to a criminal one and vice versa. The analogy in the original post between a broadcasted network signal and excess light is also a bad analogy even though technically it’s just two types of light emitted at different frequencies. It’s not analogous because of how it’s used in the two separate instances.

It’s not really that interesting of a philosophical issue either; I find the notion that it’s a novel issue to be baffling. Out of all the many novel issues arising from mass WFH this isn’t one of them.
I think a likely explanation is that gay men with lower levels of education are more likely to hide that they are gay. I am gay and to add some anecdata: I am pretty highly educated: PhD. My first boyfriend has a rather low education and was much less out. Not at work, for instance, and he would quite likely not have trusted that the questionaire would remain anonymous.
> I mean technically speaking IP laws mean that the image is protected and improper use of it can be challenged

Let's be real. AP, AFP, Reuters and Getty try to protect their images by charging for the full resolution pics .

People will gladly use the 580x830 instead of the pricy 5800x8300.

Brands which have been fighting this fight since the 90s such as Ray-Ban, LVMH, Gucci...they all fail to block counterfit physical products from being shipped from China.

What chances does one have to have IP laws be enforced on the internet....
Eh, I'm not sure I agree with that[0], but even if I did, the government skirting (what you think is) the law once certainly should not be a reason for it to do so again in the future. As it stands, they are legally required to redact PII.

If someone actually wants to understand how/why the vaccine was approved, the most sensible option IMO would be to tailor the FOIA Request more narrowly. Request the summary section: it should lay out the rationale, without diving into specific details that might need redaction. The only other alternatives I see are lobbying congress to either a) allocate more money for FOIA or b) make some categories/documents releasable as-is.

OTOH, asking for a third of a million pages--many of which no one has real intention of reading--does seem like a good publicity stunt.

[0] If participating in a clinical trial gets (potentially embarrassing) personal details leaked, we won't have nearly as many volunteers next time.
Tesla owner. While driving, I rarely use the touchscreen, as the knobs + sticks that are available cover everything I need. Then, I find everything about the interfaces vastly, immensely superior to anything I've seen in any other car.

Like - what do you even need, while driving? Music controls ("next", volume) and wipers, and blinkers? Done, and easily, and (nearly) clearly. The minimalism is (IMHO) beautiful and very effective.

Otherwise, occasionally move the map around. Very rarely change destination address after I've started driving. One a season or something for other stuff (signing into Spotify), but that's pretty much always before I start any drive.

What do you even do in you car, while driving, that needs tactile buttons that aren't already covered?
That's like saying, "why do people even hear their house when they could just purchase a second home in the tropics instead?"

It's not always feasible to buy a new house to solve a problem.
Yes, touch typing is a thing, for many people who aren't "[b]usy Wall Street types".

I can still dial on an analog button phone faster than I can look up and dial a person on my iPhone, and I haven't done the former in 20-some years. Muscle memory is quite powerful.
To Drop Out or Not Drop Out?
> a couple of times a day

I'm sure I use the stairs a lot more than a couple of times a day.
> But, rolling back to your post: why can you not retire?

For background: I came from a poor family with a history of substance abuse problems. I lifted myself out of my family situation by attending and graduating college, but in order to do so I had to take on a combination of student loan and credit card debt, most of which I am still paying off despite having a decent tech industry income. No one ever taught me to save, so I had to learn budgeting and finance management on my own while I was in college. I didn't start really saving until a couple of years ago when things sort of stabilized.

Currently I am able to save about 5% of my income for retirement with a match from my employer. However, every "retirement calculator" that I use basically says I will fall well short of replacing most of my income in retirement, even if I assume Social Security will fill in a portion (which is uncertain to me). I also don't currently own my own home and that also feels like a very far off prospect if not an impossibility.

> Thought about moving somewhere were this is not a problem?

I have considered moving to a cheaper area, but unfortunately that means no longer being near some family connections so it's not a simple decision. My current job also adjusts salaries based on regional cost of living, so I'd have to factor that into the equation.

> I am one of the people who never wants to retire

Honestly, this is also a factor for me. I am very fortunate that I like the work that I do and work is, for better or worse, where I get most of my social interactions. I have some hobbies but none of them make me feel as engaged as when I am solving a technical challenge or working on a high-level business problem.

My spouse and I also joke that we might kill each other if we're both just puttering around the house without anything "productive" to do.
Maybe it's only gay men that feel comfortable coming out...
Which are more likely gay men in highly educated social circles, since lower educated social circles are more hostile to homosexuality.

I.e.: correlation is not causality.
Conspicuous consumption (because that's most likely what this will be used for) is not a problem that needs to be solved.
No charging curve is flat (apart from e-tron, but I don’t see anyone devoting that much unusable buffer ever again), but taycan can sustain more than 200 kW past 30% state of charge. Ionic 5’s curve is weird, but it can sustain more than 200 kW between 30 and 50% state of charge. We haven’t seen a lucid air’s curve yet, but inside EVs reports it can crack 300 kW and have hinted it’s extremely good and will be publishing in the next couple days.

As people switch to EVs range anxiety is a big thing, but once I became an owner I realized charge curve mattered way more than static range. I’d rather dump charge in at low state of charge and make a couple more short stops than sit around waiting to get to 80+% as the curve tapers.
Facebook does a lot of things wrong but I doubt they give any user data to the federal government they are not coerced into providing.
I don't fully agree with some of these decisions, but in the defense of Guix I must say as a user replacing linux-libre by the linux kernel is trivial if you are using guix tooling.
This is because Guinness offers "consulting" services to companies that want to break records for PR, where they find records only one person/company has done before that's easy to break.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/the-application...
> something productive to do that doesn't involve dating and sexuality.

Ah, not popular music, then? ;)
But the NFT didn't give you ownership of the image, so what right do you have as the NFT owner to tell people not to right-click?
>As the market expands, the increase in volume will let them bring out models in the more affordable price points.

I'm still not sure how this is going to shake out in the secondhand market. I have a feeling the cost of replacing a battery is going to put a floor on the price of EV's.
NFTs are like those old "star registry" scams. For $20 (or whatever), we'll write your name alongside this star in our registry book, and send you a certificate!
Idk, I had a good time with shadow.tech? Mostly because I use Linux and wanted to play a game that doesn't port to Windows well (Roblox, due to anticheat not getting along with Wine).

GeForce Now and Stadia didn't have the games I wanted to play so I wasn't able to use them.
> So what do product designers have against knobs? Several things. ...

Then the piece omits the two overwhelmingly important reasons: cost and reliability.

Knobs definitely are much better to use, but things with moving parts that stick out from the surface are not as reliable in population terms. Most people never have trouble, but that quintile that gives their stuff a hard time costs manufacturers a lot.
I'd like to point the reader's attention to [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10987
Yes it is stealing, because light providing companies might go bankrupt and this leaves your neighbor without light.

(simply put)
Do you assume everyone here has snap?
It's tricky because both There is more than one way to do it, and many of those ways aren't well documented. Here's what I use:

- steam-run lets most binaries targeted at Ubuntu "just work" with no setup.

- buildFHSUserEnv lets you work with things that expect a typical /usr /bin /etc tree

- For cases where I just need an LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH setup, see[1]. This runs an emacs with my development environment. Since it uses buildenv, if I find I'm missing a library, I can add it, and rebuild the environment without starting emacs and it works fine.
Hilarious that he had to write all of this just to be able to sneak in a justification for MMT in the last paragraph.

This is a complete fallacy. Don't listen to reason or experts, the world has changed! Don't worry about debt and deficits, we've invented fiscal policy(which has been around since forever), that old wisdom no longer applies!

Believe it if you want. We live more or less in a society with free markets where, at least for people with saved wealth, individual outcomes can be highly variable by your personal ability to understand these systems and allocate your wealth effectively. If you think MMT is great and will have no consequences, then allocate your money accordingly. I'm going to assume that's not true.

Just like everything else time will tell who was right.