skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you always choose the anti- path, the mimetic is controlling your behavior just as much as if you always choose the mimentic path; it determines what you do. The point is to make decisions on other values, disregarding the mimetic (except when you choose to regard it).

Analogously, in decision theory, someone is equally reliable and predictable if they are always right or always wrong.
They’re not random.
I was asked to run out Intune on Android [0], which is a Mobile Device Manager from Microsoft, (aka MDM) [1].

We needed an always-on VPN. Intune supports several, but all insist you run some proprietary server software. If you don't understand why that would make someone feel uncomfortable, PulseSecure [2] was one of those options. There is open source GPL software that replaces the proprietary back ends called OpenConnect [3], but that violates their client licensing.

Then I discovered Microsoft has their own VPN called mstunnel. That's when I felt like I had fallen down the rabbit hole. I dismissed mstunnel initially because since it is a Microsoft Product, it would run only on Windows, right? Turns out it only runs on Linux. I thought you installed the mstunnel client on Android, because among other things it existed - but nope it was superceded by this thing called "Defender for EndPoint".

The server came as a Docker install, but we didn't have the required version of Docker so I unpacked it and ran it in a chroot. That all worked in the end, but in the process of unpacking it I discovered what it was under the hood. It had two things - an "agent" written in dotnet whose sole function as far as I could tell was verify with Microsoft's servers you have paid for it and ... a copy of free as in beer OpenConnect.

Nothing wrong with that really. In fact it's the reverse - it being OpenConnect under the hood gave me a lot of confidence I wasn't dealing with another PulseSecure. The only fly in the ointment is OpenConnect is GPL. They are completely free to use it the way they did - in fact I suspect the OpenConnect authors would be very happy to see the project used in that way. But you do have to comply with the licence. There was no attribution whatsoever, let alone instructions on a copy of the source as the licence requires.

I'm sure it's just an oversight, just like the subject of this article. Maybe it's another mess for Jeff to fix. I don't know you from a bar of soap Jeff, but keep up the good work.

[0] Intune provides a uniform MDM like experience across many platforms - including Windows. If you need to control Windows like that you probably don't have much choice, you have to use a Microsoft product. Maybe it works very well on Windows, but it's an ugly, buggy thing on Android, and the UI is a confusing mess. If you only need an MDM for Android I can heartily recommend headwind (https://h-mdm.com/), which we rolled out before Intune because it took literally months to get the licences (in fact, we still don't have them). Headwind is open source, is cheaper than Intune and has free tier, and frankly was a joy to work with - once you discovered their doco was all in the FAQ's.

[1] For the uninitiated, all Android devices (and iOS) allow a company to take control of a device by installing an MDM, something that can happen only immediately after a factory reset. Thereafter Android displays "your company can see everything you do on this device".

[2] https://threatpost.com/pulse-secure-critical-zero-day-active...

[3] https://www.infradead.org/openconnect/
I didn’t expect so many replies, thanks for the help!
Over the years my skills have been spread across a variety of platforms:
>>Most types of UIs: text based, old school assembly code, weak in react but strong in iOS
>>2D / 3D interfaces and data visualization: 3D simulators and demos for aerospace
>>Multimedia / Transmedia : After Effects plugins, music videos, analog studio expertise
>>VRML visuals: did lots of live EDM shows on Maui in the nineties, the app is called SpacePark, but only runs in VRML

My “real world” resume i.e. "what have you done for me lately?"
can be seen on the app store (iOS)

huedoku (its a color game)
huedoku pix (sharable games)
oogiecam (synaesthetic app, converts colors to sounds)

again thanks for the input
I have no knowledge of how Reddit handles NSFW content. I have some knowledge of how Automattic does.

From what I have seen as an active reddit user of 10yrs+, the ads I see on - for example - /r/culinaryskills, /r/gamedeals, /r/dogs - are quite different. They are targeted in some way.

All WordPress.com sites - and I assume tumblr sites - could have ads shown. One way to stop ads being shown on those sites is to apply a tag.

Call that tag "mature"

A site tagged as "mature" will

- not appear to other sites

- will therefore experience a drop-off in traffic

- but will still appear in Google but because of the lack of linking will be much much lower in results.

Reddit cannot add those tags as fast and (maybe) as accurately as a blogging service can so it gets away with it. That said, they do have the ability to quarantine sites and I have no idea at all if they hide NSFW content from crawlers.
No, they’re not a hobby. People need happiness both in and outside of their family.
Ha! I copy-pasted your response from last weeks thread above. What a great response. Ima try it in the new year myself. Already incorporated llc. Building my static site this week and off to the leet races I go.
Indeed, the word "patent" itself—to quote Wikipedia: "The word patent originates from the Latin patere, which means "to lay open" (i.e., to make available for public inspection). It is a shortened version of the term letters patent, which was an open document or instrument issued by a monarch or government granting exclusive rights to a person, predating the modern patent system."

Thus, a secret patent is a contradiction in terms.
Programming language can know more about the program's (intended) state at any given time. The OS can/should frequently be involved, but even then you're frequently doing something like pledge() from the program to let the OS know when/how to restrict you. Doing it totally externally, like SELinux does, is valuable but coarser-grained.
Should we extend this attitude to everyone else that taxes the healthcare system?

If you got HIV from unprotected sex, should we shame you?

If you’re fat and get diabetes should we?

Etc etc. This is inhumane thinking and shouldn’t be encouraged.
contracting jobs are great, and I love them. its all about getting referrals, that has been the best route to new jobs, at least for me
But I want to be able to say:

CollectionFactory.createCollectionFast(FIND<string>, FIND<int>, STACK_ACCESS, KEEP_INSERTION_ORDER, REVERSIBLE)

This might require resulting collection to use multiple data structures in parallel to provide me with all the fast capabilities I listed.
I'm using mailcow for year and a half now, moved to it from Kolab. It's really great and painless to manage it. The only thing missing for me is the LDAP auth, something I got used to over the years with Kolab.
The OP's solutions has built-in LDAP auth, so I'll give it a try.
It's illegal for a US inventor to file a patent application in a foreign country without either (a) obtaining a foreign filing license first, or (b) applying for a US patent and waiting at least 6 months. [0] The idea there is to give the Patent Office a chance to review the invention for national security.

[0] https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s140.html
I've been enjoying a lot neeva, not affiliated at all, just a happy user :-)

I think they are $4.95/mo or something? haven't payed a cent yet since there are a few discounts that they do to prompt you to learn how to use it (I really liked that, and def made me more likely to stick with it!)
What? The entire point of a patent is that it’s public.

Things that are secret are called “trade secrets”.

My initial thought was the article had gotten confused and the gov was saying “leave this as a trade secret and we’ll compensate you if it gets leaked”

But it actually seems that they’re looking at patents as being pure license revenue driven and the compensation would be 20 years of licensing revenue.

But that’s not the only reason for parents. They are primarily intended as a way of having a legally enforced monopoly on something. So what happens in this system if you have a patent that gives you a competitive advantage, but another company works out what you’ve done, checks to see if you’ve patented it (which they won’t find), and then implements the technology themselves?

Licensing revenue may be significantly less than the benefits of being the only people able to use the tech.
I'm talking about the Central Valley, which is basically an unsustainable extractive factory. Agriculture in coastal areas is largely lower value row crops and vegetables.

Water is discussed the most, as there are essentially no pricing signals to moderate use. High water crops like rice are grown in the desert. Water has been pulled without limit from a 20 Ky old aquifer; the land has subsequently settled meaning it won't ever refill even if you could wait long enough. It's not just water though; topsoil practices are equally short-term oriented, leading to a rise in topsoil prices (old topsoil is trucked out and replaced by new) though not water rates.

I've done projects out there; visiting a farm or farm town is more reminiscent of a chemical factory than the bucolic pictures on the packages in the supermarket.

Agriculture is responsible for about 80% of water extraction yet the burden of rationing is placed on consumers who collectively use about 10% of the State's water directly. So 80% of the water goes to 2% of the gross state product, a lot of which is exported. Literally exporting the thing for which there is a shortage.

It would be cheaper, simpler, and ecologically superior for the tech and aerospace sectors to simply pay the farmers to stay home and watch TV.

It's hard not to notice that the Central Valley was settled by refugees from Oklahoma who had unsustainably farmed their area until it literally blew away (read, for example, The Grapes of Wrath) and just restarted those practices in their new home. But they had nothing to do with the unsustainable fishing practices that destroyed the industry described by Steinbeck in Cannery Row et al.
i hear you, but i need to think more iOS for the time being, what about swiftUI?
is it still too early in swiftUIs life to write real apps?
MagnaCut is the first knife steel that does the best job of balancing edge retention, toughness, and corrosion resistance. It is basically a stainless 4V (if that means anything to you). Larrin focused on reducing the amount or chromium needed. Lots of steels will dump chromium into the steel to help corrosion resistance. This only helps if chromium remains in solution and not forming carbides with the iron. Chromium carbides don't offer much in the way of wear resistance (unless you have a ton of them like in ZDP-189) and they are large carbides (relatively speaking) even after the particle metallurgy process. Basically, you give up toughness when helping corrosion resistance (ignoring steels with nitrogen). Larrin uses a lower amount of chromium than you would expect, but it remains in solution. So you get the stain resistance you want without the chromium carbides.

Other benefits of the steel include grindability, which means makers can spend less time and abrasives on shaping the knife. You can obtain higher hardness than a standard stainless steel, which helps with forming an apex and removing the burr (sharpness for lack of a better word).

Spyderco, a major player in the knife world, has a line of knives called their Salt series. These knives are supposed to be as rust-free as one can make. MagnaCut will first enter their catalog as a Salt knife. This was a big shock given how well LC200N (nitrogen-based steel used by NASA for ball bearings) can resist rust and remain tough (wear resistance isn't anything special though).

Bottom line, Larrin built a well-balanced steel exclusively for knives. Many steels are adopted from other industries or were "knife-specific" but based on something like 440C, which was never intended for cutlery. So MagnaCut is upending the knife steel market by offering something you can't get elsewhere.
“that we are making this up to drum up business at the hospital”

At least in the US this kind of thinking makes some sense if you ever had the pleasure of dealing with insane hospital bills. They are greedy bastards.

It’s sad a lot of health workers are doing great work and sacrificing their health while working for morally corrupt institutions like hospitals.
MOO was made by Simtex, and has no connections to Lords of Magic as far as I know. You're probably confusing it with Master of Magic.
You gotta dance with the browser that brought you though. Unless you plan to never publish you’ve gotta design the best interface you can with the constraints of your real users.
Surely you could use compound indexing, depending on the set size of fields to be indexed, should be achievable.
The data monopolies and abuse originate from people giving these companies data for free. If they had to buy it, or pay goons to collect it, they wouldn't be profitable.
I'm sure it's genuinely a hard problem. If you don't have enough cars in a given area then there's zero you can do about it. You can't conjure them out of nowhere. You can't even order new ones anymore!

Think about how complex airline operations are - getting the right plane in the right place at the right time - then imagine that with random pilots that may just not get where they said they would be at a given time.
It wasn’t about the mechanic telling me, it was about the car not starting anymore and the battery not taking any charge.

And that’s why I asked - I honestly don’t know what steps are recommended to maintain a car battery (or if given the price it is worth the work).

Thanks for the links - I’ll look later
sorry, i wasnt clear enough. the last half of my career was exclusively doing freelance work, Hughes laid me off in 1998.
Fun fact, there are insurance exemptions and penalties for at least a few of the things you've listed. Your jurisdiction & policy may vary, but where I live, smoking can increase your insurance rates and make you ineligible for things like kidney transplants; injuries sustained while intoxicated are considered at-fault and aren't insured. I think that includes overdoses. People who engage in extreme sports are encouraged to get specific life insurance because most policies don't cover wanton recklessness. Unwanted pregnancy? Not where I live, but anti-abortion laws are coming fast and furious across the US, and yes, children are extremely expensive and entirely your responsibility.

The unresearched whataboutisms in this thread are truly something else.
I hope someone has selected a control group to see how the internet and especially social media changes people

My favorite example is how when missionaries contacted the Pirahã people, there was a missionary who was a language expert to learn their language quickly to do Bible teachings. He postulated their language didn't have recursion, which caused quite a bit of debate with Noam Chomsky and others. My take away from learning about this is that the Pirahã people didn't have a notion of past and future ("It's always been this way") and how they were totally transformed for the worse, in my opinion, by watching and seemingly becoming addicted to watching television

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_people

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Pirah%C3%A3
Knife nerd comes up with an idea for how to make a steel with a novel combination of hardness / toughness, edge retention, and corrosion resistance. Persuades a real steel company to make a batch, which is tested eighteen ways from Friday by him, the company, and a bunch of knifemakers. Result turns out to be as good as predicted, maybe even a bit better.

Bonus making it even more relevant to HN: most of the "discovery" was done via software, before any physical experiments (which are hard and expensive in this case). The fact that this new approach yielded good results is promising wrt developing steels with different properties.
Absolutely agree that VR is not mainstream and it is currently positioned as mostly nerdy thing. However, I am not in the business of convincing anybody. If something happens and you will be forced to use it, I am sorry in advance.
That's assuming the worst possible interpretation of what I said.
Finance is one field which is desperate for good coders, and which is using tons of outdated software. I'm sure there are other fields like that, too - think really old companies with critical software that can't be ported to newer paradigms in case some tiny oversight breaks it.
You've found a secret area!!

The best, most addictive spiritual successor I've found to date is Eador:Genesis. Although it has a bunch of other inspirations such as Master of Magic.

https://eador-masters-of-the-broken-world.fandom.com/wiki/Ea...

It mostly has very bad AI for which it compensates with insane material advantages, but tactical layer is stellar and strategic layer has some VERY interesting ideas as well. Your actions have far reaching consequences, such as you choose only 3 tier II units from about ten or so, and they have very different niches and work to a varying degree with each of the 4 basic classes.
Oh, I'm sure we'll get there at some point, but until we get new games instead of remakes, there's little reason for it.

The thing with the supply chain issues is that they keep many gamers on XB1/PS4. Until the target audience grows, we're stuck in circle with FIFA N+1 and the game of the year 2011 ported to yet another platform.
i did that for the first FB interview, spent 6 weeks writing leet puzzles down by hand, thinking them over 3X before coding, and then solving the problems.

But then the interviewer hit me with a topic i didnt cover. wups!
>Head mounted display is just another way to display stuff

My sentiments exactly. And not the more convenient or information dense.
Bulgaria is quite a nice country.
I love it, love the food, the sights. Lots of virgin nature as people left for work elsewhere.
The Overton window is a form of group think that’s pervasive across what people think of as the political spectrum. Outsider views isn’t simply pro and anti X, or even flat earth whack jobs it’s the full realm of possibilities.

It’s easy to think of say communism in reference to the horrors of recent history, but it showed up before the US civil war. In the context of slavery and the often stated “need” to compensate people who owned slaves before freeing them it suddenly seems very different. Which just demonstrates how ideologies are shaped by the time period and why understanding history takes more than a history textbook.

Actually reading old newspapers or political speeches is eye opening in the way that’s hard to summarize. https://www.loc.gov/newspapers/?dates=1920-1929 first page of first newspaper The Evening Star (March 8, 1920) “Income tax on dividends held Invalid by Supreme Court Government To Refund Millions” alongside “President takes ride in Automobile” which was apparently newsworthy including the prohibition of taking his photo. Just as interesting “Woman instantly killed by an Auto” referring to a car accident was a front page story. Meanwhile “Democrats Figure Electoral Victory on “WET” plank” referring to a lighter version of prohibition while still prohibiting saloons and Whisky. “British to Sell no part of West Indies to the US” which shows the past wasn’t just a history timeline it was filled with unrealized possibilities.
Capitalism inherently exploits economically unequal systems, and thus incentivizes them in both the private and public sectors (especially in the US where politicians are basically owned outright[1]). So, yes, it is "companies"... or more specifically, large wealth-owned profit-takers, that are the root cause of the supply-demand curves AND the zoning AND all of the other contributing factors. The fact that there are different sets of capitalists (rent and investment exploiters versus labor exploiters) who have varying influence on politicians is secondary to the fact that the politicians are primarily if not solely doing the bidding of capitalists. Attempts at corporate externalizing of risk happen in multiple contradictory directions, thus causing inconsistent public policy. Regardless, privatized-profit motivated externalization of public risk is the core problem. GDP-centric increases in productivity mean precisely fuckall for working class quality of life until we solve for the fact that the entirety of increased productivity gains have gone to the wealthy in the past 5 decades[2]. I do think as a society we should build more affordable housing in densely populated areas, but allowing capitalists to hold the reins for that would accelerate all of the problems of late stage capitalism.

Lastly, Japan has succeeded where others have failed because of a cultural difference which highly values new builds over old homes. They dispose of their homes and rebuild, as often as the US disposes of old cars and builds replacements... So political leverage by real estate investors is less of a concern there, a 30 year old home might be considered close to worthless. At the same time it creates other risk externalization problems like a colossal amount of inefficiency and waste. The only way to get a similar result of reasonable pricing in urban areas where real estate is profit-driven as opposed to use-driven, would be though affordable public housing as a counterbalance. We've seen time and again that capitalist housing development will naturally result in more capitalist-driven inequality. Investors will continue to buy making the bubble worse, then when the bubble pops the rich buy even more stock as disproportionately middle class and poor investors are forced to liquidate, as happened in the 2008 bust.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

[2]:https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/8/16112368/pi... (or the same chart any of dozens of places)
Using Graph Embeddings for Music Visualization and Discovery with Node2vec
And those same “unfree” participants are free to legislate what websites may or may not do with information that websites collect. The websites are similarly free to not do things that are prohibited by law in a given jurisdiction, or else not offer services to users subject to that legal jurisdiction.

There was never any “free market” status quo in the absence of regulation to begin with, either in statute or in practice. There always are forces external to the market which act upon it, and some of those forces are individuals and groups of people.

To say the free market exists, did previously exist, or could one day exist, is a truth claim I don’t see the evidence to support. Advocating for a “free market” as opposed to the status quo is both an economic and a political position, and thus should address both economic and political aspects of the issue you present.

What about this would you rather be different, and how so? Or what about this would you characterize differently?
> I have to assume that they are no longer as important, these days, as they once were.

They are, but just that folks (in tech?) are losing sight of what good editors would bring to the table: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20060721 (grand old unified relational documentation) | https://apenwarr.ca/log/20090506 (the value of professional copy-editing)
Agree, my relatives have stories of Christmas in the 70s in the Midwest. And then sometimes there's ice storms. Extreme weather is not itself a good argument for climate change, you need to show you've bucked 100+ year trends (which has been done).