skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, discounting Google's responsibility is inappropriate. They take money for this. They're responsible.
The official ISO category for these is "Games that may be played openly in a workplace environment with a low detection probability of ignoring one's responsibility"
How many times do US company need to be told to fuck off before they stop exploiting French citizens ?
I'm sorry if this is inappropriate but what health reasons prevent you from getting vaccinated?
Sometimes it feels like capitalism only functions because of that fact.
It's also lazy and doesn't respect the privacy of your users.
> I find the whole hubris and humilty (sic) thing is (sic) ridiculous.

Can you elaborate?
This was a great write up.

My hunch is that older binaries will stay Objective-C forever, until the app is completely replaced. It will linger around, similar to C and C++. There is no major win to just write something in a different language, but using he same frameworks/ui system. Swift is used in brand new apps, and eventually will take over.

Swift UI is just too immature, and it is still doesn't provide some of the more advanced components. Great for a toy app, but not for a production level. I hope Apple keeps improving on it, and it doesn't return another niche like IB (Interface Builder), which is used only for small apps, and larger corps just don't use it.

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Out of all the binaries in iOS 15:

89% are using Objective-C

17% are using C++

13% are using Swift

8% are entirely written in C

2% are using SwiftUI

If Swift was a better designed language, it would have taken over by now. The fact that after 7.5 years, Objective-C still persist, means Swift has soured many devs by its complexity, and sheer amount of shortcuts, (like Scala), and it is not necessary loved or is that much more productive, or gets people exited for. *but used a necessary tool as it is the way most community will move forward.
Dried seaweed is at least not very hard to find in the US. You can even buy it in bulk at Costco.

They tick the boxes of a nutritious, non-fried low-calorie snack.
What did you try to warn them about? That they will have more control over how companies use their PI? Doesn't seem very surprising that you got "shouted" down.
This was the original premise of The Matrix, but it was decided that would be too complicated for the general public to handle, so they made it "the machines use humans as batteries".
> On the other hand, there is a very clear motive for why Washington would spread misinformation about Beijing.

And the rest of the world? Why is the free press of the entire world conspiring against China? Or the free press in the US? Does Washington own that?

Anyway, we can only speculate on the motive. Ethnic cleansing? Perceived threat of religious beliefs? Who knows. You're gonna have to do better than "I don't think those are strong motives" to dismiss mountains of evidence.

Your long list if irrelevant facts is very impressive, there's no doubt you are well read on your history. The consistency with which you present these facts any time China's atrocities are mentioned is also impressive.
Your understanding is correct for Google Ads, but in its default (and most common) configuration, Google Analytics does not interact with that third party cookie ID. GA is primarily a tool for helping publishers understand what's happening on their sites, and so uses a first-party (per-site) cookie.
It needs a pure green terminal mode to ensure people don't know I'm playing a game at work.
shark attacks in pools never happen where as abduction by strangers does.

Just because something happens at a lower frequency than something else doesn't mean we shouldn't protect against it or that it is not a danger to a particular person.

The fact that most abductions happen by family members has nothing to do with OPs point.
Realities aside, this is why a therapeutic might be the best way out of the pandemic.
There's always an exception for people who can't be vaccinated. They're a big reason everyone else needs to be vaccinated, after all.
What a bleak world to inhabit where the primary metric for the value of such a system is whether it can survive inevitable hostilities. We are still such a primitive species in so many ways.
$500-700 per 5 day course and very limited supply (<100m courses in 2022 planned)
Yeah, but... There are only 21M BTC ever going to be mined, and at something like 20/40/60K (wild price fluctuations this year) all of those accounts cannot have "fuck you money" in them. It's probably a power law so most people holding BTC don't have even one coin.

So ... it just feels like a sizeable but still very small minority.
"Not really, given that Democrats control California 100% and attacks on early Algebra were the result"

This is too absurd to even be a non-sequitur.

And frankly, if Dems control this state "100%" then one has to ask why? Why has the GOP given up so much ground (remember, California has only sent two people to the nations highest office/POTUS, Nixon and Reagan, who were both Republicans. Historically a GOP that occupied up to 40+ percent of registered voters is now less than 25%, most of them going to Independent not Dem. This was in my lifetime, and I was GOP for a long time.

They lost ground due to the Dems being the least stupid and unhinged of the two major parties. Not because the Dems are great, just less incoherent and insanely clownish assjockeys.
So it looks in the paper they're using a theoretical framework called the Free Energy Principle developed by Prof Karl Friston at UCL which postulates that brains have evolved to minimise the amount of information surprise between their own internal generative model of the world and the observable world.

The paper uses this as the basis of learning and it looks like the neurons are given a random (electrical) stimulus when they miss the ball and a predictable stimulus when they hit it.
Oh no don't try to throw in "reproducibility crisis" here. The fact that some studies in some areas are hard to reproduce (which is not news to anyone) does not suddenly mean that we should go back to cheap armchair philosophy as the main source of "knowledge". This is the equivalent of saying that the fossil record is slightly incomplete therefore Christian creationism.

"Science" in general is one of those things that you can safely rally behind, because there is nothing more accurate by definition.
From what I've read, schools like NYU, Columbia, etc. offer creative arts programs at nosebleed prices. These are legit schools, even very prestigious programs - but it's still a sort of "pay to play" prestige mill that attracts students with rich / well-off parents.

But alas, when you come from a normal family, it's hard to justify $50k-$80k/yr tuition - especially if you're not connected, or have backup plans.
> So capitalism is the best option because capitalism causes pressure on other countries and other systems to fail while also being good at resisting the pressure caused by itself?

No, it's the best system (so far) because 'humans' cause pressure on other countries (and their own) to fail.

> This seems like a poor argument too, and is definitely not supporting the claim that free markets lift people out of poverty.

My argument doesn't support a claim I wasn't making? Weird.
By the way, US fertility rate is 1.63, far lower than the replacement rate of 2. This means that the US is also under a generational population decline.
The algebra thing is way more complicated than “attacks on algebra” if you weren’t already aware.

They’re talking about integrated math where students all learn the same concepts at the same time, but students that can handle more complex work still get it. Some math concepts will actually be introduced earlier than they were previously, and the curriculum is shifting to include more applied math like statistics rather than calculus being the end-all.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-21/why-cali...
My substantive rebuttal is to dismiss out of hand the idea of a global conspiracy to make the really good guy actually look like a bad guy.
To be clear, I was just merely trying to track back where this '100%' claim was coming from as I also didn't remember such a bold claim being ever made, let alone by Fauci.

Now, I invite you to make google searches with a date range and you will see that such studies claiming 100% efficacy on the product on kids started to appear in the early days actually:

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

Since 100% is a pretty awesome figure, my theory is that there must have been quite a bit of press coverage at the time and I have no doubt a lot of people got confused.
If you do end up giving this some more thought, I'd be interested in hearing about meaningful differences of opinion on cultural or policy issues.

I've never heard of this spectrum before.
I’m really disillusioned by science this year. Almost every study I’ve read about on hn in the last year had serious methodology issues
>Out of all the binaries in iOS 15:

89% are using Objective-C

17% are using C++

13% are using Swift

8% are entirely written in C

2% are using SwiftUI

Objective C looks healthy.
Read a few posts on this blog and you might start to understand why people assume the worst: https://overemployed.com/
Do you think there's any potential for rust to gain a competitive advantage in safety critical systems?

Or are the benefits too difficult to quantify?

It seems like if something along the lines of "MISRA C" (but requiring Rust) were to become an industry best practice, we might see the Rust ecosystem develop.

However, automakers are some of the most conservative companies out there when it comes to tech, and I doubt they really care about safety or formal correctness as much as being able to slap a "MISRA" sticker on the code for liability reasons.

It would have to be, decades I imagine, before there's any chance of rust becoming truly widespread in the embedded world. Universities would need to start teaching with it. People who know C and nothing else would need to retire. I agree that it's unlikely to be commercially viable at a large scale any time soon (unless you can find a handful of true believers for your team).
Philosophically I love a lot of the ideas of self-organizing teams. In reality, they are very difficult to implement. Hierarchies work because they allow someone close to the work to take a very deep, detail-oriented view, while allowing others to operate at broader, higher layer of abstraction. Someone can think about the why, while others think about the what and how.

That said, hierarchies can be soul-crushing for a lot of reasons. Still, I've found hierarchies work best when infused with a lot of the ideas behind self-organizing teams (ie as much end-to-end ownership as possible, as much autonomy as possible, etc). This only works if you have a high-functioning group of team players who all trust each other, and managers who don't act like pointy-haired bosses.
In my experience, far too much responsibility is placed on the person generating the code nowadays. It's just got worse and worse as infrastructure has become more "software defined". Writing the code and interfacing with all the systems we have to today are two different skills, and I think not often going together.
and the pharma laughs all the way to the bank.
> Check the actual stats

60 % of Republicans have received at least one dose [1], but only 51 % of blacks have done the same [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/17/counties-vot...

[2] https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...
and big pharma laughs all the way to the bank.
For those who weren't familiar with some of the jargon

* HAL: (Hardware Application Layer) [1]

* RTOS: (Real time Operating System) [2,3]

[1] https://www.beningo.com/embedded-basics-apis-vs-hals/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_operating_system

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRTOS
The data was real the first time. The virus got worse.
Most readers of the Houston Chronicle are unware of that, I expect.
Maybe he's satirizing the popular view. And the popular attitude.

Maybe he's being too subtle.
That should be $14,400 to $25,000, obviously. Can't edit anymore, sorry.
I see it as a specialization of Software Engineering. Like we have (self proclaimed as well as normalized by job posts): Frontend Developers, Backend Developers, (And Full-stack developers if one can do both, or simply, Software Engineers), And infrastructure developers.

DevOps, and especially with Pulumi / CDK (where it's actually infrastructure-as-actual-code and not infrastructure-as-a-JSON/Yaml file), is simply becoming a "developer who also likes ops" type of specialization. E.g. front-end, back-end and stack-end.

The nice thing is, and what I try to do in my team (both at my current startup and previously at AWS) is to break the silo and keep the "you build it you ship it" notion. Frontend - TypeScript, Backend - TypeScript, Infra - also TypeScript. When an engineer wants to build a lambda that listens to SQS or a Fargate ECS task or an S3 bucket, they can just do it. I if you know how to use the AWS SDK to let's say read/write to S3/DynamoDB/SQS, the API to create S3/DynamoDB/SQS etc is not that far off, and if you are using CDK in TypeScript for example (whether it's Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK for k8s doesn't matter) then indeed the boundary between backend code and infra code is getting smaller and smaller (both technically and also visually, the declarative code to generate an S3 bucket in CDK is pretty damn close to how it will look to generate that same S3 bucket via the SDK, it's just that CDK takes care of idempotency / change sets / diffs etc...)

In summary. I agree that DevOps should mean - you build it, you ship it and that the current industry trend towards a separate DevOps department is just plain wrong, but on the other hand, it's ok for specialization within a team, some will lean toward frontend, some toward backend, some toward data engineering, some toward data science, some toward security and some toward operations. Some will do a bit of both and some will prefer to focus and specialize, but I think that the main lesson I learned is that it all should be part of the team. Like a D&D party, you don't go to an adventure with just Warriors, then send the Wizards separately to ship the dragon to production.
This does feel like there's some selection bias here. The assumption is that intelligence hasn't developed before humans. If a planet wide civilization would have sprung up say with the dinosaurs, would we have gotten a shot? It seems somewhat plausible that such a civilization would either have survived ruling any subsequent rise out or have blown up the planet in a way that none would arise either.
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Spoiler alert: they're all conspiracy theorizing about how this _proves_ that the entire pandemic is all a part of Pfizer's master plan for making money.
Viewing this on a Framework Laptop that just came in today and I'm laughing because it's the first laptop I've had that actually has hardware switches for camera and microphone.
Why should any loans be dischargeable by bankruptcy then?
I'm starting the second book right now and I'm hoping this hasn't spoiled anything.

There hasn't really been mention yet of using human brain cells, other than that cybrids (biologically human bodies with AIs in the driver's seat) are a thing.
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This seems a bit different than what you suggest. The paper shows the "average rally length" and "# of hits per minute" increasing as time goes on for the group which received additional stimulus as feedback when it hit the ball.

It did not find an increase in these metrics for groups where the input signal went silent as feedback after hitting the ball, nor for groups which merely continued receiving the usual input ("no feedback").

I have no idea if this is repeatable, but it seems like a valid conclusion from this data that the neuron colonies which were given feedback in the form of extra stimulation, exhibited better performance after the first 5 minutes of each trial, and better performance each subsequent day when they would run another 20 minute trial.
English is not my first language but I feel fluent enough that the majority of my book reading nowadays are in English, I studied for some time in a English speaking country and I watch movies and tv shows without subtitles.

So, although I’m not a native speaker I feel deeply invested in the English language. All this to say that I still struggle with many rarely used words. Or archaic uses of the language. I constantly use my kindle dictionary to look for non usual words for birds, plants, etc that I never stumbled upon before.

If I do this for a language that I invested 20+ years of serious media/book consumption I’m absolutely out of luck reading anything in French or, god forbid, Russian (two of my favorite literary countries).

Yeah, I will never have that deep soul bonding connection with Russian authors that only those who speaks their beautiful language can experience, but I had enough experience reading good translations in my mother tongue and reading the original in English that I’m confident that It’s not a huge loss.
Yes. Worse is most examples are outdated and don't compile. Plus, we are now in an era where third party publishers are not putting out books to cover the gaps like before.
"I believe our current system rewards either extremism or outwardly expressed extremism."

Pretty much.

We've allowed a system of regulatory capture, gerrymandering, lobbying payola, and an incoherent pandering media pipeline to make the whole political discourse a giant meth-addled goat rodeo.
A downvote, too, is not meant as a "disagree" button, but for comments hindering a productive discussion.

I can assure you almost all of them are flame-bait.
Running systems is a different set of skills than building them. You can mitigate this to an extent with a PaaS but eventually you'll run up against operational issues that require expertise to remedy properly. You can try to use generalists to handle both produce development and operational roles but you'll start accumulating inefficiencies rather quickly (i.e your entire dev team needs to understand the operational tooling so they can be on-call, you're going to be spending more for resources you aren't using optimally, and you'll likely start to accumulate toil, downtime, performance, or security problems). So specialists tend to pay for themselves pretty quickly.

Even just having separate reporting chains is helpful to achieve a balance between work driving operational metrics (stability, performance, security), and product development work driving product metrics (sign ups, sales, acquisition costs, etc)
Seems like if you “thought of the consequences” and “understood QM” here you’d have a theory of everything all ready to go.
I just got a Framework laptop (https://frame.work) and it has this.

Take that, Apple fanboys.
IBM tried to make it work for web and server. Google tried to use it for ML. Both were abandoned.
> end federally backed student loans

there are maximums on the total that can be lent under federally organized and subsidized student loan programs. last i checked that was around $60k for an undergraduate degree. they are not the cause of outsized student debt.

> and make the loans dischargeable in bankruptcy

non-dischargability of private student loans (i think was a rider on a budget bill under bush ii) opened the borrowed money spigot which then allowed cost of attendance to accelerate into high six digits territory unchecked.

professional schools like law, medicine and business have typically been powered by these sorts of loans. whether or not fully grown adults should be allowed to make big bets on themselves like that is debatable. (i'd argue that there's something of an information asymmetry. people looking to enter new fields don't know how they work and higher education brands are often seen as highly trustworthy institutions where acceptance is the main hurdle and financing would be fair and reasonable given the acceptance bar has been cleared.)

it is pretty clear, however, that encouraging it in high school seniors for undergraduate degrees is ethically problematic.
It brings me no pleasure in addressing this reality. Many conservatives are fine people, but the damage done by Republican media outlets is undeniable and it stifles advancement to the detriment of all.

This is why my comment was really about praising the potential of a good therapeutic. Political ideologies fade when all you can think about is survival, in contrast to preventative care which requires forethought.
At least where I live, if you cannot get vaccinated for health reasons you will be considered as if you were vaccinated.
Do you think Politifact is a good source for that information? I'm sure there are other less-biased alternatives that discuss that subject.
> It was only later with the emergence of web applications that it became clear the browser itself would become the universal client and actually be a platform in it's own right.

Outside of e-mail, the non-browser Internet applications were on their way out by the mid-90s. Mosaic put the first nail in their coffin and then Navigator hammered in a few more.

Graphical web browsing was just a richer experience than what Gopher offered. Netscape's support for Gopher, and like FTP, just made it a web-like experience. WAIS was essentially dead by the mid-90s.

Navigator obviated the need for myriad applications to access a bunch of different servers. It didn't help that as graphical browsers were gaining traction UMN decided to charge license fees for their gopher implementation while several early web servers were FOSS or at least freely licensed.

In 1995 if you wanted to start some Internet service there was no reason to do so on Gopher, WAIS, or some bespoke protocol. The web covered those services' capabilities and added a lot more, especially with HTTP 1.1. So I'd content the browser as a universal client for Internet services was pretty evident soon after Mosaic's release and a foregone conclusion with the release of Navigator.
Please show me a human society with no hierarchy, I do not believe it has ever existed.

I consider myself an anarchist, as in, against unnecessary hierarchy, yet I still believe some hierarchy is inevitable, even necessary and desirable.
> when people are home, as the consequences are much more severe compared to burglarizing an unoccupied house.

Yes, because unlike in Europe, people in USA have the right to shoot you dead if you're trespassing in their property.