skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. HN community typically frowns on fluff, jokes and loose comments. Its a good thing. The discussion stays to the point.

2. No commercial algorithm boosting a topic over other. Plain upvoting. This helps a lot. It becomes matter of the community's collective choice.

3. Unlike reddit for e.g. the mob down voting is reduced to an extent because the hard limit is -3. (Fun fact: I had reddit account a while ago where a popular sub's mod got personal and his cronies downvoted me everywhere. I was shadowbanned on several of the subs. My max karma drops was ~300-400 points in a single day. It was due to a thread which wasn't even fluff or lame/ funny/ sarcastic, but because I had questioned the moderation morals. The post was sick and hurtful & the crowd gets murderous. If slashdot is snarky, reddit is outright toxic.)

4. No amount of praise is enough when I mention @dang. The guy ruthlessly keeps everyone in line. Hats off to him. HN is much better because of his untiring efforts to curate.
In addition to the morality of such ops, keep in mind that those drones (such as the Reaper) are nearly useless against an opponent that has a proper air defense setup (SAMs). Having high price tags and carrying lethal weapons would make them a priority. Their only practical application is to "bully" an unsophisticated enemy. For example, had Russia tried this kind of a weapon against Kiev or Lviv then the s300 and Buks would have taken them out in a matter of minutes.

Also, thinking that a remote pilot has different level of empathy vs a pilot that's inside the aircraft is a little deranged from the reality of military operations. A weapon is a weapon, it is meant to eliminate/kill targets.
The USB people decided to have new sub versions replace the older standard rather than extend it. USB 3.0 was replaced by USB 3.1, and then again replaced by USB 3.2. If you think of it in a bureaucratic sense, it starts to make sense (something receiving classification A under the Widget Law of 2012, classification B under the Widgets Etc. Law of 2014, and classification Å under the Widgets Standardisation Law of 2018). The problem is that they forgot to inform the general public how their versions work, and the general public also doesn't (and shouldn't need to) care about their weird versioning system.

As an end user, you shouldn't need to care about the generation and amount of lanes that USB provides. There's a logo on the box that has the USB shape, SS, and the speed. For textual representations, there's "SuperSpeed x gbps". If you see SS5 and your computer also had a sticker that says SS5 or SS10 or even SS20, you're good. That's how the USB guys foresaw the whole process going. Obscure use cases that may technically happen (like two gen 1 streams rather than a single gen 2 stream, aka USB 3.2 gen 1x2 rather than USB 3.2 gen 2x1) don't get a logo or a fancy name and you'll probably run into compatibility challenges for such a setup.

USB X.Y gen ZxQ isn't meant for the general public, it's a technical specification. x specifies the generation of the version y specifies which specification, z specifies the type of connection (given X.Y = 3.2 and above) with q specifying the amount of USB lanes available.

Like PCIe 4.0 1x16 vs 2x8, it's all designed as designations for domain experts. Use the SuperSpeed naming system like the USB people want you to and you'll probably be a lot less confused. They tried to simplify things (again) by dropping the SuperSpeed in USB 4, calling it simply USB 4 xx Gbps, which is probably for the best.
Unrelated to the article but this is insane:

> Statutes in Colorado, South Carolina, and Indiana exempt ALEC, specifically by name, from having to register as a lobbyist and report lobbying expenditures.
You obviously have no idea what blockchain tech is about.
This is pretty strongly linked to insufficient time outdoors in natural light.

Age-related vision change is a different beast.
Among my peers, we learned about cryptocurrency back when it was the best/only way to buy MDMA off the Silk Road.
>Uber turned a profit in 2021Q2

Yes, though read this, then do the math.

"Net income attributable to Uber Technologies, Inc. was $1.1 billion, including $272 million in stock-based compensation expense. Net income benefited from unrealized gains of $1.4 billion and $471 million due to the revaluation of Uber’s equity investments in Didi and Aurora, respectively." (Uber 2021Q2)
If you select for people who are 1 in a thousand on energy, need for sleep and extroversion you get very unusual people.
I really never got the Catalonia crisis, especially around 2017, 2018. A region of approx. 8 million Catalonias who see themselves as Catalonians first and as Spanish second, with their own distinct history, vote with over 80% for their indipendence from Spain. People representing the interests of Catalonians go to the Spanish parlament, explain their goal of indipendence.

And then stuff happens that I only read from bad China and bad Russia. Those political leaders are arrested. Police is sent in to stop the protests. Protests are suddenly called "the rebellion", people are arrested, the representatives of the indipendance movement have to flee Spain. Later it comes out that the police was seizing ballet boxes during the election.

Spain then acts hard on the region, holds a gun against the head of many businesses located in the Catalonian region so they have to move out from there.

So much more bad stuff has happened around that.

I am just wondering - where is the outcry? I cannot stop overseeing the paralls to other conflicts around the world, very hot conflicts.
Google Maps has stopped hiding Russia’s military and strategic facilities
>>> And while I find some of his points too radical to implement practically in my own situation, I believe it's very important that we have someone like him in the tech world. As a result, whenever there is a RMS talk, I listen to it. And each time I gain new and valuable perspectives about free software that help guide future decisions.

Most people would probably find his views and recommendations as too extreme to be practical, but he really does practice what he preaches in terms of only using free software for his own computing:

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
What's your theory as to why the cable would be at fault, despite working perfectly well in a different machine?

Seems like the simplest counterpoint would be to demonstrate a M1 mac transmitting at the full data rate using a different cable.
Hmm. I wonder if there is good overview of numbers on let's say stamps and coins. And I'm interested about mid and high-mid value stuff here. How well are those doing?
What do people do with their money when central banks only offers 0.03 percent interest while inflation is 9 percent. They can convert their money to a crypto stablecoin and get upto 20 percent yield.
In this critique of unity they say that the back half of making a game is the half of suffering. In my experience, it highlights something else that is a massive problem in the game dev space. The game dev community is stuck in software practices of 2005, leading to naive implementation patterns.

As a hobbyist game developer of ~1year, one thing that struck me was how I have not found many good sources of teaching that explains how to make a maintainable game. How does one make a code base for a video game that has desirable the non-functional qualities like maintainability? That question doesn't really have an answer...

I think it doesn't have an answer because those teaching game development haven't really asked. I'm sure it's due to many factors.

For anecdotal, I've asked about testing and CI/CD for unity in online spaces. There isn't much content on these critical subjects in the video game education space. I usually get a mix of responses but one that stuck out to me is that video games aren't appropriate for tests and it just slows down game creation.

I think that thought process more than anything is what leads to back half issues. I think that the video game industry has lagged behind the rest of the software industry and there is a huge opportunity for disruption.

In 5-10 years people should think it's absolutely outlandish to start a complex software project such as a video game project without a CI/CD engine running a suite of sensible tests. I think today that is true for most software projects, although as a community were still wrapping our heads around "what is a good test?"

My 2cents
Not when young people concentrate disproportionately in urban areas and we weight presidential election votes by arbitrary land boundaries.
It is quite the opposite. It is pouplar among thoes who __know a lot__ about monetary policy and they want to get __out__ from the fraud that our current global regime is. As for "has yet to get out of the starting gate": you have to get your head out of the sand instead. It is already mainstream and it is already being adopted by huge companies including JPMorgan, KPMG and a lot of others and also by countries like El Salvador.
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But you'd agree with me that some things are more secure than others right?
There is a lot of stuff in between.

For example, Down syndrome can be practically eradicated by selectively aborting aneuploid embryos. Of course, the embryo cannot consent, and while the parents can, institutional pressures can be put on them to make them change their mind.

Countries like Iceland and Denmark abort almost all Down syndrome embryos. This article in The Atlantic does not seem to be completely OK with that, and The Atlantic is pretty representative for East Coast liberal viewpoints.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/the-las...
I think it's a reasonable inference from a speech Himmler gave at Posen in October 1943. That speech was both frank and well-documented, and it was used as evidence in the Nuremberg trials, so Arendt must have been familiar with it.

Himmler speaks of the challenge of remaining a decent person despite witnessing and committing atrocities (the section around “Dies durchgehalten zu haben, und dabei – abgesehen von menschlichen Ausnahmeschwächen – anständig geblieben zu sein”), showing the kind of reversal at work that Arendt describes.
My argument was that the Sicilian expedition would not have happened without Alcibiades.

Also, the point of my original post was that a bias might color our views, but that's different from doing a character assassination like I believe the article did on Gibbon.

BTW, happy to discuss this more via email, nobody reads Thucydides anymore :/
How to Conduct a Cognitive Walkthrough Workshop
Location of Tokyo pic in the article:

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.7014256,139.7719736,3a,75y,2...
>It's not about the words... it's about... their words.

Feels somewhat contradictory.

In terms of abuse, stigmatizing the word "Autist" won't prevent abuse, it will enable it.

Language that expresses negative feelings about a group of people will always exist, all one can do is have influence over the exact language that is used in that expression and the context in which people use certain language. Censorship doesn't stop abuse, it changes how abuse is expressed. In this situation, if we censor "autist", people will still probably continue to use the word, but use it in private more often, and it will become more of a pure slur. People who use the word "Autist" also use "Autistic" as in "Autistic screeching" as a slur/backhanded compliment (And autistic is truly uncensorable) with a very similar connotation, so by stigmatizing "Autist" and giving it a more severe connotation consequently, you are actually increasing peoples ability to more fluently express their distaste of autistics by making the word "Autist" more distinct from "Autistic". Increasing peoples ability to express their distaste for autism more easily is the opposite of what censorship ought to aim to do.
My point is that the discussion wasn't around "high budget", it was around "high price". Yes Genshin Impact is high budget, but it's free everywhere so it's not relevant to the phenomenon of there effectively being a cap on game prices on phones.
People implemented automated trading strategies decades before Blockchain or "smart contracts" existed.
All these spyware incidents by nation states prove one thing: how fickle the so called rule of law is in much of the western democracy. In fact west has increasingly become de facto kleptocracy with media and nation state security apparatus actively seeking ways to maintain and grow the power for the national elites leaving them unchecked.
Smash Bros has so bad netcode that serious competitive online play does not really exist. This is why most big fighting game tournaments dropped smash during covid due to being forced to be ran online (and Nintendo is just a real pain to work with). Instead we get some previously "small" game being ran at big tournamets like Skullgirls at EVO because they have rock solid netcode so they can actually be played online at high level.

Also smash is played on consoles that prevent one from installing cheats basically the fact that the whole platform is fully locked down is the anti-cheat. Still controllers are sometimes checked at tournaments for any additions that can run macros (most adapters that allow one to use a different consoles controller can do this)
There is still quite a difference between 5000 years and 25 years. Especially because in the pre-modern world, generations were much shorter than today. People would start having kids around 18.
The Basques got their most extreme terrorists put into Jail after decades of blowing up people, which you could also argue might have helped quelling their independence push as well...

Luckily I'm too young to remember, but I do know older people talking about ETA with fear and me thinking they were overblowing it, until I stumbled upon the wikipedia article with all they did and holy cow when I looked at the list of the 2000s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ETA_attacks#2000%E2%80...
I feel the same trying do develop an enterprise application with Unity. When I worked for Unity I found it fascinating that game devs (not coming from game development) were “locked into” a particular version. I hope the package system can alleviate some of that but there is a real need for some automation and upgradability.
How are they getting a 20% yield and at what risk?
Agreed. I think whatever small value crypto provides is outweighed by how slow and expensive it is. It's a nice technology, but I think it left the lab too soon.

Its multitrillion dollar valuation is pure speculation (sometimes called HODLing by its acolytes). It's virtually impossible that it will maintain this valuation, and most investors will make a loss.
The build from itch.io (cytopia-osx-ci.zip) doesn't run on OS X either :)

You can't use this version of the application "Cytopia" with this version of macOS.
You have macOS 10.15.7. The application requires macOS 11.6 or later.

The "X" in OS X means version 10.
Yeah, ProtonMail generally proclaims itself to be for privacy as well, but I think that's because of their focus on security, not anything else.

And this blogpost is strictly about security, not about privacy, so it seems maybe your comment was generally about ProtonMail, not specifically about this blogpost.

But yeah I agree, their marketing is a bit problematic, but I'm not sure you can blame them. They do have laws to adhere to, they do make it clear that if you are breaking the law and their receive lawful requests from authorities, they do have to comply, implicitly telling people to cover their tracks if they need to.
Joe biden was pro segregation back in the day
So, slavery has existed for almost all of human history, and ended (yes, with a catalyst) during the height of the industrial revolution (when automation replaced the need for slave labour).

The american civil war wasnt the end of slavery, Britain ended slavery when as the controlling empire of the world, it made it illegal. It did so, in part, because it couldn't compete with slave-states on their export costs, had no significant dependence on slave labour, and was the heart of the new industrialisation which largely obsoleted it anyway.

France, which owned Haiti, did depend on slave labour -- and despite the French revolution which basically said all the "nice political stuff" --- they still couldn't end slavery. Initially they tried, but as soon as they realised Haiti was a cash cow, suddenly freedom became a French idea.

The US civil war was the american manifestation of those new economic conditions.

All of these systems: slavery, child labour, gendered division of labour -- etc. existed for basically all of human history; and still exist for large numbers of people today.

There were political events at the time of their obsolescence which were costly, sure -- as there will inevitably be when economic systems are obsoleted. The US south wasn't going to be able to compete on impoverished slave labour for very long.

I'm not exactly sure how you think history or economics works, but it has nothing to do with some self-righteous middle class people turning their noses up at chimney sweeps.
It appears the audit was applied to the Android and iOS apps. So no comment is being made here about the security of the webapp.
> If header-only libraries start requiring you to use build-time tests, you lose the main reason to use them in the first place.

Header-only libraries don't really work as advertised anyway. The need for various parts of a codebase (including copy-pasted third party headers) to coordinate on preprocessor settings is a good example of this.

Header only is great for casual research but pretty much immediately require extra work on the part of consumers.

The C community would do well to acknowledge that build and packaging system convergence is overdue. Messing around with header-only and preprocessor tricks is leaving the community in an awkward cul-de-sac.
"A cognitive walkthrough is a technique used to evaluate the learnability of a system. Unlike user testing, it does not involve users (and, thus, it can be relatively cheap to implement). Like heuristic evaluations, expert reviews, and PURE evaluations, it relies on the expertise of a set of reviewers to assess the interface.

Although cognitive walkthroughs can be conducted by an individual, they are designed to be done as part of a group in a workshop setting where evaluators walk through a task in a highly structured manner from a new user’s point of view."
If I were running this as an interview question I would do exactly that -- give them 5 minutes to think then 5-10 minutes to describe their plan.

But THEN, I'd let them actually try to DO it. Because there is a huge swatch of people out there who can describe (and sound smooth about it) but can't DO. And there are also some who can do but don't sound very competent when they are asked to describe.

Many interview techniques never assess the ability to DO coding, presumably because it is more difficult and time consuming to evaluate.
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That's prioritization of cognitive load, everyone does it young as old. I've always subconciously made fun of people who can not do what my group can do, but now at +40 I have for many years seen that as a group bonding mechanisim you just have to keep in check. My point is what you think is important is not obvious for other people. What is basic is not simple to teach.
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There are concepts called crystallized intelligence (stuff you learned) and fluid intelligence ("working memory", ability to work with x number of data points). The latter is what drops with age.

The idea isn't that you aren't effective when you are old, just that you are slower.

Some studies showed a slower rate of decline in execs and people doing interesting/creative work, which implies that the "not doing anything new" is at least partially at fault.
Because it's a pyramid scheme
Pretty disingenuous to compare building vs not building. Those firecracker containers need to be built too..

Sure it’s faster startup, but the rest is nonsense.
> Doing things for a long time is never justification for thinking about them uncritically.

In the same vein, something being old does not mean you can dismiss it out of hand. There is wisdom in thousands of years of human existence, and plenty of people have the hubris to dismiss it all.
Does Intel also enforce such a rule to office workers, like Samsung does? I can partly understand the desire to control accidents in manufacturing environments, but we're not exactly at such a place. Samsung's rule is applied to all workers regardless of campus, including the inside of a building consisting of mostly software engineers and office workers. It almost feels like the company wants social equality among employees or something.
How can you call a 2000$ mb pro or a 1700 imac low end devices?
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I've been freelancing for about 8 months and mostly love it. But I could really use some help from an experienced coach who can help me build a brand and connect with my buyers. This person would have experience working with solo freelancers/consultants in the tech space. Who does this sort of thing?
Saying I use their tools and frameworks against privacy makes no sense.

I am not saying we should not address it. But his argument against privacy with frameworks and saying facebook did good is total irrelevant and make no sense.
There's no need for lobbying by manufacturers since the consortiums are directly controlled by the manufacturers. If the brand looses value, they switch to the next one.
Well, if this is how interview works, I need to look for a job.
>(Public, permissionless) blockchain will never be a mainstream technology.

Right, but neither will private permissioned blockchain. For every single use case I've seen thus far, there is no good response to the "why not just use a database instead?" question.
> If we have minimum age for participating in politics, there should be a maximum age

Or a test: do you know where Canada is located? The largest country (area wise) on each continent? Can multiply two double digit numbers? And some other basic things -- one would need to pass such a test to get to vote.

Would reduce the likelihood that the voters change their country to a dictatorship
If you’ve flown in a plane and flown a flight sim of the same plane you’ll understand the difference in visual acuity. A pilot in the seat has huge informational advantage over a remote pilot.

This informational advantage can and does influence decision making, go / no go scenarios.
Images of Russian trucks say much about its military's struggles in Ukraine
How would you send someone in China (or Nigeria, Peru, ...) money?

If they had an ethereum address and you already had a wallet yourself, it's crazy easy. Setting up and funding a wallet is currently a little tricky, but not as hard as some like to make it seem.
Considering the crypto itself does not produce anything of value I´d be surprised if it would continue to outperform the stock market as crypto starts to stabilise. Maybe it could be used to be a little more resistant to inflation than with regular cash, but wouldn´t make any sense to me if the value of crypto would consistently grow to a bigger percentage of all wealth on earth.