skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Xena, I’m glad your post is getting seen, too. I’m dismayed at how many people seem unable to imagine why you and I freaked out when we got letters from someone who sounded like they were a professional litigant. I’m glad to see the researchers, lawyers, and such talking about the ethical implications.

This is a messed up situation, but it’s comforting to know I’m not alone in it (although I wish for your sake that you weren’t involved).
The UK is a monarchy. All power comes from the Queen, not the people, she’s the sovereign.

At least on paper.
Would love to see the raw data, but from their own plots you can see that 2017, 2018 and 2019 show a trend that would make the 2020 and 2021 data consistent with the trend.

As they show data comparing 2020 and 2021 to the previous years, they could have shown a matrix to compare year over year across the data.

I will wait for someone to look at the raw data and peer review the paper before jumping to conclusions.

I'm not discounting that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on child development, I would be surprised if it didn't, but I expected a bit more rigorous data analysis from this paper.
Haha, easy way to create plausible deniability if you just allow everything to run :D. Doesn't that also make it easy for anyone running an ad to run hivemind in the ad itself?

In addition, why is it hard to enforce a policy that disallows any ad to reach out to the camera and microphone? I don't understand why that is hard to enforce.
That's also what I sometimes say to smokers "it has no benefit at all, only drawbacks, it's just an addiction and you can decide to stop if you understand it's damaging" (my mother died at 63 from lung cancer), and there are many subjects here in France. It's also quite annoying to breath that smoke anywhere outside. That's one of the things I hope will change, along with noise (cars, motorcycles as someone living near a street, and using a bicycle) and pollution, and overconsumerism
Oh, on further reading I was wrong. The dictionary was off, but psychological journals are a better source.
> There are still a lot of things I don't understand here but gotta give Youtube a slow-clap moment for their devious ingenuity.

Well, sorta. They have basically come up with a DRM scheme by another name. They're always just speed bumps.
The engineers inventing the machinery necessary for landing I the moon all had college degrees.

The mobilization for the war does not require super educated population.
I bet that is more of a concern than human rights and the taiwan situation.

I also bet if China would still be economically and technologically inferior to the west taiwan wouldn't be even on the agenda.

We don't have a problem with Saudi Arabia's war with Yemen.
Even after they caused largest cholera epidemic in human history.
So if an empty moral system is rational, and that's the only one we have, isn't that the same as saying there is no rational moral system?

I agree that you want to minimise axioms, but not because they're a source for error - after all, the concept of "valid" flows entirely from not violating the axioms - but because internal consistency leans on axioms not contradicting each other. That might have been what you meant though, in which case we're in agreement.
Sadly the standard these days is compile everything in a container. Avoid any conflict by taking the path of least resistance.
Ask HN: Build Own PC in 2022?
Back in the day everyone was building their own PCs: chose a motherboard, a CPU, RAM, a video card, an audio card, a power supply, verify the compatibility, assemble and pack it into a case. It was flexible, customizable, easy to evolve (unless you change the motherboard), and easy to repair. It was also buggy and a lot of fun. At least the way I remember it.

Today I buy a laptop and everything is pre-assembled. I still get to choose the configuration, but it doesn't feel the same. And voids a lot of the above features. Except that it may still be buggy. Also, the real reason I moved to laptops is because they are, well, mobile. Now, with the remote work I spend my day at the same desk. So I would like to give it a try: assemble my own PC again. (Not a laptop, the Framework Laptop is definitely not what I am looking for.)

Do you have any recommendations for how to do it in 2022? Are there online resources that can bring me up to speed? How to choose the components, make sure they are compatible...

Thank you, and good luck with your New Year's resolutions!

---

Edit: I would use the PC for work mostly: coding, compiling, somewhat heavy-ish on the browser; think AWS M-type instances.
Why do they require the internet? Can you not run or mock your required services locally?
I don't disagree. But it's also not clear why the government should incentivize individually cheap, collectively expensive personal decisions like current smoking patterns.
I'm not being glib. This article is premised on the idea that because there are no health benefits to tobacco (none.), it has no value whatsoever. But it clearly does have value: it is a source of pleasure for a large number of people. Pleasure has value. People shouldn't smoke, it makes perfect sense to vice-tax it to offset the externalities, and nobody should valorize the companies profiting from those externalities. But the reason we "permit" it is because we have no business not permitting it: we have centuries of experience showing that, unlike opiates and methamphetamine, there is no risk of tobacco destabilizing society.

It's a comically weak argument. It could, as I just said, be applied just as readily to bacon.
Long-term effects of psychedelic drugs: A systematic review (2020)
What I can say is that it lets me have a lot of convenient aliases for things that are 1 letter long: “o” for “open .”, “s” for “subl .”, etc. And nice 2 letter ones: “gc” for “git commit”.
I know exactly what it means. Nonetheless the term isn't really apt here, given the connotations and obvious parallels with real world military operations.
> the more you try and thwart fingerprinting, the more unique you appear.

Not if you use Tor Browser.
They didn’t test these children for antibodies. They just assume that infection is not the cause of the differences they see. And all the commenters seem to be blaming lockdowns.
Public companies will sometimes tell you $X amount of stock and not tell you the number of shares, which is what actually matters. For the purposes of the offer, the dont generally use today’s market price as their price per share. In those cases, you can actually end up with less than is offered.

And in pre-IPO companies that’s the norm, but that’s beside the point.
Not all tobacco products are equal because not all tobacco products are intended to be inhaled. Cigars and Pipe tobacco aren't intended to be inhaled and most people will not find them addictive.

But there's no nuance regarding them in discussion of tobacco. They do likely have negative issues in terms of potential mouth cancer, but they're way less dangerous than cigarettes.
The general consensus on HN seems to have coalesced around “it matters relatively little where you go for your undergrad but relatively high for where you go for your postgrad”.

That advice doesn’t seem to have percolated through to the hoi polloi yet though.
Seems early to be drawing conclusions here. Still good that they're gathering data.

Can anyone speak to the robustness of these Mullen Scales? Especially in the 0-2 age group?
The open secret to fulfillment and happiness is to help other people.
Be advised, this is for macOS.

There are two wrapper scripts, for Terminal (`ritt`) and for iTerm (`riitt`), in addition to the `swank-lisp` script. Choose one of the wrapper scripts for your use case.

The relevant lines in ~/.vimrc, adjust your `sbcl` path:

let g:slimv_swank_cmd = '!ritt swank-lisp -d "' . getcwd() . '"'
let g:slimv_lisp = '/usr/local/bin/sbcl'
let g:slimv_impl = 'sbcl'
let g:slimv_ctags = 'ctags'

`ritt` (“run in Terminal tab”) for use with Terminal.app:

#!/usr/bin/env osascript

on run arglist
if (count of arglist) > 0 then
-- The command to run is built from blank-separated script arguments.
set text item delimiters to {" "}
set theCommand to arglist as string
tell application "Terminal"
activate
-- Make a new Terminal tab just like the current one.
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "t" using {command down}
set newTab to the last tab of front window
-- Run the command in the new tab.
do script theCommand in newTab
end tell
end if
-- Try to cause a minimum of disturbance in the calling environment instead of outputting random AppleScript values.
return ""
end

This is `riitt` (“run in iTerm tab”) for use with iTerm.app:

#!/usr/bin/env osascript

on run arglist
if (count of arglist) > 0 then
-- The command to run is built from blank-separated script arguments.
set text item delimiters to {" "}
set theCommand to arglist as string
tell application "iTerm"
activate
-- Make a new Terminal tab just like the current one.
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "t" using {command down}
set newTab to the last tab of front window
-- Run the command in the new tab.
write (current session in newTab) text theCommand
end tell
end if
-- Try to cause a minimum of disturbance in the calling environment instead of outputting random AppleScript values.
return ""
end

And here the `swank-lisp` script (adjust the `swankdir` to your install location):

#!/bin/bash

swankdir="${HOME}/.vim/bundle/slimv.git/slime"
self=$(basename "$0")
umask 022
set -u

Usage()
{
cat <<EOD >&2
Usage: $self [-d <working-dir>]
EOD

exit 1
}

# Argument Scanning
if [ "$*" = "--help" ]
then
Usage
fi

devDir="${HOME}/Develop/Lisp"
while getopts "d:X" opt
do
case "$opt" in
(d)
if [ -n "$OPTARG" ]
then
devDir="$OPTARG"
fi
;;
(X)
set -x
;;
(?) # Unknown option
Usage
;;
esac
done

# Shift away parsed option flags
shift $((OPTIND - 1))

# Change to user's development directory, so files are easier to locate.
cd "$devDir" || exit $?

sbcl --dynamic-space-size 16384 --load "${swankdir}/start-swank.lisp"
echo # Newline before next shell prompt.
I agree that they care. I don't agree that it is fast.

It is comical how long it takes to load on my internet connection. Has gotten better, but that is on my connection side.

My favorite crazy moment lately is just how long it takes to bring up the computer new window on a fresh page load.

It used to be great, mind. Not sure what I'm getting with the additional load times.
https://puri.sm/products/librem-14 - this device has the kill switch.
Why, did you expect their techs to turn it off just for the one article?
> Your take also ignores the fact that unification is Chinese core value

It seems to me that you are saying that a contemporary political position (that Taiwan should be ruled by the same government as mainland China) is in fact a "core value". Unity can be a value, but the political position that the island of Taiwan is an integral part of China, and China can't be unified without it, is not. That's the position which is encouraged by propaganda and government rhetoric, and mirrors similar positions with regards to, for example, Tibet.
I know that Clang runs on Windows, as PuTTY's "about" dialog credits it.

Does this offer a reasonable replacement for MinGW?

https://wetmelon.github.io/clang-on-windows.html
I'd be interested to know what non-tech work you do. I'm unemployed right now for similar reasons as OP (looking for happiness). Does your current job satisfy the "programmers itch"?
> deny… untrusted domains the ability to use microphone and camera at all times

I believe this is the default for most browsers now, right? (Or have I been spoiled by Firefox?) This is the best way, where the camera is always inaccessible, unless you enable it for a domain which needs it. Since I rarely ever see the camera/mic request option, I don’t think we’ve been conditioned to allow this type of request. (Compared to cookies, which show up on nearly every site.)

If you want to disable permissions dialogues altogether, then what’s a trusted domain? Just zoom and a handful of others? If you write yourself a nice app which uses the mic, do you have to email Google to get yourself added to the list of trusted domains? That would be pretty bad for the open web, so permissions dialogues are the alternative
Farcical Self-Delusion
As an NYU CS grad, can confirm it is egregious. If I had to do it over I would have gone to a different university, the education at NYU was not unlike other much less expensive universities in fact I had a lot of doubts about quality save some select professors. The only reason I'm fine with my loans is because I'm a very well comped SWE.

I don't personally have a lot of sympathy for people who do a liberal arts degree at NYU though. At least I knew I'd be able to pay this all back with some high degree of certainty.
Like the answer to most complex questions ... it depends.
Not to mention that the IFR is dramatically skewed by age and obesity. Yes, early indications were that COVID was a serious, deadly pandemic, but we've had more than enough time and data at this point to recognize that this is not the plague that it is being treated as.
I'm a little more skeptic than you. I don't think an Uber driver would admit that they failed the prerequisite exams required to enter the field. This is just the system working. Barring entry to those who have a degree but didn't actually learn the skills.
Does it matter, if they don't suck?
>Who is China bullying except it’s own people?

Hollywood - see John Cena's obsequious display. Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93China_relati...).

Right now, Hong Kong, above all.
Reflect (YC S20) is hiring a Marketing Manager to help devs test better
Stockholm syndrome? Based on what he has done so far, he actually forced most things his father hated, which is, illogical and ironic.
You needn’t look very far to answer your own question. Last year Chinese diplomats crashed a Taiwan national day party in Fiji held by Taiwan trade office staff. The Chinese were there photographing (Fijian) guests. Why would they do that except to bully politicians in the host country away from contact with Taiwan? The incident ended with the Chinese officials starting a fistfight over the display of a “false national flag.”

This is an almost mundane incident compared to ethnic genocide, but it’s illustrative of how they believe the can operate in the world. A flag “provoked” their diplomats so they are within their rights to trespass and commit assault? That’s bully diplomacy if anything is.
As someone who have spent 13 or so years of their life in China, I absolutely agree with this perspective. The culture of modern China seem to support a strangely "macho" image particularly for men: it's acceptable and maybe even encouraged, for men to be overtaken by rage, and thrash and kick around while yelling things. [1] It looks like this mentality is reflected by the politics of china as a whole.

[1]: This is actually very accurate to how people get angry in China, I've seen teachers, businessmen, even customers, rage in this characteristic weirdly macho way. https://youtu.be/aCdFec3uu_g
> Not capable of being denied, challenged, or disputed; closed to questioning.

There is no such thing as incontrovertible evidence.
It’s simple to play invoices to foreign consultants. I’ve been working for American clients for years, I’d never register anything in the US and have to deal with US authorities.
i know some people said that covid-19 infection can cause brain fog in adults months after they recovered. there were also people saying that the vaccines may cause this as well. not saying i know exactly the reason for this, just pointing out arguments/news articles i read.

i will say that fear or how we handle fear can mess up learning, it’s kind of hard to take the basics seriously when the message being sent out is one of impending doom. we go into survival mode which forces us to make snap decisions in order to ensure safety. fight or flight response. our amygdala plays a huge part in learning and memory recall/storage

https://www.pnas.org/content/93/24/13508
My last experience with MinGW-w64 was when I was trying to compile my C++ simulation code in Windows and finding out that AVX instructions were not working because the compiler had misalignment-related bugs. (The issue is still open in https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/1209)

MinGW/MSYS certainly had appeal to former Linux devs who didn't want to touch the horrors of MSVC, but Zig (with its included Clang compiler/runtime) might end up being a better solution for people trying to compile C/C++ code on Windows in a stable manner.
They recently changed their meet application for some reason. I use it without video, voice only; recently it has started trying to force me to use both - I have to refuse both, then once in the meet go and enable voice only. I loathe all things google but am forced to use meet for work.
Is it a good idea for Google to allow random advertisers to use privacy sensitive code (like audio access or fingerprinting) in advertiser supplied iframe content?

People may be visiting a trusted site and then are asked to allow audio and video, not realising that it is an iframe asking for the permission.
The politicians follow the epidemiologists and the modelers etc. On the contrary, we have a case of a lack of politicians courageous enough to say no and lead / convince the people that it is the right thing to do.
Yeah it's weird how there seems to be so little institutional support for regulating low-risk psychoactive substances like nicotine(and caffeine). Stimulants that increase alertness and enhances concentration, very useful for productivity.
Why is it up to the advertisers and publishers?
I expect open source developers not to release projects or updates that they reasonably expect many others will choose to depend on unless they are willing and able to do extensive, thorough, sophisticated QA on them. Contributing to open source is a privilege, not a right
I don't think that robots "off in remote parts of the world" constitute an existential threat and a "great filter" unless there is some failure mode where they all suddenly get bored and go off to find targets outside their programmed area.
> The public willed it [...] because politicians have the power to prohibit it, not doctors

At face value you seem to be arguing for a medical technocracy to replace democracy.

Pre-legalization I expected the government to strongly discourage /smoking/ cannabis. Edibles and sprays and non-combusting vapes would be emphasized. But nope, my local cannabis shop prominently sells rolling papers and bongs. You can buy pre-rolled joints ready to go from the government distributor directly.

I feel this aspect of legalization was handled poorly. The public wanted legal cannabis. Our politicians should have done so while emphasizing harm reduction. They talked about it but perhaps unsurprisingly it didn't really materialize.
I suppose they figured it would cause a lot of upset if they didn't provide a grace period to accept the new terms (and clearly that would have been the case, based on the reaction so far). Consider that people rely on WhatsApp for essential communication with family and colleagues and so on, and they may not have time to properly review the new terms if they were rolled out with no grace period.
Honestly I've never liked americans because of arrogance and the way of dealing with things, but the Communist-China really unites all democracy as it is a nightmare utopia.
Can't imagine anybody reasonable wants to give more power/influence to a country that destroys all differences (in minorities), killing the languages, traditions, old structures everything traditional. There is even less value there than in US, money is the god, and who is a cheater is the smart. The rule is by force.

Did you see that the government hired thugs to beat up it's own people in HK?
(and after used the police directly to do this?) It's said if a small irrelevant country is doing this, but if this becomes the standard of a global power, well I don't want to be nearby.
Why do people think self taught isnt viable
Don't get me wrong - there are definitely some C/C++ codebases where the macros have gotten way out of hand. But in general, they're both typed - which helps SO freaking much.

Ex: C doesn't have methods, but if you store most of your data in structs then you can easily do two things:

1) find all the places where the header defining that struct is included

2) Do a global search for the struct name

Both will present you with a nice list of places that data is used, and show the functions that accept it as an argument.

Where as with Ruby - I basically have to use RubyMine to get anything even sort of working, and even then it chugs along very slowly trying to do it. Solargraph in VSCode doesn't really work at all (at least 50% of the time it finds no definition for me) and just using a basic editor is a nightmare. Sometimes you can do a global find for "def [classname]" but that only gives you the definition, not any of the places that use/modify it.

Basically - Ruby is one of the few languages where I feel like global search just doesn't work well, and it also eschews import/require/include statements when used in Rails. It's just a tangled mess, and there's NO way to unwind it without tooling, and even the tooling struggles (RubyMine is a guaranteed way to get my fans running at full speed for large projects, and it's the best I've used).
IMO if you want to replace ls it has to be a 2 character command. I can type ls super fast with two hands. exa is really awkward to type.
I agree that externalities are important to consider, but what would such a model look like? It seems that studies like this are a necessary precursor if we are to truly estimate these external costs (so kudos to those involved).
Bullied grow up to become bullies
There is more to life than a solid, practical job, but there isn't much more to what the government should subsidize, for the same reason the government shouldn't provide universal free yacht moorings ("don't you understand that the journey", proponents would argue, "is about so much more than the destination!").
Idk how CS or Assembly plays into this. I’m a webdev. Self taught. Your points about metrics and nuance are accurate but I fail to see how those are related to CS as a whole.

If stuff is legitimately slow, we should make it faster. Doesn’t need to be more complicated than that imo.
He completed BE in Chemical Engineering from
Tsinghua University [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping