skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never thouht of Smalltalk as being verbose. It has basically no boilerplate code, almost no syntax and good Smalltalk code is usually well factored. In Pharo, average method has 5 lines (median is 3) of 32 characters (median is 24).

Usual method in Smalltalk,
including its definition,
is shorther than this sentence.
The sites that are big corporates that abuse the shit out of this insufficient law will just consider it legitimate interest and they are vendors, not affiliates with the data being sold to.

A huge amount of the people that got this were ethical, individual, not corporate, not profit.
They did the bare minimum so that once in a while creepy stalkers will get noticed. Should we give them an award?
> Liberal Arts is perfectly valuable, but burying yourself financially to get a degree in one of the subjects, which is what will happen to most people who complete one of those degrees from NYU, isn't a smart move and that's where my lack of sympathy lies.

I'm saying that it is a smart move (if you are serious about learning). It benefits the students and society on an essential level.

> there are far cheaper alternatives (reading is free mostly!) to get that value.

It's not the same value: Learning from the world's leading experts, with all the resources you need (reading, just one tool, is certainly not free - try downloading some papers or buying a library of scholarly books), among smart, motivated, hard-working people, is invaluable. Do you want to learn software development from Google Fellows at Google, or from the local front end shop dev? What you get at top universities are Google Fellows in their fields. Do you want to study painting with world-class painters or the person at the mall? Someone I know is in undergrad at one of the top 10 schools in the world, and in every class my friend studies with someone who literally wrote the book in their field, whom personally guides their learning, lectures on it, and whom my friend personally and regularly meets with as a matter of course. My friend is serious about learning these things - can you imagine something more valuable?
While you're correct, I think there is something to be said about the popularization of the technology. Most people aren't aware of GPS trackers other than movies and think they are much harder to come by. AirTags are also less nefarious by nature. If you get caught with a GPS tracker on your person that's pretty suspicious. If you're caught placing an AirTag on someone's car it's easier to pretend you dropped it and are looking for it. I'd also say that the popularization increases the chance of use in the moment. You already have the AirTag and can decide do that tracking. With the GPS you have to do forward planning. I do think there's a difference here that could lead to more people being tracked. Crimes of opportunity are different than planned crimes, and I assume much more common.

It is good that Apple is notifying users when being followed. But it seems that too many false positives are getting people to ignore the messages. Though this is a hard thing to combat.
No. A large majority of trading strategies don't require the low latency that FPGAs help provide.

There is some truth to this statement though, if such a firm is trying to pursue a certain kind of strategy - to compete on latency, some of your business must be in hardware.
Unless you were using fine grained version control ENVY/Developer.
meta irony! The device that informed you that another device was tracking you is, of course, already tracking your every move.
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becoming an expert in leetcode is a proven strategy
Changing the perspective helped a lot, as others have said: treating job as just a job.

1. Remove stress - as I'm working with data, I tried to automate as much as I could, so I really don't have situations when you need to build a report very fast (reduces stress really well)
2. Have a back up plan - I found a part-time research assistant position which I actually enjoy and if I lose my main job, I'm not in the rush to find the next one (so I'm not worrying as I used to)

Then after 6pm you just do whatever that keeps you going, e.g. every day I try to see my girlfriend / friends, go to movies, cafes
> much more likely and sensible (for the bad guy) outcome though.

I don't know. it could be but bad guys aren't exactly known for being sensible.
Thank you for writing this, it really resonated with me. I’m moving back to Cornwall with my family after a stint working on the London grind to focus on our careers - I think there’s been some benefit to us doing that but Cornwall has always been where we wanted to raise our kids, so now we’ve got one and it’s possible we decided now is the time to do it! I can’t wait to get back, it really does feel like a different life there.

I think for us getting to the point where all of our needs are covered by our income, it’s been a learning curve to really experience that it doesn’t suddenly make you feel happy or fulfilled. It’s an absolute privilege to not be worrying about day-to-day living costs now, but I find there’s always something else to be worrying about, and easy to find yourself feeling like there just isn’t enough time to do what you really want to and not feel stressed.
Many people (like myself) are very happy with Linux and have been for years. We have no interest in "auto rebooting for security patches", "treating file locking like it was security" or having "relevant ads" shown to us. However, there might be 1 or 2 Windows apps we wish to run, so things like this are nice. I assure you that my overall experience is not "more difficult" than Windows (the exact opposite in fact).
There's methods to use S3-like platforms without leaking data. Restic does this by packing blocks of data together and encrypting them instead of doing it on a per-file basis. This allows for deduplication at a block level and functionally making the contents ambiguous noise.
Reddit, banned a user who's making a webcomic detailing child abuse
Me too. The primary use case for Emacs is writing Emacs init files[1], which are themselves a dialect of Lisp. Because of this, it's a solid tool out of the box for working with s-expressions. On the other hand, The vi family is historically very much a line oriented editor, so I'd be very interested in seeing a screencast of what an optimized vim CL workflow looks like.

On a tangent, I feel the popularity of vi style bindings is more of an indictment of the standard substandard terminal based keyboards we use. Emacs bindings make a lot more sense ergonomically on a space cadet style keyboard where control and meta are comfortably pressed with the thumb.

[1] Haha, only serious.
I wonder how this relates to children born in war zones. One of my parents was born smack in the middle of world war II, the other went through it as a young teenager. Nobody seemed to care one bit about their cognitive performance, reduced or otherwise, as long as they managed to survive first.
Here is his page on the takimag site: https://www.takimag.com/contributor/razibkhan/130/

Decide for yourself if he is a "scientific racist." Takimag is not shy about stuff like that.
https://archive.md/fjnf1
The guy sounds mentally ill.
You could pretend to be something you are not but if you keep giving the same info everything will be grouped together.
"I must admire my son's temerity to want to take his parents to court knowing both of us are lawyers."

Love it! :)
It's a tricky timing to work out, I guess. You want to warn people about trackers near them, but you don't want someone e.g. leaving their tagged bag in their locker to cause loud beeping after 30 minutes.
I must be one of the few, but I rarely like color output. And then some throw in underline or bold, but in e.g. ls (or exa) almost none of the make-up adds information, yet everything shouts for attention. I turn most of it off, rather than on.
I can second rock climbing, whether outdoors or inside. Its format is addictive. I also found tennis very easy to fall into. On the opposite end, there's running and swimming. They feel like misery for me personally. Others find them easy to do routinely. Just have to find what works for the individual. There are sports out there that won't feel like a chore.
The root cause is that you have more or less four choices

* private, which is expensive (and in some cases not a guarantee of quality)

* rich public, which requires probably living in the extremely local school district

* magnet/charter, which usually have whole apparatuses dedicated to securing donor funding similar to how colleges ask former alumni and the wealthy to top up their budgets

* poor public

At least some of the problems might be solvable by consolidating America's extremely local school districts, but that's kind of hard because a lot of the separate school districts were intentionally set up that way to ensure that socioeconomic classes did not have to share schools in a post-segregation world. Even if you did manage to do it, a lot of people would probably pull out and choose private instead.

But it is absolutely insane that in some states "boundary-hopping" school districts can send parents who want the best for their child to jail. http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/ame...
I don't consider the admins to be in charge, I am thinking the head of health departments: they should have massively upped beds, machines and so forth and improved working conditions, including a massive pay boost.
Or if the thief has an iPhone they will be notified that the AirTag is tracking them. This is not an anti-theft device and anyone who thinks so will be disappointed. It is a device for finding your own stuff that you have misplaced or forgotten about.
Then again, when you live near Russia, it's a constant stress. So the last thing I'm worried about is my job haha
Basic income also means taxing everyone, so you also have to pay to live.
Also if they’re wrong (those being contrarian) who cares? Hypothesis and there’s should be able to defend themselves rationally against any attacks if they can’t then they are not studied well enough to have rigorously tested the hypothesis

At least imo, sure misinformation is one thing but if we’re talking about other scientists I assume, not some layman on facebook
We've run this experiment with the War on Drugs, and prohibition before that. Puritanical attitudes towards sex before that.

Where are these people who don't think the data is in?
Ask HN: Is decentralized password/private key recovery possible?
Hi HN,

I was thinking a lot about the decentralized web and reading about projects like solid, fission, and radicle etc.

I was wondering if there is an implementation of a decentralized password recovery mechanism of some kind? Or maybe more generally a private key recovery mechanism?

We read a lot about people forgetting or losing their private wallet keys for bitcoin and we know commonly people forget their passwords. If the vision of the decentralized web is for users to own their own data surely we will need some implementation of something like this.
It’s a survey question.
This is disingenuous. You can't seriously claim there is no difference between Catalonia and Taiwan in their relationship to the broader national entity.
My stomach turned at the euphemisms for assault with a deadly virus. I guess it's along the lines of minor attracted person.
That is frequently taken for granted, but I haven't seen actual evidence of it.
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Best way to solve this would be, to have a physical switch that cuts power to webcam and microphone.... sadly I don't know any laptops who actually implement this.

Atleast some (eg. lenovo), have physical shutters to cover the webcam lens, so even if the cam turns on, it records only a piece of black plastic.
Why does the thief bother to track your car back to your house to steal later? Why not just drive around the residential areas where the cars are parked and just choose one at the time you want to do the theft?
So we are in agreement that what you suggest doesn’t work.
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FWIW, the Internet and modern electronic gadgets are the best thing that happened to me when it comes to reading more. My reading list is now long enough to last me a year (and keeps growing), and I can just whip my phone out and read whenever I'm waiting for something.
"I don't think imprisoning a large proportion of a certain ethnic group due to BS laws around extremist ideology is all that different from imprisoning an even greater number of a different ethnic group (1 in 3 black men imprisoned) due to BS laws producing a 100:1 sentencing disparity based on which drug is more popular among a certain ethnic group."

You think 1 in 3 black men imprisoned is due to crack vs cocaine laws? Do you really believe that every single black person in prison in America was there because they were smoking crack?
Sad but true, and extends to economics, psychology, lots of neurological and medical research as well.

Everyone needs pre-registration, and everyone needs open data.
Imagine what happens when it doesn't go right with children and you're in this situation. I have a daughter who caught bacterial meningitis at birth and had to have a brain surgery to solve the infection. Her existence is tragic, she is with us but she is going to have a lifetime of challenges and we've already been through the ringer. Now ever day is like waking up with a mortal wound, and to have other kids who need our help and support, its not rewarding. Add in a job where the culture is toxic and you're being persecuted for doing your job well. its not worth it... none of its worth it.
I think auctions would be really clever way of solving the issue of product launches with limited supply; right now we are living in a situation where goods sell out in seconds or minutes, possibly crashing the store system, leaving door open for scalpers (although I suspect the effect is exaggerated), and generally leaving everyone unhappy. Something like uniform price auction could work much better.
Throw away zero-sum policies. Introduce only win-win policies.
Disconnect from the internet when you're home and work on your side projects. When you find you require a resource, connect and download it, then disconnect. Repeat until you have no need for an internet connection.

That's what I did and it works. It even lead to refactor the code to be more easily tested.

I also used this mini-tests mode to reshape the team for remote work in 2019: work one day remotely per week and see what breaks in our workflow and information/communication. Fix. Try again. Then work two days remotely and see what breaks. Then one week and see what breaks.

By the time COVID-19 started, I pulled the trigger in late February/early March: exclusively remote work and we were already set. My colleague canceled his rent contract and moved to another location and we did hit the road running because we had our mini-tests and fixed the most important workflow issues.
Do you mean that if you start prioritising things differently, then that is a cause of concern? And so you take a vacation in order to 'reset' your priorities?
> Since ads can run arbitrary JS it's hard to enforce policy programmatically.

It's not that hard, at least not at my end. I just don't run ads.

Why on earth does goo think that running arbitrary JS on their visitors' computers is OK? I mean, I know this is the policy, and I assume the policy of other ad networks is at least as "liberal". So I'm sorry, chaps, but no ads run on this screen.

I wonder if this is a race to the bottom? I've noticed that TV ads these days are all for animal charities, equity release schemes, and incontinence pads. I don't know what they're running in web ads, but I'm pretty sure that the TV ads are so dire because everyone but old fogeys and poor people skip the ads. I'd assume the same old/poor people are the ones that have to see web ads.

Advertising to poor people has traditionally been a pretty bad pitch. So why isn't the online/TV ad industry crumbling? And how do I bet against their shares?
I am concerned about an authoritarianism in America, even more so if the president started saying stuff like: "Canada and the US are essentially the same people and should be one country. The Canadian government has always been propped up by foreigners to weaken us. Reunification must happen, by force if necessary."
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I was always hoping we'd get to using liquid lense and screen you can roll up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrowetting#:~:text=Elect....

https://www.flexenable.com/technology/flexible-olcd/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266081727_Electrowe...
Yeah I have a QEMU windows box that I game on.

The reason I don't use proton is because compability isn't 100%, whereas actually running windows gets you to a 100%, if we don't count games with predatory anticheats, but those don't work on proton either (For now).

I'm REALLY superstoked about Intels new HPG GPU's, it's rumored they'll have SR-IOV support, meaning I could partition the GPU to run both Windows and Linux at the same time. (There's support for it in my 11th gen Intel CPU on my work laptop, but the software isn't there yet, so I'm not certain it'll work)
What exactly is the "punishment" here? Serious question, how are you negatively impacted by loan forgiveness?

Anybody currently holding student debt is required to pay the US government an interest rate exceeding what the Fed gives banks. Student loan interest a tax on the poor levied by the US government. My wife and I have the same degree from NYU: her parents paid her tuition, I took out loans. Over time I pay more for the same degree because of interest.

Furthermore, we already do wealth redistribution via corporate welfare of all varieties. There's countless subsidy programs for all manner of environmental harmful activities that will pass huge financial burden to my kid. A small fix to loan interest isn't much to ask.
You could use synergy to keep the same keyboard and mouse.
I agree with a lot of what people have said here about a job being a job. However, my personal experience on this subject is — start with defining what happiness means for you!

This is a LOT harder than you think and in trying to answer the question you will hopefully (as I did) get in touch with yourself, your emotions, your identity, etc.

As you continually evaluate these things in trying to understand what happiness is for _you_, you will automatically have an answer to your question.
> Is this technically an invasion from China since the embassy grounds are theoretically soil of the embassy's country?

No, because:

(1) embassy grounds are not soil of the embassy's country, even in theory. See, Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

(2) a place being an embassy is a matter of mutual agreement, not a permanent right with regard to the establishment.
Wow, what a cool system design
> Why blame the greedy managers and owners at the top your overpriced pizza when you can blame the guy with a mortgage who did as he was told?

Nobody's absolving the managers or owners from their part in this issue. The point is that the guy with the mortgage decided that an extra room in his house or a bigger backyard is worth stealing from others. This isn't some ethically grey area, its outright theft that the engineer enabled.

> Besides they're as likely to tell the developers to code it up so they could do this in theory and then turn it on themselves.

I've never worked at Uber or any other big corp so I can't speak to how they do things there. This seems quite probable, but still doesn't completely absolve the engineer from responsibility. All it does is reduce their share of blame.
Yes, this is the usual precanned retort when faced with the fact that one's fringe viewpoint isn't in line with the mainstram science. It's not an argument though, in that it doesn't tilt the balance of probabilities (from a Bayesian point of view) away from the initial prior (i.e. the fringe is likely wrong and experts are likely right - note that I said likely, not 100%, like a good Bayesian). If anything, his elementary mistake about Crick, his failure to stay up to date with recent findings about African DNA, and motivated agenda with roots in scientific racism are tilting in the opposite direction.
I imagine it is hard to measure that, since

1. It is a "wimpy" thing to admit to. People are reluctant to think things about themselves which, if admitted aloud, could earn social ridicule.

2. One fear can prompt another and lead to an anxiety spiral which is too overwhelming for someone to even put into words.

Conjecture: The best way to measure it would be to introduce a nasal spray and see what sort of uptick it earns.
This is the direction I find myself going too. I am a runner in NYC. Its also fulfilling my social needs because I am a member of multiple running clubs. I get to interact with people outside of the tech bubble from all walks of life. I also have met people who are role models for different stages in life. I now have an idea of what I want to be like in my 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s because of the people I've met since I've started running.
Assuming the on-disk version of a graphic is compatible with your particular GPU. Even within the same manufacturer two generations of GPUs might not use the same image format.

A generalized on-disk representation is safer and likely more forwards compatible.
Many things can be said but you will experience an emotional range like you've never felt before - the lows are really low and the highs are really high - plus a lot of your life will no longer be within your control, which always adds a bit of adventure to things.
I'm pretty sure we don't have protections against cc debt. An 18 year old can get 10 cards and run up 100k debt
Asteroid mounted railguns (unmanned,) and on the moon, and on picket platforms. Massive kinetic projectiles moving at a significant fraction of c should be effective unless ftl or force fields are possible. 1000 years of collective effort to prepare could riff off of technology we've got at hand. Nuclear power and building material could be lifted from earth, but it'd be far more effective to mine asteroids.

Of course, if we mine asteroids, things on earth would be possible that are too expensive now, and we could see exponential technological progress.
Is it really a curse? It is the motivation that drives you to change and become better after all.